Eden nodded, having protected Andrew from the heartless. "Riku, before we split... may I have the king's keychain back? I know it's not mine to keep, but I'd rather keep it with me..." She held out her hand, her eyes a bit clouded, but then again, improper sleep didn't do well on the insomniac bags under her eyes.
Kenna followed quickly, a thin, constantly shifting cloud of smoke trailing behind her. "So, great fire breather, how would you train me to fight?" she stared off to the clouds, creations of dust and water. She wasn't a big fan of clouds of water, she called them half siblings.
Eden bit her lip. "Sometimes light blinds us, and the dark makes us stronger... The darkness is full of 'scary' things... but it's not scary if--" Hearing a slight scuff on the floors, black ill darkness started to seep around them, heartless were realizing fresh hearts were on the menu. They looked a lot thinner for just shadows, and a lot hungrier. They had grown tired of their old master, depriving them of all the hearts they desired to survive.
Eden sighed, looking around still. "Nothing here... Nothing at all..." She sighed, unsure what to do.
Eden glanced back to Ellen, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Dear, the Heartless are not truly evil here. Yes, I know what they do hurts others, but still, the Heartless aren't evil. Darkness isn't evil either. So I want you to spit out those ideas before it clouds your mind with more hate and darkness then you realize."
Eden walked around, finding signs of unlocked doors and some strewn about clothes. A few she made a face at, as though trying to painfully bring back a memory about something. "Yeah, they left in a hurry."
Kenna went forward, calling off her kin as she was guarding this Dragon and her partner. "I am a fairy of this forest, who tried to protect the seal. These two helped, but were not enough. Now I forbid any calling harm upon these two, or I shall choke you with my own smoke." she harshly warned.
"Of course..." Kenna murmured. "I am going to the desert with you, and I will protect as many as I can. I can only hope my Goddess will be safe though..." she pitifully sighed, looking again to the great flying lizard.
Kenna could only sigh in silence as she could feel the forest's seal was converted to the soldiers. She bit back her lip, looking for the great fire-lizard to assist her. It was the best she could do, as her brethren would rather her away as they tried to keep the energy of the forest alive.
Kenna shook her head, saddened by how little she could do already. "I can't injure with smoke, so I can only distract them for as long as I can." She sighed and breathed in the hot air that emanated from the great winged fire lizard, and sent herself down again to fight back in her own way.
Eden looked around muttering about her Tia. "Must've gotten out early." She headed down the street to find more of the similar signed with bright, vibrant shiny cloths attached. "To attract human attention." she told herself. Going forward again, she surveyed the area. Stores, normal, apartment buildings in orderly fashion, and one slightly larger building of apartments. "Let's go in."
"Ayuda... Los? No, wait, that's nos... Help us..." Eden studied it further, trying to make sure she was reading it right. "Take... Sacar? So... Help Us... Take us? Looks like someone drew a helipad really quickly too. Some evacuated."
"Shadow, watch Andrew." Eden went forward, noticing it was just a hubcap... with a poster next to it. It was in spanish, but she could decipher after a little bit of re-reading. Her forehead furrowed in annoyance as some words weren't familiar.
Eden started off ahead, looking around the cars. All seemed unlocked, and so she did something she knew she wouldn't do normally, was go through a few and check for weapons and crowbars. "Nothing good. Oh well." She sighed, though a glint caught her eye. Something sparkling... Metal.
Kenna landed her soft ashy feet to the sooty ground, absorbing back her smoke to enlarge to the size of a normal woman in her early 40's. "Good job. Now we just have the metal beasts in the air and then we are finished. Thank you, sorry my kin aren't very helpful... Then again, they control trees, and the trees can't fly."
"Then I may only Blind them! It will buy you time!" And down Kenna went again, blinding only those with ranged weapons, shrinking her form to the size of a butterfly as she expelled more smoke, even though she already had gotten a heaping dose of it from the Dragon's fireball. She could only pray to her young leafy goddess that this all went well.
Eden sighed quietly at Sora, Nexas following behind and Andrew in her grasp. "Sora, Riku, right now we shouldn't split up. Not yet." again, she said this with a tone of finality, and elegance.
Kenna swiftly ducked below into the trees, sending out a blanket of smoke, her size as small as a mouse. She really could only blind or choke, someone stronger would have to take the lead soon, she couldn't hold them off forever. "Dragon!" Her voice echoed, female, her slight pudginess evident even in her voice, but other characteristics were blocked out by hysteria to fully listen to. "Help!" she cried with true intent.
Kenna watched the dragon, sucking in the smoke and smiling as some harsher chemicals lingered it. Re-use it, always a good idea. She headed over to the other flying metal beasts. She gassed them more, including some of the hazardous smoke from before. She seemed to be the only one among her kin doing any real damage.
While all this has been happening, Kenna was doing all she could to manipulate her smoke in the flying metal beasts to choke the humans within. She knew their intent was for the seal, and she would take it to the Goddess if matters got too bad. She could only cloud the forest seal with as much illusion smoke as possible... But smoke was still smoke, and can't beat a rock.
