In Which A Nobody Gets Formally Trained By A Keyblade Master

[keybearer_lost]

Or,
"How Many Ways Can Fel and Random Eff Up KH2?"

Dramatis Personae
Aqua, a Keyblade Master and a girl who has fallen into darkness, as portrayed by keybearer_lost
Roxas, a wielder of the Keyblade and a Nobody affiliated with Organization XIII, as portrayed by seasaltzombie
A Collection of Heartless, as portrayed by heart_nomming

Table of contents
1. Session Zero
2. First meeting
3.

Comments

Session Zero: Planning, discussion, etc.

[keybearer_lost]

So this thread will be for all the random OOC discussion we come up with, okay? Anything you'd like to say before we start, Fel?

[seasaltzombie]

Other than my excitement, I can't think of anything off the top of my head at the moment, really! Oh, actually, something did just occur to me - prose or script format for the logs? I'm up for either, but whatever you're good with, really.

[keybearer_lost]

I honestly don't care? They tend to read the same to me with how descriptive I get so I suggest flipping a coin?

[seasaltzombie]

Flipping a coin might be best considering how bad I am at making decisions, yeah. XD Although if you're the descriptive kind, prose sounds good to me, I can work with that.

Thread One: First Meeting

[seasaltzombie]

Roxas didn't know what to think anymore.

After his argument with Axel after he'd RTC'd, the castle had suddenly seemed a lot less welcoming than usual. He needed space to think, to try and sort out just what was happening with his two friends now. To try and figure out why Xion had left - and why Axel had attacked her, come to that. He still couldn't believe that. There had to have been another way, right? You didn't just attack your friends like that, no matter how weird they were acting.

So he'd turned right around and made himself another dark corridor to take himself somewhere, anywhere. He hadn't planned to end up on that dark beach. But once he was there, it seemed as good a place as any to sit and try and wrap his head around what was happening. It was quiet, at least.

He'd been sitting on a boulder staring out at the light on the horizon for ages, now - he didn't even know how long. And he still couldn't come up with any answers.

He sighed glumly, drawing his knees up to his chest. He just felt so... out of the loop.

[keybearer_lost]

Somewhere along the way, Aqua had lost track of time

[seasaltzombie]

The last thing Roxas had expected to hear was another voice - let alone a girl's voice. Of course, he didn't register it was a girl at first, he was that startled. Startled enough to jump and start out of his curled-up position on the rock, summoning his own Keyblade out of sheer instinct.

"Who's there?" he demanded as he jumped to his feet. He squinted into the darkness, frowning suspiciously. Only other Nobodies could use the dark corridors to get somewhere like this, right? Was it someone from the Organisation come to check on him, or...?

[keybearer_lost]

A Keyblade?

But--how? She would've sensed its light before it appeared! And that boy, now that she got a look at his face--

He looked just like Ven.

She swung her Keyblade down, going into her basic fighting stance. She knew better than to attack first. That was how these shadows tended to swarm a person and if this was some kind of trick she wasn't going to fall for it.

But then he spoke, and her heart clenched painfully. What kind of friend was she, to realize she'd forgotten until that very moment how his voice had sounded--!

"My name is Aqua," she said carefully, still wary, "Who are you?"

Thread two: Awakening

[keybearer_lost]

Once upon a time, there had been three friends. Friends who had laughed together, played together, dreamed together. They would often spend long evenings gazing at the stars and contemplating their futures and then long mornings mumbling about having to get up so early but sharing secret smiles between one another when their teacher wasn't looking. A dream that came true for one them while the other two....

Aqua could feel the weight of Ven on her back, lifeless and unmoving even as she brought him back home as she'd been supposed to do much much earlier. He was breathing, true, but his eyes.... to look into them told her he might as well have been dead.

With this image in mind, Aqua finally opened her eyes, her body lethargic after two days of sleep. Where was she now? How had she gotten here? She couldn't quite remember.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a flash of blond hair. Ven? No, wait. Not him, but someone like him. A different person entirely.

"Roxas?"

[seasaltzombie]

Of course, he hadn't been able to stay with Aqua the whole time. But it had been easier than he thought it would to just report back to the castle once and then pretend he was still out on the mission they'd assigned him the first day. After all, it wasn't the first time someone had taken more than a day to RTC on a mission. Maybe it did feel a little bad to be tricking the others, but... he was sure Xion would understand, at least.

He'd just been wondering how long he'd need to keep checking up on Aqua (or even how long it had been already; it was difficult to tell when the sun was always in the same place) when he heard her speak, and turned around in surprise.

"Aqua! You're awake." There was a little relief in his voice as he said it; she was really alright.