Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

As the behemoth had started to gain lock on Stratos, he was getting ready to run away at any given moment. Or, rather, fly away on his keyglider, and enact their aggro plan that they had been doing thus far. Granted, he was not entirely sure how much more of a beating he could take at this point, but it was probably more than his partner could. In fact, at this point, it'd probably be better if he drew the aggro longer in order for to catch her breath, calm down, or any other such thing that would help her not get killed. None of this ended up happening, however. And instead, the emotionally volatile girl who he had been thinking of trying to give more breathing room, instead, was now right in that behemoth's face. She seemed to be giving it just about everything she had in order to pummel down this behemoth, and it was certainly working. After having been thoroughly beaten up, the behemoth seemed to stagger a bit and Karina was barking out things about how she just pushes people away and that she doesn't need any friends and other things like that. It was after the onslaught of attacks she sent out, that she told him to do nothing but attack attack attack. To no longer draw away the behemoth's attention, just finish it off. While the plan seemed pretty bad compared to the last one they were using, he figured he'd go along with it, as the behemoth seemed to be on its last legs.

However, Stratos still wasn't going to let what Karina say go unanswered. Sure, he barely knew the girl, but from what he had seen, she was someone who ran off of pure emotion, and not much else. "Are you actually lecturing me about the logic behind my actions?" He yelled this out as he soon threw his keyglider in a similar spinning motion as before at the behemoth's horn. "And did you just ask me why I don't want to see you dead?!" He quickly summoned his keyblade back to his hand as he charged at the behemoth. Hi jumping up towards its horn, he let loose a quick air combo followed by a vorpal blitz, smacking the heartless every which way. "I don't want to see anyone die right in front of me, regardless of if they're my friend or not. And no matter what you may think, no matter how hard you try to push people away, right now you are my comrade in arms and nothing is going to change that."

The behemoth soon recovered from these serious of attacks, and soon leaped into the air. "And so like I said, I'm definitely not going to let you die here, and there's nothing in this swarm that's going to stop either of us." Still facing Karina as he made this declaration, cherry blossoms started falling from nowhere once more. As the behemoth was to land on him, Stratos seemed to have fazed through the gigantic heartless in a single instant, as he was now on its back, rather than crushed underneath it. Stratos then turned his keyblade into a keyglider, and crashed it into the horn of the creature, causing Stratos to flip off of the vehicle, turning the glider back into a blade, and casting fire from his keyblade. The fireball then homed in, straight onto the behemoth's horn and exploded on contact. The behemoth seemed to be staggered from the combination of attacks, almost slumping a bit before it was able to pick itself back up.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 603 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 750 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 0/5
Armored Knight: 21/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 3/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Behemoths 54/300

 

Cat turned, trying to keep her eyes peeled for any more Heartless that might try to get the jump on her. A Shadow came up from the ground in front of her and began to make a move, but she quickly sliced it in half. "Damn," she thought. "They just won't stop coming." The small Heartless were really getting on her nerves. Shadows kept coming up from their second dimensional hiding places just to sink back down before she could even get a good hit on any of them. She just wanted to beat them all to a pulp, but that clearly wasn't going to happen anytime soon. She heard one of them pop up behind her and turned to face it when suddenly she felt a stinging sensation throughout her entire body. It was painful, and she could feel the burn spread through her skin like a toxin. She managed to turn her head and spot the source of the pain: a Black Fungus. It stood there, waving around like it was the most innocent thing in all the worlds. But she knew better. She took a few steps back, trying her best to focus on anything but the pain she felt, and saw it bend down to excrete more of its poison before jumping back up and coating itself in some kind of metal. She concentrated on casting a spell and the tip of her Llama Head began to glow a bright green and white. "Heal," she whispered, and in an instant she was surrounded by a healing aura. She thought she could make out flowers and orbs in the light that surrounded her, and the pain from the poison disappeared almost immediately, as if it hadn't even been there at all. The Black Fungus hardly moved, maybe because the coating made its body heavier or maybe just because it was waiting, and Cat took action. She tossed her Keyblade, trying to deal damage while keeping her distance, but when the blade connected with the mushroom's body it didn't seem phased in the slightest. She willed the Keyblade to appear back in her hand and saw it bend back down to excrete more of that same poison. This time, however, she saw another one walk up beside it. The two of them stood side by side, one coated in that stupid metal armor and one as vulnerable as it would ever be. She did her best to make sure that the poison had dissipated in the air around the Heartless and charged forward. She swung at the vulnerable one, landing a few hits, but her blade struck the metallic one and the impact of metal against metal knocked her back. Luckily though, it had knocked her back just as they began to excrete more of that same poison. She did her waiting and charged forward again, quickly finishing off the one that had just become vulnerable. After sidestepping the one that remained while it went through its little transformation, she dealt one last blow and it dissipated. She breathed a sigh of relief, but heard a kind of clanging come from behind her. A Shadow and Soldier both approached her with less than friendly intentions. The Soldier began to tense up, as if readying itself to pounce, and she felt the same urge that she'd felt when fighting off the Crescendo -- it was almost like her body knew how to counterattack before her mind could even process anything. Before the Soldier could even move, she jumped toward it and while she spun mid-air, she dealt enough damage to defeat it. Her landing was anything but graceful, and she was pretty dizzy, but she was mostly just taking in the fact that she'd managed to do something so cool on instinct. She didn't know if it was just the Keyblade telling her what to do or if she was actually that good a fighter, but it was so surprising. She saw the Shadow from before stand there, almost in awe, and she quickly slashed at it. "Yeah, that's right. Be afraid." She felt incredible, and only time would tell if her little lucky streak would continue.

697 Words / 30 EXP / 135 EXP Total

Spoiler: South Side

Behemoth - (243/300 BP)
AND CAN @Gexln @Pumbaa @Hexin AND MYST PLEASE HELP KEEP TRACK OF THE BEHEMOTH'S TOTAL BP PLEASE?? Even if you don't do damage to it in your post, it's better and easier for everyone if we actively keep track.

Behemoth: 5
Defender: 12
Large body: 14
Assault Rider: 11
Morning Star: 13
Shadow: 8
Black fungus: 14
Bolt tower: 18
Crescendo: 5
Soldier: 6

 

Raisor faced the Defender, waiting for an opening. These particular heartless where some of the most annoying since they were so large and built tough compared to the others. In fact, next to the Large Bodies, they probably have the best defensive capabilities of all the Heartless on the South side. It was going to be tricky to finish it off, but Raisor knew that he could managed it if given the chance.

And just like a nice little present, the chance came in the form of a Large Body passing by. Didn't know why, but for some reason the thing was running full speed to all points of nowhere, and managed to bump the Defender in the side. The Defender lost its balance with the collision, and Raisor took the chance to run around toward the back side of the Defender and hit it down. While the front of the Defender was tough to hit because of the shield covering most of it, the back was practically bare. Just like a Large Body, if you could get around, you were able to get through and hit it without much of a problem. Raisor even found it funny that a Large Body ended up being the one to help him out, involuntarily of course. He knocked the Defender on the back, pushing it forward. Before the heartless could get a chance to get its balance, Raisor continued hitting it, as hard as he could. He knew the thing could take a beating, so he whacked it as hard as he could, trying to make knock it down ASAP. He continued his attack with slashes and strikes all over. After a few times the Defender finally went down, and vanished without a trace.

Raisor took in a long breath and sighed heavily. He was getting worn out fighting all these enemies on the ground, and looked at the giant Behemoths. It looked like the one Cat had attacked was slowing down, but that might also have been wishful thinking on Raisor's part. He didn't really want to do anything against the big ones just yet, but he also wondered if he could get a handle on the situation if he got a good view. Looking around, he tried to find a way up on top. After a second of scanning, he noticed a bolt tower floating near the Behemoth. Raisor took that as his chance to get on. He ran toward the bolt tower, and before it could react, he climbed on top of it and jumped from the edge to the Behemoth.

Being on top of the Behemoth, Raisor could get a better glimpse of what they were dealing with at this point. It looked like some of the larger heartless were still fairly high in numbers, but the weakers ones like Shadows, Soldiers, and Crescendos were pretty sparse. He tried to think what the best strategy would be to deal with all of them. If they managed to get one Behemoth down at this point, it wouldn't be bad, but they also had to deal with the giant bolts of lightning from the massive lumps of darkness as well. Raisor really didn't feel like getting electrocuted by anything else that day, especially after the Bolt Tower earlier. Before anything else, he ran to the top of the Behemoth and stood next to the horn. He had to get in a good hit at the thing and maybe it would fall down. He noticed the light on the horn was still fairly bright, but it didn't look nearly as bright as when he last saw it. Taking a strike at the horn, he thought he saw glimmers of light shine away, but before he could do anything else, the Behemoth seemed to react. It shook its head all around, trying to get Raisor off. Hanging on as hard as he could, Raisor made sure he wasn't falling off till he did more damage to the beast and it went to the ground again.

OOC: 673 words, 30 exp (450 Total)
Defender - 1
Behemoth - 1 (236/300)

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 5
Defender: 11
Large body: 14
Assault Rider: 11
Morning Star: 13
Shadow: 8
Black fungus: 14
Bolt tower: 18
Crescendo: 5
Soldier: 6

 

Raisor gripped the Behemoth's horn for dear life, as the beast shook harder and harder. Considering the thing didn't really have much of a neck, Raisor was surprised at how much it was tossing around. Eventually the giant heartless reeled on its back legs, causing it to stand nearly straight up. Raisor held on tighter, trying not to fall off. Unfortunately for him, that method was going to backfire in a second. The Behemoth fell back towards the ground, with Raisor losing his grip from the force of the fall. As the beast hit the ground, the head fell even lower, making it harder for Raisor to hold on. Eventually his fingers slipped, and the next thing Raisor knew, he was flying through the air; apparently aiming straight for an Assault Rider from the looks of it.

Raisor took the chance to take out the heartless in one blow. He was flying fast enough that his cheeks began to flop a little, and his eyes teared up. He brought both of his arms out in front of him and locked his elbows, so his keyblade was pointing right in front of him. At that moment, Raisor knew what it was like to be a human torpedo, and he was personally not enjoying the experience. In fact, he was sure that at the end of this, he was going to apply for early retirement, just from all the ridiculousness that he'd gone through. As the neared the Assault Rider, luck went his way, because the creature turned perpendicular to him, letting Raisor slam it right in the side. As he hit it, the beast hit him like a very firm wall, and he felt his keyblade hit the mark. The Assault Rider staggered for a moment, then disappeared, causing its heart to fly away. Raisor hit the ground, with his head spinning and throbbing. He got on his feet, wondering exactly how much he was going to have to sleep this pain off. Of course, that was assuming he could even sleep after this. Considering their little history so far, they haven't had much chance of sleep, or even a day off. He was ready to make a complaint about the work they were doing without any benefits. Health benefits could be something at the very least.

Legs shaking, Raisor managed to get himself off the ground, using his keyblade as a crutch. His head felt like little marbles were slamming the inside of his brain, and the rest of his body just wanted to give up on him at that point.

"Note to self: next time a Behemoth tries to get you off its back, just do it a favor and get off voluntarily." Raisor brought his hand to his head, hoping to steady his vision.

For a second, he thought he saw a shadow move in front of his. And then he began to wonder how it was splitting in to three different shadows. At that point, Raisor began to come back to his senses and realized they were three Shadow heartless coming his way. He prepared himself as best he could, but his body was still weak from the toss a minute ago. He began to think of ways to get out of this mess, but he could only think of one way to get the Shadows right away without problems later; the only problem meant, it'd cause problems for him immediately instead of later. Raisor figured he just grin and bear through it as he kept himself from falling. The Shadows began to close in on him until they were at the point where they could attack. Raisor still did nothing as they approached him ever so much. Eventually, all three of the shadows jump and attacked him. Raisor felt them scratch at him from three points: his back, this shoulder, and his leg. He didn't enjoy it, but he smirked anyways. Since he had been so dizzy for a second, he needed them to come to him and give him a little jolt to his brain. At that point Raisor could see again, and the three Shadows were standing right next to him. He sliced his keyblade through the air, taking all three of them down in one him. Though he was sure that at this point, he'd need to see someone to fix him up at the end of this.

OOC: 735 words, 30 exp (480 total)
Assault Rider - 1
Shadows - 3

Spoiler: South Side

Behemoth: 5 (236/300)
Defender: 11
Large body: 14
Assault Rider: 10
Morning Star: 13
Shadow: 5
Black fungus: 14
Bolt tower: 18
Crescendo: 5
Soldier: 6

 

Raisor blinked his eyes twice. After breathing a little more, he blinked a few more times. After a few heavy breaths, his vision seemed to be coming back to normalcy. After getting turned into a human bullet, he wasn't sure he wanted to be going on any amusement park rides for a long while. At least until he gets used to going 50 miles per hour and speeding toward heartless. If anyone asked him at the end of the day how he got so messy, he'd have to tell them he tripped on a heartless. There was no way he was telling anyone about his little venture earlier.

After getting his sight back, he lifted his keyblade on his shoulders. While he did it to get ready for rights, it was also comfortable for him and made him relax a little more. Being tense is never a good thing when fighting, since it slows your reaction speed down, but it also can mess up your thought processes. That's why Raisor has always tried to keep calm, no matter what situation occurs. Now, that doesn't mean he didn't get annoyed or anything, but keeping calm can make things easier for him instead of running around freaking out like a chicken with its head cut off. That's not to say he's ever seen a chicken do something like that, but he'd heard the term enough while growing up. After relaxing a little more, he figured it'd be best to go back and thank the Behemoth for its hospitality and tossing him.

Looking around and assessing the situation, it looked like the largest amount of heartless were Bolt Towers and the rest were slowly diminishing. Which was a good thing, since if it was even just Bolt towers left over, they could always use them to get back on top of Behemoths if they were tosses aside. He wasn't too sure he wasn't to use a Defender like Cat did the first time, since a fireball on the foot didn't sound like a good idea; and knowing his luck, it was bound to happen. He looked for another Bolt Tower to use to climb up on the Behemoth, but he couldn't find any that were close enough to use. Raisor figured that he'd have to get the attention of a heartless and have it come near the Behemoth. That, or knock one out for a second or something. Since he was coming up with these ideas as he went along, they weren't really the best thing in the world. Good thing no one claimed he was good at thinking on his feet.

He found a Bolt Tower floating a few feet from the Behemoth, and figured he'd use that one. He figured that while he was running toward the thing he could knock it on the side and try to get it closer to the target. Since the Bolt Towers didn't get harmed unless hit on their ball-head thing, it seemed like a good idea. Getting close, he ran around the heartless, making sure he wasn't spotted and positioned himself so the tower was between him and the enemy. When the Bolt Tower was in place, he gave it a good baseball swing and knocked it sideways a little toward the monster behemoth. Using the chance before the Bolt Tower could react, he quickly climbed the enemy and jumped on the top of the Behemoth yet again. Taking the chance, he ran toward the horn and smacked away at it with combos. After doing so, he noticed the horn was nearly done glowing, but at that point, the behemoth started shaking again.

"Nu-uh, you're not shaking me off again this time." Raisor caused a few more strikes on the horn, and on his last hit, he saw the last of the glow disappear. In that moment, the Behemoth's legs buckled, and it kneeled down, just like before.

"Hey guys!! Take this chance to hurt this guy a little more!!" He shouted through the field, towards the others that were fighting hoping they would take the chance to damage it a little more.

OOC: 689 words, 30 exp (510 total)
Behemoth - 1 (218/300)

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 5 (218/300)
Defender: 11
Large body: 14
Assault Rider: 10
Morning Star: 13
Shadow: 5
Black fungus: 14
Bolt tower: 18
Crescendo: 5
Soldier: 6

 

Stratos listened to what Karina had to say, albeit he was busy sort of getting his ass handed to him by a behemoth the entire time it was happening. The behemoth first kicked at his guard, but due to it, he managed to block the brunt of the blow, and was only sent slightly skidding backward. As Karina continued to tell him about herself, he only got slightly more angered at the girl as she told him that she didn't even value her own life. She then continued to tell him how there were sometimes he you couldn't avoid death in a war, and that he was too soft hearted to think that he could. That was, somewhat true. Stratos had seen enough in his time to not want to see anymore of that. If there were people in front of him who needed saving, then he would. He couldn't just sit back and do nothing anymore. He couldn't just try and get nowhere. He wouldn't just let others down again. He continued to guard against the behemoth attacked him to which he just said, "even if you tell me I can't, I still won't let anyone down." Karina then went on to attack the behemoth in her own sort of usual titanic onslaught, only for the behemoth to eventually fling her away and knock her into him. As he tumbled across the ground alongside the girl, she quickly apologized for the unfortunate mishap that had happened. As she reached her hand out, he grabbed it and stood right back up.

After her last onslaught of attacks, Stratos quickly began to charge forward on his keyglider, and jumped off of it while it was in mid thrust, causing it to crash against the behemoth's horn. It didn't seem to like this and shook its head a bit before charging at him. Stratos quickly jumped up and over the behemoth as he summoned his keyblade back to his hand and started whacking its head with a simple air combo. This was then followed up with a vorpal blitz, smashing the horn around, only to then be followed up with another air combo. Once that had been finished, Stratos ended it by doing a somewhat improvised fire strike, casting fire but not actually launching it, followed by smashing the blade and fire against the horn. That seemed to stagger it as it quickly fell down and seemed to be recovering its strength.

Turning to Karina he said, "listen, it's not just me that doesn't want to see you die. I know you said that you don't even value your own life, and that no one else should. However, that just isn't true." He motioned over to all the other sides that were swarmed with heartless, with all the other keyblade wielders fighting their best against all the other heartless. "Even if you don't value yourself, others do. And others are counting on you right now. They can fight with everything they have right now, and they can all come out of this alive because they know that everyone else is doing the same." The behemoth then got back up and fired a large mass of dark energy balls towards the two. Stratos turned around, a sun generating on his keyblade. He soon threw the mini sun into the middle of the crowd attacks, only to slash at the air with his keyblade. The sun had suddenly expanded, enveloping any and all of the attacks, completely stopping them. He then turned back to the girl with a smile on his face giving a thumbs up to her. "And lord knows I value you right now. So why don't we end this creature's end."

OOC:
EXP Writer: 620 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 780 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 0/5
Armored Knight: 21/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 3/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Behemoths 15/300

 

A never ending swarm of Rapid Thrusters had emerged close to the West Gate and Ananta was the only one that she saw that wasn't busy with her own heartless. Looking at the mass of heartless, she attempted to count how many were there, but they moved far too fast for her to count them properly. "Well, I guess I better just fight them instead of standing around and waiting much longer. Who knows what they could do if they weren't destroyed soon." Ananta said, running towards the cloud of heartless. As she approached, it donged on her just how many there had to be. 'Now that I'm closer, I gotta say there are at least thirty of these things. That's pretty scary.' she thought, skidding to a stop and rethinking her plan. 'I can probably take down quite a few of them and not have to worry too much about the rest of them. Let's see...I have all my mana back since I kicked some butt, so I could use my magic...and if I got too injured, I could most definitely heal me. The question is, do I want to attack them more or use my magic?'

Huffing, Ananta crossed her arms, watching the heartless float about. They didn't seem too threatening, in fact, they seemed relatively safe and in their own world for all she could tell. 'This is a toughie. I could attack, but then they'd be all over me. Then there's also that.' she looked over and saw a small group of Hook Bats flapping their wings about. 'If they all attacked together, I'd be in a bit of trouble, but hopefully if anything happened, somebody around here would help me if I screamed loud enough. That'd be embarrassing though, so I'll try not to resort to that.' thought Ananta as she stood ready to fight the heartless. 'Okay, so I'll first run at the small yellow ones and at least lessen their numbers. Then, next chance I get, I can finish them off and go for some of those purple bat ones. Sounds easy enough. If I get in too much trouble, I can rely on Kross or Steel to help me. Maybe even that...girl...over there.' Ananta looked at the three people that were over here, fighting with her. She didn't recognize the girl, but she had a keyblade, so she was obviously there to help.

Nodding her head, Ananta held her keyblade and rushed at the swarm of Rapid Thrusters, jumping up and swinging her keyblade around at them. She could feel the force of each one of the heartless being hit. It resonated in her keyblade as she could feel her mana getting replenished. A flame lit in her hand, causing her hand to scorch. Wincing at the pain, Ananta shot three fireballs at a few of the yellow, dart heartless. Each of them disappeared and let the hearts contained within them float away. Ananta continued swinging, destroying countless heartless. Only when she defeated the 21st one did she realize that she needed to stop and rest.

Hopping back, she looked at her hand and cringed. Her skin was badly injured, feeling as if she had touched the fires of hell. Trying to retreat, she wasn't expecting the Hook Bats and Rapid Thrusters to work together and lift her up, encasing her in a mass of heartless. "Ack, no!" she said, kicking and punching at the heartless, She had completely forgotten about her keyblade and was trying desperately to not get eaten alive by these monsters. "Kross! Help!" she called out.

OOC:
Heartless Killed/Injured
Rapid Thrusters (21 BP spent)
Behemoth 261/300 (no BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 33 [1BP each]
Wyverns: 13 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 31 [5BP each]
Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 49 [7BP each]
Rapid Thrusters: 11 [1BP each]

EXP Writer 1 Bonus
Ananta: 107 EXP (30 this post)
Steel: 50 EXP
Rain: 19 EXP
Kross: 10 EXP

 

Before Kel could say anything in return to Beuce, the Behemoth started to charge an energy ball which was likely going to be aimed at him. Taking into account all of the attempts that this heartless has taken in trying to kill him, it lead Kel to assume that the heartless was either a vengeful man or a pissed off woman. He came to this conclusion based off the saying “Hell has no fury like a pissed off girl” and while that may not be the official wording of it nor even an actually saying, numerous evidence throughout the years, or just by looking at Karina, has proven this to be true. So you can’t blame him for coming to this conclusion about why the behemoth was this determined to end him.

Fortunately Kel didn’t have to worry about the attack for Beuce had attacked while the male or female (assuming that they even have genders) heartless was charging its attack, saving him from what possibly could’ve been a large and hard to dodge attack. While Beuce had continued to deal damage to the heartless, Kel had gotten ready to enter the fray yet again when he was blinded by a flash of light. When his vision had returned, he found that he was now in some kind of spinning tea cup. He had no time to even figure out where the tea cup was taking him as he continued to spin round and round like he was part of some never ending ride. When the tea cup finally disappeared, it was suffice to say that Kel was quite dizzy with all of the spinning that he’d done. In fact the room was still spinning as he tried to keep himself from falling onto the ground.

The world had finally stopped spinning and the young wielder could actually see what was going on in front of him. It seemed that the teacup had forcefully taken him away from the battle, something that Kel wasn’t quite sure how to feel about. Looking back towards the heartless, he saw Beuce get knocked flying by its hoof and skid across the ground, ending up right next to him. Seeing that made him all the more glad that he actually managed to avoid getting impaled while he was stuck in the bookshelf earlier. As Beuce got back up on his feet, he mentioned one of the few good things that actually happened in Camelot. He was right about one thing, he definitely wanted payback on the heartless and it wasn’t even for the attempts of killing him. It was for the total BS that was it leaping over the frozen ground like a free wily cat. There are certain things that aren’t supposed to happen and that were definitely one of them.

“Yeah, let’s give it hell.”

With that he casted magnify on his keyblade before charging at the heartless. His keyblade shined brightly as the gap between himself and the behemoth closed. The heartless took notice of this and quickly tried to crush the blue haired teen. Kel to notice this moment of attack and sung his keyblade in a rising arc motion to counter the foot. With the doubled power given via magnify and Kel’s own strength, his attack succeeded in not only countering the heartless but also sending it flying in the air. Continuing with his attack, he leapt into the air and ended up right above where the Behemoth had stopped. This time with a mightily downswing of his keyblade, he sent the behemoth crashing down into the ground below them all. Such was the fate of all who were struck by aerial slam. Of course this wouldn’t be enough to severely hinder the heartless, Kel knew that much already. But it could only take so much of the combined attacks of Beuce and himself. So it was only a matter of time before the mighty behemoth fell before the might of the two wielders.

OOC:
Words: 665
EXP: 30 Total: 198
Injured: Behemoth 22 BP dealt.

 

Stratos could only leap up in absolute glee as the behemoth had been felled by the girl's final assault. Sure, she seemed to be still angrily shouting about how the others didn't care about her, but he had a feeling this was more a part of her whole rage motif then something she had actually believed at the moment. After it was all over and done with, she simply sat on the ground, in her sort of bloodied mess that she was and started sobbing. It was then, while in this state, a Zip Slasher had come up and decided to attack her while she was down. Despite this, she managed to still block the attack sent by the super heartless, and simply muttered a thanks to Stratos before declaring that she was going to kill the heartless. Not wanting to get in the way of her and her duel of fate, not unlike the one he had recently had, and let her be. However, at this moment, she seemed to be exceptionally well, almost as if she had gotten back into her original groove of killing things that was there before they had fought the behemoth. Once she was done with her first attack, Stratos decided that he needed to get some stuff out of the way first before he went off to do his own thing again.

"Right, I should probably tell you about the remaining heartless we have to fight, seeing as you only seemed to focus down the soldiers. Those ones over their," he pointed to a group of armored knight heartless, "they are basically the next step up from the soldiers. They're only slightly harder to kill, and that blade is the only really thing that makes them threatening, but despite that, they aren't too difficult. Then there's those ones," he pointed to the morning star heartless, "they'll try to crush you at a moments notice with their spikes, and their decently bulky. However, I found out that they actually make excellent weapons against other heartless. Then there's those ones," he pointed over to the assault riders, "they're just fast and relentless with their spears, so in your case it'd probably be better to hit them fast rather than trying to stall it out. The last one I know about is that guy," he pointed to the zip slasher she was fighting. "They seemed to be the toughest of the bunch, and are immune to magic. Not to mention they seem to be somewhat smarter than the others."

After having given her a rundown of what he knew so far, he decided to get over one large elephant in the room. "I know we've been fighting this entire time but...I don't know your name. So, I'll just introduce myself first. Name's Stratos." After having gotten intros out of the way he said, "now then, I'm going to go kill the small fires and piss off another behemoth, just as we had been doing before." He started to almost run off before he stopped himself. "Oh right, promised myself I'd do this after the behemoth died." He then thrust his keyblade into the air and cast cure four times on Karina, making sure she was fully healed. "There, now that he's dead, no matter what you say, I'm going to worry about and support you. Especially if you go as recklessly as you had done before." And with that, he was off.

The first to fall prey to the keyblade wielder was a single armored knight. It seemed to be all by its lonesome, and so Stratos crashed right into it on his keyglider. The heartless was then sent flying, only to be hit by the keyglider's strike raid-esque attack and the immediately died. Having killed that one rather fast, he decided that he'd start strong on the next behemoth. This second one seemed to be idly doing nothing on the battlefield, and continued to do nothing even after Stratos attacked it by performing Zantetsuken with his keyglider on it. Despite this, it didn't aggro on him, and probably didn't even care about him just yet. So Stratos just used the MP he regained to cast cure on himself, seeing as he didn't come out of that behemoth fight scot-free either.

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EXP Writer: 716 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 810 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 1/5
Armored Knight: 22/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 3/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Zip Slashers: 93/100
Behemoth 288/300

 

Well it was good to now know his partners name. While he had already left before he could acknowledge something about that, it was good to know that he no longer had to tip toe around calling her proper nouns or just avoiding calling her anything in the slightest. And so, Stratos started to go on his hunt for more heartless to kill. One that preferably wasn't a behemoth or zip slasher. He had had enough of either of those for the time being. Getting on his keyglider, he started to fly around and went on the hunt for whatever he could go out and find. It was then that he saw a cluster of three armored knights, just sort of patrolling around, and so he had decided they would be as good as any of a group of heartless to kill. Quickly changing course on his board like keyglider, he quickly activated the thrust and fired off straight towards the group. The only problem with this was that, while Stratos was a fairly competent flier when it came to keygliders, he was terrible at landing. And so he had preformed a miraculous blunder as he crashed in the ground in between all three heartless, and was sent on flopping and skidding across the ground. Well, couldn't win 'em all when it came to looking awesome.

The armored knights quickly took note of their attackers failed attack, and quickly charged towards him. Summoning his keyblade to his hand, Stratos quickly put it in front of himself in order to guard against any and all attacks that would come his way. With the three continuously striking asynchronously, Stratos found himself in a terrible position. One where he couldn't exactly perform a counter attack, lest the mob of heartless slash him up all over the place. As he finally decided to go on the offensive, Stratos pushed one of the blades of the armored knights away, and then quickly rushed in with his three hit vorpal blitz, followed up with a ground combo to finish it off. However, this had left him exposed for the moment, and so as he finished off one of them, the other two had already started attacking him with their sword. Because this wasn't Metal Gear Rising, Stratos couldn't immediately cancel what he was doing to parry, and got slashed across the back by two different blades. While they just managed to break skin, it was still enough to hurt and deter the keyblade wielder. He quickly cast cure on himself, only to see that, due to not having leaf bracer, the two armored knights could still attack him. With their slashes coming at him, he just barely managed to recover from spell casting and immediately put up his guard. However, he was only able to block one strike, as the other one still managed to go across his chest.

Again, not the worst of cuts, but Stratos had to stick to the defensive once more. It was then that he noticed a shower was towering over him. One that seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere. Turning around, Stratos notice that the shadow had belonged to the behemoth heartless he had just attacked. It seemed to not really be paying him any mind, and was just blankly staring into space. Any thoughts that this magical teleporting heartless wasn't going to attack him, was quickly cast aside as one of its legs was getting pulled back. It then launched it forward, in an attempt to kick Stratos away. However, he had started to adapt to this extremely weird and all too hilarious move, and quickly dodge rolled past an armored knight. The armored knight turned around to face Stratos, only to quickly die from having received the blow from the behemoth instead. Stratos then quickly assaulted the next armored knight with a quick few combos, only to the attack the now motionless behemoth with another combo. The behemoth still seemed to pay him no mind, however Stratos was not sticking around long enough for this thing to decide to care. Getting on his keyglider, he quickly flew away on his keyglider.

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EXP Writer: 695 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 840 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 1/5
Armored Knight: 25/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 3/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Zip Slashers: 71/100
Behemoth 286/300

 

Stratos had continued gliding around to go kill **** once more, and so he put his hand to his forehead and simply looked around. While normally someone did this to block out the sun, thus making it easier to see, Stratos seemed to have absolutely no reason to do this whatsoever. However, it ended up working when he found a single, lone, other adjectives of singular, Armored Knight heartless. Firing up the thrust on his keyglider again, Stratos fired off and went sailing straight towards the thing. He decided not to try and land this time, and instead just kill it with his keyglider, given his ever so graceful landing skills thus demonstrated. However, as he flew towards it, something really weird happened. He was completely intercepted by something that seemed to come out of nowhere. That same behemoth he had been dealing with thus far, seemed to just be vacantly staring into space once more, and had seemingly appeared out of thin air. What was this thing? Stratos, had no time to react to its sudden appearance, and so he had instead, crashed into it. Well that probably did a fair bit of damage to it, however the damage coming up to him, was something entirely different.

Having been flung off his keyglider, he was soon sent sailing across the ground, even bouncing a few times here and there, until he had finally ended up crashing into another heartless. It was not the heartless he had meant to kill, the lone armored knight. No. It was now a rather belligerent Assault Rider. So belligerent that the moment that Stratos had knocked into its torso, it flexed, causing Stratos bounce way off of it, and ended up skipping across the ground. He ended up flying into a book case, and then ended with books falling on top of him. Well that was certainly painful. Getting up, he was that the assault rider was now charging at him with extreme prejudice, whatever that meant. Trying to do what he had done before, he created a ring around him of books, and was about to cast mine square. However, when he attempted to cast it, nothing happened. He then realized what the main problem was. He had spent far too much MP in far too short of a time, and so he was now without any to cast his signature broken ass spell. Realizing what was going to happen next, he was the assault rider charge up to him, only for it to grab him with its free arm, and then fling him around through the library again.

So Stratos was miraculously without any broken bones, especially given the amount of times he had been thrown around. He then looked around the hall and suddenly wondered what the hell was up with this place. It seemed to be an infinitely expanding battlefield, that had no bounds whatsoever. Not to mention the heartless seemed bound to stay in this infinite boundary during the fight, and for whatever reason they all weren't just trying to overwhelm the two keyblade wielders. While he was lost in thought, the assault rider had caught up to him once more, only to try and stab at him with its large ass spear. Getting up, Stratos brought his keyblade up to deflect the blow, having it bounce off his blade and instead puncturing a whole in his hoodie. With that done, the assault rider had his spear through Stratos's clothing, so it now could lift him up with its spear, which it did. However, Stratos wasn't going down just yet, and still had managed to use enough MP to cast fire, having it blow up on the hand of the Assault Rider. With that done, the assault rider let go of him, only for Stratos to grab the large spear the heartless was using and, through some miraculous feat that shouldn't be possible with his strength, managed to swing it around and impale the heartless with. With that done, Stratos went on to kill more baddies.

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EXP Writer: 677 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 870 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 1/5
Armored Knight: 25/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 4/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Zip Slashers: 49/100
Behemoth 284/300

 

Steel sighed as he slashed at the Behemoth a few more times. He observed that Stratos had managed to help Karina out, and it annoyed him slightly; his own attempts to help anyone were almost always pushed aside, and yet he found they always seemed to come to him about things they didn't understand... things he didn't really have answers for. "You knew this would happen." A familiar voice chided him. "There is no point in getting upset over it; it is the path we have chosen." He looked to his side to see the Cheshire Cat grinning madly back at him. He gave a small nod: he had been aware that Beuce had summoned the feline, though he wasn't sure if he should expect any help from his... friend. "Could I have a status report?" He asked politely as he ran another hookbat through.

Grin never faltering, the Cheshire cat gave him a brief list. "Well, things are running smoothly along all of the supply routes, Aiden is back from his trip, Leonidas blew up his lab again..." The cat's grin then grew to an impossible wideness. "...And my sister is totally crushing on you." Steel raised his eyebrows briefly as he stopped a Rapid thruster in it's tracks and threw it into another, effectively eliminating both. The news he had been given had both expected and unexpected events listed, but he needed to focus on the battle for now. "...And how is Tania doing?" He asked a little too smugly. The Cheshire cat's lips pressed together showing no teeth whatsoever as his eyes narrowed ever so slightly: his rendition of a frown. The fastest way to get his feline friend back on track was to throw a wrench into that pointy smile of his. "I was asking about the battle." Steel deadpanned. "Yes, yes." Cheshire sighed. This time he gave Steel a quick run through of what was going on in the battle: like the defeat of a behemoth, Hikaru's finally taking a more active role, and the fact that his side was making the least amount of progress. He grimaced as he grabbed hold of an air knocker and mercilessly pounded it into the Behemoths only known weak point. He would have to work hard if he wanted to speed things along. It seemed Ananta was in a bind, but she was calling for Kross so he somewhat bitterly ignored it and turned instead to another hookbat. He grabbed the creature in a manner similar to earlier and flew into a large cloud of them before swinging his umbrella around mercilessly. floating hearts popped up left and right as he viciously flung the flying rodent heartless around in such a manner that if the creature were human it would surely be throwing up at any second. When his heartless weapon vanished he fell to the ground beneath the small group of bats. He looked up to see that he had put a good size dent in their numbers and that many hearts were freed in the process. He decided he would take care of a few more of the smaller heartless before going back to the Behemoth.

Before that however, he turned back to face the Cheshire Cat. "Thanks Exodus." he said with a grateful tone. "If you want, and if your other self is okay with it, you could stay for a while." He didn't sound any different than normal, but both of them knew it was more of a plead than a suggestion. The cat however just shrugged. "I don't really know how much help I'll be to the others, but whenever you need help, I'll be with him." Steel gave him a grateful smile that no one could see... but both of them could sense. As Cheshire went off in some other direction, Steel momentarily wondered how Exodus was so much more serious than his Pink counterpart; what with having to share a mind and all.

Coexistent versions of the same being were so strange...

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-2 Rapid Thrusters
-11 Hookbats
-1 Air Knocker

1 damage to Behemoth

Words: 671
EXP (Post): 30 MAX
EXP (Total): 80

 

Stratos had thought of going and flying off to parts unknown, to go and hunt down more heartless to kill. The idea was to get on his keyglider and fly off to hunt down more heartless. Sure, he'd have to kill them while on his keyglider, so as not to go and get himself killed by crash landing, but it was still a plan nonetheless. This plan was soon interrupted the moment he stepped on a keyglider. The moment he did such a daring action, a familiar towering shadow appeared over him. Knowing what it was, Stratos almost immediately brought up his keyglider to block against the oncoming strike, purely off of instinct. Despite his instincts kicking in, he was sent across the room once more, though the glider had taken the brunt of the attack, allowing him to not be brutally hit down by that attack. What had happened, one might ask. Well it was simple. The towering shadow belonged to none other than Derpy the Derpmoth, distant cousin of Free Willy Cat. The attack that our intrepid hero guarded against instinctively was none other than the almighty behemoth kick move that had been just invented during this RP.

Derpy the Derpmoth then continued to stare blankly into space, and as Stratos was able to recover the now swerving all over the place keyglider, and then he stared the thing down. He continued to stare it down, only for the behemoth to do nothing in response. As he continually looked at it, he was soon interrupted by a squad of two, yes two, armored knights coming at him. Man, it was like these things just traveled in perfect groups that he could just kill all of them at once and still be totally fine. As the two tried to slash at him, he turned his attention away from Derpy the Derpmoth and fired up his thruster, gliding away safely from the attacks. When he tried to turn his attention back to the aforementioned behemoth, he noticed it was no longer there. However, he had no time to just think of that as the two heartless were swiftly engaging and enclosing upon him.Gliding around them, he quickly shot out the glider into a strike raid-esque attack, only for the god damn things to jump. Since when could they do that? Probably always, but god damn it, it looked like other heartless were starting to take after Free Willy Cat.

Returning the glider as a blade, he put it in front of him to guard against all oncoming attacks...which was just two heartless slashing at him. Well this didn't seem all that threatening. He was quickly able to push it away from him, and then went in to attack with a simple four hit combo, only to then stop short of his combo finisher and then bring his keyblade up to block against any sort of oncoming attack. Having successively parried away the attack, he then went to attack the one he just blocked with a vorpal blitz. This, however, didn't kill it, and so he was now about to get attacked by two heartless at once. However, while this wasn't Metal Gear Rising, he figured he could try and pull a move out of it in order to save his ass. So what he did was simply slash forward and leap backward. Aka, Offensive Defense...or Defensive Offensive, depends on the version. However, while he did successfully hit the heartless and kill it, the other one still managed to slash him, due to Stratos not actually having any invincibility frames. Getting his arm cut a bit, Stratos then went in and attacked the heartless with a combo, albeit sluggishly. After that was done with it, he quickly cast cure on himself, repairing any damage done to him and magically restoring his blood because MAGIC....Also Derpy the Derpmoth magically took damage somewhere along the line. RIGHT! Stratos clearly used Aero on his keyglider when it kicked it, that somehow managed to damage it. Yes, that's what happened.

OOC:
EXP: 679 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 900 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 1/5
Armored Knight: 27/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 4/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Zip Slashers: 49/100
Behemoth 277/300

 

It was absolute chaos in the sanctuary, something he thought he would never see, but it happened. It happened and there was nothing Kross could do to totally stop it alone. He had managed to divert some of the Hook bat's attention but it didn't get all of them. However, his diversion idea did work, if he could keep working just like this, they had a chance. Ananta was doing well for a novice, albeit her technique was unrefined but in the battlefield, when was grace needed? Steel was pretty powerful himself, damaging one of the bigger Heartless quite heavily. THey needed to keep this up until the mirror was at full power, then they could escape. He gripped his keyblade tight in his hand and held his palm up, there were currently six hookbats that were attracted by Kross's previous onslaught of their five comrades. They were clumsily flying from side to side they were the weakest of this army it figured they'd be so easy to kill off."I'm not gonna be useless.."He trailed off, he remembered Ananta's face, then it faded out and Steel's face showed, and it kept doing this until his mind imaged Hkaru's face. His body glew yellow, anyone in a certain radius would feel their hair stand up on end."Everyone, I won't run away again...not again!" He exclaimed, looking up. The Hook bats closed in and Kross leveled his keyblade, then pointed it up, glaring at them."SUck on this..!"

Kross used thunder on 6 Hookbat(s)!!

It was then he heard it, someone was calling his name. His eyes snapped over to where ANanta stood, he could barely see her in the mass of Heartless but his mind knew one simple fact. ANanta is in trouble! He ran and jumped out, swinging and hooked his keyblade into one of the Hookbats trying to entrap ANanta. His hair ruffled and he grit his teeth, his body glowing yellow. He yelled as lightning rained down like hell on the heartless entrapping his friend. It wasn't enough to pop all of them but at least they would give Ananta some breathing room.

Kross used Thunder on two Hook Bats and two Rapid THrusters!

Spoiler: West Gate

Hook Bats killed: 8
Rapid THrusters killed: 2
EXP Writer: NOT EQUIPPED

 

Stratos was now mostly on the run. Why? Because he had no idea what was going on with this god damn behemoth. Derpy the Derpmoth, so far, seemed capable of instant transmission and the ability to kick whenever it damn well pleased. Not to mention it seemed capable of complete and utter indifference towards whatever he did. And so Stratos was now flying away on his keyglider, trying not to get killed by Derpy the Derpmoth. Having quickly looked around, he noticed that there was no such behemoth around when he had gotten on his keyglider. Feeling safer for the moment, he started cruising around, simply looking around for his next prey. However, it was at this moment of safety that Stratos realized that he was never safe from the behemoth. He suddenly saw a shadow cast across him, and quickly looked up. When he did, he saw a behemoth, falling though looking as if it were just standing on solid ground while doing so. Having fallen far enough, it quickly revved up its leg, too fast for Stratos to react to what was about to happen. Shooting its leg forward, it ended up kicking at his keyglider, with the intent of knocking him away. However, Stratos was not about to be bested by the same move over and over again. Right before the foot made contact with the glider, Stratos ended up warping it back to his hands in blade form, and quickly decided to give this beast no quarter whatsoever.

With cherry blossoms falling from basically the same dimension Derpy was appearing from, Stratos got ready to do the ultimate of physical attacks. When the behemoth had seemingly suspended itself in mid air, it tried to kick the wielder once more, shooting its leg forward once more. In that split second before the foot connected with him, Stratos ended up basically disappearing from sight and all physical reality, only to reappear on top of the behemoth's back. Getting ready to attack with it everything he had, he quickly generated a mini sun in his hand, and threw it straight at the behemoth's horn. When the sun exploded on impact, he had believed to done a good chunk of damage to it, only for the behemoth to seemingly not move at all, but still managed to buck him off of its back. While he had no idea how that happened, he did know this was not going to end well. Quickly casting Aero on himself, Stratos prepared for the worst, as he quickly acted like a stone skipping across a body of water, only his body was the stone and his ground was the body of water.

After that whole analogy was over and done with, he quickly picked himself up only to realize where he had ended up at. Looking around, he had managed to get himself trapped in one of these sort of situations once more. To his left, armored knight. To his right, armored knight. Everywhere around him, in a sort of circular cage, there were armored knights. Well, this was terrible. Last time he had nearly died, and that was against a grand total of thirteen armored knights. Now, there seemed to be no less than twenty. Man his luck sure sucked. If only he had been to wonderland, or had equipped the lucky ring. Or had lucky lucky. Maybe, just maybe, it would be able to save him from this. However, no such grace could be found within this trial of one thousand heartless. And instead, only certain death. As they all converged around him, Stratos quickly thought about all of his options that he could do here. However, as they converged, it was almost as if he were against the morning star all over again. Reacting to a certain thing the armored knights were doing, Stratos quickly flew into the air, glowing, and then dove straight through a line of them. While he didn't kill any, he was extremely confused as to what had just happened. And realized that this might be his key to victory against this group.

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EXP Writer: 686 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 930 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 1/5
Armored Knight: 27/55
Soliders: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 0/20
Morning Star: 2/15
Assault Riders: 4/15
Zip Slashers: 1/5
Power Wilds: 0/50

Injuries:
Zip Slashers: 49/100
Behemoth 267/300
1-Armored Knight 4/5
2-Armored Knight 4/5
3-Armored Knight 4/5
4-Armored Knight 4/5
5-Armored Knight 4/5
6-Armored Knight 4/5
7-Armored Knight 4/5