There it was. The behemoth was on it's last legs and it was time to end it. With this last attack they would finish the behemoth but Karina couldn't do it on her own, even with her strength. She needed to get Stratos working with her at the same time not separate. No more of this back and forth one after another, and no time to play support anymore. It was time to finish this battle once and for all. If they got injured there was no time to stop and cure they had to keep going. And why was all of this being said in internal monologue, Stratos needed to hear this if he was going to help her with the final blow that would at last kill the final behemoth on their side. This didn't mean the battle was over but at least one part was. "Listen up Stratos. I am probably the last person you want to be taking orders from but too bad, I am not a fan of giving them either but we hace to work together for the final hit and that requires communication. Seeing as you don't seem to be taking charge I am. We are going to take this... this thing out here and now and finish our side, winning the challenge and rubbing it in Beuce and Glens faces... I mean proving our strength *cough* which you don't have *cough cough* We need to work together to do this. My strength and your... your... your you-ness. Yes that. We will use them together in order to win this. Know that move you tried to show off? Trip around the sun? Since we both have this now and I no longer have to bs my way through using it we are going to do a combined attack with this. We will crush it's head. You still have your keyblade so use it as a glider to get above the behemoth. You will then need to come down on it's head using a Zantetsukn combined with your trip around the sun. Use the Zantetsukn to power your attack, giving more force behind it. Meanwhile I will do a similar thing from the ground, running in and getting under the Behemoths head. I will use Dolphin blow to add force behind my trip around the sun. Together, if we time it right, we should be able to win. Don't stop no matter what happens, no matter whether or not you get hurt or something happens to Aden or I. Keep going! Get it? Got it. Good. Lets go." With that over and out of the way Karina charged forward but not before using two fingers to signal Stratos forward as well to start the charge. Karina had Da'Ve's attention for now, dodging between it's attacks and letting Stratos get into position. It wasn't long before she arrived at her destination. As soon as she saw that Stratos was in position as well Karina shouted. "Ready? Now!" With that command Karina started to charge a red sun in her right had. As it was charging Karina started a series of punches to the underside of the behemoths head. "Three...." Karina slowed her breathing as she punched once more. "Two...." The light from the small energy ball she held in her hand grew more intense. "ONE!" She shouted as she delivered one last intense blow to the behemoth as the energy in her hand exploded. A mass of light was all Karina could see as a large intense explosion appeared in front of her face. The force was so great it pushed Karina back, knocking her flat on her back. She could not see what was going on with Da'Ve any more but if Stratos followed the plan then the behemoth should have died but currently all Karina could see was light and it started giving her a headache. "Please say it is over." Karina mumbled waiting for things to settle. Words: 667 Exp: 60 Total: 1770 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 4/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 20/20 Morning Star: 15/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 5/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Da've 54/300 (Waiting on Stratos to finish the attack before damage is calculated)
Karina took Stratos's hand and stood up. The relief of cure cast by Aden combined with the help up was nice. She didn't usually like being helped but after all that had happened she could use it. she wasn't going to be grumpy about it. All in all through all the mood swings and such that went on during this battle Karina came out in a better mood than she was in going into it. She had a partner here who didn't give up or freak out on her when she did something wrong, got depressed or angry. He truly was someone she never expected to meet. Although it was still yet to be seen if this was truly him or if the only reason he kept his calm was because he couldn't afford to not have her covering his back and helping him. Karina pushed her doubts to the side for the moment and simply nodded at Stratos. They where indeed going to finish this together, whether he walked away and hated her after or not didn't matter right now, at least she had a close ally for finishing off something like this. "Lets do this, it is almost on it's last legs." Karina replied to Stratos. Before Karina had time to make a move or do anything a sharp pain coursed through her body. The sudden startle of the pain caused Karina to cry out. She then looked down and realized the source of her pain and followed Stratos' lead with rolling off of it. She glanced over at him as he cast cure on both of them. She then watched as he went forward to attack. Although team attacks where good, it wasn't time for one yet. Right now they had to take their turns catching their breath and saving their energy up for the final hit. Karina trusted that Stratos could figure that out, he seemed intelligent enough she was sure he could follow suite, he had a few times in this fight already. As Stratos finished Karina spoke. "My turn." She said walking forward in no rush, Her fists where clenched at her sides as she walked. Her steps where slow and calculated. Karina's eyes stared straight ahead at the behemoth watching it's movements. It was not going to get the upper hand once again. Karina hardly flinched as it charged up it's dividing fire ball attack. She waited for it to near her, at that time was when she would start her assault. Just as the purple orb nearly hit her Karina dodge rolled under it, not only avoiding the purple fireball but the other move which the voidmoth used before in it's cheap tactics. Next came the rain of spikes which she was forced to dodge between each one. Eventually she gave up on that and started to jump from one spike to the other one, on top of them. She used this tactic to get herself close to Da'Ve's horn. A small smirk crossed Karina's face as she went to attack. She had definitely gotten her fighting spirit back in time for this last post. Her new form although strange to her helped slightly, it was a distraction, a powerful distraction. Karina started a her barrage of attacks on the Voidmoths horn. Most of which where basic combo's since they had been doing a lot more damage than some things she could do. Karina finished her attack set with an Aerial slam. With that done she landed back on the ground, punching her fist into the ground as she landed on the balls of her feet, one knee almost touching the ground. Karina looked up with more intensity in her eyes than what was seen the entire fight. It was almost over now. Words: 631 Exp: 60 Total: 1710 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 4/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 20/20 Morning Star: 15/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 5/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Da've 88/300
Karina watched as Stratos took out the rest of the smaller heartless. One less thing she had to worry about, especially while figuring out what she could and couldn't do at this point in time with her new transformation thing. Everything was still so weird with it, she didn't know how to handle it in all honesty. Karina nodded at Stratos when he made the comment about the last Behemoth. "Right, I am beside you, we will finish this together. You do know what together means right? As in not running off, doing things at hyper speed and leaving me behind. It is after all the last one, we want to go out with a bank, both of us." Karina said to Stratos seeming to be over her mood swings for now. Since being knocked out then Aden actually fighting, and then her transformation Karina didn't have time to ponder her life or fill posts so nothing depressing could really come to mind at this time. The distraction was nice, a good change of pace for a bit, and just in time for the last heartless, the big one, Dave... Or as Stratos's internal monologue put it Da'Ve the Voidmoth. What where with these behemoths and being from out of this world? Or universe for that matter. Karina had to actually move when a line of some sort of purple substance appeared under her feet. She had jumped out of the way just in time before a row of small explosions followed in the purple substance. Well this was certainly a different move and not at all stolen straight out of a totally unrelated video game which may or may not be where the behemoth got his skill set from. Either way Karina had moved in time and it was time to start her counter. Karina ran forward weaving between the spikes that the voidmoth was now sending out after them. As Karina neared the Behemoth she started to preform a series of upper cuts, this was followed by Karina leaping in the air, doing a front flip for effect, and bring her leg down on it's horn dealing some damage. Whether this was considered an aerial slam or a Dolphin Blow followed by a Falcon's Dive was hard to tell. When combined in combat they almost seemed like the same thing. But one didn't have time to ponder such things as Da'Ve the Voidmoth was before her. Karina took a moment to re collect herself standing on the ground before jumping up after Da'Ve once more. Karina delivered a series of punches right to it's horn. She was forced to retreat however when the voidmoth got ready to shoot one of it's purple fire balls. Landing on the ground she started running an narrowly avoided the purple orb as it flew overhead slightly to her left. But then something stupid and unexpected happened. As she ran there was a small purple light quickly followed by an explosion under Karina's feet sending her up into the air, into one of two purple flame balls that came from the one it shot initially. Karina hit the ground hard after this and groaned slightly as she tried to stand up soar all over. "Cure." She mumbled as she tried to cast the spell... Nothing... It seemed that Gravity was not her only magic that no longer worked. That sucked, she could really use the healing right now, but she was not about to ask for help, Karina was stronger than that. She just had to pick herself up and keep on going, even if it was a little painful to do so, she could do it. It wasn't THAT bad. She had been through worse. Words: 623 Exp: 60 Total: 1650 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 4/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 20/20 Morning Star: 15/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 5/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Da've 246/300
Standing back Karina watched as Stratos fought and Aden just stood there once again. Karina sighed and shook her head as Stratos once again did all the work while everyone else stood around. Screw that Karina was getting in on the action. Karina tired to summon her keyblade to run in. Nothing. She tried it again. Nothing. On the third time she tried a small amount of smoke surrounded her hand and then started to surround her body. Cold air brushed over her as half her clothing disappeared. As the smoke disappeared from one area of her at a time leaving behind new clothes, very skimpy new clothes, which was ironic due to what she was transforming into, though at the time she didn't know what that was. Now in her new outfit Karina's eyes flashed yellow and remained that way. Karina settled with her new outfit no knowing what she thought of it. It was far more skimpy than she would like and the fact that she couldn't summon her keyblade sucked. Karina ran at a Lance Soldier trying to use Gravity on it followed by Vorpal Blitz, neither worked. What the hell was going on here. Next thing that happened was a strange green light surrounded her but no body cast cure. It was weird. From full health Karina's health increased more. Things where getting really weird. Despite Karina just using her limit she felt ready to use it again and through the back of her mind flashed images of different attacks that she didn't know before. Things where just getting confusing now some weird things where happening with Karina's body and it wasn't puberty, she had already gone through that and knew the difference. People explained what that would be like. No one told her what it was when her cloths and skill set changed randomly. Was she dying???? No she wasn't she was getting stronger. Then what was this. With determination to learn what was going on by fighting Karina walked past Stratos, hands clenched in fists. Her glowing yellow eyes faced the lance soldier she failed to kill before. Karina slamed her fist into it's face and started a combo with her fists. She took out both the remaining heartless without too much of a problem despite the fact that she could not seem to summon her keyblade she seemed more powerful with her basic attacks. Karina cracked her knuckles as she looked at the morning stars. They where next. Karina ran towards one, did a front flip and brought her leg down on one of them killing it almost instantly. Karina then started with a series of upper cuts, the other move she saw in the visions in the back of her mind. This had to be followed with a combo to take out the Morning star but it worked. Now it was time for one more. Karina felt a power bubbling through her, it was like she was at the end of her limit. That meant she could legitimately preform the move she did at the beginning of the battle just to show Stratos up. A red orb of heat started to form in Karina's hand and slowly grew bigger. It kept expanding until Karina finally through it at the morning star. OVER KILL! Karina cracked her neck as she turned from the heartless and walked back to Stratos. "Beat that with your random frying pan that appears out of no where." Karina said in a slightly sassy tone. She was enjoying this form but was still quite confused where it came from or how she got it. Words: 605 Exp: 30 Total: 1590 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 4/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 20/20 Morning Star: 12/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 5/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Behemoth 294/300
Xepphiras looked down. She nearly did lose control though, it took all her strength to keep it at bay and all her focus when that was all she had to focus on. "Gexln you don't understand. I nearly did lose control in my dive.... The darkness deep down, it doesn't have a hold of me naturally thank goodness, but with some encouragement it could.... It took all my power to keep it at bay what if I am in battle." Then Gexln spoke of her heart. The only reply she could think of was a simple and rather depressing answer. "What heart? I lost mine. At what point where you able to feel this pain you speak of. I feel nothing." Xepphiras finally looked him in the eyes as he finished what he had to say. What had happened was horrible, she would pity him if she could feel pity. "Sorry to hear that." She said simply. "I guess I am still used to being a nobody, still getting used to having control over the weaker darkness but instead of focusing on learning that I am looking to far ahead. Looking for other problems before perfecting the starter solutions." Xepphiras said almost trying to lift her spirits again. Without R there to show her away and help her through this transition, when left alone in her own mind, Xepphiras was looking for some other guidance, something to settle her mind. Everything was still so new to her as much as at times it seemed like it wasn't.
Robyn was half distracted as Quinn made the comment on her following the rules. "I am a hacker. There are no rules in my world. That being said. I like your title, it is fancy and you are so lucky to have such an awesome rank. I mean after two years I am not considered anything more than an assistant, even when I am on a hacking job for the Special forces, not just working under you. You should be proud of your title." Robyn explained in a monotone almost distracted voice. She didn't mind when Quinn took that tablet from her hand. She did pull up the information for him to look at. With both hands free Robyn stepped up her hacking game, she quickened the pace she was hacking and started to access file. It only took a glance to scan through the files she brought up, thanks to her eidetic memory. It was very handy at times for things like this. Her attention was drawn back by Quinn speaking to her again. He was asking her more about the girl that they where ordered to go after. With a sigh Robyn began. "She was in the same school not classes as me first of all. Second it has been two years since I graduated and therefore saw her, so a lot could have changed. That being said the last time I saw her she seemed fine. She didn't seem depressed, that being said she never said much and always kept to herself so it was hard to tell. I mean she seemed happy for the most part but even I wasn't THAT awkward. She spent a lot of time training in private. I would assume just her specialty, close quarters combat with her daggers. No one really saw what she was practicing however as I said she did it alone, never let anyone around...." Robyn then stopped and though about her analysis. "Remember when considering this Lieu-" Robyn stopped herself. "Quinn.... I am not good at reading people. Anything with computers is fine, but people, eh, I am not so good with. " She reminded him doubting he would forget that but never the less reminding just in case. Before Robyn could get back to her hack she heard a siren go off near by. Robyn slipped the headphones around her neck on and then plugged them into an old school looking portable radio and adjusted the dial slightly. After sitting quietly for a moment she brought her phone from her lap and quickly closed everything that was on the screen. Robyn then stood up from the table as and started to pace as she put her headphone back around her neck and started to type a number into the phone. Soon enough she was speaking. "Hello, Chief? Yes this is Robyn, Lieutenant General Quinn Basileus's assistant. Well yes. You know the girl that your men are going to pursue? Yes I know about that. Do we really have time to be getting into this right now? Just call your men off. Do not approach her. No not even to talk! Don't do it. We are near by, we will go after her. This is a mission sent out Special forces wide, for students and members, your police are not to interfere. I know it is your district. It doesn't matter at this point. Lets just leave it at your men are not to do anything to alert her of your guys' presence which could possibly make her flee. Oh and if you see any students just keep an eye on them. We don't know what this girl is like at this time. Ugh, I am done with this. Don't do anything!" With that Robyn hung up. "Two blocks south, three east from here, town square. That is where our target it. Oh and can I please have my phone and tablet back now." Robyn spoke already heading for the door. Mila was greatly disheartened by the response she had gotten. The people had to know what was going on yet no one would believe her. How would she manage to convince people of what was going on. Her spirits where lifted when she heard a boy talk to her. "Of course what I am saying is true. I wouldn't be standing here looking like an idiot that could possibly lead to me getting arrested for nothing." The girls voice was a lot quieter now. Not quiet like she was trying to whisper, just her natural voice was a quiet one. "Look I saw it for myself, it has to be stopped. Please believe me." Mila lifted her hand to try to show the man the only proof she had, but remembered the warning given to her by a friend about showing it. She knew she shouldn't. "Tell me you believe me. Please help me end this. It is horrible." Mila pleated with him sounding more desperate than she intended.
Ooh yummy. But Damn it now I want starbucks. Good thing I have a freebie on my starbucks card.
Yeah a little.[DOUBLEPOST=1409712989][/DOUBLEPOST]I am going to buy energy bangle for 750 munny bringing my total down to 6,310. I will spend 30 crowns on 10 AP Unequipped Gravity and vorpal Blitz Unequipped my keyblade. Unequipped Guard, and Battle cry Equip Trip around the Sun I will now equipped the Monk Class and everything that comes with it AP at 29/28(+2)
Give me that starbucks and all is forgiven. But anyways thank.you all for the birthday wishes
As it seemed Karina was still out of it a bit. Taking a lot of time between her actions. In this time she looked around and saw Aden doing something. Now she knew she had to be dreaming, or thematic angelic behemoth had dine more to her than she thought. Aden didn't fight, he just stood there along either Base. Karina rubbed her eyes then looked again. He was still fighting. She blinked as she stared. Karina then started to pinch herself trying to wake herself up. It wasn't possible that she was awake. But no matter what Karina tried she still looked up and saw Aden being at least somewhat helpful. Guess meracles did happen when you believed... Well she didn't believe, perhaps stratos did, or else it was unprompted. It meant that they would have to share their experience with him, and then what? Karina didn't want to share, she hated sharing.she could stand the thought of sharing with Stratos a little more because he was doing more than she was. He had earned it. Meanwhile Aden only just stared to do things now. He missed most of the behemoths and so many other things. This thought annoyed Karina, and through this annoyance she found the strange burst of energy that she had had before being knocked out. It was go time now. All possible hallucinations aside, Karina decided to warm up.on some easy things. The heartless that where already injured two Lance Soldiers in the distance would make a good target to get back into the groove of things. Karina started to charge forward as her keyblade left her hand on the form. Of a stroke raid. Karina wasn't far behind her keyblade. As soon as the strike raid hit she followed it up by punchingbthe heartless with her right hand, catching her keyblade wither left. As she finished that attack she tossed her keyblade in the air catching it again with her right hand in order torture and efficiently kill the other Lance Soldiers. This however didn't make the others around her very happy. The next thing she knew Karina was surrounded by five more Lance Soldiers. Karina looked at each one before deciding she could take them all out on her own right now. Karina startrd by casting off cool downs and performing 5 strike raids. One at a time as each heartless was injured and Karinas keyblade returned to her, she turned and threw it at the next one until she complete.to circle. This was followed by a series of basic attacks using the same method. Slowly she was taking them down. Karina then let herself fill with a great power. Her other attacks had been child's play compared to the move Karina was about to perform. Standing their fir a moment Karina let the heartless get confident enough to try and attack her, as soon as they did she unleashed the wrath of the warrior. Karina stares a massive extremely strong combo in which she ended up going between the heartless attacking them all, quickly bringing them to an end. Standing there amongst a smoke like substance that had come as she defeated the heartless and they disappeared, Karina was catching her breath. "I may have been beaten by an angel, but I am not down for good and I am not weak. Those heartless would have benefited from knowing that." Karina said to Stratos before taking a deep breath and chuckling slightly. Using her limit took a lot out of her but soon see would be ready to keep fighting once more. Words: 602 Exp: 60 Total: 1530 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Spoiler: East Side List Behemoths: 4/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 18/20 Morning Star: 9/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 4/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Zip Slasher: 62/100
ina awoke in haze with a familiar warmth filled her. She had expected to find herself at home, cozy in bed, soon to hear her dad yelling fir her, but that wasn't what she heard. The sounds around her where different, almost confusing for Karina at first, not sure what was going on. The realization of reality hit her like a freight train as everything that had happened suddenly came back to her. And it wasn't that she didn't remember, but upon first awakening they seemed like a distant dream. She didn't know whether to find that fortunate or not. Given the current circumstances she was starting to think not at this point. Karina slowly rose to her feet looking around for the angelic behemoth that she was fighting before, it was gone, killed most likely by Stratos along with many other heartless. "Looks like the rumours are true.... Angels do always beat demons. So much for proving that wrong." Karina was almost embarrassed that she had lost to that thing. It had not only taken her down but full on knocked her out. The feeling she had if extra strength before was gone as well. It seemed things where just going down hill now. Stratos had done a good job of dealing with the heartless biut there were still many more that had to be dealt with. Running to her comrades side Karina looked at him fighting. She almost envied him. She was stringer by far but he seemed more well rounded and most of all happier, despite this entire mess they where in. It wasn't a care free happiness or a manic one, just almost like contentment. He was content with his life and he would do what he could to keep his life in a state it was in. And with that came not losing any of his comrades, protecting her to keep her alive and keep some sort of constant on his life. This of course was all speculation from Karina, but it was what she thought she saw in the boy. It seemed that Stratos had a lot of heartless on his plate again. Not as many as before but more difficult ones. After only just awakening after being knocked out Karina decided the best place to start was with helping Stratos instead of taking on a horde of her own. Jumping onto action Karina started to go after the three Lance Soldiers that where near by. "Thought you could use some help." Karina said to Stratos despite her back being turned to him. Not long after that comment she started to fight off the three Lance Soldiers making quick work of all of then. Now what to use the last of her BP on? With only nine points left she decided to pour all of them into the zip slasher ahead of them. After all those things where annoying to deal with so Karina wouldn't let Stratos take it alone. That would just be mean. Those things where dicks, and not nice. She didn't like them and was not going to let Stratos handle it alone. Karina charged forward intercepting an attack that the zip slasher was going to perform on Stratos before fighting it back. She used barrier surge followed by an aerial slam before she herself was forced to back up due to not being at full one hundred percent strength after everything that had happened and being knocked out and all. It wasn't fun you know. She had missed alot because of it, you couldn't expect it to be at full power. Words: 601 Exp: 30 Total: 1440 Killed three heartless that where injured already and 9 BP to zip slasher Tom can calculate yourself cause my bro wants to go for breakfast
Hearing her name Xepphiras looked up at Gexln. He seemed to be trying to tell her that she wasn't useless and that she shouldn't be doubting herself, giving her a quick run down of what they where supposed to do. Meanwhile all Xephhiras could think was, could he not see what she was talking about? Lowering her hand from her chest Xepphiras spread her arms slightly at her side. "Look at me... I am scrawny, malnourished, don't know what I am doing, and these tattered torn up clothing is all I have for clothes. I wouldn't be much use here. Further more I have more darkness than I know what to do with, every time I see Xindai, every time he talks to me, he stirs it deep down and I don't know what to do about it. Gexln, I can't control that darkness but it is there and I don't know how to suppress it. What if I end up hurting one of you guys during the battle. I might just be the death of you because of it. So now tell me again why I am here. Why I am doing this." Xepphiras spoke more now than she had in a long time to anyone. Generally she kept quiet and to herself following R, any thoughts like this where to be kept to herself. But it was something she had to finally say before she went off to war. She had so many more questions to ask, but this was the most important to her. The questions about being a nobody could wait, she didn't need them answered too badly.
Tasha listened to the boy struggle through his apology. He said he hurt a lot of people and it was in his nature and all Tasha could think was how easy she could get hurt. "It's okay..." Tasha said looking down as she rubbed her right arm. "I guess I just can be overly sensitive at times. It is hard for me not to. I just over reacted." Tasha looked down slightly not used to people who hurt her actually caring enough to apologize not matter how much they struggled. Either people liked her or they didn't, there was rarely an in between. If they didn't like her they would hurt her even if they didn't intend to. She just had a lot of things that hurt her since she lost her family. Tasha perked up a bit at Callum talking about his hobbies. "Photography? That is cool. I would like to see some of your pictures sometime if you are willing to show them. I like looking through photos.... Just no family ones...." She added kind of unsure if she should have said it but it was too late now. Next thing Tasha knew things got kind of hectic. Willy spoke up again in his drunken manic state. This only ended in the medic type guy getting knocked out, and of course just as she started to get the confidence to ask for help with her hand. But that could wait now. She wasn't too concerned with it despite the fact that it had more then one rather deep cut that where still bleeding. A sense of anxiety washed over Tasha as she watched everything. With Derek out she didn't know what would happen now. Slowly Tasha backed up to the wall that Callum had previously been leaning against. She crossed her arms and tried to comfort herself a bit. Despite being in a more happy mind set it didn't stop anxiety from sneaking it's way in.
Karina felt useless just standing around. It wasn't that she had been standing there all that long it was just that Stratos was not waiting for her what so ever even if it was requested. It was not like she had complete control over how much she could post, after all she did have other things going on in her own mind and she also had to you know catch her breath from time to time, simple stuff that any normal human needed to do, but apparently Stratos didn't need that. What was he, an alien? He never needed to stop it seemed, never needed a break. He wasn't strong but damn he had stamina, and the worst part was his stats didn't even support his endurance or his attack strength, or anything! What the hell was going on here anyways? Karina didn't understand how any aspect of this fight worked at this point. Nothing made sense. She was using more skill commands than she had equipped. Stratos had unusual amounts of mp but only sometimes, other times he did run out. Cool downs didn't exist nor did any sort of limit to their fighting except when they feel like it. It was a really odd battle thus far, and she doubted it would change. Karina was suddenly surrounded by a green light that wasn't from Stratos for once. She didn't have time to look around and figure out who cast the cure spell due to having to dodge around more of the behemoths damn lasers that he was shooting from the sky like the dick he was. What was with this so called angel? Weren't they supposed to be peaceful and help the lost, lonely and depressed just the same as those who are full of joy and believe that there is a God out there. But this angel seemed to have different views then Karina assumed it should. Apparently destruction was part of those different views. This thing loved to destroy them. Karina could somewhat understand it wanting to destroy her, seeing herself as a demon, but Stratos was no where near that, so why would it attack him as much or more than it attacked her. Again none of this made sense. These Behemoth was so out there in personality and attack styles it confused her. This was all so messed up. Karina finally decided to you know actually fight and do something besides ramble on in her own mind about how nothing made sense. Karina step up beside Stratos and gave him a small nod showing she was back in the game for the next short amount of time until he started attacking at speeds she could not match again. Karina used her keyblade glider to fly towards the angelic behemoth, dodging it's rain of laser beams that where coming down as Karina was attempting to get close. Once near she leaped off her glider and swiftly transformed it back into a keyblade she she would bring it down on the behemoths horn. This turned into an aerial sweep and an air combo plus. Karina then proceeded with a vorpal blitz. Landing on it's head Karina prepared for one more attack. Only taking a moment to breath before continuing Karina started another aerial sweep to air combo plus attack set. Just as she was about to finish her move a light came out of the behemoths horn and drove Karina to the ground. As the light faded Karina was surprised to find herself alive. She had barely got a guard in but with the power behind the attack she honestly wasn't sure if she would survive, But apparently she did. Words: 614 Exp: 60 Total: 1410 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 3/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Michael: 18/300
Karina was still standing on the behemoths head when it awoke from it's slumber after seeming to not care for her at first. It's initial movements where not big, nothing that would cause her to fall or think of needed to get off it's head, so she stayed, it was the best place to attack from due to it having the best access to the horn, the weakest point to attack from. A slight rumble was felt under Karina's feat before she felt the behemoth really starting to be moving. As it took off into the air, Karina lost her balance and went tumbling off the Behemoth. She expeced movement and was prepared for it but didn't expect it to be fricken flying. Since when did Behemoths fly? Weren't they too big and fat to fly, like look at the size of them. The fall from the behemoths back was fairly long and ended up knocking the wind out of Karina. She lay on her back for a moment just looking up at the angelic behemoth. She should have known that was coming, after seeing Satan and all an angel was not that far of a stretch. It seemed these behemoths had any and every form that you could possibly think of. What sort of power did Aux have to summon these? It was then the behemoth started it's rain of attack, He was literally raining down lasers with some sort of light magic. What the hell was this. Karina rolled to the side to dodge one before forcing herself to her feet, running a bit to dodge a few more. Stratos then went to start his attack set. Karina stayed behind and observed for the time being. She wanted to know how else it fought. She was thankful that at least this one she couldn't feed it's power, she had not much light in her to speak of. As Stratos finished his combo she turned to him. "Well I am no where near an angel so I don't know how I will fight this one, but perhaps a demon will win for once." She joked as she out right stated she was a demon. She believed it too. It wasn't entirely a joke though she said it in a joking manner, she believed that she brought hell where ever she went and was indeed a demon of some sort, or at least the closest you can get while being a mere mortal. With that Karina got ready to attack. Her skill set was especially honed to aerial enemies. That would be a good start with the whole demon beating an angel sort of thing. She jumped into the air starting her assault with an aerial combo, the next thing she used was vorpal blitz. Karina landed on the ground for a couple seconds before finishing her move set with an aerial slam that knocked the angel to the ground. Even with that it got right back up and flew high into the air away from them once again. The rain of lasers started once again for a short amount of time. It was soon after that it charged another attack from it's horn, this one more aimed, and of course aimed at Karina, because why wouldn't it be. A single concentrated laser shot from the sky towards Karina. As she ran it followed her. Nearing a wall she was forced to dodge roll to the side and hope it would work. Thankfully it did. The heartless ended it's laser attack as soon as it hit the wall. Karina had to take a moment to catch her breath before she started attacking once again. The angel did not seem to be to fond of the demon. Words: 626 Exp: 60 Total: 1350 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 3/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Michael: 198/300
Karina simply watched as the horde of power Wilds that where after her slowly diminished, and by Stratos's hand none the less. Man that kid was fast, or he had one dedicated poster who had no life. Either way now there was only four to deal with. Not only that but Karina seemed to be filled with a new refreshed power. For some reason sue felt that she could do twice as much as before, endure longer before she had to take a break. Or that was stop fighting because they where only allowed to use a certain amount of battle points per turn. Either way it was a good feeling knowing that she could hold out longer, do more, and finish this fight in a more reasonable time frame. It had been going on for so long already and Karina had been through so much in her own mind she was just tired and cranky and didn't know what to do anymore. Currently she was handling her emotions alright, but with the stress of this battle she didn't know how long it would hold. She probably already seemed bipolar to those around her. She could deal with people thinking she was depressed it the thought of bipolar sort of annoyed her. She did have some sanity. Karina finally sorting through her thoughts started to move preparing for battle against the remaining power Wilds. There where not many so it wouldn't take long. The remaining question was simply this. What would she focus on next? But Karina didn't have time to thinking that, due to the remaining four heartless attacking her all at once. Karina was light on her feet to back away before turning and beginning her attack. No more defensive fighting, it would all be on the offence until they all died, which wasn't long now. Karina charged forward at them, hacking and slashing, cutting her way through. One by one the four of them fell, leaving Karina standing their in victory, and just in time for aero to wear off. As it did it sent another gust of wind blowing Karinas hair around behind her as she stood with her keyblade looking victorious. None of this was intentional either. Now with thise heartless down Karina looked around fir her next prey. Her eyes laid on a behemoth not far from her. Though scared to see what stupid moves this one hand up its sleeve Karina still figured it the best place to focus due to her new found power and not knowing how long it would last. Karina cautiously approached this one, being almost hesitant ti start attacking it. It's back was to her so it had not noticed her yet but Karina knew that would change soon enough when she climbed on its back. With one high jump she landed on Iran waited..... Nothing like it hadn't even noticed. Karina took a couple steps closest it's head. Still nothing. What was this heartless playing at? A few steps more and she was at its horn. The heartless didn't finch. Looking at its eyes it seemed to be asleep. "Well here goes nothing." Karina shrugged as she prepared to attack the sleeping behemoth knowing it could go horribly wrong. Karina started a basic combo on its horn before she finished it off with a splatter combo. Standing on its head she clenched her teeth and stood unsure. Soon it would awake and then what? What was this behemoth like? How would it attack? And most of all how powerful was it? Karina.a didn't know so she simply waited.... Words: 602 Exp:60 Total: 1290 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 3/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 50/50 Injuries: Behemoth: 276/300
The single most busy weekend for me. >.> of course. Guess I'll be rushing through posts
Wind blew Karina's hair in her face initially before it it settled with Aero not entrapping her in a wind shield. Her hair still wave back and forth slightly in n the wind caused by aero, no matter how minimal that was. She then felt a familiar warmth fill her body, one that she had felt more than once through this battle as her pain minimized and her wounds started to heal. A pleasant feeling for sure. Though Stratos couldn't come over and help fight, he was still helping her through support, like he had been this entire battle. Although that was not a bad thing, After all she did have the physical strength to last her through the killing heartless just not so much the endurance, but that was what Stratos was good for. He had played a very good support for most of this battle and didn't doubt he would continue to do so whether she liked it or not it seemed, and as it stood she did. She definitely appreciated the support. Karina stood there in an epic fashion with her hair blowing slightly behind her, keyblade gripped tight in her hand, facing a horde of fifteen monkey's. There was only one thing off this however. In Karina's eyes there was a small amount of anger but more sadness than anything and very little determination. It kind of took away from the effect. Never the less Karina was still ready to fight, or the very least protect herself. With that a couple of the monkey's threw themselves at her. With one swipe Karina interrupted their attack, throwing them to the side. Neither of them died but they where out of her way for now at least. The heartless didn't stop there however. One of the heartless came leaping after her to attack, an upward slash was what it took to intercept that one and send it flying out of her way. This unfortunately left an opening for a fourth power wild to attack her. Aero took most of the damage but she was not happy. With the attacking heartless out of the way for the most part, Karina thought it time to go on the offense and start taking out some of these annoying beasts, starting with the only one that actually got a hit in on her, the one that stood directly in front of her. Karina picked the heartless up and stabbed it with her keyblade like it was nothing, She then simply tossed it to the side to let it die. Karina then turned to look at the rest of the power wilds that she knocked out of the way. There where two to her left and one to her right, which to start with. Perhaps the one in front of her that was trying to catch her off guard while she was not paying attention. Karina reacted quickly with a poison edge followed by a fire strike to finish the heartless off. At this point she only had time to deal with the two to her left before she went back on the defense side of things for a bit. Karina didn't take her time getting over to the other two heartless. A short jog over and she stood in front of the wounded. Although their wounds where not enough to stop them from attacking, a sore mistake on their part. The heartless tried to jump at Karina and as each did she took them out with a single slash each. These heartless where not hard to beat but damn where they ever annoying to fight, especially when fifteen decide at once to have it out for you right after you finished fighting off nine. Words: 622 Exp: 30 Total: 1230 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 3/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 35/50 Injuries: Power Wild: 3/5 Power Wild: 3/5
Karina was still catching her breath as she studied the heartless around her. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason behind their attacks, but then again they did resemble monkeys and those things where not particularly known for having the most logic behind what they did. Either way Karina just had to roll with it, if they where not going to attack with any pattern or reason she would do the same. Why plan anyways? It was hard to plan something when she couldn't anticipate her enemies next move. Beside these where rather easy to kill compared to some things that she could have been trying to take down. Karina simply started swinging her keyblade around in the general direction of one of the heartless. Bringing down the circle by half the heartless where more spread out meaning she could only go for one at a time. A few of her random movements countered some of the heartless attacks, some of the heartless's attacks hit her, and a few of her's got through and hit it, The heartless was losing health a lot quicker then she was, which was good. She could probably last threw the next three like that but that would be near the end for her. She would have to heal before she kept doing it. "I don't know what you things are doing but if you want to play it that way, I can do the same." Karina said as she turned to the other four heartless. She then started to do the same thing that he did to the first one. As long as she ended the heartless's life she didn't care how silly she looked. She also didn't care how many hits she took as long as her hp didn't hit Zero. Karina charged at another one of the heartless using the same tactics, even though they where... how do you put it? Reckless? That might have been an understatement, but in the end it worked. With two dead she turned to the next two taking them both out with minimal effort and even less logic. She just had to get the job done somehow, the means did not matter so much or at least in Karina's eyes. Leaving only one heartless around her more of the power wilds decided to start surrounding Karina getting ready to attack. Getting bored of fighting them she eyed a weak morning star. That was a quick change of pace. Once it was dead she would have to return to the power wilds but it was at least something different. Karina used high jump to shoot herself up and over the newly formed circle of power wilds. She came down with a vorpal blitz at the morning star, killing it quickly and efficiently, unlike the power wilds. She may have stole Stratos's kill but she really could care less at this point. As long as the job was getting done that was all that mattered, plus Stratos shouldn't be allowed to do absolutely everything, or most things so it was. Turning around Karina saw a group of now about fifteen power wilds coming towards her. They where obviously not happy about her bailing on their fight to fight something else and got some friends to join. This wasn't going to be fun, she knew it. But at least it would gather them all in one place at one time. She could take them but a little help would be nice. That being said Stratos probably had his own group of heartless to worry about and didn't have time to help her with hers. Words: 606 Exp: 30 Total: 1200 Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 3/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soldiers: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 3/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 28/50 Injuries:
Through the entire night into the next morning Cierra followed Opheus around. She acted out of obedience for owing Orpheus her life because he not only saved her but didn't take it when he could have. She truly owed him her life in her mind. Although that was not the only reason she followed him so closely. She was used to having Sven around to tell her what to do, and where to go. When he wasn't around she was like a lost puppy looking for the next best person to follow, Orpheus. She now sat at his feet looking at the prisoners that sat before them. She tuned out their words not wanting to listen to them talking about her. She hated people doing that. The entire time she was following Orpheus she remained silent, when talk of Sven came up she looked down saddened. Cierra worried greatly about him, she thought he would be back by now and when he wasn't she was scared about what might have happened to him. Once Orpheus finished his talking he got up to leave, and of course Cierra followed. She stood not far behind him and kept her eyes down away from everyone. She didn't know what she was to be doing so as she had been for that last while she simply followed and stood in silence as he called the other person that the Warden seemed to be after. Cierra only gave a slight glance up before averting her eyes once again. Cierra waited for any instruction from Orpheus if there was any to be had. Gwen was getting agitated by Beuce and Jedediah's talking. Gwen simply grit her teeth as she sat on the ground finally calmed from her panic attack. It had lasted most of the night but it was mostly just silent sobs. She listened to Orpheus tell them about the trade and such. She looked around at the others, she was didn't say anything on the matter, She didn't seem to care much. As desperately as she wanted to get out of their she didn't care to speak her opinion. Gwen did however add one detail. "You can keep Hunter." She said in a some what joking matter, but at the same time she WAS getting annoyed with him. However it was the only one here that she remotely liked. Even if it was in a weird sort of I insult you, you insult me but neither of us get hurt sort of way. Leah was back in her forest hide out once again. The thoughts of the night before raced through her head, the nightmare that approached her, and the man that saved her. He looked somewhat familiar but not someone she trusted. Even with him saving her she didn't trust him, simply questioned his motives. Leah knew living in the woods was not a safe place to live but it started to feel less safe now, especially knowing that... that thing was out there. Letting out a big yawn Leah laid back for a bit on a log. She had not gotten any sleep the night before, every time she did the image of the person who approached her flashed through her mind, scaring her, as well thoughts of who the other man was and what he may have wanted. The cries of people where music to Stephan's ears as he slashed through the chest of another one of the servants. Dead bodies scattered the floor and though some sense of guilt was felt for killing the innocent he got over it quickly, mostly because it was pay back for Mordecai. It was his fault for all the deaths not outlaw's. Outlaw was simply a messenger letting Mordecai what he needed to know in his own way. There was not many other ways it would get threw his thick skull. Talking never worked, Stephan tried and it didn't work, shortly after was when he left. Now Stephan was back this time with more hostile means. After the Warden write his message and left his signature on it, Stephan followed suite. He wanted to make sure that Mordecai knew he was involved and was not scared of him. Stephan ran his claw against the wall underneath the message. The sound it made was like nails on a chalk board. The sound echoed through servants quarters, not like there was anyone left to hear it. Removing his claw from the wall three parallel scratches where dug into the wall. Stephan had used his claws for so long he was positive that Mordecai would know who it was. Stephan then turned around to leave as a smirk spread across his face.
