Familiar Ground

[austering]

Title: B-belated intro? Sort of?
Characters: Leon (austering) and Completely Open!
When: :| Now?
Where: Skyscraper
Warnings: Heartless, violence, will add as needed.
Summary: Finally, a world Leon can at least understand, even if it isn't "home".
Note: All formats are welcome!

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[letskickass]

Dealing with the large amounts of heartless throughout the city hadn't exactly been very difficult considering they were all weaklings, but the most difficult part about them had been their large numbers. Still, Zell had managed to fight his way through, and finally, he had managed to walk into an area where the numbers of heartless had lessened. Of course, that was hardly the thing that caught his eye as he looked at the wreckage before him.

"Hey Squall!" He yelled out, energetically waving a hand at the man that seemed to be going through the wreckage.

[austering]

A frown creased along the hard line of Leon's mouth. He'd tried, for so many, many years, to stop reacting to that name. And failed, more often than not.

Or at least failed when it wasn't coming from a particularly familiar voice in the slightest. And this... kid was far from familiar. Even when the gunblader tilted his head in that direction, ready for anything, pinning Zell with a critical yet oddly blank stare. A tattoo, strong stance, the distinct air of someone who was going to be annoyingly energetic...

Great... Just what he needed...

Giving one careful, slow blink, to gather himself, Leon let himself continue to scowl, brows furrowing and the scar there wrinkling slightly. "Excuse me?" the man asked simply.

[letskickass]

Of course, the scowl didn't even seem to take a hit to Zell's energy, after all, it hadn't been the first time he had received such looks, but taking a better look at the older man that was his commander's alt just made his grin widen.

"I said 'hey.' What's up, man? Looking for something?" He asked curiously. The clothes and older age was a dead giveaway as to who this Squall was, and Zell knew it. He was familiar enough with a version of Leon after all, and now that he could see who it was more clearly, it gave him even more reason to use the nickname that Laguna had personally chosen for the Squall that had abandoned his name.

[austering]

"What do you want?"

Not 'who are you?'.

Already, he'd come across too many people that knew things they shouldn't-- knew him when they shouldn't have. Or, in some cases, the same face, but hardly a civil sense of attitude. It was enough of a thought to have Leon resisting pinching the bridge of his nose where a familiar pounding was starting to show up.

Whoever this guy was, Leon wasn't going to buy that he wasn't a possible hostile.

[transient_gale]

[ *checks off from to-do list* :3 ]

This place was full of surprises. First, she found a male version of herself (a possibly more naive version at that). Second, there was an Ultimecia, a reformed, supposedly, Sorceress who she couldn't help but remain suspicious of. Ultimecia? Reformed? Impossible. Unlikely. Never could happen. Never will.

Third, she thought she found the General, the One-Winged Angel, Sephiroth but it wasn't the same one. It was a different one. He was, dare she say it? Nice. Polite. A gentleman. It was still hard to believe she met a Sephiroth who acted like that.

Shaking her head, the SeeD continued down the street, Revolver's weight on her shoulders. The Heartless seemed to want to leave her alone for the moment, deciding that maybe she was too strong for them? Doubtful. They probably were attacking some other poor person. Idiots, all of them, the monsters, this place; everything.

Entering a new area, she glanced around and found a familiar form. That guy... again? From this distance, it looked like male

[austering]

"Next time you want to sneak up on someone," said man began, not really bothering to turn around at first, "try holding your breath."

He wouldn't have noticed it beforehand. At all. The city was just in a dead silence. Large and expanding. The kind of space that wasn't as near as quaint as some places he'd been, given the fact that it was so... sprawled, never mind the hole in the middle of it.

It was unnatural, this place, whatever it was. Leon didn't need Aerith's uncanny sense of being in the worlds to know that much.

When Leon finally did, he supposed he shouldn't have been surprised. There was an initial reaction to tense, get ready for anything, a pang still aching in his shoulder despite being relatively healed over by now.

This wasn't that annoying prat, though.

Last he remembered, that golden-eyes moron didn't have the distinctive swell of breasts.

Which, considering the girl's face, was odd in and of itself. I'm getting rather sick of things like this.

Leon merely quirked a brow, keeping his thoughts to himself.

[transient_gale]

"That would imply I wanted to attack you from behind," the SeeD commented, keeping her distance.

Closer than before, she could see his clothes were different. His hair was, too. Too long for an SeeD to wear, at least unbound anyway. That was what she immediately noticed of him. She cataloged his appearance, noting the older look to him (definitely older than her, maybe by a decade or less, hard to tell in this light), the slightly different shade of eye color (his looked to be more blue).

It was the differences that caught her eye, not the immediate similarities.

Maybe because she had met a another version of herself before, a male version of herself, the brunette wasn't too much concerned about the similarities between them. There were some, she would admit to that but they were unimportant

[austering]

No one could.

But Leon's posture remained fixed, that same casual, near-lazy way he held himself. Anyone who knew the man would know better. Just simple conservation of energy, nothing more and nothing less. Perhaps a little bit of a loftiness that came with a certain amount of confidence in skill.

He studied her in a simple, single sweep, still rather unsurprised.

These things seemed to have a tendency to want to happen.

No words. Just a tilt of the head, gaze lidded and nearly bored.

Usual tendencies to deter people from bothering with him any more than Leon wanted to bother with them. A look that could have almost, if an expression could ever say something so blatantly, ask And?

You saw this coming? :D

[skyfallingonme]

He remembered walking right through this path and seeing the skycraper before Xemnas came to meet him, the day he joined the Organization. Being here among the hostile yet familiar darkness brought many bitter memories, memories that he tried, but couldn't just ignore.

He heard steps and he jumped in surprise, he had been fat too distracted to notice there was someone else. If he was lucky for once, maybe he could find Axel...

"Who's there?" Sora asked in a low voice.

/has been waiting for it ♥

[austering]

At first, there hadn't been any recognition at all.

How could there have been? After all, the Sora he knew, the Sora Leon was so familiar with, was small and boyish and, quite frankly, a kid who really just had no idea about anything at all. So finding someone else around the vast of an area was kind of surprising.

"No o--" Then Leon had to stop.

That hair.

That was kind of unmistakable, really. What in the world...?

Leon frowned, narrowing his eyes curiously. "...Sora?"

*chokes*

[skyfallingonme]

That voice.

It's been years since he heard it, and if you asked him, he'd say the last time he heard it was from another lifetime. A lifetime of strong hearts, adventures, smiles and a warm bed waiting for him at the end of the day.

He didn't know if he should laugh or scream or just plain panic. This world has already played with him enough.

"I don't know what you're talking about", Sora said quickly. He needed to calm down and disappear as quickly as possible.

:< Why you do this, Sora?

[austering]

Leon's brows furrowed. Oh, no, he was sure of it. That was... Sora.

The man moved to put a hand on the other's shoulder, ready to move around to face him, get a good look at his face, just to be sure. "You got tall..." It was actually pretty impressive, though Leon himself wasn't the tallest man out there.

He knew people. Forgetting anyone, no matter the change, wasn't any easy thing for him to do.