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[Dawn : Black Pearl : Pearl's Lower Decks]

Dawn continued listening into the conversation, her attention span still going in and out. She held her left arm with her right hand as she tapped the heel of her foot against the hard wood floor. She was waiting for her moment to ask Kyle, but two things were stopping for her. One, the others were around, asking their questions, she didn't want to be rude and interrupt. Second, Dawn was still seeing Ajora whenever she looked at Kyle.

~'What the heck, Sunlight. You are so annoying. Why do you got to be like this at times? He has just asked for other questions. I am sure this counts as a good time for a subject change.'~

'But Garuda...'

~'Don't but me! Just ask already! If you don't I will do so myself.~'

Dawn blinked slightly. Was Garuda serious? How would she even manage that without...

~'You don't want to test it, do you?'~

"Uh, Kyle...." Dawn finally managed to say, her eyes looking down at her feet as she rubbed the back of her left hand, "I have something I need to ask you about. I..." she paused a moment unsure of how to word what she was going to say, "...on my hand..."

She couldn't say anymore after her last statement came out in not even a whisper. Even Anthony, who was the closest to her, would of had trouble understanding what she said. Dawn closed her eyes as she shook her head. All while she held her left hand close to her chest.

[Anthony ~.~ The Black Pearl ~.~ The Brig]

Anthony wasn't totally satisfied with Kyle's answer. He was hoping for something more end game, rather than immediate. Not only that, but other than warning Atlantis of the Replica's oncoming attack there really wasn't any other way of stopping them... not yet at least. However, the information received was better than nothing. If this was all they had to go off of, they'd better make the best of it.

The warrior-knight couldn't help but laugh at Sayrike's impersonation of Yoda--which wasn't bad at all. Though her suggestion was clever, Anthony was more fearful than impressed of who might have been listening in.

His attention was then diverted to Dawn as she spoke up and called for Kyle. He half smiled as she tried to ask the spear-wielder a question, but shied away near the end, speaking so low that even he couldn't hear her and he was standing right beside her. Though, just like before, her body language made it obvious what she wanted to ask. Her meekness reminded him of his high school friends who were too shy to ask the teacher a question out of fear of being ridiculed and would ask the boy to ask the instructor on their behalf.

Anthony carefully, making sure not to touch Dawn anywhere inappropriate, grabbed the girl's left hand and pulled it away from her chest and out in front of her, then said, "She wants to know what's wrong with her hand."

[Dawn : Caribbean : Pearl's Lower Decks]

Dawn struggled a few moments against Anthony's grasp, freeing her wrist quickly from his hold. She held it against her chest and took a few moments to give a sharp look at Anthony. Why did he always have to interfere? First, on the Dutchman, dragging her back when she wanted to stay. Now he was getting Kyle's attention on what was bothering her. Dawn's eyes soon drifted away from Anthony to Kyle, as he approached. Her eyes soon looked away, as she rubbed her the back of her hand a little.

"Okay," she said in a soft voice with a little nod, as she started to remove the glove. As she took off her glove, the symbol that had been placed on her hand was reveled. She kept her eyes down, away from Kyle's and the glaze of the others in the room.

[ Kyle : Caribbean : Pearl's Lower Decks ]

The moment Kyle's eyes fell on the symbol, he let loose a rather foul curse under his breath, namely one about an unseemly action done with someone's mother. His eyes narrowed as he analyzed the way it was seared into her flesh, looking like a black tattoo.

"That... is Ultima's Command Seal. If my guess is right, and considering she's my summon as much as his, it's essentially a piece of her magic," he explained, lifting his hand to take a look at it, only to pull it back and wrap it around his chest awkwardly. "And as her summoner, he has control over her magic..."

"Ajora wasn't threatening you when he said you'd be next," Kyle said, looking up to Dawn apologetically- as if he were giving news of some fatal disease. Of course, it all made sense now... "He was giving you fair warning."

◊❖❖======₪ [Kyla: Hawaiian Village]₪======❖❖◊
Kyla finished one house, and after accepting the thanks of the residence, continued onto the next one. This one wasn’t so badly damaged, but the roof of the drive way had fallen in on their car which looked like a pancake of glass and fuel. Thankfully no one was stupid enough to light a match but they kept clear. Kyla decided this one was too dangerous to leave to be second or third.

As she began to sketch the image of a repaired garage and car- she felt a poke.
Looking down she couldn’t fight the tiny squeak escaping her mouth when she saw those adorable eyes looking up at her! Sure he had the power to lift a building and toss it, and during the first period of his life he was a chaotic monster… but he was STITCH!

Kyla’s face broke into a gleeful grin and she nodded.
“Sure-! Since your pretty tough- do you smell any fire that could set that car off?” she asked.

At closer inspection she could see a second car that was turned over. “It would save me energy if you could turn them up the right way actually.”
“If there are any major structures fallen over- yet still whole, you can move them into place for me to seal back, and it would save a lot of energy for me moving them myself.”

She took a breath, she felt pretty good still, and there were still more things to reconstruct- then maybe a break? At the beach! Oh that would be ideal, but that’s assuming they didn’t have a battle to win. As much as she longed to just see the ocean and dip her toes into the waves- she couldn’t hang around while Ivan ooze or anyone else for that matter attacked another town.

{Kuro Oni : Caribbean Sea : Dutchman Outside Captain's Quarters}

Kuro Oni paused in his steps as he heard Laan's reply. His head turning slightly as if about to stare daggers at the Death Seraph, he could definitely see his original in this boy, a fact that made the Nightmare Dreadnought's lip twist upward in disgust though Laan wouldn't see it. One hand clenching into a tight fist as he contemplated how to reply.

"I see, like your original, you think you know everything about me and my powers. Yet you know nothing about me, I was just giving you the same warning I gave to everybody else. Get in my way, and I will kill you." He replied coldly.

He then continued walking in to the Captain's Quarters without another word to the two of them.

{Leon : Hawaii: Village - > Outskirts}

Leon heard the footsteps coming up behind him, the familiar stride and weight confirming it was Cloud before he even heard him speak. He hmphed slightly in amusement at the blonde's remark, a small grin on his face as they continued to walk further away from the group. He stopped when they reached the outskirts of the town. He leaned his back against one of the nearby palm trees, crossing his arms over his chest, his gunblade stuck in the soft sand.

"So these kids... what do you think of them?" He asked the Buster wielder, his eyes closed as he relaxed against the tree.

[Cloud : Hawaii : Village -> Outskirts]

Leon's question evoked a memory of the Kurt Zisa battle. In less than a second the images flashed through his mind, moving in an order reverse to how they had occurred, and stopping at one in particular. Amy shooting the final blow, Kyla casting the glyph, walls of fire, tornadoes. . . it slowed down on Jon's face, the one that most called Kichi.

"Go."

The memory shifted to another. The fireworks yard, a glob of darkness taking form. The Red Rose, a hand held out. Alan's hand. The vividness of the memories faded, and Cloud saw (or rather, remembered) black.

"...until you find your own light, you can always borrow mine."

"They remind me of someone," Cloud answered.

"I'll help you fight him if...when he comes back."

Leon had no way of knowing what Cloud was thinking, and Cloud, not wanting the spot light on him, as it were, (especially considering Leon had something on his mind) turned the question right back to Leon. "What do you think of them?"

((Muhahaha, we get to see how crappy my posts are when I'm sick and drugged out of my miiiiiiiiiind~ n_n))

{Bobbi, Demyx .:. Hawaii .:. Village Center}

Bobbi looked around at the destruction of the town, taking in what the villagers and her companions were saying. She wasn't liking the looks of this, but then again, she wasn't liking most of what was happening in this adventure anyway.

"Doooood, yeah, the beach, man! Hot babes in swim suits, cold drink, the sun, the sand, the surf... I vote we all go there and just cool off for a bit!"

I vote you stop being an imbecile, Bobbi thought, but kept her mouth shut tight on the words. She had no idea what everyone else went through since the main group had been split in two. For all she knew, they desperately needed a beach vacation right about now. Instead of making any scathing remarks, though, she walked up to the group talking to the villager, and decided to add her own two cents.

"I really hate saying I don't know what you guys are talking about," the Archer said, "but I don't know what you guys are talking about. Still, though, lemme see if I have things straight. We have space pirates running amok, the Galactic Federation or whatever they're called that Stitch came from is helping the villagers here, and something wonky is going on in the city we just left. I dunno whose side Axel was on in the first place, but I do know that Yuffie isn't one of the bad guys here, and yet she was still attacking us, so something is royally effing with her mind or something. And did I hear someone say something about Ivan Ooze? Isn't he that guy that controls people's minds with purple snot? And that girl who came in near the end and started blasting us to pieces looked an awful lot like Terra..."

After ticking off the points on her fingers (and running out of fingers on one hand and switching to the other), Bobbi looked around at everyone.

"I know I missed a lot since I stayed with the train when we all split off, and I kind of went out of commission for about a day," she admitted. "I don't know what I'm missing here, but I know it ties in with everything else that happened lately. And guys, there's another thing. Mickey didn't just up and disappear. He's gathering armies. We're at war, you guys."