Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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The takeoff to get out of there went about as well as the boy was expecting it to go, and he had his keyblade at the ready in case any heartless decided to become stowaways in their escape. But with all the debris falling and world falling apart, it became clear it would probably be better to focus on the safety of everyone else. When Silver jumped on top of Jim as it got worse, Take was ready to shield his head when he watched a large piece falling straight for Illiana, and since other pieces were falling and it wasn't in her field of view, he was worried she wasn't going to react in time. The boy quickly ran over shouting, "Illiana, look out!" but he realized his shouting was probably more of a distraction so he took a bit of a risk and pushed Illiana out of the way forwards and onto the ground. When the debris looked like it was clearing, the boy tried to stand up to stabilize himself, but for his trouble, Takehiko was blasted back and disoriented when he hit the wall. It took seconds for the cannon to end up falling and rolling quickly onto Take's hand.

The boy let out a pained yell as he used all his strength to keep the cannon from rolling any further onto him, while also in the midst of feeling excruciating pain. Then the group made out of the core. For a brief moment, everything felt still, until the shockwave came and pushed the cannon further in to about Take's wrist and another piece fell onto his chest, pinning the boy down. He was worried for his life he was going to get crushed.

But once the ship stilled again, he gasped out a bit and pushed the stuff off of his chest with his free arm and tried to push the cannon off. His arm felt a pain he had never felt before in his life but he had a pretty good feeling his hand and wrist were broken. Cause he couldn't feel his hand at all. The only pain was in his arm above that part. But he couldn't push it off. He felt slightly panicked and tried to push it off and wasn't succeeding at it and finally managed out pained, "S-Someone help me!"

 

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Aria struggled to hold on as the ship lurched back and forth during the explosion. The heat was immense, and even her bracelet couldn’t shield her from that. Shrapnel fell all around, some bouncing off of Aria’s light bubble. She held on as tight as she could to something stable, closing her eyes tightly as she braced herself for the worse. She felt the final wave rattle her bones and she instinctively held onto the bag where Nini was. She felt a form of a cat in there, and clutched it to her body while using the other arm to brace herself the best she could. Soon, it was over, and Aria felt herself breathing heavily and shaking. She opened her eyes and let go of the edge, realizing she could have been thrown off but grateful that didn’t happen. She stood up and was about to ask if everyone was alright, when she heard Take shout out.

Aria’s head whipped around, eyes landing on the boy. He was stuck, a cannon pinning his arm and debris on top of his body. The girl gasped and stumbled towards him. “Take!!! H-hang on! I got you!” She grabbed the larger pieces and hoisted them to the side before assessing the situation with the cannon. “Alright, just lemme get over here...”

Aria moved swiftly to the other side of the cannon and awkwardly placed her hands on either side of it, making sure not to bump Take’s arm. She grunted as she tried to push it off, but to no avail. It was simply too heavy to be moved in that manner. Aria then thought of an idea and climbed ontop of the cannon, digging the soles of her shoes into the edges at the end and bracing her back against the wall. She then forced her legs to push it forward with her back and arms bracing her upper body against the wall, and gritted her teeth hard as she pushed with all her might. She then felt it shifting under her legs and glanced down to see it moving agonizingly forward. Soon it was enough and she gasped out, “Move! Hurry!” Her legs were shaking and her muscles were screaming at her that it couldn’t hold out like this for much longer. Aria grew up on a farm and had helped out with things that required brute, manual labor, but not too often. Still, she had to stay physically fit. And even with the easy going training with Master Choma, she always found ways to excercise and build her strength.

 

Within the castle, Qamar was sitting down, left leg crossed over the other as she waited for Master Aster. Her own Master Kide was off doing his own business, as usual. She knew better to not disturb him unless it was something important. Honestly, Qamar still couldn't understand why Kide was like that, but at least she didn't have to worry about him bothering her. Qamar preferred to stay to herself most of the time, but that didn't mean she couldn't empathize with others. It just made it easier when she knew she'd probably lose that person soon anyway. That was just the way it was. These keyblades were weapons of war, after all, and she was training to fight. Training to win. Training to be the very best, no matter what happened.

Looking up, she looked at the older man in the room. Adalric was on his own, not really talking to Qamar. She didn't blame him, that was just the way he was. For the time she's known him, he's not really been the type to talk a lot. In fact, she'd call them fairly closer to acquaintance than friends. Their Master's all knew each other, so of course they'd know each other. In any case, Qamar looked at Adalric and chuckled. "Are ya nervous? Gonna s*** yourself because because we've been summoned to meet some mysterious peoples?" she asked, not really expecting a response.

Before Adalric even gave her a response, Master Aster had approached them and told them it was time to meet their visitors. Qaram rose and bowed to Aster. "Yes ma'am." she said, glancing at Adalric one last time before following behind Aster. They approached the large door and opened it. Pink light flowed in and reminded Qamar how close to evening it was.

As soon as they started to head down the steps, she watched one girl with blonde hair fall to her knees. Obviously she was exhausted and that caused Qamar to tsk. “Could’ve at least lasted longer…” she muttered to herself. That was when she eyed the rest of the group.

A tall guy in armor. Looked full of himself to Qamar. Probably was gonna be a problematic guy with the way he was acting. He seemed to care too much about other things and not about the girl who was clearly passed out nearby. “He looks pompous.” she commented a little louder, but still trying not to let the others hear her.

Then there was this woman. Her hair was a lot blonder than the knocked out girl. Her eyes were even far more piercing. Qamar was confused why a woman like that was hanging around a bunch of kids. To Qamar, this woman seemed to be older than the rest. Maybe she was wrong though, who knows. “Is...is that woman like….40…?” she asked herself, tilting her head as they were nearing the bottom of the steps. Qamar could have sworn she heard of this woman before, however, she just couldn’t put a name to the face.

Suddenly it donged on Qamar. “Holy crap, she looks like Master Aster.” Qamar said, nudging Adalric. “Look at em!” She just couldn’t believe it. As far as she knew, Aster mentioned siblings, but she never knew she’d ever meet them.

Apparently this twin of Aster’s was trying to tell this other boy with white hair where they were. Qamar really didn’t want to be here right now, what with the way they were arguing and not wanting to really listen to Master Aster, who was trying to introduce the two students. Clearly the white haired boy was not having any of this.

“What did you get yourself involved in, my sister?” Qamar heard Aster say. “Oh lord they really are related.” Qamar rolled her eyes, crossing her arms. She stood there, clearly bored of all of this as Aster continued, talking about Stamatis. He was probably one of her more favorite Master’s, even if in the end she was chosen by Master Kide, that didn’t stop her from at least being friendly with that other Masters. She knew he went out on a mission and that reminded Qamar about the shape he came back in. To which Qamar shrugged it off and looked at Torrin. Master Gero coming back did indeed surprise everyone. Especially since he had apparently died.

Thank god Master Aster was steering the questions away from that. Finally the white haired boy spoke up and obviously was upset that everyone here was supposedly ‘sitting on their hands’ while his little ragtag group played around and went to other worlds, pretending to be heroes. Qamar couldn’t help but chuckle at him talking about nearly dying. “Did he think it was supposed to be a pleasure cruise?” she thought to herself.

Master Aster quickly tried to cut the boy off. His name was Torrin. It seemed Aster knew exactly how Qamar was feeling and that caused the girl to chuckle once more. He was being far too childish and honestly, Qamar was surprised by this. For a guy who was clearly so battle-hardened and having seen people die and worlds destroyed, he clearly couldn’t control his anger.

Atmos spoke of this girl who was on the ground. Her name was Tinarah, apparently. Aster agreed to give the girl accommodations. Qamar finally stretched and stepped forward. “Thank you Master Aster for introducing us. I’d like to first get a few things off my chest. First things first, get off your damn high horse, boy. Clearly you haven’t seen enough worlds destroyed and enough people dead because of all of this. And clearly your master ain’t taught you nothing. So, I’d like you to sit down and rest. All of you need to calm down and rest. No, we haven’t been just sitting on our hands and waiting. Nope. Not at all. We’ve been training to be the ones who come in and take over for your sorry a**es when you couldn’t get the job done right. And obviously, that’s what’s going on here.”

Qamar approached Torrin and looked at him in the eyes. “So, you gonna listen to Master Aster and calm down or am I gonna have to beat some sense into you?” she asked, at eye level with Torrin due to her shoes adding height. Qamar was easily 6 foot now due to the added height. She was 5’10 normally.​

 

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When Aria had gotten her grip on the cannon and managed to pull it up on her own at that point, Take quickly rushed himself to get out from under it and felt the pain shoot up his arm once more. He grabbed at his arm and held it too his chest and breathed in sharply and asked, "Thank you... D-Did everyone make it out?" he went to stand himself up carefully, centering his weight so he wouldn't fall over as he stood up. He wouldn't admit he was holding back tears at this point, but he looked down at his arm and tried to will his hand to move. Nothing was happening. It didn't look like his hand exactly took the cannon well either, and on his good hand of all things. He pulled his keyblade out to heal himself, but all he managed was to heal some of his cuts and scrapes. His arm wasn't coming back that easily. There was a sudden moment of rage that overcame the boy over the scenario, he should have been able to have prevented this, he was basically created to take a hit, and he couldn't even do that properly. Take threw his keyblade at the ground, fortunately for the floor the keyblade disappeared into light before it had the chance to do damage. Take balled up his right hand into a fist, visibly upset but trying to hide it. Though the keyblade throwing might have already ruined that pretense.

 

Glyde boarded the ship as quickly as he could without pushing anyone out of his way. Knowing, this time, that he would little to no time to secure himself safely, he did the next best thing: crouching low, bracing himself against rushing take off and grabbing hold of whatever he could find that didn't seem movable. Despite these precautions, he was still lurched about between the velocity of the vessel and the shockwaves from the explosions outside.

When the ship made its final escape from the bursting planet, Glyde found himself rained upon by debris from the explosion and loose pieces from the ship itself. He fell back hard against the deck, narrowly avoiding scraps of metal shrapnel. Landing backside down, he stayed lying until the commotion was, mostly, concluded.

When he pulled back up, his first sight was that of Aria pushing a canon off of Take. She had made quick work of getting him out from underneath, and quite the job of holding on long enough for him to escape.

Glyde climbed to a stand, and maneuvered towards the pair. "You've definitely seen better days," he said, watching Take's injured hand as he cast a relatively fruitless Cure on it. "Maybe second one will do more?" Glyde suggested, taking the liberty of casting another Cure to broken limb. "If that doesn't help any, you'll probably need a splint." He looked around for Jim or the Captain. "We have a medical supplies on this ship?" Might need to improvise one.

"Are you alright?" he added, poking his head around to Aria.

 

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As soon as she saw Take stumble away, Aria yelled and let the cannon fall back in place. She stood there ontop a moment longer, panting a thin sheen of sweat appeared on her brow. Aria hit her head softly on the back of the wood as she realized the feat she just pulled. She was just grateful she had enough strength to help in a dire situation. Gradually, she sat down on top of the cannon and slid off, her legs trembling under her as she caught her weight, nearly buckling.

“Whoops...” She caught herself on the side of the cannon and took in a few deep breaths to regain her composure before assessing everyone else. She saw Take’s keyblade get thrown and Glyde was over by Take’s side, which Glyde looked a little shaken himself. Everyone was tired, bruised, and beaten from the battle... except her. She hardly left without a scratch. She stared at the Light Chaser’s bracelet on her wrist, tightening her hand in a fist and looked up in the sky. It was a blessing, but she felt like she was taking an easy way out and cheating constantly.

Done feeling bad for herself for that brief moment, Aria pushed herself off of the cannon and summoned her own keyblade. She casted cure on Glye and Take (knowing it probably wasn’t going to help much, but maybe lessen the pain) and a few other party members before letting it disappear and moving over to Take’s new good side. “Come on,” she spoke softly to him as she carefully placed a hand on the non-injured one. “Let’s go sit down,” she coaxed, being wary of his frustration. “The less we move, the better it’ll be.” She wished she would’ve moved fast enough to at least move Take out of the way or something, or at least be more aware something was happening. But what was done was done. Now was the time to figure out how to handle things and move on.

Aria glanced at the mangled hand and winced in sympathy. She helped him over to a crate that somehow lived through the ordeal. “Sit,” she ushered. When Glyde suggested a splint, Aria first made sure Take would be okay on his own before moving away and picking up various pieces of wood. There was no way a med kit would have survived on this old thing for so long. Once she found two of them not so splintered and small enough, she held them out to Glyde. “These okay? I believe I have an extra clean shirt in my bag I can rip up and wrap around them to make them more cushioning.”

She then looked for her Master, swivling her head around. “Master Choma?” She needed more of an expert to look at Take’s hand. She didn’t want to injure it further by trying anything other than cure.

 

Illiana watched on as Bright Eyes disintegrated and fall back until it was no longer seen. "Your greed was your own undoing in the end." Illiana turned around as she walked away and toward the ship. As Illiana was making her way, it had appeared that Jim recovered B.E.N.'s lost memory. As she looked up, B.E.N.'s voice had carried a tone of terror. Confused as to what was going on, B.E.N exclaimed, "Flint wanted to make sure...that nobody could ever steal his treasure...so he rigged this whole planet to blow higher than a Kalepsian kite!" Her eyes widen as B.E.N. notified everyone. Silver had immediately told the group to get to the ship. She shrugged her shoulders before speaking. "No need to me twice!" Illiana started running over to the ship before turning her head toward Take. "Well of course there's gonna be explosions. What else were you expecting? Whales?" Illiana jumped onto the boat as Aria turned to her. "Way to finish off that last one!" She pushed a strand of her hair away from her face before turning her head to Aria. "It was his greed that ended him. I was merely the Reaper to deliver him his death. Besides, I tend to hold grudges and when I do....well...You've already seen what happens." She smiled but that smile was not a smile of joy but had a hidden evil lying under it.

It wasn't before long that the ship started up. Illiana looked around and saw debris falling everywhere. More debris fell, the closer the ship got to the portal. It wasn't before long that debris had found its way onto the ship. She felt an engine burst beneath the group with all the flaming debris hitting the ship. Silver had immediately covered Jim from the falling debris as she looked up, a large piece was headed straight for her. Illiana's eyes widen and she could barely move. "Illiana, look out!!" Her eyes widen once more before she felt her body be pushed. She looked over to where she was standing before, only to see Take right where she was. She fell to the ground and saw Take get blasted back toward the wall. Illiana got up on her elbows and saw the cannon roll over Take's hand. As they got out of the core, another piece had landed on his chest. Take had immediately called for help. Aria and Glyde immediately ran over to help him and provide medical attention.

Illiana stood up and stood there in disbelief. She didn't know how to process everything that had occurred. She continued to stand in the same spot for several minutes before opening her umbrella. She immediately grabbed a jar with several plant roots in it. She had then proceeded to cut up part of a root from her jar. After several minutes, Illiana put out a table and placed 6 cups of tea on it. She walked over to the three with cups in her hands. She placed two of them near Glyde and Aria and held out the third to Take. "Don't worry it's not poison. I may be cold but I'm not that cold." Illiana placed it besides Take. She waited for a moment before continuing. "I'm no herbalist but this is suppose to help with pain. It's Valerian root...so drink up." Illiana crossed her arms and turned her head away.

 

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Take was surprised and a bit overwhelmed by all the sudden help he got. Glyde had thrown in a second cure to help but it really didn't do much to help with the breaking and just made the other wounds far less noticeable. Aria trying to help him out was appreciated and he hoped she'd start taking care of her own wounds once he'd sat down, but she was trying to make a makeshift splint up until the point Choma stopped her. But before that even happened, Illiana had handed him over a tea. He really wasn't expecting tea to help very quickly, but he did accept it and tried to sip it until Choma basically pulled the all stop on all of that and began working on helping out Take's hand himself.

Take could deal with the pain if it meant it was going to help him heal faster, so for most of the process, Take's eyes were closed to try and keep himself calm externally until all the work was finally done. The boy appreciated it but he didn't like how inconvenient this was going to be. He took a deep breath and went to grab and sip at the rest of Illiana's tea. He made a face because it smelled bad but he did quickly drink it down before managing out, "Th-thank you guys..." he grabbed his newly compressed hand and repeated, "Thank you so much."

 

Illiana watched on as Choma's cloth wrap around Take's hand. He then spoke out to the group saying how proud Atmos would be of her students. Illiana nodded her head as another blank expression was casted on her face. As Take took a sip of his tea, she could see the look of disgust that was on his face as he smelled it. "If you don't like it, you don't have to drink-" The next minute, Take had gulped down his tea. Her eyes widen before quickly returning it to normal. He then began saying his thank yous. Illiana nodded before looking away. She grabbed her left elbow with her right arm going across her body. After a few moments, she spoke out. "Consider it my thanks for earlier. Thank you for helping me. Just focus on getting better. It's gonna get annoying if it doesn't heal." Illiana lifted up her umbrella as she rested it on her shoulder.

 

Adalric waited silently with his fellow apprentice for Master Aster to come and retrieve them. Apparently, they would be receiving guests shortly and the two of them were to accompany his master to greet them. He bit his thumb in anticipation, and didn't pay Qamar much mind when she let out one of her usual rude comments. That was the way she was, and he'd grown accustomed to it.

Finally, the blonde woman who had trained him for several years now came to fetch them. Silently, he followed her to the gate. Nearly as soon as they'd arrived, a blonde girl collapsed, seemingly weak from exhaustion. Adalric's eyes widened as he watched her lay there. Everyone else made small note of it, but otherwise simply carried on. He looked to each individual and then back to her with a concerned and confused look on his face, as though to confirm no one else was going to do anything about it.

He rushed forward after a moment, checking to see if she was breathing. Upon closer inspection, the girl was barely conscious. He looked around once more before steeling himself and muttering several apologies under his breath as he tried to determine the least intrusive way to pick her up.

Meanwhile, and argument had begun to break out between Qamar and one of the newcomers. He stood up, Tinarah in his arms. "Qamar, please. I understand his words are harsh but they've clearly come from unknown circumstances. At least try to be civil." He turned on his heel to face the man she argued with and bowed his head slightly "Please, do forgive her. I'm terribly sorry." He said in a meek tone as though he'd been asking forgiveness for one of his own transgressions. "Master, where should I bring her?" He asked, almost in a cry for help. ​

 

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"Ya know, Master Choma. I really truly appreciate the gesture. But do you think maybe we could have waited until after we left this world to teach that move?" Take gestured to his hand a bit sluggishly and said, "Unless you enjoy adding insult to injury, in which case... who hurt you?"
"Better to learn it now and be ready to use it later than wait for something else to rear its ugly head before I get another chance to teach you."

Take raised an eyebrow and asked, "So what you're saying is... you could have taught us sooner but things reared their ugly head?"
"Yes. There wasn't time sooner."

Take opened his mouth to respond, but he just kind of gave up looking a bit upset before he stood himself up. He felt very sleepy, in kind of the numb healing sort of way, which was better than the exhausted overworked sort of way. He walked his way over towards Silver and Jim and looked up towards them, "Well, that was... fun. A little bumpy, a lot more hits to head than I would have liked, but still fun. We've all gotta head off now though, our weapons call us somewhere else. Still... I'm gonna miss you two. Thanks for the help, I wish you the best... good luck with court though, Captain." he spoke slightly mockingly as he eyed Silver, though it was obvious it was meant more as a jest than anything else.

 

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Aria took the tea and sat down by Take after Choma fixed him up. The makeshift sticks were cast aside, and she was grateful that a master was here to solve the problem... at least for now. She was about to drink the tea, when a strange smell hit her nose. It smelled... like something rotten. She made a face, and realized Illiana was probably watching, and then glanced to Take drinking it all. She took a test sip of it, and immediately straightened. Wait a minute... I know this... She looked at Take and opened her mouth to stop him, but apparently he drank it all. She blinked at him, realizing what was going to happen to him. Yeah, I'm gonna keep an eye on him. Aria had Valerian tea all the time as a kid when the nightmares plagued her too much. It smelled nasty, but it did help her ease back to sleep sometimes. And with the state Take was in, she was expecting him to pass out shortly.

Not wanting to offend Illiana, Aria turned around on the crate to face her back towards the group, and made it look like she was drinking the tea before leaning forward and seeing a hole in the ship. Quickly she dumped the contents down and circled around, sitting with a sheepish smile and the teacup in her hands. "Mmm, lovely tea," she commented as she stood up and handed the cup to Illiana. "Thank yoooou...."

She then heard what Choma had said about Dodge Roll, and cringed at how ironic that was, given the recent situations. She was glad things were over though. She sighed out, and then reached in to her bag and flipped open the flap. Nini meowed at her and hopped out on the deck, kicking her feet at Aria in contempt for making the bag less roomy, and then padded over to Take. The cat sat on her bottom and stared up at Take, tilting her head before standing up and rubbing herself against his leg, purring loudly. She missed the boy, and she sensed he was badly hurt and wanted to make it better again.

Aria smiled at the cat, and then reached for two leather bracelets. She made them the night before the mutiny, after making hot chocolate and defeating the Demon Tower. She approached Jim and Silver after Take said his goodbyes, clearing her throat and smiling sheepishly to them. "I wanted to give you guys something." She held out the bracelets, one being for Jim and one being for Silver. "I had this silly thing with my best friend... We made friendship bracelets with each other so if we ever got separated, we'd remember each other. And... I feel like you two became my friends over this short stay with you... Even you, Silver." She smiled at the pirate. "You weren't all bad as you were trying to be." She then looked to Jim and nodded. "I hope after this, things will finally start turning around for you. I learned a lot from you, and you helped me realize a few things. So... thank you." She wanted to give them a hug, but she didn't know how they would feel about it and instead offered with her hands to put on the bracelets if they would accept it.

Spoiler: Silly thing

ooc:// Silver will be like

 

Illiana nodded as she listened to Choma. Deciding whether to deliver her goodbyes or not, Illiana looked over to where Take was and immediately saw Aria immediately dumped the freshly brewed tea she had made. Her eye had twitched a bit at the sight. A blank expression ran across face, an unreadable one at that. "Mmm, lovely tea...Thank yooouuu." Catching Aria off guard, Illiana had immediately stood in front of her. "........." Silence ran between the two. After several moments, Illiana broke the silence. "Either drink the tea, save it for later, or put back in the teapot. I have a limited supply of that particular root and I'm not particularly fond for wasting things." She grabbed Aria's cup and walked away. After a couple of steps, she turned her head back. "Do that again and I'll show you the consequences of what happens when you go wasting things. So I would suggest not doing that again.." Illiana placed the tea cups back into a box and back in her umbrella. She then placed the remaining tea in an empty jar and placed the remaining things back in her umbrella. She closed her umbrella and then walked over to B.E.N. "Congrats on getting your memory back. Keep them safe alright. I don't know if Jim or anyone else will be there should you lose it again....So be careful." She scratched her head before continuing. "Can't say it's been fun but I appreciate the hospitality you showed us earlier." Illiana then patted B.E.N.'s head before walking off. As she walked, she pushed her right hand off her head and waved before placing her hand back on her umbrella.

 

"Avra!" Chrys delivered a few quick strikes to the enemy before retreating to her companion's side. Casting cure once more, Chrys silently lamented that her magic had already been depleted. "This isn't working: We need to try playing the long game. Keep your guard up.
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AP: 40/54
MP: 0/40

 

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"There likely would've been time if you taught us before you left." Overhearing Take's and Master Choma's little exchange, Chrono muttered that to himself. Of course something like that could've also been taught to them by Master Atmos so it wasn't like he was completely at fault there. There wasn't much that could've been done about that right now. "Good luck with everything Jim."

 

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The events aboard the ship winding down, Glyde eased a bit. Shaking himself loose he found a seat upon an overturned wooden crate, and began drinking a serving of tea. He remained silent, but engaged in the exchanges around him.

When the time came for the Keybearers to depart to their next task, he finished the last of his beverage, and got back to his feet. Crossing over towards Jim, he looked the cabin boy in the eye with sincere expression. "I hope everything works out for you." He turned to Silver, grinned, and said, "keep yourself out of the brig, lad."

He turned back towards Master Choma, and walked over to join him. "I'm good to go whenever everyone else is."

 

Boreas looked around the steps only realising too late that Tinarah slipped from his grasp. He quickly knelt beside her and checked she was still with them, but only barely. "Sorry for that." Boreas said, he felt a little bad dropping her like that. "Hey Torrin give me a hand would you?" He asked his friend. According to Atmos this was the Castle of the Council, when the other person looking a lot like Atmos appeared. Boreas remained at Tinarahs side as Aster explained and then he clued in a council of masters, they had been hiding instead of commiting all their might to the fight against the Light Chaser and he felt his anger rising at the thought. Torrin seemed to feel the same way as Aster asked what her sister had gotten involved in and stood up from kneeling beside Tinarah, she'd be alright she just needed to rest and recover her strength. "I guess you don't know what happens out in the wider world when you are hiding under a rock, we're waging a war if you missed the memo, your war mind you." Boreas said rather angrily, he was angry at the fact that maybe even an entire council worth of masters had been sitting here holed up in this fortress while out there people they were charged with protecting were dying.

Torrin voiced the concerns he too felt. He outright laughed at Aster when she told Torrin he didn't know what he was on about when she herself was wondering what Atmos had gotten herself into, had she actually known what was happening out there then she would know how serious the situation out there was. "Ooooh this is just too precious first you wonder what master Atmos has gotten herself into and then saying Torrin here who has been fighting your war for atleast a year doesn't know what he is on about..." Boreas said laughing outright at Aster. One of the students then approached Torrin and started rambling about not having seen enough worlds destroyed or people killed. "The point you appear to be missing is that those worlds were your charges to be kept, where were you when they fell and the people were lost? Our master taught us to always fight, try to defend what is worth defending. And while you took your sweet time training to 'take over' from us much was lost, because we are spread too thin to hold the line everywhere, too few in number so now you blame us for not doing your job properly then be my guest please show me how it's done because I am open to a lesson." Boreas told her. "But I digress you're right you know we all ought to calm down, and when I say all of us I don't just mean the 'ragtag group' but you too."

Boreas didn't feel intimidated by Qamar because while she threatened them, between Torrin and himself he could take them and while she tried using her height to try and intimidate them but he noticed that she only was able to speak on eye level because of her shoes and was rather tempted to point it out but it wouldn't help in the situation they were in and just kept it to himself. When Adalric asked forgiveness on Qamar's behalf Boreas nodded. "You are forgiven, Torrin's frustration stems from the fact that he has been spearheading a war against the Light Chaser for a year with minimal back-up only to learn there was back up holed up here all along." Boreas said, turning to the lot more reasonable student. "Need a hand?"​