towerofanimus | quick, someone feed him ice cream before he realizes its cold!

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quick, someone feed him ice cream before he realizes its cold!

Characters: Roxas, eventually Ven, eventually Aqua, as well as ALL YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ~~except Eiji~~.
Setting: Early Sunday morning. Starting at floor thirteen, and descending as far as we get to.
Format: Either or!~
Summary: Roxas is a bit...pent up after being dead for a week. This obviously means it's time for ADVENTURE!
Warnings: We're gonna try to keep this to one comment tag, because we're insane. Don't worry about posting order or nadamucho.

Roxas wasn't sure how to feel about this. Waking up after that whole fiasco at the bonfire had been about as jarring as waking up in the tower to begin with. It didn't feel real, and when he'd finally been able to move, he'd booked it out of the shared room as quick as possible. After all, it was also Eiji's room as well and...that wasn't anything he wanted to deal with. In his desperate urge to keep away from there, he found himself checking on where the bonfire had been- no marks. Maybe it had been cleaned? He didn't know and didn't want to think about it.

By the time he descended the stairs...well, there hadn't been a cathedral before. He hadn't explored, but sure as heck had he walked down the stupid tower to get food. Had it just appeared during the blackout or something? That was just the last overwhelming hay in the needlestack. Without much further provocation- did he need it? -Roxas slumped down to sit on the bottom step leading in to floor thirteen, trying to get his bearings.

Damn, did he wish he could just go home.

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Aqua's expression fell a little at the mention of Vanitas. It seemed to make the whole situation sink in a little more. Ven...he really didn't know how long it had been, did he? Sleeping all this time...

Did he even know what had happened to Terra?

"..." She looked towards Roxas with curiosity, and took the opportunity to get a closer look at him. She could barely pick out any differences in facial features -- they even had the exact same eyes. She wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them if she didn't know Ven so well.

Regardless of the eerie resemblance, though, there was no reason not to be polite (especially because she couldn't help but notice that this Roxas boy seemed...sad, in a way). So, she descended the last few stairs until she was near to Roxas, and crouched down to be closer to his eye level. The young master offered a smile. "It's nice to meet you, Roxas. Thank you for looking after Ven."

She could get to telling Ven how much had happened later. She didn't want to alienate this Roxas boy.

"Trained?" Roxas shifted at that, watching Aqua very carefully. However, he couldn't make any sense of her thanks, and just looked away at that. He hadn't been able to look after anybody, not successfully. "Uh, it's nice to meet you too." He was mumbling, but he couldn't help it.

"Did...you just show up?" More important was to change the subject to anything but where it'd been heading before, as Rox shakily stood up- but it was pretty clear he was still a bit achy.

"Uh huh. She's a Keyblade Weilder like me and our other friend, Terra," Ven commented. He liked being exposition for once! ~~also it's proving he's not crazy.~~

"H-Hey, I can take care of myself you know!" Ven interjected. Although it was little more than teasing, since he eased into a small laugh. It hadn't felt like that long since he had last talked to her, but he still felt like he missed her and Terra. Still, he felt kind of uneasy after the ghosts from the last week.

Aqua smiled modestly at Ven's clarification, before going on to add some of her own. "I got here a few days ago, but it was so dark that I mostly stayed in my room to review my spells." Except for that one encounter with the woman that had the pixie, really.

And then she looked up at Ven, allowing herself a chuckle and trying not to think too hard about Terra. "I know you can. You should still be careful, though. And stay with Roxas." With that, she straightened up, padding down the rest of the stairs to stand in the cathedral proper with Ven. "It's dangerous to be alone in this place."

She looked around once she was on the actual floor with no small amount of confusion. This level hadn't been here when she met Nagi...

"I see." He normally would have wondered how the hell that worked, since if Ven's world had been destroyed, why did it take so long to get his friend here? But frankly he wasn't much in the mood for thinking about that.

He missed the quip about sticking together entirely, in favor of stepping down to join the other two on the floor proper. It took him a moment of looking around before he finally voiced his ultimate concern.

"Can we...go somewhere else? This place gives me the creeps." At least it wasn't covered in winged unicorns.

She had been in her room all during the blackout?

...Augh, his head hurt, Ven was just glad to see her in the end. Roxas got a brohug when he showed up alive and well, so Aqua got an enthusiastic one too, hopping a bit to close the gap and letting go after a few seconds. "I'm glad to see you're safe at least!" Stupid Vanitas taking a cheap shot.

"Huh? Uh, OK." He was kind of confused that Aqua wanted them to stay together, but whatever. They were roommates, so it wouldn't be too hard at least!

"I don't know, I think it looks kind of cool," Ven commented, looking around at the cathedral. It kind of reminded him of something Master Xehanort would like(augh, why was he thinking about that of all things). "But yeah, come on! Maybe there's other cool places to check out!"

Aqua laughed a little when Ven hugged her, returning the embrace with enthusiasm -- or, as much enthusiasm as Aqua ever showed, really. She kept her hands on his shoulders when he pulled away, and bowed her head a little to kiss his forehead. "And I'm glad you're safe too." She didn't know what might've happened during eleven years of sleeping.

She let him go after that to survey the church again. It was a beautiful place, she'd grant it that, but the lack of an echo was unsettling. Plus it was in this tower, which was enough reason to suspect it. If they were going to wander around, though...

Aqua drew her Keyblade with a sharp gleam of light, taking a few steps farther into the church towards the descending staircase. She stopped, turning to look back at the two blonds. "We can explore," she conceded with a smile. "But stay close, okay?"

Roxas mostly just awked around while the two friends reacquainted, trying not to stare at anything too long. Given that, he nearly missed the flash of light, but was jolted back to reality when he did look long enough to see what Aqua had, jumping ever so slightly back from it. This was growing increasingly unsettling.

"You have one of those too?!"

...don't freak out don't freak out don't freak out.

Ven let out a happy chuckle at the kiss, obviously pleased with this new development of his friend existing in a sound...existence. When he was released, he (almost literally, his feet hovered for a few seconds and his vest even billowed a bit) floating across the floor after Aqua and towards the staircase. "Aw come on Aqua, you worry too much!"

He glanced back at Roxas with curiosity at his exclamation. He followed his lookalike's sight to Aqua's Keyblade, and then he remembered with a look of realization on his face; "Ah, that's right! You have a keyblade too! I saw you summon it right before that creature froze you!"

"You just don't worry enough," Aqua accused her fellow student lightheartedly. "So I have to do it for the both of us."

Roxas' reaction drew a minor look of surprise, and she hefted Stormfall to look at it, as if she expected there to be something out of order. "Yeah. It's the weapon that we and our master use," she answered with a smile, assuming that the "too" tacked on was a reference to Ven's Keyblade.

She didn't expect Ven's comment, and her smile was replaced with a look of mild surprise. The young master glanced between Ven and Roxas, her gaze settling on the latter. "You can wield it too?" He seemed so surprised about its existence...maybe he'd just recently gone through his Awakening...?

"--wait," she interjected, eyebrows furrowing in apprehension. "Frozen? And you're saying I worry too much?"

Roxas shot Ven a look when he brought it up, but turned away almost immediately after, not wanting to start anything on the subject. "...I don't wanna talk about it."

Instead, he latched on to what Aqua seemed apprehensive about, nodding firmly in her direction. "Our room mate...he turned in to a monster. There was a kid with me, and the two of us couldn't get away in time, and..."

He wasn't sure if adding on 'oh and we died' would be a good idea, so the sentence just sort of hung empty.

Admittedly Ven kind of recoiled with a frown at Roxas' look. Was it a bad thing? Though confused, he did clam up on the subject, if only because it had transitioned to the errr whole freezing incident.

"Uh..." Was about as much as he was able to get out to Aqua before Roxas took over explanations. He shuffled awkwardly a bit and rubbed the back of his head. And while they were both hopefully distracted with the fact that Roxas has technically died a week ago?

Ven attempted to quietly sneak his way onto the staircase to descend to the next floor. Doo dee doo nothing to see here he was totally innocent.

Aqua was slightly taken aback at Roxas' insistence about the Keyblade. It was a great power to wield, that was for sure. And it usually spoke measures of someone's destiny for it to appear. Maybe he just wasn't ready to come to terms with it yet.

So she listened to his explanation, eyes narrowed a little in thought. "They're keeping you in a room with a monster?" she inquired with a note of disbelief. The young woman bowed her head a little to glare. She didn't much like this place. After a moment of quiet anger, Aqua lifted her head again. "I'm glad you're alright. Be careful, though." A pause, and then: "You do have ways to defend yourself."

With that comment made, Aqua looked towards Ven and gave him a very maternal glare, placing her hands delicately on her hips. "Ven," the Keyblade master called in a warning tone. "We're supposed to stay together."

"...I've been sleeping elsewhere." It was starting to wear him down admittedly, but considering how many times he'd napped in weird positions in the hideout... "We haven't seen him since. Or, I haven't."

He was admittedly taken slightly aback by Aqua's glare, but kept his face neutral. She really cared about Ven, didn't she? Roxas was sort of envious. It took him a moment to catch on to what she meant by 'defend himself, looking down at his hand and clenching it. "...I don't think that's an option. If anything happens, I have my struggle bat." Or he could just get a stick from the woods.

"What floor's below us now, anyway? I know this is new, but did everything change?" Instead of taking sides on the two friends, Rox accepted a third option.

"--Ah!" Ven stopped in his tracks when Aqua called his name and turned around slowly with a sheepish grin. Their trio really had a bad habit of running off without each other. "I know! I was just going, I figured you'd guys follow...!" Smooth Ven. Most smooth.

He wasn't trying to sneak off now, but he was starting to walk again, taking the lead so that they could see the next floor. "I don't know, I haven't seen any of the new floors." Ever since the lights came back on he'd mostly been lurking around upstairs.

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