light will guide you home and ignite your bones

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Who: Anyone interested in helping
What: Ren wants to forcibly resurrect Radiant Garden with the help of various mages, Key Bearers, and friends. Will they succeed?
Where: Disney Castle's throne room
When: Dawn on Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Note: Posting this early so you can dive right into it without having to log the failures.

It was still dark as everyone gathered in the throne room of Disney Castle. They had all received instructions on the way the ritual should go, so they easily found their places: the survivors of Radiant Garden's passing and the other volunteers sat in a circle, ready to lend their strength in an instant, and those immediately involved in the spell work - Ren, Aerith, Leon, Merlin, Yen Sid, the Key Bearers, and the Princesses of Heart - would form a second, smaller circle in the center of the room, surrounding the ten spell components. Hope rang through the hearts of Radiant Garden's citizens, despite the failures they'd already encountered. They would get their world back, and they would keep on trying until they made it happen. There was simply no other option.

So they sat in the circles together, waiting for the sun to start rising and the ritual to begin while discussing with one another just how wonderful it would be to have their world back again. And as they did, they each made an unspoken promise to one another.

They would not lose their world to Darkness again.

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[le-king.livejournal.com]

Mickey tightened his grip on Darkside as he and the other Key Bearers held the Heart steady for Aerith and the Princesses of Heart. He watched in awe as the book in Ren's hands started to glow even brighter, as Light coalesced around the spell components before them. It was working! They really were going to bring Radiant Garden back!

With that thought in his mind, he steeled himself for what was to come. The girls were doing their job, and he and the other Key Bearers were up next. As they finished, the Keybearers all pointed their Keyblades in unison at the Light that had gathered in the very center of their circle. A moment later, thin lines of that same light shot forth from the blades' tips, and the final step to recreating the world was finished.

[holylifestream.livejournal.com]

Aerith gave a sigh of relief as she felt the world reconnect almost seamlessly. There was a faint thank you whispered on the Light of the spell, conveyed to all those gathered through her connection to Radian, and she spoke for all of them.

Welcome back.

She felt a smile grace her lips, and started to rise to her feet to announce their success. But something felt... off, somehow. The warmth of the magic didn't lessen, and the Light that had gathered actually grew brighter instead of fading. The sensations only intensified, and suddenly there was something else in the mix - something was pulling her. She tried to resist, but it only got stronger. Aerith had only a moment to grasp Ren's hand and ask what was going on before the Light engulfed her and she was gone.

[hyperpsyche.livejournal.com]

It was nearly impossible for Ren to hold back her laugh of pure delight. It had worked! They'd done it! They'd restored Radiant Garden! All of her anxiety was washed away against the Light that surrounded them.

Just as she was about to cut loose and latch onto the nearest person in a victory hug, something sent a chill skittering down Ren's spine. The air still hummed with magical energy, and the words in the book were still glowing as bright as ever.

"This doesn't make sense," she thought as she flipped through the pages. All of them gave off the same aura. "The ritual should be over, so why..." Then Aerith was grabbing her hand and trying to ask her something. Ren instinctively held on just before the words flared a blinding gold...

In less than a blink of an eye, Ren and the book had both vanished along with Aerith.