high_seas | Giant Spiders Oh My

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Giant Spiders Oh My

Who: the current Hazmats
Where: sailing to Manahana-lia Island, then on the island
When: August 27 through September 5th
What: sailing as fast as they can to rescue Cynthia, and the rescue thereof. They'll try to save time by jumping through Empieza but...
Warnings: spiders. Violence, talk of death, Gan Ning's mouth
Style: whatever you want, don't mind the setup
Status: closed to Hazmat crew

The minute the scream came though his journal, Gan Ning was moving. There was no time to waste fiddling around, they had to set sail to find Cynthia before it was too late. He tore through any maps and information they had on the ship, looking for anything that suggested spiders. Her clue, the spider-webs, meant that was all he had to go on. Fortunately, other pirates around the docks totally knew which island that was, and aside from impressing on him the "don't go there" part of the legend, told him where to find it.

It did seem odd that no matter where they were, if they set sail for Isla Empieza, they'd make it there in a day or so instead of weeks. Gan Ning relied on that, even though he didn't do more than skim through the harbor before setting a new course for Manahana-lia in the far west of the land. Hopefully weather wouldn't be against them. They had a long way to go and didn't have Wan there to guide the winds in their favor.

Spiders, the other pirates said. There'd be large spiders and his crew would be killed. Nope, Xingba would not let anyone die if he could help it. But that meant they'd have to fight. Roxas needed to heal so he could guard the ship, but everyone else, well...

Let's hope they make it on time.

[ooc: info on the island is here - make and date your own sailing threads but we'll hit the island about the 3rd or 4th and there'll be a fight log for that]

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I don't know what I mean.

[He seems to think about this. None of the vague snippets of Sora's life did he ever see anyone else teaching him to fight. It was a huge mystery.]

You just watched people? That's pretty good...I remember, you're strong.

I guess I thought maybe you did have a teacher or something. But maybe people just learn by doing too. I think about that sometimes.

Oh yeah, there's lotsa ways to learn to fight. I've seen a lot of 'em comin' through the Wu camps, now that I'm in that army, and some of 'em don't even realize that there's more than just swords, spears, and bows. My lord's wife fights with a big fan, and my pal Ling Tong fights with nunchuku like Michelangelo did.

[Roxas gives him a puzzled look and tilts his head a little. The name is lost on him.]

I think about it because I don't know how I learned how to use them. I just know. It's even more confusing because I have two keyblades and Sora only has one.

So you're sayin' you should know exactly what he knows, and ya don't? Huh.

Any idea who taught him?

No idea. I don't really know much about Sora. It's kind of really complicated and all mixed up in my head.

All I really know of him are things I dream sometimes. Some dreams are longer and some are so short I barely see anything at all. They never feel like my dreams though.

[Which they are, or they're supposed to be. Or his memories or something.]

He was here and he said something really nice to me but that's all I got to talk to him about.

[shakes his head, because it's all still crazy]

Guess you gotta muddle through on your own, then.

Yeah I guess. I don't know. A lot of things get all mixed up in my head.

[It's the easiest way to explain it.]

I think the dreams are supposed to be my memories from before I was me. It doesn't feel right though, so I don't know.

Sora told me he didn't want me to disappear that I should be myself. It was...really nice of him.

I don't think anyone wants you to disappear, kid. Fate or not, that's not something anyone would just want.

[Roxas looks up and gives his head a bit of a pitiful shake.]

That's not true. Lots of people want me to disappear. Just not Lea.

[Lea had done some things, gone to many lengths so far to get Roxas back and Roxas knew it to be true.]

Naminé, Riku, DiZ...Organization XIII...everyone wants me gone somehow or another, although I'm not sure the Organization wants me to disappear so much as die but...

[He knows everything important about his fate. He remembers the most painful facts.]

Okay, well, lemme clarify. Anybody who isn't your enemy doesn't want you to disappear. Or isn't happy about it. It's like I was tellin' ya about Sun Ce. I don't want him to die, but he already died so...I don't like it, but it'll have to be.

[He considers that.]

I guess...I guess Naminé is my enemy, isn't she?

[He hadn't thought of it like that. The girl seemed nice, she seemed like she meant well even though she had told him some very hurtful things.]

Maybe you're right. I know, well I think, my other friends don't want me to disappear either.

That, I can't tell ya. All I know is...well, I don't know a lot, really. I'm not as smart as I look, sometimes. But I don't like the idea of ya disappearin' either. It gives me a cold feeling.

A cold feeling? What kind of feeling is that?

[He leans forward, curious.]

I've never heard of something like that. Is it bad?

Nah, nah, it's just like...

[protip, Roxas, don't take feelings advice from a guy who isn't good with any feeling that isn't anger or amusement]

Kinda helpless. Like what am I gonna do against fate? In my line of work, death is inevitable - either your enemy dies or you do. But that's a decision you make in the moment, in the heat of battle. It's not somethin' you can see comin' for a long time and have to think about.

[Look at what he normally has to work with.]

Helpless, huh?

[He seems to think about that. He doesn't feel that, he doesn't think. Not yet anyway, however the way he's been lately it's hard to say if he will in the future or not.]

I don't know if knowing is better. I think if Naminé hadn't told me...well I'm not sure. What if I didn't go where she wanted me to?

[Manipulated, it's happened a lot.]

Actually, why did I go to the mansion? I was...I was after...[His brow furrows as he thinks about it. So many things were hazy and confusing about that day. Week. Whatever the time frame was.]

Sora. I wanted to see Sora. That's what they want me to do though.

I can't imagine knowin' something like that. When I die, I want it to be a surprise. Hopefully on the battlefield.

[he gauges Roxas for a moment and then shakes his head]

Eh, sometimes that happens. You know somebody's tryin' to get you to do something, but you wanna do it anyway, and damn their expectations.

[Roxas nods a little bit.]

I just can't forget it. [He gives his head a shake.] All the things I do forget but that I remember.

I wish I remembered why I wanted to see him. Somehow it's just 'find Sora'. See, it's really confusing. I had a fight with Axel and neither of us can remember why except I left the Organization and then it was just 'find Sora'.

And ya found him here, but you didn't talk much and it didn't come to much, eh? Weird.

[Roxas' earnestness is what grabs him. He may not have the weird family-driven streak Marco does, but there's something about the kid that makes him want to help rather than dismiss him. Every time.]

Yeah I guess so. I don't know why I wanted to see him. It didn't come to me.

[It's hard to say really so he shrugs.]

I might remember later?

[He isn't sure about that, but it might be true. He did seem to remember the most random things.]

I have a lot of questions for Sora, but they don't seem like the things I was looking for him for. [His mind can't help go to one of his other mysteries.] I had a seashell collection. I don't know where I got it.

You got all kinds of holes in your memory, huh?

[at least he's sympathetic about that. And it does explain a lot...]

Maybe it'll come to ya. A little time, patch up them holes, you never know.

[Roxas nods.]

Yeah, maybe. Naminé did a lot to me, I think. I was trapped for a week in a fake place. I think it was a week. I'm not sure. When I was in Twilight Town I didn't have any memories at all. Axel was pretty mad I didn't remember him.

[He suspects that Axel may not have actually been mad at him.]

Holy hell, really? I can't even imagine...

[nothing in his experiences matches up to that at all. So much for even trying.]

Yeah. It was a really fancy prison...a fake world. I got captured and put there and then everything about me was just gone.

[He isn't sure how to feel about that, it makes him very uneasy.]

I got my memories back at the end. I just broke their things and all of a sudden it was all there. It was...

[Headache inducing. Overwhelming.]

And then I came here right after that and I still think things are mixed up. Maybe not in order, the things I can remember I mean. I've always had a hard time remembering new things because when I started I was completely empty. Axel always took care of me though.

[That's why Lea is the best person. It might explain a few reasons why Roxas seems like he's got so many problems with memory.]

Huh. Well, then. No wonder you got trouble with remembering.

Dunno if there's anything I can do, but you kids are my boys, now. Say the word and I'll do everything I can.

Thanks. I really don't know either but maybe if I think of something.

[He seems to mull it over carefully but shrugs in the end.]

Yeah no clue. Do you like ice cream?

[Time to get to the really important questions!]

Edited 2014-09-01 04:44 (UTC)

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