"Alright, boy, put the glasses back on." Ananta said as she finally caught up to everyone else. "I'm sure I missed a bit, but I did see Base try to start something with the big guy over here." Ananta looked at Ralph and took a really good look at him. "He can't be a glitch. He looks normal to me." she commented. Looking at Vanelope, Ananta saw her glitch out a tiny bit. The candies on Vanelope's hair disappeared for a moment and came right back. "Maybe she's the glitch...? Either way, that King guy seemed super upset about it. Dunno why. All I know is, my racer name was Bananta." she chuckled. "But I don't see anything bad with this young girl, so I suppose she's safe?"
Ananta hopped out of her car and ran over to Base, hugging him. "Congrats on winning, Jelly." she said, turning to look at King Candy. When she heard his outburst, she raised an eyebrow and looked back to Base. "So I guess that means we ought to head towards Diet Cola mountain?" she said, peering over to a large mountain. "That must be it." she said, taking it upon herself to start walking over. Whatever was there, Ananta was curious to see what caused the King of Candy to be so upset.
"They seemed to be designed for people trying to escape." Daeni stated bluntly. "For people to move between cities and places. Maybe even slaves of war." She shrugged and leaned back in the chair she pulled up next to Kara in. She'd rather go to the beach, in all honesty. It sounds a lot nicer to Daeni, that's for sure. But the fact that the memory of keyglider's coming back so conveniently...was odd. While the others discussed things, Daeni closed her eyes and tried to imagine what her keyglider looked like. What it rode like. What she enjoyed about it and what made it hers. That just made her head hurt and, honestly, Daeni aws done with having headaches, so she stood up and walked over to a shelf and grabbed some bread and cheese. She devoured it in about 3 seconds and started on a second loaf of bread.
Ananta just barely avoided the jelly beans before she zoomed forward, catching up to Base. She saw his trap and grinned herself. "Take this!" she yelled, throwing a giant gumball at Base to try and make him slow down.
Daeni took the Potion and Ether gratefully, finally relaxing a little bit. She looked upon her comrades and frowned. Once Mora handed the lantern to Chrono, Daeni took a step over to him. "If she didn't, she wouldn't know about this." she said, her voice very hushed. It wasn't that she didn't appreciate this place, she just wasn't so sure right now about leaving. "Can we...rest a minute?" she asked, glancing at the food. Her stomach finally growled in the silence and she put a hand over it, frowning at herself.
Daeni sighed in relief upon the death of the Darkside. She returned to her comrade's side and rushed with them to the house. Upon entering the 'bubble' of the house, Daeni looked at Chrys. Relief shone in her eyes as she approached him with a smile. "You're safe." she muttered, her voice barely audible in the current commotion. She was happy that Chrys was safe, after all, since she thought he was dead. She was glad to still have another companion, after all that had happened, they only had about 6 people of their original group left. That was literally half of their original numbers, or so Daeni figured. Things were still fuzzy here and there, but in the end, she was remembering and collecting her thoughts. That is, until she heard Ria's stupid voice behind her. Groaning, Daeni turned to see the unamusing face of Ria, pointing at each of them. But when he stopped on her, Daeni's eyes opened a little wider. Her breath caught in her throat. She couldn't believe he could tell that about her. Too bad her answer wasn't as dramatic as he had probably hoped. "I only intend to murder you." she said in a spiteful voice, turning and walking away from Ria. She followed Mora to the back of the house, looking down the trap door that Mora uncovered. Shrugging, Daeni descended, not caring for what awaited her below.
"Bananta does not fit me at all! I'm green, for goodness sakes." she grumbled, plopping into her own kart. The kart she was in looked to be Taffyta's from the way it...looked, honestly. It matched that kid well enough, anyway. Ananta sighed and put her hands on the wheel and prepared herself for the race. She had driven before, sure....but that was on her homeworld quite awhile ago, so she felt like she'd be rusty. In any case, Ananta zipped off, passing by Base. "See ya~" she said mockingly to him and giggling. She zoomed by two more racers before she found out the next one was a bit aways. It annoyed her, but she was fine not being first. It'd probably be a bad idea to get in first, anyway.
Cerdic's idea was honestly the better one. While Alder was right about staying together, perhaps destroying the darkside would be better. Daeni watched it and waited. She watched and watched, deciding to try something. She pointed her keyblade at it's head and shot a fire spell at it. It was weak, but she could tell the giant heartless was affected by it. It rubbed it's face and stayed standing longer than when Cerdic had attacked it's arms. It looked like it didn't even care when he attacked it. So Daeni did something dangerous. She ran forward, past Cerdic, and jumped onto the arm of the Darkside. She stabbed her keyblade into it's arm and started jumping up onto it's shoulder. She stood there, once again stabbing her keyblade into it's shoulder, and waiting for it to stand up or be still. When the opportunity came, Daeni started to whack it's head a few times. After a good 6 or so hits, she was forced to jump back down. She landed hard and fell forward, groaning a little from the height.
Holding the coin in her hands, Ananta looked towards the pumpkin headed boy and then to Base. "I guess we better head towards this race, huh?" she said, turning to leave. She followed the pumpkin headed boy and stopped when they got to the designated area. "Now what? We don't have any karts." Ananta sighed. "Do we just...hope they appear?" she asked nobody in particular.
Following Mora was easy enough. She kept close to the girl while also watching every direction she could as they walked towards the house. She decided that it was her duty to keep guard of everyone. Daeni was not going to lose another comrade to Ria. No comrade will fall prey to Ria's plans or powers. Sure she was still scared to her core, but right now, she had to be brave. She just had to push forward, no matter what happened. In a sense, she felt like she was starting to get over her fears, even if it was only a little bit at a time. As they approached the house, Daeni saw what stood before them and hissed. "Stupid heartless." she muttered, whipping her keyblade out to her right side. She held it out and felt a wave of magic reach the tip of her keyblade as she ran forward and lifted her keyblade high up. She watched as lightning cracked down on the heartless, taking out a few and injuring others. Daeni hopped backwards and waited for another heartless to attempt to attack her.
Daeni listened and sighed. While the extractor was destroyed, if they could find the scientist, perhaps they could make another. But what if it was Aevum? Chrono didn't seem like he wanted to even be Aevum right now, so perhaps that was out of the question. Maybe they ought to follow Mora. She was the only one around that could even help them at this point. Everything else had gone to the dumps after all. "Let's go." Daeni stated.
Ananta saw Base's predicament and ran over, sliding into action with a blocked swing from the candied Flora. "Don't worry, this flower smells sweet, but she's rotten to the core." Ananta said, shoving Flora off. She then went into a tirade of swinging and blocking strikes. This continued for at least ten more minutes before Ananta finally struck Flora in the chest. She saw cracks begin to form as her keyblade struck Flora's chest. Flora stumbled backwards and stared at Ananta. Ananta took her keyblade and stabbed into the crack. She then smirked as she felt magic course through her body. "Fire!" Ananta called out, watching Flora start to melt and goo down to the ground. Ananta shook her keyblade and sent it away. "That's that." she said, turning and offering a hand to Base.
Ananta winced in pain as she shook her hand. Even with a little bit of metal under her gloves to guard her fingers, it still hurt to punch Kross. Though she already knew this wasn't the Kross she knew and...well... In any case, she held her keyblade tightly and watched Base nearly get a new haircut. She decided to take the opening Base had created and swung at Flora, watching her keyblade leave only a tiny crackle in the candy armor. "Hey Base, was she your sweetheart? Because that'd make sense as to why Kross was here to me." Ananta commented, ducking below a swing from Kross as she tripped him up, causing him to fall.
Being ignored certainly wasn't what she wanted, but Daeni knew that Chrono had way more things on his mind. When Mora finally reappeared and spoke to them, she turned to look at the girl and tapped her chin. If it meant Ria would be dealt with, that'd be grand. Although, whoever would lead was a stupid idea at this point. It was quite obvious who should lead at this point. After all, she was the only one with any idea on what they could do in the first place. "Girl...lead." Daeni muttered, crossing her arms. She looked at Alder and tilted her head. She wanted to ask if he was okay, but it was kinda obvious he wasn't. None of them were okay at this point. The only thing keeping them going was their will to destroy Ria and get back their memories.
Daeni watched as Alder destroyed the journal. She sighed, knowing that they were finally rid of the thing that was causing a rift to form between them. But for whatever reason, she couldn't say she felt it was the right thing to do. It felt wrong to destroy it. Especially since she saw Chrono try and reach for the journal before Alder grabbed it himself. She turned back to see Chrono had once again stood up. She approached him and dusted him off lightly, checking to see if he was still in any pain. She opened her mouth a little to mutter out a few words. "Saw....you..." she said, choking on the last word. It felt like sand was in her throat. It pained her to talk right now. Although her mind was starting to come back to itself, it still felt weird trying to think about the memories that came to her. Shaking her head, she looked at Chrono in the eyes, searching for answers. The answers didn't come, but she knew that Chrono couldn't have been as bad as their memories had been trying to lead them to believe....could he?
Cerdic was annoying. But even so, the memories Daeni saw all pointed to Chrono being the one that caused this, but even then, some things didn't connect and it caused Daeni more pain. She held her keyblade firmly and looked to see Alder asking Cerdic to stop. Thankfully, she wasn't alone in this. Killing Chrono wouldn't fix anything and that certainly wouldn't help them if they were forced to continue on with only four people. Who knew where Chrys was or if he was even alive. Daeni thought and felt like he was alive, but that point was pushed out her head as more throbbing ebbed it's way forward, causing her to tremble a bit. She wanted to cry in hopes the pain would stop. Closing her eyes, she heard the thud of something on the ground and Chrono's voice speaking about....the journal? Daeni opened her eyes again and blinked. Oh how she wanted to read that journal. It was something she had aimed to read even before all of this, but stupid Cerdic snatched it away and was able to even tear pages out of it. Luckily, it looked like most were there minus the part that...Chrys had. Daeni stepped forward and reached down for the journal, fully intending to read it.
Ananta grumbled at the girl and the way she acted. Calling them a "glitch" seemed like a way at being quite rude. In fact, Ananta almost wanted to retort when she looked up to see a familiar blue haired boy in front of her. Although he didn't look quite the same, Anants still started to clench her fists. She then walked forward and reeled back her fist, throwing it forward and punching Kross in the face with enough force that he fell back.
Daeni watched in silence as Kara woke up. She even hugged Cerdic, which was odd, but Daeni didn't react. Her head was hurting too much to think before she looked over to see where Alder was. But then, she didn't see him and she wondered where he had run off to. She must have missed that part, but right now, she wouldn't quesiton it. Instead, she'd stay there until told otherwise. Then the memories started to come back. The memories melded together with the ones she had seen from Marley's point. And her own only intensified her sorrow for losing some of them. Her hands scratched at her head as she tried to stop the pain. She tried using Cure, but it did nothing for her. All it did was cause her to feel weak and drained. Instead of trying to stop the pain, Daeni simply decided to let it run it's course as she started to feel tears come down her cheeks. She opened her eyes when she heard screaming. She looked over to find that Chrono was on the ground and Cerdic was standing over him. As soon as Daeni saw the keyblade, she ran over and used her own keyblade to block Cerdic's, grunting at his attempt at killing Chrono. She wanted answers from Chrono. Having him dead would be a terrible idea. Especially if he didn't tell them his own reasons why he was doing this. These memories told them much of the story, but not all of it. Daeni wanted to know more before she came to any verdict, but through it all, she was still trying to fix her own head. She wanted to speak. Although her mouth opened, all that game was her stuttering and sputtering out syllables before she gave up.
Running away from the area, Daeni started to run away. She ran around and found that other areas were purged of crystals. "So...two left....I...I think..." she groaned, barely even able to make out those words. Her head was still muddy and befuddled. She couldn't quite think straight, but she still knew deep in her head that she was looking for some crystals and...honestly, that's all she needed to know and understand. So, she continued on her way, avoiding and fighting heartless. She was careful at picking her fights and, honestly, it was getting easier to find her way about when she noticed heartless avoiding areas. Finally finding another crystal, Daeni gave it a swift strike and watched it shatter. "Why...did....he....." she said, still trying to figure these thoughts out. "Same....face..." she shook her head, holding it in her hands. Tears fell down her cheeks and she sniffled a bit before turning to head back to the others, wondering if anyone had finished off the other crystals. She honestly just wanted to stay near people she knew right now.
Ananta blinked at the accusation. "Glitches? No, no. We are certainly not glitches." Ananta huffed. "We just...uh, got lost is all." Ananta said, trying to make this seem a little less odd for the girls.
