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A Disorganization Of Introductions - OTA

Now that Xion and Lea have found each other, Xion isn’t letting him out of her sight if she can avoid it, afraid to find out that this wasn’t actually real. And that seemed to be mutual, so the two can be spotted the next day constantly with each other, as Xion shows him around from what she’s discovered. Which… mostly means good places to hide.

Xion’s hood would seem to be up to everyone but Lea until she actually pulls it down in the individual threads.

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Well that wasn't the reaction he expected. Lea held his hands up in a classic gesture of surrender. "Whoah, hey, no need for that," he said. He didn't know what the weapon did, but he did know a weapon when he saw one. "We're not 'sneaking' anywhere. My friend here was just showing me around some of her favorite spots in the school. If anything, you're the one being sneaky."

"Also what's 'Ragnarok'?", he asked. "It sounds like the name of a band."

Xion also knew a weapon when she saw one, and frankly, it really wasn't odder than Demyx's Sitar. Or Luxord's Cards. Or... well... the Organization kind of took odd weapons to a new level, honestly. And to Xion they weren't odd, they were what she was used to.

But her reaction to the weapon wasn't his. Roxas and Axel had spent her whole existence protecting her. For what little her non-life was worth... she had made the choice to spend it returning that favour, so she moved defensively in front of Axel. Which.... was a bit like a kitten trying to hide a Saint Bernard behind her. She didn't make much of a shield.

If anything the attempt fell somewhere between cute and pitiful. Though if they had had their weapons.... Well she would have been more formidable, even if she didn't look the part... but Axel also wouldn't need protection... So.... yeah.

She was still new to this being brave thing and it was hard, okay?!

"Ragnarok is destruction. The entire cosmos and everything in it would be destroyed. Even the Aesir wouldn't survive."

She still held the gun up, which was probably loaded... she thought. It was a much different sort of weapon than the one she usually used and it did feel odd to hold it like this.

What didn't feel odd was this method of meeting. Everyone in her world was a little 'fight first and ask questions later'. It was just the way they did things. As the pair didn't strike at her however she didn't pull the trigger at them. She still held it up defensively but if they wanted to talk first and fight later, as backwards as that seemed to her, it was fine.

"But you were definitely sneaking. Your favorite places in the school are all hiding spots? What about the courtyard? It's so lovely and sunny there... when it isn't raining. Or the roof? You can get a wonderful view of the castle from up there."

"Not everyone wants to be seen," she said quietly, still staying between them.

"I know. Usually it's those who are up to no good who like to hide in the shadows."

Which was why the gun was aimed at the pair of you.

Lea sighed. "My friend Xion happens to be the shy type," he said, still keeping his hands up, "which- last time I checked- wasn't a crime. Nor was walking around campus wearing black."

"Look, neither of us is armed, we don't know much of this world's magic yet, and we don't know anything about this 'Ragnarok' thing, so why don't you put the weapon down and talk to us like a normal person. Because I imagine the authorities around here would take a pretty dim view of you shooting two fairly harmless students because you thought they looked funny."

Shy....? Xion was keeping quiet, letting him handle this, because she had no clue what to do, herself.

"We are talking like normal people."

Confused she tilted her head to one side.

"Unless you mean you want to fight first? Usually that is how we Aesir usually end up making friends. But if you don't have any weapons that would be kind of silly... it would be different if you could fly."

Still puzzled she slowly lowered her Projector only... it slipped out of her hand and triggered as it landed on the ground, shooting a rune into both of the two cloaked figures. Oddly enough it didn't hurt. Instead they began to feel weightless, capable of flight like Skuld had wished for. As it turned out the 'gun' was less a weapon and more of a magical augmentation device.

"Oh my! Are you alright?!"

Lea shook his head with a sigh. "That's not what I-", he began but it was about then that the winged woman dropped the projector, shooting a rune at the him and Xion. He attempted to knock Xion to the ground in the hoes that the rune would fly over them, but wasn't quite fast enough and the rune caught both of them.

And suddenly neither for them were actually falling to the ground. Instead they were left floating somewhat awkwardly in midair. "Surprisingly, yes," he said. "Just a little... floaty. And the fact that you care is even more surprising, since you were ready to shot us a minute ago."

Lea attempted to right himself or move through the air, but found himself only marginally successful at both. It wasn't anything like flying in Neverland, where flight was as simple as thinking it and angling your body the right way. "I don't suppose you know how to fix this?", he asked the winged woman.

"I never wanted to hurt you, I wanted to prevent you from hurting others. You really weren't behaving like the other students."

She spoke as she picked up the projector and flipped it around in her hand to make sure it hadn't broken. Durable thing, it looked fine.

"Hmm, no."

With a flap of her wings she was by their side, hovering next to them with an easy bit of wingwork.

"You see I've never used magic like this before... But since that is the case it can't possibly last very long. I'm sure it will wear off in an hour or two."

A small pause for thought.

"Or a day... I wonder how long runes last in this world."

"Whoa..." Xion said, gasping a bit. Her hands went up to her hood, clinging to it. This was not... what was this? She... did not like this....

"Maybe if you flap your arms like they are wings?"

She zipped up above them to give Axel a light push back towards the ground.

"And watch out for the ceiling."

As soon as she headed for Axel, Xion tried to get to her, to stop her. Sadly, she failed, and just wound up flailing around in the air.

Skuld paused in the air and blinked at the oddly floundering Xion before flapping her way over to her too.

"I think if you wiggle around like that you won't get anywhere at all."

Have a friendly push back towards the ground too, like you are a balloon filled with helium.

"Try to think of it like swimming?"

She was not happy about being pushed and tried to shove the person away. Which... she also failed at.

Also, she had no idea how to swim. It wasn't like she ever fought Heartless under water....

Lea drifted down towards the floor as if he were a balloon rather than a human. While he didn't like it much more than Xion did, it did allow him to catch hold of the arm of a nearby gargoyle, finally giving him leverage to pull himself into a somewhat upright position. When Xion too was pushed in the same general direction, Lea held out his free hand to her.

"Grab hold of my hand, Xion," he said. "Once you manage to get right side up it's not so bad."

She flailed and grabbed his hand without a hesitation or thought.

Lea caught Xion's hand and pulled her in, close enough that she'd also be able to catch hold of the gargoyle with her free hand and get herself reoriented.

She cling to his hand and the gargoyle. That seemed like more fun when Axel and Roxas had talked about Neverland....

Skuld hovered nearby just in case anyone let go and needed to be rescued from the ceiling again.

"Maybe flying is easier with wings. I could use the Projector again and see if another ruin gives you wings? But um... You might end up with two heads or something worse."

"Yeah, no, let's not," Lea told the winged woman as he helped Xion settle herself holding onto the gargoyle. "We're already bobbing around like a couple of balloons as it is; it's less flying and more just floating."

"Flying in Neverland was a lot easier, once you got the hang of it," he said. "After the initial moment of floating, you just had to think about it, then angle your body the right way, and boom, you were flying. Nothing like the flailing around we have to do here."

"How... do we make this stop...?" she asked softly, looking at the sky. What if they were still floating at sunset?

"Would that work? I mean flying is mostly just seeing where you want to go and heading that way. Maybe if you tried that you wouldn't need to flail around?"

How to fix it... She did try to think of a way but as she hadn't meant to use that magic in the first place and was completely green to the magics of this world that was easier thought than accomplished.

"I'm... honestly not sure," Lea said to Xion. "Gravity magic was always Xigbar's thing, not mine. Dude made walking on the ceiling look easy."

He shook his head at the winged woman's idea. "It doesn't," he said. "That was the first thing I tried. Like I said, this is more floating than it is flying; there doesn't seem to be any practical way for somebody without wings to propel themselves like this, except maybe bouncing off the walls. And given that the walls are stone, I'm not about to test my luck there."

She made a bit of a face from under her hood. But really, mentioning most of the Nobodies from home would do that.

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A Disorganization Of Introductions - OTA

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