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Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Northern Coast]

Wakefulness comes slowly, the faint touch of a breeze on Ein's face, the scent of grass and the fade-in vision of a blue sky above, dotted with faint wisps of cloud that do nothing to hold back the warmth of the sun shining high overhead. Only it is not a uniformly blue sky he notices as awareness comes. From left to right, it fades from a blue so pale it is almost white to a black darker than midnight, with hints of redness far beyond the horizon. It is almost noon, just before or just after, and this place is calm but for faint ripples of something that seem to fade in and out of perception, like flashes at the corner of Ein's eyes.

Direction is difficult to discern, but landmarks rest here and there. There is water out there that he can just see from where he stands, off in the direction of the darker skies... Were he to set a course with dark on his right side and light on his left he can see intimations of some structure or other poking above a forest. The very same forest would catch him were he to head lightwards as well... As for the last direction, there is little to see there besides rolling hills and green grass from Ein's vantage point, but it is in that direction that he feels those ripples most strongly, as though beckoning him to seek out their source, though it is a call he is quite capable of denying should he choose...


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea]

The sand shimmers and roils before Zwei's eyes, so eerily similar to a real sea that for a moment, she feels certain she would simply sink into it never to be seen again before she recalls that she already stands upon it. This place seems desolate at first glance, nothing but sand for miles around, all entrapped in a great bowl created by the mountains at her back. She does not recall how she came here, only that she was once in another place, doing something else, something important, though she cannot recall what...

Her only other recollection is that she has a brother, and that he is here somewhere as well...

From where she stands Zwei sees light and darkness on the horizon, and in fact can see both of them at once without needing to look straight up. It is disconcerting to watch them from this angle, as from here it is quite apparent that there is some sort of struggle going on. Tendrils of darkness creep and crawl, interwoven with the slightly lighter pieces of sky that lash back against them, creating a twisting effect at the center of the clash, as though the sky itself was trying to tear itself apart.

Lower to the ground, Zwei can see structures in the distance, though she suspects some might be mirages. However, if she has no wish to explore the desert proper, the mountains stretch as far as the eye can see and she could follow them to try and find the way out, though which way she chooses -dark or light- could hold meaning...


Neina[/u]]
[Melmond Fens - Western Shore]

Neina finds herself on a silent beach, and everything seems just a little wrong. The sea smell is lacking, as though some integral part of it is missing or diminished. The sand beneath her feet is too fine, too compacted. No sea birds cry, and the wind's touch is chilling, as though it brings with it winter frost despite that the sun shines bright as a summer's day overhead.

Directly away from the sea, a mountain range rises high, and Neina can see flashes of light play over the crags and cliffs high above. Something is up there, and she can feel power within it... To the right of that, the mountains descend into rolling hills beyond which pale grey clouds gather, though they do not darken as though to storm, while to the left of the mountains the sky grows dark, and the mountains stretch on, running parallel to the shore. Perhaps she can find a pass through them somewhere down there... She thinks she can remember a pass, though she cannot say why, for the mountains do not seem at all familiar to her...
 
Neina folded her arms over her chest after a particularly unfriendly breeze chilled the young viera woman, whom had an outfit that wasn't quite right for the weather. Everything seemed so very empty despite being an otherwise visually pretty scene. It certainly went without saying that she couldn't hear the voice of the forest here, and that was a thought more disconcerting than the lack of life all around her. The main question was which way to go. A mountain pass, which would be chilly and dangerous. Or the foothills, which looked like they'd be chilly and possibly rainy, though not stormy. Or follow the beach, which had the cutting wind that made goosebumps appear on her skin.

In this case, discretion was the better part of her valor. She'd not enjoy the cutting coastal wind. And she was far from equipped to struggle through a mountain's biting cold. So she began her way towards the foothills. It didn't appear to be raining, but merely overcast. The higher ground could help her locate anything else, and maybe if she was lucky, she could make her way to a forest. Though nothing around here was terribly familiar, so she had no idea if she'd find any of the comforts she'd normally seek in the deep woods. If she found any at all. her ears drooped as she made her way, feeling quite alone.
 
After waking up, Ein the peasant looking young man slowly lifted his body up from the ground. Had, he been asleep here... could feel the grass brushing his face, the tall unimpeded grass was growing up in tall stocks, one managed to get in his nose and agitate his sinuses, resulting in him sneezing. Shaking his head after the sneeze he stood up. Slowly more getting onto his feet and looking around, the plains here. He didn't feel anything towards them, did he call this place home.

He couldn't remember anything at this point and slowly swung his head from side to side, there was a bright light off to one side of him, and to the other a land looking more like it was on fire then anything, it was dark looking. "Why... where...." He calmly steps forward moving along the plain a little his foot catching on something a foot step from him, it was a rusty old gardening hoe. "This... this could be useful..." His red bandana tied around his neck tossling around as he reached down picking up the tool. He hefted it a bit and gives it a swing down and lets the blade of the hoe hit the grass near... "Rusty... not going to be good for tilling let a lone.... whatever else I may need to do here."

Ein, looked forward and then towards the area that was dark, then to the area that was light... He slowly backed away from the dark side, and chose to follow to the light. His sandal covered feet lightly tapped down upon the grass, bringing him forward... The wind was coming from the forest... His hair tousled about and the fact there was wind here, meant that he was not in some strange dream... "Hello!" He called out towards one direction... Ein continued forward slowly and found himself moving through the forest towards the light side, "I wonder if I go this way... if I might find something..." His trusty tool in hand he moved to where his gut was telling him to go.
 
Ultimately Zwei woke up, and stood immediately on guard from the moment she woke to the now. Her mind was a blur, she grimaced and grasped at her brow her head hurt as she tried to remember anything but the name of her brother, she had no face for him, just a name... The woman wore a regal looking set of armor, at her hip a sword of beautiful craftsmanship, and her long blond hair cascading down her back covered in the sand from the wasteland grounds.

She carefully while checking to be sure her surroundings were clear begins brushing the sand off of her figure, the slender hourglass shape of the knightly looking woman showed not only was she a warrior but a woman who had beauty to boot. Her silver armor was light and made of plate steel with silver coated paint across it, the design of a blue flower was imprinted on the breast plate, and a waist skirt that went down to her heels with a pair of armored boots. She was clearly some type of knight, her regal appearance, would lead one to think she was some sort of noble no less. She was tall for a woman, and noticeably better armed then one might expect.

"Where the hell... am I... Ei... Ein... no.." She shook her head glimpsing to one side, or the other and without thinking any more from there, she turned to walk towards the side where it was darkest, the light was blinding to her, and she felt deep down inside her a little disgusted at seeing such radiance in this desolate looking place, as if it felt to out of place for her liking. "I need answers... I am going to find answers..."

She chanted to herself like it was some sort of mantra... Yet, the land was clearly in a struggle her sense as a warrior, was telling her this... She looked to the whisping tendrils of darkness up ahead, and the clouds above each of the areas... They sent chills down her spine. Zwei Tebia was no coward, and she certainly wasn't squeamish but this land made her feel a pit in her stomach. So with her silver sword at her hip and ready to be drawn, she moved with care straight down the middle, if she went to where the two sides were meeting, could she find out what the nature of this land was?
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

The land slopes gently downwards as the trees rise and Ein begins to realize as he ventures deeper and deeper that this forest must be much older than it seems. Already the warm sunlight is dimmed by the sheer density of the canopy of branches, and while the forest floor is oddly free of most vegetation, there is still a sense of overgrowth, of something truly ancient in this place.

He might spot them glinting in a wayward beam of golden light or he might catch them as they crunch beneath his boots, but Ein eventually discovers a scattering of crystal shards over the forest floor. They lay there, twinkling in the rare strands of sunlight to make it this far to the forest floor, a spray of them scattered, as though some sort of larger crystal was smashed with great force to send pieces of it flying...

Another crunch, the noise is very audible in the forest every time he moves, or perhaps... Is he sure that he's the one making that noise..?


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of dust]
Shades of figures drift in and out of the sand around her, so like phantoms that they must be mirages as well, and yet something about them tingles at her senses, a presence that goes beyond that of an apparition... Still, they do not move any closer to her, and even shy away should she try to move closer to them. She could try to chase one down, but despite that sense, she cannot deny that if they do turn out to be phantoms after all she will be quite the fool for trying to pursue them.

By now, Zwei cannot see anything but the tips of the mountains behind her, as the rest is obscured by the swirling sands, but ahead ruins start to take shape, and as they grow more solid as she draws closer she can conclude that these are not any sort of mirage. Slowly the desert gives way to cracked and broken streets and ancient crumbled buildings, sides and corners piled high with heaps of sand. The footing is inconsistent, and there is a worry of sinkholes about, but there is also a worry of others, for now, while she can no longer see the phantom figures drifting in and out of her vision, she can certainly hear sounds echoing towards her, bouncing off the stone, a man and a woman, shouting at each other, though Zwei can make out no words.

Or perhaps there are no words to make out, for she realizes also that she can faintly hear the ring of metal on stone underlying the sounds...


Neina[/u]]
[Melmond Fens - Southern Foothills]
As Neina made her way towards the foothills the air cooled, as though -rather than walking on relatively flat ground- she was slowly ascending into a mountain. However, despite that, the wind seemed to drop away as she walked, and while the cold that replaced it was not pleasant, it did not cut so deeply as it had before...

As she slowly began to climb into the foothills, the source of the cooling became apparent as the fat grey clouds drifted close overhead. There was a forest ahead, and as she crested the foothills to get a better view, it became quite apparent that the clouds were steadily covering it in snow. It was not deep at the moment, a mere half-foot at most, but it was growing deeper as fat white flakes fell from the sky.

Before she could turn back though, Neina felt a pull on something within her, a beckoning, and a woman's voice whispered in her mind, along with flickering images of a face, blue skin, and entirely too many limbs... "Seek me if you dare summoner..." It felt like memory, and yet there was a resonance from that fragment of a past to this piece of a presence. Something was in that snowy forest, something that called to Neina on some innate level...
 
Ein stopped suddenly, there was another crunch. He lifted his sandal covered feet slowly, and move one foot forward a little almost comedic in a way as he lifts his foot up and lightly now is stepping in a slow almost creeping manner. He waits for his feet to hit the ground, there were no leaves on the ground. The trees barely looked like they were alive anymore. "Its a shame to see nature like this...." He softly said, having a soft spot for nature, and how un-natural this whole place felt. However, there was more crunching behind him, and the hairs on the back of his neck were raising, he was on alert now, and carefully he turned and moved backwards the hoe he picked up earlier outright in a manner he may use to swing it in a self defensive manner.

"Who... Who is there..." He slowly says, he was feeling nervous now, there was no sign of anyone following him, he had no idea even if there were others here. His skin was crawling... "This place creeps me out..." He simply said as his back was up against one of the trees and he left neither his front nor back exposed... The crystal shards littering the grass would give away anyone heavier then himself at this point coming, he was not one to fight, but, he hadn't any idea of what to expect from this place quite yet. "If you are dangerous... please respond..." Oh sure Ein, they will let you know if their dangerous, clearly not able to process information clear at this given point, he was ultimately biding his time to see if whatever was coming, was friend or foe.
 
The viera woman gasped as she saw the forest being dusted with powdery snow. Not a great sight, but snow didn't often get too far past the forest canopy, so it wasn't like she'd be treading through snow for long. After all, the comfort of the forest was still better than snowy mountain crags or the biting wind of the coast. Before she could make a decision either way, she heard a voice that was calling out to her, quite clearly. Though the images that accompanied it were less familiar. It wasn't her home, but it did seem to be the voice of the forest. Perhaps. A voice at least. Though what was a summoner? Wasn't she the one being summoned to where the voice was coming from?

Despite her piling questions, curiosity was getting the better of her. And before she knew it, she was ankle-deep in snow, feeling the cold, wet feeling seep into the thin fabric of her leggings. It definitely was not practical snow wear. Perhaps it was her loneliness, but she had to seek out the voice. After all, the voice of the forest was benevolent, giving the viera a guiding hand in treacherous times. Perhaps this forest's voice simply had a more person-like form than the motherly warm feeling that had been the forest's voice of her home.
 
Zwei had actually attempted to chase the looks of the phantom, but stopped abruptly once the scenery changed from sands to a city buried in the sand. Her azure eyes drifting slowly, the sands being kicked up, clacking against the ruins of the buildings around her. She took a moment to observe the architecture. "I don't recognize these buildings...." She said much to herself more then anyone. The beautiful knight stood there gazing around the ruins, "What could this place.. be...?"

She hears the sound of others and ultimately she grasped her helmet that was laid back, and bundled her hair up tucked it back and slipped her face under the helmet which concealed her face from view, her body would readily give away her sex, however she was neither ashamed of her being a female among a vastly male ruled arch-type nor did she find her sex hindered her in any way,. Why did she need to convince herself of that.

She moved carefully, despite her armor she was capable of moving without making much noise, her frame made for lighter armor and lighter armor made for better stealth. However she felt dirty sneaking around like this, and ultimately came out, and moved towards the figures. "You there, you know where this place is?" Her tone echoed from the holes of her Basinet helmet was like her breast plate silver and on the back of it the emblem of the blue flower like her breast plate was seen, however the flower was marked with a plume out the back this time. She was on guard now her sword was drawn and she was ready to take her stance should the two be hostiles.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

Ein spots it as he backs up, a man-shaped thing of pale blue crystal stalking through the trees. It's form is distorted by cracks and decaying equipment but he can see the suggestions of facial features, and the eyes of the crystalline thing are intact, though they do nought but stare emptily forwards, showing no emotion or intelligence besides a flicker of some sort of... Hunger...

Then the thing appears to see Ein too, and moves towards him, blade flashing in the semi-light of the deep forest. For all that the creature is almost decaying, it's sword certainly seems to be in good enough condition to cut him to ribbons one way or another...

Whipping the blade up in a crooked mockery of a fencer's salute, the creature lunges across the remaining intervening space! Tip of it's sword seeking Ein as it flashes forwards, but for all it's parody of grace, it moves in stutters, and it is not so fast as it seems at first...


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust

The figures barely even notice Zwei at first as theyf inally come into view of each other. The two are fighting, hurling themselves about the sand-covered city at fearsome speeds as they clash. The woman is slender, which belies her strength as she cleaves through a large stone hurled at her. Her hair is wild and pale pink, whipping in the wind, and she carries a wave-bladed sword as she pursues her opponent, leaping from rooftop to rooftop as he flies away from her, hurling magic back towards her as he goes, always just warding back the tip of the woman's blade before it can cut him. He is laughing rather than shouting now, a mad whooping cackling as he moves.

Zwei's voice however cuts across them both, and they turn, caught off guard by her sudden appearance. The clownish-looking man is the first to react, taking off towards her to a shout of anger from the woman he leaves behind as she is forced to take a slower series of jumps to make her way back to the ground. "Ehe... Hmm..." The man examines Zwei, still hovering as he does so, as though disdainful of gravity's force. "Who are you then? Not one of those disgustingly moral minions of Cosmos, but not chaos either?" He cocks an eyebrow at her. "Well? Speak up! I asked you a Question!"

Behind him, the woman has made it to the ground and is hurrying towards them, but the sandy ground impedes her, for the moment, Zwei is on her own.


Neina[/u]]
[Elven Snowfields - Western Glacier]

The wind seems to guide Neina, tugging on her, snowflakes swirling almost as though to show a path forwards. "Be wary summoner, they seek..." The voice whispers again, coolness in her mind for a brief moment at the same time as she hears shouts from up ahead. The voices are muffled, and interspersed with a sound like shattering glass, but the wind urges Neina forwards, into danger..?

Cresting a low hill, Neina sees a snow-covered altar, atop which sits a brilliant blue jewel, which -for a moment- occupies her entire world. Then she blinks, and it is merely present, calling to her, singing a song of mountains and glaciers and the cutting frost-touched winds.

There are other concerns however, which are what drew the Viera from her reverie at the sight of the stone. Shapes course along the snow, two beings in dark clothes, one with long hair as white as the snow, the other with shorter yellow-blonde spikes. They clash, and clash, the blonde with a sword so massive it should have shattered the long thin curving blade the other carried just as it shatters the more ephemeral sharp-edged crystalline shapes that harry him as he fights his rival. Yet they meet and meet and meet again, steel-on-steel's ring muffled by the falling snow as they fight up and down the altar's steps.

In this tableau, no one looks to Neina however, and the stone is right there, calling to her, beckoning with that winter's voice. A name on her lips that resonates with power held back only by distance...

"Shiva"
 
Ein would see the figure, it was attacking. He raised the hoe up as the figure rushed at him, it was clunky seemingly. The figure looked human, but whatever it appeared to be... It simply wasn't and the peasant looking boy was raising the hoe up, and would raise it up to block the figures head on attack, stepping up and catching the blade with the hoe, he flicks the back side of the hoe to try and slam it like a hammer into the crystal creatures side. "Take this." He said, as he was making to protect himself from the aggressive attack, this was nothing like fighting off wolves and other things... Why did he remember fighting such things.... his mind was cluttered and at the moment, he had to simply focus, the figure seemed designed after someone that was for sure. His hoe would be swung with more momentum then normal as he made to try and hit the other side of the creature right now. "I'm sorry its come to this... but... I won't die here..." He then pulls back and swings the blade up to try and hook it to catch the blade of the creature should it come at him again if the blows didn't do their justice.
 
The armored woman was clearly not happy to find that the one who approached her was some cackling maniacal jester.... She listened to his blithering though and shook her head, he was a dangerous sort alright.... "You sound completely mad....." She sighs and watched for the woman, she wasn't going to get here any time soon it looked like, she had a nice looking gait about her, and it took her just a moment to lingeringly watch before returning back the mans question. "I know not who this, Chaos or Cosmos is.... but you sound like you know a few things about this world...." She said resting her guard a little, but not enough that if the clown man should decide to flip on the kill switch she would be ready to fight. Her sword arm was rested a little near her hip, and she rolls back the visor of the helm to look the man in the eyes. "I am Zwei Tebia.... and who are you..." She said with her sword raised outward in a gesture as if pointing.... Her sense of presence mattered little. She wanted answers even if she had to ask the wrong crowd for it.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

While it was a mere farming implement, the hoe Ein carried was a sturdy tool, with a hardwood handle smoothed by years of use and a heavy metal head that actually give it a similar balance to a spear, albeit a spear without much in the way of point or blade. The blade meets the hoe's haft and deflects away leaving little more than a dent, and then Ein whips the tool around and a spray of little crystalline shards erupt from the creature's side as he strikes it with all the strength he can muster. The motions come more easily than he might expect, and the statue-thing stumbles as Ein twirls his impromptu weapon over his head to strike it on the other side, sending fresh cracks spidering across his opponent's body.

If such an inhuman thing could feel desperation, perhaps it was in the counterattack as it lunged again. If there was however, it availed the creature little as Ein caught the worn blade on his hoe and sent it upwards. They are close together now, and Ein can see the misshapen mouth's crackled lips parted in a soundless battlecry but there is only the sound of decrepit blade meeting well-forged tool and the steady crunching of the shards littering the ground beneath both combatants feet. The crystalline thing moves like a broken puppet now it's motions chaotic and jerking, still one minute and violent the next, but even in this state it is still dangerous as it reverses it's deflected strike and tries to bring it's sword down upon Ein's head!


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust

"Aaah-Hahahahaaa! You don't Know?! You don't Know?!" The clown practically dances a little jig in the air. "You reek of untapped power, power that only comes of being summoned here, and you claim not to know?!"

"Kefka!" The pink-haired girl's voice snaps across the clown's mad laughter like the crack of a whip, and anger shows faintly on her otherwise placid expression. Where she held her sword, she now holds a firearm of some sort, though Zwei is not sure how she recognizes such a thing. Where could she possibly have seen one before? The girl is still speaking though... "I am hardly finished with your madness clown!"

"But I am finished with you and your petty 'ideals'." The clown sneers back, before turning to Zwei once more. "Well there you have it, I'm Kefka, and I do know about this world, but I don't give anything away for free~..." He sing-songed, then cackled again. "Zwei was it? Deal with little Miss Thunderbolt over there for me, and I'll teach you about this world..." Kefka shrugged, and then sat cross legged in the air, shifting slightly to dodge a bullet as the girl fired up at him with a snarl.

He flapped his hands at Zwei. "Go on! And do make a good show of it would you?"
 
Ein, was surprised at how well he was moving... Something about this world made him feel much lighter. He twirls the hoe around upwards to catch the blade as it was coming down ontop of his head the hoe managed to make shaft contact with the sword, which then he felt bounce of the blade and then pulled back and then charged in. He begins swinging the hoe around and smashing it into the thing every which way. The more he seemed to hit it, the more it cracked, this thing was insanely fragile, and ultimately that was okay to him. "Sorry, I really am..." He then pulls back away and then charged up and attempted to swing at the thing with all his might the hoe blade aimed for the neck of the creature, surely getting rid of its head should be its down fall.
 
Zwei, turned and looked to the woman as she arrived finally. She didn't know if she should agree with the jester and help him. But this woman looked strong, and something inside of her made her want to gauge her strength. However Zwei could tell the woman had been fighting, and reached around for something she had a potion on her. She slowly looks to the woman "I am sorry for this.... and I know the timing couldn't be worse..." She tosses the woman the potion "But I think I would prefer to fight you in his stead."

She would allow the woman to recover with the potion, and not before that. The clown may have no moral of honor, but Zwei would rather her opponent fight with everything they had rather then fighting someone who couldn't even stand. "You may call me Zwei... if you have your honor... I'd like to know who you are before we begin."

It was clear she had long since forgotten the Clown was there and simply wanted to make this a fight she could really feel herself in, she hadn't been in this realm long, and she would rather fight an opponent that would stand much more even with her. She lowered her helmet visor and would take up her stance sword gripped in both hands and set up with her hips and legs straight the sword would be held at her right hip... The blue and white plume of her helmet tossling around. "Once your ready, En Gard...." She said waiting on the woman.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

Broken and Battered already, the thing can do little to withstand Ein's ferocious assault as he catches it on the reeling backstep of it's parried strike. More shards spray, hanging twinkling in the air for brief moments before they fall, and the final blow tears right through the creature's neck, the many cracks criss-crossing it's body giving entirely at the force. Ein's hoe turns the golem into a spray of crystalline chunks scattered across the forest floor, most of them inert, though one large shard still seems faintly luminous, and warm to the touch...

"My my..." The voice sounds suddenly from behind, languid, and almost warm, but with hidden ice in the words. "For one who looks like a farmer -and fights like one too I might add- that was quite impressive indeed..." The source of the voice is easy to spot, a young and rather androgynous looking man, with a long mane of silver-blue hair. He stirs no sound from the shards, mostly because he does not walk along the ground but rather floats, smirking down at Ein. "But I don't think I've seen you before, and that makes you a curiosity... What is your name farmboy?"


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust

The woman catches the potion tossed towards her with instinctive ease before pulling it back to examine it. Her eyes flick to Kefka, then back to Zwei, then finally she pops the cork from the bottle with one thumb and drinks the red liquid. Behind Zwei, Kefka chuckles to himself, not even stopping as he dodges another shot fired in response.

Potion finished in short order, she tosses the bottle aside and her gun unfolds, becoming the sword Zwei had seen her wielding earlier. A Gunblade. She raised it to the guard position, turning her attention more fully to her new opponent, though it was clear she found Kefka's continued antics difficult to ignore, and Zwei might find the same as the clownish man simply would not stop giggling and capering mid-air...

"I am Lightning." She replied curtly. "And I too am sorry it must be this way." She seems resigned for a moment, but it does not last long, and a steely glint enters her eyes.

"En Garde!" She barks, and a beat later she lunges, sword darting low to cut at Zwei's calves, aiming to hamstring her only for Lightning to leap back at the last second, blade already shifting to gun as she fires down on Zwei from above before she lands and it returns to a sword!
 
Zwei would readily take up action, after the woman made her move, she had an unusual style to her. The way she rushed in, fast moving, and then she blocks the blow of the woman aiming for her calves and seeing the looks of the weapon shifting she loomed and rushed towards after she managed to dodge the spray of ammo, the woman was an excellent opponent. She then dashed and jumped up ito the air and aimed for the woman right as her sword was shifting forms, she didn't seem like she could attack while shifting. She was clearly trained in the art of fighting, and observing her opponent.

She swings the blade of hers down catching the weapon mechanisim as it was shifting back to sword form jamming it with the blade of her sword. "You have the style of a soldier.... I respect that." She ignored Kefka as soon as the En Garde had been made..... She clearly had a knights training and fortitude, she would try and force back against Lightning, she had a bit more power in her clearly as her armor and training showed.
 
Ein was startled after having watched the creature turn to shards of dust before him. He lands on the ground, and felt another presence and turned and rests his hoe over his shoulder after wiping the sweat from his brow... "That was a little worriesome, thing wasn't all as sturdy as it looked..." He now gave the man or woman his attention, his blinking gaze had him looking the figure over and tapping his chin as if trying to figure out what the man was going for her, he clearly sounded friendly, but there was that chill in his voice.... "All I can say is my name at this point you can call me Ein."

He said withholding his last name feeling it irrelevant to the man, and his tone all though heavily implying he had no real reason to feel threatened by the man, he still felt the need to be careful for some reason. "Mind telling me where we are, just woke up in the grassy field that way, can't quite recall where I came from to be exact or where I am...." He would point towards the field where he had come from. "You have a name for this place exactly?" He wagered since the man was floating he must be some sort of wizard and must know more then he might.... "By the way, how are you floating like that... is it... magic?" He asked along side his other questions.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

"Then all I will say is that you can call me 'K' in return. Seems only fair after all, half of a name for half of a name?" The man makes a complex bow, still hovering as he does so. He cocks an eyebrow. "That way? Not over there?" He motions to where the sky pales to whiteness, or at least where it would if the they could see above the trees. "This place? A forest in the Cornelia Plains." He smirks. "And yes, it is magic..."

His answers are all only halves, informative on the surface, but giving away not a whit more information than was asked for, and little of any use. Ein has never heard of the 'Cornelia Plains' before. "So what are you then?" The question seems an odd one, until Ein realizes it is a rhetorical one as the man continues. "You're something unseen I suppose, though I've have to ask him to be sure..." The man shudders, whoever 'him' refers to is clearly someone to be feared.

"Well... Suffice it to say, I think you will be interesting, for a time at least..." He sits, propping his chin on his fist and his elbow on his knee, grinning down at Ein. "Verrry Interesting..."


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust]

Lightning's eyes widen in surprise as the point of Zwei's sword slips between the mechanisms of her gunblade. Neither weapon breaks, but hers is stuck for as long as Zwei's sword remains... Immediately Lightning leans in, trying to win the contest of strength only to slowly be forced backwards. "Oho! Interesting indeed, I wonder though..." Kefka chortles somewhere in the background, but the focus of the two fighters is on each other, and he remains ignored.

Then red courses through Lightning for a brief second and she flares bright, lips parting ever so slightly as she grins. "Fire!" A ball of flame bursts from her palm with that cry, slow-moving at first, but rapidly accelerating to track Zwei, and at this close range the knight will be hard pressed indeed to dodge the assault. This is exacerbated as Lightning hurls two more balls of fire in the wake of the first. At the same time, she pulls rather than pushing back with her weapon, clearly hoping to jerk it free while Zwei is distracted in the event that Zwei takes the attack head-on rather than backing away to try and dodge the sudden magical assault.
 
Ein would listen to the man, and see where he points towards the white zone, where the light was brightest... He taps his chin calmly, listening to the man woman while he spoke. "Alrighty Mister K, so, you have to ask this person about me then?" He calmly blinks and shrugs "This place is strange, lifeless, almost like a grave..." He looks around "Nature is here, but it is hardly dead nor alive.... almost like an imitation...." He moved and touched one of the trees, sure it felt real, but it didn't feel like it was actually alive, or anything of the sort... He didn't feel like he liked this place..

"And what am I... good question, suppose if I look like a farmer I must be one." He looks among the area slowly. "Thanks for the company though Mister K." He said almost as innocently, the way he said Mister K sounded more like he found it funny to refer to him as that, "So you float with magic then, must be a neat little thing to do...." He eyes the man, and slowly begins to move.

"So, do you have some idea about this place, I have time to hear a little geography while I catch my breath..." He said rumaging through the shard remains of the destroyed crystal thing, and noticed there was something buried in the shards, and pulled up what looked like some gil, "Huh, thats strange..." He shook his head and settles back against the tree now ready to give the man his full attention if he wished to explain, he didn't have to though, and if he didn't Ein would finish catching his breath and move towards the area where the man had pointed, meaning to Ein that going that way, may be the way he should go, but for now he sat and waited.
 
Zwei was rather left in a situation, the woman could use magic. This left her in a pickle as the woman blasted off not one but three balls of fire. Zwei took the chance to release her sword for a moment then pull back, her sword would be left jammed in the mechanism. The thin blade would be hard for Lightning to shake out from the blade, as the blade seemed to have jammed into it enough to cause it to get stuck deep. "Your fancy blade, it has a problem, it can be two things, but it isn't both of them..." She would leap away and dodge the three balls of fire as she would take up a stance of being unarmed she clearly without her sword wasn't worried, the woman was going to be a little pressed to use her own weapon the way the two swords were locked up with each other. "You fight with magic and sword, tell me where did you learn to fight?" She asked while she was unarmed she took up a very martial arts like stance for someone armored like she was, clearly the armor was lighter and allowed her to still move easily.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Forest Valley]

By the third 'Mister K' the stranger looks rather visibly annoyed. "Oh Very well, call me Kuja if you must." He growls finally. "But I wonder, do you know where you're going?" He says this as Ein sets out towards the lightening sky. "There are dangerous places in this world, and that is one of them, at least, to those who did not come from there..." The words sound almost like a threat.

Almost.

"But don't mind me..." Kuja suddenly continues, cheerful, as though the dark tone that had pervaded his last words had never been. "If I could, I'd love to see where your path takes you, but you walk where I cannot alas..." He mock-swoons in mid-air. "Not that I walk anyways..." A grin, then the sorcerer finally shrugs. "Well then, I wish you luck, but moreover, I wish you no need for such. Ta for now Farm-Boy!"

And with that, he takes off, heading away from the light, back into the depths of the forest, which Ein is beginning to realize is growing lighter and lighter now as the ground slopes upwards. Perhaps he is getting to the other side of the valley...


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust]

Lightning staggered at the sudden shift in impulse as Zwei released her sword and pulled away, then steadied, the glow that had preceded her magical attack appearing around her again briefly, cycling green for a moment, then blue again as she inspected the locked weapons. "To make it two things would weaken both of them, to make it one but let it change as needed is much preferable." Lightning retorted as she set her jammed gunblade flat against the ground -leaving Zwei's sword sticking straight up from it- braced against the weapon with one foot, and pulled her opponent's sword free of it with a grunt of effort. For a moment she brandished Zwei's blade against her, then she gave her own gunblade a flick with her foot, flipping it up into her free hand, arming her with both weapons.

Then, with a sigh, she stuck Zwei's sword in the ground and gave her own weapon a quick knock with her fist to shake the mechanisms into action again, setting it back into it's firearm mode before she stowed it in it's holster with a sigh. "I don't remember." She answers, taking up a fighting stance of her own, putting her weight on the balls of her feet as she prowls forwards, circling slightly to Zwei's right as she moves. "But I do not think it was a kind or gentle place..." Suddenly she closes the distance with two great lunging strides, launching a rapid punch at Zwei's head before skipping back easily. "And you? Where did you learn your art?"
 
Ein hadn't shown it on his face or body language, but the stranger had made him rather uncomfortable... Slowly the young farmer would continue his journey, coming up the slope of the hill. He was no longer in the forest anymore either at this point. From where he stood, he could see a white tower, but to get there, he would have to cross a bridge. Ultimately it looked like the archway over the bridge had some sort of swirling portal looking thing on it. The farmer boy while feeling rather disturbed by the portal felt it was either through that, or risk staying in the open he shook his head and decided. "Spooky portal it is....." However as he moved forward, more movement near him brought him to stop and look around.... He saw two figures not far from his location, they didn't look like they were made of crystal either.
 
Zwei, being who she was waited for Lightning to dislodge her sword from her weapon. She respected the female soldier. leaving her to treat her as a fitting rival. To even up the fisticuffs she removed her helmet and dropped it to the ground. Revealing a face more befitting of a princess then a knight, her long blond hair fell to mid back. The Lightning woman made her move and when the fist landed in Zwei's face she braced for it, within a split moment after, Zwei thrusts a shoulder up against Lightning, and attempts to force the woman down with the impact. Following up with a cat like lunge to reinforce the attempt. If all went according to her training. She would wind up pinning Lightning down on the ground. "I don't remember where, but I feel like it may not matter.." She leans in close looking down at the woman, she brushed a hair from her eyes, and gently kissed the woman on the lips. She still felt the clown watching... The romance would have to wait... "I apologize, but, if you see my brother... keep him safe for me...." She slowly dismounted, and in a moment she would send a punch straight to the woman's sternum. "I wish to fight you again..... should we meet again Lightning..." The punch would if it worked would knock her out for a bit.
 
Ein Kebia[/u]]
[Cornelia Plains - Northern Spit]

The pair certainly seem not to be made of crystal, and they don't move with the jerky not-quite-living motions of the creature Ein fought earlier either. They wander along, walking parallel to his course, making their way away from the gate and portal. They don't seem to spot him however, despite the narrowness of the land here.

He can see them easily enough however. A golden-haired girl, playing with a pair of somethings that flash and spin in her hands as she walks. Perhaps it is unsurprising that she hasn't seen him yet, given her distraction, but the other girl looks to be watching reliatively vigilantly for something, as she keeps peering forwards. Why she never looks to the left, where Ein walks, he can't be sure.

The second girl is tall, and a long wave of brown hair cascades down her back, almost to her ass where it rests tied only at the very end.

The gate is just ahead, but it would be the work of mere moments for Ein to make his way over to the girls instead. They look to be going somewhere else though...


Zwei Kebia[/u]]
[Mirage Sandsea - City of Dust]

Lightning's eyes widen for the second time in as many minutes as Zwei barely even flinches at her strike. Oh the force of it rocks the lady knight back on her heels to be sure, but then she is surging forwards, and lightning is suddenly on the backstep.

Surprise leaves her vulnerable, Zwei's move is unfamiliar, and those two factors conspire to catch Lightning utterly off guard. She is borne to the ground with a startled cry as Kefka whoops in the background, barely managing to keep her head from striking the stone hard enough to daze as she lands flat on her back.

The brush of fingers against her forehead as her hair is swept from her eyes and the sudden press of Zwei's lips against her own dazes her as surely as a blow though. The blow that follows after simply curls her in on herself, leaving her shivering and wheezing for breath, curled on her side. Kefka looks almost disappointed for a moment, but then he begins to applaud.

"Well good enough for me, but next time I want to see you kill her." He smirks. "Come along then though! Oooh I've got so much to tell you!" The clown cackles, and leads the way, skipping on air and forcing Zwei to hurry around several sinkholes to keep up.
 
Ein saw the two of them, he did a quick bit of mental math in his head. "Let's see two plus me equals 3.... then 3 would make me feel a lot safer then one...." Ein blinks and shakes his head. Turning from the gate he advances towards the two, now that he was close. Ein saw more clearly they were both girls in fact, the farmer like young man skids to a halt near them. "Excuse me, I appear to be lost, are you two familiar with this place, I just woke up that way..." He points in a generalish direction not being the least bit certain at this point. He looks between the two slowly. His dark hair bobbing where it spiked as wind blew through, the t'rusty' Hoe of his settled over his shoulder.
 
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