Event || Revelations

[melodiesmods]

Characters: All the Heroes of Light and their Moogles.
Where: Order's Sanctuary, The Interdimensional Rift and their Homeworlds.
When: August 03rd - August 30th

Summary: Following the battle against Palitutu, all the Heroes of Light were transported into the Interdimensional Rift. They were told by Palitutu they would have to find her to prove they can break the cycle-- But before they could reach their destination, a malevolent entity from the Rift stripped them from their immortality...

And now, they woke up in a decaying and dying world, most specifically in a place called Order's Sanctuary. From there they are ready to jump... Into their homeworlds! Feel free to use this post for the Mingle at Order's Sanctuary and should your homeworld be the stage for the Heroes of Lights' next adventures, feel free to make a thread for it and as many sub-thread as necessary! Please refer to the OOC Post for questions and plotting.

Warning: Whatever you come up with.

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[not_most_days]

A sour smirk crossed Mary's face at the suggestion the Doctor made. "If Captain Harkness was Calico Jack then I doubt I would have been hauled before a court in Jamaica. For one the man seems to be able to hold his liquor." Nor would she have to shoot at some of her own fellow crew for being too drunk and cowardly to fight.

She paced a few steps, considering where they were and what was on her mind. She felt something welling up within her, but she wanted to give the Doctor a chance before she did anything drastic.

"I'm like him. Drawn to the world of Crystallis. I suspect I may not exactly be the Mary Read you know. I don't suppose you know anything of the Assassin Brotherhood?" As ever, her instinct railed against her naming herself so openly, but somehow she doubted this man was Templar. Precursor perhaps. But not an enemy. Or if he was then that guilt would weigh on Jack's shoulders. "We're chasing a foe who sees fit to tear time and space apart, all for the sake of changing her challenge to us. All the while insisting we're too weak to save that world when she could be working with us."

Her steps brought her around to the TARDIS console. She drew her fingertips along it, recoiling from a brief shock of static as she did. A minor thing to her, but perhaps a sign of timelines touching in ways they shouldn't or weren't expected to do so.

"And what of you? You said this...ship of yours through time and space from what Captain Harkness has told me? What is it you're after? And how long since the good captain has crewed with you?"

[runandneverstop]

"Assassin Brotherhood," the Doctor's whole face scrunches up as if he's smelled something off. "Maybe not that name, but I run into the sort that fancy themselves organized killers from time to time. Those are days that never end well for anyone." And now the Doctor is acting more cautious towards Miss Read.

The Assassin part is new, but chasing a foe that is attacking time and space sounds like Jack. "The world you have to save, bleeding energy off this one. If you and Jack can stop her without my help, then brilliant."

This woman, this pirate, is an anomaly, all right. Maybe another one who is, to Time's sense, wrong, like Jack. Another sign that maybe she was snatched from certain death.

"Oh, blimey," the Doctor breathes out a very long breath and dusts a hand through his hair in thought. "It's got to be about- a year since I've last seen him? Last Christmas?" And that was a dodge, because Jack hasn't been crew in far, far longer. "Time flies, literally."

"I'm not after a thing in regards to him. Check up on him every once in a while, see what trouble he's getting into. Like I do everyone who's traveled with me." LIES. "But it's a big universe out there, always another thing to see and to do."

Another dodge. Because he won't dare admit, even to someone he doesn't know, that he's running from his own death.

[not_most_days]

"I won't deny the blood on my hands, or anyone else's, but we're a bit more than simply killers. There is a purpose and a reason for what we do, as are there consequences if we don't." But she let it lie there. She didn't get the impression she was going to win him over and there was no need for her to try. She simply told him the truth up front out of respect to Jack.

"But aye, it's us and a fair few allies besides. We still need to work out the how, but we fully intend to save that world and however many others we can." She frowned as she listened to the Doctor ramble on. Whether or not he intended to lie she knew that the year he stated did not match up to reality. That wasn't the pain of memory she saw in Jack, and thanks to Crystallis it had been just a bit longer for him than that besides.

But there are key words that she catches in his energetic rambling, "seen", "check up", "everyone" "always another thing". She didn't doubt Jack's words that this man was good at what he did, but it was clear to her he was a scoundrel and a scalawag. And a judgmental one besides it seemed. One so used to carrying weight on his shoulders that he felt justified in judging how others would do the same.

"I see...and what you were saying before, it was our arrival here that drew you out. Not a Christmas visit to the Captain and his own?" She didn't know much about the Jack that should be also existing in this world or the people he kept company with, but she expected that they weren't that far off from each other. She came around the railing slow and easy, her tone coming off a bit amused but dripping with growing warning like a cat that's been prodded a bit too much. The smile she wore was a well practiced trap waiting to be sprung.

And then as she finally drew close enough her body uncoiled into action, the widening of her eyes the only clue as her fist came around in a cross punch to the Doctor's jaw. Her breath hadn't even hitched in the second before her strike.

[mindofathief]

Duster felt the tension grow between Mary and the Doctor as their conversation continued, and he had backed further away from the two, towards the portal. He wasn't the sort of person to handle heated debates, which he feared this would turn into.

The Doctor was an important figure in Jack's world. Someone busy. He surely wouldn't have the time to work on everything. But at the same time, there was a feeling that he didn't much like Mary's work. Both were right. Duster wouldn't be able to pick a side if it came down to him.

He turned away just as Mary threw her fist. The swift action caught his attention, and Duster rushed to the scene, stopping several feet away in case he needed to interfere in a fight.

[runandneverstop]

"Wellll..." in that drawn-out tone that the Doctor gets. "Not exactly, no. Christmas is a chaotic time for here, either it passes by as just a whisper, or the whole sky's going to fall on everyone's heads, and that's when they need me. But I thought Jack could handle Cardiff on his own," with a tone that is completely missing what Mary is hinting at. Why would he come for Christmas, unless there was trouble? There appeared to be trouble, so here he is...

Somehow, the Doctor knows what is coming in the instant before it happens, but doesn't even raise a hand to stop it. POW! He has been slapped by people's mothers, boyfriends, commanding officers. He puts a hand to his jaw and reels back, and the first sound that comes out of him is laughter.

"I just got punched by Mary Read." Disbelief and amusement. His hand is still holding his face as he stands up. "I have never been hit by a pirate before. And on behalf of Jack Harkness, too. Ohhh." There's a wide grin on his face, even if it's lopsided. "He must be on the right track, if he's gotten this much loyalty out of you." He looks between Mary and Duster, shoots him another grin as if to tell Duster that it's all okay.

"I've always tried to do right by him. It's complicated. And it's better for us both if I stay away." More serious, and his hand drops from his face. "I told him to do things his way, didn't I? He needs to figure that out. Stop waiting on a fairy tale."

[not_most_days]

Mary bared her teeth at the Doctor as he began to laugh. He may be delighting in what just happened but she's done worse to men for similar to what she feels he's done to Jack. Not all the men who died when Calico Jack's crew was arrested were slain by the British. A few of the shots fired into the hold came from her own gun for them being too drunk to help.

"You speak of loyalty but it seems I have more for him than you do. I'm sure what you do is important, I believe the tales he's told us about you. But it's the way that he tells them that is telling. He's still waiting for you to come back, to take him along with you on your next journey. You don't help people by keeping away from them, and certainly not when you can't be bothered to speak to let them know you care."

She sighed and walked away from him, not leaving but pacing, "You said there were others who traveled with you. Jack said much the same. You do this to them too don't you? Travel with them and then leave them behind? You said before that the hardest thing for you to do is to walk away, but it seems you're a fair hand at running."

She turned towards him once more, glaring into his eyes, "You're not a fairy tail. You're real. And if you inspire someone as much as you have him you have no right to reprimand him for following the path you set. You're the sort who thinks you always know the right way, the only way to do something, aren't you? Who do you think you are?"