Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

Torrin scratched his cheek and thought about Qamar's question. "I don't think we'll have to come up with any names for me." Torrin shrugged. "But if the need arises...there was a squire I once befriended. His name was...Avis I think?"


"I quite like that." Eilonwy spoke up, reminding the group of her and Taran's presence.


"I still don't understand why we have to wear these...robes." Taran complained holding up his arms to show how loose his sleeves were as they completely draped over his hands.



"Sorry about that. Guess I picked out the wrong one for your size. The one Take had worn would fit you better I think. Anyway, just keep them on. They're for your own protection."



"Oh all right..." Taran folded his arms. "I hope we don't have to walk much farther. Eilonwy's getting hungry." After he spoke his own stomach growled loud enough for the others to hear causing the boy to laugh nervously and place his hand over his stomach while the princess next to him giggled over his white lie.



"Not much farther. Let's keep—" The sounds of screams in the distance broke the dull bustle of the townspeople. Torrin sensed the presence of darkness take a dramatic spike and spotted purple flames beyond several buildings. The guards immediately began to mobilize but were stopped in their tracks as dozens of Neoshadows began materializing from out of thin air. "What!?" Shock went through Torrin's system as he had never seen Heartless in town before let alone so many.



Knowing that even summoning his keyblade would give away his identity he refrained from doing so. Torrin looked at the others and issued a rapid fire series of orders at his team. "Qamar and Lumen stay close to Eilonwy and Taran. Boreas, you already know who to check on. Aria, Enzo, these fires are spreading and the guards aren't equipped for this. You both are on fire duty, alright?" Even as he spoke more Heartless began to appear with Flame Cores speeding through the air as they set buildings ablaze as they flew by with magical red flames. Though the structures took no damage the flames made their way indoors trapping people inside. Without saying anything else Torrin ran deeper into down casting Water spells along the way to quell the fires as he headed towards an even stronger Heartless presence farther away.










Ardyn held up his index finger towards Take and Tinarah to get them to quiet themselves, his eyes now fixed on Chrono as he answered him first."To presume that our mutual acquaintance even requires such a material is naive at best. It is used for the making of armor and weapons is it not? His students have armor and what need would they have for new weapons?" Arydn answered before lowering his hand.

"I have merely come to observe you puppets. It is not me you should be worried about but other, less wholesome, familiar faces. Dear Chrysanthemum over there should be excited for what is to come. In any case..." He lifted his arm to look at his wrist mimicking the motion of checking the time. "I do hate to do this to you but I must be on my merry way. Until we meet again!" With a sinister smile he took his hat off and gave the group a bow before vanishing in a red flash.

 

"God damn it!" Tinarah cursed, a rare thing for her as she stared at the spot that Ardyn had been standing in. She was sick of this guy, these riddles. She wanted to know what was being planned. She wanted to be sure that her father was okay, but they had a mission and heading there might only be bringing the issue to her father. Her keyblade dissipated from her hand as she for a moment looked defeated, before looking back towards the exit of the alleyway. With a sigh she started walking out of the ally towards where she last remembered the building of that company was. "Lets just go before we bring too much trouble to this world." She knew the longer they were there, the more likely trouble would follow them, and by the sounds of it, some already had. It made Tinarah think, and look back at Chrys. "Knowing him, he is trying to get under our skin, don't worry about it." She didn't know if the girl would, but from what Tinarah could read about Chrys, it might bother her to some extent, but letting it would only give him more power. ​

 

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"F-fire?" Enzo, asked trying to keep up a pleasant smile. There was obviously something about the job that was getting him as he quickly looked around himself to wonder just how close they were to any intense heat. As the fires grew, Enzo took a few steps back, almost afraid of the searing humidity that came off the buildings. He tried to make another sentence, but his mouth continued to quiver and he was unable to form words. He just kept mumbling quietly to himself as he the word 'fire' was hushly repeated over and over to himself. His smile faded as his face was now flushed with fear.

He closed his eyes tightly as he covered his temple with both hands.

Not again...

He kept hearing the screams of people echo in his head and the memory of him calling out for his mother.

Not again...

His eyes darted back and forth as a crackling spark from the enchanted fire, caused him to wince and jump a bit. His mind jumping back and forth from his current age and his childhood memory.

Not again....

He shut his eyes as tightly as he could, hoping he would awaken from this repeating nightmare. He couldn't do this. Not again...
As he was trapped in his own head of torment and screams, a kid crying broke him out of his traumatic loop. The child sounded like they were no older than six.

Not again.

He flew his head up with faint eyes wide open as he looked in the direction of the building. A few tears strolling down his face, he saw small auras of light amidst the blinding heat of the fires.
The screams and cries from the townspeople being in present day. He couldn't do anything back then. But that was then.

Never again.

Recomposing himself, he took a very solemnt breath and kept his mind in focus, he took off his glasses and wiped away any tears from his face before putting them back on.
He took a very big breath before bolting off into the direction of the fires.

"I'M VERY TRULY TERRIFIED,
BUT ANSWER TO THE CHILDREN'S CRIES-"

Enzo ran in and disappeared into the fires with his voice trailing off.

 

Dozens of Neoshadows surrounded Qamar and Lumen, circling them as if they were easy prey. Eilonwy let out a small yelp and stepped behind Taran who was doing his best to keep from cowering behind the two keybladers. Even as Lumen cut his way through them more Heartless emerged and leapt at the two keyblade wielders.

Meanwhile, people began running out of their homes now that Aria had doused several fires and cleared a way for them to escape. Flame Cores appeared in front of the girl, stopping her in her tracks as they rushed her, trying to burn her with the intense heat from their bodies. Enzo had come across a small child being shielded by his mother from the flames, the inferno blocking their way out. "H-help!" The mother called out upon seeing Enzo charge into her home. "Please!" She cried out.

Boreas had found his mother alive and well. Excluding a burn on her left forearm, a bruise on her cheek, and some slightly tattered clothing she was looking as well as could be expected though she was clearly shaken by the sudden intrusion into her home.

Torrin rushed forward seeing a large Heartless, something he had seen only once before, hovering over two purple flames beneath it. The blades in its hands were sprinkled with blood of the fallen guards around it. "Dammit!" Torrin growled, angered that he had arrived too late to save them, and charged right for the Heartless rolling forward and picking up a sword from a fallen guard as he closed the distance between himself and his target. "Bring it on, scum. I'll show you what the darkness is really capable of." Black energy flowed through Torrin and coated the blade he now held while he leapt into battle.






Just then...Tinarah, Chrono, Illiana, and Take's communicators began to beep. The only one whose communicator wasn't going off was Chrys's. A message was coming through. Whenever the first person answered their communicator the group would have heard a warning from Master Fost. "Due to your idle chatter I neglected to mention a reminder for you all. The Council may allow Chrysanthemum to join your mission but she is not to be left alone with Takehiko at any time." This would have been said loud enough for Chrys to easily hear.

 

Tinarah had answered her communicator just moments after Illiana, and only rolled her eyes at what Fost was telling them. Tinarah trusted Chrys, maybe more than she should, but she didn't worry too much about Chrys running off with Take. She didn't seem particularly thrilled to be with this group, more there out of necessity, probably not an act. And knowing the small amount Tinarah did about the Light Chaser, he didn't seem to be one to forgive easily, given what he had done to Gero, and the numerous attempts to kill Stamatis, and how he used her to do it. She didn't think he would take Chrys back even if she brought him Take, and Chrys wasn't an idiot, she could figure that out for herself. She couldn't object to Illiana's question though about what to do now. Part of Tinarah figured that Fost would make them figure it out for themselves, but if he was willing to answer, Tinarah would be willing to hear it. "By that she means Ardyn, you know the guy who nearly killed Torrin, showed up and was taunting us. It was our best guess about what he was going on about." Tinarah clarified as to not have Fost immediately be suspicious of Chrys. All this talking however was making her anxious. The longer they stood around the more chance that whoever was here, likely working against them, would succeed. Maybe if they started towards their goal, then the Chasers, or whoever was here would be forced after them and away from the other implication. "We should probably walk and talk, there is still a bit of a distance to where we need to go." She advised before continuing to walk while listening for Fost's reply. ​

 

A massive blast of wind magic shook the streets, clearing several houses of the flames and taking out several Flame Cores at the same time. A slender figure clad in black armor ran past Aria, a black keyblade in hand as it charged onward to cut its way through the Neoshadows that were in the new keyblader's path. The figure paid no attention to the girl and as it kept running it briefly paused to give a quick glance at Lumen and Qamar who were both fending off the Heartless that continued to jump and take swipes at the duo as they protected Taran and Eilonwy. Without a single word the black-armored keyblader ran into a burning alleyway, disappearing from sight.

The heavily armed castle guard, wearing pristine black armor with silver embellishments, began to arrive in town and cleave their way through the Flame Cores and Neoshadows with little effort. Some of them even began using water magic to clear out the flames and provide back up for Aria, Boreas, Lumen, and Qamar.

Torrin raised the sword he had picked up to block one of the Heartless's attacks. When the two blades collided Torrin was launched backwards from the force of the impact and smashed through the door of a house behind him. Cursing and grunting as he pushed himself back to his feet he looked down to see the sword he held had shattered from the blow. "Damn..." He tossed the now useless sword aside and clenched his fists as he rushed forward, extending his hand to command several black chains to rise from the ground and hold the Heartless still. Torrin leapt and landed on the bound Heartless, placing his palm to its face. A purple aura surrounded his hand and began to intensify as he channeled all of his magic into a single Death spell, amplifying its powers with his own dark reserves of power. The purple flames raging in the surrounding area began to darken and grow as their hue shifted red. Torrin was thrown off as the Heartless broke free from its chains and used its bladed tail whip at Torrin, nearly cutting him across the face but only slicing through part of his hood. The Heartless's face bore a hand-shaped burn on its face where the spell had been concentrated on, angrier than ever. Knowing that he was handicapped without his keyblade Torrin entered Dark Impulse hoping to even the odds.






"Hm. We have no idea how strong his students are by now so I suggest that none of you split up." Fost spoke after a moment. "Avoid them if you can but as long as you stick together this could be an opportunity to judge the strength of our enemy." He answered Illiana before moving on to Chrono's inquiry. "As far as I know the ore is too rare to be used for anything large. We only need enough of it to mix in with the other materials we actually have to create your armors. I've heard of an entire weapon being constructed of pure Orichalcum of the highest grade but it seems unlikely that even the Light Chaser would possess such a weapon. Perhaps Ardyn and the Chasers' presence is merely to test you. After all, it has been some time since any of them have faced you in combat. Hm..."

As the group walked a commercial airship decorated in bright blue, gold, and white paint made a low pass over the park. The massive displays on its sides reading with bright red flashing scrolling text "GIGAS DEMONSTRATION AT CENTRAL PLAZA IN 1 HOUR. DON'T MISS OUT ON THE FUTURE"

 

They weren't dumb, of course they wouldn't split up if they didn't have to. Even if the Chasers weren't here, there was no part of this scenario that seemed okay to Tinarah, just being here in general. Either way she hoped that Fost was right and that they were more here to observe them than to actually do anything about this situation. Things were already going to be difficult in their own respect, she didn't need this too. "Thanks for the advice." It wasn't much but at least he tried to be of some help, and Tinarah could appreciate that to some extent. She then turned and looked around as a low, familiar, rumbling sound filled their air, causing her to look up. "Well it looks like we found a starting point." She pointed up to the airship with the ad on it. Seeing the name of the company again, filled Tinarah with a sort of anger and sorrow that she had nearly forgotten. "It should at least give us an idea what they are up to now." Tinarah tried to suppress the emotions, not showing them to anyone as she stared at the ship a moment longer, hardly able to force her feet to carry her further. ​

 

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"Is this all of you?" Enzo asked. The woman shook her head. He took her by the arm and wrapped her arm around his neck, to help her get to her feet. The child crying still, he picked up and put over his shoulder. "There is a time and place to cry little boy, but that water won't help here... Just keep your eyes shut until we get out." He quickly took out his keyblade from his pant leg and cast a water spell over the flames, He created an accessible walkway that he dashed through as he ran far enough with enough adrenalin pumping in his body, that he couldn't think about anything else.

The fires were thick with heat, but Enzo continued to cast water spells and was running out of the building, as soon as he was close enough to the exit, he heard a loud meowing sound. "AHH.. must save cat." He heard the cat near the window close by and immediately kicked through the glass with his foot. He then made a quick turn, and rapped his foot around the cat, who was hissing at the fire. He gently tapped his foot on the underbelly of the cat, before lifting it off the ground with his foot and tossing it out the window. A loud, scream was let loose as the cat flew out the window. "You're welcome!" Enzo called out, before exiting with the small family in tow.

Enzo's face was covered in soot as he took the family in a safe distance before running off to reconvene with Aria.
He cast a couple of water spells to drench the heartless before slashing at them with his keyblade to extinguish them permenantly. "Where are they coming from?" he asked in a serious tone to Aria.