Now back on his keyglider, Stratos was sailing through the air, ready to evade just about anything that would come his way, in terms of attacks. This behemoth, Metal Heart MOTH, had become a sufficient war machine for the heartless, and so now Stratos was only able to fly around and dodge. Having to wait for the ideal time to attack, Stratos was practically helpless against this being. It was bad enough when the thing only had a few weapons, but apparently turning into an arms fort of some kind made it infinitely more threatening. Stratos didn't even have the ability to attack the thing, and for the past few exchanges they've have, he hadn't been. He had no idea how to deal with this behemoth, but he wasn't going to allow that to completely halt him. All he had to do was keep waiting it out and just be cautious. It's a shame Stratos didn't suffer from mania, but he would just have to find some other way to fill the time. As he kept flying through the air, he realized that he was going to have to deal with this beast alone at this point, and was fully ready to do so. As he continued to fly around, the Metal Heart MOTH didn't seem all that willing to just let him continue on with whatever he felt like doing. And so, Metal Heart MOTH took aim at Stratos with one weapon it hadn't used yet. The giant rail cannon on its back seemed to lock on and track the young keyblade wielder as he was flying through the air. The inside of the gun started to spin, quite like the rotary gun, and started glow from the intense amount of heat produced from the movement. Stratos knew that if the thing hit, it would be bad, and knew that it would end up hitting if he continued to fly the same course. He quickly high jumped off of his glider as the behemoth fired the projectile from the rail cannon, hitting the keyglider and sending it soaring across the room. Wow that would have been bad if he had gotten hit by that. The rotary gun then started to spin as well, revving up to fire at him with all of those bullets that would rip him to shreds. Thankfully, the keyblade was a weapon that could just appear in its owner's hand at a moments notice. Warping in his keyblade, he put the weapon up in a guarding stance, while falling. As the gun fired, Stratos continued to be lucky, in that all the bullets seemed to be aimed at his keyblade instead of any other part of him. Man guard was a weird skill. Once again, though, while he may have been able to block the bullets from striking him and turning him into confetti, it was not able to block the sheer impact of the bullets. He had been forced to hit the ground hard, again, and realized now that he had taken quite a bit of damage. He quickly cast cure on himself, feeling the healing light wash over him. It was then that he saw the behemoth aim its gatling machine gun arm at Stratos, and he knew he had to move. No longer having any MP to use fire to distract them, he started running and got on his keyglider as the behemoth let loose the large barrage of missiles. Flying as fast as he could, the missiles seemed to be catching up with him, though by staying low to the ground, they had managed to accidentally collide with it, and blew up. Now Stratos knew he was in some deep trouble, but the opening he had been waiting for would come soon. OOC: EXP Writer: 631 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4170 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 6/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 3/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: 1.Large Body: 12/17 2.Large Body: 15/17 3.Large Body: 15/17 4.Large Body: 15/17 Metal Heart MOTH: 62/300
Okay, so this was something that was to be terrified of. The behemoth had basically turned into a walking fortress, complete with state of the art weaponry that made it practically insane. He had absolutely no idea how to approach this thing as it had coverage from all sorts of directions. First, it had the good old giant rotary gun on its back, that would dish out the pain, up close and from afar, and simply tear him to shreds. Next up was the giant rail cannon, which while it wasn't as fast firing as the rotary gun, it would essentially one shot kill the young keyblade wielder. While he had never seen the thing fired, and had no idea what a rail cannon actually was, Stratos still believed this to be true. Next was the tail. It was something that would sweep all over the place and basically bludgeon him from any direction were here to try and approach it. Then, there was the missile gatling arm thingy. He had no idea how to deal with any of these weapons, especially the final one, the giant blade arm. If Metal Heart MOTH got close to him, then he would surely use that and cleave the wielder in two. While he was in thought, he noticed an orange sphere charging up in the things mouth, and then realized it still had another weapon to be able to use as well. While he was still in mid air on his keyglider, he quickly took evasive actions and fired the thrust on the keyglider, going away from the impending laser strike. The beam fired out of the heartless's mouth, and started sweeping across the entire area, which Stratos was able to outpace. After that was over with, he saw the beasty bring up its machine missile arm, and let loose a larger barrage than before of missiles. He quickly cast fire to direct the missiles towards the fireball, though this only partially worked. A large portion of the missiles weren't caught by this trick, and so Stratos was forced to start flying away from the creature again, and was then shaken up in the air by the explosions of the missiles. While they weren't directly hitting him, the shock still traveled through the air and still managed to trip up the young keyblade wielder. The behemoth then let down its arm and pointed its gun at him. The gun started revving up, and once in full ignition, it started to fire a hail of bullets. Thankfully, Stratos was able to summon his keyblade to his hand and guard, but this attack was way stronger than the previous turrets. It forced him back through the air, and while he was able to avoid most of the damage, he still ended up hitting the ground hard. This was bad. With the behemoth getting a whole new arsenal of weapons it probably shouldn't have but just did, Stratos was in a bit of dire straights at the moment. All he had to do was keep evading and wait for his key opportunity to strike or, in a more unlikely instance, have an ally help him deal with this thing. Then there was Karina who was rapidly turning into nothing more than a feral beast, which was a pretty bad thing to behold. She was going to get herself killed at this rate, and so Stratos needed to at least try and cool her off as fast as he could. While he was still in his train of thought, Metal Heart MOTH had jumped at him, blade extended. Thankfully, Stratos was able to dodge roll out of the way, and got on his keyglider, thus escaping the blade of the mechanized behemoth. OOC: EXP Writer: 626 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4140 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 6/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 3/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: 1.Large Body: 12/17 2.Large Body: 15/17 3.Large Body: 15/17 4.Large Body: 15/17 Metal Heart MOTH: 96/300
Despite the talk of him going over to help Karina out of her predicament, he was only around halfway done with this Metal Heart MOTH. So it would still be a good bit of fighting before he good help her out, but he was going to blitz through this thing as fast as humanly possible, and make sure that it didn't pose a threat to anyone else. That is, unless someone, named Beuce, would kill Shac already, but he wasn't holding his breath on that. So it was up to him and his reaction commands being made up on the fly to get himself out of this. As things stood though, he was doing well. The two legs that had once been armor plated were now stripped clean of it, and the two extremely threatening shoulder mounted turrets that were once poised to shoot him apart, were now little tiny exploded bit on the ground. So all that was left was him fighting this being head on. In a one on one fight that may not be interesting, but it would get the job done. Though Stratos was second guessing himself now, as the only reason he had been doing so well thus far was due to reaction commands. Nevertheless, he'd be able to make up more things on the fly assured- WHAM! Right, that was still a thing. As he looked up, he saw that his foe in question, who had been previously been looking as though it was trying to think of what to do next as well, was hit with a rubber ball. As they floated back to Shac, he had figured out just what this heartless was. It was a giant troll. It didn't matter whether it was friend or foe, keyblade wielder or behemoth, none was safe from its wrath. After all, not only had it tried to kill all the keyblade wielders, but it also ended up killing some of its own heartless just for ****'s and giggles. Then there was the fact that no matter who it was, it seemed to be punishing internal monologues as well, Metal Heart MOTH being a prime example of that. However, he just realized he was monologuing with no consequence. Well that was something else. He looked over to see that Hikaru, someone who he didn't know at all really, was riding Dumbo and killing heartless left and right on it Oh right, he kind of forgot that there were other people here on North Side originally. He also noticed that he kind of just murdered most the trick ghosts, which was definitely going to end well. Regardless, he was thankful for the guy helping out the girl who was clearly going to get herself killed if things were left as was, and so he could turn back his full undivided attention to Metal Heart MOTH. It was then that he noticed it starting to undergo a transformation. A giant metal tail sprouted out of its behind, which looked ready to be used as a mace. Then, on its left shoulder blade a giant rotary cannon, on its right shoulder blade there seemed to be something that was akin to a rail gun (though he had no idea what a rail gun actually was,) the blade on its arm came out once more, and its other arm casually morphed into a large gatling missile launcher. Well that was just perfe- wait a second. More stuff on him meant more things to break. Which meant more reaction commands. Which meant that he wasn't just out of this fight yet. There would be metal risen at the end of this. FOR NO REASON STRATOS CASTED AERO ON BEUCE'S SWORD THERE WE GO! OOC: EXP Writer: 611 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4110 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 6/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 3/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: 1.Trick ghost: 4/7 2.Trick ghost: 4/7 3.Trick ghost: 4/7 1.Large Body: 14/17 2.Large Body: 15/17 3.Large Body: 15/17 4.Large Body: 15/17 5.Large Body: 15/17 6.Large Body: 15/17 Metal Heart MOTH: 130/300
Stratos had been doing work against this behemoth. Metal Heart MOTH was absolutely no match for the keyblade wielder and his ability to gain an enormous amount of strength and speed out of literally nowhere. Reaction commands were definitely going to be the new meta. Regardless, he knew he couldn't get cocky and careless against this thing. After all, it was still equipped with a variety of weapons that could easily rip him to shreds in a matter of seconds. Well, there was only one shoulder mounted turret left, so that wasn't entirely too bad to deal with. Then there was the missiles that he wasn't entirely sure of how to approach, the giant fck everything in a general direction laser as well, then there was the giant arm blade that could split him in two, and finally the behemoth itself was no joke in terms of capabilities. Okay, so there was still a lot of work to be done on this thing- WHAM! And there was the clown behemoth who still wasn't dead to deal with. Stratos had to start thinking on the fly here, as to how he was going to bring this large metal titan down. It was then that he heard a large fit of anger basically explode everywhere. She was yelling at them to finish off the clown behemoth that was Shac, which Stratos couldn't agree more with about it being annoying. The only reason that thing was still alive was because Beuce wanted to have the last hit, but who actually knew when that was going to happen. He then watched her explode into a feral rage which involved punching all the remaining heartless, and doing basically nothing to them. That's right, miss muscle over there just managed to annoy the heartless and nothing much more. Looking at the situation she had gotten herself into, Stratos felt the urge to help her get out of that alive, however there was still the Metal Heart MOTH that needed dealing with. He couldn't exactly help her by bringing a walking tank into the already huge mob she was fighting, so he decided to support her as best as he could from afar by casting cure and aero over her. He then turned to Metal Heart MOTH and said, "alright big guy, let's finish this as quickly as possible. I got a comrade who I got to assist, and you're the only thing standing in the way right now." The behemoth let out its mechanized dinosaur roar, and started to jump at Stratos, blade arm at the ready. He was expecting this,and thus was able to react in time. He ignited the thruster on his keyglider, and fired off to the side avoiding the blade completely. It then opened up the missile salvo on its back and fired a large barrage at Stratos. The young keyblade wielder waited for the missiles, and simply shot fire to the side. Due to the missiles heat seeking nature, they were more inclined to follow after the ball of flame than the person, and exploded harmlessly in the air. Metal Heart MOTH let out another mechanized roar, and then leaped into the air with its blade once more, Stratos simply descended, avoiding this attack and getting to ground level. Stratos then boosted towards the landing creatures leg and warped his keyblade back to his hand. He then proceeded to let out a massive string of combos involving Vorpal Blitz and just air combo in general, when the prompt to cleave things came forth. Stratos jumped in the air and started rapidly slashing at the turret on the behemoth's shoulder, thus getting rid of those two annoyances. OOC: EXP Writer: 617 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4080 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 11/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: 1.Trick ghost: 4/7 2.Trick ghost: 4/7 3.Trick ghost: 4/7 4.Trick ghost: 4/7 5.Trick ghost: 4/7 6.Trick ghost: 4/7 7.Trick ghost: 4/7 8.Trick ghost:4/7 9.Trick ghost:4/7 10.Trick ghost: 4/7 11.Trick ghost: 4/7 1.Large Body: 14/17 2.Large Body: 15/17 3.Large Body: 15/17 4.Large Body: 15/17 5.Large Body: 15/17 6.Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 10/300 Metal Heart MOTH: 164/300
It was at this point that Stratos was wondering if this clown behemoth, Shac, was ever going to die. Solely so that he could post, Stratos had resorted to having to one versus one a behemoth. And it just turned out that this behemoth was a giant mecha behemoth at that, complete with a full array of weaponry, that included various machines guns, various missile launchers, a giant laser thing, and a giant arm blade. All in all, Stratos would have thought that this would have been a terrifying and completely invincible foe...had the reaction commands he had been using been not made up on the spot. That made the fight all the easier, and he could sense that the behemoth was hurting. After all, with these reaction commands he had managed to slice off the plating on one of its legs and one of the shoulder mounted turrets. Now all that was left was to take on the other two on the other side of its body. Stratos had to think of a way to get close to this thing, though, as it had been starting to wise up to his antics, and let loose the arm blade once more. Now thinking about, Stratos was sitting there for quite some time, just thinking, and the Metal Heart MOTH was already in the air. Wait a second, its blade was now in front of him. Huh, guess he didn't realize that time didn't stand still when one was assessing the situation to themsel- WHAM! Stratos had been nailed by a rubber ball that knocked him off the keyglider and launched him pretty far to the side of the Meat Heart MOTH. He watched as the blade arm came in contact with his keyglider, which was still where it originally was, and spiked it downward. Had Stratos not been hit by that ball, he certainly would've been killed right then and there. It was then that he noticed something. The rubber ball had bounced back to Shac, who continued to juggle the ball, with that internal troll face of his just being apparent.. It continued juggling the balls and simply awaited what the other teammates were going to do to it. Stratos thought that this behemoth was pretty weird, in overall mannerisms. However, now was not the time to think of this, especially while Shac was still around to punish the internal monoluguer. Summoning his keyglider under his feet, Stratos started flying towards the behemoth, only to be deterred by a swarm of missiles flying straight at him. So, Stratos had to start flying away from those, only to realize that they were moving way too fast for him to actually avoid. And so, as they got closer to him, he jumped off of his keyglider, hoping that that would be enough to avoid these missiles that may or may not have been actually been tracking him. However, the missiles seemed more attracted to the glider and kept following it, to which Stratos realized that these must be mega flare containers that home in on the largest source of heat. Well that was nice to know. The turret that was still operational then focused back on the now falling Stratos, and he simply summoned his keyblade back and guarded. Magically, all the bullets seemed to just bounce off of his keyblade and not a single one actually hit him. Well that was lucky. He then flew forward towards Metal Heart MOTH's plated leg, now back on his keyglider, and once he got close he initiated a combo attack against it. After doing a multitude of attacks on the things leg, he saw the reaction command prompt again, and he managed to cut up the thing's leg plating, before running out of BP once more. OOC: EXP Writer: 637 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4050 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 11/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 10/300 Metal Heart MOTH: 198/300
The exciting fight between Straiden and Metal Heart MOTH continued. Stratos was back up on his keyglider, as he could not ninja run against the hail of bullets this was the next best thing. Stratos didn't entirely know what to do against this thing, and was debating whether or not he should even be fighting this thing alone. However, Kel was focused on Shac, and Stratos was waiting for Beuce to kill it. After all, there had been a long stretch of time between when Stratos had been attacked by this thing, and now. Not to mention if he did kill Shac, he could still bring on the hurt against this behemoth. Speaking of which, Stratos wasn't even sure what the hell this thing was. While it did have a large heartless emblem emblazoned on it, the fact was that it still looked like it was a war machine of some sort. He thought all heartless were basically organic, minus the fact that they were more so made of darkness. But this thing broke the mold entirely. Not to mention it used guns. Like, that was definitely a new one. It also, unlike Shac, did not seem to have a thing against internal monolog- WHAM! Right, Shac wasn't dead yet. Regardless, he had to bring the heartless before him down in a very action packed sequence. Why was Stratos suddenly convinced he could one vs one this behemoth? Because, there were going to be reaction commands out the ass here. If he just responded to the reaction commands, than nothing would be able to stop him. After all reaction commands, while still a large anomaly like skill commands, were still the most overpowered thing in the world. The could make even Stratos, the guy who didn't barely got a single point of strength from two soldiers was able to slice open the metal plating that was on the leg of this thing. While Stratos was trying his best to understand how to bend commands to their fullest potential and turn them into something he voluntarily does, he realized that if he could find some way to harness the power of reaction commands, then everyone would be invincible. All the while he thinking of this, Metal Heart MOTH was desperatley shooting bullets at him, only for it to give that up. All the stupid inaccurate guns then retracted back into its body, and out from its shoulders produced two larger and more threatening turrets. Stratos was now thinking that he had to actually move, as the guns seemed to be locking on to him. Strating to jet off in no real general direction, the guns started firing at him, and Stratos realized that these were actually tracking his position. Which meant that they were actually threatening to him. He realized he had to change this, and so he flew towards the Metal Heart MOTH, going faster than the guns could keep up with. As he got close to the leg, he quickly got off an summoned his keyblade. He started whacking the leg with the Spellbinder, only for the bipedal mecha heartless to raise its leg. Bringing it down with a stomp, Stratos was able to execute a perfect parry by guarding at just the right moment. He then followed this up by striking the leg, and kept attacking until a reaction command popped up again. Reacting to it, Stratos jumped into the air and did an ungodly large amount of slashes at incomprehensibly fast speeds on one of the shoulder turrets. With that done, Stratos had gotten back on his keyglider, as the behemoth had created distance between the two now by jumping back. OOC: EXP Writer: 614 Words, 30 EXP Total: 4020 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 11/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 10/300 Metal Heart MOTH: 232/300
After having done his damage to Shac, he was now waiting for someone to finish it. Why? Because someone had claimed the rights to kill the behemoth, and so he was respecting that and hadn't finished off the behemoth for that very reason. However, that didn't change the fact that nothing was still getting done. That needed to change post haste. Stratos, while flying through the air on his keyglider, noticed that there was another kind of heartless just kind of wandering around. It was...another behemoth. Only, just like just about every other behemoth, it did not look natural or usual in the slightest. However, this one was interesting for one key factor. It looked like it was made completely of metal. Like it was supposed to be some sort of tank on legs really. As it saw the curious keyblade wielder looking at him, it decided to let loose an array of attacks towards him. From the top of it, it opened up to reveal that there were...machine guns there. Stratos actually had no idea what a gun actually was, for he had never really seen one, but he did know that when the barrel was letting loose explosions and things were whizzing at him, it was no bueno. As he continued to fly away from it, his attention was completely directed away from the clownmoth and was now focused on his new metalic foe. So, Stratos decided to fly in closer to see what he could against it, however it responded to his approach by getting up on two legs and making this mechanized dinosaur scream at him. Then, from its sides, it let loose a barrage of missiles. Again, Stratos had never seen this kind of weapon before, but it didn't take a genius to figure out that things flying at you at high speed were pretty deadly. As he flew away from those as fast as possible, he saw that they had exploded in mid air, and noted that they were basically like mini mega flare containers. Man, science sure was something else. The now bipedal behemoth, which was just great seeing as it wasn't threatening enough already, then leaped into the air to try and bring the young keyblade wielder down to the ground. However, he was not about to get tripped up by this classic move of a behemoth, and so he spun his keyglider around and boosted the other direction he had been moving in. This caused the behemoth to land and miss, though it was not done attack him just yet. Being thoroughly annoyed with the keyblade wielder, it started to fire at him with its array of machine guns again, however its accuracy was terrible. This was probably because it was firing at him with super high rate of fire weapons, and there was absolutely no targeting system on them. It just had machine guns sticking out of parts of its body, so of course it was going to be pretty inaccurate. Using this sudden new found and completely out of nowhere understanding of how firearms worked, Stratos was able to actually just stand there and was able to completely avoid all of the bullets altogether. The powers of antagonistic bullets were quite weak as it turned out, and the rule of the less shots you fire the more accurate are seemed to be true. However, while it was continuing to fire bullets at him, a giant blade seemed to fold out of one of its arms, and then it jumped at Stratos with its blade fully ready to come down on him. He had nowhere to run, as the bullets were firing in random directions and would surely intercept him if he were to try and fly away. Then there was the blade in front of him, that would slice him in half were it to connect. Even if he were to guard against the attack, he was pretty sure it would do a good deal of damage, and so he had no out from this attack...Wait a second, of course he did. Stratos jumped off his keyglider and summoned it as a blade back in his hand. It was then that he took his iaido stance, cherry blossoms falling from the sky, and looked to the behemoth in front of him. He, sadly, couldn't kill this thing in one hit as no vital point was visible to him to cut, however, he was able to still get off some form of damage with this. Using the zantetsuken command, Stratos had dashed through the heartless leaving a large slash mark on it as he used the command. The hit was a success and Stratos was completely safe. However, all was not well, as he was still falling. Well that was bad. He then realized that he could just get out of this by summoning his keyglider underneath him, and so he did exactly that. Flying through the air, he got ready to bring down the behemoth once more, however it seemed to be charging something up in its mouth. A giant pulsing orange sphere, which never meant good things. As it finished charging, it let loose a giant laser from its mouth, to which Stratos had to start flying away as fast as possible from. Moving its head in the direction the boy was traveling, he was having a hard time avoiding this, and was having a hard time believing that the library wasn't completely destroyed yet. Regardless, once the onslaught had stopped, he flew over to the behemoth and got in close. Most of its attacks were long range, so if he had closed the distance, it would be pretty limited in what it could do. Once there, let loose an air combo, which he then followed up with a vorpal blitz and then ended with an air combo. When the attack had ended, he had something akin to a reaction command appear before him, and so he reacted accordingly and started slicing the thing's leg up, cutting off the armor plating around it. He was only able to do this because reaction commands gave a person superhuman powers, but he still found it odd. Regardless, the fight would go on. OOC: EXP Writer: 1045 Words, 30 EXP Total: 3990 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 11/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 10/300 Metal Heart MOTH: 266/300
Stratos was continuing to fly away from the clown behemoth when he finally saw that Beuce had started to go in and attack the thing. Now Shac the Clownmoth was starting to pull out all of the stops, and went from being slightly inspired by Shaco to being exactly Shaco. Well that was something. However, the behemoth wasn't the only thing that went over a league of legends evolution. Beuce, being the fourth wall breaker that he was seemed to go through one as well. While the behemoth had been doing various things, such as fearing the soldier with a Jack-in-the-Box that shot lasers, teleporting and turning invisible, and just generally throwing knives at people, Beuce had undergone the transformation into something that gave him raw nationalistic might. The behemoth was now up against the might of a man who had raw manly spirit, and yelled one word and one word only. Demacia. He watched as Beuce leaped into the air and created a large rock Colosseum between him and Shac the Clownmoth...however Shac had just casually pedaled out of there as if nothing were wrong with the entire situation. Well that was something different. Guess it had something to do with the way the rocks were created or something. After those two had had their confrontation, it was now Shac vs Kel. The basketball player vs the black man...wait. Neither were either of those things. Stratos wasn't entirely sure why he thought that way, but who really cared at this point. Within this confrontation, Kel had also gotten smacked by a ball, and Stratos was starting to notice a pattern. Whenever someone was having a long train of thought and not doing anything, that was when Shac seemed to attack the- WHAM! Okay, he totally saw that coming. Regardless, within this fight Kel had actually learned how to use his keyglider , and the behemoth had started to make a kai version of his trademark attack. He had set the rubber balls he was juggling on fire. Well that was certainly new. After watching the exchange between the two fighters, Stratos had prepared himself to get ready to help out and draw the aggro back to himself so someone else could use all their, probably Demacian, might against the heartless. Still in the air, Stratos looked at the jovial clownmoth who had been pedaling around like there was nothing amiss. Its attention was soon turned to Stratos, who had spent a good four hundred words reviewing what others had done, and soon tried to peg him down. Stratos started flying away as fast as he physically could on his keyglider to avoid getting pegged by the flaming rubber balls. It was then that while he was dodging the attack, a large trapeze bar came towards him and knocked the wind straight out of him, sending him hurtling away. The behemoth then jumped, while on the unicycle, and grabbed the bar, and hit Stratos away with its unicycle while swinging. Stratos sort of went sailing through the air, wind completely knocked out of him, and had no idea how he was going to get out of this situation. Perhaps he could- WHAM! In his monologue, the behemoth had thrown a ball at the ground so it would bounce up and hit Stratos. While at first it seemed to be taking advantage of its airborne target, this attack had actually destroyed all horizontal momentum, and caused the boy to have some hang time, allowing him to summon the keyglider under his feet, and then he could fly away. Stratos had not actually done any damage to thing, but it still seemed to take damage somehow. Well that was strange. OOC: EXP Writer: 619 Words, 30 EXP Total: 3980 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 18/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Trick Ghost: 2/7 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 10/300
Alas poof Double BP/EXP, I knew thee well. You shall be missed as we return to our regularly scheduled EXP and BP situation now- what? What's that? Oh, it's still double BP here? But no Double EXP? Well the exp shall be a shame to miss, but nevertheless, we will continue onward with our double bp. Go forth young keyblade wielders and kill more heartless! @Gexln @Beucefilous @Moksha @Skyheart @Krowley @Mother's Rosario @Sebax @Iskandar @NikkiNoNo @Zazu @~Phoenix~ @Kross @KHGrl15 @Hexin @O.KnightofTwilight @Usagi Tsukino @Cat~ @Kaldur'ahm @Ventus PSP Aqua
Stratos was continuing to fly away from Shac the Clownmoth, going on his keyglider every which way as to allow someone else to attack the thing and aggro it and not have him just be getting attacked with no one else doing anything. However, as things were, with neither Kel nor Beuce acting out against it, and Karina not really wanting to fight this because of her mania/apparent anti-socialness, it was up to Stratos to keep this thing's attention. Granted, that didn't keep it from chucking the balls at Karina for no apparent reason earlier, but Stratos had experienced first hand that behemoth's just didn't like certain people. Guess Karina was just one that it didn't li-WHAM! Stratos was too busy internal monologing to notice that the behemoth was throwing its rubber balls at him again. Because of this, he was sent straight down and had to do something about not hitting the ground again. Because he hadn't actually hit the behemoth in the last post, not once, Stratos's MP was actually where it was since that post and hadn't recovered in time. Which meant he didn't really have any magic to use here and was probably going to be- WHAM! That ball came from underneath, as if Shac had thrown it solely to knock Stratos back into the air. When Stratos looked at the creature again, he realized that the thing appeared to be having some sort of fun with all of the keyblade wielders. Sure, it was getting killed and it probably knew that it was going to die, but it still looked like it was having some semblance of fun with them. It continued juggling the balls around and then quickly pegged one at the airborne Stratos, who summoned his keyblade and decided to repeat the process from last time. As he hit the ball back, the behemoth kept throwing the balls back at him just as it had done last time, and so Stratos this time spiked the next ball that flew at him at a downward angle. This caused the ball to hit the ground first, and then come back in a way that was impossible for the unicycle riding heartless to respond. As the ball bounced upward, though, it didn't hit the behemoth. It his the unicycle. As the hit connected, the unicycle started to tremble a bit, and the behemoth seemed like it was going to fall. As the unicycle dipped downward, though, the behemoth stayed on it perfectly, and started pedaling furiously. Much faster than one would think was ever possible. This pedaling caused the wheel to spin as fast as if it were hooked up to an engine and slowly but surely, the behemoth soon managed to pull itself back up. Well that was certainly unexpected. Stratos got ready to deal with the thing even more so now than before, as he was assuming it was going to be angry after almost falling off its precious unicycle. However, it didn't seem to have a change of demeanor at all. It, instead, just started chucking knives at the boy- okay, it was probably angry. As he got on his keyglider and swerved away from the blades, he looked back to see that the behemoth was no longer there. It was then that a large shadow came out of literally nowhere, and the behemoth was behind him. It was almost as if it had turned invisible and teleported away from him. What of bullshit was that. He looked over to the creature and then quickly used zantetsuken to cut through it to avoid it spiking a ball at him. Stratos continued to stay airborne as the behemoth landed back on the ground. OOC: EXP Writer: 620 Words, 30 EXP Total: 3950 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 24/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Trick Ghost: 2/7 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 134/300
Lucia sort of followed behind Arabella as she was lead to the dining area. It was there, that she gave a rousing speech, a call to arms if one would. She talked about just what their mission was and just what they were tasked with doing here. Lucia was in utter awe and being completely inspired by Arabella at this moment, though was slightly confused when the attention was shifted to her about already being member of a task group. However, that quickly vanished and she could do nothing but feel ready to go on this mission. It was then that the Sasha girl chimed in about how none of this seemed right and it all seemed way to blown out of proportion. That they didn't and probably shouldn't take action against someone who had defected and was doing nothing but spreading lies about the government. But it was one of the last things that she said that really got to her. "We shouldn't go after her because she hasn't killed anyone yet? That sounds like entirely a terrible idea. The whole purpose of us mobilizing as fast as possible is to keep it that way. Just because she hasn't killed anyone yet doesn't mean it's going to stay like that forever." Her tone then started to become a more nationalistic one as she continued saying, "our academy has given us every reason to go after her. Being someone who has defected from here, she does not fall under the jurisdiction of a regular police force, and thus is a matter that only we and our seniors can solve. Furthermore, I for one believe in our government to be one that has done nothing but keep our country the way it is, in total prosperity. To think that they'd be lying to us and deem this important mission they've tasked us with as pointless is just too hard for me to believe." After she finished her own speech/rant, she turned to Arabella with a clueless face and said, "so where do we start?"
Stratos, despite what he had said at the end of his last post, was not actually about to wait for the others to make their move. Why? Because a giant rubber ball came flying at him. Stratos was able to quickly bring his keyglider up and block the oncoming strike, though he was not entirely safe with just that block alone. Having been hit with the giant ball, Stratos went down down in this early of a round, and sugar he went down swinging...his keyblade to be precise. Why again? Because one did not simply just through a singular rubber ball and then stop attacking with them. When a clownmoth juggling balls threw them at you, it was going to keep throwing more and more at you no matter what you did. So, Stratos had to keep swinging his keyblade, doing some sort of non-existant reaction command thing again, to bounce the balls back at the heartless. The only problem was that he had no mp for aero, and no keyglider to get on, lest he get pelted. So if he fell and hit the ground, it was going to hurt like a *****. And so what he did next was his grand escape plan. When the next ball came at him, Stratos used his keyblade to spike it down. With the ball going straight down at such a high velocity, due to his strength being magnified from the power of reaction commands, when it hit the ground, it bounced straight up. Stratos then used this to escape, by having the ball hit him from underneath, sending him skyward bound. While this still hurt, the other balls that the behemoth managed to throw at him were completely evaded as they were aimed towards where he used to be. Stratos then followed this up with another made up reaction command in which he somehow ended up being positioned behind the ball rather than on top of it, and then whacked the ball back its holder. The clownmoth gave absolutely no ****s about this, and then just grabbed the ball that was flying at him at him like it was no big deal. It then used its magical magnetic powers to pull all the other rubber balls back to it, and casually started juggling it again. Stratos then got on his keyglider and started to fly away, letting himself go towards the behemoth he was soon shutdown on this prospect. Why? Because rather than throwing balls this time it pulled ****ing daggers out of nowhere. It just started chucking daggers straight at Stratos, completely ready to murder him with extreme prejudice. He was able to weave way around these, as they weren't as big as the balls and thus were more easily dodged, but he was soon knocked out of the sky again by a rubber ball bouncing into his keyglider. He started to fall as the hit connected, and he had to think fast again. For the exact same situation. Twice in one post. However this time, Stratos was able to get on his keyglider and fly away. Why? Because the clownmoth was no longer focused on Stratos. In fact, it seemed more focus on dealing with Karina and started just throwing its rubber balls at her instead. The behemoth then stopped and turned his attention back to Stratos, who was now far and away. However, the behemoth just seemed to be weaker out of nowhere. Stratos did absolutely nothing and it just seemed to be taking damage. Well that was something nice. Thinking this was a good thing, he continued flying around and waiting to see if the other two teammates would do anything. OOC: EXP Writer: 615 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3920 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 24/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Trick Ghost: 2/7 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 168/300
Stratos was thankful that Kel was here to help back him up against Shac the Clownmoth. He was soon expecting Karina to do something about this as well, seeing as the clownmoth seemed to be trying to provoke her by just killing some of its own allies. Looking at the heartless as it preformed such an action, it looked like it had some sort of troll face. It's expression was the same, sure, but he knew that deep down, beneath the surface of its face, there was a troll face. While he was monloguing about the art of troll facing, he then looked up to see that the clownmoth and Kel had gotten into a sort of altercation. The behemoth was chucking its rubber balls, at the blue haired keyblade wielder...and he was doing the exact same thing to it. He was completely confused as to just what was going on, and why Kel was catching and throwing the balls back at the clownmoth, but his thoughts were interrupted as the behemoth threw a fast ball towards the keyblade wielder. It was that he witnessed Kel do a lot of different maneuvers that he couldn't be bothered to remember or describe, but he watched him do it anyway. It was then that Stratos realized it was his turn to go up, and so he decided to go do something. Stratos got on his keyglider and flew off towards the clownmoth. Getting closer to it he quickly hurled his keyglider in the strike raid-esque fashion towards the behemoth, though it countered this with relative ease. It quickly threw one of its rubber balls at the glider, intercepting it and knocking the glider out of the air. It then started lobbing more of its rubber juggling balls at him, and he quickly reacted to this. What's that? This wasn't an actual reaction command? Well screw that, he decided to go and use it as a reaction command anyway. Stratos quickly summoned his keyblade back to his hand, and then managed to get on top of one of the balls that was being thrown at him. Leaping from ball to ball, he managed to close the distance between the two using this technique, and then laid out on him. He quickly let loose an air combo on the thing, hitting it with a string with a three hit combo, Once the third hit hit, he chained it off into vorpal blitz, letting loose a three hit combo that hit it with an ice imbued keyblade, he managed to strike it with the third hit extra hard due to being in the air. With that command being let loose, he then decided to end it with another three hit combo, bringing his blade down especially hard on the final strike. He then watched as the rubber balls came back at him, being magnetically attracted to the behemoth, and so Stratos had to react to this with a non-reaction reaction command. He quickly hopped off of one ball to another, clearing the attack completely, and then got on his keyglider to fly away. Once he got away from this attack and the enemy in general, he then looked to Kel. He was unsure of what his status was...but actually it was probably the same as everyone else. Having generated enough mp to use all of it at once, he cast aero on the three warriors that were here, managing to give them all better defense. After all, they had pretty much no way of using magic as they were now. "You're up next," he called out to Kel and/or Beuce. OOC: EXP Writer: 608 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3860 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 20/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Trick Ghost: 4/7 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 202/300
Shac the Clownmoth was a terrifying foe if ever there was one. With all the ferocity of a behemoth and all the skills (and horror) of a clown, this thing was surely to pack a large punch against them all. It was almost as terrifying as a clown badger, really. Almost. Nothing could quite match that in terms of ferocity and raw power. Tangent aside, Stratos had to think of a way to deal with this heartless. So far the surveillance robots were doing a great job at dealing damage against the enemy team of heartless, so as long as they were still around they could still bombard the heartless with giant lasers and the like. He looked to the side to see that Karina, who was now in a huff, had killed all of them with her bare hands. Well, there went that idea. She then basically roared to them all that the trick ghost heartless were hers to kill and hers alone. Well, it was good to see she was in great spirits and was a true team player right now. Not like Stratos could say that he entirely was, having rashly acted to a lot of things thus far, but still. Ah well, as long as she was still fighting that was what, sort of, mattered. At least this way she wouldn't get herself nearly killed like last time her mood went swinging. Attention now away from Karina, he turned to face the clownmoth who was casually strolling around on a unicycle. The balls that he had originally thrown had all been bouncing around, but somehow magically found their way back to the unicycle riding enemy. Well that was a bother. Stratos prepared himself for another round getting attacked by Shac, and realized that he needed to think of something quick in order to not get killed by this thing. In fact, doing some killing instead would be good as well. The behemoth than started pedaling more furiously, all while expertly juggling these rubber balls, and tried to run over Stratos. What an *******. Stratos couldn't exactly guard against the strike, as the unicycle was huge and could simply trample over him if it really wanted to. Stratos expertly dodge rolled out of the way, only to see the behemoth turning around, at a rather sharp angle, and came at him again. Wait, how was it able to do that? Stratos wasn't a physics major by any stretch of the imagination, but he was pretty sure that the behemoth should not have been able to do that. What with its weight, the overall size of it, and the size of the unicycle. Not to mention that at the speed it was going at, the way it turned should have caused it to fall off. Which could only mean that Shac the Clownmoth had another terrifying ability in his skill set. The ability to have perfect balance and never fall off of its unicycle. Now that he thought about it, it seemed rather unfazed earlier when he had shot a gigantic laser at it. While he didn't think anything weird of it then, now that he was actually stopping to realize just how much of scientific oddity that was, he realized that the behemoth actually had some sort of ability like this. Stratos dodge rolled out of the way, only to see that as the clownmoth had passed them, it had dropped a box. The box had a handle on it that seemed to be turning itself all while playing some really childish, yet oh so creepy, jingle. As the jingle came to its end, the box had sprung open and revealed the jack inside of it. And by jack he meant bomb. That's right, the box started to spit a bomb out at him, only for Stratos to quickly dodge roll out of the way again. He turned to face the behemoth once more, who was still had the classic blank eyes that all the behemoths had had. Except for Larry, which were just more feral and angry than anything else. So he had to keep on his toes, as one could never anticipate the actions of one with an expressionless gaze. It was then that the behemoth started to throw the rubber balls at Stratos, who had done what he had done before to counter it. Putting up his guard, he blocked against all the strikes, and managed to deflect them all, only to see that the behemoth was now charging at him once more. He quickly dodge rolled out of the way to avoid getting crushed, only for this behemoth to do an actual behemoth move and fire energy balls from its horn as it passed by. Stratos quickly guarded again, blocking the strikes were homing in on him. Repelling the strike, Stratos then noticed that the behemoth wasn't quite finished him just yet, as it preformed one of its impossible turns again. Having done so while the energy ball attack was still going, Stratos realized that there was no way he could move out of the way in time, and continue block against the bombardment of attacks, and so he had to think of a better way out of this. Thinking on it, he realized he still had his greatest escape mechanism at the ready again, and decided now was a great time to use it. Allowing the cherry blossoms to fall from the sky, Stratos used Zantetsuken to pass through the behemoth and his attacks, getting him to safety. After having done that, Stratos then looked over at the behemoth and quickly decided to cast fire on the moving target. The fireball homed in on the behemoth's horn and exploded on impact, dealing even more damage, and ending Stratos's turn against the thing. Now all he needed to do was wait for someone else to do something to attract the behemoth's attention. As things were, Stratos could hold the thing off for a bit and give the others some time fight it, but he wouldn't be able to beat it on his own. OOC: EXP Writer: 1020 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3780 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 7/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: CLEAR Injuries: Trick Ghost: 6/7 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 232/300
After Stratos had done his bit, he watched as Larry the Pedalmoth had finally broken free from Beuce's grasp. Then, in astounding amount of detail, Beuce started to let loose his skills. The awe inspiring attack that had him pour raw physical strength and manliness into the ground to create a geyser of said energies, the newly found Brave Shot command. After Beuce had hit the heartless with such an impressive and truly vivid attack, he proceeded to partake in something rather gory and painted the perfect picture as to what he did. Beuce grabbed Larry the Pedalmoth's horn, and ripped it off with all of his strength, letting loose black smoke from where the horn used to be, showing that the heartless was indeed in an awful state. My word, those attacks were so filled with detail Stratos was blown away by them. Not to mention the behemoth was weak enough now that even he could take it on and win right now. Alas, twas not meant to be. As another who had found their inner strength released and manifested into physical form, Kel, had shown up to the scene. After unleashing a serious of attacks, he finished the behemoth by using zantetsuken, thus killing it entirely. Well, at least it was no more, however he felt as though Kel still had ten bp to spare that just wasn't used yet. Regardless, Stratos was now catching his breath as the enemy had been felled. That was one behemoth down, and seven more to go. Man, there was a lot more of these things here than at their side. Stratos started to ponder as to why that was, though he figured it was just some sort of cruel aspect of fate. Kind of like the reason why all the behemoths weren't actually just regular behemoths and had some sort of super natural ability. It was then that he turned to look at the next behemoth. One who seemed ready to avenge Larry the Pedalmoth. However, the appearance seemed to be quite different than literally anything they had been fighting thus far. This behemoth was a pale white color. It had on a white and red striped poofy shirt, with a poofy frilled color. Not to mention its pants were poofy. It had some odd symbols seemingly painted on its face, and the behemoth still had... a blank expression. Well at least that was good. However, the thing that stuck out most was the fact that this behemoth was riding a unicycle and was juggling rubber balls with its claws. This was no ordinary non-ordinary behemoth, this was Shac, the Clownmoth. Stratos had no idea how to approach this thing as it was pedaling its way on it enormous unicycle, but had to quickly guard against the first barrage of attacks this thing had. It started just throwing the rubber balls it was juggling at Stratos, and while at first he thought he could handle them, then he took into consideration the scale of this thing. Well, that was terrible. The balls were actually huge in comparison to the boy, and while they did bounce off of his keyblade Stratos was still pushed back and still got hurt from the bulk of that attack. Being sent back he turned to the others and said, "what is up with all of these behemoths? It's like they're trying to just be absurd at this point." Regardless, he knew that he to attack the thing, but couldn't figure out how without any MP. And so he quickly ran over to where Karina was, and grabbed a surveillance robot. He then noticed that Karina seemed a tad sulky, again, and he didn't really know the reason. However, he did just give her a thumbs up saying, "keep up the good work. We'll have these guys finished in no time, just like before." He then jumped into the air and fired off sparkle ray at the Clownmoth, dealing his damage and then throwing away the heartless that fired the beam. OOC: EXP Writer: 674 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3720 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 8/35 Injuries: Surveillance Robot: 1/6 Large Body: 15/17 Shac: 266/300
Stratos was shaking where he stood as Larry the Pedalmoth had managed to pull itself back up from whatever sort of damage he had just been afflicted. It wasn't Stratos shaking in fear, no, it was Stratos shaking because god damn he felt sore everywhere right now. He quickly cast cure on himself as many times as his current mp would allow him, and he had managed to recollect himself. Sure, he was still pretty beaten up and bruised from this behemoth thus far, but he could actually steady himself now. As the behemoth charged at him, he quickly got on his keyglider and flew away as the behemoth hopped into the air and brought its fist downward. As the fist crashed into the ground, the behemoth continued to snarl at Stratos, and then quickly charged back at the flying keyblade rider. He needed to keep his cool here and just stall the thing out. At this rate he knew that there was no way he'd be able to keep it up forever. All that was needed for the behemoth to get kicked down, and Stratos to be able to use any form of combative measure against it. However, the behemoth was no longer having any of this game of cat and mouse with the young keyblade wielder. He leaped into the air, bringing down its paw on the flying keyblade wielder. He was swatted out of the sky and was pushed down into the ground, only to see the behemoth coming back at him again. Stratos started pulling himself out, only to see that the behemoth had closed the distance between them rather quickly. Stratos saw that there was nothing else for him to do, and then he got really lucky. Beuce had appeared and said something about not letting his apprentice die. Stratos watched as the behemoth and Beuce had begun their own fight. That new found strength of his was really something else. Beuce was able to handle the thing with ease, at least compared to what Stratos could do. As he watched the older man slash through the behemoth with his sword, he then went to go on and actually grapple with the behemoth. Stratos was in shock an awe as he saw the raw display of strength from his friend. It then dawned on Stratos again, the clear difference in power between him and the others, however now he was fine with it. Because now he was able to support someone else in this fight. He saluted Beuce as he told him to go and do some more damage and said, "got it boss." Stratos then took his iaido stance as cherry blossoms fell from the sky. He opened his eyes to see that there was no place he could cut the behemoth to kill it at the moment, but he was still going to get in some damage. Using Zantetsuken to both damage and close the distance to the behemoth. After doing that, Stratos knew that he didn't have any MP to use just yet, and so he needed to build up some off of this heartless. He quickly started up a ground combo, only to then follow up with vorpal blitz right after. As the attack finished, Stratos was now airborne and so he initiated an air combo on the downed behemoth's horn. After that, he had generated enough MP to attack with magic once more. Looking at the snarling heartless, he had determined that it was doing to much of that, and so he cast mine square. There were no mines to be seen, however. So where were they? That question was soon answered as the behemoths head and throat seemed to spazz out and smoke came from its mouth. OOC: EXP Writer: 628 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3660 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 13/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 8/35 Injuries: Surveillance Robot: 1/6 Large Body: 15/17 Larry: 76/300
Stratos was to continue his fight against the large ass behemoth, Larry, and end this fight as soon as he could. However, he was running into the problem of being on the ground and being unable to do anything. So end this fight really more so translated into wait for someone to save his ass. But even then, that wasn't giving anyone else a huge time frame. At the end of the day, perhaps Stratos hadn't taken into consideration just how weak he was. He thought that with just all of his friends and comrades fighting alongside him, he could rely on them enough to be able to pull out his best as well. Everything had been going fine, too, up to this point, so he had figured it would continue that way. Stratos now realized that thinking like that might have been too unreal for this weak boy to keep up with. He knew in order to survive he needed to move out of this hole. But, he couldn't seem to muster the strength to pull himself out. Didn't help that his aero actually broke from the force of the throw. Without, he'd probably be dead right now. He looked as the snarling gargantuan heartless walked towards him, cracking its fists. Stratos had then realized the irony of what was about to happen here. After all his declarations to Karina, things about how no matter what, he wouldn't let any of these people here die. After all that, it turned out that he was going to be the one to go. He wondered if he was meant to be this weak. If there was just some sort of cosmic force that was toying around with him, and wanted him to lag behind everyone else in terms of strength. It wasn't as though he minded his support role, it was just every once in awhile he would have liked to be able to do something with his own strength. However, no matter what, he needed someone to help him, always. Even though he had fought heartless by himself, he was able to take comfort in the fact that he had someone who would be able to help him at any given moment. He knew there was someone who could bail him out if things took a turn for the worst. Even now he was thinking that same thing, waiting for someone to save him from this heartless. His eyes started to close and his consciousness was starting to fade. Everything had gone to black, and there was little to no time left for the boy. "Tsk. This weakness of yours pisses me off more than anything else." There was a completely unfamiliar voice echoing through his head, one that sounded really annoyed at him. "If you don't want to die, then stop sulking and get your ass off the ground." Stratos had no idea what was happening right now, but he could feel the world coming back to him. He started to move, if ever so slightly, and opened his eyes to see the behemoth towering over him now. It was bringing back its fist, ready to bring an end to him, only for something completely unexpected to happen. Stratos's heart was glowing now, and using the tiniest boost of power that both Kel and Beuce's aura gave him, Stratos was able to pull himself up. As the behemoth punched down towards him, Stratos punched back. With their fists connecting, there was a huge solar explosion let out, sending both combatants flying backward. Stratos was barely able to pull himself up after sliding across the ground. He had no idea what that voice was and he still didn't think that he could fight this thing as is, especially after having to use his limit as his only means of offense and defense. However, he did know that he wasn't just going to lay down on the ground and die here. OOC: EXP Writer: 660 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3600 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 15/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 8/35 Injuries: Surveillance Robot: 1/6 Large Body: 15/17 Larry: 198/300 Changing this list all up in this biotch
Stratos was pretty concerned with the gigantic beast before him. Larry the Pedalmoth was something else, something way different than anything he had encountered before. He had fought a behemoth that had moved at a single frame, and only had one action. To kick. He had fought a behemoth had feasted on someone's raw negative emotions and fired heat death rays and was a master of all things fire magic. He had fought a behemoth that was made of angelic energy, had wings, rained lasers from the sky, and fired off various light magic attacks. And he had fought a behemoth that had mastery over the arts found only within the void. But they had all only been on four legs thus far. He had yet to go up against something so menacing that it would stand up on its hind legs and walked around like a bipedal animal. Well, Stratos had no idea what to do since this thing through any conventional behemoth fair out the window. Like, what was he supposed to do against something that was huge and had hands? Looking at the thing, he was ready to brace himself for any and all things it could do, and hopefully stall long enough for the three ad carries of the team to go and stop it. Stratos immediately guarded up, though, when he saw the behemoth's very first move. It was a singular move, that apparently all behemoth's knew solely to attack Stratos with. Bringing back its foot, it kicked forward straight into Stratos's guard, sending the boy skidding across the ground. The behemoth then started to go into a full blown all out sprint towards the boy, and tried to completely wreck his **** in, with its bare hands. As the behemoth closed the distance between them, Stratos quickly got on his keyglider and jetted away from the creature, who jumped at him and slammed its fist into the ground. Seeing the destruction that could have hit him, Stratos continued to fly away and avoid any and all attacks that would come at him. However, Larry was still a behemoth with a large amount of tricks up its metaphorical sleeves. As it started running on all fours towards him, He leaped into the air and tried to grab Stratos with one of its claws hands. Leaping off of his keyglider, the behemoth only managed to grab the weapon vehicle instead. He then proceeded to summon it back underneath his feet as he awaited the behemoth to go and do something more to him. As it was, he was probably too high up for the behemoth attack him, but he knew that probably wouldn't stop it in the slightest right now. He cast aero on himself, just as a precaution, and then realized just what it was capable of. Still being just a regular behemoth, it called upon the lighting from the sky as any regular behemoth could, and sent out a near unavoidable bolt of energy at Stratos. Having his glider be hit by the attack, Stratos lost his balance and began to fall, only for the behemoth to walk over and punch Stratos. Seeing the attack coming, he quickly summoned his keyblade and used Zantetsuken to slash through the enemy heartless. Having avoid the fist, Stratos was now on the other side of the behemoth, only for it to reach out its other hand and grab him. While the grip wasn't actually on him, and more so on the aero around him, Stratos could feel the pressure closing in on him, and the behemoth didn't waste anytime, and simply threw Stratos to ground. Having slammed into the ground, Stratos felt a large amount of pain course through him, and the wind was completely knocked out of him. Hell, if he didn't have that power from Karina, he probably would have died right there. Regardless, this behemoth was about to make short work of the now downed keyblade wielder. OOC: EXP Writer: 663 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3540 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 (Larry injured 232/300) Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 15/20 (injured, 15/17) Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 15/35 (Injured 3/6)
Stratos was standing there as Beuce began to explain how both he and Kel had acquired these powers out of nowhere. While it seemed to completely power the both of them up, he also described how it had some drawbacks to it as well. Stratos then realized that this was the same sort of thing that was happening to Karina, only for Beuce to say that she changed outfits as well. This was really strange and he had no idea what entirely was going on with these people, but it wasn't like there was much he could do in terms of trying to figure this stuff out. He could totally bs something, but that wasn't his style. If he was going to bs something, it'd be after it was around for a bit, not just something that spontaneously appeared out of nowhere. After Beuce congratulated the two of them for tearing apart their side in record time, he came over to bestow upon them some sort of new passive buff. Quite like Karina's power that raised his vitality, Stratos knew that Beuce did something similar to that effect. However, what it was, Stratos had legitimately no idea. He saw Karina have this massive aura erupt from her, and could actually feel the strength that was emanating from her. It was then that Beuce mocked his strength, and how he had an absolutely non-existent aura in comparison to...well anything really. He then watched as Beuce went to go do whatever his sort of costume change powers were, and then unleashed some sort of new command known as Brave Shot. It was some sort of sight to behold. The ground opened up underneath his sword and it let out and unleashed a wave of raw physical energy that vaporized just about everything it hit. Well holy shit that was some attack. Stratos admired the new found power that both Beuce and Karina had found. It seemed to be extremely destructive, and seemed to be something really special and amazing. However, Stratos then realized something. He hadn't gone into some sort of super form yet, and was most likely not going to. Not to mention what Beuce had said was true about him, in the fact that his strength was absolutely pitiful in comparison...to really a five year old. Stratos then realized just how weak he was in comparison to everyone here, and how he had to rely on their strength. While he had been able to aggro the heartless, Karina had done most of the killing and so he had to rely on her for that. When it came to Camelot, he was only able to do anything because their plan revolved around supporting him to that level. Outside of that gimmick, there wasn't much he could do. However, Stratos didn't know why he was dwelling on this. He already knew just how weak he was, though he had probably forgotten a bit somewhere along in this fight. And so, he wasn't going to dwell on that little thing anymore. Instead, he was going to have to put his brain to use here and think of what to do. He then saw a behemoth start to walk towards them, and it seemed to be gathering energy ready to strike at them all. And so he quickly looked around and saw the surveillance robot thing still flying around. Running over to it, he jumped in the air, grabbed the thing, pointed it at the heartless, and fired off a massive laser at the behemoth before it could launch its attack. After throwing the surveillance robot away, he watched at the behemoth seemed to be extremely pissed at that attack. It's two front legs suddenly turned into more like claws, and the behemoth stood up on its hind legs. Roaring to the sky, he realized just how terrifying this heartless was. It also seemed to have a name tag on him saying Larry on it. Truly this was the most terrifying foe they had fought yet. OOC: EXP Writer: 675 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3480 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 (Larry injured 266/300) Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 15/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 22/35 (Injured 3/6)
It was soon after the fact that Karina had come over that he quickly got over the, not so much shock, as it was confusion about what was going on with Kel and Beuce's outfits. Really, it seemed to be the exact same thing with them, only they seemed able to use weapons that wasn't just their fists. Granted, their weapon wasn't actually even a keyblade, more like a sword than anything else. While Stratos was entirely confused about why suddenly everyone was transforming into different forms that seemed to be giving them some massive sort of power boost. Granted, if Karina were anything to go by, it also had some sort of draw backs. For instance, she wasn't able to summon her keyblade earlier and has been relying solely on her fists thus far. Then there was the fact that she couldn't use magic either, which didn't seem to be too much a deterrent to the keyblade wielder. At the moment, though, he needed to stop fixating on such trivial things like this, because damn did his mind wander for a bit in battle. There was a behemoth that needed slaying, and as fond as he was of Kel and Beuce, there was a duo that needed showing up. Casually relaxing in his stance Stratos watched as Karina had let loose her assault of punches and new found commands from that power she received earlier. As she made her showy and cocky comment towards the two he only grinned and said, "it's true. You guys seem to be having so much trouble with these heartless that the three of us," he was referring to himself, Karina, and Aden, "couldn't help but think that you needed assistance. After all, we managed to slay two hundred and fifty heartless in such a short time frame compared to what you, and I guess everyone else already has accomplished." He shrugged as he gave a joking smile saying to the two, "but I guess not everyone can be as awesome as us." Spinning his keyblade he then looked over to the behemoth who seemed to be on its last legs. Putting his keyblade to his side, Stratos looked at the behemoth completely uninterested in it. Almost as if after fighting behemoths, any kind of them, no matter how weird weren't entirely going to be a surprise to him. Cherry blossoms rained from the sky as Stratos soon vanished and reappeared behind the heartless, keyblade outstretched. The slash from Zantetsuken was visible to the world, as a cut seemed to form in the air around the behemoth. Soon after, the creature was dead, exploding into black smoke and having its heart float into the sky. Turning back to the two sword wielding keyblade wielders, he said, "now all gloating side, let's go kick some more heartless ass. Can only go faster with all of us working on it now." With that, Stratos ran over to deal with some new heartless that he had yet to see. It looked to be some sort of weird flying drone thing. As approached it, it turned to him and started firing a barrage of small laser bolts at him. Stratos quickly put up his guard to defend against the strike, and then saw the green triangle light up on the thing again, like it had for the armored knights and morning stars. Jumping over to the thing, he then reacted again and pointed the heartless at various others. The heartless he was holding then opened up and fired off some sort of giant laser beam that tore apart the other heartless in a short instance. OOC: EXP Writer: 607 Words, 60 EXP Total: 3420 EXP Spoiler: North Side List Behemoths: 8/10 Red Nocturnes: CLEAR Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR Yellow Opera: CLEAR Green Requiem: CLEAR Shadow: CLEAR Soldier: CLEAR Large body: 15/20 Trick ghost: 28/30 Book master: CLEAR Surveillance robots: 29/35 (Injured 3/6)
