revenance_rpg | What's this, what's this?

A curious Celestia had stepped into that curious crack and into the odd world beyond. Her Komory Bat in tow -- or at least, as close to following her as it could be when it seemed hell-bent on flying in circles nearly constantly -- and her horn shining just a little to add light to the mansion, she felt reasonably prepared for anything.

"Hey, wait up." York trotted up after Celestia, with Max and Sparky in tow. "Mind some company?" He wouldn't want to go in on his own; he's not sure whether Wash is inside already or if he's even coming.

As certain as Sora was that most of Roxas's fears were unfounded, the one he couldn't dispel was the one that was most likely to happen. There was a risk of someone getting hurt. Especially if the giant Nightmare happened to be hanging around here. Although, if it was, this was really a bad place for such a battle. In the woods, the trees limited both visibility and mobility. The courtyard and the area just outside the front gate were a little more open, but still tight enough to be troublesome when battling something large. Inside the mansion... that would be the most problematic.

Of course, all of these areas held issues for battling the regular Nightmares too. Mercifully, Twilight Town was not saddled with any of the larger regulars. The Tama Sheep were the largest ones in the area so far and that wasn't all that large. Still, there was considerable cause to assume there would be some fighting. For that reason, Sora had Jelly Bean and Bruce on hand (since they both had healing abilities) and rather than leaving Toxy back at the hotel room, he had dismissed the Toximander instead so that it would be easier to bring him in if needed. He also had a fair stock of potions and ethers on hand.

He had stopped a short ways away from the crack to think a bit on whether or not he wanted to switch key chains. He didn't give it a lot of thought, though, and was just clipping Oblivion in place when he heard York calling out to someone. Looking up, he realized he wasn't the only one headed to the mansion. The other potential explorer was Celestia and... huh, now that he got to see her in person, she was bigger than he was expecting. Having spoken to Luna in person, he'd sort of expected her sister to be closer in size. Then again, likely Luna was the younger, but by how much? Judging by some of the things they'd said, they weren't exactly mortal, so it might be quite a bit more than a few years. That was all off topic anyway. He ought to let them know they had company.

"Mind a third?"

Chris had arrived fairly unannounced. He secretly transformed into Kamen Rider Sting, turned back into Chris without anyone hopefully noticing. His two Dream Eaters stood nearby: Len the (kleptomaniac) Komory Bat and his newest addition a female Toximander named Veno. Approaching those who had arrived already Chris gave a small smile and a wave.

"Hi there. I hope I'm not late."

Celestia looked over her shoulder in surprise, which became a laugh quickly enough. "Well, this has certainly turned into quite a party. I'd love to accompany all of you in."

After all, if they were all together, she would be more readily able to protect them all. Not that she intended to smother and shield them against all harm; how would they ever grow and develop if they didn't challenge themselves? But she had no intention of letting any of them get into serious trouble.

She spread her wings slightly, not enough so those (honestly, pretty huge) limbs would get in the way. In a crowd, she had her own role to play, and intended to play it.

"Looks like we all had the same idea." The trees seemed pretty close together, to him, and there wasn't a definite path, but the mansion seemed like it wouldn't be too far a walk. He'd picked up some ammo from the moogles; if another one of the big dream eaters showed up while he was in the mansion, he wanted to be ready for it.

Hopefully with fewer explosions this time.

"We should all be careful; if we run into one of those big dream eaters, we'll need a lot of people to fight it." Or maybe it was just a randomly appearing creepy house that had nothing to do with the dream eaters. Sure.

Sora had intended to come and look sooner. Ah well. He was here now and not alone either. "Well, there might be some answers here."

At York's comment about the possibility of a giant Nightmare and what they'd need to fight it, he shook his head, "Actually, I think that might have gone better if fewer people had showed up. Or at least people more used to working with each other. Especially with magic involved."

Really, that had been the stumbling block. Too many people unaccustomed to working together and especially too many magic users not properly coordinating their efforts. Causing such an explosion from a safe distance and with no allies in the blast zone would have been effective, but inside of a greenhouse? With all that glass? Had anyone not been bleeding after that? The number of people had really only prompted the monkey to summon more hands to fight. Which might not have been so bad in a more open area, but they hadn't had that option.

Nor would they have such an option if a giant one showed up in the mansion...

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