World 9 - Mythical Crossover

Aira looked around. She was in a room, one of the strangest rooms she had ever been in. It was perfectly circular, so was the the door, curving to fit the strange shape. She was lying on a bed with pure white sheets, whiter than anyone could bleach them. In fact, hte entire room was so white there was a distinct absence of colour.

Sunlight streamed through the open window, casting long shadows which were mutated by the shape of the walls. Clearly, it was quite late in the evening. Aira pulled herself up into a sitting position and slowly got out of the bed to avoid getting a light head.

She walked over to the window and looked out. She was in some sort of castle, high up in a circular tower. Beneath the window was a town, maybe it even was a city, it was hard to tell. It was sundown and the people were hurrying about, trying to finish their daily chores before the night came.

Aira at that point became aware of what she was wearing, it was strange she hadn't noticed it before. She had never worn something so beautiful. She wore a light flowing dress that fell gently down to her ankles. the material was so light, she feared she would tear it if she moved. Beads were lain in intricate patterns all over the dress, each sown with the utmost care. The dress was pure white.

Bailey woke up the next day, how she hoped she would spend the rest of her mornings - entwined in Goru's arms, the sun shining in through the blinds. Her head rested on his solid chest, as he looked down at her, a hand subconciously playing with one of locks of blonde hair. She closed her eyes, again, for a second, trying to cement this moment in her mind, forever.

Aira couldn't stand the whiteness of everything, it was somehow overpowering. It was making her headache worse. Aira walked out of the room onto a spiral staircase. Aira put her hand on the wall to steady herself as she walked down the stairs, taking each one carefully.

Where was she? What had happened to her? She could remember the labyrinth, and the freaky apple tree and bird but... a castle? As far as Aira knew, there was no castle for hundreds of miles in any direction that she knew of. So where was she? Who had nursed her back to health and who had given her such a clearly expensive dress? She loved pretty things, anyone who knew her knew they could always make her happy by giving her pretty things. Who would have bought a dress like this a put in on someone like her, a peasant?

A startling thought came into Aira's mind, 'Someone must have undressed me to dress me! Someone saw me naked!. Aira let out a scream of terror and lost her footing, next thing she knew she was tumbling down the sprial staricase, round and round she went.

Aira rolled and rolled, breaking every bone in her body. The pain was unbearable. Until suddenly, it stopped. Aira opened her scrunched up eyes and looked into the eyes of the most drop dead gorgeous man she had ever seen. He had pearl drop blue eyes and short brown hair, he had a row of perectl white teeth that he flashed in a smirking smile. He had muscles than master cage fighters would be envious of and hands that looked so soft as if he were a temple dancer.

A bit clumsy are we?

Yeah...a bit... Aira was suspended in mid air, held up to eye level with the beautiful man, upside down. The man however, showed no inclination in letting her down.

You know when I usually rescue someone, I expext them not to get into trouble within at least a two to three week period. But you - you take four days, well, if you consider how long you were conscious for, a few minutes for I'm assuming. He smiled.

( Sin)

What will we do next? she asked quietly. He didn't question the "we". He didn't even think of doing so.

I.... I'm not certain yet. It's likely to be too difficult to fight through to the city.

She nodded.

Can't you get in by some witch method? I've heard of something...

Place-shifting. I can't do it, though. Few can.

recap?

(Dier and Hope talking )

Enochian wrote:Yeah...a bit... Aira was suspended in mid air, held up to eye level with the beautiful man, upside down. The man however, showed no inclination in letting her down.

You know when I usually rescue someone, I expect them not to get into trouble within at least a two to three week period. But you - you take four days, well, if you consider how long you were conscious for, a few minutes I'm assuming. He smiled.

Aira didn't know what to say, so she decided to say all that she could think of, Do you think maybe you could let me down?
The beautiful man replied, Depends.
On what?
Whether you agree to let me introduce you to someone.

You know when you get that feeling in the pit of your stomach, the one where you feel that what you're doing or about to do is really really bad? Well, Aira had that feeling right now and no matter how beautiful this man was, somewhere within herself she knew not to trust him. Though, this gut feeling was irrational surely! She had only meet the man and was condemning him as evil, sure didn't he say he rescued her from the labyrinth? He must have been very powerful to get past that tree and everything else there that was after her. He must care a great deal about her. Aira was willing to bet he came swooping in, sword in hand cutting down all foes before him and carried her gently out of that horrific place.

No, this man was no threat to her at all.

And that was how Aira came to say, Sure, why not?

The beautiful man gently lowered Aira to the ground, feet first. He smiled and held out his hand, Hello, my name's Sebastian, nice to finally get to speak with you. Aira took his hand and shook it, Aira, nice to meet you too.

Sebastian walked down the hall and Aira followed him close behind. She made sure not to get lost. There were so many twists and turns in the building that Aira was shocked to see that Sebastian seemed to know where he was going. What's more, everywhere still was white. It all looked the same, a right turn here a spiral staircase there. However, this lack of colour or maze-like building wasn't what was troubling Aira. Sebastian was just walking in silence, with no emotion on his face. He just kept and walking and walking. Aira felt awkward.

So...have you always lived here?
The sudden noise seemed to wake him out of a some deep thought, Yeah, I grew up here with my family and then I got this job and now I'm walking an accident prone girl down this very hall. The conversation felt finished so Aira left it there.

Sebastian walked Aira into yet more halls and down yet more staircases until they came to two very big and very heavy looking doors. They were made of metal and were jet black, the first colour she had seen there. Sebastian walked up to the doors and said something under his breath, something Aira didn't quite catch. Immediately the doors swung outwards.

Aira's eyes widened in amazement.

On the other side of the doorway was a magnificent garden. In contrast, colour was everywhere here: red roses, blue bluebottles and tall yellow sunflowers. The sun was shining high in the sky making the place look like a glorious Heaven. Birds were singing in the trees, red squirrels were chasing each other in joyful play across the ground and the calming sound of a waterfall sounded throughout the garden.

Aira smiled widely, maybe this place wasn't so creepy. Sebastian led her into the centre of the garden, passing more flowers and shrubs as they went. As they approached, Aira noticed a man bent over some of the flowers, he appeared to be tending to them. Sebastian walked over to them and stood, straight backed and chin up to the man and said, She is here.

(Aira's falling for him, and I think he's the villain )

(I think he's working for the overload, who's just been introed )

( )

(There's more to it than that )

The man straightened up and slowly turned around to face Aira. He also was extremely handsome, though he looked 30 years Sebastian's senior. Then Aira found out why, Son, take yourself off to the training grounds, some of the men need to work on blocking long ranged attacks. Bowing, Sebastian said Yes father, and walked back through the doors and out of sight.

Hello, Aira is it? She nodded. I'm King Vension, King of this very city, Soloden. I have been charged, as has my ancestors with overseeing all diplomatic relations between our worlds of myth and magic and the normal mundane world. And as of late, some troubling things have been surfacing within these relations. He smiled.