Each respective group took their post and began their patrol.... SOUTH SIDE Ananta had been partnered with Pluto and was not very pleased from it. Pluto eyed the crystal with great displeasure. He was not very fond of jewelery and gave very noticeable impressions to signal so. Before he could do anything to annoy and pester her, he heard a shrill shriek from Princess Minnie, followed by a large punching sound. "Bark Bark!" Pluto alarmed, as he ran to the Princess' foyer to inspect. Ananta was blocked off immediately from a group of lance soldier heartless, preventing her from following. EAST SIDE "Yeah!" Donald aswered Steels remark. "Bad guys always go for the tougher looking one!" His cowardly reason was followed by the fact that it was a man with a keyblade or a duck. Of course, Donald also neglected to acknowledge that he was partnered with the quickest of the five key bearers and if it came down to running away; Steel would win. As Steel stood strong, Donald waddled around with caution before hearing a faint 'psst' signalling that some one was whispering to him. "Huh?" Donald turned to find the smallest of the beagle boys across the way. "OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!" He yelled frantically. Donald hopped and ran away crying; "WHAAAAAAAAAAKKK!!!" The beagle boy snickered and snapped his fingers to summon heartless to deal with Steel. "Finish le boy, but ze ducky is mine! Hehe!" He then chased off after Donald and left Steel alone. WEST SIDE After Kel had mentioned the sword in the stone, Goofy had been trying to recall just why that scenario seemed so familliar. "Gee, I just can't put ma finger on it! I know that sounds like something I've seen before but I just don't know wheres!... Maybe if-" Hard tapping footsteps were heard just around the corridor of the western walls, catching Goofy's attention. "Huh?.. Halt! Bad guys!" Without consulting Kel, he zoomed past and rounded the corner to try and find the source of the footsteps, leaving the wielder in his dust. Before he could follow, a group of heartless appeared, surrounding him and preventing and chance of follow until they were rid of. NORTH SIDE Kross and Raisor had little to no interaction once they had gotten back from the high tower. They were the only duo of keybladers and not partnered with any of the worldly denizens to aid them. While they hadn't said a word to each other, they were nary given the chance once a swarm of heartless appeared to test their strength! ~MISSION START!~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glen leveled up! (25) Kaida leveled up! (23) Stratos leveled up! (24) With the demons finally silenced, a glowing light emerged from the city below, as lanterns lit the way against a fog from the dawn of sunrise. "The living glory of our nights, of our nights and days. The prince of peace your arms embrace, while hosts of darkness fade and cower. Oh save us, mother full of grace, in life, and in our dying hour," a soft, but kind voice spoke. From the pathway to the mountaintop, a man in a white hooded coat emerged from the rocks that hid him to appear in front of the group. "A simple wonder what music inspires to such a vision... Beautiful in it's own way." He reached into hit coat pocket and held out both his gloved hands with the last two musical notes the group needed. "How the combination of various sounds can tell a story... Just like a book." He looked across the group and looked at each one carefully through his hood. "But I do wonder why you decide to take part in this story." He lifted both hands which held both blue, and red quarter notes. "Are these really that important to you?" ~MISSION START!~ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hikaru continued to wail around the hammerframe for a few more instances of defeating heartless with their own brethren before the hammer he was swinging could take no more, after three more were defeated, the hammerframe in his hands faded from two much damage, releasing it's heart. Hikaru however, was still spinning and spinning before trying to stop his heels to better align himself. "Whoa! Whoa!" He held his arms out to find balance after his spinning decreased to find his vision was impaired with sights of seeing double. "Oh come on, don't tell me more showed up!" He whined, before his vision was slowly returning to normal. "Oh, that's better, heh!" Summoning his keyblade, he shook off any remaining feeling of a dazed head and ran straight back into the action! Noting a few more damaging the lines that held the platform up, he took his blade and slashed forward against one of the frames before locking onto to another and slashing against it also. While these were only singular hits, he only did so to get their attention to follow him. "That's right, follow the leader!" he called out. He slashed two more once before leading them all to the center of the platform he stood on. With each one following, they smashed their circular faces against the ground to try and get a fix on Hikaru. While he wasn't fast, he had a good amount of height in his jumps which allowed him to narrowly avoid most of the smashing caused by the hammer heartless. Once four were within his range and his keyblading party was no longer within friendly fire range, Hikaru lifted his blade high into the air and pointed it at the sky. "Faith!" he cried out. With that call, pillars of light descended onto the hammerframes, ironically smashing them with the power of pure light, bringing Hikaru's total count to eight for that maneuver. Heartless remaining: 14/75 Words: 320 EXP total: 46 EXP
Nice to see a bit more of a conflict at work. Seeing the more negative emotions taking hold of Riley will make for some more interesting scenarios. Heck, all of them trying to get a good fix on her mind makes for interesting scenarios. Let's say one of the situations on her first day is spotting a cute boy she develops a crush on. Said boy spots her and walks over. Stuff just writes itself.
All demons had been expunged and still no sign of exit was in sight for the keyblade wielders. Just as all seemed calm, the mountain shook with great force. Small rocks around them were vibrating about as a crater slowly opened in front of the group. Whatever the demons had planned to summon was incomplete, but that didn't mean there was not enough satanic power to at least summon something less powerful! From the depths of the crater emerged two phantoms that shot out of the hole like rockets, circling around the group with such haunting sounds. The two of them stood at opposite ends of the party, not allowing them to escape until they were both defeated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before he knew what to do, all the heartless that appeared had mostly been defeated by the efforts of D'daear, Luna and Aden. He felt very sore that they were made to do all the work before he could act on his fighting instinct. "Well, that should definitely good practice at least. Feel really bad that you did most of the work..." he mentioned. As thankful as he was that the heartless were all taken care of, part of him felt a little useless. In the beginning of this grand adventure, he would always feel a need to take charge and lead them through the strange and bewildering worlds. Now it had become second nature to them which made him feel a bit lost in his identity. Like a father whose children were growing up so fast. He was proud for sure, but it didn't really make him feel needed anymore. In the midst of his thoughts, The hammer heads returned in the same numbers, whacking away at the scaffolding building. Hikaru lit up at the chance to redeem himself for the lack of action before. It was a little bit of a guilty feeling for the excitement of more appearing heartless, but any chance to jump at the opportunity to fight for people was something he would look forward to. "Now... Now I'll cover you guys!" he shouted, preparing himself. Without even the use of his keyblade, he grabbed a hammer headed heartless by both of it's tiny legs and tripped it flat onto it's face. The impact of the hammer caused the platform they were on to shake a bit. Pulling it's face back along the ground, Hikaru used his arms to drag him around as he began to slowly make a twisting motion. It took him a few seconds to really get going, but he had managed to turn the heartless into his own personal weapon as he was now a spinning tornado of swinging fury. It was difficult to try and keep his balance in avoiding hitting any of his friends, but the method was proving effective as he was mowing away at any of the heartless that went near him. "I... think... it's... working...." Each word was spaced out since he was talking while trying to keep his grip on the heartless. With any luck, he could just fight them off with this method. He proceeded to spin around like a spinning top of doom in anticipation for any more to go near him. He had already knocked down eight, with more on the way... Heartless remaining: 67/75 Words: 430 EXP total: 21 EXP
Nice to see that little Vision teaser. And I'm liking that they gave Black Widow some kind of super suit. Never before have we seen an athletic, odd defying red head infused with a synthetic tron-like suit before. At least not one in black.
~MISSION COMPLETE~ Mickey and company took the carriage safely back to the opera house in time to return Princess Minnie to her affairs. With Goofy on the reigns, and Donald and Mickey at the rear, the rest of the keybladers were made to walk, but to stick together so a repeat of last time would least likely happen. "Alright princess, we made it back in time for the show!" Goofy gleefully announced, tipping his hat. Mickey was the first to hop off and open the door for her esteemed royal highness. "Here you are princess! We're sorry we got you kidnapped... and caged... and almost locked away forever..." Donald admitted. "Well, the important thing is you did your duty. Your country thanks you all very much!" Minnie thanked. "You are all very brave." As she exited the carriage being escorted out by Goofy, a skinny, golden yellow dog came running along and barked happily at the sight of Mickey. "Pluto! D'aww, did you wait here for us all this time?" Pluto barked back before licking his face. "Aww, thata boy! This is my dog Pluto! I don't think you've all met yet!" Pluto barked and ran around, sniffing to get a better idea of who they were. He stopped when he got to Ananta and growled viciously. "Pluto! They helped us out! So be nice." He stopped growling and nodded, but kept a watchful eye on the girl. "Hehe, maybe you just smell funny to him?" Donald suggested. "Well, now that the princess is back, we can get back to our royal duty. Cap'n Pete said we should keep watch when the Opera is goin' on!" "Great memory Goofy! Guess that means the eight of us can split up and-" "Bark! Bark!" "Hehe, right. The NINE of us can split up and take a hall. But first we've got to deliver the Princess to Pete..." Minnie stepped close to Mickey and blushed. "I was hoping if maybe... you and I could... walk to him together. Just the two of us..." "Ohh.. Umm... As you wish princess!" Mickey replied, saluting her. He tried his best to remain professional, when in reality, he was quite flustered. As per Minnie's request, the two walked into the opera hall with the eight remaining left to decide. "Hmmm, well it seems Pluto's really attached to Anant'er over there, so I guess they'll take the South side!" Goofy decided as Pluto growled heavily at her. "Aww, he really likes you! Who will you patrol with Donald?" The Duck looked across the four other musketeers, and locked onto Steel. "Steel looks dangerous- I mean a good partner!" While he was just looking for the person who could keep him most safe, something about Steel seemed familiar to him... "Alrighty, Guess I'll go with Kel to the East, and Kross and Raisor can take the North!" Everyone had a partner and were free to patrol the grounds for any bad guys whilst Mickey escorted the Princess back to Pete. "You sure I don't know you from somwheres?" Goofy asked to Kel. North Side > Kross and Raisor West Side > Donald and Steel East Side > Goofy and Kel South Side > Ananta and Pluto ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~MISSION COMPLETE~ Base leveled up! (24) Karina leveled up! (26) A bright light shined as the fifth musical note was received. To their surprise, the group was not brought back to the castle, but to a dark mountain that overlooked a small village below. "Fellas.. are you there?" Mickey's voice called out. "Where'd ya go? The light was supposed to bring you back, but it looks like a stronger force brought you to a different world!" Mickey flipped the pages back at the tower and scratched his head. "I.. don't see anything like it in the book. But be careful everyone. I don't like the looks of this place." Surrounding the bald mountains, were dancing and crawling demons of three different varieties; Imp demons, which were the smallest with pitchforks, Horned demons, which were human sized with wings, and Brute demons, which towered over 6 feet, with broad back and heavy fists. Whatever they were doing seemed like a ritual to bring something to life. They were also terrorizing everything and anything that went near them. This world was different from the others, and there was something very unsettling about this world... Something... Dark. ~MISSION START!~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Rain leveled up! (20) As Joceline pulled the next string, the six keyblade wielders were transported to a scaffolding building where hammer head heartless were knocking down the structure of the entire building! Luckily no one was actually inside, but the structure was falling with every smash of their hammering heads. "Heartless? Here!" Hikaru cried out. The skeletons they fought before seemed like they came from this world, but these were definitely heartless. "They're gonna knock the whole thing down! We've gotta stop them before they get the chance!" ~MISSION START!~
Okay, this is way too hard for me... But I can say that of all the Disney films in the renaissance period (1989-1999) Pocahontas, has such an underrated soundtrack. Most of the two cultures at war with one another and the musical score really does an excellent job at setting an appropriate atmosphere. I don't think there's a track or song on that that wasn't appropriate. "Farewell" I think was my favorite orchestral track as it meshes together songs throughout the film including the removed song "If I never knew you." In a way Farewell is like one final trip down the memory of the film of how sad it is to say goodbye just when you've developed an understanding. (Love how it picks up in tempo during the second half) With Mulan, the track "Short Hair" really does it for me. (The scene where she cuts her hair and goes for the army). It's just so damn uplifting! Like, I could train to that track alone and legitimately feel like I'm getting stronger from all that preserved honor. Part I like is only like a minute, but hell if it doesn't make me feel ready for the world.
^ First thing I thought from the title...
Welcome Back! I'm on the skypes if you ever want to chat. It's been far too long!
Both Xehanorts in one year is truly a sad thing indeed. Especially as he was only featured in 2 of the seven games. I will miss Nimoy. He could play excellent portrayals of antagonists and protagonists. His acting and voice work will surely be missed. And now that both voices are gone, Xehanort's true voice will rise...
fun little mention, Ariel was SUPPOSED to be the 7th princess of heart instead of Alice. Due to a time restraint on planning however, the KH development team could not fit in the rest of Atlantica's story, which meant Ariel could not grow legs to get kidnapped. They instead added the rest of the story in KH2.
With Post hast, Goofy carried on past, the rest of them as fast as he could to try and reach the princess in time. With revved up legs, he dashed around the spiral staircase like a rocket. "Don't worry yer Majesty! We're a comin'!" Mickey blinked in disbelief at how fast he took off. Donald looked back at Mickey. "Can we do that?..." "I dunno Donald... but let's just hurry! the princess needs us. All of us!" Meanwhile... on the 87th floor of the tower... The Beagle Boys were slowly trying to climb the last few floors of the hundred foot tower when the tallest one stopped to pose a question. "Oy! What we gonna do if them Musketeers show up again?" "They's eighty-seven floors up!| The middle one mentioned. "It'll be hours before theys on us." Widening his eyes at the sound fo gasping voices, he turned to find Mickey, Donald and Goofy having rushed up the stairs, and were now out of breath. The Keybladers that followed too, were out of breath from the long distance traveled in such a short time. "Stop (pant_ Right (pant) There (pant) You thieves!" Mickey warned. "Sling that bird in her cage!" He ordered the tallest, as they were prepared to fight. The tallest followed his orders and threw Princess Minnie into a princess sized bird cage that hung from the top of the tower." Now let's have a bit of fun with these blighters, eh?" Though they outnumbered the villains, the Princess's cage did not lock very stable and could break at any moment. "Goofy, we have to rescue the princess! Any bright ideas?" "Just one!" Gooyf whispered back. He allowed the croup to corner them to the highest point in the tower and backed against tower's two parallel windows. "Hot soup!" Goofy charged passed them and crashed through the window, leaving the beagle boys in confusion. "Well that was a bit of a barney, wasn't it?" one mentioned. The three of them looked out the window to find Goofy being todsed all over the land like a virtual pinball machine, before we was launched back up the tower, knocking the beagle boys out the other window and into the river. A very confusing and odd way to get rid of them, but all that was left to do now was rescue the princess and return to the castle! Meanwhile in the river... "Boss ain't gonna like this!" The tallest pointed out. "Oy! Plan can still go off with a hitch! We just need to separate em, see?" "How do we do that?" the shortest question. "Simple,. When the Princess is at the Opera, them musketeers will be on guard duty all night. So we just gotta wait for em all to split up and take em out one by one." "Hehe, yeah.. It's a big castle. Accidents happen..."
Water and Magic were both good suggestions, but Hikaru held off on thinking about any strategy as the window to the next movie was by the window they entered through. "Looks like we won't have to..." He pointed over to the pull string window that was similar to that of the Mad Doctor memory they watched previously. Looks like all we have to do is watch this one again." ~MISSION START!~ (To complete, everyone must comment) @Ventus PSP Aqua @KHGrl15 @Calxiyn @Knight of Fafnir @Hexin ------------------------------------------------------ The group had reached the tower, just across a rickety bridge. Below the bride, lay a shallow waterfall, as the tower itself was surrounded by the farm-like setting of dead trees, soil, cows, and a windmill. They knew she had been dragged here due to the royal carriage that sat parked outside. The bad guys in question who took her were definitely positive that no one would look for the princess there. Nevertheless, they found it, and Mickey rushed to the Tower entrance to tug and pull at the gate. His efforts, sadly led to no avail. "HNG!!! It won't budge! Must be locked or something... If only we had the KEY!" Mickey thought aloud. "Welp, no key here. we tried," Donald pointed out, dismissing the thought of fighting the assailants who took the princess. "Not so fast Donald... Maybe Goofy can think of something. Waddya say Goof? Any bright ideas?" Goofy pondered for a moment as he looked to the door, and the plains that surrounded them. "Hmm... we need to get in, but got no key... and pullin' on it sure didn't help... So..." Goofy's eyes squinted as he continued to scan for a solution. He stopped at the sight of the wielder's keyblade. Then went back to the door. Then to the keyblade. Then back to the door. "Ahyuck! It's so simple!" Goofy exclaimed as the lightbulb in his head lit up. "I-it is?" Mickey asked in amazement. "You sure?" "Sure am!" Goofy marched proudly forward, around the keybladers and pointed both his hands towards a stone carved sign that read "PUSH." "OOOoh," Donald and Mickey nodded. "Hehe, whoops. Lucky for us they forgot to lock it!" Mickey said, pushing the door opened. "Yeah! Because if they did, we'd be locked out for sure!" "Yup! No key or nuthin'! Sure were lucky this time." Goofy followed his two friends inside before looking back to the wielders. "You fellers comin'?" -------------------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Stratos leveled up! (23) "Way to go everyone!" If you look past the Glen, those dark creatures are headed towards the coliseum where the dancers are! If you protect them, you'll find the next piece. I just know it!" Instead of transporting them back, Mickey gave them a new objective in the same world. Since the horde of heartless were continuing, they were able to get a second music note by protecting more dancing creatures. ~MISSION START!~
Jonting abount his clanking legs, the final skeleton ran like a little child, running from the teacher. It's fingers clenched, and pressed away from his chest, while he took large, horizontal steps in order to avoid them all. It was the last one standing and could be cornered wherever it went. Things were made even more difficult when he noticed he could no longer summon anymore allies. He knocked relentlessly against the ground to see if any of the undead were still napping, but alas, all his friends lay torn asunder around the graveyard battlefield. Hikaru appeared from behind the undead creature, as he menacingly hovered down with Dumbo, staying just a few feet off the ground. He gave two whistles in quick succession, as the skeleton's head perked up and did a full 180 to see Hikaru's eyes squinted like an old western film. It's head still facing, the skeleton's body slowly rose and turned to match the head's direction as it's bones shuttered from lack of anymore options. It looked left to right, as it shivered in place. Hikaru grabbed Dumbo's trunk and cocked it once more before he pointed it, directly at the skeleton's neck region. "That's enough outta the peanut gallery." A quick, but mighty peanut powered buckshot flew from Dumbo's trunk and knocked the skeleton's head flying backwards into a nearby tombstone. The body, still conscious, had it's hands feeling above it's neck to register that it's head was no longer attached. Walking blind, it turned around with it's arms in front of it to try and guide it's way across the cemetery to find it. However it didn't get very far, as it walked right into the deep grave opposite it's head. With the final skeleton defeated, Dumbo gave off a glowing twinkle before disappearing; signaling the battle had ended. Hikaru, now back to normal size, scratched the back of his head having regrouped with the others. They all faced the war zone and sighed with their battle now over. "Guess Mickey wasn't here... Any suggestion on the next window to open?" As their backs were turned however, a familiar mouse snuck off through the door without anyone being the wiser... ~MISSION COMPLETE~ Aden leveled up! (23) Cailyn leveled up! (19) D'daear leveled up! (20) Luna leveled up! (24)
I don't think I was fully clear in my last post. I don't want her to be part of the last battle, but definitely prior to it. Being one of the few surviving Disney baddies from previous games, I'd like an appropriate "end all" Disney Boss that wasn't just a part of the world you visited. (Chernabog made me so happy) After Maleficent was defeated as Final Boss runner up, then Sora could take the fight to Xehanort.
I think Maleficent needs to be kept going, yes. And here's why; Kingdom Hearts has always shown a balance between Disney and Square Enix. With Disney, KH has been able to show us exotic worlds, heart-filled moments, and fairy tale fantasy, while Square Enix has shown us the more darker, saddening, and plot twisting side of things. Xehanort has been an excellent villain, carefully planning out each step of the way according to his grande design, while Maleficent; not wishing to be left out of the scheme of things, is also finding new, and undiscovered ways of obtaining the almighty Kingdom Hearts. Both are manipulative, cunning and just love to wield that yummy, yummy darkness. So having her in Kingdom Hearts 3 as another major threat is always welcomed in my book. Her role however, will be taking a bit of a back seat compared to all we've seen thus far though. She could have such a role in the first game because there were only FOUR characters that Nomura developed for the game, (Sora, Riku, Kairi, Ansem) which left her a lot of room to scheme with fellow Disney villains. In CoM and KH2 however, Organization XIII was introduced, and with them, a bigger KH universe and overall plot. So if she is introduced into the game, I want her to have less contact with Sora, but always seen plotting in the shadows. Maybe have a redux version with her more prominently fighting Mickey like it was a side gam- *SHOT* I don't want her to be like the 2014 film version though. I don't want to sympathize her. I want her to be the mistress of all evil and flat out conquer. I want her to seem insignificant to whoever's playing for most of the game, as they travel world to world, fighting off Xehanort's 13 darknesses and whatnot. Heck, maybe she actually helps Sora out here and there as a temporary allegiance. And then. Right as Sora and Xehanort prepare to face off for the final Showdown- BAM! Maleficent shows up with a devilishly coy smirk on her face. Like in Sleeping Beauty, she'll just wander about, bantering about how she was almost left out of this grand occasion... So with 3 factions now in play, she can summon her rebuilt army of darkness and show what she's learned as an even more BAMF boss version of the KH1 battles.
Beuce leveled up! (25) Glen leveled up! (24) Kaida leveled up! (22) ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ With the mighty beast fallen, a bright light shined that opened up a new portal to take the six wielders back to Mickey. "Wow, you guys are really good at this. Your teamwork must be something you really worked hard on!" He took the third musical note and added it to the spell book. "Almost halfway done!" He flipped to the next page where he would continue to wave his hand and open up their next destination. The portal turned to mist before revealing a glen of centaur being scared off by heartless. "Hey... w-what are those things?" he asked as the Creeper Plants and Tornado steps inched in towards the frolicking creatures. "Hey look, that one's hiding the next note!" Mickey pointed towards the Poison Plant that was hiding the fourth note. "Good luck fellas!" His gloves hands glowed before sending them off into the world. ~MISSION START!~ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~MISSION COMPLETE!~ Raisor leveled up! (22) "Hey Mick, over here! Ahyuck! I found em!" Goofy yelled back as he and Donald approached the party. All three of them waltz over covered in mud with looks of disappointment. "You fellers okay?" Goofy asked looking around. "I saw you take down whatever was left of those bad guys and came soon as we could!" he reassured. Mickey slumped in the back with a most distraught expression. "We were ambushed by bad guys too!" Donald interjected. "Now how are we gonna protect the princess?" Mickey asked in sadness. "Protect the princess? Are you kidding? It's hopeless! We failed!" Donald rubbed the mud off his clothes and pouted at their failed attempts. He wasn't aware that Goofy took it to heart and began to blubber. "Hopeless... Failed?..." His eyes watered as he blurted out in loud tears. "BoooHoooHoooHooooo!!!" "Ahh, there there pal..." Donald looked around for something he could wipe with when he spotted Goofy's own uniform and gave it to him. "Here... blow." As Goofy took he cloth and blew loudly on it, Mickey tried to keep things together. He hated failing, but if they were going to be musketeers, then they needed a better attitude. "Well I don't think we're hopeless! Listen... Captain Pete has faith in all of us." "He does?... I mean- he does!" Goofy confirmed. "Pete made us muskteers, remember?" "Yeah! We're Musketeers!" Mickey had a very often habbit of picking his friends up from hopelessness when all seemed lost and as long as he kept reminding Donald of that, things would look up. "That's right! Just like we dreamed when we were kids!" Wiping off the excess dirt and grime from his clothes, he picked up everyone's spirits to keep moving forward. He looked to Donald, Goofy, and the other five wielders with optimism. "So whadya say, are we a team?" "Count me in Mickey!" Goofy answered immediately. "Mee too! Me too!" Donald added with a renewed spirit. Looking back on his friends, he nodded and looked to the keyblade wielders. "Then we're off to save the princess! And I hope you're all still with us... Because there's no obstacle too big! No Danger too great! And together we'll save the princess, or DIE trying!" Mickey and Goofy ran down the road on foot, leaving a hysterical Donald. "Die?..." The two ran back to grabs his arms and force him along, having him repeat the word blantly as he was dragged off. "Die?..." ~MISSION START!~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hikaru dashed at the chance to destroy another skeleton. The same one that was prepared to attack him before backed up against a tombstone and gave an evil grin as he looked to the grave and back to Hikaru. He didn't like the look of his boney grin. "What?..." he questioned as it gave a small and haunting chuckle. With it's hands, it dug into the grave and moved around the dirt so it would slide in like a hand in a glove. Hikaru simply stood there confused and bewildered at what the skeleton's end game was for doing that. "You want me to come in there after you?!" he yelled onto the grave. "Or do you think you can stay down there forever?!" he called out. A hand popped out from the ground after a brief moment of silence, where Hikaru spun and let out his keyblade, ready to pounce on the revealed skeleton. "Gotcha..." Before he could act, another hand popped out from a few feet away. Followed by another, and another in a rhythm that almost sounded like a drum beating against the dirt itself. Before he knew it, sixteen hands were now out on the ground surrounding him and the hands rose themselves up, as they bent their lanky arms and picked up their skeleton bodies through the soil revealing eight of them snapping their fingers and circling Hikaru like they were something out of a gang of broadway performers. The skeleton didn't run off, he merely called in reinforcements! Hikaru smirked before lighting his keyblade high. "I've got friends too you know." The keyblade glowed before out came a spout of water along with the small baby elephant Dumbo! Shrinking in size and mounting up, he petted the kind pachyderms head and hovered on his back as Dumbo turned to see what they were facing. "Much obliged for coming when I called!" Hikaru kindly thanked. The elephant was a bit hesitant at their scary demeanor though. "I won't let them hurt you," he reassured. "They just need a good wash down." He reached for dumbo's trunk and cocked it like a shotgun. Making sure his trunk was filled to the tip with liquid, he squinted and whispered out. "Time to water the garden," before letting loose massive blasts in all directions, spinning the elephant around in a stationary position. The water knocked down all skeletons as if they were bowling pins and by the time Hikaru realized this, he tapped Dumbo on the head for him to stop, as they were now both dizzy from the spinning. "Okay... side note. Let's not do that again." With his eyes still in spirals, Dumbo nodded lazily, trying to get his head together. Words: 450+ Skeletons remaining: 41/100 Total EXP gained: 57
Creepy? :O Oh Bueno, you make me laugh.
Well that's just ridiculous. Like they could plan that far ahead... Spoiler: NOT THE PLAN TO ASSIMILATE YOU PHASE 1 - They begin with a kind, but unsettling friendly demeanor. PHASE 2 - Slowly they will begin to adapt to your communities and climb it's ladder of social life. Edging their way into inner circles. PHASE 3 - Gaining your trust and more social power, they will have achieved eventual dominion over more and more of the community. PHASE 4 - They have reached their final form. Assimilation is imminent...
