Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Stratos sat idly by as Karina started to give a speech to him about things. First off, about how they should finish this together in one combination move sort of thing...which he was pretty sure he said something akin to that earlier. Then, there was the rubbing it in Glen and Beuce's faces, because fuck yeah they were going to finish first and they effectively only had two people fighting these heartless for the grand majority of the time. Then there was the constant mocking of his pitiful strength stat, which he just sort of took because it wasn't like he could deny that he was weak as balls. Then there was finally the idea for the combination attack in which he would use his two moves that had basically been used by him to destroy just about everything thus far, Zantetsuken and Trip Around the Sun, while she used stuff from her new found fist fighting prowess, and Trip Around the Sun. Stratos was pretty sure he, or at least something that influenced his thoughts, had already come up with this himself, but whatever. He would just go along with Karina's (totally original) plan on combination attacks.

And so, he started to fly towards the heartless while Karina had run at it from the ground. While there wasn't much he could do from the air, he started letting loose every last ounce of MP he had in the form of fire and blizzard spells towards the heartless, while Karina had punched the thing in a massive string of unarmed combo attacks. It was then that the command was given to go and Stratos had decided to do a chant that he hadn't done since the Camelot boss fight. The one for his very own Trip Around the Sun. Stratos's chest glowed black and white and he promptly put his hand over it, almost grabbing the energy from it and pulling it out. Jumping into the air, he summoned his keyblade to his hand and started to slide his hand with the energy over his keyblade. "You who would desecrate the land untouched by darkness, with my advent, I, a keyblade wielder, lay waste with the Spellbinder, and expel thy vast defilement!" With that, he preformed the Zantetsuken strike with his black and white solar flared up keyblade and struck down at the same time as Karina had managed to use hers. The resulting hit was a beautiful cataclysmic explosion that had had black, white, and general fire colors all collapsing in on each each, with a single giant cut in space time visible in the epicenter of it all. When the flames had cleared, the heartless was no more.

OOC:

Spoiler: East Side Cleared

Casualties:
Behemoths: 5/5
Armored Knight: 55/55
Soldiers: 65/65
Lance Soldiers: 20/20
Morning Star: 15/15
Assault Riders: 15/15
Zip Slashers: 5/5
Power Wilds: 50/50

EVERYTHING IS DEAD!

Taking a deep breath of relief, Stratos looked threw his hands into the air and said, "we did it!" As he pumped his fist into the air, the sudden realization that most of the other sides weren't even close to being done had set in on him. Now sighing in annoyance, Stratos knew that the duo/trio had to move out and assist the other people fighting. And so after taking a quick rest he said, "well, looks like while were speedy in our victory, other people were not so fast. So, I guess we've gotta go pick up their slack." He then gave a sly smile to Karina saying, "and we can totally rub it in how much better we were than them in this fight too." With that, Stratos, Karina, probably Aden, and Base in spirit alone, all went to go help out NORTH SIDE! After traveling x amount of distance, Stratos showed up on the scene where Kel and Beuce had been fighting the behemoth. Dropping in out of nowhere, he let loose a blizzard spell on the things horn and looked to them saying, "hey, did ya miss u- what the hell happened to your outfits?"

OOC:
EXP Writer: 652 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3360

Spoiler: North Side List

Behemoths: 9/10 (Injured: 55/300)
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 30/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 30/35

 

It was soon after the fact that Karina had come over that he quickly got over the, not so much shock, as it was confusion about what was going on with Kel and Beuce's outfits. Really, it seemed to be the exact same thing with them, only they seemed able to use weapons that wasn't just their fists. Granted, their weapon wasn't actually even a keyblade, more like a sword than anything else. While Stratos was entirely confused about why suddenly everyone was transforming into different forms that seemed to be giving them some massive sort of power boost. Granted, if Karina were anything to go by, it also had some sort of draw backs. For instance, she wasn't able to summon her keyblade earlier and has been relying solely on her fists thus far. Then there was the fact that she couldn't use magic either, which didn't seem to be too much a deterrent to the keyblade wielder. At the moment, though, he needed to stop fixating on such trivial things like this, because damn did his mind wander for a bit in battle. There was a behemoth that needed slaying, and as fond as he was of Kel and Beuce, there was a duo that needed showing up.

Casually relaxing in his stance Stratos watched as Karina had let loose her assault of punches and new found commands from that power she received earlier. As she made her showy and cocky comment towards the two he only grinned and said, "it's true. You guys seem to be having so much trouble with these heartless that the three of us," he was referring to himself, Karina, and Aden, "couldn't help but think that you needed assistance. After all, we managed to slay two hundred and fifty heartless in such a short time frame compared to what you, and I guess everyone else already has accomplished." He shrugged as he gave a joking smile saying to the two, "but I guess not everyone can be as awesome as us." Spinning his keyblade he then looked over to the behemoth who seemed to be on its last legs. Putting his keyblade to his side, Stratos looked at the behemoth completely uninterested in it. Almost as if after fighting behemoths, any kind of them, no matter how weird weren't entirely going to be a surprise to him. Cherry blossoms rained from the sky as Stratos soon vanished and reappeared behind the heartless, keyblade outstretched. The slash from Zantetsuken was visible to the world, as a cut seemed to form in the air around the behemoth. Soon after, the creature was dead, exploding into black smoke and having its heart float into the sky.

Turning back to the two sword wielding keyblade wielders, he said, "now all gloating side, let's go kick some more heartless ass. Can only go faster with all of us working on it now." With that, Stratos ran over to deal with some new heartless that he had yet to see. It looked to be some sort of weird flying drone thing. As approached it, it turned to him and started firing a barrage of small laser bolts at him. Stratos quickly put up his guard to defend against the strike, and then saw the green triangle light up on the thing again, like it had for the armored knights and morning stars. Jumping over to the thing, he then reacted again and pointed the heartless at various others. The heartless he was holding then opened up and fired off some sort of giant laser beam that tore apart the other heartless in a short instance.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 607 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3420 EXP

Spoiler: North Side List

Behemoths: 8/10
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 28/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 29/35 (Injured 3/6)

 

Kross was in serious mode and he was going to seriously kick the crap out of these monsters for hurting his allies and barging in like they owned the place. How dare them.. An old wound reopened, A rage that for two years, he had kept hidden both from his friends and from his masters. The past that he thought he forgot, that he thought he let go was surfacing in this battle. A dark part of him wanted to destroy these...abominations, these defiances of natural law. He was going to destroy every last one, they would never hurt anyone again. He snapped to reality when Ananta spoke and his expression brightened as she attacked the Air Battlers by throwing her keyblade, an interesting tactic."That was coo--oof!" He was cut off when Ananta jumped right into his arms, his hands went up in reflex, catching her legs and he stared at her, mixture of shock and concern."Ananta.."He trailed off before she immediately jumped from his arms and charged into the fray. He stared for a moment, then he gripped his Keyblade and prepared to charge. One Air Battler was unfortunate enough to get in swinging distance and Kross charged, swinging his keyblade akin to a cornered animal. He destroyed the Heartless, skidded to a stop and leveled his keyblade at another, he saw two others encircle them and he looked at them, his body glowing yellow."Bad mistake, Thunder! "

Spoiler: West Gate

Heartless killed:
Air Battlers-4(9BP each)
Total: 36 BP spent

 

The love taps on the Behemoth's horn were met with a distressed roar from the heartless. Ananta looked down to see the horn's protective barrier had been dissolved and now it's horn was exposed. The Behemoth fell down and seemed to have been knocked out. This gave Ananta an idea. "Kross! The horn!" she called out to him, smacking the horn a few times. As she was going for another hit, four Air Battlers grabbed her arms and legs. They carried her away from the Behemoth and were ready to drop her. Struggling, Ananta managed to kick one of the Air Battlers in the face. It let go for a moment before it grabbed her leg again. Once they were a fair amount away, the Air battlers let go of Ananta and let her drop from high up. Panicking, Ananta cast Aero on herself and watched as it cushioned her fall. Sighing, Ananta stood up and saw that the Air Battlers noticed she didn't get severely hurt. Three floated in place while the fourth, the same one she had kicked, zipped down to Ananta and began to attack her. Ananta dodged and slipped away from the heartless until she saw it had grown tired. Taking advantage of this, Ananta attacked the heartless relentlessly. The Air Battler didn't last too long after, disappearing in the middle of a combo and making Ananta stagger from surprise.

Turning around, she awaited another Air Battler to engage her in battle. Instead of just one, all three cam down and began to take turns swiping at Ananta. She tried her best to dodge them, just barely dodging some hits, but still able to move between them. "I gotta get away from this..." she mumbled to herself. Watching as they attacked, she noticed an opening. Waiting for the next opportunity, she focused on dodging. As soon as she was able, took the opportunity to slip past them and take one of the Air Battlers with her. She stopped and turned towards the Air Battler. It was angry, that was apparent, so Ananta prepared for it's attacks. It was doing pretty bad, Ananta noticed, seeing as it kept missing her even without her dodging. Instead of letting this drag on longer, she ended it's life quickly with a sharp keyblade to the stomach.

The two remaining Air Battlers that had attacked her both arrived to torment her even more. The one that attacked first was pretty strong considering the two attacks that connected were painful. Although for all the strength it had, Ananta's own attacks seemed to connect and deal tons of damage to it, ending it's life in just three hits. The final Air Battler took the longest to kill, making Ananta think it had a lot of defense. It's attacks were weak, however, seeing as she sat there and took barely any damage from it. She managed to take it down, but only after she exhausted all of her mana. She sighed and looked at herself. "Guess I'll have to heal up later..." she said.

Turning towards the East side, Ananta noticed that Stratos and Karina had finished off the final Behemoth of that side. "Wow," she said, watching them finish it. They then headed off towards the North side, helping them. "We're almost done over here, so hopefully we can go to another side and help as well. I'd like to make sure everyone was doing alright." she said, wiping sweat from her forehead. Ananta was sure that they'd do well enough to finish the other heartless off plus the Behemoth's on this side.

OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Battlers 4 (36 BP)
Behemoth 98/300 (6 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 7 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 1007 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 203 EXP

 

They were about to finish the behemoth off, but the question about the other groups he'd wondered earlier seemed to have answered itself. Stratos, Karina, and Aden charged in and finished it off. Well, that was good that they were still around. They even managed to finish off their side pretty quickly too. first thing Stratos did was ask about their outfit changes. "Yeah, i dunno exactly what's up with that, but the outfits seem to give us new powers, along with take away some we had before, but that's beside the point. I see Karina's got a new um...outfit too." He said, looking over to the for whatever reason barely dressed girl. Things were alright, then they started gloating about how they finished their side faster. "Yeah yeah, didn't your mother ever tell you to keep your cocky in your pants, kid?" He said, directing the sentence to stratos. Although, as much of a ****** as he was about the fact they cleared it faster, the two of them had done an excellent job and deserved praise. "That aside...You did good. Both of you." He said sincerely with a smile, walking over and placing a hand on each Karina and Stratos' shoulders. Although, something stood out about Karina's shoulder. It was covered with bumps and scars. He was somewhat surprised, but he pretended not to notice them. It likely wasn't something she wanted people knowing about, least of all him. He was well aware that he wasn't exactly her favorite person.

Either way, he could feel some kind of energy flowing from Karina, similar to the way his and kel's worked. He could feel himself becoming more durable as a green energy enveloped him. His health was increasing beyond its maximum point. That was a handy skill, so why not return the favor? Summoning up his red aura, it grew around him. A similar reaction to what happened with Kel awoke in Karina. A much deeper shade of blood red began rising from her body as her strength increased, making her all the stronger and more deadly. Was this a good idea for Beuce? Debatable. Then he looked over at Stratos' aura of strength. It was...he couldn't even find the word to describe it. Amazing? Incredible? No...Amazingly, Incredibly, awe inspiring...ly pitiful. Where the other three's auras surrounded their entire body and a decent area around them, Stratos' just barely was able to cover the nail of his pinky finger. It looked like he just had a bit of green steam coming from his finger. "Well, i think we can all agree that Stratos here is by far the most badass of all. I mean, just look at that aura! He must be getting like at least a whole .5 strength from that!" The white haired keyblade wielder taunted.

"Here, let me show you what this new costume of mine can actually do." He turned to a group of seven surveillance robots staring him down. Each on of them began charging up their energy beam in their mouth. Ordinarily, this would be quite the problem, but Beuce had a trick of his own. Raising his black sword into the air, he collected energy onto it. He and the heartless finished charging their attacks at the same time, and respectively fired at each other. "Brave Shot!" Slamming his blade into the ground, an enormous fissure opened, and from it poured a massive wave of energy, meeting the seven lasers head on. The contrast of red and blue was a brilliant sight, but in the end, red won out and overpowered the attacks of the heartless. The loser of the fight was completely engulfed and destroyed in the victor's attack. Beuce stood there, waiting for someone to look impressed.

632 words
60 exp
793 total

Spoiler: North Side

Behemoths: 8/10
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 28/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 22/35 (Injured 3/6)

 

Stratos was standing there as Beuce began to explain how both he and Kel had acquired these powers out of nowhere. While it seemed to completely power the both of them up, he also described how it had some drawbacks to it as well. Stratos then realized that this was the same sort of thing that was happening to Karina, only for Beuce to say that she changed outfits as well. This was really strange and he had no idea what entirely was going on with these people, but it wasn't like there was much he could do in terms of trying to figure this stuff out. He could totally bs something, but that wasn't his style. If he was going to bs something, it'd be after it was around for a bit, not just something that spontaneously appeared out of nowhere. After Beuce congratulated the two of them for tearing apart their side in record time, he came over to bestow upon them some sort of new passive buff. Quite like Karina's power that raised his vitality, Stratos knew that Beuce did something similar to that effect. However, what it was, Stratos had legitimately no idea. He saw Karina have this massive aura erupt from her, and could actually feel the strength that was emanating from her. It was then that Beuce mocked his strength, and how he had an absolutely non-existent aura in comparison to...well anything really.

He then watched as Beuce went to go do whatever his sort of costume change powers were, and then unleashed some sort of new command known as Brave Shot. It was some sort of sight to behold. The ground opened up underneath his sword and it let out and unleashed a wave of raw physical energy that vaporized just about everything it hit. Well holy shit that was some attack. Stratos admired the new found power that both Beuce and Karina had found. It seemed to be extremely destructive, and seemed to be something really special and amazing. However, Stratos then realized something. He hadn't gone into some sort of super form yet, and was most likely not going to. Not to mention what Beuce had said was true about him, in the fact that his strength was absolutely pitiful in comparison...to really a five year old. Stratos then realized just how weak he was in comparison to everyone here, and how he had to rely on their strength. While he had been able to aggro the heartless, Karina had done most of the killing and so he had to rely on her for that. When it came to Camelot, he was only able to do anything because their plan revolved around supporting him to that level. Outside of that gimmick, there wasn't much he could do.

However, Stratos didn't know why he was dwelling on this. He already knew just how weak he was, though he had probably forgotten a bit somewhere along in this fight. And so, he wasn't going to dwell on that little thing anymore. Instead, he was going to have to put his brain to use here and think of what to do. He then saw a behemoth start to walk towards them, and it seemed to be gathering energy ready to strike at them all. And so he quickly looked around and saw the surveillance robot thing still flying around. Running over to it, he jumped in the air, grabbed the thing, pointed it at the heartless, and fired off a massive laser at the behemoth before it could launch its attack. After throwing the surveillance robot away, he watched at the behemoth seemed to be extremely pissed at that attack. It's two front legs suddenly turned into more like claws, and the behemoth stood up on its hind legs. Roaring to the sky, he realized just how terrifying this heartless was. It also seemed to have a name tag on him saying Larry on it. Truly this was the most terrifying foe they had fought yet.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 675 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3480 EXP

Spoiler: North Side List

Behemoths: 8/10 (Larry injured 266/300)
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 28/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 22/35 (Injured 3/6)

 

Alexander the Galemoth had prepared itself for the attack by the two wielders, but it wasn't prepared to the sudden assault by three newcomers. It had appeared that some of the people from east side had finished and decided to come over and aid them in their fight. Stratos and Karina wasted not time in bragging about how they'd managed to finish up before they did. "I'll be more impressed if you clear up the 8 remaining behemoths we have with no problem." Kel wasn't lying for the most part, he would legitimately be impressed if they could actually pull that off. He didn't bother to answer Stratos's question about what had happened to their outfits, cause Kel was pretty certain that Karina's outfit change was more drastic than there's was. Not that he minded it, which is probably why he heard a faint fox whistle in the back on his head. He really was glad that things like that only could be heard by himself.

That wasn't the only thing different tat he noticed of Karina. Much like him and Beuce she seemed to be radiating some kind of aura that increased his stamina. Not something that he'd expect to be increased considering who it was giving him the boost, but it was still appreciated. Now assuming that the whole aura thing that Beuce had done first applied to Karina, Stratos and Aden, then they all should be feeling some form of strength increase. Karina was definitely the last person that needed any kind of strength increase, but Kel had no control over who got it. If he did, then he probably wouldn't give her as much as she had gotten. Stratos and Aden on the other hand probably did need it. While he couldn't vouch for Aden, cause he didn't have a clue what he was up to since the last time that he saw him, Stratos would benefit from the power increase that he was likely to get from both Beuce and himself.

It was then that Beuce gave a demonstration of his newfound abilities, which successfully took care of some of the Surveillance Robots. The action of his had successfully attracted the attention of another one of the robots, which was heading towards Kel. That certainly made things easier for him, for before the heartless could fire off any of its lasers towards him, Kel leapt up and grabbed the hearted. He then proceeded to aim it towards the other 6 surveillance robots. With a quick smack on the heartless head, a high powered beam was fired towards the other heartless, effectively destroying the ones unfortunate enough to be in the line of fire of the heartless. As for the ones who weren't initially destroyed, the attempts that they made to flee were all for naught for all Kel had to do was to angle the Surveillance robot in his hand towards the direction that the heartless were fleeing in to wipe them out as well.
After the slaughter of its comrades was done, the heartless in Kel's hand ran out juice and fell to the ground with a clunking sound. All Kel did after the heartless fell to the ground was simply kick it towards the nearest heartless on the ground, which happened to be a Large Body. The fat heartless barely felt the robot collide into it for it had bounced off its chest at first, send it into the air. The Large Body then turned to face Kel and the others, only to have the robot that had previously bounced off of its chest land right on its head. Causing both the robot to vanish and damage to be done to the heartless. "Not what I had in mind, but it worked nonetheless."

OOC:
Words: 630
EXP: 60 Total: 468
Defeated: 7 Surveillance Robots
Injured: Large Body 2 BP dealt.

 

Raisor kept his stance, watching and waiting for his next opponent to walk in on him. The Assault Riders kept their spear pointed toward him, and Raisor couldn't just knock them all way. The biggest problem was, since he was in a complete circle, he couldn't keep an eye everywhere, so he could get attacked from behind while watching another side. While he was glad he could take on these heartless without chasing after them, he was surprised they were smart enough to even have thought of such a thing in the first place. Or maybe they didn't think of it. Maybe they just all want a piece of him but there's a hierarchy with these heartless. Raisor began to think if maybe that was why the Defenders were the ones that were attacking him first. They did seem the strongest, or at least, the most fearsome out of the heartless he was dealing with at the moment. Since there was no real way to tell how heartless acted though, the best thing to do was take it at face value and deal with whatever came their way.

After about 2 minutes of waiting for another challenge, a Defender waltzed into the circle, like there was nothing better to do. It almost seemed as if the thing didn't want to come in to the fight but because no other heartless came it needed to be the one to step up. Raisor felt like he should give it points for bravery, but maybe that wasn't the best way to put it since these were just creatures of shadow. It was more likely they were trying to size up their enemy like any animal in a corner would do. Though come to think of it, Raisor was really the one in the corner.

The Defender charged right toward Raisor, and Raisor couldn't help but make a confused look. The heartless didn't do anything else, it just stuck the shield up and started running forward. Putting his keyblade down, he nonchalantly took a few steps to his side and watched as the Defender ran itself right into a spear. Well, at the very least, the shield ran into a spear. The Assault Rider holding the spear reared back and shoved the heartless back into their little ring. Raisor couldn't tell if it did that because the it wasn't happy the Defender hit its spear, or because once you enter their ring, you weren't leaving. There was no way to tell, so Raisor just put his hand to his mouth and whistled.

"Hey buddy, maybe you want to try attacking me over here?" He flipped his hand toward him, calling the heartless over.

The Defender turned inself around and started running straight toward him again. Raisor couldn't help but sigh, since the wasn't doing anything again and he sidestepped yet again. As the heartless passed by, he raised his keyblade in the air and swung down, knocking the heartless down and out. For a second it laid still, then vanished and a heart popped out and floated away. Raisor was chalking that up to "Weirdest Heartless" at the end of the day if nothing else tops that moment.

As he finished his though, another Defender came out and ran toward him again. Raisor couldn't help wonder why it would try the same thing again, but as it got closer, the Defender started breathing ice. Then the shield began to bounce all over the place. The ice began to make a wall between Raisor and the heartless, and Raisor wasn't sure if this was a good idea on the Defender's part or not. At the very least, it was doing something. Raisor positioned his keyblade and shot his fire spell forward, knocking the shield in the mouth as it sprayed ice. The mouth began to steam a little, and the heartless seemed confused about what happened. In that instance, Raisor pulled around the Defender and attacked its back. With a few hits, the heartless went down.

"Wow, 2 Defenders without much of a try. Are you guys even trying anymore?" He looked toward the crowed of heartless, wondering what was going through their minds.

OOC: 699 words, 60 exp (900 total)
Defender - 2

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 1 - (204/300)
2 (Dubbed Bertha, more names to follow) - (279/300)
3 - (299/300)
4 - (299/300)
5 - (299/300)
Defender: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
Large body: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (17/17)
7 - (17/17)
8 - (17/17)
9 - (17/17)
10 - (17/17)
11 - (17/17)
12 - (17/17)
13 - (17/17)
14 - (17/17)
Assault Rider: 9
Morning Star: 12
Shadow: 0
Black fungus: 13
Bolt tower: 16
Crescendo: 0
Soldier: 0

 

Kaida was surprised that despite all of her surveying, she managed to miss that one heartless. But she was definitely grateful the dog on a skateboard had rolled by and dispatched the heartless before it had got her. When he saluted at her and rolled off on the skateboard, she saluted back. Then she heard the voices and watched as a heavyset captain and... weasels... came around and started interrogating her.

Normally, in cases with authority figures she would have given the location, but she was not going to just throw the guy who just saved her under the bus. Plus, there was something about these guards that gave her the completely wrong vibe.

Kaida shrugged and spoke, "I do not know... whoever that is. But I recognize the description. They just rolled by here. Um..." She looked over where the heartless had exploded and pointed in the wrong path, "Your "fella" went that way."

 

Stratos was pretty concerned with the gigantic beast before him. Larry the Pedalmoth was something else, something way different than anything he had encountered before. He had fought a behemoth that had moved at a single frame, and only had one action. To kick. He had fought a behemoth had feasted on someone's raw negative emotions and fired heat death rays and was a master of all things fire magic. He had fought a behemoth that was made of angelic energy, had wings, rained lasers from the sky, and fired off various light magic attacks. And he had fought a behemoth that had mastery over the arts found only within the void. But they had all only been on four legs thus far. He had yet to go up against something so menacing that it would stand up on its hind legs and walked around like a bipedal animal. Well, Stratos had no idea what to do since this thing through any conventional behemoth fair out the window. Like, what was he supposed to do against something that was huge and had hands? Looking at the thing, he was ready to brace himself for any and all things it could do, and hopefully stall long enough for the three ad carries of the team to go and stop it.

Stratos immediately guarded up, though, when he saw the behemoth's very first move. It was a singular move, that apparently all behemoth's knew solely to attack Stratos with. Bringing back its foot, it kicked forward straight into Stratos's guard, sending the boy skidding across the ground. The behemoth then started to go into a full blown all out sprint towards the boy, and tried to completely wreck his **** in, with its bare hands. As the behemoth closed the distance between them, Stratos quickly got on his keyglider and jetted away from the creature, who jumped at him and slammed its fist into the ground. Seeing the destruction that could have hit him, Stratos continued to fly away and avoid any and all attacks that would come at him. However, Larry was still a behemoth with a large amount of tricks up its metaphorical sleeves. As it started running on all fours towards him, He leaped into the air and tried to grab Stratos with one of its claws hands. Leaping off of his keyglider, the behemoth only managed to grab the weapon vehicle instead. He then proceeded to summon it back underneath his feet as he awaited the behemoth to go and do something more to him.

As it was, he was probably too high up for the behemoth attack him, but he knew that probably wouldn't stop it in the slightest right now. He cast aero on himself, just as a precaution, and then realized just what it was capable of. Still being just a regular behemoth, it called upon the lighting from the sky as any regular behemoth could, and sent out a near unavoidable bolt of energy at Stratos. Having his glider be hit by the attack, Stratos lost his balance and began to fall, only for the behemoth to walk over and punch Stratos. Seeing the attack coming, he quickly summoned his keyblade and used Zantetsuken to slash through the enemy heartless. Having avoid the fist, Stratos was now on the other side of the behemoth, only for it to reach out its other hand and grab him. While the grip wasn't actually on him, and more so on the aero around him, Stratos could feel the pressure closing in on him, and the behemoth didn't waste anytime, and simply threw Stratos to ground. Having slammed into the ground, Stratos felt a large amount of pain course through him, and the wind was completely knocked out of him. Hell, if he didn't have that power from Karina, he probably would have died right there. Regardless, this behemoth was about to make short work of the now downed keyblade wielder.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 663 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3540 EXP

Spoiler: North Side List

Behemoths: 8/10 (Larry injured 232/300)
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20 (injured, 15/17)
Trick ghost: 28/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 15/35 (Injured 3/6)

 

Huffing and gasping for air, Ananta slid under the Behemoth in an attempt at dodging the Air Battler chasing her. For the past little bit, the last of the Air Battler's had been charging at Ananta. "I don't know what I did to deserve this..." she sighed. It struck her a moment later that maybe they didn't appreciate the fact most of the heartless were now defeated on this side. Especially they're own kind. "If I can just defeat a few more, Kross can defeat the rest of these winged ones. Then we gotta get the wyverny ones..." she spoke to herself, looking around. Ananta noticed that there weren't any Air Battlers around, so she stepped away from the Behemoth's shadow. She was then attacked by an Air Battler. It struck her right arm, causing a sharp pain to shoot through her body. Ananta didn't hold back in her attacks against this heartless, due to it causing her to hurt greatly. Although her swings were weaker due to only being able to swing with one arm, she managed to defeat the heartless regardless. Falling to her knees, she gripped her right arm and fought back tears as she rocked herself in place. The pain subsided, still stinging as it was before, but not as horribly as it was a moment before.

Swallowing hard, she rose and looked at two Air Battlers sitting on the ground, fighting over a heart they had nabbed from someplace. Desummoing her keyblade, Ananta ran towards the Air Battlers and pressed their heads into the ground as she skid across the floor. "Defiling a heart with your filthy hands! They're sacred and hold memories of people...just..." she glared at the heartless and scoffed. "You don't even answer, you're just zombies or something. That's all you are." she said, pumping two Blizzard spells into her hands, freezing the heartless slowly. "Suffer slowly for what you've done." she said, sitting there and watching them. The heartless stared back at her blankly before they were completely frozen. "And I bet you don't even care, do you?" she mumbled, standing up and summoning her keyblade once again. She hit both of the Air Battlers and watched them disintegrate into darkness.

Scratching her head, Ananta was grabbed by an Air Battler. "Really? That's all you guys can do?" she sighed, letting the heartless carry her. From the looks of things, it was carrying her to the Behemoth. "Exactly where I wanted to go.." she chuckled, twisting her body and getting ready to break free. Ananta used the momentum from the heartless flying to cause it to spin out and fall to the Behemoth's back. They landed safely, with the heartless under Ananta. She stood up and dodged an attack from the Air Battler by jumping over it and landing behind it, striking the heartless a couple of times with her keyblade. She made short work of this heartless and soon watched the heart escape the darkness it had been born from.

Carefully, Ananta climbed to the top of the Behemoth's head and held on to the horn. It was still knocked out, which was lucky considering she would be in trouble if it were to wake back up right now. "Kross! Finish off those three!" she called out, pointing at the three remaining Air Battlers. "Then, we will continue to fight the wyverny ones until they're gone and finally work on the Behemoth's." she said, smiling. "That okay with you?" she asked, turning back to the Behemoth. Her keyblade struck the horn a couple of times, causing it to chip.

OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Air Battlers 4 (36 BP)
Behemoth 92/300 (6 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 11 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 3 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 1067 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 203 EXP

 

Stratos was to continue his fight against the large ass behemoth, Larry, and end this fight as soon as he could. However, he was running into the problem of being on the ground and being unable to do anything. So end this fight really more so translated into wait for someone to save his ass. But even then, that wasn't giving anyone else a huge time frame. At the end of the day, perhaps Stratos hadn't taken into consideration just how weak he was. He thought that with just all of his friends and comrades fighting alongside him, he could rely on them enough to be able to pull out his best as well. Everything had been going fine, too, up to this point, so he had figured it would continue that way. Stratos now realized that thinking like that might have been too unreal for this weak boy to keep up with. He knew in order to survive he needed to move out of this hole. But, he couldn't seem to muster the strength to pull himself out. Didn't help that his aero actually broke from the force of the throw. Without, he'd probably be dead right now. He looked as the snarling gargantuan heartless walked towards him, cracking its fists.

Stratos had then realized the irony of what was about to happen here. After all his declarations to Karina, things about how no matter what, he wouldn't let any of these people here die. After all that, it turned out that he was going to be the one to go. He wondered if he was meant to be this weak. If there was just some sort of cosmic force that was toying around with him, and wanted him to lag behind everyone else in terms of strength. It wasn't as though he minded his support role, it was just every once in awhile he would have liked to be able to do something with his own strength. However, no matter what, he needed someone to help him, always. Even though he had fought heartless by himself, he was able to take comfort in the fact that he had someone who would be able to help him at any given moment. He knew there was someone who could bail him out if things took a turn for the worst. Even now he was thinking that same thing, waiting for someone to save him from this heartless. His eyes started to close and his consciousness was starting to fade. Everything had gone to black, and there was little to no time left for the boy.

"Tsk. This weakness of yours pisses me off more than anything else." There was a completely unfamiliar voice echoing through his head, one that sounded really annoyed at him. "If you don't want to die, then stop sulking and get your ass off the ground."

Stratos had no idea what was happening right now, but he could feel the world coming back to him. He started to move, if ever so slightly, and opened his eyes to see the behemoth towering over him now. It was bringing back its fist, ready to bring an end to him, only for something completely unexpected to happen. Stratos's heart was glowing now, and using the tiniest boost of power that both Kel and Beuce's aura gave him, Stratos was able to pull himself up. As the behemoth punched down towards him, Stratos punched back. With their fists connecting, there was a huge solar explosion let out, sending both combatants flying backward. Stratos was barely able to pull himself up after sliding across the ground. He had no idea what that voice was and he still didn't think that he could fight this thing as is, especially after having to use his limit as his only means of offense and defense. However, he did know that he wasn't just going to lay down on the ground and die here.

OOC:
EXP Writer: 660 Words, 60 EXP
Total: 3600 EXP

Spoiler: North Side List

Behemoths: 8/10
Red Nocturnes: CLEAR
Blue Rhapsody: CLEAR
Yellow Opera: CLEAR
Green Requiem: CLEAR
Shadow: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR
Large body: 15/20
Trick ghost: 28/30
Book master: CLEAR
Surveillance robots: 8/35

Injuries:
Surveillance Robot: 1/6
Large Body: 15/17
Larry: 198/300

Changing this list all up in this biotch

 

Looking around, Raisor tried to figure out how many Defender's were still left in the area. He had taken a few down, so there shouldn't be that many. Looking through the crowd of heartless, he could only make out the figure of 3 Defenders. They were shifting through the rest of the heartless, probably trying to hide themselves, but he knew he had counted right. All that Raisor had to do was take down those last 3 Defenders and the South would be free from one more annoying heartless problem. With that, Raisor turned around and saw the number 3 Defender come into the circle and prepare to fight.

Raisor was all ready to fight the heartless, but for some reason the enemy didn't move at all. In fact, it was so still the thing could have been mistaken as a statue. Raisor wasn't sure what it was planning, but he wasn't going to let the enemy make the first move. He used his Sliding Dash technique and closed the distance on the heartless, and took a strike at the area under its right arm. However, as his attack landed, the Defender grabbed his keyblade with its arm, and with its left hand, slammed the shield down at Raisor. Raisor quickly left go of the keyblade and jumped back, but as he did, the Defender let out a fireball. Raisor put up his arms and covered as much of himself as he could, and he got hit by the blast. He fell to the ground, smoking a little from the attack, and summoned his keyblade back to his hand. The one thing Raisor wasn't expecting was a smart Defender, but nothing was impossible it seems.

"You really can teach an old dog new tricks, huh?" He mocked the Defender, slightly giving it credit for the stunt it pulled off.

Raisor wasn't just going to let it go either. He was going to get back at the enemy no matter what it took. With that, he ran straight for the heartless again. He figured it was going to try for his keyblade again, so he threw a feint toward the same spot he attacked before. As he thought, the heartless tried grabbing the keyblade again, and Raisor quickly changed direction of his keyblade in mid-swing and swung upward. His slash didn't have much impact to it, but it did give hiim the opening he needed. The shield tried to move toward Raisor, but he knocked it away at the arm of the Defender, and kept on attacking. With a final swing, he knocked the Defender down and took it out.

The one thing Raisor wasn't expecting was getting a face full of fire with that Defender, and he wondered if he needed a new shirt now. His seemed pretty torn, but at least his hair wasn't messed up. Having burnt hair was not a fun thing; and if someone says anything otherwise, they're wrong. After the Defender vanished, a second came from the group. He looked for the 3rd, and found it waiting patiently for its turn. He wasn't sure what it was planning, but it just stood behind the Assault Riders, directly behind the Defender that just came out.

Raisor didn't want to drag on the fight too much, because these Defenders were one of the most annoying heartless to deal with, and if he got worn out by them, he'd have trouble against the others. With that said, he also knew how troubling the other heartless were, especially the Assault Riders, and couldn't get weak for them as well. He figured it'd be best to get rid of this Defender nice and quickly. As it began its charge toward Raisor, he swung his keyblade horizontally at the shield and used his fire spell, knocked the shield away, and even burning the heartless' arm. The Defender swung its free arm at Raisor, but that just put it off balance. Raisor took the chance to combo the enemy, and take it out. Luckily his enemy went down quickly, and he watched as the last of the Defenders walked into the ring.

OOC: 600+ words, 60 exp (960 total)
Defender - 2

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 1 - (204/300)
2 (Dubbed Bertha, more names to follow) - (279/300)
3 - (299/300)
4 - (299/300)
5 - (299/300)
Defender: 1 - (16/17)
Large body: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (17/17)
7 - (17/17)
8 - (17/17)
9 - (17/17)
10 - (17/17)
11 - (17/17)
12 - (17/17)
13 - (17/17)
14 - (17/17)
Assault Rider: 9
Morning Star: 12
Shadow: 0
Black fungus: 13
Bolt tower: 16
Crescendo: 0
Soldier: 0

 

Beneath Ananta, the Behemoth had awoken from it's slumber. It's eyes shone a moment before it's horn started to gather energy and reform a new shield. Ananta was caught by surprise, having just two more blows to the Behemoth. She stared at the horn, wondering what the Behemoth would do now. The Behemoth rose, standing on it's hooves yet again, and made a booming roar as Thunder began to form in a ring around the Behemoth. Ananta looked around and hopped off the Behemoth, after almost falling off when it stood up, and ran away from the heartless. It's Thunder attack finished and she saw it snort before turning around. As it wandered off, Ananta couldn't help but scratch her head. "What kind of an enemy just does one attack and then run away without trying to follow it's target? So weird..." she spoke to herself.

"Now that I've told Kross to take care of those guys...I guess I should focus on the Wyverns." she said, looking up to see said heartless gliding about. They didn't seem too keen on flying down low. Ananta remembered fighting a few before. They certainly hurt, that's for sure, and she was going to try her best to not get hurt by them this time. "I think...I think I can take out four? Maybe..." she said, looking at the heartless. "Any more than that and I'll wear myself out pretty thin." she nodded to herself. Ananta decided to get the attention of a Wyvern by throwing her keyblade at it. Instead of just aimlessly tossing it, however, she would throw it like a javelin. Raising her right arm up, she used it to help aim. When she thought she had a good shot, she threw her keyblade at the heartless. It impaled the heartless and certainly got it's attention. As it flew down, Ananta recalled her keyblade at held it in a defensive position. She blocked an attack from the heartless and returned it's strikes with her own, destroying the heartless.

Another Wyvern came from behind the first one and knocked Ananta's keyblade out of her arm. She flew back and hit the ground, coughing and gasping from the wind being knocked out of her. "Ouch..." she complained, sitting up and eventually standing up. The heartless flew at Ananta and readied to attack with it's talons. Instead of letting it do that, Ananta jumped over it and attacked it's back. She finished this one off with a blast of a Fire spell, watching the Wyvern fly off from the blast and hitting another heartless. Instead of stopping to rest, Ananta ran towards this heartless and attacking it while it was dizzied by the previous Wyvern's body slamming into it. With one final swing of her keyblade, it was subdued, disappearing in a puff of dark smoke.

The final Wyvern decided to be daring. Instead of making it's presence known, it floated quietly towards Ananta. Once it was close enough, it's talons dug into her jacket and lifted her off the ground. It had scratched her back, but luckily it wasn't too bad. At least, that's what Ananta thought, although it hurt more than she thought. Struggling, she called her keyblade and thwacked the Wyvern's head. She managed to knock it out and caused it to loosen it's grip on her. She fell down to the ground with the Wyvern, watching it hit the ground hard. Instead of trying to heal herself, Ananta decided to end the Wyvern's time and destroy it with her keyblade. She slammed it with her keyblade, causing it to disappear.


OOC: DOUBLE BP AND EXP...WEEK?!
Heartless Killed/Injured
Wyverns 4 (40 BP spent)
Behemoth 90/300 (2 BP spent)

Remaining
Behemoths: 5 (1 injured) [300 BP each]
Hook Bats: 0
Wyverns: 7 [10 BP each]
Air Pirates: 0
Air Battlers: 3 [9BP each]
Air Knockers: 0
Rapid Thrusters: 0

EXP Writer Bonus
Ananta: 1127 EXP (60 this post)
Steel: 205 EXP
Rain: 74 EXP
Kross: 203 EXP

 

Raisor readied himself for the final fight with the Defender. This was the last one, so he needed to make sure he could finish it and still have strength left for the fight with the rest of the heartless. Considering he was running a gauntlet right now, he wasn't sure how long that he could handle these fights if they ran on too long. He was already running on fumes for the day, and the only reason he hasn't collapsed at this point was most likely from the adrenaline. Hopefully the others were having better luck than him. If he could managed to lessen the amount of heartless doing this, he was glad, but at the same time, he wanted someone to come and save him from his predicament. If any the others in the South side could help. But since they seemed busy, he probably had to hold off till the other groups came to save him.

He prepared himself for the coming heartless with his stance. The Defender moved to the side, swaying left and right. Raisor tried to find the right opportunity to attack, when out of nowhere, the Defender jumped in the air. Considering how big the Defender was, Raisor did not see that coming at all. The heartless came crashing down, and Raisor ducked and rolled out of the way. The heartless slammed the ground with fist and shield, and left a little crater where it had landed. Raisor was completely certain he did not want that attack hitting him in any way possible. As Raisor got up from his role, the Defender ran toward him and released its Ice breath. Raisor knocked his keyblade into the ground and threw some debris into the air, making the dirt freeze solid instead of him. As the ice froze the dirt, a giant wall of ice began to form, and Raisor used that as his chance to attack. In the instant the Defender stopped its attack, Raisor smashed the ice wall into shards and sent to wall flying towards the Defender. The ice knocked against the heartless, and Raisor slip around the shield to attack from behind. He let lose two strikes on the back of the heartless; then before he could do a third, the Defender spun around with its shield, knocking Raisor away.

"Okay, you're being really annoying right now," Raisor grumbled to the Defender.

He didn't know why, but this heartless was an incredibly stubborn one. As the Defender kept spinning, Raisor leaped on top of the shield when it came around, jumped into the air, and turned his body downward toward the Defender. As the Defender stopped spinning, Raisor thrust his keyblade down on the Defender's body multiple times. He hit the shoulders, the head, and everywhere else his keyblade could strike. Eventually he landed on the head and jumped away in a spin, causing a giant vertical slash across the whole front of the enemy. When he landed, Raisor turned around to make sure the Defender was done. To his surprise through, the heartless was still there. It turned toward Raisor, and Raisor put up his guard yet again. As the Defender took a step forward, however, it fell staggered and fell face down. After a second, the creature vanished in a cloud of smoke.

Before Raisor could pat himself on the back for taking care of the nuisance, a Large Body walked in to the arena. Raisor slouched a little, annoyed that he couldn't get even a second's rest after his fight. The Large Body began its rush toward him, and Raisor slammed his keyblade forward. As the enemy stopped, he took the chance to run around it while it was confused and combo the heck out of the Large Body. Before the Large Body could turn around in retaliation, Raisor finished with a strong slash, and knocked the Large Body away. The heartless vanished, leaving a heart floating away, and Raisor now knowing what enemy he was dealing with next.

OOC: 600+ words, 60 EXP (1020 total)
Defender - 1
Large Body - 1

Spoiler: south side

Behemoth: 1 - (204/300)
2 (Dubbed Bertha, more names to follow) - (279/300)
3 - (299/300)
4 - (299/300)
5 - (299/300)
Defender: CLEAR
Large body: 1 - (16/17)
2 - (16/17)
3 - (16/17)
4 - (16/17)
5 - (16/17)
6 - (17/17)
7 - (17/17)
8 - (17/17)
9 - (17/17)
10 - (17/17)
11 - (17/17)
12 - (17/17)
13 - (17/17)
Assault Rider: 9
Morning Star: 12
Shadow: CLEAR
Black fungus: 13
Bolt tower: 16
Crescendo: CLEAR
Soldier: CLEAR

Save me peoples from this evil that is called South Side

 

Luna opened her eyes as she jumped up to her feet. She looked around for the Surveillance Robot that had attacked her from behind. Luna looked around for that robot but she found a Large Body charging at her. Luna jumped over it and had used her Barrier Surge to eliminate the enemy. Her feet slid across the ground as she turned back toward another charging Large Body. Luna ran toward it and slid under the enemy. She got back up and struck down the Heartless.
Luna looked toward the rest of the group. She could see their determination to win this battle by the way they were all fighting. Luna looked over the distance and saw the enemies' numbers dwindling down as they were getting cut down one-by-one. She kept looking as she saw many Behemoths still standing.
Luna jumped over to Kel and stood next to him. "Are you up for a bit of teamwork on this behemoth or the rest of these guys?" She put her keyblade up onto her shoulder as she turned her toward Kel. Luna then ran toward the Behemoth, hoping that she would be able to do a little bit of damage on this Behemoth. "Take this!!" Luna slid around the Behemoth's left front foot, slashing it with the keyblade in the process as well.

OOC: sorry for the short post >.<
2 Large Bodies defeated
2 BP spent on damaging the Behemoth

222 words= 22 EXP
Total EXP: 57 EXP

 

Kross swung his keyblade. He was done with the ones surrounding him, It did feel pretty good killing these things, even if he wasn't trained to fight Heartless, it was nice to wail on them for a bit of psychological relief. There were three left, and then they could work on the larger ones. They had better fish to fry and working with Ananta could help them defend their flank. He heard Ananta and he nodded twice, agreeing with her method."Okay! I'll join you with the Wyverns in no time!" He called out to her. He faced the three remaining Air Battlers. He brandished his Keyblade and leveled it at them."All right, time to cut loose."He said, charging. The three Air Battlers started charging and flanking him. One charged at his left and he timed his jump, just at the right time. He landed on the charging Heartless and immediately grabbed its head, yanking up. The Heartless shot up, prompting the other two to follow in a speeding chase around the hall. He looked up, seeing a wall approaching ahead. He stood and bent his knees, kicking straight off, and flew right between the pursuing two heartless. All three crashed into the wall and landed in a heap. He landed and walked to the incapped pair. A quick Thunder spell dispatched the three bunched up Heartless. He looked around and then turned, running towards the cluster of Wyverns. Ananta had already dispatched one, so he would go for the other, leaping up and grabbed its head, bonking it multiple times with his Keyblade before using a Blizzard spell to decapitate it. He kicked off and landed to the ground, the Wyvern landed to the ground and burst in darkness. he looked up and waved at Ananta."We're making good progress!" He said with a smile.

Spoiler: West Entrance

Heartless Killed:
Air Battlers(9 BP)x3
Wyvern(10 BP)
Total: 37 BP