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≋ The Power of Fears [Video/Action for Disney Castle]

[The communicator turns on to a scene of movement through Disney Town as Ven tries to make his way to the Castle at the center of the world as quickly as he can, his armor clanking a bit as he runs. He's wearing it because he thinks it will help protect him from whatever this Mist is doing to people, but the situation is more than serious enough that some sort of help is needed, and he's hoping Mickey will have some answers. But he's tired and worn out and not really paying attention...]

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before on your home worlds? I haven't seen something like this or even read about it in any books, so this may be something from another world that's starting to creep into our universe and if it is we're going to need any help we can to defeat this. We've got so many people from so many different worlds here there has to be someone who has any idea what this is, or some way to fight it - we all need help here, please, anyone, if you know anything, tell the rest of us. [Because otherwise they are all going to die of exhaustion in short order, and that's not a joke. But for now, all he can do is ask and hope someone responds as he keeps going.]

[He's about a hundred yards out from the Castle when it happens.]

Ventus!

Wha-?! [Ven skids to a halt where he stands, turning back the direction he came at that... far too familiar voice. Far, far too familiar, and a far, far too familiar figure steps out from an alley, striding towards him with his hands folded behind his back and a small, confident, evil smile on his face. Ven doesn't even realize that his armor is dissolving, pulling back into just his pauldron as the man gets closer and he backs up a couple of steps, Keyblade appearing in his hand.]

M-Master Xehanort!

Indeed, it is me, your first Master. I've come to bring you home, back to the Graveyard. Come, Ventus. We have much work to do.

[The man holds out a hand towards Ven, who recoils, dropping into his battle stance immediately. The fear is flickering over his face but he's doing a decent job of keeping it in check because he can't afford to lose this now-]

No! Everything you say is a lie, everything you do is just to hurt people! I won't listen to you again - I won't let you control me again!

Is that what you think? [He heaves a sigh, as if he really is punishing an errant pupil.] Always suffering from your lack of vision, your lack of understanding of the situation. In that case... so be it. [The old man turns his outstretched hand, gripping his fingers, an ornate Keyblade appearing in it.] If you won't listen, you will have to live - or not - with the consequences.

[Ven's eyes widen and he quickly swings his Keyblade up into a guard position, but Xehanort is preternaturally fast and remarkably strong. Ven's weapon is knocked aside in just two blows, and without giving him any more time to react to counter it, one more stabbing strike drives the end of the master's Keyblade into Ven's chest as the teenager yells, eyes opened wide with shock. The light goes out of his eyes as he starts to lose consciousness, and the all-too-real nightmare vision of the old man fades from existence as he slumps to the ground, half-dead from a dream strike and absolutely passed out cold. He didn't actually lose his heart, but it sure feels like he did, and he won't be waking up for awhile.]

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[Even Kairi knew that this was probably not a good thing, but just as she was about to reply with something about the mist herself, she see the events that happen next as if they were happening before her eyes. Not good. Not good at all.]

Ventus! [It really doesn't look good and Kairi knows she just has to make her way, to help if she can of course.]

Edited 2012-09-18 11:25 (UTC)

[Well now that he's not conscious there's no dream!version of Xehanort running around to torment Ven, but he's still... well, unconscious. Generally not a good thing. And who knows what that mist will do to him...]

[Right, time for Kairi to get a move on, trying her hardest not to let the mist affect her as much as what the others had. She was going to keep her cool. Getting a Gummi ship and taking a while to get there sadly, she eventually arrived and ran of over. best check to see if he can wake up, if not best to move him to a safe spot.]

[No, he's not waking. If she pulls back his eyelids, she might be disturbed - his pupils seem faded, halfway not there. He didn't really lose his heart, but his brain thinks he did, and it's affecting him pretty badly.]

[Kairi wasn't sure of what she should do next except maybe getting him indoors and back into the safeness of a house at least. So choosing to at least try and pick him up, she started to make her way through the fog, hoping to at least find a nearby building.]

[He's not going to fight it, but he's about 135 pounds of deadweight right now. Dragging him is probably the better option, and he won't blame you for it at all. In fact, he'll thank you for getting him out of there. And the Disney world is really crowded, so buildings won't be a problem. Kairi, you are awesome.]

[She she had managed, after about ten to thirty minutes she closed the door and made sure that no more mist could get through.]

At least that is out of the way now. Let's just hope this works.

[Well, that's an uncomfortably familiar voice. Not one that she trusts, but one that she knows far better than she would ever care to. Not when it's Ven's heart on the line, as it seems to be.]

Ven!

[Too late. He's down and out for the count, sprawled outside the courtyard to the castle. Sorry, Aqua - he failed you again.]

[He might be down for the count, but Aqua isn't about to let that be the end of things. Master Xehanort may have vanished (and she is very emphatically Not Going To Think About That), but she's not going to leave Ven sprawled out there outside the courtyard. Her duties as Acting Master can wait for a little while.

Unfortunately, she's never managed the portals Ven has, and so she has to rely on her glider to get her there. She's there as soon as she can though, and she really hopes that he's still somewhere she can find by the time she lands]

[Once this is over, Aqua, he'll teach you. Terra made one once - you'll be able to, too. But it'll have to wait.]

[And he's exactly where he fell, within throwing distance of the castle gates, but there's no one out on the world at the moment to help him. Everyone is in hiding or has fallen themselves. He's laying face down on the ground, barely breathing.]

[It's not a pretty sight. Even if it could have been worse, the fact that Ven seems to be all be comatose is bad enough. She could have down without that sort of reminder, especially when she hasn't got any idea of where Terra is, save for that he somehow seems to think she's dead. But one thing at a time. Just like always, even if it never quite seems to be enough.

It takes a bit of time to get Ven on his feet enough so that she can carry him back to her glider, and longer still to arrange things so that she won't drop him on the return trip. But she has the advantage of having done it once before and Ven is lighter than Terra besides. Once things are arranged to her liking, she takes a brief moment to make sure there's nothing else to be taken care in the immediate vicinity (there's not, for better or for worse) and then takes off for home.]

[He can't fight you, Aqua. If you can haul him along, he'll do it. He'll also apologize for this later - you shouldn't have to go through this again.]

[The trip back to the Land of Departure is a somber one, if one unmarked by any sort of misfortune. There's hardly any sense in trying to hold a conversation now, and so the trip passes in silence. Once they arrive, Aqua takes her glider in as close to the castle as she can - she can carry Ven tolerably well, but best to not have nearly so far to take him.

It's with a heavy heart that she brings him to his room, but better to leave him somewhere comfortable, she figures.]

Ventus -- no! [ Terra is already pretty upset because he saw everyone die before. but to watch it again, that just breaks his heart. he starts to sob again. he's unaware that everyone is still okay and thinks that this is a ghost haunting him ]

[Well he's not dead? But yeah, he's definitely out of it. Sorry, bro.]

[ Well, don't look at her, Ven. Even with all the worlds that she's traveled, she's still just as lost to things as he is. But still, she wants to think of something. Anything to try and stop this, whatever it is that's happening. But all she's drawing are blanks. It's frustrating. ]

I haven't seen anything like this either. Someone thought it was from the darkness, but now that you mention it, it could come from a world none of us know about, too. [ But that... doesn't really help things. They need solutions. And fast. ]

It's got Darkness in it, it has to, but Darkness exists on all worlds, in all worlds, or they wouldn't be disappearing like they are. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, it's just- It's not good, whatever it is, and we need to fix it as fast as possible.

[And he'll keep running to the castle. Mickey better know something...]

[ Darkness in it. Well... it would make sense. Darkness seems to be one of the biggest dangers of the worlds. It's funny. She feels like she should have known this a long time ago. Guess this goes to show how much the Organization really was keeping her in the dark. Her expression darkens. She's running about herself though it's hard to see where with her face so close to her communicator, her fingers overlapping the screen here and there. ]

Right. The question is how? Every world I've gone to- they all have that mist in them! [ Mind, she's been trying her best to duck into buildings here and there or slip back out from the corridor she came from if it's too thick. ] How do we stop something that's spreading so fast?

I don't know - I'm trying to get to Mickey, to see if he knows anything, but it's not working so great-

[There's so much Mist on this world. He doesn't know what that means, but it's... making this a lot harder than it should be. Normally he has a good sense of direction, but this stuff seems to be turning him in circles and making him go down alleys that he's never noticed before - it's harder to see the castle now.]

Ven, maybe you should back out- just for now! It looks really bad over there!

[ And that means it might start doing weird things to him. Things that she doesn't want happening to him, okay? Even she can see that the mist is awfully thick from her side of things. It's even blurring up his face and he's really not that far from the screen- at least she doesn't think so from her perspective. ]

Edited 2012-10-03 22:18 (UTC)

Our armor's spelled to keep out the Darkness, it should work for this stuff, too.

[...Famous last words.]

I can't stop now!

But if you don't find the castle soon- And that didn't stop it from doing something to Terra! I'm not saying give up, but if you're in it for too long, you'll never reach the king!

[ She gets him. She really does. And she's no more crazy about her own words than he is. But if he gets overexposed to that mist... ] Doesn't he have one of these things, too? [ You know, the communicator thingamajigs. ]

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