Taming the Darkness (Caxnon/OPEN)

[Shun]

Slow breathing filled the Secret Waterway's atmosphere. The energy surrounding the place was not malevolent at all; in fact, it was warm and cozy. However, the main source of it was not the cave itself. "...from the first movement flows the second... strike, repeat, circle one's opponent... repeat, faster, quicker..." Flame's End connection with the wall was common, especially now that the hits were frequent. Mikael was training, and he enjoyed it. Even though Shadows and Soldiers ran away from him, other Heartless such as Large Bodies did not. He needed to keep his swordsmanship polished, just like his fire manipulation abilities.

But of course, the pyromaniac hadn't forgotten about his training. He had chosen to follow the path of Dawn to defeat the current Heartless menace, but that meant that he needed to know the enemy's power: Darkness. "Ok..." He whispered to himself as he closed his eyes; an orb of darkness started to form in his right hand. Now, what should he practice? Gravity or Magnet? "Better try Magnet, Gravity could make this place fall apart." He concentrated his mana flow toward his hand's palm. Almost done... "MAGNET!" He successfully launched the orb... but too close to him. Instead of the water going up, HE was going up toward it. He quickly destroyed the magnet orb, and fell to the ground in the process. He stood up in pain, determined to master the spell no matter what.

That was going to be a long day.

[globber]

Bonnie took small steps as she neared the entrance of the "secret" waterway. Her ears twitched a few times at some of the echoing noises coming from within, and her blue eyes squinted into the darkness, scanning for anything in her dark hideout. Something wierd was going on, and if it was wierd, she knew she would get into trouble. Just by experience, all wierd people she met were either demonic dragons in disguise, or somehow used magic to attack her. "Hmph. I ain't scared 'a' no mook." She quietly said to herself in annoyance. She was prepared this time. If there were heartless, nobodies, or superhumans in her hideout, they'd be in afor a suprise.

Bonnie had a brown burlap sack sitting right next to her. Its contents were all objects that you'd expect from one of those super secret spy movies, as Bonnie would refer to it atleast .... smoke bombs and grapplers of many types .... The little green alien gathered up her bravery and belief and put into these new objects .... and entered the dark waterway.

She'd have to be extra quiet if she wanted to sneak on this unwanted company, but it'd be hard. Specially with all that water she must splash through .... As she got closer and closer .... she noticed this was a human. And by the looks of his appearance, another SUPERhuman. But this one was special. This one was a friend! "Mike!" Bonnie yelped in excitement. "Mikey! Long time no talk ta! So how's it been?" She ran through the water, tossing aside her bag of tricks before approaching Mikael.

[darkunslint]

Darkun had wandered away from his friends; he wanted to return to this place, to the place where he had first met his friend the god poison. He was about to form from his shadow when he saw someone; this person was practising his magic by the looks of it, chanting various spells.

The boy had fallen to the floor, a failed attempt at a magicks, Darkun used this as his que, slowly the shadowy claws jutted out of the rock a few metres to the side of him and clung to Darkun’s form as he stepped out of them. At first he didn’t say anything, he just stared at him, his multi-coloured clothing rippling lightly as the last of the shadow’s leaked off him. Darkun stared down towards the man.

“Are you ok?” he asked curiously, cocking his head to one side, his face blank and expressionless.

((I started writing this post when only the initial post was here, and your post beat me to it so that’s why your hardly mentioned glob, sorry xD))
It was then he saw the strange… thing? That was running towards the man, saying something or other.

[Rex]

Caxnon was tired of the constant trouble that had been happening. He lost kitty, he could barely talk to Reiho. And Antique, seemed to disappear every now and then. He wanted to find Mikael, to see If he could figure out why he was so unreachable.

The nobody walked for quite some time, still trying to find the fire user.

As he walked through the streets, he sensed three strange aura's. One felt like Mikael, one was a nobody...the other not so much.

Caxnon stopped walking, and simply waited for a sound, he didn't want to engage the group just yet.

[Shun]

Just before he started to create the Magnet orb once again, Mikael heard a voice. A rather spooky and mysterious one. Feeling a chill running through his spine, the pyro master looked for its source, and finding it rather soon. What striked him first was the multicolored outfit. This man was either really happy or a clown. Mikael blinkblinked at his hat, wondering if the man was looking for a circus. But of course, he didn't deserve to be treated like scum! "I'm ok, thanks. I didn't see you come inside."

Maybe he came down from those appearantly eternal stairs? After all, he wasn't near the entrance. "Excuse my lack of manners, I'm Mikael, Mikael Dar-" However, before Mikael could finish his introduction, another person... or being, had come in. That familiar Brooklyn accent... could it be...

"Hey Bonnie!" Her last question made the boy swallow hard. According to Hades, Mira was dead, and Rubix didn't want to go back. Plus, they had lost another friend down there: Erika Monika. "I have been fine, thanks." he lied, forcing a smile in his lips. He REALLY wanted to change the subject. He hadn't talked to anyone about it, not even to Jadis or Antique. "Anyway, what's that in that bag? Don't tell me you have... again?" Oh god, had she been stealing again? Things went well last time, but that didn't mean Bonnie could leave the shop clean.

If he had continued to train, perhaps the young man would have noticed Caxnon's familiar aura. But he didn't. After all, meeting a friend he has not seen for a while sure weakened his concentration.

[globber]

Formulating an idea in her mind, Bonnie looked at the burlap sack she tossed away. Then she stared back at Mikael. "Huh? Oh DAT stuff? I didn't STEAL it! I ain't no thief no more. Membah?" she lied, putting up a happy, confident mood to hide it. "Dis stuff I bought fair AND square!" The green alien muttered as she creeped towards her bag of mean tricks. This guy was already on her case about stealing things. If he was cop back on Hawaii, she'd probably get into bigger trouble ....

Wanting to change the subject, Bonnie motioned towards the mysterious man wearing the multi-colored clothing. "So who's yer friend here? A clown?" The alien questioned rudely, but with a smile on her face. "Did the soikus drop ya off? Ha! I'm Bonnie, pleasah ta meet ya." She offered her hand up for a handshake. Her big gumball nose twitched a little while awaiting the introduction. But her fur stood up a little in slight paranoia. Being a common lowly thief, Bonnie was used to an uneasy feeling of being watched, mostly cuz of cops or squeelers that might catch her.

[darkunslint]

Darkun looked at the two strangers, the one that called him mikael and the strange green thing called Bonnie. His azure blue hair swayed lightly as he took several staggering steps towards the two, dusting off a few remaining traces of shadow from his shoulder. “ I’m not a clown…” he mumbled as he approached, he didn’t like to be referred to as a clown, but it was true, for the first time in a long time he was happy, he had Seth and Samael as friends. “ I’m called Darkun, I was just wondering what you was doing do—“ Darkuns voice trailed off, a shadow was getting closer, one that he knew.

“Excuse me one second, an acquaintance of mine just showed up” he smiled lightly before the shadow beneath him leaped from the floor and consumed him, pulling him down into the abyss.

---Seconds Later---

Darkuns slowly pulled himself out of the shadowed realm from which he travelled through, looking up at his long lost friend, Caxnon. “ Long time… No see” he smiled lightly at his friend. “ Its nice to see you again Caxnon” Darkun let out a content sigh before turning his glance in the direction of the secret waterway. “ I was just with some people down in that tunnel. Care to join?” he smiled at his friend.

Although Caxnon could sense auras, Darkun had never had that ability; he could feel familiar shadows but not auras. Caxnon now knew the secret that not even Darkun knew… The fact that Darkun was actually a nobody.

[Rex]

( Sorry guys, I'm late)

Caxnon was alarmed when Darkun suddenly appeared. His gunblade was already half drawn. The nobody released his weapons handle before addressing Darkun.
'' Yes it has been a while sorry, I never knew where you were'' Caxnon said.

He knew that the boy was unaware of what he was, and Caxnon didn't plan on telling him. Darkun seemed to be getting along just fine as he was, there was no need to tell him that he was an empty shell.

'' Sure lead the way'' Caxnon added as he followed Darkun to the secret waterway.

[Shun]

(Skip, not much to say ><)

[globber]

"Woah!" Bonnie exclaimed as the clown disappeared within his own shadow. "What was THAT all about! And how'd he do that?" Ever since Hawaii was gone, Bonnie was meeting up with wierd things. Heartless, Nobodies, wierd humans like Mikael and that clown guy .... It made Bonnie homesick.

(Short, but it's more or less a "skip me" with some added detail)

[darkunslint]

Darkun returned to the secret water way before looking up at observing the people around, hopefully Caxnon would have followed him; he looked at the two strangers already in the cave and spoke up. “Sorry about that… This is Caxnon, I met him a while back, how rude, I don’t even know what your names are” he smiled a sweet but fake smile.

He looked behind him looking for Caxnon before tugging slightly on his hat. “I’m not a clown, I’m Darkun…” he didn’t like being referred to as a clown… in some strange way it was derogatory.

Quickening his pace Darkun walked to the other side of the cave before leaning against the wall in a small shadowed section. “So what are you doing here” he asked bemused by himself and in an inquisitive mood which was strange for him, usually he didn’t care maybe it was how nice Sam and Seth was, it must’ve rubbed off on him and made him the happy person he is today.

[Rex]

Caxnon walked into the secret water way, then he simply gave Mikael a wave. It was difficult to reach him, but hopefully he won't get distracted this time. He looked around the room and saw a very small looking creature, it looked very strange.

'' Hello everyone'' he said.

[Shun]

Mikael watched the two men enter the area. He nodded at Caxnon's short greeting. It was true, they had much to talk about. "Don't worry about it. After all, the more the merrier." he told Darkun, hands folded behind his head in a cheerful way. He smirked as the man continued to talk, glancing at Bonnie before making another comment. "Yeah, I got that clear. You're not a clown, you're a human being."

"The name's Mikael, THE pyro manipulator. If you need something burned, just ask. I would be glad to help. As for what I was doing, I was training my skills in darkness magic. I don't know much of that element, but I suppose I'm getting better at Magnet." He closed his eyes, curious of the blue headed's intentions. Feeling his aura, Mikael slightly nodded. So, Darkun was a nobody, just like Caxnon.

"Anyway, what brings you to Traverse, Darkun?" Mikael felt it would be inappropiate to talk about the shadow user's species. It was something personal, a subject of trust. If he wished to speak of it, it would be his choice.

[globber]

Bonnie squinted her bue eyes up at Caxnon, wondering what was there to steal from the guy. However, Mikael's voice stopped her from actually attempting theft. "Elements, darkness magic, magnet spells" all of these apparent magic skills he was talking about interested Bonnie. "Errr ..... Riiiiiiight, ya trainin' up fer some de-combobulatin' turbo-charger assault attack ray beam kapowzer mookin' bawbin - bla bla bla?" The little green bundle mocked Mikael's words. She honestly had no clue what the heck he was talking about. But it was sounding pretty interesting. She stopped her thinking however in order to "properly" introduce herself, as Mikael has to Caxnon and Darkun. "Aaaw. Yeah, yeah. Bonnie's the name. Whatevah. Listen, what ARE ya'll doin' here, and how'd'ja do all these magic tricks?" The alien asked, picking up her bag of "secret agent tech"

[darkunslint]

"Anyway, what brings you to Traverse, Darkun?"

Darkun stared at Mike slightly, cocking his head to one side. “ Im searching for my memories…” he stated it like something that should be common knowledge even though it obviously wasn’t. He looked around the room, it was completely shadowed, there was plenty of shade for him to use to his advantage. “ Darkness element…” he hummed on the tone. “ I don’t know about darkness, but you might class me as such a manipulator”

Darkun flicked a hand to one side, and summoning up the shadows from the floor it floated through the air at a steady pace to his hand, whirling around like a sandstorm, it slowed and began to shrink until it finally became a sphere, solid. He tossed it lightly over to Mikael, the density of the sphere was small and so its weight was negligible.

“Aaaw. Yeah, yeah. Bonnie's the name. Whatevah. Listen, what ARE ya'll doin' here, and how'd'ja do all these magic tricks?"

“It’s not a trick, its merely the manipulation of energy. Or in my case, manipulating a lack of light. Shadows work a bit differently to most elements.” He looked over to Caxnon “ isn’t that right?” Darkun had once taught Caxnon how to manipulate the shadows, he wondered how much Caxnon could remember.

“So, why are you trying to learn to use the darkness if you can already use the flames?”