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[Amy : Beach]

Amy's face showed her confusion and distrust. He seemed sincere, which struck her as a little more than odd, considering last time she had seem him he had torn her arms up and nearly killed her. Her eyes widened at this last thought, reality bearing in on her and revealing to her the foolishness of current actions; she took a step back, and glanced down at Azrael's warning just in time to miss stepping on a snake. She couldn't help jumping and letting out a small yell, which she immediately felt foolish for.

Embarrassed, she couldn't bring herself to make eye contact. His question, however, broke that feeling, and she looked at him with poorly disguised incredulity. She opened her mouth, closed it, inadvertently looked at his well defined arms, from there to his chest, blinked, looked away.

"I think I'll pass," she said, and headed to the waves.

[Azrael: Hawaii: Beach]

The replica chuckled, arms going up behind his head and sunglasses going back down over his eyes. "Suit yourself, short stuff. No skin off my back." Wonderful. Now maybe he could finally get some rest again. At least the sun was a nice warmth. He could really get used to this. Maybe take one of the abandoned homes in Angel Grove or something.

[Alice :: Flying Dutchman :: Above Deck]

"Yes, just as you have one of the zodiac espers," Alice chimed, her auburn eyes fixed themselves Laan's eye, the eye that held the command seal for Death. She vaguely heard CuChulainn mumble something in her head but she was hardly listening. She was already throwing together calculations into her head. She wanted to ask him questions, but she held her tongue, preferring to stay silent and observe.

She leaned on the rail once more, a faint smile that held no warmth graced up her lips. "We're the anomalies here~"

[ Kyle ; Sora : Caribbean : Pearl's Lower Decks ]

"That's a good point, Louis. Up until now, though, we haven't really needed to split up," he explained, nodding. "But that's why I was hoping, when we did go under, that someone would stay. We need at least one Earthling up here to relay any messages. So he fact that Dawn and Anthony are staying definitely helps that out."

"Anyway, I thiiiiink that covers everything except additional questions. Ajora and the charms, the plans when we reach Shipwreck Cove...," he searched his brain. Did they talk about anything else? He was really horrible at remembering conversation points. "If there're no more questions, I think that's it."

Jacob ll Black Pearl

"Nah. I think I'm good with the questions. Time to go do other fun stuff for what....three hours?" Jacob half chuckled, half scoffed as he left. He whistled a piratey sounding shanty, gently letting the awkward warbling pass through his lips. It was horribly out of tune, but that gave it chutzpah. He gave an oblivious nod off to Auron, Barbossa, and Dawn and he scrabbled up to his chilly, but comfortable seat in the clouds; he somehow ignored Michelle, the yelling and the rope hoisting maneuvers on the side of the boat.

{Bobbi Demyx .:. Hawaii .:. Beach}

"No way, sweetheart!" Demyx chortled as Kyla thrashed. "No replica or whatever you called that dude is going to make you miss the fun! In you go~"

As the Melodious Nocturne had waded out far enough to make himself happy, instead of tossing Kyla into the waves like Jon had tossed Amy, he instead clutched Kyla a little closer and ducked both of them into the next incoming wave.

When the wave had finished breaking and they came up, Demyx grinned at Kyla, his blonde hair plastered to his scalp and dripping salt water.

"I wouldn't mind seeing you naked, by the way ♥," he added. You could just hear the little heart at the end of the sentence, too.

Bobbi wasn't sure what to make of Joe's replica being there. He didn't seem intent on mayhem, but when she realized just who he was, she felt a chill creep down her spine. And then she saw the snakes.

The Archer blanched at the sight of them, and her entire posture went completely rigid, so much so it was difficult to tell she was even breathing. It was bad enough when she saw a stupid little Garter, or when she thought she heard something like a snake slithering anywhere near her, but seeing those hideous monstrosities without even the fortifying bullet-proof glass of the zoo between her and them was a little more than her phobia could handle, and she blanked for a moment. Whatever it was that brought her back, either Kyla's shriek as Demyx sent her under, or Amy turning her back on the replica walking away, she was grateful it did.

Bobbi shuddered and turned away, not responding at all to the replica. She grabbed Dani's hand and pulled her along to the other side of the beach, angling towards the water.

"L-let's swim," she said, voice trembling.

[Dawn : Black Pearl : Upper Deck]

After Michelle has been safely pulled on board, Dawn pushed her way past Auron and the pirates, and gave Michelle a the largest hug she could, without knocking her over or into the sea once more. She buried her face into Michelle's shoulder and clung to her as tightly as she could. It felt so good to hold her in her arms. Though she was trying her hardest to hold them back, tears were starting to come down her face.

"I am sorry guys for the panic, but Michelle. She is here..." Dawn said over the charms to everyone on the King's Quest, including James.

[ Ajora ; James : Castle Oblivion : Outside -> ???]

Ajora had remained in his position of meditation for some time after he had achieved it. The balance, he noted, was delicate. For a being of such intense Darkness as himself, manipulating energies of Light was more straining, especially when using the Darkness at the same time. Of course, as the Darkness was essentially his entire composition, this strain would likely always be there- so he would need to maintain balance in order to use it.

The spheres of Light and Darkness remained orbiting him at high speeds, never connecting, never even so much as grazing each other. He had an idea what might happen if the two energies made contact (it wasn't too difficult to fathom, really), but as he was still a neophyte (relatively speaking), he wouldn't test his hypothesis-

"MAN OVERBOARD!"

One of Ajora's eyes shot open while the other twitched lightly in pain at the sudden yelling brought on by his connection to James and, by association, his connection to the charms. In that moment, his concentration faltered; the balance broken, one of the Starlights went just a hair off course, just barely scraping a Void Sphere-

And without warning, the two energies reacted as if they were matter and antimatter, causing an explosion that was noticeably more powerful than if just one or another had gone off due to both being strengthened in the presence of the other.

This happened three times in quick succession... and Ajora was in the center, close at hand.

DARKNESS. LIGHT. IT BURNS.

Once the dust cleared, he could be see, his clothing burnt with spots missing, face still stuck in that twitching position. His very skin looked charred, very much as if he'd gone through a building demolition. The Darkness was slowly mending his clothing and flesh, made all the faster by the sudden burst of rage he felt at being interrupted. A pure, unfiltered rage that Dawn herself would experience. Once again, she would feel it as if it were her own, but she would have no reasoning, though it would die off within moments.

As he immediately rose, ready to take his fury out on the world around him (maybe even James?), an intense aura of Darkness surrounded him, filled by his unbridled anger. He reached one hand out, a Void Sphere forming- only for Dawn's voice to once again filter through, and this time with information that could prove valuable.

"I am sorry guys for the panic, but Michelle. She is here..."

The aura vanished, the Void Sphere diminished before disappearing all-together, and the look of fury faded away into a neutral look... followed by a smirk at James.

"Well, well. I forgot you had a blushing bride."

Chuckling somewhat, he managed a sigh, calming himself before opening a portal. He'd achieved what he needed for the time being. He had plenty of time to practice later; for now, he wanted to figure out more on these Charms...

And how I can use them more to my advantage, obviously.