Aislinn uses Power Aura Aislinn uses a combo
As she fought trying to keep everyone safe, Qamar walked up to her and tried to talk with her, yelling though the sound was muffled and Tinarah was barely hearing it, especially since she had to deal with the heartless around them. "I refuse!" Was all Tinarah called back to Qamar, and even with that, she was quieter than Qamar was since she never really had a loud voice, even yelling. What she was trying to say, was that she refused to believe that it was over and the world is done for. She still had the energy to go, though it was waning a little bit. The wave of healing that came over her gave her a little more energy to keep going keep fighting. Tinarah could only offer a small smile before she turned back to the battle. If she continued to keep the heartless off of the ones that were fighting the light chaser students, maybe she could make a bit of a difference. It probably wouldn't help that much, the only way things would get better would be if they stopped fighting and everyone worked to save this planet. However she knew that wouldn't happen there was no getting along here, and Tinarah found herself feeling strangely alone in her goal to keep the heartless at bay. She hoped that Master Thalassa did what she needed to soon, the heartless were stopping and she was out of her magic. There was only so much left for her to do now. Looking around there were large floating circular creatures of darkness that started to close in on her. Bracing herself for their attacks, Tinarah decided to go on the offense first, try to clear the area. She honestly didn't trust Qamar to deal with the heartless properly herself. There was something about the girl, how easily distracted that she got with other people that made her worried that she wouldn't be able to handle the heartless. For one of the councils chosen students she seemed to not be on top of things as much as Tinarah expected. As long as she didn't need to save the girl again then she figured that it would be fine, because Tinarah knew that she couldn't save her again, even if she wanted to her magic had run dry, she was running on whatever energy she had left, and whatever energy that Choma had lent her. The Darkballs started to fall around her, but not nearly enough as she was forced to turn her attention to a blue floating creature near her, trying to blast her with a shot of ice. Barely getting out of the way, Tinarah killed that too, continuing the slash that hit one last shadow. Tinarah found herself panting while the help from her former Master started to fade, but at least there was a few less heartless out there. She was starting to make a difference, even if it was slight. At least as long as the heartless were fighting her, they weren't fighting the people who couldn't protect themselves in this town, she had taken some solace in that. D-Link with Choma 3/3 HP: 34/75 AP: 1/52 (+15) MP: 2/30 DP: 1/3 Enemies Defeated: 5 Neoshadows 1 Blue Rhapsodies 1 Shadow Heartless Remaining: 46 Shadows (2AP) 108 Darkballs (12AP) 60 Neoshadows (16AP) 60 Yellow Operas (4AP) 54 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 62 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
What was going on? She was supposed to be making sure Qamar didn't follow according to Illiana, but too preoccupied with heartless to stop her from following. While Tinarah couldn't really hear what was going on, she could see well enough the heat between the two of them. She then saw Illiana kick Qamar and Qamar try and retaliate. Glyde then went to try and fix it which seemed to become even more of a mess. Standing there watching all this going on from her vantage point it was just a mess considering all that was going on here. Two red moons in the sky, looming over them, heartless everywhere, buildings falling, and the world literally falling apart and these people wanted to fight over trivial matters, or at least Tinarah assumed they were trivial, at least in comparison to everything else. As the fight went on Qamar suddenly got hit for a lot of damage, she was looking rough and while Tinarah watched that she missed the heartless that were coming for her. One knocked her down and there was a wave of pain and dizziness and she hit her head. Stumbling back to her feet, Tinarah knew that she wasn't going to be able to keep up this fighting too much longer, but Qamar needed her help first. But out of the corner of her eye she could see that one of the Light Chaser Students was doing quite a number to Alderic. This wasn't good. While she knew that she should try and keep herself standing, these two were the people hand picked by the council, they were the ones meant to save the worlds, not her. She was not going to let them die if she could help it. And if things went well enough, she wouldn't need to worry too much about her own safety. She could always heal herself next time, for now they needed help. Not close enough to either anymore to be help, she had to just aim her keyblade and hope that she got her aim right as she sent the first cure spell at Qamar. She then turned to Dentro and Alderic. Chrys claimed they were trying to do what was right, but what was right about this? What was so right about the man going after one of the quietest people around who was probably the most reasonable. Provoking him until he was attacking a little more wildly, and taking advantage of that. It wasn't fair and while Tinarah wanted to stop him, she felt like she might only be more in the way than helpful. At the very least she could keep heartless off of them. It would have to do. Turning back to the heartless, Tinarah cringed as she could feel a sting in her head, near where there was another scar. She tried to ignore it as she focused more on the battle. A little pain wouldn't stop her, not when there was so many people to help. This was about the only thing she was good for anyways protecting other people. It was the goal she had given herself and she would do it regardless of her own condition, until which point that she couldn't fight anymore. There were still heartless to be fought, so Tinarah threw herself into it, still drawing power from Choma in order to do so. D-Link with Choma 2/3 Tinarah healed Adalric and Qamar for 35 HP each HP: 19/75 AP: 1/52 (+15) MP: 1/30 DP: 1/3 Enemies Defeated: 3 Neoshadows 4 Red Nocturens 1 Shadow Heartless Remaining: 47 Shadows (2AP) 113 Darkballs (12AP) 60 Neoshadows (16AP) 60 Yellow Operas (4AP) 54 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 63 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
Aislinn used a ground combo
As Tinarah let off her torrent of attacks, something shifted. A loud thunderous sound shook the earth as it seemed to split open throwing everyone off their feet. Darkness filled the sky and Tinarah could say, she was really truly frightened by this. In the sky, two red moons illuminated the area and the pulse of energy through the area had Tinarah a little shaken. As she looked at the crack that formed in the earth she could just see herself jumping it only to turn around and see A gone. She wasn't going to lose anyone else to this. She wouldn't let it happen. Glancing around she noticed that Illiana was shooting a spell at her leg to get debris off of her. Soon after was Qamar hovering over her. They both seemed hurt, and while Tinarah too could feel the sting of pain coursing through her, she had to ignore it, at least she was confident that she could still get to her feet. The heartless still surrounded her, the thunder in the sky still threatened to bring them down. Not sure what she could do, Tinarah did the only thing that she could think of as she sprinted for Qamar and Illiana. As she neared their position it was clear the heartless weren't leaving the two girls alone just because they were hurt. Not wasting time she spun into action, clearing the immediate heartless as some of the bigger enemies seemed to be trying to take advantage of their chance to strike. Striking a Neoshadow down, Tinarah put herself between Qamar and Illiana. She then swung out taking on two more Neoshadows. She knew that this was a bad idea, knew that she wasn't necessarily strong enough to take on both at once, but she knew people who were able to. She focused on them. Focused on Uncle Fost, and Master Stamatis, but in the end she knew the person who would have been best to deal with this on slaughter was Choma. Channeling her connection with him, though it was fainter than the one she had with Stamatis, she put that into the strength needed to protect her friends. Finding a wave of energy that she could use to continue fighting. Both the Neoshadows that she was fighting soon fell to her. She turned around to look at some of the floating creatures that also surrounded her, preparing to rain fire on them, but Tinarah made sure she was quicker, making out the four that were lined up before turning and stabbing a single shadow that was trying to sneak by. "You two okay?" Tinarah asked after clearing the immediate area, giving them a moment of safety. She then knelt down and one hand on each of the girls. Warm energy flowed from her as she started pouring healing powers into the two of them. "There you go. Take all the time you need to recover, I will be making sure they stay off, but best watch out for the falling buildings." There was an unnatural calmness to Tinarah, almost like in the panic she went into a kind of auto pilot mode, just doing what she could to make sure everyone was safe. Fear was still visible in her eyes though she seemed to be handling things decently well on the outside, what was going on in her own mind was a different story entirely. Tinarah Activated D-Link with Choma Tinarah healed Illiana and Qamar for 35 HP each HP: 30/75 AP: 1/52 (+15) MP: 11/30 DP: 1/3 Enemies Defeated: 3 Neoshadows 4 Red Nocturens 1 Shadow Heartless Remaining: 165 Shadows (2AP) 126 Darkballs (12AP) 68 Neoshadows (16AP) 75 Yellow Operas (4AP) 72 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 72 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
While this was a far cry from her normal way of venting, Tinarah was able to use the time fighting to calm herself down. It wasn't like music which soothed her soul, and while she wasn't often angry, she still got frustrated, mostly at herself. This was at the very least something else to focus on until she stopped thinking about all that she should have done, but instead it replaced it with a feeling of guilt over how she acted out towards everyone. Sure Qamar jumping in and taking over the conversation that she was trying to have with Take was annoying, but Take was allowed to have more than one friend. Who was she to get mad because someone else was concerned about him. Sure the way that Qamar worded it was not the best, but there was no way Tinarah believed that Qamar actually wanted to take credit from her. After all the last time they talked, Qamar said she wanted more friends, it was probably an awkward way of making friends. As for Chrys, while Tinarah still believed that she was mislead in her thinking, it probably didn't help change her thinking to yell at her about all that had happened. She should have calmed down and spoken in a more civilized tone, like Chrys had done with her. It still amazed Tinarah that the nicest response she had gotten was from the person that was supposed to be their enemy. It only added to the confusion of what was going on in this realm. At least the other one, while it had caused her a lot of pain, it seemed black and white on the stance of right and wrong. Knowing she would have to apologize to a lot of people after the battle, Tinarah focused on the battle so she could get it over with and the guilt off her chest. Going all out this time she cast a fire spell at them, happy to return to a closer fighting style to her, one that Stamatis taught her that relied more heavily on her magic. After she hit with the fire she struck out into a blitz of attacks that was able to take out another enemy before finally settling on some normal attacking of the heartless to finish off a bit of the crowd that was in her area. Tinarah Used Fira (Black Mage) on 5 Blue Rapsodies Used Blitz + AP on 1 Neoshadow 3 Darkballs 5 Shadows Enemies remaining 269 Shadows 127 Darkballs 73 Neoshadows 90 Yellow Operas 87 Red Nocturnes 84 Blue Rhapsodies HP: 63/75 AP: 0/52 MP: 21/30 DP: 1/3
Aislinn used Barrier surge
Aislinn used Cross Slash
Just as she got there sending her whip out trying to hit Hughes, the barrier of wind came up and knocked it straight from her grasp as she was left staring through the wall, listening to him talking. Doing it for himself or not he still failed, against this group there was no succeeding for him. Karina was confident in this, still she wanted to end him herself, though that seemed like it was unlikely to happen now. "At the time I would have liked nothing more than to fight in his army, but I have grown since then. I am not so naive to think that is the best chance for success for me anymore. Anywhere outside that blasted world gives me a better chance at life then anything I could have done there. So I suppose I should be thanking my father for hurting me to the point of running away. If he didn't I wouldn't get the satisfaction of watching you die." She still wished to be killing him herself, but at least she could watch, hate burning in her eyes. She had to let Shiro deal with this now, there was no choice, but in the end, from what Hughes was saying it sounded like there wasn't going to be a Shiro left after this. Looking over at Arctus, Karina grabbed his arm and pulled him close enough to whisper. "Make sure that Mizu is somewhere else on the island and isn't watching. I don't think this will be pretty." Karina warned, but her eyes were intent on watching regardless of what was going to happen. She then looked over at Aeira. "You can control earth right? Can you have the ground swallow Shiro, tunnel him out of there and close up after? Let the son of a bitch kill himself. He needs to take no one else with him."
Finding a good spot on the roof tops Dayla stopped and crouched taking mostly cover and putting her hood up. From there she kept an eye on the streets, she wouldn't shoot unless given a signal or unless someone was in trouble. Her ears twitched at the sound of someone from behind. For the time being she couldn't see anyone but she was keeping half an eye on her surrounding behind her and doing her best to focus on the task she had taken at the same time. She was glad for her good hearing, it made the job a little easier, still she was used to going into these kinds of things with a lot more back up, this would be interesting. Of course there was more threats and when someone asked if they would do, Aaron got nervous. He was still chained and without weapons, meaning trying to defend himself would be difficult. Still if he could get even one weapon. The people started to launch their attacks. Thanks to axes being one of the slower weapons to wield, Aaron managed to jump out of the way of the one swinging at him before he turned towards the knives that were coming and used the chains to deflect one, hoping to wrap it around and dislodge it from the persons grasp. If he could get their weapons away from them, at least he would have something to use. If not then this battle would be difficult. With eight of these woman it was already looking grim, but Aaron refused to go down without a fight. He was stronger than that, he could do this, he would get out and back to his sister. He wasn't going to die here if he could help it.
Left fighting on her own, Tinarah couldn't help but think about the girl that she was facing before. She was pretty sure that it was the same girl that had been helping head the attack against Torrin in the other realm. For that there was some respect for her. On top of that Chrys was the only one not to yell at her to leave and spoke nicely. She was probably just misguided and Tinarah could honestly understand why. When she was first brought to the Light Chaser after nearly drowning he made himself sound like the hero and Tinarah was finding it hard to find faults with him besides the fact that she was told to have a problem with him. Though when Aria wanted to leave but she wasn't allowed, that was the first hint. Everything that happened to her after that, it just confirmed that he was bad, especially when he tried to kill Gero and Master Stamatis. She couldn't trust him. But if Chrys only ever saw the side that seemed like a hero at first, Tinarah didn't blame her for trusting him, just hopefully her story would make her think. Probably not, but she hoped. As she was fighting, Qamar approached again. So apparently now she was worth acknowledging her existence, even though ten minutes ago it didn't matter and her conversation with Take was more important than the fact Tinarah was already trying to talk to him. She was annoyed with Qamar for that, and hurt, more hurt then anything else, but she was hurt by everything at this moment. Talking to one of the people who hurt her wouldn't help. Unable to really tell her to go away or be rude in that aspect, Tinarah just chose to ignore Qamar, moving away from her as she continued to fight. Giving herself a little distance and hopefully that was good enough for Qamar to take the hint. Perhaps after she blew off some steam then she could be more social. HP: 75/75 AP: 0/52 MP: 30/30 DP: 1/3 Heartless Defeated: 3 Neoshadows 5 Shadows Heartless Remaining: 342 Shadows 130 Darkballs 74 Neoshadows 93Yellow Operas 111 Red Nocturnes 120 Blue Rhapsodies
"I would love to have a real fight some time, beat some sense into you." Karina threatened as she turned towards Uniform who Arctus was asking about his name. "Colonel Marshall Hughes. Though I doubt he is a Colonel anymore. Given that he was with Nequa I am guessing his sadistic attitude only got him so far in the army. Too bad he didn't try and join my fathers, they would have gotten along great I am sure." Karina said loud enough that she was sure that Hughes could here. She knew how well him and her father got along though and didn't want to imagine what her life would have been like if they were both in her world together. That didn't matter anymore though she was going to deal with him here and now. "Lets get this over with." She said to Arctus before she ran forward not wasting anymore time, lashing out with her whip, aiming for his good arm to take that out as well. "It was a pathetic dream of ever thinking you could destroy these people. They are stronger and better than you ever will be, than I ever will be. Now it is time to end you!"
They didn't have to fight forever, but it never seemed to take long before Ria caused major issues for them. "Well the damn thing better start working soon." Cerdic called back as he ducked out of the way of Alders blizzard attack, before sweeping up and out into an attack of his own, using Alder's attack as a distraction of sorts before he managed to get his attack in. Glancing behind him he checked on Daeni for a moment, but didn't dare take his eyes off of Ria for too long, even in the span of a second it could get dangerous.
"Oh would you? Would you really? I would love to see that. It is already such a blessing to just be allowed here. It would be great!" Mirela was practically bouncing as she spoke. She glanced at the guys that Mortimer asked to leave. She didn't think talking politics was a bad thing, but she would keep it in mind that he didn't like it. It wasn't that Mirela really cared for politics herself though. As long as she could continue working here and making enough money to keep inventing than she could care less what was going on outside of that, unless of course it allowed her to get involved with more inventors and learn more like it was now. Then she was perfectly happy to do what it took to learn more and get better at what she did. Okay this certainly was becoming interesting. As more people showed up, Lucian's metal eye started to focus on the figure, taking snapshots of the scene he was witnessing. He would be glad to have them later he was sure. Still Lucian said nothing as Dylan lead the conversation, or more so, failed to really make much conversation. He clearly was the one who knew what was going on, and meanwhile Lucian was totally lost to the point of all this. Leaning over he whispered to Kara "You know your boss is a nut job right?" He couldn't see any point in all of this yet, and unless conversation that provided useful came soon, Lucian was very tempted to just walk away.
Gavin tried to talk to her but Thea didn't really listen, she was already on her way out of the room. While sure he was trying to make it up to her and she wanted to appreciate that, she was just too upset to actually deal with it like she should have, instead standing outside where it was safer for everyone. Even if she tried to stay and talk with Gavin, Thea didn't trust herself not to get upset for no reason and hurt people. Standing outside though, Zephyr still came out to check on her and Thea stood their quietly, her hands shaking a little bit in effort to keep herself under control. "I just want to take it out on the thing causing the pain. Can we just go and rescue Selena?" Thea asked quietly trying to hold herself together along enough to go all out of Xislyn.
Well another week over and another challenge ready to be viewed. Before we do that however lets look at the standings after challenge 1. In Fifth place we have @Rat In Fourth place we have @LadyAzura In Third place we have @GarrettFinch In Second place we have @Day~Dream And in First place sitting at the top for now is @Mixt Don't lose hope yet though contestants, there are still three more contests that need to be judged, your scores can still change yet. Speaking of more contests, lets get to the next one: Contestant 1 Spoiler One day thousands of people are living their everyday lives and a cyclone appears and sucks you up. The next thing you know you are in a different place altogether. You have no idea how you got there but you decide to make the most of it. You decide to look around and the first thing you see is a giant sign floating in the center of a hub like area. The sign reads, 'Kingdom hearts videos' There also seems to be a floating blue heart to the left of the sign. Underneath this sign there is sections that read, 'Home, Forums, video portal, media, members, Chat, community, and upgrades'. Under the 'Home' section there seems to be paths the seam to branch off and have their own path. These section path have names that read, 'Watched Forums, Watched Threads, New Posts, Recent Activity, Authors, and Settings.' You think to yourself that this is an odd place to be. You decide to head in the direction of the area marked 'Forums'. You seem to be in a different hub altogether. The words 'Forums' is floating above your head. Then underneath that is search forums and recent posts'. Farther on there seems to be paths that go off in every direction. There seems to be more people here then the 'home' area of this strange place. Looking down at the paths them seem to be labeled just like the rest of the place. The labeled are marked with, 'Community, Kingdom Hearts, Hacks & codes, Interests, Creativity Corner, and Fun and Games'. You do not know where to start but it looks like this place will be and is a fun place to be. Soon you can find people like you not sure what to do but soon the craziness of it all comes, and everything is somehow crazy. Everyone makes friends with each other and you all seem to respect each other. Contestant 2 Spoiler User logging in... Welcome "FartNugget" FartNugget: Hello everyone! *fire everywhere* FartNugget: Riiiiight. I guess I ought to stay out of the SpamZone today. What about the Discussion section? *book falls off shelf, catches on fire* FartNugget: Nope. Playground? *swingset on fire* FartNugget: Nuh-uh, KH boards? *tumbleweeds. Also on fire* FartNugget: Geez, why is everything so heated today? Staff: Oh we had some budget cuts. The server doesn't need cooling fans, right? FartNugget: Oh good, I thought it was flamewars. Why not get rid of this VR gimmick first though? Staff: Nah, we paid for that by getting rid of the sign out option. FartNugget: NO! SAO jokes are off the table. That doesn't even make pretend sense anyway. Story over! Narrator: Oh, an SAO joke is off the table, but a character becoming self aware and breaking the fourth wall is so original... FartNugget: Wait what? Narrator: You know what [redacted] is too cool of a name for you. You're "FartNugget" now. Staff: Hey! Only we can change people's names! Narrator: Do you realize how silly you sound right now? I control everything here. I'm god basically. Staff: As silly as a god that's using a puppet as a strawman to make fun of a joke that they started, while using another puppet to attack themselves? Narrator: ... I hate you. You know that? I'm glad now I was too lazy to give you an actual name. FartNugget: But you're controlling us. Doesn't that mean you hate yourself? Narrator: I'm not getting philosophical here. That's what the Discussion section is for when it's not on fire. Now where were we with the story? This is quite a pickle isn't it? Maybe if I... No, that won't work. Yeah, this isn't salvageable at all. Let's just start this over. ~~~~ User logging in... Welcome "BurpBurger" Contestant 3 Spoiler When I woke up the next time, I realized........Dorothy wasn't in Kansas anymore. I scratched my head. I looked around and was confused as to where I was exactly. As I examined my surroundings, I immediately saw a sign and walked up to it. I read the sign as it read: 'Forum Families'. I was slightly confused until I turned my head down and saw a small box. I picked it up and saw tiny people running around in the box. "Nope." I immediately put the box down again and went about my merry way until I walked up to a door that was labeled: 'Discussions'. I opened the door and saw tons of people talking with one another. I quietly walked in with the usual expression I have when I'm in a room with strangers. (o-o). I saw another door that read: 'Debate Corner'. I squinted my eyes and walked away from it. Something told me I might regret going through that door and that I would end up there for hours. I walked out of the room and went past some other doors like: 'Writing Nook' or this really weird looking one that read: 'Code Vault'. After some walking around, seeing some people go through Video Portals, partake in something called 'KHV Chorus', I decided to take a break for a few minutes. After I got some rest, I stood up and found myself in front of an ominous looking area. I spent a couple seconds looking for a sign and came upon a trash can with lettering on it, 'The Spam Zone'. I was slightly curious and I went inside. After a few hours, I immediately ran out of there, regretting every decision I made until now. I start speed walking out of there and finally came upon a small house. I walked up to the house and saw the lettering above the mailbox that read: 'Role-Playing Arena'. Did I want to make another bad decision again?..........Well....YOLO! I went inside the house and saw tons and tons of computers, paper, what seemed to be katsudons and tea cups. As I walked further into the house, I saw various pieces of paper with what seemed to be some math. I looked over to another door that said: 'OOC Lounge'. I opened the door and saw various people gathering around drinking tea and coffee. After exploring the place, I decided to crash here. Before I went to bed, I went past a mirror and looked at and asked myself. "Ha...Habadededga!" I realized right then and there. I became a dog in a plane.......I love the internet. The other two contestants failed to get an entry in on time. So they will not be judged this round, but will still have future rounds that they can use to try and catch up. Good luck to all, and be sure to vote and support your favourite. All votes count towards the contestants point total, so your votes are important to help their scoring.
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"Oh and after all that, just what do you win?" Karina asked trying to hide her disappointment in losing. "Perhaps now we can deal with the annoying prick who keeps summoning these infernal things."
With the creature off balance, Karina wasted no time taking her chance to strike at it, making sure that it would go done once and for all. Still she knew her own limitations but it would bring her closer to killing it before Arctus got to it. That was something she was working towards, so a fireball and attack later she final stepped back allowing someone else to step up. Yellow Darkside: 400/5000
Determination filling Karina seeing how much more injured the heartless was, she wanted a chance to kill it before anyone else could. Although Karina knew that she couldn't do it this turn, at least she could try and do the best she could as she infused her whip blade with fire and continued her barrage of attacks against the heartless. Yellow Darkside: 800/5000