Kingdom Hearts: Kingdom Hearts: Light Chaser

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Chrono had been planning to just sit down and eat breakfast, but the ongoing argument between Take and Boreas had put a dent in that plan. He found himself glancing over towards the two in between each bite he had taken of the food, seemingly expecting things to escalate further from when Boreas had slammed his fist against the table. Between that and the conversation, if one could call it that, between his sister and Torrin it was a wonder that he was even managing to eat anything. The latter was definitely less worrying, there was still the matter of him not knowing when or if he should jump in to try and help. As it was her first attempt, the very least he could do is let her try on her own. No matter how awkward it seemed. "Sure, I'll take some."

This had been said moments before Boreas stormed outside after challenging Take. He glanced down at the hot chocolate that was left, then looked to Torrin. "Aren't you going to stop him?"

 

Chrys cast Reflega. With the several magic beams shooting at her, it was near instinct. Doubtless it was one her master had accounted for, and was all to ready to counter. Not willing to give him that chance, Chrys darted out of the field of protection as the beams bounced off, rushing towards her teacher with her weapon at the ready. She used a blitz attack to attempt to hit him as the beams trailed not far behind.​

 

Illiana looked over to Thallasa as she had answered her. She was a little confused as to what was happening but quickly caught on. "Well natural can be many different things to different worlds. I know of a world where waterfalls go up instead of down. And my own world's rain has healing properties. Perhaps here ponds spontaneously create whirlpools? I do not know." Illiana sighed before looking at Thallasa. She placed her thumb and her index finger on her forehead as she started moving it in a circle. After a few moments, she put her hand back at her side. “You do realize I was being sarcastic right?...Actually.....let's just move on and figure a way out of here." She sighed as she shook her head. Taran had then started to wake up. He told Illiana he was okay before asking her if she was okay. She sighed before opening her umbrella, reaching into, and grabbing a few pieces of paper. She quickly folded it into a fan. Illiana held it together and hit Taran over the head with it. "Next time you wanna run into the goddamn woods blindly......Do me and the rest of us a favor and don't. We're lucky we got out of this with some bruises and scratches. Use your head first before rushing into things. Nobody is going to come to rescue everytime you're in trouble." She sighed before rubbing her temple.

Illiana stood back up and looked around before she started to hear some voices from within the cave. She prepared herself for battle before looking at the entities the voices belong to. Illiana had to slightly squint to see them before walking around them. The two had introduced themselves as fairies, one of them being the king. She then spoke up looking to the rest of them, pointing her thumb to the fairies. "Is it just me or does these pixies look like a mini Santa and one of his mini-mini elves?"

 

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Aria saw that Eilonwy came to and sighed out in relief. Once the girl regained her senses, and things started to get a little weird with fairies showing up, Aria helped her to her feet and listened as Illiana and Qamar answer the questions. She hung back, waiting for them to get the answers they needed.

 

Qamar crossed her arms and listened in on the King and Dolli. Master Thallasa immediately agreed to finding the Black Cauldron and destroying it. Qamar shook her head and rubbed her forehead. "Oh brother...." she mumbled. "Master Thallasa, we should be doing what we originally came here to do. I'm all for helping after we finish that task." She spoke out in frustration. "Besides, how the heck are we supposed to destroy some Black Cauldron of immense dark power or whatever?"​

 

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Even if Chrono didn't want to admit it, he couldn't deny that letting Boreas and Take handle things themselves was better than the alternative of just putting a cap on the issue for the time being. In fact, he didn't like it just as much as he didn't want to admit it. "If you say so." had been his way to concede before taking a quick sip of the hot chocolate that Take had given him. With that, he feels back into silence as Tinarah continued her attempts to converse with Torrin. Certainly not smooth sailing, but they were still talking. Which was good in itself.

 

It didn't take long for Take to follow him outside and the kid looked rather confused at him but Boreas looked at him with a look that left no room for misinterpretation. The evidence of Boreas service to the king was clear on his body each scar from a cut that he received serving in the war. He raised one of his eyebrows as Take spoke up not wanting to fight over this. "So you insult and challenge me to prove whether I had the strength to back up my words and now that it comes down to it you try to get out of it. Absolutely pathetic. And if your sense of humour entails riling people up I most certainly hope you leave me out of your jokes unless you would like my fists to remind you." Boreas said there was still anger in his voice. "I am not one to refuse a challenge, whether it is directly aimed at me or not. Get out of my face then if you are not here to make good on your challenge." If Take wasn't going to fight and weasel his way out of it then he wanted to be alone to find his center again and perhaps save the anger for something more useful.​

 

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It was probably the way Boreas worded the reply that made Take's stomach fill with quite a bit of guilt, but by the point Boreas had called him pathetic for trying to worm his way out of it, the boy didn't really think he could actually walk away from this. It wasn't a pride thing, he was probably past that point, it had more to deal with respect. If he walked away, Boreas would probably just remember him for the same thing Take did end up accusing him of, being all talk. And he didn't think he could sit with that. After a moment or two, Take let out a sigh and shifted to take off his sweatshirt and then the shirt under it. He probably didn't have to do that but it made more sense to. Despite being a smaller stature, Take had a bit of muscle in his arms. He also didn't exactly have battle scars, the exception being a slash across his back, it was mostly faded burn scars. When he turned to look towards Boreas he saw him put his fists up and Take looked down at his broken arm and hoped it was as good as it felt at this point before he put his fists up.

It wasn't a short fist fight but it wasn't like it went on for far too long without a clear winner. Take could take some pretty large hits, but he couldn't dish them out. He didn't know how Boreas felt on his end but after a while Boreas had got in a really good punch in that winded Take to the point he knew he wasn't going to get up again when he lost his balance and fell. It was at that point Take held his hand up clearly in a signal to yield. He took in a few deep breaths before stating outright while still out of breath, "I... I never actually thought you were all talk... my joking just clearly was bad and not obvious I got carried away... it became too personal. That's when I disrespected you and the skill you've already clearly displayed while being here with us. And for that, I'm sorry." his hand was hurting quite a bit by this point but he was more focused on trying to breathe again than anything else.
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Illiana sighed as she shook her head before turning over to the pixies as they had revealed something very interesting. According to the pixies, Hen Wen had fallen down here earlier. "Well that was convenient." She put a hand on her hip. She looked over to Taran as his eyes lit up immediately as he heard the news. Illiana was kind of happy to see Taran finally cheer up though she wasn't going to let that show. Hen Wen had scurried out from the tunnel and into Taran's arms. The sight before her was actually heart-warming to her to say the least. She walked over to Taran and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm glad you guys found each other." Illiana looked over to Thallasa as she had started conversing with the King. Thallasa had agreed to stop the Horned King. Qamar had then decided to voice her opinion, saying to focus on their real task. She sighed in annoyance before walking in front of them. "I rather focus on this first then whatever this 'task' is. If you really want to go and finish that first, then by all means go ahead. I'm not gonna stop you. Too much work to do that." She crossed her arms before looking at the Pixie King. "As for stopping the Horned King..........I'm in. This isn't a monarchy.....It's just a sloppy dictatorship." She smirked as she looked at the King. She walked over to Doli. "Lead the way little guy."

 

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Aria couldn't help but to sigh out a little when Illiana was already butting heads with Qamar. She rubbed the back of her neck and looked between the two girls before kicking at the ground a little. "Well... There's no use leaving until things in this kingdom are patched up. As much as I want to join the others again, it'll probably be safer for everyone if we take down the guy that's causing the most trouble." She shrugged her shoulders a little. "Or maybe we can split up to get the different tasks done all at once?”

 

Boreas' words had only aggravated the situation even more to the point where Take took off his shirt too and wasn't going to back down either. Boreas simply put up his fists in a defensive stance no need to bleed each other dry by using weapons. When Take was ready they began Boreas pressed his advantage of both strength and reach. Take held out formidably but Boreas channeled his anger into his blows. He struck hard and true the counters from Take struck true as well and while it hurt and leave bruises and create more openings but it wasn't enough to put Boreas out of commision. Boreas ended it with a strong blow that left him winded with a quick follow up to send him just enough off-balance.

Boreas remained standing to catch his breath for a moment Take hadn't gotten up yet and without anger clouding his mind he saw what he had done, Take had yielded and started apologising to him for the jokes and going too far. "Apology accepted, but I too was at fault perhaps more so than you I let my pride and anger blind me over what are as you said petty things. I should have been above it rather than resort to violence... I was angry and unreasonable..." Boreas said as he walked over to Take and offered him his hand as a peace offering and to help him to his feet. He had perhaps just been looking for a fight that morning and taken his opportunity no matter who it was.​

 

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Take accepted Boreas' hand, and used mostly his weight to get up. He was still breathing a bit but it wasn't nearly as bad as when he was winded. He didn't feel tired, but he felt drained, like whatever emotional height he was at was just gone now. And as he began to notice his hand hurting more he reached over to try and massage it to try and work out the pain a bit, but his brain accidentally associated that with the same thing he did with the scorpions. In fact, it was probably the first time he'd shut his emotions out without thinking about it actively. As his face seemed to just go back to the emotionlessness he hadn't really been displaying lately, he let out with a monotone to his voice. "Perhaps, but I guess there's no point to dwell too much on it. I'd rather you fight it out with me like this than have you blind angry against the enemy." he looked back over towards the mansion where everyone else is and continued, "Though I might challenge you to one of these again some day. It reminded me of the brawls I used to have with my brother... and I'm a bit of a sore loser."​

 

Chrys reeled back from the pain of the blow to her stomach, and perhaps from her Master's harsh words as well. She rather liked to think thinking before you acted wasn't quite the same as hesitating. Charging in recklessly could be just as dangerous to others as not acting fast enough, after all. But then, perhaps her Master meant something different. Rather than just the powers immediately available to her in form of attacks, there were others that she forgot she had all too often.

With a pulsing glow, Chrys began to levitate into the air as she let a new form take hold of her body. It was her Fleur form. The new elongated robes and dark blue hair shone with a magical Aura, and Chrys burst forth to deliver attacks to the Light Chaser once more.​

 

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That's right. Their mission as keyblade wielders was to stop the darkness from spreading...

And with the hint that the princess had already been found, Aria glanced at Eilowny and made an 'o' shape with her lips as she got the message.

It was then they were suddenly floating out of the pond cave, and while everyone else was freaking out, Aria couldn't help but to break out into a grin. "Weeeee~!" It was much different from being on a glider high up in the air, but it had the same effect of making butterflies flit around in her stomach. Soon they landed on the shore. She was astonished they didn't even get wet and looked back at the pond in wonderment. This world was really weird.

Aria overheard Taran's and Gurgi's comments and giggled a little. "I bet Illiana and him would make great friends," the girl said with a slight smile as she began to follow after the fairy. The down mood she was in yesterday was nearly gone, and a little of her sass was returning again.

 

Qamar completely ignored Illiana, not even looking at her when she was being rude to her. She decided to just listen to Master Thallasa. "At least they were able to do that." Qamar commented. "Though Taran looks rather capable with that sword, so he'll be safe." Just as she said that, they were lifted out of the pond and dropped off on the surface, dry as bones. Qamar patted herself, wondering what the heck just happened. Shaking a bit, she looked to Gurgi and Taran. "That was weird but...I like it." She smiled, nodding to herself.

Aria seemed to be in a much better mood today, so that made Qamar happy. She walked over to Aria and patted her shoulder. "I'm glad you're happier today. Must have had a good night's sleep!" she giggled.​