[IC] Kingdom Hearts: Memories of the Chosen

[soren]

------Mysterious Tower------

Merlin sat in the chair next to a bed with a man named Leo laying in it. It seemed that his spell had affected the young keybearer when he put his whole world in a state of ageless sleep. There was no telling how long it would be when Leo woke up or if he would until things returned to normal and this new darkness was pushed back, but was it even darkness that was causing the memory gaps? People disappearing, never to be remembered by others close to them? Nobodies had this power but not to make whole worlds sink into nothingness. No this had to be a new enemy whether it was based of an old one something new was afoot. Merlin had taken Leo to the Mysterious Tower where he sought the help of Master Yen-Sid. He was the most powerful wizard known to Merlin and he was still unable to help and unable to to see through the veil what this threat was. It was all very disheartening. But there was a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Leo had been able to do one thing. He was a keybearer on his home world of Avalon for a short time but time none the less. He had the heart of a Keybearer and Yen-Sid knew how to track others down with either the potential or ones that were about to become Keybearers all their own. He knew this because he was once a wielder and a master of a keyblade himself, until he gave up the mantel and the keyblade. He then began grabbing people from their worlds and bringing them to his world. He did this to stop the coming threat. They were his chosen and would not be able to forget. Merlin looked up as the cloak hit the stroke of midnight. Leo's birthday had finally come around. "Happy Birthday my boy..." Merlin sad with a tear that dripped from his cheek to his robes. "I guess it is time to address the new recruits and place The Spell on them. Then we all need to relocate to the world that comes in the time of need, because soon this world will be nothing but darkness." Merlin said as he stood up and moved the covers over the boy some more. "I will return shortly to make sure you are carried with us to safety. Until then rest well." Merlin talked to the boy often and liked to think his words reached him but he couldn't be for sure that they did unless he entered the world of sleep with Leo in which he could not with such a weighted task ahead. He took his wand out of his pocket that he rarely used and sent a message to each room that was occupied. "To all that have been brought here by Yen-Sid, This is Merlin. Yen-Sid and I need to speak with all of you in the meeting quarters where you were brought in. Please follow the portal to the room and wait there. We will be with you shortly." Merlin ended the transmission and exited into the hall. He then opened another door in which sat a man talking in a mirror to a mouse with a crown on his head. With a chuckle the mirror shut off and the old man in the chair grabbed his hat and put it on. "I guess it is time then." He said as he got up and turned around heading out the door with Merlin.

------The Grid --> Radiant Garden------

Codex ran for her life as an enemy chased her down. She wasn't sure who it was nor was she sure how he/she/it had made it past the firewall. "Damn! How the hell!?" She looked over her shoulder and bolted down the bridge faster. The enemy behind her shouted "Stop now little girl and I shall have mercy on your soul!!" The voice sounded male but grab-baled. She looked over he shoulder again as the enemy summoned his weapon. A long curved blade extended out from a long staff, this was a scythe like no other. It radiated power. Codex couldn't explain it but it felt like she would never exist again if that thing touched her. She again picked up speed and busted through the teleporter room door. Inside a column of white light seemed to be growing ever more narrow. "Not today!" She screamed as she summoned her keyblade instinctively and fired a light into the column. Dispersing it the column pulsed. The enemy was on her heels as she ran up the stairs. He was about to bring his blade in contact with her upper body as she jumped spun around in the portal and disappeared with a smile to her attacker. The teleporter shut down in a flash and the blade made a whooshing sounds as the man brought his blade across the air. "Nooooooo!!! DAMN YOU!!!" He then activated a wrist computer. "Sir one of the chosen got away...The girl sir." A sigh was heard through the computer screen as the man began to fade to nothingness.

Computers began to whirl and lights flicked on in the old dusty room below the castle of radiant garden. Well it wasn't so radiant these days. Darkness was spreading across every world and this one was no exception. Changes where happening and memories were disappearing and the castle was reverting back into Maleficent's creation. Luckily this room hadn't been hit yet. Suddenly a beam of light fired in the center of the floor and started to reconstruct a girl. There she stood, as the beam stop, proud and in control. She then collapsed on the floor weak and out of energy.

[Demon Shinobi]

Raiden Saito
----Mysterious Tower----

Rai had been trying to get some sleep. Since he'd been pulled here he couldn't likely do much and he was clueless as to what was really going on. And even if he tried to rest it was to no avail Even now, he awoke and shot up with a fright. "Wha... Where..." He was out of it. His mind in disarray and his vision blurred. He could barely finish his questions let alone grasp the situation. He was on a bed... In a strange room. Where was he? As his vision cleared up and his panic began to subside he stood up from his bed. He looked around, a hand on his head. He had a little headache. What happened? He couldn't... Wait... "Mom and dad!" He looked around quickly. They weren't there. He didn't know why he'd expected them to be. It was the same whenever he opened or closed his eyes. They just weren't there. "Dammit..." He grit his teeth and clenched his fist slamming it into the nearest wall.

Pulling it back Rai sighed. He ran his fingers through his hair and looked down. He had a necklace on. He never wore a necklace, but this one was an exception. It was his mother's. A gift to her from his father on their first anniversary. It wasn't much, but she treasured it. And since she gave it to him, now he did so. A momento from the two people he cared about more than anything. Of course, when she'd given it to him, she and his father made him promise to go. If anything he could get out right? There was something else though. What was it? "That thing!" What was it? It had appeared in his hands when he lost his bat. He looked at his hand and opened it up. And suddenly it appeared. "Woah..." All he'd done is think about it and now it was here. He was speechless. Soon he was lost in his thoughts about the item. There was a lot he wanted to know. "When did life get so complicated?" He questioned the emptiness of the room around him.

As Rai's thoughts wandered he heard a voice. There was nobody around though! He shuffled through the room and even looked out the door. Nothing! Nobody! Was it magic? It must have been. The guys who brought him here were supposed to be wizards or something right? "Maybe I can get some answers." He said as he reopened the door. He wasn't about to pass this up. It wasn't like he had much of a choice in the matter anyway though right? And his previous thought still rang true. Perhaps he really could get some real answers. He didn't even feel the need to further question himself or hesitate on his thoughts. It wasn't much like him anyway. And with that, he made his way to the portal. When he arrived in the meeting room he felt a bit weird. Travelling like that wasn't something he'd been used to. He wasn't even sure he could get used to it. Still he couldn't hesitate. It was best to remain calm in the current situation and not overreact or lash out unnecessarily. So he took a breath and took a seat to wait for others and the two old men who'd summoned the somewhat motley crew.

[Zarkun]

Damian Strath
---Mysterious Tower---

Damian snored loudly as he slept, dreaming about the times before the darkness had come and forced him to fight or flee. Before people forgot about his parents or who they were and said that he was the only Strath they'd ever known for the entirety of their lives. As he dreamed, he snorted slightly in response to a bug landing on his nose and sleepily swiped at it, most likely at least chasing it off and allowing him more sleep for the time being. Or, at least it would have if he hadn't been woken up by the voice resounding all around his room.

"Whoa!" Falling out of it, he does his best to extricate himself from the tangled mess of sheets and blankets as he stumbles over to the door and flings it open. "What?! What did I miss?!" He was still rubbing the sleep from his eyes as he yelled this and when he stopped, he realized there was no one at the door. "Oh, s-sorry. Then who....oh right. 'Wizards'." Damian closed the door and got the bed as fixed as he could before going to the main room, stepping through the portal after giving it quizzical looks for a moment. As he emerged in the main room, he took note of the other only other person in the room, noting that his very different appearance from Damian's own further proved the multiple worlds theory he'd been told. Taking a seat away from the othersbut where he could see him if he turned his head, he waited for Yen-Sid and the other person to arrive. As he waited, he thought back on how things could be back home, remembering that there were people still fighting for their lives against whatever the strange monsters were that had attacked him first. Stay safe guys...

[Kafka Komedy]

Dee
Mysterious Tower

Dee slept, softly snoring into her pillow and drooling just a tad. As soon as she hit the sheets a little while ago she just zonked out. The beds were surprisingly soft, much better the the couch in Big's (Her mentor) apartment. She was dreaming of her life back home in the arcade. Life was so simple back then, just fighting matches until closing, and then she could hangout with Big and Jen.

Her dreaming was rudely interrupted by someone speaking, and she groggily raised her head. So they needed her at the meeting room? "Bluh." she mumbled, her face slamming into a pillow. She really wanted to sleep more, that rush to get out of Witlak's arcade was incredibly tiring, but the wizards here had allowed her a bed so she felt at least partially in debt to them. She swiped the drool off the corner of her mouth and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes before placing her glasses back on. She rarely ever willingly let others see her true eyes, she just didn't like them.

She shook her head to regain her composure. She was getting off track, there was still the fact that there were going to be people who she had absolutely no idea about. That was giving her a lot of anxiety. She would have no idea what to say if they started a conversation! She fidgeted idly around her room for a few moments before gaining the resolve to just go out there and ignore everyone and maybe they wouldn't talk to her.

With as much strength as she could gather, Dee stepped through the portal to the meeting room. Some people had already made there, but after a quick glance Dee decided averting her gaze would be the best decision. As Dee sat down in an untaken chair, she opened her palm and idly fiddled with her keyblade.

[onenote]

Alyss Tasker
Mysterious Tower

Alyss sat on her bed, looking out the window into the colorful space like void that surrounded the tower. She hadn't been able to sleep that night, She kept thinking about Magi. This had been the longest time she had ever spent away from her sister, and even when they were separated before, Alyss was at least sure of her well being. But after those things...the heartless, took her, Alyss wasn't to sure if she was even alive at this point. All she had was hope that she was.

Alyss sighed and looked down at her hand, summoning her keyblade. Why was she given this, or at least, why hadn't her sister not gotten one was well? Magi was a better fighter then Alyss. Alyss had never even made it to the finals of a struggle tournament on her own While Magi had a championship under her belt and made it to the finals a couple of times...Wouldn't it have been better for Magi to get the best weapon to fight the darkness, rather then Alyss? It didn't make sense to her, but Alyss knew that is she wanted the chance to see her sister safe and sound, she was going to have to do more then just be a support.

Alyss looked up when she heard the voice of Merlin calling her and the other teens to the meeting quarters. Alyss got up and started walking to the portal that would take her to the room. She hadn't talked to any of the others during her short time here. She had seen a couple of them though. She wondered if they had similar stories to hers, of having people they cared about lost...Maybe this wasn't a good thought but it would be kind of comforting to Alyss if they had lost someone to. But Alyss wouldn't go asking around for that kind of info, she didn't even really want to talk about Magi at the moment.

Alyss walked through the portal and made it to the meeting room and saw that there were already a few others there. It was odd to see people like this. Sure they looked human like her, but they came from different worlds then her and their clothing showed it. It was then that Alyss realized that she to would probably be going to different worlds as well, maybe even to the worlds that these people were from. She wondered what traveling to the other worlds would be like. Because surely the worlds weren't all connected by a magical trolley (like the one she took to get to the tower) that no one else could see right ? Alyss decided to think about that later, and took a seat next to the only girl there so far and waited.

[Kafka Komedy]

To Dee, the others couldn't grab hands quick enough. Even though it was only a few seconds, 20 at the absolute most, it felt as if it were an endlessly impassible stretch of time. Still, eventually the group blinked out of the previous meeting room and into a serene calmness that seemed as if it were almost separate from the chaos of the world she knew was happening still, elsewhere. This nice change of pace was suddenly interrupted almost as soon as it began. The boy she was holding hands with squeezed her hand. Somehow, her face got ever more crimson, and glared at him for a split second before quickly turning away, realizing how childish that seemed. Suddenly, something had busted into the room, stuffed inside of a hat. They looked like... well she had seen something like them before probably, but obviously just in passing. She'd never work up enough courage to ask them what their species was. Then squeezy, as she now unaffectionately referred to him in her mind, had tried to make small talk with her. She stumbled over her words for a few moments before whispering out a small "Y-yeah. Hehe." Then suddenly the group started moving, distracting her from the tirade of self deprication obviously set to occur after such a blatant social failure. They were flying with the aide of a star-like object, as well as presumably Merlin controlling it. The movement would have taken her breath away, had she not experienced travel between worlds before. Still though, it did make her a little nervous, there wasn't much beneath her, after all.

[Zarkun]

Damian had thought about grabbing Yen-Sid just as they'd teleported, but realized that letting go for any reason would have been incredibly stupid. "Keep yer 'ead on straight" as Captain Winchester had always said, especially when Damian would start getting off task. Instead, when they arrived in the room with the boy in the bed, he moved to distract himself, playing with a length of rope by practicing his different knots, naming them quietly to himself. When Merlin led the others away, he followed, but he really just wanted a place to rest and try and piece things together. In the end, that's all he would want besides to go home.

[soren]

Merlin thought he could have handled all of the others at the same time as trying to carry out Leo. Sadly he was wrong. As the light around him, Leo, and Archimedes dissipated Merlin saw that the others were gone. He knew that they had all made it cause he had felt them as they had entered Traverse town, but as the star shard began to become unstable for the last bit of the trip one by one the others popped out of the light as if they had been let go by a merry go round that was spinning way to fast. Merlin's heart sank as he felt bad for not trying harder. The fairies flew out of Yen-Sid's hat and sighed as well as they realized that he wasn't coming back, at least not for a while. Merlin looked at the three of them. "You three begin setting up the house. Make it as big as it needs to be for everyone, add rooms as you see they are needed, and finally keep watch over Leo. I must go retrieve one last person for the days ahead. I have no doubt that the kids will find their way here some how. After all Cid should be here by now and he will lead them straight here....blundering oaf and his technology." With that Merlin grasped the star shard again and zoomed off into interspace towards the world of Hollow Garden. The world had been called Radiant Garden in it's state of light and Hollow Bastion in it's state of darkness, but right now it was in between states. A world of light and darkness and a key position for both sides. Merlin landed on the outskirts of the castle avoiding the town all together which had been e-vaced days ago to Traverse Town. The castle was again twisted and ready for villains to occupy it's walls. Who knows maybe Maleficent was back in town but Merlin sure hoped not. Either way he had to get the keybearer out safely.

[Mike the Bloodwolf]

It seemed the spell had caught one last person who had been on there way to the tower and he ended up crash landing into the centre of Traverse town right in front of the gate that lead outside, with a couple of choice words in Japanese. He shock himself off and saw check on his dragon wings and tail. The horns were not that big of a concern right now as he was more focused on where he had landed. He took out a book and looked though it before he said "Traverse town, a town created by the many lost souls of the worlds as a refuge for those who worlds were lost in the darkness". He nodded to himself and took his first step as his appearance changed so that his dragon wings, tail and horns could not be seen. He returned to his original look before he became a half dragon which was Blonde hair, blue eyes, he had a scar on his right eye. He then walked straight into the item shop with the spare Munny he had and brought a few potions from the vender.