So stuff had happened and the group was now facing off against a guy who had a singular letter for his name. Well, that was certainly different. Nevertheless, Lucia had to just go and do what needed to be done and fight this guy into submission or something. Hm. Wait a second, suddenly she saw him in a different light and he looked completely more like an enemy that needed to be fought. Lucia looked in a bit of awe and horror as Beucette tried to do something...interesting. Not really wanting to go in on...whatever it was that she was doing, Lucia just drew out her throwing knives and got ready to go attack with a strike raid against the guy. Quality post. Well worth the wait. Aoki sighed as everyone else just seemed to charge in without a care in the world. Well, whatever, summoning her keyblade to her side, she charged into the room alongside everyone else and decided to go on the offensive with her magic. Flinging out an aero gust at the dark guild healer to help dwindle any sort of problem with them. [DOUBLEPOST=1435820352][/DOUBLEPOST]Rho simply raised an eyebrow as the rest of the competition seemed to guffaw at just the Sapphire Eclipse group in it's entirety, and Vance seemed to be taking this as a sort of opportunistic moment to just sort of make himself out to be a man of extreme integrity and was someone who completely cared about what was on the inside. Which was a tad bit laughable in of its own right, but regardless, things seemed to work out in their favor even more, as the fair lady had revealed herself to be someone confined to a wheelchair. This had sent an immediate backlash that spread throughout the rest of their competition, and had basically caused them all to retreat from the scene. As Vance went on to eloquently seduce the lady, Rho turned to Thea, as he answered her question stating, "well, it's not that her being in a wheelchair makes her ugly, so much as it makes her less desirable in the eyes of others." Turning back to her he simply shrugged and said, "now as for myself, I don't see you as anything more or less than when I had first laid my eyes on you, though, I find it rather unbecoming of a person to apologize for something that is far out of their control." Though this was all well and good, there was something not sitting entirely too well with him. Looking at the rest of the group he stated, "now then, I feel like teaching the nobility folk a lesson in not judging others based on appearances. If you will excuse me." And with that, Rho was off to go fuck some bitches up.
After Stratos had made his decleration towards Caleb, a red haired man had appeared between Freya and himself, poised to kill them. Well, that was something that would be a bit difficult to deal with. Thankfully, Zephyr had come to his aid by trying to fling a keyblade at the red head, only for that to be intercepted by Caleb...who was now between him and Freya quite like Xander was. It was a good effort by Zephyr, at least, however, it was Zephyr's keyblade that was now being used to try and kill him, so Stratos had to quickly go and block, only for some ninja dude to literally come out of his shadow and block the attack for him. Now things were just a bit crowded here, and Stratos wasn't even really sure what he was supposed to be doing anymore. Thankfully, the chaotic scene got less concentrated in chaos and more spread it out. Xander ended up leaving to fight Zephyr, the ninja who had appeared out of who knows where started fighting with Caleb, and Freya was...now fighting a new guy who could slash through barriers. Well, wasn't that a joy. With all of the people fighting now, the one with Freya seemed to be the least in her favor, and so that would be the one he'd help out with. Slapping his hand on Ghost's back, a wind barrier appeared around that guy as he said, "thanks for the help here." He then swiveled around and ran past those two, as he charged at Rienzel. As he was rushing forward, he started spinning his keyblade around, creating a large torrent of wind around it as he flung the keyblade at the man. With the wind coated keyblade rushing at him, he then decided to follow this up by compressing a ball of wind in his hand and firing it straight at the ground of his opponent, to cause a large a burst of wind knock him off his feet.
After having stopped at the Kunugi station, the group was apparently met with a slightly unnerving scene. The bodies of incapacitated guards were just lining the grounds every which way, and it was most likely Eisenwald who was the culprit in this scenario. While they were fast approaching the source of this, a voice called out to all of them, with Cassandra exclaiming back to them and running full force at the room. "Wait!" Aoki had exclaimed to try to get Casandra and Caleb to rethink what they were doing, in addition to hopefully making sure the others didn't rush in as well. "Guys, don't you think this a bit weird?" Motioning to the bodies around them, she said, "these guys are clearly not pushovers and we have no idea how many of them there even are." Elaborating more, she said, "not to mention they know we're here, so just bullheadedly rushing into that room is likely just going to lead us into a trap of theirs. We should probably just try and find a different way in there or at least approach it slowly if we don't want something like that to happen." Rho looked at their supposed competition, as Zephyros had pointed them out, and figured that they were none too threatening looking. And if Zephyros was speaking the truth, then that was perhaps and accurate judgement. However, before he could say anything on the matter of fighting the lot of them, the young girl Thea had said spoken up instead. Listening to the girl's argument about doing this fairly, he crouched down and patted her on the head as he explained, "well you see, young miss. The four of us," he motioned to himself, Aias, Taylor and Zephyros, "are not quite nobles where as the three of you," motioning to Vance and Conrad, "are. Now, if one of those two nobles were to enter the contest, and all of the competition just happened to not show themselves, and they had nothing to do with their absence, well then. I'd call that winning fairly." Standing back up he said, "besides," he looked to Zephyros and said, "I doubt the rest of these nobles are here to play quite so fairly."
Aoki had been sort of just sitting back and listening to the conversation between X and Caleb, not really sure what to make of the X guy. He seemed pretty cryptic in all of his short responses, and while he himself was part of a guild, he didn't really tell them which guild he was a part of. However, the conversation was cut pretty short by some black haired guy just sort of coming in and whisking him away. As the rest of the group had come back with, there seemed to be a bit of a discussion as to what had happened to everyone that had gone on to explore the train, and how apparently they almost got into a fight with that black haired man. With the question of whether or not he told them where to go, Aoki decided to chime in. "Well, he did say he we might find these guys at Kunugi Station if we couldn't find them here, and seeing as that black haired guy was with them," she pointed to the returning group members, "and X was with him, then that's probably where we'll find them." Getting outside of the whale that Rho had magically ended up inside of, he calmly responded to Cal saying, "it was certainly something different from what I was expecting here." As it had appeared that their group was now at their stop, he looked to the rest of the other group saying, "well, it appears here is where we part. Best of luck to you all with your mission," and with a wave to them all, he walked over to Zephyros asking, "so, employer, what should we expect in trying to win this contest?" Lucia was a bit confused as a large sum of people had exited the whale, and was wondering why that many people were there in the first place. Nevertheless, they had totally just beaten a whale. Heck, they killed a whale. Wait. Was that illegal? Were whales an endangered species? Ah who cared, it was a whale, and they had fought it and won. Helping Scarlett out of the whale, she joked, "well at least you filled your quota for something weird happening to you early on here." After that was over and done with, Lucia waved goodbye to the other group, as she looked to her own and said, "so where's Caliborn?" Charlotte had listened to the suggestion from Gexln-er, Ra, and figured it'd probably be the best way to go about things. Tough, things were getting a bit chaotic as Dale, or rather his the person in his body, had been getting into an slight argument with Mikasa, the flying cat, and ended up running off. Though, that didn't quite catch her attention as much as what Thomas, or rather, Dale in Thomas's body, had ended up doing. Gathering a small amount of magic power in her hand, Charlotte shot a fire ball of greater force that she had ever hoped to conjure at Thomas's body as she had said with flat voice, "be careful to make sure it never happens again Dale." It was then that Rennette, or at least that's what Charlotte figured her name was, had ended up going on with an extensive and slightly confusing explanation for just what had ended up happening to all of them, and couldn't really make heads or tails of it. Sitting down, she started to ponder a bit on this as something really odd happened. A small blue haired man with angel wings had appeared on her shoulder, with a white haired man with devil wings appearing on the opposite one. "Filler really sucks, doesn't it?" Charlotte looked at them with relative confusion, and looked to everyone else. "Even more when it's an RP." It had appeared that they didn't notice them at all. "I'm sorry, who are yo-" the blue haired one interrupted saying, "so how'd they solve this in the anime?" "They didn't...It just sort of fixed itself the next episode." The blue haired one pondered on this for a moment before he looked at Charlotte and said, "sucks." The white haired one looked back at the blue haired one saying, "wait, weren't you the devil last time?" With an ironically devilish grin he responded, "sucks." With there being a small amount of animosity between the two at that point, the white haired one simply said, "whatever. We should get back to LvD again. Things are actually happening now." Shrugging, the blue haired one said, "yeah. Catch you there Saber." And with that, the two had disappeared and that entire oddity was over and done with. Charlotte was thoroughly confused, but simply shook her head and looked back at everyone else as she said, "right, so, we know that some weird spell in that note had made us change bodies, and we know what kind of a chant it used. So if we can find anything out about this spell, or who sent it, we may be able to figure out a way to reverse it." Despite that, she still had the feeling that there would be a chance that what those two had been talking about could also be correct, and this whole thing would resolve itself.
Stratos Jackie and Blanc Charlotte Phantom Lucien After having dealt with the whole thing with Crybex, Stratos and Beuce went off to see the goddess about fighting against the rebellion. As it had turned, some guy named Xindai was locked up in the keyblade graveyard and his release was apparently a really bad thing. Stratos had no idea who this Xindai guy actually was, but if it were enough to get the deity of the universe scared, he must have been on the really powerful side. Giving a short wave to everyone, he looked to Beuce and said, "well, we've been waiting around for long enough, so let's go and be the antagonists." With that, Stratos hopped on his keyglider and flew off to the Keyblade Graveyard. As he got there, he noticed all hell had basically broken loose already. People were already getting primed and ready to fight and there was a giant darkness dragon that was just sort of there ready to take on the entire group. Well, that was certainly something. However, there was one person in particular who caught his interest at the moment. There was a blue haired man yelling and screaming at one of the female members of the rebellion and seemed like he was about to just kill her. Stratos wasn't entirely sure who either of them were, however, remembering what the girl looked like, she seemed to bear a somewhat striking resemblance to the goddess herself. Which probably meant she was an ally. And even if she wasn't, she was still a person in need. Rocketing down as fast as he could, Stratos summoned his keyblade back to his hand as he landed hard in front of Freya, swiping the blade hurled at her out of the air and letting back a burst of wind at the blue haired man. With a smirk on his face, Stratos looked at him and said, "sorry there, but I can't let you go and hurt this person all willy nilly." Swiping his free hand, suddenly both he and Freya were coated in an Aerogora wind barrier, as he finished saying, "so your opponent now will be me." Jackie had been super pumped up now. The end of their adventure was here. They were going to find the hero and save the universe from ultimate destruction. Oh yeah, this was going to be super awesome. As such, Jackie had flung herself into the rift that Lucien had created and just sort of watched in awe as basically chaos just sort of happened. Everyone started fighting all over the place, and there was a giant dragon to be killed! And everyone knew that dragon slaying was one of the few pinnacles of the adventuring mountain. Giving a pretty excited look to Blanc, he let out a sigh as he knew that not only would he have to fight the dragon, but he'd also have to probably keep Jackie from dying. Regardless, the girl had readied her katana and charged at the dragon at full speed. Going into the Fever Pitch command style to go and get an increase in speed, she was about to slash at the creature when it decided it didn't really want to deal with her at the moment. As such, it simply swiped its tail at her, and knocked her far and away from the creature. As she was sailing through the air, she was brought to an abrupt halt as she was caught in the air by one of Blanc's zero gravities. Giving a thumbs up to him, he simply let her go and do her own thing again as she charged once more at the dragon. Charlotte had her blade at the ready as she entered the keyblade graveyard. As the dragon had descended and was primed and ready to attack them all, the knight of light gathered energy around herself as wings of light had sprout from her back. Charging the blade up with light, she knew that this beast was going to be a tough one to take down, and that she alone would not be able to take it on. However, with this large a group, even if they were momentarily preoccupied with others, would eventually be able to fell this beast. As such, she had to simply act as a distraction and deal as much damage as she could at the moment until the time to end it came. Flying at full speed at the creature, she went to slash at the creature, but was immediately intercepted by one of the dragon's hands. The hand was holding onto a dark sphere like object, which it slammed into Charlotte. The orb exploded upon impact, revealing itself to be a dark firaga, and knocked the young warriors wings out, before she conjured them up once more. As a direct approach was not doable at the moment, she charged up a sphere of rainbow lights and fired a Prism Rain at the beast. The light bullets each hitting the creature, though not doing any real visible damage. This was surely going to be an arduous fight. Phantom had stuck back from the rest of the fighters to just sort of analyze the situation. As it was, the dragon would be the biggest threat for the rebellion people to remove, and so keeping that thing alive for as long as possible was probably a good idea. However, there was no sort of big name threat attacking the dragon at the moment, and all of those seemed pretty isolated with their own combatants. So, Dragon saving it would be. Bringing up his rifle, he noted that there was a burly man striking at the dragon with his fists currently, and a girl who seemed really pathetic, to the point the dragon itself would be able to easily handle her. Furthermore, there was a few over others that started charging at the dragon. One was a woman who just sort of had wings of light and was wielding a sword, also glowing with light as she just sort of charged at it. And there was another duo, one who was a pretty energetic girl who didn't really seem like much of a threat at all, and the other who was just a pretty unassuming white guy. The girl would be harder to deal with as she was currently flying, and the other two would probably be easy enough for the dragon to effortlessly defeat them. So, he just sort of settled on the burly guy who was punching the damn thing. Taking aim with his rifle, Phantom imbued his bullets with wind as he fired a few rounds that would curve towards Asura. Standing there, Lucien sighed at the entire situation that was going down and looked to the side."So, you aren't going to join in on the fun right now time guy?" It had appeared as though Lucien was speaking to thin air, only to shrug and say,"ah, doesn't matter anyway. What's going to happen is going to happen regardless of your involvement. As for myself," Lucien twirled his keyblade around as he planted it into the ground. Cracking his knuckles, he continued to state,"I got an enemy of my own I got to deal with here." The dragon would be defeated in due time, and the rest of these one on ones would end with...well, ultimately their victory. How it happened wasn't really any sort of things Lucien cared about. However, there was one allied with the goddess who had not made himself present yet, and that very one would be his opponent. And when he finally showed himself, they'd settle some sort of innate rivalry between the two in the only way they knew how to.
Having landed a large sum of damage onto the whale once more, Rho had figured that this beast wasn't much long for this world, and that in a few more attacks from everyone it would go down without much of a hassle. It also seemed to be having some internal problems at the same time, which was definitely to their advantage. Rho decided to just strike at it once more with a sliding dash attack. Lucia used strike raid. It's like, she takes her indefinite amount of knives just sort of gives them a twirl or something. They like, spin really fast through the air...lots of them. Well, really only two to five of them. Does that count as a lot? I'm not entirely sure. Strike raid. Lucia. On Whale. Thank you for your time. Charlotte had simply been standing around the guild hall, waiting for something to happen. The respite that she and the others had received didn't really do her well, as she had been wanting to get back to work as soon as possible. It didn't help that most of the other guild mates that she knew of had already left on missions of their own. It then appeared that someone else, someone she didn't really recognize, seemed to be elated at the sight of a job sign, only to then turn it into a projectile that sailed across the room. At that point, a strange light engulfed the room and Charlotte had suddenly felt much...different. Her overall constitution felt much, much, worse and she suddenly felt like her ability to preform any sort of physical feat was severely inhibited. Not to mention, their was an overbearingly large weight spread out across her body, her field of view limited, and just feeling overall warmer. Looking down at her hands, she noticed she was in some strange golden armor. Well, that wouldn't do. Like a bird shed its feathers, Charlotte had taken off the armor only to realize just who the armor belonged to. And given that everyone else was confused and that she could see...herself...that could only mean one thing. She was now in the body of... Ra. Well, that was certainly...different. It could be worse, she could be in a body that was completely opposite in strength to her own...wait....Regardless, mulling on this problem herself would get her nowhere. And so, she walked over to the rest of the group and noted what Gaius...er...judging by the tone, Veilen, had said. "If we are to get our own bodies back it would first be a good idea to figure out what caused this." Looking to everyone else, she had said, "now then, does anyone have any idea what could have done this?" She figured that if anyone were to know the answer to this question, it'd be the person who was the most magically inclined. Which at the moment...was her. This was most definitely a lost cause.
After striking the whale with his blade, Rho had braced himself for the large amount of water that was being shot towards them, and the whales body itself being flung at the entire team. While he was expecting a large amount of force to hit him, there was someone else that seemed to be in front of him who had taken the entire force of the attack. "Well, I thank you for your services then," he had simply said as the green haired man had ran away. Drawing out his sword, Rho then looked towards the whale and went to go strike at it once more, as it had seemed to have already taken a large chunk of damage from their first onslaught of attacks. As such, Rho jumped at it using blitz. After Lucia had let loose her throwing knives to strike the whale, she was hit back from the large force of the whales attack. As soon as she had recovered from the attack, though, someone had appeared blindingly fast in front of her. That was weird. She hadn't even really moved that fast yet and she considered herself pretty fast. Not to mention this guy seemed kind of weird, just sort of...standing...in front of her. Regardless, Lucia went to attack the whale with sliding dash.
Rho had simply been sitting by minding his own business as the people around him had talked. It had seemed that Caliborn was very intrigued by the person who wasn't really a guild member, as all conversation was interrupted by something...odd. Out of nowhere, not one, but two whales with one of the oddest faces he had ever seen came to come and fight them. Well, that was definitely a new one. Caliborn, rather than taking a small group with him, saw it fit to take on the whale all by himself. Well, the man certainly had confidence in his strength that was for sure. Regardless, Rho looked towards the giant beluga and simply struck at it with a sliding dash. Authors Note. Al, you seem to have not updated Rho's stats in the battle with him having an improved Two Handed Sword (instead of the arming sword he has) and a titan chain. Why do you vendetta against my items? Lucia, being completely surprised by this entire turn of events, just stared at the whale. Like, damn son, this thing was large. So, Lucia just joined in on the giant gang banging of the whale, almost as if this thing was like a mini Ezekiel fight, and used Strike Raid. Aoki had been sitting around, trying to think of what the dark guild was going to be like and how they were going to tackle it. Thinking so much that she hadn't noticed that just about everyone had left the original seat. Shrugging at Cassandra's comment, it was then that someone else had walked up and seemed to inquire about their missing members. As he had then told them he was missing one of his own, she simply asked, "oh, well, is there any way we could help you find the person?" Looking to Cassandra she said, "we'll probably meet up with everyone at the stop, so it's probably fine if we help someone out, right?"
Rho had simply stood by as Vance had gone by and done some sort of flaunting of nobility in order to allow them safe passage onto the boat. He wasn't really too impressed by this though, as they had already been through something similar to this prior to this during their infiltration of Everlue Mansion. Nevertheless, he simply followed after them and walked onto the boat. As a small slight to Vance, Rho had simply commented saying, "glad to see that haughty attitude of yours has some weight to it with the "commoners" as well." With that, he had simply sat down and watched to see that the other group members had seemingly gone on board their vessel as well. Lucia had moved along with everyone else as they were going on towards their ride to the location of their mission. She didn't really know why the people who ran these docks hated them so, but nevertheless, it had appeared that someone had managed to procure them a ride regardless. As she was walking back, she quizzically raised an eyebrow as Cal had ended up calling the stone man Malkira-"kun" and she wasn't entirely sure what the kun part meant. Especially considering the stone man found it to be pretty insulting. Which could only mean that it had to be some sort of super insult. She wondered what kind of past those two had had together that they had this sort of casual insulting of each other. But nevertheless, she would have to make sure it didn't affect their mission whatsoever. Getting on board the boat alongside everyone else, she said, "so, fancy meeting all of you here. We were just getting ready to go do a job of our own, so I guess we're in great luck. So," trying to start some conversation amongst them, she simply asked, "whatcha'll doing here?" Rho, calmly sitting back, replied, "we're on a mission of our own. There are quite a myriad of things that people need help with after all," he looked around the rest of the group he added in, "as well as our own guild members as it may be." With slight curiosity, Rho simply inquired, "so, where is it that you all are heading off to?"
As the group was going through the train Cassandra gave them the whole low down on just what this mission of utmost importance was, Aoki was pretty curious about the entire situation as a whole and everyone seemed to have their own take on just what lullaby did. As the name implied, it probably had something to do with sleeping as everyone else had implied. Then basically before Aoki could say anything...well, literally everyone else had said something. Looking to back to Cassandra she said, "yeah, if this thing is so important that their entire guild is being sent out against us, shouldn't we have sent a more...sizeable party?" She then thought of something else as she asked, "so, should we expect the Riders of the Desert guild to be with Eisenwald when we get there, because if we're going against two guilds then that might be a bit of an issue to deal with just the nine of us."
Aoki had looked to Zephyr as he told her to inspect the key. Looking at the golden thing, she wondered just what this kind of thing was. It seemed to have some sort of odd engraving on it, though she wasn't entirely sure what it was. However, it certainly had her interest, and thus she wanted to inspect it more. However, it had seemed that the time to do missions was already upon them once more. As such, she had to go and get ready. "I don't really know what this key is, but it is pretty similar to my own. I'll have to check it out some more later." She then turned to Conrad and bowed respectfully as she lifted herself from her seat as she said, "I'm really sorry that we're getting interrupted again. But it looks like departing is happening now, so we'll have to continue later." Waving to him, she walked off to where one of the missions was taking place. Seeing two of their S-Classes their, she just waved and said, "so, what's the mission here?" Rho had silently gotten up from the table he had been sitting at as time to leave was upon them. He had noticed that the silver haired girl had said something odd, and his suspicions about her were mostly affirmed. Nevertheless, he didn't really need to bother with that at the moment. No. There were more interesting things going on here that he had to attend to. Walking over to the ever changing gender person, he noticed Zephyros and said, "oh, a job you say?" He was quite interested in this job and it had appeared to be a part of some sort of marriage contest. Well...Rho apparently had some experience being put on show for a female, as he had just been put on some impromptu Dating Show. Though, there was something odd about this man. Specifically, how he had seem to come in here and draw as much attention to himself as possible, despite not being a real member of the guild, so much so he had tried to escape from one of the S-Classes prior to this job. Nevertheless, he'd just keep that under tabs for now as he simply said, "well then, I suppose I am in for this." Lucia had felt that this conversation with Amanda was going virtually nowhere, though she had seen that she seemed to want to get something off her chest. As she was about to inquire in on that, Amanda had left as job hunting time had come about. Well, she'd probably be able to work it out herself. It was job hunting time after all, and she needed to go get herself a job...and so the hunt was on. The very long trying hunt of hearing yell something out about one and simply going towards that noise. A valiant, noble, and rigorous quest her brief unemployment had been. And so, she walked over to Caliborn and noticed her party members were....them. Scarlett, who she had recently warmed up to, and....her. Lucia, standing a fair bits away from Beucette, Lucia asked, "so what're we doing here boss?"
Lucia for 1 Aoki for 4 Rho for 5
Phantom Let's Get This Show On The Road Well, what do you know? It had turned out that Phantom had intervened at probably the best possible time. After all, when the darts started to take effect, the demon looking child seemed to be ready to attack Sapphire. That would have ended poorly for both parties really. Nevertheless the goddess herself seemed to be pleased with his work, so he was totally fine with what had happened. Though apparently, they were wanting to just sort of, siphon out the darkness from him through some sort of mumbo jumbo. Aside from attribute enchantments and basic umbramancy, (more so in the field of shadows than traditional ones,) Phantom was pretty clueless on magic so he just sort of let the terms fly over his head and let the two talk to each other. Though, Sapphire didn't really seem confident in herself to do what she wanted to do, as she told Phantom what to do if something went wrong, he simply said, "always here to serve madam." It was then that Xero had looked to him and apologized for the bar scene and he just said, "please, that's not the first bar fight I've had to break up, regrettably. And not the worst, also regrettably. Though it was the first time someone yelled at the planet itself, so that was a bit new." Just awkwardly standing there, Phantom just gave her a thumbs up and said, "so uh, you seem like you're going to do something important right now so good luck on that." This was good, good. Everyone had seemed to be back from their daily duties of hero hunting to no avail. They had all gone through much together, much pain and sorrow. Much fun and joy. Much drama and general annoyance...Mostly that last one. But that didn't matter now. No. Now all that mattered was that they get past this boring as fuck prelude and get to the real meat and potatoes of their journey. Looking around, he cleared his throat and said,"alright then, let's get this show on the road." Sort of just waving a book around he said,"so as you are all aware, this entire time we've been able to nonsensically hop around worlds and universes because we were hunting for some enigmatic figure that can help us defeat the goddess, or you know do whatever the fuck else you were all thinking that this majestic heroic figure could do. Anyway, we've been doing this because of some vague ass incomplete legend that we've been bullshitting reasons for why a hero of sorts would be anywhere in a cave, except for spaceships." Making a slight aside to no one in particularly he said, "though, I think that was just for shits and giggles. But neither here nor there, for you see, I," he pointed to himself, "have discovered the rest of the fucking legend." This was a slight exaggeration as he didn't so much discover it as he had been...well the exact specifics of what he was doing wasn't entirely important nor relevant to really anything. Looking to the rest of the group he continued,"and with the rest of the legend, we have the final location to look for in this wild goose chase of ours. And yes, I mean, a location, not thirty worlds that don't really have any basis behind them. And let me tell you, this was by far the most obvious location for well, anything eventful, happening ever in this universe of yours. Now then, without further ado. I present you, the legend in full." He then gave a short bow as he began to recite the entire thing. Spoiler: The Entire Shebang "When the War of the Beasts brings about the hero's end The goddess descends from the sky Walls of light and darkness torn apart She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting There is no hate, only joy For you are beloved by the goddess Savior of the dawn, Healer of worlds Where evil still festers, she turns away her gaze Pride is lost Wings stripped away, the end is nigh." "My friend, do you trust her still? When she abandons you and I? All she will bring is a somber morrow Hiding the secrets the hero will know My friend, your hero Is the bringer of life, destroyer of the goddess Even if the morrow is barren of promises Nothing shall forestall my return" "Infinite in mystery is the house of the hero We seek it thus, and take to the sky A crevice stands within the earth's surface- The wandering soul knows no rest." "Legend shall speak Of sacrifice at the world's end The wind ripples blades where they stand Quietly, but surely Even if the morrow is barren of promises Nothing shall forestall my return To release the blood that will stain the earth to raze the cities, the homes and the lives I offer the goddess her demise" Lucien took a deep breath after saying the entire legend and then looked to the entire rest of the group. "Now then, why'd I say the entire legend and not just the last line, you may be wondering. Well, the answer to that is just to affirm how completely irrelevant everything but the last line is to us in our quest." Lucien then waited for a bit to see if anyone got it, and also he was wondering if telling them all what it meant was actually a good thing or not. Well, obviously it wasn't. The only real reason Lucien had done this kind of thing was not entirely because he had to, but if he didn't it would have gotten done anyway by someone different, so might as well be in the eye of the shitstorm that was most likely going to happen when they found their hero. "So, if you haven't figured it out, it's the keyblade graveyard. Literally, the most important place ever, and the only one worth searching in the first place. If not for the historical evidence to back me up on this, then let's look to the legend. Now I know it might be a bit of a stretch to say, but I'm pretty sure there's only one line that has ever been relevant to this entire grand journey of ours, and that is "the wind ripples blades where they stand." Which basically the only place that actually fits that description in your universe." Lucien then turned and looked at Caleb gesturing saying, "or I suppose your Unlimited Blade Works fits as well, but I'm pretty sure you'd know if you locked some hero in there and would have been kind enough to share that by now." With all said and done Lucien had said, "now then, in order to look badass in our entry into this final area of our searching, I say we reenact history in getting our way there." Lucien held out his hand and created a small blue orb in front of him. The orb started sparking with electricity until the orb extend out into a line with something that looked akin to a data stream floating around it. When it was all said and done, Lucien had a keyblade in hand that seemed to match his overall color scheme. Spinning the new blade, he slashed at the air, and waited for a moment as nothing happened. After a second or so afterwards, suddenly a small ripple could be seen in the air as it started to extend and length, only to suddenly snap open and create a large tear in not so much space, as it were an entire break in reality, creating a large pathway just to where they were to go to. "Now then, shall we go?"
Charlotte had listened as Ander had relayed his thoughts on Evanora and how awful of a guildmaster she was. Charlotte...hadn't really had much to think on about Evanora's actions as a whole. She hadn't proven to do much prior to the fight against Ezekiel, though during the fight she had actually made the fight possible against the man and was preoccupied to fight something on her own. She also wasn't entirely too sure on what Evanora had done during her own mission, so there wasn't really much to go on on that either. All that Charlotte could really judge Evanora on was the entire exchange between her and Dale. There was something that Charlotte didn't like about the way that Evanora had been speaking, but nonetheless, it wasn't as though she were off base on everything she had said. In regards to the mask, Charlotte had said, "I doubt that is so much Evanora's fault as it Cal's. It's very likely that Cal simply could have kept it hidden for whatever reason she may ha-" it was at that point that Ra had burst out into the room asking for the mask, only for Caliborn to come back and give it to her. Raising an eyebrow, she had said, "or it has some extreme form of importance to her. Excuse me Ander." She walked away from the man as she went to Ra and Cal and asked, "Ra! Would you be so kind as to tell me why you're giving this girl the very same object she had used to attempt and kill us." As Thomas had left her, Amanda simply asked her what was new with her. Thinking on it, she hadn't really done much other than talk to Thomas after she had come back from the mission. So, there wasn't really any much new things to say to her. Lucia just sort of shrugged at Amanda and said, "not much has been going on here. Just was talking with Thomas about uh-" she then realized that she couldn't really talk about what she and Thomas had talked about and continued, "well, nothing really. So, what have you been up to since we came back?" Aoki had simply been sitting around and enjoying the atmosphere of the guild hall. Things seemed to be pretty chaotic and there was a bit of a brawl going on, which is something that she was quite used to watching. Though, she wasn't as used to watching one that was as...magical...as this. Nevertheless, it was a pretty fun watch. Her attention was interrupted as Conrad had come over and wanted to continue the chat they had started on the carriage. Shrugging, she said, "sure, fine by me. What'd you want to talk abou-," at that point, she was interrupted by Zephyr coming along and wanting to chat with her as well. Looking to blonde-black haired boy, she said, "alright. Ask away."
Charlotte, while overall pleased and joyous at the end result of the whole S-Class mission, the boat ride back had put a slight damper on her mood. It wasn't as if anything had happened, quite the opposite actually. She was just still upset with their guild member who had betrayed them, their S Class member who seemed to make Dale's normal attitude seem like one of the most pleasurable people to be around, and the fact that Boreal, while still unconscious, was alongside them. Nevertheless, the guild had returned from their mission and everyone else seemed to have been back as well. Charlotte had simply decided to take a seat by herself and reflect back on the mission, and the entirety of both of their fights, while listening in on what was going on between Dale and Evanora. The both of them had their merits in what they were arguing, and Charlotte did feel that she would have to report to the Guild Master, however before she could do so, one of the people who had gone on the mission with her had approached her. "Oh, hello Ander. What would you like to speak about?" Lucia was sad to hear that Thomas didn't think of the guild as a family yet, though why he didn't put some concern in her. What did he know was going to happen? Before she could ask, he immediately dismissed it, and then immediately was flustered by what he said next. He thought they were on a date? Lucia was under the impression they just being friends...hanging out and having a drink an all. She wasn't entirely sure how to respond to it, and suddenly seemed to be a bit more nervous as she said, "uh- ye-yeah, I'd be up for uh, hanging out again, yeah." Feeling like a combination of the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic, she felt it necessary to almost immediately change the subject as she said, "he-hey! Look over there, it's your buddies from that team thingy your a part of. Looks like they were on quite the adventure as well, you should probably go catch up with them!" Soon after she had said that, someone else had walked over to the two and Lucia had just said, "oh, oh hey there Amanda" As Rho had gotten back from the job, he was immediately taken away by someone who was....peculiar. There was something odd about the white haired girl, and not just with her personality. Nevertheless, after her weird dating show adventure that she had gone on with, and his basis winning the girl that Rho hadn't actually cared for in the slightest. Nevertheless, with nothing really to do, and not really caring about anything, he just sort of sat down around and observed all the goings on of the guild.
Buying 3 Lucky Rings for Aoki (and spares 15 Jewels for Zephyr) Spending 1 point in Erza Magic and point in Erza Strength for Aoki Current AS for Aoki: Magnet Cure Sliding Dash Fire Dash Esuna Stop Buying Improved Two Handed Sword and Titan Chain for Rho Spending Two Points in Erza Strength Current AS for Rho: Esuna Sliding Dash Blitz Aero Stop Magnet
Charlotte spending 2 points in Juvia Buying Crystal Crown Unequipping Blitz. Equipping Fire Surge, Stop, Sliding Dash, Esuna
Whilst awaiting a response from one of the two S-Classes, Therity had then spoken up and explained everything about the Moon Drip to them. Charlotte was slightly surprised, but figured given that they had all come from varying different backgrounds, it was only natural that someone would know something that seemed peculiar to someone else. However, a plan was then formed between Ra, Gaius and herself, or rather, some sort of silently understood objective was shared between the three. Gripping onto Veilen as well, she said, "right, then. Let us begin! Veilen, remember to hit the sky as hard as you can!" Looking to Gaius and Ra nodded before shouting to the duo, "ready?!" With a short pause she then said, "launch!" With that, the trio had put all of their strength into it and had flung Veilen straight to the starry sky. Aiight so, Aoki used Aero and Rho used Quick Blitz. There ya go.
Phantom Stratos Charlotte Rinox ADVENTURE! Lucien As Phantom had tried to subdue his target, things went less then well. His leg was encased in ice by a spell the guy had cast, and Phantom was just sort of stuck standing there unable to move. Sighing a bit, he took out his newly forged handgun and pointed it at his feet. Firing off a few rounds, he managed to break off a few pieces of the ice, before being able to just pull his legs out of the ice by brute force. He then continued to run through the streets, in hot pursuit of his target. It took awhile to find him, however, and when he did it had seemed that he was in a house. Well, breaking and entering, that was another charge to hit him with. At this point he was basically resisting arrest. This kid was something else, and Phantom still had no clue why he was even in front of the palace in the first place. However, when he looked inside, he could see a scene that Phantom couldn't really comprehend what was going on. There was Xero, Sapphire, and the kid and he seemed to have a giant floating darkness creature behind him...what? Despite not being able to comprehend the situation, he figured he'd make as little trouble for the goddess as possible. Switching the rounds in his guns to be that of tranquilizer darts instead of bullets, he just sort of the pulled the trigger thrice, shooting three darts at the abdomen of his target. Looking at the two ladies he realized what he had done might not have been the most favorable, and then nervously said, "got him boss." After having dealt with Crybex for a bit, he then created a large illusory world of a mass of Stratoss and Beuces. However, at the end of the whole thing, there were just two of each of them. Now, Stratos had a really easy way to figure out which of them was the real one. Given that there was a wind barrier that he created on both of them, it was a pretty easy tell to figure out which was which, however Beuce had a more...Beuce....solution to the problem. Having an entire army of Beuces just collectively grab everything and shoved both Crybex and the fake Stratos and Beuce and the actual Stratos into a giant box. Somewhat confused at what had just happened, Stratos quickly used Zantetsuken to escape the confines of the box, he looked as the thing disappeared, and looked back to Beuce. "So, I guess we got him," Stratos said, still slightly confused at everything. While the man who had appeared didn't really seem to be of ill intent, the fact that he had some sort of massive dark aura around him still seemed to be a bit off putting to Charlotte. Nevertheless, she didn't feel as though anything needed to be done about him, and thus just simply listened to the exchange between the others. She wasn't entirely sure about whether or not the Hero would be able to rid him of the plague that seemed to befall him and his people, and she also wasn't sure as to what part of the legend had actually told them to come here, but nonetheless, it had appeared that there was nothing of real note here in regards to their search. As such, she had simply walked through Caleb's dark corridor back to the library. Rinox had a slight smirk when he was called just a floater. There was a bit more to it than just that, however, the term seemed to fit him well for the time being. As the topic of leaving had been brought up, Rinox simply said, "I believe leaving now would be a good idea. I doubt anyone had followed behind us, and you are right in thinking that nothing related to the hero is here. Now then," creating a dark corridor and gesturing towards the portal, he said, "shall we take our leave?" As Jackie's authority was questioned by their new cannon scrubber Samsara, she said, "well obviously I'm the captain because I have the most captainly adventuring spirit of anyone here. Isn't that right Blanc?" As he was about to say something, Jackie then interupted him and said, "thanks buddy," giving a thumbs up and a confident smile, she then watched as everyone else had gone off to do their own thing and Samsara seemed to bark out orders. As she walked over and Freya seemed to ask who made her in charge, Jackie simply interjected with, "yeah, I'm in charge after all!" As Ghost and Zavion pointed out something to go explore she simply said, "and we should all go explore that thingy over there." And so they did! I seriously have no idea what they did explore, but by gone it, they explored the shit out of it! And afterwards, they came to the executive decision that there was nothing of any sort of interest or relating to the hero here. And so, given that everyone except for Jackie and Ohm had a method of creating trans-dimensional portals and so one of them definitely made one and they were definitely going to leave via that method. Just sort of chilling out in the library, Lucien looked up from his book as he saw people filling into the room. As it had turned out, they had just about nothing to show for their efforts, and Lucien simply said,"so, no dice? Figured. After all, this set of worlds was probably the least sense making of all the ones we've made so far." Standing up, he put down the book and addressed everyone else in the room as he said,"luckily for all of you, I have the last piece of the legend. Also known as the most important part, and with it the entire legend is complete, and you know what, probably would have been way more convenient to look for the entire legend first rather than going on a wild goose chase across three universes. I mean, it was actually a really super obvious answer, but hey I'll let you guys know once everyone's back."
"I'd be down for some ice cream." Given that they were given a brief respite to relax in this town and away from the non-stop fighting, and given that he was getting ice cream, there was really no reason for him to say no. Not to mention it'd probably be the first sort of completely non job related activity he had would do with friends in god knows how long. It was then that an unexpected person had come to talk to them. Hearing that almost completely unmistakable voice, Stratos turned around with a smile on his face as he was greeted by Goofy, the broest of guardians to exist. The dog man thing proceeded to then grab his hand and practically flail it around in a handshake as Stratos said, "good to see you too Goofy! It's been too long since we've last seen you, really." Stratos figured that this was a Goofy far in the future compared to the one they had met at Camelot, and found it a bit funny how he had acted like it was only like yesterday since they saw him. With all they had been through, Stratos had felt as if it been years on end from the last time they saw him, even if it was barely any time at all. Wondering about where Kel and Ananta were himself, Stratos shrugged and said, "dunno. I think they're probably going around a different world themselves, doing their own thing at the moment." Looking back to Beuce's arm, and then looking back to Goofy he said, "yeah, we've been through a lot. But no need to dwell on that, seeing as you're in a different world yourself, you seem to be doing a good deal of things yourself. How's your knight training going?"
