The beaches of Neverland were a rather nice place.  It was one of the rarely visited worlds so there was never too much trouble around.  However today was one of the days there was trouble.  Said trouble was in the form of a bubble made of shadows in the middle of the beach.  Slowly the shadows faded away leaving a young man alone.  He was dressed in a pair of jeans, a red shirt and a black hoodie.  He had spikey dark brown hair and when he opened his eyes there were a yellow color.

The young man stood up and looked around confused.  It was like he had no idea how he got there.

"Now this is rather interesting."  He turned to see Rikka walk toward him.

"The Dark Samurai or someone who looks like him.  How interesting."  Rikka said as she gave him a look over.

Said Samurai did not seem to like that as he drew the katana that was at his waist.  He wanted blood and this girl was the only one around.

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((For Nicole this is after "Enrise and Fall" while for Asagi this is after "On Leather Wings"))

[b]*Yaaaaaaaaaawn*[/b]

Walking across the sandy shores of this world was the world-trotting, heroic-seeker, stardom-dreamer gal known as Asagi Asagiri.  after her escapades inside the walls of Haven City, the maiden of the short black hair was still thirsty for more excitement and action.

...yet now she felt she had come to the wrong place for that.

"Why is this place so boooooring?"-she complained to no one in particular, just her usual chat with herself-"I heard that there were pirates in this world, yet I see nothing but sand and sea"

She gave a sigh as she continued walking-"No treasure, no action, how am I gonna increase my heroic reputation in such peaceful island!!?"

It was then that she noticed something at the distance. while small, it looked like an orb of shadows suddenly appearing at the other end of the beach then vanishing. she couldn't see exactly, but it looked like someone was there. Asagi couldn't resist but smile-"finally! shadows always mean something evil is emerging! Time to kick some mook butt, Main Character-Style!"

It was a long way ahead, but she was determined to know what that was and, if evil, to beat the crap out of it for great justice!

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Much closer to the scene however, was Nicole Archer. Taking a cue from the ninja known as Mary and meditating near the coast. She was still dealing with the memories of her times at Ivalice and was still sore after her humiliating defeat at the hands of that Vampire at Port Royal, so she felt that she needed to find a bit of inner peace to help her relax.

Huh?..."-that meditation, however was interrupted. she opened her eyes to see a mysterious gal, not very far away from her, next to a bubble of darkness. The man who emerged from said bubble caught even more of her attention-[i]"Sorin?"[/i]

She knew it couldn't be him, after all, it wasn't long ago she saw him at the Land of Dragons. Some kind of dark doppelganger, had to be. But who was that woman next to him? By how the man pointed his katana at her, one could guess they weren't on the same side. Yet it still felt like that dame was up to something...

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