Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

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After the last wave of heartless had been dealt with he thought that the heartless were somehow thinning. He had a feeling that this would not last that long. He knew that soon enough somehow more heartless would come out of no where. No sooner had he thought this then over the heads of some of like five shadows, who at this point seemed weak, rose several dark balls. With a spin, kick and slash of his weapon he took the five shadows out and then the darkballs made there way towards him. With blade in hand, the boy began to make his move towards the side as a large collection of darkballs made there way towards him. Some of the darkball heartless seemed to be far fatter around then the ones he fought before. They were defently different then the regular darkball heartless. Staring at the strange creature, it looked back at him as well, a feral look in its beady eyes as it readied its self for attack. Throwing his almost dull makeshift knife at one of the darkballs. The darkball exploded lunching some unknown purple liquid out from its self. Thankfully it did not get on him. Now some of the heartless around him had a purple glow to them. He was given a short break upon the exploding darkball. After the faling of so many heartless why they still came after him was beyond him. He was felling the massive heartless battle was just begining. To make matters worse, another darkball had floated its way over to where hr was. Surprisingly none of the heartless had made an another move to attack him again yet. This was despite clearly having the numbers advantage against him. Yes he did just prove time and time agin that he was not going down without a fight. It was likely that their strongest force out of all of them was there number not the strength of one heartless but one of manny. Him fight or they being gone for good would only last so long. Who made it longer it was hard to say at this point.

This one heartless was clearly sporting a cocky look on its face as it looked down upon him. Not to mentioned that it was had floated down and stared him down from its higher position. This heartless was challenging him wasn't it. It had a expressions on its face that said all of this. He would have been all to happy to take this darkball out. To take it in this challenge seeing as it clearly wanted it, but the moment he took a single step forward a good five more dark balls joined in. He let out a sigh. This battle seemed like it was never going to end. It was the battle that went on and on. The never ending battle fighting the heartless. It may have been brief, but still long enough for him to pick up another pice of bark and use that as his new wepond seeing at the last makeshift knife was long gone. He was able to deliver a devastating lunch to one more of the dark balls heartless and sending it flying back into the crowd in a fiery explosion. He was not sure why some of these darkball were exploding but he was going to try and not question it. Gripping his wepond tighter, the boy was ready to make another run at the darkball swarm that was ready to attack him. It had appeared that he somehow had managed to get the darkballs to slow down. They were slowed down for now but he knew that they would attack soon.

Word Count: 617
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 600

Heartless Defeated:
6 shadows
8 darkballs

Heartless Remaining:
115 Shadows
74 Neoshadows
119 Darkballs

 

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The heartless didn't seem to keen on waiting for Kel to answer Luna, even if it didn't take too long. In fact the heartless didn't seemed to be too fond of Luna's presence in general. Kel, who hadn't turned away from facing the heartless on account of the times in which they have already attack him from behind, noticed that they seemed to be moving more frequently than they were when it was just him. In reality this more concerned Kel than confused him. It was already starting to get annoying enough dealing with them as they were now. Throwing in aggression could add another level of difficulty to all this. His grip tighten on both his keyblades just as a neoshadow had jumped out from the tree towards the duo. Its haste had made it a simple target to strike with a quick thunder spell. "They've certainly gotten more eager since you showed up." It was kinda in a joking sense when he said it, but the fact of the matter was it was true. The past few times they have more gone through the process of slinking into the ground before their attacks and that last one just completely skipped that process and gone straight for the attack. Another one had jumped off the tree right after its comrades failed attempt. The heartless was keen on delivering a furry of attacks his way, forcing Kel to stay on the defensive for a bit. His footing remained strong and wasn't going to go anywhere along as this was the case. There had to have been some sort of hive mind interaction between the heartless for while the one that Kel was currently fighting seemingly stopped trying to actually deliver harm upon him and instead more focused on keeping him from moving.

The reason behind this was clear in a matter of seconds later when another neoshadow had sped past Kel in an attempt to get to Luna. "Oh no you don't." Using both of his keyblades to keep the neoshaodw at bay from attacking, Kel delivered a swift kick to its stomach, or rather where its stomach should be. The anatomy of heartless was something that was lost upon him. He then threw Oathkeeper at the stunned shadow to keep it from immediately trying to attack him once again. It could've tried again, but it would've been difficult given that the keyblade had pierced the heartless right through its head. Dissipating into dust, he turned away form that heartless and to the one that was still on its way towards Luna. A single step was all that he had taken before another two neoshadows arose from the puddles that happened to be near Kel and latched onto his arms. His initial struggles did nothing more than just waste energy as the heartless that held him back had not only linked arms behind him, but anchored themselves into the ground. All in an effort to keep him from stopping the one heartless that was on its way towards Luna. All this effort just to attack one person was strange, but not as strange as the fact that they were still taking turns with their attacks as opposed to attacking all at once. Long as the heartless never figured that out. "Get off." Just then Kel had felt a chill run through him and faintly through his arms. Fortunately he'd added on sleeves to his recent attire change, so the cold on his arm wasn't that bad. He looked back to the heartless that were holding him back had been frozen solid. In fact there was a trail ice that both surrounded him and stretched out and caught the neoshadow that had gone after Luna. "How did I do that?"

Total Words: 629
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 420
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 210

Heartless Defeated
1 Shadows
5 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining:
111 Shadows
69 Neoshadows
119 Darkballs

 

"Hah, well to be fair, you were kind of weak back then." He said to Stratos, who commented on the moment past when he'd used soldier and empowered Stratos with it, to minimal effect. "Though, that was only back then." He said, watching the boy effortlessly destroy a swath of heartless with the raw physical power the job gave him.

From the looks of things, the battle was beginning to pick up in pace. Off in the distance, he spied Aux, who had decided to actively begin participating. He still wasn't sure how well they'd be able to trust him, but for the moment he appeared to be concentrating his efforts entirely toward the heartless. To speak nothing of his reliability of personality, he was exceedingly powerful, so Beuce didn't think too much on his participation. It would be an enormous boon. Stratos had begun to deal with the horde of darkballs that approached them, while Beuce continued to battle the neoshadows on the ground. In an incredibly bout of luck, Beuce managed to reach out and grab onto the antenna of a neoshadow. He could swear the beady yellow eyes grew larger the moment his hand clasped down onto it.

Now that it was unable to escape with it's speed Beuce was more than strong enough to do with it as he pleased. With a heavy swing, he threw it full force into a darkball that Stratos was currently facing. The rotund heartless was caught unaware as its more slender companion crashed into it, sending both of them tumbling. At least, they would've gone tumbling if a pillar of light hadn't been called down from the heavens above and turned them both into a familiar inky black smoke. Beuce, having three more pillars to spend, attempted to incinerate two more neoshadows, but they dodged in opposite directions, forcing him to choose between the two. These things were getting a bit to clever for his liking. He fired the third pillar on the one that dodged to the left. Fast and dexterous as it may have been, it couldn't change its direction midair. So, the white light struck it dead on and immediately removed it from the fight. He fired the final pillar at another darkball near Stratos, knowing full well he couldn't hit the neoshadow with it. Instead, he took up a stance, red side at the ready.

The agile heartless sprinted toward the seemingly wide open keyblade master. It lunged, only to find a flow of cherry blossoms radiating with a white aura fill its vision, and it was split in half by an impossibly fast and impossibly powerful strike. As Beuce discovered, Zantetsuken was also empowered by his new aura, along with Stratos' strength bolstering presence. Honestly, this was just incredibly useful all around as an offensive tool. He got the feeling, however, that he couldn't sustain more than one at a time, so he decided to save his other two for later. No sense showing all his tricks up front, especially when the heartless seemed to be getting more and more intelligent and capable of planning. He just hoped they didn't develop speech. Several more neoshadows seemed to rise out of the ground, now encircling him in some sort of arena. He'd started to use his stronger attacks, and they'd begun to view him as more of a threat. Taking a deep breath, Beuce prepared himself for their oncoming onslaught.
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Total Words: 604
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 360
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 180

Heartless Defeated
4 neoshadows
2 darkballs
Remaining
111 Shadows
65 Neoshadows
117 Darkballs

 

As much as Ignis wanted to say they were getting close to finishing up their fight here, it was hard to convince herself of that. She looked around and noticed that there were definitely less heartless, but seeing all of the shadows everywhere, "shadows" being the dark figures of the heartless and not the weak little annoyances that wouldn't leave them alone, really made her want to go find a nice corner to take a rest in. She fired off a flame strike to a wayward darkball, singing it extra crispy and watching as it puffed into a vapor of nothingness. Or maybe it was a vapor of darkness? It was hard to tell how to phrase these things given where they were and what they were dealing with. She looked over to Beuce and Stratos as they dealt with their fair share of heartless.

"So am I the only one thinks perhaps we could get some kind of assistance with this nonsense? I'd really appreciate some kind of help considering these Heartless aren't making our jobs any easier. Sure, we got new abilities to deal with them, but let's be honest, a handful of keybladers versus all these things isn't going to end well for us. I'm betting you by the end of this, we're all just going to get out of this realm and just find a nice little bed to relax in. Or is that just me?"

She took a swing at another darkball, taking it out and looking around. It seemed kind of strange how there were so many enemies and yet they didn't just completely overwhelm them all at once. At the very least, if this were her leading a group, she would just use the sheer numbers to overwhelm the enemies, no matter how strong they were. Than again, they were fighting a bunch of creatures made from darkness, so it's not like they really had much thought process to go along that route.

As she let her mind wander, a Neoshadow took the chance to sneak up on her. Ignis turned her head to look around and noticed the heartless. Once it was spotted, the heartless attacked Ignis with its claws. Ignis swung her keyblade, swiping away the attack and knocking the heartless off balance. As she readied to strike the enemy, another neoshadow popped out from behind it and swung at Ignis. As she was in mid-swing, she lit her keyblade on fire, sending flames upward and blocking the attack from the second neoshadow. At the same time, she finished her swing and took out the first that attacked her. Taking the first one out, she kicked the second one, which looked like it had a nice day at the sauna, and vaporized it. By that point she figured she was done, but some Shadows popped out and surrounded her. There looked to be about ten of them, and Ignis really wasn't ready to deal with the annoying creatures and their little "shifting into the ground" stuff. She waited as the Shadows readied themselves to strike, and all of them jumped at Ignis simultaneously. As they got over her, she through her keyblade, taking a handful of them out while the rest when flying. She kept tossing her keyblade, destroying them before they touched the ground. By the end, it was Ignis with one ten points and the Shadows at zero. She figured there was a joke in there somewhere, but didn't really want to think on it.

She turned around turned Stratos and Beuce and figured she'd try to make some kind of small talk. "You guys enjoy those new auras of yours? Seems like mine's come in handy plenty already."

Total Words: 620
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 360

Heartless Defeated:
2 Darkballs
10 Shadows
2 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining:
101 Shadows
63 Neoshadows
112 Darkballs

 

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It had appeared that he somehow had managed to get the darkballs to slow down. They were slowed down for now but he knew that they would attack soon. It seemed that the stopped darkballs were not going to stay stopped. Taking another deep breath, and ready for the onslot that was sure to come from the darkballs and shadows. With his wepond at the ready the boy charged forward with swift speed rushing towards the darkball heartless. before they could do anything. With a single cut nothing seemed to happen at first, only for the keyblade master to then immediately strike with yet another swing of his weapon the darkball exploded. Another darkball show up this one looking regular size and he took this one one fast too. The heartless were destroyed in an instant, unable to take the raw force of the attack, and dissipated back into the strands of shadow they were made of. He was staring to get the grove of this battling thing but he knew that he was getting tired. With that some of the heartless were now gone. He knew that he would be be able to cut through the heartless even more easily than he had been before, and started to run headfirst into the on coming mob.

There was still a gap between him and the next larger darkball heartless, meaning that he would have to try and make his way further through the battle at hand. There was more fighting to be had before he could ever make it over to the largest darkball yet. Frustrated about not being able to get to that large darkball heartless. He brought his attention to the closest darkball to him. He readied himself and the darkball flew at him stapping his knife into the darkball. He began to spin it over his head before throwing it straight at another darkball that was popping somewhere between him and the largeest darkball yet. He watched as the darkball heartless flew through the air before hinting the ground and disapearing. Perhaps hhe should have thought things through before throwing a heartless into the air. Spinning himself aroundshe searched around for anyone that was familiar. He still was not quite able to see anyone. He was a keyblade master but yet he felt no different. he was ready for more darkballs. Strike after strike that the darkballs did he dodged the darkballs as the came close. He was not sure how much damage they could do to him but he was not about to find out by getting hit. The largest drakball looked ready to try and kill him.

Through all this he managed to close the distance between himself and the large darkball. He did not worry too much about the Iarge darkball as soon he was sure it would be gone. He knew that the moment that he stopped moving left to right and back agin there would be an attack again. He did not want the battle to come to him as it was easier for him to take out things slowly to the side. So he just made sure that he keept on was still hopping around so that if they did attack he would be ready. He was sure the heartless would miss if they attacked. He was still mad that Aux had left him to die. After that he took the makeshift knife nd drove it forward into where the heart would be if this darkball was a person It was hard to tell being that it was a floting orb but he did his best. The Heartless tried to fight back but it was hopless for it.

Word Count: 617
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 660

Heartless Defeated:
8 darkballs
1 shadow

Heartless Remaining:
99 Shadows
58 Neoshadows
104Darkballs

 

These heartless seemed to be not only intelligent in the way the approached combat, but it also looked like they were pack hunters. He was glad they were only in the realm of darkness for a short amount of time, and during that time they were mostly participating in the reaper's game. If they'd been there for very long before dreamer had collected them all and taken them through the castle of illusions, the heartless almost certainly would've picked them off one by one. If he had to face this horde alone, he wasn't sure he'd have the mental fortitude to steel himself for it. As he expected, the heartless all leaped at him at once. He knew that if they succeeded in swarming him, he wouldn't stand a chance against their speed. So, he stepped up onto a yellow orb he had created beneath him, and it shot out into a line sparking with electricity as he rode it out of the immediate threat area of the heartless.

Having avoided the attack by momentarily taking to the air above them, he turned back around to go on the offensive. It was only for a moment, but they were all clustered up. Leaping off his powerline early, he looked down onto them, his vision focusing in on them to an unnatural height. Once again, the shining white cherry blossoms filled the area around him. Without wasting a moment, he seemed to blink out of reality and appear on the other side of the neoshadows. A momentary pause and an unnatural stillness from those heartless was followed by an enormous slash mark that tore their ranks apart. One 'pop' after another as most of the ones nearby had exploded into clouds of darkness and floated off to who knows where. He looked to Ignis, who was fighting in the same area as the two of them and apparently primarily focusing on shadows. That was good. In just their area, they had someone on every remaining type of target.

"Well, we didn't have to deal with the really big ones right away thanks to Kuma. Him fighting whoever that was is also probably the reason the heartless aren't immediately swarming us all at once. He controls them, and his concentration is broken right now. Really, I think that's the best we can ask for. Besides, we're masters now. We've done nearly nothing but hide behind people stronger than us up till now, but we have the power to fight back now. If we can't handle a few thousand heartless between us, then why are we even trying for No Heart? Still, once we're done...I can't say it won't be nice to actually sit down and relax for a minute." He looked to the horde of Neoshadows as it began to replenish itself from his Zantetsuken.

"Yeah. I assume you took fire?" He threw his keyblade as a lance to pierce through the chest of a neoshadow that had jumped toward him, then summoned it back to his hand in a spiral of blue and red light. "I think mine is called Blade? Its for anything that requires using the keyblade at all." He jumped up and crashed down onto an unsuspecting neoshadow that hadn't even finished emerging from the ground. His planted the red side into its neck, and adjusted his hands to be wielding its more mystical counterpart. "It seems like it gives a helping hand to most things that we do. It's really nice." ​

Total Words: 613
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 420
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 210

Heartless Defeated
5 neoshadows
1 shadow
Remaining
98 Shadows
53 Neoshadows
104Darkballs

 

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He moved forward slightly and unleashed a flurry of blows before the one of the darkballs heartless could escape. His combo hitting was successful as the one of the darkball heartless faded into darkness. From the corner of his eye, he could see many of the smaller shadow heartless sinking into the ground and heading right for him. He moved back and began to stand far from the heartless as he could. He whacked his way through the wave as they mad there way towards him. The heartless were trying to reach him still desite his fighting style. He noticed that fighting the once adament heartless seemed relatively easy to him now. Was it something to do with becoming a master? Regardless, he felt he had grown as both a keyblade wielder and as a person. He kept moving until the large darkball blocked his path. He froze in place, backing up a bit at the size of the above average darkball heartless. He backed up and use his back ended up next to the same palm tree. While he wasn't the fastest, he thin he could manage to race around behind the heartless before hitting the heartless with his knife. The power of the knife did a number on the darkball heartless, doing massive damage and causing the heartless to decrease in speed. Seizing his opportunity, he unleashed a quick torrent of slashes before the darkball heartless finally dispersed. He continued to look around for any of the massive darkball heartless he had never seen before before backing up slowly. His back eventually hit something, as he was stunned before turning around. and saw that it was still the palm tree. With his slashing of heartless having managed to destroy a large swath of them.

It would do him no good to try and destroy every last heartless that was here and instead it was better to slowly destroy the ones in front of him to systematically lower their numbers. Perhaps at some point he might see the others and they would then try to destroy some. Through his combined efforts he would 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 darkball heartless shadow creatures that he had run into before. While he was fast enough to not get hit he was not taking any chances. At this point some more darkballs formed a swarm behind him. Regular shadows were far slower in comparison to their more matured versions. As such, he could not just run past the darkballs and expect to continue fighting them. More to the point, he could not 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 could not actually.

Regardless, he began to ran at them, and the darkball was ready for him. The first of the darkballs seemed to flop down to the ground trying to stop what he was doing. The darkball then began spinning at him. He was unsure of what was looking at, but the darkball heartless seemed to be more like a wheel of raw slashing power that he wanted to not deal with at all. so, as the spinning darkball heartless moved towards him, he jumped over the heartless. he brought his blade into it by shoving the blade backwords killing the darkball. Bringing his blade up into a guard, he then blocked the next attack as another of the darkballs came his way.

Word Count: 612
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 720

Heartless Defeated:
8 darkballs
1 shadow

Heartless Remaining:
96 Shadows
48 Neoshadows
96 Darkballs

 

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The three frozen neoshadow statues shattered shortly after and Kel took this time to examine his own handiwork. Looking down at the ice that hand formed, he'd noticed a small portion raising of the top of his shoe. Somehow he'd managed to use blizzard with his foot? That was what it looked like and really only brought about more question, primarily how did he even manage to use a spell with his foot!? The chill in his body still remained and upon closer inspection, he noticed a faint bluish glow around it. It was strongest near his feet, namely the foot that was partially coated in ice itself. "Was that supposed be my aura?" Thinking back to it, he'd felt a familiar chill course through his body when he first acquired it and the color was exactly the same as well. The only difference was the lack of said color pulsing around him, but with how faint the glow was in the first place it wouldn't be surprising for him to fail to notice a small detail like that. Kel took in how this was one of the things that he could manage with his aura before turning back towards the neoshadow infested tree. The next batch of five had just arrived and unlike before, they skipped the who 'let's chuck a poor unsuspecting shadow at the keyblade wielder' and instead actually landed right on one. For supposed mindless creatures, they certainly had some sort of ingrained biased towards their lesser kind. They just stood there as menacing as they possibly could, still focusing most of their attention towards trying to get to Luna. In theory he could just free them right off the bat before they even moved. Heck, he could free the entire tree while he was at it and bring this whole little section to an end. Of course that required a level in skill with his aura that he certainly did not have right now. What he'd just did was by pure accident and there was no way he would got from accidentally freezing three to straight up frost aging a group or at least fifty five.

Kel estimated that at best he could managed to freeze one or two, but it was up to his own skills right now. The neoshadows dashed forward poised to strike. Once again the majority of their forces were heading heading towards him, with that singular one still trying to slink off towards Luna. Same tactics, just with little variations to it each time. This time they had decided to strike Kel with the full brunt of their attack. In the face of this adversity, Kel stood firm and poised himself to attack. He quickly stabbed one of his keyblades into the ground before grabbing the wrist of one of the closer neoshadows and twirling it around. The heartless started to pick up speed before it was thrown in the direction of another neoshadow. The head on collision between the two heartless wiped them both out and caused a moment in which the other two heartless to be distracted long enough for Kel to jump up towards them. One in particular had been beaten by a hammer strike to the head that sent it crashing into the ground down below. The next one lashed out at Kel, but the attack was blocked his keyblade. The one that had been stuck into the ground had vanished and formed into Kel's hand just in time for him to deal a downward strike to his foe. The was the one who had gone after Luna and it took a whole firaga to the back before it could reach her.

Total Words: 616
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 480
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 240

Heartless Defeated
1 Shadows
5 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining:
91 Shadows
38 Neoshadows
96 Darkballs

 

This set of neoshadows seemed to have witnessed and learned from what had happened to the last one. They approached cautiously. Each time he tried to strike at them, they fled into the ground to avoid being hit by his blade. Scurrying beneath the earth, safe from harm, they repositioned themselves and attempted to strike at him once again. Given their increasingly infuriating tactics, Beuce was starting to get a little annoyed with the things. One jumped out of the ground and raked its claws at him, but he simply brought up his glass arm to intercept it. Try as it might, the heartless was hopelessly outdone in terms of its offensive power against the hardness of the arm. A blizzara spell to its chest was all that was needed to quickly dispatch it. Still, these things were going to be a problem if he couldn't find a way to get around their hit and run strategy. Not to mention, cautious as they were, they weren't exactly giving him room to think. He had basically been reduced to parrying their claws, with the occasional strike against them.

He looked down as one rose from the ground beneath him and struck at his legs. His eyes widened as a thought struck him. The attack from beneath him had reminded him of something. He raised up the magical end of his keyblade and five clusters of explosive force formed in front of him. "Seeker Mine!" With another wave of the weapon, he sent them out searching for prey to detonate on. They scanned the ground aimlessly for a bit, leaving the white haired master with baited breath. Finally, the seemed to "lock on" to the various neoshadows beneath the ground, and hover over them for the duration of their time beneath the ground. While they didn't detonate, the shadows couldn't safely come up without triggering the spell and being destroyed. It appeared there was a limited amount of time they could stay under the ground, as eventually they were forced to exit, and the mines instantaneously exploded in a blast of force that launched them into the air. It didn't quite finish them off, but it certainly created enough of an opening.

Wasting no time on the joy that his plan had succeeded in forcing them out of the ground long on to attack, he threw a strike raid toward one of the heartless and dashed with all his might to get in the way of another so that the return trip would take it out. He managed to just barely succeed, and two of the obnoxious heartless were destroyed. With one last effort, he fired a firaga at another that managed to connect right before it landed and presumably vanished into the ground once again. With three of them destroyed by his move, his mana reserves were running a little low. Thankfully, the remaining neoshadows seemed to realize that going underground wasn't going to save them anymore, now that Beuce had figured out a way to effectively hurt them while they were in it, so a head on assault was their only option. They ran forward with frightening speed and spun into a wheel of a claw slash. Beuce managed to smack one of them into the air and follow it up with a splattercombo. The second one was a little bit more difficult. They managed to evade one another's attacks, but with its far superior speed, it was going to win in a battle of evasion, so Beuce broke away from it, throwing another strike raid to finish it off. It seemed like most of the neoshadows in the general area were dealt with, so he ran to help Stratos with the more round and hopefully less obnoxious ones. ​

Total Words: 656
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 480
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 240

Heartless Defeated
5 neoshadows
1 shadow

Remaining
90 Shadows
33 Neoshadows
96 Darkballs

 

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After bringing his blade up into a guard, he then blocked the next attack as another of the darkballs came his way. The large darkball in the distance had appeared to be amused by His attemets of attacking. He made a gesture and fortunately for the keyblade wielder, there weren't any other darkball heartless of that massive of a size. He did not want to deal with another expolding darkball heartless but it looked like that was not a potion. Instead this time he choose to play the numbers game and had the smaller darkball heartless come towords him. Eight darkball heartless were sent his way, all grouped up to make it so that he would not be able to take them down in one strike. He knew that he was runing low on energy he felt tired. He would have to rely on his own skills to deal with this threat, which was not too much of an issue as he had done this song and dance before. Not to mention he had a few more tricks up his sleeves. While he thought on this, the darkballs and shadows seemed to merge into the one being. This was not the case but they were so close together at this point they looked like one thing. The darkballs fortunately did not seem all that smart or maybe they were and this was all so he would lower his gard. The darkball heartless was not all that intimidating of a sight by, more strange. No matter the thoughts were pushed away and he went on the offensive and deal blow. It was successful in striking down some of the darkball. His original plan was to strike away at the darkball heartless untill it was gone. He had to deal with as mamny of the darkballs heartless as he could. As they floated his way they had fallen flat on the ground. 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.

Everything around him seemed to be keeping up nearly as well as he was. He was fighting hard he could tell. There still there was hardly an end in sight. They would need to put a lot of work in in order to get any further with this fight. That being said the big threat still loomed over him in the form of the darkball heatless that was clumbted together. He would need to deal with this before he was allowed time to relax a bit. Then he might be able to deal with the small enemies. As much as hhe would like to join the fight reducing down the numbers, left unchecked this could be a problem. As long as he could not get those countless heartless under control he should not rest. be too much of a problem. Though having their numbers cut down by some now seemed to have made it somewhat easier. Hhe could see them start to dart around him trying everything they could do to get to him. Jumping back a little to the palm tree. The darkball heartless did not seem to be giving him any chances. He had to get a chance to hit the darkball heartless. The next thing he knew the darkball heartless came towards him. As the mass of the group of dark heartless came at him he took a few swings clearly hurting. With a few more swings of his blade the drakball heartless was gone.

total Words: 604
Exp: 60
Total Exp:780

Heartless Defeated
8 darkballs
1 shadow

Remaining
89 Shadows
33 Neoshadows
88 Darkballs

 

As they continued their endless assault on the seemingly endless hoard of heartless, Ignis came across some more shadows. As much as she hated these things and how they disappeared into the ground, they seemed to mutually love messing with her, because she couldn't get away from them no matter how hard she tried. Then again, they were in the Realm of Darkness, so it shouldn't have been all that surprising. Even still, she was getting irritated by the number of them and wanted at least something different to deal with. Instead, they were being swarmed by obnoxious Shadows that couldn't keep a physical form for two seconds and just let the keybladers knock them out. Maybe she was asking for too much, but at this point she'd rather deal with behemoths from Central Haven again.

"Okay, so we've got some maniacal guy who wants to take us out and prove he's not useless. Then we've got Kuma from the Order here beating him up, or at least that's my hope, I kind of lost track of them. Then we've got Aux who just a minute ago looked like he was about to go all crazy on us again. Then we've got an expansive army of heartless that want to get rid of us. Oh, and let's not forget that this whole day started by being forced into a castle to face....whatever the heck it was we all faced, then we dealt with an evil witch, and then forced into a death game as our way of becoming masters. Can someone please tell me we're out of surprised for the day, or should I just go sulk in the corner right now?"

She knocked another Shadow away, causing it to dissipate. At this point there was definitely a smaller number than they had dealt with before. Although for some reason it still felt like she couldn't make out anything or anyone from where she was. It was probably because of all the heartless jumping and bobbing around, at least in the case of the darkballs, but she was amazed she hadn't gotten lost on this little island. There were enough heartless around to make a small room look like a giant field given how much they blocked her view. She let lose another flame wave against the shadows, knocking them down and causing them to fizzle away. At the very least she was glad of her new abilities and being able to take out multiple enemies at once. It was kind of ironic that she had the abilities of fire now when she couldn't even use her own fire spell that well before when this whole thing started. As she toasted her next shadow, she heard a shuffling sound in the sand and saw some Neoshadow coming up toward her. She sighed a little, figuring that if it wasn't one Shadow, it was a Neoshadow.

As the Neoshadow came up to her, it began the usual attack of slashing its claws at her. The one saving grace of these things was that they really only had one way to attack it seemed, and that was jumping and slashing at things. The only part she had to be careful of was being caught by surprise. She figured she hadn't taken the time to blow something up recently, and punched the heartless in the gut as it tried to attack her. She sent the enemy flying right into a group of Neoshadows a little ways away and watched as they blew up. She might not have been great with magic, but she certainly enjoyed using that skill of her, plus the added aura flames.

Total Words: 612
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 420

Heartless Defeated:
11 Shadows
3 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining:
78 Shadows
31 Neoshadows
88 Darkballs

 

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The number of neoshadows had taken another noticeable dive as there brief moment in which Kel could actually see the tree behind the mass of heartless. This of course prompted another surge of aggression from the neoshadows. The next batch of five had dropped down from the tree, one of which holding a shadow in its hand. Due to the past treatment in which they were given, the immediate first thing Kel thought that it was going to do with the heartless was to chuck it at him or Luna. The latter would be a smarter options, but their aim was not the greatest in the world. So they would be no guarantee that the shadow would hit her, let alone get anywhere near hitting her. What the heartless actually did was something both worse and more on the disturbing side of the spectrum. The neoshadow had eaten the smaller shadow. Even the other heartless were surprised by this actions. At first nothing happened to the heartless, leaving everyone standing there unsure about how to feel about that. Out of nowhere the heartless had started to change. First its claws elongated and sharpened, its skinny frame was distorted leaving most of its strength in its arm. "That is not good in the slightest." That one little shadow must have been the equivalent to spinach for that one neoshadow. Assuming the same could be said about the other shadows then it wouldn't be good new for him. The now arm strength only heartless had finished its out of transformation and was just standing in the middle of the four neoshadows. One of which had taken it upon itself to inspect its heartless friend. Moments later that very same heartless was smacked backward into the tree that the other heartless were on watching all this.

From that point on the rouge neoshadow had begun the process of beating down anything that was near. Meaning that the remaining three neoshadows were the first to fall in a variety of ways. One had its head crushed, one had the apparent spine it had snapped like a twig bane style and the last one had made an attempt to escape. The puddle it dove into did naught to help it escape its face for the rouge neoshadow dove its own oversize hand into the puddle and dragged the heartless out. It heartless could scream, then this one would certainly be screaming its head off as it was toss aside and into the water. Neoshadows couldn't swim right? If that were the case, then this one was differently gone and out. The one sided heartless slaughter had come to a close and this rouge monster turned to face the two keyblade wielders. Even if the numerous changes it had just gone through, one thing that remained the same was the desire to attack Luna. After the display that Kel just watched, there was no way that he was going to let this thing anywhere near her. His grip on both of his keyblades tightened before Kel had decided to take the initiative and make the first attack. If there were to be any upside to any of this, it was that this rouge heartless lacked speed as a result of its hellish strength. This did give him the speed advantage, but he couldn't afford to slip up. The moment he slowed down could be the very same moment in which the rouge heartless swung a punch at him. While keeping up the speed advantage, Kel made a coupe of attempts to strike it. Said attempt hit its bloated arms and deflected off, doing nothing to damage it. Attacking its arms were out of the question now and both of its arms were raised into the air and brought down with tremendous force. The attack had almost knocked Kel off balanced, but fortunately he'd managed to catch himself with his keyblade. While Kel had regained his balance, the rouge neoshadow had poised itself for another attack. The ground behind Kel once again had frozen, involuntarily, and he moved to avoid the attack. Hitting nothing but the ice, the heartless had punched right through the ice and got its fists stuck in the ground. The opportunity a used for Kel to deal a decisive blow to the much scrawnier and now easier to hit center of the heartless. "Never again." He muttered, watching the heartless fade away in front of him.

Total Words: 740
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 540
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 270

Heartless Defeated
1 Shadows
5 Neoshadows

Heartless Remaining:
77 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
96 Darkballs

 

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After the mass of the group of dark heartless came at him he took a few swings clearly hurting. With a few more swings of his blade the drakball heartless was gone. He looked around at the broken and dark world. It was...hardly what he would have thought was going to be going on. A darkball heartless leaped at him, spinning its whole body to attack him. He however back-stepped out of the way, before lunging forward and cleaving the heartless in two with his blade. Following the larger one was a plethora of regular shadows. He charged them head on and mowed them down one by one. He threw out his almost dull knife of a weapon in a straight line, decimating a row of the small heartless. Another darkball leaped at him with almost just the right timing to hit him fortunately for him he was able to move just at the right time. The blonde stood himself up next to the palm tree to keep good balance. Thinking he was doing alright for now. Though one thing he had not necessarily anticipated was another attack by darkballs heartlessso soon after the last one. He pick of another piece of bark again which was now running low now. The storm still was in the distance. The storm swished a piece of wood past him and the he had no focus in that direction as it slammed into her face, knocking him onto the ground. He turned to focus more on the debris since the wind was more in focus on that direction, while he was not in focus, a group of darkballs suddenly went in with an attack. The blonde went flying into the large palm tree that was still behind him. The darkball hearless had jumped in frount of him or more like flowed in his way.

He was genuinely curious how he was going to manage to keep going with this at this pace. He watched the darkballs heartless fly in every direction. By this point he had to find a way to give himrself enough of a break that hhe could focus more before another big attack. The heartless He focused on were the darkball Heartless. Hhe had been taking them out slowly, but since he decided to leave some neoshandows for some time he could spot a few in the distance.

Once more, just like before, he slowed her breath and focused her energy. His eyes glared at the cluster of heartless that were near the him. The darkball heartless. He found himself surrounded by a group of darkball heartless anlong with other hearless. Twisting around, one after another the darkball heartless were met with the end of her blade. He was not noticing how heavily his breathing was until he stopped fighting.

Yet another trial of the darkball heartless had been clear and as opposed to getting agitated that the keyblade wielder has yet to fall in combat. He knew that the heatless would not stop there attack and he would not stop fighting. The smaller swarm of heartless around him was getting closer now. He had a little break betwenn the fighting but man this was going to be one long fight probably one of the longest ones yet. Another gust of wind blew his way. Then there was spinning of the darkball heartless coming for him once again. With ease, the blade cleaved off the darkball hearless in half. Another one came and he retaliated with yet another slash. His blade had managed to cleanly find its way across the darkball heartless. In merely two clean hits, he had managed to kill the darkball heartless.

Total Words: 614
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 840

Heartless Defeated
1 Shadows
8 darkballs

Heartless Remaining:
76 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
80 Darkballs

 

Now that the heartless wave was finally down a fair amount, Ignis figured she could get a moment's reprieve from all this fighting. She let herself fall to the ground and gave a little moan. She realized that there were still heartless all around her, but she was off in her own little world, getting away from all the fighting they had been doing. She almost didn't care if they decided to attack her right now, she just wanted to think about something other than the impossible amount of heartless in front of her. She thought about being back at home, and in the woods where she stayed. Then she thought about all those days where she could just lay in the grass next to the lake and sleep like nothing was wrong. Of course, that moment didn't last long, as she opened her eyes and there was a Shadow, staring her right in the face. For what seemed like a couple seconds, nothing happened, the two of them just staring at each other. After that, Ignis began feeling angry bring brought back to reality and punched the heartless right in the face, immediately vanquishing it. Just a little bit of denial, was that so much to ask? Apparently for these guys, it was, as there were more Shadows around her, this time a whole platoon of them. She moaned a little, wanted to get a little more rest, but figured it was back to reality.

She got up just as a shadow figured it was time to attack, leaping at her claws flailing. The good part about the Shadows over the Neoshadows was how short they were, since she could simply take them out with her keyblade before their tiny little arms got close to her. She thrust her keyblade out, knocking the heartless back into a pile of others. Then she chucked her keyblade at the pile, taking them all out. The others didn't appreciate that, however, as they began to fidget around randomly and jumping like bugs. She was getting irritated by all the jumping and hopping lately, and figured it was time to stop them. She lit her keyblade up like a candle and struck in into the ground, sending a giant fire wave outward from her, hitting all the Shadows flailing about. Some vanished instantly, others laid on their backs, arms and feet twitching, though she wasn't sure if that was from her attack of just their usual twitch. Then she realized that wave was big enough to get to Stratos and Beuce and slowly turned around. They both were slightly singed, with a little flame flickering off the tips of their hair. She cringed at her own carelessness.

"Oops, sorry guys. Wasn't really thinking about that just now. I'll try and remember to not do it again with other people around."

She turned back toward the last of the shadows that were still on the ground, some of which were getting back up after the attacks. Ignis figured at this point it wouldn't do to just excessively use flames, and decided to get up close and personal with them before they went back to their little habits of disappearing and reappearing. She hacked and slashed at the Shadow, taking them out as some tried to fight back after regaining their senses, what little they had at least, and others simply waved around in a daze. She tossed her keyblade at a couple, and did a few kicks at some more, trying not to wear herself out. Luckily they were all basically gone at that point, since they disappeared after a little strike here and there. It was too bad her aura strength wasn't enough that she could just put the whole island to flames and get the heartless in one. She would probably need more practice before achieving something of that level.

Total words: 648
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 480

Heartless Defeated:
26 Shadows

Heartless Remaining:
50 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
80 Darkballs

 

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After another one came and he retaliated with yet another slash. His blade had managed to cleanly find its way across the darkball heartless. In merely two clean hits, he had managed to kill the darkball heartless.Yet another trial of the darkball heatless had been cleared and as opposed to getting angry that this battle was not over yet he had to focus on thinning the numbers even more. Using his wepond as a source of lfast attack, he went for another one of the darkball heartless. He got 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 spinns. He maneuvered his blade in a counteractive slash for each one, spinning it as he did so. The darkball backed away for a moment as the keyblade master just stood there. An impressive feat, given how unwieldly the weapon was, but right now it would have to do. Wasting no more time showing off to the heartless that would soon be dead, He lunged forward, sliding across the ground. Normally this was a weaker, more mobile tool of combat they possessed, but he had turned it just as deadly as most of their other arsenal. He slashed upward the moment he reached the darkball heartless, cleaving it in two.

A few darkballs heartless rushed him, gnashing their teeth as they rapidly flew through the air. He was not 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 did not mean he was not going to make them pay for it ten times over. 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 heartless, destroying it instantly in a very similar fashion.

He jumped head-first into a pile of darkball heartyless that were floating around, looking to attack him. He really was not looking forward to dealing with those guys, seeing how it had been mostly what he had been fighting so far but it would have to do. The Darkball heartless that were floating around, turning into puffs of smoke and acting all crazy. He did not even want to think about those big flying heartless. He figured that was the only annoyance he had to deal with when a larger version of the darkballs and neo shandow heartless. He just took down some darkball heartless and more were flying at him from out of nowhere. He brought up his weapon to defend against the darkball heartless and staped the heartless. He spinnined the darkball heart less around. It Then landed on the ground and readied itself for another fight. Apparently This thing was not about to give up. He had to deal with this darkball heartless fast. He jumped back as quickly as he could when it came spinning towards him.

He continued his advance through the heartless, stopped by yet another darkball heartless. Looking at it he had to fight this darkball. Barely being able to keep up with this creature, he just barely managed to put his wepond up to defend against the attack. The blade managed to cut at bit of the darkball heartless. Then it went for him. Wincing in pain from the attack, the boy attempted to back off from the creature. His back was once again next to the palm tree. He attacked the darkball as fast as he could.

Total words: 622
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 900

Heartless Defeated:
1 Shadows
8 darkballs

Heartless Remaining:
49 Shadows
26 Neoshadows
72 Darkballs