21st Dawn

[halfdarkened]

[Cambot has been searching around the SOL over the last day and a half for Riku, broadcasting on and off, possibly unintentionally. It seems lonely, not too uncommonly videoing the floor. Slowly it wanders into the cafeteria deck idly. It's late evening, and fairly dark. Cambot starts to turn when there's a little "pop" from inside the fridge. The bot enters, a little curious, until the door flies open, leaving light and cold to tumble out... Along with something else.]

[The short-haired figure groans and sits up, half-covered in what looks like someone's leftover Chinese food. Riku looks around, trying to figure out where he was.] Cambot? [Abruptly he checked his clothing, pulling the shoulder of his vest to get a look at the cloth on the back.] So it wasn't a dream... [And then he notes the food all over him and looks back over his shoulder. He reappeared in a familiar area.]

Again? ...Are you kidding me?!

[Cambot bounces up and down in joy!]

Comments

[halfdarkened]

...To what? Everything that happened during our test?

Not really.

[optimistickey]

To anything at all! I didn't get to see her again before I got back here.

[halfdarkened]

...I wonder if I'm a little ahead of you, now.

Do you know about the seven guardians of light we need to protect the princesses?

[optimistickey]

I don't know...maybe?

Yeah, I think Master Yen Sid mentioned something about that.

[halfdarkened]

We're also a few short right now, and even under the best circumstances, we'd only have six.

[He smirks.] Luckily, we have a Princess who can guard herself.

[optimistickey]

Yeah...

[It takes Sora a minute, but then understanding dawns on him.] Ohhhh, yeah! [He gets a bit more worried, though.] You think that'll be safe enough for her?

[halfdarkened]

I honestly don't know for sure. But I'm sure if Mickey learned from Yen Sid and he told me to bring her, then Yen Sid will get her up to speed.

I wonder if Xehanort knows if Kairi can use a Keyblade. If he doesn't, we could have an advantage.

[optimistickey]

Right. I just hope we finally have all the info we need now.

If he doesn't, then we have to make sure that he never finds out! I don't even want to think about what he'd try and do with her.

[halfdarkened]

I get the feeling we don't. But we're going to have to make do.

She'll be a guardian of light and she's already a Princess. She's going to be a target anyway. But if he thinks she's unprotected or defenseless, he'll get a nice little surprise.

[optimistickey]

At least until we can find out everything.

Got that right!

[halfdarkened]

Yeah.

Let's just hope.