Long awaited reunion (SITEWIDE RP EVERYONE JOIN!)

One again.... she found herself tearing through endless walls of jungle foliage... just as she did when Shade first ventured into this.... realm.


Talking mice and ducks.... worlds that made absolutely no sense to her own reality, swords that looked like humongous diary keys.... and airships made of Legos. With another swing of rage with her Wolf's Bane sword, Shade grunted with exhausted effort while continuing to hack her way through the thick weeds and vines with virtually no sense of direction.


How she missed the Ragnarok of her home world.


How she sorely missed any form of logical normalcy.


How she calculated numerous ways to torture that Roxas kid for her current predicament.


As if enraging Kuja with taunting witty comebacks at Olympus wasn't enough to scorch his head bald, now his sudden reappearance within this universe had others in an uproar of giddiness. As for why, Shade had no clue.... The whole "Nobodies", "Somebodies", "Anybodies", concept had her confused as hell, on top of the Heartless creatures roaming around everywhere. She'd much rather face Ruby Dragons then those sumo wrestler looking things that wore ridiculous caps on their heads...

Yet several more swings of aggravation followed through with her frustrating thoughts. How on this planet was she to find some place to throw a party!? slash...slash... He picked this place on purpose, just to irritate her for fun...she just knew it. slash...slash... And if that Sora showed up..... that thought alone led Shade to groan out loud as she slashed through even more 6 foot tall weeds.

Suddenly, luck chose to shine down on her. Just as she tore through a thicket of vines, she broke free and stumbled out into a massive clearing that left her speechless. The breathtaking scene could never be described well enough with words. A grand waterfall that appeared to fall from the sky winded down the stone cliff in various directions that ended with a roaring rush into a clear pool of water. The clearing itself appeared oddly manicured, as if someone purposely mowed down the surrounding area for this tropical retreat.

There was an abundance of tropical floral life growing from everywhere that filled the senses with relaxing aromas in the air. But then Shade realized the obvious that brought her right eye twitching.

If this place was "supposed" to be undiscovered and untamed, then HOW did a gazebo end up here!?!? And what was with the bar like huts with stool chairs all neatly aligned in a row!? Where did all the damn tables with straw umbrellas come from!?!? And wicker lounge chairs!? A roasting pit!?!? A STEREO SOUND SYSTEM!?!?

First came a sniff of annoyance to break the silence. Her eye continued twitching as Shade stood the motionless and simply dumbfounded. Her hand squeezed around the handle of her sword so viciously, it shook beyond her control. This place was here all along....

Finally, Shade took a slow, deep breath and tilted her face to the sky to let out a long drawn out scream. "RRROOOOOXXXAAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!!"

Inside of his black airship, Roxas heard a scream as he was passing over the Deep Jungle...the scream sounded quite similar to his name. He pulled a few levers, pressed some odd shaped buttons and suddenly the airship began to dive down into the jungle world.

Upon his landing, the cockpit opened up. He stepped outside, dressed in a white v-neck shirt and black cargo shorts. He walked down a small pathway in the direction of where the scream would have originated.

After walking only a mile, he came to an opening and there stood Shade...the one whom apparently loved to torture the unsung hero..

"Shade?...you rang?" Roxas said as he began to laugh.

Experimenting with Corridors of Darkness in a largely dis-powered state was not a pleasant experience, as Xander found out when he got shot out of one, quite literally. The Corridor he came out of disappeared as soon as the Dark Guardian was clear. It wasn't even a very big one, being only big enough for a bird about the size of an eagle to fly through, and it wasn't tall at all. Unfortunately for Xander, it had managed to hover a few feet above the ground, forcing the Nobody to fly a few feet in mid-air before hitting the ground and skidding to a stop just inside a clearing about a hundred feet from where he'd started. "Dios mío, ese doler." Xander muttered just before propping himself on his arms and shaking his head, apparently rattled enough to use a language he hadn't spoken since just after becoming a Nobody.

A good look around at his surroundings prompted the Dark Guardian to wonder just where he was. The surrounding trees made it look like Deep Jungle, but some of the items in the clearing looked very out of place. To make matters more interesting, he could see Roxas talking with a strange woman on the other side of the clearing when he looked over his shoulder. He was curious as to what they were talking about, but he settled for assuming it was about the clearing.


((Translation: "Good God, that hurt."))

A Dark corridor opened in the middle of the clearing, out of it came three stacks of crates being pushed by none other than Xion who was bringing coolers to the party. The black haired girl pushed them out and stop after they all fell over, She panted being tired from hauling them here. On the farthest side of the clearing she noticed Roxas and Shade. And not to far from her, a familiar face to whom she and Roxas met while they where in The World That Never Was. Xion simply shrugged and picked up one of the coolers taking it over to the bar area and sitting it down. Inside where giant bags of ice . Xion picked up the bag tearing the top of it open and starting to pour the ice inside of the cooler.


I Can Tell, this is going to be a very interesting party... Xion mumbled.

...Get enough people together, you're going to attract attention.

It was this very gathering of people that drew Riku to the Deep Jungle. A world he'd never rightly been to. And, yet, a world he was able to get around.

Kuja's attack on him had had some... ...Interesting side-effects. Slowly, Riku's Dark Magic was returning. What's more, tempered by his light, he could CONTROL it. ...Why is that important?

Well, it explains why Riku's appearance out of the dense jungle foliage was preceded by a pair of Powerwild Heartless swinging out of the trees, running across the grotto, and summarily escaping into the trees on the other side. They'd shown him the way, at his behest.

Upon his arrival, though, Riku became just as confused as Shade was annoyed. He cast his eyes to the stereo system.

"...How did they..." He began to ask. Quickly, and wisely, though, he dropped the subject. He somehow figured that the answer would only raise further questions.

Waving to Roxas and Xion, he seemed to be in a better mood than usual.

"Hey, guys, long-time-no-see. ...I'm not gonna have to keep you two in line, today, am I?"

...As little SENSE as it made, the relationship between the Nobody and the Replica was no big secret. And, of course, Roxas being a part of Sora, Riku can't help but tease the poor kid.

The other arrival, though, caught Riku rather off-guard.

"Shade? What brings you here?"

Sora yelled loudly as he came swinging in on a handy vine. "Outta my way, I'm commin' through!!!!!"

He let go mid-swing and tumbled several times in the air before landing on his feet in a crouch. He stood quickly and flashed his patented grin at everyone. "Let's get this party STARTED!!!!!!"

He immediately ran for the stereo system, not really caring that it was very out of place in this environment and started shuffling through the music selection before his grin turned VERY wicked and he started up a song to play as loud as he dared blast it through the area.

"If I Had You" by Adam Lambert.

He couldn't help himself. He grinned over at Riku with the most innocent expression in his devilishly wicked eyes. "Hey, Riku, doesn't that make you wanna sing along?"

Then he saw Shade and he grinned wider and in genuine happiness. "SHADE!!!! It's good to see you again!!!!" He ran up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her emphatically before quickly letting go and dancing away in glee.

"Yippee!! I hugged SHADE!!!" He started dancing around the area to the music and looking unashamedly silly.

It was not too often that Talone wanted a day to relax and sleep, or for her to actually get such sleep. it was her first day away from Oblivion in months. of course her first thing to do was visit her brother, but she also wanted some time to herself. Thinking the forest would actually be best, she used a heartless to take her to DeepJungle and decided to settle into a hallowed out section of a tree closer to the canopy. She didnt seem tense in the slightest as she instantly fell asleep. It was turning out to be a perfect day.

sadly, She never had the best of luck...

An hour after falling asleep she was disturbed by a loud yell followed by more screaming and laughter. She looked out of the hollow with an angry look on her face as she saw a story below her people were setting up tables and such. She gave a rather loud squawk like a bird before trying to go back to sleep. she had a bit over 5 minutes before someone decided to blare some music, if thats what they wanted to call it. This really ticked Talone off to the point that she jumped out of the hollow glided down and landed on a bit of tree that was a hare taller than the apprent bar they had set up.

"Would you people mind turning that noise box off! some of the residence here would like to catch up on some sleep!"

she didnt seem to care that she hadn't hid her bird features from them or the fact that she had reverted back to her native tongue of bird song as she squawked like a bird and yelled like a bansee at them, all she wanted was some sleep.


*bold = bird song/call

Xion looked up and Riku and waves back before dropping a whole bag of ice on her feet. AHH! Xion jumped up, quickly stepping back to pick up the bag before too much spilled. Hearing the screaming of the bird startled her and she looked around.

After dumping the last bag of ice into the cooler she noticed Sora dancing around happily smiled.It had been a while since she had seen him, there last encounter together he called her " The other Kairi". Kairi some what being known as Xion's sister since neither one of them remember there pasts.Xion belonging to the organization and Kairi originally being from Hollow Bastion.

The party was shaping up nicely and Xion walked over to Shade and Roxas dusting a little ice off of her from her indecent with the cooler.

Xander rolled over onto his stomach and pushed off with his feet in order to quickly get into a standing position, using the leftover momentum to start walking to the other side of the clearing. He ignored the talking-turned-sqwauking of the bird girl and instead skirted the edge of the clearing in order to get a better look at everyone. He recognized Sora on the stage, although why the Keyblade Master was making a fool of himself was anyone's guess. Xion had had a mishap with the party favors and supplies she'd brought through a portal, and Xander found himself holding back a chuckle at her mishap.

"One man's tragedy is another man's excitement, or so I've heard." he muttered softly as he continued over to where Roxas was standing, positioning himself directly behind Roxas's left shoulder. He knew the lady Roxas was talking to had noticed him, but he didn't know if she'd make something of it. Not that he cared, really. Xander hadn't even meant to come here, but thanks to that portal mishap, he'd be staying a while whether he liked it or not.

When Roxas arrived all nonchalant and cheery, Shade made no move, save one. Her eyes slowly narrowed.....

As she contemplated over her first choice of torture, suddenly several others joined in the frey out of every direction. Well how was she going to get away with drowning him him upside down NOW!? Finally her lips twitched as she muttered, "Hello.....Roxas...."

The young girl that approached was brushing off her garments and Shade recognised her as Roxas' friend. Lucky for him, Shade liked her well enough to spare her the site of watching Shade cast a balding spell over that wild blond hair of his.

Just as Shade heard a rather loud war cry, her body cringed at recognising that screeching voice. No...not him.... If anyone wore on Shade's nerves worse than Roxas, it was..... SLAM! She was instantly clung to as if Sora was mimicking a koala bear glued to a stupid bamboo tree!! Due to the complete shock to her system, Shade unfortunately missed the opportunity to retaliate against the spiky haired boy with a fist to his gut. Instead, she was left seeing Sora run off in his hyper merriment when another familiar face approached.

Sparing Riku a glance and a nod, Shade noticed the crowd growing even more which led her to grow irritated. She was never a social person. Never good around people at all even on the rare occasions where she had no choice but to try. If anything, she had to appear preoccupied, or perhaps find something to eat, just something to keep her at bay from having to converse with people and wind up offending someone like she always seemed to have the habit of doing.

Seeing a buffet table appear out nowhere was a blissful site, and so her feet casually shuffled off to the side, yet before walking away from the group, Shade gave a slight nudge to the back of Roxas' left knee with the toe of her boot. Not much to make him fall, but just to see his leg buckle would be enough satisfaction.

The party was shaping up now indeed with many different residents joining in on all of the fun. Sora seemed to be having the most fun out of all of them as he cut loose in front of everyone before getting drunk first.

Roxas then turned to Shade as she spoke a greeting to him and he smiled maliciously for he knew that she could only be thinking of ways to further torture him. As his mouth opened to reply, he could feel that someone had approached him from behind, yet it wouldn't be a threat, just another member joining the party.

"Ello Shady."


Not long after he had returned the greeting to Shade, yet another familiar figure appeared. It was non other than Xion. As his eyes fell upon her a smile formed upon his pale lips as he turned his head towards her.

"Hey there Xi...having fun?

Riku, at this point, rather quickly joined Shade.

Now, Riku wasn't an antisocial person, by any means.A couple years ago, he was very nearly like Sora in a social situation, albeit calmer. Now, though, Riku had a... ...Different perspective on things.

Mainly, he liked to watch. And listen. He'd done a lot of travelling, and found people, in general, were interesting. ...A quirk he'd picked up from Mickey, actually.

"So, what bring you out here?" Riku asked Shade.

"You don't seem like the 'random jungle party' type."

Turning her head slowly by the sound of the voice still behind her, Shade was rather surprised to find Riku trailing casually behind her. And it wasn't often Shade was caught unawares. Her first and last encounter with this young man left her questionable about his sense of mentality. Anyone would question the sanity of an individual who's first impression was to suffer hallucinations and try to kill you right off the bat without question....


Still, in the end, he did attempt to help her, in his own chaotic sort of way to make her a Gumi airship. Yet before she could reply, the repetitive squawking from something in the trees left it rather difficult to concentrate on any form of merriment. Perhaps she could bribe this angry being into harassing Sora....


With a sigh of irritation, Shade turned her attention back to the buffet table and reached out to get herself a drink. Looking back at Riku, she studied him closely for a moment before speaking up. "You seem...different, than when I last saw you. Have you worked out your troubles?" There was slight lift of a grin to the corner of her lips as she raised the glass to take a drink. Hopefully Riku wouldn't be hearing those voices in his head as he appeared to hear that day upon the beach. "Oh, and I'm here because...." She paused in thought, and didn't enjoy where they were leading to. She didn't dare use the term "friends" anymore. Such a thing always led to heartache and disappointment. "...I'm just here."


After a annoyed dismissive wave of her hand, Shade's gaze wandered about the scene. She briefly stared at the individual standing next to the blushing Roxas and Xion. Somehow he seemed familiar to her, yet Shade couldn't place a finger on a single memory. While she struggled to recollect who the stranger may be, all she could hear was Sora's wild antics carry on about the festivities. Glancing back at Riku, her grey hued eyes gave a slight roll. "How in the world did you survive on a solitary island with that kid?"

Xion smiles at Roxas before pulling another piece of ice out of her hair, she looked at Roxas and grinned evilly before stuffing it down the back of his pants. She laughed at this and continued to smile before directing her attention to shade. She smiled and waved when she looked at her and continues to smiles happily at the occasion. Yes, Drowning in ice is soo much fun~

Xander picked this moment to interject, while "Shade", or so she was called, was busy and everybody else (except the squawking lady) was talking with someone else. "At least Luxord isn't here." he commented to Roxas and Xion. "He would've spiked the drinks in a heartbeat, so to speak." The last time Xander had attended a party, Luxord had done exactly that: spiked the drinks with some Port Royal rum. I never did forgive him for that. Fortunately, it had only been the two Nobodies who were affected, the spiked punch bowl knocked over "accidentally" by Xander when he'd found out. That hadn't protected the Dark Guardian from a nasty two-day hangover, unfortunately for both he and Luxord.

Whereas the Gambler of Fate had plenty of experience in drinking, Xander, at the time of his inception into the Organization, was still underage, so he had no taste for alcohol. He had no stomach for the stuff, either. This had led to not just the hangover, but a large amount of puking. His stomach still turned at the thought. "Now that I've reminded myself of something I didn't want to remember, I think I'll avoid the beverage tables." he commented, looking a little green.

As the ice slid down his pants his face turned pale as his teeth began to chatter. After hysterically jumping up and down, shaking his legs like a seizing dog, the ice finally fell to the grass covered ground below...after it had spent some time melting against his buttox and other body parts that shall not be mentioned and shall be left up to the imagination to imagine...

His blue eyes narrowed as he turned towards Xion...this meant war.

Roxas picked up Xion, tossing her over his shoulder and carrying her over to the small pool of water that was at the edge of the party scene. Without a further thought, he tossed her in back-first.

"Ah, now that that's settled I think it's time to partay...Xion...honey, you might need a towel." Roxas managed to say before he erupted thoroughly with laughter.

He then heard Xander commenting on spiked drinks which caused Roxas' mouth to water..."hmmmm....rum always does taste better with punch...eh too early to drink...plus Xion has put me on a limit now...dang woman..."

"Well I'm late..." Yuffie mumbled as she looked at everyone carrying a few bags of drinks and food.

"HEY EVERYBODY LOOKIES WHOSE HERE!" Yuffie screamed as she held up the bags running to the group.

Xion flail in Roxas's arms as he threw her into the po9ol, she glared up at him before grabbing his arm and pulling him in after her. This was a constant thing for the two nobodies to prank each other, since the adventure around the many worlds the two have been addicted to pranking one another, and so the war continues on

Oh no love, YOU'RE going to need the towel

Xion blushed as she realized you can her Swimming suit through the dress. she quickly got out of the water and sat in the sun to dry off\
She looked up happily to see Yuffie, she smiled and waves, she hadn't seen the girl since there adventure in Traverse Town

Roxas gasped in shock as he became emersed in water. He floated to the bottom of the pool before placing his feet flat on the bottom and thrusting himself upwards. As soon as he reached the surface, he splashed Xion before kissing her on the cheek.

"Eh...I guess I kinda deserved that one.."

The nobody then erupted in laughter, remembering their many pranks. They had known each other for a good while now and one thing was for sure...there was never a dull moment.

Roxas then noticed that Yuffie had arrived. He politely waved and nodded his head as a gretting.

With so many people present, it was actually beginning to look like a party. This was going to be a fun event of ultimate proportions.

"Seeing you guys sad way of partying, I bought some vodka, smarties, glow sticks and a bunch of black lights!!!!" Yuffie said as she ran in and already started to set everything up.

Shade's head tilted with interest at the newcomer to the festivities. A young brunette girl that was an abundant of energy and in full supply of additions for the party. Still choosing to stand in the background and observe the merriment, Shade's gaze widened a bit at Roxas' bold actions by carrying his friend about like a sac of potatoes to then throw the struggling girl into the water. Just as Shade dared to contemplate rushing up behind the blond key-wielder to push him in, his victim kept hold of his arm in the midst of her fall, taking him down with her in the splash.

A rare smile fell over Shade's lips. "Brilliant girl..." She muttered to herself in admiration of Xion's retaliation.

Thus far, as the company slowly grew, the mood in the air was indeed carefree and everyone was truly delighted to see familiar faces and enjoy some reprieve from the strains of daily life.

Yet Shade's trained mind never found a way to breach through the strict discipline of being on guard, no matter the relaxed setting or event. Out of habit, her hand grazed over the handle of her sword as she turned to refill her drink and set off to find a spot where she could keep watch over the celebration for any thing possibly unexpected that may threaten the celebration.

Xander laughed as Xion and Roxas both fell into the water and he examined everything and everyone present. There was someone new present, and Xander recognized her as Yuffie Kisaragi of the Restoration Committee. Although she was exciting everybody with tales of party favors and (much to Xander's stomach's dismay) vodka, the Dark Guardian's attention was on the Shade lady who seemed to only be half enjoying herself. A quick glance told him it would have been impossible to pick her pockets when he was still human, and the same went for today. There were a few spots where he could lift something, but those were all too close to sensitive areas to be comfortable lifting from. He needed to do something about her tension, though, so he decided he'd try and pick her leg pouch. As stupid as this is, it'll definitely work. I think. he thought as he approached Shade.

He quietly approached from the side, seeing as approaching from behind would've likely gotten his head lopped off and approaching from the front would have been detrimental to his objective. Besides that, he found himself wondering how thick her wallet was. It probably wasn't thick at all, but anything for a distraction. It didn't take long before he came up in Shade's blind spot brushing against her, saying "Sorry." and reaching for the pouch on her leg all in one subtle movement.

Xion laughed and Smiles as Roxas Kissed her cheek, no..there was never a dull moment around these two. But it was Excepted since they both are made from Sora. (Though Roxas being more Aggressive than Sora..If you catch my drift) At the sound of Yuffie bringing Vodka and smarties one of the two nobodies many favorites Xion sprung up. It's true one of Xions guilty pleasures...Was Vodka with smarties. crushing them up and puffing them into the air like a child one one of Xion and Yuffie's favorite past times.

Yuffie grinned and soon joined her friend. "Best past time, eh?" She said as she blew out smoke.