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The 13th Hour - GENERAL LOG

The 13th Hour

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Who: Anyone
Where: The entire city
When: This week
Summary: This is a General 13th hour log.
Warnings: That depends who is there
Music: This

When it is darkest, men see the stars...

The snow was falling softly in the night sky when the heavens turned red again. The nearly black sphere of the upcoming new moon meant the monster population wasn't overly aggressive and the creatures wouldn't offer much challenge....

...or that's what was supposed to happen.

That night, there was a strange pull. The demons had acted odd that day, but even when asked, they were unsure why. To keep the population safe, the mayor had asked the city to stay inside that night and let the city police and visitors do their job.

It was a good thing he had. As the first minute of the 13th hour continued, something happened...the signature tail in the sky of something appearing, much like when the Guests had shown up. Only this time it was hundred of such little signals. The sky was filled with them, and people were ushered inside buildings as much as possible. Something was wrong.

Something was very wrong.

New creatures began to move around the city. For some, it would be creatures they might have wanted to forget. Yet for others, this would soon be forgotten when not flesh but stone, rock and metal, rose from the very ground, pieces of their homeworld reborn in Hinoto-Ri...

Extra Long OOC Blurb

[(Make sure you read it!)

Alright 13th hour post!

This will be up to you on what you want to do; start a new post where you can character's name and OPEN and write the days they'll be wandering during the 13th hour. Join other people's post, do some exploration, post them fighting monsters and just have some fun leveling up / interacting! For this log only You can level a persona twice meaning if they are used in a post with one group and in a post with another group, you can level up your persona twice. The conditions is that the fighting must happen on two different days. You can do this with only one persona, however.

For the buildings, each one gets its own thread. The original owners who submitted will be the first to see them, due to a strange pull that made they feel like they NEEDED to go to that area. What they do with this information is up to them; they can contact others in their group, start exploring by themselves or allow the thread to be open for others to come in with them...it's all up to you. That next morning, the government will be coming over to analyze them (that will be done offscreen, however).

FOR THE CREATURES 1) The creatures have to be in the Beastary for you to use them. You don't need to use creatures from your own home worlds either, as long as someone's put in a creature in there! No boss characters that night, since it isn't a full moon. Also make sure your characters could logically take onthe creatures you pick let's not have them take down a giant tree when they couldn't normally.]

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[Xion meanwhile, keeps going pausing only briefly to have a brief mental conversation and clear her head, before continuing onward. She keeps moving, eyes trained skyward. The pause does help at least, as well as putting her conversation on hold.

It gives her enough awareness, at least, to slow down from a run to halting footsteps (keeping moving, she found, made the tug less of a distraction). But all the same, she knows she hears something that seems out of place. Hinoto-Ri may seem safer than being on the run but she still has to be careful]

I-Is someone there?

[At the sound of footsteps he stops, beginning to move more stealthily... it isn't difficult to tell that even with how nice they are some people don't trust him, and he mentally grouses for a moment about being followed. However, the footsteps aren't behind him, nor are they attempting to be cautious, and he decides that it's someone else who's out s well. Changing his course, he moves to intercept, though when the person stops running it becomes a bit harder to figure out where they are.

Finally, around a corner, he hears a rather familiar voice and blinks in surprise.]

Xion?

[Xion jumps a little and whirls around in surprise. Maybe it's an effect of the 13th Hour or maybe it's this tug or all the news but she's jumpier than normal. Once she sees who it is though, she eases.]

Hey. Why are you out here?

[She doesn't say it reproachly, merely surprised. She doesn't go out often during the 13th Hour herself. Tonight's an exception. Maybe it was for him too?]

Did... you feel a tug too?

A tug?

[He gives her a rather inquisitive look. He hadn't felt a direct compulsion outside of his own desire... was there another force at play?]

I wanted to see what was going on, why they said we should stay inside. You were compelled to come out?

[He gestures loosely, indicating for her to keep going in the direction she'd been headed. If she had a destination in mind, it would save time to walk and talk together.]

[She nods, and starts moving once more in the direction the tug was coming from once he gestures.]

Yeah. I have to find... something.

I know... which direction it's in. At least I think I do. But I don't know where it is.

[He follows after, keeping up with her easily.]

... do you mind some company? I'm curious to see what's going on...

[His eyes skim the skyline, looking for things out of place.]

[She turns back with a faint nod and smile.]

Sure. It's probably safer to stick together anyway.

[If the rumors she's heard about the Dark Hour are true.]

Other places have been appearing, too, I think. And people have been feeling pulled towards them. I think... places from our worlds are appearing, but I don't know...

[And then she comes to a halt, thrusting an arm out to stop him behind her. The tug is still urging her onwards, but she could have sworn she heard something again. Something that didn't sound like their footsteps.]

[He stops when he feels her arm, looking at her questioningly but silent. If she's the one being pulled, she must have gotten something... some sort of blip or otherwise. He strains his ears, listening hard, trying to sense if there's anything else around them as best as he can.]

[It doesn't take long before the reason Xion stopped becomes obvious why she did. Three creatures appear from a side street ahead of them, the likes of which Xion has never seen before. They didn't seem to have any visible eyes, and yet the seem to be drawn towards the two of them, and Xion doubts it's with any kind of friendly intentions.

Her eyes widen. Was this normal?]

Careful!

[They're in between them and the tug. They're probably going to have to fight. But did Xehanort know how to?]

[The creatures defied possibility, small spheres with mouths and tendrils, and he stared at them in slack shock for a moment or two, until Xion's words snapped him out of his state of consideration.]

Are they aggressive? What do we do?

I think so-

[Xion's answer was cut off when one of the creatures drew close and opened its mouth. Instead, she summoned her Keyblade in a flash of light, holding it up in the guard position it as it attempted to whack her with its tongue, knocking it away instead]

We'll have to fight, at least until there's an opening to get past!

[She dismissed her Keyblade again, preparing to gather magic in her opposite hand, when she felt something different stirring inside her, strange and yet... familiar at the same time. And definitely not wrong. She hesitated for a moment, then took a few steps forward to make sure she had room, then drew on that feeling, and it strange, how she just seemed to know what to do, what to say...]

Echo!

[A blue rush of energy ignited around her and a veiled nymph appeared. The Persona - her Persona, for that was what this had to be! - waved her hand, and one of the attacking creatures was hit with a blast of light. It seemed deterred, though not down yet...]

Fight..?

[A flash of surprise... he was completely out of place in this situation. He wasn't a fighter, like the others... they had their special weapons and abilities and everything else. If he'd ever had anything like that he had no memory of it, and no one seemed willing to re-educate him if so...

So he simply stared in slack awe as Xion first summoned her weapon to block... but that wasn't even the main event, as then she summoned... something else? A sylphy creature of some sort, something about it that seemed almost familiar enough to reach out and touch. He cocked his head, frowning, wanting to say something else but not sure what exactly to say for a moment...]

How did you...

[She's fairly wrapped up in fending off the attacks of the creatures, but not so much that she doesn't catch what he's saying - or at least the unsure tone of it. She glanced over her shoulder quickly, a faint look of alarm flashing over her

She should have thought of this. She hadn't realized that he might not be able to defend himself but she should have. She can't just let him get hurt, she has to figure out some way to keep him safe, keep the creatures attention on her, not him. And as always there's that incessant tug, distracting her further.

She had to move. And move she does, darting away from his side towards a wall, dodge rolling out of the way as the creatures follow, one attacking the spot where she'd been. She calls as she moves.]

Go!

[Except that moment's distraction costs her. All three of the creatures swoop in and while she can avoid one, even two of their attacks, the third hits her full-on. The attack itself doesn't do that much damage. She'd probably gotten worse hits from that Viel Lizard back in Twilight Town back when she was only a few months old. But it happened to catch her right as she was precariously balanced, and her movements had brought her close enough to the wall of one of the buildings that lined the street that the attack sent her falling and crashing into it.

The whole thing left her slightly dazed, and vulnerable to another attack.]

[It's amazing to a degree, watching Xion avoid the attacks with almost ease. of course, when she stops to speak they gang up on her, sending her flying into a nearby building. His hands go up to his face, pressing against his mouth, eyes wide in horror. It was his fault, she was trying to keep him safe.

Useless, useless, useless!

No, there had to be something he could do... he flinched, moving, hoping to get their attention, even if it was harmful... reaching out a hand as though somehow it would make things better...

If only I could

Something inside of him twists a little, a thought drifting back to the first thing he could remember, that word, the meaning behind it...

Persona...

He clamps down on that twisting feeling, drawing at it almost desperately, unsure of what it means but not caring if it will do something for the young lady under assault. His lips move without thinking, as for the first time power rages through his core.]

... time...

[The clock... it seems almost imposing, but at the same time so intimately familiar that he's not sure what to think. Its hands begin to sweep backwards rapidly, and cool, refreshing energy winds its way around the two of them. He feels better somehow, even if he wasn't the one who was attacked...]

[That healing wave of energy couldn't have come at a better time, with one of the creatures swooping in for another attack. Her head clears and she's able to bring her Keyblade up to shove the attack aside, her arm straining with the effort.

Still, she isn't sure she has the time to summon Echo again, so instead she just raises her hand, calling her own magic to her hand and firing off a Blizzara spell, which connects with the same creature she first hit earlier and explodes as the Days brand of Blizzara does.

Compared to the Kouha from earlier though, the Blizzara has a much more striking reaction. The creature writhes and vanishes, and the other two, clustered as they were shrink back, giving Xion a chance to get back to her feet, calling over to Xehanort]

Thanks! [She casts a relieved and grateful smile over in his direction.] If you can use anything with ice they don't seem to like it.

[If he doesn't though, that wasn't a problem. She could probably finish it off from here.]

[He can't help but give a rather goofy smile back, flush with success - actually accomplishing something in this mess. He watches the spell with awe, the creature dispatched in scintillating ice, the other two cowering for a moment.

Then he frowns a little. Ice? He didn't even know what he'd just done to begin with, let alone if there was somehow ice involved... he frowned, focusing, trying to find the power that he'd used before, grasping deeply for a moment or two to connect with it...

It took longer than he'd thought, one... two... three heartbeats before he could feel it happen again. Ice... ice... no ice, what else could he do that might help... anything... he reached out a hand, grasping for a moment as though he could touch her, before a different sort of energy filled him. Something warm and almost exciting, as though suddenly he was more powerful than before.]

[Xion can feel the surge of power, her eyes briefly flickering over in surprise. She didn't realize Personas could do that. Huh.

She sent a more simple Blizzard spell at one of the creatures, before striking out at the other with her Keyblade. Once they'd lost the advantage of surprise, they really weren't that difficult to defeat at all. She probably could have taken care of them, though without Xehnort's help she would have taken quite a few more hits until she'd been able to strike back.

The monsters gone, Xion pauses for a moment to catch her breath and send a mental warning about the monsters to Aqua. Then she looks up, smiling a little tiredly]

Thanks again. [She looks where the monsters had been before they vanished and back] We should probably get out of here, before any more come.

You're all right?

[Relief washes over his face, and he hurries over to where she's standing. Questions are already forming in his mind, but this isn't really the time or place for them. She's right, they should move on, especially if there are monsters on the loose. They may have already been attracted to the sounds of struggle and be en route.]

Do you still feel that pull? [He gestures for her to lead on, once more they can talk while they move.] Has it changed at all?

Yeah, I'm fine.

[It seems... important to reassure him of this, for some reason. It certainly seemed to matter a lot to him... She starts moving forward again, pausing only briefly to gather her bearings.]

It's still there. I think... I think it's closer though.

Lead on...

[He's content to follow her for a bit, before finally curiosity gets the better of him.]

What do you make of that... power. The... persona?

[She frowns a bit thoughtfully, trying to sort out how she felt about it. She dismisses her Keyblade as she walks, it being a little unwieldy to run around with unless she held it with both hands, which she didn't want to - it left her unable to use her free hand to channel magic.

Still, Personas, though...]

It's... different. I'm so used to using my magic, though there are some things it can do that I can't.

[Like that blast of light. There was also her Keyblade, but she doesn't use that nearly as much anymore.]

[Another bout of silence as his mind works, following her. His eyes dart to her keyblade, mulling that over and adding it to the mix of things lingering in the back of his mind. Another time, perhaps.]

Magic... you were freezing them. [She'd said to use ice.]

... I guess... what do you do with that kind of power? It's something that everyone has, but...

[He remembers the words of his only memory... to save or to destroy. His brow creases. It's all far too vague for him.]

[She pauses and she glances over her shoulder. It's... a surprising question, to come from him, or at least it feels like it. The soft undercurrent of thought as she considers this is a nice counterpart to the quiet tug she still feels.]

I don't know... you can probably use it all kinds of ways. ["the greatest wonders and the most ruin" Aqua had said] But for me... I use it to keep myself and my friends safe... and heal them if they're hurt.

[Admittedly, she can't use magic in a lot of ways, she's only just learning to with Aqua. But even so, in the end her reasons probably won't be too different, which was the important part, right?]

[He listens quietly, taking it in and turning her words over in his head. With everything that's been going on in this place, there feels like a tall order to be dealt with. He's not sure what to think, but something else seems to stick out more than the other stuff.]

Keep your friends safe... [A nod, and a bit of a smile.] I think you're right. I don't really have many friends, but... I think that they're worth protecting.

[Is she smiling? Yeah, yeah she is.]

That's good, that you've got friends like that here.

[Ones that you want to protect. Because having friends like that... it's the best feeling in the world. Without her friends, friends whom she'd have died to save... she doesn't know where she'd be. She's thought about it, yeah, but...

That was a thought for another time...]

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