Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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Aria’s eyes widened when her name was spoken by someone she didn’t met until now. “Y-Yeah-”

She gasped when Koa jumped in front of her, only to be knocked back so easily and become disarmed.

What was even more alarming was being told that Tinarah didn’t return after all. It was as if her heart was stabbed and the world froze for a moment. Aria was the one who suggested to the Light Chaser the little girl should be returned to her friends. She was so vulnerable and needed someone to protect her. “He... lied to me?” Aria questioned out loud.

She unsummoned her keyblade and turned to Koa with a look of disgust and betrayal. It probably wasn’t his fault though... Still, she felt awful. She angrily wiped her eyes with the back of her hand to stop the tears from coming and turned to Torrin. “I’m Aria, I’m Master Choma’s student and Tinarah’s and Mika’s friend... I want to get out of here, please. Can you get me back to everyone...?”

 

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Taking another look around the ship, Chrono found the lack of anybody up here to be odd. Sure there was the guy moping the deck, but he wouldn't exactly be the most helpful in keeping them from being thrown off the ship should someone finally notice them. Chrono agreed that being caught on this ship as they were would not end well for them, but at the same time if whoever was in control of this ship was hostile, then barging in on them might end badly as well. In his mind, both options had a risk, but with the latter they could at least attempt to talk their way out of trouble. "Finding the captain sounds good, but where would we start looking to find them?"

 

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Takehiko looked around and spoke, "I assume the captain would be wherever the captain's cabin is which is..." Take finally spotted it and sighed, "Riiiight behind the guy mopping...." the boy looked to see if there was another route around but it seemed almost impossible for there to be a way without going past the cabin boy. Takehiko crossed his arms and asked, "Alright guys, we're gonna have to be subtle about this. So try and be casual, and Illiana maybe not do that walk with the umbrell- where is Illiana?" Take realized the girl wasn't with their group anymore and raised an eyebrow, "O...kay... well, I'm not gonna worry about her then. She'll... probably be fine. Um, let's... just walk past the guy and not draw attention to ourselves?"

Take asked it as a question and looked to Chrono and Glyde in case there were objections. But he didn't wait too long before he started walking on over towards the cabin. Trying not to draw the attention of the guy mopping. Maybe he'd just think they were other members of the crew or something? He wasn't entirely sure this would work but he kept with it anyway. Though he was doing his best to not walk like a soldier and try to keep a more casual walk. Which looked casual, albeit totally unnatural a walk for those who knew what Take walked like, since he was much more relaxed in posture.

 

Before Aria had a chance to answer the question, "Forgotten Flower" was at Torrin's throat.

"As long as we're listing off people who are suspicious, care to enlighten our mutual friend of your... credentials?" After Pagos' greatly appreciated intervention, Chrys had run as fast as possible to the location that Koa and Aria had been. Keyword 'had'. She had arrived just in time to see the two of them leaving the inn. After peeking in to make sure that her fellow apprentice wasn't dead, Chrys had quickly followed them down the street. Aria had obviously gone willingly, so Torrin had likely either lied, or told her just enough to convince her to come along. It would make things harder, especially since she wasn't really intending to hurt either of them, despite what they believed. If Aria was as stubborn as Torrin was, she could definitely have a problem... hopefully she was at least sensible enough to not immediately jump to the same questionable methods.​

 

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Atlantean princess? That was a new term for Aria. What had the group had been getting into? The Light Chaser was really starting to collect the princesses... but like Tinarah, it sounded like she was taken against her will as well. What kind of group was this bunch anyways-?

As she was opening her mouth to speak, Chrys showed up. Credentials? Aria gripped her hand and stepped back slightly. “Was Tinarah returned to my group, or not?! Because I have a really hard time trusting others if they lie to me! And your master showed me she was with her brother, but... th-this guy here says she didn’t show up, and her master is here looking for her!” She furrowed her brow and took another step back, not sure what her next move would be. She was clearly outranked in this world, and if everyone was lying to her... she wouldn’t know what to do then. Master Choma, where are you...?

 

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Take was a little annoyed by the fact the plan didn't work, and when he noticed Jim backing away towards the cabin, he had a feeling he knew what was going on. Takehiko raised an eyebrow a bit and said, "Yeah, we're part of the night crew. Shifts get worrisome with tired workers...." he looked back over towards Chrono before turning back towards the young man and he began inching towards the cabin as well, "We were below deck for the most part, but we did notice an issue when doing a quick inspection, a problem with one of the lifeboats, well, more specifically the... rmblmblmbl." Take's knowledge on boats was starting to fail him so he hoped him coughing and then mumbling could somehow cover it up. Take was about the same distance from the cabin as the boy, just on the opposite side, "So we've just come to inform the captain."

 

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Glyde's following with Chrono and Take proved more of an obligation than a want in his mind. The regret of this decision weighed upon his thoughts as they ascended the steps onto the upper deck. Open space... no where to take cover or hide... no way out but off... if the entire crew is going to meet anywhere at once, it'll be here, and we won't have any way to avoid them. At least, he gathered, if he had stayed below deck, he'd have been good enough to conceal himself, perhaps even get off a shot at someone if they came too close or too threatening. Up top, there was nothing but the seemingly skittish cabin boy, who would flee for the nearest authority, whose cabin happened to be within a few bounds.

"I think," he whispered, only audible to Chrono and Take, "I'd better go make sure Illiana is alright. You two are better at the whole explaining things thing than I am anyways." He casually sidestepped out from the small formation the three of them had held. "Which reminds me," he spoke more audibly, "I forgot to bring up our paperwork on that." He began to backtrack towards the stairs they had come up from. "Be right back."

 

Illiana continued listening to the crewmen as their conversation grew more heated. The conversation continued for a bit before Illiana whispered to herself. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say a coup de grace is being planned. Why am I not surprised?" Illiana continued listening before hearing footsteps from the stairs she was near before. She looked back over to the room and heard one of the aliens being yelled at. "Scroop? What kind of name is Scroop? Though he looks like trouble....Grreeaatt....more problems to probably deal with later..." The girl sighed before looking back and listening once more. She looked back towards the stairs as the footsteps were getting close. Was it one of the guys or somebody else entirely? The girl looked back and forth between the two spots.

 

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“You mean Tinarah, yes?” Aria asked Torrin. “Because I wasn’t kidnapped, I woke up here. The Light Chaser said he put this world in a sleeping state and I couldn’t leave because it was something about my light being too strong...” She trailed off and pressed her lips in a thin line, looking to Chrys and then back to Torrin. She still didn’t get a concrete answer from either one of them about Tinarah, and that bothered her greatly. She was torn on who to trust at this point. Even though the Light Chaser saved her and everyone here seemed nice to her so far, she didn’t know everything about them. Just enough to have a sense of an idea of who they were. But now with this new person showing up, it just made her question things more... What was going on exactly? (Insert whole Kingdom Hearts Plot Here)

Aria then blinked and looked over to Torrin when he asked if she could fight. “Uh, excuse me?” She crooked and eyebrow in confusion, looking to Chrys and then back to Torrin. “Well ideally, I’d like to say I’m really good. Realistically, I’m useless. I barely held my ground against Koa when he had a duel with me... But I am good at dodge rolling.”

 

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Take watched the cabin boy begin printing towards the captain's cabin. He knew at this point knew that the kid knew they were intruders and he took a breath and cursed under his breath before he ran as well, in the other direction and said, "Hey hey hey hey! Wait, hear me out a second." when he reached the other side of the door he held his hands out towards the boy and said, "Look, I know you'll find this hard to believe, but we ended up knocked onboard and we have no idea where we are, and we just wanted to talk to the captain to clear things up. We mean no harm. I just, well, didn't want to freak you out but this approach seemed to freak you out more."

 

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Glyde had decided to go and check on Illiana, which left Take and himself to deal with the mop boy who was progressively backing away from them. In the direction that they needed to go no less. The mop hit the floor and the boy ran off away from them, probably to inform the captain that they were suddenly on the ship. Seeing how badly that could end if they didn't intervene in some way. Chrono had caught up to them shortly after Take had stopped the boy. "We're just trying to avoid being thrown off til we have some idea as to where we are. That's all."

 

Illiana pulled back as the cyborg looked over to Illiana's hiding spot. She looked over toward the stairs before making sure the coast was clear. As she saw Glyde descend from the stairs, she placed one hand over his mouth and pulled him back to her hiding spot. She motioned to the boy to remain silent before flicking his forehead twice. "Ever heard of 'being aware of your surroundings'? Shh!!" She released Glyde before looking back into the room. Hopefully, she didn't draw any attention from the crewmen.

 

"Tinarah?" Chrys was admittedly confused, though not confused enough to be taken caught off guard by Torrin's swing.

This was about Tinarah? Hadn't the master let her go? Given her a way back to her friends? Surely he must have, but then why was he here? Something must have happened to the other girl.

Torrin, as always, was convinced that all that was wrong in the world was something to blame on the Chasers. She would love to outright deny his claims... but his reason for being here with Master Atmos is proof that things didn't seem to have gone as planned.

"I can't tell you I know what happened to Tinarah." She responded to Aria. "As far as I know, it's just as the Master said. However, even though Torrin often gives out false information, it's because he truly believes it. Logic follows that if both he and Master Atmos are here looking for the girl, then she must not have been with your friends last time the two masters were... though that still doesn't really mean she isn't with them now." Chrys shrugged. "Regardless, the girl is not here, and you will find that none of us know her location." With this she turned her eyes glaringly to the one who was unfortunately her rival. "I'm afraid you've wasted your trip." Noticing him favoring his side, she blinked as she lowered her keyblade, though not her guard.

She shouldn't talk.

"I could always heal you a bit though, if you needed it."

Idiot.

He wouldn't even believe that she didn't know where Tinarah was, he certainly wouldn't take her up on her offer. Regardless of whether or not he believed her sincerity, She was the enemy in his eyes. He was just another authority figure who had let her down, and one who hated her besides. He had done her harm on numerous occasions, so why was she even bothering?

Because he was still a person.

"Either way..." Chrys hurriedly picked up where she left off, if only to distract her from her own traitorous thoughts. "...I'm going to have to ask you to put your kidnapping attempt, which I might add is rather hypocritical of you given your accusations, on hold until at least after this world has been restored." She brushed a few strands of blonde hair from her blue eyes with her free hand. "Whether or not you believe it's a lie, I rather don't want to find out if the world will crumble around us if she leaves." She almost chuckled before she remembered who she was talking to.

"Though you would be happy to see the lot of us dead, wouldn't you?" Chrys inquired of Torrin as she glanced at him with a sad sort of stare.​

 

Illiana looked back into the room and scanned the room for any changes or any conversation that was still ongoing. As she looked back, she noticed the cyborg and the crab alien were missing. "Where did-?" Her sentence got cut as she heard a voice say, "Didn't anyone tell you not to eavesdrop?" Her eyes widened and she felt her body tumble to the floor as the alien named Scroop pinned her down to the floor with his claws. She looked over to Glyde, only to find the cyborg right behind with a pistol at the boy's back. "Look at what we have here, Mr. Scroop. A couple of stowaways. I think the brig will be just the place to store 'em." Illiana struggled before speaking. "I wouldn't say stowaways exactly. Maybe a victim of unfortunate chance." She paused as she looked over from Glyde to the two crewmen. She paused another moment before speaking. "Listen, the boy is innocent here. It was a matter of bad timing. Doesn't mean you can go pointing guns at kids. Now me on the other hand, again a victim of unfortunate chance. What can you do?" Illiana shrugged her shoulders before making eye contact with Glyde. Her eyes trying to let Glyde know that everything was going to be okay. She looked back to the cyborg. "Just let the boy go. He's done nothing wrong, no need to bring out any guns on kids." Illiana looked at the cyborg, pleading for Glyde's release.

 

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Upon realizing that they weren't pirates the boy appeared to relax a bit. A good start to this entire situation, though Chrono wasn't even sure what a 'spacer' to even know that the look they had was. Not that really matter right now. He looked around after hearing the name of the ship, RLS Legacy. To him the name was somewhat odd, despite not having any talents when it comes to naming things himself. "That's a bit harder to explain actually." He doubted that saying that 'they fell from the sky' would be the most believable of things. He could be wrong, different worlds had different rules on what they would probably believe.