You have been lied to.

The world is not as you think it is, and you have no idea what lies beyond the curtain.

 

Do not worry, I shall guide you. I shall show you the truth. I shall show you the way.

 

Awake now, my new friends, and let me introduce you you to the City.

 

I am Q, and I will be your guide.

 

This is where the lies end.

 

This is The City.

 

 

 

The words ring in your mind as you come to. Everything is white. Everything is so white. White skyscrapers surround you and close you in. There is no shadow, only the dim gray outline of the buildings and streets to keep the blank whiteness from consuming all you see. There is no sun, and there is no sky. The words you heard... it was a woman's voice that spoke them. She sounded... compassionate, but far off. So far off. The streets around you extend in a criss-cross in every direction. This seems to be setup like any city you've ever known, but somehow it seems so very different. After the blinding light of all the pure white, though, you notice them. The people around you. They have color to them; their clothes, their hair, their eyes. It is a welcome sight. They seem to all be coming to now as well...

 

In one spot, under the overhang of what may have been a sandwich shop were this any normal city, in the district known as Haven, six people awoke: Reverie Oscuro (Hazimie), Wlynn Cellus (Firo Procheniezio), Liath Smith (Captain Arrowguns), Jason Carmichael (Javelin), Sora Takagi (Oathkeeper) and Kristy Yauser (Ultimus Grid)

 

Elsewhere, next to one of the tallest towers in the area, in the district known as Crest were five more people who had just regained consciousness: Laciann Pascual (Tatsumi), Alysa Mors (Mine), Asher Sterban (Neko-chan), Aro (Silver Kuroi) and Tristan Cane (Joemahon) .

 

Finally, the third group, awakening in an intersection flanked on all four corners by great towering building, numbering six, also heard the voice and woke to the sight of the City. They were Ailder Rosewal (Riki), Natasa Devin (The Narrator), Maxwell Crad (Scrapmaster), Yuki (Kingdomhearts), Jordan Locke (rikunobodyxiii), and Le Chef (Dave).

 

As they all awoke, the voice came once more.

 

Learn your new comrades names and come to know them as people.

 

Very soon the City shall fight against you for the first of many times....

 

And with that... let this RP begin.

 

 

(Signups and Discussion thread here: http://kh13.com/forum/topic/84489-skyline-an-original-rp-by-mdsveritas-signups-and-discussion/ )

Edited September 13, 201510 yr by MDSVeritas

instinctively Tristan grasped the small flame Asher released towards Yuki's tail after which Tristan looked towards Asher compared to the last time they spoke Tristan had a much more mature look on his face as he glared towards Asher "Watch the attitude Asher!" Speaking to Asher like he never had before Tristan turned away and looked to Yuki "Yuki thanks again for the patch up" Finally Tristan began to head away from the battle field and towards the rest of the group upon reaching the others Tristan gave a slight sigh "uh...I'm a little unsure on what might be the best way to handle this so for now I'll go with sorry I had no intentions of getting into a fight it just kind of happened sorry about the distraction from what we really should of been doing everyone" 

Chester felt like a selfish idiot for getting anxious about the purple crystal.It's wasn't like Maxwell was going to do something bad about it.However the feeling quickly faded away,returning to his indifferent self nodded in agreement to Nora's statement.The next he knew he was blasted with unexpected loud yelling from a megaphone.Just like the first time they met,he cupped his ears,trying to block the noise and grunting in annoyance.He hated Nora for doing this,but he later concluded that it was neccesery for everyone to move on.At least,he was pleased that Tristan and Nathan stopped fighting over nothing and that Nora has another gem as well.Still he was still unsure of how to use the gem.

 

"So,um...Is it possible to open up new shortcuts to getting to the trial?Or is it walking on foot our only choice?"

"Allow me to answer that question Chester!" Yuki said smiling. He took a deep breath and blew out 7 clouds for each person. Kristy and Sora make the exception since Sora likes to be with Kristy at...ALL times. The little Saiyan jumped on to his cloud and said, "Why walk when we can fly by cloud! Heh heh heh! These are Sukai clouds. I can create as many as I want just by blowing! All you have to do is just get on it and enjoy riding through the skies! It's really fun! Trust me!"

D3

The Elevator door opened as it hit the top floor. Immediately the trio was bathed in a rich light as they entered the room.

 

Peach-colored wallpaper complimented the rich cream carpeting, and the colors helped to ease the tension of the moment. Nonetheless, the trio could not forget their mission: they were here to fight and kill a foe. An AI to be sure, but even so...

 

Adorning the room were various pieces of colorful furniture. Bright red and greens splashed onto rocking chairs, coffee tables, and TVs. On the far end of the relatively small room was a couch bathed deep red, and on it a figure. The figure was small, incredibly so, and wore a tiny pair of shorts and a light green T-shirt complimenting exuberantly blue sneakers. Long brown hair covered much of the figures face, and it seemed to be looking down and reading some sort of book. Upon hearing the elevator open it jumped off the couch immediately and threw the book on a nearby table. Moving the locks of hair to the side the figure revealed itself to be a young boy. No more than seven or eight years old. A huge curious smile spread across his face as he saw the trio enter.

 

"Oh wow! New people, new people!" He rushed over to them and grabbed Aro and Alysa's hands, pulling them across the room. "It's been so long since anyone came." The excitement was dripping from every word.

 

He stopped for a minute halfway through the room and paused.

 

"Oh yeah, I forgot. I'm s'posed to say my name meeting new people. I'm Zets!"

 

FireStorm (I'm just randomly using people suggestions now)+Nathan+Asher

For Nathan and Asher's plan there were two locations they could go to in order to reach unclaimed districts besides Dawn, where they currently were. If they went south they could claim the last of the southern districts yet uncontested. If they went north they could claim the district there and use it as a staging point to reach further into the unclaimed areas of the north. The choice was their and theirs alone, and it would only grow more perilous from here.

 

For the now-combined coalition of the Cloud team and the Fire team the trial they sought in Dawn became abundantly clear after the battle between Nathan and Tristan ended. In the distance, a huge tall building became visible. But it wasn't a building...

 

It was a rocket.

 

In the distance there seem to be a full rocket launching platform positioned in the middle of the city. A web of interconnected metal walkways surrounded the walkways, and had an entrance on street level. That would be their way in.

 

Nobody could tell what they would find inside though...

Edited July 12, 201510 yr by MDSVeritas

Yuki couldn't help but float up on his cloud to see what he could find. In the distance, he looked in more closely to see the rocket figure. "Hey guys!!" Yuki yelled down to the others. "There's something over there at the next trial! It looks like a rocket!" He jumped in excitement. "COME ON! IKU ZE!" And in the moment, his cloud jolted off in that direction. He was more excited than ever. So excited, he forgot he left Kyusei with Maxwell.

Nora stared at the rocket confused. She gulped. "Well...I guess that's our trial." She sighed. It was a rocket. Out of all things. She worried what could possibly this mean. She shook her head, turning to Yuki as he watched him fly off, and then turned to Chester, Maxwell and the rest of the group. "Well, we have our target. We better get going. We can find out what to do with the crystals later." Nora suggested as she began to walk. She stopped and faced towards Nathan and Asher, smiling a bit as she watched with a worried look. "The maurderers might end up landing by the time we come out. You two be careful now. Especially you, Nathan. You just got yourself out of a big fight. Two against an army won't be easy for anyone. Do be careful, alright?" Nora insisted. He hummed for a bit, before kneeling down and drawing one more thing on the floor. She then stood back up now with a first aid kit in her hands. "Here. Just in case. It has a flare gun inside in case we need to reunite as a big group again." Nora said as she handed it over to Nathan. She waved. "Good luck." She turned to the rest. "To the rocket we go." She turned, and began to walk, walking with the group to the rocket...unknowing what would be beyond the door.

After witnessing the rocket shooting into the sky, Nathan turned away from the large annoyances that was going on in the background.With a frown, Nathan took the items from Nora and nodded in understanding as she explained how the weapons would turn back into ink if they broke or ran out of ammo. "I'll keep it in mind. We'll be careful." Looking back at the group slowly becoming happy and friendly with each other, Nathan looked at the ground almost sadly. "Alright I'll be off then." Turning away, the red headed adolescent took a few steps before stopping. "If anyone else wants to join me, I won't mind. Let's go Asher." Nathan then put his hands into his pockets as the weapons floated in the air around him. "It's not too late to make friends... That's something Stark used to tell me. Unfortunately, he's wrong. It's impossible for someone like me to have friends. I just can't." The young man had said that he was heading South, but was unsure of it himself, deciding to head in the direct opposite direction as to where the larger group was going. "Maybe even Asher would want to stay with this group... Looks like I'll be going back to being alone... again." Nathan put a hand on his head, thinking of all that had been said and done during his fight with Tristan. "I said that I wanted to be acknowledged by someone... I actually managed to say it rather than just think about it... Damn that guy~... And he gives me an answer like that? What an idiot..." Nathan had stopped walking after reaching the end of the road, only his back being shown from far away to the large group that was gathering. "... I died today." Nathan's arms began to tremble as he grabbed his shirt tightly, speaking a barely audible whisper to himself. "... I'm afraid... I don't want to die... But more than anything... I don't want to find myself dying alone again..." Nathan bit his own lip, trying to re-ascertain his "tough guy" persona to himself and to anyone who may have been trying to hear what he was saying. "Who cares? I don't. No big deal. I'll live just like I always have... Just like I always... Have..." Nathan silently headed South to the next trial and the new district, not knowing if anyone was still willing to travel with him or not.

Asher followed right behind Nathan, not saying a word until he stopped his little fit.

"Are you okay Nathan?" He asked, moving to walk beside him.

"These weapons are pretty cool." He said, spinning them around as they float beside them.

"I could make them infused with fire and burn our enemies to the ground!" He exclaimed.

"Sounds cool right?" He asked.

As Nathan was leaving Tristan crossed paths with him one final time "One person has acknowledge you" Tristan spoke in a calm and relaxed manner as he spoke to Nathan while also showing a slight smirk on his face. Gesturing with two of his fingers a single large rock like objects in the shape of swords raised out of the ground and in front of Nathan "Take that as well as the stuff Nora gave you its pretty heavy but with your gravity power you should be fine with it they'll probably shatter after continuous use though so don't use it unless you have to" after that Tristan noticed Asher pass him by "(Meh might aswell one last time) Hey Asher!" giving off a smirk Tristan released a torrent of fire that turned into water just as it hit Asher doing nothing but soaking him "Just to help you cool off and remember me bye hehehe (I like teasing that one to much to let him leave without playing one joke)" Moving away from the two Tristan noticed the rocket "Uh..." looking slightly dumbstruck Tristan just stared "Uh... okay i know this city has it's weird features here and there but who the hell puts a rocket launch pad in a city like really who designed this place" letting out a slight sigh Tristan continued to follow the others in dumb struck awe 

(Nora, we got clouds to get us there quicker )

 

Maxwell looked at Nathan,Asher and Tristan, as the formers were about to leave, Maxwell simply looked, at the scene, specially at Tristan's prank at Asher, he had a blank expression as Nora soon spoke to him and Chester, and he noticed the rocket, as the others had surprised expressions, yuki in particular showing excitement at the looks of it, Maxwell had a unamused and unimpressed expression on his face the entire time. He noticed something though, Kyusei still in his pocket, "Hm, I think he forgot about you." he commented as he turned to Nora and Chester.

 

He casually gestured to the clous Yuki had made, which would get them there much faster than by walking, he quickly jumped on top of one, "Lets go" he told the others as he began flying there with one of the clouds yuki had made.

Asher caught his body on fire with light flames that could not harm him, the water becoming steam.

"I am going to kick his ass one day." He swore silently to himself.

"Like hell I'd forget a jock like you!!" He yelled back at Tristan.

(-_- I guess Shade has a mute on her team? Hes Dave posted since Shade?)

(D3)

 

"I'm calling you little brother," Aro stated, with her face blank and devoid of any noticeable emotions. Considering how emotional she had more or less been up until now, it almost came as a surprise. The boy, to Aro, reminded her a bit of her siblings. People from her past, unless, of course, this was all fake and she was but ones and zeroes, if the theory that this was all a lie told her. Who knew. But, this boy reminded her of an old memory....

"So, what's up with this place?"

Nathan took the earth made sword from Tristan and nodded to him as the two went their separate ways. The young man then looked back at Asher who was messing around with the weapons that they had just received from Nora. "Yeah, it is pretty cool... I guess." Nathan's gaze was low, the two having reached the border to new district. Instead of proceeding onward, Nathan halted in his tracks and seemed to stop moving completely. His expression was blank and seemingly devoid of life. He turned to Asher and gave a faint smile. "Hey... I need to be by myself for a while, okay? Just keep heading towards the next trial and I'll catch up to you later." Nathan handed a sword and a gun to Asher before walking off on his own a few blocks away. After finding that he was completely alone, Nathan stared out at the endless streets of the city. "Looks like you're about to break." Nathan casually tilted his head to the right to find a new face staring at him. Leaning up against the wall was a young man who looked like he was near the same age as Nathan with a full lock of black hair that reached down to his shoulders. Unlike Nathan's current attire, the young man wore an all black, tight fitting suit with matching shoes and tie. "You... You're not supposed to be here." "Well, I figured that you got tired of seeing Stark here and there, so I thought I would pop in for a visit." The black haired young man stepped off from the wall and put his arm around Nathan's shoulders as the latter could only stare at the ground. "So, let's see. You got defeated by Tristan. I mean, he exhausted himself in the process, but even I could see that he beat you. It must be hard for you. It must burn right down into your core." Nathan held his hand up to his head as his legs began to shake, the well dressed young man putting his hand on top of Nathan's head, almost pushing him down towards the ground. "You failed Nathan. Your determination to become the strongest and most feared has only led you on a path of self destruction. It won't be long before you end up as nothing more than a slab of rotten meat on the curb of the road." Nathan's body collapsed onto his hands and knees, his mind messing with him so much that it was beginning to tear his very psyche apart. "Being strong... It's over-rated... What's the point of standing at the top if no one admires you while you're there?" The black haired boy laughed ecstatically, resounding in Nathan's ear drums loudly. "Then tell me Nathan, what is it that you want? Tell me what it is that you want in this world." Nathan struggled against the force coming from the young man, the earth beneath him beginning to shake as his powers shining through to the surface. "... I want... to be recognized. I don't want to become my own person... I don't want to live in my father's shadow anymore. Those parents who abandoned me... The adopted guardians who treated me like an outsider... The younger brother who bathed in the love while I drowned in the hate... I'll show them all..." The black haired man talked down to Nathan as he was now having trouble keeping him down. "Then tell me! Shout it out with everything you've got! What is your purpose in life?!" Tears of anger ran down Nathan's face as he pushed himself into the air, screaming at the top of his lungs. "To gain the power to finally be acknowledged by everyone in this world!!!" Nathan breathed heavily, a resounding shock wave having been blown out in every direction from where he had been standing. The red headed boy looked around slowly to find that the other teen had disappeared. "Gone again... Vladimir." Nathan looked down at his hands, his shaking body was now deadly steady. His expression was serious as he wiped the tears from his face. "I understand now, why I lost... Next time, I won't." Turning around swiftly, the young man hurried off into the city towards the next trial and meet back up with Asher.

Asher walked towards the destination to an extent. He stopped in his tracks when he heard Nathan yell and stuff. He wasn't yelling in pain as far as he could tell. 

He'd catch up. 

Asher let his mind wonder, what would the next trial be?

He knew that they needed to stop Q. But was that really it? 

 

(short post kill me please)

Flame Rain

 

(I hope this next bit is okay to do Sabre Lily)

 

"Right.  Off to the next trial.  Come on Sora."  Kristy said to her.  They walk to one of the clouds Yuki made and hopped onto it.  Making sure they were both on securely, Kristy says: "Okay.  Everything looks good here.  Now what did Yuki say to make the clouds move?  Um.......Iku Ze?"  The cloud Kristy and Sora were on rose up, next they knew they were heading to the trial the others were traveling to as well.  Getting closer to it and hearing on a "rocket", Kristy mentions:  "A rocket?" Making it to the area the cloud gently lands on the ground.  The ladies carefully step off of it.  Kristy looks over at the rocket and says: "So is the trial in the rocket or what?  I guess we'll have to go inside and see."  She starts walking forward and heads to wherever the trial is at.

"I don't trust these clouds...but alright." Nora murmured, getting on her cloud, throwing herself on it as she landed rather comfortably. The cloud then began to float off, following the rest as they headed to the next test. The stage being set in the shape of a rocket ship with its launching pad and everything, with a full on entrance to allow the group to go ahead and give it a try...of whatever was inside. Nora sat up on her cloud, chuckling nervously as she played with her paintbrush within her hands. How nervous. What could possibly be beyond? After so much she'd seen...she couldn't even narrow down a guess. The clouds took them there, and Nora waited for the cloud to lower down before jumping off and landing right infront of the entrance with the rest of the players. It looked...so real. For a moment Nora worried that if they entered it could take off at any moment...heck that could might as well be a possibility. "Alright guys! The next test is head!...if anyone has any regrets you might as well say it now before we enter!"

Shade

"Well then..."

 

Q's voice was out of the blue in the silence of the north-east district. The far off sounds of fighting were fading as well.

 

In a few moments it became apparent to Shade how uncanny the silence actually was. Suddenly it became clear; Chef was gone. So was the other young man who had just woken up on the adjoining roof.

 

"Don't be alarmed." Q's voice returned. "Your friend is gone for now. He's not dead though. He has been... what I like to call 'corrupted'. This city is not... stable. As these event progress it becomes less and less so. This instability has the chance to spread to you all. What this means is that it may end up influencing you all, affecting your powers, skills, and even your wellbeing. This is corruption. I can't let that happen. I won't let it happen. Every group in this city is beginning to have corrupted members, and one by one I am quarantining them from you all. If they stay with uncorrupted people like you there is a high likelyhood it will spread. I'm sorry to say Chef and the young boy nearby are both examples of this. I have transported them to the northwest corner of the City, and they will continue the mission in that district."

 

A foreboding silence wrapped itself around Shade.

 

"Chef is not dead, nor is he dying. But he is... at risk. He will continue to fight, don't worry. I just hope I can count on you to do the same. If you would rather not fight alone I can bring you to the presence of others and you may join them, but if you would rather continue in solitude you are free to do so."

 

Q let the choice linger a moment in quiet.

 

"So, Shade, what will you do?"

 

D3

"This place?" Zets seemed confused. "This is my home silly! And you aren't kiddin? You'll be my big sister!" A massive grin spread across the childs face and he jumped around the room excitedly.

 

"So now that you're here I get to show off all my cool stuff for once!" Zets ran over and turned on the TV. A strange cartoon came on and he began to jump on the couch.

 

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, I gotta show you this you guys!"

 

Between Zets and the TV the room was so boisterous they didn't even hear the elevator doors lock behind them.

Edited July 21, 201510 yr by MDSVeritas

Flame Rain

 

Yuki was right.Cloud riding was much better than walking.And Chester was enjoying it a bit too much.Not just that they were comfy,but the view from above and the fast speed they were going,left him breathless.wind blowing though his brown hair,he couldn't look away from what was below-the city in it's entireness,the white marble monster that speard with no borders,with the hints of colour coming from the parts where the trials were already completed.His ears completely ignore what the others were saying but at least he was glad Nora had joined them,even thought she might not have enjoyed it as much.He wished he could take picture but that's when he realised his phone was gone.He should have checked that earlier.

 

Then there was the strangely-placed rocket.People assumed that this was the next Trial.This was going to his first proper trial and he didn't know what to expect.From what Nora had told him,like the knife room,he could only expect huge danger.

"Too bad that's over" he mumbled as the cloud left him before the entrance of the rocket,looking at the cloud returning to the sky.He wished he could do that forever

"I have no regrets what so ever!" Yuki said proudly and started to walk towards the door, but then he remembered something. He turned to face Maxwell. "Hey um, could I have Kyusei back please?" He asked nicely while scratching the back of his head. He was so excited, he forgot Kyusei.

-Flamerain/Firestorm/Blazing Downpour-

 

Sora held onto Kristy the entire flight, arms around her waist and head buried in the girl's hair. She seemed a bit nervous at the flight, then relaxed and peeked over. Rocket.

"Plenty of things to turn into guns...I can be useful..."

Maxwell kept to his thoughts on his way to the rocket, on top of one of the sukai clouds, arms crossed and a serious expression, he was trying to collect his thoughts about all that happeend, Tristan and Nathan, the whole deal with the trials, were bugging his mind.

 

He soon got off as Nora went to the door to tell everyone, he simply picked up the Iku ze medal was Yuki called for it and threw it to him, "Lets not get too excited" he commented as he stepped forward.

 

"Regret or not, not like we have a choice, either do the trials or die." Maxwell gave his input on what Nora said as he moved closer to the door, ready to open it, as soon as everyone was ready.

standing close by Tristan let out a slight yawn as he waited on the others to move in "(I'll move to the front line once we enter and deal with any dangerous enemies that attack from the front hopefully someone strong takes the rear encase of a sneak attack from behind)" Letting out another yawn Tristan could tell his entire body was feeling tired "(Why the heck am i so tired i wonder is the fatigue of constantly fighting since i got here starting to hit I haven't eaten sleep or even had a proper chance to rest I've been constantly on the move since the start this isn't good if it's hitting me it might eventually start to have a toll on the others aswell)"

Yuki caught the Kyusei Medal once it was thrown to him. He looked at it to chat. "Sorry about that, Kyusei.It just slipped my mind! Heh heh!"

 

It is alright Son Yuki. But right now we need to prepare for what is ahead in this Trial.

 

"Right!" Yuki said, putting Kyusei back on his strap and skipped happily to catch up with the others with his red tail swinging left and right. But once he was next to Kristy and Sora, that's when he wanted to test something out. "Oh! Hey Sora, could you try this for a sec?" He put two fingers in his mouth and whistled for his cloud, which came immediately. Yuki then used his hands to "mold" it into something.....A bazooka like weapon. A cloud shaped bazooka weapon. He handed it to Sora. "See if you can make it come to life." He said smiling.

"I'm not good alone..." Shade admitted shyly. Thoughts started to spin around her head. She had a power to create walls,which was useful,however she wasn't a fighter. A group would be best for her. She needed to share this power of her's. She could save lives that thought pleased her. The seconds ticked by,could this Q-person actually lead her to others. She could only hope. (Shades power level is -9000)