Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

Aria wrinkled her brow as Koa furrowed his. She wondered what was going on in his mind exactly to make his forehead all crinkled like that. When he began to explain his story, well their story more like it, it started to make some sense to her. The mention of darkness consuming worlds through Koa's voice somehow triggered odd visuals in her head. She could see darkness crawling on a pastel rainbow colored ceiling, feel a familiar fear creep inside of her chest, and then a warm light and embrace from someone... just like that, the images stopped. They seemed so fuzzy and gave her a slight headache. Aria rubbed at her forehead before focusing back on Koa again to let him finish simplifying things for her.

So The Light Chaser to these guys was their master pretty much. Master Light Chaser... that sounded better than mister, but miser would have to do for now for Aria. Calling someone in a hood who was making obscure references towards something dire master didn't have a good ring to her at the moment. She was stuck here though, as the Light Chaser mentioned. The world was asleep. If she left, for some reason it would fall to its doom... Maybe he was making it up? But Aria didn't know how to leave, even if she wanted to. She would have to play along with them, just as she originally planned to do.

She broke out of her trance when Koa basically challenged her and her abilities. She frowned and tilted her head at the odd nickname he gave her, feeling a bit miffed about it. "Pft, excuse me? Princess? Listen mister, I grew up on a farm." Aria held out her arm and summoned her brightly, multi-colored keyblade and then dropped down to a defense stance. "I ain't no princess," she half-joked as she smirked right at the young man before her.

Now was her chance to prove herself, but she felt like she was going to be a fool in the end. She had some training in her homeworld, mostly to defend against some monsters that roamed around the woods and wildlife, but Master Choma helped her hone in on those abilities the best he could in the short time they had together. Still, she felt a little iffy sparing this guy with all the motionless soldiers and the hooded man watching... were they going to banish her to the darkness if she couldn't keep up?

 

Uck, he mocked her! Still, she kept her smirk to herself as she prepared for him to make his first move. He jumped down and swung at her with his keyblade, which she was quick to block and anticipated him to come at her like so. Aria felt his strength resonate through her arm as she held the keyblade there and locked with his eyes for a moment. He was holding back, trying to see what she was made out of. It was kind of creepy to say the least, but she figured if she was on this depressed team of antidarkness, she'd have to defend and fight somehow.

Suddenly he swung up, which took the pressure off her keyblade. Aria grew serious as she held her balance and dropped down low, kicking one leg out and quickly tried to sweep at his knees while using her keyblade as a shield over her head.

 

Once the swarm of heartless had dissipated, Illiana's eyes fell on the strange figures with tribal masks. She lowered her blade and swung it to her right shoulder to bring back her umbrella. "Well this is unexpected." Illiana raised her umbrella and turned away before walking ahead of the tribal figures. "If you want something to be done, you ask politely and with a smile..." She continued to walk ahead and not look back at the mysterious figures. A sudden memory flashed back in her mind for a brief moment before opening her mouth. "Condisce modos fraternus.....mysterium coetus." In her mind, a memory of her childhood play backed for a single moment as she continued to walk ahead with her head held high, umbrella on her shoulder, posture as straight as an arrow, and a presence as strong as a noble .

 

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First the frenzy; now the lashing of the remaining scraps. Between the two waves, the battle had gone even less in Glyde's favor than the last one. Maybe he was simply too caught up in making sure the last Heartless to pass at him were clear? After all, he was only human. While minuscule in and of themselves, the three blows at the tail end of the battle mounted upon the damage already dealt. By the time the Heartless had made their pass and been defeated by his ally's hands, Glyde had relatively little strength left; little enough to warrant a controlled fall onto his hind-end, where he remained for the moment of stillness in the fighting's wake; within the moment, he came to the thought of healing himself with the Cure spell Master Choma had granted.

The conclusion, however, was too late in the making. Not a second after his decision to attempt to cure his damage, the soothing wave of another Cure spell washed over him. Giving a cursory glance about at the other students, his eyes fell clearly upon the young girl with the violin. He gave a faint smile as the best thanks he could provide.

He began preparing to try the spell himself to return the favor, but it was then that another group of aggressive figures came down upon the group. Mumbling a choice curse word, he labored himself up, using the end of his Keyblade as a crutch until he was assured of his stability. "Oh!" He stumbled back to the sight of a sharpened spear tip mere inches away from his face, nearly falling over again. For an instant he considered battling the tribal-looking people; seeing that the others had called back their Keyblades, however, he did the same, and hoped it wouldn't have ramifications.

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Fortunately, withdrawing his weapon proved the wiser choice. The apparent head of the spear-wielding party removed his mask. "Yeah. Of course we're just children," Glyde would mutter, inaudibly. Guess those masks don't do too many favors for their vision, he reasoned. Despite being healed, and even with the now hospitable disposition of this world's natives, the wounds and exhaustion he had accrued over the hectic Heartless encounter left Glyde in a bitter state of mind; especially at having had a spear in his face. And if it was over the Keyblades, as the natives' body language had suggested... was it really a weapon worth having under scrutiny?

"So," he said, pushing doubt to the back of his thoughts, "who is this King of yours? What's he... errr... like?"

 

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The fact that Illiana had chosen to just walk past the armed spearmen baffled him, but fortunately they didn't want to harm them. Plus they could speak their language which was always a good thing. Chrono didn't follow behind the masked men right away and it wasn't because he didn't trust them. They seemed friendly enough, but this supposed 'King' of theirs could change that view on them. It wasn't hard for Chrono to spot Tinarah behind a rock. Thus he strode over to where she was at a decent pace. "It's okay, they seem to want to help us."

 

Aria jumped back on her feet as soon as Koa started to fall. She then saw his fancy pinwheel turns with the keyblade and knew she made someone seriously cranky. Here it comes! She braced herself for the offense to rain down on her and began to block and step around in a circle in time to the swings.

One of the first things she learned growing up was defending herself and standing her ground, and she was going to do just that. Her eyebrows furrowed as she concentrated and stepped carefully, watching the swings and trying to anticipate every move Koa's keyblade made. It seemed like they were at it for some time as she began to prespire on her forehead. He was super good, and she was almost having difficulty catching up with him. But Master Choma, though distracted sometimes, taught her well.

Finally, she locked keyblades with Koa and used this opportunity to shove him off balance if possible. "My turn," she said under her breath. She spun around Koa, letting her keyblade slide off of his and then let out a yell as she moved in to be the one making him defend himself. She began to swing back at him hard and relentlessly, going back and forth in an x formation with both hands on the handle and tried to push him back. If she was going to be defeated, Aria was not going to go so quietly and willingly.

 

Aria wondered why the kid was smirking, only to find out once her keyblade smacked into an invisible force field of sorts. "Huh?!" And then she was thrown back before she could do anything, tumbling on the ground before coming to a stop. She groaned as she sat on her bottom and rubbed her head. "Darn it," she seethed through her teeth.

The girl was about to protest that what Koa did wasn't fair, but then she looked at the others and bit her tongue. The Darkness that seemed to have plague them too in some way or another, and the Darkness was no fair. If she was to be stronger, she needed to anticipate any surprises in the furture much powerful than what Koa demonstrated just now. Something that Master Choma failed to teach her or any of the other students.

Instead of losing her cool because she had lost, she took in a deep breath and let it out slowly as she stabbed her colorful keyblade in the ground and forced herself to get back on her feet. She winced as she felt the impact of her tumble throughout her body but then placed her keyblade on her shoulder and looked over to the Light Chaser. "Do you want me to keep sparing or.,. Not?" Aria asked as she glanced over at Koa to make sure he wasn't going to pull a fast one on her. "Because at this point, I feel like I'm a flimsy cooked spaghetti noodle sparring with a fork."

 

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Truthfully Chrono wasn't completely sure that they were completely out of harms way just yet, but he didn't tell her that. He didn't want to put her on edge anymore than she already was from all this. So far it seemed like they were in good favor with the spear men, even if it was only slightly. "It doesn't look like they will and if they can help up, then we should at least hear them out."

Chrono watched as she adjusted the position of their mothers violin before voicing another concern she had and a valid one at that. "To be honest, I'd prefer it if we could have either of them here with us right now, but we don't know when either of them will be back." Or in Atmos's case, when she will regain consciousness. "Unfortunately I don't think we have that kind of luxury right now. It'll be fine though, we'll manage til we get at least one of them back." With that said Chrono held out his hand for Tinarah to grab should she choose and casted cure on her.

 

"No, questions master!" Chrys answered the Light Chaser with a soft smile and a salute that was somewhere between playful and serious. "She'll be safe with me." She continued in her soft voice as she stuffed her hands into the pockets of her hoodie. "You have nothing to worry about." Turning from her master, Chrys instead turned her focus to her new charge. "It was Aria, right?" Her smile remained, though it now seemed somewhat nervous, and she didn't seem to quite want to look the other girl in the eyes.

"Like the master said, my name is Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum Light." She removed one hand from it's resting place to instead scratch the back of her head in further show of apprehension at introducing herself. "Though most of the others just call me 'Chrys'." While lowering her hand, she seemed to come to some form of realization before shoving it towards Aria rather suddenly in a manner as to propose a handshake.

"It's nice to meet you!"

 

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"More than whatever influence we have." Chrono said. It wasn't the best of answers that he could've given, but it's not like he was wrong or anything. He figured that a master would have more influence in this situation than they did. Maybe not if they could managed to get on the kings good side. For the fact that they very casually dropped the fact that the king was centuries old had Chrono wondering just how long their life expectancy was. Living for a hundred years was no easy feat, let alone centuries. "Maybe, they certainly think highly of it though." Something that Chrono was curious to know if it was actually all that impressive.

 

Aria was surprised she was being handed off to someone else already. Maybe the Light Chaser still had to attend his Light Chaser duties... whatever they were. She looked to the new girl, hearing what the Light Chaser said about her being his first student. Oh dang... if I thought Koa was hard to fight...

Aria looked to Chrys with apprehension, and then suddenly realizing something else. OH NO! IM NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO REMEMBER THAT NAME! CRAPCRAPCRAP!

And then she silently breathed out in relief when she mentioned that Chrys was a fine name to call her. Aria flinched when the hand was jutted out to her, only to realize then it was a friendly gesture. The light red headed girl smiled a little and took the hand in hers with newfound confidence. "Nice to meet you too!" She said with a tilt of her head as she shook Chrys' hand.

 

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Takehiko wasn't exactly interested in whether or not the city was beautiful. He really wasn't appreciative of architecture as much as he was natural wonders. But they needed help with the heartless it seemed. When he heard Tinarah mentioned Choma and his influence. Didn't really seem to matter to him, maybe Choma would have made it an easier fight but he was already learning faster on this little adventure of there's to find the Light Chaser, it was probably better that he wasn't there so they could adapt and grow as a result. At least, that was how he saw it.

Take looked at the person and said, "We'll help you out... I mean... this is probably connected to what we're looking for anyway, we might as well help your city while we're here." Take also noted to himself that it would buy them some time before Choma returned or... what's his name returned. Take rubbed the back of his head and looked at the others, "We... we are gonna help them, right?" he wanted to make sure he didn't just make an executive order that the others disagreed with.

 

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Mika remained silent and alert as the strange people approached them. To be fair, they had a right to be worried about the keyblade wielders--both master's groups were outsiders to this world, after all. So she remained silent, paying close attention to what was going on around her and was absolutely amazed at the sight of the city as the group left the cave.

"This. Is. Awesome," the redhead said, looking all around her. At her side, Nini mewed in seemingly agreement and Mika picked her up, balancing the small cat on her shoulder. Whatever this world was, Mika couldn't believe it's beauitt. Of course Mika only really remembered Master Choma's home base world, but still!

Take's question brought Mika's attention away from the scenery and back towards their their. "Of course we will! That's what we're meant to do after all. Save the worlds from darkness and all that jazz," Mika said, hugging Nini closer to her and smiling slightly at Take. "Take us to your leader," the older girl said in a completely serious voice, oh so tempted to make some sort of joke. This world and its people were definitely interesting, that was for sure, and Mika couldn't wait to see what was in store for them all. ​