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[[Vain]]

"Death out of a Father's Pride"

___[Traverse Town .:. Mystical House]

"Well, no. I only just came to this world myself and I was in search of someone who might be able to explain this:" Vain held forth his right arm, revealing the purple and black markings on it. "I was touched by some sort of darkness not too long ago, and it did this to my hand. And when I touch my weapon with it..." The young man reached back and grabbed the hilt of the Revblade, the eye opening up and focusing on Merlin and Mina.

"Hello, denizens. Pleasure to meet you."

"Mercy out of a Father's Cry."

[*~Youni~*]"...."


[First district> Alleyway> on route to Hefins House]

....Everything started with nothing.

and things moved with no sense ....

.... the presence of many buffering against it

.... imprinting what was missing.

"Now be careful student," he had told her, "watch your steps, avoid any dangers you reconize, and go straight to Aerith at Hefins house. Understood?"

"...." she nodded. "You're supposed to say, "Yes sir, or Yes Leon."

"...why?" she had asked him. "Because you are a student of mine, and it's polight to respond, so I am assured you understood my instructions. So... Understood?"

"..yes sir-Leon."

"Umm.. that's good enough. Run along now- wait! No- I meant walk, walk quickly."

And so was the basic routine they kept as the days went by, since her arrival not too long ago. Yet seeing her now- it felt like a whole other life time. From the moment Aerith found this quiet ghostly stranger with not distinguishing features, up to this point where this stranger finally was deemed a name.

It was something incredable to watch at times. How much she had changed.. the contrast was striking now. The local inhabitence no longer feared her at least. She- yes.. finally it became a she. Perhaps from being cared for by Aerith, visited by Yuffie, this being was exposed enough to finally fix to their gender. Good thing- there was no guessing how long He and Cid would have handled the confusion for much longer.
One day she'd be as androgynous as ever- the next she had a complete female form again!
It was only 1 month ago did Aerith walk in on the being changing and saw the physical state had not changed the next day-

As the gunblader had watched the girl leave, his heart would always felt concerned. Her survival was always a question.
"Be careful..."

And once again- the warriors blessing was heard. Once again fate seemed to be kind, and her path was undeterred. She passed behind the alleys, following the route she had been shown by previous visits, and find Hefins House behind the shops in the first district. Her trinkets chiming as she went along her way.
When she arrived, Youni would lift a pale hand and knock on the door. Exactly 3 times. Always 3 times, because thats how many times she saw Aerith do it.
Wait... exactly 5 seconds. " Aerith? I am here."

"Oh, good evening Youni," the young woman said, slowly opening the door with that warm smile she gave everyone. Moving aside to let the young woman in, Aerith scanned her appearance, checking to make sure that she was, in fact, still in the same form. Indeed, the young woman was still, in fact, a woman, but she still seemed hollow, empty.

"I suppose Leon sent you over," she stated calmly, looking outside beyond her with a somewhat worried glance before closing the door after Youni entered. There had been a few minor tremors... Leon probably sent her over so he could go check things out. "Don't be too loud, okay? Athene just fell asleep a few moments ago, so we don't want to wake her up."

The Ronso smiled as he walked into the light and slowly walked up the stairs. Right in front of him neon lights were lit up, telling him that the building was a hotel. Xifan looked back and forth before jumping onto the ledge above the door and looked back and forth for the little girl hiding from him.

Where is she hiding? he wondered to himself. His tiny companion was his responsibility. And even though she was a pain in the arse, he was all she had since he'd been banished from the tribe. He was lucky to escape with his horn still entact. And now he was on some strange world.

Really it didn't matter though, as long as he protected the little girl. But it was kind of hard to even protect her when hide and seek was her favorite game.

Just then Xifan spotted a small tail lying on the groun near a corner. He smiled as he jumped down and bolted towards the tail.

[Ⱥɬѳɣȿɩʋϛ]
"Let us try this one last time. My name is Aloysius…A-lo-see-us"

[Traverse Town :: First District]

Aloysius watched as a girl ran nearby him and manipulated the water into a bird for an impressive attack against the heartless.

Completely forgetting about the two heartless, the Kuluu stared at the fellow Geomancer with confusion. Another person with this strange ability. But she didn't seem as empty as he did, just a normal girl.

More than anything, Aloysius wished he was born with the ability to read minds like his brother. That would be more than helpful at the moment.

Aloysius took a few steps closer to the girl (Suzu} and looked out towards the heartless and the small crack in the ground that his previous attack had caused.

With the constant crunching of glass under his boots, a male in black leather quickly ran through the First District, angered by the destruction that had taken place. Of all the times for there to be a large-scale attack on the town, it was the time Yuffie and himself had decided to go training in the sewers. Cid had contacted him from the Accessory Shop, which he'd locked down entirely from the inside with a number of innocent bystanders within. The Accessory Shop had been specially designed as a safehouse in case of an attack on the First District, luckily enough, so they would be safe.

As the Gunblade-wielder turned a corner, he spotted even more calamity. A strange light-green fluid was slowly draining from the Lower Courtyard; the Diner was utterly destroyed; there were tears along the ground; and in the center, surrounded by fighters, was a duo of large, dangerous looking Heartless.

And then they began to fuse. Still up by the Accessory Shop (and thus, out of range of the Heartless), the man knew he had to take action.

With quick precision, Squall Leonheart lifted his faithful blade and let loose a small Fire Shot at the Heartless; specifically, he shot the blade that was attempting to attack a smaller woman; he hoped to deflect the attack with the bullet.

[∫ ʋ ʓ ʋ ʁ ᾲ ɳ]
{You look like you fell down a tree and hit every possible branch on the way down.}

[Traverse Town :: First District]

"He's rather nasty looking." The geomancer commented to herself, not too pleased by the joining of the two heartless. She could've sworn the people left them alone, the First District was pretty much decimated and they still left behind Heartless to whack them around some more. Grief. A blade launched towards her and Suzu raised her scythe to deflect it, only to have something else knock it aside. A projectile, bullet of some sort. There was a new person in the Courtyard, wielding staffs but she knew he couldn't possibly have launched the projectile.

Suzu sidestepped, before leaping up to bring her scythe in a half-moon. Water materialized from the edge of her blade, sending it to crash into the heartless.