Melus wasn't necessarily talking at that moment. Even when Lea had come over and given the potions, she had only been on edge a bit more because of what just happened, and the clones had come closer. He hadn't really eased her mind, but when Koa spoke up, she realized the tone he was speaking at was like trying to console a child. She knew he didn't mean it in that manner, but she figured maybe at that point it was a little safer. Melus took a deep breath and she held her hand up for a moment and waved it. The clones stopped and simply faded into the air until they were no longer present. Melus looked up at Koa and reached out for one of the potions and used it. She felt a wave of healing relief wash over her and she looked up at the boy and said, "I'd keep that one on standby in case we need it later." Melus got up from the ground rubbing her arm a bit and looking around and she kind of scoffed at herself before saying, "So... everyone else got out with minor scratches?" she looked around and put on a small, relatively fake smile before saying, "How about next time someone might potentially be working for the enemy, we don't... well... bring them back? This was our first encounter... I don't even wanna know what the others are like yet." she held her hands up and her harp materialized and she started playing it a bit to calm herself a little more, "But uh... we did it. That's a... that's a start." Melus looked over at Aeria and Kiara and said, "Maybe we've got a psychological damage issue going on instead? Alright, Shrink Melus ready for deployment. Tell me your troubles today." she looked over at Koa and said, "You. You didn't get under her control. Fascinating. Are you gay?" she paused for a moment with her playing before she held her hand up, "It's okay, if you're uncomfortable with the subject, allow me to break the tension." she placed her hand towards her heart, "I'm gay. Though uh, hm. Maybe that raises questions about me not being controlled by... wait she said men's hearts. Whatever misandry she was spilling. So yeah. If your heart set on a man?"
"Alright boys!" Aalis at this point was no longer glowing blue. She did for quite a while but now she had no aura which made no difference to her but probably made her teammates grateful for the lack of distraction. Aalis braced herself a minute and rubbed her nose before pulling out her fan and saying, "Let's get this party started! Yee haw!" and the girl ran at the Grimm. She got herself a slice straight across with one of the Beowulfs and sniffled a bit as she managed to defeat at least one Beowulf. Aalis got a good hit in with the Ursa. Aalis backed on up afterwards, hopping a bit to keep herself moving while she swished around her fan saying, "I bet I can get more of these down than any of you." She looked over at Arian and had a mischievous grin on her face, "'Less ya think you're better than me?" 9/10 Beowulfs left. Ursa has 7BP. Aalis has 15HP left Uva, having not really interacted with her team much, didn't really wait for her team to get started. Uva charged on in silently and tried her best to sneak behind the group. She kept herself low to the ground until she was behind the Ursa. She decided to go after the one that stood out from the crowd first. She didn't know if it was stronger or weaker by design, so she just went with it anyway. Snapping some fire dust into her boot she charged up and kicked hard into the back of it's leg and it let out a cry while some fire blasted out. Uva let the blade extend a bit as she backed away and did a flip to get out of the way. Rubbing her face while she was aware she'd just put herself as central focus in the crowd. She sighed a bit and fixed up her hood and held her hands out for balance as she got ready to do more kicking. 10/10 Beowulfs left. Ursa has 3BP left. Uva has 15HP left.
Takehiko was glad he had a name to associate with the cabin boy now. Though he was a bit more distracted by the pink floating blob that came close to his face. There was a moment where he found himself smiling a lot more at the thing before he caught how much he was actually grinning at it at he stopped. Take covered his mouth a little to calm himself down. There was a reason why he was reacting the way he did. Just looking at the thing, he could just hear his little brother's voice screaming 'look at it, it's so squishy looking' and Take found so much humor in that. But he managed to contain laughter. Didn't hurt that Morph got so close it almost tickled. Take removed his hand when he was certain his emotions were contained and he pointed to himself and said, "My name's Takehiko, you can call me Take And this is Chrono. You can call him Chrono." Take had motioned over towards his partner. He probably figured the white haired boy wouldn't care whether or not he introduced himself. He didn't see the harm in giving this boy their real names. If Chrono didn't like it, he'd take an earful later.
Spoiler: A flashback Kaida was all set and ready for the Mark of Mastery, but she wanted to visit Hikaru before she started it. Hikaru at this point had been in a coma for a month, and it only made Kaida more and more anxious by the day. But she liked to keep him updated, though she wasn't exactly sure how much he could hear. She made her way to the chair most people sat in to talk while he was sleeping. Kaida took a deep breath and began speaking, “Hey Hikaru… I’m taking the Mark of Mastery today... again... I know you would have wanted to wish me luck before I go… so I decided to come in.” Kaida chuckled a little and said, “You’re missing everything man, you better wake up soon or I’m gonna get mad. But, maybe when you wake up I’ll be a master, and then you can be jealous…” she shifted to stand up and said, “I’m gonna probably be late… so-” “Ya know, I was gonna have him on my shoulders cheering for you from the sidelines, but that seems inappropriate.” Kaida looked over to see where the voice came from and saw Aux and rolled her eyes, “Have you been practicing his voice?” “No..” Aux responded, sounding slightly unsure. Kaida looked at him with an eyebrow raised and he replied, “Maybe…” then Kaida tilted her head entirely and Aux looked away from her direction as she said, “Shut up.” Kaida laughed and imitated Hikaru poorly, “You go Kaida! Don’t let Aux get you down!” There was a pause in the dialogue between the two before Aux cut through it, “You ever feel we’re getting too disrespectful around him?” “Honestly? He’d be doing the exact same thing if one of us were in his position instead.” Kaida quipped right back. “I just want him to wake up.” Aux bluntly replied and Kaida sighed saying, “I do too, but he’d probably rather us be doing something with our lives rather than moping around.” “I don’t mope.” Aux replied very quickly. “Then what emotion is this, mister “I don’t mope”?” Kaida replied rolling her eyes. “Heartache?” Kaida looked a bit thrown off by that reply and scratched the back of her head, “I mean… I get it. But you gotta get out and do something. Give him stories to tell. Don’t tell him all you did was sit bedside for a month while he was sleeping.” Krowley seemed to walk in right just as she said that and looked towards the blond before crossing his arms a bit, “Kaida, you’re still here? You’re going to be late.” “I was just about to leave, I didn’t wanna cut Aux and I’s conversation short.” Kaida admitted. Aux shifted his head towards the door and said, “Go, and good luck. We’ll be here when you get back.” Kaida nodded and waved saying, “See you later.” As she ran off as he replied, “See you later.” See you later. Goodbye. See you later. Goodbye. "Why then... why does Aux seem to remember up until then? Why?" Kaida hissed to herself before the light of the new world finally touched her eyes. Kaida was a bit surprised when she found herself... shorter than usual. She thought maybe it was a size difference type thing before she saw her feet and moved them a bit. She tried to move her arms but felt them a little harder to lift before she realized she had wings. That was when it clicked to Kaida that she was a bird and she rolled her eyes. Of course. It only clicked further when she saw Hikaru was a wolf, a very blue wolf, that Kaida waddled her way over towards Hikaru saying, "Of course you'd be a wolf. What else would you have been..." Kaida teased a bit. She tried moving a bit as well, realizing she was pretty fast in this little body, but she didn't feel quite as nimble. She could get used to that. She heard Hikaru mention the lands and she looked towards them and asked, "Is it a drought? This looks like it's a drought of some kind. Unless it has something to do with heartless... i wouldn't be surprised if it did."
(I was totally following this game from behind the scenes and I'm just gonna say, Gabi is never gonna trust Maru again)
The reason I personally have problems with Kairi wielding the keyblade being determined by her being a Princess of Heart is that... does this mean you could hand out a keyblade to all princesses of heart? This seems odd to me. If a princess of heart is able to USE the keyblade because of their strength of heart that makes sense to me, but being chosen by the keyblade cause Kairi accidentally touched Aqua's keyblade is a little.... aha... poor in terms of writing? I mean, I get it, I just don't like it. Now, the Xehanort situation. The keyblade as far as I am aware is not inherently good or evil, it it a tool simply given to those based on their strength of heart (which I personally look at as strength of resolve/determination) so it isn't THAT weird to me, honestly. Not nearly as much as the Kairi situation.
Kaida listened to Aux and Hikaru's back and forth, and realized just how much Aux didn't remember. The further on this went, the further on this whole situation pissed her off. Finally, Kaida looked up at Aux and said, "Over a year. You have lost your memories for over a year. You didn't just close your eyes and sleep your way through a year. You haven't even noticed the fact Hikaru has a keyblade now, have you?" Kaida paused a moment to take a breath and said, "Hikaru's always been kinder, you know I'm not.... So let me put it this way. You've done some horrible stuff over the past year you don't even remember. While not everyone in this room feels this way, most of the people in this room want to see your head rolling across the floor." Kaida's fists tightened before she added, "That group includes me." Kaida grinned sarcastically and said, "Welcome to the party Aux, I'm looking forward to wherever this train wreck leads." and Kaida went to go walk in the portal but stopped and turned to look over at Steel and said under her breath, "Why did I only just realize he's a wolf..." and she entered the portal.
Kaida wasn't exactly fond of Hikaru's answer, but it was better than nothing. She was confused about the recorder but she pulled it out of her pocket and looked it over before handing it over to Hikaru and saying, "Don't overwrite anything, I don't want Karina to lose anything cause of it. If you can figure out how to word it without recording, just let me know... alright?" Kaida held the recorder even further out and said, "Just... above all else, take care of yourself. Okay?" Once he held it she walked over and messed with Hikaru's hair a bit and then sighed, "Let's try and get this done, shall we?" she walked towards the world portals and pointed to one of them, Pridelands or something, and said, "How about this one?"
