Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Ananta let her hand slide from Kross' shoulder. "...Kross?" she said, making sure she pronounced it correctly. As they walked out of the elevator and towards the main hall, she chuckled. "You kind of said my name wrong. It's uh-nahn-tuh." she smiled at him. She stopped and leaned against the wall for a moment. "You don't look like you're having fun here. Is something wrong?" she asked him, crossing her arms. This world and her own world were pretty similar. What if with the technology being quite advanced. If Ananta was given the chance, she could probably see how similar they are and be able to fiddle and have fun with some things. "Is it because of how advanced technology is here? I mean, I know there are some worlds that are pretty far behind in the technology department..." she nodded. Camelot and Kingdom of the Sun came to mind. They had some pretty medieval technology compared to some worlds. But it was fun going to them and seeing how they thrived with what little they had. Ananta loved her world and all of the people and technology, but getting out and exploring the universe was something she never thought she'd be able to do. With a family like this, she was even happier. And yet, Karina was getting to her. Ananta wanted to be friends with her, but each time they even looked at each other, Karina got really angry. It was all Karina's fault anyway. She shouldn't have said the things she said before they left for their previous worlds. If she hadn't Ananta wouldn't have bit her and Karina wouldn't be so salty about all of this. Of course, Ananta slapping her didn't help, but Karina needed to calm down. Everyone lost, everyone was mad, but hitting people and things was not the way to do it. If anything, hopefully Eon would get her in line or at least stop her rampage. To Kross, Ananta was lost in thought currently.

 

Kross tilted his head, it looked like Ananta pronounced his name right but he didn't pronounce hers. His lip poked out just slightly in a soft pout. He walked alongside Ananta and rubbed his arms, it felt cold in this world. He paused in pace as she did and leaned against the wall. He looked over as she spoke, asking her question. He looked down and to the side."I don't like it here."He answered, teck naw low ji? What was that? "We don't have any of this back home." He said, looking to her."My world was very poor, so we relied on the basics. Shovels, hoes, things like that. We couldn't even afford cattle totes to till the ground."He said. He looked at her and leaned a bit, his hands on his hips."I saw you and Karina earlier, is that what's on your mind? Don't mind Karina, Ananta..she's a grump."He said, smiling at her."Don't let what she does, do what I do and ignore it."

 

"It's hard to ignore an angry person that punches you." Ananta retorted. Rubbing her sore cheek, the bleeding was gone now, but she knew it was still going to hurt for awhile after. "Should I not have slapped her?" she asked nobody in particular. Her eyes rested on the hand that had slapped Karina. It hurt a little, slapping Karina as hard as she did, but what else was she going to do? Regardless of what she did, it could be assumed that Karina would hit her in some way. Even if she touched her shoulder Karina would have probably hit Ananta. Frowning, she looked up at Kross. "So your world is pretty medieval, right? Farmers and whatnot? Does that mean you were a farmer?" she laughed a little. "Farmers are pretty strong, so I guess that means you're strong, right?" she smiled at him. On her world, everyone was adept in some kind of magic. Whether or not the person used the magic was up to them. Ananta was always using hers back on her world. But only because she had the Mother Crystal and her crystal around her neck was well fed when it came to energy. Now, it was waining and had very little magic left. "My world had plenty of people that used magic. I used it quite a lot in my daily life...I used to be able to run pretty fast because I had my crystal to keep my energy in check. Now, I can't use it..." she sighed, holding the crystal in her hand. "I don't want the last little bit of energy to go away...I already used my backup measure...oh well." she said, letting the crystal go and clapping her hands. "Sorry for going on a tangent, I kind of had a lot of stuff to say." she smiled at him. "So, let's see, I'm 21...and I can guess you're maybe...15? Perhaps 16?" she guessed. Ananta wasn't very good with telling a person's age from looks alone. Hopefully she was correct in her guessing...

 

Raisor readied himself for Anora's attack. As she charge, he got ready to swing his keyblade, but just before he was about to grab it with his second hand Anora did a roll, passing right by him and ending up at his back. Before he could give her a chance to use any attack on him, he quickly reacted by putting his weight on his left foot and swing his right leg around, twisting his body with it. As Anora got up from her roll, Raisor grabbed his keyblade with his right hand and switched grips to a reverse grip, trying to extend his reach in that slight moment, and did an upward slash in the middle of his spin toward Anora. He knew he wasn't great using his right hand, not using a reverse grip, but he wanted to get that first hit in no matter what.

 

By the time they had gotten down to ground floor, Kaida had significantly calmed down. She just assumed at this point her freakout was unnecessary. She punched the correct Hikaru in the face... but she didn't feel satisfied about it. Not that she was planning on tearing him to shreds for satisfaction, no she felt like she was owed an apology. But she didn't expect to get it. Hikaru had run off not long after Aux did, and she had no idea why they had run off. She assumed up to this point they had left together. Apparently Aux was up to something completely different then, and she wasn't sure she was up to hearing about it.

When Yue pulled them along Kaida yanked her arm away and mumbled, "I can walk on my own." and she followed her up the staircase until they got up to a hallway. It was a wide and open hallway with plenty of room that if the entire group that was just in the entrance room were to line up side by side, there would still be room for about 10 more people to join in. Everything was always so open and clean and she never understood why there was so much extra space. She looked up the walls at a series of stained glass windows that decorated the walls. Each in it's own way told stories of past events and she was always amused by them. Her favorite one was a little down the long hallway. It was filled with a lot of pinks and oranges and displayed an image of a boy on a lot... or was it a tree? She had no idea really because it was bent so much.

Kaida crossed her arms and looked over at Hikaru and spoke at a low tone, "So, hero. How'd your mission go? I hope it was filled with adventure and what appears to be several occasions to make friends." Kaida assumed she'd probably get ridiculed for trying to make small talk about it but she was clearly irritated at this point in time.

 

Anora grunted as she fell back after Raisor sent that attack her way, she was able to see it coming just in time to move back, catching herself before she hit the ground. Thinking quickly Anora thought of the distance between her and Raisor and at any moment he could come at her and knowing she wasn't fast enough, she could get trapped between keyblade and floor. Turning her body, she pointed her keyblade.
"Fire," she casted the spell, it shot out just infront of Raisor in hopes for a distraction to watch his footing, and give her the chance to get up and take up her defensive position.
"Watch your step." She warned, a little mischievous sparkle in her blue eyes.

 

Just as his attack nearly got through to her, Anora jumped out of Raisor's reach, and managed to dodge his attack. He wasn't expecting to end the fight that quickly, but he had hoped a little better of a result would have occurred. He readied himself for another attack, when Anora shot a fire spell at him. He quickly jumped to his side by using his right leg. He didn't want to give Anora a chance to defend, so in the middle of his jump he moved his feet so that when he landed he immediately had his feet in the right position, and shoved himself at Anora.
"What happened to not using any spells?" Raisor questioned her as he readied his next attack. He put his keyblade back on his shoulder and and swing, while spinning his body. normally his fighting stance wouldn't give much strength behind his swings, so in most of his attacks he had to compensate by adding extra weight in some form or another. This time, he hoped that while swinging his keyblade just as he spun would make it too fast for Anora to react.

 

Anora was about to reply back when he suddenly moved to quickly. She brought her keyblade up, but her stance was unbalanced and faulty so his hit knocked her down, along with her keyblade that slid away.
Landing on her back she lost her breath, gasping for air to fill her lungs. A slight pain jabbed at her heart. Clenching her chest, she rolled to avaid another attack from him. She reached for her keyblade which appeared back into her hand.
"That was a good move, but dont get too cocky now." She said about to move until another wave of pain hit her heart.
She knew she wasnt going to last much longer, one final push.
Pushing through that pain, she zigzagged around Raisor taking in his stance. What was his weak point? The female remebered how weak his hit was toward the beginning of fight and decided to attack on that side. Dashing toward him she began to attack relentlessly, her body moving from side to side as if she was dancing, which allowed her to be light on her feet in case he striked her.
She prepared to cast Aero in case the pain in her heart was too much.
Just a little bit more, she thought.

 

Despite everything that had gone on, Glen remained surprisingly quiet. After how badly (yet humorously) his plan to distract Karina had failed, he had come to the conclusion that if he tried to intefere with anything he would only make things worse. Making things worse seemed to be a particular talent of his, one that he was not particularly proud of. Perhaps if he had taken things a little more seriously back in Corona, done things differently, maybe they would have beaten Vanitas, and maybe they would have been able to save Rapunzel.

With that on his mind, he decided he needed to become stronger. Part of him wanted to go to the library, to learn more about the darkness and how he could use it and turn it against Vanitas, but at the same time he needed to be physically stronger. And if that meant having to survive with Karina The Terrible, well he would just have to manage somehow. He took a step towards Huey and hoped he had not offended the other two ducks, and he, too, summoned his keyblade. "I'm going to the training grounds" he said simply.

 

Stratos had been extremely quiet, to the point of not even existing, the entire time they were in this new found world. Why? For one thing there was a crapton of in fighting stemming from one particular member of their group. As he learned her name was Karina, there was something about her severe rage towards just about everything and constant yelling about how bad off she was that just annoyed him, and so he took to it to be as far away from her as possible. He had no idea what the girl was actually like, but her first impression was easily not a better one.

Then there was another reason he was silent for most of the time. He was absolutely fascinated and confused by this world. He had no idea what any of these weird flashing lights were for. No idea what the pieces of glass that displayed things were. He knew, just about nothing about what any of the stuff in this world was. He continued to be in wonderment of all the things in this world until the entire crew was greeted by three white bird people. He wasn't aware that there so many animal people in all the worlds. When presented with the choice of where to go, Stratos knew just where he wanted to go. "To the Hall of Records we go."

 

As Anora attacked Raisor, he swung at each of her attacks, blocking them back and keeping them at a stalemate. He kept an eye on her, while tracking her motions. He was certainly amazed at her fighting, even though she used magic mostly. Her moves were like a dance, with all of her attacks flowing together near perfectly. He couldn't help but smile while fighting her. He knew he was better in a sense with his physical fighting skills, but he just felt like keeping with the rhythm of her fight, wanting to keep it going. In fact, he was actually beginning to enjoy the fight.
"I'll admit Anora, you certainly have a way with fighting. I was going to go seriously, but you're certainly making this fun." At that point he made a grim face, with a frown he thought he would never make, "However, maybe we should end this quickly."
He noticed Anora clench her chest earlier, and knew he didn't cause that much damage to her. He wasn't lying about it being fun, however, if Anora was having pains from fighting, he wasn't willing to let it go on anymore. She might not want to lose, but he wasn't going to let her hurt himself.
As Raisor was blocking her attacks, he tried to get his movements into the rhythm of Anora's. He took a chance with a slight second pause in between her attacks and made his move.
"If you don't want to get in pain, I'd suggest you either block with all your strength, or use stop. I saw you clench your chest earlier," He pulled his arm back and swung with all his strength. After the first swing, he immediately went to another attack, and another after that. He continued his combo through and through, getting faster and faster. Most of the time he kept his body limp so he wouldn't stress his muscles, but now he tightened his arms muscles and kept up the pace. He knew it wasn't the best way to use his swordsmanship, but Raisor also knew that he still had a lot to learn, and he could only get this speed with pushing his arm. After this fight he'd had to give it a rest for a while and use his right arm, but he wasn't going to let Anora hurt herself, in one form or another.

 

Cat followed the duck to the Hall, along with several other wielders she didn't know. In fact, the only one she did know was Luna, but they hadn't spoken since the last time they left the Land of Departure. As they walked, she thought about all this time travel. She was into her science-fiction, but this was ridiculous. Moving whole worlds "forward or backward on their timeline" was impossible. They promptly came to a set of doors, interrupting her train of thought. She looked up at the sigil on each. Both held half a heart, but one side had a demon's wing and another had an angel's. She had to admit the duality of it was impressive, on top of just looking really cool. He opened the doors and they stepped inside.

She'd never seen anything so incredible. Any library she'd ever been to was dark, old and musty. This place, however, was the complete opposite in every way. The windows let plenty of light flood the room, and every little thing looked spotless and new. Though for what she wanted, spotless and new probably wouldn't work. Older material would probably suit her needs. She was pulled out of her appreciation of the library, however, by conversation between Dewey and a man named Seiza. From what she heard, she figured he was the type to spend all his time in here. However, he'd apparently been monitoring the worlds and growing frustrated with his findings. He acknowledged the group and showed them a telescope that could apparently look at any world -- so long as they knew its coordinates. As much as she wanted to see how her home was doing, she had no idea of where it was. She wanted to ask Seiza where the older books on magic would be, but he left before she had the chance. She sighed and moved away from the window to some of the shelves in the back. She eyed each book's binding, some of which had writing in a language she didn't understand, and eventually found an older volume. Its age was definitely visible all around, with blackened or yellowed pages and worn out covers. It was heavy, and she brought it back out to the table under the window, nearly collapsing as she dropped it on the surface. "If this place doesn't have anything... No. This place has to have something." With that thought, she opened it up and began going through the book.

 

Kaida was getting somewhat irritated hearing her codename so often, but when Krowley had finally said Kaida the irritation had gone away. He had probably done it on purpose knowing it would have been easier for her to have thought about it when not irritated, since she had made it verbally clear on multiple occasions she did not like the codename Dawn. Kaida crossed her arms as she recalled the events and spoke, "I had arrived there a bit later than I had expected, and by the time I had gotten to Rapunzel three wielders had already been there: Cat, Etrius, and Glen." she took a deep breath, "They had no subtlety, but I'm not going to pretend they didn't help me out. Anyway, Corona was going pretty much as planned to, then we had gotten to the festival with the lanterns and we got a visit from one of the apprentices... but I guess Etrius and Glen had a prior experience with him because they knew him as Vanitas..."

Kaida uncrossed her arms and kicked her feet a little, "He had set fire to a bunch of the lanterns and "kidnapped" Rapunzel's "mother", Rapunzel wanted to go save her mother and I was skipping out on the timeline honestly... so I didn't give it a second thought. I was actually more concerned at that point about Etrius and Glen, because they both seemed too angry about the situation... Etrius had darkness radiating off of him." She quickly looked over at Yue, "I-I mean, I really don't have any problems with the darkness but he seemed out of control about it..." Kaida looked back over at Krowley, "There seemed to have been a set up, Rapunzel's mother staged her being kidnapped and Vanitas wanted Rapunzel and said he would give her her hair, but she was saying that Rapunzel's hair only had powers when it isn't cut... so some sort of disagreement happened... and I'm assuming at this point Vanitas offed her."

Kaida looked down at the floor and spoke, "I did my best to try and protect Rapunzel but... Vanitas was like an army in one man... I couldn't stop him..." Kaida had a grip on her forearm at this point and when she said that sentence her grip had gotten tighter, "So... he ended up taking Rapunzel and I just ended up coming back here... that's all that happened... skipping unnecessary details."

 

Anora's body stiffend when Raisor made a comment about clenching her chest. He was observant of her and she knew their battle was nearing an end seeing as Raisor's attacks became quicker and stronger in a matter of seconds. This was the speed that she could not match. The blue eyed mystic blocked as many as she could, barely dodging a few, but the moment her heart began to squeeze in pain she knew this was her limit. Rolling underneath one of his attacks she pointed her keyblade toward him and caste Aero, sending the both of them flying back away from each other.
Falling on to the floor, not having enough energy to catch herself, her long hair was tousled from the wind of her magic. She laid there breathing for a while, not moving much except for her chest rising and falling.
It wasn't until Louie called out to them did she open her eyes to look up at the duck.
Sitting up, Anora could feel her heart beating fast, the pain still tingling the organ but she wasn't in as much pain. She looked to Raisor and gave him a reassuring smile so he wouldn't worry. "That was fun." She said softly, a little breathy.
Standing, the female ran her fingers through her tangled hair and looked to one of the triplets and than to the man in the group. Her blue eyes shined and a huge smile from ear to ear formed itself, she could not feel pain at that moment and instead happiness covered that void (only if temporarily). She quickly walked to him, her keyblade disappearing as she hugged him. "Kross!"

*EDITED*

 

Kross smiled and chuckled at her retort."It's an acquired kind of ignorance. ya just gotta tolerate her hits, like I do."He said. Her question towards nobody and stroked his chin."Well, slapping her would have probably not been a good idea for calming her down."He said in a murmur. He looked at her as she mentioned his world being medieval. He smiled a little at this."You can say that. Though we don't have a formal monarchy, our medicine man is our leader and our military act like some sort of police. I think it's the militia that really calls the shots though, my mom's a part of the militia."He said, listening to her about the crystal that hung around her neck. He grew ever more curious about it too and her little story answered a lot of his questions."It's not too tangent, and you should know I will listen to ya."He said, then as she guessed his age, metaphorical steam puffs out of his hair."I'm 17, and I'm an adult!" He exclaimed, crossing his arms and pouted playfully. He turned as footsteps alerted him, honey brown eyes widened as he recognized the figure just moments before she embraced him. The light blonde hair, the blue eyes..the white dress..and..her familiar warmth, he almost melted."A..Anora!" He called out, wrapping his arms around her and embraced her in return, it had been so long..so so long since he had seen her."You're here..and you're okay! I was worried something happened!" He exclaimed, close to tears at that point.

 

Ananta had followed and listened to Kross reply to her. Then he got a little angry at her guessing his age wrong. "Well, you're pretty short for being a big ol' adult, Kross!" she laughed with him. "I dare say, you're shorter than ME!" she finished, comparing their heights. When they reached the Main Hall, Ananta looked and saw two people in here fighting and watched a girl fly off. "Aero..?" Ananta muttered, before she saw the girl had gotten up and ran towards her and Kross. "Uh, Kross?" she said, trying to get his attention to look up. Luckily, he had already turned and looked at the girl running towards him and embraced her. Ananta stood awkwardly, watching them hug tightly. It made her a little jealous. "Must be nice, being able to hug somebody you missed dearly." she said, clearing her throat. The girl was certainly pretty, but what would a guy see in a girl with hair THAT bright? Ananta shook her head, looking at her own hair. "I'd be lucky to even have a guy want to be my boyfriend, let alone want to marry me..." she sighed, talking to herself. Holding the hair braid and noticing that it had loosened, she focused on trying to fix it up again, not really paying attention to the two. "Are you guys going to hug forever or are we going to be introduced, Kross?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. "Matter of fact, is this your girlfriend or something?" Ananta smirked, chuckling a little bit. "Didn't know you had one, honestly." she laughed, patting his back. "It's okay, if she's a secret girlfriend, I'll be sure not to tell a soul, wouldn't want somebody to get jealous, right?" she laughed at them. In all honesty, Ananta was jealous of them more than anything.

 

Eon questioned what was going on. He had been in this sort of situation before back at home. Being yelled at was nothing new. However, the command he had given was completely off so what kind of 50 did he want?
"Excuse me sir! Exactly 50 what do you inquire of us sir!?? Do you want 50 push ups? 50 sit ups? 50 munny? 50 shades of grey?"