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Takehiko had been mostly okay with Illiana's tactic with tea, it seemed to be working with others as well and he couldn't fault her for it. He was hoping Glyde was alright at least, since he seemed out of it as well. But suddenly he looked towards Illiana and heard the first words Aww Tacky can smile. It was almost immediately that Take's smile disappeared as he looked at Illiana almost blankly, he couldn't hear the words after that statement and he closed his eyes a moment. Spoiler Take felt a sudden slap and saw the silhouette of a bug. His eyes shifted around the dark room as he felt himself speak, "You can't stop me from smiling." "Sure we can. We can help you with it." Take's eyes looked up and a scorpion was placed on his wrist and he felt a sudden shot of pain. "Repeat after me: good soldiers put their feelings last." The stinging continued as Take begged, "I don't want to stop feeling happy." "Good soldiers put their feelings last." Take quickly saw his brother give him a smile before running off to battle. He saw a black and purple dragon and felt another sting from the scorpion. "Good soldiers put their feelings last." "Iwao could smile... Iwao was always happy." "Iwao's dead." "Good soldiers put their feelings last." "G-good soldiers... p-put..." Take felt himself crying before he felt the sting again. "Why isn't Take allowed to smile?" "No one's allowed to smile Akio." Take felt another sting and felt himself feel nothing as he saw his older brother Yasushi mess with his hair before he also ran off to battle. It was the same dragon that swept over. "Good soldiers put their feelings last." "Good soldiers put their feelings last." "Good boy." Take placed his hand on his wrist as his eyes opened up and he rubbed a spot on his wrist, without really thinking about it and Take turned away, saying in the standard monotone, "Sorry. I won't do it again." Take turned his attention away and remembered the conversation about Silver and the boy let go of his wrist and said, "I'm going to go and find that captain and explain things." he turned around fully and went to go in the direction of the captain and away from the group.
Kaida was silent as she listened to Aislinn piece everything together and she let out a sigh and said, "You... basically said my own thoughts but out loud." Kaida looked back over towards Aux and saw... whatever was going on with Ananta and AJ. She turned her head back and admitted out loud, sounding a different kind of sad as she said it. All the other times she'd been sad and explaining her thoughts, there was a hint of bitterness and anger behind it, but this time it just seemed to be hidden behind regret and confusion, "I... I know it sounds odd but the way he is right now, it's the way we were before everything happened. This was the Aux I was best friends with. I... just came to accepting the fact that this was gone. That whatever kept us as friends was gone. Now he's back this way and it... hurts." Kaida looked up over towards Hikaru a minute and then back towards Aislinn, "I don't... want to care about him again... only for him to gain those memories back and go through all of this again... it's why I'm just trying to be cold about it." The blonde stretched her wings a minute and jumped up in the air and flapped her wings to land gently on Aislinn's back. She was basically the weight of a chicken, pretty much nothing, so she hoped it wasn't causing Aislinn anguish or anything though it might have seemed weird. She burrowed a bit and said, "Aux never liked heartache. He'd understand why I'm avoiding it."
Take scoffed a bit at her reply wanting him to use her given name considering the fact she never used his. When Illiana pulled out the tea to hand it to Aria, he tried to hold back rolling his eyes at her and he crossed his arms. But it did allow for him to transition his focus over to Aria and he could tell she wasn't doing alright. He'd noticed her shaking not too much longer before and now she was trying to calm herself down with breathing. Take tilted his head a bit and was about to open his mouth and say something different, but he realized it might not be helpful in this situation. He pondered a bit longer before he said, "Everything's alright. You're safe now." For now. His eye twitched as he tried to keep back that thought and he took a breath and said, "You'll make it through. We'll make it through." he even added in a small and reassuring smile, one he was slowly becoming used to giving out, though he usually wasn't thinking about it. At least attempting to be comforting.
eck yeahh
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blitz me daddy (also 2 hp and 1 ap boost)
Takehiko had been a bit more preoccupied with the black hole scenario before even thinking to answer Aria's question. When Jim was securing the lifelines Take had walked over and grabbed a rope for himself and tied it into his belt before the worst of it kicked up and he tried to signal for others to do so as well. In case they hadn't caught on. When the final steps were taken, the ship began to blast on out of there and Take held on tightly before the calm began. As the crew cheered, Take just felt a wave of relief they got out of that scenario. Sounding a bit distant, and back to his usual monotone, Take finally managed out, "I'm fine, Aria." he took another breath before he untied the rope and turned straight towards Illiana and crossed his arms, "So, where exactly did you decide to gallop off to on your own... Lieutenant General?" The way he focused the last word was so he made certain it was clear Takehiko was mocking her, and didn't even for a minute take her claimed position of authority seriously.
Take heard Illiana's comment come almost out of nowhere and the boy turned his head and asked with just as much anger in his voice as he had towards everything else, "Ya know, dining and dashing during a date doesn't make guys like you either. You seem that type." Take felt a hit from one of the pirates and he kind of just elbowed it away from him before he charged after the Air Pirate that hit Chrono and he jumped up in the air and hit the Air Pirate so it flew off the side of the ship as it disappeared. Take landed on the ground solidly before he took a deep breath and he backed away a bit and got himself guarded up just in case. He seemed to finally be calming down now that everything was under control. A little too calm. HP: 13/35 AP: 3/14 ( 1 Air Pirate) MP: 10
Take had gotten so excited that he hadn't exactly put on any guarding after that last attack. So when the sudden brute force of so much damage hit him, Take flew back a little and clutched his stomach before he got himself up. He felt a healing light and looked over in the direction of Aria and he raised a thumb up at her as a show of thanks before he ran on at the air pirate and yelled up in the air as he glowed with a bit of provoking energy, "Come at me! Come at me! You threw that hit huh? YOU WANNA ANOTHER PIECE OF ME?!" his sudden yell may have seemed unwarranted but it got the attention of the rest of the air pirates as Take slashed on down and got one of 'em and the boy help up his arm with his keyblade, "Who wants to take me on huh? WHO WANTS IT?" There was a moment where Nini seemed to sort of mew in a bit of fear as he responded, "SHUT IT FUZZBALL. AAAAAAAAAAH." and Take threw his keyblade at the last remaining fiery globe and grabbed his keyblade to hold on guard for rest of it, "COME ON, I KNOW YOU WANNA. COME OOOOOOON." Nini ran back towards Aria and jumped into her bag over the nervousness of Takehiko's intensity. Take used Provoke btw in case that wasn't clear HP: 22/35 AP: 2/14 ( 1 fiery globes, 1 Air Pirate) MP: 10
Take chose to not go in provocation mode this time, mostly because it was multiple enemies and not one big enemy. So once Aira got the run in and suggested getting the smaller ones, Take nodded and once Chrono got in and got a lot of them down, the boy chose to go after what was left of the red nocturnes and getting a few of the fiery globes while he was at it. He felt a lot more comfortable fighting with the keyblade at this point. He wasn't nearly as fast as the others, but he was packing a significant enough punch to not feel too bad. When he finished up with some of the globes, a few were left and he tried to back away a little before he felt his keyblade glow slightly and the boy looked at it a bit and suddenly felt a bit of a surge of power. He knew what he wanted to do at this point. Pointing over towards one of air pirates, Takehiko focused in and felt his keyblade shine out as he yelled, "Blizzard!" and a blast of cold shot straight at one of the air pirates, bringing it down almost immediately and Take smirked a little bit at the success of the attack. HP: 35 AP: 0/14 ( 6 fiery globes,4 red nocturnes, 1 Air Pirate) MP: 10
Kaida was a bit surprised when Aislinn asked her about Aux. She didn't exactly mind answering that question, she just didn't know how accurate she'd be to the whole story. As Kaida walked she sighed and flapped her wings again to stretch before answering, "Aux was someone I trained with in Central Haven when we were part of the academy there. We both have always been at odds with each other though but... Aux was a good guy for the longest time. Kind of quiet, tried to keep up this rather 'stoic' approach that always bothered me but.. he's always seemed to have memory problems and it wasn't an issue until he ran off one day and came back... well, darkness oriented. He's been working with this guy called No Heart or... something like that and they've been doing bad things, but the way we got into the realm of darkness was because he kind of threw us in here... which... we can't get out. And now he has no memories presumably because of the entry fee into the game but... it feels odd to me." Kaida hoped that was a good enough explanation.
Takehiko was flung back pretty hard by the suddeness of the wind, feeling the air get knocked out of him from the way he hit his back. He clung onto something just in case and went to look up towards the sky to see what was going on and his eyes were blinded for a moment and he covered them. It was like fire, was it a dragon? No, it couldn't be. And the dog seemed to yell and confirm that assumption pretty soon anyway with something called a "supernova" or whatever. Take attempted to at least get up to his knees as he yelled back, "I'm fine!" his voice was obviously still recovering from the hit. He looked over to at least locate Aria and then Chrono before asking, "Is it a monster of some kind?" he couldn't actually figure it out. He finally got himself up and clinging to the side of ship as he said, "Either way, we should help out...!" his mind more focused on the immediate task. He didn't even think to ponder about Illiana and Glyde's location, he just hoped they were alright.
There was a lot of stuff that seemed to go on in a short span of time, Kaida looked back and forth between the conversation with Nala and whatever Aux was on about. At the rate Aux was going, Kaida wasn't necessarily worried about Aux getting in the way. Kaida dropped the keyblade after a bit and she stretched her jaw going, "Kweh.. oh man why does that keep happening? What was that...." Kaida looked over at Aux when he was speaking and she shook her head and said, "He always speaks for the group at this point... Also, uh, we've interfered with a few worlds prior. In my defense, Hikaru did it first. I'm a victim here as much as you." she looked over and flapped her wings a little as she started following towards Hikaru, "Actually, I'm wrong. You did it the very first. Just go with it, less stress on the mind. Unless you're weaker than me now?" and the blonde moved faster to follow.
Kaida wasn't necessarily appreciative of the comments for her to use her "animal abilities". She didn't want to get too adjusted to this body to the point she tried to claw out a heartless of something. She would rather keep herself used to using the keyblade. Kaida kept on her swinging and clashing with the hyena that seemed disinterested in the battle anymore. She was at least getting used to the body at this point, but it still threw her off when she made a weird bird noise as she hit it. Either way, it looked like Ed was starting to finally feel it, and with the other hyenas apparently dealt with, it was time to put soul focus on finishing up this one. Banzai - 0/150 BP Shenzi - 0/150 BP Ed- 10/180 BP
Take looked between Aria and Chrono wondering if those explanations would even suffice. It might just make them sound... crazier? What if the ship didn't even need their help at all. I mean, there appeared to be no immediate danger going on. He was fairly certain wherever Illiana was she was just leaning back in a chair eating crumpets and drinking tea making whatever snobby noise she did to make herself seem holier than thou. They were probably going to end up thrown off no matter what the outcome was cause as far as they were all aware they were still stowaways. But he would rather go with what Aria was attempting since it at least seemed more logical that they were drifters than pirates. All Take did was nod in agreement, since he didn't want to put his words on this plan.
Kaida's mouth was full, and she was being asked questions. When Hikaru had made a joke well... she didn't get it. When Hikaru turned to ask her for approval, she answered with her mouth still holding her keyblade, "y dn geddit. Aw hyanesss inhewentwy funny? Issh thathe jowk?" then the hyena began... going after a tree. After Hikaru's question about him forgetting to fight, Kaida raised her wings up almost in a sort of 'iunno' shrug before she ran at the hyena again, throwing her keyblade at Ed. As her mouth was free she said, "Carrying these things is annoying and these animal bodies are less exciting when you're using the keyblade and you're a BIRD." the keyblade then swung back and she caught it with her mouth again and kept trying to use the keyblade, regardless of whether or not everyone else used their bodies. Banzai - 88/150 BP Shenzi - 52/150 BP Ed- 82/180 BP
Uva took the hits fairly well, but it did fling her back quite a few feet and she felt the wind get knocked out of her. She stood herself up and held her stomach a brief moment before charging head first into the fray with a bit of a yell. The girl jumped up and stabbed at one of the beowulfs, who let out a death cry. Uva flipped backwards off of the beowulf into one other one and stabbed at it as well. Some fire dust shooting into the beowulf and blasting that one away as well. Uva hit the ground and said, "One more." under her breath. 1/10 beowulfs left.
Aalis felt the attack pretty hard and she cursed under her breath a bit as she moved to ready her new attack and felt the sneeze come on and a look of fear crossed her face before the sneeze came. When she did, her sneeze was extremely loud and incredibly painful to the ears, even Aalis had to cover her ears over the volume and some of the Grimm recoiled. Aalis blinked as a Grimm seemed to just... die from the suddenness. Aalis shrugged and went for it, as she gave another full charge and sliced through the next one. She fluttered her fan a bit as she regained balance and sliced again for it to go down. Aalis looked over at Arian and smirked, "3 down." Grimm left: 1/10
Kaida saw the preparing for the pounce and backed away slightly before tried summoning her keyblade. The keyblade ended up appearing in her mouth and Kaida was a bit off balance as she found herself charging forward and hitting Ed. Kaida was a bit taken aback at the suddenness of how she moved, and she wasn't fond of keeping the keyblade in her beak but there wasn't much she could do. She turned to look over at Aux and Hikaru in a bit of surprise before Ed moved to retaliate and Kaida let out a frightened noise and used the keyblade again. Trying to get a hand of maneuvering it in this manner. She couldn't fly, so she couldn't get it in her claws, so this would have to do. The blonde got a few more hits in before she backed away looking at the others, hoping maybe they'd jump in soon. Ed: 148/180BP The others still at full BP
