Norman
*Dado sighs at being called "Young man" In the second person again, but begins his story nonetheless.*

"So, from what I gather, this world is generally more technologically advanced than most other worlds, but not at all magical. No fancy AR shit, but touchscreens are well-established."

"So, one night at 3AM, a great storm kicked up. Heartless appeared and started wreaking indiscriminate havoc. Since the world's entirely non-magical, its inhabitants had no hope of fighting off the invasion. A few people tried punting or whacking them, but they went straight through."

*Dado stands up, then starts trying to open various drawers. Any that are locked, he slashes open.*

"Then, a bunch of Keyblade wielders, including one Guardian of Light, showed up. The world was falling to darkness, so it was their job to save it."

*He finds what he's looking for: a stack of paper and some colored pencils. He sits down with them, then starts doodling.*

"A random local got in their way. Just a random toy from the bottom of the box that happened to manifest a Keyblade. They sent him, plus a few of their own, off to go save some random kid. Get him out of the way and whatnot. They weren't tryna do an escort mission."

"That local, though... He ended up manifesting a second Keyblade." *He turns his drawing towards Sapphire. It's a sketch of Kingdom Key.*

"This Keyblade is special. It teaches its wielder how to use it, for starters. Very useful if you've been cast aside and denied any semblance of a formal education." *His voice is bitter.*

"More importantly, though, it's prophesied to be able to permanently stop the Heartless from destroying worlds. Thing is, it can't do this on its own. It has a twin."

*With a purple colored pencil, he begins doodling a dark aura flaming up and swirling around Kingdom Key.*
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"Its twin is a dark counterpart. It's prophesied to spawn here in the Realm of Darkness after the original materializes. Since the original materialized in this room, I figured it'd be here too."

"Either it appeared elsewhere, or someone else already got it. Since we have no further leads on where it could be, we have to assume the latter. Searching an entire world, let alone the entire Realm of Darkness, would take forever." *He sighs, then stands up.*

"Was hoping we'd find it. Whatever bullshit you said about sealing the Light, it'd make sense as a counterpart to Kingdom Key's mission. Figured maybe you were its chosen wielder. Guess not."

"Oh, yeah, forgot. The Keyblade wielders failed. Gravity stopped working, tore everything apart, and the world fell to darkness. Everyone there later died stupid, preventable deaths. Except Xion, but she's a bitch."

*He rolls his eyes, then walks back over to the door.* "Since I'm out of ideas, anywhere in mind you wanna go?"
Esther
Sapphire grabbed the drawing of the dark kingdom key as she stared at the drawing of it. Something in her mind told her she had seen it before. "You speak like one who was apart of that tragedy. Watching one's own world fall and not being able to do anything to prevent it does give a heavy burden to carry." She placed the drawing down after speaking.

She stood up crossing her arms trying to think, unfortunately she did not know where to go next. Perhaps her reason to be in the realm was doomed to fail from the start. 

Sapphire then shook her head as she walked forward ahead of Dado. "Unless we want to go exploring to see if we can find anything I think it would be best to leave this place." 

"We can find a place for a brief respite before trying to leave."
Norman
"Sure. We'll find a place to rest, then figure out a way out of here."
William
*The two leave the store through the way they came in, then find a quiet spot in the fallen world to rest.*

*Sapphire stands watch over Dado as he rests. The surrounding area is quiet. Maybe too quiet.*
Antonio
It certainly was too quiet, complete silence as Sapphire and Dado rested, save for the low rumbling noise off in the darkness. A noise that began quiet and slowly built up, a sort of guttural sound off in the darkness.

Something, was watching them.
Nancy
Something in the darkness watched with red eyes as Sapphire and Dado took their rest, watching and waiting before the hunger inside could not wait any longer and the creature launched itself at Sapphire! From the Darkness, the monster swiped its claws ferociously. Long, and as sharp as knives, the creature aimed to quickly maul its target before it could react!

```Claw Swipes! (Sneak Attack!) (
Norman
*Dado snoozes, unaware of the threat.*
Jordan
*Dado's inhale is cut short into a cute snort at the sound of Sapphire calling for him. He's silent for a moment... Before the sound of him slowly exhaling can be heard.*
Nancy
The creature was confused, where was its prey? Where was its food? It had just disappeared in front of it! Spinning around, the creature saw it's food once more standing in front of it. There was no disappearing this time! 

It dashed towards Sapphire similar to last time but without as much stealth and attempted to slice her with it's claws as it ran past before swinging it's tail out for a second attack. 
```Claw Swipe - 500dmg
Tail Attack - 300dmg```

It seemed to only be focused on Sapphire at the moment! The sleeping Dado was no threat to the creature and as such stuck to what it considered his next meal.