Takehiko was having no problems at all with his flying. Perhaps it was from already using Torrin and Qamar's gliders previously but he had a good hang on it. But the boy was more focused on the kitten that was freaking out and shaking in the front. He heard Tinarah check up and he looked over and said,"No problems with me. Nini isn't liking it though. Just waiting until we find something and land."
The girl had already closed her eyes and accepted her fate, when she heard others run up to her defense, and when others had yelled for her to not give up. But she felt resolved in her decision. She was not going to be responsible for the loss of other lives today. She wouldn't allow it. Even as she heard Hikaru scream her and Aux's names, her eyes remained closed until she heard his thanks for everything.Something seemed too quiet for the moment. And the girl looked at Hikaru just as he smiled, and told her she'd see him later. Then Hikaru stabbed his keyblade into his chest. x x x x x x x x Frozen. If she didn't know any better, she'd think someone cast time or gravity on her with how much she couldn't move. How much she couldn't react. How she felt all of the gravity of the world try to pull her down so all she could do was lay on the floor. It was a moment where her mind didn't really process... anything. Someone would have had to have replayed the scene to her over and over again for her to fully understand that she just witnessed her best friend's death. The blonde walked slowly closer towards the spot Hikaru was at and she swiped her right hand through it slowly. Like she was trying to make sure he wasn't invisible and that there wasn't some prank going on here. But she knew it wasn't. Kaida felt her hand drop quickly as she just stared at the space, but she wasn't looking at anything. She was trying to reimagine Hikaru standing there the way he was just a few seconds ago with that smile. But it didn't work. She took in quite a few deep breaths before the space between each breath increased until she summoned out her keyblade. She looked straight at No Heart. But she wasn't really looking. It was clear Kaida was out of it. There was nearly no expression on her face before she charged at them without making a noise. But the blonde got just close enough to hit them before she stumbled and fell. Kaida tried pulling herself up with her keyblade. Her hands were shaky and she couldn't manage it. She stared at the ground and screamed, "WELL REF. ARE YOU ENJOYING THIS GAME? IS THIS REALLY JUST A GAME TO YOU?!" she gritted her teeth and looked up at the one cloaked in armor and hissed out, "I'll kill you. I'll make you suffer for this..." Kaida lifted herself up shakily and swung her keyblade but No Heart didn't even have to move an inch since it was a very clear miss and Kaida keyblade disappeared as she fell towards the ground again. She started breathing heavily again, but it was almost like she was trying to keep herself from hyperventilating as she managed out quietly, "Hikaru...H-Hikaru..." she lowered her head completely to the ground as her face was hidden by her hair.
Melus probably shouldn't have been grateful to see they were all still alive in one piece. But there was a part of her that was genuinely still glad they were okay. Probably Koa more than any of the others, she didn't even recognize some of them that seemed to now be in the area. But maybe they weren't picked up on their adventures. When Koa asked what happened to them since he last saw them, Melus moved her hand to her shoulder and rubbed it. The scarlet F was covered by her sleeve but she still felt the burning sensation lingering when she thought about it. It didn't take the girl long to come up with something as she let out a sigh, "Remember what we said about the base definitely not being secure anymore? Well, someone showed up and challenged the old man to a fight. We were trying to help out, but he had this... power that made it so every attack we made against him only made him stronger. As a result... we lost Lea." The brunette shook her head sadly and continued, "We managed to defeat him after Luther challenged him to one of those final fantasies and won. Since it was better going solo with that guy. But it didn't end in especially good health. We got out of the base to recover for a little bit since we knew it wasn't safe there. Lea seemed to know something was going to happen, so he told us if something went wrong to run to Shibuya and wait until either you guys got here... or if we waited to long just go back ourselves." Melus was silent a moment and said, "But you guys made it, which is good." She looked to Karina and eyed her and put on a small smirk and approached closer and asked, "Sooo, you have a keyblade now? And your name is openly Karina? You can't tell me more didn't go on while you guys were gone. That's not something insignificant that just happens." x
Melus probably shouldn't have been grateful to see they were all still alive in one piece. But there was a part of her that was genuinely still glad they were okay. Probably Koa more than any of the others, she didn't even recognize some of them that seemed to now be in the area. But maybe they weren't picked up on their adventures. When Koa asked what happened to them since he last saw them, Melus moved her hand to her shoulder and rubbed it. The scarlet F was covered by her sleeve but she still felt the burning sensation lingering when she thought about it. It didn't take the girl long to come up with something as she let out a sigh, "Remember what we said about the base definitely not being secure anymore? Well, someone showed up and challenged the old man to a fight. We were trying to help out, but he had this... power that made it so every attack we made against him only made him stronger. As a result... we lost Lea." The brunette shook her head sadly and continued, "We managed to defeat him after Luther challenged him to one of those final fantasies and won. Since it was better going solo with that guy. But it didn't end in especially good health. We got out of the base to recover for a little bit since we knew it wasn't safe there. Lea seemed to know something was going to happen, so he told us if something went wrong to run to Shibuya and wait until either you guys got here... or if we waited to long just go back ourselves." Melus was silent a moment and said, "But you guys made it, which is good." She looked to Karina and eyed her and put on a small smirk and approached closer and asked, "Sooo, you have a keyblade now? And your name is openly Karina? You can't tell me more didn't go on while you guys were gone. That's not something insignificant that just happens."
When AJ had jumped in front of her to protect her, she felt quite a bit of surprise before she felt an immense amount of gratitude. She barely knew AJ, at least not enough to expect him to risk his life for her. It meant a lot. But the feeling didn't last long as Aux knocked him away and she reached out towards AJ quickly hoping to grab him but it was no use. Then she watched as Hikaru jumped on Aux, and Aux grew wings and soared into the air. He knocked Hikaru off of him before he dive bombed at her. Kaida summoned out both of her keyblades to block him in an "x" formation. Kaida tried to weight her options here, trying to understand that he was under the control of someone else and that she should try and spare him. But he was going all out. Kaida didn't think it was worth risking the lives of so many people for her. She wanted to fight him all out, try to show off her full strength. But as her thoughts became all over the place, she looked to all of her friends and stopped at Hikaru and there was a look of apology on her face. Kaida backed away briskly and looked across at Aux and Kaida let go of her two keyblades as they dissipated into light. She stared and yelled, "Take one instead of four then!" she looked briefly at No Heart and then looked at Aux and managed out nervously, "If that's how it's gotta be to save four people. I accept that..." she felt a stray tear pour out as she finished, "Just please let them go."
Takehiko didn't necessarily like the messing of his hair but ignored it when Torrin made his pun. As they moved to head out, Take summoned out his keyblade and transformed it into a glider which ended up kind of resembling a biplane. It had a little spot in the front that was probably more efficient for placing a bag in it, but Take reached over and picked up Nini and placed her into it. She popped up with her paws up against the side and Take got on his glider. He looked back at Chrono and said, "Don't fall too far behind!" before Take took off.
Takehiko got back into his costume fairly quickly since he at least now knew how tight to expect it to be. As he walked back outside and waited, he saw Tinarah come out with her sleeve ripped... and saw Nini with the little costume. Take approached Tinarah with kind of a straight face going, and he stood in front of her for a second before reaching for Nini who looked surprised and shocked at the sudden intrusion, but let him pick her up as he started scritching her under the chin and he could barely hide a childlike grin behind his mask as he said, "Superkitty! She's ininivinsible. Her damage is catastrophic." he looked Tinarah dead in the eyes and said, "I think she's lookin fefine." He giggled a bit behind his mask as Nini purred from his petting.
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Taking some lovely hits with a keyblade, and some pretty hard ones from Chrono and Alder, the creature cried out and tried to set it's eyes on Daeni. Lunging it's hands with all of it's might after Daeni, it went to launch a power attack at her. Before it really could connect, Cerdic quickly reacted in a manner to jump forward in front of Daeni. The strike from the claw was pretty powerful, enough to potentially have knocked him out. If not for a small bit of energy that stuck with him, keeping him up. The machine began to vibrate and the orb began to levitate over the machine.. the process was halfway there. The creature turned his sites to the machine with the full intent to place all of it's energy destroying the machine. A large cracking noise could be heard as the first hit landed.
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If there was one thing she now knew she hated, it was a monologue. Being helpless in a situation where she had no control over her movement and was forced into listening helplessly. Why couldn't No Heart just use this as a tactical advantage and kill them. Something something 7 lights. The girl only began to really panic when they mentioned killing others or killing her. Obviously she wouldn't want 4 people to die for her sake. But... it wasn't like she wanted to die either. And seeing Aux struggle with this made her heart hurt. As he went to kill her. Kaida knew this was where it was going to end for her. She closed her eyes preparing for it. Then... there were other noises. When she opened her eyes, Steel was attacking No Heart. And the blonde could move again. She wanted to shout out a thanks to Steel for saving her life. But she had to focus on the possessed Aux marching towards her. Kaida finally could fully summon out her keyblade as she prepared to block whatever attack he was going to bring to her as she said, "Aux. Please snap out of it. I know you're still in there." she narrowed her eyes a bit and said, "Unless you're now weak? Come on... don't give up on me now...." she meant it as a taunt, and hoped it would work.
As the group learned their new keyblade transformations and how to create gliders, Take was a little excited to have his own to use. It meant he wouldn't have to rely on someone else's when they needed to defend themselves. As they left, Take looked at the four who decided to leave and simply said, "Stay safe." Then Edna came running in about superheros being captured again. And if there was ever a specific expression Take had for "are you kidding me?" it was the one he was giving now. How did these people handle themselves without them being here to begin with? Or maybe.. they were part of a plot. Take took a step back to quickly get the words of players out of his head and he blinked and looked to Torrin and said, "Well, we could look for whereever the most recent robbery or explosion was. Or maybe just recent explosions. They really seem to like those. Then we could get a hint at least on something. Or uh... look at recent crime logs?" he looked a bit unsure and said, "I just think wandering aimlessly around the city might not be the most amazing idea."
Take took the stone back and didn't really have much of a reason to keep the conversation going. He finished up the pancakes and was ready to hand them out, giving Torrin his when they were done and passing them out to anyone who wanted one. He was gonna go clean up the pan but he saw Tinarah cleaning up and looking out of it. He reached over to try and grab her shoulder to get her attention but stopped mid-motion when a hiss was heard. Takehiko looked down to see the little cat sitting around and hissing at him while he sighed and said, "Alright fuzzball, don't need to hiss at me. I just wanted to make sure Tinarah was-" As he reached his hand out again the cat growled and jumped up at him. He grabbed the cat just in time and held it away from his body and said, "Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop it. Bad kitty." it hissed at him again as he clicked his tongue and asked, "Do you want food?" The cat went silent and stared at him before letting out a small mew. He scritched behind it's ears a moment and grabbed a slice of bacon he cooked and gave it to the cat and placed it back on the floor. Then he reached out ans grabbed her shoulder and asked, "Are you alright-" "REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOW." The cat below him growled and tried to reach up and scratch and bite at his hand. He glared down at it and the cat glared up at him. He sighed and said, "You've got a fierce protector there for you, trying to bite off my hand. I'll back off for now. I hope thing's are okay." and the boy walked away with his food.
When Torrin spoke about Iwao in present tense, he realized his message didn't exactly come across and he didn't feel the need to clarify it. He poured three more of the mix for chocolate chip pancakes and left the bacon pancakes aside for himself and started dishing out pancakes for others to grab, leaving them on the counter and letting people know to, "Grab 'em while they're hot." After a minute or two the boy shook his head and said, "I don't have any of that art anymore. We lost it in one of the attacks... though. Um." Take reached into his pocket and pulled out the rock Iwao made for him and he stared at it with it's outline and traced over it before he nervously held it out towards Torrin, though he tried not to show how nervous he was as he did, "I still have this one. You can hold it to get a better look at it." The swirling design on the stone his brother made wasn't an extremely fluffy or overly detailed dragon. It couldn't be because of how small the rock was. But it had the general four winged shape of the Flammie, though it was definitely more abstract here. Take flipped the pancakes on the pan and said, "Don't take too long with it. I'd like that back."
Kaida gave Aux a bit of a stink eye when he accused her of using magic like that and she said, "That's not my style. I'd just run past him even if he got a full headstart. We both know I'm faster." The blonde shifted to look around and she cautiously moved to approach Hikaru. She looked around at the others, then she faced her hand in front of Hikaru's face. After a moment she shifted to summon out her keyblade as she said, "Something's very wro-" Before her keyblade had even been summoned, the clicking sound of a clock stopping was heard and Kaida was frozen in place.
The creature screamed out as the keyblade slashed through it's arm, letting Cerdic go. However, the more attacks it received, the more vicious it seemed to become. The creature launched an attack that sent balls of darkness (similar to the one that knocked Mora off the cliff previously) at the group. While Chrono managed to succeed in dodging away, the other three were hit. Fortunately, the attack did not land as powerfully as it intended, but for the few rounds Cerdic, Alder, and Daeni will feel slow. The creature begins to grow it's arm back while darkness rapidly lashes out like whips towards anyone attacking it directly. But Chrono is able to notice a gap in pattern before the attacks fly.
The black haired boy listened to what Torrin described at a low voice as he finished cooking up the pancake, he flipped the pan over so it landed nicely onto a place and he pushed it out towards Illiana saying, "Chocolate chip pancake for you, wine-o." He poured in more mix and looked in the fridge and pulled out some bacon strips and started cooking it in with the pancake at first. He seemed more focused on cooking first before responding, "Fluffs. That's what we called them. I've heard of 'em, but I've never seen one." he started another pancake on the pan as he continued at a low volume, "We were told if we saw any of them to leave them be since fighting them would cause more trouble than they would leaving them be, since they'd be happy to decimate the village in self defense. But there hadn't been one logged in years on my world." Take stared at the pancake for a little bit before saying, "My brother Iwao was obsessed with Fluffs actually. He used to draw them and hide them in his room. I think he once said if he ever saw one he'd drop everything and try to jump on one and fly off to wherever he took them..." he flipped the pancake when it was time and Take looked a bit sad as he thought about his brother for a bit, then he straightened himself up and sighed, "It's just another dragon though. Probably would have roasted him alive if he did it. Doesn't matter now." He looked over at Torrin and asked louder, "Would you also like a chocolate chip pancake?"
Take took a step back and watched as Aria attempted to repair the damage of his burned hot chocolate. It knocked a bit of his pride needing to have his mess cleaned up but he took it as a learning experience so he could handle it again. He wasn't sure exactly how they would make cocoa with the cocoa powder so Take decided to just swipe Edna's can of cocoa powder. She wouldn't know necessarily. As he took a sip of cocoa he said, "Thank you, Aria. I won't mess it up next time." He began making pancakes pretty quickly after that, having better luck with chocolate chip pancakes at this rate. As he worked on them he looked over at Torrin and said, "Were you trying to ask me something earlier, Torrin?" he shifted over and managed a pretty stellar pancake flip and just made a quick 'yus' motion with his arm before going back to normal with his cooking.
For every other person who seemed to come in at this time, he added in another cups worth of water to the kettle to boil, and once he felt he was all set for now he set the water and stared at an empty pot for a long time before admitting, "I have no idea how to make hot chocolate." he looked at a bunch of milk chocolate he saw in Edna's kitchen and pulled it out asking, "Do you just like... melt chocolate and add water? Or milk? I think I tasted milk." he placed the chocolate into the heated pot to let it melt and looked in the fridge for milk and saw chocolate syrup and whipped cream and pulled it out and said, "Or do you use chocolate syrup?" Take placed his hands flat on the counter in stress and said, "I am capable of reshaping, sawing, and sanding a new patch to a wall as well as create a temporary insulation fix for climate control. I can create a tourniquet using only a bandana, a hair tie, and a stick... I can shoot an iceball out of a magically materializing weapon in the shape of a key... but I can't make hot chocolate." he looked at Boreas, sweat pouring out of his forehead as he said, "I have no training that prepared me for the creation of chocolate beverages. I didn't even know what chocolate was until a month ago. These are luxuries I've never encounte- and I've burned it. I've burned the chocolate. I can smell it now." He turned towards the rest of the party as he went to clean up and asked, "Uh. Who wants pancakes?"
Takehiko shrugged when Torrin mentioned him not needing to take cleaning literally. The boy looked at Torrin and said, "On my world, when the village is destroyed by the dragons we bury the dead, stop the fires, and repair major damages to the houses. This was nothing to me. Also, I did not need sleep." Takehiko sipped his tea once more and realized he ran out of it and frowned and said, "I'm gonna make more tea. Do you want some or something to eat?" he stood up and then Torrin would be able to see Aria was sleeping on the couch in a bundle of blankets and he looked over and asked, "Aria do you want cocoa?" "C...cocooooa." she managed out before Take looked at Torrin and said, "I could make you cocoa too." he responded as he walked towards the kitchen.
Take shrugged at his question and said, "Who knows why the keyblade chose you? I don't think anyone knows why they were chosen. Something about worthy hearts? That's what Atmos said. But really, it's anyone's guess as to why the keyblade chose any of us." The boy turned his head to look at the cityscape that Glyde had just looked at, he knew there were times he wished the keyblade didn't choose him. Wishing it had passed over to someone else who was more worthy of the journey. But, he was here and he knew that he was already on the journey and that he might as well keep on moving forward. Take looked over at Glyde's keyblade for a moment and then back up at him for a moment before he continued, "I wouldn't worry too much about how you fit either... but if you do keep worrying I can't stop you. But we're here for you if you need anything. Well, I am... that's like the second time I've spoke for others about that kind of thing. It's... it's the gesture?" he realized he might have been going overboard thinking about that and rubbed his neck, "Sorry."
