Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Quill honestly never imagined fighting like this. Every moment had to be moving or the chains would encircle and entangle him. They seemed to be endless, where one chain ended, a torrent of others would come around and block off his movement. Quill was already in serious pain from several fights but these chains were something new. Their sickening light seemed hell bent on consuming him, when they whipped at him he could feel a sting inside that seemed to empty his body's energy. Whoever this lady was, she was something different from the other members of this evil group.

Aux for his part seemed to do well enough, a black aura encircled him seeming to repel any direct assaults. That was good since Aux didn’t strike Quill as the most nimble is his muscled form. Unluckily the woman still had tricks up her sleeve. Chains pierced the metallic paneling around and slung countless makeshift blades towards him. Many were easy enough for him to deflect with his keyblade, but the spin she gave them let a couple curve-balls impale Aux’s form. He wasn’t too fazed but it slowed his approach enough. The lady’s plan was likely to just beat us through attrition, Quill thought, then go after the young woman Aux had sent away with her friends.

As he fought off the chains, Quill heard a voice ring out. Aux told him he needed to use his aura to protect himself. Quill wasn’t sure he understood but he could tell these chains were taking what light was left from his Keyblade. He stopped dodging and stood in place, concentrating on his connection to earth. The chains took the chance to wrap around him and cocoon him. Energy left him and he began to pass out, but something broke through. His Keyblade slammed into the ground and ashen branches grew out from the spot, breaking the chains around him. The woman was shocked to see the chains turn to pieces, as both of her opponents were able to repel her powers. Massive black wings sprouted from Aux’s back, and grey plantlike grew from the walls near Quill. They rushed her, slicing through chains as their aura’s shielded them. Quill threw his Keyblade like a javelin metal from panels collected around it into a massive boulder. The ball impacted a web of chains she put up, but from behind Aux came and let loose a flood of black flames to propel the sphere.
“Black Meteor!” as the attack engulfed her and sent her flying down the hallway into a nearby wall. Aux and Quill began to breathe until the woman burst from the pile of broken pieces of the ship. She let loose a flurry of words in an unfamiliar language, cursing them out likely. She collected her chain together into a massive pillar in front of her, and the chains coalesced into a massive serpent. It coiled around, it’s massive size took up the entire hallway. It attacked and attempted to swallow them whole, it’s maw opened to a horrible blinding white abyss. Quill was quick to respond with a series of gray stone pillars along the hall to slow it’s assault, while Aux readied his body and dug in his heels. As the serpent barreled into them, Aux was able to impale his keyblade through the roof of its mouth and stopped it from clamping down. Quill was seriously impressed by how hardy this guy was. Still, the draining effects of the chain serpent ate away at Aux. Quill saw and went to help by repeating the same action, impaling his Keyblade through the jaw of the beast. They held it in place for a time before it’s form began to pulsate, and finally an explosion of pure energy sent them flying backwards. Aux recovered balance with his wings but Quill was less fortunate, pinwheeling down the hallway and grinding through the metallic floor upon landing. It was not pleasant.

 

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On his way toward the docking bay Shiro ran past with Kel in hand and the red society nowhere to be seen. Part of him wondered what Shiro had been up to. That was when Aislinn tried to convince him to return to the summit area. He was not paying any attention to Aisliin at this point. He ran after shiro to find out what was going on. Shiro then started giving some speech to people. He walk up to Shiro. "Where have you been? and what have you been up to? Should we not be going after the red society?" He was mostly curious what he was up to.

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Connie stood next to someone. "we are out of time and we got to get going Bob is gone and AJ was fond but I was unable to talk to him." At this point Bob knew the plan did not did not work and Aj was with others right now.

 

It was not long before Quill was overwhelmed along with Aux and pushed to the wall, they were both running on empty already and this lady was more dangerous than Gil or Sho. They held her off but they had little chance to stop her from getting to Aux’s friend, as the woman began to yell about something. But, perhaps from his own strange mutation, some of her words were beginning to make sense. Something about...light...seven...a thief. The rest was still unknown to him. But the woman began to stop her assault as another voice came from a device similar to Sho’s, she retreated into a dark portal and Quill fell to the floor. Today had been severely tiring, he wasn’t sure he could do another climactic fight to the death for at least a couple days. From down the hall a man ran up dressed in rather fancy civilian ware, but the devices on his person made him distinct. Aux seemed familiar with him, and honestly that was enough safety for Quill to pass for a bit.

Later Quill was introduced in the medical wing to the new people of this group, DJ and Shiro. He also finally got her name, Luna, from Aux while they recovered. Quill followed the group to a room with many seats, which must've been for the summit. Several walls and seats were being repaired after a fight took place here, but otherwise things seemed to be winding down. He stood with the rest of the group, some more battered then the others. DJ and Shiro seemed to know the group well and were adamant about their charges being dropped, even in the face of this ship's judgement. Strange woman this Karen was. But...Quill still felt listless, this was all for them. He was just along for the ride. As their group began to disperse to discuss things, Quill approached the captain as well as DJ and Shiro “While it’s appreciated you came to save us all from near death, I’m an outsider in all this. I’m…still weighed down by countless sins, so if it’s all the same I’ll be returning to my cell until the courtroom is ready...” Quill turned away from them.

 

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Naturally, Kel attempted to worm him way out of Shiro's grip when he was literally being carried off like an infant and fortunately he'd manage to do so before joining up with the first group. It condition aside, the fact that Karina was in what was a pink dress had thrown him off guard. "Its good to see that you're okay." All things considered, the fact that she was okay was reassuring to know.

When everyone had gotten back together, that was when the unsettling feeling had returned to Kel. They were finally grouped up together, trying to figure out their next course of action and Nequa was still using him as both her eyes and ears. The temptation to just leave was still, but at this point, it wasn't a likely option that he would do. Too much attention would've been drawn towards himself in the process of doing so. The nail in that coffin was when it came time to explain why he was taken and, with a moment's hesitation, he told them everything regarding Nequa using him to essentially be the 'traitor'.

The act of doing so didn't leave him feeling any better. If anything the uncertainty had been replaced with anxiousness that had been more than enough for him to fall back into silence. There wasn't much that he felt like he could add right now and perhaps that was for the best.

 

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While he waited for shiro to answer him the silver haired person for the cells came up to where he was. (quill) He then said, 'I’m an outsider in all this. I’m…still weighed down by countless sins, so if it’s all the same I’ll be returning to my cell until the courtroom is ready...' "So When you were in the Jails you broke out one way or another only to want to go back?" It did not seem very logical but for the most part, nothing really was. "Then there is the fact that you will be tried by Karen Miller. Do you really think it will be fair when you are judged by a nut job like that? I am sorry but just by just being around the SOS and fighting alongside us in that battle you will forever be associated with the SOS." He then turned his attention to Kel who just he told them everything regarding Nequa using him to essentially be the 'traitor'. "So what difference does it make? They knew where we were regardless of what was going on or so it seems. They just want to scare us and you Kel. They could be just saying all of that to get to us. Even if what you said is true in the slightest they are doing a bad job with everything they got." They more than likely wanted information more than anything else or use Kel as bate. "Just continue doing what you are doing Kel." He was not really sure what to say to Kel to make thing better for him.

 

Quill still faced away from them, a man he’d seen beforehand questioned his leaving “You misunderstand my intentions. I ‘broke out’ to keep that group from hurting people. And I barely managed that, I’m Not the Keyblade master I was on my world. Moreover, I’m guilty of too many sins that weigh on me, any judgement will be right for me.”

 

Beuce turned to see a the man claim his countless sins. "Before you go, let me ask you. What do you think will make up for your sins?" Quill’s walk to the elevator stopped by one of them speaking to him. The man with that strange arm. Quill sighed heavily “Isolation, imprisonment, and a swift return to darkness. I don’t deserve to be here.”

"Huh...Well you know I was kinda hoping you'd be leaning more towards doing some good and righting wrongs..." Beuce put a hand to his chin. "That puts a bit of a damper on my plans...You need to lighten up dude."

Quill began grow irritated, he turned around to face the man now "I'm not who you think I am. I helped your group because it seemed right. I fought those crazy people because they hurt people. But after all the destruction I caused to my world, I don't have the right to do any more. Why should I stand here instead of the thousands who I've hurt?" Quill looked to the floor. "Besides...if you see the keyblade on my back, I'm not exactly a paragon of light."

"Well, you wouldn't be the first like that. You've met Aux, I take it?" Beuce looked over to the man. "He used to be an enemy of ours. He did a lot of bad things, and he hurt a lot of people. Some of those people can never be brought back. Some of the things he's done, he can't ever undo. But he's here with us anyway. He's doing his best to help. Just because you've done something wrong in the past doesn't mean you can't do something in the future." Beuce turned back to Quill. "Besides, we aren't fighting the darkness. We're fighting the people who abuse it."

Quill was still shocked how casually this man spoke, his confidence was unwavering. Quill had suspected some conflict in Aux's past but for him to reform and join his own enemies...but be that as it may "The people who abuse darkness...my world is gone because of those very people. It'll never return, and any chance of me returning to my former of life is gone. Are you serious? Look at me!" Quill dropped all pretenses and let his pain come out, black chitin covered his body and his black and yellow eye grew bright with intensity. "I'm. A. Monster! I....I'll never have my old life back. I would rather end this than risk causing anyone more pain..."

Beuce raised an eyebrow at Quill. The man showed his deformities with shame in an effort to convince him of his unworthiness. "Yeah, and my arm is made of glass. Also have you seen Aux's face? You're not that bad." Beuce sighed, taking a more serious tone. "I'm not going to promise you that your world will ever come back. Believe me, I know what it's like. But do you really think they'd want their sole survivor to spend his days rotting in a cell? If you'd been on the other side. If someone else stood where you stand, what would you want them to do? Spend the rest of their days sitting in the dark as a self-inflicted penance, or make a legacy worth remembering? I can't speak for you or your people, but I know which one mine would've preferred."

Quill was...taken aback. His crimes, his Keyblade, his mutations. All had repelled others when he returned to life, but still this man didn't falter. He could still joke and treat him with humanity. Quill's was genuinely touched. His armor began to recede, and even his posture became more relaxed. Quill looked the man in the eye "I'm not in a position to say what my people would want. We were determined to win out of the darkness consuming our world.." Quill looked upward for a moment before returning to his gaze "..so much so that we turned our Keyblade masters into something called Darklings. What...can i do to make those sins right?"

Beuce scratched the back of his head. "Well, that's a bit hard to say. There's not much that'll undo it, but making it so that others don't have to suffer would be a good start"

His simple response was a bit lacking for Quill's tragedy filled heart but the advice was fair. He began to consider "Well I can't say I have many life skills, I never did much but fight. I suppose I could stay on the ship and help those on the ship adjust. Perhaps I could even find another world to make my own. Unless perhaps, well if you guys needed help hunting down that terrorist group.." For the first time in years Quill felt real embarrassment, I mean Quill didn't know how to approach the subject. "I mean you seem like you have plenty members but a couple more hands is always good. And my fight with Gilgamesh and Sho and that other lady show I fight well on my own and with you guys. And a couple of you guys seem to know things about controlling darkness so that help would be appreciated. And, and...uh forgive me where was I?" Quill was honest to god flustered.

Beuce put a glass arm around the man's shoulder and began to walk him toward the rest of the group. "Don't worry, I'll introduce you."

"He. Ha he. Well that's good." Quill was quick to suppress a sniffle and cleared his throat "Errm, well I didn't get your name but I appreciate this. More than you know- Oh that reminds me I was keeping this in case one of you know what it did. It's a terrible weapon honestly but consider it thank you." Quill handed the weapon to the man, the strange blue sheathed sword he got off of Gilgamesh.

Beuce could scarcely believe his eyes. He took the blue sword and whacked it against himself. While he felt no real pain, the sword did make a high pitched "squeak" sound and a white number 1 appeared above his head. "Man, i remember this thing. It doesn't hurt until it hits you a bunch of times, and then you take all the damage at once. It's wild."

 

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Shiro was not helpful at all. So he turned his attention back to Quill and Beuce. "Beuce is right. I do not beleve be met properly I am AJ." Then he looked around to see what others were doing.

 

Faust was Finding himself Fading back into memories that he would of have left where they belonged, in the past. something about this place just seemed to spark those memories leaving him in a wandering daze as he had been searching the prison block. when he found himself coming out of his thoughts, he had found himself back in the hall that the summit was held in. Finding a mostly intact chair he leaned against it as the two people he hadn't seen before had taken charge of this gathering of the SOS members that they had rounded up. Though from the way that they talked they definitively seemed to be important to the rest of the group. After they Said that the group had an hour to chose to stay or fold their was only one real choice for Faust, and it was to hold the course and see it through to the end.

As Faust stood up to stretch and see how the rest of the group seemed to feel about the offer he saw that quill seemed to have made it out fine from the prison and was approaching the group with Beuce. Taking a casual walk over the the pair Faust called out as he waved "Yo Quill, Nice to see that Lady luck seemed to give you another spin on the house instead of rotting in the clink. Guess your part of the SOS now so lets continue to get along friend" Turing to Beuce Faust pulled out the stick that he had given him form under the cloth hanging on his hip with a flourish and lightly tossing it to him "Oh here's your spear back i really couldn't find a use for it in my usual act, but it did make quite a useful dosing rod so thanks."

 

Quill approached the group “AJ, nice to meet you. I apologize for how curt I was before. My name is Quill, I would’ve introduced myself earlier but uh, prison bars make things awkward.” Quill brightened when he saw a familiar face from jail “Faust! Good to see you face to face now, yelling across a room doesn’t make for good conversation.” Quill chuckled lightly. “Let's talk more later, I need to take care of small matter. I’ll be back promptly.” Quill excused himself and made his way to a room he remembered his snooping through security assets. The last survivor of his world.


Quill was finding it difficult to breathe, he had doubts swirling in his head. This was a bad idea. But he’d been standing at the door for a couple minutes now, he needed to knock. But how could he face them- “I’ve been listening to your breathing at the door, whoever it is come in or get lost.” Quill took a deep breathe and entered, he already knew the voice. “Katie, it’s me Q- uh well Quill.” Katie, codename K, was a Keyblade master like himself. “Q-quill that’s you? You look- no it’s true isn’t it? You and the other masters went through with that idea?!”

Quill was shocked to see her again, he was unprepared to be faced with his sins so quickly “You don’t understand, we thought you were gone. When you encased yourself in stone to save us, we assumed the worst...Master X, he said we didn’t have any other-” She was quick to retort “I don’t want to hear the excuses! OUR WORLD is gone because of your actions. I came here to try to save our world but this damn summit has been ruined.” Quill misunderstood “The summit? What could they- you don’t mean you want to bring other Keyblade wielders to our world? That’s insane, the darkness has swallowed our world-” She pushed him against a wall, holding his throat “You don’t get to say that around me! It’s not your world after what your group did, after the countless lives now part of a horde of heartless!” She created crystalline spears that orbited her “I should end you here, it would only be right for what you did.”

Quill, at one time, would’ve agreed. He had done too much to allow himself anymore chances. That this was justice. But, an inkling of something these people he’d met crept in, that he still had things he could do to make the world right. Quill’s chitin grew into plated armor and repelled Katie with it. Her look was one of disgust “You’re tainted, like them now.” Quill was quick to respond “Perhaps, but as I still draw breathe I will try to make things right. Not spend my time planning suicide missions. Not anymore...Try to recruit your Keyblade wielders, try to save our world. But I’ll be moving on, you should try the same.” Quill turned and walked away, she was audibly enraged. “Never let me see you again Q, I’ll kill you!!”


Quill arrived back with the group, more dejected but at the same time felt like he was in the right place for him. He finally smiled and joined the rest of the SOS.

 

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Faust had saaid Quills name so he knew what the his name was. 'AJ, nice to meet you. I apologize for how curt I was before. My name is Quill, I would’ve introduced myself earlier but uh, prison bars make things awkward.' "I soppopse so." Quill left. so why he was gone he turned his attention back to Shiro. He thought back to what he said. 'AN OBJECTIVE WE CAN POSTPONE. RIGHT NOW, WE NEED TO MAKE A FEW MORE PIT STOP BEFORE RECLAIMING OUR BASE OF OPERATIONS.' He could not image what could possibly to more important the the red society. "They need to be stopped and we should being going after them. What makes you so sure we should wait.?" He was mostly wondering his opinion. It was then the Quill returned. "So Quill happy to see that you are joining us we need all the help we can get." He smiled at quill they would need all the help they could get for what was to come.

 

Ananta looked a little lost, but she glanced over to see Aux found his mother. She smiled and waited for them to talk before she walked over and waved. "Iso, I told you he was here. And Mari, you look adorable. I'm glad you were able to find him!" She smiled at the little family. She kindly ignored hearing his mom. "Aux, whys your face red?" She teased. "You're coming with us to finish this all, right?"

 

Kaida slowly approached Aux's family and those in that direct spot. Not really wanting to invade the conversation and being confused how his mom and sister looked so much different. Actually, the weirdest part was that they looked vaguely familiar. But she didn't want to ponder too long about it. When she heard where the conversation was going she snuck up and said, "Oh yeah, Aux is totally dating Karina. It's like a combination of uh..." she tried to keep up the joke somehow and was going to say 'peanut butter and jelly' but instead said, "Fire and Gasoline." she paused afterwards and waved her hand, "I'mkiddingaboutthedatingthingsorry. Hi, I'm Kaida." Kaida held her hand out and said, "I'm Aux's punching bag."

 

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It would be easy to just right it off as them messing with him, but all the evidence that pointed towards that made it hard to just do so. Still, to take back their base of operation? It was a course of action that Kel hadn't really considered them doing at all so to suddenly hear that from Shiro was surprising and yet still did nothing for the internal crossroad that he found himself in. Something he could do however was to properly speak to his dad again before possibly leaving again.

"Hey, kiddo not exactly what I had planned for your first day back, but here, always tomorrow right?" He smiled patting his son on the back. "Unless of course... tomorrow needs a raincheck?"

"Yeah, about that." Kel found himself taking in a breath. He couldn't back down now and this was something that he did know he needed to do. "For as better or worse this maybe, I'm going to continue traveling with my friends in this adventure of ours. I need to see this through to the end."

"Yeah, kinda figured that's where you were headed... wouldn't be my son if you didn't," he smirked. "I'm proud of you, son... drop me a line when you come out on top, will yah?" He pulled him in for a tight hug and hardy pat on the back. He put his hands on both his shoulders. "You sure everything's gonna be okay?"

Something about being told that he was proud did help left his mood a bit. Just enough for him to be able to crack a smile. "I will and I'll explain why I left when I do." He owed his dad and especially his mom that much. "Honestly I'm not sure. We've gotten lucky this far, but even that hasn't been without losses." Each comrade's face still remained in his head...right? Odd, it felt as if there was a blank slate in his head but the reason seemed to have been lost on him.

"Well, I have faith in your son. And if you ever feel in distress, just remember... A Siegend never loses his cool... very important with women also," He chuckled

Kel chuckled at that too. "I'll definitely keep that in mind dad." The doubt still lingered, but this talk did make him feel better about the decision to keep going on this adventure of theirs.

 

Once Luna had secured Lucien's and Illiana's safety, she ran back toward Aux and Quill. She saw Whiskey shoot out more chains. Aux had then yelled at Luna, wondering what she had done to make Whiskey, or Amelie, so mad. "If I knew, then this whole situation would be different, wouldn't it?!" The princess looked back at the angry woman as she shouted in French. It took Luna a moment to translate what she was saying. "Took her light??" Luna was quite puzzled at what she meant. Whiskey continued her tale as her power grew and grew. "Wait...You were one of the seven???" Luna was definitely shocked over Whiskey's words. Before Whiskey took her leave, she had then called the princess a thief then proceeded to say one more thing before taking her leave.


Aux had then instructed the other two to start heading off, in search of the others. Luna followed after Aux and Quill before looking back to where Whiskey had once stood. After a few moments, she walked away and joined the others. Once the three reached the Summit room, they joined the others as Shiro and DJ went over the group's next course of action. Luna sat in silence as her thoughts took over her mind. Lucien went over to his sister and try to give her some peace of mind at the very least. "Everything will be fine." The princess turned her head towards her brother. "I apologize. I had hoped my pondering wasn't bothering anyone." Her brother shook his head. "Never in a million years will you be a bother, dear sister." Luna chuckled for a moment before taking a deep breath. "Is it that woman that called to you before?" Luna nodded her head in response to Lucien's question. "Her words....They held such anger. She called me a thief of sorts." She lowered her head as she replayed Whiskey's words. Lucien placed a hand atop of her head. "You're not a thief. You are remotely far from being any sort of thief. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, alright?" Luna lifted her head and nodded. She leaned her head on Lucien's shoulder before sighing. "It feels like everything is just piling up more and more as if it's a tower." Lucien kept his hand on her head, gently patting it to comfort her. "It may seem like that but you don't have to take it all on by yourself. You have Illiana, Orella, Deimos, Solianna, Koa, this group, Mira, and myself. You are not alone." The princess nodded her head as she thought about her friends and family. She slightly smiled as she took a deep breath. "You always know what to say at times like these, don't you? You and Koa both." The two twins chuckled as they took this moment to breathe and enjoy the other's company.


After a few moments, the twins stood up as Illiana walked up to them. "Your highness, we're all set to go whenever you're ready." Luna looked at Lucien as he nodded his head. "Thank you Illiana." He turned his head to his sister. "Since it seems like you and your group is about ready to depart, it only makes sense for us to get a move on as well." Luna nodded her head. "Be careful when you get back to the colonies. Don't do anything reckless." Her brother nodded his head. "You be careful as well. That woman is still out there and to be honest, I'm quite worried." Luna nodded her head before reassuring him. "I'll be fine. It's not as if I'm fighting alone." She smiled as she reassured her brother. She then turned to Illiana. "I'm sorry Koa wasn't on board. I thought for sure he was here." Illiana shook her head before giving her a smile. "Don't worry about it Lulu. Koa and I will see each other in due time. You just focus on keeping yourself safe." The princess nodded her head before lowering it. "If I know my brother, he's too stubborn to drop dead. All of us know that all too well. Besides, I'm sure he doesn't want to make you wait any longer than you already have. Trust me." She gave Luna a little wink before chuckling. Luna nodded her head before hugging Illiana. "Thank you...Lili." Illiana patted Luna's head as she smiled. "Take care of yourself, Luna." The princess nodded her head before turning to Orella and Solianna. "I'll see to it that they are all safe, especially His Highness." Luna nodded her head. "I'm counting on you and Deimos, Solianna." Solianna gave her a one hand salute, as if she was agreeing. Luna gave Illiana one more hug before hugging her brother. "Curam, frater." "Tu caves quoque, soror." The two held on to each for a moment before letting go. As the two seperated, nothing but smiles were on their faces. Lucien went over to the other three as they walked away.


After Lucien and the others left, she turned back to the group and saw Aislinn just a bit ways away. She sort of remembered seeing her in the Summit room after the surprise attack. Luna wasn't too sure since she was quite injured at that point. She decided to walk up to Aislinn. "I hope I'm not interrupting. I just thought I should walk over and say 'Hello' at the very least." She smiled as she lifted a hand to say 'Hi'.






Translations:
“Curam, frater”- Take care, brother
“Tu caves quoque, soror.” You take care too, sister