Dodging attacks from an Air Knocker, Ananta didn't notice Kross approaching. She finished it off and looked to her side to see that Kross was standing there. She nearly jumped, not expecting him to stand right beside her, but she calmed herself down and looked at him. Ananta didn't really want to fight with anyone right now. She was far too busy trying to concentrate on the heartless as well as try to figure out why she saw memories like that earlier. The more she thought about it, the more she felt her heart drop in her chest. It was like she was forgetting about someone very important to her. Someone she loved more than anyone else. That person was the one that gave Ananta meaning. She pushed Ananta forward and made her do things that Ananta wouldn't have done otherwise. Falling to her knees, Ananta hit her head lightly, trying to figure out the person. Unfortunately, she was pulling a blank on all accounts. "Who is it?!" she groaned, leaning over, closing her eyes and holding her head. "Why can't I remember?" she sobbed. Thinking back, Ananta began to piece together the last day that she was on her world. She remembered coming home from studying and performing duties. It was then that the heartless were attacking and she rushed home. She got home and saw both her parents dying, their hearts ripped out by heartless. She then ran to the Mother Crystal, hoping to ask the Sages for help. As she approached, she saw in front of her that they were all on their knees and praying to the Mother Crystal, whose light was fading fast. In front of her was the Sage she was going to replace some day. After that, everything was a blank. Ananta couldn't remember anything else. "AAAAAAAUUUUGH!" she yelled, standing up and grabbing an Air Knocker. She slammed the heartless down on the ground and watched it shatter into a puff of darkness. "This is so annoying!" she complained, tears filling her eyes and spilling out. "Why can't I remember them? Did I hit my head or something?" Ananta stood up and turned to Kross. "I'm sorry." she said, summoning her keyblade. "I'm just confused right now, don't worry about me." Looking around, she noticed that the Air Pirates Steel was fighting were now gone. "All that's left are these guys, the wyvern guys, the squiggly winged guys, and the Behemoth's." she commented, looking at an Air Knocker in front of her. "I say we should take care of the punchy hand ones first. It'd be easier that way since they look a little bit weaker than the rest." she sighed, patting Kross' back. "Thanks again for saving me earlier. It was really nice of you to do that....I...haven't really had anybody do hat before so...thanks." she said, turning away as red dusted her cheeks. Thanking people was a lot harder than the books told her. Running forward, Ananta swung her keyblade at the first Air Knocker she saw. Her keyblade hit it back a little and the blizzard spell she threw at it connected, freezing one of the punching gloves. The heartless turned to her and began to swing both arms. "Oh crap, that didn't work" she said, dodging and blocking the blows, returning them with her own. After what seemed like hundreds of blows, she was finally able to perform a combo on the heartless, ending it's assault once and for all. Standing there, she still couldn't help but feel like she was going to slap herself later. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Knockers 3 (21BP spent) Behemoth 202/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 0 Air Battlers: 38 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 40 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 317 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 177 EXP Rain: 74 EXP Kross: 65 EXP
"Didn't deal as much damage as I had hoped I could, but I did enough, I think..." Ananta huffed, attempting to catch her breath. Looking at the Behemoth's horn, Ananta could tell a little bit of the barrier surrounding the horn has been chipped away. Unfortunately, this battle was far from over and she could tell this heartless' horn was just barely damaged. "As much as I like attacking this guy, I'd rather get rid of some of the other heartless first. Then we'd all be able to just focus on this big guy." she said, turning from the horn and getting ready to hop down. Sliding down the Behemoth's back, Ananta hopped off and landed a bit away. Standing up straight, she turned to see the Behemoth launched it's own lightning strike attack around it. Lifting her keyblade to try and deflect the attack somewhat, Ananta was struck by the lightning. Gritting her teeth, she tried not to scream, but this was to no avail. As the lightning finished, she screamed and fell back. Her hair was a mess and was sticking out in a few places while her clothes had visible signs of tearing on the edges. Ananta hit the ground and didn't try to get up at the time. Her hands lifted up and she soon felt the cool embrace of her Cura spell sweeping over her. It was welcome, considering the attack made her feel uneasy and had burnt her in a few places. Ananta opened her eyes and stared up at three Air Knockers jiggling about. They looked like they were having their own sparring match and weren't really paying attention to anything else around them. Ananta sat up then stood up a moment later. Her hands ran through the short half of her hair and untied her braids. Her eyes were fixated on the Air Knockers as they continued to fight. This gave her time to mull over the event with the heart a little bit ago. "What was that strange warmth? And that vision I had...why did that little girl look like...me?" she spoke softly to herself. "It felt like I was looking at a book I recognize and the vision seemed like something I had experienced, but from a different angle..." she huffed, switching to her other braid now. "My heart aches so much right now, why am I drawing a blank on this...?" she sighed, looking at the Air Knockers. "I'll give it some time and try to remember some things, but right now, I should be fighting." she grumbled, letting the second braid fall behind her. Having summoned her keyblade, Ananta jumped up and smacked the one Air Knocker that wasn't participating in the sparring match. She combo'd the heartless and landed on the ground shortly after and turned to see the other two had noticed her attack on their friend. One zoomed in and landed a punch on Ananta's arm, causing her to say "Ouch!" and rubbing her arm before slapping the heartless with her keyblade. It wobbled from the impact and floated off for awhile. Ananta grinned and snorted at it, looking at the bruise forming on her arm. The other Air Knocker took the place of the one she slapped and launched it's own flurry of attacks at Ananta. Blocking each attack and returning her own, this heartless was history. By now, the other Air Knocker returned and was actually ready to fight now. Chuckling, Ananta readied her keyblade and taunted the heartless, beckoning it over. Suffice to say, it didn't last too long, either. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Knockers 3 (21 BP used) Behemoth 217/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 4[5BP each] (4 injured) Air Battlers: 38 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 44 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 287 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 170 EXP Rain: 74 EXP Kross: 54 EXP
i actually kind of like the second one if only they didn't have a weird blurry solid color...
how'd the 1.5 release change?
who knew a freakin zebra could play video games
when you're resizing the image to fit into an avatar, hold shift and the proportions won't mess up
Ananta stretched, hearing joints pop and crack in her body. "This whole battle is just horrible." she grunted, letting her arms rest at her side as she watched the heartless fly around their side. The other areas were also having a hard fight, Ananta knew that, but it felt like this battle had been going on for a long time now. "What's going to happen to this place once we're done fighting?" she thought out loud. "Will this world fall just as every other world that's ever been destroyed?" she said, Jumping back as she saw one of the few remaining Air Pirates, that weren't injured, zoom at her. It shot towards her again, only this time, she was able to grab it's head as it flew closer to Ananta. Squeezing it's head, a fire spell blasted from her hand and caused the heartless to explode in darkness, leaving the heart it contained behind. "I already lost my own world to these monsters...I can't let that happen to another world." she frowned at the heartless around her. "Nobody else has to die at the hands of these...things..." she said, readying her keyblade. "We'll all make sure of that!" she yelled, running towards two Air Pirates there reaching for the heart Ananta had just released. Jumping high, she reached them and began to swing her keyblade, hitting one of the heartless many times and maybe managing to hit the other once or twice. After her combo finished, Ananta fell to the ground gracefully. The heartless wasn't destroyed yet, but it was close to being destroyed. As she landed, Ananta felt a great tremor and heard a loud boom explode nearby. Looking over, she saw Kross emerge from a lightning spell that destroyed heartless he was fighting. "Wow, he's powerful..." she said, smiling. "That's it, I'm going to get to know Kross some more." she nodded to herself, looking up to see the injured heartless had began to fall down slowly. It looked like it couldn't keep itself up any longer and slowly began to descend. Ananta watched it land and soon, she was nearby and began to perform another combo on it. Amidst the combo, the heartless was destroyed and so it's heart was released. Looking up, Ananta saw the heart had floated straight into the hands of the last Air Pirate. Glaring, Ananta jumped up and began to perform a combo on this heartless. Instead of letting the heartless fall down to the ground, she kept comboing it until it was gone and the heart that it had grabbed from before remained. Ananta reached for this heart and held it in her hands as she landed on the ground. Looking at the heart the previously defeated Air Pirate had, Ananta saw it had disappeared nearly immediately after. This one in her hands, however, stayed behind and gave a soft warmth in Ananta's hands. Feelings and memories flooded Ananta's mind as she stood there, the heart glowing faintly in her hand. She could see a young girl with mint green hair playing in a park. The girl was picking flowers as people walked by. The person looked down at a book they were reading and Ananta recognized some of the symbols. The person looked back up to see the young girl with mint hair had handed her a flower and smiled at her. The person took the flower and Ananta could feel the happiness in her voice, that she could not hear, as words of gratitude slipped past her lips. The heart soon disappeared and Ananta opened her eyes to see the memory was gone and she was back at Central Haven. Shaking her head, she wiped tears from her eyes as she looked at the Behemoth. Running off towards the Behemoth, Ananta saw Rain standing nearby and throwing her keyblade at the heartless. She passed by the girl and looked back at her, hoping she was watching Ananta. Turning to the Behemoth, Ananta jumped up and landed on it's back, wobbling a little as the heartless walked around. Stepping up the back, she reached the horn and began to pummel it, dealing a little damage. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Pirates 3 (15 BP spent) Behemoth 223/300 (6 BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 4 [5BP each] (4 injured) Air Battlers: 38 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 47 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 257 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 170 EXP Rain: 74 EXP Kross: 54 EXP
Ananta watched Rain attempt to lure an Air Battler towards her. It didn't really work, seeing as the heartless was instead destroyed by her olympic throw, Ananta clapped. "That was pretty funny. Dunno what she was doing, but it was darn funny." she chuckled, leaning on her keyblade as it was stuck in the ground. This happened when she had finished off one of the two Air Pirates from earlier. She didn't try to pull it out, simply because she saw Rain was trying to be resourceful. "Hmm...think I'll fight a couple of those things that that other girl was attacking. They look tough, however..." she paused, looking up at the Air Battlers. "Honestly, I'd rather fight the other ones...the ones with the turbans," she said, looking at a group of four that were flying around together. Grabbing the hilt of her keyblade, Ananta pulled as hard as she could. The keyblade slowly began to pull out of floor, but it was still staying firmly in the floor. "Oh come on, you stupid keyblade, you're not supposed to be THAT sharp!" she grunted, making one last tug before falling back on her butt. "Ouch ouch ouch!" she said, shaking her head and glaring at the keyblade. An aura surrounded Ananta as she stood up. "Look here you stupid weapon key. You're mine to command, so that means you listen to ME!" she yelled, pointing to herself. "So that means when I say not to be stuck, that means you better become UNSTUCK!" she finished, pointing at the keyblade. Staring at the keyblade for a minute, Ananta grinned. "Guess I better go all mananta on you, huh?" she said, leaning down into her praying position. Just as she did, the keyblade fell down, seemingly out of the hole it had pierced into the floor. Ananta smiled and stood up, grabbing her keyblade. "Good!" she giggled, turning towards the Air Pirates again. Holding her keyblade with both her hands, Ananta rushed towards the heartless. "My mana is pretty low, better just smack them around for a bit..." she mumbled, slamming one of the Air Pirates as if it were a baseball bat. It slammed against the wall and fell to the ground, disappearing on impact. "One down." she said, turning to her next target. The next Air Pirate took a direct approach and decided to glide straight for Ananta, arms stretched in front of it. Ananta let it grab her and soon it tried to carry her off. Smirking, Ananta let her keyblade disappear. She raised her hands and pressed the fire magic in her hands onto the wings of the heartless. It's wings were burned badly as it dropped Ananta and fell with her. Moving herself to where the heartless was below her, Ananta braced herself for impact. Hitting the ground, the heartless was gone soon after, leaving Ananta leaning on the ground and staring at the last Air Pirates in front of her. "Now now, don't run away!" she said, standing up and walking towards the two heartless. Her hands were extended outwards, her chest exposed. "Come here, let's hug. Or you can just take me away and eat me or whatever you heartless like to do." she chuckled, watching the Air Pirates take her bait. As it got closer, her grin widened and her hands encased themselves in ice and she soon punched the heartless as hard as she could. The ice shattered and encompassed the two Air Pirates, leaving them to fall down and and lay there, frozen. Ananta approached and smacked both of them with her keyblade. "For good measure." she said, glaring at the Behemoth again. Yet another fire spell shot towards it, damaging it. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Pirates (20 BP spent) Behemoth 230/300 (1 BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 13 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 39 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 47 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 227 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 140 EXP Rain: 60 EXP Kross: 41 EXP
The Behemoth was particularly happy that Ananta was on it's head and attacking it's horn. After she finished her initial attacks on the horn, Ananta had grabbed on to try and not fall off. She wanted to think about what to do next, but she wasn't able to afford such a thing. The Behemoth began to thrash and stomp about, trying to knock Ananta off. Gripping the horn tightly, Ananta latched her legs around the horn and kept holding on, trying to not fall off. As the thrashing began to lessen, Ananta let go and stood back up, thinking she was free to move about and possibly attack again. "That didn't last too long..." she mumbled, looking down at the giant heartless. Just as she said that, it began to thrash again and Ananta wasn't able to get a good grip on the horn. As it moved about, she fell off and landed hard on the floor below. The Behemoth had moved to the other side of the west gate, huffing and exhaling loudly. Ananta groaned as she stared at the ceiling. "I hit my head, ugh..." she complained, sitting up rigidly. The shock from hitting the ground had shook her entire body, making it hard for her to move Ananta rubbed her back, feeling sore in more spots than one, and glared at the Behemoth. "Okay, you're going to go down you stupid beast, that really hurt!" she yelled at it, using her keyblade to prop herself up and soon stand up. "Well, I guess for now I can leave that huge heartless be. Because right now, there are far too many smaller ones that could use a good beating. Although they don't look all too small..." she said, coughing a little. That fall really hurt, knocking the wind out of her and making her hit her head. "Luckily I'm hard headed." she chuckled, looking around at the heartless that were flying about. The heartless that had bat like wings were gliding about, minding their own business. They tried to swipe at her comrades on this side occasionally, but they didn't really manage to hit anyone, at least. "Guess I could try and fight some of these ones." Ananta decided, nodding towards one of the Air Pirates. Running forwards, she jumped up at it, casting a shadow on the Air Pirate. It turned to Ananta and soon met it's end with a swift keyblade strike that was coupled with a blizzard spell shortly before. The heartless froze in air and was shattered from her keyblade striking it and it disappeared. To her left, an Air Pirate was zooming in fast, trying to attack Ananta. To her right, yet another Air Pirate was zooming towards her. "Either they're dumb or they intentionally want to make my job easier." she chuckled, jumping up at the last second and watching the two heartless collide and fall down, knocking each other out. Ananta landed on one of the Air Pirates and caused it to disappear. "Huh, who knew my foot was so deadly. Must have a lead foot or something." she chuckled, The other heartless had begun to stir and was attempting to fly again. Ananta quickly saw to it's demise. Looking up from what she was doing, Ananta looked to see an Air Pirate was right in front of her. "Oh CRAP." she said, holding her keyblade up to defend herself from it's attack. Grabbing the heartless, Ananta swung around and threw it towards the Behemoth. The heartless landed on it's horn, disappearing almost immediately. "And for good measure, you lummox..." Ananta said, shooting a fire spell at the Behemoth. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Pirates (20 BP spent) Behemoth 242/300 (1 BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 19 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 48 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 167 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 110 EXP Rain: 41 EXP Kross: 41 EXP
With all her wounds healed up, Ananta did a quick jog in place to get herself ready to fight some more heartless. "Well, all the tiny ones are gone now, so that just leaves the bigger ones..." she talked out loud. Looking around, she saw what was left to fight. "So we've got some wyvern things flying about...I already fought one and it hurt a lot. Those talons are a pain. Then there are the demon ones that have wings and...turban things on their heads? Sort of look like pirates to me. Tons of those flying about." she started to list off what she saw. "Then we got the huge things that I'll just call behemoths..." she said, gulping and staring at the Behemoth that they had all attacked at some point. It was injured pretty badly, but not too bad for it to be crippled. Ananta remembered she saw Steel attacking it's horn, so she made a note of it. "Behemoth's look like their weak spots are on their heads. That horn, is their weak spot." she spoke on, talking with nobody in particular. "Other than those things, we've got some heartless with punching gloves and one that has weird squiggles for wings and a helmet on it's head." she nodded. Ananta crossed her arms, pondering what she should fight next. Soaring behind, a Wyvern was swooping down and readying it's talons. It stretched forward and grasped Ananta by her legs. Flipping upside down, Ananta looked at the heartless carrying her around. Flicking her braids out of her face, she summoned her keyblade and began to swing slightly. The Wyvern didn't seem too affected by her swinging, so she managed to swing up enough to grab her hand on a talon. With her right hand gripping the leg, her left hand swung her keyblade and hit the Wyvern's legs. It's grip loosened on her legs and eventually she felt her legs drop below her. The Wyvern tilted a little, as if it were about to fall, but it regained it's composure. Letting her keyblade go, it disappeared as she reached up and moved to the back of the Wyvern. Ananta rode the heartless until they were close to the Behemoth. As they approached, she stabbed the wing of the heartless and watched as it began to fall, heading for the Behemoth's back. Gripping the Wyvern, Ananta fell with it and watched as it skid down the spine of the Behemoth. The Wyvern finally stopped and slumped over on the back of the Behemoth. Ananta climbed off and looked at the heartless. "I know you're not dead, you haven't disappeared yet. What, are you knocked out or something?" she said, kicking the heartless. It stirred, sitting up and trying to flap away. As it did, Ananta watched it try and get away, but it's wing was far too injured for it to fly anymore. "Pitiful thing, I'd better just end it now, huh?" she said, stepping towards it. Once she was close enough, Ananta beat the heartless until it disappeared and left only a heart. Swinging her keyblade up and resting it on her shoulder, Ananta looked down and noticed she wasn't on the ground or a ledge. She was on top of the Behemoth! "Well, I wanted to get up here anyway, thanks heartless dude." she said to the heart that was now disappearing. Making her way to the Behemoth's head, Ananta looked around the area and saw everyone fighting. "We're all just gonna pass out after this battle, I bet." she sighed, looking at the glowing horn in front of her. "Regardless, while I'm here, better hit this...thing." she said, swinging her keyblade at the Behemoth's horn. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Wyvern (10 BP spent) Behemoth 243/300 (11 BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 23 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 48 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 137 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 110 EXP Rain: 41 EXP Kross: 41 EXP
Lightning struck the heartless surrounding Ananta, injuring many, but only managing to kill a few. The heartless dispersed and Ananta could see a hole on one side. The side she could tell a few heartless were destroyed. As the rest of the heartless began to flutter away, Ananta jumped out of the mass and flew towards Kross, arms extended. She wrapped herself around him and squeezed him, possibly causing him to fall over in the process. She was shaking, scared half to death. Those heartless had intended to kill her and they weren't going to just let her go. The one thing that saved her was Kross. She didn't even realize that she had called his name out, she just thought of somebody there that she knew could save her. After she finished hugging him, she let go of him and stood up, dusting herself and Kross off. "Sorry, didn't mean to make you fall over. I was a little...well...happy that you saved me. I would have been minced meat had you not saved me, Kross. So...thanks." she said, smiling at him, scratching her head. "I'll try and be the one to help you next time, kay?" she said, pumping her fist up. Truth be told, she was scared now. Those heartless were way more dangerous than she had thought. Ananta knew they were dangerous, but she didn't know they would do a thing such as that. A few times, she thought she was going to actually die. "I can't die yet, I just can't. There are too many worlds out there that need help, I wanna see them all get help, So I can't just die, ya know?" she said to Kross, turning back to him. "So you do the same, okay? I don't wanna see a good friend getting hurt and dying on me, mmmkay?" she said, waving at him and running off. "Back to those stupid heartless." she said, seeing the group had reformed and were readying to attack again. "They just don't give up..." she sighed, pulling her keyblade out. She gripped the hilt tightly, jumping up into the mass of heartless. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she yelled, slashing and thrashing about, destroying the remainder of the heartless mass. Her keyblade cut through them as if they were butter, taking only a few strikes just as before. For the ones that didn't go down so easily, probably didn't get hurt by the thunder spell Kross had thrown, Ananta used her magic to finish them off. Thanks to her attacking so many, her magic was being restored at a fast pace. Ananta's hand felt cold as she glared at the final Hook Bat that was left. It had been used to disperse a few Rapid Thrusters and was stuck in a limbo. It looked rather dizzy and didn't seem like it wanted to go after Ananta. She couldn't take any chances, so she readied a blizzard spell. The Hook Bat regained it's sense, shaking about and fluttering erratically. It noticed Ananta and began to flap towards her, unknowing of it's fate. Once it was close enough, she shot a blizzard spell at it. "Deep freeze!" she yelled, blasting the Hook Bat with her ice spell. It froze and fell to the ground, shattering on impact. Smirking, Ananta stood there, huffing and holding her hands together. "Coooold!" she complained, rubbing her hands to try and warm her hand up. As she did, green, curative magic spilled from her hands and surrounded her in a warm light. Taking a deep sigh, she could feel her wounds healing. "That's great!" she said, closing her eyes. OOC: Ananta's friendship level for Kross has risen! ★★★★★★★★★★ Heartless Killed/Injured Hook Bats (FINISHED OFF) Rapid Thrusters (FINISHED OFF) Behemoth 260/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 0 Wyverns: 13 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 31 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 48 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 0 EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 107 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 80 EXP Rain: 19 EXP Kross: 28 EXP
A never ending swarm of Rapid Thrusters had emerged close to the West Gate and Ananta was the only one that she saw that wasn't busy with her own heartless. Looking at the mass of heartless, she attempted to count how many were there, but they moved far too fast for her to count them properly. "Well, I guess I better just fight them instead of standing around and waiting much longer. Who knows what they could do if they weren't destroyed soon." Ananta said, running towards the cloud of heartless. As she approached, it donged on her just how many there had to be. 'Now that I'm closer, I gotta say there are at least thirty of these things. That's pretty scary.' she thought, skidding to a stop and rethinking her plan. 'I can probably take down quite a few of them and not have to worry too much about the rest of them. Let's see...I have all my mana back since I kicked some butt, so I could use my magic...and if I got too injured, I could most definitely heal me. The question is, do I want to attack them more or use my magic?' Huffing, Ananta crossed her arms, watching the heartless float about. They didn't seem too threatening, in fact, they seemed relatively safe and in their own world for all she could tell. 'This is a toughie. I could attack, but then they'd be all over me. Then there's also that.' she looked over and saw a small group of Hook Bats flapping their wings about. 'If they all attacked together, I'd be in a bit of trouble, but hopefully if anything happened, somebody around here would help me if I screamed loud enough. That'd be embarrassing though, so I'll try not to resort to that.' thought Ananta as she stood ready to fight the heartless. 'Okay, so I'll first run at the small yellow ones and at least lessen their numbers. Then, next chance I get, I can finish them off and go for some of those purple bat ones. Sounds easy enough. If I get in too much trouble, I can rely on Kross or Steel to help me. Maybe even that...girl...over there.' Ananta looked at the three people that were over here, fighting with her. She didn't recognize the girl, but she had a keyblade, so she was obviously there to help. Nodding her head, Ananta held her keyblade and rushed at the swarm of Rapid Thrusters, jumping up and swinging her keyblade around at them. She could feel the force of each one of the heartless being hit. It resonated in her keyblade as she could feel her mana getting replenished. A flame lit in her hand, causing her hand to scorch. Wincing at the pain, Ananta shot three fireballs at a few of the yellow, dart heartless. Each of them disappeared and let the hearts contained within them float away. Ananta continued swinging, destroying countless heartless. Only when she defeated the 21st one did she realize that she needed to stop and rest. Hopping back, she looked at her hand and cringed. Her skin was badly injured, feeling as if she had touched the fires of hell. Trying to retreat, she wasn't expecting the Hook Bats and Rapid Thrusters to work together and lift her up, encasing her in a mass of heartless. "Ack, no!" she said, kicking and punching at the heartless, She had completely forgotten about her keyblade and was trying desperately to not get eaten alive by these monsters. "Kross! Help!" she called out. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Rapid Thrusters (21 BP spent) Behemoth 261/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 33 [1BP each] Wyverns: 13 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 31 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 49 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 11 [1BP each] EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 107 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 50 EXP Rain: 19 EXP Kross: 10 EXP
Holy shizzles They did a great job at remastering dearly beloved/hikari
Others began to arrive and they were doing their best to fight the heartless that were approaching and wandering about. Looking around, Ananta could see all of the wielders, ones she had been partied with and others she had not, were fighting together to try and protect this place. This place they had only just arrived a few hours ago. Ananta shook her head. 'Of course we're going to protect this place. We're keyblade wielders, it's what we do, right?' she said, chuckling. Then she remembered Nequa. She too was a keyblade wielder, but instead of fighting for the light, she was tempted by darkness and instead fought against the light. This confused Ananta, making her stop and think of a reason. 'What's so great about the darkness? All you do is fight the darkness so it doesn't swallow you completely and then some day, you die and the darkness swallows you up again.' she thought, looking at a Hook Bat floating nearby. 'And then, when you lose yourself, you turn into one of these dark things. Your dark heart suddenly is engulfed and you lose yourself, becoming one of these pitiful monsters with no purpose.' Ananta stepped towards a group of Rapid Thrusters and Hook Bats mingling together. She hooked her keyblade onto one of the Hook Bats and hopped up, swinging the heartless about like the one earlier, destroying a few of the smaller heartless. As their hearts floated away, Ananta was reminded of what she wanted to tell everyone else. 'That's right, I needed to tell everyone what I saw. But then again, what if they doubt me? What if none of them believe me? I'd just be sitting here blabbing on about something and they'd call me crazy. Then, they'd probably not want to talk to me anymore. I'd be stuck, knowing I saw something and nobody would believe me. That would suck.' she kept thinking, dodging attacks from countless heartless as she looked at them, trying to determine her next target. She had to think carefully. She could continue to fight the smaller heartless and eventually they'd only have the bigger ones left. It's sound advice, considering the smaller ones may be weak, but in great numbers they can deal some massive damage if you aren't careful. "Well, I already killed about 11 small heartless, so targeting a couple of the bigger ones wouldn't be so bad, right?" she shrugged. Just as she finished that sentence, two Air Pirates latched onto her arms and began to carry Ananta into the air. "Hey, put me down!" she called out, struggling in their grip. As they lifted her up, Ananta could tell they were either going to kidnap her and kill her someplace else, or they were going to drop her. Either way, she was going to get hurt. As they slowed down, Ananta saw they were pretty high up, about eye level with a Behemoth, and she looked at the two heartless. In her right hand, ice began to swirl in her hand as she touched the Air Pirate latched onto her right arm. The cold spell washed over it and froze the heartless, plummeting down to the ground below. The other heartless couldn't keep the two bodies up and so it fell with them. When they hit the ground, the ice shattered off the other and Ananta grunted once she hit the ground. Instead of dwelling on the pain, she hopped back up and finished off the previously frozen Air Pirate. It disappeared soon after, it's heart floating away. Ananta turned towards the other and watched as it tried to grab her arm again. This time, she was ready and easily dodged the attack. Her keyblade smacked the heartless' head and it soon suffered the same fate as it's friend had suffered. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Hook Bats (6 BP spent) Rapid Thrusters (5 BP spent) Air Pirates (10 BP spent) Behemoth 274/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 35 [1BP each] Wyverns: 13 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 37 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 49 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 33 [1BP each] EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 77 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 30 EXP Aqua: 19 EXP Kross: 10 EXP
Ananta looked around and saw that Steel had arrived and was attacking the Behemoth. But other than him, nobody else had come to her and Kross' aid. By the looks of it, Kross was also not even paying attention. Hopping back away from the Behemoth that Steel was attacking, Ananta looked around and found herself pushed against the wall. A few heartless skittered by her, ignoring her mostly, except for two Air Knockers who stopped in their tracks and turned to Ananta. One of them looked at her, twitching about until it launched itself towards her. Ananta held her keyblade up and blocked it's attack, knocking it away and glaring at it. It had manage to land a punch past her keyblade and hit her cheek. It had taken her by surprise, causing her to bite her cheek with her sharp teeth. Blood trickled out the corner of her mouth and dripped onto the floor. Ananta grew angry, holding her hand up and holding a fire ball in her hand. It burned a little, but it was a pain she'd fight through so long as she was able to attack and defeat this heartless. She did so, watching it disappear and a heart floated away. Holding her hand that previously held a fire spell, she saw how burnt her hand was. It hurt and she could swear her skin had melted off a little, but she was determined to defeat these stupid monsters. By now, the other Air Knocker had fled, trying to get away from Ananta so it wouldn't suffer the same fate. She saw what it was doing and immediately, she launched herself at the poor thing. Ananta missed the heartless, instead landing on the ground and scuffing her chin against the floor. "Ugh..." she groaned, standing back up and rubbing her chin. Ananta looked back up, she continued to watch the countless hearts float away, disappearing little by little. This confused her greatly. "What in the world are these lights floating away? They all feel cold, not a single one of them giving off heat...but at the same time it feels familiar. Like I've felt this once before." she said, standing up and watching other little lights floating away, towards the ceiling, disappearing shortly after being released from these monsters. "I don't know where I've seen these before, but I could have sworn I'd seen one once before...when my world was...." Her eyes widened, staring carefully at another one of the lights. Her eyes focused and she could tell the faint warmth apart from the immense cold that surrounded each of the lights. "Hearts....these are he-!" she was about to exclaim, before a large heartless swooped down and slammed her against the wall. It was a Wyvern, pointing it's talons at Ananta. Looking at the monster in front of her, she felt frightened. Her arms instinctively crossed over her chest to protect her torso and crystal. The heartless then began to claw at her with it's talons, scratching her arms up before it popped off and floated around aimlessly. Ananta had fallen over and began to sit back up. Her hands held the green magic that was Cura and she felt the healing magic works itself into her wounds. Standing up, she jumped up and performed an air combo on this Wyvern, destroying it. It's own light joining the others that were amassing at the roof and disappearing. Four rapid thrusters emerged near Ananta and she decided to disperse of them quickly, slashing her keyblade at them stopping to take a breather for now. "I...I don't know if I should tell anybody what I've noticed..." she sighed, scratching her head. OOC: Heartless Killed/Injured Air Knocker 1 (7BP spent) Wyvern (10 BP spent) Rapid Thrusters (3 BP spent) Behemoth 274/300 (no BP spent) Remaining Behemoths: 5 (1 injured)[300 BP each] Hook Bats: 49 [1BP each] Wyverns: 14 [10 BP each] Air Pirates: 39 [5BP each] Air Battlers: 40 [9BP each] Air Knockers: 49 [7BP each] Rapid Thrusters: 38 [1BP each] EXP Writer 1 Bonus Ananta: 47 EXP (30 this post) Steel: 30 EXP
