Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

With his slash having managed to destroy a large swath of heartless, Stratos now had an opening to run through to take get away from this horde. With blade in hand, the boy began to make his way through this opening, not paying much mind to the things behind him. It would do him no good to try and destroy every last heartless that was chasing him, and instead slowly destroy the ones in front to systematically lower their numbers. Perhaps the others would then try to destroy the ones behind him, and through their combined efforts they'd be able to get through this swarm of heartless with no problem. Of course, in front of him to start with was two of those neo shadow creatures that he had run into before. While he was fast enough to get away from the swarm behind him, regular shadows were far slower in comparison to their more matured versions. As such, he couldn't just run past them and expect to continue outrunning them. More to the point, he couldn't actually just kill them in an instant either, as they had proven to be more difficult to actually land a blow on then their smaller counterparts. Add to the fact that while in this state of his he couldn't actually use any of his magical abilities and taking on these shadows would be a bit of an effort.

Regardless, he began to ran at them, and the Neo Shadows in turn charged at him. The first of the Neo Shadows seemed to flop down to the ground, and began spinning at him. Stratos was unsure of what was looking at, but the heartless seemed to be more like a wheel of raw slashing power that he wanted to not deal with at all. And so, as the spinning heartless moved towards him, Stratos high jumped over the heartless. Bringing his blade up into a guard, he then blocked the next attack as another of the Neo Shadows jumped into the air. Bringing its claw down against Stratos's blade, both the keyblade master and the neo shadow were brought back down to the ground. Landing on his feat, Stratos saw the Neo Shadow that was behind him begin to spin back around as the other one took its predatory stance looked ready to lunge at him once again. Knowing that he'd be in trouble if he attempted to jump over the one behind him again, he instead just decided to deal with normally. In an instant, he disappeared from where was standing, appearing behind the spinning neo shadow. A flood of cherry blossoms shortly followed, flowing in that direction as a large slash mark appeared across the neo shadows. Swinging his blade against the air, the slashes soon grew in size as the two neo shadows were instantly dispatched of.

Continuing to move his way through the heartless, he saw it fit to just take the little ones out as he passed by them. Whenever a stray shadow would leap at him, the boy would merely swat it away with his keyblade longs sword, causing it to be destroyed in a single instant. One after the other, he continued to make his way through the horde of shadows, feeling that he was making his way through their with graceful ease. After managing to cut another large number into their numbers, Stratos ended up bumping into a much more solid form. Turning around to face it, he saw that it actually just belonged to Hikaru, and was instantly relieved that the heartless hadn't suddenly learned how to wield a keyblade. As he complimented Stratos on his work so far, the boy said, "well, you know. This kind of stuff comes with the job, and I like making sure I do my job well," he joked back at Hikaru. "Yeah, the extra magic power would be nice. Especially because," he motioned to his soldier job form.


Word Count: 660
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 300
Blessed Thief: 150 munny

Heartless Defeated:
2 Neoshadows
16 shadows

Heartless Remaining:
Defeat 745 Shadows
Defeat 186 Neoshadows
Defeat 200 Darkballs
Defeat 2 Invisibles

 

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The Invisible had appeared to be amused by Kel's gesture and fortunately for the keyblade wielder, there weren't any heartless of massive size that the Invisible could just wave his hand and have attack Kel. He didn't want to deal with another Free Wily Cat or any of the other abominations that the behemoths became during the last horde fight. Instead this time he choose to play the numbers game and had the smaller heartless enter the 'ring' that Kel was standing in. Eighteen heartless were sent his way, all grouped up to make it so that he wouldn't be able to take them down in one strike. Kel still didn't have the energy to use another zantetsuken right now and his magic was running low. He would have to rely on his own skills to deal with this threat, which wasn't too much of an issue. Not to mention he had a few more tricks up his sleeves. While Kel thought on this, the darkballs and shadows seemed to merge into the one being. Not Arma level merging, dear god/whatever deity rules over kingdom hearts no, they just formed the outline of a person that happened to be the same size as Kel. The darkballs formed the shoulders and legs while the shadows basically made the rest of the body. Minus the head, they were one darkball short of that. Fortunately it wasn't an intimidating sight by, more strange. No matter the thoughts were pushed away and Kel went on the offensive and deal blow. It was successful in striking down all of the shadows that had formed the arm, but beyond that it did nothing because those very same heartless reformed the arm seconds later. That very same arm had attempt to punch Kel, which he dodged, but now there was an issue he had to deal with. His original plan was to strike away at the limbs and deal with the darkballs as they floated away had fallen flat upon seeing them be able to reform themselves instantly. Now he needed to think of something else while dodging the heartless's repetitive attacks on him. It may have been the same size as him, but its mass made its attacks slow and easy to dodge. This did concern Kel as to what kind of force those attacks would have should one make contact with him.

His eyes scanned the heartless mass before him as a footing mistake costed Kel his chance at dodging and forced him to block. Just as he had feared, the attack had quite a bit force to it, not to mentioned the numerous scratches that came from the numerous shadows that made up the very arm that had struck him. He managed to stand his ground against blow and doing which granted him enough time to notice a key thing regarding the heartless mass. The shadows weren't just acting as limbs to fight him, but also a shield to protect the darkballs. As the heartless mass when in for another punch, Kel swiftly ducked under it and slice off the arm with his Oathkeeper keyblade. Just like last time the limb came clean off, but this time before the arm could reform Kel aimed his own personal keyblade at the darkball that formed the joint. "Firaga!" Being a high leveled spell, it did more than just simply destroy that one darkball. It instead broke into smaller flames that spread throughout the heartless mass's body and hit the remaining darkballs that made up the body. The explosions left the smaller shadows without a pseudo body and and scrambling along the ground unable to do much before they were just being swept away by Kel and his keyblade.

Total Words: 623
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 180
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 90

Heartless Defeated
14 Shadows
4 Darkballs

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 731 Shadows
Defeat 186 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 2 Invisibles

 

Beuce looked around at the broken and dark world. It was...hardly what he'd been expecting for their triumphant return to the realm of light, but he soon saw the cause for it. An older man standing, proclaiming he would prove his worth to Nequa. Apparently she had rejected him or something, but whatever the reason, he was bad news for the SOS. He seemed to exude dark power as he summoned forth a plethora of heartless that put the one at central haven to shame. The current most menacing of them was easily taken out by a new arrival. Beuce looked on and beamed, recognizing him as the master who would have given them the mark at Central Haven. Apparently, he'd be taking on the one in charge of the heartless for a while.

Stratos casually turned to him, giving a "same old song and dance". Beuce couldn't help but chuckle. He was right. This was hardly the first time they'd been through an ordeal very similar to this, but this time, one thing was different. They weren't struggling for their lives to run away from it. They were facing it head on as masters, and they were going to blow it right out of the water. Beuce was ready, but something gave him pause. Stratos was tearing through the heartless with far more ease and confidence than normal. He'd done a lot of work in the previous battles, and there was no one he'd rather have at his side in such a time, but this was different. When did he get...that strong? Beuce leaped into the fray with his friend shortly after the battle began.

"Hey, hey, hey, who said you could go and get stronger than I am when I wasn't looking?" He mused aloud. A neoshadow leaped at him, spinning its whole body with impossible dexterity. First a vertical swipe, then a horizontal one in the same jump. Beuce however summoned his keyblade and back-stepped out of the way, before lunging forward and cleaving the heartless in two. Following the larger one was a plethora of regular shadows. Beuce charged them head on and mowed them down one by one, each time a small red heart floated up. He threw out his dual ended keyblade in a straight line, decimating a row of the small heartless. Another neoshadow leaped at him with just the right timing before his keyblade returned to him, but Beuce didn't even turn to face it. Instead he simply muttered the word "Stop" and it was frozen in midair, unable to finish its assault. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers three times. The first put a seeker mine spell beneath it, the second cast a gravity spell to shove it downward into it, and the third called down a barrage of lightning bolts from above to finish it off. Beuce caught the keyblade on the return, and time unfroze for the unsuspecting heartless. Nearly as soon as it had unfrozen, it was violently ripped out of its jump and into the mines. The mines then proceeded to all go off by the impact and launch it into the air with the force, and into the decimating array of lightning bolts he'd called down from the sky. Beuce brandished his keyblade and returned to work. He did, however, look over to see how Stratos was doing. He couldn't help but feel a sense of pride that Stratos had gotten so powerful. He'd viewed him as something of a younger brother, but now, he was clearly his equal, if not more. A sense of rivalry ignited in his heart, Beuce cleaved through more of the heartless in his path. ​

Total Words: 616
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 60
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 30

Heartless Defeated
16 shadows
2 neowshadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 714 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

 

Kaida was more than amused when Stratos came charging on in with a hunter limit and she said, "Well, it's not quite a strike, but you knocked 'em down alright." the girl spun her keyblade as she too went to charge on in. She kept her keyblades outstretched as she sprinted as fast as she could into the crowd. After knocking back a good amount, the girl went in for killing blows. The little shadow kept itself pinned to her back as she quickly spun around. The shadows flew upwards and disappeared into puffs of black and purple smoke.

The blonde stood herself up to keep good balance. Thinking she was doing alright. Though one thing she had not necessarily anticipated though she should was how the environment was going to play an impact. The storm swished a piece of wood past her and the girl had no focus in that direction as it slammed into her face, knocking the girl back onto the ground. She turned to focus more on the debris since the wind was more in focus on that direction, while she was not in focus, a group of darkballs suddenly went in with an attack. The blonde went flying into a palm tree and she gasped out winded and she slid down. The shadow had jumped out of the way in time and clung to a branch. Kaida took in a couple breaths as she watched the horde crawl towards her. She temporarily took a knee and waited for the horde to come towards her a bit.

The girl was genuinely curious how she was going to manage to keep going with this at this pace. She watched the darkballs fly off for other victims as other heartless began to join in with the shadow swarm. She was not going to focus on them yet. She had fully decided she would be the one to take out all the littles. Someone had to after all, and she felt like she was cutting into this lot like butter.

When they were just close enough. Kaida hit backwards into the palm tree with force and felt a coconut fall kindly into her hand. She then swung the coconut at them and ran forward once more. Trying to hack and slash a couple more as she avoided the palm. She managed to get herself upwards onto some sort of dock above the rest of the heartless and tried to dig at a few more from the high ground.

She rolled back slightly and suddenly stopped herself, keeping on leg planted firmly behind her as the rest of her.

She pulled her keyblades back and pushed all of her body weight forwards as firaga and blizzara came out of her keyblades. The two spells started out in a straight line before the two swirled around into each other. Kind of like a dance. Then the two bounced into each other perfectly and knocked each other in separate directions into the shadows. The firaga's power was a lot stronger than Kaida anticipated since the little heartless seemed to fly up in the air on fire. The blizzara stuck those in the impact zone onto the ground.

The heartless began trying to find their way up to her and the girl took a couple of moments to recharge herself. She was just grateful at this point to be above the horde. She thought she had gotten a bit too excited jumping into the horde her first time. She looked up to check on the others, making sure nothing horrible was happening to the others.

Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 180
Blessed Thief: 90 Munny

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 689 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

 

When Hikaru ran over to check on her, she was still in recovery stance staring down at the horde. The little shadow was still sitting near her looking down and bumping the ones crawling up on the head to knock them down. When he asked her how she was, she looked up at him and said, "Well, I think I got a little ahead of myself, but I'm doing just fine. I somehow recruited a little friend... we will see how this ends." she looked down towards the little shadow who looked up towards Hikaru and swiped slightly at him before swiping more at the others.

Kaida stood up more fully and pointed her keyblade outward and another thunderbell came crashing down on the crowd, together with some firaga. The shadows went flying a little and the little shadow friend jumped down and the girl asked, "Was Aux alright? He wasn't looking so good when I ran in. Did he stick somewhere that there's no heartless?" she looked towards the blue haired kid and shrugged, "Not that I think he can't handle himself. But no one can really handle themselves when they're like... dazzled and discombobulated. That's a word right?"

Kaida kept her guard up while darkballs seemed to fly over and she yelled, "No! Back off! Go find someone else. I'm not ready to deal with your floaty bloaty hijinks!" the shadow crawled over with another coconut and she grabbed it and chucked it in the direction of the darkballs and they flew off. The girl used her keyblade to keep knocking other ones down, even going so far as to destroy a few more while she had the chance.

She looked out to see how the others were doing, she saw Beuce and Stratos and their beginnings of teamwork and strategy. Kel seemed to be struggling a bit with an invisible but not at a level that made her completely worried. Others were getting into the thick of battle as well. Particularly, she saw Luna starting to run in and get ready to tank. Kaida cupped her hands and yelled, "Yeah you get 'em princess! Show the dark beings what it means to be a being of pure light! Or... don't! I can't stop you but don't you drop on me. Convert that health to strength somehow!"

Kaida looked over at Hikaru and said, "I don't think I'm helping. I feel like Kuma when he's far too excited about training newbies and the next thing you know twelve year olds are flying all over the place."

As soon as Kaida said that, the shadows seemed to finally stack up on each other to form a ladder and the girl panicked and began swatting at them, "Oh no. Oh no they're starting to plan and scheme. Soon they'll be building gummi ships and starting colonies and taking over the world with their might of thousands. Unless that's cause Hue has control over." she knocked the ground successfully down trying to keep the wave down.

The blonde fixed her hair when the pile was low and said, "You don't have to stick around though, if you think someone might need more help. I'll just be up here. With pipsqueak. And coconuts. And praying my MP keeps regenerating as fast as it has been. Though before you go. I know you didn't just run off without Aux so I'd rather get an answer to that question. If he isn't I'll run down to find him and get him to... well, this spot is as good as any. Can Aux climb trees? He'll learn."

Word Count: 602
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 240
Blessed Thief: 20 Munny
Sweet Memories: 1 crown

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 638 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

 

Luna looked over at Hikaru as walked over to the group and presented each one with a ring with the engraving SoS. "We wanted to. We all started this journey and now we have to see this through to the end." Luna smiled and put the ring on her right ring finger. She looked back at the portal and took a deep breath before stepping through. A bright light had enveloped her. She had opened her eyes and found herself on a small island. "Where are we?" She looked around her surroundings as she asked her question. Her eyes fell on a strange man that was in the middle of the island. She walked over along with the rest of the group. Luna immediately felt tension rise in the air and almost felt a pressure weighing down on her. "Something's wrong.....Something's very wrong." She looked over to Hikaru, Aux, and the strange man. "Guys hold on! Something's wr-" Before she could finish, one heartless had appeared. Then another one had appeared as did another one and before she knew it, 10,000 heartless had sprung up around the group. "This feeling from before....this was the cause....oh gods."Another man had appeared onto the island. He had told the group to leave the strange man to him and to handle the army of heartless. Luna looked around her and as if ice had frozen around her feet. She didn't move. She was speechless. "So... many.." A shadow had launched itself at her. Her body immediately took cover and dodged the attack. She stood up and took a deep breath. "No more......No more hiding....no more running away......For my family, my friends, my home, my people..... I will NOT fall here!!" Luna reached to her left side as if drawing a sword from its sheath, the handle of her blade materialized and as she continued to draw forth her blade, the rest of hey keyblade materialized. Before she could charge into battle, she heard Kaida's voice call out to her. "Yeah you get 'em princess! Show the dark beings what it means to be a being of pure light! Or... don't! I can't stop you but don't you drop on me. Convert that health to strength somehow!" She turned her head toward her and smiled. "Of course! There's still things that have yet to be resolved. I can't fall here! After all, what kind of princess would I be if I fell here? I can't let anyone be disappointed with me! There's way too much at stake right now! Thank you Kaida!! Be careful alright!" With that, Luna charged into battle.

Shadows had begun to run after her. Luna had begun running until 3 Darkballs had appeared in front of her. "Oh no!" She turned around to see a group of 17 shadows come up behind her.The heartless got closer and closer, leaving her nowhere to run. "No.......no.....no...no...nononononono...." She felt a warm light rising within her. The warmth of it calmed her for a moment. She took a deep breath before the light grew and grew. "...No...more!!!!!!!" The light had burst forth, creating four pillars and burst forth eliminating the group of heartless surrounding her. As the light died down, Luna had placed a hand on her knee as she took a moment to catch her breath. As she was trying to catch her breath, an Invisble had begun sneaking up on her. Luna stood up and felt a presence come up behind her. She turned around and her eyes widen. As much as she wanted to run, her body was disobeying her, fearful of what will happen. "No!!!!!!"Luna shut her eyes in fear of her impending doom.


Heartless Defeated:
17 Shadows
3 Darkballs

Hearltess Left:
Defeat 621 Shadows
Defeat 183 Neoshadows
Defeat 193 Darkballs
Defeat 1 Invisibles

Words written:
614

EXP Gained:
60​

 

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Yet another trial of the Invisible had been clear and as opposed to getting agitated that the keyblade wielder has yet to fell in compact, the heartless was actually impressed by Kel's feats. So impressed that the heartless decided that now it was time to handle this matter personally. The heartless grabbed the sword that it had stabbed into the ground at the start of this battle and pulled it out of the island ground. In response to that, Kel armed both of keyblades and readied himself for the fight that was at hand. Slowly it descended down til it was practically floating a mere inches off of the ground. The smaller swarm of heartless around them had backed away, expanding on the 'ring' that they had formed around him. Whether it was done in favor of Kel, or to pity him he didn't know. It always wasn't his top priority to know which of the two it was. Before the first blow of their battle could be struck, four pillars of light were seeing piercing through the darkness nearby where they happened to be. The light had caught the attention of the Invisible causing it to drift over there slowly.

Kel peered over in the direction in which the invisible had drifted off to. That attack had to be from one of his friends, unless someone else jumped into the fray. Eventually his eyes spotted Luna who happened to be right in the path that the invisible was heading. The sight rose immediate concern as it didn't look like Luna was actually fighting any other heartless as the Invisible loomed closer towards her. The realization of all this was followed by Kel attempting to make a move forwards towards her and muhc like last time, his progress was impeded by the heartless around him forming up to block him. The shadows were of no hindrance and he wouldn't just ran through them easily, however the neoshadow at the front as well was a different matter. His side still stun from where the last neoshadow had manage to graze him, that being all he needed to know not to take them lightly and despite being confident against shadows, they could very easily choose to attack while he was preoccupied with dealing with the neosahdow. Suddenly Kel had an idea and an icy chill formed around the tip of his keyblade. "Blizzara!" Aimed at the ground, his spell had created a frozen path that stopped short of where Luna was, but got him out of the small horde that surrounded him. The ice was then used in tangent with barrier surge and Kel charged his way through the sole neoshadow and four shadows by sliding on the ice. He was relying on pure momentum to get him away form the swarm that had surrounded him. Kel broke out into a sprint when he had reached the end of the ice path he had made. He was close to getting where Luna was, but the Invisible was closer. Which each step that Kel got closer, so did the heartless and the latter had gotten their first. It's blade was raised, poised to strike down upon the keyblade wielder. The blade had made contact, but not with Luna. Instead it had hit the intersection of Kel's keyblades as he'd used both of them to block the attack. The heartless responded by raising it's blade again in another attempt to strike, but this time its attack was parried into the ground, causing the blade to get stuck. The moment was seized and Kel dashed up the heartless's blade, arm and jumped up towards its face. Both of his keyblades were used to deal a powerful blow through Vorpal Blitz, ending the heartless before it could do any harm. Once both his feet were planted on the ground, Kel turned to Luna and asked "Are you okay?" with concern in his voice.

Total Words: 658
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 240
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 120

Heartless Defeated
4 Shadows
1 Neosahdow
1 Invisible

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 606 Shadows
Defeat 174 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs

 

As an gust of wind sweep around Stratos's body, he felt the familiar feeling of the defensive Aero spell go over him. Giving a thumbs up to Hikaru as he made his way away to go and help out Kaida, Stratos turned back to the heartless before him. The shadows were as persistent as ever, crawling towards him and trying to use their raw numbers to try and stop him. Normally, the boy would try and use some big awe inspiring attack like Zantetsuken to merely clean them out in an instant, but he knew rapid firing off that technique would only lead to more exhaustion. His next option would be to use magic. Yet, the form he was in locked him out of one of his most reliable tools. Without that to fall back on, Stratos still didn't feel any sense of panic or urgency. There was some strange confidence he had in the skills with his blade. Moving forward, he noticed that as he did his body felt lighter and he could see the enemies' attacks more clearly. A neo shadow charged at him, and though it was faster than Stratos, the boy could still see the attack coming. His body responded in kind, moving to avoid the attack and mostly doing so, with the part that did hit merely being absorbed by the wind barrier. And while he knew he couldn't match the creature's speed, he felt an innate knowledge that he surpassed the neo shadow in one regard.

As the creature swung its claw at him again, Stratos responded in kind with a sword slash. Though the shadow had managed to hit him, the attack was still absorbed by the Aero. The same could not be same for the neo shadow, however, as Straots's blade had managed to cleanly cut into the creatures arm. With ease, the blade cleaved off the neo shadow's limp and as it, in a panic, tried to make its way away from the boy, he retaliated with yet another slash. His blade had managed to cleanly find its way across the shadows neck, severing it from the body and causing the shadow to explode into a puff of strands of darkness. In merely two clean hits, Stratos had managed to fell the Neo Shadow. The boy was barely injured from the exchange and he still felt absolutely focused on the task at hand as another collection of Neo Shadows jumped at him. Taking in a deep breath, he focused on the first of the enemies crouching into a prepared stance to take it on. As the second leaped at him to slash with its claws at him, Stratos moved forward in a burst of speed. Avoiding the attack entirely, he then closed the distance with the second one and in the same movement slashed through it. Turning back around, he immediately threw his keyblade with a strike raid attack, cleaving through the neo shadow as it was recovering.

As he finished off his two opponents, Beuce had come up to him as well. Stratos raised an eyebrow as Beuce mentioned that he had gone and gotten stronger than him when he wasn't looking, unsure of what he actually meant. Stratos was still positive that Beuce was in a different league then him when it came to power, and while Stratos knew that he had gotten stronger he still wasn't in the same class. This was only proven to him more as Beuce let loose a trio of spells to decimate a wave of heartless in an instant. Yet despite knowing this, the boy had a smirk cross his face. "Well, if you don't want to me pass you up." A collection of neo shadows and a shadow started encroaching on the boy from behind. Turning around, with very little in wasted movement, the boy struck the air twice swiftly. As a cross formed, a large X shaped explosion of force caught the shadows off guard, instantly destroying them in the process. Turning back to Beuce he said, "you might want to keep a faster pace."

Total Words: 684
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 360
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 180

Heartless Defeated
1 Shadow
5 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining
Defeat 605 Shadows
Defeat 169 Neoshadows
Defeat 196 Darkballs

 

Beuce began to laugh when Stratos said that if he didn't want him to pass him up, he'd have to keep a faster pace. "Buddy, you aren't giving me time to breathe with your growth rate. Still..." He moved his shoulder, stretching his muscles. "I guess I gotta pick up the pace. It's a good a time as any to use our new toys." Beuce concentrated on something deep within himself, something new that had just joined him. Summoning it forth to the surface, he called out "Blade!" and a silvery aura surrounded him, the color of steel. Not Steel like the wolf guy but steel as in the metal. Beuce brandished his weapon and moved through the shadows with unparalleled grace and motion. His raw power hadn't gotten any stronger, but his bladework had become peerless. No matter how many shadows tried to claw at him, he moved his weapon to intercept them, and destroyed them before they ever managed to lay a claw on his skin.

Using his keyblade as a source of leverage, he vaulted over a neoshadow, quickly getting behind it. Instantly turning to face him due to its near unrivaled speed in this fight, it attacked him with a barrage of swipes and slashes from the long claws attached to its arms. Beuce maneuvered his blade in a counteractive slash for each one, spinning it as he did so. The shadow backed away for a moment as the keyblade master just stood there twirling it between his fingers. An impressive feat, given how unwieldly the weapon was, but right now Beuce felt like it was an extension of himself, and he had nearly total control over his weapon. In a sense, it literally was an extension of himself. Wasting no more time showing off to the heartless that would soon be dead, Beuce lunged forward, sliding across the ground. Normally this was a weaker, more mobile tool of combat they possessed, but Beuce had turned it just as deadly as most of their other arsenal. He slashed upward the moment he reached the neoshadow, cleaving it in two.

A few darkballs rushed him, gnashing their teeth as they rapidly flew through the air. He wasn't quite able to counter all of them as, despite his skill with his blade, it could only be in on place at a time. However, being hit didn't mean he wasn't going to make them pay for it ten times over. Ice coated his keyblade as he leaped into the air at the flying heartless, slashing straight through the first one. It exploded into an inky black smoke, just like all the others had, and just like the ones before him were about to. A second leap, and his blade broke the skin of the second darkball, destroying it instantly in a very similar fashion. Much like the sliding dash, his newfound precision and overall extra efficiency with his keyblade gave it an extra boost in power. It seemed anything requiring it would enjoy these benefits as long as he maintained this form. Finally, he leaped at the third darkball, with turned on its back upward so as to try and catch the keyblade in its mouth. "You want it? You can have it." Beuce's jump brought him a fair bit higher than the rest, and instead of slashing downward onto the heartless like the other two, Beuce landed on its face and used it to propel himself even higher into the air, at which point he threw his keyblade, power side first, as a Javelin downward into the heartless' mouth and out the back of it.

Total Words: 637
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 120
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 60

Heartless Defeated
1 neoshadow
3 darkballs
12 shadows

Defeat 593 Shadows
Defeat 168 Neoshadows
Defeat 193 Darkballs

 

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As he stood there waiting for Aux or anyone for that matter to say anything a bright light showed up. It seemed to surround everyone. He could not see a thing. He closed his eyes because it was so bright. When he opened his eyes again it seemed like he was still in the realm of darkness but somewhere else. He tried to look on the bright side and thought well at least I can still look for the others. Looking around he noticed the portal where they were to go through was gone. Where ever he was in the realm of darkness it did not look good. The realm of darkness was completely baron not that it was not before, but this was different. A kilometer away however, small island could be seen connecting to the pathway. A island that he could only guess was destiny island. So instead of taking a portal to the island they somehow got teleported here a bit a ways from the island. It looked like the entire patch of beach of the island was shipwrecked on the realm of darkness. He was not sure what happened to the island but he was sure he would find out. He was sure it had something to do with who ever had be chasing Hikaru. He was not sure why everything had to end up in a battle or revenge. Rips of darkness caused the island to tear apart from the inside. A luxurious treehouse that sat atop the island was in ruins.

Looking out to the island he could stop a man. He could only guess that this man had something to do with what had happened. The man had scars all over his body and a cybernetic left arm. Oh joy he thought we have to fight him. Part of him wondered how many people were after Hikaru. He did not know where the others were at as he was only a few feet away from Aux and Hikaru. That was when, Hikaru asked, 'Are we?... Are we supposed to give our pin to him?' "I am not giving him a thing except a fight if it comes to that." Aux then said, 'I don't think he's the welcome committee.' That much was clear it was not like the man had a cake that said welcome home. Even it the man did he would not believe it. The man look dangerous. 'A former soldier of the Red Society!' The man called out. That was when Aux said , 'A group that follows Nequa.' He looked over to Hikaru and said, "You really are a wanted man." He knew that there were probably to many to count. Part of him wondered what Hikaru had done to get so many people coming after him. If they had somehow found Hikaru then he knew that there was a way to find people. He was not surprised at Aux's slowly returning memory. He kind of guessed that was what was happening. 'Guess I do... I'm beginning to remember things,' Aux had said. Aux then fell to his knees as he grabbed his head in pain. He could tell Hikaru was worried.

He turned to Hikaru and said, "he is not in any condition to fight." That was when the man said, 'Your friend has the right idea... Submit now and I won't have to destroy you.' He did not believe that. "We have to get him somewhere safe." A storm began to form around the island, growining in power as the man contined. 'My name is Colonel Marshall Hughes. And I was recently discharged by Nequa. She told me I was a FAILURE!' Thunder and darkness were everywhere. 'So I'm here to prove my worth. Show that to this soldier; FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!' "You are crazy.".......

Total Words: 640
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 60

Heartless Defeated
5 Neoshadows

Defeat 593 Shadows
Defeat 163 Neoshadows
Defeat 193 Darkballs

 

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Ignis seemed to have gone somewhere else in her head for a little while, because before she knew it, they were on some kind of messed up island in the middle of the darkness and there were more heartless than she cared to count swarming around them, and some guy with a weird arm fighting what looked like Kuma from the Order. She must have had one of those moments where she just started doing things without realizing, but now would be a really good time to get in on the fight instead of standing around doing absolutely nothing. It already looked like the other keybladers were taking down a bunch of heartless, and she was ready to get in on the action.

She jumped head-first into a pile of shadow that were crawling around, looking to jump at someone. She really wasn't looking forward to dealing with those guys, seeing how they were melting into the ground and stuff. Then there were those Darkballs that were floating around, turning into puffs of smoke and acting all crazy. She didn't even want to think about those big flying heartless with the swords, because they just looked like a giant pain. She figured that was the only annoyance she had to deal with when a larger version of the shadows she just took down came flying at her from out of nowhere. She brought her keyblade up to defend against it and threw the enemy across the way. It landed on the ground and readied itself for another fight. Apparently there were larger version of the Shadows that she didn't notice right away, which only made her levels of enthusiasm drop even lower. She had to deal with this thing first since it had its sights set on her. Since she didn't want to fight the thing, she tossed her keyblade at it. Unfortunately for her the Neo-Shadow jumped out of the way, and decided to attack her as her keyblade was coming back. She jumped back as quickly as she could, and then let her keyblade cut through the enemy as it returned. She looked around to figure out where everyone was in relation to herself to get her bearings. At that point she just had the urge to blurt out what she was thinking.

"So remind me. We've had to fight a giant hoard of heartless back at Central Haven as well as a giant hoard of weird blob things back in Wasteland, and now we're having to fight a hoard of heartless here? I think this is the only place that even makes sense, considering where we are and all. But next time someone decides to build up an annoying amount of these guys, can we just find them and beat them down before it happens?"

With that she felt a little better and got back to the fight. She noticed Luna was lying on the ground and Kel helping her, then saw another Neoshadow crawl up from the ground and took it out with another toss of her keyblade. Ran ran over to them to make sure they were alright. As she did, two Darkballs decided to pop up around of nowhere and pushed her back. She wasn't getting a friendly feeling from these guys so she decided to knock them out of the park. She brought her fist to the Darkball's face, much to its surprise she bet, and sent it flying into the other one. A second later, there a large explosion from the one she punched, taking it out along with the other darkball and even some surrounding shadows.

"Well....wasn't expecting that to do so much damage. Is that from the aura thing I got perhaps?" Thinking later would probably be a better time to think on it, she grouped up with Kel and Luna. "You guys doing alright?"

Word count
Words: 644
EXP: 60



Heartless Defeated
2 Neoshadow
19 Shadows
2 Darkballs

Remaining
Defeat 574 Shadows
Defeat 161 Neoshadows
Defeat 191 Darkballs

 

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"You are crazy.".....

.....How many not jobs are out there he wondered. This man was beyond crazy. The man then drew a keyblade from his hand as darkness and wind formed around him. 'If I cannot serve under her banner. Then I will serve under my own and do what I was born to do,' he said. From all corners of the island, thousands of pureblood heartless began to spring up. Shadows, Darkballs, Neoshadows and a giant Darkside. Oh this was not good this was bad. This was really, really bad. There was a possible thing that they were going to die. The heartless glowed with pure darkness. This was one battle he did not know what to do. 'Command an army of darkness!' The man yelled to the heavens as his heartless army marched. There were so many he did not know how they were going to get them all. 'This is my final test to you so called masters! Five waves of heartless! All the energy my body has belongs to the darkness now! This is my final attack! 10,000 heartless all with the enraged desire to destroy you all!,' the man said. "Yep totally a crazy nut job." 'Nequa will see that I am not a failure! I will succeed where she has failed! And no one can help you now!' Uniform laughed. He was sure Nequa was not going to see a thing. 'You're all going to die and it's all thanks to your weak hearts!' If Colonel Marshall Hughes was right or not it did not matter. He was sure it was going to end one way or another.

'THE FIST OF JUSTICE SAYS OTHERWISE!' A booming voice echoed across the island. "Who is your friend?" he asked. He was not expecting a answer from Hikaru. The man came from a purple portal, a man shirtless man with jet-like bronze hair came flying through the gloomy sky and punched the darkside, causing it to immediately disappear. The old man stepped back in shock as he watched the mystery man land. "Guess we have help now," he said. He wondered if one more person was going to make a difference. 'That is right Colonal captain Fujoka is now primed and ready to fight.' It looked like Hikaru might have as many friends and people that want him dead. Now what he wondered. He thought back to right before the whole light thing happened and they were put here. Stratos had said, 'well, like I said, these make us like a real team now, right? I didn't know any of you before this whole kind of keyblade thing happened, but now I don't think I can imagine a time without you all.' He was not sure about that he might have spoke to Stratos maybe once the whole time they had been together. He was brought back to what was happening at the moment. He watched as Hikaru run off to fight the heartless. He looked at Aux with a said expression. He did not know what to do he was just frozen to the spot. He had no clue where any of the other were at. He was sure that he was all alone. Hikaru had just ran off and he had not seen the others sense the teleporting thing to get here. He looked around and it seemed that something was happening. There was so much chaos going on. There was a almost noise to it all. He did not think that a battle fighting heartless could be so load. It could hear Magic going off and keyblades hitting things off in every direction...



Total Words: 606
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 120

Heartless Defeated
5 Neoshadows

Defeat 593 Shadows
Defeat 156 Neoshadows
Defeat 193 Darkballs

 

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There was an almost noise to it all. He did not think that a battle fighting heartless could be so load. It could hear Magic going off and keyblades hitting things off in every direction...

....He looked at Aux once more. "We need to get you out of here or at least in a safe spot." He was probably out of his mind for trying he help Aux but he was not about to leave him behind. He could see Heartless in every direction. The chaos of the battle was still going on. He could still hear the Magic going off and keyblades hitting things off in every direction. There where so many heartless that it was impossible to see anyone. He looked around to see it he could if he find a spot to put Aux until the battle was over but unfortunately there was nothing to be seen but what was on the island. Whelp now what? It was not like he could use he keyblade and make a big tree to hide behind. As far as he could tell the keyblade made magic or was used for hitting things.

Before Hikaru had gone off he seemed to be worried about Aux. Hikaru had to dashed forward. He had pointed his blade forward unleashing a torrent of water which he hoped would keep the heartless at bay until he had thought of something. He had watched Hikaru battle as he had made his way away from them he had never seen such determination and skill from him before. It was almost like he was driven by something or someone. Unknown to him heartless where coming up from behind him. Looking forward. He could spot heartless making there way towords him all he did was stand there. He was not going to leave Aux behind. He might end up dead if he did that. He knew that if he did not do something soon he would be surrounded by heartless in a manner of minutes. He was sure it would happen soon. He did not see a signal person in the mist of all this chaos of the battle. Did they leave him or where they somewhere out there? It did not matter. The only person he had seen so far was Hikaru and he could not see him any more. He was sure someone was out there as the noise of the battle was still going. It could be not just Hikaru out there. He could see the light of different spells going off. Fire and lightning bolts colors filled the sky. Sooner or later he would most like get hit by a stray spell or something it was only a manner of time. Puffs of black and purple smoke filled the sky making harder to see anything. The heartless that where behind him were still getting closer. A storm was here pieces of wood flew past him and he he would not be surprised if a large palm tree flew past him. At this point he could hear voices but could not make out what they were saying when there was a battle going on. From what he could tell there was more then one which met that he was right that the others were here. Where they were he could not say but it made him feel a bit better. Soon the heartless that where behind him was about ten feet or so from him. The heartless that he could see were still making there way towards him. With no one near him but Aux who still seemed to be in pain there was no way he could help. There was nothing he could think of to help him. He looked around and found himself surrounded by heartless this was it....


Total Words: 635
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 180

Heartless Defeated
5 Neoshadows

Defeat 576 Shadows
Defeat 151 Neoshadows
Defeat 190 Darkballs