First Flower

[gimmiemyflower]

I'm not sure if this'll work, but...I'll just speak out to anyone here that's listening. If you can hear me, please respond!

And if you can respond, please tell me who you are and what's the last thing you remember?

This is Kairi, and the last thing I remember was the seven of us were all fighting against Xehanort. We...weren't doing as well as we'd hoped, and the worlds were falling apart...then I remember a whole lot of darkness, and then I was here.

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[memoryreprieved]

[ Well, isn't that a familiar... voice? In her head...? That's odd... And a little invasive and perhaps she would have cut things out right then, but that soprano is definitely the sound of... and it's, well. Nearly identical to her own. Perhaps a slight bit older, but... ]

Kairi..

[ She thinks it before she really... realizes she does. But then her focus shifts, the "tone" of her thoughts becoming more distinct. ]

The last thing I remember- is fighting the Organization. Only they weren't..? But you're right- they were being led by Xehanort. I'm not sure why I forgot. [ Actually, it's kind of disconcerting that she would have to be reminded like this. ]

[keepingthebeat]

[Well, that's certainly an odd thing to have popping into their heads. But given the whole place is strange, maybe it's just par for the course.

Of course, even mind to mind they still answer the only way they know how - it's not words Kairi gets back, but music. Music that seems to tell a story. The last they'd seen was the bright light of the portal fading away and then... darkness.]

[afterthemoon]

I...

[He starts saying something, but clams up. Not sure if he should even be talking to Kairi.]

[notquiteanobody]

[ Roxas can't help but to grumble a little. He'd been fine with people he knew couldn't talk doing this talking directly into his head trick, he was less fine with people he knew could speak just fine doing this. It reminded him far too much of his time in the simulated Twilight Town... DiZ really knew how to mangle whatever he had for a heart.

It takes a moment, but a jog of his memories remind him of the voice's owner. And while he's still not thrilled with the whole of all of it, he at opts that Kairi didn't know what tends to get on his nerves.

Remembering how he spoke to the small platypus, he tries thinking really 'loudly' to pass along his thoughts]

I can't remember if I made it over to that fight... I think I was still on the way with my friends when the darkness came.

I don't think I was there because when I woke up here, my first thought was complaining that Sora didn't wait for us.

[figment_of_imagination]

[Darkness. Yes, that was familiar. Figment doesn't find the whole voice-in-the-head all that peculiar, though he has to take a few minutes to stop trying to look around to find the source. Still, Figment doesn't answer right away. He knows part of his answer, of course, but the rest... Well. He wants to give the nice sounding girl the truest response that he can!]

Hi there! [he's transferring along at last] I'm Figment! I was collecting ideas! Fishes and seashells, swimming in the sand! But then it got very dark, yes. So very, very dark. [If he tries to put a real location to where he was though, it's still just a blur. He doesn't let it bother him.]

[gimmiemyflower]

[It's pretty weird hearing what sounds a lot like her own voice back in her head as well. It's just different enough to distinguish it, though...and also just distinct enough to know it's not Namine.]

Xion...

[But she sounds even more unsure than she does.] You forgot that battle?

[gimmiemyflower]

[That almost sounds like someone, but she can't tell who.]

...What?

[gimmiemyflower]

[This was not at all a response she'd been expecting. Kairi is confused by it for a moment, almost wondering if the music is coming from somewhere else, only to finally realize that it's someone. And strangely, she can still understand what it means.]

What sort of portal? And...who are you?

[gimmiemyflower]

[Kairi doesn't recognize the person at all, but there's something about him that sounds kind and childlike. She had thought this darkness just affected the people she knew, but it seems like it went way beyond that.]

Hi, Figment. What were you collecting ideas for?

You didn't see what brought the darkness or anything?

[blitzdream]

[ What the? ]

Whoa! Kairi!?

[ Guess he shouldn't be surprised to know she's around here, too. But... he hadn't exactly expected to hear her out of the blue like that. That's a little bit weird. But... really no weirder than what Riku just explained to him not too long ago, admittedly. ]

[afterthemoon]

There was light... not darkness.

[gimmiemyflower]

Okay...it feels like a lot of us are around that same point.

[If she didn't know before that this sort of thing got on his nerves, she has an idea of it now, and feels pretty bad about it.]

Um, I'm really sorry if this surprised you...I was just trying to reach everyone.

[memoryreprieved]

When I first woke up here... but things are coming back now. [ Which she is okay with. The last thing she needs is another thing she doesn't know slapping her in the face later, okay? But right now, she's struggling along to keep her thoughts settled and forward. ]

Me and Roxas... I remember we were on the islands. And Axel had split off from us. But then something happened and we were swallowed up by the darkness. I guess... everyone was.

[gimmiemyflower]

[Kairi does recognize that voice, although it feels like forever since she's seen or talked to one of her childhood friends.]

Tidus!

Are you all right?

[blitzdream]

[ Well, Kairi, maybe if you had stopped acting like you were too cool and grown up for the play islands, we would still be brodacious, okay? ]

I think so, but how the heck are you in my head like this? Is this something else you guys forgot to tell me? Because that's totally not cool!

[ Seriously, telepathy is awesome. (Psst. Tidus, you're doing it, too, right now.) ]

[gimmiemyflower]

Okay...maybe the rest will come back for all of us, too. [She really hopes so, anyway.]

I know Lea was fighting with us against Xehanort...but now I'm wondering if the darkness reached you before or after it did us.

[gimmiemyflower]

[It takes her a moment, but then she finally recognizes the voice.] Saix...

[And there is one thing that is still worrying her. Did all of Xehanort's selves end up here, too?] Are you...I mean, is Xehanort...still there?

[gimmiemyflower]

[Hey, she was just trying to get some of the other boys home so they could hang out on the play islands again! Even if things were quite different for them now.]

I'm not entirely sure. I was just...trying to reach anyone that could hear me. Besides, you're doing it back, too.

[memoryreprieved]

I don't know. [ Not really helpful, but it's the truth all the same.

Still, if that's the gist of that, well. That leaves... ]

But if the worlds were swallowed up by darkness... where are we?

[ She's had an inkling for a while now. But... a second opinion never hurts. With Lea and quite a few others around, especially... It still doesn't quite make sense, but... ]

[afterthemoon]

...Isa. My name is Isa.

Xehanort's long gone as far as I can tell.

[blitzdream]

[ OH, OH. So, you have to hang out with those guys only to make a visit worthwhile, huh? He's just not cool enough, huh? He sees how it is. ]

...

Oh. Yeah. I guess I am. [ Pause. ] Cool!

But yeah, It's me! I ran into Riku, too, actually. Haven't seen Wakka or Selph though...

[gimmiemyflower]

[Someone's gotta keep those guys in line! Without her they'd just go running off around the universe without a second thought!]

[Kairi giggles at that a little. Of course Tidus would just take this as something cool to explore.]

Oh, you found Riku? Did he explain all...this to you?

[gimmiemyflower]

Then I guess we're the same. [She's just trying to put things together, but it seems like Xion is even moreso.]

I think we're in Sora's heart. It...feels a lot the same as last time.

Riku and Lea found his platform, too. But he's not there.

[gimmiemyflower]

[That gets a lot of relief from her. The last thing she wanted to do was to try and fight Xehanort again, especially here. That still leaves the question of what happened to Xehanort himself...]

Okay...Isa.

But...you remember light last, not darkness?

[memoryreprieved]

[ Well, that's an awkward way to phrase things, Kairi. ...Don't mind the bit of a pause her before Xion, herself, gets her thoughts back in order. ]

...That's what I thought, too. But... How can so many people be... here? [ It doesn't really seem strange that Sora wouldn't be there... especially if they're inside him. ]