Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

Boreas slept peacefully and he dreamed of home but he had forgotten about it by the time he woke up. When he woke up Boreas found the burn heal by his hand. The vial was still filled, Boreas changed out of the superhero costume back into his normal clothing and washing the soot of his face from the previous day. It was still early and he heard something in the house but the sounds didn't bother him, they didn't sound alarming. He moved the curtains away and it was still dark, Boreas wasn't going to disturb anyone else and just started doing his exercises, he had skipped two days in a row now and wasn't going to continue to slack. When he did his exercises Boreas left his room and walked quietly past Take and Aria that were in the living room, didn't she have a room for herself what was she doing out here? Either way he wasn't going to question it, Boreas quietly left through the front door for a morning run without a word.

Boreas just ran through the city as the sun came up, it was relatively quiet out in the city as people were still waking up. He kept it fairly short but still spent more than an hour or two on his morning run. By the time he got back p the hill he was gleaming with some sweat, the cool morning air irritated the burning skin but not in too bad a way. He was still sore from the other day the exercise did him well though and prevented him from getting stiff. He'd have to ask Thallasa if she could heal him, his opponent had done a number on him and his own rage had done the rest. Walking up the hill he looked over the city, Torrin had said they were to be sent away from this place and he'd remain behind. Boreas would simply do as he was ordered as much as it pained him to be separated from his friend again after having found him after 6 years, he hadn't even had the chance to really talk to his friend. He had his duty to perform though, the easiest way to bring him home was to solve this situation.

Boreas took in a last deep breath of the fresh air and walked back into the home of Edna Mode. Inside he found that Take was still awake, Torrin was there, Aria seemed to be awake as was Glyde. "Good morning." Boreas said as he joined them, Take was working in the kitchen on cocoa, at this point Boreas would settle for tea really. The hot cocoa was nice but he didn't think it was very hydrating and he would rather have something to quench his thirst right now. "How are all of you doing this morning?" Boreas asked as he simply walked over to the kitchen and joined Take in making tea, drinking a glass of water as he waited on the tea water to boil. He knew that he was a bit sweaty and he would freshen up a little now that he had the chance, before finding Thallasa and leaving this world.​

 

Illiana tried to sleep through the night but had found trouble trying to fall asleep. She slowly got up and walked to the window holding her side. She opened the window and a slight breeze flew into the room. Illiana closed her eyes and took a deep breath before reopening her eyes. She walked over to the bathroom and over to the the sink. She turned the faucet and splashed water in her face. She placed both hands on each side of the sink. She grabbed the hand towel that was beside the sink and begun drying her face. The girl walked back to her bed and laid back onto it. She closed her eyes and found herself succumbing to the sleep that was awaiting her.

Light had entered her room the next morning. Illiana opened her eyes and slowly rose. As she looked at herself in the mirror, the wounds she had obtained from her dear brother were still there. A brief reminder that yesterday was no mere nightmare, it was a reality. She sighed before walking to the ice wall she had made. She immediately melted the snow and walked back to the dresser and mirror. She looked at the small charm on the top of the dresser. She sighed in annoyance before speaking to it. "Get up Seirei." The charm woke up startled before looking up at its owner. "L-l-lady Illiana?!?! You're awake!!" The little creature walked up to her before reaching the edge of the dresser. "Thank goodness you're okay!! H-How do you feel??" The girl sighed again before frowning, brows furrowing slightly. "Like a puppet that was violently thrown about." Illiana tied her hair up into a ponytail with her bangs framing the left side of her face. She walked to the door before turning her head slightly toward to the little creature. "Make sure you don't leave this room, got it?" The little creature saluted before waving to her. She unlocked the door and opened it. She held her side as she walked to the kitchen, with a small bag in her hand. A slight dark expression was on her face as she walked past Take and into the kitchen. She walked past Boreas and grabbed a wine glass. She opened the bag she had and poured herself a little bit of wine. Illiana took a small sip before putting her glass down. She then spoke to Boreas. "I see you were out this morning. Eventful run?" She picked up her glass and took another sip.

 

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Sleep had been a foreign concept to Chrono when he had finally stalked back to his room. With everything that was currently swimming about in his mind, the only thing that he did was to rummage through the pockets of his own clothes, that had been waiting for him in said room, to take out his pocket watch. The silver trinket sat in the palm of his hand as Chrono himself laid back on the bed. He eyed the design that was plastered on the watch as it continued to tick. This time it didn't do much to soothe his nerves, it was at least nice to listen too. Some soothing effect was felt however as Chrono blinked.

Least he was pretty sure he blinked. Some rays from the sun had started to peak into the room and he was positioned slightly differently on the bed. The pocket watch still sat in his hand though said hand was clenched around it. Surprisingly he must have fallen asleep at some point and it wasn't a good rest. Taking the required time to change out of his hero costume and back into his regular clothes, which felt much more comfortable compared to what he was wearing before, and walked out of his room. A yawn had come out by the time he'd reach the living room, despite his best efforts to cover it the noise was still heard. "Morning." He said absentmindedly, not quite processing who it was he was saving 'morning' too.

 

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“I’m sworry~” Aria apologized with a sheepish, sleepy grin. “I think I’ll be ready soon...” She sat up when everyone else came into the room, saying good morning to everyone while pulling the blanket over her head and placing the shadow Heartless plush in her lap. It looked homemade, but everyone could make it out to what it was. Aria pulled up her legs to sit in a cross-cross fashion, observing everyone while greeting them to get a feel for the room. Most were tired, others grumpy, one sweaty, a few wide awake. Instead of making conversations with anyone, Aria yawned again when Chrono did and snuggled the stuffed heartless to her chest.

 

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For every other person who seemed to come in at this time, he added in another cups worth of water to the kettle to boil, and once he felt he was all set for now he set the water and stared at an empty pot for a long time before admitting, "I have no idea how to make hot chocolate." he looked at a bunch of milk chocolate he saw in Edna's kitchen and pulled it out asking, "Do you just like... melt chocolate and add water? Or milk? I think I tasted milk." he placed the chocolate into the heated pot to let it melt and looked in the fridge for milk and saw chocolate syrup and whipped cream and pulled it out and said, "Or do you use chocolate syrup?" Take placed his hands flat on the counter in stress and said, "I am capable of reshaping, sawing, and sanding a new patch to a wall as well as create a temporary insulation fix for climate control. I can create a tourniquet using only a bandana, a hair tie, and a stick... I can shoot an iceball out of a magically materializing weapon in the shape of a key... but I can't make hot chocolate." he looked at Boreas, sweat pouring out of his forehead as he said, "I have no training that prepared me for the creation of chocolate beverages. I didn't even know what chocolate was until a month ago. These are luxuries I've never encounte- and I've burned it. I've burned the chocolate. I can smell it now."

He turned towards the rest of the party as he went to clean up and asked, "Uh. Who wants pancakes?"
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Boreas was waiting for the water to boil and grabbed a bowl some cold milk and started to make himself some porridge as he waited for the water for his tea. Illiana joined him and take in the kitchen as well, asking him he had an eventful run. It was probably his smell that gave it away, either way it had been quiet. "No it was rather quiet outside, rather nice to be honest." Boreas said, it had been nice although a little lonely without people running with him, perhaps he could have asked Take to join him but he had been hard at work repairing the house. When he saw Illiana drink wine at this hour he look at her a little quizzically. "Are you sure you should be drinking that at this hour?" He asked her, it was morning but far too early to drink wine, especially since there was nothing to really celebrate anyways.

Having made his porridge, his attention was drawn by Take who seemed rather unprepared to make the hot chocolate. "Uhm I think when Aria did it she put cocoa powder in the warm milk, no chocolate needed. But that's as much as I saw her do it the other time she made it. I'll skip on the hot chocolate a bit too early for it I'll just have tea instead. And thanks for the offer for pancakes, I'll just settle for this porridge. And good job on the repairs you made, Take." When the water was done he poured himself some hot water and threw a tea bag in it and left the kitchen. In the hallway he passed Tinarah. "Good morning." He said as he passed her and headed back to the living room.

Torrin had told him he was doing a good job with his training schedule. "I missed two days now, but still managed to get today in so I am still doing better than you." He said with a smirk on his face as he sat down in a chair, digging into the porridge that he had made, it tasted a little bland but it was nice nonetheless. "That sleep did me good, really needed that after the other day, that fight took a lot out of me." He still felt a little weary and bruised but he was mostly fine, he'd have to find Thallasa later.​

 

Illiana took another sip as Boreas talked about his run. She smelled a peculiar smell that was drifting nearby. She looked over and saw chocolate burning. She then turned to Take as he put his hands on the counter. She laughed a little bit before taking another sip of wine. "Well I learned something new today....Chocolate can apparently burn. Very insightful." Illiana clapped her hands together before turning back to her wine. Take had then asked if anyone wanted pancakes. A small smirk appeared on her lips as idea popped into her head. "Alright. How about a Take 2 on the chocolate? Mind making some chocolate chip pancakes little Take?" She took another sip of wine. She then heard Boreas' voice speak to her. "Are you sure you should be drinking at this hour?" She poured herself a little more wine before turning to Boreas. "There's a small saying we had back in my home's army....If you have time to cry........you have time to get over it and move on. Why should I dwell so much on what happened 'then' and not focus on what 'will' be? Sometimes you need to have something to unwind and let yourself forget a bit. My version of that is wine or whatever other alcohol I have in possession in a situation. Besides, I'm not gonna let this wine go to waste and not to mention, it wakes me up a bit. It takes a lot to get me drunk so I'll be fine." She took another sip from her glass before swirling the wine in her glass.

 

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The smell of chocolate filled the air, and then it turned into something yucky. Aria smiled to herself and stood up with the blanket around her, carrying her heartless stuffed heartless in one arm. "Excuse me, Boreas." She walked into the room, still looking sleepy and her hair sticking out all over the place. She caught a bit to what Torrin said and giggled slightly. "If you do just chocolate, then you're just going to have pretty much a melted chocolate bar slide down your throat and choking you out. May I?" As soon as Take stepped aside, Aria placed the heartless on the counter behind her along with the blanket. She then pulled out a new pan while placing the one with burnt hot chocolate in the sink, and grabbed the ingredients she needed. "So I'll show you guys how, just in case I'm not around or something and you're craving the chocolaty goodness." She winked at them and then grabbed a measuring cup. "So first you're going to add some water and bring it to a simmer..." And since the stove was high tech, it didn't take long to get there. "So now you add this cocoa powder, whisk it in so there's no more lumps, and then add some milk... bring it back up to a simmer, and..." she reached in more ingredients. "Add in the semi-sweet chocolate chips and sugar, and then whisk it until everything is all smoothed out and the chocolate is melted..." After a few moments, she grabbed some mugs. "And tadaaaa... Aunt Anja's Hot Chocolate."

She poured some for everyone one and then topped it off with cool whip, dusting each mug with chocolate powder. "There you go, hot chocolate." She turned to Take and smiled at him, her mind still trying to wake up from a rough night's sleep. "Thank you for letting me crash on the couch last night. And I would love some pancakes." She patted him on the head and then scooped up her blanket and heartless plushy while holding the mug of hot chocolate in the other. She passed Tinarah and saw the girl looked off. Nevertheless, Aria gave her a smile and touched her forehead on Tinarah's shoulder as a greeting. "Good morning, friend." And then she shuffled back to the living room, sitting back down with a groan and pulled the blankets back over her. Only her face and hands were poking out by the time she was done wrapping herself up and then she held the mug in her hands, simply smelling the hot chocolate.

Aria was unusually quiet this morning, her mind swimming with what happened yesterday and how close she came to dying. She was also feeling a little homesick. The hot chocolate brought her back to the kitchen back on her aunt and uncle's farm on Amerath, but she wished she could talk to them and be with them at the moment. Many people told her this wasn't going to be easy, but moments like these were hard to process and swallow promptly.

 

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Take took a step back and watched as Aria attempted to repair the damage of his burned hot chocolate. It knocked a bit of his pride needing to have his mess cleaned up but he took it as a learning experience so he could handle it again. He wasn't sure exactly how they would make cocoa with the cocoa powder so Take decided to just swipe Edna's can of cocoa powder. She wouldn't know necessarily. As he took a sip of cocoa he said, "Thank you, Aria. I won't mess it up next time."

He began making pancakes pretty quickly after that, having better luck with chocolate chip pancakes at this rate. As he worked on them he looked over at Torrin and said, "Were you trying to ask me something earlier, Torrin?" he shifted over and managed a pretty stellar pancake flip and just made a quick 'yus' motion with his arm before going back to normal with his cooking.
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Illiana took another sip of wine as Torrin chimed in on the conversation. "Even if it doesn't get you drunk, I don't recommend taking anything that could affect your mind during a war." She sighed a little bit before putting her glass down on the counter. She turned to Torrin before speaking. "Is that concern I hear? Aww you guys do care. I feel so blessed." A joking tone came out of her voice as she smiled. She paused before continuing. "As nice as your concern is, don't worry. You just do whatever Torris do and don't worry your little head. I'm not that stupid. I'll be heading to the rooftop for a bit after breakfast so it should be fine. It's not like I'm taking shots as we're going into battle." She turned herself back to the table to take another sip of wine. Besides....as long as it makes me forget earlier events, I'll drink the wine. Illiana took another sip of wine before placing back on the table.

 

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The black haired boy listened to what Torrin described at a low voice as he finished cooking up the pancake, he flipped the pan over so it landed nicely onto a place and he pushed it out towards Illiana saying, "Chocolate chip pancake for you, wine-o."

He poured in more mix and looked in the fridge and pulled out some bacon strips and started cooking it in with the pancake at first. He seemed more focused on cooking first before responding, "Fluffs. That's what we called them. I've heard of 'em, but I've never seen one." he started another pancake on the pan as he continued at a low volume, "We were told if we saw any of them to leave them be since fighting them would cause more trouble than they would leaving them be, since they'd be happy to decimate the village in self defense. But there hadn't been one logged in years on my world."

Take stared at the pancake for a little bit before saying, "My brother Iwao was obsessed with Fluffs actually. He used to draw them and hide them in his room. I think he once said if he ever saw one he'd drop everything and try to jump on one and fly off to wherever he took them..." he flipped the pancake when it was time and Take looked a bit sad as he thought about his brother for a bit, then he straightened himself up and sighed, "It's just another dragon though. Probably would have roasted him alive if he did it. Doesn't matter now."

He looked over at Torrin and asked louder, "Would you also like a chocolate chip pancake?"
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Chrono had made his way over to one of the available chairs and sat down. Being able to smell both the chocolate and the pancakes roused him from his sleep like state just a bit. Enough for him to chime in with a "I could go for some pancakes as well." before adjusting himself further in his chair. Aria being a blanket burrito was something to see, but how quiet she was had confused him. If it was cause she was tired, then that was fair given that lingering nightmare of hers. Chrono still wanted to ask though. "You're unusually quiet. Something on your mind?"

 

Aria shuffled past him excused herself, Boreas simply cleared out of the way to let her pass and went back to eating. Illiana seemed to want to answer his question in a rather roundabout way adding things that didn't seem to answer his question at all. In the end it seemed to come down to drinking to forget? And alcohol waking her up? He was seriously questioning whether or not the girl had hit her head a bit hard when she fell the other day but remained silent on the matter. "I can't say that I agree with the sentiment of drinking to forget..." Boreas said between spoons of porridge that he was shoveling down. Torrin seemed rather concerned with the way Take had made the hot chocolate first time around, Boreas liked the stuff but Torrin really seemed to like it, the mention of sugar didn't bother him too much as Boreas hadn't had too much of it as Torrin had pointed out it was rare and as a lowly groundpounder he saw even less of it.

Torrin told him that he had found a more efficient way of training. "Somehow I doubt you found a better way to keep up your physical strength, but if you did please do enlighten me." Boreas said challenging Torrin. In those six years Torrin had been gone his training regime had intensified to ready him for the field of battle and even then the first time he set foot on it, he still felt unprepared. A lot had changed since then, not that it mattered too much now that he was away from home. He just laughed when Torrin said not to take anything that would alter the state of mind during a war. "When you still have to do battle and you are at the start of the day? No that doesn't sound like a good idea, but there are exceptions, Torrin." Boreas said, he wasn't going to elaborate on those cases. It was to remember fallen comrades and celebrate survival and victory, but he wasn't sure whether Torrin would understand what he meant, it had been a long time since the two of them were apart.

Aria was teaching them how to make the hot chocolate and Boreas watched from a distance and listened to the instructions, it couldn't hurt to know how to make the stuff. Take asked Torrin what he wanted to ask him and Boreas was reminded that at his entrance Torrin had cut off. With the two of them talking Boreas simply raised an eye brow and finished up his bowl of porridge. He was reminded that the other day Take had mentioned something about overhearing Thallasa and Torrin speak, were they on about that right now? Take wasn't stupid enough to admit he listened in on Torrin directly to his face. He felt a little left out of it but he wasn't the only one present. As he finished up his porridge he rinsed the bowl and excused himself as Torrin and Take talked about Flammies and Illiana was criticised for her drinking.

Boreas excused himself and left for his room and freshened himself up, taking a look at himself in the mirror, before leaving his room again smelling a lot better than he did before entering and made his way down the hallway, some of the bedroom doors were open, he simply knocked on the door of Master Thallasa's room. "Master Thallasa, I apologise if I woke you, but are you up? I have a request to make if it isn't too much trouble." Boreas said through the door, silently hoping he hadn't woken her up with his knocking.​

 

Chrys felt her hands clenching into fists as she heard about the council of lights. How could anyone do such a thing? Even in the event there really was something to all this 'balance,' there had to be a better way to maintain it than to actively ignore the safety of others and just let others die?

Of course, there might have been other ways to help Tinarah, but sending her to some dimension that no one knew about could just wind up putting her in more danger. What would they do if something happened to her? They wouldn't know until it was too late. It seemed to Chrys that getting her proper training was indeed a better solution... but what about what she had to face along the way? For that matter, was throwing her back into this war really all that better of an option in the end? She supposed it was Tinarah's call on that front. Shaking her head, Chrys put the thoughts out of her mind for now.

"I see... very well then. I have no more curiosities and am ready to begin.​

 

Qamar's night was pretty uneventful. Aria shook her head at her suggestion and eventually made her way to the living room, leaving Qamar in the room alone. "I don't want to be alone...don't leave me alone...." she begged Aria quietly as the girl left. Once the door was shut, Qamar turned over in the bed and curled up close to the edge. Tears were on her face as her eyes closed, sleep finally taking hold. Her dreams were rather bleak. She kept dreaming of hearing Adalric's last words and Master Aster being disappointed in Qamar along with her own Master. Every council member was there and she was left curled up on the ground. She thrashed and felt the darkness draining at her before she awoke on the floor, blankets and pillow having followed her. She looked around and felt some oddness in the darkness around. "Weird..." she murmured to herself.

Wiggling out of the covers, she stood up and made the bed up. Qamar turned and sat on the floor after stretching. She face the window and closed her eyes as sunlight was just peaking over the horizon. She was finally able to meditate and ended up deep into it. Although this was not a peaceful reprieve as her problems and troubles all started to come back at her, causing her to doubt herself. She had a hard time coming to terms with the fact his death was not her fault. But to her, his blood was on her hands. His blood was on her clothes. She couldn't even show her strength to one Light Chaser before she ended up losing her fellow student.

In her meditation, Qamar found herself asleep once more. The dream she had this time was nothing short of a nightmare as she found herself running through the Council's castle. Her footsteps echoed the halls as she reached the Council room. Inside, she found the keyblades of all but one left behind. Qamar's eyes grew wide as she ran out, knowing just where the final Master was. She approached the bedroom and forced the door open, seeing them laying on the floor in front of Dentro. She ran over and sliced at Dentro before he disappeared into nothingness, leaving her to fall to her knees and pull the Master into her arms. "Don't leave me. I don't want to be all alone again..." she begged the Master. A smiled drew across their face as they held Qamar's hand, whispering something she couldn't understand. They finally disappeared and she was left there, alone. Her face drenched with tears and her heart utterly broken. In front of her stood her Mother, now, staring sadly at Qamar. "Moon, calm down. There is no use crying. They aren't gone. They're always in your heart. The one you care for most is still out there,waiting on you. You lost one person who cared enough for you to sacrifice themselves for you. Do not let their sacrifice be in vain. Get up and walk forward. Show them, in your heart, you will keep living and keep strong for them. Just as you did for me, my moon." she spoke, a sad look coming to her face. "I hope to see you work and get over your helplessness. You are stronger than you know...."

Qamar's eyes shot open the moment she felt herself falling forward in the dream. She gasped and breathed heavily, confused by the dream. One thing was for certain, however. She was going to move on and remember Adalric for the brave one who sacrificed himself. Her hand rest upon her chest and she felt her heart warm. "Adalric...I'll miss you, but I can't keep moping..." she stood up and turned to her clothes, slipping them on until she was fully dressed. Save for her hairbow, she was ready to venture out. Looking around, she reached into her pocket and found a spare hair tie and comb. Qamar walked out of the room as she combed her hair, the ribbon in her lips. She emerged to Take fixing pancakes and the smell of chocolate filled the air.

It kind of upset Qamar that she was the last to rise, but she wasn't gonna let that bother her too much. Her eyes glanced around the room to see everyone active as ever. Deciding to take this slow, Qamar made her way first to Aria. She ruffle the girl's already tussled hair and she smiled. "This is revenge for last night." she said playfully, walking towards Illiana now, in time to see the wine on the counter. "Oh, wine? Didn't take you for the kind who drank. How's your side, doing? Did the bandages hold up well?" she asked, waiting for a reply before eventually making her way to Take and Torrin. She watched him make pancakes for a bit before she turned to see Tinarah all by her lonesome. "Take! I want one when you can make it, please!" she said, smiling at him. "Also, I totally think Torrin deserves one with lots of chips. Though, I gotta say, I..uh...haven't had a pancake in a long time...kinda hard to make them growing up...sugar wasn't really seen too much." she commented, scratching her cheek. "But then again, I didn't grow up with a lot of money either, so...."

Clasping her hands together, she nodded to herself. "I'll be right back." she said, scooching over to Tinarah. She leaned against the counter and stare at Tinarah doing dishes. "How goes it today?" she asked, tapping her finger against the counter. "Did you eat yet? Take's making some pancakes. Those are pretty filling and will help you get your strength back. Since you did a lot of healing yesterday, I think you need to recover as much as possible." she said, glancing at a plate of food sitting lonely. "Wait, did you...make food already?" she asked, tilting her head.​