The sound of the first box being hit, followed by the shouting of Boreas was all that Tinarah needed. As things started to go down, the hero's started to rush out, Tinarah let herself unleash her drive form, music swirling around her as she smiled at the familiar melody of violin entwined with piano. She was strong, Stamatis had shown her that. It was time to live that out and not let five years worth of work go to waste. As she listened to the music, she willed it to change, into something softer, slower, and willed the music to reach out from beyond her own area towards those rushing from the building. A soft lullaby to put them to sleep as flames danced from her finger tips. Surveying the area around she gave Darkwing and Boreas one last glance as they kept the hero's attention, then let five blasts of flame burst from her figure tips, all aimed that the hats each one was wearing. Tinarah didn't stick around to see the result though, she was already ducking back into the ally, trying to switch positions since she now gave away her hiding spot. The music following her would be a clear indication but it was still lulling, so hopefully it would weaken or put to sleep anyone who attempted to follow her. Hopefully the blasts of fire worked, and the other group could start in. If not the three of them could be in huge trouble.
Thea watched as her flames caused the spider to shriek in pain. She shuttered and back off from the sound as Izra added to it with her flute. It in the end helped kill the spider, but as her flame wall faded Thea was crouched on the ground covering her ears trying to drown out the noise. A few blue flames rippled off of her, but over all she managed to keep things in check as she sat there breathing heavy for a moment. Everyone else seemed ready to keep moving however, so Thea eventually stood up straight and straightened herself out, holding her head high like nothing was wrong at all. Nodding her head she looked over at everyone else, her eyes still bright and happy despite everything. "Alright I am ready to go!" She agreed, dousing the last bit of blue flames dancing between her figures, fully regaining control of herself. Distract it. He supposed he could do that. Everette did not possess magic that was beneficial to offensive combat, he was an illusionist at best, and even that was barely. At the very least he had picked up a few fighting styles using his magic to mirror what he saw others do. Plus he could at the very least channel his magic into his sword, make it worth something. With that in mind he prepared himself, sword in hand, clones at his side. He took on a stance ready to fight, just waiting for the moment that Samuel blinded the creature to jump in and try and take out the eyes if he could. Hopefully even if the creature was not completely blinded, his clones would be distraction enough for him to get a hit in before it realized which one was actually him. Holding his sword in front of him, Everette glanced over at Samuel, barely taking looking away from the creature. "Okay ready whenever you are." He told Samuel preparing to go on his signal. It felt like a while since he had gone on a mission like this, had to fight. Everette just hoped he hadn't lost his edge. He was sure he hadn't, years of training didn't go away in a matter of months, but still it felt a little nerve wracking. Turning his thoughts away from doubt, he focused on the snake. He was an S-class, he could and would do this.
It was almost a comfort having the part of his heart that was taken from him back, even if that part of his heart was fill with darkness. He supposed that pure light just wasn't for him, he needed a balance in order to survive properly. Staring at where the portal had been, Cerdic heard a voice from behind him and spun around to see Mora struggling to her feet. As she stumbled, Cerdic rushed over and helped steady her. "Woah there, take it easy. No rush anymore. It is done with.... We... we did it. It is gone. That creature is gone. Alder and Chrono... Aevum was able to fix the machine, and get it working. They saved us. I don't think we could have held out much longer against Ria without them." Cerdic turned around and gave both men a slight smile. Sure he was still pissed with Aevum, but now he could see that he was doing everything to make it right again, so it was hard to stay pissed at him forever. "What do you say we get you home?" He asked Mora figuring she would like to see her village again now that everything was fixed.
Listening to how things were going, Tinarah was actually quite surprised that they seemed to overall be agreeing to her plan. It might not work, but that was why she had back up, she was not going into this alone. Boreas, even though she wasn't a fan of her, she recognized him as valuable back up. He would know how to handle things if something went wrong better than anyone. And while Tinarah didn't know what Darkwing could do, she had no choice but to trust him to some extent at least. As they began to split off into their teams, Tinarah turned to Take, but then eyed her brother as well. She couldn't help but think of what Take had said to her earlier, so taking a deep breath she addressed both of them. "Good luck. Stay safe you two." She told them, glancing at Torrin momentarily before glancing away. "You as well." She tagged on a little forced but at least she was trying. Turning back to her own group though she thought of everything that needed done. She turned to Boreas who had already showed his ranged weapon. "Watch for me to get down their and ready, then do you think you can shoot the crates to get their attention and draw the hero's out while I prepare to try and put them to sleep. Once I have the song going I should be able to assist destroying the hats, but I can't have too much attention on me until after the effect starts." If she was swarmed the moment she destroyed the creates the entire plan would be out the window. After Boreas responded Tinarah started down towards the streets, quickly landing on the ground a few streets away and slipping threw allies until she was near the place, cloaked in shadows but ready to start her drive the moment that the moment she noticed Boreas shooting for the create. In the shadows she could only hope he noticed the slight nod of her head, telling him that she was ready to do this.
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"Funny. It seems since I got back a proper weapon I have been of less use. But I do think I might have a solution for you." Karina glanced back at the way that she came. "I am the only one with a keyblade, and I might know someone, nearly as obnoxious and brash as I am, but I think he might be able to help you out. I don't think working with that group of people was his thing anyways. Agree to come with us and I will introduce you." Karina didn't know why Arctus came to mind, didn't know why he was the one she was suggesting trusting, but here she was with that out in the open. No going back now. Lin then informed them someone was watching and Karina got a little tense, summoning her keyblade. Of course there would be more problems. Always more problems.
Before anymore conversation could be had, Torrin called out that he could see the warehouse up ahead. They had be be getting close then. As they grouped up more and observed what was going on below, they started planning. It seemed like the heroes were mind controlled, meaning they had to destroy the hats. But they didn't want to run in their and try and destroy the hats until the heroes were freed because heroes are trained to deal with numerous targets and it could get dangerous. So then the suggestion came of luring them out, but as far as Tinarah was aware they had very few ways of doing that safely either. Thinking about everything that they could do, Tinarah thought for a moment on her own as well. "How many of you can attack from a range?" Tinarah found herself asking as she looked around at the others She had a few things she could do from a range, but she could also give them the upper hand. "If I can get close enough I might be able to lull the enemies enough to make shots on them easier. If we spread out it will be hard to tell who is where. I can maybe even take out all the hats if I am lucky enough with a little bit of magic. All I would need is you guys to cover me while I got close enough and to be ready to jump in when the time is right." Tinarah even seemed to surprise herself speaking up with a plan, but Stamatis had always encouraged her to think for herself, claiming it was the best source of self defense.
So they were gone, Yue after all that was gone. Karina grit her teeth hating Nequa more with each passing moment. "I don't know what her full plans are, but I know that she needs to be stopped. I know I promised my friend that I would deal with her for him. And I know I am not backing down from this. So from how I see it you have no one and nothing anymore. If you want a chance to stop Nequa you are going to need help. After all a dead girl can't sneak into the hide out easily, and alone you might struggle to not get in the way of others." Karina stated rather blandly as she stared down Lima more. She might have been tolerating the girl, but there was still a tense sense of watching and ready for anything.
The tendrils that had been holding him may have been severed, but Cerdic was hurt and he couldn't make much of a move to do anything barely even able to keep to his feet. Thankfully he noticed the blinking of the extractor as Alder lurched forward to hit the button, starting the damn thing already. Dazed and watching Cerdic hadn't realized he was collapsing from exhaust and injury until he hit the floor and Daeni was there soon after to drag him away. She set him down shoving a potion at him and scolding him, but Cerdic didn't know why. Pushing the potion back and struggling into a sitting position himself he turned back to her. "It is nothing to prove, just putting everyone before myself like a person should. You know as well as I do that you needed to stay out of it's hands, and the extractor needed to work if we wanted to keep everyone safe. I just swallowed my pride and did what I had to in order to make that happen, even if that meant dying." Cerdic snapped a bit at her, not wanting to be lectured or babied for what he did. Sure he was sore, and barely conscious, but taking the potion, giving into her lectures would imply that she was right, he had been trying to prove something. Perhaps now he was, but all he was trying to prove is that he was not doing this for some selfish reason. As he dragged himself up away from Daeni, the extractor slowly turning on and getting started, cerdic was able to witness the creature that had been tormenting them, getting destroyed. From there he watched as three hearts were freed, followed by a fourth that had found it's way out of Daeni. He watched them exit the cave but did not follow, he had a feeling he knew where they were going now that they were freed. After they were gone, Cerdic turned back to the others left in the cave. His memories returned to him and Cerdic found himself rather disappointed in them. He had liked to believe himself the hero of the story, but the more that he remembered, the more he realized that he wasn't that at all. If anything he was a tag along, ever the rich kid, seeking adventure only to sit on the side lines. Everything that he had convinced himself of during his time without memories seemed to be wrong, even the relationships he had with some people. What came as the most surprise to him though, was that those yellow eyed birds were not actually evil. He still was a little convinced they were though. Turning to the other three that had survived this with him, smiling inspite of his battered state, he just looked at them. "Lets finish this." He finally told them, looking at the portal, knowing that Chrono or Alder would know what to do now.
Hearing that someone had been tracking her activities for some time now really bothered Karina. She shifted on her feet as she watched the girl dig through the rubble continuing her story. When she was done and explained her current intentions, Karina smiled at her a bit. "Unfortunately for you I already promised someone that I would kill Nequa for them. But an extra hand never hurt." What was wrong with her, inviting the enemy to help them. For all Karina knew, she could be a spy. That being said the emotion in her voice, there was something genuine about it, something that she couldn't ignore. "Unless you truly believe yourself strong enough to take her on by yourself. Though if that is the case then have fun dying. We will be here looking for the information we actually want." Karina stated starting to look around the rubble herself for any possible signs of Yue. She would consider it a blessing if she didn't find a body.
Oh just another person trying to get under her skin. "What do you know about me? Certainly I am not important enough for Nequa to care about what happened in my life. Uniform certainly didn't have all the information there, and he was just a prick who used anything against me that he could think of. It was pathetic really. Even as I killed him he still thought he could win by taunting me. So why don't you stop throwing words around and deal with your problems. Funny while you seem to take pride in doing things alone, I have learned that trying to do it alone is the worst thing I can do, friends make you stronger. I hate to say it but I wouldn't be where I am now without them." Karina pointed out holding her head up high. "So why are you here in the first place?" Karina tried to calm her nerves and not jump into battle right away, but she wanted to know what was going on, why Lima was rummaging and barely paying mind to them.
As they approached the lab that they tried to face down Nequa, Kiara recognized a familiar figure. Karina snarled a bit as Shiro called out to her. "Shut up old man." Karina demanded of Shiro as Lina pushed passed them, purposely pushing into her shoulder. Summoning her keyblade, Karina faced Lima. "Like I am letting you walk away from this, or run like you did last time. Coward letting everyone else die." A bluff, it was a bluff and she knew it. Karina didn't know what happened to everyone, but she knew that Uniform had gotten out after fleeing into the lab, and he had died now. "Uniform particularly screamed. It was rather fun watching him throwing a fit before he died." Karina taunted her as she prepared for a fight, she was picking a fight. With her keyblade back now, she was looking forward to testing her strength once again.
"I know... I know that being afraid just means that I am letting him win. I didn't want that. I am trying to learn to not let it control me, but it is hard. I look at Torrin and I just can't help but see his face too." It was a hard thing for Tinarah to really explain how she felt about everything. She couldn't really make Take see things from her view. That being said as Take started to come up with some idea for her, Tinarah let out a bit of a snort of surprise and amusement. "I am messed up, but I am not that baaaaa-d." Tinarah replied attempting to make a joke of her own. Still after she said it, her eyes remained mostly down and sad. She was trying but there was only small sparks of life in her soul still. "I don't think imagining him controlled by a goat would help. But I want to learn to see Torrin differently. I don't want to see him as evil as I do, because listening to him earlier I can tell he isn't like that. I hoped staying, helping him here would help me get over things, but I don't know. We will see." Tinarah admitted.
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As Take responded to her, Tinarah bowed her head, trying to hide the tears she could feel pushing against the corners of her eyes. Tinarah did her best to hold them back. Did her best not to sound upset as he spoke. She wasn't upset at Take and wasn't mad at him for making her upset, she could just feel the pressure on herself and the consequences of what she was doing. "I... I don't know what I would do with that information. I guess. I am grasping at straws here Take. I am doing anything I can think of to try and make that Torrin less scary I guess. I don't want to live my life afraid of a man who most likely won't do anything to me, just because somewhere else, in another time he did do something to me. Maybe... Maybe if he loved Mika, maybe if he loved one of my only friends, truly loved her and cared, I could forgive him easier. I don't know. I would have asked her but I can't!" Take then asked if that was what she was doing to her brother, and Tinarah couldn't bring herself to even look at Take. Her eyes remained down and her hands almost shook slightly, causing her to grip on to her glider until her knuckles were white. "I'm sorry. Please...don't leave." She just needed someone there. Too many times did she melt down with Aria and see the girl unable to handle it all and shut down on her. The last thing Tinarah needed right now was to be alone. She needed to figure herself out, but she knew now that she couldn't do that on her own, and right now Take was the person that she could talk to, so she would. Maybe he would be of help, but just being there was enough. She had spent too much time alone with her own thoughts in the prison, now she just ached for company and companionship again. She hadn't had it for months, not truly, and before that years without seeing anyone near her age. Perhaps she was clinging on too much, but at least it was better than pushing everyone away again, or at least she hoped so.
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While Tinarah didn't quite know what she expected, she did know that it wasn't what the reaction that she got. Torrin seemed to take great offense to it and ran off. Tinarah turned back to Take who pulled up beside her. She stared at him for a long moment before thinking of what to say. "I suppose you can say it is an evil Torrin thing.... I mean he was married to her in that realm, but I do also know that some of the emotional things carry over. And you see how Nini acts with him but how he tends to avoid her. There has to be something, I am not sure exactly what it is, but that is why I asked." Tinarah tried to defend herself as she looked over at Torrin. "Honestly... I hoped he would say yes. I mean the other Torrin killed Mika for helping me and maybe if he loved Mika here then I could believe that the other Torrin did at least love her at some point. I don't know. I might not be making sense. I feel like nothing I say makes sense anymore. I was just curious and maybe it was a mistake trying to talk to him. It has been hard for both of us." Tinarah pointed out. She felt like she made a mistake trying to talk to him. She clearly made a mistake with her words and it was not making things easier between the two of them.
There was not much he could do like this, even so Cerdic still struggled against the creature holding him in place, putting his force into struggling and making things difficult on it. "Don't worry about us. there is much more important things to deal with." Cerdic argued. If the machine broke then they would all end up dead at this rate. Perhaps if they could fix what they started though, things wouldn't be nearly as bad for them, or at least Cerdic hoped that would be the case. But if making sure this worked meant leaving himself in harms way, then he would do it, he had no choice but to do it, he was the least important one there and wouldn't let them protect him over what they needed to protect.
Keeping watch off to the side, something of interest was brought up in the conversation with the duck person. Costume people heading into a warehouse. The bowler hat thing seemed weird and off at first, but everything else could be of some help. Even the hats, Torrin brought up something that actually made sense with the hats that they were wearing. Turning away from her watch Tinarah thought to listen in to the rest of the conversation as it seemed that the duck was ready to head out already, in fact he ran off without them. Tinarah prepared to follow but Nini reacting to Torrin caught her attention. Torrin tried to make an excuse for why Nini was mad, but Tinarah just watched him for a minute, listening to him apologize about Mika before taking off, nearly running off it seemed. Summoning her glider, Tinarah rushing to catch up with Torrin. Pulling up beside him, Tinarah willed herself to look over at Torrin as she finally spoke. "You were in love with her weren't you? That is why Nini seems to always want your attention." She had learned enough and seen enough about the mirror realm to know that while motives might not always cross over, feelings, or connections did. She knew that from Stamtatis. She wondered if it was the same for Torrin. It shouldn't have been any of her business, but Mika had been one of Tinarah's closest friends and she just couldn't stop from wondering about it.