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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 12, 2019 21:30:27 GMT -5
Last thing Sky remembered was opening a mysterious book in Radiant Garden, titled: Inverted Realities, Don’t Get it Twisted. What bizarre name for a book. Lucia had just saved her from certain death once again. She found the book lying there, and Lucia tried to warn her, but not before she got sucked into the book.
Where was she? She picked herself up off the ground and took a gander. She was in Radiant Garden, in the Town. She noticed the pretty scenery and a house of the town wizard. She was confused to still be in Radiant Garden and she didn’t see Lucia anywhere. ”Lucia!!” She started wandering around town, maybe she will find her somewhere close by.
She approached a fountain a little ways into the town, and saw her reflection, her hair was short and white and her eyes were as green as ever. However, her hair felt longer, and she examined it. It looked blonde close up, but white in the reflection. She realized that her reflection looks nothing like her. She noticed that she was quite muscular and she had on knee high leather boots. The clothes she was wearing was not her style at all. She started to panic. ”I’m not me! But then, who the hell am I?!!
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Post by Ziya on Jan 12, 2019 21:47:06 GMT -5
"Ugh, now where am I?
Lucia groaned as she sat up, quickly recognizing the area as the center of the Marketplace in downtown Radiant Garden. "At least I'm in the same place..." She trailed off as she rubbed the back of her head, noticing for the first time that her long violet hair wasn't on her neck. Eyes widening, she quickly stood and rushed to the nearest shop window, only to see her usual reflection. Yet, when she looked down she was clearly smaller and in completely different clothes. Clothes that looked oddly familiar...
Suddenly she remembered the title of the book and things clicked into place. Looking around she didn't see herself, so she quickly ran off, looking as she went at the auras surrounding her in an attempt to find her friend. "Skyler?! Sky where are you, we've got a problem!" On a hunch she ran toward the Bailey and Merlin's house. If nothing else maybe he could help find her...
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 12, 2019 22:32:14 GMT -5
Skyler heard a yell in a very familiar voice summoning her. Strangely, it didn’t sound like Lucia. It sounded very familiar, like a voice she had heard her entire life. She ran back toward the place she woke up near the wizard’s house. ”I’m here! Who’s yelling for me?” she cried. Once she arrived, she was stunned by what she saw.
She saw a woman who had looked just like her. White hair, emerald eyes surrounded by mascara, slender figure, even the coveralls and those ugly tennis shoes she’s had forever. Then, she analyzed how she, herself looked. Who she reminded herself of. She realized exactly what happened. ”Lucia?”
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Post by Ziya on Jan 12, 2019 23:01:12 GMT -5
As Lucia rounded the last bend before the entrance to the Bailey she finally found the aura of Skyler, who was indeed in her body. Panting, she somehow managed to gasp out a response to her friend's confusion. "The book... switched bodies...but not... powers..." Remembering a trick from her childhood, she put her hands behind her head and finally regained her breath before wiping the sweat off her face.
Something black came off with it that she frowned at before realizing what it was. "Oh, I forgot you had that on! I'll have to fix that later..." Snapping back to the topic at hand she pointed at Sky in her body, or more specifically her hair. "Not only do I still have my powers, but the blonde hair and steel blue eyes prove that there's no Twilight in that body currently. I don't know how this happened, but if we can get out of the book we should switch back."
She looked around for a moment before rubbing the back of her... well, technically Skyler's head sheepishly and smiling to match. "I uh... have no idea how to do that though."
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 12, 2019 23:51:03 GMT -5
Skyler sighed in dismay, ”I don’t know either” She scratched her head and wondered what they could do, and it felt very disheartening knowing that Lucia had no idea what to do. She has had a game plan in the past, and Skyler was able to follow. This time, they were in the same boat. ”Ughhh. I wish there was some sort of clue what to do” She laid back as a swirl of wind vented beneath her keeping her airborne. She closed her blue eyes and let out a heavy breath, as her long blonde hair rippled in the wind. ”Skyler!” a voice yelled, as a pale woman with curly dark hair dressed in black and had a white umbrella. Skyler jumped back onto her feet and ran toward her, she knew who it was, ”Katherine!” The woman looked at her strangely and passed her, ”Skyler, why does this woman know my name” Katherine approached Lucia and kissed her on the cheek, ”but it’s nice to see you, doll
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Post by Ziya on Jan 13, 2019 0:31:42 GMT -5
Just as Lucia thought the situation was as bad as it was going to get, it got worse. The kiss quickly solidified her theory on who this was, but made things no less awkward for her. For an instant she considered going along with it out of pure mischief. Then she remembered that Skyler was right there, and she was married!
"Okay, one, I'm not Skyler. That," she pointed at Sky with a thumb, "is Skyler. I'm Lucia, a Keyblade Master and friend of hers." She summoned Requiem's Resolve for a moment as proof before continuing. "We seem to have switched bodies somehow, and are in the process of figuring out how to reverse it. Two, could you excuse us for a moment please?"
She lightly grabbed Sky's- well, her arm before using Flash Step to bring them to the other side of the plaza. Her voice was pitched not to carry, or as best as she could given the difference in pitch. "Keep in mind that we're in the book right now. None of this is real, so be careful, okay? I can take a hit and come back fine, but even if you're in my body it's still your abilities you have to rely on."
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 13, 2019 20:20:38 GMT -5
It took a second for Skyler to process the whole situation, she felt a little hurt when Kath passed her and kissed Lucia. Then, she realized that the world doesn’t realize that Sky and Lucia switched bodies. She was relieved when Lucia flash-stepped them, and she explained that none of this was real. It all felt real, though. Skyler sighed in relief. ”What’s the game plan?”
Katherine’s gave went into shock and then anger as Lucia said she wasn’t Skyler and flash-stepped away. She approached the duo in a very frustrated fashion, ”I don’t know what you’re doing, but you are being funny!” Skyler looked at Lucia, ”You know, she’s not one to be made mad”
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Post by Ziya on Jan 14, 2019 18:02:16 GMT -5
To say Lucia was worried would be an understatement. She wasn't sure just how switched reality was in this book, especially after revealing her keyblade did nothing. But still, she refused to impersonate Skyler.
Sighing, she turned to face Katherine and kept her tone patient. "Look, I'm sorry that this has happened, but I'm being honest here. I spent the first 23 years of my life pretending to be someone I wasn't, and I'm not doing it again. I swear by the light of Kingdom Hearts that what I just said is true. If you don't believe me, then there are ways to confirm it."
She wasn't quite sure what would happen if she used Aspect or Requiem in this form, but she might not have a choice if this kept up. "You can ask us both a question only Skyler would know for one. Or, if you'd rather let out some of that frustration we could always spar. I warn you though, I am the Keyblade Master of Twilight, even in another's body."
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 17, 2019 0:04:03 GMT -5
”You have a daughter named Umbriella, and your veil covers a memory of you protecting her from the Heartless!” Skyler shouted as Lucia started to mention sparring. The last thing she wanted was there to be an unnecessary conflict. Katherine shot Sky a look that both said, “Oh, it is you!” and “What the hell?! You shouldn’t tell anyone that!” She ran to Skyler and shoved her, ”That was a secret!” then, she quickly, wrapped her arms around her, ”So, this is your body right now? Not gonna lie, I find the muscles pretty sexy.” Then, she looked at Lucia, ”Sorry, for the misunderstanding” she smiled, ”So, how in the hell did this happen?”
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Post by Ziya on Jan 17, 2019 14:19:57 GMT -5
Once Skyler managed to make Katherine believe them Lucia let out a sigh of relief, immediately followed by a light blush at the compliment to her body. "Not sure how to feel about that..." She meant it as a joke, at least partially, but the entire situation was confusing for her.
Still, she accepted the apology with a smile and a nod before attempting to explain their situation. "Well, I arrived on this world about an hour ago and ran into Sky. We ended up finding a magic book while looking for her weapon, and when it was opened we ended up in town like this." She was careful not to mention the portal it made, or that they were in the book at that moment. "It also seems to have rewound my body a bit, seeing as my left arm is still intact here."
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 18, 2019 20:22:43 GMT -5
Skyler wanted to interact as little with Katherine within this world, since she and Lucia couldn’t share everything with her. Even though this version of Kath was fake, she didn’t feel right not sharing things with her. She thought she would send her to find someone that could possibly help her. She looked at Kath, ”Could you go find Landon? I think he might be able to understand what’s going on.” Her gothic partner nodded and kissed her on the cheek, and skipped off. ”Nice to meet you, Lucia!” As soon as Kath was out of sight, Sky started giving an idea to Lucia ”Hey, since I still have your right arm and your hair is blonde, we must be in the past. I just don’t know how far back we are.” She scratched her head and sighed. Then, a thought hit her! ”Wait! I’m not David, so, it’s not super far back, but do you have your Mark of Mastery?”
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Post by Ziya on Jan 18, 2019 22:43:53 GMT -5
Lucia couldn't help but let out another full-body sigh as Katherine ran off. Soon after she found herself chuckling at Skyler's theory, turning to face her, well... herself, before replying lightly. "I'd really appreciate it if you'd forget that name, actually. It never was a good fit for me, and I was Lucia then too. I just didn't know it." Her tone and body language made it clear she wasn't offended, and that it was an honest request.
"As for when we are..." She paused for a moment as she thought, lightly touching her lip with the middle of her right index finger. "It's definitely after I used that spell, but before last month. The hair and eyes don't make a difference, since they're only purple usually because of my Twilight. It's definitely before my Mark though, since that happened just before I lost my arm."
She moved closer to her body, looking at the length of her hair, the scars on her body, and general muscle tone in the arms and legs before nodding. "I'd put us at about two years ago, give or take a month or two."
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Post by aurablade97 on Jan 21, 2019 22:34:24 GMT -5
Skyler didn’t realize how bad her wording was until Lucia pointed it out, then she immediately felt bad, ”I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean it like-“ she rubbed the back of her own neck as she blushed in shame, ”I didn’t mean any offense” She then, noticed that Lucia’s body language that she wasn’t offended. She relaxed a little. Then, Lucia was able to get a close approximation when they were, based on Lucia’s body. Then, Skyler looked at her own original body and realized that she had a recent burn on her wrist. ”Actually, here, tells me a little something.” pointing at the burn wound, ”I actually had just rebuilt Little Sky and I had to torch a couple blocks together, and I burned myself because my brother made me jump.” After a bit of pondering, ”I haven’t crashed the ship again, because I had a broken leg and had to go around in crutches! So, this is late last year, right before I met my other brother Seamour, this was when our family was reunited since we were extremely young, my brothers, Landon, Seamour and myself. It’s funny we met Seamour during a sunset on the beach, where the sky, land and sea meets.”
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Post by Ziya on Jan 22, 2019 23:21:38 GMT -5
Skyler's analysis was quite similar to what Lucia had been attempting to do with her own body, though it finally occurred to her that it had one fatal flaw with her. "Oh wait, my body doesn't have scars or varying hair length thanks to Aspect. Oops." Once again she found herself embarrassed, only shaking herself out of it when Sky's words hit her.
Once she actually did process those words her... well, Skyler's eyes lit up as she got an idea. "Wait. Maybe that means we need to actually recreate that!" It was only then that she remembered the issue with that plan. "Um, what would we do about the body swapping thing? Your fianceé is one thing, but could we even convince your brothers about that? Should we?"
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Post by aurablade97 on Feb 5, 2019 23:41:38 GMT -5
Skyler smiled as she heard Lucia’s idea, ”That is a brilliant idea! Maybe we’re supposed to reach defining moments in our lives!” She quickly embraced Lucia, ”Lucia, you’re a genius! Maybe, now we should-“ Sky’s voice trailed off as she had a scene flash before her eyes. Lucia and Radiant Garden both disappeared. She only knew she was someplace high... A skyscraper, perhaps? She saw a scene of Katherine and a figure in a hood fighting it out. She also noticed that she was losing the fight and the figure jabbed her chest with a Keyblade. Skyler heard herself whispering, ”Forgive me, Sky” Then, she dissipated into shards of light. Skyler screamed in horror as she watched the whole scene unfold. “No!!!” Skyler was too in shock to notice that Lucia was right in front of her again, in Radiant Garden.
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Post by Ziya on Feb 6, 2019 0:50:37 GMT -5
Lucia smiled at Skyler's excitement about the idea, already pondering what the defining moment would be for her. That ended when Sky's aura suddenly spiked with fear and anxiety as her eyes focused on something not there. Just as she was about to touch her arm she cried out, which made Lucia abandon any sense of caution and grab both her arms as best she could.
"Sky! Hey, Sky, calm down! Whatever you saw wasn't real!" She was clearly panicking, and Lucia didn't need to be able to see auras to know that. She just wished that she had some way of calming her friend down other than pulling her into Lucia's heart. While it might work, it might just as easily cause her to panic even more.
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Post by aurablade97 on Sept 30, 2019 19:39:28 GMT -5
“Agh!” Sky realized that she was being shaken back to reality. She eyed the area, it was the marketplace again. Her eyes went back to Lucia. “I’m sorry to scare you, it’s just that I had just seen..” Sky’s voice trailed off as she had thought that she shouldn’t burden her old friend with her vision of what could possibly be the future. Instead of finishing, she elected to say, “I-it’s nothing.” Her head shot down to the ground, studying the tiles of the ground. She hadn’t really paid attention to the intricate color and design etched into the concrete. The bright hues of the gardens around her made a stark contrast of the white, flushed skin on her cheeks and forehead. Then, a tear cascaded down from her eye to her jawline. Realizing that the vision of losing someone very dear to her is scary. Things had seemed to be correct in the book so far, so, why couldn’t this have been true? She quickly turned away, hoping that Lucia didn’t catch her tear.
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Post by Ziya on Oct 1, 2019 23:27:25 GMT -5
Sky's words did nothing to reassure Lucia. Indeed, they only served to make her worry even more. Thankfully the Garden was curiously empty in the area surrounding them, giving her plenty of time to calm down.
Or not, if that tear was anything to go by. A lifetime of combat training and a decade of actual combat had taught her to pay attention to every tiny thing. It was annoying at times, but right now she was grateful for the keen senses.
Gently she shifted her arms to her friends' shoulders. The feeling of looking up into her own eyes was an odd one, but she pushed it aside for the moment. "Sky, you're clearly upset about what you saw. Do you want to talk about it?" Her tone was soft but earnest.
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Post by aurablade97 on Oct 3, 2019 23:18:17 GMT -5
Though, Skyler still felt shaken up by the vision, she felt better knowing that Lucia was a very kind and comforting soul. She knew that she could count on her, but now wasn’t the time to talk about it. They needed to focus on departing from this book. “No, I’d rather not talk about it right now,” She smiled at the woman who currently inhabits her vessel, “ As, I was saying, I think it’d be a good idea to recreate our events. First, I think we should go to my current residence, and talk, I am in total need of some chamomile.” She motioned for her companion to follow her. “My house is actually just around the corner from the marketplace, it’s very convenient” Skyler took a sharp left and approached a small home that seemed to be built below the bottom of the multicolor stonewall that supported the cottages on the second story. “ Here, is my humble abode, please make yourself at home,” She patted her pockets and realized she couldn’t have had the house key, as it was Lucia’s body. “Hey Luce She smiled sheepishly, “Do you have my keys by any chance?”
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Post by Ziya on Oct 5, 2019 1:31:02 GMT -5
Lucia was still worried, but she would respect her friend's decision. The mention of tea made her smile, at least. "That sounds amazing."
Following her around the corner, Lucia smiled at the charming exterior. At least, she did until Sky mentioned her keys.
Lucia patted every spot there seemed to be a pocket in Sky's outfit, only to not find anything. "I'm not feeling any keys..." She panicked for a moment, then she suddenly laughed and lightly smacked her forehead. "What am I looking for keys for? I'm a Keyblade Master!" Summoning Requiem's Resolve, she lightly tapped the door and unlocked it with a soft click.
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