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It was down to the point that she could count the amount of Neoshadows that were left. It felt good to be able to see the end of this battle in sight. They were almost there and she only lost her cool once, while that in some ways was an accomplishment, it wasn't entirely given that she was a master now. She should be able to handle things a lot better than she had been, though stress was baring down on her. The thing with being a master was that she should be an example to those who would come after her, and as it stood so far she was unable to do that due to her own temper when it came to long drawn out battles. Still she supposed that it could have turned out to be a lot worse, she didn't loose her temper that bad compared to what she could have done after all. She managed to keep it directed where in needed to go, and that was at the heartless. With those thoughts in mind Aislinn decided it was time to continue slowly decreasing the numbers of the heartless wanting to deal with them as soon as possible. The Neoshadows were low enough that she thought it would be best for her to try and finish off the rest of them before turning her attention entirely to the other heartless around, most likely the Darkballs that were floating around them being just as annoying as the Neoshadows. The only difference was that the Neoshadows seemed harder to kill so that was where Aislinn set her sights until they had all been dealt with. One thing at a time would make her fight a hell of a lot easier to deal with, and easier on the brain. Moving into a better position, Aislinn did her best to continue ignoring the pain in her side in favour of the battle ahead. As soon as they finished with this then she could deal with the aching pain in her side, but until that point she was sure that she could focus enough to get rid of these things. Part of her considered dropping her little Soldier form in favour of getting access to her magic once more, but the other part of her warned that it was not the time to deal with it at the moment. She could do this without being at full health. Pulling out her keyblade Aislinn finally got into the battle spirit once again, starting her attacks, using a barrier surge to keep herself from getting any more injured as she fought. At first the hit didn't do too much damage but as Aislinn didn't stop there, taking her time delivering three more hits to the first Neoshadow before moving onto the next one, and then the one after that. After the first one fell in the end, Aislinn had to fight two at once, since one of her attacks didn't do what she thought it would. It was slightly annoying but either way she was trained enough to handle it. The two fell to her blade before she found herself throwing another shadow at the Neoshadows. The Neoshadow lived up to its reputation and ripped the poor shadow apart before she could do anything to stop kill the Neoshadow. That being said it wasn't hard to deal with the one that was cruel. She did it in a few strikes before finally turning to the last one in her area and lashing out at it, with a quick strike that was aimed for the head. Word Count: 602 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 840 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 21 Shadows 21 Neoshadows 64 Darkballs
Glyde was looking bad and Aria was calling for help but there was none that Tinarah could offer. Tinarah shifted uncomfortably knowing that the only thing that she could do to help was deal with the enemies that were attacking. More of them she could deal with the less of a threat that they would be. With that in mind, Tinarah set out to fight the helping hats that surrounded them. She grit her teeth in annoyance as she let loose a string of attacks on the enemies around them, trying to make short work of them is she could. Between her health and the injuries she was taking, at this pace she wouldn't be too far behind Glyde if they didn't deal with this guys quickly. HP: 25/55 AP: 4/34 MP: 0/20 Helping Hats Remaining: 5/40
While she might have been taking out a lot of enemies, the heartless didn't seem to fond of Aux either. While they were fighting nearly back to back, so Heartless couldn't get the jump on them, their sides were still left exposed when their focus was too narrowed in and those heartless that were in front of them to notice them other ones around. This seemed to be what was happening to Aux as Aislinn spotted a Neoshadow rising up out of the corner of her eye, right next to Aux. Silently cursing in the back of her mind, Aislinn spun ducking out of the way of an attack aimed for her left side. She narrowly got grazed by the attack, and Aux might have been able to hear the sound of her sucking in breath between clenched teeth, but she didn't stop moving. Unfortunately for Aislinn her current form blocked all forms of magic that she might have been able to use to heal herself, instead she was forced to grit her teeth at the pain and push forward, dealing with the heartless that thought it was a good idea to threaten her comrade, something that she would soon teach him was a big mistake. With the slash out, Aislinn cut for the Neoshadow, but it moved out of the way before she had hit it. It was a feet of strength and will to stop her momentum enough that she didn't take out Aux with her own keyblade. The heartless then appeared again behind Aislinn, perhaps they weren't so mindless after all. Either way it was going to be dead soon enough if she had her way. The next attack was parried by the creature, however after that it's luck started to run short as she managed to land hit after hit, no sooner did it die did the one that drew blood before reappear. Aislinn dodged out of the way but it seemed rather satisfied with what it tasted in her blood, wanting more. There was no way that she would allow that to happen as she picked up the pace of her attacks, parrying a few of the heartless's own attacks before landing one right in the chest. For a moment she could feel her side burn and reached over to grab at it for a moment. When she did a Shadow jumped for her that Aislinn managed to bat away rather quickly. But the Neoshadows circled like sharks, three more closing in on her. Letting go of her side, Aislinn took her keyblade in both of her hands to ready herself to fight once more. Sure her side hurt but it was nothing compared to what she had been through in the past. There was no way she was letting these bugs get the better of her. Grimacing she clenched her teeth and pushed her way though it as she started to unleash another set of attacks on the Neoshadows that sat ahead of her ready to pounce. Making purchase on the first one, she had to roll out of the way of the second, only causing the wound to hurt more. Her return to her feet was slightly less graceful than normal, but she still managed as she went for retribution on the one that tried to catch her from behind. That only left one more that was an immediate threat to her. She could do that, deal with it no problem. Launching herself forward she quickly dealt a six attack combo to the heartless and dealt with it as well, just in time to stumble back a few steps holding her side again. She could not afford another mistake. Word Count: 616 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 780 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 95 Shadows 43 Neoshadows 96 Darkballs
Well with that little burst of anger out of her system, Aislinn could focus more on what was important, and that was this fight and defending those around her. She had made quite a gap between her and the person that she agreed to watch his back. Taking a few deep breaths, Aislinn just walked towards Aux again. With fading amount of Heartless she managed to walk between the enemies pretty easily, kicking one shadow to it's death along the way as she went, not that she cared at this point. Her lungs were burning now, perhaps she had gone a little over the edge with her rage and attacks, but in the end Aislinn couldn't bring herself to care all that much. In the end it got the job done, and fast. It might have left her tired from over using some abilities and pushing herself to the limit just to make a point, but in the end it was worth it. Taking a moment, Aislinn watched Aux fight, his strength and determination behind it. It was admirable to say the least, and that is why despite her little break down she would need to keep up and defend him. They had a deal after all, he watched her back and she watched his. So far she hadn't had to worry about what might be coming up behind her so she needed to make sure that Aux felt equally as safe with her watching his back. Given her little break down that might not be as easy as it seemed. He might not trust her after all that, but she hoped that he still had some respect for her despite the evils of the woodland creatures that played baseball. Organizing and straightening herself out, Aislinn closed her eyes for a moment, letting the music that she created in her own mind calm her. Music, always her center. She started to hum even as she found her center and got ready for the attacks. The time she wasted calming her mind gave more of the Neoshadows time to close in. It seemed that she was quickly becoming public enemy number one with them, but that was likely because she had taken out so many of them to start with. It was okay, she was getting good at taking out the little creatures and they stopped really getting on her nerves, as much as being almost routine to deal with them. The same attacks and tactics every time, Heartless were nothing more than mindless puppets, easy enough to deal with. Waiting for numerous to jump at her Aislinn rolled out of the way at the last moment, causing three to crash into each other and be dazed for a moment. It was more than enough time for her to rush forward barrier surrounding her as she bashed into all three of them at once. From there it only took a few more swings to deal with the rest of them. From there the other two near by were easy enough to deal with. The first taking a cross slash to the face, the second however got nothing nearly as fancy. Not able to keep up with all the fancy maneuvering, Aislinn switched over to a more basic method of fighting them, focusing only on her strikes, delivering one after another, instead of adding any over the top tactics. With only one near by her, it was all that was needed in order to effectively deal with the damn thing. Just as she thought soon it was nothing more than dust on the wind, much like it's other companions. "I still got your back." Aislinn assured Aux now that her sanity had returned. Word Count: 621 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 720 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 97 Shadows 48 Neoshadows 104 Darkballs
"You are getting good at those aren't you? A fair warning to you. As good as new keyblades may seem, never pit yourself against a small child, or an owl, or a tiger, or even a bunny. I swear they are all devils and demons in the skin of something innocent. And with your luck with those pitches you are never going to beat them, or at least not before you knock a screw loose." Aislinn warned with a sense of seriousness that shouldn't normally be there. The topic seemed like a joke, but she was deadpan serious when she spoke of these creatures of the abyss that had come up to join in a children's baseball game. Whoever thought it was a good idea to let that happen, well she just hoped that his heart was filled with darkness and now he was just one of the many Heartless that she had or would defeat that day. As she continued fighting she started picturing Christopher Robins head on the heartless, or at least one in the distance. Between him and her stood, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga, and a small shadow which she put Roo's face on. They would all die for the sins of those infernal baseball playing creatures. They were all going to die in no time with that motivation in front of her. There wasn't even a pause long enough to wait for the heartless to attack before Aislinn was on the first two. The smiling faces of Kanga and Roo stared back at her as she through her all behind the attacks grabbing the shadow and bouncing it like a basket ball before sending it bouncing at the larger heartless. "How do you like that?" Aislinn called at it before leaping up and bringing her keyblade down on the Neoshadows head. As the smoke cleared from the first two heartless her eyes settled on the face of a rabbit. Taking a few slow steps forward, Aislinn launched herself at full force with a Zantetsuken attack after it had seemed to be comfortable with the speed she was moving, ready to attack her at that speed. A grin spread across her face as she looked passed where the heartless previously was at where the next one stood, this one looking like an owl. "Try and keep an eye on me now." She grinned as she started moving side to side, far faster than she should have been capable of doing. As she closed the distance, it seemed that she would end up on the left side of it, but as the Heartless went to swipe left she found herself centered on the spot she had started as she slashed through yet another Neoshadow. It had not stood a chance against her, neither would the striped bouncing pest. Oh how Aislinn wished she could go invisible. "Hey Aux, this is how it is done!" She called over to her battle companion as she rushed towards the heartless but suddenly launched herself in the air, confusing the Neoshadow slightly as she landed on the other side, striking in it's back sending him flying towards Aux, but dissipating into smoke before ever reaching him. This just left one more Heartless, the final boss in this little escapade. She was going to make this one hurt. Taking the first couple steps forward slowly, she then launched herself into the air, using Zantetsuken to speed herself up as she came down behind the heartless, lashing a couple times before she moved back and forth, side to side, puncturing him in several different spots to the point that most would say it was overkill, and it was, but the little demon child deserved nothing less. "I think it's dead." She said towards Aux as she stood, watching the black smoke swirl at her feet. Word Count: 638 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 660 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 100 Shadows 58 Neoshadows 112 Darkballs
The time to chat with Aux was nice, but short lived, she would need to talk and fight if she wanted to keep this up. Sure the number of heartless that surrounded them were constantly thinning, but that didn't mean they were gone yet. Looking over the island Aislinn took in the sight of many people battling many more heartless. The shadows were attacking in swarms. The Neoshadows were teaming up and surrounding people, while the Darkballs were simply throwing themselves at them, with no real concern for what they were doing. The entire area was a mess and made Aislinn glad that she decided to deal with the Invisibles first. If those things were darting around as they were dealing with this mess of creatures it could have been deadly for one or more members of this group. The thought of one of these kids dying to this did not sit well with Aislinn, they had already had friends taken from them through the Mark of Mastery, when they failed to show their skill. But now as masters it would only hurt that much more for one of them to go down soon after being named a master. While Aislinn did not know about the others, becoming a master was a dream come true to her. It was everything she wanted, it was the power she needed. From Kaida's reaction, she could tell it was also a major deal for her as well. Just the energy in the air after they were proclaimed masters, it hurt Aislinn to see all that energy stripped away by a crazed man with the need to get approval from probably an equally as crazy lady that had recently fired him. Perhaps the man was just narcissistic, but it bothered Aislinn. At this point there was no saving that man from himself, he had condemned himself to the darkness and likely the loss of his life. If not to their hands, to the hands of the heartless, that would feed off that darkness taking it over. For now he thought he could control them, but how long would that last? Twisting her keyblade in her hand, adding some fancy movements just for the hell of it, as she moved into position to deal with more of the annoying Neoshadows. That being said the Shadows were still the most brave and most stupid as one jumped up at her. Aislinn grabbed this one with her bare hands. It was kind of cute now that she looked at it, but it was still going to try and kill her if she didn't do something about this and fast. Tossing it up in the air, she hit it like a baseball. "I would call that a home run." She called over her shoulder at Aux with a bit of a challenging grin on her face as her attention turned back towards the bigger guys, that didn't seem too impressed with her joke as two jumped at her at once. Unable to deal with both at the same time, Aislinn dodged out of the way, rolling on the ground and back onto her feet, just to the left of one of the heartless that just tried to attack her. Not expecting her to move so fast it left itself open for an attack, it was a deadly mistake. That was the first step she needed to get into a rhythm of killing the heartless around her. One after another they fell to her blade as Aislinn constantly rolled out of the way of their attacks, hitting them once, rolling again until the area immediately around her was clear of all heartless. There was still some not five feet away, but at least the ones baring down on her were dealt with. Word Count: 633 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 600 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 122 Shadows 79 Neoshadows 127 Darkballs
The rest of the team jumped in making pretty short work of the remaining Nequabots, and Kiara took a step back as she placed her hands on her knees and took a moment to just breath. "Good work guys. Now we just need to get into that lab. There is a certain woman that I have a score to settle with." She was still tired from the energy that she had put into her limit, but there was no stopping now. She could only go forward and finish things off. Kiara forced a small grin to her lips and picked herself up, masking her exhaust with her over confident swagger that she tended to carry when she wanted to prove herself. In a few long strides Kiara approached the door, trying to open it, her whip in her free hand just in case something waited for them on the other side of the door.
It was good to see that Aux still had a sense of humour through all of this, especially since she wasn't too sure that he had one to start with, when she first began working with him in the Mark of Mastery Exam. He then told her not to worry about the fact that he hated her, and that he hated everyone. At least she knew that she didn't do irreversible damage to a relationship that was barely there. More than anything Aislinn was just glad the issue was something that was fixable and not a huge problem that was her causing. "That isn't entirely true. You seem to get along with Hikaru and Kia-" Aislinn cut herself off remembering how Kaida reacted when they first saw Aux. Perhaps she was not the best example of this. "You get along with Hikaru just fine it seems So you can't hate everyone, just takes a while for you to warm up to them." Aislinn pointed out. She was trying to be kind but she didn't know if this was just going to piss Aux off more, he did seem a little on edge with her at times and she wasn't quite sure how to handle him and talking to him. She never want to make enemies here, so she tried her best but who knew with some of these kids if it would do the trick. Turning back to the heartless Aislinn was a little bit disappointed that Aux even missed her reference that she was going for and mumbled under her breath. "If one more showed up then it might be a problem. Then that one will be mine." As she did so she launched herself back into battle at the Neoshadows that moved in there swaying jerky movements, all taking their sweet old time attacking, giving Aislinn time to get the upper hand on them. Unleashing a vicious cross slash on one of them she then spun and stabbed the other one through where the heart would be. Planting her keyblade into the ground, Aislinn then used it to vault over another small group of heartless, landing on a shadow before turning around and dealing several blows to the next Neoshadow from behind. That death however was enough to trigger their attention and bring them all to look at her once again. One, Two more went down to her blade before she had a chance to look over or reply to Aux again. "Oh trust me, I am. If there was anything harder then those stupid floating demons that I was taking out earlier it would be a real pain in the ass." She said taking a deep breath before preparing herself in case anything tried to attack during the moment she took to breath. "Just don't go losing your sanity on me to this guys, or thinking you can go become all soft or anything. I would hate to see these runts break that fighter spirit of yours. After all it makes things so much more interesting." If felt like on odd encouragement, especially since she found that Aux and his personality were quite difficult to deal with. But she meant it as well. While she did believe that he could be a little more pleasant, she didn't actually want him to change all that much. He had a certain passion to him that was very useful in fighting, though he could afford to learn to be a little more helpful to other people. That would just come with time she supposed. He didn't seem to sold on the going to other worlds thing to start with, so it was probably just something unfamiliar to him. Word Count: 618 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 540 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 148 Shadows 84 Neoshadows 127 Darkballs
Turning around Aislinn glanced back to see how Aux was doing. While she did keep her eyes all around, ensuring that nothing crept up on her, she just wanted to make sure everyone else was okay as well. "How are you holding up over there?" She asked in an earnest, not mocking voice, like she was genuinely at least slightly concerned. It wasn't at all that Aislinn didn't think that Aux could handle things himself. He had proven himself more than capable when he took on the hyena's by himself to buy them time to worry about Scar. That being said it didn't mean that she was not allowed to check up on his well being every now and then. If they were going to fight along side each other, even for a little bit, Aislinn needed to make sure that everyone was doing alright, it was in the best interest of everyone. If even one of them fell to something she could have prevented, not only would Aislinn feel bad about it, but it also put them at more of a disadvantage than they already were at, and that was something that she really didn't want for them, not when they were already facing off against thousands of heartless. That being said taking a quick glance around the island it seemed that the numbers had been reduced by a significant amount. It gave Aislinn a moment to relax her shoulders, but not enough to fully regain her energy as the battle was still going strong and she had someones back that she needed to be watching after all. After that moment to check on how her comrade was doing, Aislinn turned her attention back to the heartless around her as she formulated the best plan of action going forward. At this point there was no real strategy, just hit fast and hard and dodge when she could. With this many heartless, there wasn't the time or predictability to create proper strategies. They just had to do with what they could in order to get through this in the best way that they could. Taking her keyblade in both her hands, Aislinn put a lot of strength into her next hits on the heartless around her, showing them no mercy as in a whirlwind of attacks, Aislinn had moved to Aux's left side, intercepting an attack that he was about to take, slicing the heartless's head clean off it;s body. From there she darted away before she was too annoying, taking up her position around the back of Aux again trying to deal with mostly the big guys first, though on occasion the smaller heartless would find their way closer to them and realize why that was such a bad idea. She had seen the damage that these creatures could cause. She lived in fear of them for so long that it was time to stop. Breaking free of that mentality Aislinn was determined to deal with these little demons once and for all, prove to herself what she could do here and what she could take home to her people. It was this thought that kept the drive going, even as beads of sweat trickled down her forehead with each swing and strike of her keyblade. Even as her muscles ached since she hadn't had a proper break in a while. Through all of this Aislinn still pushed on, not only to save herself or this world, but for what it would mean going forward and returning to her own world. It was a goal that she set that would get her through this to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Word Count: 616 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 480 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 203 Shadows 90 Neoshadows 149 Darkballs
Well that didn't exactly go as planned. While Tinarah seemed to have caught the man by surprise he did not expect her to jump out at him again. It got his attention off Aria but Tinarah still didn't manage to make purchase with him as a barrier went up to block her. This was not something that Tinarah was used to dealing with. Fighting heartless, they couldn't put up walls to block her assault, but this man could. Luckily for her however, somehow Thallasa managed to retain the ability to still use her magic and was able to knock the man out of the building, causing the other lady to retreat with Mr. Incredible in toe. That wasn't good, they would need to go after them, but first there was more enemies floating around that needed dealt with. Looking around Tinarah quickly guaged what they could and couldn't do. From what she could tell she couldn't actually get too far until they dealt with this things, and the crazy lady that lived here probably wouldn't be happy if they left her to deal with these creatures herself. Keeping that in mind Tinarah cautiously moved into battle, giving herself a little bit of distance between her and the rest of the party, just so that she had more room to work with. The closest she had come to fighting with other people was when she worked with one of Torrins groups, but they always worked in open areas. Putting her training to good use Tinarah started to take out the helping hats, making pretty short work of the first five, before she turned to see who was next. HP: 35/55 AP: 4/34 MP: 0/20 Helping Hats Remaining: 26/40
Much to Aislinns surprise Aux had joined the battle and even started on his way towards her, fighting his way though the heartless in a rather violent manner. She didn't mind too much, having help over on her end of things was not something that she was willingly going to turn down, even if the help was from a hot headed boy who clearly didn't like her at all. In the end help was help and she could use some of it at that moment if they were going to make it through this in one piece.The way Aux worded things when he finally chose to acknowledge that she existed, made Aislinn chuckle a little bit as he asked if she had anything for him to hit. Choosing to make a game out of such things, Aislinn looked around and picked up a Shadow as she took a few steps backwards allowing a little more space between her and Aux. "Alright are you ready for it. It is going to come at you underhand." Aislinn warned as she brought the Heartless around and tossed it towards Aux like an underhand pitch, ready for him to hit it away like a baseball, taking some skills that she learned with the skill Fist Bump, to make her pitch all that more effective, since she was throwing a creature instead of a ball. Glancing around though her games wouldn't be able to last long as she noticed that heartless started to pop up around them, more of those pesky Neoshadows. Gritting her teeth Aislinn was a little annoyed by them as she turned to look at more forming behind her. Jumping, Aislinn flipped over a few of the enemies before landing back to back with Aux. "You don't have to like me, but we are doing this together, if you watch my back, I will watch yours, deal?" It was a quick offer that she didn't assume that he would refuse. She finally smirked as she thought of the words of a hero who once passed through her town on his own travels. "So, do you think you can handle this many?" She challenged Aux before being forced to jump into the battle that was awaiting her. Her knuckles already white from gripping the keyblade. She didn't wish to think herself that angry of a person but at this moment the pent up rage from the battle was gnawing at her gut and Aislinn simply bowed to it's whims as she unleashed herself on the heartless that she was facing off against. Like dust on the wind, all the heartless were was dust on the wind as Aislinn let her keyblade cut through one after another. Even when she jumped back to go into a defensive like stance, Aislinn would be careful not to bump into Aux or get in his way. They were working together for now and she didn't want to run the risk of pissing him off and adding another enemy into this battle. It was already tense enough as it was, and while some people like Hikaru seemed okay to talk with others, she was finding that a more difficult task than she should have. Her focus being entirely on the battle in front of her made it more difficult to observe and communicate with those around her, it was something that she would need to work on going forth to become a successful keyblade master. The title would mean nothing if she didn't have the strength to put it to good use and actually uphold the title to it's fullest. Word Count: 602 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 420 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 5 Neoshadow 1 shadow Heartless Remaining: 229 Shadows 95 Neoshadows 149 Darkballs
Username: Aelin Preferred Name: Gabi Representative photo (optional): https://i.imgur.com/5PKnjPw.png Age/Birthday (optional): 22, September 1 Position Applied (make it up if ya wanna): Barista Favorite Heartless: Orcus Favorite Color: Red
"Daeni! Now is not the time!" Cerdic snapped as he put his keyblade down and walked over to Alder pushing him away from the console. "Here let me do it." He didn't really give Alder much of a choice, at this point he was simply pissed and just wanted to get this done and over with. "1. 0. 9. 5. 6. 4. 2. 8. 3. 7. There done." To say that Cerdic was fed up with all of this was an understatement. His attention then turned back to the mass in the corner. "Do what you need to do Alder." Cerdic told the other man before glancing over at Daeni for a moment, a little worried that she might do something stupid and get herself hurt to. Sure she was pissing him off right now, but he did still care for her. She was like a little sister to him. That is what siblings do. Piss each other off but still care for each other.
The man seemed to be glad that she showed up to fight him. Her attacks were avoided and parried with ease as he defended against her. After he managed to do that he stepped on her keyblade using it as a way of jumping over her to deal with the other girl she was fighting with. This was annoying that her attacks did so little, but at the same time, Tinarah knew not to let herself get too worked up over this. Anger or frustration only lead to more mistakes and she couldn't allow a mistake in a battle such as this one. Taking a deep breath in she prepared another attack when a piece of granite hit her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her before Qamar grabbed her and dragged her behind a chair for cover. Tinarah was left coughing and sputtering for a moment but soon regained her composer. "If we all focus on one, the other two will just attack us when we aren't paying attention. I will try and keep the masked man attention for now, if you want to help deal with Mr Incredible." As soon as she whispered the words to Qamar, Tinarah took a deep breath, pushing the pain to the back of her mind as she readied her keyblade. She then launched herself out from behind the chair using a few moves that Torrin had taught her in her month training with him. While she might have hated the man, he was a good fighter, a great one even, perhaps some of his skills that he taught her would do her some good in this battle since she was not able to use magic. This time Tinarah aimed her strikes to disarm the man, if he dropped his weapons, parrying her blows would become a lot more difficult and she would stand a better chance of getting the upper hand on him.
Good, Kel was able to fend off the Invisible and defeat it. That was good, she didn't have to worry about the big guys popping up anymore, though there were plenty of smaller heartless to deal with. During the period of time that Aislinn used to catch her breath and just breath a little bit, it seemed more people had gotten over their shock and finally joined in the battle. It wasn't that they were slow to join or anything, and Aislinn didn't hold it against them, but she had been jumping around so much already that it just took her by surprise to be noticing that people were just now joining in on the battle. That being said they were more than pulling their weight in order to keep up with the rest of them, meanwhile Stratos was bouncing between heartless like there was no tomorrow. Was there an end to this boy's energy? Like what sort of food did these people feed him, the way he kept moving, kept fighting was incredible and Aislinn didn't think many people could compare to that, though she could sure as hell at least try to keep up a little bit. She might have been new but she was no push over. Like a scene out of a video game the Neoshadows rose up around her while Another Side, Another Story played through the air around her. While the song was slow at first it was enough as Aislinn stood up straight her eyes glancing over the heartless that were rising up around her. There movements were slow as they swayed side to side, all preparing to attack in unison if they could manage it. The first jumped and that send Aislinn spinning, her keyblade flying out around as it made purchase with the body of the first heartless. Two more jumped at her but with another slash she managed to take the second one out before barely managing to dodge roll her way out of the thirds attack. Rolling back onto her feet, Aislinn wasted no time with the on slaughter of her own attacks, her hits going from one target to the next, back and forth over and over again until both the Neoshadows turned to mist around her. Four more still swarmed around her as small Shadow Heartless started to join their much larger brethren in the attacks on her. It was a mistake that would soon lead to their deaths. With one slash Aislinn managed to send the first Shadow flying at a Neoshadow. However before the Neoshadow could brutalize the poor creature, Aislinn rushed forward at the two, piercing her keyblade through both heartless at once. As she did so another heartless jumped at her from behind. With no other choice Aislinn was forced to take the hit, but that didn't stop her, not yet anyways. With the hit shaken off Aislinn turned and did her best to fend of the heartless that had just attacked her. It wasn't long before it too was nothing more than mist around her as she looked back at two more Neoshadows preparing to attack. However it was the smaller Shadow heartless that jumped into action first. Already annoyed with the wound on her back, Aislinn quickly lashed out and met the Shadow mid jump making sure it never landed before it too fell to her blade. From there she looked at the last two Neoshadows. "Lets do this." She mumbled before she used one of her favourite skills, Zantetsuken, to take out the last two. The one move was easily able to take out the two heartless and left Aislinn ready to continue her fight, ready for the next round should they choose to approach. Word Count: 625 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 360 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 8 Neoshadow 2 shadow Heartless Remaining: 378 Shadows 110 Neoshadows 170 Darkballs
It was time to leave some of the work to the other people as she looked across at the last Invisible that it seemed that Kel was facing off against. Aislinn took a moment to breath and catch her breath as she listened to the battle around her, but not just the battle at this point, but also the communication that was happening. It made Aislinn happy to hear the team communicating, Kaida talking to all her comrades, it made this whole situation a little less... bad she supposed was the closest word she could think of. The fact that there was still high enough spirits to be talking to each other, that unity among this group. A small smile peaked Aislinns face as she looked around one last time before realizing the threat that still lay around her as she ran towards a run down looking shack near a water fall, jumping on it. The area was small enough that not too many heartless could get up there, making it a little safer for her to take her time catching her breath. "Alright Aislinn, you can do this, you got this. Breath a little more and then just go. All the kids can do it, and you are not that old, you know that. Older than all these guys, but not so old you are out of shape. Just go in there and continue fighting." The little pep talk just helped her focus herself, hearing her voice was better than hearing the battle around her. With that she managed to lift her keyblade again focusing on a spot in the distance. By this point Aislinn gave herself enough of a break that she could focus in her energy back for another big attack. Her gaze focused in on the horrendous creatures that had been so cruel even to their own kind. The ones that tore apart their smaller brethren because he was hit with in in the heat of battle. The heartless Aislinn focused on were the Neoshadow Heartless. She had been taking them out slowly, but since she decided to leave the last Invisible for someone else, she figured she could afford to take out those creatures in mass now, more than she had before. Once more, just like before, Aislinn slowed her breath and focused her energy. Her eyes glared at the cluster of heartless that were near the docks, the Neoshadows. With cherry blossoms around her and the threat in front of her, she launched herself off the top of the old dilapidated shack and towards the heartless. On her way over there was a couple of shadows that tried to get in her way to stop her but they were just met with the end of her keyblade, as her body kept flying through the mist that was created upon the death of the heartless. Ripping through the back of one of the Neoshadows, Aislinn found herself surrounded by a group of them, just like she wanted. Letting her mind fill with music, Aislinn started her dance of death. Twisting around, one after another the Neoshadows were met with the end of her blade. While some would think it was easier for her to use one blast of magic to wipe them all out, her magic was locked to her so she couldn't do too much with that. In exchange however she gained the extra strength and skills needed to deal with these guys in close combat, and it was not something that she shied away from as she took out the eighth heartless around her, not noticing how heavily she was breathing until she stopped. Word Count: 611 EXP Earned: 60 EXP Total: 360 BP: 0/78 Heartless Defeated: 8 Neoshadow 2 shadow Heartless Remaining Defeat 636 Shadows Defeat 175 Neoshadows Defeat 196 Darkballs Defeat 1 Invisibles
"I am not acting myself? Why do you think that is Daeni. Look around you, look at what is happening to us and this work. What in the ten layers of hell would give you the idea that I should be okay and be flirting of all things. Besides look around us, who the hell would I even flirt with? You? You are like a sister that is disturbing? The child that you left to die? Kara? The girl who had to leave because she couldn't handle the stress of all of our friends dying? So no I am not alright, I haven't been able to do a damn thing to stop all this from happening. So why the fuck do you think I should be okay?" Cerdic snapped as he turned back to the form that was forming in the corner. He was anxious that all this work would be for nothing if they didn't hurry up. "Quick, Alder, what was the hints for the user name and password. I am going to keep an eye on this thing but I can at least try and think of the answer as well. But if worse comes to worse and this... thing... forms, run." He demanded not wanting to see more friends die.
"I-" Auburn was a little caught off guard by how the boy just spoke out like he did. "Well.... Sort of. I mean I am not biologically his daughter, he has never been married even." She admitted, rubbing the back of her neck a little awkwardly trying to explain it. It was odd talking like this, but at the same time it was about a subject she was comfortable with, so it made things a little easier, and she wasn't actually ashamed of the fact she was adopted. She was actually rather happy that her father chose her. He didn't have to keep her but he did and he trained her and it was nothing to be ashamed of. "I am his adopted daughter. He raised me since I was five." Auburn finally said shifting slightly uncomfortable under the pressure of having any attention at all on her. But maybe now it made sense why Qrow was so worried about her. You did not want to mess with her father. He was scary when he wanted to be. Over all Auburn believed her father to be great and kind, and she had seen him have many good laughs with Qrow, when the old drunk man used to come over to check up on her father or ask for his help with something, but when he got mad, he could be scary and she knew it, that is why she knew that Qrow probably had that talk to save his own butt. That being said they both probably wanted to see her succeed, so maybe she needed to try, at least a little longer.
Fighting these humans was nothing like fighting the heartless or even sparring against Stamatis. This was it's own ball game and Tinarah was not quite sure how to handle it. While her attack had been dodged at least they seemed to be backing the girl into a corner a little bit, enough so that she had to call for help from the masked man who was currently battling the new girl. Trying to keep an eye on both fronts was hard, but as the woman jumped and went to attack Glyde, Tinarah turned to the masked man just in time to dodge out of the way of the blades. Tinarah glanced over at Aria quickly. "I will help with him, you help deal with her. I will try and keep the attacks off you." Stamatis had drilled into her head how important it was to communicate. He had made her practice talking in battle, telling her that she had to tell him what to do or he would stand there and let the heartless attack her. It was good training to get her talking a little more and now it was more instinct to just say what she was thinking in battle. Outside battle she still wasn't good at dealing with that and communicating, but at least she could do it in battle. Now with her attention on the masked man, Tinarah ran in for a melee attack. She was annoyed that she couldn't use her magic, it was what she relied on more, but at least she had some knowledge of melee fighting and would put it to good use. She was not able to flank very well since the man had his attention on her, but maybe if she kept his attention Qamar could get a good flank attack on him. That just mean she had to face down an opponent of unknown power. That made her nervous. Even so she still had to try as she started slashing, first towards his torso, then trying to take out his legs.
