Solace of Nirvana

Kavi Rathnait was, to say the least, in a bit of a pickle. Below him, there was a kracken attacking anything within its grasp. Above him, there was a terrible thunderstorm roiling the waters of the sea. "What did I do to make Neptune mad. . ." he uttered, contemplating the scenario. His luck seemed better with the storm, even if there was a ship on the water. No human would be able to survive this anyways, so it's not like they'd try to capture him like the others normally would. With this in mind, the octo-man swam up to the surface, being careful to not be struck by the ship being tossed about like some leaf in the wind. But when Kavi looked towards the sky to see how far the storm was from letting up, lightning struck him head on, knocking him unconcious. His body was lost to the currents, and he drifted on. . .

 

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The clock tower struck signalling 6pm in the city of Twilight Town. Emma sat up on the clock tower the heat from the summer sun was hot, but the gentle breeze made much warmer. She took a bite out of her sea salt icecream as it slowly began to melt. She quickly finished it and looked out into the horizon of the town. The sun slowly setting, but that wasn't anything new, the sun was always setting, except at night, it would set, but it would always rise and the light would look more of a twilight kind of setting, that was how the town got it's name, Twilight Town. The girl got out her notebook and gently opened it up. It was a sketch book. Pictures were in it with poems written next to the picture to describe even more feeling. She opened it up to the last picture she started earlier when she was hanging out at the mansion.

It was in a cross formation. In the center was a circle format, within a star not yellow but white surrounded by warm colors of pinks, oranges and more. Off to the left in a diaganol was another little circle, with it was drawn a single flame, surrounded by reds and oranges. Accross from it going down in the diaganol beyond the star circle was drawn a wave, a current of water. Above it was a spiral figure, clouds were in the background, then diaganol down from that was brown filled in circle with a palm tree drawn in it.

It was an image that kept reaccuring in Emma's dreams. She wasn't quite sure where it was coming from. She was hoping to maybe draw it and she would know why, but she didn't have the slightest clue about it. She put her sketch book back into her bag and stood up taking one last look at Twilight Town as the clock tower struck 7pm. Slowly Emma decend down the tower and walked home to her home in sunset terrance.

 

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Kalon sat down by the waves, on the sand and kicked back as the sunset went down. His friends, Serah and Sora laid beside him, listening to the waves.
"You know, one day I think we'll leave this place and take off on an adventure like Sora did" said the boy who was named after the legendary hero.
"And...Calder and Siah!" Serah told them.
Sora frowned, "I wouldn't want anything to happen to you, though"
Serah blushed, as he said that and Kalon smiled.
"I'll leave you two alone" Kalon said, wanting them to feel even more awkward.
"Wait a minute!" Sora exclaimed. Kalon turned towards him and as Sora was about to speak, something covered the sunset. Something black.

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Suddenly a black creature rose up from behind Kalon like a shadow and Sora and Serah started to run away. "RUN!!!"
Kalon turned and saw a colossal sized dark creature with its heart being cut away. The creature, as Kalon was staring at it, took Serah and Sora into its hands.
"NO SERAH, SORA!!!!"
Screams started to echo as ships started to board the world. They were from the darkness. Kalon, not knowing what to do, grabbed a wooden stick that was lying on the sand and started to swing at the darkside but as he did so, he was repulsed back by a purple orb that the darkside summoned. Heartless started to crawl around him.
"STOP!!!" Kalon screamed and as he raised his hands, the sand condensed into 4 stones and they pushed away from Kalon, causing the heartless to diminisch into gas. Kalon, immediately stood up, confused but as he focused his energy and anger at the darkside, the sand started to crawl around his body and condense into rock, creating armor.
Sora and Serah widened their eyes at the sight of Kalon.
"YOU CAN DO IT KALON!!!" Sora exclaimed.

 

The darkside clutched its chest, where the empty heart shape was. The gas that the previous heartless burst into began to collect itself. From the darkness, a humanoid silhouette appeared. This image also had black wings. The figure snapped its fingers, and the darkside dissapeared. The figured then turned to the three kids. "I appologize about that." The figure began creating a face. It smiled. "Even though I put all of the darkness back in the dark realm, and out of the light realm, its been slowly leaking out. I guess Raven isn't doing her job with keeping the light in check." The figured chuckled at that. "Oh boy she'd be pissed at me if she heard me say that." The figure began fading away. "Even with all the strength of darkness, I still can't maintain my form here. That sure was a powerful seal I made. Funny how you kids mentioned Calder and Siah. They were some friends of mine, some time ago. Later." The figure and all the darkness faded away.

 

Kalon slapped himself, wanting to know if it was a dream he just witnessed but it was real. He did not wake up. The earth around him dissolved into sand and Serah and Sora looked at him with confused looks.
"What just happened?" they asked at the same time.
Kalon looked at the ocean, which was shining bright but there was a night sky...
"I'm not sure" he answered, looking at his hands. "Are my powers like a keyblade?"
He looked at the water, which was glowing.
"That's odd...."

 

Emma walked calmly down the street smiling and humming to herself. She walked through the secret passages and arrived at her destination at Sunset Terrance.

The sun was nearly down at this point. The young girl walked to her home and entered inside.

"Emma is that you?" A woman called from the back room.

"Yeah mom, it's me." Emma called back as her mother walked out.

"Hanging out with your friends?" Her mother asked. The same question was asked everyday which still made Emma frown but she shook it away and nodded.

"Yeah mom, we went to the beach today." She lied.

"Glad to hear you had fun today. Dinner's on the table." Her mother told her.

"That's ok, I'll pass." Emma told her heading up the stairs.

"You positive?" Her mother asked Emma nodded and continued up the stairs. She made a left into the first door on the right and closed the door behind her.

She set her stuff on her desk and took her shoes off falling back on her bed looking up at the ceiling. She slowly felt herself drift to sleep.



"The power of the elements, such a funny power to be having control of, a power for centuries was looked down upon, but was even stronger than the keyblade itself. Given the chance the 4 choosen shall gather by a dear friend of their master they've never met. These 4 beings could bring a stop to this evil inflicted on the worlds, the corruption of such a 'great' weapon." A voice spoke.

Emma stood in the middle of the room with 3 other people and an older girl and older boy. Emma stood there hands at her side and looked up at the mosaic window as light shined in revealing the logo that Emma had been drawing. Emma looked at the other three.

Emma was wearing a red sort of chinese dress(Google Image Result for http://www.freewebs.com/chinesedress/image/frog_closure_chinese_dress.jpg)

Another girl was wearing the same style dress but light blue(Google Image Result for http://www.bitableu.com/images/CS780043.thumb)

There was a boy wearing a dark blue chinese sort of warrior outfit(Google Image Result for http://www.thefirstcorporation.com/isnoopy/men/m990/DARK%20BLUE-A.jpg)

Another boy was wearing a similar outfit but dark green(Google Image Result for http://www.goodorient.com/images/T/MJ1149_100.jpg)

Emma stepped forward extending her right hand as a little ball of fire revealed in it. She stared at the flame before the image began to fade.


Emma slowly woke up sat up holding her hand up and looking at it.

"The same sort of dream, but this time... was I holding fire?" Emma asked aloud. She looked out her window as the morning sun began to rise.

 

Dry. That's the first thing Kavi felt when he came to. For the first time in the young man's life, he felt dry. His eyes broke open, the light blinding him at first, but eventually that subsided. Sitting up, he noticed he was on a sandy beach of an island, and to the horizon more could be seen. But, there was one extremely alarming change of note; His octopus legs were gone, and in there place human feet now resided. Stranger still was the fact that he was wearing human clothing, though it seemed a little heavy for the weather. Dressed in a fairly urban winter coat and jeans, the former octo-man stood up shakily, but his legs gave out beneath him and he fell onto his back.

"What bizarre curse have I been placed under? . ." He wondered aloud, leaning back onto his hands and looking towards the cloudless sky. "Most certainly, I am not near Atlantica. But this doesn't look like the lands where the human settlements were, either. What could this be?"

On that last thought, he attempted to stand up once more, this time staying upright on those two new and unfamiliar appendages. Kavi felt as the sand did - washed up and dry at the same time. His surroundings were very tropical in comparison to the freezing Atlantican waters and rocky landscapes of the human settlements.

"Where am I?"

 

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Kalon, in the silent of the night, heard deep breathing from behind him. He turned around to face a boy with a confused expression. Kalon scanned his face with the little light he had, emitting from the stars and the village's street lamps. He seemed unfamiliar. Nevertheless, Kalon walked through the heavy sand beneath his feet, towards the boy.
"Where am I?"
Kalon looked for any further danger but he did not notice anything except for heavy clothing, which looked very alien for him. Destiny Islands never had a wintry season but there have been legends of cold worlds such as the Land of the Dragons. Kalon answered his question, eager to know more about this new figure.
"You are on Destiny Islands. Where did you come from? My name's Kalon" he answered the newcomer with a hand reached out to greet him.

 

Run.

That was the first thing that entered his mind as the human greeted Kavi. It was the very response he had honed throughout his year in life to a fine point.

RUN! His mind screamed at him, and finally the young man's legs reacted. He immediately bolted inland, seeing as he didn't have proper swimming legs anymore, and just galloped across the island. His longer (if a little inexperienced) legs afforded him a much needed speed advantage, should that boy give chase. The first opening in the rocky 'wall' in the mountain he entered and hid deep inside the cave, a habit most certainly not expired. Kavi was shaking.

"He could have attacked. . ." He muttered, resting against a drawing-laden wall.

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"You'll never find insurgents that way." A cool-headed man spoke to a girl who seemed too young to hold a sword, let alone fight.

"Can it you metal monster, I know what I'm doing!" The raven-haired girl responded with a vicious glare.

The girl was sitting in the center of what appeared to be a castle room, blue floating mana surrounding her in spectacular patterns while the man was in the doorway, watching her.

"You should be careful. Last time you attempted this manuver you nearly obliterated the other tower."

"Too bad it was a tower and not you I blew up!"

 

Alone in a grassy area, a single person stood. He was surrounded by several thick pieces of wood. In his hands was a chain that was currently wound up. At one end, a blade was attatched. "If I do this right, it'll be the..." The person spoke, thinking of something. "Fourth training day in a row that I won't get hurt." He loosened his grip on the chain. The blade fell down a bit, about four feet of chain separating the blade from his hand. He began spinning the weapon around, slowly at first. He began spinning faster. A dust cloud began to pick up from how fast the blade was cutting the ground. In a snap, he threw the blade straight at one of the pieces of wood. He pulled back on the weapon, pulling it out of the wood. He drew in the chain a bit, giving about three feet of the weapon to swing around. He quickly spun the weapon and loosened his grip. He held the chain from it's end, letting all fifteen feet swing around. He spun it so the blade hit another piece of wood. He pulled the weapon back in again. He also moved towards the blade as he did. He would twist around as the chain came flying at him. The weapon was all wrapped around him. With a simple twitch, he could shoot the blade forward to his target and hit with deadly accuracy. He cut up the remaining pieces of wood like this.

 

Kalon, shocked that he ran away from him, walked through the sand following the boy. Sora held his shoulder, stopping him.
"It might be a trap."
The boy did not move but nodded, accepted that statement. He remembered the way he ran towards the cave. The boy was limping with both feet and he was unbalanced.
"He could be having an ice cream rush. The store did have a re-opening tonight...
Sora knocked his head, stopping Kalon's train of thought.
"Think genius! That guy is high on darkness, not ice cream! We have to tell someone!"
Serah shook her head.
"I think that guy was afraid of you, Kalon" she told him.
Sora couldn't help but laugh at Kalon's short, scrawny body.
"You really think he would be afraid of him!?" Sora lightly pushed him, meaning to only give him a slight nudge but Kalon fell over. "See?"
Serah giggled, as Kalon's cheeks went red. He stood up, dusted off his pants and turned away from them.
"I'm going to see him. Wait here" he commanded, wanting to abolish his embaressment and his red cheeks, as he ran with the wind cooling the redness of his face. He stepped inside, hearing the gushing of water. It sounded different as though the calm waterfall beside the cave turned into rapids. Kalon shook his head and shifted through the cave with no light because of the night.
"Hey! You there? I won't hurt you" he told him.

 

Oh Neptune, he's going to find me! That's what they always say. . . They always say they won't hurt me, then they try to kill me! I just have to stay quiet. Stay quiet. Stay quiet. Kavi repeatedly thought, pressing himself in one of the corners of the small cave. His dark jacket afforded him a nice advantage in the darkness, thus he pulled it tighter around himself.

He'll never find me as long as I'm in the dark. The dark is empty. The dark is unknown. The dark is. . . unknown. Unknown. UNKNOWN!!! He cried out in his mind, once again frightened. He could hardly see in this small cavern in the rock, and who knows what else was in there. He pressed himself into the wall even more.

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"Found two! One's in London, the other's in Twilight Town!" The dark haired girl cried gleefully, the blue mana taking on an appropriate vibrancy.

"I cannot say I didn't expect you to not kill us all. Congratulations. Should I alert the Three?" Her companion asked, pacing about.

"No, they'll just say that we're wasting their time. Plus, they're all stupid children about these things. . . so no. Just give Rai the address of the London-towner and I'll go to to Twilight-ville. Now if you'll excuse me, metal man, I've got a job to do." She snarkily replied, racing out the door to the Gummi hangars.

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Her ship landed in the Twilight Town hangars. The attendants had deserted, for they knew who she was and what she did.

"Now then. . . to find this girlie." She muttered, glancing around.

~~On another world. . .~~

A tawny-haired man with bronze wristguards appeared on the doorstep of Angel, and knocked once. He bore no badge, and claimed no emblem, and yet everybody could tell who he was working for.

~~Back in Twilight Town. . .~~

A rather ungraceful banging noise came from Emma's front door.

"Let me in, or I'll break the door down!" The girl shouted, pounding on the portal further.

 

Emma just finished getting dress. She pulled back her curtains and looked down at the front door viewable from her window. A girl stood there banging on the door. She looked at the time, she was on her own. She got up out of bed and walked slowly down the stairs.

"Let me in, or I'll break the door down!"

Emma looked at the door. "Just a minute, I'm sort of busy, may I ask what you need?" Emma yelled out trying to sound like her mother and did a father find job at doing that. She huried up the stairs and grabbed a struggle bat laying around in her room. Needless to say, she had some sort of bad feeling about the stranger.

 

As soon as the mother opened the door, Raiga waltzed in without any regard for invitations.

"I'm going to be brief." He told her, pulling out something that looked like a one-button remote with a light instead of a button. It pulsed once every few seconds. "Somebody in this household has a significantly high amount of darkness in their hearts, and it is my duty to locate them and-"
At this, he took on a rather lazy but fiendish grin. "-Exterminate them. Now, are there any others in this house?"

The tawny-haired man turned away without waiting for a reply, and bellowed into the home, "And I'll KNOW if somebody is trying to escape. Homing radar and all that."

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"Blue. . . INDIGO!"

Blue magical energy appeared and swirled around the girl banging on Emma's door, then focused into a lance of power. The energy then threw itself into the portal, shattering it completely and giving her entrance.

"Now, where's the darkie?" Finch asked, dusting herself off as she entered the room.

 

Emma heard the door break down.

"Darkie?" She asked aloud confused. She looked over on her shelf where the book on Sora and his adventures sat. She grabbed her struggle bat and kicked her bedroom door close and locked it. "Now what?" She breathed looking around frantically. 'Police?... no, what will they do... yeah I had someone break into my house with some blue swirl portal that stole my front door... that sounds like if I'm some sort of nut case...' Emma debated in her head. 'I could always face them...' She thought to herself. She shrugged and opened the door. She stood at the top of the stairs.

"Who are you, and what right do you have to break down my door?" Emma asked hands behind her back holding the struggle bat hidden from the strangers view.

 

(When I said portal earlier, I meant door. But that still totally works as Emma's perception of events.)
"Oh, the police won't do anything. They work for the Knights and never would DARE go against us!" Finch snarled, sizing Emma up. She followed this up with, "Come quietly, or else. And by or else, I mean I'll rip you limb from limb rather than just take out your heart."
Finch used some of the spare blue mana to create a cutlass, chanting "Cerulean," as she did so.
"Now, are you a giver or a fighter? Which will it be?"

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"They are upstairs? Then I shall go upstairs. Please, don't do anything you're going to regret." Raiga instructed the woman in a rehearsed tone, electricity arcing up his fingers like a Jacob's ladder. He creeped menacingly up the stairs, completely ignoring the bizarre blinking patterns that began to haunt the detector he carried with him. One by one, he began checking the rooms until he found the group.

"Heeeere's Rai- What in the name of Raijin is going on?!" He barked, noticing Angel and the corridor of light.