Stratos was now going up against his behemoth foe once more. While it was probably a better idea to rotate out like they had done before against the first behemoth, who was actually pretty normal compared to these past two behemoths, the simple fact remained. That fact being the angry and more depressive that Karina got, the stronger this thing became. And her fighting this thing one probably only stimulate those very two emotions even farther. So, if Stratos could actually find a way to minimize the amount of time Karina spent fighting this thing, and even more so maximize the distance between the two of them, then perhaps this thing wouldn't reach its own max power. However, that meant Stratos had to go one on one against this behemoth. Not only was he kind of incapable of fighting a behemoth by himself, but this one seemed to have satanic and/or demonic powers that were liable to end Stratos in an instant. So, what was a brotha to do? Probably stop pretending to be black first. Well, even if he couldn't have confidence in himself to end this thing on his own, he could put his confidence in Karina to be able to hurt this thing when she got the chance and keep away whenever possible. And that confidence in someone else would just have to be enough for him now. So, with some really weird Gurren Lagann type belief in himself by proxy, Stratos quickly flew over to the satanic behemoth after Karina had let loose her attacks and started to let loose the only real attack he could against the behemoth. Not turning around to notice Stratos, as it was still fixated on its fuel source, Stratos was able to attack the behemoth without it caring much. Letting loose his keyglider in the strike-esque fashion that he had been this entire time, as soon as it hit, Stratos quickly summoned his keyblade back to his hands, and then let loose a sort of air combo, striking at the horn three times with his keyblade. The creature still paid no mind to him, almost as if he were a fly going up against a lion. As Stratos continued to preform another combo, he realized there was a problem going on right now. His movements were starting to become more sluggish, almost as if they tiring out way faster than they should be. As Stratos got back on his keyglider, he swiftly flew away from the fiery demonic behemoth, and then realized what the problem really was. The behemoth's skin was as hot as hell itself, and so the surrounding heat around him mirrored the heat from the creature itself. And so now, Stratos was drenched in sweat, having been close to it for quite a bit. That's a problem. Which meant now, that Stratos couldn't stay too close to the thing for too long or else he'd basically dehydrate. So, Stratos then tried to take a more ranged approach to this kind of thing. While he hadn't learned how to do the thing that Beuce had done against Gilgamesh, aqua splash he believed was what it was called, he didn't have any sort of ranged attack against it. Then there was also the problem of not being able to rely on the blizzard spell forever as it just wouldn't really cut it for just sending one small chunk of ice at a time towards the behemoth. As Stratos continued to think of a plan, something dawned on him. Though he'd probably put this master plan of his into action next turn of his, he quickly flew back to the heartless and hit it with an air combo followed up with a vorpal blitz, only to swiftly retreat and cool himself down for the next assault. OOC: EXP Writer: 637 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1740 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 124/300
Username: Skyheart Character Name: Johnis von Hamston Age: Hell if I know Gender: A MAN Appearance: http://www.zerochan.net/1563575 Bio: A hamster who never quite fit in with the others of his kind. Being something of a weird defect amongst his species, he never quite knew why he had some sort of power far superior to the others of his race, though while he continued to journey throughout the human lands, he found out that he must have become some sort of genetic defect like some of the humans had. Noting that he had now become, what was known as a lustor, he tried to fit into lustor society, only to realize that he was completely different from them as well, and they had nothing for him but rejection. He also managed to learn about all the atrocities going on, and thus vowed to take down the corrupt government that controlled the lustors and allow for peace and equality amongst all of the species of the earth. Primary Power: The Grand Etherium Cannon. Collecting energy within himself, Johnis begins to glow while charging up the attack, and then lets loose a giant (even in human terms) linear beam of destruction from his body. This is caused by Johnis's ability to vibrate his body at unfathomably fast speeds, causing atoms to collide together in quite the similar fashion to the way a sun produces light, which causes him to glow. He then directs the vibrations to a single point of his body and then, by stopping there, the built up energy is let loose. Inherited Power: Speaking in the human tongue. Guys gotta speak somehow. -limit: His canon attack expends a good deal of energy, causing even one use to leave him fatigued. It also has a decent charge time. Weapon: His...uh...paws Starting Location: Lustor District. Other: He recharges his stamina fast with sunflower seeds. Theme: STAND PROUD
Stratos was now standing back from the behemoth as he started to cool down. The heat from the behemoth managed to make him start sweating a good deal, and so he had to start fanning himself for a bit as he watched Karina charge straight forward towards the satanic behemoth in something he could only describe as a somewhat suicidal looking charge. Sure enough, as she approached the behemoth the flames around it started to increase, and the intensity of the heat was traveling its way all the way over to the slightly distanced Stratos. However, as soon as she had finished her attack combination, Stratos felt the heat start to dissipate a tad as Karina retreated away from the satanic behemoth, however the flames didn't seem to die down as far as they had last time. Well, that was a bit of a problem, but nevertheless Stratos and his slightly burnt feet weren't going to falter towards this titanic satanic foe. It also helped that Karina cast cure on him, making his feet not feel like they were constantly on fire. With new found vigor, Stratos jumped onto his keyglider and fired off straight towards the behemoth, ready to hit it with any and all attacks he could. However, the behemoth seemed to have different ideas. While its focus was still focused on Karina, his supposed fuel source of despair and other such things, it seemed to now at least register Stratos as some sort of a threat. And so, it immediately reacted to the keyblade wielder approaching him. It started its sort of counter offensive against the keyblade wielder by charging up some sort of energy of the damned in its horn. It then followed this up by firing various heat death rays in Stratos's general direction, but the keyblade wielder was able to outmaneuver these attacks, bobbing and weaving through the air. While the death rays hadn't managed to actually hit him, he still had felt the heat of the beams as they had passed him. As such, the keyblade wielder continued to persperate the closer he got to the behemoth, and realized that he had pretty limited time to do any sort of attacks at this point. Stratos then launched his keyglider out from under his feet and hit the horn of the behemoth directly. After that was accomplished, Stratos quickly warped his keyglider back to under his feet, and started flying around the thing again. As he passed the satanic behemoth and ended up in front of it, the behemoth proceeded to open its maw and seemed to be generating some sort of orb of flame within its mouth. Wait a second. Did this thing know magic? The behemoth seemed to swallow the flame orb and then started to spew fire ball after fire ball at the flying keyblade wielder. This spell seemed to be a way more powerful version of the fire spell he had seen thus far. In fact, if he had to classify it based on the spell tiers he had read about here, he would classify it under the -ga level of spells. Raising his keyglider up, he blocked the firaga spell that seemed to home in on him, with them exploding on impact. Hurtling back a bit, Stratos then summoned the blade back to his hand, and quickly tried to initiate Vorpal blitz, completely stopping all momentum he had. The attack then basically made him be magnetically pulled to the horn of the behemoth, and after hitting it with the three hit combo of that command, he then finished off his attack string with a blizzard spell, only to retreat far away from the behemoth. OOC: EXP Writer: 615 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1710 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 163/300
Stratos was busy nursing his feet to do anything while Karina went to do her thing. It totally wasn't because they were in completely separate posts and thus the actual combination attacks between them would be limited. Totally not that. However, it was totally alright as the satanic behemoth seemed to be completely focused on Karina rather than him. Man, this was a first. Something he was totally alright with for the moment. However, Karina still seemed to be paralyzed in fear for a bit, before she was actually able to get to work and start fighting the thing. As she got closer the heat from the satanic behemoth seemed to be growing hotter, almost as if- no. No way that was what was happening. As she managed to beat it down with her various attacks, she then yelled out to Stratos telling him something that he could only face palm at. The behemoth. Fed. Off of. Her. Misery. What...Stratos couldn't help but feel that that was one of the most ridiculous things he'd heard in awhile, though thinking back on this fight this didn't actually seem to be quite out the realm of possibility. After all, there was zip slasher that seemed to be some sort of honorable knight thing, and then there was derpy the derpmoth; the only heartless he knew of that could move at basically mach speeds. Regardless, Karina's theory seemed to be somewhat backed by the fact that the heat got less intense as she flew away on her keyglider, and it gave Stratos a bit of time to attack the satanic behemoth. Getting on his keyglider, he flew straight away at it, and quickly did his strike raid-esque attack, landing a direct hit on the horn. However, the attack seemed to be so pitiful that the behemoth kept its course onward to Karina, and acted as if the hit had never happened in the first place. Warping his keyglider back to him, underneath his feet, Stratos then quickly jetted off and flew straight at the behemoth once more. He needed to think of a way to get its attention so that it would totally aggro off of her and thus make him, theoretically, weaker. However, this was easier said than done, as he couldn't think of anything he could do right off the bat that would make this heartless turn its attention towards him. He then thought of trying to use Trip Around the Sun on it, however that seemed like it could end horribly. After all, he had know idea what the effects throwing a sun on the thing that seemed to be able to spew heat death rays at will would have. So instead, he kept to trying to do damage from an element he figured the thing was weak to. Flying towards the horn, Stratos quickly jumped off once there. Warping his keyblade to his hand, he continued to unleash an air combo, one that mattered little to this behemoth. He then let loose a vorpal blitz on its horn, allowing the ice element power of it to go and do, theoretically, bonus damage. Once that was over and done with, he went to attack it with another air combo only to then finish it off by casting blizzard on its horn. With that mass combination of attacks hitting the satanic behemoth all at once, he figured that he had done quite the good job in dealing the max amount of damage he could in a single post. However, the behemoth seemed displeased with his attacks, and while it still didn't really bother with him to much, from its horn it seemed to be gathering energy. The horn then let loose a few heat death beams directed towards Stratos, who could only get on his keyglider and then use that as a wall to block against the attacks. While he got out of that fine, he still felt quite heated, and was starting to sweat a good deal from having been so close to the thing for so long. OOC: EXP Writer: 679 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1680 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 202/300
Stratos realized that they had to get rid of this terrifying foe as fast as possible, and so he tried to get himself out of the book case as fast as he possibly could. However, there was a bit of a problem with that. Sure, he had been kicked around by a behemoth before, but none of that could quite compare to what he had just faced. Stratos had Aero on at the moment and he managed to guard against the strike perfectly. However, his arms felt terrible from that impact, and he had the feeling if not for the fact that it was unbreakable, the keyblade would have snapped like a twig under that pressure. So now, he knew just what kind of foe this satanic behemoth was like. Ridiculously strong. Not to mention it seemed to have magic powers that consisted of flaming circles forming around its feet after every step it took. Looking onward he also saw that it seemed to have magical heat death rays that it could fire. What actually were the behemoth heartless and why did they have some sort of special powers that seemed to defy all logic. Also, why was their this weird thought that Free Willy Cat and Satan were the same heartless. That made literally no sense and so he cast it aside almost immediately after thinking of it. Anyway, Stratos had to shakily pick himself up, his body still feeling wrecked from that head on blow he had taken. If he hadn't guarded then there probably still wouldn't be a Stratos. He then cast cure on himself to take away any damage done to him, and then tried to think of the fastest way that he could re-enter the fight. There was only one thing that he could think of that could close the gap between the two of them in a second. Even less than that really. He quickly brought his keyblade to his side, making a sort of Iaido stance that was becoming all too familiar to him. With it, time seemed to stand still, and cherry blossoms continued to fall from the...roof? Anyway, Stratos then closed his eyes, only to feel a sort of rush around him. Almost as if space was moving around him rather than him moving through it. When he reopened his eyes, he was now on top of the demonic behemoth, with a large cut through the fabric of space time seemingly having formed on the horn of the behemoth. Both the attack and the movement plan were successful. However, something still felt off about the whole thing. And by off, Stratos meant that his feet felt like they were on fire. When he looked down he noticed that his shoes were indeed, on fire. Well that was a problem. Stratos had one of those moments where you grab a hot pan out of the oven with your bare hands, but it still takes you a few seconds to realize just how hot it actually is. When he realized how hot the thing's back was, he started moving like he was walking on hot coals, and quickly jumped off the behemoth, quickly casting blizzard on his feet. With an instant relief of cool, Stratos had some quick flashbacks to after the fight with Nequa where his hoody went on fire. Man, now he didn't have a hoody to catch fire any more. Well that was going to have to rectified as soon as he got to the next tailor. Stratos then quickly cast another blizzard, hitting the fiery demon heartless before his turn here ended. He had no idea where he was continuing to get this MP from, but for now it seemed as if it was limitless. OOC: EXP Writer: 627 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1650 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 241/300
Stratos now realized that the only thing he had left to deal with was just a couple of assault riders. After that, they'd be completely and totally finished with the large group he had somehow managed to aggro and survive. It had been a long journey, one that he wasn't entirely sure how he'd gotten this far. But nevertheless, he wasn't going to falter here. The heartless of the shadow isles would fall to his keyblade or his name wasn't- okay, never mind. They would instead, just fall to Karina's keyblade instead. Well it's a good thing he didn't finish that thought. As she cleaved through the heartless left and right, all two of them, it was then that he was able to have the first real breather he had had in awhile. Man, he had been doing nothing but running, flying, and getting smacked all over the place during this fight. In fact, he started to realize how sore and tired he had gotten from the fight. After all, he hadn't done any sort of healing during that last one hundred bp of Derpy the Derpmoth. He also had neglected to do any sort of support work for Karina during this entire time, though, he had been a bit aggro drawing for that. It was still nice to see her get her spirit back, though she still seemed completely off her game. Actually, when he took a glance at her now bare arms he noticed they seemed to be a bit cut up and she had probably gotten hurt during this fight worse than he thought. The young keyblade wielder quickly cast cure on both himself and her, and then continued up by casting Aero on the both of them to renew both of the wind barriers. He had no idea how he had accumulated that much MP, but at times like these it's better not to question the small details. Turning to his partner, he said to her, "alright so now that we got rid of these small guys, how about we go after the monkey heartless nex- what the hell?" Stratos's thought process was interrupted by the rumbling of the ground. Wondering where these small tremors were coming from, and turned around to find its source. "Holy shi-" was all he could say at the face of his new foe. It was a behemoth unlike any other he had seen before...all two of them...that were both pretty unique anyway. Regardless, this one gave off a way more chilling and unsettling aura than that weird purple limit could ever hope to. In fact, the thing even left a fire trail. Realizing it was the first behemoth to be more pissed at Karina than him, Stratos felt a small sense of relief when he figured that this behemoth wasn't actually gunning to kill him just yet. However, that was a passing thought as he realized that with Karina in the state she was in, and the behemoth being basically the devil itself, it would easily kill her. So, quickly discarding the plan to slowly pick at behemoths the way they had done for the first one, he jumped into the scene, action hero style. This would end in only one way. However that wouldn't stop this boy in the slightest. He quickly jumped at the behemoth and let out a flurry of air combos, following up with his Vorpal Blitz. While the behemoth seemed relatively unfazed by the weak guardian's regular strikes, it didn't seem to enjoy the ice element from the command. After dealing all the damage he could must out in one set of air time, the behemoth then decided to counter with a strike of its own. Igniting its horns, it quickly reeled back its head, only to go into a bucking motion. Stratos had seen this attack coming, though, and managed to guard before the hit connected. However, it was a stupidly strong attack. Being sent flying from the sheer impact of the attack, Stratos then flew into a book case (that seemed to already have some damage in it,) Stratos realized what kind of a terrifying monster he was now facing off against. OOC: EXP Writer: 702 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1620 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 15/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Satan: 280/300
Stratos was now ready and willing to take on any and all of the remaining assault riders. He would have to really, as they were basically all mobbed up on him now. After all, it wasn't like he had started running away from them as soon as he had tried to impale them with his keyglider. No. In fact, he was still standing there as they tried to completely destroy him by simply charging at him with their various lances and just overall body slamming antics. When the assault riders did finally get to his position though, he swiftly dodge rolled out of the way and managed to avoid their charge altogether. Well that was pretty easy. They then turned around and started to stab forward at Stratos once more. Okay, this probably wouldn't be easy. He started to run away from the assault riders, only to know that there was absolutely no way he was going to be able to outrun them. And so, when they had caught up once more, he swiftly stopped and dodge rolled backward, avoiding the charges again. Man, for a guy with a pretty bad speed stat, Stratos was quite nimble here. It was then that the heartless were able to turn around swiftly as well and came to charge back at the keyblade wielder, who was now defenseless. Well this was bad. It was then that he remembered something stupid obvious. Summoning back his keyblade back to his hand, he brought it up to do a high block as one of the three assault riders brought its lance down on him. Parrying the lance back, Stratos quickly dodge rolled backward as the next of the assault riders came over to him and tried to sweep at him, to knock his legs out from under him. Stratos then put his keyblade in a guard stance to his side as the final one came over to stab straight at him to impale him on its spear. It was then that Stratos swiftly pivoted around to face said assault rider and then initiated a ground combo against it. Now, Stratos was nowhere close to this thing, however, combos worked in a rather finicky way. You see, as he was still locked onto the heartless, he was able to like pull himself through time and space and then whacked that one with his keyblade. He then preformed his four hits and then quickly dodge rolled away from one of them that had come at him and tried to impale him on its spear. He then jumped at one of them and quickly kicked off of it to go it another heartless with his keyblade again. He then followed up by striking at the heartless with his air combo and followed it up with a vorpal blitz. After hitting the heartless, he kicked off of it and then continued to be super fancy. He quickly went to attack one of the heartless with another ground combo and dodged as the assault rider came over to spin its lance at him. It was then that Stratos blocked and parried away the windmill thing. He then stopped time...sort of. It just appeared like time was frozen to him. Going into his Iaido stance, cherry blossoms falling from the sky. He then warp dashed through one of the assault riders, cleaving it and the air around it in two. With it looking as though there were a rupture in the fabric of space time, the assault rider's top half slid off of its other half, and then it exploded into a dark poof of smoke. Stratos then hopped on a keyglider and then flew away to lead them on once more. OOC: EXP Writer: 621 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1590 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 10/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: 3-Assault Rider 10/15 4-Assault Rider 9/15
With no more Derpy the Derpmoth, Stratos no longer just had to draw the aggro of these assault rider. No longer did he have to just have cart them around and wait for the inevitable. No longer was he to simply get kicked round all over the place. Yes, now he finally was able to fight against these assault riders. No longer was there the behemoth heartless that could move at mach speeds and basically appear from nowhere. And so, Stratos took this opportunity to...continue aggro the heartless anyway. I mean, that was still the plan he created anyway. Not to mention there was Karina he had to deal with at the moment. As things stood, she was an emotional wreck who seemed to be completely and totally out of it. It was like she didn't want to do this fight anymore, and while he could totally understand the monotony of the fight getting to someone, he couldn't get why she was constantly acting like she was completely drained of energy. And it wasn't like he was some sort of psychologist that could just fix her mental and emotional problems. No siree. So the only thing he could do now to support his teammate was get the pressure off of her. And so, that's exactly what he did. While Karina was first able to kill an assault rider, she was completely sloppy about the whole thing and so he worked his aggro magic fast. Flying around on his keyglider, he clapped his hands, and cast another spell that he hadn't used in quite some time. Creating eight mines around the entirety of the enemies. The hecarim heartless being what they were, charged forward and detonated all the mines almost instantly. While it did hurt them a bit, the real purpose behind them had been realized. Looking to the caster of the spell, the assault riders started charging after Stratos, who was now flying away from them. The centaur heartless continued to gallop onward and did nothing but devote all of their movement to keeping up with the keyglider. While they would never actually catch up with him if he were truly running away, Stratos started to slow down the glider, and then waited as the assault riders finally converged on him and started spearing at him. With two of them stabbing at him, Stratos simply jumped off of his keyglider and avoided the attacks that way. Summoning his keyblade back to his hands and mid air guarded as the spears of the assault riders came down, trying to slice through him. As he block the strike from the assault riders, he was sent backward through the air, only to land on his feet. How did he get this nimble. Alright, now that they were here, it was time to get rid of one of these assault riders. He then realized how these four were the last four of the assault riders, and then suddenly became even more motivated then before to go and kill one of these things. He started running at the assault riders, only for them to start all spinning their spears in a windmill sort of way at once. It was as if they were trying to create a wall of death to deter him from coming forth and beating them down, however Stratos cared not at all. Deciding that any thing he could do on his feet would be useless, he quickly summoned his keyglider under his feet, and then launched it at one of the assault riders. They were completely surprised by this attack and then were quickly dispersed as one of them had gotten impaled. One down, three more to go. OOC: EXP Writer: 618 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1560 Words Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 10/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: 2-Assault Rider 10/15 3-Assault Rider 12/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15
Alright, now was definitely and without a doubt, the final battle between Stratos and Derpy the Derpmoth. The fight that had been going on for some stupidly long number of posts was to finally reach its conclusion in this post. And thankfully, Karina did not come in to steal his kill against this terrifying foe. He internally thanked her for allowing him to face this behemoth heartless, such a powerful opponent, all on his own. And it would be with his own keyblade and hands that he will have slain the beast with. Getting on his keyglider, he started to fly around and aggro the remaining assault riders onto him. In order to reach this end, he flew straight at one of them and quickly bobbed over it, allowing the assault rider just to get annoyed at him. With that done, it started charging after him, and used his ultimate to have his fellow spectral ride- er, Assault Riders, behind him. With that part of the mission accomplished the only thing left to do was hold their aggro for long enough. It was then that one of the riders tried to swing their spear at him, trying to cleave him in two no doubt, only for him to go and swerve out of the way, completely avoiding the strike. The air was now tense. Stratos had no idea when or where Derpy the Derpmoth would appear from. All he knew, is that it would happen, and when it did, Stratos would be kicked at once more. Trying to rely on some sort of sixth sense, to feel when the behemoth would attack him rather than see or hear it. Ultimately, Stratos was deemed stupid as he didn't actually have some sort of sixth sense like this, and was just sort of kicked off his glider while he was trying to find out where the behemoth was. Flying through the air, Stratos quickly summoned his keyblade and used it to guard against any sort of attack that would come from behind. Thankfully he had predicted correctly this time, and had managed to successfully guard against the kick. Granted, it was still a kick and ultimately, it would've forced Stratos hit the ground at break neck speeds. However, it was all over at this point. Stratos knew where the behemoth was, and so he could initiate his final attack. As if time stood still, Stratos's body locked in place, discarding any momentum he might have had. With cherry blossoms falling from the sky, Stratos had his eyes deadlocked on the now frozen behemoth. With this, it would be the end. Essentially warp dashing, Stratos ended up on the other side of the behemoth, with his keyblade outstretched. It was then that a giant diagonal line formed in the sky, as if the air itself was split in two. Once that had happened, the behemoth had split alongside that line, half of its body sliding down the other half. As the two halves began to separate from each other, it soon exploded into darkness, with a giant heart floating to the sky until it had finally died. With that, the heartless known as Derpy the Derpmoth had been ended...And Stratos still had fourteen BP left to spend to bring down whatever he darn well pleased. Turning around, his attention to the assault riders he had been aggroing this entire time, it was finally time to end them as well. With the entire horde of hecarim heartless charging towards him, Stratos simply ended one rather quickly by throwing a mini sun at it, causing a singular assault rider to be completely vaporized and some others to be damaged ever so slightly. With that, Stratos took off once more, to avoid getting killed by them now. OOC: EXP Writer: 632 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1530 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 2/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 10/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 15/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 14/15
Stratos was now on his way to finishing off the fabled behemoth, Derpy the Derpmoth. This battle had gone on for a long enough time, but now, it was time to end it. And so, Stratos had begun to get back on his keyglider and fly around once more, in order to draw out the attention of his long standing rival. The behemoth was quite the foe, however Stratos knew he had him on the ropes and was in no way going to lose out to it now. Flying off on his keyglider he went to go lure out his foe into what would most likely be there final exchange. He soon ended up near all of the assault riders and simply started to spin around on his keyglider in an attempt to annoy them. To further get in his taunting action, he then flew straight at one, but then did an almost ninety degree turn as he managed to boost away and successfully avoid the attack of said assault rider. Then, when that wasn't enough, he ended up flying right above them, and started to descend in front of them, so they would get even more annoyed at him than they already were. With this, Stratos had successfully drawn their aggro once more. Flying around a bit, Stratos now had to continually dodge each and every strike from the assault riders that were coming at him. The first few in the front had tried impaling him on their spears by stabbing forward, while they had missed because Stratos managed to speed up in time. Managing to avoid those, the next set of assault riders seemed to want a piece of him, however, Stratos knew at this point what was going to happen. Getting into a comfortable zone, he knew that the behemoth was about to kick at him. However, he couldn't predict it fast enough. Coming out almost like it was lightning bolt, Stratos was sent sailing through the air as a kick from seemingly nowhere connected with his keyglider. Warping the glider under his feet, Stratos then felt a certain familiar sensation. As the purple light from the demonic limit had activated once more, Stratos was worried as to what could happen to him, only to realize it was the best thing that could have happened. It was at that point, the light had fully enveloped him, that it had appeared as if time itself was slowing down. Being able to move at super sonic speeds now, Stratos shot off on keyglider as he zipped through the room. Even though he was moving this fast, finding Derpy seemed to prove difficult. He then noticed a purple blur streak across his vision, only to note that it was now coming at him from behind. Jumping upward, Stratos had managed to avoid this impossibly fast kick, as he warped the glider back under himself again. It would appear that even under this sort of boost, this behemoth was still stupidly fast. While it was moving all across the ground, Stratos could barely keep track of it. At this point it was moving so fast that he couldn't only tell it was the behemoth by the amalgamation of colors that was its body, as it appeared as nothing more than a blur now. Jetting straight at the thing, it soon turned around, and seemed ready to kick him once more. Once it had done so, Stratos jumped off his keyglider, casting a fire from each of his hands as he went straight at the thing. When the attacks had connected, they exploded across the horn, and Stratos could tell he had done massive damage to the thing. Now all that was left to finish it off and- wait a second. IT STILL HAS 3 BP LEFT?! WHAT! Son of a-, well Stratos now had to wait to kill it next post, as the effects of I'm Late dwindled off of him. OOC: EXP Writer: 660 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1500 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 9/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 3/300 1-Assault Rider 11/15 2-Assault Rider 15/15 3-Assault Rider 15/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15
Stratos was continuing to fly around on his keyglider, only now, aggroing the assault riders wasn't even a priority of his in the slightest. Derpy the Derpmoth, the one single heartless that had become his mortal enemy, was all that he could concentrate on now. The two of them had been going back and forth for quite some time, but now, the end game was nearing for their long and drawn out duel. Stratos need only post thrice more, and Derpy himself would be no longer one with this world. He had managed to take it on, with a little help from Karina, but for the most part he had done the grand majority of damage to this thing. It was almost as if they now had some sort of weird battle connection, where either Derpy killed Stratos or the opposite happened. While that was an obvious thing regardless of any weird anime ass cliches, this went deeper then just primal instinct to kill each other out of defense. Regardless, the behemoth was starting to become one large force to be reckoned with. While it still never moved its body in the slightest, as if it only had one frame in all of its non attack animations, and sure it only had one attack in total, but it was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with. The behemoth's kicks were starting to come out at a more rapid fire rate, and there was barely anything he could do to keep up with the attack. If he saw the shadow cast over him, then he would have already known that it was too late, and that the behemoth would have already found its opening on the young keyblade wielder. There was nothing he could do to guard against the attack once he saw it coming now, for it would simply hit him too quickly and would then allow Derpy to attack him in his confusion once more. So Stratos had begun analyzing its attack patterns. When and where it struck at him from. Why was another good question that needed an answer, and it was one that he had figured out awhile ago. Derpy only ever seemed to attack him whenever he felt completely safe from all the other heartless. Almost as if it could sense that, and simply wanted to cause him more trouble than was actually necessary. And so, Stratos had decided to use that knowledge to his advantage. He quickly flew down to deal draw the aggro from the assault riders, only to get at a comfortable pace and distance away from that. And so, it was at that moment, that Stratos had figured out just what the heartless was going to do next. While he had no idea where the attack was coming from, he knew it was coming. And so Stratos had preformed a high jump into the air, avoiding a foot that came straight out of left field and kicked away his keyglider. Turning to face his nemesis, Derpy the Derpmoth, the two locked eyes for a brief moment...or at least whatever Derpy's variation on that was. And so he went in to attack the behemoth with his bare hands. No seriously, Stratos did an air combo with his bare hands, just so he could chain that together with summoning his keyblade to his hand, and attacking it with another air combo. Stratos then chained a vorpal blitz into this string, which he then chained another air combo onto. Gaining more and more MP from this onslaught on the behemoth, Stratos then cast blizzard from his keyblade, send a chunk of ice shattering against the behemoth's horn and thus ending Stratos's fight with it for the time being. OOC: EXP Writer: 623 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1470 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 9/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 20/300 1-Assault Rider 11/15 2-Assault Rider 15/15 3-Assault Rider 15/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15
As Lucia had managed to bring herself back up, she continued walking through the halls on her way to...wherever it was she was going. School stuff was to be done though, and so she would go do it. However, the flier that she had read was more or less the only thing really on her mind. And so, she was more curious to learn about this person who was apparently spreading lies and was most likely some sort of ax crazy psychopath. She shivered at the thought, even though that was probably taking it a bit too far. She was then snapped out of her thoughts as one of her fellow classmates passed by and quickly told her to follow. While at first she was confused, she was taken even more a back when another classmate walked up to her and asked if she could come along. While she had no idea what the other girl actually wanted with her, at all, she cheerily replied with a smile saying, "sure thing!" She mentally face palmed at how dumb she sounded, but whatever, there would be many a good time to work on her professionalism later. Turning back to the girl who told her to follow her, Lucia then walked to her, still confused, she asked, "so-uh- Miss. Did you need me for anything?"
Stratos was now flying through the air again, doing his sort of aggro thing. At this point, the assault riders were basically going to get destroyed, it was just a matter of time. This sort of stalling was something he was completely use too at this point, and seemed to be getting easier. Wait, that wasn't a good thing in the slightest. It meant he was getting too used to this fighting. Stratos came to a realization that this whole fighting thing was actually starting to become boring. The original rush of feelings he had at the start of this whole endeavor was fading. While he thought that fighting, at first, could probably be some kind of fun, any sort of blood knight tendency he was gaining was now gone as he had been at this for nearly fifty posts and no sort of progress was made yet. They weren't even half done for all the work they had put in yet. And they were the farthest along out of group as well. Like, what the hell was even doing right now. Not to mention Aden and Base weren't moving at all. Ah well, he still had to fight because if he didn't then they would literally never be done and, more importantly, he'd die. That'd be pretty bad. Snapping himself out of that sort of random thought process, he continued flying around and nearly crashed into an assault rider. Nearly. If these battles were getting boring, than he needed to do something to make them exciting. With that, he had managed to aggro the assault rider horde back onto him, and kept his pace at a slow one as to allow the heartless to not loose interest in him. Also, they would completely cut loose and just run full speed at him otherwise, and that would be bad for Karina, who needed to kill them. Granted, she seemed to start using her keyglider to keep at this pace, making it easier for her to kill them anyway, but hey he was still being considerate regardless. Also, despite doing that, she seemed to jump into the mop and just take all the hits, forsaking guarding, which was a tad bit of a problem. Once he got enough MP back, he'd be sure to cast cure on her again, to make sure she didn't get herself killed. However, the assault riders definitely wanted him dead now, striking at them with their spears every which way, trying to impale him on their spears as they brought the message of the Shadow Isles with them. However, he had managed to avoid them, only to know what would come before it even happened. Almost as if he had developed some sort of sixth sense for this sort of thing. Managing to high jump before the shadow even cast on top of him, Stratos managed to avoid a kick from Derpy the Derpmoth, who was now kicking faster than ever before. The foul beast seemed ready to give it its all against the opponent it had been kicking along like a soccer ball thus far. Noting that he hadn't even seen it yet, he knew that Derpy could be anywhere, and simply brought up his keyblade to his back to block against any oncoming strike from behind, and managed to take a kick to the keyblade. He quickly turned around, albeit sailing through the air now, and managed to see his foe, staring there. Summoning his keyblade pack, Stratos quickly ignited the tip and his body stopped its natural movement as cherry blossoms began to fall. Combining both Zantetsuken and trip around the sun all at once. Granted, it did no extra damage, it just looked cool. OOC: EXP Writer: 622 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1440 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 7/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 37/300 1-Assault Rider 5/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15
Stratos was now going back to his usually scheduled heartless antics. The antics of him going and just embracing his inner keep the balance of the world ninja, and taunting all the heartless, and then, subsequently, tanking any and all damage that came his way. While he didn't really understand how that fit a ninja, that didn't stop him from doing exactly just that. Soaring into the mob of heartless, basically only assault riders at this point, he started to bob and weave his way through all of them, avoiding any all strikes and stabs that would come toward him. Having done that, all the heartless were now successfully aggroed onto him and he could lead them any which direction he so chose to do it in. However, he had to still keep in mind that Karina was still following him behind and still had to keep up with the Hecarim heartless. As such, he didn't try to jet away from them, and although the armored knights had all been killed, he still felt the need to slow down. After all, if the assault riders were more focused on killing him rather than chasing him than they'd be moving way slower, right? And so, as he decelerated on his keyglider, the assault riders managed to start catching up with him, and started to launch out their various attacks at him. The first to keep pace with him started by stabbing forward with its spearberd, followed up with the second one jumping at him. He managed to dodge both attacks by simply shifting his weight to the side, causing the keyglider to swiftly move horizontally, and avoiding the attacks altogether. With that done, since one had missed with its jump attack, it was now left vulnerable for a short period of time as it had restart up its charge after just landing. However, he couldn't pay attention to that one at the moment as he still had an entire horde still behind him. With a few more trying to catch up to him, Stratos suddenly turned the keyglider and started moving in almost a circular motion. This would be the ideal way to keep their attention, most likely. Furthermore, it helped him dodge any and all attacks that would come his way. This was showcased when a few assault riders tried to sweep their large spearberds at him, only to miss due to the constant turning motion that Stratos had. While all had seemed fair and well, alas, it twas not meant to last. For you see, whenever there is a man who would try and leave the heartless group and simply try to run from them, there will always be one who sends them back into the action. One who sees nothing, but visualizes everything. One who's body does not move, and yet he is the fastest being to exist. One who has not practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but instead, has practiced one kick ten thousand times. This being was known only as, Derpy the Derpmoth. For he had appeared, and he had sought out to fulfill his grand purpose. Towering over Stratos, the behemoth then reared back its leg. While the young keyblade wielder had faced this many a time prior, he had not seen the move be preformed as fast as it had this time. No. The attack came and connected with Stratos, sending the young boy flying across the room, only to appear next to his airborne body, and come back to kick him once more. Stratos thought fast to save himself, however, and charged up a quick mini sun, throwing it straight at the behemoth and having it explode immediately, damaging the behemoth and pushing the boy away from the creature. Shit was getting real. OOC: EXP Writer: 632 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1410 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 54/300 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15
Stratos was continuing to draw aggro to himself, waiting for Karina to snap out of her funk of depression, and had managed to do quite...difficultly actually. The fact that that armored knight was there and screwed over the entire tempo of the whole aggro drawing thing, and so he had to keep constantly fluctuating his speed. The assault riders were being a big pain in ass too. One kept trying to hurl its body at him in an attempt to just beat him down, and others were just stabbing with their spears all over the place. Some of them were more directed at the air then they were him, so he had no idea what was up with that, but he'd worry about that in due time. For now, he was just constantly swerving around like a drunk man, avoiding all kinds of attacks until he had started steadily increase his speed. It was more on reflex than anything, but this started to put distance between him and the assault riders, thus making it harder to draw away the aggro of the armored knight. God this job was annoying. Starting to decelerate he then noticed something that would make this go by way faster. Karina had managed to psyche herself back into this fight. Miracles do exist. Granted, she was sort of waddling into the battle, as though she had about three elephants strapped to her back, and seemed pretty not so thrilled to keep at the fighting. Despite this, she seemed to actually be attacking the heartless no matter how halfheartedly, and managed to kill not only an assault rider, but also that last armored knight. Really that was the biggest boon out of all the heartless that had been killed thus far, and so he was now able to keep aggro from a safe distance rather than simply nearly get himself killed each time. It was then that he saw Derpy warp into the picture again, and kick Karina across the room. When she had recovered from the blow, she flew over to him and the two started leading on the heartless mob, waiting for the inevitable to happen. The shadow was cast, and Stratos had recieved a direct kick from Derpy the Derpmoth, sending him flying away, though allowing Karina to take this opportunity to attack him. When she had finished, he managed to recover from the attack and flew off towards the heartless mob again. So anyway, the obvious was going to happen again, and boy did it. The shadow cast over him once more, and Stratos knew what was to follow. Lifting his keyglider in front of the foot, he managed to block against the strike from the foot, and was sent skidding across the room on his glider. He then noticed that Derpy the Derpmoth was to his side now, and so he quickly warped his keyblade back to his hand, and then started to make cherry blossoms fall from the sky. Before the foot could make contact, he simply went in and hit the heartless with just about everything he had, combining blizzard magic into the strike, to create some weird Blizzard Zantetsuken attack, slicing at the horn of Derpy. Well that was good and done with. Stratos was about to start his flight again, when he noticed something rather eye catching. He watched as Karina's ass was set on fire and didn't really do much because damn she had hot ass. It's a shame she was a bit of moody chronic depressive, otherwise she'd be quite the attractive female. Turning his attention away soon after, he simply cast cure on her, probably cause her rump needed it, and then flew off to the mob of heartless once more. OOC: EXP Writer: 627 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1380 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 55/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 71/300 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 14/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15
So, Stratos briefly lost all motivation to fight. Just briefly. For a moment while he was flying he questioned what the point of it all was. After all, he was fighting so hard and doing so much work but for whatever logical reason, people who were doing jack shit would gain just as much experience as him. Now where was the justice in that? Oh well. He quickly got over this, and started flying around the battlefield once more. This time, his aim was to keep the heartless on his tail for as long as possible and wait for Karina to work with through this depression she was going through herself. After all, there was no way he could try to offer another helping hand to her after he basically told her everything already that would possibly keep her out of this state. Especially since there was no way he could do that while defending her from all these heartless that were chasing him. So he just had the objective of keeping them away from her until he could find a way to kill her. And so, he started flying around all over the place, taunting the heartless as he went to get their attention on him. With that, his grand plan of "Save Karina from her own depression" plan had started. The remaining armored knight was actually the only problem of the group because it moved far slower than all of the other members of the group. So he had to keep a decent speed that would be able to keep that heartless interested in him, but at the same time have the assault riders not catch up to him and totally kill him. There was another ever pressing issue, but he wouldn't worry about that big galute just yet. However, he was still having problems regulating his speed, as the assault riders were completely in range of him, thrusting their spears at him every which way and slashing forward. Hell, they were basically just Hecarim at this point, and they were going fast. It was then that out of the corner of his eye, he saw the familiar form of his heartless mortal enemy standing there. While he knew what was coming next, and he knew how to avoid it, he was totally going to take the hit. Bringing the keyglider up, he defended against the strike using it to guard, and he was sent flying away from the group of heartless. This came as a slight boon to him, as it kept the heartless pressure off of him, as the hit sent him far away from them. He then high jumped to avoid a kick that came from behind him. He had been fighting Derpy the Derpmoth for far too long to be surprised by any of its regular tricks anymore. Turning around, he saw the blank stare in its eyes, and felt the urge to lay waste to his foe. It was some sort of mutual understanding between the two now, that one of them needed to die, and that each other were the only opponents worthy of doing the other in. Or ya know, Karina if he kill stole or something, but still. Stratos unleashed a quick Vorpal Bltiz on the heartless, and then followed it up with an air combo. After having hit the heartless, he got on his keyglider flying away back to the group of heartless. Once he was sent far and away from them, he knew that the group would turn their attention to the broken keyblade wielder. And so, he flew straight at them, and before they could attack her, he attacked the one armored knight with his strike raid-esque attack, and then crashed into an assault rider. He then quickly got back on his keyglider and flew away from the scene, drawing the mob away from Karina. He then cast cure on Karina again, even though he had just done that and he knew that she had yet to do anything after he healed her the first time. So, there was just next to no point for it this time. Or was there? OOC: EXP Writer: 695 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1350 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 54/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 95/300 1-Armored Knight 3/5 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 14/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15 10-Assault Rider 15/15
Okay, so Stratos was now flying through the air once more, trying to aggro more and more heartless. And by aggro more heartless he meant deal with the ones that were already aggroed onto him. Dealing with them first was going to be the thing that was next on his agenda. That and the heartless behemoth that was just moving at hyper sonic speed and kicking both him, and now Karina as well, around the entire room. Like, what actually was this thing? What kind of behemoth was it that it was able to move at speeds so fast that he could only perceive it when he was under the affects of the weird purple satanic limit light and only when it allowed him to move at speeds that could not be matched. Regardless, he still flew on his keyglider straight to the other heartless and then immediately stopped right in front of the group, coming to a hard break, skidding across the ground. He then quickly swiveled back and fired off his thruster, boosting away from the group. It was then that he saw something Karina do something really strange. She basically exploded into a golden flame like thing and her hair just became gold and what the hell was even going on? It was then that she ripped an armored knight heartless in half or crushed it skull in or something, and then suddenly broke into another god damn depression emotional breakdown thing. Like, he didn't even understand why she was depressed this time. It just came out of nowhere...wait it came out of nowhere again. Jeez, what was this girl's problem? It was then that she just gave up fighting altogether and was about to be killed by literally all the heartless that should have been following him. He also had not enough time to go in and save her, neither the bp to kill all the heartless. As she was about to get the final blow delivered to her, it was then that a giant eagle, the same one that had been saving her this entire time. Granted this was the first time it was completely her fault, but hey, no one is perfect. As the bird saved her, he was then greeted with the foot of his fated rival. Not the Zip Slasher, no. It was Derpy the Derpmoth. The behemoth had appeared out of left field, out of the blue, whatever you want to say, had appeared and kicked at him once more. He then used his keyglider to guard against the kick, only to be sent sailing through the air once more. Stabilizing himself, he had the shadow cast over him once more, and him to instictively jump off his keyglider. As he flipped over the kick that came at him, he then recalled his keyblade and started up and air combo as he was now next to him and smacked his horn around with his keyblade until he then shifted into a ground combo, as he had now landed on its back. After having done that, he then went to attack it once more, with another air combo having fallen off its back, then shifted into vorpal blitz and then continued with another air combo followed up with the finishing touches. Cherry blossoms then rained from the sky, only for Stratos disappear from sight and cleave through the behemoth's horn. After doing that, the behemoth disappeared and he was now facing down the entire horde of heartless himself. Ah well, somethings are never easy. Wordlessly casting cure and aero on Karina again, he then jetted off to draw away their attention once more. OOC: EXP Writer: 612 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1320 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 54/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 5/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 110/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 14/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15 10-Assault Rider 15/15
Stratos was now going to get back to whoring experience, after having laid down the smack on that good old Derpy the Derpmoth. That guy disappeared from his sight and went onto to do bigger and better things...like flying away from heartless. Man, this was a tedious job, just moving around and easily avoiding the heartless. He was actually kind of glad Derpy the Derpmoth was around right now, added some flare to the fight. Also gave more to put into a post since Derpy kicks equaled about one hundred more words which was always a good thing. Anyway, before Stratos could start to take off, he saw the heartless fast approaching him, in all of their different speed ways. The armored knights were actually pretty slow, but the centaur like assault riders, now those guys they were quick as (grease) lightning. It also helped that the armored knights were getting their shit kicked in by the ever so stronger than an ox (not to be confused with an Aux) Karina, laying waste to them with various attacks and references. Minuses the references this time. And so all Stratos had to do was guard against the assault riders right now. With the few that were chasing him galloping at him at full speed, Stratos quickly dodge rolled out of the first one just stabbing forward at him, and followed by the second leaping at him and trying to do a sweeping attack when it came back down. Stratos quickly raised up his keyblade to guard against the ever deadly strike, bouncing the spear blade away and being totally fine in the process. The third and final of the assault riders that he had aggroed thus far came in to attack him. Gripping the spear with both hands, he brought it down in a large overhead swing, almost as if it was being used as a halberd. It was easy to dodge this attack, simply by dodge rolling to the side, but then the assault rider moved in a circle, sweeping his halberd spear thing around in a circle. Stratos quickly got his balance back, and then quickly high jumped over the blade. He quickly brought his keyblade to attack the heartless at once with a single strike. Why a single strike? Because staying in for a full four hit combo would do nothing but get himself killed at the hands of the assault riders. As he got away from that mob of heartless, he then saw something really weird. And by weird he meant terrifying. Turns out all the other of the group were no longer waiting to get hit to be aggroed. They just were. He saw before him all of the other assault riders and armored knights. Just waiting for him, ready to kill him. He quickly ran up to an armored knight and whacked it, solely so he could do a single point of damage before flying away on his keyglider like a witch on a broom. Of course, because Karina had said that Derpy was now coming after him, it had appeared before him, and thus Stratos had to quickly guard against the kick that followed its appearance. As he was kicked out of the sky, he continued to sail across the room, only to suddenly break all momentum as his body became locked into an attack. With cherry blossoms falling from the sky, Stratos suddenly seemed to dart straight through Derpy the Derpmoth, preforming Zantetsuken with his keyglider once more and dealing massive amounts of damage because of it. No idea why it's that much stronger, it just is. And so with that done, he flew away to keep the angry mob on his tail once more. OOC: EXP Writer: 624 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1290 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 53/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Aggro: Derpy the Derpmoth 128/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 2-Armored Knight 5/5 1-Assault Rider 13/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15 4-Assault Rider 15/15 5-Assault Rider 15/15 6-Assault Rider 15/15 7-Assault Rider 15/15 8-Assault Rider 15/15 9-Assault Rider 15/15 10-Assault Rider 15/15 11-Assault Rider 15/15 Why are you doing this to us Krowley?
As Stratos continued to sail across the room from the kick of the behemoth, he came to a sudden realization. It seemed that it was indeed true, that the man who practiced a single kick ten thousand times was a terrifying force. Especially if they move at like, apparently mach three. He also came to a realization about what was going to happen when he landed. The only place that Derpy had kicked him to thus far into more trouble. It didn't seem actually interested in killing him with its kicks, because it definitely do so with extreme ease. No, it just seemed to want to give him a hard time. Anyway, Stratos ended getting sent straight into another undamaged assault rider, only for that heartless to flex its abs, just like all of the others, and deflect it with nothing more than his body. Of course that damaged it too, but Stratos was then sent back into his horde that he had had aggroed this entire damn time. This was truly one of the shitiest situations a person could ask for. While he was lying down on the ground, he quickly curled up into a ball and had his palms flat on the ground. Next, he pushed off of his hands and then went flying straight through the mob. So much so that he managed to hit a total uninjured armored knight who seemed to just get into this crowd because it was band waggoning. Remember kids, if everyone else is doing it, that doesn't mean you should too. You'll never know when a keyblade wielder might just kick you in the face for it. Anyway, now that he was standing back up on his feet, Stratos quickly got his keyblade out and realized that he was still in the crowd of heartless. Well that was a problem. It was then that he realized just how bad this was, as now there were assault riders in addition to the armored knights from before. Granted, the sheer volume was less this time, due to Karina managing to kill a boat load thus far, but still, it was not a place someone normally wanted to be in. As an armored knight advanced on him, he quickly parried away the first strike from it, followed up by parrying the various other armored knight heartless attacks, one after the other. It was then that the assault riders joined in on this beatdown and started trying to spear at him, swiping at him with it. He quickly hi jumped over one assault riders spear attack, just to hold his keyblade up into the air and guard against a stab coming from another assault rider. When the blow had connected, Stratos was knocked the air a bit, and hey, he ended up landing outside the mob due to this. Well that was lucky. In order to keep the aggro on him without him having to avoid damage at every given moment, Stratos quickly got back on his keyglider and started to fly away. It was then that the inevitable had come to pass once more. As he was flying away, out of the corner of his eye he suddenly saw his foe appear before him once more, and try to kick at him with extreme ferocity, or just the same head in the clouds attitude it had had thus far. Stratos quickly jumped off of his keyglider, over the foot, causing only the glider to be smacked away. He then drew his keyblade back to his hands, and then went to preform an air combo on the heartless's horn, followed up with ending it with an improvised fire strike, combining the fire spell and just a regular attack. With that, the behemoth was injured and Stratos could go back to his daily activities of running the hell away from everything. OOC: EXP Writer: 646 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1260 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 48/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 145/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 2-Armored Knight 4/5 3-Armored Knight 4/5 4-Armored Knight 4/5 5-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 14/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15 3-Assault Rider 14/15
Stratos had continued his flight of the valkyries- er, his grand escape from the heartless. As he continued to board/fly through the air, he managed to keep distance between him and the heartless, through some miraculous feat of common sense. I mean, if he was on his keyglider then why wouldn't he be able to just outmaneuver his way away from them. However, he saw that Karina was getting pretty pissy about the whole ordeal, of her having to catch up with all the heartless, and so he slammed his keyglider down onto the ground, having the tail end of the keyglider skid across the ground, kick up sparks as it continued along its course. Of course, this slowed him down tremendously, which made the heartless catch up with him faster, which reduced the distance between Karina and the heartless. See Stratos was a considerate and slightly suicidal team mate. Just a wee bit. Anyway, he kept this up and instead of continuing moving in a straight line or zig zagg fashion, he was now moving in a circle in order to keep the heartless at (Michael) Bay. Now all that needed to happen was his keyblade to turn into a giant fighting robot and the hall of records to start exploding. Well they already had the explosions down. Anyway, the plan seemed to be working, as Karina seemed to be able to pummel all the heartless, while making various references that he didn't quite get but could still register as references, and he was fairly good at keeping the heartless pissed off at him. The plan couldn't be working better, that was, until a certain intrusive behemoth had decided it would start to invoke the rules of SOS that had been created solely to counter Beuce. Punishing Karina for her references, it simply kicked at her, and sent her flying across the room. However, while the intention of malice and hatred was clear, if one were to look at the behemoth's expression, one would see nothing but a blank and vacant stare. One that could pierce the souls of all that fell under its gaze. Stratos then realized with Karina no longer near him, he didn't need to slow down for her to keep easier pace with the heartless. However, even more importantly, he had to keep these heartless's attention on him so as for them to not be pulled towards Karina. As such, Stratos began to fly once more on his keyglider and did various actions which made his opponents only able to auto attack him and walk towards him. As they did this, Stratos felt the plan working as he quickly casted (not to be confused with twin/double casting,) Aero and Cure on Karina to help her out once more. With that done with, Stratos realized that his attention had shifted away from Derpy the Derpmoth, and it was now only a matter of time before it was upon him once more. As Stratos saw the behemoth out of the corner of his eye, he prepped up a blizzard spell, only to wonder where he even got the frozen water for this spell from (since usually one got that from like, a faucet.) Anyway, the blizzard fizzled out because the keyblade wielder realized he didn't have enough mp to cast it, and then received the kick from the behemoth, sending him hurtling across the room. However, as he stabilized himself in the air, he saw the behemoth now appearing in front of him once more, only to not be able to do anything to react. Suddenly, everything had changed. Now then, the purple light that had been enveloping him this entire time, and that one time it created a guillotine blade, enveloped him once more. As such, Stratos suddenly realized that he was about to be screwed, because he had been by just about every other time that this had happened. Not to mention it felt like some sort of satanic ethereal energy that just sort of only had misfortune associated with and all. However, this time, things felt different. Rather than him slowing down (read, stopping and being frozen in time,) the exact opposite seemed to happen this time. The world around him seemed to slow down. It was like he was in a constant state of Zantetsuken, only now he was consciously aware of what he was doing rather than just having his body mindlessly preform some attack. And so he started moving around in this acceled time state. He was able to zip across the hall of records faster than Derpy would be able to kick him. It was then that he looked around and then noticed something. There it was, Derpy the Derpmoth. And he was able to keep his eye on him this time, because he had figured out the truth to Derpy's movements. It turns out the behemoth was just moving stupid fast this entire time, go figure. However, there was still the matter of the fact that it didn't actually seem to be moving, per se, and that it was more sliding with its body just not changing ever. So that was still weird. However, knowing that he had the advantage now, Stratos shot at the heartless at full speed, making him appear as less than a blur to those who were just onlooking on the fight. He then proceeded to use his strike raid type move on the Heartless, and then followed it up in a different way. This time, rather than just going into a combo, Stratos instead just threw a god damn mini sun at it. When the attack made contact, he then proceeded to go all out into his air combo assault, followed by a vorpal blitz, followed by an air combo into a finally finishing it with Zantetsuken. When all that was over and done with, time seemed to return to normal, and Stratos was no longer able to keep pace with his behemoth foe. As such, he soon got the boot and was sent flying across the room. OOC: EXP Writer: 1016 Words, 30 EXP Total: 1230 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 1/5 Armored Knight: 43/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 4/15 Zip Slashers: 2/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Derpy the Derpmoth 145/300 1-Armored Knight 4/5 2-Armored Knight 4/5 3-Armored Knight 4/5 4-Armored Knight 4/5 1-Assault Rider 14/15 2-Assault Rider 12/15
