Getting back to the cave, Cerdic was tired, but he hadn't thought he was that tired as Mora suddenly fell back and he wasn't able to hold his grip on her legs enough to keep her from falling to the cold cave floor. He winced as she thudded, not liking the sound of it but unable to really do much to stop it. Moments later Alder was there, hovering over her before putting her in his and Daeni's charge as he took the papers from Cerdic. "If you had just asked I would have given it to you." Cerdic sounded annoyed as Alder walked away and Daeni insisted that he didn't look as she helped Mora more. Still in a bad mood Cerdic looked out of the cave. "I am going to keep watch out front for a bit." He told them walking just outside the cave and starting to pace as he stood away from the others, deactivating his armour for the moment being as he ran his fingers though his hair. "What the hell was my point? Why was I here in the first place, with this group?" He glanced back into the cave and sighed. "They would have been fine without me, so what brought me here? Why can't I remember?" It was frustrating not knowing his purpose. Everything he tried to do to help, he messed up with. And somewhere along his pacing and thinking he found himself sitting down staring at the coast line admiring the view for a moment as he thought of home for the moment.
Unfortunately Kiara's whip never made purchase as one of the comets from Arctus's attacks was deflected into the chain of her whip, throwing it off course. It was just a kid, but of course he wouldn't make it easy for her. It would take some time to figure out she supposed since his fight style was so different from everything else they fought. The kid seemed off though, like he was every bit the robot all those parts made him seem to be. It was weird. That being said nothing about this was normal, especially with the old familiar faces showing up. Speaking of before Kiara had a chance to attack again she heard a voice and turned to face the woman who was supposed to be leading her friends to becoming masters or something like that. "Yue. What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be running that test or something? Either way, Nequa is in there, she is apparently weak right now and waiting for that pod you are by." Kiara gave out a quick explanation before turning back to Echo. "But first we have to deal with this kid." With that she launched herself at him, this time using a fire ball to block his view of her attack before dodging left and attacking from the left side.
1 Point HP 1 Point AP MP Haste
Thanks to Torrin Tinarah managed to keep herself going a little longer. Some of her wounds starting to heal over, though before she could really get herself functioning again everyone else jumped in and finished the heartless off. While Tinarah would have liked to be of more help, she didn't turn down the moment extra of rest before two new faces came flying in, questioning them. Tinarah looked down at her own outfit, it didn't remotely look like a costume. She was wearing jeans and a formerly white shirt. Was anyone going to tell them that they weren't even heroes? Apparently not, not that they were given time as she heard a laugh and then a voice. An empty feeling passed over Tinarah. She had already drained her magic, but the void there was greater than that. Some sort of magic blocking field or something? This wasn't good, not at all, and the team was going all different ways with what they wanted to do. Thallasa was asking about places to stay, which it seemed Torrin and Aria disagreed with, but Illiana was trying to lecture them on why rest would be a good thing. Looking back at the burnt building Tinarah looked over at Illiana. She had barely spoken to the girl, and wasn't one for confrontations, but Tinarah felt it was important. "We might be signing others, if we don't deal with this soon. We don't have our magic, meaning we can't heal people or put out fires effectively. If we don't go after it then he could go around hurting so many more people while we try to rest, and we can run to their aid every time, but we won't be as effective." Being one to rely on her magic more than her physical strength, Tinarah thought it was important to make sure that they had it avalible to them before they settled down, even if her body was already starting to tire out, not able to maintain her normal stamina.
"A hero of my world.... Who's world though. Is this the writing from the original journal entry? If that is the case who do you think this hero is? Mora if you have enough energy and have any idea let us know. For now this isn't the place to discuss this. We really should get back to the cave then we can sit there and work out the stupid puzzle okay?" Cerdic pushed glancing around. They were standing in a not well hidden or protected area, leaving the thing they were trying to fix alone for Ria to find, and seemed more focused on paper than what was around them. "Lets just go." Cerdic encouraged.
From this distance Tinarah couldn't focus on anything else that was going on. She regestered that a few others ran off to help Torrin, but until Master Thallasa told them to move on, Tinarah wasn't going to chase after them. She was still trying to cough the smoke from her lunges instead, as she continued to kneel down near her latest rescues. She was more than happy that she had used the spell on herself before she had gone into the building, how it felt now, Tinarah wondered how she would have faired if she hadn't healed herself. The time to relax was short as heartless didn't take their time jumping on the opening to attack. Thallasa promised to get the people out, meaning they would have to defend the way. Getting to her feet, Tinarah tried to push off the feeling that she was still choking as she readied her keyblade. It crossed her mind, that maybe she wasn't ready to be out in the field again yet, but she had to at least try. The heartless were already swarming and there was so many of them. A touch of her charm for good luck and Tinarah stepped forward into battle. At this point she wasn't used to having to fight with people, so communication was not what she was best at. That being said she did her best not to get in anyone else's way as she moved into battle. Eyeing a small cluster of bomb shaped heartless, Tinarah didn't rust the look of them and decided it best to deal with them first. Running in she spun her keyblade slashing at them taking one out after the other in easy quick swings. She might have been tired and panting going into this, but she had learned not to lay down and die. She had to at least try and do what she could, and right now that was to fight a mass horde of heartless, bringing down their numbers as quickly as possible. As she fought however a heartless thought it could get the jump on her. While Tinarah managed to deal with it in time, it slowed her movement down and she could feel as the exhaustion started to weigh down on her once again, causing her to step back once more. HP: 25/50 MP:0/20 AP: 0/32 Defeated: 10 Minute Bombs 1 Icy Cube Remaining: 10/20 Minute Bombs 4/6 Defenders 47/50 Icy Cubes
Well she really hoped whoever Chrono got the shirt she was wearing from didn't want it back, since by the time they were done it would certainly be smelling of smoke. Tinarah enjoyed the fresh air for a moment but seeing her friends run back in she knew she needed to as well, even if her lungs were already burning. Taking one last deep breath of fresh air, Tinarah ran back in the building. Despite Aria's warning not to push herself too far, Tinarah wasn't willing to leave anyone inside that building. The more help they had the faster they could get everyone to safety. Once more Tinarah only managed to make it to the eight floor, but with a blizzard spell, she managed to clear the fire from the doorway allowing access for a small family to escape the apartment. Needing the fresh air, Tinarah escorted them down, casting an additional blizzard spell near the stairway to keep the fire back. "Run" Tinarah coughed as she put a hand on the fathers back encouraging him forward as they ran down the stairs towards and outside. Once out she fell to her knees and just took a moment to breath and tend to her wounds, casting cure on herself. Tinarah Ran to Floor 8 1/10 remaining on floor 8 Tinarah used Cura on herself.
Of course they would run. It was the smart thing to do, but Kiara wasn't too fond of that. She would rather have finished the battle herself instead of watching her disappear. Still it made their job easier and the pod was kept out of Nequa's hands a little longer. Glen however wasn't making things easy as he explained his situation and asked about her power around fire. "A gift from the old man when he brought me here. Don't worry about it." Kiara responded to the fire comment a bit impatiently. The battle wasn't over and here he was worrying about how she could use fire. He was as useless as ever. At least eventually he got his focus on the right thing, and it seemed Kiara and Aeira had the same general idea. "Look, you know how horrible Nequa is. If she gets that pod it is going to be horror on all of us. Here and in the realm of Light. You haven't learned your lesson from encounters with her, Vanitus and Aux? She is only building an army, do you want everyone to die. It is better one die than everyone else. It is a sacrifice good soldiers are willing to make." Kiara snapped at him. She didn't care about his worry, they had to keep the damn thing away from Nequa, kill her while she was weak, destroy her army before it grew any more. "For now we have another issue." Kiara looked back at the fight Arctus picked up against Echo. "Oh no, don't think you get to steal the glory now." Kiara smirked a little bit as she turned and charged back towards Echo, as Arctus rained meteors down on the boy. Taking her whip and infusing it with fire once again she lashed out at Echo trying to knock him prone. If they could make quick work of this then they would be able to get through and put an end to it once and for all, and this kid didn't seem so strong. In fact he seemed like the easiest to deal with out of any of them.
As she climbed the stairs, Mortimer noticed and greeted her. Beaming Mirela climbed the last few stairs and shook his hand rather excited. "Thank you so much for the invite. This is so incredible! Wow. I mean.... I can't believe I am here, in your house. It is an honour to be invited to this. And the food is sooo good I don't think I have ever tried anything this good." Mirela exclaimed not really knowing how to hold her tongue and be polite in a place like this. She was just overjoyed to be in this place, to be worthy of being invited here. Lucian couldn't help but roll his eyes a little bit at Kara as she continued to cover for him. It amazed him that she was still holding the act up, but it meant that she would probably want something for it later. While that didn't sit well with Lucian, she was harmless enough she couldn't do any worse than he tended to do on his own. As they walked, Lucian remained mostly quiet, not caring to talk too much with the company he was with, more so Dylan than Kara. He had enjoyed his conversations with Kara, though they were conversations he felt Dylan wouldn't approve of. Keeping an eye on where they were going, they eventually arrived at a small street that housed certainly illegal items. His mechanical eye focused on several of the areas out of habit for his job. He took in the area a bit as the approached a door that Dylan warned it would get weird from there on out. He brought them into a dark room and Lucian tried to look around, see nothing. "So what now?" He crossed his arms seeming rather unimpressed about it all.
Something was off, terribly off with Mora, but currently he needed to try and get Daeni to stop worrying about issues that weren't really issues. "You aren't useless Daeni. It must be confusing having memories that are clearly not your own. You have been the most helpful, knowing what to look for and where here. I had no clue anything but the fact this place existed. If you hadn't said anything I would have passed it off as another pointless memory." Cerdic pointed out putting a hand on Daeni's shoulder. "So don't worry about it. And don't worry about me." Because you don't know what you are talking about. Cerdic didn't add the last part but he certainly thought it as he walked over to Mora and knelt down. "Here get on my back. I will carry you down, just make sure that we don't get lost. When we get down we should look at the wound. Figure out why this is happening to you." Cerdic offered hoping that she would be alright by the time they got back to the cave. He really had no experience with medicine and didn't know if he could figure anything out, but it was better to try than to ignore the issue.
With the awkward goodbye over and done with, they could move on to the mission that they were tasked with, in which Master Thalassa opened a portal to go to. Tinarah glanced back at Choma quickly feeling guilty that she wasn't able to offer him more of a goodbye, but then turned and followed the others silently into a more city like landscape. Tinarah could hardly remember the last time she was in a real city. When she ran away from home she supposed was the first time she really spent time in one. She didn't count Evintide as a city since they never spent much time in city like area's instead having arrived more in a park and not spending much time there anyways. The people in the city barely seemed to notice them, that was good she supposed. They didn't need to be noticed, it was probably better that they weren't since they were outsiders after all. Perhaps people didn't care too much about it but she never felt right being in other worlds or getting too involved, only doing what they needed to. And what they needed to do was apparently save people from a fire, as a ball of fire struck a building. The screams caused Tinarah to cringe for a moment before she turned towards the building and looked at it. Torrin took off on some sort of glider to deal with the man who seemed to have caused it, but since they couldn't efficiently follow, they needed to do something to help. It didn't take Torrin ordering them to help to have Tinarah running for the building. As she climbed the stairs Tinarah could already tell how out of shape she was. By the time she reached floor eight she was already out of breath and coughing on the smoke. She held her arm up to her face trying to protect her eyes as she ran towards people trapped inside. "Come with me!" Tinarah shouted at some of the people, grabbing the youngest, still a young child by the hand as she guided them through the flames and out of the building before turning back for the next group. Tinarah went to floor 8 7/10 People remaining on floor 8
Alright everyone, this is the first month for AMV Battles. If you don't know what this is, it is a contest in which users choose one song and you are all given one week to edit with that song. The videos will then be posted up and you can vote for which one is your favourite and provide feedback to other editors to encourage their progress. How this works is that for the next week you have a chance to suggest songs that you would like to edit with for this month. As long as the song is PG-13 it can be any song you want to edit with. Suggestions will close March 5th and voting will start then. You will have until March 12th to vote, and then the video editing will start. You may edit with whatever video clips you like as long as they follow Site, and AMV Battle Rules. There are no restrictions to what programs you use. We encourage everyone to try and have fun with this. If you use Windows Movie Maker, that is just as acceptable as someone using Sony Vegas Pro 13. If you need a starting point then you can always find cut scenes to use in our Archive. Remember though, you only have one week to edit. So make sure you don't bite off more than you can chew. Entries will be due March 19th. The winner will be announced on March 26th. Song suggestions, voting, and entries will all be posted in this thread. Once entries are in a secondary thread will be made for voting on the winner of those. And finally a third thread for the winner of the contest, which will be featured on the front page of KHV. I look forward to seeing what you all come up with! Suggested Songs: Hibikase by Hatsune Miku! Same Disease - Red Meet me on the Battlefield - Svrcina MMM - The World Ends With You Solo Mix Kingdom Fall - Claire Wyndham Untraveled Road - TFK Feel Invincible - Skillet
╔════»Rolling his eyes Arian tried not to act totally annoyed with Noire, though he was. "Yeah yeah, whatever, in the future please refrain from unnecessary judgement it is just how I cope." He wasn't fond of admitting such things, but he wouldn't hide it either, Arian wasn't that dumb to think hiding something like that would make it better for him. If anything it would just make things worse. He after all made badly timed jokes often enough that if people didn't get where they were coming from he might run into one too many incidences like the one he was in previously, and that idea didn't appeal to him all that much. He would much rather people understand why he was doing it even if he didn't share the entire thing that brought him to the coping mechanism. Knowing his luck that wouldn't stay a secret forever either, half the people here already knew as it was, but Noire didn't have to know, not yet at least. His ties with the white fang shouldn't matter that much, and if someone said otherwise, then there was likely to be an issue on their hands. ════╝ With Qrow standing directly in front of her, Auburn couldn't really say no to his demand to meet him in the meeting room. Perhaps whenever this was all over, whatever he wanted to talk about, she could tell him her plans to leave. She wasn't going to tell him, wasn't going to tell anyone, but now Lazuli knew about it and he would likely tell Qrow anyways as soon as she left. Not that he would really care that much if she did leave but he would still know regardless of her efforts, so perhaps there was no pain in just telling him outright. Lazuli was sent off to find Blaine, leading Auburn to trail slightly behind Qrow as she watched him take a sip from his flask. Her father talked highly of Qrow, but so far all she was seeing was an angry drunk. He had barely been leading them, getting in fights with new people, and bossing them around. He was the person she was supposed to look for for help? Auburn started to wonder if her father was insane for convincing her that she could do this. Nothing was going all that right and she couldn't imagine why he needed to meet with just their team, it made her very uncomfortable, especially when she found herself waiting in the room with just Qrow for the rest of her, so called team, to arrive.
Tinarah hadn't expected to hear a voice behind her as Choma approached. Tinarah stood and turned to him, respectful of her former master. She knew she should feel more, feel sad they had to leave, or something. She was terrified last time Choma left them, but now, it didn't seem to matter who was going with them, just as long as they were safe. "Yeah... I can't just sit around while everyone else fights." Tinarah said faintly to him trying and failing to offer him a smile before looking down at her hands. She really didn't know how to talk to Master Choma at this time. "Thanks for the well wishes though. I am sure we will be back soon." Tinarah grabbed her wrist looking up hoping what she was saying was acceptable. While her eyes were down, she tried not to look too hard at her own physical shape. She had a feeling that drawing attention to it, or even dwelling on it too long might make things more difficult for her to actually go on this mission. It was best to leave while they didn't seem to concerned about it, and while she could still convince herself she was well enough to be there. "Well... bye." She said shifting awkwardly. If it was Stamatis she would probably give him one last hug, but Choma, she didn't know anymore, so she waited awkwardly until it was time to go. If he had hugged her she wouldn't push him away but she wasn't going for a hug herself.
Perhaps Conrad was right, they should deal with what they had first. Everette just wanted to check the one other place, but he had run out of time. It was more a matter of getting everything done before he forgot it all, his memory had never been the best for as long as he could remember. It was believed that his memory issues came from the head injury that he had gotten when he was younger, causing his amnesia, but because of the amnesia, he couldn't tell if his memory was any better before. Nodding Everette handed over some of the bottles before he pulled out his pen and wrote a note on his hand simply saying "check river." It should have been enough to remind him what his thought process was before that. "Alright we will see if there is any cause in any of these samples first, then if the one from the well comes up with anything we will venture up and collect a sample from up river as well." Everette agreed with Conrad, slipping his pen back into his bag before motioning to Samuel to lead the way to wherever he wanted to work.
Ah February the time for love and time for songs about love, and that is why we did a love song. Time After Time has been the chosen for the song of February and it is wonderful. To be honest the mixing of this song might have not been the best, I was doing it the same week I found out I lost my job and was struggling to focus, so enjoy everyone's beautiful voices instead. Enjoy and look forward to our March Chorus, come vote for our next chorus song here!
Hey, the new voting for the March KHV Chorus is now live. This month is a standard month in which I randomized choices from the nomination list that can be found here. You must vote by March 4th if you want a say on what song we do. Piano Man Original | Karaoke I 2 I - Goofy Movie Original | Karaoke Stand Out - Goofy Movie Original | Karaoke Good Time full song | instrumental
Everette looked a little concerned for his friend as he approached the meeting place. At least everyone seemed on time. "I have taken samples from the well and some of the collection barrels. Though there is an underground source for the well, it comes above ground a few miles outside the city. I was thinking of heading up there and getting a sample from there as well. If it is the well water it would be good to see where it is getting contaminated from." Everette pointed out pulling out the bottles of sample water her got before looking at Samuel again. "Perhaps you should come with us to the stream as well. It looks like you could use some fresh air. Is everything going alright in there?" He motioned to the town hall. He was worried about Samuel getting sick trying to heal everyone, and while by no means did he wish to prevent the town from getting better, he didn't want to lose a friend to it. "I think we could all use the walk. And then when we get that last sample we can work on what we have." Everette suggested before turning to Conrad. "Unless of course you discovered something? How did the trips to the farms go?" "Okay!" Thea was quick to agree. She didn't care what cat or kittens they were, she just wanted to pet the kittens. She didn't really understand why Zephyr and Gavin were so unsure about letting her go though and wanting to come with her. "See now it isn't a problem. You don't have to worry about me going. It works great. And we can talk about things while I play with the cats right? It all works out!" Thea stated to her too companions as she turned towards the door to follow Kyo back to the inn. She was more than happy with that compromise and was practically skipping along.
It felt like pity, Daeni just giving him the papers so he could be of some use in a way. Either way he still took the papers and quickly, scanning them for any useful information that they might have to finish building the extractor. If they contained that information, they would be better off with Alder, but he could at least carry them back. After all from what he had seen so far, Alder was a bigger target for Ria because he had some of that knowledge of the machine and such. He had no purpose here meaning he would be the last to be targeted and the best person to keep the papers safe. At least that was something. He could live with that he supposed. Looking over at Alder he nodded. "I think we have what need. We should get back before Ria does." Cerdic said. While he wasn't going to state out loud what the papers were in case someone was listening in, he could at least confirm that they had what they needed. "Mora, how are you doing? Can you lead the way back?" He asked her making sure she was still holding in there.
Gero's answer felt like what she needed to hear in order to leave with at least a slight sense of peace. "Then tell him...."Tinarah considered what she wanted to tell Stamatis for a minute, but she thought it was appropriate to leave this on a similar note to when she left to return to her own time. "...Tell him that he better keep up practicing piano. It would be a shame if he couldn't keep up with me." She said realizing now that she had to go find her brother and get back her violin. He had held on to it for long enough for her. It was time that she took it back, unlike when she was twelve, she was a little more confident in keeping it safe during their adventures. He didn't need to hold onto it and protect it for her. He didn't need to protect her anymore. She had learned to take care of herself thanks to Stamatis. Unfortunately for Tinarah by the time things settled down and Take disappeared with Gero, Chrono seemed to also have disappeared. Tinarah assumed it was to go say goodbye to Atmos. It crossed her mind to say her goodbyes to Choma as well, but she didn't feel it as necessary, that had hardly even gotten time to speak since she returned, and as she had told Aria, she didn't feel all that close with him. If he wanted to see them off then she would gladly say her farewells, but it was not something Tinarah felt the need to seek out at this time. That just left Tinarah standing a bit awkwardly in the courtyard. She glanced over to see Aria with Torrin, and while she didn't trust Torrin still she didn't make any effort to stop Aria from spending time with him, it wasn't her call after all. Looking away from her friend, Tinarah didn't even know if there was anyone else she knew how to talk to here, so she found herself a spot to the side on the grass to sit down and wait until it was time to depart. She would save her energy for when she really needed it. If Tinarah couldn't even complete the run, she knew going back into the field would be difficult, but she refused to say anything. She didn't want to be left behind to sit around and be useless while others fought around her. This time she knew what she was fighting for, what side she was on, she would still uphold what she promised herself when she thought she was about to lose herself to depression again. She would live in such a way that would make Fost and Stamatis proud. She would fight for a tomorrow, even if she didn't know what her tomorrow looked like. As long as it was better for everyone else, that was all that she could hope for.
