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Levi was a little bit behind Hoshi, as while she could just vault the small ledge with ease, he wasn't as nimble and it took him a few moments longer to clear the obstacle. He took a fraction of a second to recognize the faint crunching noise under his feet that vaguely resembled broken glass, before rounding a corner to see the Secret Place, and Hoshi next to Morgan. He also realized the crunching sound was glass, as small pieces of sand across the beach now gleamed slightly in the faint moonlight as something had superheated the sand here. He could question that later, though.

Quickly, and for the second time today, Levi rushed to Morgan's side, taking a moment to place two fingers to the side of her neck. "She's not dead. Looks to me like she just passed out again, lucky those things haven't swarmed her yet." He then looked up, at the growing army of dark creatures. "But we can't stay here. I don't know what you meant about the door Hoshi, but unless you're ready to fight those... things." He gestured towards the accumulating shadowy creatures. "Then we need to find the others, and find a way out." With that, he set the bat down and grabbed Morgan's arm, starting to pull her up into a fireman's carry, either not remembering or caring about what she had done instinctively to Alias earlier that morning.

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I've got a post written up but I'm waiting on permission to post it because just making sure it's okay to do the thing I want to. Not that it's anything too crazy.

I'm going to assume Levi is either with Hoshi near Morgan, or still closer to the entrance on the other side of the sea of Heartless.

@Sadu

Levi would've been a little bit behind Hoshi, and once he got it, he would've tried to check Morgan over to see if she was hurt, or just fainted again. Also, full permission to do whatever you were going to from me. So long as you don't intend to maim anyone.

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Posted. Time to knock around shadows a bunch, as Levi can't actually hurt any of these things! Not meaningfully, anyways.

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Levi hadn't gone to bed yet, he was just finishing with packing his bag and stepped out of the shower into the empty house, due to his parents being out celebrating an anniversary, when the deafening BOOM echoed through the air. "What's going on now? Demons with glowing eyes falling from the sky?" He asked to the empty air sarcastically. He stood up from where he was seated and looked outside to see absolute pandemonium, people panicking as dark figures with glowing eyes did indeed start coming from the sky. "I don't know whether to blame myself for that one, or pat myself on the back for calling it..." He stated dryly, before remembering that his friends weren't the type to look a monster in the eyes and run the other way. He took a moment to change into something that wasn't a tank top and shorts, put on his shoes, fastened on his cassette player, and grabbed the first weapon he could find. If he knew his friends, they weren't just going to stand idly by. Which meant he had some butts to pull out of the fire.

As he left the house, he ran down the street, towards the beach. Between the shed where they met in case of emergencies, the raft, and the ship, it was probably the best chance that at least someone ended up running down there. While running by the docks in the town proper, he saw rowboats being capsized by dozens of these... things... jumping onto the sides and flipping the boats, taking whatever poor fool was trying to escape that way with them. A part of him desperately wanted to help, but it was silenced by his pragmatism. There were dozens of them, with their numbers growing by the second. He'd just be another person in need of saving if he tried that. Besides, he had his priorities. He had to make sure the others got out of this. He could worry about the bystanders once the people he was responsible for were accounted for.

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Plink!

The sound behind Hoshi was distinct, like a baseball getting struck with a metal bat. Behind her, Levi was holding an aluminum baseball bat, having just hit this... whatever it was... flying back a good several yards. The creature just shuddered and turned to face them though, unbothered by the impact. They weren't bothered by his bat much, or by getting thrown into things for that matter, but at least they weren't too heavy, so they were easy enough to launch. A second dove at him, which he caught by holding his forearm straight out, and was rewarded by having it rake it's claws across his face before he tossed it away, leaving several bleeding red lines down his cheek and the side of his face that he didn't acknowledge.

Across his face wasn't rage, fear or pain, but absolute focus. He looked back at Hoshi, and spoke with that commanding tone he had only ever used outside of threatening people a handful of times. "You shouldn't have run off alone. We need to stick together, that's how we'll make it out." He stated with a serious and completely unbothered tone. He quickly stepped beside her, ready to assist, or fall in as needed. "We need to get up the beach. That's probably where the others are headed. Are you good to run, or do you need a lift?" He said, before an upwards swing caught the one he had initially struck, sending it away yet again with another loud Plink!

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Full permission for someome to have Hoshi's back on this one.

@Little Bird

On it.

Wondering if I should actually have Zac stay near the ship or maybe bring it around to the front of the island? On one hand, he wouldn't have any issues keeping the Heartless at bay until people can get there, but on the other hand, bringing the ship to everyone seems like the smarter play

@Daxam

Up to you. Both make sense in the context.

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@Little Bird Beautiful post.

Does anyone want to post before I do my GM post of the Heartless taking over the world?

@King Kindred

I'm good to go.

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Just for the record, I plan on doing Levi's Dive into Heart after all the shenanigans on Destiny Island. So yes, he's going to be without a keyblade for his first run in with heartless.

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Awesome. We want to just go one post at a time? Or do something on a collab?

@Little Bird

Assuming this is for the sunset conversation? I'm alright with it, but I've never done a collab post before. I'm assuming that it'd be done in a Google Doc or something similar, though.

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In before any more posts, but how are we feeling about a time skip? Gets the DI crew to the Paupu tree scene. Zac and Taivas can do their thing(s), and then we can get onto the good stuff.

@Little Bird

I wouldn't be opposed, personally.

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Levi smiled at the encouraging words from Lucian. He always had a gift for knowing just what to say, for knowing exactly how to quiet those small voices of doubt. When Lucian started to talk about his dream, it had defiantly peaked Levi's interest to say the least. He'd read a book or two on how dreams worked, and from how vividly he could describe it, and how it apparently wasn't a nightmare, Levi figured that was no normal dream.

"Well... I don't know what the young prince thing is about. But... if I'm remembering correctly from a book I read a bit back, dreams are where your conscious mind and subconscious mind can effectively communicate. So, if you were able to fight a manifestation of your doubts and fears, and win? That says a lot about you. They say courage isn't the absence of fear, but acting in spite of it. So, in a way, you could see that as... maybe some metaphorical representation of courage?" He said, only partially sure. He was going off of half-remembered information, and trying his best to help his friend with it.

"Then, of course, there's another notable part to that. You remember it, seemingly vividly. And, from what you told me, I'd call that more of a lucid dream than a nightmare. By what I know, you shouldn't be remembering it this vividly if it was just a normal dream. Which tells me... it wasn't." He seemed partially concerned. They knew magic was real now, so that could be anything. A vision? A message? There wasn't any way for either of them to know, as they didn't know nearly enough to tell.

"And hey. I'm heading out to watch the others backs anyways, so what's one more person? You at least, I don't have to hold back whenever someone implies that Hitsu's dead." He chuckled a little, then turned to look at the horizon as they continued to run.

"Other worlds, huh? Well... I'm sure I can come up with something to feed everyone's parents. I don't think they'll believe me, or let you all leave, if I just said that we're leaving to new worlds. I was offered a job on another island the other day, so maybe I could say I'm bringing you with me? Change of scenery being good for recovery and all that." He said, referencing the fact that most, himself included, figured that they were just refusing go let go after Hitsu's death. The change of scenery bit wasn't lying, at least. This way, if he's wrong than good. It means their friend is still alive. If he's right, if gives those two a chance to accept it. It'd be good for them either way. Plus, Morgan gets a chance to find out where she's from, and Taivas gets to go home. All of this assuming that Zac lets them board his vessel, of course. Seeing how relaxed he was with the whole 'falling from the sky' thing told him he'd be alright with taking a few passengers, though.