niteo_logs | when there's something strange in the neighborhood

Characters: Yuuta, Sora, open
When: The Apartments/Library
Where: September 28
Rating: G-T
Summary: Yuuta wants to find out more about this place, and where else to go but a library? Of course, he also wants to see if there really are any ghosts about (and rule out the possibility that this is all some crazy dream/hallucination).

Yuuta made sure that his pocket knife was an easy reach for him, not sure what to expect from anyone or thing out here. In this ruined place, the people he was speaking to on the network might be little more than people who were thinking of using him to support themselves somehow. He didn't rule out kidnapping and human selling as a possibility.

Worse had happened in previous wars.

But, if he wanted to find any information or see if there really were spirits about (and get that chill off his back) he had to start somewhere. So he stood outside the main doorway of the apartments that strange girl had sent him to, waiting for... dammit he didn't ask for the person's name.

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Sora shook his head. He didn't really want to think about there being more than one ghost. His Keyblade was good for fighting people and Heartless but he didn't know how they would fare against a ghost--let alone two. "If you see anything, yell."

He stepped towards the far side of the room, starting to bang against the wall and pausing. Tifa had done the same thing in Hallow Bastion, looking for that secret room. It hadn't worked then, why would it work here?

He sighed, turning away. He saw something move through the shadows in between the bookcase, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end. Fighting in these tight corners would be tough, it wasn't as wide as the Library in the Castle and the cases didn't seem sturdy enough to handle a hit. If he had to fight, he'd have to be careful.

"What are you doing?" Yuuta hissed, grabbing his arm and stopping him from knocking books off and making a ruckus. "We want to get out of here quietly with as little attention made towards us as possible!"

Yuuta shook his head. There needed to be a class for ghosts and mythology in school, if not to hold onto part of their culture, but just in case something like this happened. Science and logic be damned, some things could not be explained no matter how much they wanted it to be!

"Sorry." He rubbed the back of his head, frowning and looking around. "I don't see a window or anything but there's gotta be a back door."

He paused, blinking down at his Keyblade, "Wait." Why didn't he think of it before? If the door had been locked, he could use the Keyblade.

He hurried back to the doors, feeling an uncomfortable chill behind him. He tried his best to ignore it, holding his Keyblade in front of him and concentrating. A beam of light shot from the tip and hit the doors. A click sounding a moment later. "Heh." He ran over, testing the door.

It still wouldn't budge. He let out a soft roar of frustration. "Why didn't it work? It always works."

He walked back to Yuuta, frowning, "Is a ghost doing this?"

"I don't know," he admitted. "There are different types of spirits, and even then, their powers and capabilities, not to mention their personalities and motives, are all different. It could, but then again, it might be something else."

Thinking about how libraries were usually set up, he motioned to Sora to follow him behind the check out counter. There would have to be a door, and thus, a break room, and thus, an emergency exit. Now they just had to find it in all of the mess.

"There should be a door over here leading to other parts of the building. We can find an exit that way. Maybe whatever you tried to do there would work on others."

He hurried over to him, glancing over his shoulder. It felt like he was being watched, the hairs on his neck still standing up. He rubbed the back of his neck, really feeling uncomfortable. "Hey, do you think they're angry? The ghosts? They had to be the ones that kept the door shut." He glanced down at his Keyblade before shaking his head.

"Who knows?" Yuuta asked. "Spirits stay in this world for many reasons. Anger and revenge could only be one aspect of it all. Injustice is another common factor."

Pushing aside some turned over boxes and dusty tomes, he found a doorknob. "Help me open this?" he asked, tugging on it and rattling it some to make sure it was unlocked.

Sora folded his arms across his chest, listening to Yuuta and nodding absently. Spirits sounded a little like Heartless...but it probably wasn't exactly the same.

"Ah, sure." He helped tug open the door, stumbling back a little and coughing as dust rose up around them. He leaned forward, peering in. It was dark. Really dark. "Where do you think it goes?"

"Probably a break room," he said, coughing and waving his arm to get the dust out of his face. "But that means another door: an exit. Unless the builders were idiots and didn't think to comply with that safety code."

Peering into it, he tried to make out any shapes or anything... But his eyesight was bad to begin with.

"Do you have a match or anything?"

Sora scratched his cheek, patting down his many pockets. "I don't have anything like that but...if there's something I can light up, I can use some magic."

He crouched down, looking around on the floor for something he could set fire to without...burning the whole place down. He tore the lid off one of the boxes, propping it up against the wall before pointing his Keyblade at it. He shot a fire spell at it and it lit up, spreading light around the room.

He grinned, "That should be okay for now."

Yuuta jumped at the sudden appearance of fire. What was that thing?! And how could it do all of that?! He shoved all of that to the side for a moment and looked around. There were more books and boxes in this place, but he couldn't see any doors because most of the objects were nearly from floor to ceiling. It was like they purposely covered the door up.

"...let's get some of these boxes out of the way. A door should be here," he said, feeling a chill run down his back. Something was coming, again.

Sora reached in, tossing whatever books he could get his hands on over his shoulder carelessly. He would fix them up if he ever had to come back, but he really didn't want to.

He tugged on one of the boxes, grunting and pulling it back, "Are you sure there's a door here...?" As he said that he noticed a wooden door in the back and he let out a sigh of relief. "There it is."

Yuuta helped to remove some more boxes and books so they could open the door better. Jiggling the knob, he found it to be locked as well. What was with this place and having locked doors? He could understand a government operations base, but a library? Honestly.

"Do you think you could try... whatever that is?" he asked, waving at Sora's keyblade.

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I AM SO SORRY THIS IS LATE D;