Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Beuce gazed up at the towering figured above them, clearly the most threatening of the heartless they'd encountered. Stratos appeared to be going toe to toe with one, barely managing to hold on with a barrage of spells. "Hey! Hold it off for a sec, I got an idea!" Now nevermind the fact that Stratos was clearly already doing that, but whatever. This was going to be cool. A light enveloped Beuce, indicating a change in job. It was a job he'd been using fairly frequently lately. His cape had been replaced by flowing streamers wrapping around his arms and seemingly animated of their own accord. That combined with his primarily blue outfit indicated that he was now in his summoner state. "Well...I've never actually tried this before, but it worked for everything else, so here goes nothing!" He twirled his keyblade around and eventually locked it in place parallel to the ground, his arms outstretched. His flesh arm gripped the keyblade, while the glass one had its palm flat against the back of that one. "Two sides of the mirror, power of the warrior and power of the mystic, transcend the barrier and become a force to reach out and take hold of the very heavens themselves!" The two blades of his keyblade instantly began to shimmer with an energy of the corresponding color. Gradually, they seemed to transmit their power down the keychain toward the other blade. With rapid pulses of power, the lights began to merge together into one blinding force. "Resound throughout all creation! Dichromatic Resonance!"

The keyblade now let off an aura with a consistency similar to that of steam. Some of it was red, and some of it was blue, but where one ended and the other began was impossible to tell. Beuce meanwhile, seemed to radiate with a light to a similar effect, outlining his form. He stabbed the keyblade into the ground and placed his hands on either side of it, channeling magic into it as quickly as he could. "Awaken, Thundagolem!" The ley lines that formed the sigil with the keyblade in the center began to crackle with a yellow electricity, as they had any previous times he'd summoned the same creature. However, this time was different. With that keyblade specifically exercising its full power to merge the realms of might and magic, the lines trembled and shook the ground as they were filled with physical might. Finally, The summoning seemed to be complete as an enormous column of lightning channeled upward out of the summoning circle and into the sky, leaving a silhouette of an enormous figure, easily rivaling the darkside in sheer stature.

Normally, the golems were just amorphous, vaguely humanoid embodiments of their elements, but this one in addition to being larger, was much more solid. It had a physical body, in addition to being made of electricity. It seemed outright solid, and the crackling energy that formed its body curved and bent into what appeared to be ever-shifting muscles. It stood from a crouching position and rolled its shoulders, before menacingly tilting its head and staring daggers at the darkside, who seemed to now notice this newfound threat. Though, it wasn't until the Thundagolem made its move that the darkside truly realized the depth of things. With blinding speed entirely unbecoming of its massive form, It leaped an incredible distance into the air and propelled itself downward at the darkside striking like roiling thunder from the sky, crashing into the ground with explosive force and electrocuting the heartless. Debris plumed into the air as it collided with the ground. The golem stood tall and looked to Stratos with a nod, acknowledging him as the ally of its summoner. With a flex, it invited challenge from the darkside which had by now recovered from the attack.

It seemed in addition to a body, it had been given some level of self awareness as opposed to it just being an autonomous construct of magic designed to cast its spells until it was completely out of power, at which point it evaporated. Perhaps it had something to do with now being directly linked to the embodiment of Beuce's heart, his keyblade. It gave Beuce a fair bit of pause. If that was what it turned his golems into by being linked to his heart...What did that say about him? He mimicked the thundagolem's pose as several encroaching heartless and had never felt so empowered in his life. Turns out, this was the best idea he'd ever had.
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Total Words: 773
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 600
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 300

Heartless Defeated:
0

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 521/1500
Darkside 2: 1262/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1559 Shadows
349 Darkballs
386 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

 

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He moved forward slightly and unleashed a flurry of blows before the one of the darkballs heartless could escape. His combo hitting was successful as the one of the darkball heartless faded into darkness. From the corner of his eye, he could see many of the smaller shadow heartless sinking into the ground and heading right for him. He moved back and began to stand far from the heartless as he could. He whacked his way through the wave as they mad there way towards him. The heartless were trying to reach him still desite his fighting style. He noticed that fighting the once adament heartless seemed relatively easy to him now. Was it something to do with becoming a master? Regardless, he felt he had grown as both a keyblade wielder and as a person. He kept moving until the large darkball blocked his path. He froze in place, backing up a bit at the size of the above average darkball heartless. He backed up and use his back ended up next to the same palm tree. While he wasn't the fastest, he thin he could manage to race around behind the heartless before hitting the heartless with his knife. The power of the knife did a number on the darkball heartless, doing massive damage and causing the heartless to decrease in speed. Seizing his opportunity, he unleashed a quick torrent of slashes before the darkball heartless finally dispersed. He continued to look around for any of the massive darkball heartless he had never seen before before backing up slowly. His back eventually hit something, as he was stunned before turning around. and saw that it was still the palm tree. With his slashing of heartless having managed to destroy a large swath of them.

It would do him no good to try and destroy every last heartless that was here and instead it was better to slowly destroy the ones in front of him to systematically lower their numbers. Perhaps at some point he might see the others and they would then try to destroy some. Through his combined efforts he would be able to get through this swarm of heartless with no problem. Of course, in front of him to start with was two of those darkball heartless shadow creatures that he had run into before. While he was fast enough to not get hit he was not taking any chances. At this point some more darkballs formed a swarm behind him. Regular shadows were far slower in comparison to their more matured versions. As such, he could not just run past the darkballs and expect to continue fighting them. More to the point, he could not actually just kill them in an instant either, as they had proven to be more difficult to actually land a blow on then their smaller counterparts. Add to the fact that while in this state of his he could not actually.

Regardless, he began to ran at them, and the darkball was ready for him. The first of the darkballs seemed to flop down to the ground trying to stop what he was doing. The darkball then began spinning at him. He was unsure of what was looking at, but the darkball heartless seemed to be more like a wheel of raw slashing power that he wanted to not deal with at all. so, as the spinning darkball heartless moved towards him, he jumped over the heartless. he brought his blade into it by shoving the blade backwords killing the darkball. Bringing his blade up into a guard, he then blocked the next attack as another of the darkballs came his way.

Word Count: 612
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 1500

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 520/1500
Darkside 2: 1262/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1534 Shadows
349 Darkballs
386 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

 

As Stratos had rush through all of the heartless, his zantetsuken had ended with a simple slash through all of them, the cherry blossoms fluttering in the wind and rushing in the direction Stratos had moved. The dark side heartless paused a bit, caught off guard by the attack, only to then slowly turn towards Stratos. The keyblade master in question was currently hanging in the air, a result of his last attack, only to begin slowly descending towards the ground and landed softly onto it. As Beuce had shouted out to Stratos that he needed to be bought some time, the boy looked over to him and gave a nod in acknowledgement. He hadn't actually known that Beuce had come over here with him to begin with, nor did he actually know what he had to do differently to actually help buy the older keyblade master some time, but he at least acknowledged that that was what he had to do now. Twirling his keyblade around, Stratos looked over to the dark side, and began to run towards it to start distracting it.

The dark side brought up its hand, smashing its palm into the ground to try and squash Stratos. The boy had managed to stop and dodge roll backward in time, avoiding the attack of the large heartless, but still being knocked off balance by the result shockwave of the attack, a light tremor being felt through his feet. As he was knocked off balance, another neo shadow had seen fit to come and strike at him, rushing from the side with claws at the ready, the creature swept them at the boy. Barely managing to get his guard up in time, the boy managed to deflect the claw attack though was still knocked off his already off balanced feet. Being knocked onto the ground, the neo shadow ran towards him, leaping into the air and attempting to dive down on him. Bringing the keyblade up, the boy created a small ball of flame launching the firaga from his keyblade at the airborne heartless. The explosive force intercepted the airborne heartless and managed to destroy it. Picking himself up from his prone position, the boy's eyes went wide as the dark sides fist was beginning to descend down towards him.

It was then that the fist stopped, the dark side being stunned as a large collection of lightning arced across its body, the heartless seemingly being electrocuted. Looking at what had done it, Stratos saw a familiar yet different sight in the thunder golem that had appeared on the scene. As it challenged the dark side before it, the boy nodded back to the golem saying, "thanks for the save." Looking back to Beuce, seeing him in the familiar summoner garb with a strange power he had only actually seen him use once, he merely gave a thumbs up before going back to the fight himself. As it had turned out, the large thunder golem had begun to attract a large amount of attention to itself. The heartless began to converge on the golem's position and seeing two neoshadows begin to bare their claws at the creature, Stratos merely said, "thundaga!" stabbing at the ground with his keyblade. As he did, lightning fell from the sky, striking both of the heartless and killing them, as he moved to look at the dark side. Directing another bolt of lightning at it, he had managed to strike the dark side in the head, though it didn't seem to acknowledge that this was from the keyblade wielder. Instead, it merely wound up its fist and went to punch at the strange golem before it.

Word Count: 614
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 2160
Blessed Thief: 1080 Munny

Heartless Defeated:
3 neoshadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 520/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1534 Shadows
349 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

 

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After that spectacle before him, Kel was left in a sitting down right where he'd intended to fight off the last invisible. The singing had stopped shortly afterwards so it really must've been over. You'd think he'd gotten used to the oddities that occurred when it came to fighting a mass amount of heartless, but somehow they always found a way to surprise him. Then again, this was probably something that he should make a note of. Nineteen heartless did stopped fighting in response to the music and something like that was good to know for any future encounters. Unfortunately Kel wasn't the most musically incline person and he couldn't sing himself thus any chances of him taking advantages of this were slim to none. Perhaps Aislinn would better benefit from this. She was the one who was singing earlier and apparently she'd performed the hula in the world she'd gone too. It would be something to consider if something like that ever happened again. After all if what Kel had just witness was a one time thing, then all this theorizing that Kel was doing would be pointless as there would be no way to use it in practice. Surprising no other heartless had headed over in Kel's direction. He did figure at least some amount of them would have made their way over towards him, but guess that wasn't the case. It was no skin off his nose either way and wouldn't really impede on anything. With all this over Kel got up from his seated positioned and took a couple of steps towards where he'd left Luna. He'd taken a couple of steps in her direction when a large shadow suddenly loomed over head. It wasn't another invisible that had decided to attack him while his guard was down or a darkside. A Darkside seemed like it would be much more noticeable given its complete size. A large group of shadows, twenty six to be exact, had jumped out from outta nowhere and landed right on Kel.

In a matter of moments the wielder was buried underneath the swarming mass of darkness. There numerous claws clawing at him all while Kel struggled to get out from underneath them. His efforts warranted him to get his arm free, but from the position in which he currently was in it would be impossible to use his keyblade to free himself. Both his magic and aura wouldn't help him either. In the middle of all of his struggles, Kel's hand had managed to grab hold of a stray heartless near him. From there the darkness started to flow from that one heartless and into Kel. This action had set off a chain reaction and the darkness from each heartless that was around him started to swirl around him. The more darkness that spiraled around him left the heartless in a brief husk state before dissipating. Resulting in the various heartless joining the swirling mass of darkness that had taken the place of the heartless that were on top of him. Kel on the other hand had no idea what was going on. All of the weight from the twenty six heartless that had gotten the jump on him had vanished shortly after he'd grabbed hold of something. Now, while able to stand, he was surrounded by darkness. Darkness that seemed to cling to his body, forming a whole new set of armor around his new attire. The darkness had also done well in healing any injuries that he'd sustained when all of those shadows were attacking him all at once. When all this was finished, the darkness dispersed and Kel was left standing there clad in dark armor. Still in disbelief, Kel mere stood there looking over the armor that had formed over him.

Words: 634
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 960
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 480

Heartless defeated
26 Shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 286/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1508 Shadows
349 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

 

Luna no longer felt the Invisble's hold on her. In the next moment, she felt her feet touch the ground. She looked over to see Kel had rescued her. "Thanks. That's another one I owe you for." Luna got back up onto her feet. She felt a healing light over her head. She turned around to see Hikaru heal her after he little incident. "Thank you! Much appreciated!" She looked over to see both of them spring back into the action. She looked over the battlefield and was still a little speechless over the remaining amount of heartless that still lingered. "Still so many....I won't give up...Not now..." Before she could move back into battle, yet another healing light loomed over her. She looked over to see Ananta smile at her as she healed her. She angled her head in confusion. No smile was given back to Ananta. Luna turned back to the ongoing battle.

She ran ahead and raised her keyblade. She lowered it down to her feet and casted a small Blizzaga spell to create makeshift ice skates. Luna immediately swung her keyblade upwards using the same Blizzaga spell to create a path toward a group of enemies. She jumped onto the ice and skated down the path toward the enemies. Keyblade in hand, Luna reached the center of a group of four darkballs. She began spinning in one spot with her keyblade out pointing at the enemy. The darkballs had started charging at her. Her keyblade sliced through each darkball as she spun. She had stopped spinning and placed a hand on her chest. "The fight is far from over....." Her eye caught another group of heartless, this time being shadows.

She slammed her keyblade into the ground causing more ice to appear in front of her. Luna continued forward, gliding across the ice. The shadows began to slip as the ice appeared under their feet. Luna began spinning once again, cutting through the heartless with her blade. One by one, they all fell as if they were dominos. She had stopped and continued forward, slicing through more shadows that had crosses her path. Luna reached the end of the ice and looked back and nodded her head. "Alright. Where to next?" Luna looked around and walked off the ice, melting the skates beneath her feet. She ran back into battle, cautiously being aware of her current surroundings. She ran back over to Kel as he had donned new armor. "What in the world???" Luna had been speechless. She went silent for a few more moments before speaking. "What is this? Kel how are you even doing this????" Luna was astonished over the sight that was before her. No other words came to her mind. What could she even say in this situation?

Heartless Defeated:
4 Darkballs
14 Shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 208/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Heartless Left:
1494 Shadows
345 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darksides

Words written:
466

EXP Gained:
46

Total EXP:
181​

 

Kaida started hitting some of those shadows with a flurry of red mage attacks. They were not as creatively flavored as they could have been because at that point she was just basic comboing. And that's really alright cause somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb...

So much to do, so much to see. So what's wrong with taking the back streets? You'll never know if you don't go, You'll never shine if you don't glow. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid. And all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. It's a cool place and they say it gets colder. You're bundled up now, wait till you get older. But the meteor men beg to differ: judging by the hole in the satellite picture. The ice we skate is getting pretty thin, the water's getting warm so you might as well swim! My world's on fire, how about yours? That's the way I like it and I never get bored. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold.

Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show, on get paid. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars, somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas? I need to get myself away from this place. I said yep what a concept, I could use a little fuel myself, and we could all use a little change. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. Didn't make sense not to live for fun, your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to see. So what's wrong with taking the back streets?

You'll never know if you don't go, you'll never shine if you don't glow. Hey now, you're an all-star, get your game on, go play. Hey now, you're a rock star, get the show on, get paid. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold. And all that glitters is gold. Only shooting stars break the mold.

Kaida finished off her load of heartless and wiped off a bead of sweat and wondered if she set of Symphonia or something.

Word Count: 504
EXP Earned: 50
EXP Total: 770
Blessed Thief: 70 Munny
Sweet Memories: 5 crowns

Heartless Defeated:
25 shadows

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 130/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1469Shadows
345 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darkside

 

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At the time Kel had been more focused on what had happened to him to really take in anything on his surroundings, so to hear Luna's voice reminded him that he wasn't the only one here. In fact odd were that Luna witnessed the whole spectacle regarding him and the shadows. Her confusion was understandable, he had no idea how much of what he apparently did she saw, but the end results were still the same as his. Despite all this being made out of darkness, there was no form of pain. In fact it was quite the opposite. The darkness had completely healed and injuries sustained as well as was empowering him. To feel all this was certainly new to say the least. "I don't know and again I don't know." Two separate questions were asked, but the same answer applied to both of them. The only thing that he did know was that somehow this was all connected to when he'd accidentally grabbed the heartless and started draining the darkness from it. Wait. That spell that Megumi taught us. Did I use it? Looking down to his hands, he caught a glimpse of the wisps of darkness that lingered around his palm. That explained the darkness healing him, but did nothing to explain the suit of armor he was now dressed in. That was an entirely different matter that needed to be address. Unfortunately that would have to be later for a group of Darkballs had floated their way down towards the duo. His keyblade was brandished and he ran in head to fight the heartless. The first two were taken out with ease, which allowed Kel to noticed that both during those attack he felt in strength drain from him and the the moment those heartless were beaten had helped him regain some of that lost strength. It was a complete trade off, but a noticeable one at that.

The trend continued as Kel continued to hack and slash his way through the heartless around him, only stopping when it got to the point in which he felt more exhausted than usual. The heartless around him were nearly defeated and this was a task that shouldn't have taken nearly as much effort to leave him feeling like this. Kel noticed while he was catching his breath that there were more wisps of darkness flowing off of his armor. Another Darkball flew and him and was swiftly defeated resulting in the wisp around him briefly turn into flowing darkness before losing some of its intensity. He would've thought nothing of it, but the flowing of darkness happened to coincide with another moment of strength loss. It another mystery about whatever the heck this suit of armor was. He would've said that he'd gotten used to it but that was only brief moment before he felt his strength being sucked away. Before that the next gripe that formed was the helmet. The helmet itself was fine, but he wasn't fond of the idea of wearing one. Maybe that was why back home he had more of an admiration for the knights who wore armor without their helmets. Of course those were for the higher ranked knights who had earned the right to not wear their helmets and well as maintained the skills to back it up. Come to think of it he'd never really seen his father wear armor before. Not even when they had their sparring matches, he always went in there without any form of protection. He had to have had a a lot of confidence in himself to actually do that.

Words: 605
Exp: 60
Total Exp: 1020
Blessed Thief: 30
Total Munny: 510

Heartless defeated
2 Shadows
8 Darkballs

Heartless Injured:
Darkside 1: 52/1500
Darkside 2: 1232/1500
Invisible: 22/50

Enemies Remaining:
1467 Shadows
337 Darkballs
383 Neoshadows (3 Reserved)
20 Invisibles
2 Darkside

 

As he once again shoved the paladin Neoshadow away from him, Steel felt immensely grateful that he had already dealt with the white mage. The paladin had some healing magic of its own, but it was nowhere near as powerful. As he dodged out of the way of the dragoon's spear he decided that he was also extremely happy to not have the ninja to deal with. It had gone down surprisingly easy, but he wasn't going to be one to look a gift horse, or rather a complete and total failure at coordination, in the mouth. As he dodged a fireball from the one in green his thoughts took more of an analytical turn. By its behavior so far, he might assume it was a black mage. However, the ornamentation and color of the robes suggested something... different. In Steel's honest opinion, the less unforeseen surprises he had to deal with the better. This thought prompted him to launch himself forwards to where the unknown mage had been blasting out spells. Unfortunately, no sooner had he gone in for a strike when he was blocked by the sudden appearance of the paladin. Both Steel and his blade bounced backward at the abrupt halt, he only barely recovered in time to block the opponents' next blow, which sent him flying.

Recovering in mid-air, Steel used his momentum to fling himself around an incoming tree and shoot himself back in his opponents' direction. His blade struck the spear of the dragoon in midflight, and the two began a brief attempt at a duel, with Steel doing reversals away from the dragoons' kicks and thrusts. His own stab was parried and knocked away, and he found his Keyblade sliding off of the weapons of both his opponents as he met to counter them both left and right. The two eventually coordinated their attacks to both come for him at once, and he found himself in a three-way blade lock. As he pushed them both away and ducked under their attempts at counters, Steel twirled around in a spin slash to sweep them both off their feet. Directly afterward he cast a seeker mine spell, knocking them both further into the air. Of course, the shadows were not very fond of how their larger brethren were being treated and were beginning to pour in from all around him. As the two Neoshadows were falling began to reach the ground, he charged two Thundaga spells in his hands before blasting them out to his sides. This took out many of the smaller heartless before they even remotely began to form a relevant problem and significantly damaged the Neoshadows to boot. The paladin, all but defeated on the ground, found itself impaled on the end of the Artisan Shard, as well as frozen in a block of ice. The dragoon, recovering more quickly, attempted to surprise him with a spear from behind while his back was turned. It did not foresee the Keyblade Master suddenly shoving it's frozen comrade into the path of its weapon. With the paladin down and vanishing from his Keyblade, Steel dispatched the dragoon with a flick of his wrist.

Turning his attention back to the Neoshadow in green, Steel saw that it was now accompanied by an invisible... covered in grotesque earth-like tendrils. It had a strange, skull-like face that was rather unpleasant to look upon, and it seemed that it was being... controlled by the Neoshadow!? It suddenly struck him with absolute horror:

A Summoner.

It began gathering even more Invisibles around it, infusing them with unique attributes. One with a turtle-like shell, another with... a blonde wig? The fourth and final one came began forming a menacing red cloak with several blue spots, sitting high above the other three.

Well, this would certainly be something, wouldn't it?

OC:
Words: 639
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 300

Enemies Defeated:
16 Shadows
2 Neoshadows

Enemies Remaining:
1451 Shadows
337 Darkballs
381 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
20 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Enemies With Injuries:
Darkside 2: 1206/1500
Invisible: 22/50

 

As the new thundagolem and the dark side heartless were doing battle with each other, Stratos knew that he had to go and deal with some of the other heartless and provide some cover for the creature. He wasn't quite sure what this thundagolem was entirely capable of, nor did he know how long it would last, but he knew it had a far better chance at dealing with the dark side then he did. And since it was constantly letting out volts of lightning around it, he had an inkling that standing near the creature would probably not be very beneficial to the boy's health. As the creature continued to emit light from the lightning arcing every which way, the heartless around the area were more attracted to it, and as it was fighting against the dark side by itself, that too signaled for them to join in on the attack. So, seeing that there were a collection of heartless that were beginning to form around the thundagolem, Stratos spun his keyblade and got himself ready to protect the giant while it went into battle against the dark side. Looking around, he saw the claws of the neoshadow burst out of the ground as they made their way towards the golem.

Dashing towards the creature, Stratos tossed his keyblade at one of them, cleaving its claw off before it managed to fully pull itself out of the ground. The creature looked to its hand, seeing it was just a stub, only for Stratos to then slide in at quick speeds and cleave through the heartless in one strike. The slash had formed across the creature's head, wisps of darkness coming out of the creatures' wound before it finally exploded and returned back to the dark. As the next creatures had appeared, they were fully formed and ready to spring out towards Stratos. Holding his keyblade up, he guarded against the attack, parrying the claw away, though feeling some of the shock run through him. Looking over, he then saw yet another of the neoshadows spin towards him, striking him in the back. Letting out a grunt of pain, being forced forward a bit, the boy looked towards the creature and ignited his keyblade. Bringing the slash towards the creature's claw, he managed to collide blade and claw against each other winning out in the battle and destroying the heartless's claw. Following up with a few consecutive normal slashes, Stratos had managed to finish off the one neoshadow before turning his attention to the third one. As it jumped at him, the boy merely extended out his hand and said, "graviga," causing the heartless to immediately be forced to the ground. The creature was unable to get up, and with a bit more force applied to the neoshadow the creature merely erupted into darkness, being destroyed by the rush of gravity.

Meanwhile, the dark side had swung its fist forward towards the thundagolem. The golem brought its arms up in a guard, blocking against the punch. It grunted, the force being clear behind the dark side's attack and the being was forced back a bit, yet it still stood its ground. The dark side, however, was not without injury itself. The golem was still half made of pure magical lightning, and as such the volts across its body also arced onto the fist as it struck it. Clenching its own fists, the golem brought the guard down, and with a single swing aimed for the dark side's head. While the golem was fast, the dark side moved with far more speed then it had normally, bringing up its hand to guard against the attack. While it managed to catch the lightning fist, it still received a shock through the contact.

Words: 630
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 2220
Blessed Thief: 1060 Munny

Enemies Defeated:
3 Neoshadows

Enemies Remaining:
1451 Shadows
337 Darkballs
378 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
20 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Enemies With Injuries:
Darkside 2: 1173/1500
Invisible: 22/50

 

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He was still fighting behind the countless hoard of heartless. He was taking as many out as he could. The hoard of heartless seemed to open up for a moment and we was able to see out. He could see someone running around and being crazy. This person was probably more or less stupid. The person first stopped and stood atop a tree. This person then made there way over to another person. At first he did not know who this person was then he spotted the crown on there head, Luna he thought. Then there was still the thought of who this mad person was running around. Shortly after he spotted a green light and thought curing people. The person Then ran off and green light followed soon after. Who ever this person was they were not that smart. They kept running around healing people. After some time he knew who is was. There was only one person that could be that stupid and that was Ananta. Soon he spotted her Skipping over to him, she then pointed her keyblade at him before she fell to her knees. She was healing him but there was the fact that he did not need it. So far he had taken little damage so he thought that it was unnessacry. He watched as Ananta stood back up and run off again. How she got to him was beyond him seeing that he was completely surrounded by heartless. It was a wonder how Ananta did not die making her way to him and away again. Well what ever the case was it did not matter. His window that he was looking out soon closed and there was no excape once again.

A large heartless then came out of nowhere and it was a big one. With his escape now gone once again he had the only option of fighting. The floating heartless was holding a sword of some sort. A large heartless loomed over him. Oh this was not good. He set his sights on the Invisible heartless that floated above the massive heartless floated above the mass horde of smaller heartless. He took a firm step forward and dashed off towards the horde, he ignored the smaller ones that made the occasional swipe at him. Only the ones that had actually gotten in his path were struck down. The invisible heartless had just been floating there watching the young keyblade wielder approach it with the usual blank expression that most heartless wore on their face. Not showing any clear signs of emotions, but there was the sense that it was looking at him. There were not any heartless of massive size that the Invisible could just wave his hand and heartless would attack him. This invisible heartless was a leader of some sort. His eyes scanned the heartless mass before him. The invisible heartless attack him with its sword. He was just able to get out of the way if he was not careful the invisible heartless would kill him faster then he could blink. The invisible heartless grabbed the sword it had and came at him once again. Slowly the invisible heartless descended down til it was practically floating a mere inches off of the ground. It seemed to want to see the look on his eyes when he went out. The invisible heartless responded by raising it's blade another attempt to strike, but this time its attack was parried into the ground, causing the blade to get stuck. The moment was seized and he went for the head of the invisable heartless. Soon it was dead.

Words: 602
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 1560
Enemies Defeated:
2 invisibles
1 shadow

Enemies Remaining:
1450 Shadows
337 Darkballs
378 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
18 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Enemies With Injuries:
Darkside 2: 1172/1500

 

With the the three Neoshadows out of the way, Stratos looked towards the dark side and thunder based golem that were fighting against each other. The two hadn't seemed to do much in way of fighting yet, but they had been going blow for blow thus far. Thinking it imperative to keep the pressure off the creature, Stratos continued to tighten his grip around his keyblade, on the lookout for any of the neo shadows that might have been around to attack the golem he was guarding. It didn't take long for more to appear, as the thunder elemental golem was gigantic and glowing with crackling electricity, and Stratos knew that he had to go stop them all the same. There were, once again, three neo shadows that had appeared from beneath the ground, all near where his current position was and began to run straight at them.

While the creatures had managed to pull themselves out of the ground, claws extending from it as they hoisted their dark mass out from the shadows, they did not at first take note of Stratos. Looking only to the golem, they appeared ready to attack it, claws bared and at the ready to leap and tear at the creature, Stratos went to intercept them. Spinning his keyblade around, the boy tossed it at in a strike at one of them, managing to strike one of the three that was caught flat-footed from the attack. The heartless was knocked off its feet, landing on the ground as it looked towards the boy with hatred in its eyes. Diving back into the ground, the creature ran through the shadows moving towards Stratos in an area that he wasn't able to actually attack. As the creature burst out from the shadows, the boy rolled backwards, avoiding the claws that the creature swung upwards to attack him. While its uppercut slash had missed, the creature then jerked its small foot forward, surprising the young keyblade master. Being struck in the chest by the foot, Stratos skidded backwards, partially winded from the attack, only to look back at this foe, ready to fight back against it. Pointing his keyblade at the creature, the boy had a small orb of flame appear at the tip of his keyblade, getting ready to launch it out towards the heartless. As he did, casting the firaga spell, the creature ducked, dodging under the attack before leaping forward towards the boy. Raising up his keyblade, the boy managed to deflect the claws of the heartless. With the blade in hand, the boy ignited the blade with flame, striking downward on the heartless, cleaving into its already wounded form. The flaming blade tore through the rest of the body, with the flames igniting what was left of it. With the attack finished, the neoshadow was destroyed entirely.

As the dark side had caught the physical thundagolem's fist, it curled up another one. Charging with lightning, with great speed the golem unleashed an uppercut towards the darkside, smashing its fist into its tendril mess of a head. With the fist striking, sparks of lightning arcing across all the tendrils once struck, the heartless let go of the first fist it had caught as it stumbled backward. Reeling back that original fist, the thundagolem then moved forward, and with a straight punch smashed its lightning charged fist into the chest of the heartless. The dark side planted its foot into the ground, keeping itself steady. As the thundagolem went for a third punch, the dark side reciprocated. As the two fists collided with each other, a burst of air and lightning flowed out from the point of impact, the raw force behind the two attacks being that great.

Words: 623
EXP: 60
Total EXP: 2280
Enemies Defeated:
1 neoshadow

Enemies Remaining:
1450 Shadows
337 Darkballs
377 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
18 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Enemies With Injuries:
Darkside 2: 1109/1500

 

After having felled the first of the neo shadows, there were still two more that had shown their face. Stratos got ready to fight against the heartless once more, readying his keyblade and getting into a defensive posture as he studied the two heartless. The two of them looked towards the boy, heads bobbing and moving around, seemingly trying to find a break in Stratos's guard. The two neo shadows began to walk towards him, then split off walking in two different directions, circling the boy. He looked towards the two heartless, wondering what they were about to do as their twitching heads continued to move all around and look towards the boy. With claws at the ready, the two began to rush forward towards the boy. The both of them leaped at him at the same time, one high and one low trying to stop him from escaping in either direction and guarding against both attacks. However, that would only apply if Stratos were still as weak as he used to be. With the power of his aura and his skills in the keyblade, the boy knew he was able to stop what was coming at him. Stepping back, letting loose the magic through his foot, he targeted the one charging low with a pulse of gravity magic. The other, he went to guard with his keyblade. The first of them merely stopped in its tracks, floating away as its body was now afflicted by a different force of gravity. The second, he merely parried away with his weapon.

As the two heartless got back up, Stratos looked ready to combat them, only for two more neoshadows to pop out of the ground next to them. With claws at the ready, the four were now primed to go and attack him once more, and the boy was not sure if he was going to be able to keep up with fighting them and keeping the golem safe. Especially as he wasn't sure that he would be able to deal with all of the heartless at this point by himself either. It was then, though, that a silver light glowing across his keyblade caught his attention. He wasn't sure what it was, but he felt a surge of strength run through himself. Before, at the start of this fight he had felt as though now that he were a master he could deal with twice as many heartless at once. Yet now, this power surging through him blew that increase in strength fa out of the water. He felt like he had the strength of four of his running through his body, maybe more, and he was not about to let four simple neoshadows stop him here. As the glow subsided, the power fully inside the boy now, he merely looked at the four heartless and took a calm breath. As time came to its usual standstill, cherry blossoms fluttered through the air and the boy found just where to slash against the neoshadows. In an instant, he appeared behind them, slashing through all four of them and destroying them in a single stroke of his blade.

Meanwhile, the Thundagolem's fist had been forced away by the might of the dark sides. Though it was strong, the dark side was far stronger in terms of physical power and thus it could not win in the power struggle. After winning the first clash, the dark side reeled back its fist and went for a second one. Bringing up its guard again, the thundagolem was forced back as it took yet another blow, starting to feel its form be broken apart by the attack. However, soon, it felt a surge of force run through it, as if the person who commanded it was suddenly able to provide far more power for it. Its form coming back to whole, the golem flexed its rippling lightning biceps a few times before going for another punch against the darkside. One after the other, with three heavy punches it forced the dark side back.

Word Count: 678
EXP Earned: 60
EXP Total: 2340

Enemies Defeated:
4 Neoshadows

Enemies Remaining:
1449 Shadows
337 Darkballs
355 Neoshadows (1 Reserved)
18 Invisibles (4 Reserved)
1 Darkside

Enemies With Injuries:
Darkside 2: 991/1500