Being as focused as he was on the demon, he spotted the legs and avoided their stab. As for the venom, he blocked it with his forearm as a reflex and thought nothing of it at first. Hearing it sizzle though it, Zephyr quickly enchanted his armor with thicker armor while swiping it off. Pain had coursed through his body as a result of him using another variant of his magic, this time being stronger, but he bared with it and took one step forward to slice off the two legs that had just materialized on Xilyn and with another step he pivoted on his heel, spun around and slice upward at her chest.
Zephyr had been fully prepared to block the oncoming wave of poison as dodging it would be a harder task when the wall of shadows formed to block it. Soon as the attack had died down, Zephyr was on the attack. He cut across the wall and ran straight for Xilyn, flames moving to dance across his blade as he got close enough to slice with his right sword and follow up with a thrust from his left one. His actions were both fluid and focused, meaning one of them was sure to hit.
His own struggles did nothing to get himself free, thus he was relieved to feel the wind blow past him thus free him from the webbing. He had all of a few seconds to compose himself before a scream was heard. Thea's scream. The demon had gotten to her and despite Thea getting herself free, she was now surrounded in gold flames? The flames were unmistakably golden surrounded Thea as she now lay still on the ground. She wasn't dead, fortunately he knew that much, however his frustration had reached its Zenith and what inhibitions that were holding him back were released, allowing that energy to be unleashed. "Memory Make Armament!" Flames had danced around Zephyr, covering his body and leaving him cloaked in armor and he leap forward, catching Xilyn off guard with a knee to the face. Zephyr landed, his eyes focused on the demon that was still reeling from his last attack. "If you want them you'll have to go through me." Flames of his own design had ignited in both of his hands then took the shape katana's of matching lengths. "And that's not going to happen again." Pain had started to course through his body as a result of using three variations of his magic, but it was ignored. He could fight through it. Long as the demon was slayed he would fight through it. Once more the gap between the demon and himself was close when Zephyr went in for another attack with his swords.
There was a growl of frustration when Zephyr spotted Xilyn easily getting past them and over to where Selena was. A single step was all he'd managed to take before the combination of webs of venom caused to him detour his course. The hail of assault didn't stop there and Zephyr had formed a shield to defend himself. Thea was dealing with the demon, but the hordes of spiders going down towards Maliel were different. As soon as he stopped feeling attacks against his shield, he morphed it into a sword and aimed it at the web. It became engulf in flames midway through its trip and cleaved through the web she was stuck on and whatever spiders may have been nearby. Unfortunately this left Zephyr open to have his right arm being webbed as well as his foot. "Dammit." His struggles were more focused on getting his foot free for the time being.
Zephyr had been on guard the moment Thea started walking towards the Mayor, even if he did have faith in her he didn't doubt that something would occur after Thea made her move. It was a gut feeling he had and one he was fully willing to act on. Then Maliel had screamed. He spotted Izra falling to the ground next to them. He could feel his anger grow and his magic surge throughout his body at what was behind them. How? How did she get there, he didn't feel any sort of presence behind them. His instincts were feel him to attack, to fight the demon that was before them to stop all this. However the situation itself was in ill favor to do that and he knew that. When the four spiders than had been blown back by Gavin's wind magic had bounced off the webs around them and right for him, Zephyr had made his move by cutting them all down in a single strike from his flame coated sword. "Hold her still." He may not have been able to help with the physical injury, but the poison he was able to deal with. He grabbed the vial that he'd gotten from Selena, opened it and dripped some of it past her lips and into her system. Zephyr stood back up and once the vial was away, went back to cutting away the spiders that leap towards him and Gavin. All while keeping an eye on Xislyn.
"No, its just us." Kel answered. Despite how they described the weapons, they couldn't have been talking about a keyblade. Maybe they meant John's weapon that he was holding. Still first savages and now white devils, neither of which had given off any form of non hostilities.
Chrono nodded along to Torrin's explanation to show that he was following along and he was understanding it. The analogy did help put something that he'd only just learned about in a manner he could understand quickly. After he'd caught both the gloves and coat, Chrono looked at them with a raised eyebrow. He had doubts as to how articles of clothing were going to provide protection against darkness, but apparently it was made from a special material. Special enough to get Edna to not care about the designs at least. While slipping the gloves and coat over his costume, Chrono heard what else had been added about the hooded woman he was recently told about. The same kind of coat that they were wearing now? Certainly would stick out more that they knew that. I did? He didn't voice his confusion and despite that he was glad that it happened, however he did anyway. Simply put, walking around when they got to the heart of the world was off putting. It felt like there was something on him, but every time he glanced he saw nothing. Nothing Torrin had really helped with this feeling, only made it worse. Regardless he nodded and stayed on guard, even as both Take and Tinarah had shifted in closer.
Kel, having never seen a waterfall before, was immediately distracted by the sheer sight of it all. The tranquil air that it all seem have while providing a peaceful sight and the shadow behind that ran off shortly before John Smith gave chase. Okay that last part wasn't really anything that had to do with the waterfall itself and more so the surprise from John's actions. Kel had barely moved a muscle before they were stopped by, using John's descriptions from earlier, Indians. Not the best of timings for them to show up, especially with threatening their lives. "Easy there, we aren't looking for trouble. I'm Kel." His hands went up as well to prove his statement. "No need to threaten our lives here."
Chrono was pleasently surprised to see that the "Bowler Hat Guy" was actually willing to tell him about their plan. He was expecting things to be difficult, like what Xerek was trying to do. Thankfully Elastigirl had agreed to giving him a good word cause Chrono had no say in that. As the two bickered, Chrono made note of the key information that was slipped out. A Clown named Kefka, hooded woman and the magiteck. It all came back to the magikteck and he had no idea who the clown was, he'd imagined that even that would stick out in a world of heroes. Same with a hooded women. The rest of the argument had just left Chrono perplexed. The Bowlcape Emporium? Could that really be considered something a villain would do. Even taking into account that they had brainwashed heroes to help them, with that being the end goal? He made the smart move and choose not to dwell on that any further and walked away from the two. Just in time to hear Torrin mentioned 'the heart of the world'. "That's something we, rather, you can do?"
"I suppose." Kel relented. Well being cautious wasn't a bad thing in itself, a bit worrying depending on what he does in the event they run into a Indian though. They didn't make any progress in getting John Smith to stop calling them savages. He said it was ingrained in his brain and would not be easy to change then. Kel had heard the same sounds that everyone else had heard, but didn't put it together as to what it was. Mainly cause he's never actually seen a 'waterfall' in person before until now. Regardless he follow suit behind Aislinn in the direction of the sound.
Unsurprisingly they weren't not given a warm welcome or hailed as heroes when they had arrived back to Mora's village. If there was to be a surprise behind this, it was that all of them were treated with the same disdain as opposed to just himself. It was his idea that they all followed, so him getting the full treatment made sense to him in his head. Now Mora being kicked out along side with was not expected. Her mother was very adamant about kicking them out. "Somehow I don't think it'll be that easy." He muttered to himself. Could be him just being pessimistic though and he was willing to admit that. If he was proven wrong anyway.
Having nothing else to do while he waited for Aeira to grab the flag, Vallus simply stood watch. For what he was watching out for he had no idea, but he doubted anything that he could show up would be outside of anything he could handle. At first he actually stood while watching out for anything. That lasted for about a couple of minutes before he had pretty much said 'eff it' and just sat down while he waited. Everything certainly was quiet and Vallus had just decided to look around at the surroundings. When Aeira had landed, it prompted Vallus to stand up after nodding in acknowledgment at their task being completed as he followed behind her.
Outside of wondering why Torrin hadn't done all that sooner, Chrono looked to the Bowler Hat guy as the others talked about whether or not they should rest. As it stood right now he couldn't see how it was that they weren't done with all this. He looked over to Doris, who he could've sworn had made some sort of noise right as he'd said that. Okay, they would need to clean this all up, but that was a issue for a different time. Chrono had then walked up to the Bowler Hat guy. "What did you need these heroes for? It had to have been something more then just heavy lifting." While he may have been restrained by ElasticGirl, Chrono still remained cautious to some degree in the event he tried something.
"So its like a guild then." Under that reasoning, Kel put together that this 'Virginia' place was where it was located at. Then his statement afterwards caused Kel to raise an eyebrow. If the savages were only to be involved if they got in the way, then why was he going around with a weapon in his hand. He hadn't heard any sounds that would imply someone was nearby and he has been keeping both an eye and an ear out for those kinds of things. "This seems more like you're hunting them. If they stay out of the way to mind their own business, why not do the same and look for gold?"
No matter how many times Kel heard that word, he was still having troubles actually picturing these indians as 'savages'. His own head canon would fit the name better, but seemed out of place for this world as well as odd given they weren't in the process of defending themselves right now. So far they seemed to be doing a good job in leading John away from where they assumed the indians were. "By the way, what is the 'Virginia Company' you mentioned earlier?" He also had no idea what 'Virgina' was either, but hopefully that would be answer while his first question was answered.
Kel shrugged off the comparison to him and Radcliff. Adventure was just never really a high priority to him when compared to other things. Either way John was clearly enjoying himself as he'd gone out of his way to hop onto a rock and pose in the wind. Kel actually chucked at the sight right as the wind had picked up. Maybe Luna had a point, there was a seemingly relaxed air among them despite John still holding his gun. "I'm starting to see what you mean there Luna."
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Kel too was able to understand the adventure reason behind John Smith being here. It was a pretty easy reason to understand and much better when compared the other ones he listed. "I can get that, well kinda, there's never been much of a desire for adventure for me. Its a nice change of pace though." After all there's been numerous things that he's both seen and done while on this adventure that he probably never would've done before. In that regard he was certainly grateful for all this.
Lets go 4 points into AP and learning Judgement
"Pretty much what she said, we just decided to go for a boat ride and ended up running into you." Kel added. It sounded believable enough given the circumstances. "What about you? These so called "savages" Kel provided his own air quotes for this one. "can't be the sole reason in which your here." By this point Kel had moved his hands into his pocket, giving off a slightly relaxed air while they continued with their plan.
