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The end of this shadow cluster was here. And there was (probably) no one more excited about it than Kaida. Considering she had started off nearly killed by the horde, kicked off this island by the crowd, and been expending most of her energy on them. So seeing them dwindle to nothing was satisfying. She was not a fool enough to think this was the end, but this was the end of this group. Slashing one more time with red slash, the shadows began affected by a mixture of time and light, and were frozen in this spots until they disappeared in a spectacular burst of light.

Kaida saw a couple darkballs floating her way once she had offed the last of the shadows, and she turned to looked up at them. Her time aura still flowing from her due to her last attacks, the girl simultaneously stood still, was in mid jump, and jumped into the air. When she began hitting the darkballs, she went into an aerial combo, flying around and knocking out three darkballs in the air, and throwing one of her keyblades far away at a fourth darkball. Stabbing straight through it. Kaida landed on the ground safely and recalled her keyblade to have it.

Word Count: 209
EXP Earned: 20
EXP Total: 860
Blessed Thief: 50 Munny
Sweet Memories: 7 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
44 shadows
4 darkballs

Enemies Remaining:
42 Darkballs
41 Neoshadows

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Melus had been reacting pretty negatively to when Lea had lost and disappeared, and when Luther ended up challenging the man to a final fantasy, she thought this was a hopeless case. This man got stronger the more others attacked, which may have been the reason why he decided to one on one, but Lea just fought this man and lost. She considered the old man the most competent of this team... not because he'd shown it but because he was a well seasoned keyblade master and just lost to this guy.

As she watched the fight, taking a back seat, she kept herself pretty far back with her arms crossed to analyze the fight, and she began to notice a standard attack pattern. Luther would go hardcore on some illusion magic and Tango would focus in and react to his stuff accordingly. She had little faith Luther could win this. But she knew he could, if she dirtied her hands a bit.

Melus summoned out her harp and walked along the edge while they were distracted and intensely in the fight, and Melus got herself up on a table in their hideout, if only to have a bit of high ground. She watched as Luther made a loud, busy, and focus claiming attack, and that was what she needed. Luther probably thought he could handle it himself. She didn't care.

The brunette pushed her ponytail back, shifted her harp to the side and pulled back the string and three arrows of air formed. With a quick and strong pullback, the three arrows flew out quickly. One aiming straight for the back of Tango's neck, one for his back straight through his chest, and the other was aimed to hit his ankle, but accidentally went for the left knee.

When the arrows flew, Melus lowered her bow and stared blankly at the two, if there was a look of anger from either of them, she'd just shrug.

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Take was grateful that Aria helped him out but he kind of wished he could have handled it himself, it was a tricky thing. Some day he'd master it. But when she asked him if he needed to talk. He did need to talk, he just knew he shouldn't. He sipped his cocoa and looked around and saw Chrono. He felt comfortable explaining the situations to Chrono. But then Boreas was here. How would Boreas feel if Take admitted to eavesdropping on Torrin's private conversation. He felt like it would just end badly if he tried talking. It only helped stopped the situation when Torrin was about to walk into the conversation and Take shook his head, "No. I'm fine. I think this magitek stuff is just wearing me down and the fact it's still out there is keeping me on my toes..."
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Take had only managed to listen to a brief part, and Torrin's revelation over why they wanted him involved, in order to get the realm of darkness to fight the Light Chaser. That seemed a legitimate reason in his eyes for Torrin to be annoyed, not liking the idea of being used. Heck, maybe even being cannon fodder. But what ended up really getting his attention was Torrin's sudden annoyance over a second... pure light?

There was another princess of heart with them? That surprised him immensely. He could just look at Aria and tell there was something bright and pure about her heart. But another? Who was it? No. He couldn't take the time to speculate. This wasn't his job. It was clear that Torrin and Thallasa wanted to keep this information on the down low so no one learned about it that shouldn't. Before Torrin got back, he quickly snuck back into the house.

The boy walked into the kitchen quickly and grabbed himself some more hot chocolate, he dished it out with no problem. But the boy seemed to be struggling with getting the can of whipped cream to go on top of the cocoa and he looked a bit distressed but refused to ask for help.​

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Takehiko was not expecting to be addressed and blinked a minute before saying,"The stone? There's... nothing particular about the stone itself. But the markings. My brother Iwao made one for all of my brothers, himself, and me. It's the only thing I really carry... around..." Take looked over and saw Torrin speaking quietly with Thalassa before they both seemed to leave the mansion to speak. Take was... curious why they were talking in private. Did they not want to kill the mood with something important? The green eyed boy sipped the rest of his cocoa before he placed the empty cup on the tray that all the cups used to be on and he said, "Excuse me a moment." and the boy walked towards where Torrin and Thallasa had gone. He tried to keep hidden though, cause he did not want to get caught or anything like that. But he felt he should be kept up to speed on what's going on even if they did not want to worry, say, Aria with something while she was focused on her nightmare.
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The blonde was loving the fact there was far less now than there were before. She dared not even call it a horde anymore considering how scattered and confused the rest of the shadows were. If any were left together, they were more in scattered groups with one or two stragglers popping around trying to jump at the rest of her team. Kaida felt a lot better at this point about just diving in. She ducked down to try and get more of a boost from her jump, and leapt off the tree: jumping into a group of around twenty.

Kaida began swinging around her keyblade, keeping up some of her well-trained footwork and trying to add in a bit of flair to her attacks. Not because she thought anyone was watching, but the brief release of a keyblade twirling upwards allowed her wrist to rest even if it was short. She slashed from all angles, going at a speed where if the shadows tried to count how many hits they were getting... they could probably could guess if they had the brain capacity to do so, but it would at the very least seem like there were more hits than they were. Soon, after a death of a thousand cuts, the first group poofed away slowly, one by one as she stabbed into them getting her last hits on each one.

She ran towards a second group and immediately went in with firaga blasting towards the center. As she jumped in, Kaida seemed to just radiate the fire she blasted at them, she slashed even more with vigor. This time, she decided to try and end it with her red flash, where fire and ice clashed together at once just to make everything end in a colorful explosion. Kaida was most definitely having a good time now.

Word Count: 308
EXP Earned: 30
EXP Total: 840
Blessed Thief: 20 Munny
Sweet Memories: 7 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
58 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Shadow 1/3
Invisible (Scarmiglione): 25/50
Invisible (Cagnazzo): 25/50
Invisible (Barbariccia): 25/50

Enemies Remaining:
322 Shadows
158 Darkballs
140 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
4 Invisibles (4 Reserved)

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Take had not admittedly expected Aria to begin speaking about something urgent so suddenly, nor did he expect her to say he was one of the people she trusted the most here. He appreciated it a bit, but that wasn't his main thought. Instead, he listened to Aria telling about the nightmares and kept nodding throughout the conversation so she knew he was listening. When she finished speaking, he looked very concerned and said,"I know it's having physical effects on you.. but it's dangerous to not sleep. Especially with this magitek business going on. Are you sure there isn't another way?" The boy sipped his cocoa again to give the conversation a natural pause, finally reaching up and wiping off his nose before he continued, "Have you tried taking medicine so you have a dreamless sleep? Or... hm... idol carrying? That.. might be something specific to my homeworld."

Take held his cocoa in his hands to feel the warmth for a little while before he explained, "In my homeworld, we need to keep the dragons from sensing us by limiting out emotions. But one of the hardest ways to hide it is when it's in sleep. When you're scared and in your head, you don't have people to help you out. But my older brother taught me idol carrying. Before you go to bed, you pick an item into your bedroom to focus on and say that item is coming with you and is going to protect you..." the black haired boy paused briefly before reaching into his pants pocket. He pulled out a small rock with a swirl carved into it. The swirl was painted red, "I bring this with me. I think of it like a good luck charm. One time I had a dream where a man came at me with a sword and tried to stab into my chest. But the rock made a protective shield around me. Or another dream I had where I fell out of the mountain and I saw the stone and remembered it was a dream and snapped myself out of it... ya know that feeling when you wake up and it feels like you fell a thousand feet? Well, I couldn't avoid that. But it kept me from panicking too long."

He put the stone away and sipped the cocoa again, then continued, "It probably sounds odd. And... I don't know if it'd work in your case. But, it couldn't hurt to give something else a shot, right? Anyway, what you do is your choice. But we're here for you. Well, I shouldn't speak for others I'm pretty sure they're here for you. But I'm here for you." he gave her a reassuring smile, but stopped a little after and said, "I think I made that a little more confusing than it had to be."
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Kaida rested herself on the tree and peered over as everyone started taking down these heartless very quickly. She was starting to feel like she was not pulling her weight and that only made her a bit angry at herself. Not like, Karina levels of angry at herself but maybe Aux levels. The girl began shooting fireballs and giant bells of thunder at the shadows with no mercy in her eyes as she attempted to off several more of these guys. Pipsqueak was back at it again with the coconut throwing to add to the projectile count, though it only seemed to stun while Kaida did the work.

Word Count: 108
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 810
Blessed Thief: 90 Munny
Sweet Memories: 6 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
58 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Invisible (Scarmiglione): 25/50
Invisible (Cagnazzo): 25/50
Invisible (Barbariccia): 25/50

Enemies Remaining:
387 Shadows
209 Darkballs
155 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
4 Invisibles (4 Reserved)

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"I just wish the council told us sooner. We went out at first to look for you. I don't know why the council didn't tell Master Atmos and Choma before we left..." Take looked particularly distressed by that part, but when Aria mentioned hot chocolate. Take's eyes lit up and he bowed his head towards Thalassa and said, "Excuse me for a second." before he quickly scurried over, containing his excitement as he said, "Thank you thank you thank you." before he took his hot cocoa from the tray and began sipping it slowly. Getting a little bit of whipped cream on his nose when he lifted his face, "It's very good."
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Kaida continued on with her extermination of the shadows. Though she was out of magic at this point and needed to recharge for a while. She started using splattercombo and just constantly raking up her shadow death count with random combos and knocking some heartless into the air in order to combo them there too. Soon enough, she felt a familiar shadow jump on on her shoulder and quickly jump off to attack some other shadows and she said, "Pipsqueak, you came back! I'm glad you're alright."

The shadow did not really respond to her, but that did not bother her in the slightest.

Word Count: 104
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 800
Blessed Thief: 60 Munny
Sweet Memories: 6 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
58 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Neoshadow 2/15

Enemies Remaining:
1035 Shadows
297 Darkballs
314 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
12 Invisibles (4 Reserved)

Deciding to blast things into kingdom come this time, Kaida set herself seekermine on the ground around the horde and stood up into the tree. Although concerning where she got them, Kaida had little luna dolls made that sat over each mine. When the heartless began to go after the little dolls, Kaida sent a fireball in their direction, which made all the Luna dolls go into berserk mode and slam into the ground and set off the mines so many heartless went down in the fury of Luna. Kaida hoped Luna would never find out about this. She probably would.

Word Count: 101
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 790
Blessed Thief: 30 Munny
Sweet Memories: 6 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
58 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
1205 Shadows
300 Darkballs
335 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
13 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 2: 681/1500

Kaida was feeling pretty good at this point about the horde and keeping it at bay. The blonde continued to use a bunch of projectile and area of affect spells to try and keep the horde from getting close. A couple times the girl willingly ran up towards her opponents to use abilities that would help to recharge her magic but otherwise she kept a distance. This time, she was moving fairly fast to pick off the edge of the horde. Trying to get the ones jumping at her more so than jumping towards them. It felt very satisfying to her to feel calmer about it.

Word Count: 106
EXP Earned: 10
EXP Total: 780
Blessed Thief: 0 Munny
Sweet Memories: 6 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
58 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
1313 Shadows
320 Darkballs
341 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
13 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 2: 786/1500

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Takehiko was pretty excited by the idea of some of that hot chocolate again. But he had taken a minute to at least try to pick up the door and put it back in a space to keep anything from getting inside. Once he was done with that little escapade he went to walk into the kitchen and made it a few steps in before he heard them talking about something that seemed private, so the boy decided to calmly back out of the room to not invade.

Take went back towards the living room to hear Tinarah playing the violin. He looked over and took the time to listen to the music with his eyes closed. He didn't know why she was playing it or why it was that song in particular but it just made him sad. Maybe it was because of the way the instrument played but it threw him off a bit and he wanted to get out of earshot sooner rather than later.

But before he did, he ended up turning around and seeing Thalassa right nearby. Take was gonna just walk by when suddenly, Atmos' training kicked in and the boy asked, "So... where were you the whole time you disappeared? I'm glad you're alive but I'm curious is all... I know you said the council told you to go into hiding, but I was wondering where?"
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Kaida started hitting some of those shadows with a flurry of red mage attacks. They were not as creatively flavored as they could have been because at that point she was just basic comboing. And that's really alright cause somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb...

So much to do, so much to see. So what's wrong with taking the back streets? You'll never know if you don't go, You'll never shine if you don't glow. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid. And all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. It's a cool place and they say it gets colder. You're bundled up now, wait till you get older. But the meteor men beg to differ: judging by the hole in the satellite picture. The ice we skate is getting pretty thin, the water's getting warm so you might as well swim! My world's on fire, how about yours? That's the way I like it and I never get bored. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold.

Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show, on get paid. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars, somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas? I need to get myself away from this place. I said yep what a concept, I could use a little fuel myself, and we could all use a little change. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. Didn't make sense not to live for fun, your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to see. So what's wrong with taking the back streets?

You'll never know if you don't go, you'll never shine if you don't glow. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold.

Kaida finished off her load of heartless and wiped off a bead of sweat and wondered if she set of Symphonia or something.

Word Count: 504
EXP Earned: 50
EXP Total: 770
Blessed Thief: 70 Munny
Sweet Memories: 5 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 130/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1469Shadows
345 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darkside

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Take had followed after Torrin with his keyblade drawn as well, but once Torrin had broken through the door and everything he summoned away the keyblade and looked a bit confused at the scene. When Torrin tried to explain how he thought this could have been an elaborate trap but then Take paused and said, "Sorry. Torrin just has a problem with doors. One attacked him when he was a little and he's never been the same since. Though, in our defense. Stuffed tiny bears were exploding and tunnels were caving in. Anything could have been possible." he looked around the others and said, "Everything is okay though, right?"
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"His friendly heartless..." Take found quite a bit of amusement in that sentence. He didn't really ever try looking at any of these heartless like they were "cute" or "friendly" and he would never admit he'd change him mind and look at them that way. They were his new enemy he had to face and so he never tried to seek anything remotely positive on the other side. He didn't want that to give him a weakness.

When they were at the mansion finally, he looked up at the window curiously before saying, "There's a lot of destroying being done on that side. I don't see the appeal."
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"hello cstar did you do anything exciting today"

well strawman i've created... no. But I did make a playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSxc9BBtQzOiOZcGmcycEjTi3SvPhNvBB

This is basically... well, the intent was to include every single song in this thread but i kind of gave up barely any of the way through it.

If one exists, I don't know about it. I was going back and forth from the most current to the first in the thread. If you would like to contribute to it, pm me and I'll give you the link to the playlist to add videos!

Meanwhile, I've been jamming to:

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Boreas explaining their difficulty compared to the dragons made Take feel a little better, but when Torrin mentioned darksides weren't even the biggest, Take's heart skipped a beat as he remembered the... hand that seemed to swoop and nearly kill Atmos and Choma had to save her. He wondered if maybe that one was the biggest one. He certainly hoped so.

As soon as Torrin mentioned him being able to job and that they shouldn't slack off, Take crossed his arms and said, "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... but I'll never be a slacker on any day." And he began to jog with them as soon as the others began to. As they ran towards their destination Take asked, "Though... Darksides are still one of the bigger ones, right?"
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Kaida was fully prepared to run back up the tree, but suddenly a wild Ananta appeared and touched her shoulder. She felt the cure which was definitely helpful what with the horde that just recently nearly killed her. But before she could even thank her, Ananta had passed out.

Then Kaida was really panicking. This girl had managed to get through the horde to help her, only to collapse. And the only protection she had found so far was in a tree. And she certainly did not have the strength to carry Ananta and climb a tree. She was ****ed. For lack of a better word. Cause she was not about to leave Ananta to die. But she could not figure out how to get the girl out of there.

Kaida took a deep breath and grabbed the green haired girl and made her keyblades disappear. Then she began having Ananta pigggyback her. She looked up the tree at her shadow friend and she said, "I'll be back, pipsqueak." and she ran as fast as she could towards the others. The horde attempted to chase her for a while but she made a maneuver closer towards the darksides and that made it so the others let her go. For how long, she could not say. They probably had a taste of her blood by now and they would likely come back for more.

Kaida reached the dock she had been on before and it remained relatively untouched. Kaida placed Ananta on it laying down before she cast cure. Then Kaida took a breath and quickly placed a protective bubble around her that basically worked the way guard did. But cstar, that ability doesn't exist. Well for the purposes of this moment it does cause I am not babysitting right now sorry Tay I ain't about that life. Once the bubble was cast Kaida went to run back to join in on the fight.

Unfortunately for her, there was now a darkside in the way of her destination and it was not going to let her run by it a second time. The darkside looked towards her, looming, as it went to sway it's hand. Kaida quickly cut through it with a slash, contributing a bit to the fight, before she set onto the ground on the other side. She turned to see Aux confused and Aislinn...singing. Kaida shook her head and just kept on running so her contributions were literally just one hit to the darkside. She felt kind of bad, but her battle was most definitely elsewhere.

As the blonde returned towards her spot the horde was beginning to split up more into larger groups. Which was way better, she had a feeling maybe the way she was fighting was contributing to the horde problem but it felt very good to take a bit of a break. Even if it was running. As she got back towards the palm tree, she noticed her heartless friend was not there anymore and the blonde looked around worried.

Pipsqueak must have decided to either follow her or start its own fights somewhere else. She could respect that. Though it did not mean she liked the idea of losing a support network. The random coconuts from time to time were some nice ranged ammo. The blonde resummoned her keyblade and decided to go after a neoshadow. Whether or not it was the one that knocked her into the horde last time, she could not say. All she knew was she wanted to take out this one in particular. So she combo'd it. And she combo'd it so hard the neoshadow barely had any flavor text.

Word Count: 409
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 720
Blessed Thief: 40 Munny
Sweet Memories: 5 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
1 Neoshadow

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 521/1500
Darkside 2: 1469/1500

Enemies Remaining:
1582 Shadows
381 Darkballs
399 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

The blonde was planning for a distance round this time. Figuring she was doing a lot better in the previous wave anyway once she found a spot to stick to and keep shooting spells from. She waited a bit and scouted the area to make sure she only had to worry about shadows and neoshadows while she restored magic. She wished there was a more stable position to hang, she was not convinced the dock she was on previously would be enough to keep her elevated from the crowd so she would just need to find a larger tree. But for now, this point was fine.

Pipsqueak began throwing a few coconuts from the tree at a few of the shadows below, comical "bonk" noises could be heard as they hit the shadows. One at the bottom spun out upon being hit and laid down on the ground in defeat. Kaida giggled a bit at the sight, finding a bit of humor in it before realizing now was probably the best time to get these attacks started. The blonde began by beginning April showers, then crossing her blades together a bit in order to point them down and yell, "Thundara!"

The area lit up quickly as shadows began being electrocuted by the spell, sparking a lot more as the rain in her space (which kind of looked like random clouds just floated up above her little dome of range) continued pouring down. She knew she was more equipped with fire, so it was best to keep that off until April Showers ended. As the rain continued to pour, she crossed her blades together and shot Thunderbell and Blizzara at the same time. Usually the bell made a bong noise as it hit it's target, this time it made more of a flat noise. Like the bell was already broken. But it also made a crackling noise similar to thunder. She thought that was pretty fitting, having what looked like a thunderstorm aesthetic going on.

Some of the shadows began backing out of the area to try and get away from the rain and lightning, which gave her a temporarily bubble. Which was good, because she needed to wait for thunderbell to charge again and that was her only thunder projectile in her arsenal. Kaida hopped down to the ground and on a couple of the escaping shadows made a quick use of powerline before moving back to her perch.

Word Count: 409
EXP Earned: 40
EXP Total: 660
Blessed Thief: 10 Munny
Sweet Memories: 5 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 Shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1,191/1,500

Enemies Remaining:
1742 Shadows
420 Neoshadows
391 Darkballs
24 Invisibles
2 Darksides