(Milliways) The Rani's 'trip'

[killitwithfire]

All around them is darkness. Above, below, and on all sides - darkness. Although if one looks close enough, perhaps, they might see - or otherwise sense - the ways, for most people, it would be only.

Dark.

The way behind them is visible for a few seconds more, the lakeside, through a faint oily sheen. And then it closes.

"Stay close," he advises her.

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[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't about to wander off," she points out in a low voice, though she also keeps it quiet. She'd prefer to avoid any conflict if possible.

[killitwithfire]

"It's still easy to lose yourself in here," Axel replies. It doesn't take him any real time to get oriented towards Traverse Town; it's relatively easy to get there, from Milliways.

"Watch out for the yellow eyes in the dark," he warns, before he starts out.

He doesn't pull his hood up; he knows his bright red hair will make him easier to follow.

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"Easy for a human, perhaps," she sniffs distastefully. There are directions pulling at her, urges towards places in the dark, other paths that seem almost familiar.

[killitwithfire]

"For most people. A human can be just as adept at walking the dark paths as anyone else. They have as much capacity for internal darkness."

He moves quickly, leading the way along a definite pathway through the darkness. There's an indefinable sense of something shifting, when they pass out of the narrow 'safe' zone around Milliways, and out into the wider realms of the dark paths.

"Don't stop moving; we may need to run." The sheer thereness of her dual hearts is even more plain in the darkness, a breath away from the Void; he's a little surprised that the Heartless haven't swarmed them already.

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"I will take my cue from you," she tells him quickly, keeping close and moving as quickly and quietly as possible.

[killitwithfire]

He nods.

And that seems to be their cue. Dozens of yellow eyes blink open, and turn towards them - or rather, the Rani.

Eyes vanish, and darker blotches of shadow slink towards them.

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

She puts her wrist device to her hand and presses a button, releasing the second screwdriver from it's place. It's small, made for use on complicated equipment as opposed to a weapon, but she figures that the lazer could be turned to other purposes for the moment.

"Hurry!" she snaps.

[killitwithfire]

"Don't tell me to hurry," he snaps back. His eyes run quickly over the growing masses of Heartless, and he scowls.

Hundreds, by now.

"Fuck."

He spreads his hands out to either side, and fire flares around his hands, resolving into the pointed stars of his chakrams.

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

She halts just to make sure none of those points go into her before she turns to start using the laser on the assembled Heartless. She points it at the first of them, targeting just below the bright yellow eyes before pressing the button.

[killitwithfire]

Axel ploughs forward, slicing a path through the Heartless that stand directly in their way. It's nothing but Shadows right now, so the laser is effective. And Axel's sweeping attacks.

"Come on!"

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

She takes a few hesitant steps, not wanting to expose her back to the creatures, before she saw what he was doing and started following as fast as she could go. She held the laser behind her and swung the beam back and forth to cover her trail.

"I'm coming!"

[killitwithfire]

There are bigger shapes visible in the darkness now, writhing masses of a blacker blackness, huge yellow eyes peering hungrily down at them. Some strange instinct makes him reach out, and pull her back, out of the way of an enormous, descending hand.

"This is bad."

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

It slams in the darkness, almost shaking her off her feet before she turned in alarm and kept running.

"What in Rassilon's name is this?"

[killitwithfire]

"Those are the Heartless," Axel says, ducking a Neo-Shadow, and sending his chakrams spinning like saws around the two of them. "And to them, you look like a grand feast."

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"Two hearts?" she asks quickly, ducking another one of those fists and making sure to keep clear of the chakrams.

"They want my hearts?"

[killitwithfire]

"Got it in one," he replies, flashing her a grin. "Hang on, we're almost there."

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"I should hope so!" she said as she dodged another attack and sliced the darkness in half with her screwdriver.

[killitwithfire]

It's only a couple more minutes, before they're far enough 'in,' and Axel can pull open the space between here and there again.

The view through the faint oily film is of a quiet, empty town square, someplace rather low-tech, with cobbled streets, and gaslights.

"Out!"

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

She dives, rolling once before coming to her feet again on the cobbles of--

"Where is this?"

[killitwithfire]

He follows her out, closing the way behind him.

"Traverse Town," he replies. "It's a world made up of the bits and pieces of world's that've been destroyed. This is the First District - you won't find any Heartless here, but the other Districts aren't safe."

He dismisses his weapons after a moment.

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"Are there weapons available here?"

She had plenty of supplies of all sorts on her TARDIS, but after facing those things on the way here, she'd prefer something a little more powerful if they were to travel the same way elsewhere.

"Or barring that, a device to be used to cloak my 'hearts', as you mentioned?"

[killitwithfire]

"You might be able to get something from the Moogles," Axel replies. "Or there might be something left in one of the shops." He nods to the establishments across the square.

"But there aren't really any people left here anymore. Except the Moogles, like I said."

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

"Moogles?"

She was unfamiliar with the species, which is to say.

What?

[killitwithfire]

"They're small, white, and look roughly like a cross between a bipedal cat and a teddy bear. They have bat-like wings, and a red pom-pom on their heads. They're also probably the best item-crafters in the multiverse."

[chemist-rani.livejournal.com]

She nods.

Slowly.

"Is that so?"

That is the Wicked Grin. The I'd-like-to-see-what-happens-when-I-do-THIS grin.