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Through her pilgrimage Dona had become accustomed to waking up in strange places outdoors. The Al Bhed shops that littered the road of Spira were still too far and too few, and the inns that weren't run by them were even fewer. Many nights were spent with just Dona and Barthello under the stars, keeping an eye out for the sound of fiends wandering nearby or of the wandering bandit that wasn't even deterred by the fact that she was a summoner and her guardian. But those days had been put behind them when Yuna defeated Sin and brought them the Eternal Calm. Dona didn't think she had to sleep outside ever again.
She could have sworn that she had fallen asleep on her not-so-comfortable cot that she called a bed in the shack that she shared with her former Guardian, and very explicitly located in Kilika Port. That was where they had taken up their home, just as before, but it wasn't where Dona found herself when she opened her eyes. The sound of wildlife didn't draw her attention, though she had noticed sometime the night before that things felt... different. There was a slighter chill in the air, but her natural instincts simply chalked that up to a coming storm. Storms weren't anything to be worried over, not after dealing with Sin for most of her life.
But when the sun came, Dona awoke to a place that was decidedly not where she had fallen asleep beforehand. The ground beneath her was hard and stone, something that definitely hadn't been a thing in most cities she was aware of. People came in droves, some of them stopping by bulletin boards and posting up on them. Confusion set in almost immediately. "Barthello?" Dona said instinctively. While they didn't share a bed they did share the only bedroom in their home, but he was nowhere to be found. That was when panic set in.
Dona and Barthello were never farther than a few miles away from each other at any point, when Dona was doing work at the temple and Barthello maintained his place in the village. That he wasn't here now... that wasn't good. It wasn't right.
The chaos of the world around her didn't help but to disorient her. Dona rose quickly to her feet, though her legs below her were shaky. She recounted what she had with her - and that wasn't much. Only the clothes on her back, but more interestingly than that, she had her gil purse and her katars attached to each of her hips. She hadn't went to sleep with those, and yet they were still with her. "A dream, then?" She questioned aloud, mostly to herself. She heard the ramblings of the crowds around her that spoke of an 'Outlander,' but none of them bothered to do much but stop for a few seconds and stare before going about the rest of their morning. Rude.
So Dona stopped the nearest person to her, frantic and concerned. "You. Tell me, where is it that we are?" She still wasn't entirely convinced that she wasn't still asleep... but if this were a nightmare it was a far too realistic one for comfort.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 29, 2022 15:52:18 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Torensten could be a busy town, which suited Yuffie fine. In many ways, it reminded her of the slums of Midgar, only less gross. But a crowd was always good, because it was easy to disappear into a crowd, and to move through people, and there was always something interesting going on. It was a good way to pass the time, now that, y'know, her entire life mission was over and also a world away...
She was snapped out of her thoughts when some frantic woman grabbed her, panicking over where she was. Yuffie reeled back a little, taking in the woman for a moment. "Geez, lady, take it easy, would ya?" Yuffie shot back, looking her up and down. She took a moment to process what the woman had just said, and then rolled her eyes. Oh, of COURSE. Frantic, confused. It was another one of those dimensional whojamawhatits. People from other realities dumped here. Just like had happened to Yuffie. "Lemme guess?" she said, putting her hands on her hips as she peered at the woman. "One minute, you're in your own world, where apparently they haven't invented, y'know, pants, or anything, and then suddenly you woke up here and you were all like 'say whaaaaaat'," Yuffie guessed.
"Don't worry, it's been happenin' to tonnes of us. People keep turnin' up here, and no idea how. Sometimes their memories go all screwy too. Or people who, like, are one hundred and twenty percent DEFINITELY dead show up like they came from the past or somethin'. It's super weird," Yuffie 'explained', pretty unhelpfully as she jumped about subjects with abandon. "Buuuut, I know what you're thinkin'. So first of all, you haven't time travelled. We're not in the past. It's like, another world or something," since Yuffie had assumed she was stranded in the past for far too long, she thought best to explain that immediately.
"Anyway, try not to worry, 'cause you've landed on your feet. You've got none other than the Amazing Yuffie, right here to help you out! I've been here a little while now, so I'm kinda totally an expert. Of course, all tour guides deserve a little pay, so, don't suppose you have any materia on you, do ya?" she ventured. She figured it was pretty unlikely, but hey, could you blame a girl for trying?
Well, if there were options for picking people out of a crowd to explain an inexplicable situation Dona either had the absolute greatest or the absolute worst choice in picking people. She hadn't planned on who it was that she latched onto - the nearest person was all that Dona could think of, and she wasn't the type of person that believed in predestiny. And yet still while the girl was irritated that Dona had grabbed her, understandably perhaps to someone that wasn't in Dona's own position, but that wasn't what Dona was feeling right now. She didn't for pleasantries. "No," she answered quickly. "No, I can't 'take it easy' right now!" She didn't mean to be rude, er, ruder than usual, but she didn't think she could be blamed.
But it didn't take overly long for the girl to realize what had happened. She stepped back, took a look at what Dona wore, and went from there - explaining the situation that she found to a T, though the former summoner couldn't say she was overly fond of the girl's tone of voice. She insulted her choice of dress, and was quick to assume that Dona herself was going to have certain issues. How was her memory? From what she could tell, she was fine. Things were fuzzier than she cared to admit, but she didn't have the thought that she had been sent back in time and her memories were... there, at least. But the city around her told her that she definitely hadn't been sent back in time, and the architecture was something altogether different than that of which she had seen on her pilgrimage, even in the ruins that covered her... her world? For as fantastical as it all sounded Dona's senses told her that the girl was right.
"Of course I've landed on my feet..." Dona said, though the normal confidence that she held within her voice was altogether missing, not that there was anyone nearby that was willing to answer it. She processed the information that she was given as best she could. "You realize that all sounds like nonsense, don't you? Especially the way that you put it." She didn't say the last part - which happened to be, 'what are you, a child?' - because she suspected that even if the answer to that question wasn't 'yes,' the girl wasn't altogether that far out from being young. Dona had a soft spot for children, and while the girl seemed to be a teenager... she was close enough, and she was helping her still.
But then the other shoe dropped and the girl asked for... something. For being a tour guide? Dona scoffed. "I appreciate the rundown, but I have no idea what materia is - and loathe as I am to admit that I'm down on my luck right now, you clearly have no shame." Not that Dona was one to talk, based on what she wore in her everyday life and even now, "Do you always find yourself taking advantage of those that are in poorer situations than yourself? Really, now. What kind of manners were you raised with? And even still, you never did answer my question. Not directly." Dona wasn't exactly being grateful, and she realized that. She inhaled deeply and then exhaled, softening a bit. You caught more wasps with honey than you did with much else, and right now she had to admit that - ugh - she needed help.
She lowered her head and forced a smile. "I'm sorry - Yuffie, was it? I've clearly woken up... well, not in a bed at all. And I shouldn't take your kindness for granted; thank you. I still have no clue what this 'materia' you speak of is, but perhaps you'd be willing to help me for a few gil." Money talks, and Dona was hoping that currency here - wherever here was - was the same as it was in Spira.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 30, 2022 11:04:04 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Wow, okay, so near-naked lady was pretty moody. That much was clear. Which was not an UNUSUAL reaction, Yuffie found. Lots of people were moody. Particularly when speaking to her. Not that there was any pattern there or anything. It was just moody people being grumps. "Whoa, okay, rude, lady, I'm tryin' to help ya here," Yuffie shot back at the woman's reaction, but she supposed it WAS pretty stressful when you first came to Zephron. Especially if you didn't take it in stride like Yuffie did! (By which Yuffie meant 'assume you'd time travelled and spend a good few months just causing chaos for fun before realising you'd better take this situation seriously').
"Yeah, well, it's super true nonsense, lady, so you'd better listen. This is a whole new world. We got people showin' up all the time. And none of us know how to get back home, so you'd better get used to it," Yuffie replied defensively when the woman criticised her summary of events.
Well, this lady didn't know what materia was. That was annoying. That happened a lot around here, and Yuffie sighed. Oh well. There would be other opportunities. "Hey, striking when the opportunity presents itself is the way of the ninja!" she replied, striking a ninja pose with her fingers together for a moment, before giving her a smile. "But since you don't have any, I guess it's okay. I mean, where'd ya even keep it? They've got this neat invention here called pockets. It's what ya get when you wear more than a bathing suit," she teased, because she was still annoyed at that little dig at her manners. "And manners are for LOSERS, anyway. My Dad rules all of Wutai and he couldn't teach me manners, so don't go thinking you can, lady," Yuffie added, resisting the urge to poke her tongue out at her.
"Ehhh, I don't need your gil," Yuffie replied, taking half of a step away, hands behind her back in a playful skip. "Buuuut, lucky for you, I'm the great hero Yuffie Kisaragi, ninja extraordinaire and saviour of the world! So I ALWAYS help somebody in need. So whatcha wanna know? Where you are? This town is called Torensten. And it gets wrecked like, more than Midgar does. But that's okay! 'cause there's plenty of heroes around to save the day. It's primary exports are super kick butt ninja warriors!" she grinned. And then she paused. "Just kiddin', there's only one. Me! But I'm more than enough to go around with MY awesome skills!"
Well, apparently this wasn't an isolated incident. Dona didn't know whether to take that as a positive or a negative given the way that she felt at the moment, but it was... calming. Maybe that meant that while he wasn't with her here now Barthello may have been somewhere; she would have to find him. That would be a problem for later, when she was more aware of her surroundings, and wasn't likely to get lost at the drop of a hat. The closest city that she could think of to this place back home, in Spira, was Bevelle - and while she'd never admit it, it was easy enough to get lost there. Big cities hadn't been her style up until this point, and who was to say if this place would change her mind.
Dona gave the girl a look when she brought up what she was wearing. To be fair, it was clear just by looking at the people that were making their ways past the two of them that Dona looked out of place, but she wasn't sure that the girl in front of her had much room to talk. To start, she was dressed like an Al Bhed... something that wasn't altogether a bad thing, Dona thought, but similar to herself the girl didn't exactly blend in. She rolled her eyes, crossing her hands over her chest, and answered almost pitifully. "I'll have you know that what I'm wearing would be considered quite fashionable where I'm from," and practical, in some ways, but when you weren't existing on a tropical island that was more of a difficult argument to make and Dona had better things to do than argue with the teenager that was giving her the lay of the land.
"What in the world is a 'Wutai?' She questioned, making it clear that wherever this Yuffie was from wasn't the same place that Dona had come from. And, in some ways, Dona would've thanked Yevon for that some time ago. She hadn't figured out if she believed in gods, or the universe, or fate at this point anymore; she was had very much been in a transition period when she went to bed the night prior and even more so when she awoke on the streets of this so-called 'Torensten' this morning. Perhaps she was dead, actually. Perhaps this was the Farplane and all of these people were dead, and this Yuffie was dead, much like that one guardian of Yuna's - from a bygone city and a bygone age, long dead, but unaware of it.
Perhaps first impressions weren't everything. Yuffie stepped back, and insisted that she didn't need her goal. Dona would admit to being relieved of that; she exhaled and nodded her head. She was in a strange place, a world entirely separate from her own apparently, and she didn't know how she would be getting money. So while she wasn't worried about right now - and the casual mention that they did use gil as currency here helped that - she would probably be later. She was going to hold onto every coin that she was able to. Dona sighed at her explanation, and shook her head. It was helpful, but... Gibberish. "I don't know what this 'Midgar' is either, but... thank you. I think I understand what you're trying to say." Dona found herself chuckling lightly at Yuffie's comment about being the only 'super kick butt ninja,' "You don't need to worry about me stepping on your toes there. I am Dona, a summoner from Kilika Port."
But really, it was the comment about other heroes that Dona latched onto. "Hmm... have you seen a man? About this tall?" Dona raised her arm to about what she would approximate Barthello's height to. "Strong and muscular. A real idiot, truly." Her voice softened, and despite how the term 'idiot' would normally be used, it was clear that there was fondness there.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 30, 2022 15:51:09 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie wasn't prepared to let this whole outfit thing go, because she was having far too much fun, so she just grinned, even as the woman tried to protest that her outfit was fashionable. Yuffie was always having her most fun when the person she was picking on got all defensive. "Oh, and where's that, huh? A nudist colony? Oh, maybe you came from Wall Market, where they do all that grown up adult stuff! Are you a grown up entertainer person, hmm?" Yuffie asked, getting increasingly annoyed by accident. "I bet you are! And you hang out in the places with all the smoke and the horrible drinks that taste all bitter and make you sick and I bet you get to go to the Happy Turtle all the time which is totally not fair 'cause I still didn't get to go and just when I was gonna I got stuck here!" she ranted, before realising what she was doing and pausing. "Uh, never mind..." she added quickly.
"Wutai! It's where I'm from. It's the best place in the world, except not in THIS world because this is the wrong world. But it's a great place!" Yuffie beamed, and then she paused as an idea crossed her mind. "Saaaaaaaaaay, you wanna try one of Wutai's world famous Da-Chao beans?" she asked with a grin, forcing a bean into the woman's hand. Impossibly tough, of course, they hurt foreigner's teeth like crazy when they bit into them. Yuffie was used to them, but everybody else she gave them to seemed to have trouble. Which was half the fun of sharing them out!
"Ohh, a summoner. I used to be a summoner. Had all KINDS of summon materia. But Cloud hadn't equipped me with any before I came here. Cloud's my old leader. I mean, uh, I was his leader, OBVIOUSLY, but he handled the equipment..." She explained, frowning a little at remembering telling the same lie to Mikoto not so long ago.
"Dona. Right. Got it," Yuffie grinned. "You're looking for a tall, muscular, idiot? Wooooow, lemme tell you, you're in Torensten. You can't walk down the street without bumpin' into three of 'em. Like, ninety percent of the population here are tall, muscular, idiot hero types. You lookin' for a specific one? 'cause it's like lookin' for a needle in a biiiiiiiiiiig pile of needles." @dona
Were all people that weren't from Spira this... insane? Dona simply looked at the so-called hero with a quirked eyebrow, unsure what to say to all of this. She wasn't sure what this Wall Market place was, or what an adult performer happened to be, or anything of the like. But none of what the girl was saying sounded all that pleasing; Dona imagined that she wouldn't have actually been caught dead anywhere like the place that she was describing, but from the way that she talked about the Happy Turtle restaurant she suspected that saying such a thing might be offending in some way. While Dona wouldn't shy away from that any other time than now, she owed the girl, or at least felt that she did. So she would gold off on such things. For now.
It was probably a good thing that she dropped the subject. Maybe she was self aware after all, and she had noticed that Dona was slowly starting to back away cautiously? Still, the summoner stopped, sighing out of relief when the girl said nevermind. "Thank goodness," she commented lowly - it was to herself but she wouldn't have been surprised if Yuffie overheard it. She didn't much care, that much wasn't something overly rude at least. Unfortunately, conversation wasn't something that really improved. Dona blinked when the bean was forced into her hand. "Ah, excuse me--!" she exclaimed; but the girl wasn't paying attention or she didn't seem to care. Maybe it was both, Dona wasn't about to assume one way or the other. She observed the bean that had been forced into her fingers with narrowed eyes... and then she grimaced slightly. "Thank you, but perhaps later." And with that she grabbed her gil purse, placed the bean in it, to be forgotten and never looked at again.
The way that the girl explained summon materia just managed to confuse the Spiran even more. That wasn't the way that summoning worked where she came from - and even if it had been the Aeons were gone now. The Fayth were sleeping their dreamless dream. "This place that you come from sounds like it's quite something," Dona didn't have parents to teach her not to say something if she didn't have something nice to say, but she was taught by the man that raised her that being rude wasn't going to get her anywhere. "Where I come from, only a select few are - were - able to summon." She kept out the part that she got the impression Yuffie wasn't likely to be one of those people. It took a certain skill and resolve to pray to the Fayth, and she honestly just figured that Yuffie didn't have the patience. She would pray to the Fayth and then get distracted by something within the chamber, like the glittering of the Fayth Stone, perhaps.
Finding Barthello was going to be much harder than Dona originally had hoped for, and that much was clear. The way that Yuffie explained that there were many, many men that fit the description she gave of her companion made Dona sigh. Of course there were numerous of the type here; even back in Spira there were many men that would fit that description. Yuna'd had at least two of them as a part of her envoy, and then there was that hapless chocobo knight. "Nevermind," she began, shaking her head disappointedly. "My... Barthello is different. I would know him the moment that I saw him, or heard of something that he would do. I should've known better than to ask someone that didn't know him," She was certain that it wouldn't be long until she heard his voice calling out for her like he often did when she often left him behind.
"Please," Dona began, "can we get out of this square? I'm used to people staring, but the whispering is becoming uncomfortable." It was mostly an excuse to get out of there than anything. Dona didn't really mind it when people talked about her.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Mar 31, 2022 13:40:34 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
So, luckily, she didn't seem to react to Yuffie's slightly overly enthusiastic ranting about the Happy Turtle. Which was probably for the best, as she had gotten a little carried away there for a moment. However, her relief turned to disappointed when Dora refused to eat the Da-Chao bean. There was no fun in that if she didn't get to see it. "But you're supposed to eat it noooooow," she whined childishly, making an effort to be SUPER cute while she did it to convince her to try. Well, it was worth a shot, right?
"Huh. Well, that sucks. Where I'm from, anybody can summon, s'long as they get the right materia," Yuffie grinned helpfully. That seemed way better than just a select few. What kind of elitist garbage was that? 'Oh, only you get to summon'! Who even decided that? Or maybe you had to train for it? Pfft. Yuffie did enough training to be a ninja. She didn't have time to train to be a summoner too! That just sounded boring and annoying!
So, apparently she knew the man she was looking for anywhere. Well, that made sense, but Yuffie couldn't help but pick up something else. "Ohhhhh. Sounds kinda like a boooooyfriend," she teased playfully. "Well, don't you worry, 'cause Yuffie's here! Matchmaker extraordinaire. I'm so good at it, the last guy I was on an adventure with had the hots for BOTH the grown up girls in our party. 'course, he wanted to be with me really, but he knew I was outta his league," she boasted proudly. "Anyway, if you're himbo-y guy is anywhere, I bet he'll be with the Dragonblades. That's where all the dumb as rocks hero types go. I'm totally the leader there, although, sometimes, there's this guy, Caius, he's like, super special, y'know, in the head, if you get what I mean, so I let him pretend he's in charge sometimes to be nice. C'mon!" Yuffie sped off, leading Dona off towards the Dragonblades HQ... @dona
Barthello... a boyfriend? That was something that Dona had never considered, and the very idea made her cheeks hot. She was flushed, looking away from the girl; she seemed the type that would tease her relentlessly if she ever noticed something like that, and Dona wasn't the type to give in to moments of weakness. But she had to admit that there was something to Yuffie's insistences. Dona's feelings for Barthello were... unsaid. They were something that during her pilgrimage she couldn't put words to; she had to defeat Sin, with him at her side, and they didn't have time for such trivial things. It wasn't like she had been the object of a psychopathic Maester's eye like someone else that Dona could think of.
Then Yuffie mentioned something about playing matchmaker and Dona quickly shook her head. "No!" She practically shouted it - that wasn't something she wanted. She didn't want anyone else, she wanted Barthello. She wanted to find him and make sure that he was alright. The truth of the situation was that the Guardian was practically useless when she wasn't by his side, or so she jokingly told herself. And she didn't feel entirely complete without him there; she felt the same way when she had been kidnapped by the Al Bhed and taken to the Summoners' Sanctum. It hadn't been fair that Isaaru's brothers had been taken with him while Dona had been taken by herself, but what was done was done and the past was in the past. And it was a silly thing to get hung up on in the first place.
"No, thank you, I think that's perhaps a bit hasty." Dona said after a moment, regaining her composure and clearing her throat. She wasn't going to show weakness to this girl. She had probably already shown more than she would be capable with in the near future, given the entire situation in the first place, but... that was a problem for future Dona to deal with. To be upset about. Privately. Those feelings were hers and alone, for her to deal with on her own, and as much as she wanted to give into them right now in the middle of this square, in front of this... kind, but strange girl, she wouldn't do that. Composure was important. She would be composed. Yes. "I'm sure that any man that strikes your fancy would be... lucky... for you to reciprocate those feelings." Well, they'd sure be something.
"Did you just call yourself a 'dumb as rocks himbo type?'" Dona asked. Yuffie's explanation of the Dragonblades, whatever they were, definitely did sound like some place that Barthello might have been found, she had to admit. The man had faced off against fiend after fiend and sinspawn - kind of in the same way that Yuffie rushed forward, arms behind her while she did. Dona sighed, already exasperated at the situation and the person that she was admittedly grateful found her. "Wait!" Dona called after Yuffie, and while she watched her run for a moment she pictured that it was Barthello. That immediately let her soften. "You silly... buffoon..." Dona sighed, and ran after Yuffie.
Post by Yuffie Kisaragi on Apr 11, 2022 15:33:38 GMT -6
"Get ready , ZEPHRON, for YUFFIE!"
The Great Ninja Yuffie!
Yuffie's grin got wider as Dona seemed to protest urgently at the possibility of this missing man being her boyfriend. People like this were the most fun, 'cause Yuffie knew she could wind them up. Grinning broadly, she smiled in the summoner's direction. "Ohhh, I getcha, one of those, 'unrequited love' type things, yeah? I mean, I can't imagine what that's like, everybody loves me, obvs, and I didn't wanna go on a date with stupid Cloud anyway..." Hang on, no, wait, focus Yuffie, "But like I said, I can totally help you two work it out! Just follow good ol' Yuffie and I'll soon have you two eatin' dinner by candle light!" Yuffie said cheerfully, obviously proud of herself, even if she was mainly just enjoying making Dona feel as awkward as possible.
"Uh, OBVIOUSLY," she said, when Dona said that any man would be lucky to have Yuffie. She struck a pose, hips cocked to the side, with a grin, as if to show off this fact. Just because she didn't currently, and hadn't ever had, a proper boyfriend didn't mean that she couldn't easily get one, right!? It was obvious. Check out how cute she was!
Ahem, anyway.
"Uh, NO. I'm their super cute genius leader. It's just all the recruits that are like that," Yuffie said dismissively when she challenged her regarding her comment on the 'himbos'. Plus, himbos were guys, and she obviously was NOT. DUH. "Anyway, c'mon!" she said as she raced off, aware that Dona was following.
It wasn't long before she burst through the doors of the Dragonblade HQ. "Caius! Oh, Caiiiiuuuuuus!" she called out. "I got a lady here who's looking for a big dumb fighty guy, and I figured, hey, this is where all the big dumb fighty guys hang out. Her name is Dora and she's looking for a guy called Farthello or something," she said with a shrug, because, names were not Yuffie's best strong point AND 'Farthello' was totally hilarious!
