The hit from the heartless nearly winded him that time, and he quickly realized he was about to reach his limit. And as he went to straighten himself out, a noise rang out. Which surprised him because up to this point he could barely hear anything. The boy took a deep breath and quickly knocked a couple darkballs and some of the nocturnes away and found himself an opening. It was now or never, and he wasn't going to hesitate. Takehiko swung his keyblade a moment before pointing it towards the keyhole and feeling a rush of energy just sweep over him as a beam of light shot out from the keyblade. It penetrated through the darkness around the statue and into the keyhole. It filled with light before it suddenly glowed and the light from the keyblade disappeared as the keyhole was locked. Take lowered his keyblade and was prepared, if the heartless didn't disappear, to be knocked out. HP: 6/100 AP: 0/34 MP: 4/30 Heartless defeated: 2 Darkballs, 5 Red Nocturnes Heartless Remaining: 66 Darkballs (12AP) 51 Neoshadows (16AP) 12 Yellow Operas (4AP) 7 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 12 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
Take listened intently to every word she said, so she wouldn't have to repeat it a second time. Once her thunder spell had cleared him a path, the boy quickly darted towards the entrance. As soon as he got towards where the door was, he noticed it was already on the ground which left a clear opening for him to see his opponents he would have to face. Which was more of the same, but it didn't mean he felt any better about it since this time it was him on his own and he wanted to be careful because if he went down, and Thallasa didn't know, he had no idea what he had in store. The boy kept his keyblade ready for a guard as he ran in looking around for signs of this keyhole. When he got himself to the living room, he saw heartless on the prowl with their attentions now turned towards him, but behind them, the statue in the back of the room was surrounded by darkness and through it, he could see in it's chest: a prominently placed keyhole. He wondered how he hadn't noticed it earlier when they were in the mansion, but he wasn't exactly looking for it. The boy knew he was going to have to clear out a few of these heartless before getting anything done, so he took his keyblade and quickly tapped it towards the ground, as if the noise would attract the rest of them as he shouted, "Alright you good for nothing hot air balloons, you want a piece of me?!" and as they floated towards, Take kept in a defensive stance to lure them in, and unleash his attacks to thin them out. Take used blitz+ HP: 34/100 AP: 0/34 MP: 4/30 Heartless defeated: 3 Darkballs, 5 Red Nocturnes Heartless Remaining: 73 Darkballs (12AP) 57 Neoshadows (16AP) 28 Yellow Operas (4AP) 15 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 27 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
The beast growled as he began swinging at those who fought against him. It's left arm reached down and got a hold of Cerdic, though it was loose and with enough force could be very easy to break out of. But Ria still attempted to suck the life out of him either way as it stepped closer towards the other three. Whilst reaching out to swat the others away from the machine, he wasn't quite quick enough to hit Alder or Daeni, but managed a fast enough attack to throw enough force at Chrono to fly a decent distance away from the machine. With it's right hand it attempted to reach out and destroy the extractor. Leaving it far too open, but the creature had little will enough to care about that detail at this point.
Take noticed the blue flare right away and looked down towards where it was fired from to see Thallasa holding off some of the heartless. He descended downward to find a good spot to stop Torrin's glider before he quickly got off of it and summoned his keyblade. He threw in a couple of hits at the heartless on his way there that were not pushed away by Thallasa's most recent attack. It didn't take the boy very long to finally reach Thallasa. When he did to get to her, he shouted out so she could hear, "Torrin said you needed me? I got here as soon as I could. What do you need?" he still was unaware as to why he was called, but he'd do the best he could. He just hoped they could finish it in time before something else happened. HP: 49/100 AP: 0/34 MP: 4/30 Heartless Defeated: 5 Shadows, 2 Darkballs Heartless Remaining: 5 Shadows (2AP) 88 Darkballs (12AP) 59 Neoshadows (16AP) 44 Yellow Operas (4AP) 44 Red Nocturnes (4AP) 43 Blue Rhapsodies (4AP)
As she regained enough MP to be comfortable enough with attacking again, Kaida looked over towards her three friends and shouted, "If we rush it now, I think we can do this!" she help a thumb up towards them and yelled, "Let's take it down!" and she aimed her keyblades at the head once more to hit it with Firaga. Kaida used Firaga (x2)
Takehiko was glad that Aria listened to him and that Torrin agreed, he looked up towards the big red moon in the sky and he had this sinking pit in his stomach that was as close to fear of these things as he would be willing to admit. But when Torrin said they had to land, at this rate he was hoping he could somehow port them to the rest of them and get them out of there, but instead he seemed to be trying to get into contact with Thallasa again which he almost wanted to yell about how they didn't have time for this, but a part of him didn't want to leave Thallasa behind, he would give him this while they had time. Then Torrin told him to go to Mode Mansion. He thought at first he needed a body, but when he mentioned Thallasa needed him specifically. At least he was pretty sure he did, he was having a lot of trouble hearing him despite him listening intently. Takehiko looked at the two and the glider. Take nodded but before he left, he cast Stonera on Torrin and Aria before getting on the glider and yelling so his voice could be heard,"Please stay safe!" and he took off on the glider towards the Mode mansion.
Kaida used a hi potion on Stratos Kaida used splattercombo (remember my 3 turn mp gain for 1 btw) Baymax used heal on Hikaru
Takehiko continued with his fightning, trying to knock down as many of the floating little buggers as he could, as he got himself closer towards Aria until he wa baically back to back with her as he said towards her, "At this rate I'm getting concerned about our survival more than Thallasa. I say if things look worse and she doesn't get back, we push Torrin to have us leave. We aren't going to be much help if we're all dead." he swung up at another one that came towards him and he looked at Aria, "I know you wouldn't like the idea of leaving one person behind, but it's better to lose one person than to lose all of us." HP: 91/100 AP: 0/34 MP: 30/30 Blue Rhapsodies 2 Yellow Operas 2 Red Nocturnes 4 = 8 Heartless Taken out 90 Yellow Operas 87 Red Nocturnes 89 Blue Rhapsodies
Kaida activated her speed aura and used strike raid (x2) Baymax healed Hikaru
Kaida used Blizzara (x2), Baymax healed Hikaru
Take really didn't have much to contribute here besides hitting the floaty elemental heartless so that's what he did, he kept checking back to make sure Chasers weren't coming for Aria but otherwise he couldn't do much that was exciting. HP: 100/100 AP: 0/34 MP: 30/30 Blue Rhapsodies 4 Yellow Operas 2 Red Nocturnes 2 = 8 Heartless Taken out 93 Yellow Operas 111 Red Nocturnes 120 Blue Rhapsodies
Take looked at the events that were transpiring with much confusion and a twinge of fear over everything. I mean, on top of darkness appearing, the Light Chaser's pupils seemed to show up out of nowhere for Aria. He was ready to fight them as much as fighting the heartless at this rate, but Torrin was calling the shots mainly since Thallasa wasn't here, and because of that he was a bit surprised his name was called to go with Aria. But then he remembered Torrin was going to split them into groups before the chasers even arrived, so he went with it, and once Aria had gotten on the glider he joined as well. He looked among the destruction to see any signs of anything, but even Aria already commented on it, and he hated to be redundant. He looked around at the world and asked, "So how are we supposed to go about finding Thallasa if she's searching for something that barely anyone has ever seen? What if she's stuck there?"
Kaida summoned the Baymax, got all up on his back and used healthcare on Beuce(if that's allowed)
Takehiko was more than a bit disturbed when the darkness began to happen, there was a sinking feeling in his soul that made it so he knew exactly how this was going to play out if they didn't hurry up. But suddenly and without real warning, Qamar began freaking out. He couldn't tell if it was nerves from a first time in this kind of front at first, but then he heard her mumblings and realized this was going to be a bit of a problem. Take quickly walked over to her and said, "Qamar? Qamar. Focus in." he waited for a minute before saying, "Come on Qamar, stay with me. We're gonna make it through this, alright? We will. But you gotta stay with us, okay? Breathe for me." he looked over at others to see if they were cuing into what was going on with Qamar. They couldn't exactly get back to the others if this was happening, and he didn't know if he was handling this right.
Kaida wasn't entirely sure what she was expecting, but she could safely say she wasn't expecting a dark side, especially one this big. Kaida blinked and whistled as her voice cracked, "Oh boy." when the rain began to fall, Kaida smiled a bit and said, "We can do this. We've made it this far. We can definitely do this." and Kaida quickly launched Thunder Bell at it, quickly followed by another one. In the rain, the bell almost sounded more like thunder than an actual bell. Kaida used Thunder Bell (x2)
Take was thrown off by the bombardment of questions as they got out, specifically noticing the one who asked if he was a little young to be adventuring and he just glared at them. I mean come on, was it a height thing? There was at least one more person shorter than him there. And one person younger. He crossed his arms and didn't respond more until Boreas mentioned an out. He didn't exactly hear anything going on after that, he just kind of walked towards whoever had a glider, and heard something about Tinarah going with Boreas? He didn't know, so he evened it up by going towards Qamar and said, "Let's just all get out of here."
Takehiko heard Qamar suddenly run on over to check up on him, asking the same questions that Tinarah pretty much just asked so he repeated in his usual monotone,"I'm fine. Arm hurts a bit, I don't think I hurt it more. It just hurts. Thanks... for saving my life I suppose. And yes, Tinarah did heal me." he wasn't exactly sure why she seemed to be talking so much about saving his life. Perhaps Take didn't think it worthy of acknowledgment... then he remembered the last time he saved someone's life he was ostracized, and that made him pause to remember not everyone had to feel the way he did. Take pulled his mask down again and looked away and sighed, "You um... you can call me Take. It's fine."
When the fight was over, Take kept taking deep breaths to calm himself down, since running from being knocked out to going all out on an attack didn't necessarily feel amazing. He listened intently to the conversation but not feeling up to adding anything else, when Tinarah asked him how he was doing. The boy moved his mask from his face a bit so he could breathe and she could hear him better as he said, "I'm doing alright. I don't remember when I got knocked out, but I imagine it was Mr. Incredible..." Take went to move his other hand again and felt abit of pain and looked at his cast, "I don't think I hurt my hand again, but it's hurting a little... thanks for the heal." he smiled slightly and said, "I know it's been a while for you but I feel accomplished, like my suggestion paid off here..." he realized that was unclear and dropped his hand, "Y-ya know... cause... you were... well, nervous about us getting hurt so I suggested you practiced healing... for me mentioning that was a few days ago but I mean... I'll stop." he put his mask back over and massaged his hurt arm a bit.
3 in HP, 1 in AP gimme dat Wall
Spoiler: Episode Takehiko Part 4 Stuck With Me About a week after meeting Stamatis, Takehiko had missed a training session and hadn't left his room. It was an abnormality for sure, the boy seemed to run over to train even if he had a bit of a cold. But this time... he wasn't there at all. And while that on it's own may have just called for a day off... Take didn't show up day two either. That definitely indicated something was up, even if Take had never said anything. The boy sat on his bed, hugging his knees and staring down at the front of the bed where the boy had his keyblade laying. Take stared at the keyblade a long time before hiding his eyes and whispering to himself, "No..." and he nudged it further away with his foot. Atmos had waited for Take to show to the day's lesson but after the boy did not show up, she had simply taught it to Chrono before going to search for the boy. It was unusual for him to miss anything given he was always either on time or early to each lesson. Atmos knocked on Take's door, worried he had fallen ill or injured himself sparring with Chrono. "My I come in?" Atmos spoke up. Take heard Atmos knock on the door and ask to come in. The boy was silent for a little bit, processing whether or not he wanted to invite her in. But he gave it a bit of time and finally said, "Yeah, you can come in..." Take's room was pretty clean, everything was folded nicely and kept in an order of some sort. Even the bed Take was sitting on was still made up pretty nicely. Take never brought his shoes into the room, so he just had socks on and his sneakers were left just outside. The only item that was Take's, at least the one thing that resembled a lived in condition, was a small stone Take always left on the end table. When Atmos was in the room, Take looked up at her. He looked like he hadn't slept in days, and his eyes looked like... well... he had just been crying not all that long ago. The boy looked up at Atmos and managed out, "Hey..." he let his legs down so he sat cross-legged on the bed and his eyes darted down towards the keyblade still on the bed. Then his next words just sort of... slipped out before he could do anything about it, "Atmos... I can't do this anymore...." Atmos slowly pushed Take's door open and stepped inside. As always, Take's room was clean and hardly looked lived in. Her eyes briefly fell on the stone that belonged to him and a memory flashed into her mind. Thinking it to be a healthy joke she had once moved the stone to a different location. When the boy became distraught as he tore through his room, intending to do the same to the whole castle, she quickly returned the stone to him and apologized as she had not known such a simple stone was so important to him. Still, she was glad to have seen him so focused on something sentimental. "What do you mean you can't do this?" She looked down at the keyblade laying on the floor. "What happened, Take?" Take looked at Atmos for a moment and then looked out of the window in the room and he shook a little. He didn't know how to say it in a way that would make her understand. He didn't think there was a way, but he was going to have to try, "I'm... I'm becoming too much of an outsider..." he felt himself shaking more, he thought his words were coming out clear, but they were coming out with a shakiness to it, a shakiness that was anything but how Take would act, "A-A-At this rate... I-I don't know how I-I'd be able t-to go back to my home-homeworld. I'm starting to feel t-t-to distant. I-I don't want to become... become an outsider. I-I-I was just starting t-to fit in. E-everything was going perfectly before..." Take felt a tear stream down his face and he moved his hand to quickly wipe it away, but his keyblade flashed off the floor, and into his hand instead. Take glared at it and said, "Everything was fine until this keyblade decided to show up five years late!" Take threw the keyblade in his anger towards the window, but it didn't collide, it simply disappeared into light. The boy felt more tears pouring out as he looked at Atmos and he managed out, "I don't want the keyblade anymore. I just want to go home. Go back to the way things were. I'd rather go back to their mental torture than feel myself grow distant from my homeworld. I don't want Shoji to hate me." Take's voice broke as he managed out through tears, "I don't want Akio to look at me like I'm a stranger. I don't want my parents disappointed in me." he held his hands out and felt the keyblade materialize in his hand again, and he held it out to Atmos with a look of desperation in his eyes, "I don't want it anymore. Please. Just take it away or something. I don't know if you can. I don't know if it's right. I don't care. I don't want this anymore." "When I first learned that I was chosen my family distanced themselves from me." Atmos spoke after a moment of reflection, empathizing with Take's position. Though she had never worried to the extent that he did about what would become of her ties with her family, she at least knew of isolation. His mention of Akio reminded her of the cheery younger brother he had and she could not imagine him growing distant from his brother. "The bonds between family are stronger than you think, Take." She placed her hand on his keybade and made him lower it. "When the time comes, they will realize you are serving a greater purpose, that you are part of something much bigger than yourself. When you are ready you will be able to return home and help your people. It might take them time to get used to the new you but they will accept you." She assured him. "The keyblade chose you for a reason. Even those who receive the inheritance ceremony cannot wield the blade if they are not worthy. This is your duty and no one can take that from you." Take felt the keyblade being pushed back towards him and he looked back down at it. His hands shook even more as he asked, "What if they don't accept me? What if..." Takehiko felt the keyblade finally slip through his fingers and disappear into light. The boy kept holding his hands out and he let them fall, "My homeworld hates change.... they've never liked me... but I've always loved my family... my friends..." Take grabbed his wrist and stared at it, "I just... I feel like... for so long I've tried to become accepted... and this can't help that... when I was little they still talked about an old master from my world. The weird old man who didn't care about the well being of the people because he thought too much about other worlds... why would I want that kind of a life or legacy?" he looked back at Atmos and asked, trying to stop himself from crying, "If the keyblade chooses the wielder, is the wielder not given the choice to reject it?" "The kind of legacy that weird old man left must have changed many lives for the better. You may not understand it because you've only seen the troubles of your world but there are other worlds out there in need of help. One cannot simply abandon them just because of a fear of rejection." She spoke calmly. "The keyblade will not leave you unless you become unworthy to wield it. If you were to commit an act just to make yourself unworthy just to get rid of the keyblade, I am certain you would not be able to look anyone you care for in the eyes anymore. You have a choice in how you act right now, Take. You can either become a man who would make yourself proud or you can live your life never making a difference because you allowed fear to control you." Takehiko thought for a moment about it, so there was a way. But there was a part of him who knew that if he went down that kind of a path, he'd never forgive himself for it. Take rubbed his eyes and looked at Atmos, there was a small chuckle that came out of him before he looked at Atmos, and for the first time he was pretty sure in years, he smiled at someone, "I guess you're stuck with me then." it didn't take long for the smile to fade and the tears to come back as he said, "I'm not happy about it but... it doesn't have to deal with you I just... it hurts to process it... forgive me." When Take smiled there was something about him that she had not noticed before. She had been told the boy was different by those who had chosen her to be his master. There was a light about this boy that she had been trained to see but never witnessed for herself before. Perhaps the shell he had placed around himself had kept her from seeing it until now but at last she knew what he was. Even though it confused her greatly. She had thought them all to be women... Atmos smiled in return towards her student. "It's an honor to be stuck with you, Take. I've been very fortunate to have students such as yourself and Chrono." Take sniffled a bit and smiled again at her, he rubbed his eye and said, "Um... I know I've already missed yesterday but... you wouldn't mind if I held off for the rest of the day would you? I'll be ready tomorrow..." Take shifted and rubbed his other eye and said, "I'm really tired..." he sniffed slightly and rubbed his wrist as he added, "...and hungry, but I don't know if I should eat or sleep first..." he looked a little embarrassed, but he also looked like he was starting to return back into that shell again. Atmos nodded in response to Take and moved closer to give the boy an embrace now that the aura around him was beginning to fade. She wished it would stay. "Of course. I understand. I'd suggest a short rest before eating." She looked down and noticed that Take was rubbing his wrist but said nothing of it. It was a curious habit of his. "You being here to train is important. Not just for the sake of other worlds but for yourself as well. Being able to become more than you are and grow is every bit as important. Learning to be you is a lesson that takes time but I believe you're getting the hang of it." Teasingly she ruffled the boy's hair. "I'll keep this quiet from Chrono, don't worry. And Take? You do not need to feel ashamed of those feelings of yours. They'll always be a part of you." She said as she turned to leave the room. Take nodded in response, thinking about her words and feeling conflict about them. He wasn't sure if he could believe that he shouldn't be ashamed. He felt ashamed just for thinking about Atmos seeing him cry. The boy closed his eyes and rubbed his wrist again and the only thing he could say was, "Thank you." before Atmos was gone, and before Take decided to lay back for some much needed rest. Episode Takehiko: End Takehiko felt himself leaned up against the wall as he felt a wash of energy come over him, and that's when the boy realized he had been knocked out. He looked around to make sure no one else was down, but people were standing and that made him sigh in relief. The boy stood up and looked over at Tinarah and managed out, "Thanks." before the boy quickly charged in and threw all of his energy at Mezmerella, aiming for her face, and knowing a lot of the damage would probably be absorbed by Mr. Incredible. He didn't care that much. He even threw in Blitz+ for some luck. HP: 35/85 AP: 0/72 MP: 15/20
