A World Away [Complete]

[Zephiris]

Was she falling, or flying? She couldn't tell if she was hurtling through a starry sky or the depths of the ocean. She was racing through darkness, exhilarated, heading towards a light that steadily grew as she approached.

She'd almost reached it.

Nyra's eyes flew open. The light faded, to be replaced with the semi-darkness of evening and the flickering orange hue of street lamps. She laid there for a minute, disorientated, completely blanking on who she was for the few moments it took her to collect herself. Then her senses returned. The first thing she noticed was that her head hurt.

It took her a heartbeat longer to notice another dull pain, this time deeper and throbbing in her chest. It resembled the feeling when you've lost something precious. But what was she missing?

Suddenly the memories flooded back, hitting her with the force of an avalanche. Tamara. Her streets. The place where she never felt lost, but instead happy and confident, a leader to the ruffians of Seventh District. Then she remembered the darkness swallowing the sky. Falling from the stone wall. Then a great black emptiness, and then. . . she was here.

But where was here? Nyra got to her feet, still sore, and looked around with narrowed golden eyes. She was in a town that she had never seen before. One glance at the sky told her it wasn't another of Tamara's Districts, either.

She was in another world.

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(Our characters seem like they would get along)
Ravian wandered around the 1st district. He was looking for a place to sleep. The day had tired him out by simply existing.
As he sat on the edge of a low building's top he gazed up into the stars when suddenly light was swallowed up for an instant in the corner of his eye. Was it danger, was it an ally, Well one thing was sure, he was about to know what it was and it woke him out of his drowsiness .

Ravian quickly jumped up and looked down to where the lack of light had been. The one thing he would not been expecting at this time of night. "...a girl" He thought "Well this day just got odd" He jumped of the roof he was on and took out his elbow blades and stabbed them into the side of the building across the street.

He kept sliding down building until he was 10 feet above the ground and at that point he jumped off and landed in the street and said "I give my entrance a 10 for style, a 5 for creativity annnnnnnd a 8 for the landing......You okay, you seem kinda jumbled?" Ravian then remembered what she had just came out of, darkness, one of this towns worst enemies. He quickly put his elbow blades away and took the scythe out of its holder and said "What are you here for?"
(he asks alot of questions...and is kinda hyper...sometimes)

[Zephiris]

(OOC // Sorry it took me so long, I've been busy!)

Nyra was disoriented by the sudden presence of another person, and it took a bit for his words to reach her brain. She blinked and massaged her temples, trying to collect her thoughts. Eventually she responded with a small smile, "Kinda jumbled? I'd say . . . I've got a 3 for my present state of physical well being, and a 10 for how utterly confused I am right now. Where the heck am I?"

Nyra folded her arms across her chest, gazing upon the boy curiously. He was evidently younger than her, but loaded with more weapons than she had ever seen one person carry in her life. She eyed the weird looking blades he carried. For some reason she wasn't frightened - after all, it was hard to take a guy seriously after an entrance like that.

In answer to his second inquiry, Nyra simply groaned, ignoring the weapon he had just grasped. "I have no idea. You tell me." Then she added with a grin, "and can you teach me how to do that?"

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"Teach you how to do what?" He said and after a second of thinking he said "You mean the jumping thing. Well its mostly just a lot of practice....and falling. Yeah a lot of falling"
He leaned his scythe on a wall and extended his hand forward "Hi my name is Ravian. So if you didn't come here on purpose.....I'm guessing your world has been destroyed. Iwas born here so I don't really know what it looks like when a world is consumed by darkness. But I do know that it's caused by the heartless and that everyonce and a while someone shows up here after their home world is destroyed."

His imagination was goinging on and on about what it would look like at the final moments of a worlds life. He imagined insane amounts of heartless and darkness everywhere not only the small heartless though also large ones that he had only seen pictures of like darksides and guard armors. His eyes stared off into space thinking of how it was possible that a whole world could just dissapear.

"The heartless are the cause of most problems around here but people like me can handle it most the time. Every once and a while though someone falls into the darkness or has their heart stolen and it causes more to show up. But as long as you stay in the first disrict you should be fine. The first district is pretty much the safe zone. But the second district isn't too bad. Though you should be careful and if you can't fight well you should know your way out. The third district is really dangerous though and heartless are everywhere. If you ever find yourself there" and as he said the following he looked up and down her "You look like you should get out as soon as possible and try not to make noise."

[Zephiris]

Nyra grinned and grasped his hand in return. "Nyra," she replied.

She listened intently as Ravian spoke of the darkness. So she was right - this was another universe entirely, and Tamara was gone forever. The cruelty of it all was that she had managed to land in another world divided into Districts. Though from the sound of it, this place had three, not nine.

In that moment she made up her mind. From this point on she would think of this new place as just another couple of Districts; it would be as if she had made it over the wall, and now found herself in a whole to place to explore. The thought excited her and banished her sorrow to the depths of her mind.

“Hey, you should show me around!” she said brightly. She was suddenly impatient to check out the new world she’d been tossed into. Once she learned its secrets she wanted to move on to the Second District, and check out the heartless he mentioned. They seemed more like a fun challenge than anything. She had street smarts - it took a whole lot more than that to scare her. “After all,” she said out loud, with a smirk, “I can run.” She could practically fly when it came down to it. It was her swordsmanship she needed to work on.

One thing still confused her. “These heartless,” she said curiously, “what exactly are they?”

[nshansen]

(YES!!! ANOTHER CHARACTER FOR RAVIAN TO HATE!!! Well, I'm going to enter this thread. I hope this won't become dead. It looks like the activity has been slow in this thread. And I'm here to change that! *thumbs up*)

A dark corridor appeared in the streets of Traverse Town. The Luna Diviner exited the portal, with his hood on. He wasn't planning on revealing his face, only if it was necessary. Traverse Town. Such a peaceful place, that has many hearts. Now if only he could collect them... He was there for only one purpose, to see how many useless beings resided there. To see how many hearts resided there. As he walked, he saw two kids talking to each other about heartless, that counts two. He looked at them for a few seconds, but then continued to look forward.

(Sorry for the shortness, Saix isn't the one who tries to interact with people)

[shiko]

Zetsu was thinking on top of a building when he saw some punk slide down his personal building . His skill was amazing and he did have style. 'Show off!' Zetsu thought in his head, a pretty girl (See personality) was standing there looking slightly confused but not afraid at all. 'Why didn't I notice her? She has a strange air around her is she special or is it just the people of this world?' He thought.

He observed for a while when he noticed a man come out of a hole. Zetsu was afraid of this man. What was it? He did not know, but something about him was the only thing Zetsu feared. He turned back to the other two's discussion and decided to go down.

He took the stairs instead of reveling his skill. When he opened the front door he flashed stepped with amazing speed and came in between them. Zetsu held out two hands, each for one person and with a grin ;D he said "I just arrived recently, I'm Zetsu Affain pleasure to meet you. I couldn't help but over hear your conversation."He stop smiling and turned to Revian " Scythe vigilantly. I saw cute little pets with yellow eyes. What are they?" He said this with a puzzled look on his face.

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(sorry about lateness tennis is gettin busy)
Ravian was surprised that nyra was taking her worlds destruction so well, most people were devastated when they learned about this but she barely seemed to care.

Ravian smiled, he liked how this day was turning out. "So you want to explore Traverse town. Then you asked the right guy. This is MY city and......." He stopped as he saw (though Ravian doesn't know his name) Siax step through a dark portal.

Ravian stared for a second but then was once again distracted as Zetsu appeared in between them and said "I just arrived recently, I'm Zetsu Affain pleasure to meet you. I couldn't help but over hear your conversation. Scythe vigilantly. I saw cute little pets with yellow eyes. What are they?"

Ravian eyes widened and he didn't even bother to act like he was gonna shake this guys hand "I would appreciate if you didn't do stuff like that"and pushed him slightly to the side. He was slightly used things appearing out of no where ." and me....a vigilante? I wouldn't exactly say that's what I am but...anyways,so those things you saw are probably heartless but since we're in the first district I can't say for sure and....hey you."

Ravian said to the man in the black cloak. He was starting to get annoyed by the amount of clueless people here. "When was the last time you saw heartless in the first district?"

[Zephiris]

Nyra listened with a grin to Ravian, eager to begin exploring this Traverse Town. Perhaps it would take her mind off things for a while.

But she heard the pause in his voice, and turned her head to where his gaze had been drawn. Nyra's golden eyes narrowed. For some reason she felt cold, and as she stared at the black cloaked man she wondered why the calm Traverse Town atmosphere had suddenly shifted.

She didn't have much time to ponder - a moment later they were approached by yet another guy, this time with black highlighted hair and purple eyes. He looked friendly enough. But yet again Nyra wondered what was with all of these guys and their weapons? She just had Nocturne. It had kept her alive up until now, but Nyra preferred to rely on her own skill than leaning too heavily on the katana.

She switched her brain back to the present. The conversation between Zetsu and Ravian was worth listening to. Apparently heartless were cute little pets with yellow eyes? Slightly confused, Nyra bounced her weight from one leg to another, eager to set off and see for herself. But then it occurred to her that this Zetsu seemed as clueless as she did. She turned to him quizzically, asking (not one for subtlety), "How did you get here?"

[nshansen]

Something stopped the Luna Diviner in his tracks. A boy has just spoke to him, one of the useless hearts he saw earlier. The cloaked man turned around and studied who was there for a minute, but he remained silent. He didn't look at the boy and girl who didn't know what the heartless was. They were simply useless.

But the boy... So he could use a scythe... Maybe he wasn't useless after all. Marluxia, the traitor of the Organization, uses a scythe as his weapon. Maybe this boy had the potential to distract the traitor, or maybe even kill him. No, that wouldn't be possible, a boy couldn't kill an Organization member. Especially a young one like him. But a distraction was possible. Well, that was only if he was good at it. Maybe a test was required. Plus, he seemed more likely out of the three to manipulate.

"Sometimes, I've seen a few heartless roaming in the First District..." the nobody replied with his emotionless tone. The heartless in the first district were mostly shadows. No emblem heartless, sadly.

So... Now about the test. With a snap of his fingers, he could have a couple of nobodies fight the boy. Though, he wanted to see him fight, not the others. Perhaps he could get them away from the young boy. If the boy died, he wouldn't care. He would have already failed, so there was no point in keeping him alive.

[shiko]

Slightly offended by the humans greetings he turned to the cute girl and said "I came here by accident. I stole a gummi ship and tried flying. End result was I crashed here." Zetsu turned to the man in a coat. "Hey vigilante, that guy over there isn't no joke. He has the presence of a heartless, but way more powerful." He said. "Are all humans this mean or are both of you different in some way?"

He put his right hand on one of his swords and was ready for a fight. 'So much for making friend' He thought. "By the way nice scythe!" He said turning his attention to Mr.Vigilante.

[Zephiris]

"A ... gummi ship," Nyra repeated blankly. The term sounded ridiculous, but from what Zetsu implied it seemed as though the thing was able to fly. She inhaled sharply as a thought crossed her mind - what if it could get her back to Tamara?

Nyra stored the thought away until later, focusing back to the conversation before her. A cold feeling washed over her as she saw the dark man from before looking in their direction. His eyes were as cold as his voice, and she couldn't conjure her normal challenging glare at this man. He was just too ... dark.

The words and gaze seemed directed at Ravian, though, not her. For once Nyra took caution and remained quiet.

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He was dissappointed by the large mans answer but was soon distracted"A gummi ship!!!" He thought suddenly totally forgetting about the heartless he turned to the strange little flash stepper "No,people can be nicer but right now I'm annoyed by a stranger appearing right in the middle of a conversation with someon.e" Ravian said jokingly

"Anyways I'm Ravian and I'm not a vigilante nor will i ever be. Me and the law don't really get along. I have this problem with not having anything and other people have something connect the dots."
He said taking a step closer to zetsu "I'm a theif.....and if thats not enough for the law not to like you im also pretty damn good at it. Also mister i think heartless are yellow eyed pets I know a heartless when I see one and I've never seen a heartless that could pass as a human"
He stood tall and looked back at nyra "Agummi ship is the only way to get around the worlds here by the way."

[shiko]

Zetsu scratched his head looking at the thief. "So your a bad guy" He said clearly clueless. " What are we doing here? Lets move on, I need to find a mechanic and fix my gummi ship. If your a thief then you should know about a few things." After he finished his speech he took a great sigh and sat on the floor.

"I'm sure you don't have a heartless encyclopedia do you? If you don't a foolish human like you should not think my nose is wrong!" Zetsu said in an irritated way. He stood and pointed his finger at the coat-man. "Introduce yourself, have you no manners!"

[nshansen]

(Shiko, don't skip me. Plus, you can't see his eyes, just sayin. He's got his hood on.)

The Luna Diviner watched as the humans spoke. Ravian... So that was the name of the child? Hmm...

"Introduce yourself, have you no manners!"

Foolish child... This boy was a little annoying. He could kill him at this very moment if he wanted to. "I'm nobody..." he replied with his cold tone. Technically, he was true. He was a nobody, but that wasn't his name. He wasn't going to tell anyone his name... Yet. Maybe he would have to tell Ravian to gain the fool's trust, but that was it.