Kingdom Hearts : Heartfelt Adventure {Day 8 ; Invite Only}

[Je suis a toi]

[ Noelle ~ Disney ~ Inner Heartspace ]

Noelle tried to remain calm as they dropped, closing her eyes and putting her arms up over her head as they dropped through Kyle's heart station. When she dared to gaze out again, what she saw stunned her. Were there landscapes in all their hearts? She didn't have much time to wonder, as they were each given wings and urged onward. Her level of comfort dropped at this--she needed the ground, earth, to be her most useful. If they continued to hover, she worried she might not be able to help as much as they'd planned. As the others affirmed the speed in which they needed to act, Noelle nodded and moved to hover in the arrangement they had agreed upon. She was nervous and didn't have much to add, so stayed quiet.  

[fractalJester]

[ Dawn ; James ; Joe ; Kyla ; Noelle ; Sora : Kyle's Heart : Inner Heartscape --> ??? ]

Sora nodded as well, summoning his Keyblade. "Let's get started, then."

{ Cue : Synchronize [SOUND ONLY] }

Ultima merely nodded, turning around with the two entities to face the massive void. She was separate, and the two remained somewhat close, just over a meter apart. As they hovered in place, waiting, Ultima lifted both arms and a pulse of energy burst from the void, like a cold wave passing over them.

The malevolent energy began to stir, swirling and spiraling, a vortex of darkness growing wilder and more erratic with every passing a second. The winds picked up, as though they were near the beginnings of a tornado in midair, until finally--

--the darkness violently stabbed outward into the black humanoid, like a living tether, pulsing. The void began to echo with distant, indistinguishable murmurs.

"No."

The white entity turned to gaze at his black counterpart, lifting his right hand toward the tether and releasing a pulse of its own. The dark vein was encased with light, and it began to writhe--just as the black entity grabbed with his left hand at its base, connected to his chest, and squeezed down, as if to cut off flow.

"No more of your filthy promises."

The void itself began to grow restless, angry, surging with more power. The murmurs grew, like a room growing ever louder, as the black entity continued to resist its presence. The golden aura began to dim, but the white entity merely pressed onward.

"You are no longer welcome in the sanctum of my heart."

The black entity began to pull--not from his chest, but from the void itself, grabbing the tether with both hands and struggling to rip it out. As if realizing what was going on, the voices surged louder, more panicked, and the tether pulled out of the black's chest, desperately trying to lock itself away, back into the void. Instead, the white entity reached out and grabbed as well, both hands causing the aura to erupt more powerfully than before--briefly, the cacophony screamed in pain before returning to its angry, panicked shouting that could not be understood.

"Now you shall be extinguished, slaughtered and rent by my allies and friends!"

The tenor of the entities' voices, the intonations and emotions, were beginning to fuse together, and with every moment, the void only grew more chaotic, the tether thrashing and recoiling, but never able to budge from their grasp. The creeping golden aura had begun to seep into the void itself, tracing along a single strand of darkness to the core of the maw, outlining it...

"The time has come to open the gates and be done."

With a single dragon's roar, accompanied by the voices peaking their cacophonous shout, the two entities ripped out the core of the void gate's blocked, appearing as a writhing mass of blackness, and--like a precision whip--sent it flying into the sky, toward the sun--and the Station of Awakening. As it flew, the mass began to take shape as a robed figure before disappearing all together.

"Go! Now!" Ultima shouted, the golden aura keeping a hole in the void illuminated, wide enough for them to pass through. The spiraling mass continued to writhe and pulse, trying to spread outwards but ever rebuffed by Ultima and the entities.

Without another word, Sora dove in, assuming the others were right behind him--Joe, specifically, right beside him.

---

[ Kyle : Station of Awakening ]

As Kyle stood motionless, feeling what occurred below, preparing, there was a sudden movement in front of him, near the edge of the station. A shadow had appeared, rising from the ground in a blur. At first, it looked formless; momentarily, it looked brown, as if robed; finally, however, it took on more vibrant colors. Particularly, a brilliant cerulean.

"Hello, Seymour."

"And to you, son of Earth," the guado replied, standing to his full height and looking to the dragoon with a sneer.  

[fractalJester]

[ Dawn ; James ; Joe ; Kyla ; Noelle ; Sora : Void Drop ]

{ Cue CHOICE }
{ Enter the Void ~ Birth by Sleep } { Assault ~ Final Fantasy X }

As the six dropped into the void corridor, they'd find themselves immediately falling--much like their original drop into Kyle's heart. Infinitely, endlessly dropping down into an abyss, surrounded by pitch darkness, lit only by the occasional strand of iridescent energy along the path, with colors from deep red and purple to brilliant blue and green. It wasn't as if they couldn't see too far--there was nothing to hinder there vision. There was simply nothing there.

To their comfort, however, they had plenty of control. They could go left, right, up, down--they could even speed up their drop. Notably, however, they also retained the golden auras from Ultima, wings included. Not only would this allow them to halt their drop entirely and regroup, if necessary, but the added speed of rocketing around made evasion easier--and all of their attacks would have a boost of Light magic, as well, free of cost.

Noelle, specifically, would have found three large chunks of stone, likely pulled from the heartscape itself, following her every order.

"It's the most I could do!" Ultima shouted beyond the void entrance as it began to close. "Go--end this!"

"You heard her," Sora said, flipping around to give all of them a thumbs up as he fell backwards before turning around. "Let's do this!"

Up ahead, pyreflies began to appear, converging in large masses before forming... fiends. As they descended, the fighters would begin to make out which monsters were approaching--a number of Dark Elementals, Floating Deaths, a couple of Achelouses, and a Wraith all opposed them.

As they came into sight, one of the Dark Elementals unleashed the Bio spell, sending a blast of toxic magic in Joe's direction. Afterward, two Floating Deaths unleashed simultaneous sonic waves from their wings, sending razor-bladed air at the entire party.

Sora guarded against the sonic wave that came his way, effectively guarding the person directly behind him before unleashing a Fira-ball at one of the Dark Elementals--destroying it from it's weak magic defense.

[[ NOTE: Starting now, I'm giving everyone, say, somewhere between 3-5 days to post, unless specifically requesting an extension. If you don't post in that time, I'll GM you to the best of my abilities. I'll have a little lee-way for this week because, well duh, it's Christmas, but we need to get this rolling so we can move ahead. ]]  

[AldrickZearse]

[Joe: Void Drop]

Joe was ready, bo out, lazily spinning in his hand. Lazily mainly cause he didn't want to accidentally bop someone in the jaw. But with Ultima and the two entities working, there was naught to do but be ready and watch. And it was a spectacle. In a good way.

And then the core was ripped out. Kind of like popping a blackhead. And with that out of the way, the hole was open, ready for the people to hop in. And right next to Sora, Joe shot out a "Let's go!" and flew inside.

Of course, inside meant the monsters would be coming. And after Ultima left some parting words(which, with Sora's affirmation, left Joe not needing to add anything), they started appearing. And of course they were Spiran.

The fighter let out a tsk. Him and poison didn't exactly get along, so he spiraled out of the way on his wings, dodging it before taking the blow of the the sonic wave Sora didn't guard. After all, he wasn't gonna take any guff from something trying to manipulate air in front of him.

The male, still flying 'forward', curled up into a ball around his bo, looking like he was skewered by it and rolling up around it, and started spinning at rapid speeds, sending out his own razor winds as the bo spun, flinging wave after wave of the blades before shooting forward like a pinball, bouncing around from enemy to enemy while still shooting out the wind blades, and making sure he was out of the way of others attacks, of course.  

[Je suis a toi]

[ Noelle ~ Disney ~ Void Drop ]

Noelle took the stone she was given and followed in the charge, assessing their enemies as quickly as she could. She was lucky to have caught Sora's guard, and prepped her attacks in the mean time. As soon as she could, she sent out several discuses, sending some directly for their opponents. They would act as decoys for several others that flew past their ranks and rounded about to strike from behind.  

[Je suis a toi]

[Elleon ~ New Orleans ~ Cafe du Monde]

Elleon stepped from a portal out into a dark alleyway, blending in well with her surroundings. She wore a floor-length black satin and lace dress with a plunging backline, and her hair was pinned and curled beneath her extravagant, wide-brimmed black hat. The small blonde stepped from the alleyway, gazing across the street at the Cafe du Monde. She waited for a carriage to pass on the cobblestone street before walking across, her heels clicking with each step.

'Wherever is the gentleman who is paying for my dinner?'  

[Enji_Chou]

[Kyla: Disney: Void Drop]

Entry through the opening was easy enough- then it was out of the mind melded dreamscape- into the dark depths of the abyss- and what awaited them was the kind of stuff Kyla would only see in her nightmares or one of some survivor horror game.

The first thing she handled was the razor winds blowing their way. While Sora was able to deflect it and Joe was able to absorb it, Kyla did what she did best- block it. A simple press to her paper created the phantasmal bloom pattern shield she was known for and it bared the full brunt of the blast.

Once that wave was passed she made a bee line focus on the Dark Elements. Remembering them from playing the game gave her some knowledge of their immunities: one ability she was concerned about was the reason the artist attacked them first- Reflect.

A very useful status if casted and she wasn’t about to let them do it first- so upon reaching the farthest her range could go (still wanting some distance) Kyla cast her first birn strikes lvl 2.

Forgoing a warm up, Kyla wanted those elements gone, the sooner the better!

Once she got through them she planned to focus on the Wraith next- it was another troublesome creature if allowed to cast anything on them! In a battle of Magic agianst Magic the faster caster was the winner, and she had to work quickly before they got saddled with anything nastier then stun.

In the mean time Kyla cast Warding Lotus on Joe since he was already piledriving into the fray, but already the artist was charging up a much stronger spell just to handle the wraith once she broke through the ranks.
 

[Jeimuzu Kuro]

{James : Disney : Void Drop}

The corsair was ready, the grip on his hexagun sure, but not overly tight. He watched as the light and dark entities forced open the passage and the lot of them flew in through the hole in the deep void. Without a word the corsair followed after the others, keeping the formation that had been agreed upon for the time being. Immediately they were falling again, falling into nothing more than a deep corridor of pitch black. Occasional streaks of colorful energy, the only light that could be seen. However, that didn't mean they couldn't see, in fact the corsair could still see perfectly well even without his enhanced vision.

They kept their wings, which granted for a large range of quick and easy motion, which was definitely handy as not long after they entered they were greeted by pyreflies which inevitably transformed into a variety of fiends. A dark elemental unleashed a Bio spell at Joe and the Floating Deaths unleashed sonic waves at them. Joe and Sora took two of them, the one that flew at the corsair was easy enough to dodge with his reflexes and the speed of flying. Sora dispatched of one of the Dark Elementals with a fire spell and Kyla's Birn Strikes took out the other two elementals, eliminating them from their opponents. The corsair's focus then turned to the Wraith, remembering how unpleasant they were to fight with doom and death. The corsair reached into the deck box on his belt and pulled out his latest card, the Light Card that he had gained from, he assumed Kyle's help.

He channeled the elemental energy from the card into his hexagun and pulled the trigger. Three bullets of light erupted from his gun and began to spiral around each other in a helix. The Purifying Helix slamming into the evil wraith and destroying it.  

[fractalJester]

[ Dawn ; James ; Joe ; Kyla ; Noelle ; Sora : Void Drop ]

{ Cue CHOICE }
{ Enter the Void ~ Birth by Sleep } { Assault ~ Final Fantasy X }

Dawn, without so much of a word, immediately began to twist her body, dancing in midflight by maneuvering the winds around her. The entire party was quickly enhanced by Faith and Bravery, supporting them from the middle.

As a result, Joe's razor winds were powerful enough to bounce numerous times, hitting every remaining monster and interrupting them long enough for Joe's bouncing to crush their defenses, stunning them and even destroying a few of the Floating Deaths.

Noelle's flying discuses, enhanced by the Faith, began to shred the Achelouses before they could even begin to cast a spell. The discs remained in play, still able to be controlled.

Kyla's Second-Level Birn Strikes obliterated the stunned and shredded remaining Dark Elementals before they could properly cast Reflect.

Finally, James unleashed his new Purifying Helix shot, and in a brilliant array of light, the Wraith writhed and faded away.

As the pyreflies from the fallen monsters flew backwards into the abyss, the group continued to fall forward, following them, watching as they began to coalesce once more.

"What in the world--?"

Before them, a massive squid-like abomination, flanked by six fluttering scale creatures, formed from the pyreflies. The iridescence of the tunnel around them faded slightly as the were born.

Immediately, all six of the Sinscales rushed forward, one targeting each fighter.  

[fractalJester]

[ Kyle : Station of Awakening ]

{ Cue CHOICE }
{ Future Masters ~ Birth By Sleep } { Moment of Truth ~ Final Fantasy X }

"It seems I underestimated your tenacity," he began, slowly strolling around the edge of the circle, not even bothering to look at Kyle, instead analyzing the station.

"You underestimated a lot of things," Kyle replied calmly, keeping his gaze locked on the guado.

"Perhaps, but none of that matters now."

"I disagree."

"Is that so?" Seymour stopped, turning his haughty gaze to the dragoon. "Do tell, son of Earth."

"You tried to split us up--internally. You made us watch our darkness, made us feel shame. I bet you hoped we'd forswear our dark halves and leave us broken," he said, watching the guado for his reaction. "The replicas weren't just an attempt to create more hosts--they were an attempt to strip us of our full potential."

"Clever boy," he mused, his voice as airy and indifferent as ever. "But I did not attempt these things. I succeeded. I stood there amongst you and watched each and every one of you falter under the gaze of your own hearts. The damage is done."

"And now it's undone."

---

{ Possible Cue (If you don't like the other two) : Unite ~ Homestuck [AUDIO ONLY] }

The entities, both black and white, floated in midair, now facing one another. They were feet apart, unmoving.

And then they each reached forward with one hand.

---

"So confident. You expect me to believe you've achieved acceptance so easily?"

"It was anything but easy."

---

Their hands met in the center, white on black, and as if a switch had been pulled, the entire heartscape began to tremble.

---

His gaze hardened as the station beneath him began to quake. "What is this? At what point could you have possibly--"

"Atlantis," he interrupted, his body seeming to flutter in and out of existence--except with every flicker, Ajora appeared in his place, as though they were rapidly replacing one another. "And I suppose I have you to thank."

---

Their very existences were faltering, and the world beneath was going through tumultuous upheaval. But with every passing moment, something was flickering between them--someone.

---

"Ajora," Seymour snarled, his composure fading as something darker flickered behind his eyes.

"Maybe once," Kyle said, his lips--their lips--slowly curling upward, the images repeating faster and faster. "Not anymore."

---

The gap between white and black began to close. They grew closer, hovering toward one another, and instead of hand in hand, they embraced--

---

"You see, Seymour, mine is the compassion. But--," they began, dual-tones of a dual-being, but the constant gaze of brown eyes. "--mine is also the fury."

Seymour rushed his arms up to his eyes, shielding them from the blinding light--

---

The land settled. The air grew calm. The waves crested and fell silent.

There, where once had been two halves, was a whole--

---

--so he stood, bathed in both the warmth of his own light and the embrace of his personal shadow. No more was his dragoon's cloak filled with greens and golds. Now, his heart realized, his robes were a united dichotomy of marble whites and onyx blacks, a final form uniquely his own.

He held out his arms to his sides, outstretched, and in burst of white-gold flame, Gungnir appeared to his right, hovering and spiraling on its own.

Then, in another burst of white-gold flame, Gae Bolg, Ajora's spear, appeared spiraling at his left.

"My name is Kyle," he declared, smirking at Seymour with a confidence he hadn't felt in days. "And you have trespassed in a heart made whole. So now I'm gonna kick your a**."  

[AldrickZearse]

[Joe: Void Drop]

The male popped out of his ball, back in position. Well, sort of. He was out a little further than he should have been. But he was quickly back in position when the new enemy appeared. A Sinspawn? Really? Ugh, and to think he actually liked the designs of some of them.

The scales nearby swarmed, spread out, and charged. The male didn't have time to really help anyone else out, instead dodging the one going at him by going to the side. Then, of course, he decided to grab the thing. If not for the warding lotus Kyla had put upon him, he might have hurt his hands on the bladed edges of the thing, but he didn't even think of that.

Adding his own strength to the scale's momentum, he flung the creature back at the large, squid-like enemy. Some people threw weapons. Joe just happened to fling everything.  

[Je suis a toi]

[ Noelle ~ Void Drop ]

Noelle gave herself a silent cheer at the success of her disks, but couldn't celebrate for long. It didn't take long for a new set of enemies to form and go on the offensive. It was immediately apparent that each was positioned to attack the Earthlings individually, so Noelle decided to try and make an attack on each before they drew too close--that was the point of their tactical plans anyway. She moved quickly, but Joe was already attacking his own opponent. One less she had to target. Her disks rounded about, each flying silently for one of the scale creatures as she unleashed a storm of barely-visible needles from the remainder of one of her available stones.  

[Jeimuzu Kuro]

{James : Void Drop}

No time to think, no time to plan, just time to return to formation as the first round of enemies were dispatched and none other than the squid-like Sinspawn took their place, accompanied by six of it's scales, which wasted no time charging forward to engage the six combatants. The corsair took advantage of Noelle's area attack on all of the scales and used it as an opportunity to take out the Sinscale that was heading towards Dawn, and then quickly shot the one that was coming after him since it had farther to travel to reach him. The scales had always been pretty weak in the game, and the corsair was somewhat relieved to find that that seemed to be true here too.

'These guys were always water-based in FFX, which means they don't like Lightning, I wonder if that is still the case,' The corsair thought as he raised aimed his hexagun at the Sinspawn, Lightning card in hand as he unleashed a Thunder Shot at the squid-like creature.  

[Enji_Chou]

[Kyla: Disney: Void Drop]

(James consent for semi puppeting)

As a follow up of their attacks, but with the wraiths gone- Kyla wanted to utilize the built up energy she stored and spread it out amongst the remaining enemies. There was plenty for another few birn strike lvl 2’s but she wanted to hit more targets this time-…
As the sinscale came soraring towards her Kyla deflected the thing with a metaslash-and moved out of the way thanks to her winged appendages- but it wasn't hurt and it was coming back around!

When James fired his thunder shot and an idea came to the artist’s mind remembering his summon limit and and Amy’s.

Something to spread out the power, multiple targets, multiple facets-
Scrapping the previous choice she turned to a new page and quickly drew some elaborate lines, and circles connecting them. “-James! Wanna fire that last one more time please?” The gunner chanced a glance to the pictomancer and could see she was cooking up something- couldn’t hurt ot see what ti was.

“-aye!”

“Alrighty! Pick a target and fire! Let’s see how this looks!”

The illustration was finished and Kyla moved forward in front of him a few paces.
-“Ready!”

From her position something that looked like a grid of lines and circles opened open from behind her and spread out, reaching and connecting like dots on a grid, those junctions seemed to steadily increase in radiance like a current building a charge-
“Fire!”

James shot his hexagun again repeating his lightning shot at the closest circle and upon moment of impact a secondary tier branched out from it, and form all circle points a group (5+3) of projectiles were launched! They scattered and weaved around Joe and Noelle like seeker missiles and struck the various targets!
One of which was the sinscale that closed in on her fomr the side- one fo those projected turned right about and met the monster head on!

“..ooooo….that worked out well.” Kyla made a note to refine this method- it could prove to be useful.
During the cool down Kyla returned to her buffing and cast warding Lotus on Noelle next.
 

[fractalJester]

[ Kyle ; Seymour : Station of Awakening ]

{ Cue CHOICE }
{ Shaded Truths - Birth By Sleep } { Face Off - Final Fantasy X }

"Are you supposed to be threatening?" Seymour sneered, his face curled in disdain. "Stronger hearts than yours have fallen all the same."

"No doubt. But we're in the Cornerstone of Light's aura, and on my station no less," Kyle retorted, his spears still revolving at his sides. "You're already weakened, and we're in my heart. I have the power here."

"Sure, the power from a "heart made whole"," Seymour mocked. As he did, black veins slowly began to creep along the station from where he stood. "The light is weak, isolated. The darkness could give you power, but you only accept that it is there. You repress it--even now, you draw only on your hope, your beliefs, if you would just give in..."

"You know what? You're right," he said, watching the veins, feeling the corruption slithering through his heart. "I'm not ashamed to admit it. My darkness is probably where a good portion of my personal strength comes from."

"Of course it is. Look inside yourself," Seymour began, smiling as he began to stroll around the circumference of the station, each step spreading more of the invasive darkness. "The light blinds you. You've accepted your darkness--now search it. In darkness, there is truth."

"I suppose," he said, closing his eyes in what appeared to be resignation. "I may be confident, but I'm also pretty envious. I want more. I want to be strong. For so long, I've felt like nothing because I was too weak to save my brother. Too weak to do much of anything."

"You need never feel weak again, Kyle."

"You're right. I've been repressing it, but it would be so much better if I just... let it go."

"Yes--Darkness cannot be destroyed, nor can it be ignored. You must channel it." Seymour stepped forward, eyes gleaming, lips curling into a smirk.

"Let the storm rage on?"

"Yes, unleash it, free it--"

"Well, in that case, I should tell you. I feel..." Kyle started, chuckling darkly for a moment as his spears speeding up into blurs, his fists trembling, his body beginning to give off wisps of black--and streams of white. "... really... <********>

His eyes burst open, a searing glare compounded by a contorted look of inhuman fury, and a deafening, magic enhanced shout. "ANGRY!"

The entire station exploded, glass shattering and erupting into the air, the platform engulfed in blinding light.