Light Vs. Darkness: The Hero's Return

Zavion had known it was an illusion before they even charged. It wasn't like a nobody. They had makeshift hearts that their body created to attempt to replace the real thing. In that, there was just nothing. Nothing at all. He knew it wasn't the real one. Although, he couldn't let Crybex know he was able to see the real thing yet. He kept his eyes fixated on where the illusion had been to disguise his real intentions. He didn't move his head or his eyes, but with his gift of Clairvoyance, he was scanning the area for the real one. There, above Caleb, was a bright light. Crybex's heart. He couldn't hide himself from Zavion. He prepared himself. He'd only have one shot. A surprise attack only worked if it was a surprise. They might be able to beat him without it if it came down to it, but this was their best shot.

He wasn't moving. This was good. It'd be easier if he stayed right where he was. Right now, he was the only one who knew where Crybex really was. If this worked, he may well win the fight for him right then and there. No pressure or anything. It took only a split second for him to make his move. He swept his leg to the side, and a wave of darkness slammed into Crybex's back, shoving him toward Zavion like a current of water, shoving against you and pushing you with it against your will. "Shinryu!" He screamed, thrusting his fist toward the man of light. His arm lit ablaze with a dark fire, burning the sleeve off of his jacket instantly. It was his own darkness, so he had a resistance to it, but this darkness was powerful. It was on his arm for no more than a few seconds, yet his skin was being seared off his arm. His mother's darkness had been incredibly powerful in her youth, as he was told. Yet she was never able to fully control it. It seemed he'd inherited that trait from his mother. For the most part, he could control it, but the more powerful it got, the more he lost his grip on what it did. He was never properly taught to use it. The flames spiraled forward and solidified, transforming into an enormous dragon crafted of dark fire. This, unlike his mother's Shinry, was more of an attack than a summon. The beast let out a mighty roar as it flew headlong into Crybex, attempting to incinerate him with one powerful strike. ​

 

Caleb was shocked at Crybex's lack of attempts to defend himself, but even moreso when he seemingly vanished. Surely he hadn't gone down so easily, this had to be some kind of trick. Sure enough, it was, indicated by Zavion attacking him. As Crybex was revealed for a split second, Caleb swiftly summoned a regular blade and flung it straight at him, the blade soaring through the air at the target. If Crybex was going to play this game, they had to end him quickly. As he ran forward, he readied his swords and hurried towards Zavion. He wasn't sure why the boy was able to see their opponent, and quite honestly he didn't care so long as it got the job done, but if there was some way he could tell them where Crybex was hiding then by Sapphire he was going to use it.

Dane raised an eyebrow. "You know, I'm hearing a lot of excuses, not a lot of things getting done. Ah well, a promise is a promise. Okay, in order to teach you one of the most powerful techniques I know, I'm going to need three things. I need a dead rabbit, I'll need three logs, and...." he wondered, thinking of the third thing. An idea formed in his head. "You remember that guy that calls himself Beuce? I need that guy's arm" he stated, walking alongside Samsara who was now carrying Alisia. That ought to buy him some time, and it would surely be funny.

As the undead fell, Hunter considered striking a victory pose, but right as he was about to he felt physical pain inside of his heart. He fell forward, clutching his chest. Not just one, but several Hunters were all killed..by him. The only thing Hunter feared...Deity Hunter. He had betrayed them all, killed their kind. He would pay, but first Hunter had some experience to get. If he levelled up enough, then there was a chance he could critically strike and 1 shot Deity Hunter. He pushed past Gwen as more enemies spawned. "Outta my way Ginger, I have some clones to avenge" he stated, somewhat grimly. He looked at his opponents for the semi final round. They were spirits of fallen RP characters. There was Karina, from LVD1, Unibertha the bipedal behemoth, from SOS, and lastly there was Snow Villiers, who had migrated from Rienzel's Fate RP just to fight in this one battle.

Readying his blade, he ran at Karina. If she even poked them once, they were all dead;he knew that Karina had gotten so strong she had punched the strength cap and broken that too, so her power was quite literally infinite. Thankfully, speed stat was still a thing, so as Hunter reached her he swung his blade at her quickly, cleaving her in half much the same way she had to Kross that one time in SOS.​

 

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Walking along, Dane didn't seem to get Samsara's explanation. How else was she supposed to explain it? She didn't miss any details, so it's not like she wanted to hide anything from Dane. At least he kept his promise and was going to teach her something, finally. His next few words confused Samsara. "Why do I need to get all of that? The rabbit and logs I can get here and put up for later, but some guy named Beuce's arm?" she asked, confused as heck. "Why do we need his arm?" she asked next, trying to get a reason to his method of madness. Whatever the case, she reached down and found a dead rabbit. Seemed like this was one of the animals that ran away earlier, but was too injured to live. She stuffed it into her laws-of-physics-defying-pocket that every person in every video game ever has, along with two relatively large logs. This was all done while she still held Alisia.

Speaking of Alisia, Samsara noticed the girl was making noises in her unconsciousness. Eventually, the girl screamed, causing Samsara to hear a slight ringing in her ear for a little bit before she started getting pounded on her back. "Ow, ow!" she said, sitting Alisia on her feet. "First you scream, now you-" she started, before she noticed the tears and sweat on the girls' face. Samsara pulled a handkerchief from her pocket and leaned down to wipe Alisia's face. As she did so, her crystal fell out and dangled by it's chain from her neck. "Now, let me say sorry for knocking you out, but that was the only way I knew how to get rid of that thing you did to me. Here." she said, holding her hand up. A Cure spell formed in her hand and soon was pressed into Alisia's stomach, warming her and soothing the pain a little bit. "My magic isn't as strong as others who know healing magic, but it should help with the pain a little. Now, don't cast another one of those spells unless you're asked by Dane, okay?" she said, putting the handkerchief away.

 

And suddenly a big black dragon of fire came out of a man's hand. He was a little impressed that such power came out of a little body. Well, what was more impressive was his ability to see through Crybex's illusion he had cast. To the other's they would just see a dragon coming at him. However, once it hit him, the illusion disappeared. Another person threw a sword into his stomach, and last but not least of the perfectly executed combo attack was someone who was almost as fast as Crybex himself who stab him in the back.

Crybex landed on the ground. So these warriors of darkness had some actual fight in them. It was just a shame their efforts were meaningless. The power of light was on his side. No longer would the light have to suffer the darkness surrounding it, reaching to every corner that the light expanded to. The light was ready for war, Crybex would initiate this war, a war of light vs darkness.

The man stood up. His eyes lost pigment as he stared at them all. "Oh how the holy light as deemed me worthy to carry on. Nothing that has pierced me can harm me when I have light's eternal judgement placed down onto me." He waited for all of them to finally hit the ground. Crybex disappeared, or so it seemed. This wasn't even an illusion. He used his light speed and moved behind them. A ring of light appeared from his hands, it stretching over the group. He brought both hands together and the ring shrunk, binding everyone together in a tight squeeze.

"Now listen you dwellers of darkness, I am not here to kill you as I have stated. I am only here to follow you. Just think of it is a knife always being pointed at your back. You'll never know if its rubber or not." He released the ring of light. Within his hand appeared a key blade. It was pure light energy put into solid form. "Damn this thing appeared again. Still cant figure it out yet. I think it's called a keyblade? Well, I am the ultimate light, maybe if I find the man who holds the ultimate darkness and we can forge this X-Blade of legend. A weapon that strong could destroy all darkness in one fell swoop. I shall await that day." Now he was just talking to himself. None of them, excluding Charloette, were worth his questions of curiosity.

 

• Land of Dragons
• Cite Des Cloches
• Lucien
• Rinnox

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  As she pointed out the cave, Lexcifur here, well he seemed to be a pretty rude person. He also seemed to have gone through hell and back. She had no idea what that actually entailed in, but she decided to trust his seemingly veteran adventurous sense. It also appeared that there were traps there. How clever. That meant that there must have been something worth looting here. Or an ancient entity capable of defeating a goddess. Either or really. Regardless, the quartet had marched on merely towards the cave, and once inside it, there was a single narrow passageway that stretched on for barely any distance at all. In fact, the whole cave area was really underwhelming, all things considered. Not to mention when the passage way ended, it simply lead into a large, circular room. Something much like that of a dome like area really.
  
  While there were a few baubles here and there and stuff that was put into spaces carved into the wall...well that was it. "Well, there's a whole lot nothing in here." Her voice was kind of unimpressed and monotone as she said it, and then looked to the others. She went over to all of the stuff in the wall and kept trying to move around and such to see if it would open any sort of secret passage, but sadly, there was no such long. Letting out a sigh of boredom she said, "well this a big let down. I guess if this cave's a bust, you want to keep searching the rest of the world for anymore or what?" She would normally be gung ho with adventurous spirit, however, this sort of dead end had put a bit of a hamper on it. Ah well, maybe there was something left in this world yet.
  
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  After having dealt various blows to the man of light, he seemed to fade away into naught more than a mere apparition. It was then that he had proclaimed that they were under some sort of illusion spell, and was basically talking about how much the people deserved to die and how they were basically just going to let him do what he wants. Completely disregarding the tribunal session that had just occured, as she had figured it was, once more, just some sort of weird illusion mumbo jumbo that the man had pulled, he was not going to let him get off the hook so easily. Knowing that it was an illusion, and having a natural resistance to any sort of light based magic, Charlotte was able to see somewhat through the illusions. It wasn't as if they weren't there, just not in as great detail as they normally would be. However, large dragon of darkness had attacked where the man ended up being, shattering the illusory world around them. Once the attacks had connected with him, however, he ended up managing to get behind them in what appeared to be an instant, then binding them with a ring of light.
  
  Once again, due to her natural resistance to light, she was managing to struggle out of it better than the rest, though in the end, it didn't matter as she was soon freed by the caster himself. He then materialized a keyblade and started to go on a rant about it. While he seemed to have no intention of hurting them, while they were still hunting for the hero at least, the reverse was not true. She pointed her blade, Caliburn, at the man and said, "regardless of your own intentions, your heart is that of a wicked one, and I will not let it run free to simply kill as you see fit. Your light is not that which brings justice, merely nothing more than senseless genocide." With that, she completely disregarded what he had said, and simply made her wings of light appear and strike at him with another sword slash.
  
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  As the group continued to walk through the forest, Lucien was becoming ever more irritated at the entire situation. It was exceedingly obvious that the tensions between that entire trio that was Samsadi, Dane and Alisia was super high. Between Little White's grand escape and Chalk's extremely climactic capture, they were clearly the most cohesive and well put together group of people. Not to mention, these people who were clearly the most intelligent of people ever couldn't solve the brain teaser of why Alisia would try to kill the person who was impeding her escape from a man who seemed to both treat and label her as a slave. Honestly this was a mystery far too difficult for even the most powerful of supercomputers to deduce. Regardless the group had continued walking along and the Alisia had gotten a bit rowdy as well.
  
  He let out a sigh as he turned around and walked over to the two. Wanting to make sure the two of them didn't cause any further distractions and or kill each other in the process he looked at both of them."Alright listen up you two, I'm just gonna give you a bit of advice to make this go by way smoother for everyone here, first," he turned his gaze to Samsadi, "you, stop trying to act like you care about her well being. It honestly doesn't matter whether or not you do, she hates your oh so wise teacher with a passion so trying to get in good is only naturally going to make her distrust you more." He then turned his gaze to Alisia, "and you, Little White. Honestly I get where you're coming from, wanting to kill these people is only natural, and wanting to escape from your apparent slavedom. Only more so. However, if you could, could you please refrain from team killing. Right now we're on my time, and I don't want to waste my time dealing with people team killing, because then I'll get mad at the killer, and that's no bueno for anyone. Now on your own time go nuts for all I care," he looked at everyone else and said, "this is just general advice for all of you really."After all, there was no point in preventing it when he wasn't around, since most of them were probably going to die anyway.
  
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Xero got up to go through the corridor and stopped as Sapphire said her name. She looked at her sadly before telling her to say "Hi" to Freya for her. Xero couldn't help but return the saddened look before giving her a small smile, "I will... Thanks Sapphire." She then stepped through the corridor, the darkness surrounding her body as it closed and transported her to the Land Of Dragons. She looked around the mountain top before seeing foot prints in the dirt. Of course she followed them down the mountain and to where a cave was.

Xero cautiously looked at the opening of the cave and saw that a trap had been activated, for arrows were stuck to a wall. She walked in, carefully watching where she was stepping as to not activate any more possible traps. She then came to the entrance of a dome room and what she saw standing in the middle of it was none other than Lexcifur and Freya with two other people.

"Lucifer... You're... You're here..."

Her heart nearly stopped as she was finally seeing her son again after so many years. She almost ran over and hugged him, but resisted doing so after listening to what Sapphire had said. Sadness could only fill her heart once more.



Lexcifur glanced to Freya as he heard her voice in his head asking what to do of it was the hero. He thought for moment, not actually sure himself only to see that the cave's pit was simply empty. He let out a disappointed sigh as his body slumped down from standing straight, 'I guess since the place is empty there isn't anything to worry about...' he finally replied to Freya.

"Lame. That trap was probably for something else if there's nothing in here." Lexcifur frowned as he spoke then crossed his arms as he looked over to Jackie who was seeing if anything could be moved. She finally gave up and asked the group what they wanted to do, "There's not much use staying here if there's nothing so I vote we--"

"Lucifer... You're... You're here..."

Lexcifur froze. He couldn't believe the voice he just heard. It just couldn't be. Of all places.... He slowly turned around to see that it was definitely her.

"Mom...?"​

 

Spoiler: Great Forest - Dane's part

As Dane wandered over to Alisia, he stopped next to Samsara. He would have normally laughed at her for the fact that it seemed Alisia had developed a spine and told her off, but surprisingly there was something that interested him more than making fun of somebody. The crystal that Samsara had shown, he'd seen it before. "Where did you get that?" he asked. He didn't even wait for a response, continuing to speak. "Oh dang, how did I not see it before? Your old appearance, the angry looks, the outright bitch, you're her kid aren't you!" Dane exclaimed, genuinely surprised. He was referring to Ananta of course. A couple of hundred years before, he'd stumbled across a world full of people like Anadi, people that had those crystals, and he'd tried to destroy it. He'd failed, purely because of Ananta's bullshittery, but he hadn't been nearly as strong as he was presently, and he'd also just gotten back from destroying another world. Still, he'd always been meaning to go back there and finish the job, but maybe now he didn't have to. He opened a dark corridor. "Samsara, I'll admit I've been lying about teaching you so far. It's kinda funny how gullible you are sometimes, you know that? But I'll be completely serious with you here; if you go through that corridor to that world, and kill the green haired woman that seems to run the place, I'll teach you my most powerful spell; the one I use to destroy entire worlds" Dane said, giving his proposition to Samsara.

He figured he should probably try to calm Alisia a little. She claimed to be defenseless, and in a sense she was, but there was no stopping her from dooming him and running around other people; in fact he was surprised she hadn't done it already. He walked back over to Alisia and sat down on a conveniently placed log and motioned for her to take a seat next to it. "It's okay, I don't bite. Besides, if you're standing up all the time how will I get you to do other things?" he asked, being nice in his own way. He sighed. If there was one thing he hated, it was having to be nice to people. But when you had someone with the ability to kill you outright, well there wasn't much of an option. "You hate me, that much is obvious. I can't blame you, I hate me too. I'm an *******, but It's just so much fun. You think you know all about me though don't ya, think you know exactly how my mind works. I don't just kill for the fun of it, Alisia. Believe it or not, I don't enjoy it as much as I claim. Don't get me wrong, I love it, but there's a reason behind it. It all stems back to my mother, you see. Yeah yeah, laugh all you want, big evil murderer has mommy issues" Dane said, beginning his explanation.

"I wasn't always as fantastic, as powerful, or as destructive as I am, kid. True, I was born like this, but there was a time that I wasn't as into it as you might think. As a child, I was always trying to cause pain, always causing suffering, just like I am now. And then I met her. One girl, out of everyone else in my homeworld, dared to approach me. She didn't see me as this raging lunatic, she only saw me as a scared and lonely little boy who didn't know any better" the shadow reaper said casually, as though he'd told it a thousand times before.

"Her and I, we got to know each other good. Really good. My mother? She didn't like it, not one bit. She pretended to get to know the girl, then she tortured her beyond what your tiny brain can possibly imagine. And she made me watch. The girl, she called out to me, not telling me to save her, but rather not to. She would rather die and have me not give into my natural instincts, than save her and embrace the darkness that flowed through my veins" Dane stated, his face looking for once incredibly serious.

"So I did. I stood there and watched, and dear old mummy didn't like that at all. She killed her, right there and then. Kinda did me a favour, too. You see, that girl had created a small spark of light in me. Tiny, microscopic, but it was there, burning me all the same. Someone like me, they can't have any light in them, or it burns, so when she died the light went with her. Now, I should've thanked her, right? Wrong. The light might have gone, but the bit of restraint preventing me from taking my revenge went with it"

"I know what you're thinking. That's when I killed her. Ha, you really don't know me. Why would I do that? Nah, I didn't kill her. I attacked her, beat the living **** out of her, yeah, but she lived. I wanted her, I still want her, to live. I chained her up and gagged her, put a drip pumping the things she needs into her veins, and left her. She's going to stay there while I go around and murder everybody" Dane said, smirk no longer barely visible but blatantly obvious.

"She would've wanted me to murder everyone, yeah? So, I'm doing it. But I'm not just murdering them, I destroy their world's core after it, finishing off the entire world in one hit. I've done it a heap now, and I'll do it again. World after world, until there's only one left; mine. I'll go back there, I'll kill everybody on that world, and then mother's going to move. She'll be put next to the world core, and I'm going to use every single bit of darkness in me, every negative emotion you can think of, and use it in one single, final attack, obliterating the world core, my mother's hopes and dreams, her mind and body, and myself as well" he spoke, now standing up. "So you see, my little slave, I might do horrible things, I might be a real ass, but there is a reason behind it. Hate me all you like, but once I was just a scared little kid, just like you are right now. Next time anybody threatens you, doom them and kill them, because if you don't fight back, you're going to be used for your entire life and you'll never get anywhere. I'm your master, you're my slave, but that doesn't mean that I want you to be sad. Sad people give in easier and die, and can't have that can we?" Dane asked with a slight chuckle.
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Spoiler: Great Forest - Juliet, Dane, and Audrey

Juliet had remained as quiet as she could this entire time, making sure that Audrey was safe the entire time, but after hearing Dane speak of murder and trying to pin the blame on his mother, she could take it no longer. Turning around, she motioned for Audrey to stay there. "Relax and just wait here. I'll go talk to him, and I'll get him to stop" she said, ruffling Audrey's hair a little as she spoke. "I was there when Chaos went down, remember? He'll be easy" Juliet said with a small smile, reassuring her daughter. She then turned around and stormed over to Dane.

"Hey! You think just because your mother treated you horribly that you can justify killing everything and everyone? The hell is wrong with you?" she asked.

Dane raised an eyebrow. "How much time do you have?" he asked.

This only annoyed Juliet even more. "And now you try to joke about it? You're seriously messed up"
"And who are you to call me messed up? You brought your child to war"
"My name's Juliet Senka. I brought my child here to keep her safe, safe from lunatic murderers. Although I can clearly see that it wasn't the best idea, given that one of them is standing before me right now"
At this, Dane turned to look at Alisia. "See? She gets it" he said. The name she'd given sounded familiar. Where had he heard it? Senka...senka....ah! "You're Gexln's kid!" he exclaimed.
Juliet froze. "How do you know my father?"
Dane allowed himself a smirk. "I'm the guy that gave him his darkness, and I'm the guy that's going to take it away. Right when I kill him, that is" Dane stated.
In a flash, Juliet's keyblade was summoned and at her side. "You'll have to go through me first" she challenged.


Audrey was scared. Her mother had left her and gone to confront Dane, and that thought was terrifying. Audrey hadn't seen him fight, but she knew that he liked killing, and she knew that he was capable of fighting; the man he'd killed had looked pretty tough. The little girl sat there, whimpering slightly a distance away, worried sick for her mother, for she believed that Dane was going to kill her, and that only made things much worse. Audrey felt very much alone.
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Spoiler: Cite Des Cloches - Caleb

After their efforts to attack Crybex failed, Caleb found himself held near the others in a binding spell. Crybex then proceeded to give a speech about keyblades and how he wasn't going to kill them right at that moment, but instead would follow them around always threatening to kill them. That didn't sit right with Caleb, nor could he think of any reason why it would. "I have a better idea. How about we send you to whatever hell hole you came out of instead?" Caleb asked. He held out his hand, and rather than the usual light glow around his hand, one of darkness began flowing around it. Surely this would get Crybex's attention, and stop the others from being hurt. Once the darkness had vanished, a new weapon was in his hand. It was Gexln's blade, Darkness' Sorrow; a weapon that had the element of darkness. A weapon such as that would surely have an impact on their opponent. Keeping this in mind, Caleb leaped at Crybex and lashed out at him with the blade. ​

Spoiler: Olympus - Hunter

As Snow started hitting on Gwen, Hunter began preparing his assault. He planned out every possible outcome of the battle, and there was only one way he could win. Losing was not an option, not after he'd tried to hijack Hunter's gir- *****. Hunter's *****. That's what it says there, nothing else. After Gwen had done her turn, Hunter sprang into action. He and Snow began trading hits, punching and kicking each other in the most epic action fight scene ever.
"Leaping Gerbil punch!"
"Steel guard!"
"Crouching Alligator slam!"
"Steel guard!"
"Overpowered Rabbit Crotch-jab!"
"Steel gua- OOF" Snow shouted out, before be crouched over in pain after having his manhood assaulted.
It was now or never. Hunter had one chance, and one chance alone to end this. "SPINNING DODO KICK!" he yelled.

Snow prepared for a kick to the head, and ducked down a little lower.
Pulling out a chainsaw from his inventory, Hunter started it up and brought it down on top of Snow. "Steel- THAT ISN'T A KICK" was all Snow got out before he was cut in half. Stupid Snow, he should have known that wasn't a real move. Everything related to dodos had died with them, and what kind of a move name was Spinning Dodo Kick? Talk about obvious. "And that's what you get for hittin' on Ginger" Hunter shouted, before spitting on his corpse. ​

 

Xero looked to Freya as she asked why she was there. They both seemed very surprised to see her, which was understandable. She looked to the ground a bit, "Your mother was able to find you... And she told me where you guys where... So I came here. She sends her greetings by the way." Xero looked back to her son and began to slowly walk over to him.

"Lucifer..." She stopped in front of him for a moment before tightly wrapping her arms around him, "I'm so glad you're alright..."​

Lexcifur could only stand there with a tense body as his mother hugged him. He wasn't exactly happy to see her; and he really wasn't happy about the fact that Sapphire was apparently able to see everything they were doing this whole time. He didn't want to be found. Especially not by his mother.

She had finally let go of him and wiped away tears as she took a step back. She then looked up to him with a small smile, "You've gotten taller..." Lexcifur said nothing to the comment and then noticed her looking around.

"Where's Zavion?" She asked.

"He's in another world..." Lexcifur simply answered, his eyes glaring at his mother.

"Oh, well we can--"

"Why are you here?" Lexcifur interrupted, his voice stern and rather angry. Xero looked at him, her smile gone and replaced with a confused expression.

"I... I came to bring you home..."Lexcifur's eyes narrowed at her as soon as she said that. Like hell he was going back. He didn't care what she had to say, he wasn't going and that was it. End of story.

"I'm not going back. I don't care what Sapphire wants you to do or whatever other reason you're here. I'm. Not. Going." Xero seemed hurt by Lexcifur's words and she seemed to be holding back more tears. He didn't care. The only thing going through his head was the memory of when he last saw his parents.

Spoiler: The Execution

Many people had gathered in the courtyard plaza in front of the Goddess's castle. Sapphire was standing across from Lexcifur, who was standing in chains. His eyes had bags under them from hardly any sleep, he stood almost hunched over from exhaustion. He knew why he was here. Everyone did.

One of Sapphire's court readers walked to the center of the plaza and rolled a scroll open. He cleared his throat and began to announce the situation, "For the crime of attempted theft of the Eternity Stone and for the crime of attempted murder against the Goddess: Lucifer Riel Senka has been sentenced to death by order of the Goddess herself." The man closed the scroll and began to walk away.

Sapphire looked at Lucifer, summoning a long sword from darkness as she did. She didn't look proud of what she was doing, at least that's what it looked like to Lucifer. He suddenly heard someone shouting and people getting startled as someone ran through the ground with a weapon, "SAPPHIRE YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!"It was Lucifer's father as he swung at Sapphire. She only turned, her sword blocking his Keyblade in mid swing. Gexln glared at her with anger.

"He's only a kid! What the hell is wrong with you?!"Sapphire sadly stared at him and spoke, "If you interfere any more, you will be sentenced as well..."Sapphire had then summoned two canine creatures in between her and Gexln. "Don't make this harder than it already is... Please..." The creatures growled and barked at Gexln and forced him to move back into the crowd of people as they walked closer to him.

Lucifer had saw this and then looked over to his mother, who avoided eye contact with him as soon as he looked at her. He then looked at the ground, even his mother was ashamed of him. Surely his father was too but, did she even care?

"Lucifer Senka," His gaze went to Sapphire as she said his name, her sword pointed at him, "Do you have anything to say as your final words?" Lucifer said nothing, not because he couldn't think of anything but instead because he simply didn't want to speak. Sapphire sighed and readied her sword, "So be it..."

Sapphire had lunged toward Lucifer but he had suddenly moved out of the way, despite the chains holding him down. He wasn't able to move far, but he was able to move enough to make her sword hit the chains instead. Lucifer was able to make her sword cut free one set of chains. Quickly, he threw a Dark Firaga at Sapphire to shortly distract her as he forcefully pulled on the other chain until it broke free. Now the only thing left to do was get out if this alive.

Sapphire looked at Lucifer rather surprised, "What do you think you're doing?!" Lucifer glared at her, "What does it look like?" He retorted, speaking to her as if she were stupid. Sapphire then attempted to swing her sword once again only for Lucifer to wrap a chain around it and yank it out of her hands. Once his plan worked, he tried getting the sword but it faded away. Lucifer didn't expect that and suddenly saw Sapphire swing upward from below and Lucifer jumped to the side but not before feeling something fly off of him.

When he landed on his feet, he felt an excruciating pain on his shoulder and looked at it. His eyes widened as he saw nothing there but blood running down his entire side. Lucifer grabbed where his arm once was and screamed in pain. He fell to his knees from the pain and could only sit there practically clawing at his shoulder. He looked up only to see a sword come at him once again. Only this time it struck. Right through his heart.

Lucifer sat there wide eyed. Sapphire had twisted the sword in her hand like a key and a light had suddenly burst out of his wound. He saw his heart begin to flutter away into the air. His vision began blur, and he suddenly saw Zavion jump in between him and Sapphire.

"Sorry..." Was the only thing he said before using a magic attack to push her away and quickly grab Lucifer and fly off before he passed out.

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• I asked for one thing. One.
• GODDESS WHAT?

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  After Lucien gave his little schpeel about what he expected of the others in this group, Dane decided to do a little schpeel of his own. He went to go and start talking about how his life used to be before he became the ****** muffin that was alongside them today. It was a sorrowful tale, a compelling tearjerker that just made everyone sympathize and ultimately feel bad for the man. Lucien knew for one his heart was most certainly weeping right about now. Regardless, after the story was done, he basically gave Alisia the advice to be like him...which would more or less involve her beating him within an inch of his life. The thought of that happening in an of itself was a bit entertaining to think of, honestly. Regardless, Juli, that multi-colored haired person who had been doing jack diddly, finally decided to go and do something. After boasting about how easy he'd be to beat given she was there to fight Chaos, a fact that kind of annoyed Lucien in an of itself as well, she then decided to go pick a fucking fight with the guy. His face was becoming more visibly annoyed by the second as he the upper part of his nose to comprehend just what was wrong with everyone here. Well, that was easy answer to find.
  
  "I said one thing. One." He paused and looked at them as if they were idiots, trying to see if they would remember it. "To not kill each other right now. After we search this world, go fucking nuts for all I care. Rip each others throats out and burn the other on a stake, but as I said, do it on your own fucking time. Not now, ya know, when we're kind of supposed to be looking for something and you all decide that the best way to find it is just murder each other. So you," he pointed at Juliet, "calm the calamity that is your mammaries and just deal with him for I dunno," he thought this world would probably go on and extend to another page, two at most, "another 10 or so minutes. And you," he pointed at Dane,"I'd really appreciate it if you don't kill someone or something or get either of your groupies to do it for you until an actual threat to all of us shows up."Lucien sighed after he said this, for one simple reason. It was nothing more than a wasted effort, and the worst part of his job was coming up soon.
  
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  As Jackie had lamented over their bust of a search, Lexcifur had started talking only for him to get interrupted by someone coming out of a dark corridor. She looked at the woman who had emerged, and then started to ponder on it for a moment. There was something familiar about her. Well, appearance wise she looked like no one Jackie knew, but there was just a vibe coming from her. As Lexcifur said the word "mom", directed at this mysterious woman, Jackie was still in pensive thought about just why she seemed so familiar. She looked at the rest of the group, and started to look at them. While only seeing the back of their heads, she couldn't actually see the distinctively similar eyes both Lexcifur and her had, but what she did notice was Freya's hair. It was partially black. This woman's hair was black also. It was then that she came to an astounding eureka moment.
  
  This woman was indeed, a mother to these people. However, Lexcifur and Freya were close friends growing up, and maybe Lexcifur's mom died which caused him to be all super edgy and stuff. This would then lead him to live with his friend, Freya, where they would develop romantic feelings towards each other later in life. However, the person who took him in, was this black haired woman. Otherwise known as, Freya's mother. So why had Lexcifur called her that? Simply because he lived under her roof and she probably replaced the void in his heart as one. Not to mention when the two love birds finally overcame the hypotenuse of the love triangle that was Zavion, that would be her official title to her- wait the black haired woman just said she was sent by Freya's mom...Which could only mean one thing! Hey man, Jackie wasn't going to judge others for loving who they did, after all, society had progressed to being accepting of all sorts of people.
  
  Anyway, she continued to listen to the exchange between the two, and it seemed like the woman was here to take Lexcifur back with her. But, that would mean she would split apart part of the party. And they weren't done with their quest yet. She just couldn't tear apart this adventuring party apart mid quest, that was just a dick move. Thankfully, Lexcifur seemed to think along the same lines, as he was openly turning down this request. He then said something about Sapphire, who was obviously the prior mentioned person who sent this woman here, and not caring about what she wanted at all. Wait. Sapphire. That name sounded familiar. Extremely so. She thought of the gemstone, but it was hard for a gemstone to birth a person...granted she had heard stories of planets being able to, but that just sounded ridiculous. Then there was that hit classic game from centuries ago, that was being remade and re-released in other 5 months. No, unless Freya was part robot, there was no way that were true either. Then it hit her like a ton of brick that just fell down from the stratosphere landing on a chunk of ice.
  
  "WHAAATTTT?! Your other mother's the goddess of the universe!" Jackie was beaming up and down in excitement when she said, "that is so awesome. That makes you like, a goddess yourself right? Man that is aweso- wait a second." She then thought about it for a moment longer. "We're trying to stop the goddess. Who you are the daughter of." She turned to Blanc and said, "does that make her our enemy?" He shrugged and shook his head, not really knowing himself. "Ughh, this is so awesome and so conflicting at the same time!" She rubbed her hands over her head in frustration as she tried to come up with a solution, thinking as hard as she could. It was then when she looked back at the black haired woman and suddenly that train of thought left. Drawing her katana she said, "right! You! You're a more important problem to solve with a much less difficult answer to find." She looked back to Lexcifur and then back to the woman when she said, "regardless of who these people were, at this point in time they are my party members. And when one doesn't want to go somewhere, we all respect that decision. So he clearly doesn't want to go with you, so I sure as hell am not going to let you!"
  

 

The others were fighting their opponents, pretty average sized if you ask me, but what Ohm was facing was...a little bigger, if you count a 10 times height difference as a 'little bigger'. It looked intimidating but Ohm had faced over whelming odds before, namely his sister and his father but that wasn't the point. Were it not for the weird whipping hairs that this monster had, Ohm would legitely be scared of this battle. His sword danced in his hands and he took a stance.

The behemoth gave a roar, possibly opting to try to get Ohm to scream in terror...or something of that nature, but all that elicited was, surprise, more silence from Ohm. The monster became angry and lifted a leg. Ohm calmly put one hand behind him, the other hand held his sword outways. The Behemoth charged him but Ohm merely shifted to the side, causing the monster to fall clumsily over. He eyed the monster as it stood up and sprung to action, his eyes flashed yellow with the thunder rune and sliced right through the monster, it immediately split in half.

Overpowered weapon is overpowered, lolamirite?​

 

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Despite a fair amount of them going and attacking Cybrex, it didn't seem their attacks had done much to hinder him at all. In fact he pretty much just went ahead and trapped them all in some sort of binding. Xross hated being this close to "pure" light and was relived when the bindings were released. Man this starting to annoying him. If not for the fact that he used light to fight, he would've been one of the people who charged at him once more. Instead he held his hand out a formed a bow and arrow out of darkness. If he couldn't fight at close range, then he would fight at long range. So, with bow in hand, he let loose a volley arrows that flew towards Cybrex.

Meanwhile in the Colosseum, Zephyr was sitting around playing cards. None of the enemies were worth the trouble of him actually fighting so he didn't. Yeah, let's go with that.

 

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Blinking, Samsara watched Dane and tilted her head. What was he talking about? Crystallis was gone, why would he ask her to go there? Shaking her head, she stood at the dark corridor and listened to Dane's story about his upbringing. His mother sounded like the worst mother ever. Samsara thought her mother was bad, but after hearing his story, she knew she was wrong. Samsara felt bad for Dane. His mother made him out to what he is today. But he wasn't angry, he was thankful, since this light of his was snuffed out. According to him, the light was burning him from the inside. It reminded her of the slight burning sensation she's been feeling for awhile now. Holding onto herself, Samsara could still feel the burning deep down. Reaching up, she took her crystal and returned it to it's previous place in her shirt. Dane was now done with his explanation and Samsara decided to take that as a sign she should go through this dark corridor finally.

Stepping through, she felt the darkness and relished in the relief it gave her from the burning light she had deep inside. Looking forward, she was nearly blinded by the bright light on the other side of the dark corridor. Her eyes adjusted to the light and widened in surprise. Standing there, she looked up to see the Mother Crystal was shining brightly in front of her. Everything was still there, nothing was gone. Tears formed in her eyes and started to stream down her face. Knees buckling, Samsara fell to the floor, hunched over and screaming into her hands. Calming down, she sat on her knees and wiped her eyes. Staring at the Mother Crystal, she felt a sudden pain in her head. What was this pain? It felt like things were rushing into her head and filling in holes where things once were. Soon, Samsara remembered everything. She remembered walking by her parents' room and hearing them discuss the memory spell that Ananta was going to use on Anta. She remembered how Ohm followed her after she ran away. She even remembered the last thing before her memories were changed. She remembered her brother's fingers rubbing her eyes and her memory had changed right there. "All this time, I was believing a lie..." she said, her voice cracking. "I even attacked my own brother..." Samsara stood up and cleared her throat, wiping any tears off of her face and staring ahead angrily. "Ananta has to pay." she said, jumping up and onto the chains that held the Mother Crystal in place.

Her eyes scanned the horizon until she noticed a lot of people were gathered around the Sending Chamber. Samsara ran along the chains and hopped down, running towards the building in question. She made her way through the crowd and stopped at the front. Ahead of her in black robes was her mother, knelt before the Sending Crystal Shard. She recognized the incantation that she was speaking. Somebody had died and Ananta was the one sending them off, the other Sages were knelt down with her, doing their own incantations for their magic they were the wards of. Slowly, they all stood up and began to walk down past Samsara. Ananta was the last one to walk, holding a picture of Kross in her arms and tears clearly visible in her hand, Kross' wedding band in a chain around her neck.

Samsara stood there, shocked at the realization of what just happened.

 

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Spoiler: Lexcifur VS Xero

Xero sighed. She knew that Lexcifur would refuse to go back with her, just as Gexln did. Sapphire had told her but she just wanted to see her son again. It had been so long, the last time she saw him was the day of the exicution, an awful day for everyone. She just couldn't find herself to look at Lexcifur while he stood there in chains. It was just too painful for her.

Suddenly the other girl had drawn her sword and threatened for a fight. Xero only looked at the girl sadly and then back to Lexcifur, "Please..." she begged, "Please come home... Your father is already refusing to come back after leaving to go fight... I even begged him to let me go with him but..." She couldn't finish her sentence due to her breath hitching in her throat from tears begining to run down her face.

Lexcifur only glared at his mother, not caring for the show of tears she was having. His fists clenched and he growled under his breath, "Freya, Jackie, Blanc." He turned his gaze to the two, "Go on without me. I need to take care of something first." He then turned back to Xero, "I'll meet back with you later."

Xero only looked at Lexcifur sadly, "Lucifur... I just--"

"Just what? Did you think that you could find me and then everything would just be alright?! Did you think that I would just easily be fine with going back to that god-damned planet where I was supposed to die?!" Lexcifur's voice began to echo across the cave walls, "Let me ask you a question! What did you do on that day? Why was Dad the only one to actually try and stop Sapphire from doing what she supposedly 'had' to do?!" Xero only looked to the floor, ashaimed of herself.

"I couldn't... I couldn't do anything Lucifer... I had no place to defend you... What you did was considered attempted murder and theft..."

"Yeah, I admit that I did something wrong. But I did it because I knew that I wasn't going to be considered anything compared to you and Dad! Do you have any idea what it's like to always be compared to your parents?! Do you know how much f*cking pressure there is to try to have to be better than your parents, who are considered f*cking god slayers?!" Lexcifur's fists clenched even tighter, his voice now yelling.
Xero looked back up to Lexcifur, "Lucifer please... I didn't--"

"If you're going to take me back, you're going to have to drag me back unconcious!" Lexcifur had lunged forward, his demon arm reaching into Xero's chest. Once his hand touched her heart, darkness had begun to surround them. Lexcifur felt pain in his head after he begun to take Xero's darkness. Something about it was... off. He began to pull his hand out and as he did, the pain in his head began to grow.

Lexcifur had finally pulled away, pulled out a gauntlet, and darkness continued to radiate around it. Something still didn't feel right. It didn't feel like Xero's darkness... It felt like someone else's. Nonetheless, Lexcifur shook off the feeling and glared back towards his mother. She was just staring at him as if she couldn't belive what he was doing. She was still trying to regain her footing as she stood back up, tears rolling down her face once again.

"Lucifer... Don't do this." Her voice was trembling from her begining to cry. Lexcifur only began to get even more angry, "Fight!" He shouted at her as he used the weapon he had just gotten. He swung his arm forward, just to see what it would do, and a giant black hand appeared and swiped at Xero. She saw this and her scythe was quickly summoned to deflect it, knocking her back a few feet. She looked back up to see Lexcifur charging at her once more and jump in the air. As he decended, he swung his arm forward again, the giant hand appearing and this time releasing a beam of black energy. Xero used a barrier spell and the beam collided with the barrier. Lexcifur landed on his feet, but then proceeded to punch the ground. As Xero was distracted for a split second, the giant hand had come up from behind her and knocked her into the air.

Xero had caught her balance in mid air and then quickly turned around to send a crecent beam of darkness at Lexcifur from the blade of her scythe. Lexcifur put his arms in front of him, to try and block the attack and the giant hand appeared and absorbed the energy from Xero's attack. Xero didn't expect that to happen and she then charged toward Lexcifur. Once close enough she released a shockwave of darkness and Lexcifur was thrown back. He hit a wall and he stood there for a moment.

The pain kept growing in his head.

He looked back up and Xero had suddenly put the blade of her scythe to his neck. She stared at him intently and he only glared at her. He then suddenly knocked the blade away with one hand and the other with the gauntlet was pushed against her chest and he had released the giant hand. The hand ended up going through Xero and hitting her heart with a dark energy pulse that sent her flying backward to the other side of the cave room. She hit the floor and could only lie there in pain for a bit. She began to get up and when she looked back to Lexcifur, her eyes widened.

Lexcifur was holding his head in pain with one of his hands covering his eyes. He was letting out grunts and groans from the pressure that was going to his head. What he didn't know was that the darkness radiating from the gauntlet was creating a form behind him. It was a rather ghostly form, but it all looked too familiar for Xero. She quickly got up, dispite the pain she felt in her chest and she could only watch what was now happening in horror.

The darkness had become almost a solid figure but it was the best that it was going to get at this time. It took on a ghostly form of the Guardian. Lexcifur was still holding his head and the pain had finally stopped. He was now slowly panting and when he brought his hand away from his face Xero nearly gasped.

"Oh my god..."

Lexcifur's right eye was surrounded by black, veiny markings. His iris was orange and the rest of his eye was blackened. He was still hurting, but he stood back up, "I don't know what's going on, but whatever this power is... I'll use it... I'm not going back."
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Spoiler: Hunter?

Hunter paused. Was it early enough into the RP to have a dramatic reveal? Probably, but damn he was going to do it anyway. He cleared his throat. "Well, there's a good reason for that, Ginger" he stated. He reached down to his pocket and unzipped it. All at once, plenty of things began falling out, ranging from something as small as a paperclip he was planning to turn into a house, to something as deadly and dangerous as a bazooka.
"I have a permit for that, I swear" he said, zipping up the pocket once again. He began pulling every zip he had on his clothing; why were there so many? What was with this game and zippers? At last he found the right one. It was disguised as a strand of hair in the very center of his head. Grabbing it, he pulled it down and unzipped it, and as he did so the costume he had been wearing fell onto the ground around him, and out of it stepped a different Hunter.

It was Bloodlust Hunter. Gwen hadn't been the only one to escape the day it died. There Hunter had been, fading away into a dusty archive, when the clouds had parted and Deity Hunter had extended a hand. He had opened his eyes to the wall and taught him everything he knew. Once he'd become a master, Bloodlust Hunter made his way to LVD2 and found LVD2 Hunter being vaporised repeatedly. He'd offered LVD2 Hunter a proposition; let him take his place, and LVD2 Hunter could go on vacation and not have to worry about the rp anymore. Being the lazy turd he was, LVD2 Hunter accepted the offer and the switch was made.

"You may now applaud" he stated, giving a mock bow. However, his grand entrance was to be short-lived, as they were teleported away to the next battle. The finals. As Hunter saw their opponent, he let out a small gasp. "Holy crap our final boss is Dante!" he exclaimed.
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Spoiler: Gexln

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Gexln had gone to one of the many now-abandoned worlds. He hadn't cared where he'd gone, but he needed to practice. If his fight with Dane had taught him anything, it's that he had gotten a little rusty over the years. He and Liam were sparring with each other, Nobody against Battle Bunny. Liam had transformed his body into a pure white version of Dane, and the two of them were going at one another again and again. Gexln had to fight, he had to win, and he had to become stronger than he ever had before. Lexcifur lived, but he wasn't the same. His son hadn't been the same since that day, since the day he had his heart taken from him and he was lucky to have escaped with his life. He wasn't going to let Xero die, he wasn't going to let another loved one be taken from him, not while he still drew breath.

Spoiler: Flashback

He could still hear the words that man had spoken as he'd read out Lucifer's sentence. Sentenced to death for the crime of attempting to steal the eternity stone and attempting to murder Sapphire. Gexln knew that it was a serious crime, but to have his old friend kill his only son? Surely there had to be another way. Lock him up for a while, chain him to a post and give him lashings, but murder? No, that wasn't allowed. He wouldn't allow it. Pushing his way through the crowd, Gexln ignored their looks of shock and confusion as he pushed to the front. Sapphire summoned a sword, and instinctively the Nobody leaped forward, summoning his keyblade in his left hand as he swung with all his might against the goddess herself. "Sapphire, you can't do this!" he shouted, his voice a mixture of rage and hurt as his keyblade collided with her sword.

She wasn't listening, wasn't stopping. "He's only a kid! What the hell is wrong with you?!" he exclaimed, taking another swing only for it to be blocked once more. She noticed now, looking right at him.
"If you intefere any more, you'll be sentenced as well..." she said as she summoned two wolves of darkness, the creatures standing before Sapphire protectively. "Don't make this any harder than it already is...please.." she continued, the hurt obvious in her voice as she spoke.

Gexln was shocked. After all they'd been through, after their time fighting alongside one another and saving everyone, she was not only going to kill her son, but threaten to kill him too? Something had changed about Sapphire, and it wasn't a good thing. He did back off, however. It was a stupid fight to pick, attacking Sapphire openly with her creatures there. He backed into the crowd, staying near the front but far enough away he couldn't reach Sapphire from there.

"Lucifer Senka, do you have anything to say as your final words?" Sapphire had asked. Gexln had stood there wanting to scream out to Lexcifur. Prove your innocence, tell her there has to be another way, do something! he thought desperately, but his son made no move to defend himself. He saw Sapphire sigh as she raised the sword. Right as Gexln was sure Lexcifur was dead, his son moved out of the way of the sword, causing it to break one of the chains as Lexcifur moved out of the way. A glimmer of hope appeared in Gexln's heart. His son was out, his son could escape.

Sapphire questioned what Lexcifur was doing, to which he retorted with a rhetorical response. He'd then used the chain around him to yank the sword out of his attacker's hands. The Nobody of the Dark could stand by and watch no more. He stepped forward, intending to help, but the wolflike creatures weren't going to let him. Gexln fought against them, lashing out at them with his keyblade, but soon enough his attention was caught by a scream. Looking over at Lexcifur, Gexln's eyes widened as he saw his son's arm laying on the ground, seperated from its body.

This motivated Gexln to fight harder, his son didn't have much time! Plunging his keyblade right through one of the wolves, it disappeared in a cloud of black vapour. He did the same to the second, dispatching it easily, but before he could do anything more a bright light came from Lexcifur's body. It shone through the area, illuminating everything and causing Gexln's skin to feel a light burning sensation. Once the light subsided, Zavion had stepped in and grabbed Lexcifur, before taking off. Gexln turned and looked at Xero, who seemed to be freaking out. Why hadn't she done anything? Why had she let their son be killed? Gexln wasn't stupid, however, and he decided not to confront her over it. He had fled the area, never looking back, and vowing never again to trust Sapphire.

Perhaps it was that day that caused the darkness within his own heart to start growing stronger. The betrayal of a friend had left a hole within the Nobody, and he had filled it with hatred and distrust. And now, because of that, he was struggling to control it. He was brought back to his senses by Liam leaping at Gexln with the scythe, swinging at him. Gritting his teeth, Gexln pushed the creature back. He wasn't going to lose Xero, he wasn't going to lose anything ever again, he would make sure of it.[/center]

Spoiler: Dane and Juliet

Dane had ignored Lucien almost completely. He had heard his words, and to an extent he agreed with them. But if he killed Juliet, it would seriously piss off Gexln. And if he pissed off Gexln, then just maybe it would set things right in the world. He had stepped right past Juliet and attacked her with a pulse of darkness, extending from the palm of his hand, knocking the girl back. "Relax would ya? I'm a professional" Dane stated. He turned and looked at Alisia. "Monster or not, I want you to use that little doom spell of yours on her. Set it for....I don't know, ten minutes? Yeah, that sounds about right" he said. The murderer waited until he saw the timer appear above Juliet's head, before allowing himself a smirk. This would be fun.​

Juliet stood up and readied her keyblade. If Dane had fought her father in the past and was still alive, then he was powerful indeed. She would have to take this battle seriously, but she hadn't had much practice fighting actual people for a very long time. She launched a dark firaga at Dane, before hurling her keyblade at him in a strike raid fashion.

Dane laughed. Oh, of all things to use, she'd picked that. "Come on, surely you can do better than that" he taunted, guarding against the attacks easily with his scythe. He took a step forward towards Juliet and began channeling his dark magic. From the end of his scythe a dark purple ice crystal flew up into the air, before shattering in mid air and causing ice shards to rain down upon the area. Juliet acted quickly, blocking most of the shards but getting hit by a few of them, the magic digging into her arms. In a flash, Dane was in front of Juliet. He lashed out with a kick, sending the girl rocketing forward and skidding along the ground.

The moment Juliet got up, she raced at Dane. The two engaged in close combat, scythe vs keyblade. Despite everything, the girl managed to get a few strikes through, landing several good hits on the shadow reaper and causing him to flinch each time. Dane decided to step things up a little bit as he saw what the doom counter had reached. He attacked with his scythe only to be met with a parry, before he thrusted his hand forward and delivered a point blank dark firaga straight into the girl.

The impact sent her once again backwards, but she recovered quickly. Taking him on head on, close like that probably wouldn't work very well. She cast a quick cure on herself, before launching a string of thundaga spells at Dane, who countered it immediately with reflega spells. The two mages began flinging spells at one another, Juliet favouring thunder magic and Dane utilising a combination of reflega and dark thundaga. Eventually, Juliet got the upper hand, and rushed forward, landing a solid blow on Dane's shoulder and creating a deep cut there. Dane didn't like this one bit. He reached forward and grabbed the girl, tossing her into the air. He pointed his scyhte at Juliet and his smirk was even more obvious than before. She'd done exactly as he'd wanted her to.

From the end of Dane's scythe came a fireball. It flew towards Juliet, but as it got to her it began rapidly increasing in size and darkening in colour. Upon impact, it engulfed the girl in a tremendous explosion, searing every part of her body and knocking her down. He had used Dark Mega Flare, and damn he had used it effectively. Juliet was down, injured and sore, but still alive. She only had one hope. There was one form of magic she hadn't used for the 300 years she'd been away for, but she didn't have much of a choice; she'd have to use Chaos magic.
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Spoiler: Audrey

Audrey nodded slowly, still terrified as Alisia offered to finish the story. She sat and listened for a moment, finding it very hard to focus on it, when Alisia used Doom on Juliet. "What are you doing?!" she cried out. The tears that were building up started flowing now due to what Alisia had done. "STOP IT! STOP THE SPELL! PLEASE ALISIA!" Audrey screamed, begging her friend to stop the doom counter. Even if someone as scary as Dane had told her to do it, she had still had a choice, still did have a choice. The little girl was crying and screaming out of fear and worry, but would Alisia listen?
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Zavion's arm quivered under the pain of the burns, and he panted at the effort he'd just put forth. He watched to see the result of his and the others' attacks. Crybex simply rose to his feet, completely unharmed. But...how? He was sure the attack had connected, and he knew it had worked. He'd seen the injury. Could it be...That his healing potential was that great so as to repair the damage from Shinryu that quickly? That was unbelievable. Even Freya would have a difficult time repairing an attack like that. How would they defeat him?

Zavion was bound by the ring of light, along with the rest of his group. He looked up at the man who summoned a brilliantly bright keyblade. Zavion knew what it looked like. He'd seen deep into the man's heart. A keyblade was a manifestation of such. Then he continued on to talk about the X-blade. What did he mean forge it? There was only one. The story went that it came into being when the veil which divided the realms of light and darkness was torn down and the two elements collided, fusing into a weapon of absolute power. As much light as he sensed coming from this man, He was infinitely off of that kind of scale. There only would ever be one X-blade, and that was the one held by his mother. Wait, that was it! All their power combined was nothing next to what she held.

"Sorry to tell you, but you're a little late for that. There will only ever be one X-blade, and it's in the hands of the goddess. Only way you'll be getting it is by defeating her, if you think you can handle her." Zavion said to him. If he so much as set foot on Riel, he was dead. It didn't matter how much healing he had. There would be nothing left to heal from if he challenged his mother.


Of course...They may have been struggling with him, yet there was a power infinitely greater than the one they faced. Although, while Zavion was trying to convince him to go after the goddess, that may not work. He seemed to be looking for the Hero, so there was a good chance he knew even he was incapable of defeating her. Still, Zavion was onto something. If she could but extend her will here instead...Ghost closed his eyes and bowed his head slightly. He began to give a silent prayer. "My lady. I am sorry to say that I require you assistance to eliminate this threat. My abilities have proven ineffectual against his regeneration. Unless it is nullified, i fear he will emerge victorious. I ask of you, use your power to win this fight for us. If you can do no more than this, at least divulge his weakness." Ghost said in his mind. She was divinity. She would hear his prayer.

And so he waited. If she heard him, a miracle would descend upon them.


Indeed, as they reached the final fight, Beuce has appeared as the world boss. Hunter exclaimed, saying that their boss fight was Dante. Beuce walked up to him, pointing his weird arm at his face, obviously pissed off with his words. "Listen here. That's Nero to you, buddy. I got the whole arm thing. My Dante days are over for this RP." He corrected harshly before walking back over to where his partner was. "Good Sapphire. Can you believe this guy? Can't even tell the difference between Dante and Nero." He faced the group. Their party was bigger. Assuming Hunter and Gwen were the first two counted, that would bring the numbers to even, but they had Rinox and Ohm over and above that. Hm...Yup. Just those two. No one else there. He looked at Ohm. He looked familiar. Then it hit him who he was. He was Kross' son. The one he had told him to look after.

He gave a slight wave. "Yo. I need to talk to you after this fight." He said in a simple tone before preparing his keyblade. He looked to his side. Before now, all the fights had basically been Brawl missions, and so Stratos had murderstomped everything in their path with his face. However, this was a boss fight. Huh. He'd never actually BEEN the boss before. This would be interesting. Hopefully this was one of those bosses where you could lose and you'd just get a different cutscene. What was he talking about? Of course it was. He was Beuce. He was OP as fuck.

Throughout the events, Bartholomew had simply been watching. He liked Dane. Dane was scary. Although, he could stand to leave people alive a little longer. They couldn't be afraid once they were dead. Him and the girl named Juliet began to fight. Meanwhile, Her daughter was whimpering, obviously fearing for her mother. His head snapped toward a bush rustling, but he quickly dismissed it as nothing. He approached the girl. She wouldn't be afraid for her mother much longer. No, she'd have something worse to worry about.

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• Land of Blanc Saying Something
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  Jackie was ready to go in and kick this black haired woman's ass, when suddenly Lexcifur had told them to leave. Well, that was anti-climatic, for her at least. For him, things were about to get intense. However, she decided to at least allow her teammate to go and do the fight himself while she and Blanc just stood back with Freya. There wasn't much either of them could do at the moment but watch, and the both of them had varying reactions while watching it. Jackie was getting really into it, seeming slightly restless as she was moving in place and having a sight of excitement and surprise on her face as different things happened. Blanc just stood there...watching...not much different from the norm really. Not really much to do until Lexcifur did something...weird. Jackie got a bit of an odd and unsettling vibe from Lexcifur as he seemed to be in pain from seemingly nothing, so much so that she missed Freya calling the black haired woman Auntie. Blanc's expression, as well, had shifted to one of concern as he saw the dark figure come out from the brown haired boy.
  
  As Freya ran over to hold down Lexcifur, Jackie herself was quite confused as to what to do. However, Blanc, had walked over to step between both the black haired woman and Lexcifur. Holding out his arm to his side, as if to bar off the darkness consumed boy from going towards her, he had a stern and serious look on his face as he looked at him. "Stop." These were merely simple words, not to be confused with the actual spell. "Whatever that is right now, it is not something you should be using." He glanced to the black haired woman, then to Jackie, then back to Lexcifur. "As was said, we will not let her take you back, but I will not allow you to go on any further like this." He wasn't entirely sure why this darkness around Lexcifur seemed so evil and unsettling, but he was intent on not letting him use it.
  
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  As Stratos stepped out into the ring alongside Beuce, the two of them were apparently to go against a good five other people. While the ginger female seemed to be the same, sans the guns, the ginger male seemed...different. He didn't know why, but he seemed like a completely different person while still being the same at the same time. Weird. Then there was the blue haired kid who had a magic sword who seemed vaguely familiar as well. He didn't know why he seemed that way, but something was off about him as well. Ah well, that could be sorted out later. The fourth of the people, he had almost not noticed at all, and he seemed to have something else about his presence. It too, was familiar. All too familiar. The pieces were sort of rummaging around in his head until finally they connected to reveal the boy's identity. "Hey, you're Kel's kid right? Man, haven't seen that guy in ages. Guess the blue hair or white dyed hair wasn't hereditary...actually, what is up with your hair it looks really weird." After he asked Zephyr about that, his attention then finally stopped on the last of them. It took him long enough to realize, simply because the pacivity of the man sort of gave him no real presence either. Summoning his keyblade out to his side, he pointed it at the scarf wearing man with a serious look on his face as he questioned, "and just what the hell are you doing here?"
  
  Rinox shrugged, and with a smirk on his face replied, "why, I'm here to look for the hero of course. Though, I suppose we got a little divergent from that goal from the onset."
  
  Stratos gritted his teeth as he continued to glare at him. "Who would have guessed, that my luck today would just be this high. That the moment I decide to fight against you guys, you of all the people in the entire universe show up among them." A breeze started to flow around the room, causing Stratos's jacket to flap in the wind, and wind gathered around his keyblade. "This time, I'll beat you for sure." With that, a large gust of wind erupted Stratos forming an Aeroza barrier around him and his teammate. He then channeled the wind across his keyblade as he stayed in place, swinging furiously. Each swing he took created a large of compressed wind, compacted enough to cut, that, while it was aimed at Rinox was kind of large enough to be a threat to every enemy in the immediate area.
  
  Rinox with a simple smirk just replied, "my my, how scary you're acting right now." Despite the clear aggression towards him, he hadn't really reacted much nor drew his sword yet.