Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

After they gotta fire, Stratos then went back in to attacking the massive water bloticle. It was epic. It was intense. It was absolutely the exact same thing that had been happening this entire god forsaken fight. The bloticle was trying its best, but it could do literally nothing that Stratos hadn't already been able to see through. Hell, if not for the fact that spawning tendrils would be really weird, Stratos probably would've seen through it so well that he'd be able to copy it. Maybe even perfect copy it. But maybe instead of copying, he could just decide to do a bunch of other things that yield the exact same result. But he would only have five minutes to do that before his engine ran out, and he'd need all the stamina he could muster if he wanted to defeat the rest of the blot monsters. Besides, no matter how much he tried, there'd be no way that Stratos would be able to copy how large a bloticle is and then use that to his blocking advantage.

Lost in his own rambling thought, the bloticle seemed to notice that the boy had long since actually stopped paying attention, and so it decided that now was the prime time to attack Stratos. Summoning up more bubbles of water, it launched them straight towards the boy, who didn't even seem to register the fact that they existed. As the bubbles came crashing down to try and defeat the wielder, he seemed to no longer be where he was standing earlier. Instead, he was on the other side of the bloticle, his keyblade extended out and a large slash mark appearing across the bloticle. Dismissing his weapon, and not paying the bloticle a second thought, he went back to thinking about how he could perfectly copy something like these creatures.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 57% Left
blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4 - Walter, Will of the Ocean: 385/1000

 

Raisor continued with his own attack on the Bloticle while Stratos fought his own fight. Heating up the enemy from the inside seemed to be annoying it, but Raisor didn't seem to notice how much, because out of nowhere a tentacle popped out from in front of him and thrust itself forward. Raisor barely managed to pull his keyblade out in time to guard, and ended up with his weapon slamming into his front and sending him to the ground.

As he got up from the ground, he noticed that he had a fresh mark in the shape of his keyblade. Apparently that attack had a lot more force to it than he had thought. But it also meant he was annoyed even more and was going to hurt this bloticle. He got up and started stomping his way toward the enemy. The bloticle kept sending thrusts toward Raisor, but he just knocked them away with his keyblade. When he was up next to the bloticle, he shoved his keyblade in yet again, but this time, he used his blizzard spell. The bloticle try fighting back, but now, every time it tried getting more attacks out, they froze before even making it off the enemy. By the time Raisor was finished, there was a nice chunk of frozen ink as tall as he was all around the lower base of the enemy.

Spoiler: count

blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4: 337/1000

 

The bloticle, having taken enough a beating, finally seemed to do something about it. No longer was it just water tendrils, water bubbles or even water geysers. No. It seemed to have hit the threshold that would cause it to go absolutely berserk. Now, Stratos was expecting to be completely underwhelmed by whatever this thing's desperation move was going to be, as he had been with all other attacks thus far. The bloticle, also, had no idea what the hell it was going to do, but it knew it was going to do something amazing. Gathering all the strength it could muster into one super mega hyper awesome amazing attack that had many more adjectives behind it that I'm just too lazy to write, the water bloticle began the final stage of its fight.

Standing completely straight, as all others had, it fired off a blue light from its body in the sky. From this light, the area seemed to suddenly be cloud and immediately after, blanketed in a torrential downpour. Not being done quite yet though, the light pulsed out from its body and in its wake a tidal wave type creation flowed out and towards everybody. Standing his ground, Stratos took the brunt of the tidal force, but managed to hold his ground. While he managed to stave off that attack, he was then sent forward as the wave seemed to come back, taking him by surprise and knocking him off his feet. Now being pulled inward toward the bloticle, Stratos was just sort of helpless in the water until finally the wave merged back with the bloticle. As Stratos came into contact with the bloticle's body, a geyser was fired off immediately, sending Stratos hurtling through the air and crashing hard into the ground. What an annoying creature this bloticle was turning out to be.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 56% Left
blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4 - Walter, Will of the Ocean: 287/1000

 

As Raisor was about to attack the creature, it apparently felt the need to use it's own annoying attack like the last few did, as it created torrential rains, and then out of nowhere a large tidal wave formed and swept Raisor up. He was not really in the mood for a swim, but unfortunately for him this wasn't up for debate. Raisor held his breath as the wave passed by, gasping for air and drenched in water. Being spun around like wash was not his idea of a good time. The first time was bad enough, but Raisor found out there was a free ride after the first. The tidal wave somehow came back towards him and swept him along toward the bloticle. He looked over and noticed that Stratos was in the same position he was. They were swept up into the Bloticle itself and then ejected in the form of a geyser. Stratos landed first, with Raisor falling straight on top of him.

"Sorry about that Statos." He wiped the water out of his eyes and struggled to get up.

Annoyed with this creature, Raisor walked over to the frozen section he creature and knocked it with as much strength as a man who was tossed around like a rag doll out of breath could, and shattered the frozen section clear away. The bloticle didn't seem to enjoy that, as it fell all the way to the ground, one end to the other.

"Sorry, I forgot to say timber,"

Spoiler: count

blotlings: 700/1000
bloticle: 7/10

bloticle 4: 239/1000

 

Being on the ground, Stratos tried to get the water that had gotten into his mouth before getting back up, only for it to be forcibly ejected out when something much heavier landed on top of him. Being completely winded from the surprise attack, he just lifted his hand and gave a thumbs up as he struggled to get out, "n-no problem Raisor," in a slightly breathless voice. Once he caught his breath back, he picked himself up off the ground and saw that Raisor had managed to deal a quite devestating blow to the bloticle creature. There wasn't much of it left, and if things kept going on as they were, it wouldn't be long before the creature wouldn't be able to fight any longer. And so, Stratos called his keyblade to his hand in trying to figure out what he needed to do against this bloticle.

As the wave came out of it once again, Stratos knew what to expect, and thus got his keyglider out in an attempt to fly over it. Unfortunately, the rain had made his ascent much harder than what would normally happen. And so, his keyglider was hit by the wave, causing Stratos to fall into it and get swept up by the current. Being pulled back to the bloticle, he was fired away from it once again, and slammed against the ground. Man this thing was a pain to deal with. Unforuntately for it, it had summoned up quite the rainstorm, and so Stratos could use this to his advantage. Casting Thunder, bolts of lightning fell from the sky and shocked the creature for quite a deal of damage. That'll learn it.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 55% Left
blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4 - Walter, Will of the Ocean: 189/1000

 

Raisor watched Stratos continue his attack on the bloticle, only for him to be swept up yet again and shot into the air. Raisor was having a hard time telling if Stratos was doing it for fun, or just unlucky.

"Hey Stratos, maybe you should hold off on swimming some till we're done with the whole fight." He grabbed him by the arm again and pulled him up.

As he did the bloticle sent more waves toward them and Raisor was not getting hit by them again. Smashing the ground and blowing it up with some spells, he created a small tunnel. He quickly leapt in and dug all the way around the creature. Now he just had to hope the tidal wave didn't find itself in the tunnel as well. Raisor came up behind the Bloticle and attacked it with his keyblade, causing it more unwanted pain.

Spoiler: count

blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4: 141/1000

 

Steel was a little bit disgruntled; he had to wonder why he had been chosen for this particular confrontation. It would seem that he had very little to contribute, seeing as how everyone else was doing over twice the amount of damage that he was. His speed was his only real strength, and it seemed to be doing him no favors at the moment.

Sure he had some countermeasures in place, but who knows when those would kick in. Even then, he still would not be as strong as the others; he probably wouldn't even be able to take more than one hit.

They might as well serve him up now, and fry him with chips.

Abandoning his usual stealth, Steel walked straight on up to the blot and stabbed both of his keyblades into it's inky black side.

Steel Attacked!

 

Grabbing Raisor's hand to heft himself up, he sighed. "I don't think I want to go near water for awhile after this." As the next wave came at them, it seemed Raisor had a plan to dodge water. Which was dig...so that the water wouldn't follow him? Stratos was both confused by the plan itself and how it actually managed to work, but much stranger things had happened so he didn't really brood on that too much. Instead, after completely ignoring the fact that there was even a wave to begin with, Stratos thought about what to do in order to bring down this creature. Spinning his keyblade around, he decided to just try and throw a strike at the creature, test the waters so to speak. The blade didn't go very far due to the force of the rain, and was just sort of whacked away with a water tendril upon getting close to the bloticle.

Well that didn't seem to work. So instead, Stratos decided to go and attack the creature with his strongest magic. As the tidal wave came towards him again, Stratos simply summoned up four pillars of light around and sent them onward. The pillars crashed against the wave and seemingly managed to come into a stalemate with it. However even they looked, though, ti was clear who the winner was going to be. Because after all, water can't beat the Faith (preach it!) As the pillars overcame the wave, they crashed into the bloticle's body, exploding with a radiant light and causing the creature to reel in pain. With that over with, it seemed to be like it was on its last legs, but certainly not over and done with just yet.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 55% Left
blotlings: 700/1000
Bloticle: 7/10

Bloticle 4 - Walter, Will of the Ocean: 91/1000

 

Raisor was sure this thing was about dead, and he was ready to finish this stupid thing. Not too mention there were six others to deal with, and a few hundred more blotlings at that. From the looks of their surroundings, they didn't have a lot of time either.

Raisor used his strike raid attack on the bloticle, staying out of reach of its attacks and watched for the tidal wave. It seemed like the thing wasn't going to go away till the stupid ink tentacle disappeared. Raisor kept throwing his keyblade, damaging the bloticle little by little.

Spoiler: count

blotlings: 700/1000
bloticle: 7/10

bloticle 4: 43/1000
Yeah I got nothing original for this one

 

As the bloticle continued to struggle and thrash around, creating tidal wave after tidal wave, it was clear that it was finally ready to be taken down. The thing had sustained far too much damage to continue fighting any longer, but nevertheless it continued to create more and more water. It seemed pretty intent on just flooding the entire area, and Stratos knew that even if it was going to die soon, if it continued to live, the damage it would cause would still be a massive problem. And so, with heart light ablaze with a green sort of light, and Stratos gripped at it. After squeezing down on the light, his body was enveloped with a green sort of lightning and Stratos was ready to take on the giant wave that was now flying towards him once again.

While normally it would have knocked him off of his feet, this time Stratos managed to rush through it, effectively parting the wave and leaving Stratos unimpeded on his next attack. Almost immediately after his charge through the wave ended, Stratos seemed to combine his attacks once more. With a cherry blossom storm being ever more violent in this torrential downpour of rain, Stratos seemed to suddenly no longer be where he was prior.The rain seemed to part in a line for seemingly no reason, as Stratos appeared behind the bloticle. A slash appaered over the creature, coated in green lightning, and the bloticle seemed to just stop moving altogether. The lightning pulsed across the entire body of the creature, only for it seem to be split in two, and fall apart in two halves. With all said and done, the bloticle had turned into just another puddle of ink, the clouds parted, the rain had stopped and the creature was felled. Also some blotlings died but no one cared.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 55% Left
blotlings: 698/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

 

Kel used Aerial Slam, will add more later

 

After having dealt with the fourth bloticle, Stratos now moved onto the next of the bloticles. Wait. That seemed a bit wrong. Wasn't there supposed to be a huge army of blotlings barring his path? But, there weren't anymore. It was just the bloticle, a straight shot between him and it. Which could only mean one thing. There was a catch. Stratos had only done this once before, but the last time something like this happened, they had to fight a behemoth that was way stronger than the average one. Nevertheless, it wasn't like Stratos could actually do anything about it at present. So instead, he only got his keyblade at the ready and walked over to meet this new bloticle head on.

The bloticle was definitely an odd one. The creature seemed to be made of some sort of antique looking metal, with a sort of bronze and gold coloration to it. All across the metal plating of the body of the creature clocks could be seen, ticking away, all asynchronously and all with a sort of different aesthetic to them. In all honesty, the clockwork body of this creature was fairly reminiscent of the head section of Spectrum, the Elemoth. And if it was the same as that one, than thing represented time. Stratos had no idea what could possibly be here in the time bloticle, but he didn't really want this fight to go on long enough for him to fight.

And so, Stratos went on the offensive right away as he seemed to strike the creature with full force of a Zantetsuken right from the get go. As he did, the slash mark appeared across the bloticle's body, and he was sure that it felt at least something from that. But, something seemed way off here. It not only didn't seemed phased by the attack, but it looked to be way healthier than any of the other blotilces he had fought thus far. Letting out a sigh, Stratos could already tell that this was going to be a pain.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland 54% Left
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 1244/1294

 

Kaida's throw from the first Bloticle finally recovered, and while Kaida felt bad for having not been too helpful with the past few, she had at least been keeping the blotlings away by kind of startling them from everyone else fighting the bloticles. The bloticles seemed to be the bigger issue here, and Kaida at least recognized that. But she knew this was going too slow, and while she figured although she wasn't strong, she was at least fast enough to maybe make this go by faster. So she ran on over towards it and performed a sliding dash by its legs. She felt like for a moment time seemed to slow, but she chocked that down to her focusing more, and she still hit it. Then she performed a backflip to head back into the air and perform an aerial combo.

She got a few more hits in before falling back down to the ground and taking a deep breath before firing a fire spell at it, though that didn't seem to do too much damage and she backed on back over to the group and said, "Sorry about being out of it for a bit, but I'm back and I'll make sure a hit doesn't put me out of commission that bad again... so... uh..." she looked over at Stratos because he was right there and asked, "You think this guy's got something up it's sleeve too?" referring to some sort of mystery power or something or other.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland at 51%
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 1196/1294

 

Getting his fight underway with this hellish ink based creature, Stratos wondered just what kind of attack this thing would do. After all, it's power was easily the most blatantly stupid of them all, and if it was just something like constantly freezing time, Stratos had zero idea how he was going to fight against it. And it wasn't as if he could actually just kill it before it did literally anything of consequence, especially with the fact that it seemed to be kind of more bulky when compared to the others. Nevertheless, as he was thinking of all this, another keyblade wielder joined the fray in assisting his take down of this creature. As Kaida had wondered about whether or not this creature was going to be weird like the others, Stratos just nodded and with an exasperated voice said, "trust me, they always do."

As if on cue, the creature started to act out its gimmick. The biggest clock on the body, which oddly only had one hand on it, started turning until it hit the number five. Soon, other clocks started spinning as well. One clock landed on a twelve, another had one hand on the twelve and one hand on the seven, and then a final clock had its hour hand on the seven with its minute hand on the one minute mark. Stratos had zero idea why it all stopped there, but as it did, the clocks seemed to glow and the creature underwent some sort of change. The bronze clockwork body started to grow branches that extended outward, each branch growing some sort of vile looking apple. After they had finished growing, the creature shook the branches in the keyblade wielders's general direction, launching the apples at them.

Stratos had managed to dodge roll out of the way in time, but looked in utter confusion as the apple exploded into a pool of poison that just sort of stayed there on the ground. Standing there, it took a few seconds, and while Stratos came to no actual reasoning behind why this happened, he just sort of accepted it and went on the offensive himself this time. Coating his keyblade in fire, Stratos leaped at the creature with a fire strike, following it up with the ice imbued three hit assault of Vorpal Blitz. While the creature seemed none too happy about the assault, it certainly didn't seem all that deterred in its ongoing fight against them.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland at 51%
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 1146/1294

 

Kaida deflected a couple of the apples thrown her way with the keyblade and stared a little bit more horrified at the the puddle of poison than Stratos did. Stratos seemed to continue on as if this was a normal occurrence or something. Kaida then made her way over towards the bloticle and threw her keyblade at it and it boomeranged back to her hand as she moved to try and hit it again, but it's branches seemed to head towards her and she only just managed to duck in time. But it definitely felt like this time her attack was slowed.

She waited until Stratos finished with his attack before she twirled the keyblade a bit in her right hand before switching it to her left hand and running at it. She slashed at it a few more times before moving back and deflecting just as more apples flew her way. The apple hit the creature and while it seemed to hurt it a little, the poison didn't effect it at all. She figured maybe this was because the bloticle created the apple so it was in it's own way immune to the poison. But that didn't mean she liked it.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland at 51%
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 1098/1294

 

Beuce put a hand on Kaida's shoulder as she looked horrified at the poison that had appeared. "He's used to this kind of thing by now. Honestly, when i first met him, i thought he'd be one of the weakest of us, but i'm having trouble even keeping up with him. I don't think it's even his strength. Kid's just got an iron will like nothing I've ever seen." After his brief praise of Stratos, the white haired man continued to battle the thing himself. It seemed like it was now some kind of tree like creature. He had no idea why, but the words "ok tom." came to mind. Avoiding the puddles of clearly volatile poison, he weaved towards the creature. Tossing his keyblade in a strike raid, it ricocheted off the largest clocked and began heading back towards Beuce.

Cherry blossoms began to float through the air, and Beuce vanished from sight the second the keyblade met his hand. Although it seemed to be less affected by the attack than most of the other bloticles, it still hurt it to be sure. Though, even with the damage they'd done to it, they hadn't scratched the surface. It was still healthier than all the other bloticles had even started at. This was going to be an arduous fight to be sure, and he was betting the farm that it would have more than just apple bombs up its sleeve.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland at 51%
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 1044/1294

 

If Beuce were a betting man, he'd have won a bet right now. Sadly, no one wins because they're still fighting this creature hahahahaha. haaaah. Anyway, the clockwork tree bloticle thing seemed to have some more tricks up itself, oh yes siree. The big clock on its body started to turn once again, now with the only visible hand on it moving to the giant number ten. The smaller clocks on the body started to move, with one having its hand strike the five, the smaller clock having one hand hit the eight and the second hand hitting the 5, and the smallest clock having the hand that was on the 1 minute mark move all the way to the 39th minute mark. When all of this was said and done, the clocks shined once again and the body seemed to undergo another change. This time, it had some really odd arms, almost as if they were made of papery squares, extend out of the body and hold batons.

Stratos still had zero idea what to make of this, but as it started juggling the two batons, they ignited. Well, that was probably a bad sign. Putting his keyblade up, Stratos blocked the flaming baton strikes, getting pushed back, only to have a poisoned apple fly at him from the tree branch. Casting fire almost immediately, Stratos intercepted the attack, only for it to explode right in his face. Getting covered in the poison sludge, he started to feel a burning sensation on his skin, as the purple goop just seemed to be trying to eat away at him. Casting aerora, it seemed to all just be pushed off of him by the wind, and just left a slight burn mark where it had. Now going on his own offensive, Stratos decided to attack it by firing the four bubbles of aqua splash, and having them burst on contact with the bronze plating of the clockwork bloticle.

Spoiler: Count

Wasteland at 51%
blotlings: 600/1000
Bloticle: 6/10

Injured:
Bloticle 5, Timothy - Halter of Eternity: 994/1294

 

BAck at it again! Steel, Kel, and a revived Karina had taken the fight to the Behemoth of a boss. "Alright! Yeah go team!" D'daear shouted with enthusiasm. Considering to join in on the attack, he stopped and took a quick look at Hikaru. They had both taken a huge hit recently, and although he himself was still standing strong, D'daear noticed Hikaru could use a bit of aid himself. So he reached into his pockets and took out a Potion.

"Hikaru!" he called out, tossing the soft drink to his comrade.

D'daear used a Potion on Hikaru!