"Riku, this is getting tiring. Surely there's something we have to help us out? A healing spell? Elixir? Anything will do!" Eden begged. She was complaining a bit, but she had been put under the most stress, something her body was still adjusting to after what seemed days ago her life was normal.
Eden noticed the strain upon everyone, wincing at how pitiful they looked. She wanted to scream at them to go for the head, but that would stop her fires. And now was a dangerous time for that. "Balls to it." she groaned, yelling out in her own voice. "GO FOR THE HEADS!" she painfully winced, going back within the depth of her heart.
Eden kept pushing her heart, her fire, to keep going at full force. It was putting more strain upon her, but for now, she would cope with whatever pain this would bring afterward.
"It will be long, but I'll keep things heated to make everything easier. Go for the big ones, then the neoshadows!" Eden summoned forth more fire, wanting to regard Riku's earlier warning but could not under the conditions.
Edn bided her time until Riku was on top of Darkside's head, going in an all out inferno to deal massive damage. "There, that'll help." she huffed from over exertion.
"Well, let's go!" Eden didn't heed the warnings of everyone, instead just going into the fray, fire blazing. She burned a few neoshadows, but to get to the Darksides heads would take time she didn't have, and acrobatics she couldn't perform. Due to her loud surroundings, she could barely hear herself think. "RI! Get to the head!" and with that, control was his.
Eden poked the light with her weapon, wary still. It ended up blowing up in her face, bringing the group to brighter area, though grim with the dark. It looked like The End of the World, or at least one of the secluded areas full of very big and very bad enemies... namely, Darksides and neoshadows today.
"Valerie, keep going." Eden grumbled, going to the speed of a very little jog. "Right now things are bad, but we have to hurry up. My legs are killing me, and with one bad joint, it's not easy." she kept moving forward, finally reaching the now great ball of light within the dark.
Eden looked back, unable to hear or see anything but her comrades. "I thought..." she shook off the feeling, going at a slower pace to rest her tired legs. She lpoked at the glintings within the dark, but her Keyblade pulled her into the direction of one. The closer she got, the more the other flecks of light burned out.
"What's worse is that I can't tell if it's real or if the darknes is playing with us." Eden sheepishly spoke aloud, pushing herself to find the keyhole and healing the tainted landmass of Australia.
Eden turned to who else had grabbed at Gexln, other then her quivering arm. Before she could scream and kill whatever it was, she noticed who it was. "Valerie!" she could almost cry in the small joy of having her around. But still, the darkness coiled around them. Summoning whatever strength she had to her Keyblade, bringing in a bit of light. Something glinted off in the distance. Multiple glintings.
Eden quickly nodded, unable to pull up a brave face inthis situation. Too many things were going on, and it was overloading her senses.
"I don't know, I was running from some sort of zombified Riku, his body at least. But still! We have to seal the keyhole, and I can't light the way again like the Human Torch!" Eden bit her lip nervously. Summoning the Reversed Kingdom Key, she hoped it would lead her to the center.
Eden didn't listen to Riku, as she was already running for her dear life. Soon enough, she tripped, not on her own feet, but over someone on the ground. She groaned in pain, cursing to herself that she didn't pay attention, but then noticed who she tripped over. "Gex! Gex, get up! Please, something's after us!"
ooc: For a world to greedily keep in it's own kind within the keyholes would probably overbear normal humans/nobodies. bic: Eden couldn't really understand if this was or wasn't Riku. She really didn't want to know. And yet, she could hear him hissing at her, in some unknown language. It (as she refused to acknowledge it as "Riku" or "He") lunged at her, to which she ran in panic before falling under his weight. Immeadietly she tried kicking him off, collecting her bearings and running away again.
"Don't like guns, never did. "I don't know either, really. Too dark." She glanced around, hearing the soft pads of feet. She turned around, seeing a body cloaked in darkness. She would have screamed as well. It was Riku, if you could call him that. Cloaked in Darkness, eyes sunken to the point he looked dead. Even his eyes had an eerie hum of venom yellow. She could almost smell his decay. "Oh my God!" She stepped back, heart pumping wildly.
Eden stared around, catching her thin breath after running for so long. "I hate..." with a thick cough, she continued. "I hate that gun. Never want to see it again..." she looked around, wondering what other horrors awaited her.
"But, I, still, I want to have someone around. You're like Ashir to me, not really there, a voice in my head!" Eden nervously rubbed her arms, looking around. Then she heard it. Metal. But it was sliding, towards her. She felt a weight hit her foot, to which she nervously looked down. It was a pistol, one that seemed to belong to a western flick. She nearly screamed and ran from it.
Eden panicked, she didn't like being alone. No, she could stand being alone for a few hours, but right now, she was developing a small case of mono-phobia. She called out still, and saw nothing. Wait, what was that? No, she couldn't hear that. There was nothing. Like someone was watching tv and then had to mute it for something important. She looked around still, hoping the darkness wouldn't use her fears to fight her.
Eden glanced around. Valerie had taken it lightly. It was darkness. She couldn't even see where they came in from. In fact, it felt like she couldn't see even Valerie! "Val?" She looked around more, unable to see anything still. She tried to summon a flame, but it was quickly snuffed out. "Val!?" she called out more. The darkness was separating them. "So much for strength in numbers." She whispered quickly, frightened.
