keychained | 015; [text/action for goldenrod pokécenter]

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+action,
+bell the togepi,
+goldenrod,
+hayate,
+hope,
+kaito,
+leon,
+merlin,
+mr phoenix,
+riku,
+rise,
+sonic,
+text,
+ven,
+yuffie,
gdi vanitas,
i miss cura,
i need an antidote,
it will not br-- it broke,
let's have a chat with my fists,
messages in a bottle,
resting point,
sora is not good with computer,
sora you can't fight buildings until kh2

015; [text/action for goldenrod pokécenter]

[there are a few unusual things about this here transmission: first, Sora's sending out a few text messages. they're... not exactly his first choice for communicating; he prefers being able to see someone's face when he's talking to them. that and he's painfully slow with hunting and pecking on a keyboard. he's got a good reason for going the text route today, though.]

Is everybody okay? I know all kinds of weird stuff's happened, and I want to make sure nobody's hurt.

[-- and unusual thing number two. though Sora is not much of a typist, he does at least try to make his texts grammatically correct. oh screw it, typing with one hand is annoying.]

let me know soon. also if you guys have any empty bottles hang on to them. or give them to me and i'll hold them for you. ive got an idea

if you find my stuff please be careful with dartanian_

[shortly after mashing the "send" button, Sora tosses his 'gear in front of him on the bed and sighs. tries to sigh. Bell waddles over to to where the 'gear hit the covers and turns it over and over with her tiny arm stubs, prii'ing happily to herself. feel free to make a video call, though you may be chatting with a Togepi at first.]

[if you happen to enter the pokécenter in Goldenrod, you might hear Sora arguing feebly with a nurse and basically being the worst patient ever.]

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[one day he's defending the World from the darkness; the next day he's defending silverware and his ribs from children... but he has about the same level of triumph for both! that's the power of the... fork?]

Nothin' to it! Let's head back.

[ the Persona kids made an athletic festival as deadly as fighting inside a TV, that's true heroics. And Rise grins and gets to work escorting her bro back. They don't need any big scary nurses heading out to round them up. ]

[if he could be bounding along happily at the prospect of a good lunch, he would-- as it is, by the time they're back at the center and Sora's rather hesitantly climbing back into his bed, he's already dug through the bag and had a few samples. eager beaver; you bet!]

Thanks again, Rise!

[ Rise opts to snag a chair and drag it over by the bed before she collapses in it-- gracefully, of course. She still doesn't know why she feels so tired if she supposedly slept for three days. ]

No problem! I'm just glad I got there before you tried to make a break for it.

[yeah, he looks just a wee bit sheepish at that-- it likely won't happen again; not after Hope gets a hold of him and knocks some sense into him. Sora watches her quietly for a minute, his box'o'food sitting on his lap.]

I didn't give you too much trouble, huh? You sorta look like you could use a nap.

[ god bless Hope. Rise only returns the gaze with a reassuring smile. ]

No, you were fine. I'm just feeling a little run-down-- it's probably a cold or something.

[ which is a lie, but what is remembering. ]

Mm, well... I don't mind just relaxing for a little while, then. Want to tell those stories?

Sure. Want me to go first?

Okay!

[he'll... attempt to get comfortable. and eat his lunch in the meantime.]

[ and here is Rise trying to figure out what exactly to tell him. Give her a minute. ]

[don't worry big sis; he's got all the time in the world.]

[ she's still new to this whole bedtime story thing, but dammit she'll try. ]

Once upon a time, there was a... a sorceress, who sought to envelop a peaceful land with fog. But this wasn't ordinary fog. This fog confused people, made it impossible to view the truth. And the people, while alarmed at first, began to fall under its sway. It was okay to believe in lies. No one could judge them if they didn't know the truth, and they were happier not knowing it.

[he shifts a little as he listens, drawing his blankets up over his legs-- stories about magic and heroes are his favorite kinds of stories; this one's already off to a great start! and, just like when his mom told him stories when he was very little, he pretty much asks questions whenever he gets a chance.]

So the fog kind of made people lie, then?

[ Rise grins at that; oh boy, audience interaction! ]

Yeah, sort of. It messed with their minds, made kids sick... and if no one did anything, it would just keep getting worse.

How do you even fight something like that?

You fight your way to the source.

Ohh... So you'd have to fight the source...eress?

[... cough snort oh god Sora's going to kill himself at this rate.]

... [ and she just gives him a YOUNG MAAAAN look. ]

[but it was such a good one... all right all right, Sora smiles apologetically. this is Rise's story; he'll listen quietly! unless he has a question-- he's likely going to have questions.]

[ she smiles back at him, dork that he is. ]

But there was someone who was willing to fight through the fog and the monsters the sorceress set loose to lurk in it. He was a-- a prince, and his name was Prince [ ... Bowlcut? Science Project Eater? ] ... Silver. He was a strong fighter and he could summon all sorts of creatures to help him in his battles. He also gained seven knights-- people who'd had to face their own trials in order to be able to fight by his side.

[oh, this is pinging his love for stories about knights and fighting evil big time.]

Cool! Kind of like the knights of the round table!

[ ... this one knows nothing about Camelot, because what is being a good student in Japan. ]

Ahaha, kind of! Even with those trials taken care of, though, they still had a lot of fighting to do to reach the sorceress. She sent a lot of monsters and her very own magician after them and they were dragged into a different world to fight there.

[Sora can relate to both Rise and the story-- if it's math related, you can bet that he was ignoring it in favor of doodling on the sides of his paper.]

Mm... What kind of world was it?

It was... [ Rise frowns a little, almost as though she's reminiscing. ] It was really beautiful once. But the fog had made it a very dangerous and twisted place. When you entered for the first time, parts of the world became like something out of a personal nightmare. And the monsters attacked you, wherever you went.

[he catches that frown, though he's not really sure he understands the implications behind it. Sora does get the feeling, as he sits here quietly and listens, that maybe this story-- or at least the place she's describing-- is more significant than just a story, or a setting.]

[so Sora sits up a little, and leans closer to Rise, waiting for her to continue.]

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