Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

"It was... part of my elemental training... I didn't wanna come back until I finished it. That thing you guys were fighting was a manifestation of my darkness. I was jumping from world to world- following it, to try and stop it and finally conquer my darkness." He sighed and looked down at the floor. "I has visited all the worlds I ruined. The Great Forest, Dwarf Woodlands, Beast's Castle. It was awful. All the things." After letting out a sigh. "It's not an excuse to worry everyone though. Haven't really been keeping track of time," His eyes looked like he hadn't gotten a decent sleep in days. "I can't call myself a part of this team, until I deal with the thing that caused the most trouble for it..."

As Quill was overwhelmed by cats, a blonde woman in a large pink gown came and tried to help remove the cats from Quill. "Oh you poor thing, Sorry about them!" she started picking off the cats one by one. "I swear my parties are usually much less wild than this one," she anxiously chuckled. She was a bit ditzy, but sweet with her southern accent. Some of the staff had already cleaning the aftermath of the event.

"I didn't even get to finish my dance with prince Naveen," she sulked. "Oh! But more importantly; I'm looking for my friend Tiana. Have y'all seen her anywhere? Dark beautiful skin, rosy cheeks.. She was wearing her hair up and wore a beautiful blue gown I leant to her- Oh and she had a tiara!- She's my best friend and I just need to know she's okay!" She spoke fast and seemed to show genuine concern for her friend. The name she mentioned; 'Tiana' was also one of the remaining Princesses of Hearts that the party had to keep an eye out for.

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The street thief brought everyone to his hole-in-the-wall hidewaway at the edge of town.
Aladdin made sure he was out of sight before he pulled out a large lamp from his vest. "I found this in the cave of wonders... It's got a pretty big secret but I think I can trust you guys. Not to mention I need to make sure Jasmine's okay..." He held up the lamp and rubbed it's side until sparks began to fly from the tip of the nozzle. The lamp bounced up and about from out of his hand as a crazy and wild baritone laugh echoed around the group.

A stream of cyan colored smoke shot of the lamp as the gaseous vapor began to take form. The top heavy half of an enchanted creature took shape, stretching his arms out as if he had just woken up from a long map. "Oh it was only a night, but always feels like much longer!" The booming, charismatic tone came from a larger than life blue genie with a twisted curl of black hair atop his bald, elven eared head, his bottom half, nothing but a stream of smoke.

"Al pal, you gotta let me out a lil more often! Really gotta stretch my legs- at least I would if I made em, but there's something so satisfying about floating about the-" He paused as he saw the other five wielders surrounding them. "Al, you didn't tell me we had quests coming! I would've cleaned up!" He snapped his fingers as the hideaway instantly turned into a fancy dining room with a feast of caviar and other fancy delicacies; Abu instantly diving into the caked and shoving his face into it.

He snapped his fingers again as he grew legs and had magically summoned a butler uniform and thin mustache onto himself. "Allow me to dress you into the formalwear for the evening's event." He snapped his fingers again as Aladdin and the party were all fitted with lovely suits and dresses modeled after the roarin 20s. Kel into a fancy grey suit, AJ into a sharp navy blue and Beuce into an eggshell white with a porkpie hat to match. Luna sporting a flowing purple dress with elbow length gloves and Karina with a red flapper dress with a necklace of pearls. Even their was fashioned and styled accordingly.

Aladdin chuckled a bit. "Yeah, that takes some getting used to but uh, Genie these are some friends I've made and-"

"But of course sir! Allow me to make the rounds" he replied with a thick high-brow british accent. Several more copies of himself in butler attire appeared as they shook several hands, spouting several phrases.

"Genie's the name!"

"How do you do!"​

"Top drawer!"​

"Most excellent!"​

"Just say when miss!"

The last genie clone was offering a plate of pasta to Luna and shredding grated parmesan slowly onto it.)

 

Karina stood there rather flabbergasted by the entire situation. She didn't know what to do with this blue man. Magical people didn't surprise Karina anymore but this one was full of an exhausting personality. And then in a snap of his fingers she was in a dress shorter than she would ever want and with too many beads. "Really? Isn't there anything better to wear? Why do I have to dress like this? What makes you think this is what is needed right now? I-" Karina just cut herself off and sighed as she looked towards the others. At least Luna had a full length dress, everyone else had pants, so she was the only one with the impractical outfit to do anything in and she didn't know if she could change it. If it was like the cover magic then it would be hard. "I am just going to stop talking before I say too much. You guys can handle the big blue oaf." ​

 

The genie clones and dining room disappeared as the genie pouted, folding his arms. "Everyone's a critic!"

Aladdin explained the situation to the group. "When you guys found me in the Cave of Wonders, I found that magic carpet, and this lamp. I thought the cave had trapped me, but when genie popped out of the lamp, I-"

"Please, kid, leave the intros to a professional!" Genie exclaimed. "The one and only genie of the lamp! Rub-a-dub-dub the lamp and have your dearest wishes granted. Today's winner is... Aladdin! Congratulations!"
A little neon sign appeared above Aladdin's head, with his name in flashing light.
"I'm a mighty powerful guy, but anyone who has my lamp gets access to wishes. Any three wishes! A one wish, a two wish, a three wish. Then I make like a banana and split! Our lucky winner made his first wish to help him get out of the cave—And let me tell you, what a doozy that wish was—So he has two left. So, master, what'll you have for Wish Number Two? Granted there's no rush! After I grant the wishes, it's back to my portable prison. I'm lucky just happy to be out and FREEEEE!" he smiled.

Aladdin paused for a moment. "Well... I was gonna use it to make me into a fabulous prince.. But Jasmine's in trouble, and I need to use my second wish to find her. Maybe I'll save being a prince for my 3rd wish. You said one of the rules was I couldn't force love, but Jasmine can only marry a prince. It's law after all. If I have a chance with her, I wanna do it as me. I just need to make sure she's safe."
"Al, you're gonna make me cry, that was beautiful," genie, said blowing his nose with the sound of a foghorn.

"Genie, for my second wish... I wish Jasmine would be brought to me safe and sound!"

"You know with access to Phenomenal cosmic powers, you're really making these easy on me!"

Genie snapped his fingers as Jasmine appeared before the group. The princess has long black hair tied behind her head, with a sky blue top and matching headband and salwar pants appeared.
"How did I..."
"Hi, powerful cosmic Genie here, he used a wish to bring you here, we'll catch you up soon!" Genie said, with a very wide smile.

"Jasmine!" Aladdin cried out, immediately handing the lamp to Abu to hug her.
"Aladdin!" She embraced him tightly, before being taken aback by the pale faced strangers.

"Are you okay?!" he asked concerned.
"Aladdin it's awful. Jafar's taken over the palace and hypnotized my father. He's working with another evil women with pale green skin and they kept talking about some kind of keyhole. After I heard everything I hid in the palace walls, I'm so happy you found me."

"I don't know what I'd do if i lost you. But your father and Agrabah need our help... I'll use my 3rd wish to get rid of Jafar..."
"But Al! What about-"
"Genie it's fine, I'll think of something else. Jafar's a powerful sorcerer and you're the only one strong enough to take him out. Abu, hand me the lamp..."
Aladdin turned around to find his monkey friend had disappeared. "Abu?"

Overhead, a tiny parrot was aggravatingly trying to shake off Abu as he was flying overhead with lamp in his talons. "I SAID GET LOST YAH STUPID MON-KEY!" With another powerful shake, Abu fell off and landed on Luna's head. The parrot panted heavily as he was flying further and further out of their reach.

"Genie!"
"I'm on it!" The genie flew up straight next to the bird and donned a modern day police officer uniform. "Okay punk, theft is no joke. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to arrest you for robbery of a priceless magic lamp-"
"I WISH YOU'D SHUT UP AND GET IN THE LAMP!" the screechy voiced bird shouted.

As if magically compelled, Genie did as he was told and puffed into blue smoke before funneling back into the lamp.

"Hey! Get back here!"
"He's headed for the palace!" Jasmine added.

Noting that a chase was to commence, the parrot flew past an Agrabah building, where Maleficent was observing.
"HEY MALEFABREATH! I COULD USE A HAND!"

"Watch your tone Iago.. Jafar is a powerful player, but I have no need for a bird..."
"Yah yah..." Iago began to fly off faster as the dark fairy summoned several Fat bandits, Bandits, and Luna bandits to keep the party busy.


MISSION START!

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"We'll keep a look out," Aux replied, trying to appease the local denizen.

After the question was asked, something began to take over Faust. It's as if he wasn't in proper control of his movements as his legs were walking away one foot in front of the other. Unsure why, Faust could see his shadow was not in unison with his and began forcing Faust to run.

A small voice rang in his head that only Faust could hear. "Follow the fireflies."

The rest of the party gave chase as Faust was leading them into the swamp.
The party was able to avoid much of the mucky terrain by traveling on their keyblade gliders, but Faust's shadow stopped them as they heard a conversation between two arguing voices.

"Voodoo? You mean to tell me this all happened because you were messing with the Shadow Man?" a woman's voice said.
"He was very charismatic!" a latin accented man replied.
"It serves me right for wishing on stars. The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work."
"Hard work? Why… why would a princess need to work hard?"
"Huh? Oh, I’m not a princess. I’m a waitress."
"A waitress? Well, no wonder the kiss did not work! You lied to me!"
"I…I never said I was a princess."
"You never said you were a w… a waitress! You were wearing a crown."
"It was a costume party, you spoiled little rich boy."
"Oh, oh yes, oh ye? Well, the egg is on your face, alright, because I do not have any riches!"
"What?"
"I am completely broke!"

As they edged closer towards the voices, there were no people to be seen. But the voices instead came from two talking frogs oddly enough.

"You said … you were fabulously wealthy!"
"No, no, no. My parents are fabulously wealthy. But they cut me off for being a leech!"
"You’re broke, and you had the gall to call me a liar?"
"It was not a lie! I fully intend to be rich again! Once I marry Miss Charlotte La Bouff’ and she will help me!"
"You a prince?"
"Obviously!"
"She’ll help you! Once you two are married, you are gonna keep your promise and get me my restaurant, right?"
"Whoa, oh, not so fast. I made that promise to a beautiful princess, not a cranky wai… Why are those shadows moving?.."

Several neoshadows began to rise from the swampy ground as they circled the frogs. There was a lot to unpack here, but they definitely needed help..

MISSION START!

 

With an agitated sigh, Aux summoned his keyblade at the sight of heartless attacking the talking frogs- a sight he didn't want to ask regarding whether or not it was a common thing in this world.

"Fine," he groaned. "I got some stuff to work through anyways..."

HE ran headfirst in, casting Aeroza on the frogs before he gripped his keyblade with both hands and began smacking back the neoshadows with it. One after the other, letting loose powerful blow after blow. He kicked the polliwogs away as they seemed to be the lesser heartless of the two and kept a defensive stance to keep any other attacking ones at bay.


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Aux performed a hyper jump to quickly get behind one of the neoshadows and hit them hard enough to dissipate the dark creature. He locked on from heartless to heartless performing his combos and making sure the frogs were still within his eyeline. What these frogs were and what the heartless wanted with them was still a mystery to him. All he knew was that if the heartless wanted them, they needed protecting, and as long as he was able he was going to make sure none of them took the amphibious talkers.

Fighting in the area was definitely a change of pace as well. He never fought in a swamp before and found that a lot of his movement was slow. On top of already being very slow on account of his size and build. Speed was never his strong stat, but it was never the stat he needed. Aux was a tank plain and simple, and it's situations like this where he thrived. Defending, and pushing back anyone who tried to harm the folks he was defending.

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Letting loose a strike raid with his keyblade, Aux proceeded to turn around proceeded to punch several neoshadows in the face, after punching hard enough to et rid of two more, he used the keyblade to uppercut one of them, kicking them into a small group of poliwogs. He once again held the hilt with two hands to gain enough powerful momentum to get rid of all of them with one fell swoop. HE continued to slug through the shallow bayou, getting very annoyed with how wet his clothes were getting up to his calves.

Every attack he has to slosh and move around, making it one of the more restrictive fights he'd been a part of. He didn't want too many powerful spells or attacks for fear of hurting the frogs, so many of his attacks were resorting to close combat and brute force. He also didn't know much about the world order, so several of his attacks were to remain low key for the sake of the world's denizens. Talking frogs aside, he had to keep enough of his abilities in the dark so to speak. Punching the neoshadows into nothingness actually reminded him of his own training with his grandfather. He hated training with his grandfather.


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Just thinking about past memories was making him angry.
Not even seeing if his savage beatdown of the heartless would cause a bad impression to the talking frogs, he kept maliciously punching and slashing at them. He kept seeing the frogs from the corner of his eyeline, making sure they didn't stray too far. He thought about using a dark aura, but much of his darkness left him in the form of his old dark armor. If he wanted his darkness to be his again, he had to hunt down the clanking monster and conquer it once and for all. Matter of fact, the more he thought about it, the more he started to calm down. He wasn't that same person anymore. He was still miffed about a lot of things, but it was that kind of impulsive thinking that caused him to make so many mistakes in the past.

A neoshadow charged at him before Aux spun around and pressed his chest onto the neoshadow, holding the creature under the swamp water until the bubbles stopped. It was actually a morbid but poignant moment for him as he thought about things with more clarity. He slashed away at any poliwogs that tried to catch him off guard, but his ferocity had settled for the most part.


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Well Karina had to admit that having a genie would be handy given how he could snap his fingers and made problems disappear. If she got her hand on that lamp she could fix the entire mess they were in. Maybe she would snatch the lamp after Aladdin was done with it. Get Genie to deal with the Red Society, snap them out of existence for all she cared. Then maybe she would do what Aladdin was too much of a coward to do and free genie. Karina got the idea of using a cosmic deity to fix all his problems but she also didn't want to anger that cosmic power by denying them a promise.

But of course before any of that could happen a stupid talking bird snatched the lamp. Well that sucked. And of course Maleficent was involved. Another player from another world having to interfere and bring with her heartless of course. "Of course. This is just great. Fabulous even. Why did he have to put us in dresses. Didn't I say that it would be a bad idea?" Though flashing her friends was the last of Karina's worries. These heartless were a pain in her butt though. "Jasmine if you know what is good for you, I would stay behind us and keep close to Aladdin. He might not be good for much but he can defend whatever we miss." Karina instructed before launching herself at the enemies ahead of them. The beads on the bottom of her dress clicking against each other as she spun whirled and took out the first three bandits that lead the charge at the group. Karina knew that this was just a ploy to slow them, so she had to make it as quick as possible cutting through the enemies.

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Okay well it seemed AJ was ready to engage in battle but she couldn't say she agreed with his preaching about the lamp. It was clear that Aladdin had some good intentions even if he got carried away and the Genie wasn't inherently evil. So the preaching about it being too dangerous was like calling their keyblades too dangerous and that they shouldn't have them. The keyblade was powerful and is used for both good and bad, but the tool itself wasn't inherently one thing or another and Karina didn't believe that no one should have a keyblade because of the damage it could cause. After all look at how many people they helped. And despite herself and the threat to not keep a promise, Aladdin seemed like the right person to figure out how best to use the lamp. Still she was not here to fight with AJ, she was here to protect Jasmine, get the lamp back and defeat the heartless heading into the world.

How did one heartless have so much fat that her keyblade couldn't damage it. That was the most baffling part about this battle. She just couldn't contemplate how he would be that fat. Instead of attacking head on, Karina was forced to dart and dodge along till the Fat Bandit jumped at her, then once behind it she managed to take him out with one strike. As she did that however she saw another sliding on it's belly towards her. Karina let out a sigh, it was going to be one of these fights was it? If it was Aux or something Karina was sure they would stop it by standing their ground, but despite her strength Karina didn't like to take the risk on the damage. So instead she leapt into the air. Once it was under her she aimed her keyblade down and speared it straight through the back. "Nice try." She mumbled.

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Karina glanced around and spotted AJ surrounded. "Damn it AJ! Get your head out of the clouds, now is not the time to be distracted." Thankfully the bandits were facing AJ making them vulnerable to her attacks. A fire ball exploded against ones back as Karina darted through the smoke taking out the second. That drew the attention of the third which Karina started to lead away from AJ, but stopping to help AJ left an opening for some regular bandits to get close to Jasmine and Aladdin. "AJ, go help them, I will deal with this one!" Karina called as she tried to bait the Fat Bandit into moving in the right way that she could get behind it and take it out. Once again this took longer than Karina would have liked but she managed to get into position and take him out, just in time to jump back into action to stop the next wave of bandits. That didn't mean that there wasn't still trouble with the the bandits that already got past, but that would be AJ's problem, she just had to make sure that no more bandits got through to make that job harder than it already was.

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F*ck, if only Beuce was paying attention, he was better at planning than she was. She really wished he would answer the question, but Karina wasn't holding her breath for that. Fine, she could answer the question. She wasn't smart, but Karina wouldn't consider herself dumb. "They are just trying to slow us down. If we get to Jafar, if we get to Maleficent, then we trap them there. The heartless will either follow us to them and leave the town alone or they will decide that the heartless aren't strong enough and try and deal with us themselves, then we need to do what we do best. AJ, we have been doing there for far longer than anyone should have to, so that being said, the heartless won't stop us. Just keep doing what we do best and we will put a stop to them." Karina tried to encourage as she pushed forward. "We just need to make sure Jasmine is safe, and that is nothing new to us either. Stay close and don't stop moving." Karina instructed. Every time she attacked a heartless she pushed forward, pushing the advance back. If only they had someone like Aux to just push forward and not have to worry about the damage that they were taking. Either way he wasn't here and Karina didn't know where he was, so it wouldn't matter. Aux didn't like her anyways so Karina doubted he would take her instruction. Ultimately it didn't matter as they pushed forward.

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"Get them to one area? Oh I think I can do that." Now magic was not something Karina excelled in, especially when it wasn't around fire, but the keyblade gave her some powers and if she relied on them and channeling through the Keyblade, then perhaps something could work. "Alright lets give this a try." Karina looked over the enemies on the field, choosing a place far enough away from her allies, but around the most heartless, Karina shifted gravity. She created a new center of gravity for a short distance. This pulled any heartless in the area to that spot. "I don't know what you are planning now AJ but it is now or never. You made a path but what are you planning to do with the heartless, I can't hold this magic forever." She was just impressed that her magic worked in the first place, so she wasn't sure how she was going to continue it. It would be a challenge but she would give AJ a chance to do whatever he planned. While she did this, Karina couldn't attack. She wasn't used to being support, but she needed to try something to get further faster and if trusting AJ was the way to do that, that would be what she would do.

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