Mirror, Mirror [Ven, Open]

[rox]

Hollow Bastion didn't look as hollow anymore. Not that Roxas fully remembered it back from Sora's first few visits, but the Leon gang had definitely fleshed it out. The castle was the only thing that still looked like it was suffering, as no one seemed to bother restoring any part of it that wasn't necessary, but maybe that was for the best. Resources were resources, and Roxas knew very well that dead weight got left behind.

At any rate, his search thus far hadn't been for anything in particular and he didn't expect that to change. But that didn't mean it wasn't interesting, in a way, to look at things from outside Sora again--understand the world from a perspective that wasn't Sora's, do what he liked without having to nag and nag and nag at his other's subconscious, and just be whether he had the right or not.

So he crossed to the railing that separated him from a fall to what looked like his doom, looking out at the castle...

...and got the eerie feeling that somewhere that wasn't here, sometime that wasn't now, Sora had just done the same thing.

For a moment he just breathed in sync with himself, feeling for the phantom heartbeat that he knew was there, he knew it, he knew it was...

"Sora..."

Gone.

Roxas slammed his fists into the railing, ignoring the shocking pain of the cold, hard stone as he spun away from it. "Why do you never listen to me?!" he demanded of no one and nothing, hearing his voice come out weak and useless. It felt barely capable of pushing the air away from his mouth, let alone reaching the other that was so far away.

[Ventus]

Ven was walking in Hollow Bastion. He know that Terra or Aqua would be here. When Ven was walking her hear voices come from some where so he got curious and start to walk to where the voice was. He look up and down the roads that he saw and when coming to an road that had some one that look like him come down. Ven then got curious on how this guy would be and siad " Hi there. "

[rox]

When Roxas turned away from the railing with Sora's name on his lips, he wasn't expecting to then hear his own voice greeting him, too. He whirled, prepared to call the Keyblade at a moment's notice, and was more than a little startled to see what looked like a mirror image of himself, complete with a strange kind of armored clothing that looked similar to Roxas's own.

Roxas knew that mirror images were bad news. Sora fought one in Neverland, Roxas fought one in Twilight Town, he'd seen another just before he fought the Twilight Thorn, and he'd fought Sora himself. Not to mention there was another one...a shadowy, indistinct memory of fighting not-quite-himself that wouldn't resolve into anything more. So he knew not to trust any dopplegangers, because they were never who they appeared.

"Who are you?!" he demanded, sinking into a defensive position and prepared to call the Keyblade at a moment's notice. This could very easily be a Heartless of some sort--Sora's Heartless, maybe, if Roxas was split from him again?--and attack without warning.

[Ventus]

" My name is Ventus but my friends Terra and Aqua call me Ven. " said Ven to this look a like. He saw that he was getting to call his keyblade. Ven know that this kid had an Keyblade because he had the stan like he had an keyblade. Ven look at he kid and said " What is your name there Keyblader. " Terra and Aqua tach he well to Stand his Ground. He was getting really to call his keyblade if he need to.

[rox]

Aqua? Terra... Roxas's eyes went out of focus briefly. Those names almost sounded...familiar. But not quite.

Then the other him said something about a Keybearer and he snapped to attention. "Wh--?! How'd you know that?" he wanted to know, but that was probably fairly obvious. This guy was another him, after all, or close to it. He let out a low growl of frustration, annoyed at getting interrupted by this mystery stranger and not eager to make another friend that could be a target or another enemy that could tail him or leak his position to the Organization. "That's none of your business! What do you want with me? Are you with the Organization?"

Chances were, this guy didn't mean any harm. But Roxas wasn't used to getting approached by dopplegangers that didn't mean him harm, and in his current situation he wasn't ready to trust anyone and couldn't be too careful.