Take's face immediately looked pained when he said Mika was... gone. Take took the violin but wasn't looking at it as much as he was staring at the waters. Trying to cope with what the guard just said. Take closed his eyes a bit and words suddenly hit his mind and melted those emotions away. Good soldiers put their feelings last. Good soldiers put their feelings last... "Good soldiers put their feelings last." Take whispered to himself, under his breath, with finality as he let his mourning fade. But as his mind came back, and the weight of the violin in his hands could be felt. Take realized something about the guards story. He looked at the guard and said, "I... don't know anyone like that. No one in our group looks like that." the boy's face went back into it's usual serious spot. He stood up straighter and asked firmly, "Where did you see the man go?" The guard seemed to point in one direction, towards an alley as he said in a saddened tone, "I know I saw him head there..." and Take nodded and quickly ran off the docks saying, "Come on Nini." but Nini wasn't moving. Take stopped and turned around and rolled his eyes, running up to the cat and picking them up and said, "Mika wouldn't want you this sad. Come on, we gotta find Tinarah." and he placed the cat on his shoulder and the cat gripped it enough for him to run without losing the cat. Once he got to the alley, he realized quickly it was a dead end. There was nowhere to climb up easily, at least not with a person, and no door ways or windows to sneak into. Takehiko realized at this point whoever this was, they ported away with Tinarah. The boy sighed in frustration and whispered, "I'm gonna have to find the others and tell Chrono..."
Kaida hadn't given the full attention to the new guards until Beuce just kind of flicked his wrist and the guard just kind of died and Kaida looked at him and said, "D-did you just suck out that man's soul? Like. I know you said there were a bunch of souls in there but I didn't think you had that kind of power..." Kaida remembered him explaining his arm and all the stuff on it but the fact that it was able to just suck out souls seemed like black magic to her. But then Kaida also took down another guard with ease and she said, "Eh... ah... um. Ya know what, maybe he's just trying to intimidate us with numbers?" Kaida seemed genuinely surprised by that but then took a breath and just went for it, knowing it was best to go in for it more. But the closer she got to CLU, the guards ended up being increasingly harder, which made her not feel entirely like she was over-leveled and she tried her best to get closer. Hoping it wouldn't be too long before they could get to the disc. 4/10
Take looked back over at Nini for a moment before looking at Torrin a moment. He took a deep breath and quickly summoned out his keyblade. More at the ready in case anything was up with Mika, but before he actually did leave he raised his keyblade up and threw cure on Torrin. Take didn't exactly need to do that, but he figured if anything big was going on, he'd rather help Torrin out while he still could. Take didn't look back before he ran out of the house to follow Nini. He hoped Mika was okay, but a part of him was reminded of when his brother went missing, and when he ran out searching when he was younger to find nothing. Take hoped that wasn't the case, but it was what he expected. And Take expected the worse, hoping for the best. Take followed Nini to the docks and he slowed down a little and looked around. The water looked as if it was getting rougher, like a hurricane was approaching out at sea. Waves splashed over onto the docks and Take backed up a bit just to make sure he wasn't washed off. He saw Nini hop up on one of the poles, looking out at the harbor and meowing sadly out towards it. Take tried to get closer, trying to look out. But he noticed a guard towards the boats. The boy assumed that was the best person to go to at this moment and as he walked closer, he saw the guard grabbing a blue violin out of a boat. There was no mistaking the bright blue violin, and Take started running over, as the water splashed up. Take got sprayed by a harsh wave as he yelled, "Hey!" Take was trying to be calm but seeing only Tinarah's violin worried him even more, "The violin. That belongs to a friend of mine. She's about yay high." Take motioned towards around where his nipples would theoretically be, and he said, "Was she around? And a red haired girl?" Take's voice didn't sound calm at all as another wave splashed up and he asked, "Where are they if you have seen them?"
Aalis had been relatively quiet up to this point, mostly to take in everything and recover a while. But when she heard Arian address the cheese man she finally said, "Uh... that was... me...." Aalis was quiet a bit before saying, "My semblance I mean. I kind of have this thing where I... don't know what my power is? Well, that's not true either. I know what the power is. It's just, random. A random power every time I cough. It can range anywhere between healing everyone once, or I cough and it can rain people from the sky, until the next time I cough... yes. This has happened. And, well, that time I coughed and the man turned into cheese?" Aalis realized this sounded completely insane and she looked more shy than she usually did, "I-It's why I try and fight without depending on it! Ya know, cause you can't depend on something that could be anything. Though it usually has a range, and it is always short-lived... so... we don't have to worry about me coughing the universe out of existence."
Take heard the little meow but his first real response to it happened when he saw the little black cat on his leg, digging in. Take didn't really wince he just shifted for a moment to place Atmos down somewhere safe and comfortable before ducking down, "Nini? Where's Mika?" he reached his hand out to try and pet the cat, knowing it might not accept it. He tilted his head and said, "Does she need help?" Take stood up and said, "I don't know if Nini'll take me there. She has a mind of her own... but my gut tells me she needs help..." Take looked at Torrin and asked, "Did you want to stay here and look after Atmos?" he didn't know if he was still healing. Take knew he had to go look though, and was trying to hide how concerned he actually was.
Mora stayed between the group protecting her, feeling bad about not being able to at least help out. Then again, the girl was horrified. And when Mora looked back, she saw darkness seem to swirl up and create a human form. Mora took a quick breath and said, "Run faster." and ran into the building. Once everyone was inside, the form took hold and Ria appeared saying, "Aaaand the gangs all here now. Good job on the Darkside." Ria snapped his fingers and all of the heartless stopped what they were doing and backed away, Ria took a step forward and asked, "How about you guys come on back out here? The weather's nice, the sun's shining, the birds are singing, and all of my heartless want to consume what is left of your miserable little hearts." Ria's hand went up and he pointed at Cerdic, "Come on, I know you're always looking for a fight. Or how about you?" Ria pointed to a couple before his finger pointed at Daeni, "Or how about you, sweetheart. You look like you're ready to murder. Kindled up energy, and there's something off about you. I can just feel it." "Don't do it guys. We'd be better off together." Mora spoke up silently and Ria sighed, "Ya know, little Mora. I'm sorry our little deal didn't work out. But maybe we could make a better one-" "Not a chance." Mora blurted out and Ria rolled his eyes, "Should have put you with your family and done the work myself. You've got some strong darkness inside you that I'm missing out on. Tell me my friends, how does it feel to work with someone so close to the darkness? You guys hated it so much after all, so why are you helping out this girl now when she betrayed you? Sympathy? She doesn't deserve it." Mora backed away from him and walked further into the house. It was a one-floor house, that much was clear, but it went pretty far back. Far enough where even through the windows one couldn't see someone at the back of the house. Once in the back, Mora got on the floor and seemed to feel around before reaching a piece of wood which loosened up. Mora reached down and tugged up on something and the floor in the center of the room slowly opened up to reveal, well, another hole with a ladder. The whole thing basically acted like a trap door. Mora looked up and whispered low, "One minute before it autocloses." the put down the plank and slotted it in place and shifted over and climbed down first, "Talk to him or ignore him but we'll be safer down here." and the girl disappeared into the dark below.
Melus looked between the girl and the other two and listened to Arctus and she sighed and said sternly, "We're not going to get anywhere if we stand here doing nothing." Melus tossed her harp up into the air and it disappeared into the wind and she stepped up, "At this point in time, the last thing I'm worried about is Lady Kar-Kiara Xeres. We all have our baggage, she didn't ask for it to be brought it. She was resistant. And if she wishes to bring it up, she can bring it up when we're somewhere safer. Or when she's ready. Unless you wanna sit here and share your past enemies too to have all our unnecessary cards on the table?" Melus took a deep breath and said, "I'm more worried about this one." Melus turned towards the blonde girl crying saying, "I'm not fond of watching other people get beat. But I don't fully trust you if you are working with that guy. And this... ranking system." she turned back towards Arctus, "We can talk about this later, but for now. Cooperate. Or you can go back to whatever you were doing before we agreed to work together as a team." Melus shifted her hair out of her face and turned to the girl and said, "So what's your name, blondey?"
Take carried Atmos occasionally looking back to check and make sure nothing was attacking Torrin (or possibly Torrin attacking him). After making it past the cave, he got closer to the city. He still wasn't taking the time to sight see, he never really did even though one of the whole reasons he left his homeworld was to see new worlds. But he was just worried about getting Atmos somewhere safer. When he got towards the city he walked up to a soldier, his militant attitude returning back as he stood up a bit straighter and said without any shakiness to his voice, "Excuse me sir, I'm one of the... outsiders with the key weapons. I need a place to keep my master because she's hurt and needs to recover. Is there anywhere we could temporarily stay?" He didn't know if he'd just get a push-away response but it was better. He hoped looking back that Torrin's weapon being out at least made it so the man didn't question his validity. He naively didn't think anyone would be able to exploit that at this time.
gimme that HP daddy ; )
When Melus had backed up enough, she realized this was not going to end without a fight. She played a chord or two before she spun the harp around and positioned her feet in a stance like that of a ranger. Melus pulled back the strings and three arrows began to shapen, with the ghostly and ever-changing appearance of wind. Melus stared at the opponent as well as her teammates before she said, "We don't have to make this more difficult than it has to be... do we?"
It was very clear that when his homeworld was brought up that Take looked slightly on edge. He paused a moment to think it over before he nodded, "Yeah. Very strong." it looked like that was all Take really wanted to say on it. But after a bit he added, "It's... almost entirely military." but he soon stopped, and looked straight at Torrin and said, "You mentioned being hurt... how did that happen? I know it was before the heartless came, since you came to the fight already hurt..." Take had been pretty shut out over the homeworld thing, it seemed to fall apart as he asked, "What hap...did... something happen? I know you're healing up but do you still need help?" it was a genuine moment of concern that he quickly straightened himself up from when he realized it happened and he crossed his arms, "Or... should I be worried it could happen to one of us?" when he said that last sentence, he was very much back in the serious state he was in when he got there.
I hear you're into monster movies. I'll have you know I'm a monster in the bed ;)
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THAT SO FEW PEOPLE HAVE EATEN IT WHAT THE ACTUAL ****
Lets play rock paper scissors okay let's go I call rock.
When Take had gotten there, despite fully expecting Torrin to be there, when Torrin looked ready to fight it was almost instinct that Take was on the defensive, but he too quickly loosened up when he realized he was probably just doing the same thing. Take looked over at Atmos and walked over quietly for a minute and ducked down to look at her. It was clear he was nervous about her, but seeing her still around and in one piece made him show relief. He stayed in silence for a moment before Take stood up and said, "We got attacked by some heartless just out of the cave, the locals thought we were here to cause some trouble, but we spoke with the King and we agreed to help him out with the heartless situation they seem to be having. Everyone seemed to split up. I chose to come back here just to check on everything..." Take finally decided to look at Torrin and had a face of confusion, "In the midst of everything... I realize I never learned your name..." Take was silent for a moment before pointing to himself saying, "My name's Takehiko. But you can just call me Take. Most people do... thanks for helping us out back there." the more Take seemed to talk, the less shut off he seemed to be. Though he still looked like he was taking everything seriously.
Kaida kept on throwing discs between Cat and Rinzler, finding the combat slowly but surely beginning to point more in her favor. She managed to get Rinzler hit a couple more times before he slipped off to find other victims. This made Kaida happy, as it meant she could finally focus more on Cat. She was finally getting a handle on how this game worked, but as a result it seemed Cat was too. This only meant that the two were just playing with better skill, but were both at roughly the same overall skill level. Kaida got a couple points in, Cat got a couple points in. Then finally, Kaida decided to do something a little risky. She ran straight at Cat and jumped up and did a flip over Cat. It made her look pretty cool, or at least she thought so, but it also worked for practicality as she managed to get Cat in the shoulder one way, and finally in her back. Cat turned around and got aggressive about it and she ended up pushed into the floor by Cat's disc. Cat pinned her down at this point and basically had the full intent of keeping her there while she ranked up points. But Kaida managed to squirm out before she really could. And got her one more time for good measure. She backed away and dodged, glad she was getting herself ahead. Kaida: +2 Cat: -1 Rinzler: -2 Kaida: 4 Cat: 2 Rinzler: 2 4/10
"Or perhaps someone really wanted to learn how to cook one of my kin over a spit?" Hevnaar asked, not seriously contributing to the scenario. He flew over to the town and began to fly over and circle. He stayed pretty high, as his shadow was huge, and he wished it to be small for purposes of not causing fear. As he flew over, Hevnaar seemed to snarl a bit and spoke with no care for not being understood, "Fos los sukaat do daar pus gein. Zu'u vis hon honaat do ok drensepaal. Fos los bal do fus grin?" Hevnaar was silent for a bit before saying, "It appears to be a grah-do-bal. I believe your kin call it duel for steaks. Er... a duel with stakes. Pardon. But something is off. I think you may understand. Hold tight, soszeymah." Hevnaar then angled himself so it was easier for Alexander to get a look. Basically he was at a 90 degree angle.
Melus watched as her team was already trying to engage with the hostile person they had just run into. Melus held her harp a little closer to herself and said, "We're not supposed to engage... we don't know what's going on here. It might just be personal business and here we are provoking." she stepped back a bit more, not because she was ready to run off or anything, but because she was going to be murdered if she was anywhere near close combat range at this point. So she kept herself off towards the back and said, "We should just report back to gramps..." but she had a feeling no matter what she said at this point, these guys were ready to run in to charge, so Melus just made sure she was ready to keep them from being killed. She plucked a couple strings on her harp in a bit of a pattern, but not really attempting a song of any kind.
Kaida and Cat were continuing with their back and forth until Rinzler threw one at her again. This time, Kaida at least was aware enough to dodge it. But she lot a bit of her balance, and Cat used it as an opportunity to catch up a bit on her points. By the time Kaida was able to get away, Cat had gotten 3 points out of the deal. Kaida backed up and looked over at Cat, who was getting herself prepped for another throw, when Kaida saw Rinzler out of the corner of her eye, and she took the opportunity to throw her disc at him. This made Rinzler stagger back once hit and Kaida threw another disc at him. Cat threw at her and Kaida dodged it, and Rinzler dodged Kaida's. When Kaida got her disc back, she threw one at Cat and another at Rinzler, but Rinzler threw his right as she did. The disc looked like it was going to collide with Kaida's, but it went just under it, scraping the bottom slightly so Kaida's disc flew up and over Rinzler's head while Kaida dodged her's, and lost another point to Cat who got her back when she was more focused on Rinzler. This was going fantastically. Cat: +3 Kaida: -2 Rinzler: -1 Kaida: 2 Cat: 3 Rinzler: 4 3/10
