Kairi squealed as she was dropped, and immediately began panicking as the giant uber-cool beam was fired. "Oh, paopu fruits..." WHY IS IT SORA CAN GLIDE OUT OF THE WAY BUT I CAN'T?! IT'S NOT FAIR! C'mon Kairi, focus. Keep your head. THE MOST I CAN DO IS JUMP REALLY FAR, LIKE I DID IN TWTNW, BUT GLIDE? NO! Don't be an idiot... THIS ISN'T FAIR! NOMURA COULD'VE GIVEN ME SOME COMBAT ABILITY OF A SORT- WHAT'S HE GOT AGAINST GIRLS BEING ABLE TO FIGHT ANYWAY-?! That's it. You've gone officially insane. Just in time, she stuck her Keyblade out as she was about to crash into the ground and flipped onto her feet. She then Reflected the beam right back, following up with Strike Raid. Unfortunately, she missed... ...and the Keyblade hit Saïx instead.
Aerith rolled her eyes at Rinoa. "As much as I'd like to, I highly doubt there's going to be any contact between my boots and Sephiroth's behind," she said. "However..." She pointed to Vayne. "I think he's calling you." She ran away to help Cloud, extremely thankful for Rinoa's spells as chaos raged about over her head (quite literally). Once she found him, she quickly cast Curaga. "I think Rinoa chucked your sword at Sephy. You'd better go and ask for it back." ~~~~~ Kairi picked herself up, grimacing as bruises sang out. "This is the LAST TIME I pick game garb with so many fish-stinking straps!" she burst out, fingering the severed ends of one of her belts angrily. A meteor thudded down next to her, scaring the girl out of her fit of rage, and Chaos followed close behind. "AAH-!" Kairi screamed. "REFLECT, REFLECT, REFLECT!" *smash* *crunch* *pain* She opened her eyes, to see Chaos sliding slowly down the invisible force-field wall. Yay! I did it!
"Um... Cloud, is this a bad time?" asked Aerith, reaching out just in time to catch Cloud-die. "Wow, your head's even pointier than usual. Imagine that, Chocobo-head!" she added, prodding him. Then she drew back her arm, wound up for the toss, and then chucked Cloud at Sephiroth. "Watch out for the angular flying projectile!" she shouted at her killer. ~~~~~ Kairi looked around wildly, hoping to see her Keyblade. She found it still sticking out of Vincent (in Chaos form), where Sephiroth had stabbed him with it before. "Oh. 'Scuse me, I gotta take this," she said to him, attempting to yank it out of him. She frowned, then strained. At last, it popped out with an unpleasant little noise. "Oh, yeah... Stop." Chaos temporarily froze in place. She danced off, whistling, cheerful to the point of foolishness. Of course, Stop doesn't exactly last very long... especially when cast by an amateur like Kairi. (ooc://I dunno HOW she managed to do that without getting slain by Chaos, but hey?)
(ooc://Um... Ukali... when you said Sephiroth jumped off the wall to gain more 'turbulence,' don't you mean more 'momentum'? Maybe some physical science review is needed ) Kairi looked bemusedly at her empty hand, then up at Sephiroth. The sight of the all-powerful One-Winged Angel- in his dark somber clothing- holding her delicate, pretty little pink Keyblade once would've made her giggle... but this was no time to giggle. Wise up, Kairi! she thought, smacking herself on the head mentally. Acting immature was what got you into this situation in the first place. She held out her hand, screwing up her face as she tried to summon her Keyblade back. All she managed to do was look constipated. Finally, she sighed. "AERITH! HELP ME GET MY KEYBLADE BACK!" ~~~~~~ Aerith had been pretty much ignored throughout the last few pages, and had already finished whittling a new quarterstaff for herself. "Okay... aren't you that other lady from FFVIII?" she asked, pointing at Rinoa. "The one that I always thought looked similar to Tifa? I'm Earisu Geinzubūru (if only I could write it in Japanese... T.T), or Aeris, or Aerith. It all works. However, if you don't mind, I really do need to get back in the fight before I die of boredom in this corner of little importance." She ran to help out Kairi.
(ooc://Well... it IS called Organization XIII Switch...) "Is the water gone yet?" peeped Naminé(Larxene) as she peered out from Zexion's closet. She frowned at Saïx(Roxas). "Hey look, it's my BEST BUDDY." She chucked a handful of kunai at him.
Naminé was about to open her mouth and join in on the conversation when the first drops of sprinkler-water fell on Larxene's trench coat. "What the-" she began, staring at the tiny droplet as if it were a little problem. Then came the next. And the next. And the next. And the next. Finally, one fell on her forehead. She wiped it off with a shaking finger. "What's with the water?" she asked bluntly, glaring at it. Then she remembered something. "Please don't tell me this is water... oh Kingdom Hearts. Larxene... can't... get wet... can she? GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Completely forgetting her plan to fool around with the other members' memory, Naminé dove into Zexion's ransacked closet. (ooc://Okay... can someone fill me in on what Xigbar was looking for in Zexion's closet of ultimate D00M? 'Cause I don't get it :/ Oh, and if you haven't read the KH:CoM manga, Larxene exploded because she got wet... just to explain Naminé's panic over water. Talk about hydrophobia.)
"Oh Shiva," Aerith groaned as the group around her exploded into chaos. "Here we go again. Sephiroth just can't STAY dead, can he?" She shook her head and threw an Ether over herself to restore magic. "Cure," she added, pointing to Kairi, who had somehow gotten knocked out during all the excitement (Naminé must slap very hard :p ) Kairi sprang to her feet, Keyblade out and ready to stab. "NAMINÉ! I AM GOING TO SLICE OFF YOUR HAIR, PEEL OFF YOUR SANDALS AND PULVERIZE THEM, PUT YOUR SKETCHBOOK THROUGH THE PAPER SHREDDER, BAKE THE HAIR CUTTINGS IN A PIE AND FEED IT TO SEPHIROTH-" She ran off, still shouting arcane threats. Meanwhile, Aerith muttered stuff about MP-restoring white materia and what "must've been thousands of black materias". Randomly pulling out a Megalixir, Mega-Ether, and Elixir kingdom card (from KH:CoM), she somehow managed to stock them to create a sleight. Holy shot into the sky.
Naminé(Larxene) looked at Zexion's tightly shut door, trying to smother her giggles. "Well... he is emo... he's got that dorky emo hair, and that stupid face... and he wears black. All black, all the time. If that's not emo, I dunno what is." She put her ear up to the tightly shut door, listening. Gee, that didn't sound like Zexion. Mr. Illusions never panted and screamed like that. Reswitch... but with whom? she wondered. Then her face shifted into an expression of utter malice. "Mister Whoever, you know Roxas and Roxas knows Sora. Therefore, by the transitive property, you are connected to Sora... which gives me perfect rights to MESS AROUND IN YOUR PATHETIC BRAIN." Naminé crouched down next to the door, took out her sketchbook, and began scribbling. And if he comes out and interrupts me, I'll just draw on his face instead... with Larxene's kunai.
(ooc://Sorry for not posting for so long... though you're probably all relieved that you don't have to deal with my tremendously wordy posts...) Kairi was looking about aimlessly, wondering how she could take part in this argument. Then she spotted the mysterious dark figure of D00M on the rooftop. "Um... Riku..." she said timidly, standing on tiptoe to tap his shoulder. (ooc://Anyone else notice how Kairi's ALWAYS the one to notice EVERYTHING in TWTNW?) "Eh... Aerith...?" "Not now, Kairi," the young woman replied, too caught up in the argument. "It's just getting good."
"Excuse me... didn't we have a Saïx to get back on...?" asked Naminé(Larxene), walking up to the swiftly disintegrating congregation. She looked over at the newest awakened member. "...and... Zexion...?" Her voice transformed into a squeak. "Ah- Zexion...?" Her face screwed up, she clapped her hand over her mouth... And burst out laughing: Larxene's highly mocking laugh. "LOLOLOLOLOLOL! EMO BOY!" she cackled, falling over and pounding the ground. ('pound pound koff koff', as seen in the CoM manga).
(ooc://YOU'RE BACK YOU'RE BACK YOU'RE BACK OMG THIS RP WAS MOVING SO SLOW WITHOUT YOU!!! The rundown: Vexen managed to make a machine. It re-switched Marluxia and him because of a glitch, and when he tried it out on the Organization it exploded (again). Anyhow, everyone was reswitched except for Larxene and Naminé. Vexen left in a huff, so now everyone has to try to make the cure themselves without Number Four's awesome science skills. Oh, and act crazy. The usual.)
"Are you kidding, Riku?" Kairi demanded. "Run away like the scared little girl that I am? No way-" Chaos smashed Cloud to the ground and zoomed off. "Meh. Good idea."
"Not again..." Kairi said, backing away slowly. "Riku, you're the strong, tall one- do something! Wait... last time you fought a spiky-haired person you thought you could win with a BLINDFOLD on... never mind. Maybe it's better if I try doing this myself..." She turned towards Cloud. "...however suicidal that may turn out to be." Oh well, he was easy enough for Sora to defeat in KH1... She drew her key-shaped sword and waved it around. "Abracadabra!" she shouted, unable to think of any cool catchphrase at the moment and not knowing what combat spell to cast besides. How unlike Sora I am, she thought dully. He can come up with a spiffy catchphrase for ANYTHING. Cloud was drawn towards her by her informal Magnera spell. "Oh crap..." She grabbed Riku and yanked him in front of her. "You've got the silver hair, turquoise eyes, and nifty dark powers. YOU deal with him!"
Aerith flinched and jumped away from Sephiroth's blade. "What's with you?" she demanded frankly- maybe she was pushing it. "You already KILLED me in another universe. Why try finishing the job when you can just go back there and live without me? I LIKE myself un-impaled here, thank you very much, and I'd rather not die..." She paused, looking about. "Though come to think of it, I thought it was a lot more fun when I could help kick your cranky butt without worrying about dying in the attempt." (ooc://http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/38289913/?qo=96&q=by%3Atafkae&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps) "Besides... CLOUD! SEPHIROTH SEVERED THE HEAD OF YOUR KAA-SAN AND ABSORBED IT! GO MAUL HIM!"
"Demyx... Demyyyx..." whispered Naminé, wandering through the hallways. "Oh, what'm I doing? This is crazy! No one's HERE..." She kicked a wall with Larxene's boot, leaving a black dent in it. "On second thought... this is pretty fun..." With one hand, she ran an electric current through the metal wire of her sketchbook, creating a magnetic field that drew the little metal clasps of the front of Larxene's coat to it. "Heehee!" she giggled, getting an idea. Ever wondered what happens when you exert a powerful magnetic force on an Organization member with that many metal zippers and beads?
"RIKU!" laughed Kairi, as relieved as one can be. "Thank Kingdom Hearts you're here, but... what's with the speech? And why'd Sora go away without you?" She prodded Riku sharply. "Believe it or not, we kinda need his Sephy-slaying skills right now... it's not like there aren't five billion and six videos of him slaying Sephiroth with his weakest Keyblade on Youtube." "Do you know this professional speech-slurrer, Kairi?" asked Aerith, amused. "Nice to see you, Riku, though again we meet under extremely strained circumstances. And sadly, I'm not exactly in the mood to see another silver-haired tall person right now, due to the fact that THAT one caused this." She spun around and batted Cloud's gigantic oversized butterknife aside. "STOP POKING ME!"
(ooc://Hey, it's not MY comic! It's someone else's- and besides, Kairi didn't actually DO that in THIS RP...) Inexplicably, Aerith fainted. "Now what?" demanded Kairi, looking about. "Don't tell me she's going to turn into a Nobody-?! And what about THEM?!" she added, pointing accusingly at Sephiroth and Cloud.
"Stop-" commanded Aerith, flicking a bit of magic at Cloud. "-attacking me. It's not nice to kill the person you tried to save last time... though come to think of it, maybe it's better you don't try to protect me at ALL considering this deja vu. If you don't mind, let's just try figuring out who's bad and good right now." She turned around and saw the gory scene laid out in front of her. "EEP-" "Fine, I'll just stay ignored back here," muttered Kairi, creeping along behind her. She looked at Saïx. "Hey! Aren't you supposed to be the bad guy?" (ooc://Kairi's response to the bad guy: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49882309/?qo=25&q=by%3Akeysha-chan&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps)
"Cloud?!" squeaked Aerith, looking at him. His face still showed that strangely content blankness that had characterized him ever since coming out of that portal with Sephiroth. Not to mention the change in him... she thought, touching her hair. It had swiftly become undone after he had sliced the ribbon to shreds, bringing back fuzzy memories of whirling green and pressing cold water. "Naminé... brainwashed him?" she murmured. Then, unexpectedly, she tossed her head. "Well, I thought he would've vegetable-ized after spending so much time on the TV- quite literally." She took out a new ribbon (again, from that wonderfully useful invisible game inventory) and brought the hair back into control. Kairi contemplated Cloud, tapping her foot impatiently. Would being Naminé's Other and a Princess of Heart enable me to interfere with Naminé's work? she wondered. (ooc://And behold, one of my random thoughts... and here we go again with the Kaa-san, which is shrieked about FOUR BILLION AND TWO TIMES during FFVII:AC by the silver-haired trio...)
"Should I still stay hidden?" asked Kairi sarcastically. "I hardly think that it will help when that demonic THING is hurtling at us at at least 100 miles per hour... or maybe you've got ideas, Aerith?" "Look, it's going to kill Rosso for us. Personally, I'm not complaining," replied Aerith curtly. She looked worriedly at Tifa, still standing stiff as a statue. "What's wrong with her? Even martial arts masters can't singlehandedly defeat Chaos-! Gilg, I know you want to stay and protect us and all, but let me go over there ALONE and see what's up-" Without waiting for an answer, she hurried over to Tifa. "Tifa! Tifa Lockheart! Tiiiiiiiffaaaaaaaa-" She hissed, shaking Cloud's little shadow. "Great, did someone lock your heart, like your name suggests? T-I-F-A L-O-C-K-H-E-A-R-T! Got it memorized?" Aerith giggled, trembling on the precipice of going into pure hysterics. She pointed at Saïx and prepared to use Thunder to shock his still heart back into working. Then she remembered he didn't have a heart to start with. Oh, holy magnolias...
