Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Stratos realized that they had to get rid of this terrifying foe as fast as possible, and so he tried to get himself out of the book case as fast as he possibly could. However, there was a bit of a problem with that. Sure, he had been kicked around by a behemoth before, but none of that could quite compare to what he had just faced. Stratos had Aero on at the moment and he managed to guard against the strike perfectly. However, his arms felt terrible from that impact, and he had the feeling if not for the fact that it was unbreakable, the keyblade would have snapped like a twig under that pressure. So now, he knew just what kind of foe this satanic behemoth was like. Ridiculously strong. Not to mention it seemed to have magic powers that consisted of flaming circles forming around its feet after every step it took. Looking onward he also saw that it seemed to have magical heat death rays that it could fire. What actually were the behemoth heartless and why did they have some sort of special powers that seemed to defy all logic. Also, why was their this weird thought that Free Willy Cat and Satan were the same heartless. That made literally no sense and so he cast it aside almost immediately after thinking of it.

Anyway, Stratos had to shakily pick himself up, his body still feeling wrecked from that head on blow he had taken. If he hadn't guarded then there probably still wouldn't be a Stratos. He then cast cure on himself to take away any damage done to him, and then tried to think of the fastest way that he could re-enter the fight. There was only one thing that he could think of that could close the gap between the two of them in a second. Even less than that really. He quickly brought his keyblade to his side, making a sort of Iaido stance that was becoming all too familiar to him. With it, time seemed to stand still, and cherry blossoms continued to fall from the...roof? Anyway, Stratos then closed his eyes, only to feel a sort of rush around him. Almost as if space was moving around him rather than him moving through it. When he reopened his eyes, he was now on top of the demonic behemoth, with a large cut through the fabric of space time seemingly having formed on the horn of the behemoth. Both the attack and the movement plan were successful. However, something still felt off about the whole thing.

And by off, Stratos meant that his feet felt like they were on fire. When he looked down he noticed that his shoes were indeed, on fire. Well that was a problem. Stratos had one of those moments where you grab a hot pan out of the oven with your bare hands, but it still takes you a few seconds to realize just how hot it actually is. When he realized how hot the thing's back was, he started moving like he was walking on hot coals, and quickly jumped off the behemoth, quickly casting blizzard on his feet. With an instant relief of cool, Stratos had some quick flashbacks to after the fight with Nequa where his hoody went on fire. Man, now he didn't have a hoody to catch fire any more. Well that was going to have to rectified as soon as he got to the next tailor. Stratos then quickly cast another blizzard, hitting the fiery demon heartless before his turn here ended. He had no idea where he was continuing to get this MP from, but for now it seemed as if it was limitless.

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EXP Writer: 627 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1650 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 241/300

 

Stratos was busy nursing his feet to do anything while Karina went to do her thing. It totally wasn't because they were in completely separate posts and thus the actual combination attacks between them would be limited. Totally not that. However, it was totally alright as the satanic behemoth seemed to be completely focused on Karina rather than him. Man, this was a first. Something he was totally alright with for the moment. However, Karina still seemed to be paralyzed in fear for a bit, before she was actually able to get to work and start fighting the thing. As she got closer the heat from the satanic behemoth seemed to be growing hotter, almost as if- no. No way that was what was happening. As she managed to beat it down with her various attacks, she then yelled out to Stratos telling him something that he could only face palm at. The behemoth. Fed. Off of. Her. Misery. What...Stratos couldn't help but feel that that was one of the most ridiculous things he'd heard in awhile, though thinking back on this fight this didn't actually seem to be quite out the realm of possibility. After all, there was zip slasher that seemed to be some sort of honorable knight thing, and then there was derpy the derpmoth; the only heartless he knew of that could move at basically mach speeds.


Regardless, Karina's theory seemed to be somewhat backed by the fact that the heat got less intense as she flew away on her keyglider, and it gave Stratos a bit of time to attack the satanic behemoth. Getting on his keyglider, he flew straight away at it, and quickly did his strike raid-esque attack, landing a direct hit on the horn. However, the attack seemed to be so pitiful that the behemoth kept its course onward to Karina, and acted as if the hit had never happened in the first place. Warping his keyglider back to him, underneath his feet, Stratos then quickly jetted off and flew straight at the behemoth once more. He needed to think of a way to get its attention so that it would totally aggro off of her and thus make him, theoretically, weaker. However, this was easier said than done, as he couldn't think of anything he could do right off the bat that would make this heartless turn its attention towards him. He then thought of trying to use Trip Around the Sun on it, however that seemed like it could end horribly. After all, he had know idea what the effects throwing a sun on the thing that seemed to be able to spew heat death rays at will would have.

So instead, he kept to trying to do damage from an element he figured the thing was weak to. Flying towards the horn, Stratos quickly jumped off once there. Warping his keyblade to his hand, he continued to unleash an air combo, one that mattered little to this behemoth. He then let loose a vorpal blitz on its horn, allowing the ice element power of it to go and do, theoretically, bonus damage. Once that was over and done with, he went to attack it with another air combo only to then finish it off by casting blizzard on its horn. With that mass combination of attacks hitting the satanic behemoth all at once, he figured that he had done quite the good job in dealing the max amount of damage he could in a single post. However, the behemoth seemed displeased with his attacks, and while it still didn't really bother with him to much, from its horn it seemed to be gathering energy. The horn then let loose a few heat death beams directed towards Stratos, who could only get on his keyglider and then use that as a wall to block against the attacks. While he got out of that fine, he still felt quite heated, and was starting to sweat a good deal from having been so close to the thing for so long.

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EXP Writer: 679 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1680 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 202/300

 

Stratos was now standing back from the behemoth as he started to cool down. The heat from the behemoth managed to make him start sweating a good deal, and so he had to start fanning himself for a bit as he watched Karina charge straight forward towards the satanic behemoth in something he could only describe as a somewhat suicidal looking charge. Sure enough, as she approached the behemoth the flames around it started to increase, and the intensity of the heat was traveling its way all the way over to the slightly distanced Stratos. However, as soon as she had finished her attack combination, Stratos felt the heat start to dissipate a tad as Karina retreated away from the satanic behemoth, however the flames didn't seem to die down as far as they had last time. Well, that was a bit of a problem, but nevertheless Stratos and his slightly burnt feet weren't going to falter towards this titanic satanic foe. It also helped that Karina cast cure on him, making his feet not feel like they were constantly on fire. With new found vigor, Stratos jumped onto his keyglider and fired off straight towards the behemoth, ready to hit it with any and all attacks he could.

However, the behemoth seemed to have different ideas. While its focus was still focused on Karina, his supposed fuel source of despair and other such things, it seemed to now at least register Stratos as some sort of a threat. And so, it immediately reacted to the keyblade wielder approaching him. It started its sort of counter offensive against the keyblade wielder by charging up some sort of energy of the damned in its horn. It then followed this up by firing various heat death rays in Stratos's general direction, but the keyblade wielder was able to outmaneuver these attacks, bobbing and weaving through the air. While the death rays hadn't managed to actually hit him, he still had felt the heat of the beams as they had passed him. As such, the keyblade wielder continued to persperate the closer he got to the behemoth, and realized that he had pretty limited time to do any sort of attacks at this point. Stratos then launched his keyglider out from under his feet and hit the horn of the behemoth directly. After that was accomplished, Stratos quickly warped his keyglider back to under his feet, and started flying around the thing again.

As he passed the satanic behemoth and ended up in front of it, the behemoth proceeded to open its maw and seemed to be generating some sort of orb of flame within its mouth. Wait a second. Did this thing know magic? The behemoth seemed to swallow the flame orb and then started to spew fire ball after fire ball at the flying keyblade wielder. This spell seemed to be a way more powerful version of the fire spell he had seen thus far. In fact, if he had to classify it based on the spell tiers he had read about here, he would classify it under the -ga level of spells. Raising his keyglider up, he blocked the firaga spell that seemed to home in on him, with them exploding on impact. Hurtling back a bit, Stratos then summoned the blade back to his hand, and quickly tried to initiate Vorpal blitz, completely stopping all momentum he had. The attack then basically made him be magnetically pulled to the horn of the behemoth, and after hitting it with the three hit combo of that command, he then finished off his attack string with a blizzard spell, only to retreat far away from the behemoth.

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EXP Writer: 615 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1710 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 163/300

 

"Didn't deal as much damage as I had hoped I could, but I did enough, I think..." Ananta huffed, attempting to catch her breath. Looking at the Behemoth's horn, Ananta could tell a little bit of the barrier surrounding the horn has been chipped away. Unfortunately, this battle was far from over and she could tell this heartless' horn was just barely damaged. "As much as I like attacking this guy, I'd rather get rid of some of the other heartless first. Then we'd all be able to just focus on this big guy." she said, turning from the horn and getting ready to hop down.

Sliding down the Behemoth's back, Ananta hopped off and landed a bit away. Standing up straight, she turned to see the Behemoth launched it's own lightning strike attack around it. Lifting her keyblade to try and deflect the attack somewhat, Ananta was struck by the lightning. Gritting her teeth, she tried not to scream, but this was to no avail. As the lightning finished, she screamed and fell back. Her hair was a mess and was sticking out in a few places while her clothes had visible signs of tearing on the edges. Ananta hit the ground and didn't try to get up at the time. Her hands lifted up and she soon felt the cool embrace of her Cura spell sweeping over her. It was welcome, considering the attack made her feel uneasy and had burnt her in a few places.

Ananta opened her eyes and stared up at three Air Knockers jiggling about. They looked like they were having their own sparring match and weren't really paying attention to anything else around them. Ananta sat up then stood up a moment later. Her hands ran through the short half of her hair and untied her braids. Her eyes were fixated on the Air Knockers as they continued to fight. This gave her time to mull over the event with the heart a little bit ago. "What was that strange warmth? And that vision I had...why did that little girl look like...me?" she spoke softly to herself. "It felt like I was looking at a book I recognize and the vision seemed like something I had experienced, but from a different angle..." she huffed, switching to her other braid now. "My heart aches so much right now, why am I drawing a blank on this...?" she sighed, looking at the Air Knockers. "I'll give it some time and try to remember some things, but right now, I should be fighting." she grumbled, letting the second braid fall behind her.

Having summoned her keyblade, Ananta jumped up and smacked the one Air Knocker that wasn't participating in the sparring match. She combo'd the heartless and landed on the ground shortly after and turned to see the other two had noticed her attack on their friend. One zoomed in and landed a punch on Ananta's arm, causing her to say "Ouch!" and rubbing her arm before slapping the heartless with her keyblade. It wobbled from the impact and floated off for awhile. Ananta grinned and snorted at it, looking at the bruise forming on her arm. The other Air Knocker took the place of the one she slapped and launched it's own flurry of attacks at Ananta. Blocking each attack and returning her own, this heartless was history. By now, the other Air Knocker returned and was actually ready to fight now. Chuckling, Ananta readied her keyblade and taunted the heartless, beckoning it over. Suffice to say, it didn't last too long, either.

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Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Knockers 3 (21 BP used)
Behemoth 217/300 (no BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 4[5BP each] (4 injured)
Air Battlers: 38 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 44 [7BP each]
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer 1 Bonus
Ananta: 287 EXP (30 this post)
Steel: 170 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 54 EXP

 

Stratos was now going up against his behemoth foe once more. While it was probably a better idea to rotate out like they had done before against the first behemoth, who was actually pretty normal compared to these past two behemoths, the simple fact remained. That fact being the angry and more depressive that Karina got, the stronger this thing became. And her fighting this thing one probably only stimulate those very two emotions even farther. So, if Stratos could actually find a way to minimize the amount of time Karina spent fighting this thing, and even more so maximize the distance between the two of them, then perhaps this thing wouldn't reach its own max power. However, that meant Stratos had to go one on one against this behemoth. Not only was he kind of incapable of fighting a behemoth by himself, but this one seemed to have satanic and/or demonic powers that were liable to end Stratos in an instant. So, what was a brotha to do? Probably stop pretending to be black first. Well, even if he couldn't have confidence in himself to end this thing on his own, he could put his confidence in Karina to be able to hurt this thing when she got the chance and keep away whenever possible. And that confidence in someone else would just have to be enough for him now.

So, with some really weird Gurren Lagann type belief in himself by proxy, Stratos quickly flew over to the satanic behemoth after Karina had let loose her attacks and started to let loose the only real attack he could against the behemoth. Not turning around to notice Stratos, as it was still fixated on its fuel source, Stratos was able to attack the behemoth without it caring much. Letting loose his keyglider in the strike-esque fashion that he had been this entire time, as soon as it hit, Stratos quickly summoned his keyblade back to his hands, and then let loose a sort of air combo, striking at the horn three times with his keyblade. The creature still paid no mind to him, almost as if he were a fly going up against a lion. As Stratos continued to preform another combo, he realized there was a problem going on right now. His movements were starting to become more sluggish, almost as if they tiring out way faster than they should be. As Stratos got back on his keyglider, he swiftly flew away from the fiery demonic behemoth, and then realized what the problem really was.

The behemoth's skin was as hot as hell itself, and so the surrounding heat around him mirrored the heat from the creature itself. And so now, Stratos was drenched in sweat, having been close to it for quite a bit. That's a problem. Which meant now, that Stratos couldn't stay too close to the thing for too long or else he'd basically dehydrate. So, Stratos then tried to take a more ranged approach to this kind of thing. While he hadn't learned how to do the thing that Beuce had done against Gilgamesh, aqua splash he believed was what it was called, he didn't have any sort of ranged attack against it. Then there was also the problem of not being able to rely on the blizzard spell forever as it just wouldn't really cut it for just sending one small chunk of ice at a time towards the behemoth. As Stratos continued to think of a plan, something dawned on him. Though he'd probably put this master plan of his into action next turn of his, he quickly flew back to the heartless and hit it with an air combo followed up with a vorpal blitz, only to swiftly retreat and cool himself down for the next assault.

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EXP Writer: 637 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1740 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 124/300

 

Steel rushed forward, aiming a few deft slashes at one of the Air Pirates he had injured earlier. It gave a sharp cry before it vanished into a puff of darkness. As he turned around, he saw another Air Pirate rushing towards him. He quickly threw up his mask; once again entering a guard stance before shoving it back and charging through it. effectively eliminating another. He looked up at the Behemoth towering over the group and decided that now was the time to start dishing out damage again. He rushed back through the field, dodging various kick and corkscrew attacks from the Air Pirates and Wyverns. As he approached he made his way to the purple monsters head and prepared to attack. He focused his power together and used to create a barrier around him. He then dashed towards the horn and pushed outward, causing a small burst of Kinetic energy.

OOC: Yeah, I know. Way shorter than my usual post, but I can only do so much at once people.
Unfortunatley, I am not in the position where I can do many of the calculations either, so I'll add that later.

Enemies defeated:
-2 Air Pirates (Previously injured. 3 BP each)
15 BP spent on Behemoth

 

So it was Stratos's turn to take on the satanic behemoth on once more. Or rather, it was his turn twice in a row. Which was fine with the young keyblade wielder because hey, that just meant that Karina didn't have another turn for the Satan Behemoth to feed off of its anger/depression/angst fuel that was the female keyblader. And so with that, he went in to go and pull off another string of attacks against the heartless. He was pretty close to filling the mp gap that he had created when he was busy using his near infinite pool of mp. However, now realizing that mp was a thing once again, he had to do his best in order to actually fill it back up. And so he still needed to get in close and use his wimpy ass physical attacks in order to build up some more of it. Flying forward towards the behemoth, quickly had to swerve to the side as the beasty was having none of his shit anymore. The horn had already begun glowing red, heat energy gathering within, and then it launched out its heat death rays directed towards Stratos. Having to swerve a bit out of the way, he felt the heat emanating off of the rays, causing him to persperate more. This was bad, he was already starting to lose energy from the heat, so he had to wrap this up fast.

Starting to fly forward towards the behemoth, he let it out from under his feet, and threw it towards it using his strike raid-esque technique. After that had managed to hit, the behemoth seemed to be charging up its heat death rays again, and so he had to back off quickly. Flying as fast as possible away from the thing, it let loose more death rays towards Stratos. However, while he might have been getting sluggish from the heat, the lasers weren't actually fast or frequent enough to pose a truth threat to him, so as he had swerved past them, he quickly doubled back and flew straight towards the satanic behemoth once more. As he approached it, he quickly jumped off of his keyglider and summoned it back into his hands, bringing the keyblade down on the heartless's horn, following up by swiping his blade across it once more. As he managed to finish off his combo, feeling sluggish from the heat, Stratos quickly backed off and started to cool down a bit.

However, the satanic behemoth didn't seem like it wanted to give him any sort of breathing room whatsoever. Instead, it seemed to charge up a giant flame orb in its mouth. He could see the orb coming at him, and didn't have any sort of time to preform the spell that needed to be done in order for his plan to work. Seeing the orb he also realized that this behemoth was growing stronger. This definitely wasn't firaga anymore, no way. It was definitely firaza. With the charge complete, the large ass fireball was now hurtling towards Stratos and he knew that this would be the end if it hit. Wait a second. He started to think of an attack he had been using, and how the more he used it, the more ridiculous it seemed to become. And so, maybe it would work on this too. With cherry blossoms falling from the sky, Stratos quickly got back into his Iaido stance, and then, without moving, sliced his keyblade at the fireball. With that, the fabric of space time seemed to tear once more from the attack, and with it, the fireball was split in two as well. Having done something that awesome, that Stratos didn't even know how he did that, he felt that he was good for this round and would continue his plan next turn up.

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EXP Writer: 646 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1770 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 107/300

 

Kross rose up, it looked like there were only two Air Pirates left since Steel took out the other two. It looked like the last two were easy pickings anyway. He rose his keyblade up and pointed the tip at the two."You wanted a fight, you got it."He said in a deadly tone. He smirked as his body glowed a chilling cyan blue. "You have been a pain in my neck. It's time for you to freeze " He said as an ice block shot from his keyblade and slammed into the two, popping them instant. He breathed heavily and eyed the hearts as they ascended to..wherever they were going. He looked to the side and to the far end where Ananta was facing a sizeable group of Air Knockers. He gripped his keyblade and turned. 'I got to help her..' He thought to himself. His feet carried him on pure instinct, the paternal protective side of him carried him across the way. He bounded up, his keyblade brandished and he dropped down, his keyblade over his head as he let out a battlecry. "Haaaaaaa!!! GAH!" He swung down, hard, and cleaved one of the air Knockers right in half, the two halves popping instantly in darkness as a heart ascended. He cartwheeled to Ananta's side and held his mage's stance."We'll fight together!"

Spoiler: West Gate

Heartless killed:
2 Air Pirates(5 BP each)
1 Air Knocker(7 BP each)
Total: 17 BP spent

 

Alright, NOW, was the time for Stratos to enact his grand master plan to beating the satanic behemoth. He finally had enough MP to pull off this grand trick of his, and he was finally at low enough words where he could use it as filler. However, the satanic behemoth seemed to have other ideas. Stratos wasn't exactly too far away from the thing, and he had managed to annoy it enough to the point where it actually started taking notice of him. His overall focus was still on Karina, however, and Stratos just seemed to be nothing more than a little speed bump in that road. So, the behemoth started walking a bit towards Stratos, letting out the rings of fire every which way it stepped. Obviously he had to book it, but at this point, his body was sweating so much from the surrounding heat that he actually needed something to drink. If his body could just hold out a bit longer. He started to sluggishly run away from the behemoth, as its horn started to glow red once more. Stratos quickly shifted his blade into a glider and flew away from the thing, avoiding the heat death rays that were firing from its horn.

Having successfully evaded that attack, Stratos took the opportunity to fly a good deal away from it, creating quite the gap in distance between the two. While the satanic behemoth seemed to still want to laser and burn the boy to death, it seemed to not care too much anymore and went back to its usually scheduled programs of walking towards Karina. Now that Stratos actually had a bit of time to get himself recomposed, he knew that this would be the perefect opportunity to start up his plan. And he had to do it fast, lest the satanic behemoth start growing even stronger whilst chasing Karina. So, he started to channel all of his mp together and held his hand over his heart. His heart began to glow, and when Stratos's hand removed itself from his chest, there in his palm was this ocean blue orb. He then slammed the orb onto the keyblade and then thrust the blade into the air. The tip then started to glow as a giant keyhole appeared from underneath Stratos's feet, glowing the same color as the keyblade. After twirling it around a bit, he then stabbed the keyhole with his keyblade and then turned the blade, making some sort of unlocking noise in the process.

The keyhole then erupted it a large blue light, spewing out geysers of water and creating a whirlpool of bubbles around the keyblade wielder. Stratos then looked to see that the spell he used had worked. Seeing a cheerful little elephant with oddly gigantic ears, Stratos said, "alright! It worked! Now then, how about you and me go take us down a heartless." Dumbo nodded its head and the two were going to go off and take them down a fiery heartless. Stratos had learned this summon simply from imitation, seeing Beuce use (or at least attempt to multiple times) it during the fight against Mim, and so Stratos simply tried to recall how it happened and simply imitated it. He also figured that it would work wonder against the heartless, being a being who used water based attacks an all. So Stratos quickly hopped on the elephants back and flew off, with the elephant using its massive ears as wings. Stratos then pointed at the heartless like he was some sort of war commander and shouted, "FIRE!" Dumbo complied and fired a massive artillery jet of water at the behemoth, creating a huge splash upon impact.

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EXP Writer: 617 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1800 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 90/300

 

Now it was time for Stratos to go on some sort of offensive against the behemoth once more. Especially now that he had his trusty flying elephant steed that could fire out jets of water that exploded on contact. Okay, so that ended up sounding way weirder than he initially thought, and looking down at his faithful steed, he was actually just what the story was with Dumbo. While he could have tried to ask the elephant, he felt that it wouldn't really give him any sort of answers as it didn't seem to be the talker. Plus now wasn't the time to have delightful ruminations about one's backstory. He also could have totally checked the wiki entry on Pachyderm Parade, but it was also not the greatest time to read some something like that. Anyway, he had to go back in and start fighting the satanic behemoth once more, so that he may actually kill it before it fed off of all of Karina's angst/depression/anger. However, at this point he wasn't positioned well enough to hit it with the long range artillery strikes of Dumbo, and so he had to start circling around to get a good lock on its horn.

As he started flying in an arc formation to circle around the behemoth, he heard Karina yell to him to stay back. She was apparently back in this fight once more, but Stratos felt as though that might not have been the best thing. While she would normally be a welcome ally against just about anything, something that used her as a fuel source seemed a bit counter intuitive to fight alongside her. Especially if she was going to be sluggishly depressed. However, as he watched her charge forward, she seemed to actually not have that sort of mindset anymore. As he watched her pummel down on the behemoth, he realized that something arguably worse was going on. She was attacking it in blind fury, and didn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason to her attacks. Sure, she had been nothing but brute strength before, but this time it seemed to be something even more savage than that. Thankfully she still managed to back off from it before the heat it exuded managed to knock her out, but that was still pretty bad of her. While he had something to say to her, attacking this behemoth came first.

Stratos and Dumbo had managed to completely circle around and were staring the behemoth down now. However, the behemoth didn't seem to feel like dealing with the nuisance that Stratos had become, and instead let out another new attack that was terrifyingly strong. Charging up flames within its mouth, the satanic behemoth managed to create a giant orb of flame. It then swallowed the flame orb and then started rapid firing firagas from its mouth. He tried to recall what this was, and then remembered that it was an odd spell known as Firaga Burst. He had to act fast or else he would be nothing but dust soon. He quickly shouted "FIRE FULL AUTO!" and Dumbo seemed to respond by rapid firing water bolts from its trunk, each one being aimed towards a firaga. As the bolts and fireballs connected, they both exploded into steam on impact, and at the end of it, everyone was alright. He then ordered another artillery strike from Dumbo, hitting the satanic behemoth with a single large water bolt, directly on the horn to deal massive damage. Success. With that done, he flew over to Karina and said, "alright listen, it's great that you have your fight back, but don't just blindly attack that thing. The more you fight it, the stronger it gets, which means each time you go in it'll be hotter than before and you'll wear out faster. That will make your window of opportunity to deal damage smaller. So in order to counteract this, think about all of your moves before you charge in, because if you pass out next to the thing, there's not much anyone can do to help you at that point."

OOC:
EXP Writer: 690 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1830 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 51/300

 

Stratos stood there and listened to Karina yell at him in sheer anger and anxiety, basically telling him that his advice was completely pointless and that this was all happening because she just couldn't keep her emotions in check. Stratos didn't really know much about having an overflow of an emotion that made you fight like a mad man, so he couldn't really empathize, but thinking on it, he didn't think it would actually be something so easy to overcome. So, he resigned himself to the fact that Karina was just going to continue recklessly attack and there wasn't much that he could do about that. Though, despite her yelling him to leave her....she kind of left first. So he just sort of sat on Dumbo as she rushed at the behemoth. Though this time, she seemed to actually have a plan behind what she was doing. While Stratos was a bit unsure of hitting Karina with Dumbo's super high pressured jets of water, she did make a point that it was probably going to be ultimately better than just passing out from heat fatigue right next to the thing. Granted, not staying in there and getting in a few quick hits and then getting out instead would be better, but whatever, this would still probably work out regardless.

So, as Karina went on her grand rampage to attack the behemoth with all of her various attacks, Stratos directed Dumbo to continue hitting her with the jets of water, having an inordinate amount of steam rise off of her each time she was hit by one. It was actually starting to become difficult to hit Karina the longer she stayed in there, simply because the steam caused by each jet was starting to obscure their vision. However, it all seemed to work out for the best, relatively, when Karina did indeed manage to get out of their in time and not die from heat stroke. So now it was Stratos's turn, and he had to take this behemoth on with just about everything he had at this point. However, the behemoth was thinking the same about Stratos and Dumbo. As such, it started firing heat death rays at the pair, and so Dumbo had to swiftly fly and swerve all over the place in order to not get killed. It then charged a flame orb in its mouth once more, and fired it at the two. Recognizing it as Firaza, Stratos knew that Dumbo couldn't get rid of it, and so he had to rely on his own strength to get rid of the fireball. Taking his Iaido stance on Dumbo, and stood there as the cherry blossoms began to fall once more.

Once it had come close enough, Stratos then cleaved at seemingly nothing, using Zantetsuken to split the firaza in two once more and rendering it harmless. As he had been doing that, the behemoth charged up another firaga burst, and let it loose on the pair again. Commanding Dumbo to use Rapid Fire once more, the two forces of water and fire collided in mid air to continuously produce a large amount of steam, enveloping the area between the two. Dumbo then fired a jet of water that was to hit the behemoth dead on, only to see that there was a dark firaga coming straight for them. This was bad. Dumbo was still recovering and a simple blizzard spell wouldn't cut it. Thinking fast, Stratos cast Aero, not on either of the two, but on the fireball itself. Furthermore, the barrier didn't move along with its wearer like it usually would. Because of this, the dark firaga collided with the aero shield, causing the large majority of the force behind the attack to be absorbed and only for the pair to be hit by a fraction of its power. Granted this was still a good amount, and the two ended up tumbling away, both in pain. However, seeing that Dumbo was worse for wear, he quickly dismissed the summon so it didn't have to do any more here saying, "you did good buddy." Picking himself up, he gave a thumbs up to Karina saying "don't worry, I'm fine. This thing's on its last legs so don't worry about it, you'll totally kick this thing's ass." Turning around he saw that there was a lone power wild just standing about, and so he thought he'd just get a head start on taking out the next group of enemies. However, as he approached it, he looked up and saw that literally every other power wild was waiting in ambush on the ceiling. "Oh you have got to be fu-" and then they dropped.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 786 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1860 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Aggro:
Satan: 12/300
ALL THE POWER WILDS

 

Finally snapping out of the daze induced by Karina's (literally) smoking ass, Beuce decided to get back into the fight. Finally, he decided to actually do something. He'd been kind of switching in and out of his master tactician and total comic relief modes. To be honest, his writer was actually running out of funny things to write. So, if one option was beginning to be a no-go, then he'd just have to stay with the other. "Alright Kel, sorry about that. Rienzel was just trying to squeeze in six hundred words. Now that he's stopped caring about that, i can be a bit more useful." Beuce sad, assuring Kel he'd begin picking up the pace in the fight. And he fully intended to back that up. Stretching out his right leg in front of him, the keyblade wielder broke out into a run at the enormous purple heartless. They had to finish this thing off. Launching off a Fira, it wasn't aimed at the behemoth. It was aimed at the books behind it. Catching the pages on fire with the spell, he then used aero, creating a small twister of burning paper. The heartless squirmed and shook its head as the ashes flew into it's eyes. This was their chance to attack.

He was more or less totally out of mana, the fuel for his magic, so that was out of the question for the moment. Luckily, the keyblade he'd gotten from Merlin vastly sped up the recovery of that. He pulled his keyblade up, over his shoulder, then hurled it forward as a strike raid to damage the behemoth. It struck into the foot of the monster, causing it to rear backwards in pain. Catching the key weapon, he leaped into the air and thrust his own body forward, cloaked in a barrier of light to protect himself from the burning books which flew through the area. They were only going to last a few seconds, but a few seconds was all Beuce needed. He rammed into the heartless at full force, knocking it all the way onto its back. "You know what to do!"

Leaping up, he ran along the behemoth's stomach, raking his weapon through its flesh as he ran. As he did it, he was continually gaining energy to fuel his spells. Reaching the head, he jumped high into the air and slammed the blade of his weapon down against the horn of the beast, hopefully doing a fair amount of damage in the process. Although it wasn't enough to kill it, it did severely wound the beast. It couldn't take much more punishment from the two wielders. All they had to do was keep this up and the behemoth would fall quickly to them. Rolling over back onto its feet, Beuce was thrown from the behemoth. Once again it roared and an unavoidable bolt of energy shot from the sky, striking Beuce in the stomach and causing him to get sent back. The injury had damaged him a fair bit, and he winced from the pain, but, much like the behemoth itself, he wasn't going to go down from one hit. Beuce backed off from the creature and raised his keyblade into the air. "Luminous flower, restore the flesh and mend the spirit!" He said, calling out a chant for the spell. Was it necessary? nope. Was it original and not stolen from stratos? Would you believe me if i said yes? Didn't think so. It did, however, increase the length of the post. And that was what it was all about in this battle. The longer your post, the more exp you whore in.

611 words
30 EXP earned
313 total
21 damage dealt to behemoth.

Spoiler: North End

Behemoths: 10/10 (injured 93/300)
Red Nocturnes: 21/25
Blue Rhapsody: 17/25
Yellow Opera: 14/25
Green Requiem: 15/25
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 30/30
Book master: 11/15
Surveillance robots: 30/35

 

Stratos just sort of stared upwards as all of the monkey heartless things started to fall down towards him, and realized that he was in for the worst dog pile (and maybe even the pillow fight) of his life. They were all just going land on him and there wasn't much he could really do about it at the moment. It's moments like these that make a person think. Makes them reflect on themselves and think about just what they had done in their life, and what they had done to get to this point. As he started to doubt himself once more, it was then that he felt something more akin to a bull than a monkey shove into him and push him all the way out of the massive horde of dropping power wilds. After getting tossed out looking up, he realized it definitely wasn't a bull. No. It was a Karina- er, it was Karina! He felt pretty happy about the fact that she had managed to take down that behemoth in the end, and the fact that neither weren't dead right now was really good. However, the next problem here was that they were facing down a small army of monkeys. And neither of them were in top physical form, however his body did feel better after getting cure spelled from Karina. She then went on a whole thing about how she wasn't going to give up fighting just yet. How she was still in this, and how Stratos didn't need to worry about her, and instead worry about the heartless.

He sighed at that comment and then looked to the heartless monkeys that seemed ready and willing to tear the both of them apart. Without turning to face her he said, "now now, I said that in this fight I would definitely worry about you. It's just because if someone doesn't, then you'll just end up getting yourself killed. You'd push yourself too hard and wouldn't be able to think through anything in a calm manner. So someone needs to support you in a fight no matter your protests." He then twirled his keyblade in the air and with a faint green light emanating from it, cast cure on the injured girl. "Besides, worrying about you, and worrying about the heartless. Well they aren't exactly the hardest thing to multi-task." With that, he started to think about how he could actually take on these power wilds.

Okay, so there was one of him, and fifty- er, forty eight, of them. So, what was the best strategy in this case? He couldn't really just pick them off one at a time like he was originally doing with the armored knights, as they were all in a group. And he didn't think drawing all of their aggro on him at once would be the greatest of ideas either. So what was a keyblade wielder to do in this situation? Why of course, jump on your keyglider fly past all of them while the entire horde of them jumped at you, latched on and clawed your eyes ou- okay that was a bad plan too. Maybe there really wasn't a good plan in this case. If that were true, then maybe just straight one v forty eight fighting would have to do. As such, he started to run head long at them as they started to charge at him. The first of them jumped at him, only to get slapped by the keyblade. The second one to jump at him got hit by a vorpal blitz and the third died to a simple fire spell. With that done, a fourth one just magically died and we will never learn how. After he had done all the bp he could do, he got on his keyglider and started to retreat a tad so that all of them wouldn't converge on him at once.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 654 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 1890 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Injuries:
Power Wild: 3/5