Encountering A New World

[shadow117]

Among the vacums of space was a large, magnificent ship which looked like that it was about to run out of power. It was gliding along smoothly until a it suddenly began to shake and jerk about. The pilot inside was a young knight dressed in cream and brown robes and had a blue turban around his face which mixed with red.
The pilot's name was Dante, he had recently visted many worlds, searching for his lost father after his world had been swallowed by darkness and it's heart had been stolen by creatures known as the Heartless.
The journey hadn't been as easy as he thought it would be. He had met many unusual people throughout his travels, and he had even earned himself enemies, from either trying to save someone or just some bothersome bystanders. Twilight Town had demonstrated that effect fully when he had met a Nobody who decided to have some 'fun' with him, despite that he had defeated him the Nobody didn't go quietly.

Dante fiddled with the controls, pressing buttons that seemed to be the correct ones that would keep the ship stable, but the ship was un-responsive and out of his control.

Damn It[/b]

Said Dante as he cursed the ship, he had to land somewhere and he had enough piloting skills to land the ship before it falls. The scanners showed that there was a world nearby. He sighed in relief and directed his ship to land in Radiant Garden,
a new adventure begins.

[naxyr]

(((Hope you don't mind me joining in =p)))

Naxyr skulked around the rocks on the far outskirts of Radiant Garden. His dark clothing almost blending him in with the many shadows cast by this jagged environment. He needed to be careful, for he had heard the heartless were in great numbers out here. In the near distance he could see the once heartless ruled castle looming dark silhouette in contrast to the bright blue sky. He widened his grey eyes and looked into the sky. A small sigh escaped a thin opening in his lips, he responded by taking another inhale of the ever present cigarette dangling from his fingers, almost an extension of his hand.

"One day...I'll go out there...I"ll"

He looked down and shut his eyes, ruffling his hand through his red and white hair. He remembered little more then a year of his life, no longer had a home, a job, or any form of support, and now he was planning on finding a way to travel across worlds? Ha, he almost found it funny.

With his eyes still sealed shut, he began to hear a far off whine, at first he thought it was nothing, but the sound persisted. Finally, he shook his head and reopened his eyes, glancing upwards once more.

Scanning the skies, at first he found no sign of anything strange. His eyes darted quickly, trying to absorb every detail of area. After a complete observation, he spotted a small dot in the sky, growing larger by the second. By chance of luck, could this be a world sailing vessel? No no, he was getting carried away with himself. Still, as it grew bigger in the sky, he could not think of what else it might be.

If it truly was a ship, where was it trying to land? Could he manage to follow it until it landed? He dare not try entering the town again, not after the claymores had attacked him for reasons he still did not understand.

Pulling his black hood over his head, he slipped down from the rock on which he sat, and took one last deep inhale from his cigarette before discarding it.

Naxyr darted off in the direction of the ship, hoping it would not enter the town, for if it did, he would have to quit pursuit.

Eventually he reached a position that, by his best judgment, would be near the ship's landing position.

Climbing again onto a nearby rock, Naxyr smiled slightly, barely opening his thin lips as he muttered the words,

"Let's see if luck is on my side today."

[shadow117]

As he plunged in to the atmosphere he could see the world clearly now, there were many dark purple, narrow corridors below him, he saw a large and tall castle that looked like it had been there for a long time and is now, never used. He could see the town from here but it was still quite far away so it was nothing than a blurr and slightly out of focus, Dante concentrated on landing the falling ship turning away from his observation he focused on the ground ahead.
Dante pulled up the control stick up slightly as the ship came closer to the ground. It landed with a loud thump and skidded at a fast amount of speed above the narrow corridors, since the ship was so large, it couldn't possibly fall in to the corridors below. The ship finally came to a halt just inches away from crashing in to the wall that led to the town.

Dante sighed in relief as he un-clipped his seatbelt, opend the door and jumped out while performing a sumersault in the air and landed lightly, with one knee bent slighty and he leant on his knees, scanning his new environment quickly with his electric blue eyes and spotted something standing nearby. It wasn't a heartless because it was as tall as a normal human being. Or was it?.

He rose up from his current position and stood up sharply, he pulled out his sword from behind his back and held it with two hands and spread out his feet a little bit apart from each other, he took out his sword because he sensed that the heartless were nearby, he vaulted in to the narrow corridor below and charged at the heartless ahead of him.

They weren't difficult to take down since Dante was an experienced knight and powerful Swordmaster of lightning, he took the group of heartless in a few powerful slashes, and the last one he blasted in to the wall with a energy ball of lightning from one hand while he held his sword in the other. The last heartless dissapeared, and Dante put away his sword.

Why do they even bother

Thought Dante as he began to walk forward in to the dark depths, unaware that someone was watching him...

[naxyr]

"Hm?"

Naxyr was quite surprised. He was not use to seeing people of such power. Feeling quite lucky that the ship had landed near him, AND that this mysterious person also had the ability to manipulate an element., he strongly considered revealing himself to the stranger.

"He might be able to answer some things I've been wondering..." Naxyr thought. While thinking he saw the man start forward. Naxyr was excited to speak with this person, but he was still not going to be foolish. If he was going to engage in conversation, he would make sure he had the high ground, because, as he had just seen, this person had no qualms destroying what stood in his way.

Naxyr skulked along the rocks at a quick speed, trying to avoid being spotted. As he neared the strange man, he began to sense the presence of something else.

Before he could truly react, three heartless had lunged from the other side of the rocks, knocking him down from his perch. He landed not two feet away from the man, the heartless were slowly coming down from rock, at least ten. Naxyr instantly slid his Kata's out from under his sleeves. Getting up, he looked over at the man, staring at first. A smirk crawled across Naxyr's face.

"Hey, nice to meet you, but I think we have some company that's not as friendly on it's way."

He said as he motioned towards the approaching heartless. Without another word, Naxyr lunged at the heartless, thrusting his katars straight through one. Pulling his blades out, he spun around, slashing another near the neck. Naxyr jumped back up onto the rocks, he pulled his arm up, ready to slash down and release some flame, when he had a second thought

"Do I want to reveal that to someone already? No.

He retracted his arm, and dove back down off the rock, slashing at another heartless on his way down, but just barely grazing it. Naxyr landed off balance and slid, getting up, he raised his blades once more, the white edges of the otherwise solid black blades glowing in the light of the sun. He looked between the heartless and the man, realizing his actions may have very well been foolish.

Let's hope he's on my side afterall...

Naxyr swallowed hard at this thought, he had been careless. Reverting his gaze back to the heartless, Naxyr took to a defensive stance. The heartless were several yards away, but approaching. He was more interested in waiting to see what the man would do.

[shadow117]

It was a few seconds before he had put away his sword that something had happened again, he heard that someone had fallen over a few feet ahead of him, he looked at the stranger oddly, but he had shown no innocence on his face which meant that he took things seriously, well not everything. Dante saw that the man had been followed by more minor heartless, but they were proven no match for him since he had taken most of them out with his blades, but unfortunately for him he was starting to have a little bit of trouble with them.

Dante sighed and took off his turban to lighten himself so he could fight faster, sometimes he even wondered why he wore the turban all of this time, maybe traveling around the worlds had changed him, to open his mind and listen to what others say. But he hadn'g changed fully not yet he thought as the turban landed lightly on the ground.

Dante rarely fought with his turban off but looks can be decieiving, he looked totally different now that his turban was off, what he revealed was a thin face which looked rather good-looking, although he wasn't the most handsome guy. He didn't care about that really, he had electric blue eyes fused that would glow brightly as though they were fused with electrical energy, his hair was jet black and sprouted out sideways, it was also slightly pointy at the back of his head this hair style looked somewhat similar to Cloud's except it was black.

Now he was ready, he took out his sword from his back and charged towards the heartless with the sword in both hands and slashed the creature that was giving the man trouble, he then finished the others off with several quick slashes, and at the final blow was an uppercut which sparkled with lightning as it caused the heartless to vanish from sight.

Dante put his sword away on his back and then said...

Hey are you okay?...

He finished the one liner as though nothing had happened, and put out his hand waiting for him to shake it...

[naxyr]

The man was definitely a powerful one, at least by Naxyr's standards. He had finished the remaining heartless faster then Naxyr had managed to kill the few he did. The lightning sparking on the blade was even more proof to Naxyr of this man's power.

Naxyr slid his katars back up into their holsters. He looked up at the stranger, then down at his hand. Before shaking, Naxyr pulled out another cigarette from beneath his jacket and placed it in his mouth. He then gave the man a soft handshake.

"Nice to meet you."

Naxyr said as he pulled his hand back, taking the cigarette out from his lips. A small half smile crossed his face at the joy of now getting a chance to talk to the stranger.

"You seem to posses a rather large amount of power, that makes me wonder, what brings you to a world like this one?"

[shadow117]

The other man had finally shook his hand which meant that he was a friendly person and wouldn't attack him for no reason, he was thankfull since now wasn't the time to be fighting when his ship was under maintenance and he had to go in to town and find spare parts for his damaged ship, which was inches away from crashing in to the wall ahead.
Dante released the man's hand and after he did so the man took out a cigarette, which Dante didn't approve of but it didn't bother him at the moment. He put his hand back by his side and turned away from the man, he began to walk ahead but he then stoped and turned his head over to the man.

I'm looking for some spare parts for my ship, are you coming?...

He wasn't planning on waiting there wasn't much time, he had to fix his ship and get off this world so he could continue looking for his father but who knows, he might find something interesting here too...

[naxyr]

Spare parts...that means...were going into town."

Naxyr didn't like this. Last time he was in town, the claymores had attacked him for a reason he didn't understand. He wondered if they would this time. He decided he had no other choice but to venture into the town. Hopefully they would move quickly. Naxyr swallowed hard before answering.

"Sure." He said confidently. "But let's try and make haste, last time I was there, some strange things happened."

He was willing to divulge the story of the claymores, but only if the stranger showed interest. He wasn't going to run his mouth about something that might prove to have just been a bad stroke of luck.

Taking one last drag from his cigarette, he tossed it to the ground, and slowly dragged his foot over it, thinking whether or not what he was about to do was a good idea. Finally, he took several long strides forward until he caught up.

"Let's just hope everything stays...normal for our visit, eh?"

Naxyr said with a small smile, a pathetic attempt to lift his own spirits.

[shadow117]

The man had agreed to come along with him but he also looked worried slightly, did something happen to him before now?, why was he here in the first place was it by coincedence he didn't believe in coincedences, maybe fate brought him here unless something else had happened. Dante didn't wan't to waist any more time, he nodded at the man and began to walk again.

They had only moved a few feet ahead when suddenly more heartless had appeared, and this time it wasn't just heartless in fact there were scaly, white things that had a large heart symbol on it's face, what could they be?, were they friends of the stranger that he had just met?.

Dante withdrew his sword and held it with two hands, and spread out his fett a little he focused on the group of enemies so he wouldn't lose track of their movements. They weren't exactly what you'd call experienced, but he could be in trouble if there were too many of them.

I hope you're ready. I don't think we'll be let out so easy.[/b]

He said sarcastically but he couldn't help but smirk, he had delt with these kind of creatures before so they were no problem with him, but a little help wouldn't hurt either.

[naxyr]

Great, another attack.

Just what Naxyr needed to help with his worried mind. These weren't your ordinary heartless though, Naxyr personally had no idea what they were, but they most definitely were harder to drop then heartless. Naxyr didn't want to make this take long, he didn't want to give his mind time to change about going into the town with the stranger.

Grunting with dissatisfaction at what he was about to do, Naxyr slid his katars back out and took off. Moving quickly, he jumped at a nearby rock, landing on it's side. He immediately jumped again, straight at one of the new creatures.

Pulling his arms across his chest in an X fashion, he focused his energy and quickly slashed each blade across the air. A slash of flame soared from each blade, heading straight for the creatures, they collided, severely injuring several targets, but not killing them. Disappointed at how little damage they had done compared to the lightning attacks of his supposed friend, he continued on his lunge, now with both katars straight out infront of him, landing them both in the enemy's chest region.

With a powerful outward swing, Naxyr tore the one's chest and proceeded to slash through two more. More beasts still remained. He jumped back, and attempting to release another blast of flame to end this, but produced no more then a few sparks.

"Damnit."

Naxyr muttered under his breath as landed in a backslide. He felt so weak compared to this stranger. Naxyr stood back up and stared down the creatures. He prepared to lunge again, but stopped suddenly.

Looking at these creatures, he felt...a connection. As if they were somehow the same. He tried to brush it off, but the feeling lingered. Looking down and shaking his head, he forced away the feeling, and lunged once more, this time hoping for the stranger's help. Hoping his flames had not seemed as pathetic as he thought to the stranger. Naxyr hated being considered weak.

[shadow117]

The new 'friend' that he had just met had attempted to take out the heartless and the other Nobodies quickly, he had demonstrated a fair amount of damage to them but they did not vanquish that easily, these were strong nobodies he thought but they were still nothing more than small fry. It should be easy enough for them both to take out.
Dante blocked the next incoming attack which was followed shortly after the stranger had stopped attacking, he counterattacked by kicking the Nobody away and then slicing the leaping heartless with a vertical slash, and another nobody came charging at him but he quickly stopped it in it's tracks by slashing it.

More kept coming and this time there were more than the last group.

Darn It at this rate it'll never end[/b]

He muttered angrily but quickly calmed himself as he turned to the stranger.

Concentrate, harness your element's power with your weapons!.[/b]

After that he charged at the heartless and took several out with a few slashes, the blade shone pale blue with lightning as he took them out, he sumersaulted over the group and then landed on the ground slamming his sword on the hard floor sending a shockwave of lightning towards the group of enemies taking them out. Only three Nobodies remaind and he decided to let his ally take them out.

It's your turn now!.[/b]

[naxyr]

Naxyr nodded. It was now or never. He knew too much would leave him drained beyond belief, but he felt as if he had no choice.

He dashed at the remaining nobodies, gathering their attention, once they faced him, he jumped in the air, disappearing a burst of flames. He reappeared directly above the nobodies with more fire around him. Focusing all his strength, he dove down, pulling his blades tightly against his chest, right as he hit the ground, he swung them out full force, unleashing two massive blades of flame. They swooped out, slicing through the remaining three nobodies.

As they fell, so did Naxyr, down to a knee. Although he was greatly surprised he had managed to finish the three nobodies, the toll on his body was insane. He wouldn't be calling upon fire again for a little bit. He grabbed his chest and took a deep pant. That had been way to much.

Don't want him to see...

Naxyr sucked up the pain and brought himself to two feet, trying to stand strong, he put on a little half smile.

"How was that?"

He said, sounding as laid-back as he could.

[shadow117]

The man had pulled of a rather impressive technique it seemed that the advice that Dante gave him had helped the man somewhat, because he had taken out the three remaining Nobodies, Dante felt slightly proud of himself since he had just helped someone without having to do something major. He felt lighter and more proud of himself than he had been in weeks, it was a good feeling to help someone and he could feel some development and changes to his personality. He felt some of the coldness leave his body as though it was being washed away down the river.

He calmed down a bit more now since the fighting was over for a while which gave them the break they needed to move ahead, Dante didn't put away his sword yet he kept it in one hand as he walked towards his new 'friend'.

I don't think we've had a proper intro the name's Dante a Swordmaster, and you are?.

A look of satisfaction came across his face as he introduced himself to his 'friend' Dante didn't wan't to say anything to compliment the man incase he felt outclassed, they had only just met and Dante didn't have the time to be tutoring someone at the moment.

[naxyr]

This was the first heartless battle Naxyr could remember where he did not pull out a cigarette immediately afterwards. Right now, his mind was far too occupied, let alone the terrible drain on his physical being. He slid his katars away and shook his head.

"My name's Naxyr. Pleasure to make your acquittance."

Naxyr followed his introduction with a quick inspection of Dante. It was his custom, he was always observing. He nodded slightly and looked back at Dante.

"Well, let's hurry, don't wanna run into anymore of those."

And Naxyr was serious, he wasn't sure he had the physical power left in him to handle another batch. That reminded him of the claymores that may very well come at him in the town.

Maybe Dante will know why they do.

Naxyr quickly retracted this thought though, if the stranger did know, it might make him want to leave Naxyr before they went into town, plus, Naxyr kept telling himself, it was just a fluke when he had been attacked, nothing more.

He stood still, deciding to let the stranger make the next move as to where they were going, maybe he had reconsidered going into town all together, or maybe the chance would arise to ask him before reaching the town itself.

[shadow117]

He continued to walk after talking to Naxyr, he had decided to go in to town but his friend didn't seem to think that it was a good idea for him to go but it didn't matter to him, if Naxyr wanted to stay then he can it wasn't going to stop Dante from moving. He wanted to leave this world as quickly as possible, he didn;t like the way things were turning out for him today maybe his luck had already ran out. The journey had been a little bit too easy until now, he had crashlanded on a world which didn't look like it would him in any way. Was there someone who could fix spaceships around here?, if there was then he'd better help him out.

What about the munny though?, he didn't have the currency needed in the brand new worlds that he was exploring. The locals obviously didn't take Yen which was money in his world, he suddenly felt poor and out of oplace now. He had never felt like it before, at his homeworld he was the wealthiest man there but lately he had been feeling rather homesick. He hadn't been this far-away from home before his mother wouldn't allow it, no matter how many times he had argued with her trying to explain that he was a man now, and he was capable of going anywhere. Which was true of course but he didn't expect this to happen...and to make matters worse he had no munny to help him survive.
When was the last time that he had eaten?, it felt so long ago since he had a proper meal...he was starting to get tired of snacking on chocolate bars and sandwitches on board his ship, his mother was the best cook that he had ever known and he'd give anything to have some of that delicious food right now...well except his sword which was a little bit more important he thought as his stomach rumbled slightly.

Dante walked futher and further until he came across a ruined castle and a cliff. He took a great leap and landed on the floor of the solid cliff, he looked ahead and saw a narrow entrance which lead through a crystalized cave. He continued to walk again completely forgetting that Naxyr was left behind...