As the cling happened, Kaida gasped out and grabbed her hand in pain, still trying to grin through gritted teeth in pain as she spoke out, "No way, I took the mark of mastery at Central Haven too. Twice. Once when Hikaru was in a coma, he woke up that day on the second one. It was so strange." she rubbed her hand until the pain was out before taking a deep breath, "Well. At least this means Mizu can't hold this over me anymore. Well, I suppose she could for me having to take it three times, but some masters take the mark of mastery more than once. Mine had to take it twice before he got his mastery."
When the battle was complete, Kaida wasn't focusing on anyone as much as focusing in her own head to contain her own excitement while she was still in this world. Seeing Simba reclaim his spot was pretty amazing, but she jumped when Aux started roaring. She heard Hikaru's response and couldn't help herself as she started laughing a lot more than she should have. When Timon and Puumba came up to ask what they would do now, she didn't reply. She wasn't sure how much she could realistically reply with, and when they gave them a new keyblade. She smiled a lot and said, "Well, thank you pipsqueak and baconbits. This mutant bird's gonna go now. Take care of yourselves." she flapped her wings a bit and before leaving through the portal, Kaida ran around one more time letting out "kweh"s before finally going through the portal. As the yellow-haired teen walked through the portal, she was a bit thrown off by how tall she suddenly was again and she held her hands out in balance as she walked slowly forward, getting adjusted to having legs again before she ran at the group going, "Yoooo!" she specifically ended up running between Kel and Stratos and wrapped her arms around them to pull them closer as she grinned widely, "Did we do it? Are we all gonna be masters?" she was a bit over excited but she let go of them and jumped a bit, throwing her fist up in the air laughing and saying, "I have failed these things two times before, and finally, finally the third one is gonna be it! Oh man, if only Seiza were here to see this, he'd probably wonder if I cheated on it. Jokingly of course." Kaida was bouncing back and forth a bit with a lot of energy and held up her hand towards Beuce for the high fiviest of fives as she said, "We did it!"
30 crowns to strength 30 crowns to magic 10 crowns to defense Buying Thunder Bell (1000 munny) Buying Blessed Thief (2000 munny) Buying Splattercombo (850 munny) Buying Poison Edge (150 munny) Buying Vorpal Blitz (400 munny) Red Mage gained Equipping Red Mage Equipping Oathkeeper and Whittling Promises 4,400 munny spent --- MATH TIME MP- 5(+3) Strength- 25 (+9) Defense- 12 Magic- 25 (+6) Crowns left- 7 Munny left- 640 --- Now if you excuse me... I have a little someone I need to defeat before the big battle...
When Cerdic looked at her asking about a castle, Mora looked a bit surprised before tilting her head, "I wouldn't think you'd forget something like that, but yeah. Nocte Arce. It's this old dusty castle no one uses anymore since it's so far away from the town. But we're already kind of close to it here. Old Man Ryce used to use it as his home. Now, trees and a rock... just sounds like the main field at the front of the castle. It's separated from the rest of the woods so it kind of stands out but nothing too spectacular." Mora shifted away from the orb to keep her hands from getting burned off in curiosity. She turned to towards the rest of the group, dusting herself off a bit before saying, "I know a way, not really a shortcut since that involves cutting through the woods on step mountains. Though, how are we gonna do this? I can't imagine leaving this area open is the best idea, but I don't know how fruitful it'd be to take everyone to Nocte Arce." Mora felt a bit of pain and pressed her side the slightest bit to comfort it before saying, "So should we all go anyway, or should we split up? If so, how'd we do it. I imagine Daeni and Cerdic would be more helpful heading with me. Though, would Alder and Chrono be alright alone?"
Takehiko's silence through this was perhaps not that stand out since others were silent, but it was not because he didn't have moments where he wanted to speak out. But Take was distracted by something completely different, and that was Gero. Even when the old man was not speaking, when his attentions should have been on Tinarah or Torrin, the boy was staring at the man. Though know expression laid on the boy's face, the confusion could possibly have been seen in his eyes. There was a... familiarity to this man. But Take was certain he would have remembered this man had he met him. But there was something that sparked an insane familiarity that was driving the boy up the wall. Eventually, there were words that Torrin said that made Take stop and look at the man. He'd already heard Tinarah's story, once with less detail and once with more. When Torrin spoke his side, perhaps there was too much skepticism on his mind. Or perhaps Atmos' training was beginning to sink in a little too much. Maybe it was because he had more reason to care about Tinarah than he did Torrin. But finally Take spoke still in line, "Why though, Torrin?" the boy paused a minute and realized he wasn't clear and further elaborated, "You said the side you were on in the war is worried about maintaining the balance and doesn't want to leave the realm. But you came here to find out how to safely pass into this one? You'd think that would be a strategic disadvantage if that were the case, knowing a way to safely pass while also trying to keep people on the other side of your civil war out of the realm of light. So why did you need to know that in the first place?" Takehiko paused and looked around before he looked straight at Torrin, "Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful you're here since you've been more than helpful. And you have given and had more taken from you for the Realm of Light than you necessarily needed to if this is indeed your home. But, well..." Take took a deep breath and grabbed his cast and asked, "How do we know you're doing this for the right reasons? And not for some kind of future benefit?"
When Tinarah mentioned him knowing Stamatis and he rubbed the back of his head, "Well... kind of? We met once, briefly. He speeched at me and left. But he isn't exactly a forgettable guy." when she mentioned having not been around anyone her age in so long, he didn't really know how to reply to that. Sure, he'd gone through a month of intense training, but he wasn't in complete isolation from his age group or anything. So he couldn't imagine having been in Tinarah's shoes. He was ready to comment but Choma walked on in and Take turned his attention towards him and listened to Tinarah's reply. He... wasn't exactly sure what he could add to the conversation in particular. He nodded at her when she had looked towards him when she mentioned the food. He shifted a bit uncomfortably and didn't completely leave the room, but he did find himself shifting towards some food in the kitchen and grabbing some more noms since... well he was still hungry. He almost never ate until he was full.
"Your violin? Yes, actually. When I had found it I carried it around for a bit, but I eventually gave it to Chrono. I... didn't think it was right for me to hold onto it. Especially since Chrono was so worried about you. But yes." Take nodded to her before continuing, "And Choma was worried about you." he didn't elaborate there, because he remembered Choma actually being more focused on Aria being alive and Mika being dead. But he wasn't exactly lying. He noted something that Tinarah said and managed to hold back a chuckle as he spoke, "Of course Stamatis would be into music. He was talking a lot about taking in a moment and meditating and music always seemed like something meditation-like to people. I don't know though, not really a music person myself. But, that sounds like it'd work." he thought about it a minute before looking at her, "Don't worry about becoming readjusted immediately, okay?" he rubbed the back of his head and said, "I don't... like to admit this. But, I still haven't adjusted to the ways of life outside of my homeworld. And it's been over a month for me. If you miss what you've called home for five years, that's okay. I'd love to hear any fun stories you had with Stamatis and uncle Frost if we ever get the time and you ever want to tell them."
When Tinarah said she wanted to go back to that place, he was almost shocked. He knew that she probably had emotional investment wherever that was after being there for... five years in her time. But he still didn't know why someone would want to go back to a place like that if it caused them so much pain. He tried not to think about it too much for his own sake more so than hers. When he got the dish put in it's proper place and Tinarah asked about his hand. He was thrown off, since he hadn't expected it, but eventually looked to it and said, "Oh, in the last world we went to things got a little... intense. A cannon fell on it when I was pinned down. It seems to be healing up pretty quickly though, which is odd, but I'm not gonna complain too much. It's my dominant hand and I'm not liking being a righty right now." he tried flexing his hand a bit but it hurt, so he stopped.
ALL GLORY TO THE DARK LORD
HEAR ME SAY YOU DON'T
YOU DON'T HEAR ME SAY
-deep breath- WHEN YOU WALK AWAY
fancy letters?
yes but think of the ammo you'd have an admin with the name Amaury for example
this reminds me of when someone was giving out those gift cards or something and people just stalked the thread to be the sniper who got post 23
There was a lot to process in the story, a couple names she spoke with familiarity that he didn't know. Well, he probably knew more names than some people. He happened to recognize the name Stamatis, he remembered the strangeness of how they met in frozen time when a storm seemed to be approaching Atmos' world. But besides that, he didn't know who Fost or Gero were. As she explained her training for five years with Stamatis, he could tell she spoke about it almost bittersweet really. Then she began speaking about the future, the world being dark. About Torrin working with the darkness, killing Mika, before the escape. Hearing Mika's name made him visibly react, more than he probably should have cause he didn't want to bring it up now of all times, but he didn't really know when the best time would be... so the boy tried to slip it in without directly saying it. Take was quiet to put together his thoughts for a moment before speaking, "After I had gone back to check on Atmos when we were in Atlantis, Nini had come up to Torrin and I in distress and I followed her to where she was leading and she brought me to the docks. A soldier was there and all he had was your violin, and he said a keyblade wielder had taken you. I assume now it was someone working with the Light Chaser... since then all we've done is travel to another world and Aria was brought back to us by Torrin." Takehiko went quiet again before he stopped at turned to her, "I don't know how things got to that future, or even what events happen in that future, but right in this moment Torrin's been helpful, probably more than harmful. I can keep an eye on him with you through that perspective because I don't know him very well. But I won't let a future like that happen, not when I can help it." he tried smiling at her reassuringly, it wasn't exactly a big smile or anything, but it was certainly more of a smile than he usually gave. Tinarah might now know that though, what with only having known her for the equivalent of a day. But Take still felt wrong about it, and reached for his hand again to try and rub his wrist, but his cast wouldn't allow it. Take just stopped smiling after a bit before he continued leading her towards the kitchen.
