With the wind knocked out of him, Karina turned around and kicked him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Mortimer tried to catch his breath and speak up again, but before he really could Karina stomped on his throat. "I don't want to hear your stupid voice anymore." Karina snarled before she moved her foot just in time for her keyblade to connect. It wasn't as satisfying as she thought it would be. The data image faded and Karina felt no satisfaction in the kill, just kind of empty. Staring at the body she finally forced herself to turn and move on, this time not daring to look at the clock as she wondered what awaited her at the top of the next floor. Ascending the stairs, Karina laid eyes on her next opponent. "So finally it is time to see which one of us is stronger, is it? Well bring it on?" She had her keyblade ready and a glint of excitement in her eye.
"Awe come on, let them fight. Chick fights are the best!" Jay called out to the man who stopped the fight. "Testy testy this group is." He commented as he walked towards the man stopping the girls from fighting and put a hand on his shoulder. "What kind of living being doesn't want to see chicks fight? Or what these muzzles do. You know if we can sort that out, I bet my brother could jam them." Jay pointed behind him to Jim before turning to wink at Lydia. "Besides I bet she could hold her own just fine." He didn't stop his eyes from wandering. "So what do you say, letting them fight?" He let out a bit of a laugh and a smile.
This was bad, this was bad, this was so bad. Tinarah couldn't suppress the yelp of pain as it felt like her arms were going numb. She had to hold on, just a little longer, she couldn't let Chrono and Take down. Through watering eyes she saw that Chrono wasn't the only one on his last legs, it seemed to be Kefka was too. She was torn between healing her brother or trying to finish off Kefka. Chrono might survive another hit if she helped him, but he might not have to take another attack if she managed to take Kefka out. Take and Chrono seemed to be going all out, so perhaps she needed to as well. "Sorry." She softly commented as she looked towards Kefka from her brother. "I need to end this before it gets worse." Ice exploded from her as music surrounded her, intertwining between the shards of ice. Bursting forth was a terrible blast of energy and ice and music as it poured forth towards Kefka, bending around her companions. Ice lightly covered her own clothing and keyblade as the blast subsided and Tinarah fell to one knee panting. She was was getting tired. Her body wanted to give out but she couldn't just yet. Dizziness and nausea hit as Tinarah tried to get back up to her feet to make sure that Kefka was down before she let her body get the better of her. Tinarah used Blizzara doing 45 Damage + 15 for drive + 15 for the magic bullets = 75AP HP: 16/85 AP: 0/58 MP: 9/30 DP: 0/3
"Try me." Karina retorted as she pulled back for a moment. "You know I have learned a new trick. Too bad you can't teach an old dog new tricks." Karina laughed a little bit. She didn't actually think of Fang as old, but she still thought it would be fun to mess with her a little bit. "Who are you calling old?" Fang retorted as she prepared for whatever Karina was going to do, but was caught off guard by the magic that Karina threw at her. A ball of flames shot for her. As it hit, fang stumbled back and Karina got her opening she needed. As she got the keyblade up to Fangs throat, Fang put her hands in the air, dropping her spear to the ground. "Nice going kid. I am proud of you." Karina strolled past Fang, glad that she didn't actually have to finish Fang off for this test to be over. "Well well well, what do we have here." Oh no. She knew that voice, she knew who that was. Oh she was going to enjoy this all too much. "I was wondering when I would get to beat your face in." "What no more smooches?" That was all Karina needed to hear before she launched herself at the mouse. There was no time for talking, she would not give in to his smugness. Flipping her keyblade around, she smashed the end into Mortimer's chest so that the air was knocked out of him. No more talking, she was going to finish this one off quickly.
"You'd be surprised how well we can keep up, especially when I have my music." With that music burst forth and filled the air around them. Tinarah smiled a bit feeling a little more invigorated as music notes swirled around her. "I think we will be just fine now." She couldn't help but smile a bit as she felt like they actually had a chance to win this. The green energy that was almost always around her keyblade turned from green to a frosty blue. Magic gathered at the tip and came out as a large ice shard, followed by several smaller ones that came out behind it. With the blizzard attack in effect, Tinarah launched herself after the attack letting her mind go blank, following the instincts that were drilled into her mind by Torrin. Tinarah used Blizzara doing 45 Damage + 15 for drive + 15 for the magic bullets = 75AP HP: 48/85 AP: 20/58 MP: 13/30 DP: 0/3
No, what? How? I am a perfect angel.
So am I overrated or underrated?
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Me Banned? I am a perfect angel. Yes. I am not plotting anyone's demise.
Oh that was just great. So funny
Wait, are any of these guys intimidating?
"Damn it, you are supposed to be the smart one." Jay rubbed his hand against the collar around his neck. "Do you really think they look good, I have to say I am not fond of something this tight around my neck. And before you say it, decapitation will not help." Jay retorted since his brother already implied that once. He wasn't about to get his head cut off for the sake of getting this, so called, muzzle off of his neck. Despite everything his brother was saying Jay knew as well as Jim that everything was not fine. Sitting next to his brother he leaned over and started to whisper. "While those girls do sound very tempting, I prefer the idea of getting out of here before we run the risk of getting separated. What do you say? You said yourself that throwing us in here was going against the law, why not just... you know get out?" It was a stupid idea he knew well enough, but Jim was smart enough that he might just be able to make it work. "Your brains and my muscle. Jack won't know what hit him. Besides if we want a hope at freedom it will have to be before they inject us with that stuff, separated or not I doubt even you can stop that from working." They had a better chance of figuring out the muzzles, something on the body that can be examined compared to something that was injected into you. Either way it was clear that Jay had no plans of just sitting around and rotting.
"Hey, hey don't need to push. I know you all want a chance to touch my beautiful body but not yet, my brother is here after all." He winked at the guards pushing him off, trying to shrug off their touch before they were stopped and he could look over to his brother. "Besides I am saving myself for you. After all, you are only slightly less attractive than me, so it is close enough." Even arrested he couldn't help himself but joke with his brother. For being sent essentially to his death, he was rather chipper. He watched as a man paced in front of them watching them. "Three good punches and he would be out." Jay whispered to his brother eyeing up the exact places he would have to hit to get the hulking man down to his level. "Jackson Grant. Oh I am shivering in my boots already." He laughed as he watched the man trying to be all threatening. "Hey Jack, what happens if you have no hopes and dreams to shoot? Can I just leave?" Interrupting the man didn't bother him in the slightest. It was fun to make people angry. "Stupid. You know I wouldn't say that saving your brother is stupid. The stupid part is that he got caught." He wasn't about to admit that he was wrong, there was no chance that he would say that he was stupid. He wasn't a smart of his brother of course, he couldn't build a ship... well neither could Jim apparently, his blew up. There was a continuation about how they would be divided and Jay almost just shrugged. "Sorry little bro, looks like I can't protect you from all the weaklings after the next three days. Try and play nice. But lets have a little fun together while we still can." He whispered during the end of the speech, completely missing the entire part about the collars that they would be wearing. Just as he finished talking they were pushed off somewhere else for processing, then stripped down and equipped. "Hey! Hey! What are these, don't put that around my neck!" Without his hands free yet he wasn't able to get any good hits on anyone. Once it was on he was shoved into the hall, but at least he was free of his cuffs. "Uh hey... Jim. Do you know how-"
"Not bad, but I have not made a man out of you yet." Shang responded as he countered her with a counter sweep and knocked her down, pointing his staff towards her. "Good thing wood can't puncture my throat." Karina retorted as she took her bare hands and grabbed the staff and pulled him down. As he fell she kicked up her legs and hit kicked him in the gut as he fell over her head and landed on his back with the wind knocked out of him. Getting to her feet quickly, Karina had to finish things off as quickly as she could. She almost felt bad as she approached him, but he was just data, a projection, he was not real. "At least you were a competent fight." Karina stated as she finished off Shang before turning and running off towards the next set of stairs, only taking a moment to glance at the clock on her hand. As much as she was crunching the numbers on how much time she had left, she was trying her best to not focus too much on it. She couldn't let herself get caught up in the small things and lose her focus on the battles ahead. "Well well, if it isn't the kid. Haven't seen ya in a while. Hows it going? Have you toughened up yet or are you still dragging your feet pushing people away?" This woman. She was... she was in the outback. She was in the world where people kept leaving, and more would come only to leave again. "Fang." "So you remembered me. I am happy to see that. So have you learned to change your destiny?" "You tell me." There was a small smile on Karina's face as she finally got ready to attack. Her keyblade swung but was met by the metal pole if Fangs spear. Now this was a staff that had a purpose. Her keyblade swung around again trying to hit Fang again, but Fang was too quick and dodged out of the way. "You got to do better than that."
The magic of the clown kept getting more powerful. The fire that erupted from the rain scorched and hurt as Tinarah tried to guard herself. He was right, they would get tired out and he seemed to still be holding on strong. They couldn't give up though, they had to keep going. She wouldn't fail this world, no she couldn't. Her body was tired and sore, her stomach hurt and she could feel that she wasn't going to hold on for long after the fight. She was not in a good shape still, she was still working on getting herself to a healthier condition. For now the adrenaline could carry her, but for how much longer? Could she keep going like this after things calmed down? It was no time to think about it thought, they had to just think about surviving and getting through this fight. "Come on. Hold on. We can do this." She didn't know if it was for her sake or her friends that she was saying this, but it didn't matter as she cast cure on them all once again, using the MP that Take just gave her. She had to do more however, this was not enough, it wouldn't be enough to just heal, she had to also help fight, even if it was barely. Running in Tinarah tried her best to stay small and dodge the flames as she went towards him trying to at least get a hit or two in before backing up but not hiding behind Take anymore, he didn't seem to be doing well so she didn't want to put him in more danger. Tinarah Cured Take and Chrono for 35 hp and herself for 20 HP: 59/85 AP: 28/58 MP: 12/30 DP: 3/3
Aislinn looked between her three options. She could follow Pocahontas, she could join Nanaki scouting, she could go with John Smith and possibly have to deal with Radcliff again, that being said the latter was not overly appealing. "I don't think we should leave Pocahontas to go back on her own, not when there is trouble. Lets follow her." She then looked over at Nanaki. She didn't know how he fought or if he could hold his own but wondered if he would be okay. "Maybe John, you should go with him, both scout out. We will make sure that Pocahontas gets home safely and remains safe." She was a princess of heart after all and they needed to keep them safe at any cost.
Fighting against her own body, Raelyn tried to free herself from the stun that had seized her body moments before. Battle rushed around her, but it wasn't until the golems were attacking again that she managed to break free from the stunned state enough to keep helping. It made her feel a little useless as she was forced to watch what people were doing and she was standing there. It wasn't too late to step back in though. Keeping a bit towards the back Raelyn prepared another spell and threw it out towards as many as she could hit before she stepped back defending herself in order to not risk being stunned once more. She couldn't afford to just sit around and not help again, she had to at least try and be worth while. Raelyn used Aqua Stream then went into a defense stance.
Pushing the gun away from her keyblade, Gaston stumbled as Karina spun and stuck. There was no laying off him, there was no time. He didn't have time to get out another weapon, and his gun was all but useless when he didn't have time to aim. She had the upper hand, now it was time to finish it. "But I am the best!" Gaston tried to protest, but Karina was having none of it. With one hand she jarred the gun from his grasp, throwing it across the room. With her other hand she summoned her keyblade back just before swinging it in such a manner to take off his head. The body hit the ground with a sickening thud. Breathing heavy, Karina looked at the clock on her hand. "Four minutes, that is not too bad. Could have done better." She commented to herself allowing just a moment to breath before stepping over the body and ran up the set of stairs to the next room that was waiting for her. While she didn't know what was waiting beyond that door, she knew it was sure to be harder than this over sized bimbo. Bursting through the door she found Shang standing on the other side with a quarterstaff in his hand. Well it was better than Gaston, but he couldn't tell Mulan was a girl and was severely confused by his sexuality, so he wasn't all that smart, but he was a better fighter than Gaston. At least Shang could handle himself. This wouldn't be as easy as just closing the distance to win. She would have to out maneuver him. Jumping into battle right away, Karina knew that she couldn't afford to waste any time on this. Sword vs staff was not something that she was familiar with, but she had to at least try. As the keybalde met the middle of the staff, the wood groaned but did not give way to the force behind her keyblade. Using what leverage he had, Shang turned around and snapped the wood back at her, nearly hitting her in the face. Forced to back off, Karina knew he had the upper hand with range, she would have to be more clever. As Shang brought his quarterstaff around again, Karina slid under his next attack, sweeping her leg and knocking him prone, giving her the upper hand for this round.
My first one I have done using the new trailers! I wanted to make this a bit longer, but thus my mind wouldn't let me come up with ways to fill in the blanks and the song seemed to have a better cut off point earlier. But yeah, enough ranting, this is what I did manage to come up with in the time I had and I hope you like it.
60 minutes, she had 60 minutes to get through seven battles. That wasn't much time. "Alright, so if I get through the first in 5 minutes, second in 6, so on and so forth I will have fifteen minutes to compete the last one." Karina mumbled to herself. "It will be cutting it close assuming that the battles just get harder as they go, so I have to use my time wisely, nothing too fancy." She mumbled to herself, already wasting the first 30 seconds of the trial trying to plan out her strategy. With so little time, she couldn't even bother to wish Arctus luck before she summoned her keyblade and charged into the first room. The door locked behind her and Karina was left facing a rather large man with a red shirt and black hair tied back into a pony-tail. Oh it was him. This pretentious dick that she had to deal with back at Beasts Castle. Oh he was full of himself, but she was sure that he couldn't hold his own. Standing up straight, Karina summoned her keyblade, he wasn't that quick, he was big and his muscle would slow him down. All these things in her mind, Karina launched her first attack. As long as she kept moving she would have the upper hand. There was no way that even her strength would be enough to stop one of his blows directly, but if she could keep moving he wouldn't be quick enough to hit her. The sound of a gunshot rang through the room and Karina had barely managed to dive and roll out of the way. Damn it. She didn't remember him being ranged, it was her own fault. She just needed to keep moving and close the gap. Don't give him room to re position and shoot again.Coming to a sudden halt, Karina pivoted and turned towards Gaston directly. Launching a fire ball at Gaston, Karina launched herself at him. His gun blocked the blunt of the blow, at least she had closed the distance.
