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Post by Azul Eyes on Sept 10, 2007 21:44:10 GMT
Selphie instantly pressed her face against the glass. "Yeah, it does!" she exclaimed. "What are they walking on? It's like they're walking on nothing."
She tilted her head, making her hair bob. "Let's go meet them! C'mon guys!" she said enthusiastically.
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Post by Captain Wee on Sept 10, 2007 22:53:57 GMT
(Auron)
"Rikku?"
Auron came out from the shadows, clearly surprised by the events that transpired. He looked over himself. The warrior was once again clad in his red garb and his trusty katana was strapped to his back.
Something is wrong. I should be in the Farplane. But that mysterious blue light....What was it?
Auron addressed the Al-Bhed, ignoring her shocked look. "What happened?"
--------------------------------------- (Reno)
"Soooo...are we the only ones left here?" Reno asked to no one in particular.
When they didn't answer the Turk turned to gaze at the statue in the plaza. "You know, I've seen many crazy things in my life. Aliens, mutants, clutzy ninja girls, but nothing like this. I wonder...is this it...is this finally the end of the world?"
He folded his arms over his chest and started pacing. "That blue light...you think the Planet finally Holy'ed us? "
Everybody was silent for a moment while they took in the information. "Screw this." The red-head muttered as he jumped off the roof. "I'm going to find out what the hell is happening. If I'm going to kick the bucket, I'd at least like to find out why."
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 11, 2007 2:42:27 GMT
Zack approached the huge floating tower warily. It was actually a beautiful structure, but in his experiance, nothing that big should be able to fly- and anything that implausible, generally had Shinra's grimy fingerprints all over it...
He didn't want to alarm Aeris though, so when she turned to give him a questioning look he grinned. "I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes out to say hi, pretty soon, I feel like we are being watched out here. But at least it doesn't feel quite so deserted anymore."
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Post by Azul Eyes on Sept 11, 2007 3:14:03 GMT
(Selphie)
"Whoa," Selphie whispered as they exited the Garden. They were standing on a slab of some rock-like material, and it was floating. "Hey Rinny! Squall! Look! It's those people!"
Selphie instantly started jumping up and down while waving her hands wildly. "HI!" she squealed loudly. "Over here!"
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Post by Sylla on Sept 11, 2007 9:33:55 GMT
(Rikku is incredibly fun to write. I really went to town here. XD And man, I totally forgot about Sephiroth. Ooops...)
--- (Aeris)
Aeris turned to look in the direction of the shout, and saw three people, one of whom was bouncing up and down excitedly and waving. She waved back briefly and, beckoning to Zack, hopped from platform to platform until she stood directly in front of them.
"Um... hello," she began.
--- (Rikku)
The moment that voice had said her name, several things had happened. first, her heart had suddenly decided that her throat was a much nicer place to be than her chest cavity, butterflies had spontaneously erupted in her stomach, and Auron- Auron!- had stepped out of the shadows.
Auron! her mind repeated dumbly. She knew her jaw was hanging open and she was staring and it looked stupid, but her mental capabilities didn't quite extend to stop looking stupid! just yet.
"What happened," he asked, and each word sent a tremor up her spine because it was him, it was really him and he was really standing right there in front of her!
Sher ranf orward before she even realized what she was doing and, to her surprise (and probably his too, she concluded), wrapped her arms tightly around his waist.
"Auron?" she squeeked, looking up at him. He sighed.
"Yes, Rikku. It's really me."
"Oh. Um..." she released him from her embrace, blushing. "Right, sorry. What happened. Um..." she put her hands to the side of her head as she always did when thinking. "So there I was digging for machina and then there's this huuuge light and it swallowed up everything, and now I can't find Brother and Pops and you're here even though you're..." she trailed off. "Well anyway," she brightened. "Does that help any?"
--- (Sephiroth)
He looked out across the expanse of nothingness that lay before him. It had taken some fancy manouvering (and a short drop off the edge of the platform) but in the end neither the Cetra nor the SOLDIER had noticed him there. Now, he thought, onto more pressing matters. What to do...
--- (Hey, Rikku is very effusive! She probably would hug Auron if he came back! XD)
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 11, 2007 11:57:46 GMT
Zack grinned as he came forward beside Aeris.
"This is Aeris, I'm Zack. Do any of you happen to know where we are?"
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 11, 2007 17:48:41 GMT
(Squall and Rinoa) "Where we are?" Squall, no longer the only guy in the group, echoed. "This is the Garden...our Garden." But looking around at the void, broken only by the stepping stones that these two arrived on, he added "but the rest of it...outside I mean...we..."
"We really have no idea." Rinoa cut in brightly, clinging to Squall's arm and daring herself to peek over the edge of the Garden, "but it looks like we three were the only ones who..." She broke off and shot Selphie a sympathetic glance, tightening her grip on Squall's arm: no way was she going to lose him.
As Zack and Aeris stared expectantly at the trio, Rinoa suddenly squeaked "oh right! Names! Sorry how rude of us! I'm Rinoa, that's Selphie and this is...well, I'll let him introduce himself." She teased while nudging Squall, who made no effort to carry out the orders; as he was staring intently at Zack's uniform - perhaps he was some sort of SeeD...
"Squall!" Rinoa cried and poked her boyfriend roughly in the arm, "Don't be rude!" sighing a little, Squall extended a hand towards Zack in a rather professional fashion...because to be honest he felt a little out of his depth - not only did he have no idea about what was going on, now there was this man who was older, bigger, uniformed and almost definitely his superior.
"Commander Leonhart." he announced coolly, "Are you from another Garden?"
-------------------------- (Vincent)
Vincent watched the redhead walking away without reaction, he didn't need any help searching the town...
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 11, 2007 18:00:34 GMT
Zack grinned and accepted the handshake (Squall's) good naturedly.
"Nice to meet you." He sighed, looking around. "I'm not sure what a Garden is exactly, but if you three are from this place then there's probably no need to explore it," He looked at Aerith. "Well, do you feel like climbing a tree next or looking around the big sandbox?"
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 11, 2007 18:05:52 GMT
Squall resisted the urge to quirk an eyebrow, as he knew that apart from making a bad example of himself Rinoa was likely to do something embarassingin front of these strangers.
'If this guy's a superior...' The commander thought to himself, 'he doesn't really act like it.'
"Big tree!!" Rinoa squealed while bouncing on the tips of her toes, "but...are those things really safe to walk on?"
----------------- (Balthier)
"Vaan! Over here!" the pirate cried with an insistant wave of his arm, "Give me a hand with this," he swiftly cocked and fired his gun a second at the cash register, which went up once more in acrid smoke but didn't give way.
The boy quickly bounded over, weapon in hand, and placed a few good hits onto the troublesome drawer, which spilt open and poured forth a mind-boggling amount of gil onto the floor. Balthier left Vaan to scrabble around on the floor for the change and located the key to the safe, which to his delight conatined a charming little nook of jewelry.
"Now..." he muttered to himself while spinning the rings on his hand around, trying to decide which one would have to be sacrificed, "I think I'll have....this one." Picking up an emerald-studded band and studying t carefully, the pirate persuaded it onto his finger and then continued to rumage through the goods.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Sept 11, 2007 18:41:20 GMT
(Penelo & Vaan)
"Vaan! Balthier NO! What do you think you're doing? What if someone comes back? You'll end up in prison again! Vaan NO! Don't break open another one!"
She turned to peer nervously out the shattered window. It wasn't the theivery she had a problem with, but the fact that they were being quite so obvious about it, you never know who could be hiding in she shadows, even if the place seemed deserted...
She turned to find Vaan, standing before her with a small golden bird hanging from a chain, a tiny emerald glittering as its eye.
"It was in that cabinet over there" he said, gesturing vaugely. "I thought you might like it." Carefully, he reached his arms around her to fasten it around her neck, the tanned skin just brushing her cheek. He pulled back and lookd at her, then grinned and nodded.
"Yup, looks great. Seeing as you weren't getting anything, I thought I'd better get something for you before Balthier takes it all."
Penelo sighed and clasped a hand around the tiny pendant.
"I suppose if anyone was going to come for us they would have by now..." she said reluctantly.
"Exactly!" grinned Vaan. "Now come on, lets see what else we can find. It's not every day you get the whole city to yourself!"
And with a whoop, he jumped out the window and ran down the street, like a little kid with the day off school. Penelo followed more carefully. Vaan and Balthier may be at ease, but she couldn't settle with something so obviously unnatural going on.
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Post by fearandloathing on Sept 11, 2007 19:18:04 GMT
(Balthier)
Balthier had just been jogging down the east street in search of the weaponry when the ground suddenly vanished from under his feet, and that was literally, vanished.
"What in!!" The startled sky pirate cried as his legendary balance failed him and he nearly plunged into...well, nothing. But luckily a leading man never falls to his death, least of all after tripping over his own feet, so Balthier clung periously to the edge of a crumbling paving stone, a strong force pulling him and everything else downwards.
He considered calling the others for help up, as there was no way he could make it on his own, especially not with his grasp on the stone rapidly slipping; but that really wouldn't reflect well on him now, would it?
So with a reluctant heroisim the Pirate clasped his gun in one hand, and allowed himself to drop down...after all, there had to be something at the end of the road.
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Post by Azul Eyes on Sept 12, 2007 1:18:48 GMT
(Selphie)
"It's a pleasure to meetcha!" Selphie said enthusically. "Like Rinny said, I'm Selphie." The perky girl took a moment to admire Zack and to look Aeris over, and she couldn't help but notice that their eye colors were incredibly similar.
She looked at Zack curiously. "If you aren't from a Garden, where are you from? Can you really fight with that sword? Is Aeris (it is Aeris, right?) your girlfriend? How do you fight, Aeris? I don't see your weapon." Selphie continued to drill the pair for answers.
Then she paused. "You haven't happened to see a tall guy, about Squall's height, with long brown hair and a cowboy hat, have you?" she asked desperately.
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(I hope this fits Selphie pretty well. I'm imagining perky and happy, but not completely brainless. After all, she is a SeeD.)
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Sept 12, 2007 3:18:16 GMT
Zack shook his head sympathetically. "Nope, I'm sorry. You three are the only people we've seen since we woke up in this place. Our home was a world called Gaia, but, actually, both of us were- gone for a while..."
He paused. "I guess if you are missing some of your friends you could join us looking. We'd like to find a way back to our world to find out what is going on here."
Zack looked mischieviously at Selphie. "If we see any more monsters, then you'll find out if we can fight."
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Post by Captain Wee on Sept 12, 2007 6:07:58 GMT
(Auron)
"Yes Rikku. Its really me."
Although he expected Rikku to make a stir at his arrival, he was not totally prepared for the hug. Auron made a near-imperceptible grin at her antics. There were times when Rikku got on his nerves, but he did admire her energy and her resolve. She reminded him why he cared so much Spira.
After hearing her talk about the light, Auron raised his hand to his chin. So the living saw it as well? This is becoming very interesting.
The guardian started to walk away from Rikku. "I'm going to have a look around."
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(Reno)
From what Reno could see, Edge was a dead city. There was no one around, not even the orphans that usually flooded the city. The silence was not only deafening, it was frightening.
The Turk was on guard for any cataclysm to occur. If his life as a clandestine operative taught him one thing, silence was the most threatening thing to encounter since it always invited the unknown and the deadly.
He kept walking until he saw white before him. Reno's jaw dropped as soon as he got a good look. "Holy Shh...inra! Where the hell is the rest of the world?!"
Reno looked back and called out for the others. "Hey Valentine, Lockhart! Ya gotta look at this! It's even more unbelievable than your rack!"
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Sept 12, 2007 15:27:35 GMT
(Tifa)
Tifa hurried over, and gasped. The world was... gone. White mist swirled around like an unending sea, huge stones suspended in it like islands. In the distance she could see huge, strange shapes, unknown and terrifying and yet...
"It's... beautiful" she said softly. It also gave her hope. Perhaps Cloud was somewhere out there, with the children. Somehow, the sight gave her strength. She turned to Reno, smiling slightly...
And slapped him across the cheek. "No more sexist comments. We're sticking together from now on, you me and Vincent, Ok?"
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(Vaan and Penelo)
"Shouldn't we go look for Balthier now? Maybe he's found someone" suggested Penelo, as Vaan rummaged through a weapon shop. They were both equipped with the best weapons and armour in Rabanastre, but she was getting slightly bored of waiting around while Vaan cooed over the latest sword or helmet.
"I guess you're right." he sighed, tearing himself away from the treasure trove of equipment. They wandered out the shop and down the street, heading vaugely in the direction of Eastgate. As they drew closer, Penelo began to feel uneasy, something was seriously wrong.
"Vaan, maybe we should stay in the city" she said timidly.
"What's wrong? It's just the estersand, you've been there before, come on!" said Vaan, running ahead. Then he stopped dead, looking out the East Gate. Penelo drew level with him and stifled a scream. The estersand was gone, and in it's place was... nothing.
Now Penelo had been through all sorts of hardships and adventures, and liked to think of herself as fairly brave. But nothing prepared her for this, and she fell to her knees, staring into the whiteness.
"Vaan, what's hapened" she whispered desperately, trying not to cry, but something must have shown in her voice, as he crouched beside her and put an arm round her shoulders.
"Come on, we've dealt with worse then this haven't we?" he said, rubbing her back comfortingly. "It's another adventure, we'll be ok" But even as he comforted Penelo, Vaan was having his doubts. He wanted Basch or Balthier, or even Ashe there, to tell him what to do, to lead the way and take responsibility. But no one was there, and it was up to him now.
"Come on" he smiled, helping Penelo to her feet. "Let's go check it out"
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