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[Joe: Narnia: Train]

The male blinked up at the ceiling of the train, his eyes a little blurry from their extended closure. That's what he had to assume, considering he was laying on the floor of the lounge car, apparently having toppled over from the seat.

His left arm went over his eyes, rubbing a bit before just resting on them. And then his right hand, tightened into a fist, slammed into the floor of the train. Which did nothing but hurt his hand.

Well, it also gave him a little bit of something else to focus on instead of the rage at whatever it was he...they? Whatever it was that was experienced, it had lit another blaze of anger within him. He didn't like head games. He didn't like bullshit illusions like this. He didn't like someone ******** with him like this.

crackle...crack...

With his hand throbbing(along with general soreness and fatigue from fighting that didn't even happen, apparently, and yet his body still felt the strain), he finally shifted, sitting up and moving to lean his back against the seat he had once been sitting in.

His shoulders were squared, jaw locked into place for a moment. Then he started grinding his teeth for a few seconds before saying aloud "I'm so ******** done with this s**t." Then started taking a few calming breaths...which started making him feel a bit calmer, but also less strained, physically and magically.

{Bobbi .:. Narnia .:. Forsaken Hall >> Train .:. Dining Car}

With everything that had just happened, Bobbi was still wound tighter than a spring, and she almost did something she would regret when she felt Dawn’s arms around her. Her instinct was to retaliate, to attack, because something was restraining her—but no, this was Dawn, not restraining, alive and warm and talking and hugging oh god she needed that hug—

With a broken sob, Bobbi wrenched around in the Dancer’s arms and caught Dawn up in a tight embrace, burying her face in her friend’s shoulder as she began crying. As she clung and cried, she heard Kyle shouting from the front of the train, but she was too caught up in relief to get angry. Maybe in a minute, but being happy Dawn was here, was back, was safe, that was infinitely more important to her.

{Zell .:. Train .:. Engine}

With a loud snore followed by two and a half grunts, Zell sat up and wiped drool off of his chin. He looked around muzzily for a moment, until Cloud’s words actually penetrated the haze of sleep.

"Whu?" came the somewhat less than intelligent reply. With a stretch and a loud yawn, Zell shook himself into full wakefulness, and took back control of the train. "Right. Land. Gotcha. I can do that."

The conductor frowned as he scanned the ground, looking for a place to land the train. He frowned, seeing the abyss filled to the brim with Heartless, and the shards of crystal that were floating around aimlessly. Luckily, he did spot an area big enough, and long enough, to hold the train—the bridge leading from the moat to the castle itself. He aimed the train for it, and started the descent. Once he was sure he was on the right course and wouldn’t miss, he reached over to a speaker and announced throughout the entire train:

"We’re coming in for a landing, people. We should touch down in less than a minute. Everyone stock up on potions and ethers, and get ready to kick some serious a**!"

[LevDani:~:Narnia:~:Forsaken Hall ->Train]

Leviathan grinned in triumph as each attack soared and struck true against Louis. This was all going according to the plan. Both Leviathan and Dani watched as the room burst into light as everyone turned translucent and disappear into the sky. Leviathan felt the assassin’s body lift as the effect started to take hold. “This better have worked damn it.” The serpent spoke.

Even though she was not in control, Dani witnessed everything and suddenly she could see everything that had happened before they were stuck in the castle. To her, everything was moving too fast and it took her a second to finally understand what had transpired.

Leviathan finally realized what was going on and growled in frustration. “DID THAT WELP NOT DIE?!” He shouted out loud as he moved the assassin back and forth through the train. He looked at all of the earthlings and sighed. “When I see that stupid WELP again he will be lucky if I don’t flood his innards with the sea.” Just thinking about it caused small drips of water to drop from the assassin’s fingertips.

“Leviathan!” Dani shouted in her mind to the summon, “The one thing that is still the same is that you are still in control and I am still in here! Don’t go too crazy! I think we need to go back again and deal with the castle as sad as that sounds.”

“It looks like we have to go back… again.” Leviathan growled as he turned to the castle. “This needs to be dealt with and that WELP needs to be dragged into the deepest part of the sea to die.”

[Joe: Narnia: Train; Lounge]

The monk, finished breathing, slowly stood up. The throbbing in his hand(after hitting it against the ground once more), along with the moment of breathing, gave him time to clear his head. Oh, he was still angry, still overwhelmed, but the throbbing of his hand gave him better focus on what was right in front of him, instead of what was getting bottled up inside of him.

"Alright, everyone. This sucks. Horribly. But it's not over yet, and we aren't out of the woods. Seems like we're running a marathon, but we're closer to it being over. The train should still be stocked like normal, so heal up with the potions and ethers. Take a moment to recuperate before we head back in." He spoke aloud, being in the lounge, with so many people around. However, he also said it through the charms for those that weren't there.

Kyle was a bit too far gone in his anger(not that Joe could blame him) for it to be good to send him calming thoughts. The leader assumed he'd calm down on his own in a bit, and would deal with it if it became too long. Instead, he focused on the other Joe.

"Honestly? I have no idea. This is way beyond anything I've come across. Both while in this world and all the media at home." The male shrugged at the end. He honestly wasn't sure. And unless someone did know, they'd definitely be going in blind.

Of course, there was one thing that was...fairly blatant that was bothering him.

"You." He pointed, very directly, at Dani. Well, her body, at least. "I'm going to assume that, unless Dani is suddenly dealing with a split-personality, you're Leviathan. You need to reel it back, and bring Dani back out. We've had enough trouble with summons taking control, and I'm not dealing with a pissed off water snake in the middle of all this bullshit." His voice was curt, some what cold and sounding more than a little angry thanks to his jaw being somewhat stiff as he tried not to grind his teeth.

Frankly, he was assuming a lot, and just running his mouth off. After all, how many summons had actually be in control when dealing with enemies? He didn't know. He just knew he didn't want to deal with the summons when he was already trying to deal with everything else, and he was pretty sure Dani didn't normally call everyone 'Whelps'. or threaten drownings.

[Amy : Narnia : Train : Lounge]

Amy was sitting next to Joseph. His laughter was very fitting to the situation, and summed up her thoughts on the matter as well. She looked over to Kyle's Louis shard, now in the form of Louis himself. She reached over and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, not even considering he might not be physically present.

"What the hell was that?" she demanded. Dani, or Leviathan, was responding to Joe, but Amy continued on as if their conversation wasn't taking place. "Will it happen again?" She shook him by the collar. "Will it happen again?" She stared at him, unblinking, jaw clinched, awaiting his answer.

{James : Narnia : Train : Lounge -> Dining Car}

James felt like he knew what it was like to experience a Code: Lyoko style return to the past as in a bright wash of light and visions of all that had happened since the train crashed flashed through his memory. He could feel it all again the pain and the anger and before he knew it he groggily opened his eyes to find they were back in the train. He was sitting exactly where he had been in the Lounge Car before they had gotten shot out of the sky. He kept his thoughts to himself as he listened to the hysteria, rage, confusion? All of the emotions that surrounded what they had gone through only to find that just like the ball none of it had been real. That they had been within his heart this entire time. He hadn’t actually killed anybody. The corsair looked around the room, seeing everyone who he had thought was dead Jenny, Leon, Auron, Axel, Sora…,all of them were fine. Which meant Dawn should be as well.

James stood up and took stock of how he felt. Physically he felt fine, though perhaps a bit tired. Emotionally, he wasn’t sure, too many feelings rushed through his head. Mana, not low but definitely not at peak condition either. He pulled an ether out of his pocket and downed it as he walked out of the Lounge Car right as Joe started getting an attitude towards Leviathan and headed to the Dining Car. On his way through the corridor he spotted Kyla walking towards the car he had just come from and gave her a small, though rather forced, reassuring smile before continuing on into the next car just as she moved on herself. There he saw Mizu and Dawn, hugging. An emotional sight and without thought, much as he would with any of the rest of the family when he had the opportunity he made his way over to the two of them and from the side wrapped his arms around both of them. Those two were his oldest friends who were still fighting and he was just glad that they were both still safe.

”I am so glad that you are still here Dawn,” He stated trying to fight back tears of his own. Whether the two of them let him into their hug or not, he didn’t care. To embrace them both felt really good and it was something that the corsair needed right now.

[[Justice & Innocence : Narnia : Train - Lounge]]

"Thank you," Justice corrected his collar and rubbed the skin beneath, "I'm not sure how much time we have but I'll explain what I can quickly. I'll start with when we arrived. After passing through the storm cloud, the first thing Innocence, the boy to thank for your wrist, and I noticed was a return of our memories... or at least some of them."

The boy with the halo leaned back against a chair and thought for a moment, "We, as you've already figured out for yourselves, are shards of Louis- pieces of his heart and fractured personality. I... am the representation of Louis' sense of justice, the righteous side of him that demands fairness be upheld with an iron fist."

"And I'm his Innocence, the part of him that sees the good in people, the impish trickster that jokes and plays games. The inner child, so-to-speak," the young man threw his arms up into the air cheerfully.

"There's one other as you know, the one currently residing in Kyla. He wore himself out in the last battle supporting you. He's known as Esteem. He is the embodiment of his self-esteem as well as his value in others well being. He's the quickest of us all to put himself in harms way to protect someone he cares about, as the value he sees in his own safety in comparison has always been skewed."

"Justice, TMI, skip to her question."

The boy with the halo sighed, "Long story short, I don't think you'll be falling into any more illusions any time soon."

"Too short," Innocence reprimanded him again while sticking his tongue out playfully but Justice didn't appear to care, he just held his heated glare on Amy.