As the fight finished, Stratos sighed as the largest of all darksides appeared before them. Creating a large lightning storm, the towering figure seemed to impress itself upon the entire area, threatening to defeat everyone who dared stand before it. Yet still, looking at the creature, there was a sense of relief running through the boy. "Well, we finally made it." This is the moment that Stratos was waiting for. The light at the end of the tunnel. While most might have seen a creature far too formidable to surpass, Stratos saw it as something else. Hughes's last resort. The thing he had been building up the whole fight for, the thing he believed more than anything else would crush the keyblade wielders. Which meant it was what all of his hopes of defeating them rode on. Looking over to Kaida as she started her attack, he said, "you're right. We're not just going to win, we'll crush this thing!" Looking to Kaida, Hikaru and Beuce he said, "alright team, there's not a team of keyblade masters here that I'd prefer to take this thing down with other than you guys. So, you ready to show it what we're made of!?" Looking over to Beuce he said, "besides, this thing's just a poor understudy for Arma, so there's no way we'll let him get the upperhand on us this time, right?" With a confident look on his face, he extended out his fist towards Beuce. When his friend had responded in kind, a red and blue spark coarsed across his arm, as it met and coalesced at his arm. In a flash of light, the double bladed keyblade Lofty Grasp appeared in his hand. Seeming none too phased by this, Stratos looked over to Beuce saying, "alright, I got an idea, but I'm going to need your help for it." Looking over to Kaida he said, "Kaida, you too. I'm going to need your assistance for just a second here." As the two gathered around him, he then swept his keyblade underneath their feet, before saying, "and lift off!" With that, he sent the two straight towards the Storm Bringer. Stratos used Dualcast Launch (x2) (Beuce and Kaida) Aeira merely cracked her knuckles at the sight of three more darksides appearing in her path. Sighing, the girl merely booked it towards the first of them that they had engaged, a blue one. With that one being dealt with by Karina and Arctus, Aeira figured it was fine, and decided to run after a different one, a red one. As it looked towards the green haired girl, it raised up its fist, bringing it down towards the girl to punch her, to which she merely responded in kind. With that, the two fists collided against each other, causing a gust of wind to blow outward from the force. Darkside Red: 4800/5000
Gonna be buying Launch for 500 Munny. Unequipping Firaga and Thunderbell Equipping Launch and Seeker Mine. (If I can't buy launch at this time, then just keep thunderbell on) Equipping Lofty Grasp over Lionheart (take off Protect and Serve from the abilities) Magic: Seeker Mine Cura Graviga Skill Commands: Red Slash Launch Strike Raid Faith Munny: 3550
Wincing in pain as the back of his head was struck by Ignis, he rubbed his head saying, "got it, got it. Message received." With a sly smile on his face, the boy backed away, moving away from Ignis saying, "but only if you make a pun. Just one." Looking over to AJ he said, "yeah, I'm fine. Not my first really strong pretty aggressive girl I've dealt with." As Kaida went to go on a strike against it, the boy twirled both of his keyblades, spinning both of them at high velocity and tossing them towards the dark side. Stratos dualcast Strike Raid (x2)
After the attacks had gone through, Stratos looked over to Ignis, shaking his head in disagreement saying, "nah see, the lowest form of humor is going to be this guy, six feet under when we're done with him." After stating this, he heard both AJ and Luna say how they needed to focus on the fight at hand, and Stratos said, "well, you heard the two. This isn't the time for jokes Ignis." Following Kaida's lead, the boy took a deep breath as he focused, hearing all the sound of the world around him. As he did so, an fuchsia colored aura appeared around him as he said, "alright, let's break it down." Twirling both of his keyblades, the boy once again launched two orbs of fire from it, sending them straight towards the dark side. Stratos used Sound Aura and Dualcasted Firaga (x2) With the demon tide having been felled, Aeira seemed both scratched and scuffed up from the fight. All the same, she was still standing strong, and looked around to see that the keyblade wielders were also fighting the darksides pretty handily at the moment. As she was about to charge after Karina and Arctus to aid them, she looked over to Koa as he congratulated her. Looking at his extended hand, the girl seemed a bit awkward as she said, "um, yeah. Good work too." Raising up her hand, she moved to give Koa what he would probably consider the most awkward high five had ever received, as if the girl wasn't even sure what she was supposed to be doing. After that odd exchange was over she said, "now let's go." With that, she ran towards Uniform with the other black coat members.
The girl paused as Koa charged past her, striking at it with twin swords. As he followed up his strike into it, she merely said, "just one more push." Charging towards the dark sphere of the heartless, she began to charge towards the demon tide's exposed core. Striking with one punch after the other, she was beginning to cause clear breaks in the skin of the dark core, with darkness beginning to seep out of it. In one final blow, she managed to break the surface of it, leaving it one blow away from breaking apart. Launching the core harmlessly away from her, she said, "finish it." Red Demon Tide: 90/5,000
As her strike had landed true, Koa was kick on the follow up, striking at the heartless almost immediately afterward. Landing on the ground, the girl dashed and with a running jump, the girl followed swfitly after it. As Koa's onslaught of slash's was coming to a close, Aeira brought forth yet another burst of offensive pressure. With one punch after the other, one kick after the last, the girl continued to slam her attacks into the heartless core, forcing it to the ground with each and every one of her strikes. While the shadow cluster seemed to try and shield the core, Aeira had yet to stop, merely continuing her onslaught onto the core, leaving it vulnerable for the others to follow up on. Red Demon Tide: 390/5,000
Moving to the ground, the girl didn't give the tide to make a comeback and strike back. As the core started to try and rise into the air, though, Koa seemed to go on the offensive and strike back against it as well. As he formed a metal hammer, the girl seemed to get what he meant saying, "on it." Rushing towards Koa, the girl jumped onto the hammer, saying, "launch!" As Koa helped boost her into the air with his hammer, the girl soared towards the core again, slamming her fist much harder then before into the expose shadow core. With one punch following it up, the core seemed to be in clear agony, as it was most assuredly on its last legs. Red Demon Tide: 690/5,000
As the tide began to flow upwards to defend its core, the girl began to take a running start, jumping into the air. With one leap after the other, the girl managed to use the heartless shadows as stepping stones to make her way up to the top of the heartless demon tide. As she managed to outpace the flying shadows, she slammed her fist into the heartless core, grabbing one of the shadows limbs sticking out with the other. Tearing the heartless out with great strength, she caused a large ripple of force to coarse through the heartless core, before flipping in the air and bringing her foot down onto the heartless core. With one final attack, she managed to slam the core down to the ground once more. Red Demon Tide: 950/5,000
Landing on the swarm of heartless, it did little to actually stop her descent as she moved towards it. With her fist slamming into the swarm, she managed to continue to cleave through the heartless, tearing them away from the core as she made her way towards it. Though the heartless swarm was trying to claw onto her, the girl didn't stop her movement forward, instead ignoring the pain from the attack and making her way with single minded determination. With one final punch, she managed to expose the core, grabbing onto it with both of her hands. Kicking off some of the shadows around her, the girl spun in the air, beginning to move the core around before tossing it high into the air, firing rocks at it from below. Red Demon Tide: 1100/5,000
After finishing up her last onslaught of attacks, the heartless parting around her, the girl heard another of her team members call out to her. As Koa went to slash into the weakened demon tide, the girl merely said, "right!" With that, she started to move forward, sprinting towards the heartless and following up the metal spear attack of Koa. Jumping after the heartless, she started to swim through the heartless and go towards the heartless's core. Grabbing the heartless's core, uncaring of the heartless tide around her, she started to twist her body around, then spiking it into the ground. There was clear pain being had by the attack, and the heartless tide itself moved around the core, trying to surround it and shield it from the mad quartet of black coats that had been tearing into it. Red Demon Tide: 1250/5,000
As the core skidded across the ground, the heartless began to form around it, trying to create one solid wave that was about to charge Aeira. While she was ready for it, the heartless seemed to start glowing red in rage before beginning to spiral. "Oh, that's bad." Aeira wasn't quite sure what to do here, as the heartless seemed more berserk than ever as it charged towards the girl in one motion, trying to slam into her. Steadying herself, the girl tried to keep her stance ready as the heartless wave slammed into her, pushing her backwards. Yet, with her feet still firmly planted onto the ground, the girl managed to let loose one strong uppercut into the dark core, grabbing onto it before sending it upward, only to toss it back to the side, smashing it back into the ground. Red Demon Tide: 1540/5000
As she was now in the air, falling towards the ground as the demon tide did, the girl began to strike back at the heartless swarm as she did. With one foot after the other, she continued kicking into the heartless core, forcing it closer and closer into the ground. As she had eventually managed to slam her feet into it hard enough, the demon tide smashed against the ground. As it did, the girl jumped off the tide, reaching out her hand into the tide itself. Grabbing onto the dark core, the girl, with great force, pulled back and tossed it, sending the heartless core sailing through the air with the shadow heartless trying to helplessly follow after it as it slammed and bounced across the ground. Red Demon Tide: 1690/5000
The girl started to make a break for the demon tide, sprinting at the demon tide and getting ready to finish the fight. As she made her way over to it, the tide seemed to be much more about avoiding the girl. However, not allowing it to do such a thing, the girl slammed her foot into the ground, creating a few rocks orbiting around her. Firing them into the air, one after the other, the girl began to jump up. Jumping on to each of the rocks, she used them as platform to gain enough height to get onto the demon tide. Once she had reached the maximum height needed, she managed to land on it, bringing her foot down onto the core of the heartless, forcing it further down towards the ground. Red Demon Tide: 1840/5000
As the tide was starting to shed more and more heartless, it crashed into the ground, trying to retreat for the time being. As it launched out of the ground and back into the air, far away from Aeira. As it did, the heartless that were around her seemed to glow red, almost in a rage state as they started to rush their way towards the girl. Charging at the girl, the heartless started to move with much more fervor than before, yet Aeira was not deterred in the slightest by it. Clenching her fists tighter, the girl rushed forawrd towards them, punching at the rushing heartless one at a time. With each punch, she managed to defeat the shadows, in spite of their increased force and power, clearing the ground out before turning her attention back to the demon tide. Red Demon Tide: 1990/5000
As the swarm recoiled away from Aeira, the girl continued to press the attack against it, rushing after the demon tide before it could get much higher into the air. Running faster and faster, the girl jumped into the air, right into the front of the demon tide. While she was swallowed by the wave of heartless, she didn't actually go that far into it, and instead reeled back her fist to begin punching into it the large dark core. One after the other, her fist struck into the dark core, causing the tide to convulse in pain, moving about and dropping shadows onto the ground as the full form of the demon tide seemed to be breaking apart. As the tide began to move to crash into the ground, the girl kicked off the core, rolling across the ground as she did so. Red Demon Tide: 2,040/5000
Stratos was having a bit of fun as everyone else seemed to join in on the fun of punning at the heartless, twirling both of his keyblades as all of the attacks connected. Looking over to Ignis saying, "see, it's almost definitely the time for them." Looking over to Kaida, the boy was a bit curious as she seemed to be grumbling to herself, saying, "are you alright there?" As Kaida then went for her next attack, the boy looked at the fire sailing through the air saying, "well, if you're gonna do that, then I feel obligated to do this." With lightning charging his keyblades, the boy fired off two large orbs of lightning shouting, "thunderbell!" Stratos dualcasted Thunderbell (x2) Aeira continued to fight against the swarm of heartless, seeing the large swarm of heartless be none too happy with her striking of its core. Charging at the girl, she was ready to meet it head on again, only for the creature to start spinning and orbiting around her. The girl was curious about what was going to happen, but had a pretty clear idea as it started to close in on her, trying to crush her in the swarm. While the swarm managed to completely wrap over her, the girl took a deep breath, seeming to ignore the claws and bodies colliding with her, and merely striking the core of the tide, sending the heartless back reeling. Red Demon Tide: 2,190/5000
Aeira continued to strike forward against the demon tide, as she was running along top of it. With each stomp, she managed to take out one more shadow, one after the after other as she got closer to the core of the tide. As she did, however, the bridge the heartless made seemed to come apart, as the tide split itself in half. Seeing that she was on the falling end of the demon tide, the girl began to sprint forward, trying to make her way all the way to the head before it fell. As she got to the end of the heartless bridge, she jumped forward, landing on the demon tide's core and delivering one hefty punch into it. As she did, the tide shook and shuddered a bit, causing the girl to then fall of and make her way back to the ground. As she landed, she looked up to the heartless, seeing it was clear that the damage had been done to it. Red Demon Tide: 2,340/5000
Speaking of punching, local resident super hero of the punching task force, Black Coats 05 Aeira was on the scene in bringing down the giant enemy demon tide. After punching its weak point for some solid damage, the girl fell back onto the ground, kicking up off of it to get back into a standing position. The fight itself was already nearing its halfway mark, whereas the fight with the darksides had hardly seemed to start. Cracking her knuckles, the girl began to run towards the demon tide, flying through the air as it was. With great force, the girl jumped into the air, landing on the tide itself and beginning to ride the wave of heartless. While her balance was incredibly suspect on the creature, the girl began to run from one end to the next, trying to get to the bulbous dark core at the head, stomping on the shadows that acted as platforms as she made her way over to it. Red Demon Tide: 2,490/5000
With her arm being freed from the tide as the rest of its body went into the ground, the girl looked behind her as it launched itself out once more. Shaking her arm, being a bit sore from what she had just done, the girl continued to track just what the demon tide was going to do next. As it spun in the air, it then dove back straight into the ground underneath it, sicking into the darkness below. Wondering what was about to happen, the girl felt a rumbling underneath her, as the demon tide forced itself out from the ground underneath the girl, taking her a bit by surprise. As she was pushed up into the air the girl was getting torn up a bit by the heartless, but taking her arm to the core, she punched at it knocking herself out of the tide. Red Demon Tide: 2,640/5000
With Finlay also now on the demon tide, it seemed to be starting to lose more and more of its substance. Or at least she thought it was. As the heartless began to thin out, she saw that slowly but surely more shadows seemed to appear out from nowhere and fill in the missing gaps of the demon tide. While Aeira was made curious by this kind of thing, she had her theories as to where the heartless were coming from, and decided to continue pressuring onward against the demon tide. Charging forward, as the demon tide made its way towards her, barreling at her, the girl jumped to it side. With a swift punch, the girl struck her arm into the demon tide, dragging her through the side of the tide, creating a large "gash" in the creature. Red Demon Tide: 2,930/5,000
