Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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Take grabbed himself a glass of water before he followed Boreas over to the same table and was already getting a bite in to eat when he asked if he was hitting the books today. He finished chewing before rolling his eyes a bit and saying,"Probably. I'm not really in the mood for it but I guess I'm learning a bit more... I'm still not sure why Enzo likes to tag along still though... but otherwise yeah." he munched a bit more on his food before saying, "I'm getting weird vibes today so maybe I'll change it up a bit... what about you though? Anything exciting planned for your day?" the boy reached for his water and took a sip before adding with a hint of sarcasm to his voice, "Invisible fishing in the rain?"
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"No, I get it," Aria said in response to the Light Chaser and his whereabouts. "It's better to know than not know." She ate her bacon bit by bit and then started to eat her egg as Torrin spoke. He then asked about her dreams and she stopped, setting her fork down. She pulled down her shirt a bit to expose her shoulder, showing her scratch. "I woke myself up," she said with a hint of pride on her voice. "It wasn't too happy with me telling it I was in control, but you know, it's gotta know who's the boss around here." She let the shirt fall back into place and sat back in her chair with her mug of hot chocolate in her hands. "I couldn't summon my keyblade, but I felt like I was getting closer to be able to do it... I think the meditation sessions are helping out a bit."

 

Take joined him at the table, and mentioned he was going to study more later. "Well good luck with the studies, and yeah Enzo is an odd one, maybe he just wants to help you or something, I really have no idea..." Boreas said eating some of his oatmeal porridge. "Well I ran into Torrin the other day and told me we'd train today, what he has in mind I don't know. For the remainder it's wait and see I guess. Perhaps Qamar is going to bug me about teaching her some more..." Boreas said before sighing, he chuckled a little bit at the sarcastic comment about invisible fishing trips. It seemed his fishing trips with Master Skia hadn't exactly gone unnoticed, which wasn't too unsurprising, but he wasn't sure what Master Skia would do in such bad weather, but he was willing to bet that she wouldn't go out, he knew Take wasn't being serious but if he had nothing better to do he might as well wait and see what was going to happen. Take had mentioned that he was getting weird vibes today, but to him it was just another day, perhaps a day with not the greatest weather but nothing out of the ordinairy. "Weird vibes? What do you mean?" Boreas inquired, perhaps these two weeks of being stationed here had made him too complacent about the situation.​

 

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Take was a bit curious what that kind of training would have meant but he didn't think about it too long. When he asked about the weird vibes he placed his hand to his chin in thought to try and think of how to word it and said,"I'm not exactly sure if your world had a similar pattern but... this has felt very much like the rebuilding time after a battle. Which we know it definitely is... but sometimes... I don't know, it's like you can feel the next battle coming in. I have that same feeling. But it could just be that I'm not used to... well not doing much other than train this long. I felt the same way when I was training at first with Atmos... but it's worse here?" he felt like he wasn't explaining it very well. He ate a few more spoonfuls of his food before adding, "It might just be paranoia... but that's hard to settle on." he tapped on the table and leaned back in his chair. He shifted to cross his arms and continued, slightly off the topic, "They've been trying to tell me to relax. I think I've been doing okay with it but I just can't help but wonder what's going on. What the hushed whispers between the masters are and wonder what's going on with the Light Chaser. I just... can't relax when I still feel like I'm left out of a loop." he took a sip of water again and played a bit with his spoon in the porridge, "Atmos basically, what was the word again, ...deprogrammed me from accepting things like this without question and now it's happening and I'm questioning and being told 'keep training' and 'keep learning to read'. That's... great and all and definitely important to be doing but it doesn't make me stop thinking about it."

Take froze a second and emotionally withdrew and moved to his old default expression which had been becoming less and less common the further the weeks went on. People probably caught on by this point he did that when he thought he was being over emotional and needed to back off, "I'm sorry. I went off on a... tangent again when you just needed a simple answer..." he also bowed his head a bit in apology as he admitted it.
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He wasn't expecting to hear that the cane he had made was as easy to do as a glider, something that he didn't really consider to be all that easy. It may have been easy now, but that had been mainly cause he's done it a few times. Ask him to turn his keyblade into a cane and he's got nothing but a confused look to give you. "When you put it like that, I'm curious as to what it'll become." Despite the fact that he wouldn't be around in a hundred years.

Chrono had begun to drink some of his tea when Tinarah had made her offer as to where Master Stamatis could walk to and was kinda surprised to hear that she could play the piano, but at the same time it wasn't beyond the realm of belief given some of the stories he's heard from her regarding the other Stamatis. "Walking to the library is also an option or just around the castle to refamiliarize yourself with doing so." Spotting his sister's glance, those were the best that he could come up with given the rain and not really know anything about Master Stamatis. He did seem like someone that would be okay with going to the library.

 

Qamar smiled upon seeing Kosmo give a nod to her question. She finished off her breakfast and took Kosmo's empty plate, going to wash them and put the dishes to dry. She turned around and walked towards Take and Boreas, waving to them. "Good morning again. Are you doing okay now Take?" she asked, glancing over at Kosmo. While Take answered, she scooped the dragon up and sat her in her collar again, making an attempt to hide the tiny dragon. She returned to look between the two and tilted her head. "What will you two do today? I was thinking about kind of just...hanging around, myself." she said. "Or maybe training more?" she suggested. "Not...not training in your sense, Boreas, I feel a lot more comfortable now thanks to you." she gave him a bow. She sat down at the table and looked between the two. If they had their own plans, she wouldn't be too upset and probably just find her own thing to do. Maybe even go visit Master Stamatis and see how he's doing. It wasn't like she had anything to do, she just hadn't spent time with Take in a few days, so she wanted to talk some more.​

 

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Aria raised an eyebrow when Torrin started to choke on his food. This breakfast didn't seem that hard to eat unless he just swallowed it the wrong way. But now he seemed like a nervous wreck for some reason which confused Aria more. "Are you okay Torrin...?" But before she could get an answer to that question, he was fumbling over his words and trying to get something out. It was then the news about her birthday came around and Aria shrugged her shoulders a bit. "That's okay. I mean, the birthday... It's not a big deal." But Torrin seemed like he wanted to say something more and now it was bothering Aria a bit more. "If this is about me being a princess, I was already told that..." But she had a feeling it could be something else. What was making Torrin such a nervous wreck right now?

 

Boreas listened to Take's explanation and he could definitely understand the feeling. "No it's alright to voice your concerns. Home had a fairly similar pattern if only that battles didn't happen one after the other not even during campaigns, having been on guard duty I can understand the sense it's like it's the calm before the storm and we're just waiting for things to go wrong or for the Light Chaser to move. I have taken the time to get some rest and train but I know what you mean, it's nice and all this peace and quiet but this fight isn't over yet." Boreas said. "It makes sense that you're worried in a sense or at the very least wondering what's going on, especially when information from up top is less than satisfactory, because you think what am I training for? And it's good that you keep it on your mind actually, it helps to remain focused on what we're supposed to be doing here, sure it's been quiet for two weeks and all of us have been training, but I doubt I need to tell you that that means it's over. Look if possible try to relax, but don't grow complacent, as for the training it's important I would rather be out there taking the fight to him or his students but judging how that went last time we'll definitely need the training, I do agree that the calm is a bit unsettling..." Boreas ate some of his porridge, it was a difficult thing especially when Atmos had deprogrammed him from unquestioning loyalty, sure it could be a dangerous thing to blindly follow orders and Atmos probably got it out of him as Masters were to think critically and independently, not blindly follow orders and the point of learning the arts of wielding a keyblade was to become a master so it made sense, but it troubled Take.

As Boreas thought of things he could say to help Take more, perhaps offer to train together to take their minds of it, Qamar joined them. "Morning Qamar." Boreas responded, dropping the again eventhough he had greeted them as he passed her that morning. When she explained that she didn't want to train with him again claiming she felt more comfortable now, Boreas felt a sense of relief, he wasn't up for it today anyways, he was fine with training her, but to him it remained to be seen if anything he had tried to teach stuck with her, he hadn't taught her anything about using darkness itself but rather tried to lay the foundation for her use of it through teaching discipline, he had exchanged ideas on it with Master Skia as well. "I am supposed to train with Torrin later, maybe I'll study a bit more after that, we'll see." Boreas said. "Maybe go for another run later, regardless of the weather." Going out in weather like this wasn't something that bugged him in the slightest, especially since he had the chance to warm up afterwards, be it through porridge or that hot chocolate stuff Aria kept going on about, it was a warm enough drink it just might help.​

 

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"...thank you." Take eventually responded after Boreas' reassurances afterwards. Sure, it hadn't eased his mind completely but it was nice to know he wasn't alone in his feelings. When Qamar joined them and asked if he was doing better, he simply nodded and kind of sniffed a minute before he went to eating. When he was certain he wasn't interrupting their flow of conversation Take soon interjected, "You don't have to hide it. I know its there. Dragons have a very unique smell. Just keep it an arms length away and I'll be just fine." he didn't sound thrilled with it but he wasn't annoyed or hostile.
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Chrys nodded in return to each who passed her with a greeting, which included Torrin for some reason. She didn't put much thought into what she had to eat, merely fixing herself something simple while tuning the others out. She sat down at the table with a fried egg and some toast, directing her eyes to the weather outside. The skies were cloudy, and she couldn't help but sigh wistfully at the sight of rain. It reminded her of home: the Garden of Rivers. A world where the rains had never ended. Or at least, almost never. Her thoughts wandered toward her brother and the vision she had seen of him. He had looked alright physically, but he and the girl with him seemed to have been exhausted from travel. She hoped that wherever the two of them where, they were okay.

Of course, she also couldn't think of her worlds unnatural rains without considering it's cause. Usually it would only be a brief and fleeting thought, but now... well, she had met the strange wolf like creature herself just two weeks ago. Or at least, she thought she did. It had been a dream, but she had seen a lot of weird things since the destruction of her home. It wouldn't really be strange for him to visit her in a vision; especially since she was apparently his 'chosen one.' A terrible choice if you asked her, but considering he had made the choice thousands of years prior to her birth, he hadn't asked her.

These were the thoughts that filled Chrys mind as she stared out the window eating her food.​

 

Qamar nodded to the two of them. "If you do end up training with Torrin later, may I tag along?" she asked curiously. "Perhaps we can get Aria to come as well and take on one of those harder missions." she suggested to Boreas. Take mentioned he was fine now, but he did point out the dragon was there and that he knew it was there. Qamar gulped and sighed. "I'm sorry, I thought...this was okay, but I understand. I'll be sure to keep her away, no matter how curious she is." Qamar said, patting Kosmo's head. "Other than Flammie assaulting you, how have things been the past couple days? I didn't really get to talk to you after...I dunno, two days ago?" she shrugged.​

 

"It's not just up to me, it'll have to be discussed together with Torrin, we agreed to meet at the Mirage Arena later, it did however seem he specificly wanted me there. I'd say ask him when you see him." Boreas replied to Qamar, it wasn't his call to make, Torrin had requested he'd be present for training later, what sort of training was never mentioned, it could be anything from hand-to-hand to the mirage arena, Boreas was hoping for a little old hand-to-hand, feeling it was a place where in a duel he might hold his own against Torrin. Take sensed the dragon that Qamar was dragging around, it belonged to that Lumen kid as far as he knew, he didn't particularly care why she was running around with it but he understood why Take had his reservations. He noted that Chrys sat by herself and turned his attention back to the conversation when Master Atmos walked in, she apologised but it was fine to him.

"Good morning Master Atmos, it's alright." Boreas said, before he could ask whether there was a problem she explained that there was another meeting master Atmos didn't seem to thrilled about the prospect of being sidelined again and he couldn't blame her, Choma and her had made the opening moves that brought this conflict out into the open, furthermore they were the masters of several people on the team, it made sense to deploy them alongside their students, but that meant weakening the stronghold and the balance of power was already tipped in the favour of the Light Chaser so they couldn't afford to draw too many forces from their own stronghold, it sucked being sidelined even when there was a good reason for it, but he understood how she felt. Boreas finished the last of his porridge and rinsed the bowl he had used. "Well, since there's a meeting I might as well go there, you coming along as well Take?" Boreas asked, the kid had been wondering what was going on and sure answers weren't going to be handed out that easily from the higher ups but at least they'd know what they were going to do now. Boreas headed for the meeting room, passing the piano where Taran was attempting to wake Illiana up and smiled a little to himself before making his way to the meeting room and taking his place.​

 

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When Qamar had asked what he was up to, the boy shrugged a little and smiled,"Nothing too interesting honestly. Just training and reading lessons. The most exciting thing to happen the last two days was probably the fact I moved onto chapter books." he was mostly joking, but he was actually a little excited about it. When Atmos showed up to interrupt and mention a meeting, he nodded in understanding before looking towards Boreas as he asked if he was heading with. Take finished up the last few bites of breakfast and his water and stood up to clean up, "Yeah, definitely. I'm more than a little interested in a meeting after this long." sure there were some meetings, but he meant one he could actually attend. He headed to the kitchen to clean up before making his way towards the meeting room as well.
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Qamar got excited when Take mentioned moving on to chapter books. Before she could reply, Atmos came in and informed everyone of an impending meeting. Qamar gave Atmos a wave before she left. "Well, Take, I'd love to read with you in the future. I know some really good books that I think you'd like. They're kind of fantasy, but more like elves and orcs and stuff....er...maybe not those." she scratched her cheek. Boreas had mentioned she'd have to ask Torrin about training and she made a mental note of that, knowing it'd be for the better if she did ask. She didn't want to intrude, after all, if it were supposed to be a private one between the two friends. She had hoped she became a friend to Torrin, but that was something she wasn't sure of quite yet. She did notice the aforementioned Master was gone as was Aria, so she kind of figured they were off on a breakfast date as usual.

Standing up, Qamar looked to the rest in the room. "I'm gonna go retrieve Lumen. Dunno if he knows about the meeting yet." she shrugged. Qamar turned to leave and headed outside. She remembered he mentioned doing some meditation in the rain, so she figured that'd be where he was. She stepped towards the front door and saw the umbrella stand. She grabbed one of the few that were still there and headed out. Popping it open, she then made a couple of high jumps onto the castle roof to find that Aster was already there. "Master Aster!" she said out loud, walking over to the two. She gave Aster a hug, while holding the umbrella up, and looked to Lumen. "Let's get inside. Maybe we can use some wind magic to dry you off quicker..." she suggested, reaching a hand out to Lumen and throwing a smile his way.​

 

He was enjoying the peace and quiet, well except for the rain. Lumen started to preform all kinds of kick flips, stances, movements and more. He felt just as free as the storm, allowing him to be focused entirely.

Startled by a voice, he turned to see Master Aster standing in a pocket of air. Lumen sighed before stretching a bit. “Well I like the rain, makes me feel good.” Saying off with a smirk as he started to walk over. But was given another surprise when he saw Qamar up here, and smiled at her brightly as he spoke. “Yeah, I suppose I should get myself properly ready. I’m drenched as a mop.” Grabbing her hand, Lumen then followed Qamar down the roof as he got dried off and headed off to where the meeting was with his friend.​