tushanshu_logs | A whirlwind few days

Characters: Xion, Yosuke, Roxas, Aqua, Skulduggery, probably others?
Date: Starting on the 16th, then continuing through the next few days
Location: Fire Sector, Midnight Hotel, somewhere around where the expo used to be, possibly other places?
Situation: XION IS MUGGED. This causes a lot of fallout because she has very protective friends and family
Warnings/Rating: XION IS GETTING SHOT. There might also be Vanitas being an asshole somewhere in here. Also Roxas threatening to punch the faces in of people who hurt Xion.

A. The Mugging - CLOSED to Yosuke Hanamura

Just a quick errand, she'd told Roxas. She still couldn't believe he was here, here. Almost all of her doubts and worries had mostly vanished, once she'd realized how much she'd missed him.

But she had a job, a room she had to pay for. And that job involved running an errand. Not too long, if she hurried. She'd be back within an hour, tops.

And she was hurrying. She was on her way home, running, rushing, when she turned too fast around a corner and ran into a kedan. As she stumbled, attempting to regain her balance, the kedan had grabbed her shoulder, steadying her.

"S-sorry," she stammered, once she'd steadied herself, "I-"

But then she froze. Froze when she found herself facing the barrel of a revolver. The shape may have been different, but she'd seen Xigbar fighting enough times to recognize it. And that was when it'd hit her. The network posts. Akito and his stabbing.

Sure enough, he demanded her soul jewelry, jabbing the front gun at the necklace around her neck.

Except while his hand was still gripping her shoulder, the gun aimed at her was not steady. The kedan was very pale, and his voice shook too. Xion was no great shakes with reading emotions, but every signal pointed to him not wanting to be here. When she'd had the chance to see Akito's network post, he'd said that the ones mugging him had seemed reluctant too.

"I'm sorry, I can't," she told him, "It's dangerous to lose it."

He shook her, voice becoming more insistent. And even though he seemed more desperate than anything, being manhandled as such, plus the gun still aimed tremulously. She summoned her Keyblade in her free hand. A warning.

That's when the hand on her shoulder turned vicelike, and the gun steadied. And something in the region of Xion's gut seemed to be sinking.

"Get off!" she demanded, trying to break away. She didn't want to just attack if the fading hope that he was a reluctant theif was true, but he just wouldn't let go-

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B. The Aftermath - Open! (Expect Roxas to threadjack a lot)

Once Xion had been patched up, she was transplanted to Aqua's room at the Midnight Hotel for bed rest. For the first couple of days, others could pop in, but they'd find a young girl who is very much out of it, and not feeling good in the slightest. Her injury was bad enough, but with her soul gem missing... she'd never been sick before then, either.

At least, when he wasn't out looking for her Soul Gem, Roxas was spending a lot of time basically glued to her side.

Once she got her gem back, however, she started doing considerably better.

Enough that she was liable to slip out of bed and wander the Midnight Hotel, observing those coming and going from the balcony, or else curled up on a couch in the Common Room. Her upper arm was still wrapped in bandages and she probably shouldn't have been out of bed yet, but it was still nice to be moving again. Of course sometimes she really was back in Aqua's room, sometimes asleep, sometimes not, but certainly ready and willing to talk anybody who might stop by. Or anybody who had any particular questions to ask about what happened.

[ooc; This prompt may change a bit when more details about how Xion's being patched up are finalized]

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C. Finding the Soul Gem - Roxas and Aqua and ????

Maybe they manage to find the remains of the Expo in time. Or maybe they - by lucky chance - hear of someone who's trying to find the owner of a soul gem that they found. Either way, the kedan in possession of Xion's soul gem is quite eager to make sure it finds its way home again.

[ooc; maybe you guys should make a comment idk DO THIS PART AS YOU SEE FIT]

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D. Misc.

NONE OF THE ABOVE? Have anything else in mind? I feel like I'm forgetting something too so I might add things later when I think about them.

Threaded | Flat

"Hey, what's going on? Is everything all -"

Yosuke wouldn't describe himself as a nosy person. Okay, so other people had. And okay, even if he'd been able to muster all of his usual energy today, he'd be hard pressed to honestly argue the opposite. But anyone would have stopped, he'd have thought, if they overheard a voice that small and high-pitched from a dark alley mouth that didn't fit it in the slightest. Anyone, probably, would have called out the instant their brain picked up on the nervous edge to the other unfamiliar voice close by, long before the actual words, long before they had a moment to think. Anyone would have pressed themselves against the wall, squinting in the too-bright sunlight as they peered around the corner. Anyone in his position would have caught the metallic gleam off the barrel of the gun, still wavering a little but not nearly enough, and opposite it another glint off the side of the least practical looking sword Yosuke had ever seen. Anyone could have joined the dots right there, between the girl in the shadows and the kedan. It just happened to be him.

"...More of these guys?" he muttered aloud, no more than a mutter under the weight of the scene. That would be a no, huh.

But it would be a shame to stop the line there, now that Yosuke's mind was racing. It could stand to stretch further: past the sinking feeling he'd had half an hour ago when he'd finally realised what was missing and hurried in vain to retrace his steps, past all the glares and the elbowings he'd had to contend with since day one of being dumped at the gates of this town, back a few months to the last person he remembered pointing a gun within spitting distance of his face, further and further back into a locked, dusty interrogation room and scenes that for all his posturing since then, he would never have been able to see...

Well, never mind the minor details. This time, he was here, and like hell he was about to let this girl go the same way. At his side, his fist clenched - and floating in front of it, something else gleamed, gleamed a vivid blue where only air had been a second ago.

"Hey, you!" he snapped, rounding on the two strangers. Unarmed and unimposing, he wouldn't cut an impressive silhouette at the end of the alleyway, but within a few steps - steps, not lurches, that was important - it wouldn't matter. "I don't know what you think you're doing, but put the gun down, now!"

It was late at night, so the common room was filled with sleeping bodies. As Xion reached the first floor, she heard a very insistent whisper.

"Quick, come here!"

Upon a look around, the voice could be traced to a woman who was hiding underneath a table in the kitchen.

Stork had gotten the information about where Xion was recouperating from Aqua, who'd also given him more or less permission to stop by and check on her. Their first conversation had been a little rocky, but not ill-remembered. So the pilot is knocking one four-fingered hand on the door, and sticks his head inside.

"Um. Hey."

On one of the occasions where Xion wandered down to the common room, Raine was also passing through, and in this instance the girl's presence caused her to pause, then change course. She remembered Xion, though it had been a little time, and it was worth checking in on her; even though Aqua surely was taking good care of her and there was nothing that necessitated worry, Raine did like to up to date.

She stopped a few paces from the couch with a little wave of greeting, then indicated the still-present bandage, tipping her head a little as if in inquiry. "How have you been?" she asked, without other preamble.

Edited (continuity!) 2015-04-18 19:55 (UTC)

After confirming the boy on the other end of the radio had gotten the instructions, Aqua had leapt into action. With a quick apology to the radio's owner for her sudden seizing of it, she rushed to locate Roxas and tell him what had happened. Then it was a mad dash to the Healer's Guild, following the path she knew well now, making sure Xion's friend - and Ven's doppelganger - was right behind her the whole way.

It was a very frantic Keyblade Master who burst through the doors of the Healer's Guild, followed by an equally frantic boy. She took only a moment to catch her breath before standing up and calling out down the hall. "Raine!" If anything, the tone alone, as well as the fact she was yelling from the main hall, could be enough to alert anyone in earshot that something was very wrong.

It's a day or so after Xion gets her soul gem back than Genis finally notices that she's up and about. Genis had visited Xion while she'd been completely out of it, almost always coming with the worst timing where he wouldn't have been able to meet up with her if he wanted to. And certainly since then, Genis had been on a warpath through the city to see if he could hear anything at all about Xion's soul gem. Of course, he'd turned up nothing, but that was for the lack of any substantial leads to follow.

But with Xion up and about, Genis is quick to rush up the stairs in her direction, completely excited and practically joyful about it. "Xion! You're up! You're awake! Are you better? Are you feeling okay?" No stammering here. He's just overjoyed with relief!

slams in here!

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Healer's Guild, 16th, post-attack

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