video 1 - arrival

[senorita_perfecta]

The video feeds turns on to feature a woman in her early 20’s trying to keep her presence hidden from the Heartless while sending in vines and sundews to trap them so the locals can get out of danger. Judging by the scenery she is in, she is currently at the markets of Edge and it’s swarmed with Heartless everywhere.

Her otherwise black hair has orange, green and blue streaks at the moment and her dress looks even more colorful with red, oranges, greens, blues and purples (spoiler alert: they are made with plant pollen and dye).

“Oh hi. Sorry about this. It appears that I just arrived at the worst timing possible. This is not exactly what I had in mind for a welcoming committee but these dark things need to get out of here. Is there anywhere I can go that is not full of them running amok? I don’t know how long will I keep going in trapping them in vines and sundews from attacking anybody further.”

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[maybe_im_a_lion]

The people climb up gratefully, not questioning the vines.

Squall just watches, making sure everyone gets safely aboard. He’s less interested in how the vines came about as he is in the fact that they’re here and working. This will definitely make things easier.

[senorita_perfecta]

One by one, people begin to reach the airship through the vines as Isabela assists them on getting up while keeping an eye out for the creatures trying to get to them. So far, none of those things haven’t gotten up to the vines or the airship but she doesn’t want them to start chasing after them at all.

The young lady doesn’t want to dwell on that thought so much. She is just glad that she is trying to help these people out despite the chaos surrounding them and the city.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

Some of the Heartless see and try to rush over. One starts climbing a vine, much to the human climber's horror. She screams.

Squall aims for the Heartless with his weapon. "Calm down," he says. "We've got this." He just prays they really have.

[senorita_perfecta]

“Whoa, these guys seem to catch onto things very fast,” Isabela gasps in horror as she witnesses the Heartless grabbing onto the climber’s leg.

A part of her is tempted to throw a cactus at its face to save the poor climber and dissuade the other Heartless from following its lead but right now her hands are full with holding on the vines and she is unsure on how to get the Heartless away from the climber and the airship.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

Squall quickly shoots the Heartless away with his weapon, which seems to be an odd mix of a sword and a gun. The Heartless dissolves into shadow and vanishes, releasing the poor person. She scrambles up and he helps her onto the airship, awkward but sincerely wanting to help.

"Do you see any more?" he asks Isabela.

[senorita_perfecta]

It didn’t take long for Isabela to spot more people running for their lives from the Heartless. Now she can make the Heartless more scared off her than before. She quickly grows a small bunch of cacti and proceeds to terrorize the Heartless by throwing the cacti at their feet to back them away from the civilians.

“Hey over here! We can get you out of here,” Isabela calls out to the panicking people after her cacti tossing scared off the Heartless.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

The Heartless jumped back, staring at the cacti with suspicion. One touched one and quickly decided it didn't like that at all. They all hissed and spat at the cacti.

The people rushed to climb the vines and the ladder. "Oh, thank you!" one exclaimed.

Squall was glad that Isabela was there with her powers. "Have you always been able to do things like that?" he asked.

[senorita_perfecta]

“I have this ability to grow plants since I was five, although it wasn’t until a fee months ago when I was able to fully tap into its potential for real,” Isabela explains herself.

She didn’t expect the people to be thanking her so soon as she is still recovering from the stress of keeping the Heartless at bay but she is still taking the appreciation regardless. The timing of her arrival isn’t the greatest but she does at least managed to assist the people at their time of need.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

“Yeah? Well, it’s sure come in handy here,” Squall said. He wasn’t a very social person and might not ask more questions, but he was grateful. As far as he was concerned, her timing couldn’t have been better.

[senorita_perfecta]

“Greatly appreciate it a lot, glad that my magical ability does come in handy in saving people and terrorizing Heartless alike,” Isabela speaks in relief as she look over at the people she and Squall and co. have rescued from the Heartless’ attacks.

She hopes that wherever they land at, there won’t be any more Heartless running all over and terrorizing everyone.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

Squall nodded. "You'll probably need to use it some more before we're through."

The airship continued flying over the city. More Heartless attacks were spotted along the way and more people were rescued. Soon the airship was filling up with the rescued people.

[senorita_perfecta]

Isabela didn’t waste time, sending in vines and throwing cacti at the Heartless to keep them away from the people as the airship comes in to rescue them. She didn’t take a moment to stop until every single person has been rescued and safe from harm. The young lady is convinced that the Heartless are becoming increasingly scared of her and the cacti the more she keeps throwing cacti at the shadowy creatures.

The airship is filling up with rescued people which is good so they can find a place for them to stay in temporarily until the Heartless are sent back to where they came from and they should never harm anyone again.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

When things finally settle down, Squall sighs and turns to survey the number of people they've rescued. He's relieved, but worried if they'll have enough space to hold them all until the crisis passes. And he's not good with handling this type of situation. Hopefully others there can better take charge and show everyone to their temporary rooms.

"If we have enough room, everyone can stay here while this is going on," he says to Isabela. "Who knows how safe it is anywhere else right now."

[senorita_perfecta]

“It does get a bit difficult to see which areas are not as swarmed by the Heartless compared to others, especially when these guys are pretty fast and seem to be a lot more clever than most people would expect them to,” Isabela still couldn’t get over how fast that one Heartless was in grabbing the leg of one of the rescued people a while back, “I can’t even imagine what would have happened if they try to attack my world and town as well.”

She knew that stuff like this wouldn’t happen often in the encanto, mainly because of the sacrifice her Abuelo made long before her generation was born and it giving birth to Casita and the protective magic that surrounds it and the town that sprung up from it. But even then, the Heartless have proven to be not to be underestimated. So she has to keep an eye out and stay alert at all times if she can help it.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

"Yeah, they're a pain. I just hope somebody here knows what they are and what to do with them long-term," Squall grunts. He has no idea his counterpart from another world knows all about them due to them destroying his world. What that other Squall would have given if Radiant Garden had had protection like the Encanto....

[senorita_perfecta]

“Same here as well,” she chimes in, “There has to be at least one person in this city or world who has some experiences with these things and can get rid of them so everyone won’t have to live fin fear for their lives. I just hate it when folks could get in harm’s way and there is not much to do to stop it.”

[maybe_im_a_lion]

"Let's hope so.

"Have you had a lot of experiences with people in trouble?" he wondered. She had been good in this crisis and there might well be more.

[senorita_perfecta]

“Not many but there was the time when my home was crumbling apart because my family have a lot of internal turmoil within ourselves that caused it to feel like it could fall down at any moment,” Isabela answers, “I was going to try to help in retrieving the candle from my Abuela’s room that represent the presence of the magic that gave me and my family our powers but I wasn’t able to do it when my powers left me temporarily. Luckily my youngest sister came to the rescue and saved our home, our magic and the day without having any magic in her.”

[maybe_im_a_lion]

Squall just rather stares blankly during this complicated and confusing explanation.

"... Your house was falling down because your family was in turmoil?" That required a bit more explaining. "Good thing that doesn't happen with this place."

[senorita_perfecta]

“Yes, I wasn’t kidding about that part. Our Abuela sort of accidentally caused it due to her decades long grief having major effects on us. She lost my Abuelo from a sacrifice he made in a major conflict a long time ago. None of us didn’t took notice of the cracks our home was gaining due to this until my youngest sister came in,” Isabela sighs, it is still difficult for her to discuss about her grandmother’s grief over the loss of her husband as the true cause of it had only become common knowledge to the family and the town in general in recent months.

“Well, at least this city doesn’t have any magical homes that could be at risk of falling apart due to emotional stress from its residents so far. No one shouldn’t lose their homes in the same manner we nearly went through.

[maybe_im_a_lion]

Squall is still confused and has to try to read between the lines to figure out all of what was going on. "So the magic that made the house was tied up with your family's feelings or something? Yeah, I hope that kind of building's not common. Can't imagine it'd be a popular material."

[senorita_perfecta]

“In a way, it does get tied into our emotions to some extent as it can get weakened when we are not stable in an emotional level. There is so much for me to talk about the nature of our magic and our house but now is not the right time to discuss it in depth. We need to get the people to a safer location away from the ongoing chaos.”

[maybe_im_a_lion]

"Yeah. Well, they should be pretty safe here for now. I don't know if any place on the ground is safe." Squall frowned. "And I'm going to try to put out a message on the network to see if anybody knows what these things are. I don't want to send any of these people back down without knowing what we're dealing with."

[senorita_perfecta]

“No kidding, it is going to be hard to find a safe place to stay in while these creeps are still here,” Isabela nods in agreement, “Can’t risk running into them while we try to locate such a location especially if their numbers are high. Oh good, that would be a good thing to do to send the message and hope that somebody can tell any information about them. That way, people will know about what is going on and what they can do to deal with this current Heartless situation.”

[maybe_im_a_lion]

"Yeah, I'm sending the message out right now," Squall said, and quickly tapped it out on his device.

He wasn't happy at the message he soon got back. "... Great. The blue-winged Sephiroth says they're called Heartless and they're created when hearts fall to the darkness. The things want to find other hearts and turn more people into them too."

How were they going to fight something like that?