Episode Tinarah: Part 4 It Can't Be The man spoke and Tinarahs heart shattered. Here she thought she had hope of things being right again. "No he was a keyblade master and he took me and two other students to meet another Master Atmos. We were helping them. Can you at least take me to her?" Tinarah sounded frantic, nothing had been going right and she was getting very scared of the situation. She didn't understand it at all. The man shook his head once more. "There isn't a master by that name either. There's one by the name of Aster but she hasn't taken in any students of her own in a while. There's no student by the name Atmos either." He unfolded his arms and softened his tone seeing that this wasn't helping the girl and was only making her feel worse about her situation. "If you would like, I could accompany you to visit the one named Choma. That's the only name that's familiar to me so that might clear some things up." There was no Atmos either. Tinarah sat there for a minute, slightly shocked. She didn't know what to say to the man now. He offered to take her to meet the wielder named Choma, but Tinarah knee it wasn't him. She knew she wasn't mistaken about that. Still Tinarah nodded. It was the only idea they had and she was getting desperate. "Okay..." She said quietly. At least he wasn't looking at her like she was spouting nonsense. "Alright well...here we go." Fost placed his hand on Tinarah's shoulder gently and created a portal around the two of them immediately transporting them to another world. When the light faded they were standing at the steps of a large castle similar to the one Tinarah had once trained at. "Would you rather wait here for me to have Choma sent to you or come with me?" Tinarah tensed at first at this man's touch. She wasn't find if people touching her. In fact it made her highly uncomfortable. However soon a portal forned around them and Tinarah found herself moved from the beautiful rolling hills to in front of a castle. Perhaps it wasn't so special training at a castle of you were going to wield a keyblade. Tinarah carefully considered her two options. The first was to wait out there. While it gave Fost a moment to explain in case it wasn't Choma, it also meant being alone. Just the thought of it made her heart squeeze tighter. "I will come." She told him, feeling better having someone she deemed safe around, compared to sitting around waiting by herself. "Alright. The master of the castle is more than a little strict. More than me to say the least. Not...that you'd know how strict I am. All I'm saying, kid, is to not take anything too personally if he's around." He cleared his throat and pushed through the large double doors to the entrance of the castle. His heavy footsteps echoed through the empty halls when he entered. He looked around and raised an eyebrow, finding it strange to have not heard anyone approach the moment they came inside. Perhaps the master was teaching a lesson. He walked forward intending to search the chambers when he heard another set of footsteps come closer followed by the sound of a door from the side of the hall closing. "Who are you guys looking for?" Came a gruff male's voice. His keyblade was out though not pointed at them and instead hung over his shoulder. "We're looking for a wielder named Choma, have you seen him? This girl, Tinarah, claims he is her master but I assured her that this could not be the case. Do you know where he is?" "You're looking at him. Honestly, I've never seen her before. Musta got the wrong name." Tinarah stuck close to Fost if this master here was as strict as Fost made it seem, Tinarah didn't want to risk doing anything wrong. The halls were silent when. They entered, but soon there was another set of footsteps, and then a young man asking who they were looking for. Tinarah shrunk back as Fost spoke, letting him take lead. However as she listened and the man claimed to be Choma she took a good look at him. Younger but possibly..... No this wasn't possible. Tinarah took another step back, then another. "This is impossible." Her hands shook violently and she looked as though she had seen a ghost. Her face had gone pale as she just stared unable to properly speak. "What's impossible? I don't get it. What's going on here?" Choma blinked, unsure of what to make of the situation before him. He tilted his head and looked curiously at Tinarah. "A misunderstanding I'm sure. Thank you for your time, Choma." "Wait, who are you anyway?" "I am Master Fost." He looked back over at Tinarah who looked as if she had seen a...well, it was obvious by her expression. Without any other leads and the trail at a dead end he had no choice but to start at square one. Fost whispered towards the frightened girl, "It'll be okay. I won't be abandoning you just because we couldn't find who you were looking for." He assured her. Clearly everyone else was just as confused as she was, but not for the same reason. The two males in the room looked confused at how she seemed to be freaking out, but they didn't understand what was happening. Fost at least attempted to calm her down, but what he was saying weren't the right words. "This isn't right." She whispered as she stared at Choma. "It is him, but he is too young....No that isn't possible though, maybe he just looks like him." The young girl tried to process it all in her head to no avail. "What do you mean?" Fost questioned though Choma, standing behind Fost, continued to stare at Tinarah like a curious item. "Why do you make it sound like you've seen him before?" He paused, feeling that questioning her would make matters worse. "Let's leave, okay?" Both their eyes on her was making Tinarah uncomfortable, and though Fost suggested they leave she tried to defend herself first. Defend what she was saying, try and not sound completely crazy. She looked back to Choma then to Fost. "I-I think that is him... my master. But he isn't. My master was older. Master Choma was a full keyblade master, he had a scar across his nose, but he looked like him... Like you. But that is impossible. There is no way that you have the same name and look so similar but are different people. But it is also not possible for you to grow younger. I don't understand what is happening to me. First I survive a fall that should have killed me, then I can't summon my keyblade, now this. I don't understand. I don't understand at all." Tinarah ranted as tears started to stream down her face once more. She wasn't making anything better for herself, even though at first she thought she was going to try. She still sounded crazy, perhaps more so than before. She tried to make herself as small as possible, hide from them even though she was standing in front of them. She knew she was sounding like a lunatic and probably sounded stupid but it was all the truth and she didn't know how to make them understand it. Fost looked at Choma giving him a quizzical stare and received a nonchalant shrug in response followed by a grunt. He scratched his chin decided to take what this girl said to heart. If she was not crazy then something must have happened to her. "There is...one thing that might have happened to you but I do not possess the skill to be sure of it myself. There is a master who I would like you to see. He would have the answers you seek. Master Stamatis. He is our expert on temporal mech-" He cleared his throat and chose words that the young girl would better understand. "Time magic." "What? Are you saying she's from another point in time?" "Possibly but only Master Stamatis can tell and, if she is, only he can help her return." Tinarah was nervous when Fost started talking again, she thought he might think her too much or too crazy and just leave her for someone else to deal with. It wouldn't surprise her after all, everyone seemed to leave her. She couldn't stand it, it didn't matter that she barely knew him, barely knew A, they were nice to her and she didn't like the thought of being alone. However Fost did not say any such things, instead continued to try and help her. Bring her to another master that might be able to help. Tinarah listened quietly trying to dry the tears from her eyes. If she was going to meet someone else, she didn't want to do it looking like a mess. She was a mess, in all aspects of the word but she would rather at least attempt to look composed. As she did this Choma clarified things a little more and Tinarah looked at them quizzically for a moment. Could it really be true that she was in the past? Perhaps, and if that was true then she really needed their help to get back... unless she could get back to her home. Maybe she could stop her mom from dying. "If... if that is true, if it turns out I am from the future, could you possibly help me with something?" Tinarah asked Fost quietly. It seemed like a stupid thing to request from a keyblade master, ask him to help her change the past, but she wanted it more than anything, for her mom to be alive, and for them to be one big happy family again. "That's for Master Stamatis to say. I'm no expert on the whole time...business." He looked over at Choma and waved at the young man. "Thank you for your time. Give your master my regards." "Yeah. Sure thing. Good luck. I hope you find what you're looking for." Choma spoke towards Tinarah, offering her a wave and a slight smile as Master Fost extended his hand and opened yet another portal. "Let's go." Without waiting for Tinarah he stepped through first and into another world. There was yet another castle and it appeared to be similar in design to the last one. The difference was more in the location of its placement. While the castle Choma was training at was situated on a mountain this one looked to be in a valley surrounded by a thick forest and encircled by a mountain range. There didn't seem to be any paths that led from the castle as if someone had just plopped it down in the middle of a forest clearing with no civilization to be seen in any direction. Tinarah knew what the answer would be. She had read enough books to know that you weren't supposed to mess with time, but she wanted to try anyways. Perhaps she would ask this other master. As they got ready to go Choma offered some nice words and Tinarah did her best to offer a smile back trying to be polite, though through her tear stained face it didn't look as nice as she would have liked even still she at least tried. She then followed Master Fost through another portal to another castle. This time she stayed silent just ready to follow.
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People were around talking a bit but Kiara stayed in the background. Moping seemed to be her specialty after all. It was something that wasn't good for her trying to be a leader, but Kiara never asked for that spot in the first place. She wasn't a leader, she didn't know how to lead. She had wanted freedom but when she got it she started to just go along with whatever was happening. Kiara looked down at the Key chains in her hands. Her eyes rested on a small dragon shape pendant key chain. A small smile hit Kiara's lips as she remembered Glen smacking a mouse out of a cave with his keyblade, and the wrath of the bird on their group. She then flipped over to the next key chain. It was a small gem shaped one. She studied that remember how odd her entry into the group was. She had tried so hard to fit in only to be attacked by another member of their team. For a very long time Kiara was convinced that the girl knew something about her and was attacking for that reason. To this day it wasn't clear why Luna had attacked her, but since then they had gotten along better. They still never spoken that much to each other, but there was no hostility towards the other girl, no more than normal at least. They hadn't been in many worlds together either however. Flipping over to the next key chain, it was in the shape of a rose. That world was insane. Eon was around at that point, trying to flirt with her despite the difference in age. Then there was Kross, though he barely seemed present half the time. They had also met someone who she never heard the end of. A rather handsome man by the name of Vincent.... the same one that gave his life for a loosing battle in her home world. All his sacrifice is here she was without her keyblade still and stuck moping in a corner yet again. Tucking away her key chains, she stood up. "Old man! What are we doing now? Give me something to do I can't sit around anymore." She called out knowing thinking back like this was only going to make things worse. She needed something to do, something to think about other than the death of Vincent and the fact she couldn't fight. Kiara held out her hand, as to test out if she could summon it yet, even though she knew she couldn't. She tried once before giving up hope and pacing.
Instrumental | Original Welcome to the Christmas KHV Chorus special. This month Scrooge won the vote for the song we are going to do. For those who don't know, how this will work is that I there will be lines with numbers beside them. The numbers indicate a part. You can select a number and sing all lines with that same number. When recording it is asked that you sing to the Karaoke track and not the original, due to the two not always lining up. If you want to participate but all lines are claimed, you may speak to me and I will make a place for you, all you have to do is ask. Line Claim will close on December 10th, and your lines must be in by December 17th. Please send in a render with your lines by December 17th. Spoiler: Lines [When a cold wind blows it chills you Chills you to the bone]-1 [But there's nothing in nature that freezes your heart Like years of bein' alone]-2 [It paints you with indifference Like a lady paints with rouge]-3 [And the worst of the worst]-4 [The most hated and cursed]-5 [Is the one that we call Scrooge]-4 [Unkind as any]-6 [And the wrath of many]-1 [This is Ebenezer Scrooge]-6 [Oh! There goes Mr. Humbug There goes Mr. Grim If they gave a prize for bein' mean The winner would be him] -everyone [Old Scrooge he loves his money Cause he thinks it gives him power]-1,2,3 [If he became a flavor, you can bet he would be sour]-2,4,6 [There goes Mr. Skinflint There goes Mr. Greed]-4,5,6 [The undisputed master of the underhanded deed]1,3,5 [He charges folks a fortune for his dark and drafty houses]-everyone [Us poor folk live in misery]-1,2 [It's even worse for mouses]-5 [He must be so lonely He must be so sad He goes to extremes to convince us he's bad He's really a victim of fear and of pride Look close and there must be a sweet man inside...]-2,4,6 [There goes Mr. Outrage There goes Mr. Sneer]-everyone [He has no time for friends or fun His anger makes that clear]-1 [Don't ask him for a favor cause his nastiness increases]-3 [No crust of bread for those in need]-5 [No cheeses for us meeces]- 2 [There goes Mr. Heartless There goes Mr. Cruel] - Everyone [He never gives He only takes He lets his hunger rule]- 1,2,3 [If being mean's a way of life You practice and rehearse]- 4,5,6 [Then all that work is payin' off]-3 [Cause Scrooge is getting worse]-3,5 [Every day, in every way Scrooge is getting worse!]- everyone Lines Claimed: 1- 2- 3- 4- 5- Mish 6-
Glancing back Aislinn noticed that AJ decided to walk with them. Aislinn didn't mind but she had tried to steer her and Kaida a little away from the group so that they could talk without worry of who might hear, that wasn't going to happen though. She guessed she probably wouldn't say anything to her that she wouldn't say around anyone else. Aislinn knew that she still wasn't the most trusted around so she just had to do her best with whatever other people were willing to offer in terms of information to keep up with everything that was happening around her. What Kaida was willing to offer was not too helpful, but it wasn't because the girl wasn't trying. From what Aislinn understood of it, the situation itself seemed a little hard to grasp. Aislinn thought about it for a moment as Kaida tried to explain. "So if you knew what happened during the time he left, then you might understand better what is going on. But right now last you knew of him he threw you into the realm of darkness, so he betrayed you guys I suppose if I understand correctly." Aislinn put her own thoughts to words just to make sure she didn't get anything wrong. "And what happened during that time away would be hard to know given his memory problems I suppose. So the real question is, will he get the memories back after the test? And what exactly he remembers right now. I am a bit concerned that he doesn't even know what he is a part of right now. I could be dangerous, testing for the Mark of Mastery but not knowing that is what you are doing. Or maybe I am just over thinking it. I just really want things to run smoothly." Aislinn admitted glancing back at Aux worried about the boy but not sure what to do about it.
Episode Tinarah: Part 3 Change in Tides Tinarah watched the boy go and then come back as he heard voices outside. As the voices grew louder Tinarah started to grow curious. She put down her bowl and got up from the bed as A got to the window and noticed it was getting darker. "Isn't it still morning?" She asked quietly. Perhaps she misunderstood him earlier, but he himself thought it was strange how dark it was getting. The world shifted beneath their feet again and Tinarah had to brace herself on the wall to keep her balance. As the voices got closer, the screams, Tinarah joined A at the window. "No... Not again." She rasped as she quickly and repeatedly tried to summon her keyblade. "We have to run. I am sure Master Choma and Chrono and the others will be here soon to stop them, They are stronger than I am. They can use their keyblades. Come on!" Tinarah grabbed at A's wrist to drag him out of the room and the house. She was terrified, not of the creatures but at the fact that there was no where to go and her own weakness could mean more people hurt and lost. There was a little fear towards the heartless, but she wasn't facing them right now, she just wanted to get them both out of this alive. A followed after Tinarah and could hear his parents calling for him as they ran downstairs. His parents were already outside and they made no comment at Tinarah's sudden appearance. Her words of other people who could use this "keyblade" passed through one ear and out the next as he watched as his neighbor's house collapsed. It did not look like they ever escaped. The monsters started coming out of the ground. His father placed himself between them and the beasts to protect them as the small dark creatures jumped on him. His mother screamed but took pushed Tinarah and A to run forward. "Dad no!" His mother took his free hand and pulled him along. It was all happening so fast. He couldn't get his bearings. None of this made sense. Why was this happening? This had to be a nightmare. It had to be. The ground shook violently. His mother lost her balance and fell, his hand slipping from her grasp. In seconds she too was overwhelmed by the creatures as he and Tinarah ran forth. "No!" A tugged on Tinarah's hand wishing for her to stop and turn around. Running outside the heartless count was already so many. She observed the area tears stinging her eyes as she already knew the fate of this world. She had seen it once already, she had seen a world get destroyed by the heartless and that time she was actually fighting. This time she was just running as someone else bought them time, a complete stranger to her gave his life so her and his family could run. She wasn't going to let it go to waste. Tinarah ran still holding A's hand while his mother held his other one, urging them along. They didn't make it far before she too fell. The heartless overwhelmed her so fast and A stopped. Tinarah gave his hand a tug but knew that he probably wouldn't go easily. Tinarah paused for a moment panic in her eyes as she looked back at the heartless. "Come on we have to live, you have to live for your parents sake. Please, run. Run with me... I can't...." She couldn't bring herself to say it, but she knew, she couldn't keep running alone. She couldn't be alone, not again. She had started to see a possible friendship with A and she didn't want that pulled away from her. Perhaps it was selfish, but she couldn't help it as tears streamed down her face. She knew he was scared, so was she but they couldn't just stop. If she had the ability she would protect them. However again she tried and again she failed to summon her keyblade. "Chro-Choma please help me!" She cried out into the darkness. She wanted to call for her brother who had always been her support, but he had abandoned her, not she felt she couldn't call for him. So she called for the only other person she could think of, even though, he too, left her. At least he left her to find more help. "B-but..." He wiped his face with his sleeve, his eyes already red from the tears streaming down his face. He nodded and ran with her but soon the ground beneath them grew unsteady and began to crack. The path ahead of them was beginning to grow distant as a chasm formed. In moments it would be too far to jump across. There was a figure on the other side fighting the beasts with a sword of some kind. It looked...like a key? Was that what Tinarah had been going on about? The man was not Choma nor Chrono. In fact, he was a total stranger to Tinarah. He swung his weapon deftly as he made short work of the beasts but even with his skill they were still coming faster than he could destroy them. A looked at Tinarah and then forward at the man on the other side. The ground was beginning to crumble each passing second and now on the other side the only ledge large enough for someone to grab onto was too narrow for more one person to hold onto or land on. They would have to jump one at a time. A looked at Tinarah. "You need to jump." He spoke with some confidence in him. "You can make it. W-will you catch me when I reach the other side? I-I don't think I'll be able to jump the full distance." Good A had chosen to come with her. He decided quick enough that they could keep running, which Tinarah was quite thankful for. She didn't want to leave him and knew that if he died too she probably wouldn't have made it much further. As they ran the ground began to shake and crack beneath their feet. They were never going to make it out of there were they? However as all hope was feeling lost, Tinarah caught a glimpse of someone in the distance, then she saw their weapon. While she didn't recognize the man, she recognized it as hope. Looking at the chasm that lay before them, Tinarah looked to A then back to the stranger who was beating back the monster with some sort of ease at least. She looked back at A who was encouraging her to jump. While Tinarah didn't have the same confidence as he did, she looked around at her options. Surely they would die if they stayed there, if they managed to get to the other side the man, the keyblade wielder, he could help them. There was a moment of hesitation, then a nod. Tinarah took a deep breath as she took a run for it. As she hit the edge and launched herself, she closed her eyes tight until she could feel solid ground beneath her feet. There wasn't much room to stand but Tinarah managed for the time being. She braced herself, as she looked to A, trying to make enough room for him while getting ready to catch him. "Come now. I will catch you." She didn't know if she could, she wasn't that strong, but she had to try. She wouldn't let this kid die because she was so weak and pathetic. The ground began to crumble more on A's side of the chasm. He backed away and looked down and laughed morbidly to himself. "I-I...I can't..." He looked up towards Tinarah. "Please. Don't blame yourself." He stepped farther back. "I-It was nice knowing you, Tinarah. Save yourself!" A started to lose his balance as another violent tremor shook the world. The ledge Tinarah was standing on was beginning to destabilize and soon it would collapse with her on it if she didn't move away. One moment A was standing there on the other side of the chasm and the next...he wasn't. The ground beneath the boy collapsed and he was gone. "No!" The man's voice called out from behind Tinarah as he ran over. Now there was only one left to save. He looked to be in his late 30's with parts of his hair already graying. "Come with me." He spoke urgently, his keyblade dissipating before the girl could catch a glimpse of it and summoning a portal of light. "This world is lost. Flee while you still have a chance." A took a step back but not to get ready to jump. He gave up already. "No! Please you have to try!" Tinarah shouted at him, desperate. However the world shook again and it took all of Tinarahs might to stay standing. When she looked back at A he was gone. For a moment she didn't register that the place she was standing was no longer safe, she just saw another failure and another person who left her behind. Tinarah's chest squeezed tight as a man yelled from behind her. She turned to look at the man and his keyblade, but he had dismissed it before she caught a good look. Instead he summoned another portal, telling her to run. She looked back at the collapsing world, then to him. "Please don't make me go alone." She begged the stranger, her face red and tear stained as she entered the portal hoping that he would come with her. Perhaps he would be able to get her back to Choma. The man, seeing Tinarah's distress the man took her by her hand and pulled her through the portal with all the gentleness of a rock. The portal closed behind them and they were left standing in a field of blue. Wind calmly blew through the land and made the grass sway but other than that there was no sound. It was quiet, peaceful. "That...that was a mess back there." The man sad, regret heavily apparent in his voice as he spoke. He folded his arms and looked down at the girl. "There's something off about you. You weren't from that world, were you?" He spoke, kneeling beside Tinarah to get a better look at her. At this distance she could have seen that his face was covered in many scars that have faded over a long period of time. Tinarah was shocked at the sudden grabbing of her hand and dragging, but at least she wasn't going through alone. He wasn't all that gentle with her, but she couldn't blame him considering the situation, and he let go of her on the other side. Standing in the field of blue, Tinarah could hardly take in the beauty of it as she wiped tears from her cheeks and tried, and failed to compose herself enough to have a conversation with the man. While he didn't sound harsh or mean, as he crossed his arms and started down at her Tinarah retreated a step, curling her shoulders inwards almost cowering a little bit from the man. She didn't think he was a bad person, but she had been through so much she didn't know who to trust. She shook her head in answer to his question. She hadn't even figured out what that world was. More tears slid down her face as the man knelt down to look at her better. She barely lifted her eyes to him and saw the scars, sending her grabbing for her own scarred wrist in silence. He wasn't sure how to comfort this child. All he had to fall back on was his training and none of that covered looking after a child. "My name is Fost." He figured giving her a name would bring her some comfort. "I'm a keyblade master." Though he chose to give her a close look at his blade knowing that it would only scare her more with its form. "This is my homeworld. It was the only place I could think of at such a short notice. Hm...I haven't been here in some time now that I think about it." He shook his head to redirect his thoughts. "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. You're safe now. None of those monsters are going to come here and hurt you. This place is about as far from the darkness as it gets." Tinarah looked up at the man more when he stated not only was he a Keyblade wielder, but a master as well. Hope, standing on the other side of the chasm she saw this man as her only hope, and standing here in the field of blue flowers, that sentiment might have still stood. Tinarah searched her mind for the words to speak. The first time she opened her mouth, no words came out, just more tears as she failed to keep herself together, but she had to fight through it. Opening her mouth to try again, her voice came out small and weak, but at least she was speaking. "Keyblade master? Do you know other keyblade masters? Could you return me to the one who was teaching me?" It might have been a silly request when she couldn't summon her keyblade at all. But Tinarah hoped that Choma might have an answer for why that was, might be able to fix it for her. That was if this Fost person knew Choma. "That explains why you didn't belong to that world." Fost scratched his chin. The girl was a little young but there were always young keyblade wielders around. "Alright. I know the other masters. Give me a name and I'll take you to them." He said nothing more on the condition of the girl, hoping that whoever her master was would deal with it instead as he had no knack for this sort of task. Explained it, not quite. Tinarah didn't understand what had happened or how she got to the world. It certainly didn't have to do with her being a student of a keyblade wielder. That being said it wasn't something worth arguing, and if she tried then she would have to tell him the entire story, something that Tinarah wasn't quite ready for. Instead she just answered his question, an easy one to answer and one that would get her back to somewhere she was more comfortable. "Choma. My teacher was Master Choma." She told him quietly, ready to return to some familiarity as her head squeezed tighter still upset from all that had happened, and feeling quite betrayed by her brother. Fost blinked and tilted his head back as he scratched his cheek. He seemed to be lost in thought for a moment. "Hm..." About a minute of silence passed as the man racked his brain for the name only to shake his head. "There isn't a keyblade master by that name. Perhaps you meant Master Kaio? In some tongues that name does sound a little like Choma. That is one of the newer masters and I didn't think Kaio had any students yet..." He rubbed his cheek some more as he thought about this. "There is...one wielder by the name Choma I know of but he is not a master. Not yet anyway."
"Aislinn." Aislinn sighed in reply. "My name is Aislinn...." And I am not an Antelope an I a Gazelle. She wanted to add that last bit but didn't think that part was worth arguing. This kid was hopeless it seemed. From what she could tell, nothing she said had really registered with him. It annoyed Aislinn the most because she had been wanting a chance to take this test for a long time now, and it was finally here, this was a big deal for someone who never had the chance to train with a proper keyblade master. Meanwhile, this kid, whoever he was, didn't seem to care at all. It was like it didn't matter to him. There was no use continuing to talk as the hyena's stood up and looked at them. They were too weak to do anything anyways even as they spoke about food and prey protecting predators and such. Aislinn supposed it was weird that a gazelle just defended a lion and was now lecturing him. Normally Lions would eat her kind. With that said a lioness approached, making the hyena's back off but possibly bringing on bigger issues. They were food after all. Instead of fighting them however the lion chose not to, mentioning that Scar person again before stating how she could tell she wouldn't stand a chance if she tried to eat them. She wasn't wrong. Aislinn had no desire to hurt the lioness either, she seemed nice, if in distress because of this Scar guy, apparently their king. It seems like this animal kingdom had fallen on hard times, and given what was being said the king was making it worse not better for them. The lioness was just trying to survive and find some sort of Oasis or something that might have food. Nala asked them to join and Hikaru agreed, only leaving Aux to question it. While the banter between Aux, Hikaru, and Kaida was kind of entertaining and cute, there needed to be some agreement. "Meddling in other worlds affairs would be offering to kill their king and place you as king. Walking with someone to find food is pretty innocent. Just go with it." At this point Hikaru already agreed so there was no use fighting it anyways. Aislinn didn't mind Hikaru speaking for them as much as Aux seemed to. However as they walked instead of asking about the world or what was going on, speaking to the starving lioness who might change her mind and try and take a bite out of her, Aislinn turned her attention to Kaida, trotting up beside her. Speaking in a lower tone so not everyone around her could hear, she started to ask about something that had been bothering her for a while. "So what exactly is the deal with the kid. Most of you seem annoyed with him. You and Hikaru seem to know him better, and he seems a little lost on what is going on in the middle of the Mark of Mastery. That doesn't seem right. Just who is he?" She asked. She knew that Kaida had been the most hostile so there was likely to be a bias on her story, but at least she would learn something about what happened.
It wasn't much of a competition who would beat their hyena first when Ananta decided to join in on the action. Between the three of them they were able to finish them rather quickly, just leaving Kaida and Hikaru to deal with their Hyena. While Aislinn wanted to give them a chance to do it on their own, with the way that Aux was acting it was best not to leave it to chance. Aislinn nodded as Ananta said she was going to check on Aux. "Good plan." She said with a nod before turning her attention to the last bit of the fight awaiting them. Stepping into action Aislinn prepared her keyblade. Holding the thing between her teeth was far from ideal but it would work when it had to. Kaida stepped up and took another swing at the thing leaving the poor hyena looking rather ragged. Aislinn then followed up with a set of attacks of her own, using similar tactics to what she used last time, starting with an attack with her horns, followed by her keyblade slashing up. With that it was able to take out the last creature and clear a path for them. "Way to go guys!" Aislinn encouraged everyone before turning back to Aux. She stood over him and looked down annoyed. "Look, I get that you are still trying to get used to this whole new body thing, but this is the most important test of your life! Do you think you will ever become a master if you just sit there and watch everyone else do the work. Your friends are taking the Mark of Mastery with you, you have no right to just sit there when you are in it with them. Look I don't know what you did that made people seem to want you dead, but you could redeem yourself by this exam, so get off your butt and try and do something for goodness sake!" Aislinn ranted at him trying to get his butt into action for this exam. EXP Writer: 343 Words 34 exp
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Aux was pretty much unresponsive to Aislinn's attempts to get him moving. Did he even understand the importance of this? Given how little he seemed to know about everything it was possible that he didn't know, but this was such an important test for him to be oblivious to. It seemed odd that one would enter the Mark of Mastery and not know what they signed up for. What had the game masters lead him to believe he was doing then? What were they allowing this kid to get into? Worry gnawed at Aislinn as she thought about this. She had to push it aside just enough to deal with the hyena's first, then maybe she would try talking to the boy. Shenzi was looking rough and Aislinn was ready to finish dealing with her. This was enough messing around, getting used to her new body. "Your finished." She mumbled as she summoned her keyblade in her mouth as she saw others doing. Not the ideal way to wield a keyblade but it could do some damage and that is what she wanted. Shenzi looked a bit more terrified now, clearly not sure what was going on now that she also had a weapon. Aislinn used this moment of fear and confusion to her advantage as jumped up and brought her keyblade down on Shenzi, knocking the hyena out. That was one down, but two still remained. Behind her one of her partners was fighting another hyena on his own, while Hikaru and Kaida fought the other. It was probably best that she focused on helping her own team before helping the other one. "What do you say, think we can finish this one off before they finish theirs?" Aislinn asked AJ, more friendly competition to keep things interesting and the kids motivated. When she was done talking she summoned her keyblade back to her mouth and turned her attention towards Banzi. AJ had certainly done a good job keeping this one at bay. As the hyena laughed at them, something that was really getting on Aislinn's nerves, Aislinn lowered her head and charged, hitting first with her horns, and then while it was stunned, catching it with her keyvlade on a upwards swing. Slowly she was falling into a rhythm of fighting in this form, still not as graceful as her human form, but she was getting pretty close. After kicking him once for good measure, Aislinn took a step back to breath, finding it a little harder to breath properly with her keyblade in her mouth, she couldn't go all out all the time until she learned to control her breathing a little better, then, they would be in trouble. Banzai - 43/150 BP Shenzi - 0/150 BP Ed- 48/180 BP Exp Writer: 452 Words 45 EXP
It looked like everyone was doing well with their own hyena's and Aislinn was not letting up the one that she had cornered. While AJ was trying to get information out of them, Aislinn wasn't ready to let them go just yet, she didn't trust any information given would be accurate. And if it was they would probably use the time talking to buy time until this scar person got there. Aislinn wasn't going to allow that. If they spoke while they fought that would be fine, if they ran away, that would also work, but she wouldn't stop the battle to give them chance to talk. Shenzi was certainly not backing down however, she seemed more like the leader of the group and was showing her strength through the battle. That wasn't a problem however, it just made it a little more Interesting in the end, more of the challenge that this test was supposed to be. She took every challenge as another step of progress through the events. It was the positive side that helped her going forward through this entire thing. She was not going to say it wasn't hard, it was hard sometimes, but she forced herself to keep a level head through that sort of positive thinking. Charging forward again at Shenzi the hyena ramming her with her had. There was not much for variation in her moves and she certainly couldn't use her normal move set. While normally Aislinn liked to pride herself on how graceful and fluid her fighting style was, in this case, running around on four legs, that was not so much the case. Instead it was a series of stomping hooves and whipping her head around. At least she was trying to be helpful and in the end made a few good hits with her horns on the hyena. It was starting to look worse for wear by now but they still had two more to deal with. They also looked quite injured, but not nearly as much as the one Aislinn was dealing with. The sooner she could finish this one off the sooner she would help the others. Banzai - 88/150 BP Shenzi - 52/150 BP Ed- 82/180 BP Exp Writer: 360 Words 36 EXP
New Poll is up for our December Chorus. If you wan to make suggestions for future Chorus' you can do so at our suggestion thread. Thank you to everyone who made contributed and made suggestions. You have until Sunday December 3rd to get your votes in. The songs for this month are as followed: Girls' Generation (TTS)- Dear Santa Original - Karaoke Better Days Original ~ Karaoke Mary Did You Know Original ~ Karaoke Believe Original ~ Karaoke Where Are You Christmas Original ~ Karaoke Shake it Up Christmas Original ~ Karoke Scrooge Instrumental | Original
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It still amazed Aislinn that it was preffered to sit on her antlers than sit up straigh on literally other place on her to perch or anyone. Aislinn didn't mind if Ananta wanted to rest there, but wouldn't it be easier to sit on her back or something? Either way she wasn't going to bother arguing as there was a bit of a fight at hand. Ananta took off to help in the fight, summoning her keyblade it seemed to help. It was good to know that they were able to summon keyblades in this form, though Aislinn wasn't sure how she would use hers quite yet, however using the natural weapons gazelles have, was much more fun anyways. Those horns were not just for looking pretty. And whoever this Scar person was that gave them orders, it was best not let him in too much on who they were or what exactly they could do. Aislinn was about to turn her attention fully back to Shenzi when she heard a yelp, whipping her head around she was relieved to see that it was one of the hyena's and not one of their own, that being said she spotted Aux still down at the same time. A little concerned of the situation Aislinn backed off a couple steps as Ananta helped deal with Shenzi. She couldn't let Aux just sit there like that. "Hey kid, you aren't going to let your friends show you up are you? Look at how much work they are putting in while you laze around. I know you aren't that big of a bum." Listening to the way that Kaida, Aux, and Hikaru had been talking she figured competition was the better option to get him going. "And if you don't want to fight, maybe it is best that you move out of the way a bit." She said, cringing slightly as a fire blast went off not too far away. "Or else you might be caught in one of those." She warned before giving him a nudge with her foot encouraging him up. It was about all she could do and there was still a battle around them. Now with her attention fully on the fight instead of the those around her. Shenzi was looking a little worse for wear thanks to Ananta's efforts. If they could get her out then the other two shouldn't be a problem, as long as Hikaru stopped making puns back and forth with Ed, they were just bad and hurt her soul slightly. At least he was having fun with this she supposed. Charging at Shenzi Aislinn went to impale the Heyna on the end of her antlers. The hyena was not a total idiot however and was able to manage to dodge her attack for the most part, only taking part of the damage she originally intended, not that she had any problems with that, it just meant that she had to try harder. Turning around she started to stomp her hooves and catch Shenzi with them twice before lowering her head again and ramming the hyena once more. Sooner this one was dealt with sooner she could help AJ and Kaida with their hyena's and then perhaps look into who this Scar person was that they spoke about. Banzai - 119/150 BP Shenzi - 52/150 BP Ed: 114/180BP Exp Writer: 552 Words 55 EXP
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Mary Did You Know Original ~ Karaoke Believe Original ~ Karaoke Where Are You Christmas Original ~ Karaoke Shake it Up Christmas Original ~ Karoke
They were not making great headway on what direction they should go or what they should do. Aux didn't even really seem to know how to stand or walk around properly in this form, making travelling difficult. There was mention of a faint smell, but before they could bother investigating into the matter further there was more voices showing up, making comments on Aux's comment that he could eat Kaida. Aislinn hadn't thought anything of Aux's threat but these new voices seemed a little more worrisome. Turning to look at the source of the voice, Aislinn spotted three hyena's licking their lips. "Three of you against two lions, your eyes are really bigger than your stomachs aren't they?" Aislinn commented back to them as they continued to circle. The puns they continued to make were painful to listen to, but it seemed like they wouldn't shut up no matter what she would say. It also didn't help that Aux tried to talk back only to fall on his face. While it was kind of funny, it was not the time to be dealing with that. Aislinn started to move forward, trying to almost protect the young lion who couldn't stand on his feet, while keeping an eye on the hyena's. They were picking on Kaida too and Aislinn went into protective mode as she lowered her head and pounded her hoofs. "I think you are mistaken. I see no food here, just some idle threats. Leave before I make you." She told them knowing that her threats would only go so far. The only way that they would get anywhere was to show them who was boss, which Kaida was already doing. Even as a small bird the girl managed to kick butt. AJ soon joined the fight after that. "Hate to break it to you, but you are a little out numbered here." She pointed out before charging, trying to separate the last hyena from it's friend. It was better not to let them use pack tactics, instead keeping them apart. If she remembered anything about hyena's it was they worked best together, keep them apart and they might have an easier time dealing with them. It was not like Aislinn saw them as a threat though as she ran her horns into the creature before stomping her hooves trying to also hit Shenzi. There was no guarantee that it would work but she could at least try. Banzai - 119/150 BP Shenzi - 117/150 BP Ed: 148/180BPEXP Writer II: 409 words 40 exp
╔════»Arian eyed as Aalis took down more of the Beowulves, this would be close. This time Aalis managed to take down two of the grimm only leaving one left standing. A grin spread across his face as he surveyed the last remaining creature. "DIBS!" Arian called out as he readjusted his grip on his blades, his ears shooting around, listening for anyone who was going to interrupt his kill. There was no way that he was going to give up this chance, not when if he didn't get the kill he would lose the bet. Rushing forward Arian made quick work of a five hit combo, catching the Beowulf in the leg, then shoulder, followed by its side and back before finally going for his head, lopping it off. Arian then backed off and looking at the carnage around but then back to Aalis. "Guess that makes it a tie. So what do we do with that?" It was rare for bets to end in a tie and when there was no parameters set out, it was harder to tell what they would get out of it. ════╝ All Beowulves are dead Taking down the Ursa was only the start of the battle. There were still Beowulves to deal with and those things were still nasty. It seemed as though everyone had joined the fray by this point. The battle was going well, but not well enough. The Beowulves seemed to be getting even more enraged and started attacking them. Auburn as many others were caught in the attack, as she used her blades to attempt to block them. At least she came out better than some. One Beowulf tried to attack her and while it got some damage in, it didn't do as much damage as she thought that it would, instead the young girl was left standing tall. It wasn't her first time dealing with Grimm, thanks to her fathers training, so this didn't scare her. As much as small things, such as people bothered her, when she got into fighting it came naturally. Moving away she looked around seeing what she had to deal with here. There were still five Grimm left standing, however they had already taken out six, this wouldn't be a big issue. Moving forward an idea popped in her mind. For Auburn this was one of her less trained skills, as she felt like a bit of a late bloomer when it came to her semblance. While she knew how to use it now it wasn't until a year ago that it manifested itself, and it took a while after that to get used to it. She still wasn't entirely used to it, but she was getting better. Charging towards one of the enraged beowulves, just as she got close enough for it to attack her, she shrunk herself down to the size of a rat, running between it's legs. The creature was clearly confused as it looked around for where the girl had gone. A moment later she ran between it's back legs, her size suddenly growing larger than normal as she plunged a blade into it's back. Just as Auburn started to shrink down to her normal size, she flicked her wrist causing her blade to go into gun form and aimed it towards the Beowulf that another of her teammates was attempting to fight, firing once catching the creature in it's leg. She had been too distracted with the grimm she had killed to have properly aimed her attack. Auburn HP: 12/15 Auburn Amo: 2/3 Grimm injured : Beowulf 2/4 Beowulves remaining: 4/10
He might have gotten a few hits in but it was still far from a victory for Aaron. Soon the battle ax came out and Aaron was still stuck fighting without weapons, hands chained.Even as a witcher, he knew how unfortunate the situation looked as he dodged back from the first swing, forced to go on the defense. Soon after he heard a shout from behind him, it was enough of a distraction that Aaron was more than grateful that he had cast Quen on himself, as the battle ax grazed the shield and caused a small explosion as it deflected the attack. However from what he could tell the other guy was more an ally than an enemy which was a good thing. He prayed that he was right about that as the sky darkened and his captor sent a bolt of lightning at the man who had arrived to help, never taking his eyes off him, not allowing him that opening. Stepping forward Aaron attempted to go on the offense, faking an attack with his hands before ducking low and swinging out his leg trying to knock Thorvald to the ground. It he could jar the battle ax from the man hand he might stand a chance here, if not he could be in trouble fast.
