The Beginning. (Konaa, Shinn, Medy)

[Medy]

As the girl would dispose of the last dancer, showing as much ease in her methods as she had done outside, proving once again that she really didn't need the help of either Kimi or Konaa, the left eye of the Ferryman twitched slightly. His temper was reaching breaking point. Swinging the scythe around his hand and then planting the base of the weapon firmly down on the ground, the tall figure of the assassin would let out a deep sigh as he tried to keep his composure. Allowing his head to hang, he would look at the ground for a few moments and let out a quiet grumble.

"Why... do we even bother...?"

Spinning the staff around on its base between his fingers in a moment of quiet contemplation. Not exactly the most humble of people outside of his job, the line between calmness and anger was beginning to reveal itself, with the 'Reaper' dancing quite dangerously on the sharp edge. As the girl would make her way up the stairs, the footsteps running up would grab Kimi's attention as she vanished to the top. Looking up and watching her dart into the rooms above, he would blink and then move away from where he was stood. Taking a few paces towards the staircase, he stopped at the bottom and turned back to face Konaa.

Within the depths of his eyes, the golden aura would make itself more apparent and glow violently as he prepared to make haste up the stairs after the girl. As much as she had proven herself to be a capable fighter, she was surely going to become stuck in a situation later on. As much as Kimi was loving the image of her being thrown around by various creatures, he was still intrigued by what she was after.

"As much as she's probably irritating us both... I don't think it'd be wise for us to leave her alone."

Especially not when the treasure they were after could be too precious to miss out on. After all, he so far deserved to have a piece of it. Tapping a bony finger against the rails of the banister leading upwards, he would pause for a further second before then making his way after the girl to see where she'd been forced to halt next. Despite her apparent abilities, she didn't seem quite smart enough to continue on without the two who had accompanied her so far. As he reached the top, Kimi would pause again and turn back towards Konaa to express one last thought.

"We can always kill her when this whole quest is over."

The tone of his voice seemed overly suggestive, to show that he was sincerely considering the idea. Certainly, the idea seemed a better one as he continued to think about it, although the question was whether he could really be bothered to go ahead with it. After all, he wasn't overly keen on killing people unnecessarily. Chuckling to himself quietly, he then walked into the room where the girl was now.

At first, he would stumble backwards as he was hit by how incredibly bright the room was, the white colour of the room was simply overwhelming for his eyes. Taken back at first, he would then continue forwards and take in his surroundings. So, a library. Nothing special, he thought as he turned away from the gigantic bookcase and looked over to where the apparent 'leader' of the group was now; seemingly captivated by the drawings on the table. As she would question the paper, Kimi would shrug and not really pay any attention to the paper whatsoever.

"Beats me."

Pulling one of the small chairs from in front of the table, he would clumsily throw himself down onto it and lean back, watching the girl to see her reaction. As far as he was concerned, both himself and Konaa had done all of the work so far. It was time that a certain someone actually put in a little bit of effort herself. Crossing his arms and watching, the lack of expression on a face would hide what he really felt like saying.

Work it out yourself...

[~/\The Dragon Writer/\~]

(They aren't in the white room, they're in the library where Roxas found the secret lab. And Konaa contacted me and will be excused from his post in this rotation.)

Listening as Kimi came into the room, she tried to not pay attention to the very unsatisfying answer he gave. She had to solve that puzzle, but she wasn't quite sure how. "So, it's obvious that we have to draw something, but I don't get what..." She absent-mindedly said to Kimi, trying to get him somewhat interested in the puzzle she was currently facing. After all, there was definately a reason for him to get interested in this puzzle. Probably one of the most important prizes of all time. The ultimate solution to the problem called darkness in the worlds..."Well, we alread know there's this odd symbol, as well as the Heartless symbol. What else could be missing? I wonder...uh...yeah, you could help out. It's not like I'm just looking for jewelry here or anything.

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[Konaa]

Seeing the dancer he had kicked fly straight into an iron spike gave Konaa no small sastifaction. That'll teach that damn girl to show off! She'd be apologizing now, for sure.

...Ooorr doing the exact same thing she had done the last two times. Son of a...Somebody obviously needed a good kick in the teeth, a kick Konaa was now happy to provide. Before he could give her a piece of his mind she had ran inside, completely ignoring both of her "saviors". Okay, that was where he drew the line. Forget her dumb quest, she could go trip over her own feet and get impaled.

Then Kimi came over to him, and proceeded to address him. Konaa had a good deal of respect for the competent reaper.

"As much as she's probably irritating us both... I don't think it'd be wise for us to leave her alone."

Dammit, morality. The sole reason why nothing in life is fun. As much as Konaa wanted to ignore his morales, the fact remained...that girl, for all her skill, was one hell of a klutz. She might very well trip and break her neck on the stairs going up the mansion's stairs. So it might be best if he did accompany the girl on her dumb quest. Though killing her might be going a bit too far. MIGHT.

Kimi had taken off after her without waiting to hear his response. Konaa followed suit after a short delay, so that he missed her words, but caught Kimi's as he entered the room after the two of them.

"Who are beating, now?" hey, if it was the girl, he didn't want to miss out.

[~/\The Dragon Writer/\~]

(Sorry, been a busy weekend.)

Yes, the two people were getting very annoyed, but the girl really wasn't paying them any attention. Her entire focus was on that strange puzzle-like thing on the table. What went into the missing circle? Why were there crayons so conveniently placed next to the circles? Why on that table? It was a small series of questions that didn't seem like it was too hard to figure out. She thought she had an idea of what to do, but she really wanted to try and get the other two to solve it. After all, if she was wrong, their answers would show her whether her guess was right or not. Looking back at them, she said one simple thing that was sure to get both of them working on solving it right away.

"Look, help me figure this out and I'll pay you big time."

[Medy]

Watching as the girl continued to struggle figuring out what was missing in this small puzzle, Kimi would remain sat in his seat and only turn his head away from the amusing sight of the failing sight before him to acknowledge Konaa's arrival into the room. Yawning quietly to himself, he would gently scratch the back of his head as he waited for any response to come from the girl as to thoughts or ideas about what was to complete this puzzle. Crossing his arms over his chest again, the eyes from underneath the hood would watching carefully, possessing a stare that would press hard on the girl to solve the problem.

However, it would seem that she wouldn't have any success in doing so by herself as her frustrated self would turn once more to the other two people in the room to assist her. Surprise surprise, Kimi could almost have anticipated it. As she did so, Kimi's eyes would fade slightly into the darkness in reflection of a great lack of interest on his part, until there was the mention of a healthy payment for his assistance. As much as it wasn't in his best interests to assist people who continuously proved to test his patience, payment in any kind was something he wasn't in a position to turn down. The 'reaper' was rather short on money and wouldn't turn down a chance to gain some more.

Pressing two long, bony fingers together in his seat, Kimi would contemplate the puzzle that was on the table and try to draw any patterns that seemed to stand out between the two images that they had already been given on the table. No doubt that this would lead the group to figuring out the third one. Only recognising the Heartless symbol out of the two, it meant that Kimi would have to use the one he did recognise as his only lead. Tapping the two fingers together in a fashion that mocked a metronome, that conclusion severely limited the amount of help he could provide to the team.

Pushing himself out of the chair, he would slowly drift around the table to where the girl was studying the scribbles before her, Kimi would stand a couple of feet to her right and look directly at the one image out of the two that he didn't recognise; the mysterious symbol. Whilst he couldn't place what it was or what is represented, he was almost certain about one thing. It's importance represented something and it was surely a key symbol for someone in some place.

Did that mean, in addition to the Heartless symbol beside it, that the intention was for representative symbols to be drawn on these pages to unlock things? In which case, did that mean that a symbol of great importance was to be drawn into the last circle?

In any case, it was as good a lead to go from as any other. Hovering away from the table in a gliding fashion, Kimi would turn away and ponder more on this idea and try to develop any other theories that would help them advance with this obstruction. Crossing his arms over his chest again and bowing his head as he considered all the options, he would eventually conclude that the current idea he'd constructed was the only idea he was going to form at this moment. Therefore, he had only one option to move onto from what he had so far; singling out a symbol of equal importance that could fit with the two that were already there.

It was time to voice his thoughts to the rest of the group and see whether his idea could help in the slightest. Rotating on the spot, he would place himself so he was facing both the girl and Konaa and then begin explaining his ideas.

"Ok, we have two symbols to go from. I'm pretty sure that we all recognise the Heartless one, it's one we've all certainly come across within the last few minutes of this quest. I don't recognise this other drawing here, but I imagine it's as representative as the Heartless symbol."

Pausing momentarily as he finished wording his speech in his head, he would drift sideways across the room whilst keeping eye contact on both Konaa and the girl still as he went to discuss the end of his theory.

"So... surely we need to think of something as representative and equally symbolic to go into this third symbol. I'm pretty much stumped as far as that goes due to my lack of knowledge of this universe. Hell, I only recognise the Heartless one from the continuous slaughtering of the creatures I've done lately. The only other symbol that does stand out in my mind which I've head talk of lately... is this weird keyhole thing."

The end of his speech came with an inquisitive tone, as if he was pressing his opinions onto the other two to enlighten him or perhaps pass judgement on whether they even recognised what he was talking about. Either way, she'd asked for help and Kimi had provided accordingly. She couldn't say that he hadn't tried.

[Konaa]

Great. A riddle. Konaa hated riddles. Why on Earth anyone would go through the trouble to make one of the blasted things instead of saying what they mean right out in the open was beyond him. They required far too much thinking to possibly be of any use to anyone, anywhere.

Enough of the riddle hate rant, however. This riddle seemed to be more of a puzzle. Two shapes were drawn, one clearly the Heartless symbol, the other unrecognizable. There was a third space, where clearly one would draw in a third shape to complete the puzzle...typical riddle crap.

The girl seemed to want to solve this riddle really badly...For whatever reason. enough to risk death and pain to come through into this dangerous mansion. But she was desperate enough to pay two random strangers to help her? Huh.

"Sorry, no thanks. Money doesn't interest me. I'm sure you'll be safe with...um, whatever your name is, Mr. Reaper guy."

With that, he turned around and began to walk out, towards the door. He reached it, gave them a cheery wave...And then noticed the nobodies in the hall below. They looked awfully dangerous...Hurriedly he closed the door and walked back over.

"Y-you know, I am sort of short on cash. Okay, I'll help you solve the riddle."

Kimi gave them a bit of a monologue on how he thought they should solve it. An important symbol, eh? Well, Konaa could only think of one, and it wasn't that of the Keyhole. Walking past Kimi and the girl, he approached the table and picked up one of the crayons. Slowly, in the untouched circle, he drew the symbol of the Nobodies and Organization XIII, which he had been seeing an awful lot lately.

[~/\The Dragon Writer/\~]

(Sorry, V3 distracted me)

Just as Konaa drew the Nobody symbol in the remaining slot, the three slots began to glow, and the floor started to split apart. "That's it! You did it! You're not nearly as useless as I thought you were!" The already very annoying girl told them, probably trying to rile them up as much as they could. But as the floor began to separate a bit more, the girl decided she couldn't wait. She instantly jumped down into the crack and started rifling around the area. As the floor slowly began to separate, an almost lab-like area could be seen. Once it was completely separated, the girl could be seen with a small journal in her hands with the word 'Way to the Light' stitched on the front. "This is perfect!"


And with that, she ran back up the stairs and toward the door. Just as she was about to open the door, she stopped and turned toward the two guys. "Oh, right. I almost forgot. Here, take these." She absent mindedly threw two bags toward the two of them. "Think of it as a sort of...thank you. For saving my ass back there a few times. I owe you a bit more probably, but it's all I have on me. Thanks, anyway." And with that, the girl was gone.

Quest completed!

Reward: Quest munny, one high jump equip each.