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towerofanimus2012-11-10 11:42 pm
flared) wrote in towerofanimus2012-11-10 11:42 pm
Entry tags:
001 || Open
Characters: Axel and YOU
Setting: Room 1-18, Dormitories
Format: I'm doing prose, but whatever you do, I'll match~
Summary: After waking up with a ridiculous outfit on, a tee'd off Axel teleports around for some exploring. Not with a ridiculous outfit on, though. That would be silly.
Warnings: Nada for now
Please don't hold back on me, Axel. Promise.
He awoke with a start and for what felt like forever stared at the ceiling, unable to move or say a word. Last he remembered, he was at Twilight Town and last he remembered Xion had been with him. Not one of their usual meetings, mind, and not one he would have chosen out of his own volition. So where had that gone? Their voices, the fire burning at his fingertips-- All of that hadn't been a dream, had it? Thinking it, Axel finally shifted on his bed and swung his legs over the edge to sit up. This wasn't Twilight Town, this wasn't Never Was or any other World he could think of, that was for sure.
Deciding it would be best to investigate, Axel stood and approached the chest at the foot of his bed. His Organization coat, some regenerative potions... and some letters out of all things. Head tilted, he picked up the first one then ripped it open to read. Well. That certainly hadn't been the most pleasant letter he'd ever received and he didn't even believe it. Still. The smallest bit of unease started to settle in his gut upon thinking about the possibility of his World being truly destroyed. If that was the case, which one would it be? And why?
But more importantly... what about his friends?
With a sharp scoff, Axel pocketed the letter along with a couple of potions before he stood to head for the door and out into the hallway, footsteps quick and body tense. Regardless of some crummy letter or what had really happened to their World, regardless of how things had turned out between the three of them in the end... he wanted to find Roxas and Xion.
He wanted to be at ease.
((OOC: Feel free to notice/bump into one hotheaded redhead tromping through the tower!))
Setting: Room 1-18, Dormitories
Format: I'm doing prose, but whatever you do, I'll match~
Summary: After waking up with a ridiculous outfit on, a tee'd off Axel teleports around for some exploring. Not with a ridiculous outfit on, though. That would be silly.
Warnings: Nada for now
Please don't hold back on me, Axel. Promise.
He awoke with a start and for what felt like forever stared at the ceiling, unable to move or say a word. Last he remembered, he was at Twilight Town and last he remembered Xion had been with him. Not one of their usual meetings, mind, and not one he would have chosen out of his own volition. So where had that gone? Their voices, the fire burning at his fingertips-- All of that hadn't been a dream, had it? Thinking it, Axel finally shifted on his bed and swung his legs over the edge to sit up. This wasn't Twilight Town, this wasn't Never Was or any other World he could think of, that was for sure.
Deciding it would be best to investigate, Axel stood and approached the chest at the foot of his bed. His Organization coat, some regenerative potions... and some letters out of all things. Head tilted, he picked up the first one then ripped it open to read. Well. That certainly hadn't been the most pleasant letter he'd ever received and he didn't even believe it. Still. The smallest bit of unease started to settle in his gut upon thinking about the possibility of his World being truly destroyed. If that was the case, which one would it be? And why?
But more importantly... what about his friends?
With a sharp scoff, Axel pocketed the letter along with a couple of potions before he stood to head for the door and out into the hallway, footsteps quick and body tense. Regardless of some crummy letter or what had really happened to their World, regardless of how things had turned out between the three of them in the end... he wanted to find Roxas and Xion.
He wanted to be at ease.
((OOC: Feel free to notice/bump into one hotheaded redhead tromping through the tower!))
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She sprints down them, as fast as she can without falling and hurting herself. Axel has the advantage of height and speed, but Xion's been training with Reno for months now and knows where she's going. At the same time that's dangerous for Axel that he doesn't especially if he just arrived and... a part of her wants to turn around and tell him to stop following her and leave her be-
She makes it down through the dormitory floors, whipping past the graveyard and a floor of fabric and curtains, both flashing by too fast for her to really register.
It's about halfway down floor fourty-six though, that the steps beneath her feet suddenly vanish and she's falling, falling, mouth opening in a quick shriek as she flails and falls before she manages to right herself with Aerial Recovery and hit the ground, stumbling as she does so. She hasn't been on this floor before, and she stares around, emotions already heightened, wary for signs of any danger and momentarily distracted from her flight.]
I'm not sure if peachy means what you think it means.
For a moment, Sora just stares in half-confusion, half-surprise in the direction that Xion, and now Axel, had run off in. He had missed something. A pretty big something. It had to be, because though he had seen Xion running off before, he had never seen her look so...upset. No - she had really sounded angry.
But how is he going to figure any of this out if he's just standing around here?]
Hey, wait up!
[And off he goes, trailing behind both of them. Thankfully, he knows the tower fairly well, so he starts gaining on them bit by bit. But because he's, for the most part, blindly focused on catching up, it's too little too late when he finally realizes that the stairs that should be under his feet suddenly aren't. And, unfortunately for Sora, his landing is far from graceful.
Yeah, just. Give him a minute to pick himself up. And to get over the fact that, wow, this does not seem like a very good place to be at all.]
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Closer and closer he gets, barely registering the rest of the surroundings with his focus elsewhere, and just when he thinks he might have a chance to reach out, tackle, something, he hears her scream.]
Xion!
[With the steps disappearing, he doesn't have much time to launch himself forward to make a grab for her and break her fall. Instead, he too tumbles down then instinctively performs Aerial Recovery to make his landing as smooth as possible in... wherever they've suddenly dropped. The darkness around them isn't the most pressing of concerns, however. He can't see Xion anymore, can't hear her, either, and it's causing some apprehension to stir.]
Xion, where are you?
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The faintest of whispers, a brush against the back of her hand. Xion jumps, looks around, sees no one.]
Axel?
[Except she can't see him, and with as angry as he was he wouldn't go around doing the whole 'tap on the shoulder than run to the other side' trick.]
Wh-who's there?
[This is wrong. This is bad. She has to get out of here. There's an object glowing nearby, and the faint light of the stairs in the distance.
She doesn't know what to trust.
Another brush, against her shoulder, some more whispers. Letting out a quiet noise Xion heads for the glowing object, picks it up, sees the writing and reads it. A moment, later, she drops the flashlight like a hot coal, disturbing another series of whispers and a ghost of sensation against the back of her scalp.]
G-go to the stairs. Don't... don't do anything, just go to them!
[And whoever's whispering please stop]
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[That's probably the first noise anyone has heard out of Sora since the stairs collapsed, because he's still trying to shake off that sudden fall. Nothing feels broken or anything, thankfully, but he'll probably be hurting later.
Someone needs to learn Aerial Recovery already.But the creepy whispers and the general bad feeling about this place are enough to tell Sora that he probably doesn't want to hang around for very long...and, more importantly, neither should Xion, or that guy...hadn't his name been Axel, or something? It had been awhile since they met, so Sora wasn't completely sure. Though both of them seem two steps ahead of him right now.
Once he's up and moving around, he notices the dim lights - one from the center of the room, and one from the stairs. He's about to go check out the one in the room, but Xion beats him to it.
Head for the stairs? That sounded like as good of a plan as any.]
Where are you guys, anyway? I can't see a thing.
[Though he's not sure if he wants to see what - if anything - he just felt brush against one of his arms. Or whatever else is there, because it felt like there was something. Or maybe lots of somethings.
Considering what "something" usually meant in this place, he hoped he was wrong about that.]
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[Axel can't see her either, even with his enhanced senses in the darkness, but for whatever reason he can hear and feel everything else just fine. The whispers and the brushes against his shoulders- Axel twitches and steps away when something seems to come up beside him, not because he's scared, but because, dude, that's his personal space and you cannot invade that without his permission.
If both Sora and Xion's voices are anything to go by, then the voices and the faint touches could be from either of them, but Axel doubts that. No, the two of them sound further away.]
What? [he asks quietly before glancing around and finally spotting light from the stairs nearby. He considers heading over there... but in the end Axel turns around to glance about in the darkness once more. There's urgency in his voice now and not so much anger.]
Both of you head over to the stairs. I'll follow.
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Axel's instructions interrupt her train of thought.]
O-okay.
[Xion stumbles forward towards the distant light of the stairs, but there's voices echoing, all around her. Whispering... breathing... she couldn't make it out.]
Did you say something? [More whispers] Sora? Axel?
[And then it feels like she's bumped into someone as she's walking, and she darts sideways, only to brush into more and more things. She turns around, in a circle, searching sightlessly for someone, anyone.
Someone touches the back of her head and she turns. She's lost sight of the stairs by now. She needs to find them she has to get out. There's another whisper in her ear, accompanied by the sensation of someone breathing in it. She jerks away, turning around and stepping towards the stairs again.]
Stop it, please stop it!
[Her voice is getting more and more frenzied. She doesn't know who it is, who or what is doing this but it's making her feel more and more panicked the longer she stays here. The fact that she'd already been upset when she'd fallen onto this floor was just making everything worse.]
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He just hoped that Xion and Axel got there okay, too.
It would be okay, he tried to tell himself. Nothing had hurt him yet, and he was pretty sure that everyone else was still alright, too. But...would something try to hurt them?
It was probably a good idea to not think about that. They were better off not waiting long enough to find out.
He kept taking steps toward the staircase in the distance, listening for the sounds of his friends. Instead he heard whispers, and weird sounds that almost seemed like voices but probably weren't, and he was about to tune them out altogether when he heard a voice that was for sure Xion's. She sounded really scared, and he wished that he could see well enough to find her. Or at all.]
Just ignore it, Xion! We've gotta meet up at the stairs, okay?
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or should we say Mother Cat ModeAxel quickly summons his chakrams to his hands and rushes in blindly, listening to Xion's voice so he can try to pinpoint exactly where she is.Occasionally he'll hear one voice and then two, maybe three all at the same time, but Axel manages to tune them out. He has a goal in mind... and he won't let anything keep him from reaching it.]
Xion, I said go to the stairs!
[Dammit, he can't see her. He can't see either of them... By now he's wandered further away from the stairs, but his safety is the least of his concerns.]
Sora, keep going!