into the nothing

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Who: Everyone
What: Jagannatha makes his move, and the game begins.
Where: Everywhere
When: Saturday, June 11

It was time. The preparations had finally been completed. Alexandria was completed.

Darkness sprang forth from the Hearts of Worlds, Denizens of Light, and the Denizens of Darkness celebrated. Those of the Light - Key Bearers, "Refugees," and civilians alike - all began to succumb. Few would be allowed to remain.

The era of Light was over, each and every one of his subjects knew. This was their time to shine, ironic as it may be. And they could do nothing to stop it.

It was, all in all, turning out to be an excellent day.

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Of all the least mundane days in her life, Ray had one major, very mundane concern: she'd run out of medicine.

That medicine was the only thing keeping her on her feet right now, and Aerith had only given it to her after a bit of begging. Anything to keep her out of bed! It was just too boring without anything to do but "rest," and that wouldn't help her heal, she'd argued. It would only allow for idle thinking, and in a situation such as this, that was hardly something that any of them needed.

She was almost at Aerith's when it started.

Heartless came out of the woodwork, it seemed, and not all of them mere Shadows or Soldiers. This is the last thing I need, Ray thought apprehensively, summoning daggers to her hands. Just as one of them - a NeoShadow, she noted numbly - lunged at her and she started to evade, she heard a startled scream from nearby.

Aerith, she thought, gritting her teeth in pain as the Heartless's claws drew blood. Turning away as quickly as she could, which admittedly wasn't as quick as it should have been, she shot a Thunder at the NeoShadow and tore off for the healer's house. There were shouts coming from within. Yuffie. The ninja was desperately calling Leon as Ray threw open the door and froze, staring in openmouthed shock.

Darkness. It was pulling Aerith in, threatening to suffocate her. Yuffie pulled as hard as she could to keep the Darkness from taking her friend, but she was still losing the fight. Their eyes locked, and Ray shook off her horror and rushed over to help. Leon was coming - she could hear him. But she wasn't sure if he would be able to help any more than the two of them. The Darkness was pulling her in just as effectively as if they'd been doing nothing. And then, Aerith was gone.

"This can't be happening," she whispered.

The NeoShadow from before disagreed, however, as it demonstrated quite clearly by attacking from behind. She stumbled forward and was saved from falling on her face by an irate Yuffie, who pushed her aside and swiped at the thing with her shuriken. Ray stared blankly for a moment before remembering the daggers she was still carrying, but she stepped back from the fight. She still sick, after all, and close quarters like this were hardly a good place for this. But then the Heartless was vanquished, and she followed Yuffie outside to begin the attack anew.

It was only then that she noticed the Darkness gathering at her own feet.

The first thing to cross her mind was panic, which then quickly turned to rage and defiance. She screamed it at them, calling on all of the Light within her power. Somehow, even as it began to swallow her just as it had Aerith, it shone through and danced out to attack the surrounding Heartless. She spat curses at them, and the spell flared once more. But Ray didn't get a chance to see if it would do any good. The Darkness had already closed in around her.