Clear the Mind with Fog

[Iris|Kairi]

Yes, this place was an odd place to go to think, but then again, Tifa didn't mind the fog and the heavier gravity. Frankly, it made this place appealing for keeping her strength up. Sometimes she came here to practice, as seen by a few broken trees here and there, but today all she wanted was to sit on the nearly silent shore and look out over the warm waters around her. It was eerily quiet here, but sometimes that's what the martial artist needed. Some quiet. A place to clear her mind of some of the nagging worries that occasionally crept in. In general she was an optimist and laid back enough that not a whole lot really effected her, but she was human.

She sure as heck didn't expect to see anyone here.

For now she avoided the fruit on the trees, unsure of their effects. the last time she'd even tasted one, she'd gotten so giggly that everyone back home thought she'd been into some strong drinks. From where she was now, she couldn't see the trees. Between the soothing fog and having her back turned to them, all she could see was endless water and gray-ish sky. Not a heartless nor a worry...yet.

[Darren]

He sighed in discontent, the fog was thick enough without his stupid SOLDIER helmet on partially blocking his view; what the hell was ShinRA thinking when they developed these things " All style and no use? " he chuckled at the the thought of this probably due to that statement being quite true.

He'd regained some of his strength since the incident, but he had no idea how even arrived on this world, he just remembered Sephiroth and the others and then that dark light again.

He'd been walking for what seemed to be forever, dragging his feet along the surface, his breathing heavy due to the gravity here making it harder. He then saw the figure in the mist, a black silohutte of who or what it is, he walked closer towards it, his hand resting gently on the hilt of his sword.

" Excuse me.. Where am I..?" He said to her, his SOLDIER uniform flapping gently in the slow breeze that accompanied the shore line.

[Renewed Gemini]

Joshua had slept. He was beyond the definition of exhausted and into something much more dangerous. He had been hunting day and night for these Heartless creatures and hadn't come across any. He finally took to sleeping on a bench in the Twilight Town Square.

So why is he waking up here? That was the biggest question, by far. There were a few others like, why was it hard for him to stand up? Why could he only see a gray color and what looked like two figures? He was about to question why he couldn't breathe, but suddenly remembered the large mask covering the bottom half of his head.

Joshua slowly stood up, groaning and rubbing his head. His teleportation abilities must have teleported him here in his sleep. Wherever "here" was, of course. That's when he heard a voice ask exactly what he was thinking. Though he couldn't see anyone that the voice could have belonged to. No one but the human like figures probably about 10 feet away. "Hello?" Joshua yelled out. "Is there anyone out there?"

[High's .Valentine.]

“Oh boy…” the copper head looked up, staring ferociously at the round, luscious…fruits! Or at least that’s what they looked like. The fog was so thick, Cooper was unsure if what he saw was just his desperate imagination. Grinning, the man looked around, as making sure that he was alone. He really was alone. Isolated. In the middle of nowhere. There was no one to talk to, no one to bug…Cooper Nathans approached the tree, which naturally leaned away from him, bending from many years of strain. It seemed to be warning the copper head against eating its fruitful harvest. But the man was never prone to listening to nature. He didn’t have that inner calm required to do so.

Two days ago, a gummi ship crash landed on the sands not far from here. Out of the badly beaten vehicle climbed out a man with a head full of wild copper hair, sticking out all over the place unnaturally—ironically enough, they are very much natural—tired, dazed, and slightly jarred. Since then, Cooper Nathans had been stuck on this island. The prospect of being ship wrecked did not quite hit him until today, when he had found absolutely no one on the island. And no one is such a horrible, devastating word.

No water, very little food—after the first red berry knocked him out for several hours and gave him a giddy hangover, Cooper was very unwilling to try anymore—and absolutely no escape. Not to mention the fog made everything seem blurry and hazy. The coolness of the moisture was ok for a few hours, but after two days straight of it, Cooper could feel its gray fingers close around his throat, intent on squeezing the breath out of him. He had stared at the emergency box of metal wrenches and such sitting in the pit of his gummi ship’s belly for several hours and no bright ideas had came to his head, even when he went through every single tool, trying to figure out what the heck they would do to his poor dead ship. Cooper had a knack for people, not with dead inanimate objects.

Regardless, the man was very, very distressed right now. Even the suspicious looking fruits on this tree was tempting. Water had been scarce, and either he be forced to drink sea water or suffer through the effects of this unknown juicy fruit…mmmm juicy.

Grabbing onto the tree, Cooper’s lean figure shingled up the length of the tropical foliage and…reaaached.

His pale hands closed around the rough skin of the yellow fruit and the fanatical grin on his face widened. Again, he reached out to gather the rest of the fruits. That is, until something slithered around his leg. Peering down, Cooper stiffened. What was that? Seems like something else was interested in the fruit Cooper was currently hoarding. And it was NOT happy that the man was trying to hog all of them.

“Oh boy…aren’t you an unhappy…thing…” having never seen a snake of this size, Cooper felt his stomach dropped as it reared its square head back and hissed. Dropping all of the fruit he had plucked, Cooper swung, narrowly avoiding a mouthful of fangs as he hung upside down from the curved tree.

“Hey now, don’t do that…don’t,” before he could finish, the snake struck again, this time at his hand. Cooper let go, and down he went, crashing through leaves and branches until he landed right on top of some unfortunate soul. In the copper head’s hand, a yellow fruit. Victory!

[lol, sorry, everything just comes so much easier with Cooper. :D As for the unfortunate soul...well, who wanna volunteer?]

[Iris|Kairi]

((Sorry Guys...I shouldn't have took on another thread. I have 13..and honestly with this and school ending soon and working on FM in general..I can't handle it. I may pop back in later. I'm very sorry. Continue without me please.))

The mysterious misty figure of a woman any of them may have seen was somehow suddenly gone. It was hard to tell where she went, but one minute she was there, the next she was gone. One thing was for sure, moments after her disappearance there was a distant roar on the island, but it seemed far away enough...for now.

[Darren]

He blinked twice as the image in the fog slowly disapeared "A-an illusion..?" he said scratching the back of his helmet, his face blushed beet red with embarrasment even though you could only see the lower cheeks of his face.

Upon hearing another voice he turned around quickly to hear it stepping backwards, his foot tripping over something and landing butt first into a puddle of water, his face went red with anger as his SOLDIER lower uniform got soaked from the cool water. " GOD DAMN IT!" he shouted in anger.

[Renewed Gemini]

Joshua continued making his way towards the two figures he saw. Suddenly, one of them disappeared. Joshua stopped, astonished. Was it a mirage that he had seen? Perhaps, or perhaps the person that just screamed rather loudly. Joshua almost began running towards the person who had screamed when someone suddenly fell on him. "What the-?? Who's there!? I've got weapons!"

Joshua stopped to realize how ridiculous that statement sounded and then kicked whoever had fallen on him off of his body. Joshua slowly got up, groaning. Whatever it was, it had been heavy. Joshua strained his eyes to identify a body. It seemed to look something like a man. "What the hell...where the hell did you come from??"

((Sorry, I've been mused out with my two characters I made, haha))