Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

"Oh what fixed it? The Mark of Mastery?" she asked, tilting her head. She then heard him say her and that perked her up. "Who's her? I mean, who is she?" Ananta asked, not sure if she missed a name somewhere.​

 

"Well... I guess... it was the orbs that fixed it... somehow... I went for them instinctively... or something." He was still processing that actually. In the meantime though, Ananta seemed to have missed what he mentioned earlier. "Winter of course! My sister. It's her castle up north."

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Beuce glared at Mortimer. He didn't really quite understand how he got out of wasteland, or how he became what he was now, but it was clear that they weren't going to be able to beat him in his current state. It was best to try to avoid a conflict right now, and maybe figure out a way to deal with him later. Beuce didn't say a word to him despite the taunts and the fact he'd managed to kidnap the princess they were protecting from under their noses. Beuce sighed after the mouse was gone. "We'll do everything we can. It's our job as masters. I'll be honest, the reason we even came to that party was to protect you and your sister, but it looks like we've kind of messed that up. Not to mention we're more or less stuck here." Beuce said, before looking up to avoid sounding increasingly more cynical. "We just need to figure out a way to get off world and we can probably track him down and get Anna back." ​

 

Luna walked through to the pathway the willow tree had shown her, humming the same tune. It was as if her mind drew blank as her body carried her through the path. The scenery around her was absolutely wonderful, breath-taking even. She could barely speak over how wondrous the area around her was. As if to draw her mind back, Aislinn spoke up, calling the two over to her. Luna blinked her eyes fro a moment before shaking her head and walking over. Once she walked over to where Aislinn was, a gasp escaped Luna. "The heart of the world. Locking this will protect the world. If anyone can protect it it would be one of pure light." Luna kept her eyes on the keyhole as the tree explained. Luna's blade had immediately been called to her hand. Luna looked over to her blade before looking back at the keyhole. Luna looked over to the tree before speaking. "I'll lock the heart. I don't want a world as beautiful as this with people as wonderful as the people we've come across to get hurt. I want them to live long and happy lives." Her blade rose up and pointed at the keyhole. Luna held it with both hands. She closed her eyes and felt the light in her body and soul flow and ebb through to her keyblade. "With this key in hand, consume the darkness that has plagued this world and return it to light." A beam of light shot through from her key and to the keyhole, locking the heart of the world. Luna opened her eyes and lowered her blade.

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"Well that's a name for a season, that's why I asked." Ananta said, chuckling. "Didn't know you had siblings, though....makes me wonder what she looks like." Ananta mumbled the last part, staring at Steel. Aux returned with some keys and she blinked at him, processing what just happened. "Did you...did you steal...?" she started, shaking her head. "Anyway, um...I know how to drive, but I"m not good since...I drove very very rarely back on my world." she admitted. "So I'm not the best candidate for this. What about you, Aux? Don't know how to drive?"​

 

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Mortimer seemed to be more or less made out of something that resembled jello. Which was unfortunate because he was not sure what do do at the moment. attack after attack had hit Mortimer but the damage seemed to be not as much as he hoped. He was about to attack Mortimer when it decided to up and leave. With Mortimer gone he could now bring his attention to Elsa. He still keep an eye out for anything else that might show up. At this point Elsa asked if they could get her sister back. "Of course I will help and get your sister back." Beuce then said, 'We just need to figure out a way to get off world and we can probably track him down and get Anna back.' At this point he just figured that they could use they keyblade to track a princess of heart. It was that or Beuce knew of another way to track Anna. One trip down the mountain later, the group found themselves back in Arendelle. People seemed happy to see Elsa was back. Elsa then offered them the fastest trade ship she had. "Thank you for the ship." He then watched as the ice golem waled onto the ship they were taking. Soon Elsa asked if there was anything that they needed. He had grabbed some food already before the trip up the mountain so there was no need to ask for that. "No thank you." There was not really anything he could think of that they needed for the trip. Perhaps the others could think of something they needed.

 

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The group had climbed down the mountain after failing to catch that ink-mouse thing, and Elsa had given them a ship to take. Ignis wasn't really sure how they were going to end up in another world just taking a simple ship, but something was better than nothing. She got on bored and looked around, picking a spot against the edge on the opposite side of the ship to lean up against and stare at the water. There wasn't much else for them to do at this point, so she was just ready to get going and not waste any time.

 

Beuce shook his head when Elsa asked if there was anything else they needed. "We should be good from here. We'll get her back. You just need to worry about running your kingdom. You should probably also get that duke arrested for hiring someone to assassinate you and all." The keyblade master walked over to Faust. "You know, there's a fight to be fought still. We could use your help in the long haul, if you're willing to come with us." He said, offering his glass arm out for a handshake to the man. "It's not often we find keyblade masters that are still around after Central Haven. We'd be grateful to you." ​

 

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it only took Faust a split second before he return the handshake offered to him. He felt a slight chill through his gloved hand giving Beuce his usual carefree smile as he replied "Oh, I really don't mind Helping you out. In fact I was going to ask to join you guys anyway." He paused for a bit in his reply though not quite understanding what Beuce meant by 'Central Haven'. Rubbing the back of his head he continued as he began to walk up the plank to the deck of the ship "Don't what a Central Haven is but as long as there are new sights to see and things to experiences to be had with you guys can count on me."

 

Ananta rolled her eyes at Aux restating he FOUND the boat. Not wanting to argue, she just followed along with the rest of the party. Everyone got on board and, after a rough start, they were off. Ananta watched the water slosh around them, reaching down and feeling the water against her hand. "Reminds me of home." she said, watching the island behind them grow smaller. This didn't last long as a storm began to brew up before dumping all over them at once. Aux tried to steer the boat back, but the engine stopped and they were basically sitting ducks. More waves crashed the boat and Ananta found herself swept overboard, falling into the ocean. She knew immediately to swim to the surface and floated there, looking around for the rest. "Is there anyone who can't swim well?!" she called out, hoping they could hear her. "If you can't, just relax and face the sky! Try to just float along and we'll help you!" she kept yelling, looking around for the rest. The water was rough, but she wasn't going to just sit here and let the others drown. Though at the moment, nobody had responded to her.​

 

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As Ignis enjoyed the brief downtime on the boat, a storm came up and made life more difficult yet again. She tried to hold on as the waves rocked the boat side to side, but the wind, rain, and waves made it too much and she ended up falling overboard, unable to catch sight of the others. Taking a big breathe, Ignis splashed into the ocean, trying to keep herself afloat while the water tried to pull her under. Every time she managed to break through the water's surface, another wave came up and tried to push her back down. She could barely get any time to look around and see what was going on, and at this point, all she knew was she was last at sea and no one was around to help her out.

 

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The ship was ready to go and by the looks of things the others were ready to go. At some point Beuce had asked Faust if he wanted to come along with them. He did not seem the harm of bringing Faust along. That was when Beuce said, 'It's not often we find keyblade masters that are still around after Central Haven. We'd be grateful to you.' He had never been to Central Haven but sense he had been with the group they had three people disappear, among other things. At this point he wondered how long it has been sense he had ran into this group. He had a really hard time with the concept of the time passage sense he left his home. For all he knew it could have been a few minutes or many years. He got onto the ship with the others after Olaf had gave each of them a hug. He looked out onto the water he was thankful that they would all be together. As the ship left the port the winter weather became clear and the skies were clear the skies were clear to venture off. Once it became hotter he took off his coat and packed it away. As the ship continued on its way a storm stared up and he went to find the others and join them. The wind started to pick up and he felt a strong sense to do something. The storm got larger and larger until he was not able to see that far onto the ship. He had yelled out to the others but there was no response. Soon a large wave hit the boat and at the last minute he was able to see the other three at different locations around the boat, before all four of them were tossed overboard.

 

Kaida still was not particularly fond of going on a boat, though she was extremely grateful that the boat was not a rowboat of some kind. Her arms were tired just thinking about the week of rowing they had to do in order to even get to this island. She looked between the others who were asking if anyone knew how to drive one and she refused to answer. Mainly because she had no idea how. She was not born on a world that had any body of water for her to have learned much about swimming, let alone driving a boat. And for all she knew, it could have been several times harder than using a keyglider. Not that she got the hang of that quickly either. She remembered the two months of training she had to have with summoning it and riding it, having far more problems controlling it than necessarily standing on it, but it was not like she ever road a bicycle either. She just overall had very little driving experience as much as a good idea of travel and survival instincts. When she got into the boat she tried to sit towards a side so she could zone out if she got sea sick or something since that was not an ideal state for her to be in. As Aux had trouble starting the boat, she clung onto it for dear life not trusting the fact that her friend may very well drive them into a rock and crash the boat. And she really would not have liked that.

As the boat sailed out further and Kaida prepared herself for a long boat ride, she began to notice while the storm began brewing. At first it was subtle enough for her to think maybe it was just a rain shower, but then the storm kicked up suddenly with no real time to adjust. Lightning was flashing, winds were relentless, and this was not going to end well. The blonde kept shifting her weight in the opposite direction to whichever way the boat rocked trying to at least keep a balance. Kaida was about to tell Aux to head back when he suggested it anyway, which made her at the very least calm that someone else was reading this situation as dangerous as well. She knew it probably would have been safer to just find some sort of eye in the storm, but at this rate they had not gotten out very far and she felt pretty confident they could make it back safely. Then the engine stopped.

When Aux had noted it was not him, she totally believed it despite the track record otherwise. There was an instant regret taking this kind of a route, she had no idea how to navigate properly and now they did not even have an engine. Kaida still had no idea whether or not riding on their gliders would have been the better choice, or if they would be in just as much hot water. She shifted to go and get one of the oars to help at least get it moving while Aux tried to start up the engine. But the waves grew taller and Kaida had a feeling in her stomach they were definitely going to capsize. Kaida had been banking pretty hard on how lucky they had been so far, but she knew she should not have gambled on something this serious. Maybe they would have done better if they looked at a weather prediction or something. She knew not every world had that, her homeworld had one and so did Central Haven, but not most worlds. Probably because most worlds had similar weather. This made her wonder for a moment if perhaps they were no longer even on the world to begin with, and if this was the change between worlds. At that moment of realization, Kaida quickly got herself up from her spot and shifted quickly over towards where some of the boxes were to try and hopefully find life jackets. She did not know if the boat even came with any but boy was she going to be hopeful. But after several more harsh waves, they were knocked overboard.

Kaida thought she would start shooting up to the surface and flail around hoping for something to cling to, maybe begin to flail and do a poor attempt at treading water. But this was different than she expected. The water was not the same tropical waters that she had the chance to feel on the last island. This water was cold. Not to the point of hypothermia, though certainly enough to feel herself being put into shock. Her head broke up past the water, but she could not get her mouth above it. She tried to breathe in through her nose but instead for her trouble she got a nice nose full of salt water which caused her to sneeze and gasp water into her. She was not able to move, she could not swim up to get enough air though her head bobbed the slightest bit above water but not enough for her mouth to leave it. She felt herself go numb, like her body was trying to respond to the situation but stopping her from panicking only to make her panic inside without the ability to move. She just kind of stared upwards as she was pretty sure she head someone trying to scream over the waves telling them if someone could not swim to relax and face the sky and float, but she could not yell back. She knew she was drowning and she could not do anything about it. The blonde tried to will herself into at least have her body parallel to the surface but she could only just manage her hands just to splash She tried to tell her body to move, screaming to herself in her head to move and desperate about it, before she felt herself sinking below.

She could feel the cold a lot more and the terror she faced from it as she sunk. It reminded her of the days she spent alone in the forest. The rain that kept her cold and shaking with no real place for shelter. The way she was worried that if she went back she would never be able to be herself again, or she would die by freezing to death. The cold reminded her of when Seiza and her ended up stranded on a broken ship in space. No way to beg for help as things became colder. When the light shined in and flung its way straight through her mentor's chest as she became ever so alone and desperate for help. The inability to move reminded her of the way No Heart froze them in place with no way to move as they were helpless to the events that occurred around their bodies. Watching Aux walk up to her with everything so focused on the darkness as he became ready to execute her without any remorse or even apology in it. It was a helpless feeling, one she only felt when she was almost certain she was going to die and there was no way out of it. There were times she knew she could have died, but that feeling of chilling paralysis was all she felt and with no one around this time... she had no idea what to do. Kaida had become so lost in her own thoughts that when she felt her body jolt and she sucked in more water, it genuinely surprised her and she opened her eyes. Her eyes stung from the salt water while everything else felt numb as she watched herself sink further. Her eyes focused on her hand as she looked at her wrist to see Hikaru's name slowly washing away with the water and she felt a pain in her heart as she tried as hard as she could to cling to his name. Cling to his name as hard as she could as she placed the name with a face... his face. A face she could not recall clearly as she tried to place it in her mind in different memories. But all she could see now was Aux's face and she knew that was not right. Deep down that not right. But it did not even matter as her mind finally started processing while the name completely washed away that she was dying. She was unable to swim upwards or even move as she looked up to try and find the others with her eyes only to at most some shadows and even those were not clear.

Kaida closed her eyes as she kept herself in a state where she would not breathe and tried to focus on something else. Try to focus on... the face? The name? A part of her told her that his hair was definitely blue and that he was not nearly as big as Aux was. Kaida felt her ability to move suddenly return to her, if only for an instant, and she was desperate not to drown and if she could at least kick herself up to the surface, maybe she could lean on something and breathe, maybe cough up the sea water, maybe she would be safe. But she found that attempting to swim to the surface was too much for her to manage and she was too weak, and she realized at this rate she was not going to be able to swim up to the surface unless someone had grabbed her. Everything inside her hurt and she felt all of her nerves buzzing in pain as her body tried to tell her to shutdown. Kaida felt herself freezing up and going faint as she started losing consciousness. That was until she faintly saw something odd.

Floating towards her under the waves, probably caught by the undertow, was a stone like crystal that seemed to glow and float past her. She was curious how something that would theoretically seem heavy would float, but she tried to reach out for it trying to figure out what it was. She had a suspicion maybe someone nearby sent it her way, but from what she could see, there did not seem to be another soul in this area that she could see anymore. It stopped it's glow and suddenly felt heavier in her hand as she decided to at the very least hold onto it in case it was something that could get her out of there. But after a long enough time, nothing seemed to happen at all and she realized she was putting faith in something foolishly once more. She wondered if maybe she forced herself to go up faster she would have been able to make it there rather than focus on what seemed to her like a useless, albeit beautiful stone. Her mind did not want to think too much on it anymore. With barely a breath left and most of the energy gone from her body, Kaida tried to pull the stone closer towards her to put in her pocket and looked up to see if someone she did not know happened to be above that she could hail down. There were no shadows above her, no one swimming in her direction or just above her, and she could not even see signs of Aux, Ananta, Steel, and Stratos anymore. The blonde looked at the stone once more before she gasped in water and felt it fill her lungs, unable to hold her breath any longer since it was a miracle she had managed as long as she did.

As her eyes were wide and she was certain she was about to die, she felt an almost tingling sensation, different to the rest of the pain, and she suddenly could not see anything and could breathe in air again, temporarily as she coughed up water. She was not drowning, for she was not in the ocean anymore.

 

Luna got onto the boat with the others after sealing the keyhole. Luna took in the scent of the ocean around her. "Sometimes I forget how nice the scent of the ocean is." Luna looked out toward the horizon. The weather had been beautiful for the couple days they had been on the boat. One day, the weather had taken a turn for the worse. They had been caught in the middle of a storm! Luna was trying to help out as much as she could with trying to get the ship balanced.

She then saw Kel get knocked over the ship. "Kel!!" Luna tried to help him but was too late. She didn't realize a barrel was heading toward her. Luna looked over and had no time to move before the barrel knocked her over. Everything around her had been as if it was in slow-motion. She fell into the water and felt herself sinking further and further into the water. It was almost as if memories of her past kept flashing in front of her as she could barely breathe. Koa......Aki......help me.....She shut her eyes as she kept sinking in the water.

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With the Englishmen being willing to give them a ride on their ship Kel sauntered aboard the ship and found himself a place by the side to watch the waves as they sailed. At the time it had seemed like a good idea, getting a close look at the seas and the animals that might choose to breach while he was looking out. In a sense, he was getting close to nature without actually getting into the water. That had been the intention behind his actions.

However, when the storm had struck the boat, the first major wave that hit them both knocked the keyblade wielder off balance and off the boat towards the waters below. At first, Kel was able to keep himself afloat, as it was all he really knew how to do, but wave after wave continued to crash into him, knocking him back under water and slowly sapping away at the stamina. Try as he might, this wasn't a battle he was going to win mad evident by the darkness that engulfed his vision as the waves collided into him one last time.