Zelph wanted to protest but knew it would probably be in vain. He let out a bit of a smile and said, "Well. If you'd like to sing. I'm okay with it. But you gotta promise me when I'm actually asleep you'll help Hedgrit and Iridia out. We all need each other." he didn't actually believe that, he thought he could probably handle himself fine, but he didn't want Tellia to be like that. He reached up and booped her on the nose and then booped her teddy before snuggling up and trying to close his eyes again.
Jasmine had way too many questions about how encounters worked if other people could be attacked because an AI triggered an alarm. Would that not send the golems after the AI? Or maybe it did and Dot just decided to be a jerk about it. It did not matter, now they were in a fight and Jasmine took a deep breath to keep herself calm. She listened to the other's questions, the red haired boy's particular comment struck her... maybe it was programmed this way? Maybe they were in some type of tutorial area to begin with? There was a familiarity to a game starting off in a prison but the memory was lost rather quickly in the fog of her mind. Jasmine reached her hand out nervously and, looking through her abilities, she only saw poison needle being useful with others seeming to be a waste of resources since she was not yet hurt. But because she noticed she had more of a capacity to heal herself, the girl ran in front of all the others as she fired off a poison needle.
Zelph felt Tellia nearby and covered his face a bit and said, "No, stay away. I don't want you to get sick..." he said it almost at a whine but tried to speak in a way she would take seriously. He opened his eyes slightly to look at her with eyes of "listen to me". Iridia began willing up some of their empty canteens with water. Trying to wait a bit between each spell so she didn't become exhausted so early.
Take watched her reaction and sighed a bit in disappointment and said,"When would be a better time? WIth people dropping without warning and people disappearing... you both at least deserve to be on the same terms in case anything happens again." the boy uncovered his ears and leaned against his keyblade for a bit. He waited for a while before he realized nothing was going to happen and he said carefully, sounding a lot like he wasn't entirely comfortable talking about it, "My... brother Yasushi and I weren't on good terms when he died. We weren't... fighting or anything like that... but we weren't talking. We both lost my oldest brother Iwao two years before that and we... never talked it out. We both grew distant, and we talked to each other like we were both strangers to each other. He kept looking at me as if something was wrong, like he wanted to talk about it and never could bring it up. I didn't want to push him about it... so I..." the boy let out a pained sigh as he tapped his fingers against the handle of his keyblade and said, "There's a pain that never goes away... right here." he brought his hand up to his chest, "When you aren't able to clear something up with someone before they go. You end up having trouble sleeping at night thinking about it. In my homeworld, I had to silently bare that pain every day." Takehiko looked between and Chrono and Tinarah and said, "I care about both of you enough to not want something like... a powerful enemy... a bad illness... a fire... to be the thing that suddenly appears and leaves one of you hurting. There's never a good time to talk about these things. But if you wait too long to talk about them... one of you is going to live forever with that."
The group seemed to travel together with this kind of plan in place for probably far too long. Take couldn't tell if it was a few minutes or a few hours with how empty the place was. After a while of the silence, Take stopped and simply turned and said,"Obviously this strategy of looking for it isn't working... maybe we need to have it come for us. Ya know, make them become the hunters hunted." Take stuck his keyblade in the ground to keep it there while he gave his left arm a check. He was surprised to find it was as if the arm had been nearly completely healed. He didn't dare take the gloves off because he was afraid he might hurt himself. He adjusted his gloves a bit and said, "On my homeworld when they were trying to lure out a dragon that had attacked the village and escaped nearby, they would send out some kids nearby to talk and play to hopefully drag the dragons attention. The kids were protected of course, but sometimes sound is the best way to go with it." he stretched a bit and heard a bit of cracking which helped him relax a bit. Then he looked at Tinarah and said, "You and Chrono need to talk." he grew quiet and said, "You two are holding each other like you're acquaintances rather than family and it... hurts to watch. Not that I think you both don't care about each other or anything. But no one else is here. Well, I guess there's me... but I can block my ears." he motioned to show his hands up and then he covered them, "Hands are the greatest thing."
Kaida stood for a little bit to watch Ananta with the sandcastle and she was a bit confused what kind of a message Ananta was trying to push here. She remembered the comment she made about Aux but she shrugged it off. At this rate, as long as this 'it's better to create than destroy' message wasn't impeding their progress she wasn't going to comment on it. Then, after hearing Steel make a comment, she finally noticed the guy seemingly taking requests and walked her way over curiously. She also wasn't sure about anything she could request cause she didn't know the local music, so the blond simply smiled and said, "Play your favorite."
Iridia flew closer to Tellia and gave her a poke on the nose and said, "It's okay, he's just grumpy because he's the shortest one in the group." she let out a mischievous grin and then looked over towards Hedgrit and said, "Zelph would want you to listen to Hedgrit after all. Right Zelph?" Iridia looked over at the sleepy half elf who stirred hearing his name and looked at the group and said, "Yeah whatever. Just make sure she doesn't eat sugar." he drank more tea and looked over at the beds above and grumbled before sleepily moving up towards the loft again, "Sheep sheep." Iridia began cleaning up the area and said, "Do we need anything filled? I can get us some water and maybe do a quick survey of the area to see if there's vegetables?"
I always feeeel like, somebodies waaaatchin meeeee
[bumps this thread to oblivion] MARU WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU DREW THIS SOONER. I JUST THOUGHT THIS WAS A FUN FANART YOU FOUND AND WENT "aha that's cute okay" BUT NOW I KNOW YOU DREW IT AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW YOU DONE GOOD ...i think you should have added fairy godmother in there too tho, maybe be their journal keeper, ya know, the jiminy everyone forgets about until they remember he exists
Takehiko raised an eyebrow and Chrono's suggestion as he walked and said, "Maybe? Or maybe it's something super obvious that Torrin would expect us to just look at and say 'yep there's the darkness'." he pointed his keyblade around a bit though, misunderstanding Chrono's suggestion a bit like it worked like a metal detector or something. As he walked he directed a comment towards Chrono, "I mean, I don't remember a lesson about this kind of thing from Atmos... unless... it was in the extra reading?" he looked unsure and then looked towards Tinarah, "What about you? You were with Torrin and his good ol' evil side is this one of messed up things he did- woah that was... way more exaggerated and dark than it needed to be I'm sorry..." he looked over and Chrono nervously and then back at Tinarah, "...but was it?"
Jasmine didn't exactly appreciate the fact she wasn't being taken seriously with this, since she was pretty sure she was onto something with that. She wasn't even thinking anything sexual about it until she heard Inna comment on it and she scoffed in disgust and stopped and said, "If you're thinking perverted stuff because I'm jumping I'm not going to like being objectified every fifteen seconds. I mean honestly, do you stare at little girls drooling when they're in bounce houses? Quit being a perv." Strangeness seemed to occur soon enough after that, and once they found a weird... ball thing floating and speaking with them, her brain couldn't comprehend it for a moment as she tried to process everything going on. As soon as it was explained it was a video game, she started clapping her hands together saying, "That makes sense. That makes sense! That's why our bodies don't move by normal physics, we're in a video game. A simulation. These are programmed bodies!" she paused for quite a minute as she placed her fingers to her chin and said, "This amnesia is particularly kicking in when thinking further about this subject, so I'm not going to push it much further. But I was fairly certain virtual reality was purely a visual experience. And I'm not aware of a controller. Sooo something very odd is going on here." Jasmine pushed her hair behind her ear and aggressively walked towards the floating sphere as she pointed at it, "What's yer angle, Dot? We all woke up with lack of memory. I could barely remember my own fucking name and I can't imagine your creator's excuses for it are going to hold up in court and as far I'm aware this is kidnapping. So what the FUCK is going on? And how the FUCK do we get out of here?"
As the world began to shake, Take looked as if he was taking a knee for a moment but with his keyblade not there, it was the quickest way he was able to balance himself without falling over. Then there was a loud noise and the world broke in half and the three young wielders were separated from Torrin and Boreas. Take slowly began to stand up again as he just barely caught onto bits of what Torrin said, but enough to figure out what he was trying to say. The boy sighed out and said, "Of course. Why would this be smooth sailing?" the boy turned towards Chrono and Tinarah to make sure they were alright before he looked around and said, "We should look for the source of darkness then. Not much point trying to get to them before calming this place down." he was speaking up to be heard over the loud noises and he hoped they did. The green-eyed boy summoned his keyblade and began to walk in the opposite direction of the split to hopefully find what they needed to find.
Zelph crossed his arms and kept laying there trying to relax himself but even after almost an hour he hadn't fallen asleep yet. He decided to climb down from his spot after a while, knowing full well the others might not be fond of it, and he started brewing himself some tea with the supplies they had. When he was near the fire, that was when he felt warm and comforted and he started drinking the tea to warm himself up more. Feeling a lot more sleepy now, but a part of him wanted to stay alert and awake while the dead were walking. His head tilted down a bit and Iridia watched and said, "Ya know it's alright to relax, right kid?" "I can't relax..." he mumbled sleepily, "Not while we're still doing this. Not while I've gotta worry about Tellia being safe... I..." he felt himself dozing off again, he let out a not very well sounding cough and Iridia's eyes widened and she quickly cast a spell on the boy and relaxed, able to recognize this as a head cold. She looked at the dwarf and Tellia, "Are you two alright? Zelph's under the weather, but it's not that death disease or anything so we're alright."
"Listen, she's pretty easy to deal with normally. As long as you don't put her in high stress situations, she's fine. And I can handle myself fine, I'm not just gonna pass out in the middle of-" Zelph watched as Iridia flew up to him quickly and threw dust in his face. He covered his mouth and coughed and covered his eyes, "OW. ****. What was that... why...?" he looked up at her and didn't seem any more or less tired and clicked her tongue, "Oh. Uh. I didn't think half elves were immune to sleep spells." "Why are you trying to put me to sleep?" Zelph looked upset and angry and looked over at the rest of the three and growled and spat out hostile-like, "Fine. I get it. I don't like it. But I get it." he went to go and lay down at that and stared off for a bit before growling, "Now I'm laying down and can't sleep. So what the hell was the point of this?"
Zelph slightly heard their voices and he mumbled out, "No... no I can move today. I'm fine." he tried to eat more of his food and said, "The closer we can get to safety, the quicker we'll be able to relax. It's fine... I'm fine." this had been basically what the boy had been saying every morning as they traveled. Iridia looked at Zelph and said, "But you need to rest or you could get hurt." "I got four hours of meditation in. It's fine." "You're a half elf... you need human amounts of-" "I said I'm fine." Zelph hissed out as he finished off his food and stood up to try and grab supplies, "We can just do our best to avoid confrontation today if you're REALLY worried." Zelph got up the ladder and felt a cough come in that he quickly motioned to hide and keep quiet before he started grabbing stuff and packing it up.
Zelph held the food towards everyone as soon as they were asking if it was ready. Because it definitely was. But the boy started falling asleep again after everyone had started eating. He was mideating when he had slouched over with his eyes closed, trying to get a bit more rest before he sneezed and it woke him up by scaring himself. He then ate a bit more and felt his head droop down again as he fell asleep once more. Iridia looked over at Zelph and said, "Is the kid alright? I haven't known 'em long but he never seems to be this tired."
As steam had poured out from the pipes and she backed away instinctively and cringed, but was surprised to see how quickly this guy seemed to heal. And once she had turned the key to leave the cell and listened to everyone talking about odd powers, she raised an eyebrow and said,"Well. The amnesia is very obviously not a complete wipe since we're still able to talk and remember words like "physics" and we aren't crawling around like babies. So I think this was somehow done intentionally. I have no evidence of this other than the fact I'm in a cell and I can barely remember my first name." Jaz wondered if there was truly anything different and started stretching and said, "Oh also. Stop calling me angel. It's creepy. You're awfully flirty for someone who's woken in this situation." The white haired girl placed her hands on her hips and jumped up and down a couple of times and her eyes narrowed and said, "I feel lighter. Unnaturally light. Like I'm 100 pounds lighter. And I don't weight much." she looked down at her boobs and jumped a few more times and said, "Boobs... don't move that way. You. Busty." She pointed straight at Raelyn and said, "Jump."
If there was such a thing as physical cringe, Jasmine had done it almost immediately upon listening to the flirting start straight off the bat. It was giving her an off familiar feeling that she couldn't quite place at the moment. She ignored most of the questions and looked at the slip of paper and said, "Um... my name is... apparently Jasmine. But... Jaz seems to roll of the tongue better for me. Like that's the nickname I'm used to... so... call me Jaz." The girl heard another voice and immediately got up to look over and felt a bit of relief realizing they were in the same boat. She walked her way over and said, "Yeah I can't remember a thing. It's rather strange..." she heard the boy's explanation of the key and noticed the light glint and tilted herself to look around this new person's body and said, "You mean like... that?" she pointed towards the key behind him, "Convenient but appreciated."
The white haired girl heard murmuring in the distance as she slowly picked herself up, awaking on a cold floor confused and suddenly very, very afraid. Then she took a deep breath to calm herself down. She had to have been through worse situations... right? Well, there was no way for her to really know since the part of her brain that should have known was... empty. Even her own name was not available. It was odd, and as the girl began to stand herself up slowly and readjust to the situation at hand, she made the best effort to stay calm and searched herself for any signs of anything. That was when she found a slip of paper with Jasmine written on it. Jasmine? That must have been her name. It truly was fortunate she was still able to read or comprehend the English language, or even have the mental capacity of someone... her age? How old was she? Didn't matter, a part of her told her it must have been some sort of targeted amnesia, if she could even comprehend what that word meant. Jaz walked close to the cell bars and looked out and asked loudly, "H-hello? Is anyone out there? Where is... here? Hello?" She looked behind her and saw someone else on the floor in the cell and couldn't believe she didn't notice before. Jaz gasped out and quickly ran over and shook them gently, getting a hand on their shoulder, "Excuse me? Are you alright? Wake up. No seriously wake up, we might be somewhere dangerous."
Take was pretty sure this was the first time in a while that he made it through a fight like that without getting close to being knocked out. He considered that a success if anything. Even though the danger wasn't exactly gone he got a bit giddy with excitement and did his best to hide it and said, "Hey, we made it." and he held his fist out towards Chrono as if for a fist bump. Chrono returned it pretty casually and that made Take a bit more excited, then he decided to focus more on the page. He walked over casually to look at it and suddenly that excitement turned into a pit of embarrassment. He took a deep breath to calm himself down before asking, genuinely curious, "Y-yeah... what does it say? Actually... what have any of these... notes... been about?"
