Adoptive Chaos (finished)

Vayne lounged by the water outside of the abandoned house that he had been living in for a few months now; he'd landed on the doorstep when he arrived in this world, and had been slowly earning Munny and buying things to spruce it up. Eventually, he would have to leave. Before that, though, he would make sure that it remained a safe haven for people who had been displaced from their world, and couldn't afford the Hotel in Second District.

Vayne's bare feet kicked slowly and absentmindedly through the cool water surrounding his island home. Across a small stretch of water, he could see a small jutting portion of the cavern wall with what looked like a looted chest on it.

"Hmm... I wonder what Onee-chan is thinking about over there..." he said.

So much had been going on as of late... Really, it all had to do with his "older sister" and her rather interesting appearance on the Traverse Town scene. Vayne hadn't been entirely sure of her at first (only 99% sure), but then she had fought alongside him and even watched him perform at the night club/bar where he worked.

"I wonder if anymore interesting people will be showing up like Onee-chan," he said, laughing a bit while his ears twitched at the thought of more friends.

Suddenly... the ring, it jumped. It was much closer than before. Xaoc smiled as she realized Lea had come back. She opened her eyes, and the sparks did down. She had been behind the house, training herself, but now, she stood, stretching, and walked around the front. There he was. Lea. She didn't bother saying anything, she just walked closer, then stopped and made the ring spark brilliantly, fairly buzzing with energy. It shouldn't hurt him in the slightest, but if that didn't get his attention... As soon as he did notice her, she said, "Hi Lea."

Lea looked at the kid, who he guessed was a boy on closer inspection, with a confused look. Just who was this...Onee-chan? And, where'd he get the whole space criminal thing? "No...not really...I'm looking for a girl called Xa-" He felt the ring he got give off more red sparks around it.

"Hi Lea"

Lea turned around and faced the woman he meet earlier here in this same town. "Hey Xaoc. How's it hanging? By the way, do you know this kid?" That boy sure was an odd one. Though Lea does know some more "odd" people if he wasn't mistaken.

"Why do you feel like a really weak Heartless?"

Lea felt a bit of anger shoot up inside him because of the kid's question. "A weak Heartless? You think I'm weak kid? Why don't you try me and find out for yourself if I'm weak!" Lea said to the kid, then he realized what he just said. Crap, I spilled the beans again, way to go Lea"

"A friend of Onee-chan?" Vayne said.

His ears perked and he quickly latched onto Lea, lavishing him with affection like a small child... Well, like a smaller child. He looked up at this strange man who had come looking for Onee-chan.

"I'm still confused about you, though..." Vayne said. "You feel like a weak Heartless... Did you just get through fighting some?"

Letting go, he wandered back to the edge of the island and plopped down on his stomach, raising his legs and kicking in the air as he dipped a hand into the water and began to slowly move it. He hummed to himself, absently thinking of nothing in particular, but then a thought struck him.

"Oh no!" Vayne exclaimed and jumped up from the grass. "I might have ruined my dress!"

She looked at Lea sideways for a moment, then sat down and lened against the old house. Well, she wasn't going to have to kill Lea, that was good. She shook her head at Oto-kun's actions. "I gotta get that kid some new clothes... I've been okay. Had to curb stomp some jerk earlier today, while Vayne was working... I met him yesterday, after our little beach trip. There is just something about him... I really care about him. Maybe it's because he's so sweet, or maybe it's something else. He's like a kid brother to me, and he feels like I'm his older sister." She closed her eyes and sighed. "I haven't actually cared about another person in a long time... But now?"

She stopped talking, and looked at Lea. "So, why are you here? Just bored?" She smiled. "Or did you miss me?" she asked, winking at him.

"So's he your kid brother eh? And what kind of job could he have? Though I've never would've imagined you to be the type. As for why I"m here...just out of boredom really. I went to check up on things at my...job, but nothing new for me to do there so I decided to come back here and maybe just walk around." And it was no lie, Lea usually just wanders in his free time, so he gets bored often.

He watched as Vayne went inside the hut and come back with some different clothes and cross the moving rocks until he sat down on one. "So it looks like you've been doing some good and bad ain'tcha? Well anyway, what do you plan to do from here on out?"

"Onee-chan! There's something in the water!"

Lea looked over his shoulder to see Vayne in the air, Huh, guess the Heartless might be here, who'da thought. He thought to himself.

Vayne began to move for the two older people. That is, until a large tentacle slithered out of the inky water and caught his ankle. Vayne found himself being hoisted high above the water and the stones as the Heartless-- for indeed, now that he was paying attention, he could feel the true waves of nausea-- surfaced.

It looked like a large green squid, but shackles and chains hung loosely from a few of the tentacles it was now raising from the water. It wasn't too big, only about as large as one of the stepping stones, but its tentacle were long.

"Agh! Get off of me!" Vayne yelled, and pressed a palm to the slimy skin of the appendage holding him. He focused all the energy he could, and then let it loose.

"See ya!" he said.

Electric currents discharged from his hand and fried the tentacle. Unfortunately, Vayne hadn't counted on being let go. As the tentacle released his ankle, Vayne became very aware of the fact that he couldn't fly.