Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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Aria half-listened to Koa as she tried to fiddle with the bracelet. Finally, she was able to clasp it on and sighed out with relief. “That strangely makes sense,” Aria said as she shook her wrist out to test out how the bracelet fitted. Satisfied, she nodded her head and glanced around for a hairbrush. Finding one that looked unused on a nightstand, she grabbed it and carefully began to brush out the knots in her hair. “Thank you for staying around to check up on me,” Aria said with a smile as she turned to Koa. “It’s nice to see somewhat of a familiar face around here. I know it’s not fun to babysit, but I appreciate it.”

After getting the knots out of her hair and restyling it, she sat on the edge of the bed and put her shoes back on. “So have you always been alone before meeting the Light Chaser? Or did you have family or friends before all of this mess?” She pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them to her. “You kind of know my story already. I grew up on a farm. I learned some fighting skills from and old sage who lived in the woods close by because we had monsters that would sneak into the farm. I had to leave my mom and dad behind when the Darkness first showed up. Master Choma helped put a stop to it before it got bad... and then I met my teammates Tinnarah and Mika.” She sighed out and then lowered one leg to let it dangle off the bed. “So that’s kind of my story in a nutshell. What’s yours?”

 

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He wasn't given the most satisfactory of answers, but it was about what he expected. At the very least he knew what Torrin was looking for, plus the was that he was quick to change the subject only made Chrono more curious as to what else was the connection between him and the Light Chaser was. Nodding at the brief explanation of the next world, Chrono replied with a "I'll keep that in mind." Before heading back to where Atmos and the others were.

 

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Take tried his best to cast aside his worries over whether or not this was going to work. He figured it'd be best if he just focused on the task at hand. When they ported, he felt the swaying of the ship. An unfamiliar sensation that almost made him dizzy on the spot. But once he looked up towards the sky, an almost child-like wonder filled his eyes as he saw... well, the colorful space around them as they sailed. Take walked a few steps forward, softly. Like he was trying to not put any weight down to alert and potential enemies as he looked out the starboard and port. He made sure to try and keep himself calm, but he was actually kind of excited over it. Take opened up his mouth and said, "This is so cool... oh man..." Take looked at the rest of his team and raised his hand up towards the sky in disbelief as he asked, "Do you guys see this? This is beautiful." He was doing his best to keep quiet but his astonishment was not easily hid.

 

"Speaking of your friends..." Chrys made herself known as she walked to Zeno's side. "Hello Torrin." She greeted. "It's been quite a long time, hasn't it?" She turned her attention to the woman at his side. "...And this must be Master Atmos. So it's true." She observed the two masters silently, noting their drawn weapons. "You don't look very happy to see us." Her voice gave off an almost sad sort of air. An air she quickly buried.

"Come now, what has you so on edge? Zeno and I came here specifically to greet you." She gave a playful, taunting, sort of wink towards the male master. "Didn't you miss me?" Normally such mockery was not something she made time to do, but... well Torrin had been a special case for a good time now. "I hope we aren't getting in the way of anything, it's just... well like Zeno said: We wanted to have fun with you like old times. I mean, I don't see why you should have such a problem with it, after all..." Her gaze quickly turned from mocking to a hurt sort of menacing.

"You've always been so fond of throwing these little 'parties.'"​

 

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She was half-expecting not to get an answer from Koa and was surprised when he gave her a brief summary as well. Aria’s eyes softened when he explained about his past, and losing a sibling to the chaos of the darkness. “I’m sorry... about your sister.” She stood from the bed and stretched her arms above her head. “I’m sure she’s out there, somewhere. Mika had lost her memories before she came to the castle. I bet someone was looking for her too.” She stretched one arm at a time across her body before rolling her shoulders and then offered Koa a smile. “We’ll get strong enough to get rid of this darkness once and for all. But first... um...” Her stomach growled and she smiled sheepishly. “Is there anything around here to eat? I’m kind of famished.”

 

The Night Before​

Parting from the group, Glyde stepped outside of the lodging, calling forth his Keyblade as he crossed through the threshold of the doorway. Shutting the door behind his exit, he paced some ten or more yards from the house, eyes peeled for something in particular. He stopped as soon as he found that something: a lone rock, jutted out from the ground, not too small, but not quite large either. Perfect, he told himself. He cast a glance back over his shoulder towards the house, wherein lights were dimming and darkening entirely as Master Atmos and the others began bedding down.

Certain that he wouldn't be interrupted, he returned to the rock, setting his undivided attention on it. He raised his Keyblade, leveling it with his eyes. Like a marksman at a range, he squared his sight along the length of his Kyeblade's 'barrel,' carefully setting the approximate center of the rock squarely into his aim. Let's see now. The instruction was clear enough; all it took was concentrating his power and channeling it through his Keyblade... But that was all in theory. He had to practice it for himself at least once to be sure it would work. It would be embarrassing to try it in a battle only for it to not work as expected.

After almost a full minute of intensive willpower, he felt a strange sensation, that of energy moving through and from his arm and hand, and into his Keyblade. With more force than expected, this mass of energy released from the Keyblade as an orb-like manifestation, which slammed with breaking impact against the stone. Could use work; but it'll do.

Feeling strangely winded from the endeavor, Glyde trekked back to the lodging. Silently making his way in, he found a cot tucked into a comfortable corner. In moments, he was lost in a deep sleep...

Morning
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The waking hour came about as suddenly to Glyde as sleep had the night before. Like the fatigue he had felt from his trial of magic hours before, the manner of his waking was strange as waking went. Often, it would be from the strength of a frenzied dream, or the piercing of a light, natural or otherwise, cutting into his eyes that he would awaken. This morning, it was the rare ocassion of being pulled from sleep by the almost synergistic awareness to the waking of others around him.

As if feeling the stirring from his companions, the Master, or Torrin, Glyde too rejoined the waking world. However he did not spring from his bedding immediately, preferring to spend what remaining time he could as relaxed as he could; the day ahead would be stressful enough to warrant that. It would only be from overhearing the conversations of other rooms escalating through the morning hours that he would remove his covers and convene with the others. He would arrive, still putting down the rest of what he had scraped out of the remains of breakfast, just in time to bid farewell to Master Atmos, and move headlong through her portal into yet another world.

It was still a new experience for him, traveling by way of portals such as that. When he emerged at the other end, he felt slightly dazed, as though he'd be spun around for some time. When he came back to his senses, he would join in Take's bewilderment. He peered anxiously through the gaps in the ship's hull, across the star-studded horizon outside. "Let's just hope we don't get kicked out of this place," he mentioned, remembering the initial hostilities of the natives of Atlantis.

 

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Aria happily followed Koa downstairs for breakfast. She almost, almost forgot she was caught up in this whole mess with how normal this morning seemed to be going verses yesterday. When they reached downstairs, Aria was greeted by the pleasant smell of breakfast, and lots of it. Her eyes widened as she took a second look and her mouth began to water. “W-wow! I hadn’t had seen this much food since... I don’t know when. Do you guys eat like this everyday?”

She grabbed a plate and began to help herself to some pumpkin bread, some fruit, and then made a beautiful mini mountain of two waffles with peanut butter on them, drizzled in syrup. Deciding to balance out the sugar, she took a couple of sausages and pieces of baccon. She found a place to sit, and then went back to find some hot chocolate already warmed in a container. After grabbing a mug and filling it up, she carefully hurried back over to her spot and had a seat.

She smiled and wiggled in her seat happily, only to look down and see all the breakfast she grabbed. “Whoops... I think my eyes are bigger than my stomach.” She giggled nervously, and waited for Koa to sit down before digging in. She couldn’t remember the last time she ate, and all this meal was such a good idea right now. “Gees this is a lot of food.”

 

Chrys covered her eyes as the fire spell exploded in front of their faces. She immediately turned behind her, not even really waiting for the smoke to clear. Her decision was well made, as it allowed her to avoid a thunder spell from Master Atmos. Chrys was far too used to Torrin's trickery to fall for such a basic diversion; or at least coming from him. However, a quick scan of the surroundings revealed that only the female master remained.

Her enemy was gone.

As Atmos cast Aero on herself, Chrys slowly clenched her hands into two tight fist. Though her face betrayed no emotion, she was inwardly seething. As much as she wished to attribute his sudden absence to cowardice, she knew better: he wouldn't have come simply to run away. He had a purpose, and Atmos was likely here to distract her and the others in the meantime. Perhaps he was off looking for something? Or someone?

Aria.

Chrys wanted to rush off to defend the other girl immediately, but she knew getting away from Atmos wasn't likely to be easy. She was going to have to fight.

Atmos' Aero spell meant that she would have greater agility, and while the boon was one that would annoy Chrys to no end, she knew that the woman would doubtless have other tricks up her sleeve. Which meant that it was best for Chrys if she saved her own for the time being. With a flick of her wrist, Chrys summoned the Forgotten Flower and charged toward Mater Atmos. With no hesitation she slashed at the woman's torso. If she was lucky, Zeno would recover quickly from the Thunder spell and be able to use the distraction to slip away as Torrin had. ​

 

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Aria hummed out a reply to Koa’s request, and ate a little slower. She was rather enjoying herself at the moment, happy to finally have her stomach full and have some normalcy. She gave up trying to make sense of it all, figuring that things would work out themselves as the Light Chaser hinted it would. She didn’t have any knowledge or skills to get herself out of this world, and thus was forced to rely on the people around her. Instead of focusing on the negativity of it though, Aria decided to roll with it and handled what she could when the opportunity would present itself. She wanted to talk to Koa more, but she figured he was distracted and wasn’t fond of hanging out with her at the moment for some reason. She would have to ask Master Choma or Master Atmos what their definition of a Princess of Light was, but that would come in time.

The low rumbles of a conflict not far away met Aria’s ears. She paused when the lights seemed to flicker and the building shook. Blinking a moment, her eyes looked to the window and she saw the flashes of lights just in time. “Welp, I guess normalcy and breakfast are over,” she mumbled to herself. She remembered her manners and wiped her mouth before looking to Koa. “What’s going on? I thought we took care of the rest of the darkness in the world. Is there another one of dark monsters?” She asked as she stood up and walked to the window

 

Unfortunately for Chrys, she was unable to avoid the blizzard spell, despite her best efforts. With one foot now stuck in the newly formed ice, she began to swing at it with her keyblade. The ice was surprisingly resilient however, and didn't break as quickly as she would have hoped. Her strikes only seemed to chip away at it, rather than shatter it. Zeno had distracted Atmos for the time being, but unfortunately he wasn't really doing any better than her when it came to actually hitting the master. As she had figured, the aero spell was quite the obstacle already. Despite that, she didn't want to risk using her trump card so early in the fight... that didn't mean she didn't have some kind of counter though.

The thunder was knocking down the lamp posts in the area. Excellent. If she was lucky...

Chrys moved to the side to avoid the metal pole that she had spotted collapsing toward her. She managed to position herself in just such a way that the post fell near enough to her trapped foot. It was in the aftermath that she quickly pulled her now incredibly chilly foot from the shattered remains of Master Atmos' spell. Double checking to make sure she was still unnoticed, Chrys quickly cast an aero of her own.

Whilst Master Atmos was busy smirking at her partner, Chrys was speeding up behind her with Forgotten Flower in reverse grip, leaping up in preparation of a blitz attack.​

 

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A ship was by no means the first place that Chrono thought that they would end up at and the surprise continued upon looking up. They were right underneath the stars, like much closer than he had even been before. Suddenly what Torrin had told him before they set off was starting to make a lot more sense. This whole thing was pretty cool to look at. "We should be fine as long as they don't think we're hostile." Unlike last time with the Atlantians, there was no heartless around for the to fight and thus reveal that they were, in fact, well armed. If they could keep it that way, then perhaps they wouldn't try to throw them overboard.

 

Illiana went through the portal, only to find herself on a ship. She looked around before immediately sat down somewhere, gripping her umbrella for dear life. Seeing the group look at the view from the ship, Illiana remained where she was. From what she had heard, the view was beautiful or breath-taking. She didn't dare to move from where she sat. "That's great. Fantastic even. I'll take your word for it guys. I'll just be over here if you need me." Illiana continuing gripping her umbrella. Unfortunately, Illiana was not a huge fan of ships or heights for that matter, however, she wasn't going to let Chrono, Glyde, or Take know that. "Next question...just where exactly are we and where is this ship even heading?" Illiana spoke out to the group with the two major questions on her mind.

 

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Everything turned from peaceful to chaotic in under ten seconds flat. She watched with wide eyes as someone she never seen before was thrown through the window. Obviously this new guy that hopped through the window was angry about... Tinarah.

Seeing Koa being threatened, and seeing the other unconscious teen lying on the floor in bad shape, something burned within Aria. She knew she didn’t stand a chance, but it was a big misunderstanding, right? She had to do something.

In a flash of light, Aria summoned her keyblade and stepped in front of Koa in a defensive position. She felt scared, but she wasn’t going to back down easily. She glared at the newcomer as her heart thudded in her ears. “Tinarah’s not here anymore,” Aria started. “He brought her here to heal her or something, and wanted to show her I was okay because I got swallowed up in the darkness here when everything went down. I couldn’t leave because this world would have fallen apart and been swarmed by the darkness. After that, the Light Chaser made a portal and returned her to my friends...” As she was speaking, something wasn’t quite adding up in her head. If this guy was here looking for her teammate...

She looked over at Koa a moment, trying to make sense of everything. “Right...? He showed me she was with her brother again. She was taken back to Master Choma and Master Atmos, yes?”

Her eyes darted back to the powerful stranger as facts were beginning to conflict with one another. Aria was beginning to have a sinking feeling this was not true... was her intuition not to trust the Light Chaser on the mark after all...?

 

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Take paused, looking over at the... he assumed cabin boy because of the way he was cleaning the ship and Take looked around and said, "I feel like it'd end badly for us if we didn't let our presence be known to whoever was in charge... maybe we should try to go about this without alerting any of the crew?" Take seemed to be fairly knowledgeable about ships, which might seem odd, but when he was training with Atmos he found himself stopping to read to learn more about other world's military strategies and that's when he learned about boats. He didn't necessarily know everything, hell he dared say he didn't know most things, but that didn't mean he didn't at least feel confident enough to try and get to the Captain and alert them before they were automatically thrown overboard. He looked around for perhaps a captain's cabin or something and looked towards Chrono, "Any ideas?"

 

As Illiana remained where sat, she heard voices nearby and it sounded like it was an angered conversation. Would she dare to listen in on the conversation? After the ship slightly rocked, she decided not to move. However, her curiosity was yelling at her to investigate. She stood up from where she was and walked around the stairwell leading to the deck to the source of the noise. Illiana looked into the room and saw what appeared to be the crewman of the ship. "Well then. This is another thing to add to the list." She whispered to herself before continuing to look around the room. A cyborg, an angry crab man thing, and other weird creatures were conversing within the room. "What kind of world did the Master place us in?" She whispered once more as she continued watching the crewmen converse.