Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

"That was gross." Ananta said, scooting away from the edge of the Behemoth's head. She sure didn't want to end up like the Air Battler, so she grabbed onto the horn and stood up carefully. Once she was sure she wouldn't slip off this time, Ananta combo'd the Behemoth's horn and stopped herself once she saw an Air Battler that wasn't actually too high up for anyone to reach. "I can get back on this heartless pretty easily if I try...so I might as well jump off to attack something else for once." she said, running towards the Air Battler and jumping at it.

Her hands grabbed onto the Air Battlers' left wing. As she hung, she noticed it was having some trouble keeping afloat. "Gotta be because of me on ya wing, huh?" she asked the heartless. "Don't worry, I'll only be hanging around for a bit longer. Now, come here!" she said, swinging on the wing and trying to get the heartless to fall. Her plan succeeded as she and the heartless began to plummet towards the floor. "Oh!" she said, making one last swing to maneuver herself above the heartless as it landed. She landed on top of it, aching a bit from the impact. Sitting up, she looked down to see the heartless was now unconscious. Ananta stood up and held her keyblade like a golf club. Positioning herself, she stared at a wall and nodded to herself. "With enough force, it should be defeated." she assured herself ass he swung her keyblade like a golf club. Watching the heartless fly off towards the wall, she whistled at how well she did it. With a thud, the heartless disappeared and released the heart inside.

Ananta swung her keyblade onto her shoulders before she looked around and spoke to herself. "I could probably make three more disappear before I get too tired and need to rest a moment." she said, humming to herself as she looked for an easy Air Battler to get. Her eyes rest upon two Air Battler's that got their wings caught and were too busy trying to untangle. Skipping over, Ananta tapped the shoulder of one of them. Grinning, she combo'd this one into submission, turning to the other one with a sinister grin. Now that it's wing wasn't tangled, it was able to flap away rapidly. Ananta pointed her keyblade at the heartless and shot off three Fire spells before she watched the heartless float lower. Running towards it, she jumped up and finished it off with a quick combo.

Falling down, Ananta took a moment to look around and see if she could spy another AIr Battler to fight. Her eyes stopped on an Air Battler that was laying in the crook of the Behemoth's back. It looked to be enjoying itself, considering it's eyes were closed. A clear sign it had not a care and was pretty much asleep right now. Ananta walked over to the Behemoth and hopped up. "Hup!" she said, landing on the it's back and being careful to not startled the Behemoth so that it would awaken the Air Battler. Once she was close enough, she placed her hands on the heartless and froze it with a Blizzard spell. Once she was sure it was completely frozen, she then rolled the frozen ball off the Behemoth and let it fall to the ground underneath it, watching as it shattered into crystal-like ice chunks. Rubbing her hands together, mostly from the cold, Ananta laid down on the Behemoth. "Time to rest." she said, closing her eyes.

OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Battlers 4 (36 BP)
Behemoth 170/300 (6 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 26 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 827 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 135 EXP

 

Kross brandished his keyblade, it was two heartless that he downed but he wasn't done, there was still more to do. He had to also protect Ananta, Steel, and Rain from further harm. He rushed, jumping up to meet the gaze of one of the Air Battlers. He took the fetal position in mid-air and kicked off of it. He wasn't aiming for the Air Battler anyway, he had a more exotic plan in mind. He backflipped and landed right on the behemoth's head. He went right for the horn, stopping infront of Ananta's resting form and looked at her."Don't worry, I got this."He hooked his arms around the horn and jerked back, once the keyblade made contact with the horn, the hulking thing roared and reared back its head. Kross adjusted his position so it was a strong front stance before guiding the behemoth by the horn to a group of Air Battlers. It wasn't long before the stomping ensued, one popped in darkness right when it met the hulking monster's large foot and another met the same fate. He breathed, his concentration sharpening as he spotted an air battler in his periperal. At last, he relented his grip on the Behemoth and bashed its horn before jumping off and caught the clawed hand of the Air Battler. He winced a bit at the claws dug in, drawing some blood but he lifted his keyblade arm slowly and swung in an arc, cleaving the head of the Air Battler right off before it relented its grip and Kross fell, landing and immediately rolling to reduce impact. Three more down, many more to go, and it was going to be troublesome finishing off the rest.

Spoiler: West Gate

Heartless Killed/injured:
Air Battlers(3 totaling 27 BP spent)
Behemoth(14 BP spent)

Total: 41 BP in total spent

 

Stratos was ready to take the Stalwart Blade out, and end the reign of the large heartless...minus the behemoth. That one would come later. As things stood, it would take nearly everything he had, but by gone it, he would take this heartless out. No real exposition this time, the Stalwart Blade just charged him. Starting the fight off, its blades glowed golden and it suddenly did its Zantetsuken like attack directed at Stratos. He quickly put up his guard to block against the attack, though was sent skidding back as the blades connected with his own. With the sheer force behind the attacks, Stratos was sent skidding backwards, only for the Stalwart blade to follow this up by jumping up into the air, bringing his blade down on Stratos's own keyblade. The attack then sent a shock through Stratos's arms once more, though he was able to continue to hold his ground. The Stalwart Blade then followed up this attack with something taken from out of a behemoth's book. It quickly kicked Stratos in the gut, knocking the wind out of him and sending him backward once more. It was then that the Stalwart Blade followed up charging its blades up once more and then flashed gold once more.

Stratos quickly got his footing back, and then managed to dodge roll out of the way, avoiding the attack altogether this time, only for the Stalwart Blade to turn back to him, and seem ready to kill him once more. The being jumped into the air, and was trying to go for its jump strike again, though Stratos wasn't stunned this time, and could very much react. As such, he was able to dodge roll backwards, avoiding the blades altogether, and then had the ability to attack it once more. Bringing out his ice imbued blade, Stratos attacked with Vorpal Blitz, and was sure that he was going to deal some damage. However, when the attack was initiated, the Stalwart Blade brought out both of its blades and formed an x in front of itself. The blades then intercepted Stratos's attack, pushing him back, and was about to end the fight right then and there. The blades of the Stalwart Blade charged up, and it was about to attack him with its dash slash attack. It was then that Stratos realized what to do here. Slowing down time, cherry blossoms began to fall, and then Stratos had seen the vital point of the Stalwart Blade. However, it wasn't in any location he could strike from this position. And so he ended up just cutting through it anyway. He then wanted to cleave through the creature once more to kill it. As such, he physically removed the cool down, realizing how to after Karina had done so, and preformed Zantetsuken a second time in a row.

An X formed across the Stalwart Blade. Two slashes had been made, one to move through, the other kill. And with it, the heartless was dead. However, that's when things went wrong. As soon as Stratos had killed the final of the zip slasher variant his breathing became strained and his muscles started to feel like they were in an inferno. He fell to the ground drenched in sweat, and basically wheezing. Using a command like Zantetsuken, one that was not only pushing Stratos's weak body already, and being one of the strongest commands in existence, twice in a row, seemed to really eat away at him. He figured that this is probably why cool downs existed to these commands, and had to act fast or else he'd just be a sitting duck. He managed to bring himself back to his feet, rather shakily though, and managed to cast cure on himself. And then again. And then again. His body was feeling slightly better after this, but he was still shaking at the moment.

Meanwhile, the final behemoth got hit by a frying pan and took damage.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 650 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3120 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

Casualties:
Behemoths: 4/5
Armored Knight: 55/55
Soldiers: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 18/20
Morning Star: 9/15
Assault Riders: 15/15
Zip Slashers: 5/5
Power Wilds: 50/50

Injuries:
Behemoth 294/300

 

With no hesitation, Beuce broke out into a Zantetsuken, and a few cherry blossoms later, he was on the other side of the wind-guarded behemoth. A large gash had been left in the side of the creature. It roared and summoned a whirlwind around it, blowing back Beuce and causing him to slam against a bookshelf. Thankfully wind magic wasn't made to hurt your opponents. It was made to keep you alive so you could hurt your opponents through other means. Like hitting them. Speaking of which, a rather large foot swung backwards and struck Beuce in the chest. That didn't feel very good, but he was able to rise to his feet and counterattack. A trail of red energy followed behind his blade wherever it was swung. He maneuvered between the kicking feet and made his way beneath the behemoth, slashing and cutting at the creature with his extended combos. Even through the defense of its wind barrier, the behemoth was taking substantial damage. There was a massive burst on the ground every time he swung from the sheer force behind the hits. Finally, he rolled out from beneath it and looked at it head on.

Between its horns charged a small orb of what appeared to be wind magic, growing larger and larger until finally it spanned the length between the tusks. As it burst, several smaller orbs of the same element shot forth and began tracking down the wielders. Beuce, however, was ready for this. Since this evidently wasn't considered by his body to be of the magical variety, he cloaked his body in a shield of light and ran at the behemoth. As each orb of wind magic collided with him, it bounced off and trailed at no location in particular before vanishing. Eventually, he collided with the behemoth's face in a massively strong shoulder charge that knocked it, even with it's protection, off it's feet and into the air momentarily. Landing on the ground as the creature hit the ground with a thud, the aura surrounding Beuce flared up momentarily, indicating use of his new found physical strength.

It was then that Hikaru flew over on a familiar elephant friend, assisting in the attack against the large heartless. Apparently, rapid fire attacked with peanuts instead of water shots. Huh...go figure. It was then that he asked if he had any suggestion to take down the behemoth faster than they currently were. "Okay, Well, i've got some kind of power up. Don't know exactly where it came from, and i don't care. It's really useful for taking out heartless, and that's all i care about. This one is more defensive than your average one because it can use wind magic. It's got a barrier, but those don't protect you against magic. Speaking of which, this new trick i got comes with a bit of a price. I seem to no longer be able to use magic. I mean, i got strength to spare, but magic is a no go. That means it falls on you and your 40+ magic stat. That ought to be pretty effective against it. As long as we work together to take this thing out, it shouldn't last long. As for the other eight...Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Beuce said, ending the most complex and intricate and intelligent explanation of a battle plan that has ever been given.

600 words
60 exp
673 total

42 damage to behemoth.

Spoiler

Behemoths: 9/10 (Injured: 155/300)
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 30/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 30/35

 

Kel was pretty much at a loss for words as he watched Beuce power up. He definitely wasn't kidding when he said that it was more than a costume. Hell the fact that he too had felt a power increase further his reasoning to believe his words. Kel definitely felt stronger, much stronger in fact. His appearance had taken a slight change at first, his hair spike up a bit for started and he was wearing another belt over his pants. This one looked completely different compared to half the belts he's seen. In fact there was a strange ring on his finger. Both the belt and the ring seemed to be connected to each other, so why not place the ring on the belt.

"Soldier, Now."

Kel looked around as he tried to figure out where the voice had come from. As he did a red magic circle appeared at his feet and ascended his body. Changing his appearance as it did. Things definitely were getting weird for him. His clothes had taken a darker shade as a scarf hung around his neck. He looked cool, that much was for certain and he still felt powerful. So that much he could be happy about.

His transformation induce daze was broken when Hikaru spoke, which was when Kel noticed the giant elephant, named Dumbo, next to him. "So his name is Dumbo then." Not the best name that he could've given it, but he was in charge of naming animals, especially elephants. "All I can say is to hit it til it dies." That was exactly what Kel was doing all this time and it worked for him, excluding the time that he almost got impaled, crushed and squashed by the behemoth forever known as Free Wily Cat. May it burn in the flames of purgatory.

Once again Kel was brought back to his sense, man he needs stop zooning out, by an outside force. This time it was by the wind barrier of the Behemoth, which he would renamed Alexander the Gale Overlord. The scarf on his back threaten to come off as the wind grew violent as Alexander neared them. Look like now was a perfect time to try out his new appearance change. Holding his keyblade reverse grip style, it was becoming a common occurrence for him, and charged some power into his keyblade until it started glowing yellow. Then more power was focused into the keyblade til it turned green, then blue and finally red, signally that his keyblade power had reached its max. During which he could've sworn that something had hit him. It wasn't enough to actually hurt him, just briefly grab his attention.

Moving on past the potential bug bite, he charged towards Alexander and used his first attack to strike the wind barrier. The red glow from his keyblade died upon impact, but a opening in the wind barrier was formed, allowing Kel to proceed towards Alexander. Then the now blue glowing keyblade strike his legs, bring the behemoth down to his knees, Then the green glowing keyblade was slashed across the face and the keyblade returned to the yellow glow that it had before. He then finished off his combo attacks by completely the X across Alexander's face. The heartless gave out a bellow of pain before the X on his face glowed yellow before and larger one appeared before Kel. Seeing this a chance to try something else out. He firmly planted his foot behind him and pulled his arm back as if he was readying a slingshot. His fist was balled up tightly as he sent his arm towards the heartless with all of his might, shattering the X in front of it as well as sending it into the nearby bookcase. "Well, that worked better than I thought it would."

OOC:
Words: 642
Exp: 60 Total: 408
Injured: Alexander the Gale Behemoth 44BP Dealt

 

Stratos was in terrible shape at the moment. His muscles barely wanted to respond to him, and were kind of screaming him at the moment. He realized how dumb he had been to think that he could do that without some kind of repercussion, but even still he wasn't thinking it would be this bad. His breathing was happening far too quickly as well, and it sounded more like wheezing than anything else. It was then that Stratos started to feel the power of his three cures that he had used finally set in. His breathing was slowing down, his body was becoming less stressed and he could actually move again. So, Stratos had to then sit down for a second as all his bodily functions returned to normal once more. As soon as everything had hit the status quo within him once more, he was able to stand up and not be violently shaking on his feet. He then observed around, and noticed all the heartless that still needed to be killed. There were no more zip slashers, there few morning stars, and then there were a few lance soldiers around. The only thing left that was a high priority target was the behemoth, but that could wait until they all killed the rest of the heartless.

It was then that something really weird happened. Karina came in to help destroy the remaining heartless. No that wasn't the weird part. The weird part was how she was dressed. Almost as if she now had less clothing on before, which was hard to do as both of their outfits had been getting absolutely destroyed this entire time from the fight. Not to mention she had some weird magitech gauntlet thing. Well, probably more hextech than anything else. And then, she went on a rampage against the heartless. He watched as she basically tore apart heartless after heartless with her bear, sort of, hands. Now this was quite the amazing site to see, especially the finale against the morning star, killing it with her own trip around the sun. It was then that she walked over to him and sassed him about a frying pan. While he had absolutely no idea what she was talking about, the fact that she was sassing him actually registered in his head as a good thing. Why? Well if she was actually in the mood to be all cocky and sass him, that probably meant she was no loner in one of her manically depressed states.

Regardless of all this, Stratos still needed to actually fight the heartless and put an end to them. With no lance soldiers being left, the only thing left for Stratos to actually kill was the morning stars. And what luck! He could kill them all at once. However, the morning stars also realized that and tried to attack him. With one trying to body press him, Stratos was able to guard against the attack, jump into the air, and then start spiking the morning star at the other morning stars. With that, they all died to their own fellow heartless's attack. Poetic justice an all. With that, only one heartless remained in the entire group. "Alright guys, this is it! The last behemoth and we've cleared this side! Let's go!" With that, Stratos hopped on his keyglider and fired himself off to the behemoth. The behemoth in question was black and had some sort of purple aura around it. Stratos then attack the thing with his keyglider strike raid-esque attack and summoned it back to his feet. Curious about what this heartless, Dave the Behemoth could do, he started flying around it. It was then that the behemoth fired a purple energy ball from its mouth at Stratos. Flying to the side to avoid it, Stratos dodged the attack, only to then get caught off guard as the ball split in two and fired off in separate directions. Stratos quickly guarded with his keyglider, but still got knocked through the air. He had then realized that he was not fighting Dave the Behemoth. He was fighting Da've the Voidmoth.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 690 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3180 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Injuries:
Da've 290/300

 

Kross certainly made a show of those Air Battlers and the Behemoth. So much so, that Ananta couldn't even take a moment to rest before the Behemoth started to stomp around, roaring from the attacks to it's horn. Ananta bounced around on the Behemoth's back, not from her own doing, but because of Kross. Ananta was finally able to get to her feet and not fall over when the Behemoth decided to stop jerking around long enough. She used that brief moment to run up it's back and wail on the horn, dealing a bit of damage. "This is payback for bouncing me around so much, you stupid, fat, ugly, big, thing that I wish would just die!" she yelled at the Behemoth.

As her keyblade was about to land another attack, an Air Battler swiped at Ananta and knocked her off the Behemoth. She opened her eyes wide to stare at it and see a little blood on it's sharp bits. Ananta hit the ground hard and rolled over. She didn't roll herself, it was the sheer momentum of the Air Battler hitting her down off the Behemoth that made her body roll helplessly on the ground. She finally stopped rolling, but it was too late. Ananta was hurting too bad to get back up. Her body ached all over and she could feel her arm bleeding quite a bit onto the floor. That was certainly going to leave a scar. Luckily, it was just her right arm and not her left arm or else she'd be in a lot of trouble. Gritting her teeth, she managed to roll over onto her back and press a healing spell onto her arm. It certainly helped her and made the bleeding stop, but she could still feel a large scar on her arm. It stretched from her shoulder to about halfway down her bicep.

Ananta sat up quickly, having now healed herself to where she wasn't aching as badly anymore, she looked at the heartless that caused her this wound. It was floating around overhead, as if mocking her or perhaps waiting for her to die, slowly circling around. Instead of waiting for it to come down, Ananta jumped up to it and swung her keyblade hard with her left arm. It didn't do as much damage per hit, but she was finally finished with this heartless. She landed below and watched another Air Battler zoom straight at her. She lifted her keyblade up to protect her, her right hand pressed against the tip to make sure this heartless didn't break through to try and get her. Her arm hurt, but she made sure to repay the pain to this one with a Fire spell to it's face. Her keyblade attacked it after, causing it to disappear.

The next Air Battler flew up to Ananta and grabbed her left arm. It began to lift her up and towards the Behemoth. Ananta looked down to see yet another Air Battler was sitting atop this Behemoth. "What's with that?" she questioned, stabbing this heartless, causing it to let go of her and disappear moments later. Ananta watched below and rolled down the Behemoth's back, right to the Air Battler. She swung her keyblade at it, blocking it's attacks and causing damage to it. After that was said and done, the heartless fell off the Behemoth and was once again squashed under the Behemoth's hoof. Ananta plopped onto her bottom, panting and gasping for air. "This arm is gonna cause me trouble for a little while. Hopefully I can heal it more...." she said, using more Cura magic on herself and the wound.

OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Battlers 4 (36 BP)
Behemoth 150/300 (6 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 19 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 887 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 163 EXP

 

Stratos and Karina were continuing their final battle against the heartless that was Da'Ve the Voidmoth. As Karina had went into her own combat attack, she was eventually intercepted by the amount of attacks that was sent from this odd behemoth. After having getting hit by its various purpley attacks, Stratos was ready to cast cure on her, only to see that Aden had cast cure on her. Well at least it was good to see the guy was actually consistently fighting now. However, she had said something to him earlier before attacking the heartless, something about how fighting this together meant him not moving at hyper speed and taking care of things himself. He hadn't the foggiest what she was talking about, after all ,Karina had killed the grand majority of the heartless herself, he just continually pissed most of them off. He walked over to her and extended his hand out to help her up whilst saying, "please, I wouldn't dream of finishing this all on my own. After all, we started this as a team and have fought thus far as a team. So that's exactly how we're going to end this behemoth." After helping Karina back up (or not depending on what she actually does,) Stratos felt weird. While he had already felt some weird surge of power from the unknown inverted reluctancy, this was much different. This didn't let him do more like that did, no. This made him feel like he could take more punishment and stay alive for longer. This new source of power seemed to be radiating from Karina, and this just made him more curious as to what this new found power of hers actually was.

Regardless, Stratos's attention was now back on the behemoth. It was a being unlike all the others thus far. They had fought both heaven and hell, and so now it looked like they were fighting whatever void existed in between those two. Roaring, Da'Ve went to strike at them again. This time, however, it used a new attack that created a weird dark purple cosmicy circle around him. He could suddenly feel pain coursing through him and quickly rolled off the circle only to feel it subside. Okay, so that was different. He quickly cast cure on himself and Karina, just in case she was caught in that circle as well, and then proceeded to go attack the voidmoth in his own way.

Flying towards it, Da'Ve fired off the purple energy ball attack from before, and knowing what came after, Stratos was able to avoid both it and the two that split from the original. The next attack from the creature was simply a giant black energy sphere it fired from its mouth again, Stratos flung his keyglider at the attack to intercept it, however it seemed that the residual energy from the attack formed a shield around Da'Ve. Trying to take it on again, Stratos warped in his keyglider underneath his feet, and fired a fire spell from it, having the attack be absorbed by the shield. He then fired off the thruster and shot forward at the thing, bringing his keyblade back to his hand and starting up his usual attack sequence against the voidmoth. He let out a three hit air combo, followed by him initiating Vorpal Blitz, and then following that up with another air combo. He then finished this sequence in a different way by shooting off a blizzard spell, having the ice chunk collide with the horn and doing a fair bit of damage. With his turn done, the trio that was now fighting their final enemy was just about halfway done with it.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 616 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3240 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Injuries:
Da've 172/300

 

Raisor clasped his hands in front of his mouth, making a cone, and yelled out, "Hey heartless, are you guys chicken or something!? Come and get me!"

The reason behind doing the completely ridiculous act was that he wanted to get a bunch of heartless around him and take them out one by one. Too bad for him, it worked a little too well. He didn't figure something like Heartless would actually take offense to some mediocre provoking, but within a minute, he was surrounded by more heartless than he cared to count. Assault Riders formed a perimeter around him, keeping their spears at the ready. Defenders kept their shields all high and looked ready to fire some, well, fire. Raisor even made out Morning Stars and Large Bodies in the back, forming the edge of the circle around him. It seemed like he was in his own little arena, ready for a fight. He was glad though, because that made it easier to take down the heartless. He just hoped they didn't gang up on him. Luckily again, that wasn't the case.

A defender stepped forward from the rest of the heartless group, and as it did, the Assault Riders pointed their spears outward, forming a nice, sharp ring around the area. Raisor figured they had around a 10-foot circumference that he could work with fighting in. The Defender walked up to him, and as it did, the eyes on its face began to glow blue. Raisor was not ready for what happened next. The Defender opened its mouth, and instead of fire, it shot a breath of freezing air. Raisor should have figured that might have happened, but he reacted just a little too late and got hit by the air, getting numb in his back. He didn't mind cold, but that felt like zero degrees. He got a little dizzy for a second, and dropped down. He couldn't stay down long though, because the Defender pulled its arm back and launched it forward, with the head taking a nice, big chomp at him. Raisor quickly feel back, lying down on the ground, and let the head go right above him. Raisor took the chance to re-adjust his grip on the keyblade and swung at the enemy, causing it to stagger. He took a second hit, and caused the Defender to disappear. That was one down, and a bunch more to go.

Though it wasn't long till the second Defender took the stage. In fact, the moment the first heartless lost its balance, the second went in and headed straight for Raisor. As he was still on the ground, Raisor leaned back and lifted his feet in the air. He pushed forward with his whole body, jumping upright and getting ready for the second tussle. The Defender started throwing chomps at Raisor like crazy. Raisor dodged left and right, left and right, making sure not to get hit. He couldn't get a hit in at the pace he was going, so he took the change to put his keyblade in the path of the Defender's attacks, and let his keyblade get caught in one of the chomping attacks. As his keyblade was in the Defender's mouth, he let go of it and jumped on top of the Defender. He summoned his keyblade back in to his hands and stabbed downward. Since the Defender didn't have a head except on its shield, it made it simple for Raisor to turn the heartless into shish kabob. The creature disappated, and Raisor was left with 2 less Defenders to deal with.

OOC: 600 words, 60 exp (780 total)
Defender - 2

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 1 - (204/300)
2 (Dubbed Bertha, more names to follow) - (279/300)
3 - (299/300)
4 - (299/300)
5 - (299/300)
Defender: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (16/17)
7 - (16/17)
Large body: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (17/17)
7 - (17/17)
8 - (17/17)
9 - (17/17)
10 - (17/17)
11 - (17/17)
12 - (17/17)
13 - (17/17)
14 - (17/17)
Assault Rider: 9
Morning Star: 12
Shadow: 0
Black fungus: 13
Bolt tower: 16
Crescendo: 0
Soldier: 0

 

It wasn't all that surprising, but evidently the aura he'd used to awaken Kel's had brought out more than just a normal boost in strength for him. He'd gotten a transformation of his own. From the looks of things, it was pretty similar to what Beuce had. In fact, he could feel the aura of strength from Kel increasing the power of his own. It seemed the two were resonating from each other, constantly increasing the other's power. The two of them were far stronger than either would be alone. That was a lucky break, because they were going to need it. They were tearing through this behemoth, but he doubted that this one would go down without a fight, and then there was the other eight. They had their work cut out for them. As long as they kept doing what they were doing and taking them on one at a time, it wasn't exactly inconceivable that they'd end up winning this fight. Lucky for them, Behemoths weren't exactly team players. If they had been, then the keyblade wielders probably would have already been overtaken. He didn't exactly have time in the middle of the fight to check on the other sides, but he hoped they were doing alright.

Evidently this behemoth was smart enough to attack during inner monologues. A large whirlwind began spiraling around Beuce, lifting him off the ground and battering against his already injured body. If he hadn't been healed earlier by Ananta, he would've already dropped. The spiral of wind plowed against his body and threw him around like a rag doll. He had to get out of this, but how? He thought about it (which considering the situation, wasn't the easiest task in the world). Finally, he was blessed with an idea. Summoning up the energy from within his body, he summoned the light barrier which was used in barrier surge, and simultaneously performed Zantetsuken. The result was something both unorthodox and useful. Beuce himself became a thin bolt of light, firing out of the whirlwind at blinding speed, he darted through the air faster than any eye could follow. Creating a gash on the behemoth's knee, then one atop it's back, followed by one on it's face, then it's underbelly, all in the span of beneath a second before the state ended with Beuce kicking up dust as he landed. In all likely hood, that would be one of those things where a character uses it and it seems like it would be really useful later on but they forget it exists and never use it again.

As he came out of the light Zantetsuken, he looked up at the now rather angry behemoth. It let out a load roar, which raised the winds and blew fiercely against the party. "Alexander the Galemoth, you've met your match today. Your wind magic can't protect you from two soldiers!" He didn't know how, but somehow he knew this form was known as "Soldier" It seemed fitting too. Their supreme strength and all. It would fall soon enough to the two of them. It stared down the keyblade wielders attacking it. Between them, he'd say all it would take was one more assault each and it'd be over for the heartless. He wondered how they would fair against the other eight behemoths momentarily, but now wasn't the time for that. Right now, the only thing that mattered was finishing off this heartless right in front of them. He ran forward, ready to deliver the final assault against Alexander the Galemoth alongside the blue haired wielder he'd been fighting with.

604 words
60 exp
733 total

Spoiler: North end

Behemoths: 9/10 (Injured: 79/300)
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 30/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 30/35

 

Raisor prepared for the next enemy to enter the makeshift arena he was in, and to no surprise, another Defender popped through the crowed to take him on. He figured that the heartless going just going to go in order with the Defenders first, then probably something like the Morning Stars or Large Bodies next, and Assault Riders last, since they were the ones keeping him in their little circle. Not that Raisor minded, because if he could take out another whole group of enemies without trouble, then it'll make his life that much easier later.

As the Defender walked into the area, Raisor stabbed his keyblade into the ground and cast his Fire spell, causing the ground to explode and send debris toward the Defender. Since the Defender didn't have much of a way to cover its eyes, Raisor figured it'd be a decent try to block its field of vision and take it out while it was distracted. Along with the shards, a small cloud formed around the area, giving Raisor a smokescreen. He watched the Defender through the smoke, or rather its silhouette, and noticed its head thrashing around. Raisor was sure it was safe to say that his plan worked on the Defender and it couldn't see. Too bad for him he probably wouldn't be able to use the same trick twice on another heartless.

As the Defender thrashed about, Raisor snuck around the enemy quietly. He tried not to make any sound, since even though the Defender couldn't see, there was still hearing. Well, that was what he thought anyways. Raisor wasn't sure if Defender heartless actually had hearing or not, but he wasn't going to take any chances on that fact. Moving around the enemy, he was now behind the Defender at its back. Now would be a great time to use a combo to take out the enemy. Raisor got into position to attack, when the Defender began to spray ice all over. Raisor figured that the Defender was trying to hit whatever it could, but the most it was doing was creating a cool mist through the area and making it even easier for Raisor to sneak up. Then the field of vision for Raisor began to dim a little. He tried to keep track of the Defender, but because the mist was mixing with the dirt in the air, it was so think to even see through. Raisor quickly ran forward, making more noise than he should, and slash at where he thought the heartless was. Unfortunately, he slashed at air, and an attack came from his side. The Defender must have heard him coming, and it flung a fireball at Raisor. He ducked down, only to have the fireball explode right above him. He looked behind and saw another Defender staggered and shaken. The best Raisor could figure was that one had snuck in and tried to take him out 2-on-1.

Raisor didn't think that he would have to deal with two heartless at once, but since they first Defender stunned the second, he took advantage of the situation and used his combo on the second Defender. The Defender shook with each blow, and on the last, Raisor thrust his keyblade into the enemy and sent it flying, causing it to vanish in mid-flight. After that combo, the first Defender sent another Fireball his way, and Raisor knocked it right back toward the owner. The Defender probably sent it following sound again, because it didn't budge at all when Raisor sent the attack its way. The fireball knocked the Defender's shield backwards, and Raisor took the opening to close in the distance and take out the first enemy. A few hits later, the creature vanished like the first. At the same time, the mist and dirt vanished, and the field was clear once again for another fight.

OOC: 647 words, 60 exp (840 total)
Defender - 2

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 1 - (204/300)
2 (Dubbed Bertha, more names to follow) - (279/300)
3 - (299/300)
4 - (299/300)
5 - (299/300)
Defender: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
Large body: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (17/17)
7 - (17/17)
8 - (17/17)
9 - (17/17)
10 - (17/17)
11 - (17/17)
12 - (17/17)
13 - (17/17)
14 - (17/17)
Assault Rider: 9
Morning Star: 12
Shadow: 0
Black fungus: 13
Bolt tower: 16
Crescendo: 0
Soldier: 0

 

Kross had enough of the Air Battlers, now was time to take care of something a little bigger than them. He set his sights on the Behemoth, eyes glaring. Now to get to the hulking monster. He eyed the Air Battlers flying around him. Stepping stones..that was what they were. He got an idea. The idea was set, now to carry out the deed. He dug his foot into the ground, gripped his keyblade and faced against the hulking Heartless. The roar it projected rattled his insides but he would show no fear, this was what he trained for! He brandished his keyblade and dug his foot some more."Ananta, I'm not going to let this giant jerk hurt you anymore!" He cried out, his feet moving to carry him across the ground with gliding grace and a nimble that was unsurpassed. His eyes sharpened as he ran, dodging the onslaught of Air Battlers trying to defend their hulking master. He jumped over one, putting his foot in its face to propell himself upwards. The same pattern was done for any of the air heartless that dared stand in his way. In mid air, he was face to face with the hulking behemoth.. His glare widened and he gripped his keyblade. He reached up, straining his arm and caught the horn, twirling around it and landed on the head. The behemoth began roaring and thrashing about as spells of blue, yellow and a couple of different colors rained down on the Behemoth, the caster being the navy haired mage."Haaaaaaaaa!!!!!" He cried out, finishing with a final, ground shaking Thunder spell before he backflipped. He landed to the ground and jumped back, sliding and snapped into his stance, smirking."Take that.."He breathed heavily.

Spoiler: West Gate

Heartless injured:
Behemoth(Injured): 38 BP, going full force!

 

Ananta heard the statement from Kross as she was finished healing herself. The large wound on her arm was merely a large scar now, but that didn't mean it had stopped feeling quite sore. She stood on the Behemoth's back and watched Kross' onslaught of attacks begin. Not wanting to be caught in the middle of them, she jumped away and landed on the ground, staring at Kross and the Behemoth. Kross was quite strong for a guy that looked like he couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Kross landed near Ananta and she couldn't help but look at him and then the Behemoth. "Um, Kross. That was cool..." she said, standing next to him now. "Your magic is pretty strong, ya know? Makes you look...awesome." she said. These compliments were harder to say than she made it appear. Her hand tried to cover the scar on her arm just as much as she was keeping her left side facing Kross. She didn't want to burden him with knowing she was injured, so she tried to keep it secret.

Up above, Ananta spotted an Air Battler circling around. "Kross, watch." she said, summing her keyblade. Staring at the Air Battler, Ananta chucked her keyblade at it in an attempt to look cool. The keyblade cut straight through the heartless and clanged against the ceiling. "How was that?" she asked, not noticing the keyblade had begun to fall. A louder clang could be heard as the keyblade hit the floor next to Ananta, startling her. She jumped into Kross' arms and clung to him out of fear for whatever might be attacking with such a loud shriek. Opening her eyes, she turned to see it was just her keyblade. Staring at Kross, she jumped out of his arms and turned towards an Air Battler.

"I...I'll take care of that!" she said, running towards the Air Battler. She swung her keyblade at it and slashed through it. The Air Battler floated above the keyblade and only managed to get it's leg smacked. Ananta glared at the heartless, going to swing it again. Her keyblade hit it multiple times, performing a combo, and finishing off with a Fire spell to it's wing. The Air Battler disappeared shortly after and another one took it's place, giving Ananta enough of an excuse to not be anywhere near Kross right now. 'That was embarrassing...' she thought, remembering her jumping into his arms. 'That's something you do when you're dating...not friends!' she sighed, lowering her keyblade a little and looking at the Air Battler she just defeated.

The fourth Air Battler was teasing Ananta. It would get close enough for her to swing at it, but it would move immediately after and float closer to the Behemoth. "Argh!" she growled at the Air Battler, snapping her teeth at it. The Air Battler was a little disturbed at the sudden teeth from Ananta, considering she didn't seem like the type to have such sharp teeth, but that didn't stop it from teasing her more. Soon enough, the heartless was sitting on the Behemoth's butt and chuckling to itself when Ananta stopped to catch her breath. Making a running start, she jumped up and grabbed the Air Battler by the wing. "You're gonna get the absolute WORST!" Ananta told the Air Battler, running up the Behemoth's back. She swung the Air Battler over the Behemoth and slammed it into the giant heartless' mouth. She smirked at the Air Battler as it tried to escape as it was engulfed. "Good boy!" she said to the Behemoth as she gave it reassuring keyblade smacks to it's horn.

OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Battlers 4 (36 BP)
Behemoth 104/300 (6 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 15 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 947 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 191 EXP

 

Stratos had watched as Karina and Aden did their separate things. Aden seemed to stab the behemoth in its eyes, only proceeding to piss it off more than before, and then get flung around. After that, he seemed to be fine, though sort of had the wind knocked out of him, (albeit, he had new wind put around him as a result of this.) Thinking that probably hurt a decent bit, Stratos decided to cast cure on him to mend him up. It was then that he watched Karina preform her set of attacks, and it was something else. With her raw strength she was able to cause as much damage as he could in a multi layered combo, in a single punch. And with the full string of punches she had managed to do far more damage than he could. About ten bps worth more. However, the time for admiring Karina's strength was over and now the time for Stratos's counterattack had begun. As things were, they were saving all of their best moves for a grand finale. Which meant he had to save Zantetsuken, and be absolutely sure not to use it, and save trip around the sun. Those were his two finishing moves and he would be sure to use them at the end of this fight.

Now then Stratos had begun his assault by getting on his keyglider and flying towards the large heartless in question. However, the being seemed to not want to allow him the opportunity to attack first. Firing off its purple sphere attack, the sphere split as Stratos dodged it, and he had to jump off his keyglider in order to avoid the second shot and jump over it. After avoiding the attack, he warped the keyglider underneath his feet, he boosted off towards the behemoth only for it to fire off a large black null sphere at him. Throwing his keygldier at it in similar strike-raid-esque fashion, Stratos managed to neutralize the attack, and waited for the shield to disappear off of Da'Ve. Once that had occurred, Stratos flew over to the behemoth and started to shoot a fire ball from his hand towards the creature. However, Da'Ve the Voidmoth had other ideas as it fired off this short range black pulse of energy at him, that knocked him back and slowed him down a tad. While Stratos was falling, he saw a purple fissure open up getting ready to explode, only for him to summon his keyglider back and boost away once more.

Now with that done, as soon as Stratos flew back to the heartless it seemed to be completely uncaring of just what he was planning to do. In fact, it seemed to be charging up some sort of purple light from its horn and tusks. It then opened its mouth and seemed to be charging some sort of purple orb as well, only to then have the tusks and horn send energy to that ball. The voidmoth then fired off a giant laser beam that seemed to be anything but pleasant. Flying away from it, Stratos was able to see just what kind of hell this thing could wreak. The beam seemed to disentegrate everything in a general direction, and Stratos was glad he was not in that direction. After the attack missed, Stratos quickly flew back and started unloading on the behemoth by striking it with various keyblade attacks. Starting up with a regular air combo, he followed it up with a blizzard attack, firing off a chunk of ice to hit it with, the behemoth seemed to be going down on its last legs. It wouldn't be long now until they were finished with this thing entirely.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 622 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3300 EXP

Spoiler: East Side List

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

Injuries:
Da've 54/300