Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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The more this man spoke to them, the more Chrono questioned what he was doing here. Whatever it was that they were looking for must've been important and also had a part of him wanting to explore more of this mansion to see what else was inside. That clearly wasn't an option now given that the man in black had summoned a keyblade of their own and had it aimed right at them. When Tinarah had stepped out past him, Chrono's attention was directed to her due to him not expecting it at all.

Getting anymore information out of this guy was clearly not going to happen and which while that did bug Chrono, it wasn't as important when compared to how Tinarah was now standing in between the two of them. Chrono looked back to the violin case that had been left behind him by Tinarah and grabbed it. There was little reason for them to still be here given the turn of events that the situation had taken. The visibility in the room had gotten dimmer due to the changes that had occurred outside. With a slightly annoyed click of his tongue, he waited til Tinarah had gotten closer before leaving the mansion.

 

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As the two of them started to head away from the manor, Chrono took note of the shining light in the sky. Amidst all of the darkness that was surrounding it, not only did it stick out like a sore thumb but did it serve as a beacon Chrono looked down towards Tinarah to see if she had noticed it and found her...scars? It was scars that were on her arm. The first thing that popped into Chrono's mind was were did these scars come from. Right before he could ask, she'd run off to help the man from earlier.

"Tinrah, wait!" If her plan was to damn near give him a heart attack, then she succeeded. He wasn't just going to up and leave her with the guy who had just threatened them with their keyblade. Not a single thing about that was good at all. With violin case in had, Chrono went after Tinarah and grabbed hold of her wrist once he'd caught up with her. "If he wasn't lying about the heartless, then we don't have time to waste with healing him." Not to mention he didn't trust this guy at all. He couldn't care less what happened to him, but was much more concerned about getting Tinarah away from the potential threat he still was.

 

As Illiana and Aria continued to walk, the ground beneath them had started to tremble. Illiana lifted her umbrella a bit as she and Aria stopped walking. "What in the world?" Illiana had begun to question the small tremor before the ground started to violently shake. Tears and cracks had begun to form in the ground everywhere around them. Illiana turned around but before she could move, the ground between her and Aria had split. "Aria!! Start moving!!" Illiana closed her umbrella to figure out how to get out of this situation. The quakes had begun to intensify as fissures had begun to form around Eventide. Before she could even blink, Illiana turned around toward Aria's direction but nothing could have prepared her for what happened. The ground beneath Aria had begun to crumble away. As if everything was moving in slow motion, Aria had begun to fall into the crater into the darkness that awaited her. Illiana ran to try and reach for Aria's hand but by the time she could reach out her hand....it was too late. Her eyes shook a bit as she looked into the bottomless darkness. She sat back up on her knees as she looked up into the sky. "ARIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Illiana screamed out her name into the sky. How many people were going to come into her life only to leave when she least expected? Punching the ground for a bit,, Illiana had casted an unreadable expression on her face.

 

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Light Chaser? Keyblade Masters? Sifting through the bits and pieces of memories he could grasp at, Glyde came up short-handed. Not much of what Atmos had said resonated with much meaning in relation to his past. However, how much had really even known at the time? He was only child, and children often missed out on the important information; adults always seemed to see to that, even on worlds where the kids were completely autonomous. Still, the thought of worlds disappearing was a provoking one, and made him feel slightly less alone in spirit.

He continued to dwell on this information for as long as he could.

But 'as long as he could' turned out to not be all that long at all.

Overhead, a sudden change descended like a hail upon the previously calm atmosphere of the village. The calm, clear skies were choked by the foreboding, thick veil of dark clouds, racing in a fast-forward pace to blanket the town. As a gale of wind kicked against Glyde, whipping his hair and clothing about, the sense of ominous danger took root, pressing against the walls of his chest. Not again. He looked to Atmos, a gleaming hint of fearful expectation unmasked in his eyes, and asked. "You're sure I'll be able to fend for myself? What can I do?"

 

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Take had never seen anything like this before.

It was actually rather terrifying, seeing the fissures appear in the earth while he followed Choma... well... more out of panic than duty. He was trying to wrap his head around the environmental changes. And when Choma told him and Mika to keep their keyblades at the ready, Take summoned it out pretty much immediately. Keeping himself in a position where he could attack an opponent at any point. He followed Choma's patterns mainly because he assumed a fissure would not suddenly appear there right after Choma stepped. He was wrong a few times though, and tripped up to get to a safe space of land before he was able to hold his ground and take a deep breath before whispering, "This is a nightmare..."

It reminded him of when the dragons could not be held back, and his home would fall apart. This only happened once or twice in his lifetime but every time it happened it was just as scarring. After all the time rebuilding, becoming comfortable... you never really could. And Takehiko had taken this whole experience as comfort so far. He wasn't worried his home would burn to the ground and the ground would shake as if the very world was screaming for help. Take would never make that mistake of becoming too comfortable again.

As he continued following Choma, he kept occasionally looking back to make sure nothing happened to Mika and her cat. If anything happened he was ready to leap back, even if he was ill prepared to face what was attacking. That's just how he was, and probably how he'd always be. He just hoped everyone else was okay... if he believed in prayer, this would be a time he'd use it.

 

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Mika shivered as cracks began to appear all over the ground. The world seemed to shake and Mika was honestly quite terrified, not that she would admit it and was trying her hardest not to show it. Feeling Nini, shake in her arms, she held the cat tighter, petting the cat in an attempt to calm them both down. So when her master told them to take out their keyblades, Mika knew things would probably only get worse. Pausing quickly, the young woman knelt down, taking her backpack off her back and carefully putting her cat back into the bag. "Don't argue," Mika said, scolding the cat, fear seemingly evident in both their eyes.

After the bag was safely on her back, the young woman jumped up, summoning her keyblade in her hands. The keyblade seemed to glow in her hands and Mika couldn't help but smile and felt a little better about the situation. She sighed deeply, wiling away her aniexty, and followed Choma and Take. She was grateful when she noticed Take looking back at her and sent the boy a small smile, jumping away from the fissures that appeared in the ground (and being quite relieved that none of the cracks had been able to catch up to her). She just hoped the others had been as lucky as she, Take, and Master Choma.
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Even when the man had given them his name, Chrono still had some doubts about him. Doubts and a whole lot of questions that he wanted answers to. Like what was it that Torrin was looking for in the manor when they had encountered him and where had Tinarah gotten those scars from. The ground shaking was another sign of now wasn't the best of time to start asking questions.

The situation waiting for them at the park was worse than what they saw at the manor. Heartless were crawling about everywhere and the only option that was available for them to deal with them was to fight. Now if it was just a couple of heartless, then Chrono would've felt a bit better about facing them with the small amount of training that he'd gotten. That and there was still his mother's violins case in his other hand. Something that he would need to take care of.

In his other hand Chrono summoned his keyblade in time to defend against an attack from a soldier heartless that had noticed him. It jumped back after its first attack and went in for another one, this time it was met with the end of his keyblade as Chrono dispatched it. "In that case, both of you stick behind me." Given that one of them was much more capable than him if not for the fact that they were injured, it was odd telling Torrin to stick behind him. Another solider heartless had appeared and nearly caught him off guard. Chrono stumbled slightly due to his attempt to dodge it, regained his footing and mounted a counterattack that finished off the heartless.

HP: 20/20
AP: 0/8
Heartless defeated: 2 Soldiers
Heartless remaining: 65 (51 shadows 13 soldiers)

 

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Take went after a soldier but he wasn't ready and also Take just totally could not hold onto the keyblade and it went flying in another direction and ended up killing two shadows. Considering the fact he had been trained with swords for years he wasn't sure what the point of this training was if he couldn't even hold the blade properly but whatever things died and he didn't go into maximum overdrive

HP: 20/20
AP: 0/8
Heartless defeated: 1 Soldier, 2 shadows
Heartless remaining: 62 (49 shadows 12 soldiers)

 

Illiana had picked up her umbrella as heartless had begun to form throughout the town. She rose to her feet as the shadows slowly crept closer to the girl. Her face had remained unreadable as her eyes became cold as steel. She opened her umbrella as she laid it on her right shoulder. "If you are looking for any fights, this is not the place nor time. It's quite pathetic to even try. If you want to avoid obliteration, I would suggest leaving now." Not heeding her warning, the heartless continued to creep closer and closer to her. She shook her head as she lowered it in disappointment. "I tried to show mercy but you continue to persist.........Very well then. Have it your way then." Two shadows had leaped into the air as they launched their attack on Illiana. Lifting her umbrella, she pushed the umbrella against the shadows and tossed them up further into the air. Closing her umbrella, she flung it into the air. "Aperta!! Lumios Star!!" Her umbrella had begun to glow as it begun to take on an entirely different shape. As the glow faded, her umbrella had became her keyblade. Catching her keyblade by its handle, the shadows began to fall toward Illiana. She slashed through the air causing the two shadows to disappear. She lifted her head as a soldier began to rush her. Illiana had back handspringed away from it, twisting her body to toss her keyblade at the soldier. Landing on the ground, her keyblade returned to her hand as it struck through the soldier. "Shall we continue this dance ballad?" Illiana had awaited for next swarm of heartless to come rushing at her.

HP: 20/20
AP: 0/8

Enemies Defeated: 3 (2 shadows, 1 soldier)
Enemies Remaining: 59 (47 shadows, 11 soldiers)

 

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Keyblade huh? He had already surmised the significance of the Keyblades from what Atmos had told him. Yet it wasn't until he saw hers firsthand that Glyde knew with certainty what they were, and that it was that very sort of weapon that he had grasped for dear life a mere week earlier. But how do I use it again?

Delayed by his own musings, Glyde sprinted to get back to pace with Atmos' stride; at such speed, they were both at the heart of the action in short time. Visible within a short distance, the young Keybearer could clearly view the other students, and the other Master, battling vigorously against a mob of dark, shadow-veiled creatures. Those things... but what are they? He ran closer to the fighting, the unfolding events becoming easier to distinguish.

Taking his cue from both Atmos and the students, Glyde determined that he'd need a Keyblade to battle the dark creatures. Though he wasn't sure exactly how to call his, he tried anyways. With his right hand outstretched before him, he concentrated on the sheer thought of the Keyblade, hoping that that would be enough to summon it. Let your Heart be your guiding key, he quoted to himself.

"Whoa!" he jumped back as an all-black, yellow-eyed shadow creature lashed out from the ground before him, breaking his train of thought. Suddenly, he felt weaker than he had been; staring down the creature unnerved him... and perhaps that was why he had just been attacked so boldly; they'd all know he was easy prey. "I can't be," he spat. He glared at the small creature, forcing himself to remain composed. He reeled back his right as though winding up for a gratuitously forceful punch. Let your Heart be your guiding key and everything will fall into place. A burst of light from behind him, and the feeling of a hilt within his fingers, told him that it had worked. With great mental and emotional effort, he swung the weapon forward and across, slashing at the creature once, and then twice, after which its form diminished and dispersed into a wisp of black smoke.

HP: 20/20
AP: 6/8

Enemies Defeated: 1 Shadow
Enemies Remaining: 58 (46 Shadows, 11 Soldiers)

 

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Mika froze as everything around her.... basically started to go to ****. Making sure Nini was safe in her bag on her back, Mika breathed deeply and forced herself to move. In a clean strike of her blade, the young woman took down three of the Shadow Heartless as if they were nothing. However, after this move, Mika was left breathless, a bit in awe of the fact that she'd actually been able to destroy them (and she wasn't going to lie. She was rather proud of herself as well). "Hey Take, you doing okay?" the young woman asked her partner, a tad amazed at his ability to defeat the heartless as well.

HP: 20/20 HP
AP: 2/8
Enemies Defeated: 3 Shadows
Enemies Remaining: 55 (43 Shadows and 11 Soldiers) ​

 

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Chrono found himself being attacking by another soldier heartless shortly after he'd dealt with the previous two. He was able to block their attacks fortunately, but the following shadow had snuck up on him and managed to get a hit in. The place of impact stung, but it wasn't enough to keep Chrono from slashing at the shadow heartless that had attacked him.

His grip on his keyblade tightened as another heartless lunged towards him. Once more the attack was blocked and this time he dealt with another shadow that had tried creeping up on him by stabbing it before it could leave the ground. Following that Chrono turned slightly to strike at the soldier heartless that was near him. With the sheer amount of heartless that they were facing it was fortunate that they hadn't gotten to any 'tipping point' in the heartless's favor.

HP: 18/20
AP: 0/8
Enemies Defeated: 3 (2 Shadows, 1 Soldier.)
Enemies Remaining: 39 (30 Shadows. 9 Soldiers.)

 

As the heartless continued their rampage, Illiana continued to dodge until she was unable to dodge a few attacks from the heartless. Illiana grabbed her arm and checked to see if she had sustained any wounds. She found only small scratches and few wounds but nothing to severe. Letting go of her arm, Illiana prepared herself for battle once more. She turned her head to find two soldiers on her right side. "Do I have you two nuisances to thank for these small wounds?" She narrowed her eyes before opening them again with a cold smile plastered on her face. She opened her mouth to speak once more. "Please allow me to return the favor!!!!" The soldiers started to run towards her as Illiana sprinted toward them. She took a hold of her keyblade with both hands and wounded up for a counterattack. Running through the soldiers, her keyblad swung through and returned to her right side. She stood up and with a snap of her fingers, the soldiers dissipated away. She turned back around to find more heartless waiting to be struck down by the keyblade.

HP: 16/20
AP: 0/8

Enemies Defeated: 2 soldiers
Enemies Remaining: 37 (30 shadows, 7 soldiers)