Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

The boy grinned to see Maui swim around in his shark form, that was until he jumped up and turned into a giant whale. With quick reaction, Marx flipped backwards to a ledge on the mountain and covered himself with his cape. Once the splash occurred he jumped back down and walked over somewhat wet. “You can bet we can call on you for help, both you and the ocean.” The masked boy said to Maui and Moana. But something was still floating in his mind, something that Maui knew about that didn’t make sense. Looking upward to Maui; the demigod of the wind and sea, Marx spoke to him, “Maui, I know we never really got on good terms in the past on that island. I’m willing to turn that around, but something’s bugging me that I haven’t figured out. Before I changed back to human, I heard you said Moana was a princess of heart. I knew that already when I saw her for the first time. But what I wanna know is this: how do you know about princesses of heart? Only those who have traveled around the worlds would know, least to my knowledge.” The boy finished in a curious tone.

 

"Ah, hey Arctus." Ananta said, nodding. "Now I get why your voice seemed familiar..." she glanced towards Ignis. Ignis then went off on a list before she turned to leave. "Ignis, wait for us." Ananta called, walking after her. They were stopped short by Kida teaching them a new skill. Ananta smiled at Kida, but soon it faded when Rourke appeared. Guns were pointed at everyone and they ended up being left with several of Rourke's men. As per usual, the party was left to deal with the big bad guy. She wasn't too agitated by the turn of events, but she knew this came with the job. "Well, since you're on our side now, I can't wait to see how you handle things Castur." Ananta said, summoning her keyblades.

She launched herself at one of the soldiers, slashing and smacking him with her blades. The soldier finally retaliated and shot at Ananta. She deflected the bullets with her keyblade, watching them fly off in the opposite directions. Upon lowering her blades, she saw this same guard was busy trying to reload his gun. Ananta felt bad attacking him now, so she gave him a chance to finish. That is, before she rushed in and ended up beating him to unconsciousness.

"Don't kill them or you'll be no better than them." Ananta announced to her party. "I suggest just kicking their butts until they pass out." she nodded towards the others. "Faust, watch yourself!" Ananta called. She was concerned for him, seeing as he was a newbie to all of this. At least she had Ignis here. Ignis was...well, is pretty much a veteran to this. Still, the boy seemed smart enough, even if he was always trying to make some odd jokes. Ananta stepped back a moment and glanced over to Castur. "I wonder though, how will you fight? Your little sword may not work too well here." she teased with a light chuckle. "I jest, of course, I know you can take care of yourself." she responded, deflecting a few bullets from one of the soldiers. Seemed they had one that was pretty rude.

Ananta glared at him. "So, you want to try and attack me while I'm talking to my comrade? I let your friend reload his gun before I attacked again, why can't you show that same respect? Dang, you soldiers are all the same, shoot first ask questions LATER." she yelled, slamming her keyblades into this second soldier. He was stunned, but he ended up returning fire, leaving Ananta to block these bullets. She wasn't playing around and she wasn't going to just let them show disrespect to her. Especially after she showed the utmost respect for one of their men. For now, she kept dodging bullets and deflecting them upwards and away from everyone else. She didn't want to accidentally hurt any of her comrades. She certainly didn't care about the soldiers that much, but still, she didn't want to be rude to them.


EXP Writer III: [1 for every 5 words] 500 words
Gained XP: 100 [Max 100 per post]
Total XP: 100
Munny: 30

Ananta has 51BP
Defeated: 1 solider
49/50 Soldiers [40 BP each]

Injured: 1 Soldier [29/40BP]​

 

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As Ignis was readying to head out to fight the annoyance in her neck, said annoyance managed to appear in front of them, with a bunch of guys holding guns surrounding them. It seemed like somehow the bad guys always had perfect timing with their bad timing. Eventually Rourke kidnapped both Milo and Kida, and the keybladers were left to mop up the goons yet again. Ignis wanted to deck Rourke out then and there, but of course nothing was that simple. She simply got her keyblade out and readied for a fight against some people, which was kind of a nice difference from all the heartless fights. Though when Ananta had mentioned about not killing them, Ignis let out a little frown.
"So, you're basically telling a mercenary who's whole life basically revolved around killing to not kill a bunch of people who want to kill us? Does anyone else see the irony in this, or is it just me?" She shook her head as a bunch of soldiers aimed their guns at Ignis and took fire.
Ignis ducked down and dodged the bullets coming after her, reading her blade and charging after the guys in front of her. Two of them tried to take aim at her again from her left and right side, but Ignis jumped around from side to side, making it harder for them to get a lock on her. She closed the distance on the soldier to her left and got up close and personal, kicking the gun barrel up to the air as the soldier fired another shot, and spun around, then planet her kicking foot on the ground, only to let loose her other leg onto the soldier's stomach. The kick went right into the guy's gut, and from the sound of it, cracking a few of his ribs, and sending the guy flying through the air and onto the ground. As he hit the ground, even through his mask Ignis could make out the familiar sound of someone hacking up their stomach contents. She simply made an "ew" face from the sound, and turned around to deal with the other soldier. At least she could give credit to these guys, since they didn't just stand around as their allies got their butts kicked, or stomachs in the previous case.
The soldier was already taking aim at Ignis with his gun, and fired. From the distance, Ignis figured she wouldn't be able to dodge out of the way, so she used her keyblade in front of the trajectory of the bullet and blocked it, sending it ricocheting and hitting a pillar across the area. She jumped up and over the soldier's head, landing behind him, and quickly brought her keyblade down on the soldier's back, taking him out with a single hit. She noticed both Ananta and Castur fighting as well. Ananta was busy deflecting bullets from a soldier firing at her, and Castur was knocking a soldier away form him. Ignis figured as the soldier was falling she'd give a helping hand and sent her keyblade flying at the soldier's head, knocking him as he went back and watched as he fell to the ground.
As she brought her keyblade back and threw it to another unsuspecting soldier, a question popped in her head. "Wait, so Castur, back when we arrived in this world and I tried to distract Rourke saying one of his soldiers wasn't his, does that mean I was actually right? Huh, color me surprised. You know, I thought I saw something in the water as we arrived, I don't suppose you came to this world that way too?"

Words: 611
EXP: 100

Defeated: 3
44/50 Remaining

1 Injured [25/40]

 

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The first thing that Maui turned into was a chicken. He was not sure what to think about this. After his suggestion Maui turned into a giant hawk. The bird its self was large. Marx said his idea was a good one when it came to a water creature. He just wanted something that was large enough that it would not get eaten. Then a shark was suggested. When Kaida suggested a giraffe and then said all the fun was gone. "I do not see what is wrong with a giraffe", he said off handly. Stratos then said, 'what about a T-rex?' "That is a interesting choice." A T-rex would certainly do damage. Maui then turned into a shark followed by a large whale. This animal was one of the largest he has ever seen. Soon Maui jumped out of the water and ended up covering the entire party on shore with sea water. What was with always getting wet? Maui then explained how he knew about the Princesses of heart. He stood on the boat looking for a giant lava monster to just jump out of nowhere. He knew that sooner or later the lava monster would show up.

 

Marx was confused by what he said, this was news to his ears. In all of his training and travels, he had never known about this information. “So... what your telling me that Princesses of Heart; aren’t just born with pure hearts, but passed down by other princesses? That... is surprising to hear. But the fact that they’ve been here forever doesn’t surprise me, nor does the fact that there also must be Seven Guardians of Light to protect the princesses.” The boy said as he turned to Maui as he passed to the boat, he did a double take when the demigod said he smelled like wet dog. He got peeved by this and spoke out in an obvious tone, “Well it’s not my fault that I was stuck in that form! And I tried to clean myself as best I could on that island, I didn’t see you helping me get clean.” Then came the question that he wasn’t expecting of all: his mask. Still little flustered by Maui when he said the boy smelled, Marx thought of explaining a little bit. “Well the ‘rags’ as you put it are my normal clothes, I kinda got them ripped a little during my last encounter before I got here. As for the mask, that is none of your business to know.” He said as he walked a little distance away from the group, sat on a rock and pulled out a piece of wood that had a burnt charcoal point on the end then grabbed his small book and started to write on a blank page as he waited for the rest of the group.

 

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Seeing as the party seems to have been rudely interrupted by the expedition leader Rouke playing his hand, kidnapping Milo and Kida to claim the heart of Atlantis, Faust sprung into action. It was people like Rouke that drove Faust to search out these new and strange worlds, if he didn't all of them would be made boring and dull, caged for boring reasons like profit or power, long before he saw even a fraction of them. Giving out a long sigh out at the armed group around them not killing seemed like a hassle that they couldn't really afford but maybe one of these grunts following Rouke like dogs would create or do something interesting one day.

A smile covering his face once again as he saw a group of five of grunts level their rifles at him in the brawl happening around them he summoned his keyblade into his left hand as he called out "Sorry Volts, seems like your luck ran out!" Waving with his right hand as he traced the arcing line of a thunder strike racing down splitting the sky striking one of the grunts with his mind while letting lose a thundaga simultaneously. The mass of static lasted only for a second while it followed Faust's guided path. As the bolt connected the grunt's limbs tightened his arm spasming to the right turning his gun on his allies. His fingers contracted due to the charge pulling the trigger letting lose a volley of bullets into man formation next to him tearing into his arms causing him to yell out in pain his rifle flew form his grip. the grunt next to the second one taking rifle to face knocking him out while spinning him clockwise as he hit the floor. this sent the hail of bullets meant for Faust into the legs of his other allies. Each of the six grunts falling because of the efforts of the last and legs as if a domino fell knocking another leaving Faust untouched. Looking over his handy work giving a glance to check and see that they were a little singed or had a few extra holes in them, they were alive and kicking. turning back towards the battle Faust was barely able catch stock of a rifle heading straight for his face with his keybalde before shoving grunt back and readied himself for the next group of grunts.

Words: 402
EXP: 80

Defeated: 5
39/50 Remaining

1 Injured [19/40]
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The change from a little chicken to a pretty large eagle was admittedly impressive and the following shift to a shark was equally as so. After the mishap of being literally half shark it seemed like Maui had gotten back into the swing of things pretty easily. He even went out his way to turn into a whale, above the water and crashing back down into it. Now drenched, Kel wrung the water out of his hair. It was about all he could do besides sit out in the sun and let himself dry naturally and given the raft they were on, that was going to happen regardless during their search for Te Fiti.

 

Castur mentioned calling her something over than Ananta. One was ridiculous, but the other... "Hey, Anta was my Grandmother's name, have some respect!" she teased Castur, finally knocking the guard in front of her out. Her party members were doing pretty well for themselves. It was obvious that Castur was a little miffed at the fact they couldn't outright kill these guys. While Ananta wanted to deal with these men straight out, she knew they were only following orders and not exactly acting of their own free will. She honestly felt pretty sorry for some of these guys. Who knew what their stories were and why they all had to be here. Money, family, some kind of sense of justice, or maybe even boredom. For all she knew, they just did this as a job and that's all they ever knew. Either way, she wasn't too into the idea of killing them just because they didn't agree with what they were lead to believe. The same could be said for them, as she thought about it. They were being strung along just as much as these men, with people trying to kill them left and right. So really, what does that say? Doesn't that make this whole situation ironic? Ananta shook her head and came back to reality with the sound of a Thundaga going off. At this point, Ananta sighed and lowered both her keyblades.

"Well, since Faust is doing it...I may as well go ahead and do the same." Ananta looked at Castur. "Screw just knocking them out. They have guns, what's the fairness in that?" she sighed. Ananta glanced at a small group of enemies. Four soldiers, trying to watch each others' backs. One of them noticed her looking at them and started to nudge and talk to his buddies. One of them laughed, but Ananta didn't care. She'd been through a long journey and knew for a fact that words and jeers only hurt those who wanted them to hurt. She learned to accept many things she couldn't change. She just hoped she could at least fix things that she had messed up. Shaking those thoughts aside, Ananta raised her hands above her head, focusing magic in her hands. A strong gravitational force was sparking above the group of soldiers. One of them glanced up and saw the magic, but it was too late. Ananta already swung her arms down, doing a small jump to really give her Graviga some force. The soldiers all screamed in agony as every bone in their bodies were crushed by the force of the magic.

The screams only lasted a few moments, as each of them fell silent. Sobs and whispers could be heard from one of them, but he too ended up fading away. Ananta turned around and saw Castur using a gun to deal with a soldier, but she wasn't done yet. She wanted to make sure her point got across. Rushing over, Ananta stopped shortly of the soldier and delivered a kick to the man's side, injuring him.

EXP Writer III: [1 for every 5 words] 511 words
Gained XP: 100 [Max 100 per post]
Total XP: 200
Munny: 60

Ananta has 204BP[102 normally, doubled during weekend]
Defeated: 5 soldiers
29/50 Soldiers [40 BP each]

Injured: 1 Soldier [11/40BP]​

 

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As Ignis and the rest of the crew dealt with soldiers, it seemed like Ananta all of a sudden had a change of heart about the whole "not killing the enemies" thing, and decided to squish a bunch of them with gravity magic. Even to Ignis, who had lived her life as a mercenary killing people and monsters both, the sound of the crushing bodies and agonizing screams made her seriously reconsider Ananta's mental health.
"Uh, Ananta, are you feeling alright? You know you can talk to us about anything, right?" She tried not to attach a joking tone to it, but without even trying there was definitely a slight bit as she said the words.
Soon enough more soldiers began to surround Ignis and she readied herself to deal with enemies yet again. This time five enemies were encompassing her, and all of them had their guns pointed at her. As the group pulled the triggers on their guns, Ignis quickly ducked down, let each and every one of the fire a shot and miss completely. As she ducked, she spun her keyblade around her body, knocking their guns around in random directions, with a couple knocking back right into the masks of their holders. Then she dropped to the ground and slide her foot across the legs of the enemies, knocking them all off their feet. As she knocked the last one down, she brought her fist down on his mask, breaking the glass on it and smashing the soldier's face in, knocking him out cold. One of the other soldiers tried to get back up and grapple Ignis, but as he got his hands around her, she brought her foot back on his leg, knocking him off balance and pulled him down to the ground as he held her, knocking his arms off. Getting back up on her feet, she grabbed the soldier by the collar of his coat and tossed him into a pillar.
Soon enough the other three soldiers were back up on their feet and waiting for an opening to attack Ignis themselves. One tried to fire another shot at her, and Ignis quickly grabbed the barrel of the gun then moved it to the side, letting the bullet fly off into a random direction. Then she shoved the gun forward, back into the guy's face, crushing his own mask and then threw a few punched into his stomach, and after finished, she figured the guy was still going to keep trying, but after noticing he wasn't moving, figured the soldier had fallen unconscious while somehow standing up. She simply pat the guys soldier out of pity and looked behind her to deal with the last two soldiers.
Both of them at this point seemed to be slightly shaking from the rattling of their guns, and Ignis brought her keyblade in front, then slashed the air, cutting the barrels of the guns into small pieces. The soldiers seemed to still be panicking, and Ignis figured it was best to just knock them out since they weren't going to do anything else.

Words: 517
Total EXP: 200
Soldiers Defeated: 5
19/50 Remaining

 

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As Faust saw the group of Rourke's men that Ananta took down by squishing them under the weight of multiple gravitates. Their screams as their very bones being crushed into powder by the magic being the main reason for him to glance over in that direction. the sight of the person that was most adamant of only using non lethal force on these grunts confused Faust slightly. He had no real care for them but he couldn't understand this great moral shift of hers. Giving a light shrug he turned his attention back to the dwindling group of soldiers before him.

Seeing a group of the grunts charging forwards past the fallen bodies of their comrades. Holding out his empty right hand his towards the oncoming guards he briefly channeled his magic to his before sending out a blast of icey magic in the form of a Blizzaga. The icy crystals impacting into the ground around the oncoming grunts creating a large thick sheet of ice below their feet. They halted a moment before one of them broke out chuckling as his compatriots raised their guns at Faust "looks like it's your unlucky day kid" he called out before a loud crack resounded out behind him. the sheet of ice had frozen into the base of a large stone pillar on the edge of the brawl cracking and ruining the load barring stone at its base. The large stone pillar now toppling forward now due to it's ruined base. onto the group the grunt glanced behind him at the large shadow the falling pillar cast. he was barely able to get out "Scatte..!" before he found himself pinned and trapped under the large stones making up the pillar. shards of broken and razor sharp ice being thrown to each side of the pillar due to the weight of the impact blinding the other four grunts around him crippling them as they fell to the ground grasping at their eyes.

"Sorry, lady luck has always been a fickle mistress, you can never be sure who she is going to favor" Faust replied turning away form the now downed formation of grunts as they didn't seem like they would be rejoining the fight any time soon.

words 375
exp:75

Soldiers Defeated: 5
14/50 Remaining

 

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Ignis looked around to see who was left to deal with, and it seemed like there was only 7 soldiers left to deal with, after watching Castur take down another one. Ignis picked two that were closest to her and rushed over to them, aiming to get in a couple hits and knocking them out quickly. It didn't seem like the soldiers were willing to let that happen however, as they noticed Ignis running toward them and started firing bullets like crazy. Ignis weaved though the bullets, deflecting a couple that strayed in her path, and got up close and personal with the two soldiers. One of them tried to smack her with the butt of their gun, and Ignis brought her fist over the the tip of the gun, slamming it and throwing all of its weight to the side, causing the soldier's arms to twist in the wrong direction and leaving him open for some hits. Ignis took the chance and grabbed the back of the soldier's head, and brought her knee up to his face, slamming it and breaking yet another mask, seeing the soldier's eyes fill with fear as she looked through the mask. Ignis brought her knee to his face a couple more times, and seeing through the eye sockets of the mask, could tell the guy was barely conscious at this point. Ignis let go of the soldier's head and brought her leg to the ground then spun a full 360 degrees, bringing her body weight into the kick and slammed the soldier across the head, sending him flying a little and seeing him flop across the ground and lay motionless. The other soldier didn't seem like he would let Ignis get a break though, as he decided to charge after Ignis himself.

The soldier got in close and tried to throw a couple punches, flailing about wildly. Ignis dodged left and right, choosing to not even move from her position. She figured the soldier was trained better than this, but then again, it was possible maybe they just didn't bother much with hand-to-hand combat given all the guns. She yawned a little at the soldier kept flailing wildly, attempting to get in a punch. Ignis brought her hand up and caught the soldier's fist as he threw more punches, holding them in place and bringing her head forward, giving him a headbutt, then letting go of one of the guy's hand and used both to grapple his arm, throwing him over her shoulder and slamming him to the ground. Continuing her attack, she brought a fist down on the guard's chest, and then continued with a flurry of punches. She wasn't sure if the guy was still conscious or not, and figured it was best to just make sure. At that point grabbed the soldier's legs and spun him around, and after a couple spins, let him fly through the air and slam into a pillar, causing the pillar to crack and fall apart, with the debris falling on top of the soldier as he landed on the ground. At that point Ignis was pretty sure the soldier was well taken care of and unconscious.

Fixing her bangs as some of it got in her vision, she looked over the Castur. "Well, I'm all for beating up the guy myself. He can't even deal with his own problems himself, instead of leaves his half-baked henchmen to do it. And what a remarkable job they've done so far," looking around at the bodies on the ground, choosing to keep her view away from Ananta's unfortunate victims.

Words: 602
Total EXP: 300
Soldiers Defeated: 2
5/50 Remaining