Like he needed to be more effed up.

[reversedestiny]

Characters: Sora and whoever he runs across
Setting: That one floor that's eternally spring
Format: Action preferred, but I will prose!
Summary: Sora loves caramel. So when he eats one of the caramel chocolates? Things go very, very wrong.
Warnings: Sora will be trying to steal hearts. Literally. Via his Heartless buddies. They are weak, though, so that's good. However, he himself is another story. Approach with caution.

[Caramel has always been an indulgence. He hadn't thought about what it meant or that it might be something dangerous. So he'd just quietly taken a seat in the meadow, staring at the ground afterward, with his two Heartless. The Shadow at his side, the Requiem in his lap.

He feels strange. Just slightly. Like the darkness in his heart is rising. Like it wants something. And maybe he does, but he can't pinpoint it. ...Not yet, at least.]

Comments

[justabignobody]

[Riku had been reluctant to eat one of the chocolates - what infection after all and he just doesn't trust anything the tower provides simply because of where it comes from. Still... if there is anything bad about the chocolate, he'll probably notice soon enough and can warn everyone else... right?

At first he doesn't really anything after swallowing those slices of almond- and dark chocolate, supposes that he can attribute that tingle of strangeness to his own anxiety... until he notices other!Sora's scent, just on the floor beneath.

That's when he starts wondering, why had he even be worried about the chocolate? Why is he worrying about something like chocolate and the consequences of eating it (silly, it's just chocolate after all), when Sora is so close, when he should rather be worrying about him?

He should be going now, shouldn't he, should make sure that Sora is alright, that there isn't anyone near him, that there isn't anybody trying to use him again. He should go and make absolutely sure that no one comes close to him. He'll cut them down, if they do; he won't hesitate to.

So here he is, using a Corridor of Darkness that leads him straight into the Spring Room and settling down against the wall, Sora right in his sight.

Just watching.

Just guarding.]

[reversedestiny]

[Sora notices right away. The chill of the darkness in the air, Riku's scent, everything. So he'll glance over and spare a smile. Perhaps there's something odd about his smile, just barely off, but it's there nonetheless. He'll slowly stand, stretching, but remaining ever so pleasant.

Beneath the surface, though, his darkness is boiling over, and it's probably making the atmosphere just a tad bit heavy and oppressive. But that's okay, right? He's just having a bad day is all.]

[justabignobody]

[Riku wouldn't be Riku, if he didn't take note of that little something that isn't quite right with his smile, of the slight change of the scent in the air - all indicators that something is wrong.

He stays as he is; there isn't anyone else in the room so who- or whatever is the source of Sora's displeasure is not here. And Riku just can't let Sora out of his sight, so going after them, ending whoever had upset his friend is out of question right now.]

[reversedestiny]

[If only Riku knew what this smile meant. It wasn't displeasure--it was dark intent. There's no upset. He'll just start to walk over, still smiling. But the darkness is rising more in Sora, bubbling up to the surface, and soon it'll make its presence known.]