Stratos had continued being chased by that god damn behemoth, who wanted nothing more than to just murder him where he stood. Or, rather, fling his body across the entire hall of records in a rather messy manner. Either way, he was not willing to let this thing catch up to him and destroy him. As such, Stratos continued to run away from the large creature, and made sure to keep as much distance from it as possible. The thing then jumped into the air and tried to crash down on him once more, only for Stratos to start dodge rolling out of the way and only to get knocked away from the shockwave of the attack. Damn he was hating that attack. The behemoth then continued to go out and tried to kill him by doing some sort of charge attack with its horn. As light seemed to accumulate around the horn of this creature, Stratos could only watch as they gathered energy was released in some sort of oddly magical attack. Wait, these things could also use magic? Well damn was there anything they couldn't do? It was then that it released an onslaught of magical orbs that flew straight at Stratos, who could do nothing but stand there and ready his guard against the attack. Having been pushed around a bit by the magical attack, Stratos stood his ground as the behemoth walked over to kick him while he was in mid guard. What a cheap ******* this massive heartless was turning out to be. As the young keyblade wielder skid across the ground, he saw the behemoth kick at the ground quite like a bull would, until it started a full on charge to kill the young wielder. He was ready for this,however, as he had managed to regain his posture after getting hit back by such a strong ass attack. The young wielder quickly preformed a high jump to to go over the charging heartless, and then hit it a few times on the horn with his keyblade until it had managed to just run right past him. As he landed he saw the heartless quickly jump into the air and turn, in the air, and land having turned a perfect one hundred eighty degrees. What a terrifying foe he was facing down. Stratos started to run away from the beast once more, with it in hot pursuit of him, until it was intercepted by Karina's poison edge command hitting it square in the head. She then told him about how they should probably stop just annoying the behemoth, and actually start on their job of killing it. Now that was an idea he could get behind. This heartless had basically become his mortal enemy, given the amount of times it had just waddled up to him and kicked him. Like, what heartless even does something like that? After calling him kid, she told him that she'd take the aggro for now, and that he had to go and attack now. "Aye aye, ma'am." He gave a quick salute to Karina as the behemoth started to chase after her. Stratos had regained enough MP from that last combo that he was able to go in and actually do some damage. Channeling his MP into a magical strike, the tip of his keyblade ignited as he launched a fireball from it. With the ball homing in on to the horn of the behemoth, it quickly exploded as it made contact, causing the behemoth to turn around and look at who had just attacked him. Sighing Stratos said, "guess it's time for another run," as he began to run away from the now rampaging behemoth. Ooc: EXP Writer: 619 Words, 30 EXP Total: 600 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 21/55 Soliders: 65/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 249/300
After having felled a few more heartless, Stratos figured it was time to move on kick some more ass. Though, what, he was not entirely sure of. So far all that he had seen were either somewhat flimsy and weak heartless...or things that took god damn forever to kill. So if only there were some sort of heartless that was some kind of intermediate strength and not the god damn behemoth that he just pissed off and was charging straight at him. Stratos realized how badly this was going to end for him, and thus he guarded, expecting the charge to hit him almost immediately. Only that never happened. In fact, when Stratos looked in front of him, the behemoth was nowhere to be seen. Furthermore, the area around him seemed to be getting darker and dark. But only the area around him. Everything else seemed just as bright as it had been before. In fact, looking around, the entirety of the spot that was getting darker looked like some sort irregular shape. In fact- Stratos quickly looked up only to be utterly terrified by what was above his head. The behemoth was quickly falling to land on Stratos and crush him, and had apparently not been falling the entire time he was describing the fact that there was a shadow above him. Dodge rolling as fast as he possibly could away from the attack from the behemoth, he quickly jumped and guarded against the resulting shock wave from the behemoth landing. The force of the attack landing on his guard still managed to send him soaring through the air, however. As bounced across the ground, he wasn't actually feeling too much impact, due to aero absorbing most of the shock, however it was still not a position he wanted to be in. As he stood back up, he realized that he shouldn't really try to fight this behemoth by himself just yet. Not without help of course. And so, he started to make a mad dash away from the behemoth to look for something else to kill, which was definitely not the behemoth. However, the behemoth did not want to give up chase on the young keyblade wielder. As it continued to charge at him, it tried to essentially aerial slam him again, by stopping, skidding towards the wielder and bucking upwards. Stratos had managed to quickly guard up against the attack. The impact of the attack ended up making him skid across the floor, and right into an armored knight The armored knight then went flying backwards, only to pick itself back up and begin its dance of blades towards him. Stratos had to keep tabs on the behemoth, however, as the thing was clearly not going to give up on killing the young wielder. And so Stratos began his very stand offish fight against the armored knight, dodging the blows from its sword and guarding here and there. He quickly pushed the blade back from the heartless, and then followed up by letting loose a combo against the heartless, smacking it away with the final hit, and then running for dear life as the behemoth charged forward at him. With the bull like heartless in hot pursuit of him, Stratos had to quickly get it off his tail so that he could focus on another heartless, which thankfully, was chasing after him. The armored knight he had managed to piss off earlier was now in hot pursuit of trying to kill him. Stratos started to roll towards the heartless, going underneath the behemoth in order to get to it. The behemoth, being slightly confused from this action, didn't really take note to change what it was doing as Stratos rolled up to the armored knight and let loose a combo on it. He continued to follow the combo up by running at the armored knight, ducking underneath its slash attack, and then striking the heartless with another combo. As the final hit of the combo connected with the armored knight, the heartless disappeared in the usual puff of black smoke, letting loose a heart and having it fly into the air when all was said and done. With that, one heartless was down, and Stratos felt like he could still get a little more killing done before he had to end this round, only to see the god damn behemoth was still chasing him. Stratos quickly hi jumped on top of the thing, causing it to miss with its bull charge, landed on its back, and then across it. After jumping off the back of the large ass heartless, Stratos moved on to deal with another heartless. This one was one of those same green ones he had fought just a bit ago, with all the spikes. The heartless started rolling towards him in its own sort of fashion, and then quickly jumped into the air to try and slam down on the young keyblade wielder. In that instant, something that Stratos could only describe as weird, happened. When the heartless was at the apex of its height from the jump, it was as if a green triangle suddenly formed on the center of the heartless. As if he were reacting solely to that, Stratos instantly brought up his keyblade and guarded against the bounce. The heartless flew off, not damaging the keyblade wielder at all, he saw a similar triangle for around it again. Acting as if it were a skill command, Stratos quickly jumped into the air, grabbed the spike ball, and started throwing it against the ground. The ball then came back, and Stratos did this again and again in a an odd never ending cycle until the final throw, in which the heartless had finally died from being bounced like a basketball. With that heartless dead, the behemoth was then hot on his tail again, only for Stratos to back flip over it, and strike it twice with the keyblade before the beast charged past him. Realizing that he had gained more mp from this, he felt the need to help his partner out, and cast Aero on Karina, refreshing the defense buff. Ooc: EXP Writer: 1032 Words, 30 EXP Total: 570 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 21/55 Soliders: 59/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 2/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 270/300
Stratos was catching his breath, having just narrowly avoided death and having just cleaved through a bunch of soldier heartless in a single bound. Overall, this fight should have been way more tiring then it actually was. After all, Gilgamesh was one tough nut to crack, but he took way less time then just what Stratos had done alone so far. Ah well, he was still feeling invigorated by this fight. He had no idea why, but the sense of dread and feeling of fear he had had before the fight's start had significantly died down. If anything it turned into some sense of joy, as for whatever reason killing these heartless seemed to actually pretty be fun. It was while he was his catching his breath though that he saw a shadow come over him. Looking behind he saw it belonged to none other than that god damn behemoth that had been kicking him around all over the place thus far, one that had probably been pissed at the boy for constantly just chucking his keyblade at the behemoth's horn. He saw what was coming up with this as well. With that same derpy face on that it had had this entire time, it slowly raised one of its legs and moved back, in preparation of just one more kick. Stratos wouldn't be able to escape this attack in time, and certainly wouldn't be able to guard all of it either. Just as he saw the foot about to shoot forward, this really wimpy fireball, really more like a ball made of sparks, flew over and poofed away as it made contact with the horn of the behemoth. The large threatening heartless soon dropped its foot, and looked around as if to see where the offender was. Its head turned side to side as it the usual uncaring derpy face of the behemoth had some sort of tinge of anger on it. Well, not so much anger, as it was that it was just being annoyed. As if it just twenty six flies circling around it that it just couldn't swat away. After laying eyes on the offender, that being the only other person of the east side who was actually fighting, it quickly turned its body to face her and started kicking against the ground, like a bull ready to charge against a matador in the arid arenas of Spain and other such Spanish place (whatever the hell Spanish was.) It soon charge forward to take vengeance upon one of its constant attackers, completely leaving Stratos to himself and not really caring to follow through with its usual attack against the young keyblade wielder. Stratos let out a large sigh of relief as the behemoth had stopped caring about him, though realized that he would probably have to do something about the big lug soon after he dealt with the heartless at hand. After all, he couldn't just let the behemoth heartless go on a rampage and hurt his east side battle comrade. That would be no bueno. Though looking to the task ahead, he quickly cast cure on himself, due to it repairing his body from any sort of fatigue by mending up the muscle tissue that was tearing apart as he was pushing his, rather wimpy and pathetic, body to its limits non-stop thus far. Then there was also the fact that his guard. while it was useful for blocking all of the damage, that would probably have left him as a red mist, was only mitigating it, and so healing up any minor wounds he got would be important too. He then noticed that the wind shield that was forming around him was no longer there, and so he quickly cast Aero to rectify that problem as well. However, due to casting spells that had cost about a grand total of three mp, Stratos was going to be unable to cast spells for this round of heartless that he needed to get rid of. Ah well, that was what good old basic comboing and the mp haste on Spellbinder was good for. Spinning his keyblade around, he realized that he should probably on the offensive against the heartless, rather than wait for them to bunch up and chase him again, and so he immediately tried to hunt them down one at a time. He immediately had singled out a lone armored knight, and was ready to go do the duel with him. The armored knight had, however, seen the young keyblade wielder approach him and was not going to go down without a fight. The blade arm heartless quickly jumped back as Stratos was about to begin a combo against it. causing him to miss, and making the armored knight come in and try to kill him. Stratos, however, simply put up his guard as the armored knight attacked by spinning around, balancing on its foot and extending its arm out. As the blade struck against the guard, Stratos quickly pushed it back and then unleashed a vorpal blitz against the heartless, causing it to die upon being hit by the last strike. Alright, that was one armored knight down, now only two more to go before he had to stop for this round of attacks. However rather than the armored knight coming in to attack him, a heartless he had yet seen jumped into the fray. It was simply a large green ball covered completely in spikes that was really weird looking. Stratos, though, was not too fond of it when it decided to jump up and try to completely crush him using its body. Panicking a bit, Stratos quickly used Trip Around the Sun, flinging a mini sun from keyblade at the falling enemy, vaporizing it instantly. Well that was good, though he didn't have enough power to continue on with killing more heartless. And so he turned around and looked to his teammate and the rampaging behemoth. Seeing as she was a little worse for wear, he simply cast cure on her, and then chucked his keyblade at the behemoth to piss it off even more. Ooc: EXP Writer: 1024 Words, 30 EXP Total: 540 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 20/55 Soliders: 59/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 1/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 272/300
Stratos had continued his run from the impending doom that was the death ball of armored knights. Granted, there were only six of them now as opposed to the thirteen that had been chasing him at the start of this. But six was still a good bit too much for this keyblade wielder to handle all at one time. It didn't help that he wasn't fast, at all, and that armored knights were maintaining some sort of constant velocity towards him. It was then that Stratos quickly decided that he should try and kill the injured one amongst the six, and make his life a bit easier. As he continued his mad dash forward, he stopped and pivoted off his foot, pointing the keyblade at the aforementioned injured heartless. The keyblade had begun to spark and ignite just as it had for the other like, five times he had cast this spell before hand. Only this time he felt as though he shouldn't kill the injured one with one of his oh so limited spells, and was about to switch targets over to another, when he realized that the one he had damaged was just barely so. Having thought about this for so long, the heartless had actually managed to close the distance between them and him, and so Stratos quickly launched the fireball into the crowd. Homing in on one of the armored knights and blowing it up, Stratos quickly started to run away from the horde, only for something terrible to happen. While he had been running away from the heartless, he was soon trapped because, surprise surprise, more heartless were around wanting to kill him. With about twenty more armored knights barreling straight towards him, Stratos figured he'd have better luck getting through the five that had been chasing him this whole time, only to turn around and see five assault riders and two zip slashers standing right with the five armored knights. Stopping in his tracks he realized that there was absolutely no way he could run from this. There was no way he had enough strength to bull charge through this many heartless, that were all this strong in the time necessary for him to go out. And if he just stood there guarding all the attacks, his guard would eventually break and he would skewered, stabbed, and slashed by just about every heartless here. It was then, at this realization, that a few of the heartless jumped straight at him, ready to end his existence. Stratos closed his eyes waiting for his end, only to realize that they these heartless were doing a shit job at killing him. As he reopened his eyes, it seemed that all the heartless that had circled him had completely stopped in their tracks. They didn't even look like they wanted to fight him any more. Stratos briefly thought about using this moment to launch a counter assault against them, only to find that he himself couldn't attack either. He then realized that a certain spell must have been used to create this, one he recognized as being the same that they used against Mim...twice. Regardless, Stratos decided now would be an opportune moment to quickly run the hell away from all the heartless that were surrounding. As he quickly made created a large stretch of distance between that hellish group and himself, he figured that he had killed enough of the tougher heartless thus far, that maybe he should focus on killing the not as tough ones. Granted, all that fit that bill was the soldier heartless, but they'd have to do for now. Wanting to get rid of them all in one strike, Stratos crouched down into his Iaido stance, with the cherry blossoms falling from nowhere. Seeing for of the heartless all bunched up together, he knew that they were the perfect target for this attack. Within the blink of an eye, he had appeared right past the heartless, and had kill all four of them within a single instant. Man, Zantetsuken was great. A shame he'd never use it in a boss battle. Having just enough strength to do a bit more damage he noted that Karina was trying to rodeo a behemoth again. If at first you don't succeed. Running over there, he simply flung the keyblade at the things horn, doing pretty minimal damage before shouting out, "all the littlest of the heartless are almost wiped out. Shouldn't be too long before you could start moving on to the bigger fish that need frying." Ooc: EXP Writer: 763 Words, 30 EXP Total: 510 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 19/55 Soliders: 52/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 275/300
Stratos had continued to run his ass away from the swarm of armored knights that were continually chasing him. This situation was pretty bad, all things considered. He had four MP left, and there were still about ten more of them. Granted, one of them seemed pretty injured, so he could easily end that heartless soon enough. But the problem still remained that with his not infinite pool of magic, he would eventually have to go over and start hitting them with his keyblade. He soon realized that the armored knights were starting to go faster, and that he was not. In order to speed himself up, he started to dodge roll, due to the sheer speed increase that comes from continually rolling over just sprinting. However, they were starting to get smarter and instead of just chasing in massive hodgepodge of blades, they instead started to converge around him, and were trying to form that ring around him that they had done prior to that. It was as if he were fighting the Zip Slasher all over again...minus the Zip Slasher. Alright, so things were looking pretty bleak for him, but it was alright, because Stratos knew deep down he could action hero his way out of this. The armored knights had begun their assault by slowly closing in and slashing him every which way. He quickly brought his keyblade out in front of him, to block any and all strikes that were coming form the bladed heartless. Deflecting and parrying strikes every which way, he finally found a way to totally get out of this situation. Seeing as there was one heartless that seemed to be nearly dead, in fact it seemed to be the same one that tried to intervene with his fight against the Zip Slasher, he knew that he could totally punch his way through this armored ring. After parrying the final strike from this mob, he whacked the aforementioned with his keyblade until it exploded into a poof a black of smoke and pulsing heart that floated into the sky. Stratos took this opportunity to dodge roll through the gap that he had just created with his attack. He then continued to begin his merry running away escapades so that he could just, not die. He then turned around and tried to do the exact same thing that he had done prior to this post. The keyblade's tip started to glow as sparks started to fly off the end of the keyblade once more. The ball of flame had generated where the sparks were and Stratos had started to cast fire. Once cast, the fireball shot out the keyblade and it homed in on one of the armored knight heartless. The ball soon made contact with armored knight and then the ball exploded, engulfing the heartless in fire. The heartless disappeared into a puff of smoke making that same "prchwoo" noise that every heartless made, with its heart ascending into the sky and then disappearing in a black poof. Then two more armored knight heartless jumped in and tried to slash through Stratos. He put his keyblade in front of him in a guard stance, and quickly rolled so that the two of the heartless had formed a straight line. He quickly made a ice crystal form on his keyblade and then fired off a chunk of ice from there. The Blizzard spell then ripped through the two heartless and make blow up into a puff of a black smoke. One other armored knight then came over, only for Stratos to beat it away with his keyblade and continue running away. Ooc: EXP Writer: 608 Words, 30 EXP Total: 480 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 18/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Armored Knight 4/5
Walking through the halls of the Academy, Lucia was quite curious as to just how urgent this sort of training exercise was. She had read the notice, of course, as it was impossible to miss. Plastered across every sort of entry point, every bulletin board and spread like wildfire throughout the entirety of the school's halls. This person in question must've been someone who was extremely dangerous if they were given this much notice about them. Then there was the thing about damaging the Special Forces and by extension the school's reputation with rumors that they could be spreading. Though, while it was nothing new that some people just wanted to paint the SF in extremely unflattering light, Lucia knew not to believe them. But still, to the extent they were going to to stop one person seemed a tad excessive. It was while she was caught up in her thought that Lucia had failed to notice that one of the notices fell off the wall and onto the ground. Having not noticed this in the slightest, Lucia stepped on the paper and quickly fell all flat one her back. "Ow." Getting herself back up, she rubbed her back and only to simply launch herself back up in a sort of eureka moment. Obviously, she should go out of her way to fight this loony person. It would be the perfect way for her to get better in her training to become one of the best darn Special Forces members that ever would exist. Though there was the problem of the notice saying how she should probably only engage the target if she was in at least a pair, though that problem would probably sort itself out in no time.
Having finished off the Zip Slasher, Stratos had thought that he could take a bit of a moment to catch his breath from the non-stop action that was going on. With his keyblade dropping down, he had managed to kill one of the bigger heartless around here, though, it wasn't as if that was the only of that kind of heartless around here. The though of more of those around here, Stratos shuddered at the thought of having to deal with more of them. Then there was also the fact that there were still the behemoths to be dealt with. Stratos then realized where he was standing and what was about to happen. The entire time he had been fighting the Zip Slasher, he was in a ring. A ring made up of armor knight heartless. And the only reason they hadn't tried to kill him thus far was that the Zip Slasher was keeping them at bay. And now that he was dead, well...he turned around in horror to see the armored knight heartless brandishing their blades and getting ready to kill him at a moments notice. He then started to run as fast as he could, dodge rolling through the ring of heartless before they could actually begin trying to kill him. The ring then suddenly broke and turned more into an angry mob that started just rushing at him. Stratos did not know what he should really do seeing as about thirteen heartless were now chasing after him. He normally had trouble dealing with about three of these armored knights at once, and now he was dealing with a much larger number than usual. Obviously there was no way he was going to be able to kill them all at once, though he was definitely going to have to dwindle down there numbers little by little. And so he started formulating a plan...while running like a spazz. As he was coming up with this plan of his, the armored knights had continued chasing him at full speed and started to just slash at him for every given opportunity. At this rate, he wouldn't be able to find any sort of opening to strike through them all and kill them with his keyblade. Stratos then realized how dumb he was being and mentally face palmed when he realized that his first thought was actually killing something by hitting it with his strength. Stratos quickly pivoted, jumping backwards in order to retain distance with the swarm of heartless, and instantly pointed his keyblade at one of them. The tip of his keyblade was then enveloped in a bright sort of light that quickly started sparking. The sparks had then transformed into a raging ball of fire, which was promptly shot at one of the armored knights. Having only been able to use combos and physical commands against that Zip Slasher, Stratos's MP was now back to its max...well minus one now. The fireball quickly zoomed into the mass of heartless, and one of the armored knight was immediately killed as the ball exploded on contact with it. That still left two he could kill in this round one he could injure. So, Stratos then continued to face the heartless as decided to try and cast another spell. The perfect one for this situation really. With a light emitting from his keyblade as it was thrust into the air, eight mines were soon laid out across the field. Not really paying attention to this at all, and just seeing Stratos as an open target right now, the heartless quickly trampled over all the mines, causing two more to die and one to be even more injured than it already was. Ooc: EXP Writer: 623 Words, 30 EXP Total: 450 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 14/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Armored Knight 1/5
The Zip Slasher had bounced off the ground and stabbed the ground with his blade in order to stop himself. However, the damage was still dealt and the Zip Slasher needed time to recuperate from the strike. It sat there kneeling, one blade on the ground, trying to catch its breath. While the Zip Slasher had been in this positon, much more tired than it had been before, Stratos realized this would most likely be the perfect time to go in for the kill. However, one armored knight finally let its killer instinct finally get the better of it and jumped into the middle of the ring.Well that was completely unexpected to have happened. Stratos so didn't see this coming that the heartless was able to get the first strike in. Surprised by the attack, he immediately preformed a guard action in order to protect himself from getting hit. The armored knight, however, was so restless that it continually kept attacking at Stratos. The attacks were fast and unrelenting, and there was no real way for him to respond to it at the moment, however. Stratos eventually found an opening in which he could simply attack the heartless. He first pushed forward with his keyblade when the last attack connected, causing the armored knight to stagger a bit, he then let loose one of his four hit combos against the knight, sending it back a bit. By this time, the Zip Slasher had fully recovered from the injuries it had sustained and got back up. Motioning away at the armored knight, it seemed intent on continuing the fight against the young keyblade wielder. However, the Zip Slasher continued to make the same motion as before, only this time it seemed as if there was some sort of intense glare it was giving off from it. The Armored Knight reluctantly obeyed and went back into the circle forming the ring of armored knight heartless. The Zip Slasher seemed to be on its last legs as it stood in front of Stratos. The being no longer moved around in some sort of circling fashion, and had instead just stood in place where it was. The heartless had extended out its arm, just as it had prior times, as if signaling that it was ready to go and end this fight between the two. Stratos was pretty glad that he managed to last this long against the heartless, however, the fight needed to end so he could go back to assisting Karina in killing all the smaller fries. As such, Stratos decided to ready himself for the final moment against this enemy. He knew that whatever the Zip Slasher was going to throw at him was not going to be something he'd want to be hit by, and that killing him in a single blow would be the safest maneuver. However that giant guillotine blade didn't seem like it wanted to mess with him again, so Stratos had to rely on his own strength for this. It was then that he realized that his skill had finally come off cool down, and that he could end his heartless in one blow now. Taking his Iaido stance once more, Stratos readied his keyblade to take on the boss heartless. Cherry blossoms fell down from literally no where one more, and it would be here that the victor would be decided. The air was calm, and all who were watching settled down to view the finale of the fight. The Zip Slasher then sprinted in and slashed Stratos with one final attack. As if it had happened within the blink of an eye, Stratos had appeared behind the heartless, keyblade outstretched once more. The Zip Slasher then fell down, and finally died, dissipating in puff of black smoke with a heart floating away from it. 641 Words, 30 EXP Total: 420 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 1/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Armored Knight 3/5
The duel continued onward between Stratos and the Zip Slasher. The Zip Slasher seemed to have been staggered for a longer amount of time then normal, almost as if it had been more injured this time than the last time. That could only mean that Stratos was doing work against this bad boy.However, the fight was still far from over, and the Zip Slasher completely unwilling to go down without giving it everything he had. While the armored knights seemed to be getting restless, the Zip Slasher continued to wave them away so that it could continue this duel by itself. The armored knights seemed to comply with the bladed heartless' demands, and simply began to get back into its strafing position. It started to move around in an attempt to circle around Stratos, however the boy was doing the same thing as well. The two had entered the same stalemate they had been locked in for quite some time now, and they both knew how careless actions would get themselves killed. The Zip Slasher seemed completely unwilling to go in for the first strike again, as it had only ended in repercussions for it thus far. However Stratos was in no way strong enough to kill the Zip Slasher by just carelessly charging at it. While the thought of feigning losing his focus on the fight again crossed his mind, he figured the Zip Slasher wouldn't fall for it anyway. No, he would have to be clever about how he approached this, and when he approached it. With Vorpal Slash still on cool down, he realized that he would have to stall for more time before fully committing to his assault. It was then that he decided if he waited too long, the restless heartless would commit to attacking him, even with the Zip Slasher, and thus he had to hurry up with the fight. As such, he charged in there, dodge rolling to be right within attack range of the Zip Slasher. This next part was about as big of a gamble as the purple aura around them was. As soon as his roll ended, he rolled backward once more, with the Zip Slasher doing just what he wanted it to do. The thing had attacked with its spinning strike and due to this attack sharing the same properties as a skill command, the rest of the attack was locked in. The Zip Slasher then went into attack Stratos with the reset of its attack that was the stab, and due to this, Stratos was able to dodge roll right up next to the Zip Slasher getting ready to go in for a combo assault. Hefting his keyblade around, he hit struck with it three time to bring it in for a fourth and heavier hit. With the combo having been finished, the Zip Slasher jumped back and started to run around, in an attempt to circle Stratos. Since there was no way he could keep up with that sort of speed in terms of copying the motion, Stratos simply stood there and waited for the Zip Slasher to come in and attack him. It was then that the Zip Slasher quickly sped up until it finally jumped into the air and went in for an aerial dive against the keyblade wielder. However, to counter this, Stratos now used the fully cooled down Vorpal Blitz against the Zip Slasher. Due to striking against an aerial enemy, the final hit of Vorpal blitz was brought down with more force than before, and knocked the Zip Slasher clean out of the air and back onto the ground. Ooc: EXP Writer: 608 Words, 30 EXP Total: 390 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Zip Slasher 15/100
The epic duel continued with the two of them, standing in the makeshift arena of Armored Knights. The two continued in their circular motion, with both of their weapons extended towards each other. The both of them were simply waiting for the other move as they had before. In this sort of decisive battle, only the stronger of the two of would win this war of attrition, and the one with the greater stamina would be labeled as the stronger. However, Stratos was not short on that at all. In fact, he was pumped up, in a very relaxed sort of way. It was as if he had never felt an urge to do his best that was as strong as this before, though the adrenaline didn't get to his head, and make him become reckless in his emotions. No. It just made him more wary of his opponent then he normally would be. It allowed him to calm down and access the situation he was in. He was more level headed then before and would be able to see whatever this beast was doing, and would be able to end it in an instant. Okay, that was clearly and exaggeration, but that was the thought process behind what he was doing. The Zip Slasher, however, did not make the first move as it normally would. It had seemed to come to the same sort of calculating state that Stratos had entered as well. It was keeping its distance, waiting for the wielder to make a slip up, and then it would end it in an instant. That was not an exaggeration. This Zip Slasher seemed to be extremely deadly so far, and the strength behind the blows seemed lethal. He was still getting his ass handed to him despite guarding most of the attacks and only getting hit by glancing blows. As such, Stratos started to wait for his cool down on Vorpal Blitz to end. Once it did, he would feel confident in his strength to go in and damage the heartless once more. However, that still felt a bit away in terms of time, and so this stall war would go on for quite some time. However, Stratos then made the fatal mistake of wondering what was going on outside the ring. He saw that Karina was still basically rodeoing the behemoth, however the other two members by the name of Base and Aden were nowhere to seen. It was at this moment that the Zip Slasher saw the opportunity arise, and it charged forward at Stratos. The young keyblade wielder was able to snap back his attention in time in order to guard against most of the attack, but was still not completely off the hook with the rest of the attack. He felt his legs buck in a bit, but at least the opportunity to attack had presented itself within Stratos's own folley. The young boy quickly dodge rolled past Zip Slasher, and then, from behind unleashed one of his four hit combos. It was then that he continued with a vorpal blitz, only for the Zip Slasher to guard the strike, and then follow up with a counter attack of his own. Stratos managed to dodge roll back, and then went back into attack him another four hit combo. The young wielder followed this with up another combo, and the one more after that. The Zip Slasher eventually backed off and leaped backwards to do its usual breath catching thing. Stratos decided that he would do the same, as thus far, the other heartless seemed to want to get in between the two. OOC: EXP Writer: 609 Words, 30 EXP Total: 360 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Zip Slasher 32/100
The fight had continued as it was going on before hand. The arena was still formed and had been created by the blades of all the surrounding armored knights. Within the center still stood the two combatants still standing within the center of it. Those two in question being Stratos, the keyblade wielder, and the Zip Slasher, the dual arm blade heartless. The two continued walking in a circular formation, waiting for the other trip up. It was then that the entire field was encased in some really weird purple light, thing, that neither heartless nor human could entirely tell what it meant. However, he felt as though this light was familiar. It felt strangely like the sort of power that he used whenever he would use Trip Around the Sun. Meaning this was also probably fueled by the same heart power that that sort of spell, labeled as a limit, was fueled by. However, this was entirely different from it. Indeed, it didn't feel like the sort of energy that would be found in a keyblade wielder. No, this felt much more...well interesting. Like it was from some sort of external source. Oh well that probably wasn't as big of a deal as the big guy in front of him. However, this too, seemed to prove false as the purple light started to glow and coalesce into some really weird blade thing. The thing looked like it belonged to some sort of guillotine or something. The blade then launched itself over to the Zip Slasher heartless, though he seemed to not care at all, he simply spun around and struck the blade with its stab attack. The guillotine blade split in half from the attack and the Zip Slasher just stood there, looking completely unimpressed by the attack. Stratos was in some sort of state of awe in what had actually just happened. The Zip Slasher took this opportunity to dash over and slash at Stratos, how then brought his keyblade up in the nick of time to defend against the strike. He then pushed the strike away, and immediately went to go strike at the heartless again. Letting loose a combo attack, being the only thing he could do, the Zip Slasher brought up his blade guard against the attack, and instead struck forward with a lunging assault. Stratos was able to guard the attack in time, but he couldn't take most of the shock. Now he just needed to go in and attack the enemy again,with another string of combos. As his arms brought down the keyblade, he realized he could go in and attack it again with another Vorpal Blitz, and so he let that loose. The three hit powerful string landed on the Zip Slasher and completely knocked it back, causing it to jump in retreat once more. The Zip Slasher seemed ready to kneel again, to do something again to catching its breath, which Stratos saw a perfect opportunity to do something. There was no way he could take another attack, and so he simply cast cure on him in order to mend the wounds he had sustained thus far. The Zip Slasher waved his arm, dismissing the very restless armored knights, and stood back up ready to get back into the fight. It extended its blade arm at Stratos, as if to say that it was going to continue this fight to the bitter end, and thus the two would continue their desperate struggle. Stratos, now mostly recovered from the damage he had taken, took his stance to continue the duel against his foe. OOC: EXP Writer: 603 Words, 30 EXP Total: 330 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Zip Slasher 49/100
The duel of fate that was going on between Stratos and the Zip Slasher had escalated to very very lame proportions. Stratos knew this fight wasn't going to end anytime soon, because the only way he could hurt this thing was by hitting it with very miniscule combos. And this thing would not get off of his tail. He tried running, dodge rolling even, away from it, but the damn thing was so fast that it just caught up to him each time. And whenever a smaller heartless would appear, the Zip Slasher simply waved its arm at them as if to tell them to leave the fight solely to him. Stratos had no idea whether or not this thing actually was some sort of honorable duelist type, or just wanted the kill of Stratos solely for himself. Then there were the other heartless that weren't fighting, that were watching this like some sort of show match. The armored knights were all circled around him, as if to prevent him from leaving the fight. Same went for some of the assault riders. Simply put, this was, solely by the Zip Slashers choice, a pure one vs one battle. Stratos began to strafe alongside the Zip Slasher, who seemed to be doing the same thing. Both seemed to be calculating the other's movements. It was then that the Zip Slasher leaped at Stratos and tried to do its spinning slash attack again, only Stratos was able to easily guard against the strike. Knowing what was coming up next, he swiftly dodge rolled out of the way to allow the stab attack to miss. With the Zip Slasher completely wide open now, Stratos went in to start up another combo against the creature, in order to damage it slightly. The Zip Slasher, seemingly unfazed by the assault, then quickly retaliated with another slash attack towards Straots. The young keyblade wielder swiftly bent his back backward in order avoid the strike, only to come up and attack the thing with another one of his four hit combos once more. This time, though, the Zip Slasher had its blades up ready to defend against the incoming strikes towards him. Stratos's keyblade clanged against the blades of the Zip Slasher, and the aforementioned heartless then went to counter with its signature spin attack. Stratos was barely able to deflect the spinning attack, but the managed to hit him, knocking him back. That hit hurt a good deal, and Stratos was having a bit of trouble getting back on his feet. The heartless seemed to strafe in a circular formation around the young keyblade wielder, and then came forward to strike at Stratos once more with a simple slash attack. Stratos was able to quickly dodge the blow, and then, with its cool down completely finished, he unleashed a quick vorpal blitz against the heartless. It was then that the heartless quickly backed off as it leaped extremely far away from the group, and stood there. It soon bent down on one knee, kneeling and supporting itself with one of his blade arms.. It looked like Stratos had managed to actually do some damage against the Zip Slasher to the point where it actually was staggered. However, as he tried to close the distance, the surrounding heartless began to converge on his position, only for the ZIp Slasher to get back up and wave its arm at the others, signalling for the heartless to leave the fight to him. While it looked like the heartless wasn't going to be slowed down at all, it was nice to know he was at least doing some damage to it. OOC: EXP Writer: 611 Words, 30 EXP Total: 300 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Zip Slasher 66/100
Due to Karina having the behemoth way under control for the moment, Stratos decided he would go and help her out by going about and whacking off some of the other heartless. Though he was getting a tad bit annoyed with dealing with the Assault Riders in a one vs one situation. So here it was, that Stratos had to pick out some of the weaker heartless to deal with first. Granted he didn't want to get involved with the rest of the soldiers. So far they seemed like they were basically Karina's prey, and no way was he getting in between her and what she wanted to kill. While he was about to start killing more heartless, he was then issued a challenge by one of them. It was a rather strange heartless that seemed to be almost sentient. It looked like some sort of advanced version of the armored knight in terms of build. The armor seemed to be thicker than it what the armored knight had before. Rather than a singular arm long sword, it had a blade on either of its arms and they seemed to be shorter yet much thicker than the armored knight. The heartless then pointed its blade at Stratos, and thus it attacked and began the assault on the keyblade wielder. Stratos immediately guarded against the attack, which consisted of the heartless spinning around, and then stabbing forward at Stratos. When he tried to block the strike, the shock from it had sent him skidding backward again. The Zip Slasher, as he figured this heartless was named for no real reason, had then, rather than be unrelenting, had stopped. It strafed from side to side, as if it was calculating what to do next. Stratos saw this as an opportunity to cast a spell against the thing to do some damage. "Burn it up! Fire!" Stratos quickly fired off a fire ball that homed in on the zip slasher. When the fire ball had easily connected with the Zip Slasher it just sort of fizzled out and did absolutely no damage to it at all. The heartless didn't even pay attention to the attack, as if it hadn't even existed in the first place, and started to run at Stratos. Now this thing was fast, like it looked like it was actually sprinting at him. The heartless then slashed at Stratos once more and tried to slay him where he stood, only for Stratos to quickly to dodge roll out of the way. It was then that he saw his opening and unleashed a Vorpal Blitz on the thing, only for the Zip Slasher to do something way unexpected. The thing actually put up both of its blades its face, and guarded the strike. Having failed his command, the Zip Slasher then saw the opportunity to just attack Stratos by immediately stabbing at him. Due to having inhumanly fast reflexes, he was able to avoid the strike, and have his aero take the brunt of what would have connected. He then let out a combo of his own, hitting the zip slasher four times before it managed to hop away and start strafing again. This thing seemed to be his worst nightmare, being immune to magic and being one of the most competent fighting forces he had seen thus far. It was then that Stratos just flung his keyblade at the thing, only for it to dodge it and charge at Stratos. Quickly resummoning the keyblade, Stratos guarded against the attack, and let loose another combo against the heartless, ending this segment of the fight. EXP Writer: 603 Words, 30 EXP Total: 270 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300 Zip Slasher 83/100
Alright folks, here's the complete BP List for the entire battle of 1000 Heartless. And remember, you can only post up to your max number of BP per post, and you max number of BP is equal to your level. Shadow: 1 Hook bat: 1 Rapid Thruster: 1 Soldier: 3 Armored Knight: 5 Wyvern: 10 Black Fungus: 7 Large body: 17 Defender: 17 Assault Rider: 15 Zip Slasher: 100 Behemoth: 300 Red nocturne: 2 Blue Rhapsody: 2 Yellow Opera: 2 Green Requiem: 2 Trick Ghost: 7 Book Master: 10 Surveillance Robot: 6 Morning Star: 10 Bolt Tower: 8 Lance Soldier: 7 Power Wild: 5 Wyvern: 9 Air Pirate: 5 Air Battler: 9 Air Knocker: 7
Stratos listened to Karina as she chastised his strength which was...totally called for. There was absolutely no denying what she said seeing as he was pretty wimpy in the...well everything department. It was then that she ran off to go deal with more of the small fry while she left him to deal with the- "oh come on!" Stratos started running away as fast as he possibly could go while the Behemoth just charged him. This was not fun, not in the slightest. He quickly turned around to guard against the bucking behemoth, as it flung him into the air and then jumped him into the air and basically did an aerial slam on him. Stratos put his keyblade in front of him once more to guard against the slam only for it to launch him into the ground. The behemoth was then about to crush Stratos with its foot, only for him to dodge roll away just in the nick of time. Stratos regained his composure as he saw that the behemoth was ready for another attack, as it charged right after him and tried to kill him. Using his ability to high jump, Stratos vaulted over the behemoth as it charged him, causing the behemoth to try and stop short, and skid across the hall. He was definitely doing a good job of distracting this behemoth while Karina went along and killed the smaller heartless. In fact, she seemed to be doing quite the number on them. He watched as she didn't even use her keyblade to just punch out a heartless here and there. Damn that woman was strong. He had to stop admiring her strength as the behemoth seemed ready to kill Stratos again. Dodge rolling all over the place to avoid getting crushed by the thing, he decided that maybe a bit of offense would do well against this thing. As the behemoth began to charge at him once more, Stratos stood up as if he were a matador. As the behemoth charged forward once more, Stratos quickly jumped into the air, only to cast Gravity on himself, in order to fast fall onto the behemoth's back. Once there, he went in and attacked the thing with a few regular combos, doing pretty minimal damage, until it managed to buck him off and send him hurtling across the hall. He knew he could keep doing this, though, and was about to when Karina had stopped killing the soldier heartless and finally came up to the behemoth. After she unleashed a singular hit on the thing, the behemoth fell down for a bit, in some sort of a stupor. Well that would keep the thing down for a bit. It was then that Karina told him that he was up, and called him a weakling to boot. He knew, though, that it was in the spirit of the competition and thus said, "weakling. Why young lady I'll have you know that that is an entirely true statement." He gave a grin as he said this, "though being a weakling lets me do some things better than someone with your herculean strength." An assault rider had started to charge towards Stratos, only for him to continue up with this little speech. "After all, while being able to beat things up with your bare hands may be fun, it's also pretty fun to just be able to do this." He stretched out his fingers, creating a miniature sun in his hand, that he simply tossed behind him. The assault rider was soon engulfed in a large sphere of flame that completely killed it. "So miss muscle, how about you and this weakling tear through some more heartless before our competition does?" OOC: EXP Writer: 625 words, 30 EXP Total: 240 EXP Spoiler: East Side, List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 41/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 3/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 277/300
As Stratos was recovering from that derpy behemoth just hitting him with its leg again, he suddenly heard his team mate come up to him and say something about feeling like being nice to him. Well that was a good thing. As she cast cure over him, he felt that he was ready to get back on the saddle and kill more heartless. It was then that Karina said that she needed him to be her rival in this fight against the heartless. Friendly competition certainly wasn't a bad thing in this situation, and sure he might get shown up by her, but at least he wasn't going to let her just do it that easily. However, that changed when she said that they should actually team up and see who could finish their sections first. After she declared her challenge to Beuce and Glen, Stratos started to feel a bit more pumped up. Sure, they were trying to stop these heartless so they could leave the world and not die, but the situation at hand just felt a lot more fun. He then gave a thumbs up to the girl and said, "yeah. No way are the two of us going to lose out on killing all these heartless first." She then charged at all of the heartless and started tearing through more of them like nobodies business. Karina was certainly a terrifying force, that much he could say. She then said that it was his turn to go and kill all of these heartless. Stratos was about to go and engage some of them, only he had no real way of killing them. Vorpal Blitz was on cool down, and after casting both blizzard and aero, his mp was fresh out for the moment. Sure he could try to slowly combo them all, but he needed this moment to look cool, and show off how awesome he could be. Which wasn't really much. He then saw another assault rider get ready to come in and kill him. This was one was farther away and so he had more time to react to it, though, just running away from the giant centaur with a spear wasn't very awesome either. As he thought about it, he remembered that there was one thing he could do in this situation to end it all pretty fast. At the end of the day, Gilgamesh was also, truly a bro among bros. Spinning his keyblade around for a bit, Stratos took his stance, ready to take on the charging heartless. It was then that cherry blossoms started falling from literally no where. This command was already something extremely weird. The petals fell as if creating a straight line that spanned the distance between the two opponents. Stratos closed his eyes as he stopped spinning the keyblade, and put it to his side as if doing kind of iaido skill. The assault rider had almost completely closed in on him when suddenly Stratos reopened his eyes. As if it had all happened within the blink of an eye, Stratos had seemingly dashed straight through the Assault Rider, with his keyblade outstretched as if it had actually been swung. The heartless simply turned into a puff of black smoke, having been felled in one hit. "So, how was that?" He then noticed the behemoth starting to comeback up to him in an attempt to strike him down once more. He turned to Karina and said, "if he's your little friend then he must be my crazy evil ex." Stratos quickly backed away from the behemoth's kick, only to roll back, jump on its leg, and then jump to the horn, hitting it twice. "Alright, you're up." Ooc: EXP Writer: 620 Words, 30 EXP Total: 210 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 34/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 2/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 280/300
Having been launched off the behemoth before he could do anything else, he was glad that the thing was no longer had aggro on him, and so he could go to work on the smaller heartless...or one of the bigger ones could just come up to him and they could just duke it out like that. An Assault Rider came over to him and tried to bull charge him. Having dodge rolled away from the attack, Stratos then brought his keyblade up to guard against the spinning lance strike of the Assault Rider. With the attack connecting, Stratos skidded back a bit from the attack, and then he dodged rolled again towards the heartless. The Assault Rider missed with its next strike because of this, giving Stratos an opportunity to go in for another combo attack. With that he continued to unleash another combo attack until the Assault Rider just stopped flinching. Well that was a bit of a problem. The assault rider started spinning the giant lance around in an attempt to cleave through Stratos again. However, he continued to dodge roll away from the attacks, only dodge roll back in to attempt to use the same strategy again. However, the assault rider wasn't going to fall for this trick again and just hit Stratos with the butt of his spear. Having been hit by this blunt force, Stratos let out a pained cough, having the wind kicked out of him. He was able to recover before the assault rider was able to lance through him, and dodge rolled out of the way. The assault rider wasn't going to allow the keyblade wielder to run away again though, and so it started to just charge straight at him. Having very little breathing room, Stratos put his keyblade up to guard against the attack, only to be pushed back by the impact of the attack. The assault rider then started to continue on with its onslaught of spear attacks. Spinning the spear around in a whirlwind, Stratos was hard pressed to keep his guard up, and eventually had to dodge roll away from the attack. The assault rider then stabbed at Stratos, who just barely twisted his body to the side to dodge the attack. Having avoided the attack, he realized that Vorpal Blitz was ready once more, and unleashed it once more on the assault rider. After the flurry of blows was unleashed against the heartless, Stratos followed up with another combo. The assault rider was still not going down from these attacks, and grabbed the kid. While it raised him up into the air, it brought its spear back ready to impale the young keyblade wielder. However, having done enough hits, and with power of the spellbinder's mp haste, Stratos had enough MP in order to cast blizzard from his keyblade. The ice chunk fired straight out a the heartless and ultimately ended it. When the heartless disappeared in a puff of black smoke, Stratos landed on the ground and started to catch his breath. While he was doing so, he cast Aero on himself to protect against any more shenanigans, only to be kicked by that same god damn behemoth. Lowering its daintily raised leg, it just of walked away from the keyblade wielder as derpily as it had walked in. Stratos was getting really annoyed with this mammoth of a heartless, and chucked his keyblade at the behemoth, barely damaging it. As the behemoth turned around to face its attacked, said attacker was already bolting it in order to find weaker heartless to kill first. OOC: EXP Writer: 600 Words, 30 EXP Total: 180 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 27/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 1/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 283/300
Stratos let out a heavy wheezing as he regained his balance from the attack. Man behemoths hit hard. As he was able to keep standing after the attack, he quickly thrust his keyblade into the air and watched as a spell ignited off of it. Soon, a green wave of healing light enveloped Stratos, as the cure spell had healed up all of his wounds from that attack. Feeling better from the attack, he looked at the behemoth that had kicked him, only to realize that there was no way he would be able to fight this thing right from the get go, and so he started running from it. The behemoth did not like the fact that his prey had started to run away from him. The behemoth had started to bull charge straight at the dodge rolling Stratos. After catching up with him, the behemoth tried buck the boy away with his horns. Stratos regained his balance, quickly turned around and held his keyblade up into a guard stance. While he was using the command to block the brunt of the attack, when the horns connected with his blade, Stratos was sent skidding across the room, only for two other heartless to want to get in on the action of killing him. Two armored knights then joined the fray, with the behemoth still not giving up on its chase to completely kill Stratos. The two armored knights then started their attacks up, letting out a barrage of slashes that Stratos could only really guard against. The Behemoth then leaped at him, causing Stratos to dodge roll away from the thing. However, the impact from the heartless landing still managed to damage Stratos, despite avoiding the attack. The two armored knights were not giving up on the fight either, jumping at the recovering boy with their arm blades at the ready. Stratos realized that his window of opportunity wasn't exactly great to launch a counter attack at the moment, and so he rolled out of the attacks once more. Having distanced himself from the heartless, he then pointed his keyblade at the two knight heartless, ready to cast a spell again. He then just stood there until he realized that he actually out of MP at the moment. Well this was terrible. The behemoth started walking towards Stratos once more, while the armored knights tried to take advantage of his failed casting, only for Stratos to be able to react in time and guard against the two strikes. He was pretty sure Vorpal Blitz was still on cool down at the moment, and so that wouldn't be something he could use to get out of this situation.He then remembered what he did last time he was in this situation. Knowing that he had enough strength to do it again, Stratos punched his chest again to instant cast Trip Around the Sun for a second time during the fight. The sun created a small dome of flame around him just as it had before, obliterating all of the surrounding heartless. Stratos then thought that, with the armored knights dead, he should move onto more of the heartless. That was, until the behemoth had walked its way up to him while he was dealing with the knights, and kicked him once again. Stratos wasn't about to be blindsided by this attack again, and held out his keyblade to guard most of the attack. While he did skid across the ground once more, the Behemoth charged at him once more, only Stratos try and high jump right over the thing's head. Realizing the cool down had finally finished, Stratos unleashed a Vorpal blitz on the Behemoth's horn, followed up with a regular combo. OOC: EXP Writer: Words: 622, 30 EXP Total: 150 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 11/55 Soliders: 20/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 0/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 288/300 Soldier 1/3
Time for another round of heartless to get totally killed by Stratos. He was finding it hard to get in a groove for fighting these things, as he had basically been doing nothing but dodge rolling all over the place while he wasn't fighting stuff. It was a good thing he was fighting the same heartless, as he was able to learn just what they were capable of, however, that seemed to not be able to help him in this situation. Staring down three armor knights, Stratos started dodge rolling away as the three armor knights continued their charge against him. The three of them finished their charge by simultaneously jump attacking him, with all three of the blades landing in a very three musketeers type formation, they quickly withdrew from the formation to see Stratos charge and attack them. As threatening as they might have seemed to him, they did lack the ability to guard against attacks, and thus Stratos was able to combo one of them before having to dodge roll away. The three then continued their pursuit of him as they continued to leap at him, one after the other. Stratos realized that his strategy would tire himself out too fast, and thus he stopped, causing the knights to overshoot him and jump past. Point the keyblade at one of the three, he cast immediately fire, sans chant, launching a fireball at one of them. With the fireball homing in, it exploded on contact and killed the heartless immediately, with an aforementioned sound effect. After looking at the heart fly to the sky, the two armored knights turned their attention back to Stratos and began their assault on him once more. Stratos ducked from the first strike coming at him, and then put his keyblade up to guard against the second knight's strike. He then continued to retain his guard stance as the blades continued to come one after the other into his guard. Vorpal Blitz wasn't off cooldown yet, and Stratos didn't have enough charge yet to unleash another trip around the sun, thus he was kind of stuck at the moment. While however, these two armored knights continued to be relentless, as Stratos continued to keep up his guard. It was then that he thought of a way to take both of them out at once. When the two had both connected attacks at the same time, Stratos pushed them back with his blade and then, sans chant once more, cast Mine Square around himself. The two knights, not seeming to know what that was at all, just walked over them as they all blew up, causing the armored knight heartless to be completely dead. Well that was easy. Stratos then looked around to see what else he could kill. He saw a lone soldier, just sort of doing a waddling type walk, going past all the people here. Seeing that, he couldn't just let the soldier's march go uncontested. Dodge rolling over there, (being faster than walking an all,) Stratos brought his keyblade down on the soldier, gaining its attention and knocking it away. As the soldier charged at Stratos, he blocked the attack and then unleashed a combo against the heartless. Having not been dead yet, Stratos was about to attack it once more to finish the job off, when something collided with him, as if out of nowhere. The force of the blow sent Stratos hurtling across until he was able to pick himself back up, albeit in pain, to see what had brought the blow. "Oh son of a bi-" Lowering a raised leg, there stood a behemoth that had gotten in Stratos's way. And boy did it not seem like it wanted to make friends. OOC: Exp Writer: 625 Words, 30 EXP Total EXP: 120 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 9/55 Soliders: 20/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 0/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 295/300 Soldier 1/3
Stratos had decided that standing in one place and casting spells was most likely not going to be the best plan of action. And so he started to dodge roll around the place, avoiding heartless that decided to come at him. However, he realized that just dodging them would cause an opening for the heartless to go through and attack the mirror. That would be a tad bit of a problem. And so he had to use the power of his inner armordillo. Rolling back, he started to roll between enemies in order to taunt them and get them over to him. Stratos was not in any position to do anything to them once he did have their attention though. So with not the best of plans being executed at the moment, he decided he would deal with this taunted bunch first. It was two armored knights and two soldiers. Okay, not the biggest crowd, but it was something he could deal with easily. Not to mention these four had buddies that were willing to kill him at a moments notice if he took too long. The first armor knight jumped at Stratos with a slash to cleave off his head, only for Stratos duck in time. The second one then followed up with a downward strike at him. Bringing up his keyblade to block the strike, he then saw the two soldier prep up some sort of weird strike at him. Pushing the blade away as fast as he could, Stratos then preformed a high jump to avoid getting slaughtered by the two soldier's dash attacks. As he came back down, the two armored knights then prepped up their blades and struck them straight at the falling Stratos. Twisting his body a bit, he brought his keyblade in front of him to block the brunt of the attacks, causing him to be knocked through the air from the impact. He then bounced across the ground a few times, before standing up to see a soldier heartless dash straight at him. Moving faster then he thought he could, Stratos quickly brought his keyblade in front of him, casting fire almost instantly. The soldier had dashed straight into the fireball, and exploded immediately from the attack.The next soldier had already prepped up his attack, and as such Stratos brought his keyblade in front of him to block the attack. When the hit was cancelled out, he then hit the heartless with a full combo only for it to not die, and the other two armored knights to come at him for another frontal assault. As if his only skill was guard, Stratos continued to hold his ground against the armored knights until he realized something. With the cooldown having been completed, Stratos pushed the knights away and launched a Vorpal Blitz on one. The heartless was soon eliminated only for Stratos to follow up with an aerial attack against the remaining armored knight. With the two being blade being locked, the Armored Knight was easily able to out muscle Stratos, and pushed him through the air again. The armor knight then leaped through the air at Stratos once more, and tried to cleave him. Seeing the Soldier charging at him again, guarding would be impossible and thus he dodge rolled out of the way. Having rolled behind the armored knight, he unleashed another combo only for it to not die as well. With the knight being stunned, Stratos was able to unleash another combo on the soldier, actually killing it. With the knight recovering, Stratos parried its final strike and Stratos ended it with a few combos. With that over with, Stratos just flung his keyblade (not strike raid,) at the behemoth, basically poking it. OOC: EXP Writer: 625 Words, 30 EXP Total: 90 EXP Spoiler: East Side List Casualties: Behemoths: 0/5 Armored Knight: 6/55 Soliders: 13/65 Lance Soldiers: 0/20 Morning Star: 0/15 Assault Riders: 0/15 Zip Slashers: 0/5 Power Wilds: 0/50 Injuries: Behemoths 296/300
