Aux was leaping into the air and grabbing at the darkballs like they were giant balloons. With one in particular, he grabbed it by it's chain and dragged it down slowly, making sure not to disturb it too much. The heartless jerked and shook about to try and escape, but it's efforts didn't do it any good. Aux continued to pull down the heartless until it was floating in front of him and began to whirl it around like a morning star. He swung it around by it's chain as it it were a flail preparing to hit the rest of it's heartless brothers with the creature and hopefully destroy them in the process. Hikaru cast a quick Blizzard spell on the darkball Aux was swinging and caused it to freeze. The extra weight caused by the ice allowed Aux to swing the heartless about with more weight to it. While it was indeed heavier, the darkball now had some extra power to it. He swung the darkball at a few others until his weaponized heartless couldn't take it anymore and eventually shattered, taking several other heartless with it in the process. The other darkballs that saw this occurrence slowly began to float in the opposite direction. Looking at the escaping darkballs, Hikaru began to chase after them. "Oh no you don't!" He began to race ahead, already growing tired from the distance, before turning around and pointing his keyblade straight forward. A burst of power eminated from the keyblade before several jets of water began to spurt out from the tip of his keyblade. The jets of water weren't doing too much damage. but, the spell was doing it's job in gathering the darkballs and coralling them into a small space for him to finish off. Once the spell had expired, he heard a roaring yell as Finlay came in charging from the east. The darkballs he himself were chasing continued to bump into the darkballs Hikaru was chasing and caused them to scatter a bit. Before they scattered however, the doused heartless managed to splash some water onto the other heartless that Finlay had chased towards Hikaru. This caused the rest of the heartless to all end up soaking wet and perfect for the technique Finlay was about to perform. He pointed his axe at a darkball near the center of the group and released a quick zap of celtic magic. This resulted in all the floating darkballs clinging together as if they were giant grapes of darkness. With all his opponents in one place, Finlay pointed both axes at the gathered swarm and charged his axes with electricity before firing them at the gathered darkballs. The electricity on top of the darkballs being doused by Hikaru's water spell caused all the heartless to be violently electrocuted on impact. Finlay let out a roar of laughter as he joyously raced forward and let in a deep inhale from the smoke of his slaughtered enemies. "Isn't this just the greatest day?! First we beat the witch, now we fight in glorious battle! Oh how I wish me boys back home could see this, HAHAHA!" Finlay laughed as he raced off to his next conquest. Hikaru waved goodbye lightly at him as his mouth winced a bit as to who the heck that was and what witch he was talking about. Looking back to Aux, his friend was still pummeling the darkballs with his barehands, causing him to wipe his forehead from all the unecessary physical grunt work he was doing. "You know you could use the keyblade right? It's way easier!" Aux simply looked back at Hikaru and glared. "Or you know, not... your choice." Hikaru also waved at Aux before returning to his own side. The hostility in this group was growing more and more alarming. Words: 638 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 2100 Finlay defeated 9 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Hikaru and Aux defeated 32 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Heartless remaining: 816 Neoshadows 757 Darkballs
With Finlay continuing to slash about through the battlefield, he swung his axes with little to no effort as he watched one darkball after the other disappear in a flash. He clashed his two axes together as he began to whirl them about with his arms. His arms moved in a circular motion as if they were helicopter blades. He walked forwards slowly, hearing the whoosh of his blades with every step. A darkball began to float it's way towards him, only to be cleaved clean off by the sheer strength and speed of the blades. A puff of smoke appeared as Finlay continued to march forward, killing anything in his path. He roared with laughter as his axes continuing to swing away, the momentum causing some static electricity to frizzle in his raggedy beard. Over with Hikaru and Aux, Hikaru was still making his own progress with the darkballs. They hadn't gained much strength since their last encounter, but they were still enough of a threat for him to stay focused on them. He cast a quick Blizzaga spell at one of the darkballs and watched it fall to the ground. The heartless shattered on impact once it hit the ground, Hikaru ensuring to keep his ground in case more of them would try and corner or rush him. Turning his back to check on his friend, Aux seemed to be more than capable of handling the situation. Aux was barely relying on his keyblade as he began to physically punch the darkballs. He could see he wasn't exactly enjoying the fighting, but he could see the look on Aux's face was rather satisfied as defeating them with his own hands. Hikaru could usually tell when something was bothering Aux by how he was when he was fighting. Back when he sparred with Kaida, he would usually be calm when there was nothing bothering him. When he fought with intent in his eyes, there was usually something on his mind. In this case, Hikaru could piece together what was bothering his friend. "Look, I know you said you needed to talk, so I guess I'll just start..." He took a deep breath before continuing, but not before doing a quick combo against a darkball. "I'm sorry I'm the reason you fell into darkness. If you hadn't sacrificed your light to help keep me stable, we would've never left central haven. You wouldn't have been in any of this mess if it weren't for me." As Hikaru apologized, Aux through a darkball at him, causing Hikaru to be pushed to the ground and the heartless to burst into smoke from the impact. "Stop being stupid," He said, picking him up to his feet by his collar. "My decisions are mine alone. I could've just as easily found another way to fix you, but I wanted a fast result. That choice was mine. You were a factor sure, but it's not your fault. Why do you always have to apologize for everything anyways?" Hikaru looked down, still feeling sorry for himself. "Besides I should be thanking you. If you and your friends didn't defeat Mizrabel, I'd still be lost in the dark. I remember my family, I remember my past. That was all thanks to you... So stop blaming yourself for things you can't control. Focus on the things you can and stop worrying about everything. Kaida would agree." Hikaru scratched the back of his head before realizing what he just said. "Wait... you and Kaida talked about me?" Aux quickly looked around to try and walk away from this conversation. He found some more darkballs before taking out his keyblade and dealing more damage to them. Though he knew his friend was just avoiding things, he felt a bit lighter that his friend didn't resent him. Words: 636 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 2040 Finlay defeated 9 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Hikaru and Au defeated 32 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Enemies Remaining: 816 Neoshadows 830 Darkballs
Finlay watched the battlefield as a huge horde of heartless surrounded the field. His nostrils flared as an uneven and very uncomfortable smile escaped his face. His smile grew wider as his mouth was wide open, looking across the hundreds of monsters that lay before him. it reminded him of his glorious battle days back home. To this point, all he had faced were mindless robots that fired easy to navigate spells. But now he was looking at monsters. Predatory creatures of darkness that he could tear apart with his own bare hands. Sure, they wouldn't be splattered in blood in a field of glory, but anything he could tear apart and make scream was perfect for him. It didn't matter if it would just be in a puff of smoke, it was a battle. And glorious one at that. A single tear rolled down his cheek, as he continued to hold his axes high. His smile still stretching from ear to ear, he let out a mighty roar as he began charging the battle in slow motion. He was so happy just being able to fight in a battle where he could destroy and kill things. While he would normally be spiting and mocking his enemies, he just continued to rush ahead and swing his axes. He was speechless as he began laughing with a big toothy smile, taking his axes and charging his entire body with lightning. While he looked like a mad man in real time, everything just slowed down for him as he leapt up and struck both axes downward, slashing through his enemies in a barbarian viking fashion. Finlay charged into the battlefield with both axes flailing. He was a warrior through and through, and slashing at these creatures made him happier than he had been in a while. He continued smiling as he laughed like a child on Christmas. As he slashed through each darkball, he let out a mighty laugh. From across the field, Hikaru and Aux stood and watched the dynamic viking continue to wreck and tear apart his enemies with savage intent and a very wide grin. Hikaru turned to Aux and looked back at Finlay. "So I see Karina made some new... friends..." He looked back to Finlay and couldn't look away as he slaughtered them with such joy. "Is that how I look when I'm fighting?" Aux asked. He knew he was a very strong man, but didn't know if he looked that crazy while he fought. Hikaru shook his head in reply, still watching Finlay. "No... That guy looks like he's enjoying it way too much." They watched as a darkball rolled towards them in agony, Aux quickly slashing at it with his keyblade to put it out of it's misery. "I'm just gonna, steer clear of that guy for a while..." Hikaru said, slowly backing away and destroying more darkballs on his own. Aux continued to watch the viking and shook, his eyes wanting to turn away and hoping he didn't have to talk to that guy. Aux leapt back to his own heartless to fight and began hacking and slashing away at them. They were mostly fighting darkballs, so Aux was simply performing various aerial combos until they were removed from the field. In the background, he could still hear Finlay roaring with joyous laughter as his axes slashed through his enemies. Hikaru was also on his own side performing various aerial combos as well. His Diamond Dust Aura also gave him a neat combo finisher that damaged enemies around him with a rapid spinning of ice chunks around his body. Managing to defeat the darkballs in his general vicinity, Aux and Hikaru faced away from each other to prepare for any more heartless appearances. Words: 629 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 1980 Finlay defeated 9 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Hikaru and Au defeated 32 Darkballs (+1 Injured) Enemies Remaining: Defeat 966 Neoshadows Defeat 922 Darkballs Defeat 18 Invisibles
Wave II Battle Report (Those with S-Rank gain an extra 100 BP, A-Rank gain an extra 80 BP, B-Rank gain an extra 60 BP, C-Rank gain an extra 40 BP, D-Rank gain an extra 20 BP) 19.4% - S-Rank - Stratos 18.2% - S-Rank - Aislinn 15.8% - S-Rank - AJ 10.9% - S-Rank - Hikaru/Aux 9.1% - S-Rank - Kaida 6.7% - B-Rank - Kel 6.1% - B-Rank - Ignis 5.5% - B-Rank - Luna 3.6% - C-Rank - Steel 3.6% - C-Rank - Beuce 1.2% - D-Rank - Ananta With Hughes' next wave rapidly approaching, Shiro was beginning to grow tired. "What's the matter my former pupil? Beginning to falter already? I thought you had more spirit than that." Shiro grunted as he picked himself back up and panted. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M CAPABLE OF..." "Perhaps, but I know what the toll of battle has on those kids yer so fond of. They won't be able to last much longer. Maybe another wave or two, but there's still only a dozen of them against thousands of heartless. Even with your buffing magic, you won't be able to keep them alive forever. Face it Fujioka, I'm playing the long game here. You'll all run out of energy soon enough. I just have to wait you out." He snickered as he summoned his next wave of Heartless, including a thousand neoshadows and a thousand darkballs. "You're all weak..." Hughes grinned as he stood by his heartless. "You're the weak one!" a woman's antagonizing voice blared across the battlefield. The voice belonged to that of Karina, as she stood with Oswald the lucky rabbit, Mizu, Arctus, Finlay, Vallus, Aeira, and Koa; several people she had met on her journey. "Overcompensating with heartless? Not man enough to take us on yourself?!" "How is it this hard to be rid of you!" Hughes cried out. "Shiro!" Mizu cried out happily. "Kaida!" "LADY MIZU!" Shiro called back, looking to the rest of the group alongside her. "AND FRIENDS." "We're here to help!" "PLEASE LADY MIZU! IT'S QUITE DANGEROUS!" Mizu shook her head. "No! I've been useless for far too long! Now it's my turn to help you!" Hughes laughed halfheartedly. "You need a child now Fujioka? What kind of solider won't fight his own battle?" Shiro looked to him. "I'm more than just a soldier Hughes. I'm part of a unit! And I would trust my life with Mizu or Kaida any day! PROCEED LADY MIZU, BUT BE WARY!" Mizu nodded and clapped her hands together, gathering a large amount of magical energy. " "You can't be serious?" Hughes mocked. "What threat could she possibly hold?" "It's not her you should be worried about." Hughes turned to him and laughed. "What? The other brats? One of them took my arm because I was being far too lenient. But I ain't going easy on 'em this time, so if they're her ace in the whole, I'd find another ringer..." Shiro laughed. "What's so funny?!" Hughes turned around as an enormous shadow was cast over him. Mizu was standing on the shoulder of a giant ice colossus. The monstrous golem stood a fair hundred feet tall as it emanated cold air around itself. "Colonel. Meet Sprinkles." Mizu looked down at the man intensly. Yue and Lea were still missing, and she had a lot of work to make up for. "Sprinkles!" She commanded, the ice colossus turning it's head to face her on it's shoulder. "Fetch..." She said calmly, pointing to the darksides. The colossus turned it's head back and grabbed the faces of both darksides with it's icy claws. The collosus slammed both heads to the ground as it began unleashing attack after attack against them. "YES LADY MIZU!" Shiro spun around and began to destroy several invisibles. "THE BATTLE RAGES ON!" Mizu and Sprinkles defeated 2 Darksides. Shiro defeated 10 Invisibles! MISSION START! NOTE: Black Coats Characters are able to use 100 BP. Defeat 1000 Neoshadows Defeat 1000 Darkballs Defeat 40 Invisibles
Oswald nodded as he looked to the group. "Okay, but we have to hurry! I don't know how many monsters are with that guy, but it didn't look like they were letting up soon..." Oswald led the way as he hopped towards their destination. [VOLUME 1] - CHAPTER VI - ARMY OF DARKNESS (This Chapter will be held in the Kingdom Hearts SOS thread when the next heartless wave begins)
"I'm afraid you don't realize the gravity of the... como se dice... outcome." He looked to Luther's hand and slowly pushed it away with his own. "Regardless of how or why, I have still been bested. The Red Society is surmised of only the most worthy and unbeatable of opponents. Seeing as how I have been bested in combat, I no longer serve a purpose there. I am better off on finishing things on my own terms." He summoned his keyblade and pointed it at his own heart. "I end my very existence in a way befitting of a De le Vega... With honor... and without regret." He pierced his heart, dropping his keyblade to the ground. His hands following suit as he closed his eyes and began to vanish from the area. "This is only the beginnning..." he said in his final words, as he faded from existence. A small of cigar smoke lit the room as a man's deep southern voice echoed about the room. "Well that really is just a damn shame, ain't it?" There was no man in sight, but the voice could still be heard. "Would've wagered my money on the spaniard, but seeing the outcome, makes me rather glad I didn't." He let out a heavy sigh as he continued. "Now I'm gonna have to take y'all in for questionin.'" Before he could give them time to react, both Melus and Luther were warped out of the room. The only thing remaining in the room now was a lot of damage, and Lea's broken keyblade. ---------------------- Mizu breathed deeply. "I've just missed so much. I've never felt so out of the loop before." She took a brief pause. "Wow, this is what Kaida must feel like..." She looked to Kiara. "Well if you think there's a chance she's still alive, why would we go back to your base? Why don't we just got to where Shiro is?"
With Luther's technique forcing Tango into a corner, a small smirk escape the corner of his lips. A giant explosion blasted back Luther and broke his illusion along with it. The focus he brought to fool Tango this time didn't go unnoticed as the skilled swordsman had a back-up plan. The flaming dragon spell was a decoy to help keep Luther at bay, but the real trump card was for when Luther got close enough. Tango's ultimate ability came from his ability to destroy anyone in close combat. For whenever Luther would get to close, Tango could unleash pinpoint explosions at blank point range without dealing any damage to himself. Mastering the ability over fire for years and years, he had learned to take as little damage as possible without getting burned. Watching as Luther got knocked back, he took his keyblade and prepared the final blow. "You fought well young man. But the truth remains that Ignicio De la Vega remains undefefeat-" before he finished his last sentance, he felt a piercing pain in his chest as a burst of air had caused the flames surrounding his body to waver for a moment. Two more bursts that had hit his body previously were dissintigrated before hitting his body, but created enough of an opening for the third wind based arrow to his his mark. A twinge of fear caused his eye to twitch as he looked down at his chest. His heart was beginning to bleed through his shirt, causing him to fall to his knees. He had managed to cover all his bases for an epic sword battle, but he didn't account for any long distance attacks, let alone from the other contender. "Only a fatal blow..." he repeated in disbelief, falling to his knees. He could have argued against the rules or the legitimacy of the attack, but the fact remained; he had been bested. He looked to Melus and sighed as he held his chest. "Sly as a fox, but the conditions have been met." looked up to Luther who he knocked back with the explosion. "You have been declared victor... My element is now yours. You are free to finish me off senor..." He closed his eyes and opened his arms to embrace his demise.
After Aux's attack on finishing off the rest of the darkballs, he began to look around himself and Hikaru. From the look of things, the heartless were still raging against the rest of the members in their party, but at least their numbers were definitely decreasing, He could see by just his simple viewpoint of the area around him, that the numbers had now begun to decrease in the low hundreds. Before he had time to give a closer inspection, he more than a few dozen shadows begin to crawl their way before the two of them. Hikaru quickly held his keyblade with both hands as he looked around to keep a calm composure. He breathed out cold air as he kept a level headed, charging against the shadows on his side, leaving Aux to his own devices. With his keyblade tilted over his should, he dropped his blade to his ground and cracked his neck slowly as he looked straight ahead at the shadows. A small smirk escaped his mouth, knowing the onslaught he was about to perform against the bewildered heartless. Hikaru on his own side, began to slash through the shadows with his newly invigorated sleek prowess. He watched over his shoulders, as a few of the shadows tried to sneak behind him, while a good dozen of them had begun to sneak below him in their shadow sneak mode. He quickly leapt into the air as he kept the heartless at arm's length. He would've cast another blizzard spell to try and get rid of the group, but he began to sense that he was low on magic power. He would have to hack and slash at some of them in order to naturally restore some of his magic power. Knowing this, He quickly slammed his keyblade down and watched a couple of the shadows get knocked back. The diamond dust aura was enough to not only empower his ice magic, but also give his keyblade the ability to deal ice magic. He slashed through some more shadows as he watched tiny crystals fall past his face in a cool breeze as his battle continued. Before he was done, he quickly looked down to the shadows that were now popped out of the ground and ready to attack him with a flurry of scratches. Knowing he wouldn't catch a breath until they were dealt with, Hikaru was prepared for this. He took his keyblade and performed a quick array of slashes to deal with the remaining shadows. On Aux's end, he had begun fighting the shadows in a rather unorthodox way. He was actually bonking the shadows on the head with his keyblade. One by one he was just conking them on the head like he was playing a game of whack a mole. The number of shadows he had to deal with were far less than that of Hikaru, so he decided to have some harmless fun with it and just hit the shadows' heads until they vanished from impact. With enough force, no matter how minuscule, the shadows would always be defeated. They were after all, one of, if not THE weakest heartless he had come across during his time with the SOS. Quickly finishing on his side, he turned to Hikaru to see if he was done on his end. His friend was still slashing away at some of the remaining heartless however. With another final combo, he looked back at Aux and gave a quick thumbs up and a cocky smile. Aux took his two fingers and replied to Hikaru with a quick and silent salute back at him. Words: 607 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 1920 Heartless Defeated: 59 Shadows Enemies Remaining: 44 Shadows 46 Darkballs 41 Neoshadows
So I'm getting a lot of Space Pirate sci-fi suggestions. (A very wide concept I'd like to explore) I'll leave discussion open for a bit to see if another suggestion to elaborate on.
Hikaru continued to run around the area where he and Aux were situated in to find more darkballs to pitch towards him. As he looked for more darkballs to throw, he looked at the battlefield around him to see how everyone else was doing. For the most part, the members of the soldiers of sanctuary seemed to be holding up just fine. With the two giant darksides gone, there were mostly neoshadows, darkballs and good old swarms of shadows left behind to deal with. From the look of things, even the invisibles were taken care of. As he began to run through everything, he noticed a mostly damaged shadow staggering around, just waiting to be put out of his misery. Dragging his keyblade along his left side, he made a mad dash towards the damaged heartless and swept up his keyblade in a swift uppercut to damage the heartless. Almost as if it was made of paper, his blade swept right through the shadow and had it eliminated on sight. He continued to run through the heartless hordes, passing the heartless that was barely an after thought once he took care of it until he found a small group of darkballs. He quiockly waved his arms about to try and get it's attention. "Hey, over here!" He put his fingers to his mouth to let out a loud whistle sound. Unfortunately to his dismay, Hikaru didn't know how to properly whistle, and the sound that came out sounded more like a raspberry being blown on a belly than an actual whistle. "Oh, right..." He looked back up and yelled "Whistle sound!" before waving his arms and running back towards Aux. Before he would pitch them towards Aux to hit, he had to at least gather them all in a place that was easier for him to hit towards. He continued to shout 'Whistle sound, whistle sound!' for a few hundred more metres until he was close enough to Aux. He would've pitched them from further away, but Hikaru was no where near Aux's strength level to appropriately hit the darkballs with enough force that they would be able to fly a long enough distance. No, Hikaru could probably only pitch the darkballs a dozen feet. And that was with a long jump and equal momentum to match. As he ran towards him, Aux raised an eyebrow as Hikaru continued to yell 'whistle sound, whistle sound,' until he was close enough to Aux. He didn't have time to question however, as Hikaru made a long vertical jump before performing a slapshot to shoot the darkball at Aux. He would jump up and continue to keep the darkballs' attention on him so that they wouldn't wander off and target any of the other keyblade wielders. Seeing the darkball that was pitched towards him, Aux hit the darkball with a powerful smack with his blade, watching it fly to the other darkballs with one swift motion from his arm. The darkball hit two of the darkballs gathered around Hikaru, causing all three of them to disappear in a puff of smoke. Before he could pitch the others to him, Aux's disturbance caused the darkballs to slowly esge towards him. Unwavered, he walked forward and jumped to slash away at the remaining darballs with a few quick aerial combos. As he remained in the air, he hacked and slashed at the darkballs with an increased ferocity to try and make sure there was nothing left of the heartless but smoke. As he landed back on the ground, nothing but smoke is exactly what had fallen around him as looked around to see what was enemy he had to defeat next. Word Count: 616 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1860 Heartless defeated: 1 Shadow 19 Darkballs Heartless Remaining: 244 Shadows 94 Darkballs 113 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 1 Invisible (1 Reserved)
The flames intensified around Tango so that he couldn't be touched by Luther with his quick strikes. The flames surrounding him were growing larger as he summoned his dragon once more, controlling it with the wave of his keyblade. "Yes Luther! We shall both create a battle of beauty!" He target his dragon at the illusions to make them disappear. "No more tricks! No more catching me off guard! This battle will end in a blaze of glory!" Rango was still surrounded by flames, making sure that Luther wouldn't get close enough to him without getting burned. His eyes burned in passion as he has the widest smile on his face. The battle with Luther was making him very happy as he had never been able to let loose on this kind of level. "This is the end for you senor! Ignicio De la Vega will triumph today as the champion of both fire and illusion!"
Hikaru kept his guard up, with Aux watching his back from behind. Still using his frosty diamond dust aura, Hikaru twirled his keyblade around before firing a blizzaga spell at an oncoming darkball. The darkball froze in place on impact as it began falling to the ground. Watching as the heartless began falling to the ground, Hikaru dealt a quick uppercut with his keyblade and knocked it up into the air. Making sure not to eliminated it on impact, his keyblade uppercut had to be carefully glided as not to destroy the darkside. Using his keyblade like a baseball bat, he hit the darkball in a slapshot like motion causing the darkball to explode in barrage of tiny ice-like crystals, the other darkballs scattering their tilted heads from the impact. Hikaru began to run at one of the dazed darkballs and balanced itself on it's head, almost as if he was having fun. "Hey, Aux, wanna see how good your batting arm is?" Aux had at this point, just eliminated his own darkball by dragging it's chain down to his eye level and slashing it with his keyblade. He turned to Hikaru to see what he wanted and raised an eyebrow at the question. "What the heck does that mean?" Hikaru was holding out his arms to find a right amount of balance while the darkball continued to tilt it's head left and right, unaware that Hikaru was on it's head. "You know, like baseball!" Baseball was something that Aislinn had spoken to Aux about before prior to the whole little singing moment that he'd much rather forget. She had mentioned something regarding to never play baseball among woodland creatues. He was still debating in his head as to whether or not that was an actual experience that girl had come across, or if it was all a fever dream she had come up with in her head. Regardless, he had no idea what exactly baseball was, but it seemed like most people in this group did. "What's baseball?" Hikaru had never fully talked with Aux about sports. Which is odd seeing as how some one with Aux's physique could easily dominate in a sport like Football, Rugby or Hockey. Aux rarely talked about his home world, but now that he had his memories back, he should've been able to recognize more about himself. There was plenty he wanted to ask his friend, but for now he wanted to just get in some pitches. "Never mind... Look, I'm going to knock the darkballs your way, and you hit them as hard as you can!" Aux wasn't exactly sure where his friend was going with this, but as long as he could hit something, he didn't see the harm in trying. He was confused as to why he didn't just say 'hit them' in the first place. "Got it," he nodded, holding his keyblade over his shoulder. "You don't wanna use two hands?" In baseball, the batter would always hold the bat with both hands to get a better swing for a homerun. "Why would I need two?" Aux yelled from fifty meters away. Hikaru shrugged and shook his head knowing that Aux wasn't getting the concept. He also knew he could probably have enough power in just one arm than he would ever need with two. "Never mind!" he yelled back. With that out of the way, Hikaru held both hands on his keyblade and made a slapshot at the darkball towards heartless, landing back on the ground. He jumped up and did the same with a couple of others as he watched them head towards Aux. Glaring at the oncoming heartless, Aux used one hand and slashed away at the darkballs, causing them to be eliminate on contact. Aux didn't have the baseball stance of maneuver, but at least they were defeated. Word Count: 643 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1800 Heartless Defeated: 19 Darkballs SHIRO eliminated 55 Darkballs Heartless Injured: Invisible (Scarmiglione): 25/50 Invisible (Cagnazzo): 25/50 Invisible (Barbariccia): 25/50 Enemies Remaining: 445 Shadows 209 Darkballs 155 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 4 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
I like the idea of exploration in a time/place outside modern day. Something of an adventure/exploration roleplay is an idea I've always toyed around with. From what I've measured with the current suggestions, I've gathered that some possible scenarios; Pirate-like roleplay (Sailing the seas or sky in search of boundless treasures and adventure) Space Crew Exploration Roleplay (Getting a real Stark trek vibe from this idea, with it's own original charm. The crew would spend it's exploits finding new worlds, confront allies and enemies and explore the unknown) Medieval Quest (An overarching adventure featuring characters of unique abilities sent on a quest to save the kingdom)
Aux in a race towards Hikaru, watched as a swarm of shadow heartless were headed straight for him. Looking back to Hikaru who was fighting with a newly reinvigorated ice aura called Diamond Dust, Aux simply sighed and stopped in his tracks, skidding along the ground as he summoned out his keyblade. Whipping his hand back, he prepared to gain enough momentum before turning around and slashing upwards at the approaching enemies. The heartless flew back in slow motion as Aux watched the heartless that were knocked back, compared to the ones that continued to charge right for him. He leapt over the shadows and turned around to see the puffs of smoke symbolizing the heartless he had just defeated. He charged head first as he began to hack and slash his way through the heartless shadows. They were quite miniscule compared to his massive self, and while they weren't much of a threat to him, they were still obstacles that needed to be cleared. He charged in with his keyblade dealing heavy blow after hevy blow, watching as each swing of his blade caused more and more shadows to disappear. With most of the oncoming threats neutralized, he looked back to Hikaru, who was having his handful with a small group of neoshadows. The neoshadows surrounded Hikaru, who was holding his defensive stance preparing for when they decided to make their move. He watched from the corner of each eye as the heartless began to pace around him in their predatory way of thinking. The neoshadows grew in number as they were preparing to overwhelm him. Keeping calm, Hikaru maintained his stance and was preparing himself. Unbeknown to him, a neoshadow had appeared beneath him and tripped him, causing him to fall on his back. The neoshadows prepared to seize their opportunity as they all sprang on him simultaneously. The heartless aiming for him, caught Hikaru off guard, firing as many blizzaga spells at he could to find them off from jumping on him. He managed to successfully destroy most of them but one was still going to jump on him. Before it did, it suddenly fell short of it's jumping mark and fell face first in front of Hikaru. The blue haired boy looked up as Aux had caught the neoshadow by it's foot, making it so the neoshadow wasn't able to make it very far. Throwing the neoshadow over his head and into the air, Aux pointed his keyblade and the heartless and prepared to lock on for a long distance magic spell. He fired a quick Firaga spell as he watched the heartless explode from the spell's impact mid-air. Turning back Aux offered his hand to help Hikaru up. Hesitating for a moment, Hikaru reached out his hand anyways and had Aux pull him up quickly. "Look Aux... about-" "Not now," Aux interrupted. "Let's just show them what happens when they mess with the wrong people." Aux pushed his fist into his hand and let out a small grin, hoping to get Hikaru on board. Hikaru watched his friend get into the fighting spirit and was no longer looking at the man in the black iron mask. Aux was being more like his old self. Something Hikaru would hope to see before this was all over. Hikaru smiled and nodded as the both of them went back to back to watch each other's blind spot. Aux summoned his keyblade again as he held it aloft with one hand, while Hikaru held his blade with both hands vertically in front of his face. The two prepared for any threat that came their way. Word Count: 606 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1740 Heartless Defeated: 9 Neoshadows 14 Shadows Heartless Injured: Shadow 1/3 Invisible (Scarmiglione): 25/50 Invisible (Cagnazzo): 25/50 Invisible (Barbariccia): 25/50 Enemies Remaining: 515 Shadows 289 Darkballs 256 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 4 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
With his new ice infused Diamond Dust aura, Hikaru could feel the chills go down his spine as he held his keyblade. He lifted it up as he saw a swarm of shadow heartless make their way towards him. He rushed foward, small dabs of cold ice being left behind as he walked, as if he lightly froze over the ground in which he walked. He felt the ice powered magic surge through his veins as he held his keyblade to charge into the fray. As usual, half of the heartless retreated into their shadow sneak form, as the other half was left vulnerable. They began to trample each other, clawing and scratching their way towards Hikaru, lingering about and desiring to devour his heart. His eyes shimmered, charging forward and attacking with his keyblade on the dozens of shadows who decided to cease their fate while messing him him during both his ice powered aura and the accompanying buff that Shiro gave to the group. Slashing away with his keyblade, the momentum and force he struck it with created an icy rift as icicles began to form around the shadow heartless, causing them to freeze in place. He then swung his keyblade about and hacked and slashed at the frozen heartless in a frenzy. More began to trample each other only to meet the end of his blade as he continued to hack away at the heartless causing them to freeze before he would eventually put an end to them by the sheer force of his blade. The shadow heartless that were still lurking about below didn't give him any time to rest up or breathe as they were plotting to come up for air themselves. The heartless that were in shadow sneak mode came up into the playing field and scurryed about jumping over each other to leap against Hikaru. Staying cool and collected, Hikaru breathed another cold breath of air as he cast blizzard spells on the ground, causing giants pillars of crystalize ice to rise from the ground and stab any oncoming heartless. the shards of crystal ice punished the shadow heartless as they hopped to their doom. The shadows were left with no other option to be impaled by the ice as they dispersed in a puff of smoke. With that small barrage of heartless gone, more were installed to quickly take their place. Hikaru had gone from fighting a couple dozen heartless, to what felt like half a hundred. Shiro's power buff was really showing it's metal at this stage in the fight. While the heartless continued to come again and again in seemingly endless wave, the buff from Shiro allowed for the keyblade wielders to counteract their numbers and perform greatly under the circumstances.Seeing the new heartless crawl over and around the ice crystals, Hikaru jumped into the air and slashed at the shadow heartless repeatedly. He performed a few hits as he executed his combo with poise, dispersing the shadows as well as several ice chunks. Watching the smoke and ice chunks fall to the ground. Hikaru had done his work and was prepared to take on any other threats that would dare step up to him or even think about hurting his friends. He took his defensive stance and fired a quick blizzard spell into a distance crowd of shadows. The Ice boost allowed the long range to hit and disperse the heartless that were oh so very far from him. Taking another cold breath he ran across the field to find some other sort of task that he could accomplish while discovering what else his aura could do. Word Count: 608 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1680 Heartless Defeated: 60 shadows Enemies Remaining: 630 Shadows 296 Darkballs 290 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 12 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
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"I'm fine," she replied, slowly getting up. "Nequa's in there?" She looked at the building as it continued to burn, Mizu wiping the smudge from her face. "Good riddance," she scoffed, holding her bruised arm as she looked around the flaming piled of wreckage. She didn't recognize anyone here, but from what she last recalled, Nequa knocked her out with a powerful sleep spell. From their she was drawing a blank. From the back of her mind, she could only wonder just what everyone else in the order was doing. In the back of her mind, she just knew Yue would be scolding her right about now. But she was a member of the Order, and there were people in front of her that needed some medical attention. "First lets take care of these flames." She summoned her keyblade in one hand and held it vertically in front of her face. With her other hand she held a fist in front of her heart and extended two fingers upward. She was slowly begining to eminate a blue aura around herself as she closed her eyes. Opening them quickly, she pointed her keyblade to the sky. "Dance water, Dance!" she said in a cute voice. As she said those words, more than a dozen water clones of herself were formed. "Put out the fires!" she commanded. Nodding at their orders, the Mizu water clones found large patches of fire and threw themselves into them. The clones were throwing their bodies onto the fire, both destroying themselves as well as extinguishing the flames. Looking around, she saw the raven haired girl was badly injured. Rushing to her side, she examined her injuries. "Your badly hurt..." she pointed her keyblade over Kiara's head and cast a cure spell. "That should help." She looked around to everyone and prepared to make a statement. As a member of the order, she had to keep things professional. "Attention everyone! My name is Mizu! I work with a group of highly trained keyblade wielders. Can anyone tell me what happened here?" As she looked around for answers, Finlay appeared out of nowhere, dragging what appeared to be a dead animal behind him by the ears. "Ahh good. Yer awake. Figure I should be the one tah tell ye what happened." He pointed to the smoldering building. "That there lab was where the witch was hidin'. We came here to get ridda her, but it looks like the dark haired lass did it for us." "What dark haired girl?" "Oh uhh, the bossy one with the scars on her face. Real scary lass." Mizu's eyes widened. "Yue?! Was it Yue?!" Mizu now wished the building wasn't on fire. "Couldn't tell yah girly. She went in and possibly sacrificed herself to save us." He put his hand to his chest to honor her. "A true vikin's funeral if I ever saw one." She looked back and wanted to cry. As much as Yue babied her, she still loved her like a sister. She tried to fight back her tears as she clenched her fists. "But not to worry, I found this here rabbit to feast on to help keep our energy up. Still have tah kill it first, but should be enough to feed the lot of us." He held up the rabbit he had been dragging by his ears and presented it to the group. The rabbit had a generally white face and black fur. He had blue shorts, and held his head in pain. "Ooooh, who hit my noggin?" he moaned. "Talks for some reason, but I guess I should be expectin' more in the realm o' darkness. Don't worry I'll put the li'le fella outta his misery." The rabbit's eyes widened as he was not comfortable with that idea. "WHAT?!" He jumped and summoned his keyblade as he slashed away Finlay's hand, causing him to drop. "Ain't no way your eating this bunny!" he claimed. "A keyblade?... You have a keyblade?!" Mizu asked in shock. "What's it to yah?" He looked around to make sure no one else was planning to turn him into rabbit soup. His eyes locked onto Karina. "Hey wait a second... I know you. You're the cranky loud mouth I met back in wasteland." "Heh. Well the bunny ain't wrong." "How did you get her Mr. bunny man?" Mizu asked in concern. Oswald puffed out his chest in annoyance. "My name is Oswald! Not mr. bunny man! And you all have to come with me. There's a big brawl going down, and your friends are there! The kids with the different colored hair. All of 'em!" He looked around to see if there would be any reaction. As for how I got here.. that's a story for another time. All I can say is that when I fell in here, I saw a huge swarm of these bright eyed monsters that reminded me of the inklings in wasteland." "Heartless!" Mizu cried out. "Well whatever they are, there were thousands of them. The kids seem to be holding their own, but I thought I would try to get help anyways. Then the bearded fella over there went an konked me on the head!" "I regret nuthin," Finlay proudly stated. "Did you see anyone else with them?" Mizu asked hopefully. With any luck, maybe a member of the order was there. "Well there was an old fella with a metal arm, he had scars all over his body." "Uniform? That old grandpa's still kickin?!" "Well, there was him and he was fighting a super strong loooking shirtless guy with brown hair and a very loud voice-" "That's Shiro!" Mizu cried out. The shirtless physique and booming voice were a dead giveaway. She turned to the rest of the group. "That settles it, we're going to help them." "Hey now girly... Great to see you up an' at em, but you aren't in charge." He pointed to Kiara. "She is." "What?" He turned to Kiara. "Lea told me that if anything took a turn during the mission, you would be the deciding factor. In his absense, he put you in charge of the black coats. The decision is yours lass." Oswald looked back and forth in confusion. Mizu looked at them. "Well I don't have time to wait for decisions, I lost one friend today, I'm not going to lose another!" she pouted and began storming off. "Wrong way," Oswlad spoke, causing Mizu to make an immediate U-turn.
Hikaru jumped up at the sight of a darkball, striking way with his keyblade as he punished the heartless with an aerial combo. After defeating the heartless, he turned to find a whole gaggle of darkballs swaying their heads back and forth as they approached him. He held his keyblade in his defensive stance, feeling the wind through his long blue hair as the darkballs sped past them. They begin circling around him tilting their heads left and right with their mouths wide open. The darballs surrounding him felt very predatory as they continued to chomp their jaws one after the other as if trying to scare him off. Hikaru was not amused and din't waver as he kept a tight circle formation on his own, watching as more of the heartless began to gather. Trying to be very tactful, he felt his keyblade begin to emanate with a powerful glow. He felt stronger as he gripped his keyblade looking to the darkball with a newfound determination. Seeing as how they were airbourne he knew he couldn't do much in terms of ground damage. Anything he did to them at this point would have to be ranged or aerial. Maybe both. He took his keyblade and shot a blizzard spell straight into the sky. The darkballs looked up at the blizzard spell as the ice spell shot outwards, covering a wide range. The blizzaga spell shot into the faces of several daarkballs, blinding and freezing them. Hikaru taking his chance, jumped into the air and dashed towards a frozen darkball that was falling to the ground. He leatp at the chance and dealt of flurry of blows with his keyblade. He continued to jump off the darkball, causing it to completely disperse before moving onto the next. He went from darkball to darkball, performing combo after combo with a new invigorated aura around him. As he continued to slaughter them, he thought about his own aura in the back of his mind. He thought about which he would choose, but he never took the time to stop and really think about what kind of auras he would use. He knew magic was always a vital part of his arsenal, so he knew that was a very high option for him to use in the future. What other elements were there... He recalled something about sound and blade being elements, but he didn't think he'd be able to use them well. He saw Aislinn singing about earlier and didn't think he'd be able to do any of that. Especially doing hat on key. Blade involved a lot of techniques using the keyblade, but Hikaru had never been much of a fighter. He thought about the more spell based elements, as he cast out another blizzard spell. What about Ice? He used Blizzaga numerous times this entire battle and he was fond of the range he gained during it's most powerful form of basic ice magic. Hikaru fell to the ground after defeating the last darkball and fell to the ground, feeling a light blue almost cyan-like aura began to envelope his body. He breathed deeply and saw as he could begin to see his own breath. The hot air from his mouth began to create a very chilling sensation as he could feel himself getting colder. Yet surprisingly, he didn't feel the need to shiver or actually be cold. His eyes had a shimer to them as he breathed once more, watching as his breath could be seen. He had unlocked level 1 of his ICE aura; also known as Diamond Dust. Word Count: 601 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1620 Heartless Defeated: 19 Darkballs Heartless Remaining: 1313 Shadows 301 Darkballs 341 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 13 Invisibles (4 Reserved) 1 Darkside Heartless Injured: Darkside 2: 786/1500
The darkside that he and Aislinn fought had fallen, watching as the dark beast fell into pieces, faded before it could even hit the ground. Aux sighed as he was glad the singing lady went elsewhere. Nice girl, but far too in her own head. He looked around the field too see what he could next in this fight. He raced off to see where he could do the most damage in the shortest amount of time. As he raced onwards, he saw a small group of neoshadows pop out of the ground like daisies in a jumping attack. The heartless had just rose from their shadow sneak form and Aux was the first one they saw to attack with. As one swung at Aux with his arm, the man grabbed it's arm and threw it over his head, as he held his keyblade with the other hand to parry the rest of the neoshadows. Rushing the blocked heartless, he performed a quick and heavy combo to eliminate them, watching as black smoke passed his face with each kill. He held his keyblade up and looked back at the neoshadow he had tossed. As it landed, it managed to crush another small shadow heartless under the impact of it's weight. Holding his keyblade aloft, Aux rushed and and held his keyblade with both hands preparing to joust the heartless. With a powerful thrust, he stabbed the heartless right in he torso and watched as it vanished in a puff of smoke before his eyes. He loooked around the battlefield before spotting Hikaru. Slashing another neoshadow quickly, he rushed over to his friend to see if he needed a hand. Meanwhile the battle between master and student raged on. As Shiro battled his former commanding officer, Hughes found himself to be continuously overwhelmed by Shiro's raw power. Shiro continued to hack and slash away at him, Hughes struglling to keep up with the younger man. "Age does not suit you old friend. Neither does the darkness you've let cower in your heart!" Shiro spoke. Hughes grunted as he summoned at least a dozen neoshadow heartless to attack him from the rear. Shiro turned and slashed away the Neoshadows with ease. "Cheap tricks Colonel? I accepted more honor for a man who served so many years." Shiro spoke intimately without pushing as much booming presence in his voice as he used to. He and Hughes had a shared history that he wished to rectify. " But then again, I can't say I'm surprised. I've always disapproved of your methods!" "I got results. What do you care how I got it?" Shiro's muscles bulged in intensity as he grew angrier. A bright silver aura emanated from him. "THEY WERE WOMEN AND CHILDREN! INNOCENTS YOU USED FOR YOUR OWN SICK PLEASURE!" "The enemy is the enemy Fujioka. And I'm surprised you would speak so spitefully to a commanding officer." he mocked. "That was then. This is now... AND NOW I SERVE THE WORLD ORDER!" The aura grew brighter as blades of wind began to circle his body. SHIRO HAS ACTIVATED LEVEL 2 WIND AURA: CYCLONE. "AND IF YOU WON'T PLAY FAIR THEN NEITHER WILL I! THIS AURA ALLOWS ME TO INCREASE THE FIGHTING POWER OF EVERYONE HERE!" As he said this, a small, silver glow began to emanate from the keyblades of every fighter on the battlefield. Hughes scoffed. "Who do you think even taught you auras in the first place?" The same silver aura began emanating around Hughes. HUGHES HAS ACTIVATED LEVEL 1 WIND AURA: TWISTER. "You keep surprising me time and time again. But you think you can beat me? I made you what you are, boy. I trained you. Disciplined you. Broke you down and rebuilt you as the man you are today." Shiro clenched his fists. "I have nothing left to learn from you." He held his keyblade proudly. Word Count: 648 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1560 Enemies Remaining: 1449 Shadows 337 Darkballs 359 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 18 Invisibles (4 Reserved) 1 Darkside Enemies With Injuries: Darkside 2: 1109/1500 Your BP is increased depending on your performance from the previous heartless wave (Effects stack with each wave. THIS DOES NOT INCREASE EXP) Stratos gained an extra 100 BP every post Aislinn gained an extra 100 BP every post AJ gained an extra 100 BP every post Hikaru/Aux gained an extra 100 BP every post Kel gained an extra 100 BP every post Ignis gained an extra 100 BP every post Kaida gained an extra 100 BP every post Beuce gained an extra 80 BP every post Luna an extra 20 BP every post Steel gained an extra 20 BP every post Ananta gained an extra 20 BP every post
Bursting into her level 1 sound aura, Aux could see a bright colour swarming around as it enveloped both her keyblade as well as herself. when she asked if he was doing alright, a small vein popped up in the side of his had as she ended it with kiddo. He couldn't recall when, but for the longest time he had never liked being acknowledged as a child. And not like he was exactly that young as he was eighteen now. True he was still a teenager, but definitely old enough not to be treated like a kid. And why exactly was she talking down to him like she was older, wiser and more experienced? The girl looked like she was no older than him. Maybe even younger in fact. "I uhh... was pretty good before all the singing." He didn't want to hurt her feelings but the sudden burst of spontaneous singing had really thrown him off. He wasn't really sure how to approach Aislinn or make much sense of her at this point. First she started singing, then the probable love confession, it was all just seeming like a bit much. And now on top of things, she was trying to give more life advice, trying to make him feel better for some reason. Why was this woman so involved in what went on in Aux's life?! Folding his arms and she continued to talk on and on, he was slowly beginning to drown out her worlds, just like he did back in the Pridelands. "Look kid, between what I heard you say, and what Kaida told me, it sounded like you have been having a rough time with things. I was trying to keep my own moral high, but I thought you could use a little boost too, just to know that whatever happened before, whatever you have gotten yourself into, whoever kidnapped you and forced you into that stupid exam, it doesn't define you and it doesn't bind you. You are a-" And after listening to about as much as he could possibly care for, he began drowning her out with thoughts about why he was still in the realm of darkness. As somewhat thankful as he was for the free therapy session, it wasn't exactly what he needed right now. What he primarily needed to do was knock some good old damage into the darkside that stood before them. Or in this case, more like beside them depending on which direction they were standing. Either way, he could see the darkside slowly lower it's hand to open another dark portal out of the corner of his eye. Still holding his keyblade, he held up his keyblade effortlessly and swatted away the darkside as if it were a small child trying to dig into a home cooked meal. The damage from his keyblade was great, but the darkside simply remained upset as it shook it's hand in both annoyance and confusion. Despite her shortcomings, at least she was helping. And the songs were now going to be part of her aura which at the very least was increasing the party's firepower. He considered unleashing his own aura, but knowing it was darkness caused him to be hesitant. He had used so much darkness prior to the mark of mastery exam, that he didn't want to risk watching himself turn into another slave to the darkness. He wasdoing well with his friends and at least trying to get along with the rest of the party. He just couldn't risk it at this point in the fight. Not now. Word Count: 601 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 1500 Heartless Defeated: Heartless Injured: Darkside 364/1500 Darkside 2: 1400/1500 Invisible: 22/50 Enemies Remaining: 1534 Shadows 349 Darkballs 383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved) 20 Invisibles 2 Darksides
