towerofanimus | Let's gather 'round the campfire

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Let's gather 'round the campfire

Characters: Ventus and EVERYBODY
Setting: Halls of the first floor Dormitory, near the stairs.
Format: Prose to start, will match you~
Summary: The power's gone out, so Ven's starting a bonfire.
Warnings: ~~Magical fire and possibly singing~~ TBA

Ven had only been in the tower for a little while and already something was going on. He didn't exactly understand what was going on, only that it was dark and creepy, and that none of the lights were working. Except in the rooms, but those emergency lights were almost creepier than the darkness.

He had managed to gather up some flammable materials into a pile at the end of the hallway, and with a quick "Fire!" the flames were burning and there was at least some light. And a source of heat! Thus he sat against the wall making sure the fire didn't go out, blissfully unaware of any creepy crawlies.

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"...you, cast it." This is his 'wtf' face, man. But he's letting it slide cos other worlds and keys and other such nonsense.

It actually seemed to be gaining a small group, anyway. "I just hope they don't have any sprinkler systems. That'd be extreme to me." Augh being soakeddd...

A beat. "I wish we had marshmallows." It was hard to tell if that was sarcasm or not, really.

Oh. Well. As he came closer, the identical forms of Roxas and... that person (he really needed to get his name!) came into view, along with someone else rubbing his head who Ienzo didn't recognize. Sneaking into the firelight, he finally bothered to speak up. "Ah..." he said quietly. "...I'm sure there are better ways of finding a light source than..." He eyed the fire.

Ven glanced at Eiji as he saw him approaching an rubbing his head. "Heh, you OK?" He asked, figuring he had bumped his head in the dark.

He shrugged. "Well, I couldn't find any lights, and this is the best I could come up with." He added with a chuckle, leaning back against the wall with his arms folded behind his head.

"Yeah, I cast it. Like that wind I did the first time we met." ...And another beat. "Marshmallows sound really good.."

Ven glanced at Ienzo when the kid approached, who he greeted with an enthusiastic wave. "None of the lights were working," and he doesn't know what a flashlight is. "Come on, come sit with us!"

Eiji nodded, stepping up closer. "Yeah. The lights went out at a rather awkward moment. Hit the wall..."

He takes a seat by the fire, sighing.

Ienzo frowned. None of the lights were working? There was clearly light in the rooms, some kind of backup energy. It was flickery and dim, granted, but not that bad... Silently, obediently more like, he floated over and sat down in what he believed to be a respectable distance (almost exactly between Ventus and Eiji, thereby creating no close contact with either of them).

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"...yeah, I had a bit of an accident myself." He is totally not gonna stare at his skateboard accusingly, no sir.

"What do we do till the power comes back? As much as sitting around is fun and all." Not that there was much to do anyhow, since Rox hadn't explored the tower much since his arrival.

"Do you guys need any help? I still know how to do a Cure spell if you need it," He said to Roxas and Eiji, though the best it could probably do in this situation is alleviate the aching.

Ven beamed at Ienzo when he came and sat down because he had no idea about any possible social awkwardness.

"...Hm. I dunno." Ven relented. Really he just thought the idea of a bonfire sounded fun. And it was! To him at least. "I guess we should maybe and try and fix it. But maybe it'll come back once the storm blows over."

Eiji waved a hand at Ven, but smiled. "Appreciate the offer, but I didn't hit myself -that- hard."

Then he looked over at Roxas, frowning a bit. "Not sure - I guess wait and see if our keepers can get the power back on soon."

Faintly, down the hall, some of the sharper-eared people might hear something.

Something that sounds like a woman about Eiji's age, calling his name.

"...Fix it?" He looked over at Ventus. Where was the energy even generated here? It was probably just a side-effect of the storm, after all. Who knew what that torrential rain could be fiddling with. That in mind, the other man's idea sounded better, at least for tonight; he nodded when Eiji spoke up, but offered no explanation of his own.

He heard a soft, distorted wailing vaguely against the sound of the rain, but dismissed it as some trick of the wind.

"...I hope they do. I haven't even gotten to look around yet." now who's fault is that, genius? "Maybe when the lights come back on we can actually look around or something. That way if the power goes out again, you can just set more stuff on fire."

...he's assuming his doppelganger hasn't wandered much either. And it'd be nice to try and bond with his roomie and the quiet kid said doppel knows. Yes, this is how he attempts to be friendly- horribly awkwardly.

"Yeah, fix it. There's probably some kind of power supply after all," he said, not that he knew very much about electronics. It probably was a better idea to let the Tower people deal with it, but Ven was hardly one to sit still. Unless it's for a bonfire.

Ven of course can't help but laugh at Roxas' comment. "If you ever need a fire going, just leave it to me! Or if you need some quick energy!" Derpgrin.

That grin quickly faded however when he heard something down the hallway. Or, thought he heard something at least. "What was that?"

Eiji would object to Ven's logic, or lack thereof, but he heard the noise, too. That, and he hasn't been here long enough to be super-suspicious of their keepers.

The voice sounded far, far too familiar to him to ignore, so he's up, heading down the hall.

"Hina...?"

...And the Keyblade bearer remains as confusing in his 'logic' (could it even be called that?) as ever. But even if Ienzo was going to object to it, there was another distraction provided, in the form of their other companion suddenly standing up and off down the hallway, calling something out -- a name, maybe? Pretty much all he does is curls around, then looks back to Ventus, hoping he might possibly know where the guy is going.

"Yeah, you'll be the first one I ask, Ven." Eyeroll at you, doppelganger.

"What was what?" Roxas was pretty used to the universe wigging out and hearing and seeing things, so frankly he hadn't paid the low noises any mind at all. But, when Eiji got up, Rox was the first to jump to his feet- nearly stumbling over his skateboard, but not -and went to shake Eiji's shoulder.

"I'll go with you if you think you hear someone." It wasn't like he was wary of the guy bumping in to more things, mostly that Rox knew his friends wouldn't want to go wandering alone.

~~Ven always has the best logic you guys, you should just learn this.~~

Ven just met the eyeroll with another small laugh.

"I heard something. Not really sure what, though," He said simply, although it seems that was starting to become less important, at least in light of the fact that Eiji was wandering off down the hallway.

Sadly Ven had no answers for Ienzo, but he quickly got to his feet and stepped closer to the kid with his legs should-width apart, watching Roxas and Eiji down the hallway carefully.

Eiji continues down the hall, but gives Roxas a faint nod. "R-right."

He steps away from the boy, and ventures further down the hall. The voice calls out again - "Eiji! Help!"

The man freezes up for a moment, then breaks into a run. "Hina! Hang on!"

"Wha- hey!" BUDDY SYSTEM, EIJI, BUDDY SYSTEM! Being the sort of guy he was, Rox quickly took off after Eiji when he started to run, but his little accident earlier made it a bit of a literal pain in his knee.

Whoa. Whoa whoa hey.

Now that two of them had randomly run off after the voice they had heard, it seemed that Ventus was gearing up to go too. Wonderful. So of course Ienzo stood up as well and glanced over at Ventus. (SEE EIJI, IENZO KNOWS THE BUDDY SYSTEM. YOU SHOULD TOO.)

That call for help just but Ven even more on edge. He glanced back at Ienzo and waved his hand for him to follow.

"Come on! Stay close!" He told him as he took off after Roxas and Eiji, slowing down his usual pace because it was very important to stay near one's assigned buddy during a crisis.

Call all you want, Eiji's gonna keep running, 'cause he's dumb like that. Plus, it's his vaguely-hinted-at-might-be-a-love-interest. Gotta help her if she's in trouble, right?

He gets further away from the group - further away from the light. It's dim and faint where he's at.

"Hina? HINA!" He thought this was where the voice had come from...

Then Eiji yells again, but this time, in pain.

And follow he does. Or attempts to. Thank goodness Ven slowed down because we've all seen what a great runner Ienzo is.

When the scream came, his expression flickered slightly to the appropriate response of 'oh crap', but still followed Ventus; if he had been trying to go in front before, he most definitely wasn't now, considering Ventus was armed and he, well, wasn't.

Rox actually stopped to catch his breath since he clearly couldn't keep up with the panicking Eiji, but seemed to get his second wind when Eiji yelled. Running around in the dark and blindly feeling for people wasn't the smartest, but what else could he do?

"Hey- are you alright?! Where are you?"

~~FROM NOW ON WE ARE HOLDING HANDS EIJI~~

Definitely not good. With his hand back in a flash of light, the Keyblade materialized in his hand; Lost Memory. Good. He hadn't changed it since his fight with Vanitas.

Damnit and now it was getting hard to see again. Ven sped up a bit(he didn't want to run into Ienzo when he landed again after all), jumped up and pointed his keyblade forward while in the air, shooting a ball of fire up along the roof. At least that way maybe they'd be able to see for a second and it wouldn't hit anybody.

"What's going on..?!"

~~Eiji only holds hands with weird singing shoguns.~~

There was more pained yelling - it felt like the very life was being sucked out of Eiji, and...well, that was not a pleasant sensation.

Hina had stopped yelling - and something in Eiji told him that he should go back. And so, after a moment so he could get his focus, he staggered back. "Guh...back! Go.. Back to the bonfire!" He sputtered, starting to run that way himself. He got a ways into the light again so he could be dimly seen before his body went rigid, stopping him in his tracks.

Those who can see his front will see his eyes glow purple for a moment, and there's a faint sound not unlike an echoing reptile scream as the glow happens.

Um holy shit what's with the eyes, Eiji. Being within at least six feet, give or take, of Eiji made Roxas quite a bit wary all of a sudden, but couldn't get his legs to move.

"H-hey..."

Let's gather 'round the campfire

OOC: idk we didnt plan this very well, LETS WING IT

OOC: Winging it is!

OOC: Winging it is how i operate my life

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OOC: Trololol, ninja'd.

OOC: all the ninja all the time

OOC: they wish they could see me ninjain'

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bi~lly don't be a he~ro...

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