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[The feeds is rather stable as it jumps on, showing the quite close face of a Moogle hovering in the First District.]

-how you activate the video feed, kupo! It allows you to communicate with every person present in the same world as you, kupo. But you should-

[The camera shakes and shifts as the moogle rushes after the new arrival, it was speaking to... tipping sideways as Terra's back comes into view, showing him walking down the stairs upon the plaza, head turning slightly from left to right and back again, right hand tight around Ends Of The Earth. A moment later the moogle is by his side again, the communicator (and the feed image) stabilizing.]

Kupo, kupo! Please, don't run off just yet, kupo! There is a lot that I still need to tell-

[He's cut off by an angry growl-snort as Terra fixates the moogle with a matching glance, face drawn into a tight frown.]

And I told you; I don't have time for this right now. I may not know what he is up to now, but I do know who's to blame for this.

Kupo, kupo! No, you have to list-

[Listening is about the last thing on Terra's mind as he takes a few more steps towards the middle of the plaza, voice growing louder as he calls out for the one that surely is to blame for all of this. ~~Because clearly. When in doubt, blame the old, bald guy! :|b~~]

Xehanort! Hey, Xehanort! Come out and face me, you coward.

[The Moogle watches as he continues to call for Xehanort, attempting to speak to him for one or two more times before just shaking its head.]

It's hopeless, kupo.

[And with that the feed cuts out.]

[ooc: And with that, Terra has finally arrived in the Realm of Dreams ~~after his mun keot failing for a week~~. orz

Also, Video replies are welcome, but given that Terra's communicator is still with the Moogle, he won't be able to answer, until someone comes around and calms him down. |D;]

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[The face is a surprise. Aqua's gotten used to Ven being awake, and she's even gotten more-or-less used to Master Eraqus' presence, for all that she'd been told he was dead. This though... this is both quite possibly the greatest thing she'd ever wanted and the worst thing she'd feared, all at once. True, his hair is the color it should have been and not the pale silver she'd seen last, but that isn't really a guarantee.]

Terra!

[There's no answer, of course there isn't, when the moogles still have his communicator and it had taken her more than a little bit of time to get past her shock besides. But Terra's never been terribly hard to find and she knows the town will enough to recognize the district he's arrived in on nothing more than the few glimpses she's already had.

The briefest of moments later, she's summoned her glider and is making for the first district with all due haste. She's not really trying to hide her approach either and she only hopes that Terra hasn't gone somewhere else in the meantime - it'll be a lot harder to find him if he's gone somewhere else.]

[She's in luck; Terra hasn't left the district just yet. He isn't calling out for Xehanort anymore either - instead he has pulled out his Wayfinder, starring down at it with a frown, his uncertainty showing.

Just a moment ago... it had been quiet, but... he could have sworn that he somehow heard Aqua and Ven call out for him.]

Ven... Aqua...?

[...Could it be? Or had this just been his imagination?]

Edited 2012-12-21 23:31 (UTC)

[It's not just his imagination. Not unless the low hum of a glider coming in to land nearby is also his imagination. She's low enough to the ground that she'll forgive him for missing the sound of her disembarking and banishing her glider once more.

It still takes a moment before she finds it in herself to speak. She's wanted him to be alright so badly and for so long she almost can't bring herself to ruin the moment.]

Terra.

[Her voice is quieter this time, but it still carries enough to be easily audible, for all that there's a note of something hard to define in it.]

[Carry it does indeed; it has him snap his head up and into her direction, eyes widening slightly when he catches sight of her, Keyblade in one hand and Wayfinder in the other. He'd almost maybe doubt her presence here, except... he can feel it clear as day, the familiar light that he has known almost all his life.]

Aqua...

[A moment later, the remains of his anger, of the tension that had him so tightly wound, just drains away.

She's fine. She's here. Then surely...]

Is Ven...?

He's fine.

[The reassurance is all but instinctual, but it's true, and she relaxes too, in the wake of what has been said. She knows there will still be uncomfortable times ahead, but it doesn't matter right now. Right now, Terra is here and if it's nothing but a dream (unlikely) it's at least a good one.]

I'm surprised he's not here yet, actually. I'm sure he wants to see you, too.

[Another wave of relieve passes through him - Aqua wouldn't lie to him, never about this - his grasp around Ends of the Earth finally relaxing for good, the Keyblade disappearing from his hand.]

I guess, he's distracted by something else right now. Or maybe he's just dozing off somewhere.

[It wouldn't be the first time after all, would it?

He shakes his head, half amused, half still just relieved as he takes a step towards her. When he speaks up again, his voice is a bit more quiet.]

I'm so glad that you two are all right.

[After all those threats Xehanort had made, both in the destroyed Land of Departure and in the Keyblade Graveyard, after he had sent Vanitas after them with those orders, after he had seen that pillar of light-]

Terrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaa!

[No warning, or at least not much - that gradually rising voice is all they get as Ven speeds through the First District, Gliding instead of running since it's about four times faster and damnit he's going to see Terra now! He can feel both their familiar pulls on his heart, he felt them almost every day after all, and they tell him exactly which way to go. So warning? It's minimal, but Terra might have time to brace - because Ven is not slowing down before he plows into his big bro. He's been worried, okay? Aqua wasn't exactly spelling things out but he could tell something wasn't right - but now he's here, and they are.]

[Ah. There's Ven, and though Aqua's not surprised at the speed of his arrival, she is glad she's not the one who's being barreled into. It's true that she hasn't mentioned everything, or even nearly half of everything, but that's less important when Terra's here.

She doesn't have anything much to say, though. Ven's arrival has pretty much made anything she might have said irrelevant at best, and she's certain there's going to end up being another round of question in short order. For now, though, she's content to take a quiet moment on the sidelines.]

[Terra turns just in time to catch sight of that fast approaching blur of blond-black-white-green, instinctively taking a step back for better footing, but even that doesn't save him from having the air knocked out of his lungs when Ven launches into him.

Not that he minds. Really far from.

Instead he wraps his arms around the younger Keybearer the moment finds his ability to breath again, one around his shoulders, the other hand settling on top of his head, gently ruffling that wild hair.]

Ven.

[He is whole. He is safe. Aqua had said so already, so he had known, but... seeing it makes everything much better.

And hopefully this rather enthusiastic reception means that he won't have to hear anymore talk about putting an end to anybody either. ...Except Xehanort. He'd totally be down with that.

Though given that the old man has yet to make an appearance...]

[Well... that's... debatalbe, really. Whole and well? Considering the realm they're in, he probably isn't - those memories of choosing to destroy his own heart didn't come from nowhere, after all. Actually Ven isn't too surprised to find himself inthe realm of sleep if he ended up anywhere after all that; it's more distrubing to him that somehow Aqua and the Master and now Terra have ended up there, too. It means he didn't protect them like he wanted to.]

[But at the moment that doesn't matter, because all that matters is that Terra is there and the family is whole again. He even lets Terra get away with the hair ruffle - this time. It's your only freebie, bro.]

Don't take so long again.

[In so far as she's aware, Aqua is perfectly whole. Dreaming, yes, but whole. The other's she's less certain of, but she's fine, if perhaps a little bit lost.

(She should, perhaps, actually explain everything, but it's awkward enough as things stand, with their Master back. Plus she's not even certain when Terra's from yet, and his part in the tale is one that she's loath to spring on anyone unawares even if that someone is Terra himself.)

Instead she offers a nod of agreement at Ven's comment. She might not have used those same words, but the sentiment is more or less the same.]

We missed you.

[Well, Terra was whole and himself last that he was aware of... though given the last few things Xehanort had told him, just before he had released his heart, just before Terra had had the presence of mind to activate his armor, and then... then he had woken up here.

...Where ever here was, anyways.

And now that he starts thinking about it not knowing just how exactly he, they all, had ended up here, and what world this is in first place, really is starting to bother him. Hence, the rather confused look he shoots Aqua over Ven's head... because well... despite the situation, despite the battle afterwards... it has been not all that long since he's seen the both of them last in the Keyblade Graveyard.

So he decides to keep from commenting either of their statements and just go for the question that seems to become more and more pressing with every passing minute.]

...Where are we? What is this world?

[...Had Xehanort sent them all here?]

Uhh... [And now Ven will pull back so he can see Terra's face, and Terra can see his. It's pretty clear he doesn't fully understand everything that's going on, but he will explain what he knows and he's telling the truth, as far as he's aware of.] We're in the Realm of Sleep. According to the moogles here, after the worlds were swallowed by Darkness... [There's a pause, then he goes on.] Not all of them were brought back completely. Some of them were still "asleep," in a realm sort of in between everything else. That's where we are now - this world is one of them, but we haven't seen any other worlds yet. This might be the only one that's left. We-

[He's interrupted by a screeching from behind the group, from the direction he came, and he turns to glance over his shoulder. Whatever it is is still invisible behind the buildings, but apparently something is familiar to him about that noise, because Ven sighs and shakes his head a little.] Just a second, I'll be right back.

[And there he goes, trotting off at his usual jog back the way he came, in the direction of that noise.]

[Aqua shakes her head as Ven heads off in the direction he came from, but makes no real attempt to follow. If he says he'll be back, he'll be back, and at any rate, she can at least follow up on what Ven has already offered.

Honestly, he's taken care of most of the explanation. But that certainly isn't enough to stop Aqua from adding her own comments.]

He's right. We don't really know enough about the sleeping worlds to know how many there are.

[Terra lifts his arms when Ven pulls back, letting his arms fall back to his side. There's a bit of a confused frown settling on his face - he is kind of missing an explanation on just how they had gotten here in first place, but... Patience. They are just getting started, probably.

The sleeping worlds... the worlds that were swallowed by Darkness... were they referring to that story... the story of the origin of the worlds.

He crosses his arms as Ven zips off, shaking his head, lips twitching into a small smile for just a second, before he grows serious again. He might have told himself to be patient, but this question just can't wait... It's better that Ven is not here for that anyways.]

Aqua... the last thing I remember before ending up here is fighting Xehanort. It's strange... I thought I finally managed to corner him, but then...

[He stops, shaking his head, still feeling the same fear race through him as he had back at that moment, when...]

There was this pillar of light... Xehanort said it meant that the x-blade had been forged. After that... he did something to his heart... he called my Darkness his arc... I tried to defend myself, but...

[He has no idea if he succeeded. Though, given that he is here now, that they all are...]

...Are we...?

[Dead?]

[Well, that confirms her suspicions about Terra's place in the timeline. It doesn't make things any easier, but it helps place him into the sprawling mess that is their comparative timelines.

(She wishes she could be surprised that she's from the furthest out by her count, but given her luck it seems only right that she not have any actual confirmation of how her desperate gamble turned out.)]

It was formed. I saw it.

[Saw Ven in the grip of another, and it had almost hurt to raise her blade to him but she hadn't been about to let someone who wasn't even Ven strike her down, much less use her friend's body to do so.]

We aren't dead though. It was destroyed before he could use it.

[He exhales, eyes closing as he processes that new information... eyes closing as he relaxes just a fraction. So Vanitas had succeeded... but Aqua had then put a stop to him...

Still, he can't help but throw a worried look to where Ven had run off to... He doesn't know just how exactly the x-blade was forged, but... something like that couldn't possibly happen consequence free.

...So far, Ven hadn't seem any different than before though.

...

...Maybe, it was alright. For now anyways.]

...And Xehanort?

[Yeah, about that. Unharmed is far from truthful about his own situation, definitely as far as his own memories go. But, whatever's going on with the timelines, why they all come from different times and have slightly different memories, he doesn't know and frankly he doesn't care about right at the moment. Terra's finally here - things are going to be all right, now.]

[Footsteps thump along the cobblestones as Ven comes back at his normal half-trot - followed by two multicolor weird-looking oddly shaped animals, obviously some derivative of a bat and a lizard but not really recognizable as either. He's speaking to the two of them, and as he gets closer his voice comes more clearly.]

-need to behave, okay? No trying to land on his head or climb up his leg. You guys have to stop doing that.

[That last bit will likely never, ever come to pass, but it's worth a shot. Ven covers the last few steps, smiling at them as he arrives next to them again.] Sorry - they get anxious if I go away suddenly, and they probably would've run into us if I hadn't gone to get them.

[There were consequences, yes. Aqua's still loathe to mention them, given that things are comparatively stable just at the moment, but there were most certainly consequences.

On the other hand, she has it on good faith that Ven isn't actually dead, barring any extremely unfortunate circumstances, and that's good enough for her. (It has to be really; there's not a whole lot she's been able to do from the realm of darkness.)]

I haven't seen him since the fight ended. Wherever he went, he's not here.

[Not unless Terra's brought him along and she really doesn't want to try and bring up that topic just now, when it looks like things will actually be nice for a change.]

[Consequences are consequences, certainly... but if non of them seemed to be in effect here, did they really matter?

After all, Ven is here, Aqua is here... and Xehanort isn't...]

That's something at least.

[It's a start. And hopefully they'd be able to figure it all out from thereon out.

He frowns over Aqua's shoulder when he hears Ven returning... and blinks when he sees just what he is bringing whit him there?]

...What are those?

[...They aren't Unversed. But... they are Darkness, aren't they?]

[~~You know, that's not a bad idea in general.~~]

[That voice prompts Ven to... well, fall off the wall he was sitting on, out of complete shock. That's- that can't be! But it has to be! Wheeler and Linka swarm him when he falls but for once he doesn't reassure them, pushing them back to reply through his own communicator in a barely-restrained yell.]

Terra!

Edited 2012-12-21 23:03 (UTC)

[Riku watches the broadcast with curiosity at first -- probably another new arrival who needs help, right? But that curiosity rapidly turns to shock. He knows that face. Even if the memory was from a very long time ago, he'd never forget it. And that Keyblade...

He hesitates, wondering how to respond. He'd dreamed about this day for years and years, but he'll push aside his shock for now. Looks like something has this guy bothered.]

Hey, cool it. Xehanort's not here, stomping around and yelling won't lure him out.

[It takes some time until Terra gets around to actually collect his communicator ~~though not quite as long as it takes his mun to answer this tag orz~~ - frowning as he scrolls over the messages left since, the response starting with a snort.]

No way to know that unless-

[But then he cuts himself off as he actually recognizes the quite familiar features of the boy on the screen...]

...You-

[If that's who he thinks he is... then he's older than he should be (by far), but younger than in that vision he had seen...

...What's going on here?]

Yeah, me.

[Terra gets a small smile, which will tell him Riku remembers exactly who he is. He's always been quick on the uptake.]

It's been a while.

[As much as he would like to offer a smile in return, Terra is still just too stunned by his actually appearance. For him it certainly has not 'been a while' after all.]

...I just met you a few days ago. You couldn't have been older than five or six.

[And now Riku is looking like fourteen? Fifteen? Definitely way older than he had been before.]

[If you were Sora, Riku would be teasing you right now about trying to catch flies with all that gawping. As it is, he respects Terra far too much to even think of it.]

That's right. I was five, I think. [A sheepish grin as he gestures to himself. Kairi's already poked fun at his younger appearance.] I'm almost seventeen now, not that you'd guess it.

[The dream world works in strange ways. All the more weird, for bringing them together like this. Which begs the unspoken question, one Riku has wondered over for so long, but now he's not sure Terra can answer: Where did you go?]

[Hey! Hey! She knows who that is!]

Terra!

[He's gone. Luna recognizes the district he was in, however. Over by Terra, there's a flash of light and a crack! as a somewhat over-excited pony princess suddenly teleports in, hoof raised to point at him.]

Terra! We bid thee halt!

[He flinches when she suddenly appears before him, instinctively sliding into fighting stance - teleporting in front of him when he's as much on edge as he is now is maybe not really a good idea, but... at least he is not attacking outright quite yet?]

How are you? How do you know my name?

We are Princess Luna! Ventus hath told us about thee!

[After a fashion, that is. She seems pretty unconcerned by his fighting stance, though at least she stopped shouting.]

We are pleased that thou hast arrived...not in the sense that thou'rt trapped here, of course, but Ven shall be happy to see thee again.

...Ven?

[He blinks, relaxing his stance slightly, still feeling just a little bit wary.]

You are a friend of his?

Indeed! He lives with us now in our new lodgings, just over yonder, though we expect he shall be here ere long.

[She lifts a wing to point, though the building itself isn't visible from here. The hotel's a bit closer, and she considers a moment before speaking again. She's not sure what time he's from or what reaction he'll have to Eraqus, but either way he needs to know.]

Aqua and Master Eraqus as well, no doubt. Their lodgings are nearer.

[Well, at least this will take his mind off his own problems.]

Hey, calm down. Pretty sure there's no one here who goes by Xehanort.

[Who the hell is this 'Xehanort'?]

... That usually makes people less likely to want to appear, yanno.

[Kinda just sayin']

Edited 2012-12-22 00:16 (UTC)

[Oh. Oh dear. Looks like this one needs to be calmed down, and something about him seems familiar.]

It's alright, there's no Xehanort here.

[Not that her words seem to be having much effect.]

... If Xehanort was here, you'd probably know about it already.

[This is muttered mostly to himself.]

Edited (derp) 2012-12-22 04:48 (UTC)

[After a moment of debate, he heads off. True, his friends are already headed out to find him, but curiosity is getting the better of Sora. For one thing, he's seen that Keyblade before... in the possession of an animate suit of armor that mistook him for Xehanort. That wasn't a fun battle. And in light of recent events, it's kind of unsettling. For another thing, Sora's pretty sure he's seen this guy before. A certain vision from Xehanort's attempt to claim him as a vessel comes to mind. Beyond that, he thinks he may have seen Terra for real quite a long time ago. Maybe he'll remember more, if there is anything, from seeing the guy in person.]

Though others are already there when he gets there, so Sora waits his turn.]

[Eraqus's eyes widen...while he should have been expecting this somehow, he was never prepared for it.]

Terra!

[A part of him does want to see Terra again, but after what happened when he tried to catch up with Ven, he's a lot more reluctant to approach now.]

[He's known; Aqua's told him that the Master was here as well - as impossibly as it seemed. Still, no knowledge could have armed him for the impact of hearing that voice again, of seeing his face, even if only over a screen.

And suddenly the weight of guilt and shame, that's... never been quite gone, but ignored in favor for the rage Xehanort had induced, is hitting him once more, almost driving him to his knees.]

...Master.

[But with guilt and shame there's also relieve. Master Eraqus is alive.]

[Eraqus doesn't know how to respond for a little while...he's alive, but he's still not certain if he should be.]

Where are you?

[He should see him again, while he has the chance, although he doesn't know what will happen...]

[Maybe... maybe he shouldn't be - Terra had witnessed his death - but given the choice between what should be and what is right before him, Terra will always gladly choose the latter.]

I-

[He can't tell. Not because he doesn't want to, but because he is still just lacking any orientation in this world and so he just turns the camera feed to show his surroundings, easily recognized as buildings of the First District - a picture is worth a thousand words after all. Right?]

[Eraqus himself still isn’t sure what will end up being best for him, his students and the worlds as a whole...but at least for now, he knows he should take the time while he has it, for as long as he has it.]

[He does recognize the buildings Terra shows, though.] The first district.

[And with that, he takes off in that direction.]

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