Dark Water

[Sai]

Sai had observed the entire back-and-forth from his original location. He hadn't seen any real pressing need to approach the woman, especially after a three-second analysis pretty much gave away her origins as either of vampiric descent, or simply a goth looking to give the illusion. It was the intense reaction to the direct ultraviolet rays of the sun beating down on the beach that erased all doubt from the logical-thinking Nobody's mind. Granted, he would have prefered Lexia to be a bit more... tactful in her investigation, but that didn't change that he had the information now, and scolding her would acheive nothing but make her more headstrong and likely to make simple mistakes like this again. If she didn't want to be erased, she'd have to learn on her own.

Walking casually as if none of this really mattered, Sai made his way to the shady area the two girls had selected as their meeting grounds. He saw that the girl's arm was already healed, a good thing considering he wasn't exactly willing to spare and elixir or potion on someone that he wasn't 100% certain it would work on. Ever notice that your downed party members don't benefit from pouring potions on them? Same basic logic. He looked between the two as they conversed before glancing down the dark tunnel that was the secret cave. He considered this a moment before clearing his throat loudly to get the two's attention.

"I'm glad the... situation came to a peaceful resolution... but both of you should be more careful..." he spoke in that deadpan voice of his, not because he was TRYING not to scold, but because he didn't want to fool himself with pretending he cared. "If you're hunting heartless... you should be more aware of the kinds of creatures you seek..." he said to the vampire, his one visible, yellow eye looking over to her. "We're not they... though if you come across one that bares my resemblance... I would appreciate it if you left him to me."

He then looked to Lexia, considering what to say before speaking. "You're not as stealthy as you think you are," was all he'd tell her. He'd look off, considering the area before glancing down the cave again. "I wonder..." he muttered, seeing as it was about the only secretive place he could see as being even a likelihood for a hiding spot. He walked inside, but returned merely a few moments later emptyhanded.

"Nothing. I'm beginning to doubt the Organization leader even visited this place..." he muttered, not caring if the vampire girl was listening or not...


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[Lilith]

Lilith looked up up this unfamiliar man

"thanks, I'll keep that in mind, oh! and I've been killing heartless since before you were born"

a maniacal smile spread across Lilith's face as she stared at him and Lexia, she hadn't had anything to drink in a while, as willing subjects are hard to come by, and the hunger was beginning to get to her.
she began to shake a little, it looked like she was shivering...

[Leckseeuh]

[my bad. i'm not good at having long posts like that, but i'll try.]

Lexia sat down and slumped against the rock wall beside the cave. She smiled at Sai nonetheless, and she knew he was thinking she was too oblivious. But she didn't even search her mind for the records of him saying that, she left it be known. She watched him go inside of the cave, wondering herself what was inside.

"Nothing," he said in that normal, dreary deadpan voice.

Lexia propped her arms and lifted herself up. "You sure there's nothing? Absolutely nothing?" She walked into the cave and glanced around, finding nothing except drawings carved in stone and a door with no handle. She walked back out and shrugged, sighing. "Nothing too interesting for me 'cept that door. If I could get it open." She sat back down and looked at Lilith, who was somewhat shivering. "Are you cold or something? You okay?"

[Lilith]

Lilith was holding her legs to her chest and clutching them tightly, still shaking.

Lilith struggled to talk "I'm fine... just a little hungry... you might want to watch out though... its hard to control at times"

Lilith's pupils were black, very different to their normal crimson, she closed her eyes tight and put her head into her knees.
she tried not to think about sinking her teeth into the neck of the nearby girl.

[Leckseeuh]

Lexia tilted her head and sat with her legs by her sides. She knew Lilith was a vampire, and Lexia had blood beside the fact she was a Nobody. She suddenly felt nearly like she'd stabbed her in the back, but she couldn't help it. She needed to eat somehow. Although she was ready if she tried, to protect herself and Sai.

Then she saw Lilith was actually trying to hold it back. Another vampire would take the chance - a quiet place, no one around, and two victims for her. As she saw that she held back she relaxed her tensed muscles.

[Lilith]

Lilith held herself even tighter, beginning to grit her teeth, she tried to empty her head of thoughts, but the sweet smell of the girl next to her kept bringing the thoughts back.

Lilith was breathing heavily"so... hungry..."

Lilith's eyes began to water as she fought back the thoughts
she chanted in her head I don't want to hurt her I don't want to hurt her!

[Leckseeuh]

Lexia looked at her and nearly wanted to cry, watching her suffer. She stayed quiet for a second and looked through the trees at the ocean.

Ocean. Ocean, fish. Fish have blood. That's a solution, right? Her eyes opened wide and looked at her. "Can you eat fish? Will that hold you over?" She put her hand on top of Lilith's and held it to comfort her, waiting for an answer.

[Lilith]

"it m-m-might, i hav-havn't tried..."

she began to calm down a little

"please hurry"

[Leckseeuh]

Lexia looked at her, her eyes welling up. She stood up, falling over a bit.

"Stay put. I'll be right back." She ran towards the beach, looking intently at it. She saw a fish moving in the water, and she stayed quiet. Moments passed when she thought of Lilith, and quickly summoned her weapon. She looked at it for a minute, holding onto one of the thorns and pulling it off, sharp enough for a kill. The fish still stayed spinning around in circles, and Lexia didn't want to see the fish go. She quietly whispered I'm sorry, and threw the thorn into the water. Lexia stepped throguh the water and picked up the fish, looking at it for a second. She ran back with the fish in hand, leaving her rod and thorn on the beach, hiding under the trees and darkness.

Lexia looked at Lilith, sighing, seeing she hadn't killed Sai yet. She handed over the dead fish and smiled. "Try it. I hope it works."

[Lilith]

Lilith grabbed it and sank her fangs into the moist flesh of the fish, she slowly drained the fish of its blood, her eyes slowly changed from black to a piercing blue, a stream of excess blood went down her pale face as she removed the dead fish from her mouth.
she looked up at Lexia, and seemed to be a more radiant than she was a moment ago.

"thank you..."
she stood up and smiled
"... I couldn't of hung on for much longer"

[Leckseeuh]

Lexia sighed and smiled wide. "It works! Hooray!" She stretched her arms in the air. With that movement, her weapon that was left on the beach disppeared in a flash of greenish light. She slumped over and sighed. "Now what do we do?" She looked at Lilith and Sai, wondering what they had in mind.

[Sai]

Sai had been somewhat lost in thought throughout the ordeal. He had been thinking on the mystery of their lost reports and that knobless door. He merely nodded when Lexia mentioned she wished to open it. "It's the door to this world, locked and sealed. I wouldn't venture inside for fear of dooming this world as others have fallen before. Irony aside." He shook his head, then looked to the vampire, who casually and somewhat pridefully boasted that she had been killing Heartless since before he was born.

"And yet they continue to ravage the worlds... taking more hearts and making their hive larger and more powerful. You think you have killed heartless... you've merely postponed their inevitable return to darkness. You see..." he looked off, ignoring that she was shivering for now. "Without a keyblade, you can injure a heartless... you can even banish it for a time, but the heart roams back to darkness, forever tethered to the inky black until it is unlocked from its prison by one bearing the weapon of which I spoke. In essence, dear vampire... You've killed nothing of the sort."

He watched as she shivered harshly, aware that with his weatherwand he could easily "shine some light" on the situation, but that was only if she outwardly attacked. Lexia was johnny-on-the-spot with a solution, retrieving a fish to handle the vampire's... cravings. A clever fix, Sai had to give her that. He turned to her as the problem wound down, nodding.

"What it means for now is that we're at a standstill. I don't think Xehanort would have come here, maybe his heartless at best, but as for whether we'll find a Keyblade Note, I sincerely doubt it..."

[Leckseeuh]

Lexia shrugged and looked at him. "Nothing too interesting now that I know that that door could be this place's apocalypse. Should we go to another world?" She looked away from Sai and to Lilith, smiling a little.

"Maybe if he says so and you want to, you can tag along. Although I feel that if you don't come it's a small world and we'll bump into you sometime." She looked between them both with a smile across her face. "How about it?"

[Lilith]

Lilith found herself smiling at Lexia, something about this girl made her happy and she didn't know why, maybe it was just that this girl was never sad.

"so what are you people doing here?"

[Sai]

"We came looking for information on the keyblade. We thought that with the keyblade masters having formerly resided here, we might find some clue as to their origin, but it's looking more and more doubtful." Sai muttered as he looked about. He had to be honest with himself, a little slip of paper with some writing scrawled on it could be ANYWHERE, really. However, he knew Xehanort, and he knew that he'd choose places memorable enough for him to recall every spot. Frankly... there wasn't anything all that memorable here.

He looked to the vampire once more, that eye of his half-closed due to his lack of feeling on any matter. Some would say he was bored, if they didn't know him better. "And unless you have some information to share, I don't really see a benefit to carrying you along. Our mode of travel is extremely dangerous to one like yourself. That is- one still in possession of their heart. We would have to go out of our way to obtain a vessel, or risk having your heart overwhelmed by darkness, and as a result, turn to one of them."

He sighed, shaking his head a bit. He knew all too well this process, using the corridors too much. It was how he himself had fallen, except that instead of fighting it as any sane person would do, or stopping when he felt the pull of the dark, he had given himself willingly. Fool that he was...

"In short, unless I have any real reason to change my mind, you cannot come with us."