Lesson Number One (Drago/pm to join)

Drago read quietly the directions on a card before looking around to make sure the description was accurate. She'd never been to the Zero District before, andshe could probably tell why. There was a junk site here that Drago could scent the rusty metal at.

Drago breathed through her mouth in order not to smell the terrible smells. She made her way, following the directions to Jadis's location. Drago found her sitting at a fountain. Drago straightened her sword and approached Jadis.

"G-Greetings," she spoke to Jadis. Drago didn't know why, but for some reason it felt a little awkward to be meeting Jadis here, but her mind was set on learning from her.

((Yay, finally posted))

A single raven soared throught the night sky of Traverse Town. It's black feathers and body making it hardly noticable against the starlit sky. The air gliding over and under it's wing. Creating lift with a few simply flaps. Gliding on the currents of air all purely by instinct.
It's scavenging eyes scanned the ground that passed underneath him. Untill it saw something shiny.

Descending down an ally, it speared in between the tall buildings at high speed. Getting close to the source of the shimmering. But as the raven got close, it noticed how the reflecting silvery platemail was moving forward. And was much bigger then it originally thought.
Quickly it changed the angle of it's dive towards an upward motion. Flapping his wings to rise up again.

The raven flew passed Sir Lucas his head as nothing more then a fast moving shadow. It was only when it had distanced itself far enough that the Wolf Knight could see it was only a harmless bird. His hand that was placed on the handle of his longsword relaxed and slided off. Halting the lone knight looked around in the empty alley. Only silence was his compangion. Turning his head, he reconsidered going back. But even that won't do a man good if he's lost.

With a weary sigh, Sir Lucas moved on. Through the unknown labyrinth of Traverse Town. Surely residents would know the way. But for him it was still his first visit.
Aimlessly the knight wandered, looking for anything that he recognised. Looking for a single soul to help him. But he found none.
The knight passed rows and rows of houses that were all empty. The doors and windows were all nailed down with timber. Other buildings were long abbandonned, with broken windows and forced doors. And coated in a thick layer of dust as the only inhabitant. Street after street he found the same scenery. A depressing liveless quarter that once held many civilians. But they were all gone now for reasons only the Lunar Goddess would know.

For a town this big, it was surely eerie to see it so empty. Traverse Town did always seem to resemble more of a ghost town then a living one. with the sole exception of the First District.
But now, not even Heartless were lurking in the shadows. Giving Sir Lucas a feeling of desolation. As he carried forth, doubt and uncertainty was nibbling at his sane mind.
Raising his head back, he gazed at the moon that was in the sky and started to pray.
"Lunar Goddess, please assist me. For I am lost and do not know the way. Your servant begs of thee. Please guide me forth. So that I can continue on my yourney and on my task. I merely wish to accomplish thy will, wich is the halt of the foul Heartless."

His prayer was answered with quietniss. The Lunar Goddess would not simply intervene divinly when requested. Lucas knew this all to well. But believing in the Lunar Goddess kept him hopefull. For he was convinced she was listening.
Then his attention was beeing draw at something that he noticed on his left side. Turning to see, he now gazed upon a massive wall. The wall was much higher then any of the buildings here. And seemed to be very strong and thick, build by blocks much larger then normal bricks.
Sir Lucas wondered why the people would build such a majestieus wall here. Was there something important at the other side? Or is this the towns border from the rest of the world.

But the wall wasn't completely closed. For it seemed there was a door. Or at least a pathway. A very narrow gap could be seen. Like a giant sword had cutted down from the top till the bottom. The passageway was only big enough to let through a single cart.
Driven by curiosity, Sir Lucas stepped closer. And entered the passageway. The small corridor stretched out for several meters. If this was how thick the walls really are, then no force would ever be able to penetrate them.
Treadding forth, the Wolf Knight felt like walking through a very deep and narrow chasm, covered in deep shadow. And the light at the end, was growing more brilliant and blinding as he got closer.

Making it to the end, the light completely blinded the knight to the point that he needed to shield his eyes untill they were adjusted. After only a handfull of moments, the buildings and architecture of the Zero District could be seen. Baffled by it's brilliancy and serenity, the knight gazed in awe.
Venturing forth into this district that was so far unbeknownst to him, Sir Lucas couldn't comprehend how untouched and sheltered this area has been. No signs of decay or abbandonment could be seen here.

Coming out of the first row of houses. Sir Lucas found himself at the beginning of a open area. With a beautifull fountain as centerpiece. His sight caught two woman standing there. Talking to each other. One was a tall gracious woman in a ravenblack dress that stood in strong contrast with her snowwhite skin. On her head was paleblond hair, tied up in a distinguished ponytail.
The other was a young tall woman. With black hair, a navy blue jacket and jeans underneath.

The Wolf Knight surely didn't mean to stare, but caught himself in doing so. Before he could continue his train of thought. He witnessed how then Jadis summoned an black orb into her hand. Causing Sir Lucas to be stunned at the mere sight. His mind was thinking:
'By the Lunar Goddess, what is this ordeal that I have stumbled upon. Am I perhaps... ment to be here?'
Sir Lucas questioned if perhaps this was the Lunar Goddess her answer to his prayer.
Not beeing able what to decide to do. He remained standing there, looking at the two women. Trying to understand what was transpiring. Eventhough it was futile.


(ooc: I got inspiration... blame the muze for the long post)

"That is in fact more than likely. Many claim to be able to control darkness even when there's a massive inbalance. Those are generally obnoxiously fooled by their strength thinking that the natural law skips them. You must not be one of them unless you want darkness to captivate your heart completely when it's too late. Even the strongest of hearts had been grasped by darkness and been wiggled down to the weakest of heartless."

The darkness she had summoned funneled in a little tornado and various shapes before slowly expanding it.

"So lesson one is control. With control, you would be able to keep a hold to your humanity. With humanity, you won't be a heartless living its primitive life of survival and growth and further encouraging inbalance with their very nature. With humanity, you can help restore the balance, restore world order."

The black orb of darkness expanded before resembling a dome as it presses harshly against the ground.

"Controling how to manifest your darkness, can help perform diverse magic of the element of darkness. What you just saw was gravity, also know as the spell gravity. And is there something you want, or you're just hear to stare?"

The question was towards the uninvited company, a knight in the back.

((Oops, sorry IUMA, i'm just being overly jumpy ))

"It's harder than it sounds," Drago remarked quietly, attempting to increase the magnitude of the darkness floating on her palm. The dark orb flinched a bit before vanishing entirely. Drago heaved a sigh of disappointment.

"Aw. Even more reason to practice my control," she commented. Drago opened her palm once more as she summoned a small orb of darkness. "I've probably got to maintain it in my hand before changing it's shape.." With that, she closed her eyes and focused on nothing else but the dark element in her hand.

Her focus was broken on Jadis's question at an 'uninvited presence' nearby. Drago's eyes flew open as she looked around for any presence. Her eyes rested upon a man; a knight, it seems. He was wearing chainmail armor, and Drago was unsure of his intentions. She decided that it would be better to stay quiet. Drago listened as the knight spoke to Jadis. The way he spoke sounded roughly Old English to her. Drago let the dark orb in her hand die down as she watched the knight with curious eyes.

(ooc: sorry, confused the two of you in hair color)

Sir Lucas righted his head a bit and a small gasp escaped his lips as he seemed to be a little startled at Jadis her comment. Her words were frightening accurate to his situation. It took him a couple of moments to regain his composture.

With a grim and slightly hatefull tone Sir Lucas spoke to Jadis. The topic was near to his heart and emotionall. It became difficult to hold his strict formal manners. As humanity started to shine through. The severness and seriousness could be heard in his voice:
"Milady, my world lays currently under merciless siege by the Heartless. They are marching upon it's heart as we speak. Their numbers growing with each heart they claim. Consuming the last rays of hope and light that still holds my world dear. Should they reach it before I return, then my world and all that live upon it shall be no more..."

Sir Lucas his gaze had drifted away from Jadis as memories were distracting him. The more he spoke the more he started looking into nothing. Looking at his past. A sincere hatred for the evil that was washing over his homelands was deeply anchored into the noble knight. Still, by his helmet this was difficult to notice.

With a softer tone he continued coldly, although a strong determination could be made up in his voice:
"I'm here to seek the wielder of the Keyblade.
To prevent this from happening. To mine and other worlds. And untill I have found him, I shall do what ever lies in my power to hold the darkness at bay. Preventing them to claim more hearts. Even if it would cost me my life and soul."

The Wolf Knight spoke no more after this. As he stood tall and righteous against Jadis and Drago. Having found more confidence in the words he just uttered. And his suspicion and uneasiness were withering away.

"If that the case, join the club and get in line, since there are many others following similar routes as you...dying world at the brink of destruction, while patiently searching for one who can push it way. Since you aren't the first and obviously won't be the last, I assume you can see the success of such searches. Lets' hope there will be some light in the near future...after all it would be a harder burden to have to slay what you wish to protect."

Jadis' eyes drifted over to Drago humming lowly, "That one is much better keep it as firm and contained as possible, since such form is needed for the first dark spell for today."

"If you're looking for the key here, then I shall inform you that you're in the wrong place. If such key was here, then this world wouldn't be in danger either. Then again, there was another boy with a key, but...with bad influences I doubt he would be much of help, and who knows what may have become of him."

The orb blinked out as Drago uttered a groan of frustration. She turned to Sir Lucas and spoke, "Excuse me, but can you not stare? I'm trying to concentrate." Drago opened her palm once more and drew out an orb of darkness.

The darkness appeared with similare density and form as before. Drago changed its shape into a cone. The pointed tip of the cone reminded Drago of the tip of the sword. 'Perhaps I can create emergency weapons from these,' Drago thought.

Drago attempted to shape the cone of darkness into a sword. Drago formed the handle, and began to extend the blade, yet it stopped short. The blade was only dagger-length. Fiddlesticks.