Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Beuce was still staring at the jaw dropping sight which was Karina developing a character and feelings that weren't rage and sorrow. It was actually pretty crazy. In fact, it was so crazy, a nearby team mate had a similar reaction. Only they decided to drink away the insanity by taking out some alcohol and proceeding to drown their confusion in booze. Glen then earned quite a few awesome points in the big book of Beuce...word for social opinions that starts with B...yeah. But yeah, he offered him a drink. Even if Beuce hadn't been utterly confused about Karina, there was no way in hell he was turning down free booze. Graciously accepting the bottle, he took a generous swig and handed it back to Glen. "Thanks man. You know, you're pretty awesome." However, before the conversation could continue further, the rest of the group piled out of the portal one by one. Kaida appeared to be freezing, and dropped into the water, saying it was warmer than the air. He was about to tell her why she may not want to submerge herself in that water, but decided against it...Eh, she had a yellow theme going on anyway.

As the final member, being Base, came out of the portal, all of their pieces combined into a single one, accomplishing their task. Mickey congratulated them on finding the first of them, but said that there were five more to go. If they were all as awesome as the first portal, then this would turn out to be a pretty sweet world all in all. Stepping through the portal to the other side, he found that there were in fact no naked fairies floating around turning things to gold or giant snowflakes to ride. No, instead, they got to fight something. And what was this something? A freaking T-rex. Of course. Apparently frightened of the creature, Base grabbed hold of his wrist and waved it around, attempting to bait the beast towards him. It didn't really seem to work, and it just kind of engaged in some battle with Stratos that Beuce wasn't paying much attention to.

Beuce glared at the monster. He remembered something like this. It was an ultimate class of creature. However...It was in Elysea. That meant this thing may well be Elysean too. "I'm not allowed to let any trace of the elmos live. Even if it's just a wild animal." He said angrily, summoning his keyblade. He wouldn't use his soldier job right now. A good combination of physical and magic seemed to be the way to take this thing down. Running up toward it, he slid underneath it and between the two short legs, striking at the stomach. It roared in pain, then turned around and loosed a jet of fire from the mouth at Beuce. Well...He didn't remember them being able to do that in Elysea. Must be some kind of new breed or something. To counteract these flames, Beuce shot out a jet of water from the tip of his keyblade. Aqua Splash had served him well throughout his time since he learned it in his first world with this group. The two seemed to cancel each other out, resulting in this particular clash of elements coming to a draw. Still having a look of rage on his face, Beuce ran in for another strike.

610 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 30 EXP
T-Rex: 159/250

 

The attention that Base had drawn to himself with the dinosaur was now very much so directed at Stratos. It seemed to be none too happy that he had cast what Stratos was only assuming was blizzara having hit him straight in the face. Letting out another large roar towards Stratos's general direction, it started to charge at the boy, and he decided to see what else he could try and do. Thinking on a defensive option he tried to cast aerora. However, the only wind that was generated by his keyblade was the kind that came purely from the act of moving it. Well that was disappointing. Regardless, it was now time for him to book it, and so he summoned his keyglider, stepped on board, and rocketed off right as the T-Rex started charging at him. And so, Stratos was now keeping distance from the reptilian beast while awaiting someone else to take the aggro for him. However, while he was doing this, he figured it was now a good time to assess just what was going on with his skill set. He was barred from using any sort of physical skill command, and not even aero was responding. Looking down he realized now that he actually had looked different from the usual.

He then realized that this might have been something similar to what had happened with around five people during the battle of one thousand heartless. They had all seemed to gain different attributes, such as increased strength or vitality, or even the ability to summon two keyblades at once. Though all had seemed to come with their own form of restriction as well. So clearly what he was in right now seemed to be more offensive magically oriented. While he was thinking of this, he realized the T-Rex had ended up catching up with him. As he noticed this, Beuce had managed to come in and intercept the foe. There was something odd about him. Rather, Beuce had seemed angered by this creature for some reason. Maybe he just wasn't a fan of dinosaurs. Stratos could sympathize with that. After all they were just giant plain old lizar- oh my god it was breathing fire. Stratos watched on as a jet of flame left the creatures mouth and both it and Beuce had been intermingled in a battle of nature's opposing elements. Beuce with water and the giant dinosaur with fire.

After that, he ran straight towards the giant lizard attempting to attack it once more. Stratos decided, now that the clash was over and done with, to go in and assist the man. Flying in as fast as he could the beast opened up with another blast of fire, which Stratos was more than ready to deal with. Jumping off his keyglider, Stratos summoned his keyblade and fired off his blizzara spell straight at the giant fireball, causing the two to neutralize out into a explosion of steam. Still in mid air, Stratos had summoned his blade back as a glider underneath his feet as flew in for the assist. Throwing his keyglider at the beast, it struck it in the chest, only for Stratos to continue to be propelled by the forward momentum he had kept, and summoned his keyblade back as he went in for a slash on the chest this time. Bouncing off the T-Rex, he stood firm as the beast let out another roar and charged at them. There wasn't enough time to get away from the charge and he knew it was going to hurt if the charge connected. And so, without thinking, Stratos waved his keyblade in front of him yelling, "bind!" After it, magic chains seemed to wrap around the beast before becoming melding into the T-Rex, as if they were tattoos. With that done, the dinosaur couldn't seem to move at all, just sort of stuck in place, and Stratos was left there with a simple, "huh."

661 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 90 EXP
T-Rex: 137/250

 

The soldier heartless had been pretty much defeated aside from the one injured and running around like an idiot. That one could be dealt with later or better yet, while he was facing the other heartless that had been both running and well flying around. The lance soldiers were definitely going to be a pain to deal with if he wasn't looking. To prove this point one of them had attempted to attack him while his back was turned. In fact the only reason that the attack attempt had failed was due to the clunking noise that it made when it moved towards him. Kel was able to use that sound to move out of the way of the attack. When the Lance Soldier had attempted to to stab him, the lance part of it was tugging it against its will. Kel figured that it he'd grabbed its legs that it would stop and he could us it as a weapon. He was wrong. The lance part of the heartless had a lot more force behind that he thought, so instead of the heartless being halted he was pulled along with the heartless as it went pretty much wherever the hell it wanted.Up, down, left, right, loop de loop and conveniently through the last Soldier, the lance soldier went on and on until crashing into the ground. The heartless itself had dissipated into darkness and Kel was still quite dizzy from all of the traveling that he did. In fact he was actually still spinning around a bit with the cartoonish swirls in his eyes. A few more moments had passed before Kel was able to stand still and not have everything around him spin like crazy. He then turned his attention to the other Lancer soldier and made quick work of it. That made two lance soldiers down and the last soldiers defeated. A third Lance soldier had attacked Kel, which was met by a quick dodge and counter, The attack wasn't strong enough to kill it, but it did injure it.

OOC:
Words: 344
Exp: 17
Total: 62
Lance Soldiers: 9/20
Lance Soldier: 2/8 BP

 

Stratos just sort of looked onward as he was wondering what had just happened. He had absolutely no idea where he had learned this sort of spell that was Bind, and he hadn't ever actually seen anyone else using this sort of spell. Not to mention this was completely and fundamentally different from any of the other spells that had been used thus far. This seemed to actually effect the status of an opponent rather than just hit them really hard with a sort of magical force of elemental fury. It was at that point that he had recalled that when Beuce had become a raw physical powerhouse he gained the power to shoot a giant energy geyser out of the ground. So this was probably something that came unique to this form as well. While he had to think on this, he looked up at the T-Rex and looked at it still sort of just struggling around, trying to break free from its invisible chains. Breathing streams of fire every which way, it eventually just stopped its struggle and then looked back to Stratos. Wondering what it could do, Stratos continued to look up at the beast until he noticed its eyes started to light up. Realizing that standing still probably wasn't the best idea, he quickly started to dodge roll out of the way only to witness what hit where he was.

The ground had a scorch mark on the ground. More specifically it was caused by what appeared to be laser beams. More specifically than that, it was lasers from the eyes. What. This thing now had eye lasers. Stratos was wondering if this scaly titanic lizard was actually part behemoth, only to realize two things were wrong with that theory. One, it didn't have a giant heartless emblem emblazoned across it. Secondly, it had fifty less BP. Nevertheless, something about big enemies just made them become ungodly powerful and random in nature. However, while he was starting to run away from the beast, it started to continue firing eye lasers at him until Stratos finally got on his keyglider and launched off the ground, becoming a much harder target to hit. Roaring at him, the chain tattoos that had been imprinted onto him had seemed to come undone, and the T-Rex was now free to charge at him once again. As such, it let out another roar and started to bull charge straight at him.

As he kept the charge up on Stratos, the keyblade wielder decided to simply just ascend higher and higher until the beast just gave up chase and decided to turn around and go after everyone else. Well, looked like it was perfectly capable of switching aggro onto people who were pretty much impossible to hit on the ground. As such, he flew back in, closing the distance between him and the T-Rex until he had ended up above the creature's head, dropped down, and gave a resounding smack on the head with his keyblade. With musical notes flying every which way from the center of impact, the creature shook its head, causing the young keyblade wielder to get launched off and smack straight into the ground. It turned back to him, and Stratos was about to cast a blizzara, however what came out was completely different. "Osmose." With that spell cast, a large ball of energy had left the creature and had flown straight to Stratos, getting absorbed upon impact. When he looked up at the T-Rex, he realized that it had been apparently hurt by that ball of energy, and Stratos was feeling more filled on MP. Well that was pretty good.

612 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 120 EXP
T-Rex: 115/250

 

Kaida, like usual in this world, was a little late for the fight, but at least she wasn't the last person to run out there. Frankly, she was quite tired of the fighting, which wasn't a usual feeling for her, but at least right then it was a 5 vs 1 fight, and it was... it was... what even was this thing? Kaida summoned out her keyblade and ran at the large... reptile? And went a swinging at it. Sure, there were crazy out of the ordinary things going on. Yes, lazers were apparently a thing. Yes, there were so many spells being chucked around that since she had charged towards the giant, roaring creature, it was probably not the normal instinct people have in this circumstance. But somehow, through the sheer force of her bright yellow hunter abilities, she ran underneath it undetected and hit it. It let out a roar and immediately tried to respond by stepping on her.

Dodge rolling the heck out of there, Kaida backed up to assess the situation. Now this colossal iguana was trying to murder her. And as much as she loved fighting she was really not feeling up to death today. So she ran even farther away and turned around shouting, "Fire!" and, well, shooting fire at the oversized gecko. It seemed to hurt it, but not nearly as much as these other people were.

So Kaida looked at her party members and asked herself, "Who's probably the best meat shield." Glen and Karina hadn't moved out yet, but she knew they were capable, she just didn't want to catch them off guard. She looked at the other three, and decided that Beuce seemed like he'd do just fine.

Kaida ran up to Beuce and shouted, "Hey you know that thing Glen did to you in Central Haven where you ended up launched at Karina? Yeah I'm throwing you at the lizard." She didn't want to hear his response, she just went and launched Beuce at the giant anole's head. At the very least just the force of Beuce hitting him would do damage. But wow her arms hurt after using launch.

EXP: 18; from 361 words.
T-Rex: 94/250

 

Inspired by a crash of thunder from around, Base struck an idea. This foe was throwing projectiles at them, so it made sense to return the favor. Wordlessly, but with a great clash of cymbals, Thunder hit the foe, then again, and again, and again. Stratos and Kaida were doing their part. Why, even Beuce was doing his par- Hey... 'I don't believe Beuce can fly' Base thought to himself as he saw the three-limbed, white-haired ally rocket towards the enemy, hit it, and come crashing down onto Base's motorcycle-based Keyblade glider. He landed right on the backseat. In some circles, this seat is refered to as the "Bitch" seat. There. The first time I've technically cursed in KHSOS, and it was in a spoiler.

Base brought Beuce back to where Kaida had picked him up and dropped him off before heading back to the scaly beasty. This foe used fire magic, and Base knew exactly what to do about that. He soared up, dodging the laser beams and actually went closer to the maw on his cycle Keyblade. He waited for the beast to open its mouth and cast blizzard magic directly into the throat of the ancient abomination. It subsided a fire attack it was raring to make, and it also sent it reeling; just as Base had hoped. What he had not hoped was that the monster could still bite. It could. It did. Base just so happened to fit nicely in the cavity, as his cycle was forced to park on the bumpy, slithering tongue. At least, he thought it was a tongue; it must have been. He didn't know. It was incredibly dark. He'd stopped the beast from casting more fire magic for a little while, or using its teeth on his friends, but it was really giving eating him the good ole college try. It rocked it tongue and bucked its head, trying to make the Keyblader go down. The Keyblader go dooowww-owwn, Keyblader go down. Just one buck was all it would take for the Keyblader go down, and in a not-so-delightful way. Of course, naturally, Base gave trying to escape such a fate the good ole college try as well, and succeeded only, for some time, in keeping a reptilian esophagus at bay. For the time. Regardless, he was out for the time being, but had damaged the fire-breathing capabilities...for the time... Base gulped, and he hoped the Tyrannosaurus Rex wouldn't do the same.

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414 Words= 20+ EXP
71/250 T-Rex

 

These heartless were strong, but Kross was nimble and bunches faster. He eyed a lance soldier coming towards him and he readied his keyblade. He then saw one more chasing the rogue spear and got an idea. He jumped up and used the Lance Soldier's face as a pedestal to grab the rogue lance that the other one was chasing after. He felt a jerk suddenly and he was flying around with the thrashing spear, He wasn't about to let go though and used his strength to guide the spear up so he could get a view of where he was. He saw the lance soldier staring at him. If they had faces, it would convey one of either shock, or would say 'oh shi-' before he dove with the spear and kicked off at the last second, letting it slam into the Heartless and annihilate it, releasing its heart. The other one charged at him and attempted a series of jabs, which Kross quickly albeit gracefully dodged. He swung his keyblade up and knocked the spear out of the Soldier's hands. He then aimed his keyblade at the Soldier's face and then aimed up."Time!!" He cried out, a magic then ceased the rest of the heartless in their place, and Kross wailed on his attacker while waiting for the stop spell to wear off.

Kross has cast stop!
Lance Soldier defeated: 2

 

Not too long after Kel had injured the lance soldier that had attacked him, the blue haired wielder had turned his attention towards another group of oncoming Lance Soldiers. There number were thinning as well, meaning that it wasn't going to be much longer before the fight against them was going to be over soon, which was a good thing. Still there were still some running about, fortunately they were temporarily frozen due to the stop spell. It was starting to wear off so they were slowly starting to move again. Still they were able to , again slowly, move into a position that they would be in so that when they did un freeze, they would be able to quickly strike. Well some of them were anyway. Others were slowly running around bouncing the lance parts at an even slower pace. It was then that Kross's stop spell had worn off and everything had regained its normal pace. During which time , Kel had quickly dispatched the first heartless that had attempted to hit him. His keyblade made a scooping motion upward and cleaved the heartless in two. One down, six more to go. Since they were pretty much either running around and making it easier for them to be hit or attacking attacking them by either a stab attempt or being dragged by the lance part of them. Speaking of which, one of the lance heartless had starting toward Zephyr and attacked him with the lance. He'd managed to dodge the initial attack, but didn't have enough time to dodge the other attack the was coming his way. Another Lance soldier and come flying in while Kel was stepping back away from the prior attack. It had looked like the heartless that had attack would have its attack nail Kel, but in an even that was definitely nothing but luck, the foot that Kel and on the ground had tripped over a rock causing him to fall back at an even faster rate than before.That definitely was definitely about as lucky as he was going to get probably get this fight. Still he didn't let this chance go to waste for he again grabbed on to the legs of the heartless and despite being tugged away again, he managed to aim it so that it would both take out itself and the other heartless that had attack him. Now there were only four heartless left to beat and for good measure, Kel bonked another lance soldier on the head for that was all that he could do to it right now.

Words: 431
Exp: 21
Total: 83
Lance Soldiers: 4/20
Lance Soldier: 1/8 BP

 

After failing to respond to everything due to a combination of shock, drinking, and his roleplayer being inactive for a couple of days, Glen had once again done next to nothing for a brawl mission. But hey, he had alcohol rumbling around in his stomach, so what did he care? Well, one thing was for certain; if you arrive late, you'd better make one hell of an entrance. Running past Mickey and diving headfirst into the portal, Glen was wasting no time with going to help his friends.

The portal opened above the T-Rex. Yelling out, Glen shot out of the portal, landing towards the end of the T-Rex's back. "You know what, two of you I don't trust as far as I can throw you, one of you I barely talk to, and the other I talk to even less, but to hell with the past, I'm riding a bloody dinosaur and I've still got half of this bottle of alcohol left!" Glen shouted, chugging down a bit more of his drink as he cried out joyfully and summoned his keyblade in his free hand. "Now, Dino, you're about to find out the real reason you lot went extinct. Meteors? Nah. Famine? Screw that. You doomed your race the second you decided to mess with an Aatarsiluian!" the male yelled, stabbing his keyblade into the dinosaur's back. The beast turned and breathed fire at Glen, but the keyblade wielder let out the belch to end all belches, repelling the flaming breath with the sheer force of his belch and sending it back to where it came, singing the T-Rex's face.

BP: 23/250

 

Fire! The first time the blasted beast had to open its mouth was to breath fire! Having been still locked in its jaws, Base caught sight of a light coming from the Dinosaur King's throat and managed to duck low enough as the jet of flames erupted from the throat and flew itself out past the razor sharp teeth. This was it. Base had to make his escape when the flame had subsided--- If he managed to dodge it still--- and he would be free to strike; he would have his revenge. The flames did subside, and he hopped quickly to his feet while light from outside, though dim, poured into the fleshy tomb. He found his cycle lacking, however. He looked on in horror as he saw it slide out as the stupid beast turned its head, and though Base dove for it, he was shut off last second. He narrowly escaped with all his limbs as the T-Rex bit down, and he was, again, in darkness. Still, at least he had all his limbs. How terrible would it be if Base and Beuce had more in common than the fact of them both being cool and having names that sound very close to each other?

Still, he was cut off from the group, several meters in the air, and transport-less while also one tongue flick away from being digested. Things did not look grand for him, and he knew this too well. He touched his fingers together to make a tent of his hands and breathed exasperatedly through his palms as he locked and bent the fingers the way they were meant to bend. "This isn't at all like my last trip here..." He'd been to Symphony of Sorcery before, but it had looked nothing like this. Save for the entrance of the Mysterious Tower, nothing at all looked familiar about the place. Well... he had time to think. Even if the monster did open its mouth again, he wouldn't be able to just jump out. His High Jump wasn't that great.

This was Mickey's past, as well as the past of the worlds in general, both Mysterious Tower and Symphony of Sorcery. Was the world he knew and visited when starting his journey what became of this place, or was it merely a section that he was sent to explore, and he never was able to see what else existed until now? Either way, those close to his heart had no chance of showing up... this was simply not their place, and probably not their time. Base had to rely on his friends with him then. He was in darkness, and it smelled intensely of the rotting, sweaty feet of a thousand dead skunks, but he knew they were outside fighting. Glen, Beuce, Karina, Kel, and Kaida. This was his first time fighting with Glen and Kaida, he was sure, but he'd read about them in the journal. He'd read about everyone. All the adventures they'd had so far while a part of the brigade, what had already happened, without really realizing he was a part of it all. Or maybe he had, and he just hadn't much time to think about it lately. Either way, he knew at least one thing... he was getting out of this mess alive.

For good measure, he kicked the tongue of the dinosaur. There. That oughta show it.

OOC:

543 words= 27+ EXP
22/250 T-Rex.

 

One skeleton remained from the the three that were after her but it didn't take before more joined in on the fun. Despite the situation getting worse for her, she had to admit she was rather impressed on how these pile of bones were able to dance so damn well in unison. "The boys back home will never believe me of what I'm seeing right now . . . " Rain shook her head to get back in focusing on the fight but as she did the skeletons commenced already throwing, what appeared to be, their arms as boomerangs.

There was no time to roll out of the way so she instead grabbed the keyblade's shaft to block the incoming bones. Luckily for her, the bones fell to pieces on impact. "Eh. . . Think I'll pass on combining the word bone with boomerangs so . . Oh gods now it's in my head " she shook her head once more. "I'll cut you down before you . .you throw the other arm!" Still holding onto the shaft, Rain lunged herself forward practically just shoving about five skeletons against a tombstone causing them to trip over one another. It wasn't enough to dismembered them but it did buy her time to get to a safer distance so that she can make the first move this time. " I didn't think they would be such pushovers " she said watching as one of them was clumsily looking for its skull causing the others to fall over again.

Her eyes then glanced over towards the others. It was interesting to see that despite everyone fighting with the same weapon, they all fought in their own unique way which always had an effective result. Knowing she was part of this group somewhat gave her a bit of more strength as it reminded her she wasn't alone on this. It didn't matter if she knew these people well or not, but what did is that they all get through with this alive and well. "They may also be working as a team like us, however, they're just dusty old bones in the end" she started to spin her key by the chain as if she was about to round up some cattle then carefully aimed and then threw it at one of them. It was a direct hit, however, the keyblade bounced off a tombstone causing to kill another two. "Huh that went better than expected" she smiled.

Skeletons: 64/100

 

After taking a moment to catch some air, it was time to finish off the giant combination of skeletons that was currently trying to pick itself up. Walking up to the creature, all D'daear had to do was swing his keyblade horizontally to finish the job. With one arm the blade bashed straight through the neck area of the skeleton and popped the stack of four skulls right. A sense of pride and accomplishment fell over the boy as he watched the four skulls fly through the air. The body portion of the skeletons quivered before they rattled in an act of falling apart. Just as the bones fell apart, so did his good mood; however he did not show it. Lips remained still, not smiling, snickering, or frowning. A memory long forgotten came to mind when he saw the pile of bones, and he acted on it without hesitation. "Hmph." D'daear uttered as he performed Iado; performing a smooth controlled sword movement to remove junk off the sword. Obviously Skeletons lack everything but the skeletal system, so the keyblade was not dirt in any way. Performing this action was more of a personal thing than anything else. Using the one handed style that he was getting accustomed to, he jerked the blade with a simple swing.

D'daear took a quick look around. Everybody was making progress in this fight, and it showed since the pieces of bones that once belonged to the enemy were beginning to be prominent all around.

The musicians continued to play, and might it be said that they were very talented too! The skeleton with the xylo-skeleton continued to play, and the skeleton with the Cat-Cello continued to vibe. Too bad for them they had to be taken care of for good because just as they began to play the pile of bones D'daear had just defeated were beginning to quiver to life once more. Blue eyes made themselves prominent at the shock. "Oh no you don't!" he shouted as he picked the nearest musician and went straight to pummeling. As he dashed towards the xylo-skeleton playing musician, a group of skeletons tried to create a blockade with which to hinder the boy. They all piled up on top of one another, bones mixing with bones to form a wall. Brows furrowed as he accepted the challenge presented to him. Feet began to scurry even faster as legs got to work on creating momentum. Dirt beneath feet started to form a cloud behind him as he accelerated towards the wall. As D'daear built speed, legs suddenly began to look blurry. He was beginning to move so fast that legs suddenly took up a classical wheel like shape as if to exaggerate the running speed D'daear was moving. Baring shoulders to the wall, D'daear braced for impact with great determination. The skeletons could only let loose beads of sweat as the inevitable approached. "AAAAAHH!!!" D'daear screamed as he immediately banked to the right. The skeletons watched as their adversary avoided them by merely running past them. The stood there assembled in confusion, but quickly came to realize D'daear had purposefully avoided them to head towards the musician! They all quickly disassembled to re-assemble individually. Once finished, they all quickly scurried towards their musician friend who was in grave danger. Unfortunately for them, the boy had picked up too much of a lead.

VROOOM!!

With a quick shoulder smash D'daear plowed right through both the musician and the xylo-skeleton, sending their bones to the sky. Legs quickly halted as heels dug into the dirt to create the necessary friction to stop. It nearly sounded like a car putting on the breaks mid motion. The boy quickly turned around to see the lot of skeletons charging behind him. There was at least a dozen more than he had originally witnessed when they had formed. Hand gripped the weapons handle tight as he braced his mind for the impending battle. The fear he had when this all started was disappearing rather quickly. And it's not a thing to wonder as he had just taken down a large foe. Not too long ago. Fear was beginning to be replaced with confidence, and this was by no means a good thing for the enemies that neared. Left hand curled to a fist as he let it be known to the skeletons that scurried towards him. He was ready for these soon to be pile of bones. Three of the skeletons took up point in the charge, and lunged at him. They were in a V shaped formation. D'daear's dominant foot kissed the ground before launching the keyblade wielder forward towards the three. Extending left palm to face the enemy, he used it as a means to aim just before thrusting the keyblade forward to stab straight through one of the three skeletons. He did not stop there. Having taken care of the first of the three, D'daear's stance was in an offensive position. Legs were shoulder width apart as left leg was bent 90 degree while right leg was fully extended with right foot firmly placed on the ground. Some would call this a front stance or a Zenkutsu Dachi for the more martial arts adept folk; specifically karate. Not wasting time, he used the attacks momentum to quickly call for the extended right leg. Right foot came to the front, and turned inwards in order to meet the tip of the left foot, leaving just a small gap between the two. Being an uncomfortable position, it was merely a means to move from front stance to another front stance as he pivoted off the right foot in order to bring the left leg around while at the same time swinging the blade over his head. By merely doing this, he built enough momentum and power in order to deliver a nice hit to the second skeleton. Swing the blade over head, he quickly brought it down diagonally upon the next skeleton, which scattered bones everywhere. The last of the three was nearby,having stopped at its bones trembled in fear before him. Had it bothered to attack while D'daear was busy with the second, he might have gotten in a nice hit on the boy, however it seemed fear now possessed the undead critter. Good. It was time the enemy felt what it was like to be on the other end.

Not hesitating, D'daear ran up towards the final skeleton and punched the skull right out of the body's spine using the keyblade's guard as the knuckles. The body reeled back, headless and now confused.

The boy's brows were still furrowed as he looked back towards the approaching horde. This situation reminded him of the statues back at Beast's castle. It was Hikaru, Base, Steel, and Luna that he fought along side when Aux had decided to surprise them with the horde of possessed statues. It was there that he got his first real beating, and it was there that he was forced to learn how to fight on the spot. This moment also reminded him of the battle for Central haven. The horde of heartless that appeared there was frightening to him. They all had to fight these creatures that lacked compassion, regret, or any emotion. The heartless were just there on a whim, attacking merely because someone had summoned them to the place. So what on earth compelled these skeletons to attack them? Was there someone in control of these things?

Eyes averted to the floor as he stood motionless for a moment, only keeping senses aware of the hordes closing distance. This scenario was getting real old. When would they be able to just explore a world without having to run into trouble? Was every world beside his home like this?

"Who could be behind all of this...chaos?" he questioned in whisper as he looked up. Still being to the group, he was unaware of a few things that some of other more experienced key bearers may be aware of. Blue irises glared at the skeletons that now began to form a perimeter around him. D'daear's entire right arm tensed, including grip on the keyblade.

600+ words = 30 exp
Total: 90 Exp (I think)

56/100 skeletons left

8 skeletons were taken out(Giant skeleton counted as 4) (Skeletons BP is now 3 instead of 5. Ask Krowley for any doubts)

1 Skeleton(headless) remaining with 1 BP left. Feel free to take care of it, I'm pretty much going to be ignoring it. :/

 

Luna looked around as she saw everyone fight with everything they got. Little did she realized, two skeletons had been sneaking up on her. They grabbed both of her arms and Luna could barely move. "Hey! Let me go!!" Three more skeletons had arrived and begun to kick her. After a couple of moments, Luna found an opening and knocked one of the skeletons down. She then threw the other one over her shoulder. She whipped out her keyblade again and back flipped away from the group of skeletons. Two more skeletons had shown up behind her and the other 5 surrounded her. Luna looked both left and right as she got ready to fight. "7 against one? Now that's not fair!"
Luna jumped up landed behind the group of 7 skeletons. "Time to even the odds!" Luna stepped off as she unleashed a Splatter combo on the skeletons. "Take this!" After a brief moment, the skeletons went down immediately. "Next time, play fair!"
Luna looked around once more to see that there was still more skeletons left to fight. "Will this ever end?" Luna looked down for a second to breathe for a moment. As she did, more skeletons came up behind her. She looked up and turned around as more skeletons attacked her. "Not again!! Let go you pile of bones!!!" Luna struggled to get free from the skeletons that were attacking her. "I need some help here!"

7 Skeletons defeated=21 BP
49/100 Skeletons left
240 words= 12 EXP
Total EXP: 25 EXP

 

The white haired keyblade wielder began swearing profusely at the man who had caught him after his collision with the dinosaur. "THAT WAS A GREAT INITIATION! WHAT THE HELL?! NOW I HAVE TO RUN BACK IN TO GET AT IT!" Hopping off of Base's keyblade glider, Beuce charged the thing headfirst. Karina seemed to have learned the ability to use Zantetsuken. He and Stratos had been spamming that all over the thousand heartless battle, he would hope she'd have picked it up by then. Stratos was a great mage, so Zantetsuken didn't seem to do much for him outside of the sheer volume he used it. Karina was very much the opposite. Her strength was out of this world, but her magic was a bit lacking. They were both a fair bit more durable than him, but when it came to offense, Beuce was the best off out of all three of them. He was lacking in neither magic or physical. He intended to use both of those strengths to finish off this beast and take that piece they needed.

Flourishing his keyblade, Beuce vanished and left behind a trail of rose petals, leaving a massive gash on the beast's side. Zantetsuken. Currently, it was their most powerful physical attack. Even a weak person would be able to damage the enemies quite a bit with an attack like that. It roared in pain from the injury, and turned to attack Beuce, but never got the chance. Before it could really do much, a blinding burst of light rained down on it from the sky. In terms of power, Faith was the magical equivalent of Zantetsuken. To his knowledge, he was the only one among their entire group that could use both of the attacks to extreme effectiveness. The T-rex was unable to cope with the combined force of these two attacks and fell on the ground, seeming to have given up. Beuce, however, wasn't finished with the thing. It reminded him of the Elyos, and that was a crime punishable by death. He didn't intend to let this thing live.

Gathering together the energy from his heart, Beuce took on a bright golden glow. Levitating into the air, he prepared the finishing assault. "Trip around the sun!" The fiery sphere which was reminiscent of a miniature sun collected and formed above his head. This would be the killing blow, and everyone there, including the T-rex, knew it. Gathering the power of the sun, Beuce collected it into his spellbinder keyblade. Now, both the weapon and wielder shone with a glorious golden light. With one final charge, Beuce brought down his keyblade upon the head of the monster. As the blade drew nearer to the skin, it began to burn away and turn to ash under the power of the sun. Finally, the blade struck down, and it was dead in an instant. A brilliant pillar of golden and orange flames erupted from the ground, incinerating the beast. When the light and flames died down, all that remained was a smoldering scorch mark on the ground, small flames still burning around it, and a musical note lying in the center. They didn't have to take it from the eye anymore. There was no eye left to take it from.

"Looks like it got..."

Beuce took out a pair of sunglasses and placed them on his face

"T-rekt. YEAAA-" Beuce was interrupted by the sound of a gunshot. He quickly ducked in panic. "Alright i won't make the joke! God..."

 

Steel quickly thrust his hand around the throat of charging lance soldier. The soldier struggled to free itself, while the lance... hopped up and down next to Steel... seemingly cheering for him. Such strange heartless. He turned and threw the first heartless into an oncoming second, which seemed to have thought it could sneak up on him. The soldiers' lances' hopped with glee as their weilders clattered to the ground and Steel cast a stopra spell. He took the opportunity to look around at what the others were doing. Thankfully, they had managed to put quite a dent in the heartless without him. (Again, curse his inconsistent posting rate.) In fact, they were now almost completely done from what he could tell. Kel and Ananta dishing out a particularly large amount of hurt.

His attention was bought back to the heartless he had been dealing with as he caught sight of the two lances' still hopping in place, seemingly wanting to finish off thier "companions." He raised an eyebrow. "You both realize that if I destroy them, you go too?" He asked. The two stopped hopping and looked at eachother for a moment. After that brief pause, they both turned back to him and bounced up one time in perfect synchronization. It appeared to be a sort of shrugging motion, or an overall statment of: "Yeah, we don't mind." Steel only shook his head. Turning back to the fight, he spotted one of the last lance soldiers charging towards Kross. Or at least it had been before he shouted to the lance and stopped the charging enemy in it's tracks. With a nod of his head towads the two soldier's slowly moving up from the ground, the third lance soldier was soon being dragged across the field. Steel held out his hand and it was immediatley filled with the grip on one of the lances. He stabbed it straight into the heartless as it came rushing towards him. He then turned and jumped over the second lance soldier to stab its lance into the first soldier, destroying it. He then turned and slashed with his keyblade, hitting both the third lance soldier, and the second, who had just managed to break free of the stopra spell and fully rise from the ground. Both heartless evaporated, as did the lance he still held in his hand.

He gave a slight smirk as he watched the hearts vanish into thin air. "Thanks guys." He shot playfully towards the vanishing crystals.

 

Beuce had killed Base. Through one of his trademark, gratuitous finishing moves, Beuce had managed to reduce not only an entire dinosaur, but also an ally, to a smoldering, black smudge on the earth. The only thing left of the dinosaur was the piece they'd been sent to get. To reiterate: Beuce. Murdered. Base. This sharp example of fratricide was clear in the fact that poor Base had been locked in the belly of the beast, and then an unwitting comrade lit that beast on fire. Nothing could exonerate the one-armed friend-killer. There could be no apologies to a lump of dust. Base had put Faith in his friends, and Faith had been one of the moves to prove him wrong. Soon, they would leave with the piece, but short one person. Benebeuce Arnold, Karina, Kaida, Glen,and Kel...no, wait. That wasn't Kel...one moment. The one who is not Kel. "Not Kel" should do for a substitute, as names were not important to a pile of ash.

Only, fortunately, Base had been launched from the T-Rex's jaw along with a coughed up bit of Stegosaurus meat when Beuce was being Beuce. He landed safely, his fall broken by the chunk of meat landing before him, but it left him covered from head-to-toe, and dripping in Dino blood. Trudging to his friends, he caught wind of Beuce's last remark about getting "rektd" and shot a bit of Blizzard at him, only to miss on purpose. The ice magic spell flew over Beuce's shoulder and disipated, hitting no one, but Base just stood there, Stegosaurus ichor soaking the scarred earth with droplets at a time.

He eyed Beuce, with something of an intent to kill, but instead, he pulled open his bag--- which was, miraculously, clean--- and removed a large blue curtain with a round shower curtain rod that he hung in the air, and it just stayed there, cascading him in privacy that cast no shadow and allowed no one to look inside to see him; if they did, they would see an empty circle where Base should have been. The sounds of a washing machine, dryer, and hair dryer could be heard humming from behind the curtain, but, when Base stepped out of the curtain, fully redressed, clean, and back to his normal self, and he pulled the curtain down to stuff into his bag, he no longer looked at Beuce quite as cruelly.

"You almost killed me, but why worry about the past?" He uttered, passive-agressively. "Not like the overdone last moves are getting old or ALMOST KILL PEOPLE WHO HELP YOU!" An eye twitched, but he collected himself. "Now...what to do about this thing..." Base picked up the piece the Dino had left behind, and he inspected it closely. "How exactly do we get it back to Mickey?" He asked the question aloud, though he doubted anyone else knew the answer, just as well as he didn't.

OOC:
This post doesn't count for the mission, since the mission has ended, but needed closure.

Here is a list of how much everyone went up in EXP:

Stratos: 120
Base: 69 (I'm not kidding. Stop giggling)
Beuce: 59 (Pft...59)
Kaida: 18
Karina: 14
Glen: 13

 

The heartless numbers had dwindled down to two of them being left, one of which was already quite injured from the attack that Kel had dealt it while he was defeating its comrades. The heartless probably wouldn't last much longer regardless of whether Kel attacked it or not so he shrugged before walking up towards the heartless. Standing before the heartless, he bonked it on the head with his keyblade, both knocking it to the ground and defeating it. Now that was left was the Lance Soldier as full strength, which was clear by how he was moving around. It still wouldn't be too much of an issue to take it down but since this one could at least attempt to dodge his attacks. so far it didn't appears like this heartless would suddenly developed some means of intelligence and pull off some impossible and very bs moves for a heartless to do, but stranger things had happened before and it definitely would've been annoying for it to happened right now after defeated basically every other heartless that was around it. While Kel was basically stalling in increase word count, the heartless had walked up to him and before it could attack, tripped on a rock and fell face first in front of Kel. Seeing this Kel just stabbed it in the back while it laid on the ground. Well that was kinda anticlimactic. Though he couldn't expect much from these heartless. The lance part of the soldier seemed to do most if not all of the shot calling so the actually soldier part of the heartless likely just ran around wherever the lance lead it. Thus explaining why it failed to notice the rock conveniently placed between the two of them. Whelp, the fight was definitely over now (300).

Words: 300
Exp: 15
Total: 98
Soldiers: Defeated
Lance Soldiers: Defeated

 

As the group had continued their fight against the large ass dinosaur, he felt like there was no way this mighty beast could last much longer in this world. After all they had the magnificent Kaida on the scene, who struck at the dinosaur and then promptly flung Beuce at the T-Rex, much like Karina had flung Luna at Arma the Kingsmoth. Only this was in hopes of damaging it and not out of pure hatred towards the person...hopefully. Next up was Base and his usual Base style of fighting. That was, catching Beuce first from his lesson in flying, only to then nearly get eaten by the T-Rex, though still damaging in the process. Oh that Base. Then next up was Karina and her good old Karina style of combat, of just raw brute strengthing through just about any situation. However this time, she actually seemed to have picked up a move from himself. That being Zantetsuken. After all, he had only used it so many times in front of her, so he figured it was only natural she would learn it. Then Glen with the belch versus fire breath battle against the T-Rex. Man what a scene.

The fight had come to its end though as Beuce had come down and used Trip Around the Sun against the giant lizard creature. Right, that was something that Stratos had nearly forgotten he could do. He briefly created the small sun in his hand only to realize that there was absolutely nothing left to fight with it. Ah well. He tossed the sun into the air, causing it to sail off into space, only to inevitably explode in an asteroid belt which would no doubt cause a meteor to hurtle towards the planet and end the reign of the dinosaurs. However, Stratos was more focused on the fact that Base had been nearly killed by the attack, which only caused Stratos to sigh and say, "can we please go a group fight without nearly killing each other? Seems like it would be beneficial for all of us." As Base wondered aloud about how they were to get back to Mickey, the musical note left behind had caused them to all be transported back to the mysterious tower, only for them to get immediately hurtled into another world...filled with naked horse woman who were bathing. Huh, Stratos was sort of confused as to when SOS had become a monster girl series, though he quickly shook this off as he noticed there were heartless that needed killing.

Summoning his keyblade at the ready, he noticed a few things. First off, his Spellbinder keyblade looked really different. As in, completely different keyblade different. Well that was weird. The next thing that he noticed was that these were the first heartless that they had seen all world. Man, it was good to see heartless and have no behemoths accompanying them. With this in mind, Stratos had decided to just go and cast Thundara to start things off. Now he had never cast thunder before, nor had he actually seen someone use it before. Hell, he didn't even know how he suddenly knew how to do this. Anyway, with an intense burst of lightning randomly falling from the sky, a good deal of the heartless had been vanquished...only for more to spawn in their place. Huh, he hadn't dealt with more heartless just warping in before. He didn't even realize that they could do that. Regardless, there couldn't be an infinite number of them, and so they just needed to keep killing them as they spawned in order to get the piece and protect Glen. Because Glen seemed to be in need of guarding.

622 Words, 30 EXP
Total: 30 EXP
Munny Bonus Total: 30 Munny
Break Even Point: 1/34

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