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

[Bard of Lore]

{Kyle(II) : Land of Dragons : Throne Room}

Watching as the guard came at him with the slash, Kyle brought his katars up in a cross form, catching the blade as it hit the block. At a standstill, Kyle locked eyes with the man, but found that he couldn't keep his sight. He would've felt too bad for what he was going to do and he didn't want to foreshadow his next few moves.

Pushing forward with the blades, he pushed the sword into an awkward position for the man, then he pulled his katars from the weapon and, while the guard was recovering from the strain, he ducked down under the man and shot upward, driving his elbow into the man's chin, hopefully knocking him out. Regardless, he got into a fighting stance, ready to keep going if a newcomer showed up or if the other guard got up.  

[Jeimuzu Kuro]

{James : Halloween Town : In deep water...}

James' zen strategy attempt was failing badly. everyone's panicking around him was breaking his focus and now he was starting to panic as well. It had been an easier said then done thing and he knew it. Especially as the water continued to rise. Thankfully due to his height he still could touch the floor but that wouldn't remain the case for longer in the slightly more viscous sewer water. He could swim but yeah... not very well. If he had to he would try to turn up on his back because he was able to float better on it. He watched as Sylph flew up into one of the pipes at Joe's command. He had a strong feeling though that it wouldn't be safe. He couldn't hear anything due to the rushing water so he had no idea either what was in store for them.

"No use saying to stay calm now..."

The corsair said with a sigh as the water continued to rise and due to buoyancy he began to float upward on the surface of the water. Despite the chaos he was still doing his best to remain calm so he would be able to hold his breath in case for some reason he went under the water. Which unless the circumstances changed soon would unfortunately be the case.

{Leon and General Li Shang : Land of Dragons : Throne Room}

Leon turned just in time to see the strike coming at him and quickly jumped back to avoid the strike. He really wasn't liking the fact that he couldn't kill these guards, he then swung his blade in a back hand style at the man's helmet. Hoping yet again to knock the man out. He winced slightly after he brought his blade back to a defensive the blade crossing in front of his chest.

'Need to be careful... that kind of swing puts a lot of strain on my arm.'

Shang noted that the guards were hesitant as they prepared to face him. Their strikes were sloppy due to their hesitation. He quickly parried one of the strikes quickly and brought his blade down in a strike at the second guard's head. He would then turn his attention back to the first guard ready for another strike.

"You will not defeat me. Stand down now!"  

[LavenderSakura]

[Jenny :: HT :: Sewers]

The time mage freaked out as she found herself on Kyle's back like a little child. She didn't want to weigh Kyle down, especially if the Knight could swim. She thrashed for a brief moment before realizing she was probably making it worse for the swallow wielder. Instead, she hunted for her voice; relieved to find it still working. Maybe she could just slide off his back... but of course, that would just put her back into the water.

"It's quite alright Kyle," Jenny tried to reason, her voice sounding shaky, even to herself, "Last thing I want on my conscience is me drowning you!" Yes, she would much rather die alone than die knowing she killed someone else. What was she going to say to God then? Yeah... I killed him... unintentionally, but still. Did that count as murder? She watched the water rise and briefly recalled her own baptism and her strong reluctance at being dunked into water; the feeling of water up her nose and everything just closing in around her with no room to breathe. I'll gladly take that baptism if you're mad at me God, just thought I'd let you know.  

[Kaegoe]

[Dawn : HT : Sewers]

Dawn's eyes soon drifted around the room. Everyone was on edge. Her eyes stopped on poor Jenny as she was on Kyle's back. Then at Noelle who was clinging to Joe. Then to little Zeba, she was holding her own, but how long could the young girl. With a heavy heart her eyes landed on the tunnels, which Sora had just moments before, instructed everyone to get close to.

'The water is going to close those tunnels off any second.... the water is almost level to them as it is.' her mind wandered then her eyes widened as she soon gasped out loud as her mind wandered more.

"I got an idea!" she almost shouted as she, in a quick motion, swam over towards Sora, "The water is giving us enough leverage now, maybe we can use it to our advantage and lift people," Dawn's eyes soon went back over to Jenny once more before she continued, "into them, and they can climb to safety."



[Mulan & Mushu : LoD : Throne Room]

Mulan was quick to block the attack with the flat of her sword braced against the palm of her left hand. But was easily knocked back laying on the ground.

Before the soldier could take a second swing at her, Mushu ran over and used Mulan's chest as a jumping board and into the man's face. Blowing a puff of hot air that was enough to mildly burn his face and eyes.

Mulan took the initiative after her guardian's attack, swinging her leg to trip the guard knock him to the guard. The woman quickly raised to her feet, sword in had. Praying that the man would not get up.  

[Tao Shukumei]

[Timmy : Train Rooftop]

He landed on the rooftop of the train shortly followed by Cory. He began to look around for anyone from the train as requested by Cory. "I don't see anyone around then train. Perhaps they are inside the train? Although I guess it wouldn't make any sense if they were on the train and not moving." He shrugged off his own answer to Cory, but was immediately alerted by an appearance of a burst of light. He saw that a female looking character came out of the light and he began to rub his eyes. I think my eyes are playing tricks on me, but then again what's the difference from coming out of a dark portal, he thought to himself.

"Fix that, I spot one person around." He told Cory as he pointed towards Kuja.  

[Psalm Grasshopper]

[Amy ; Cloud : LoD : Throne Room]

The Emperor; he looked so old, and frail, but he carried himself in the most dignified manner she had ever seen. His presence held a certain level of authority. He seemed wise somehow, and although she agreed with John as he whispered, she felt that this man would have appeared an Emperor if he was in peasant's clothing. This was the Disney world, after all. He seemed sweet, and powerful, and wise.

... and suspicious.

Cloud stayed on the other side of the group, opposite Axel. He was making observations of the Emperor as well, noting the suspicion in his eyes... and something else. Some sixth sense told him the tall, sinister, dark, and ugly man was there before he revealed himself. Regardless of already suspecting something was wrong, as he was sure did Axel and Leon, he felt a heavy weight come over him when it actually did. These were kids... they shouldn't be forced into a situation like this. It felt horribly familiar.

It's Jafar! Amy nearly screamed that out loud. She hadn't been in Agrabah with the original Earthlings, and up to this point hadn't seen one single Disney villain. She felt... elated. She could have asked for his autograph! He was so good at being bad. Wait a minute, this guy was a jerk, what the heck was she thinking? Villain, Amy. Villain.

Kyla's wall gave her the chance to attack first, instead of being attacked. Quickly summoning her weapons, Amy aimed at the nearest guard, and-

-stopped.

I can't shoot people. It was a new problem for her. She had no qualms with shooting Heartless, but people? Actual people? It was wrong..

Fortunately, John's lightning attack protected her while she was having her moral dilemma, knocking back a guard that was almost upon her. She looked to Kichi, hearing his warning, and looked back to the guards, another one quickly taking the place of his fallen comrade. Amy's face hardened. She looked for a place where the guard's armor was partially open, usually around the joints.

She shot him in the knee. Hey, her aim was getting better. Not that he was that far away, but it was a pretty good shot nonetheless.

She looked over to Kichi, and whether he was busy or not, said, "He'll live."

Cloud had no problem with harming any guard stupid enough to attack him. Unfortunately, however, the guards seemed to sense he was made of tougher stuff, and somehow managed to keep him occupied by attacking and then quickly retreating, over and over again. It took him a moment to realize they were herding him away from the group, but when he did, he subtly changed his own attacks and parries. His clever trick was taking him slowly closer to Jafar, and that deadly snake rod he carried.

As he fought, he looked for Leon, Demyx, Axel, anybody who had enough experience under their belt to realize what he was doing. To him it was obvious. Destroy the cause of chaos, and chaos would stop.  

[RhikoDemson]

[[Louis : HT : Sewers]]

Louis was wading now, looking up at the roof, trying to judge how long he'd have until there was no more room for air. He listened to Dawn and replied loudly over the echoing sounds of moving water, "We won't need to lift anyone up. The water pressure will eventually build up and push out the tubes. Be careful though, the water will suck people up through the wrong one if we're not careful. We'd end up separated."

Louis retreated into his own thoughts again, Worst case scenario, the fairy doesn't return and we're forced to gamble. We don't have time for indecision. Best thing to do in that case... those who have experience with swimming stay behind as the younger or less swimming experienced are pushed through the closest tube. Damn that bag of bugs, I hope if we get out of here, we burn the bag and make SURE he can't come back.

 

[phoenixianCrystallist]

{Riku Demyx .:. LoD .:. Throne Room}

Riku kept silent after the emperor demanded to know what the kids were doing there. Shang and Mulan seemed to have the explanation covered, and Riku was beginning to decide not to say anything unless directly spoken to, just to give the old man a taste of some attitude. He may be the emperor, but there was a limit to the amount of arrogance Riku could take from someone. Especially if that someone was asking for his help.

He tensed as soon as he saw Jafar appear out of the darkness behind the throne like the desert worm he was. Immediately, Riku brought the Road to Dawn to his hand and prepared to slice the evil genie/wizard into ribbons, but the emperor called the attack first. Thankfully, Kyla erected a wall and her Lotus before the surrounding company of soldiers could actually reach them, but Jafar's magic took down the solid wall, leaving just the Lotus to protect everyone.

He heard one of the kids shout not to kill anyone, and Riku snorted. Of course, he knew better. As soon as the guards began their advancement again, he rushed right in, slamming the hilt of his Keyblade into the face of the nearest guard, preventing him from attacking Kyla.

Demyx wasn't paying any attention to anything. Every word said, every glare, every gesture, just passed right by him as he ignored the world at large. He really didn't care what was going on here, he was only with the group to protect his own hide. But when the soldiers started attacking, he decided he might as well lend a hand.

Summoning his Sitar in a burst of water and bubbles, purely for dramatic effect, and followed that by summoning a few water clones. Don't kill anyone? Covered. Demyx brought out one clone for each guard, but since by the time he was done bringing them out a couple guards were already down, that meant he could spare a couple for the more skilled guards.

"Dance, water, dance~!" he shouted, directing the clones to go out and smother the non-prone attackers. Fortunately, him being in the middle of the group at the time of the attack afforded him plenty of protection to work his water magic.  

[Pie Thrower]

[John.:LoD:.Throne Room]

Upon hearing the fact that the guards should be spared there lives, John sighed in his mind, and realized that his more lethal attacks would come for later. He did not let up on the guards though. He may not be able to crush them to a living pulp, but stunning them would be of much use.

He knew that they were only minions under the power of Jafar, but he also realized that the minions were the immediate threat.

Out of his right hand, a large ball of electricity formed quickly. "Stun!" he shouted and the ball turned into a large web of electricity aimed at the nearest guard to him. At the moment, he felt like he was on a medieval battlefield as there was no rhyme or reason to tactics in this fight, but rather the mentality was 'find your opponent and eliminate'.  

[Je suis a toi]

((Sorry I died again, I've just been so scrambled lately . . . aaaaand I'm going to fastforward a little, we don't need to take two weeks to drown. XD))

[HT ~ Sewers --> Labyrinth of Nightmares]

Noelle felt a little better when Jo took her in his arms, but it still wasn't much. The water rose more and more and she ended up having to swim on her own again; she didn't want to burden Jo so he couldn't swim either. She continued to panick a little, taking short breaths and trying to keep afloat. Come all this way just to drown in a dirty sewer . . .

The water level rose higher by the second and eventually rose to the point they were waiting for: the tunnels. As the water level rose to half way up the tunnel openings the chamber groaned and the water beneath them stopped bubbling. The bottom tunnels had stopped pumping out water.

The agromancer treaded water, beginning to tire. She almost felt relieved when the water stopped rising . . . almost. Next thing she knew she was being sucked towards the far left of the three tunnels. No matter how hard or fast she stroked she couldn't overcome the pull.

"Guys, I don't think staying together is an opti--Ahhh!" She shouted, but couldn't finish because she was finally pulled in. The blonde held her breath, expecting to be plunged into a tunnel filled with water, but she wasn't. She felt like she was going down a strange water slide. A water slide of impending doom. It all might have been fun if she hadn't been fearing for her life.

Noelle slid down, nearly screaming the entire way, giving a higher pitched shout at every sharp, jerking turn. There was no way to stop herself, the tunnel walls were increadibly slick. So down she went on a ride that felt lifetimes longer than it was. Before she knew it she was tossed out of the tunnel onto hard ground that the water was flowing over before dropping down into a grate. The agromancer tumbled past the grate and sat on her side for a moment, trying to get her head to stop spinning and her heart to stop pounding. She finally stood up, knees, arms, and elbows scraped from the ground and starting to bleed. She took note of her surroundings, which were strange and eerie.

Each of the earthlings would come out of their tunnels and find themselves in a cleared out area that their tunnels led to. The area had the tunnel and walls closing them off from the back and a semi-circle of mirrors in front of them. The mirrors had spaces between them where people could get through. Once one went through those entryways, they would find themselves in a terrible maze constructed of mirrors, difficult-to-see glass, and nearly impossible-to-see wires. If touched, the wires would give the person who made contact with them a painful shock--by no means deadly or debilitating, but painful and irritating.

Which was Noelle's first mistake. She wandered foreward to one of the, what appeared to be, openings to peak behind the mirrors and see what was there. She went to one that had wires crosshatched accross it, her arm grazing it first.

"YEAAAAOW!" She shouted, jumping back and rubbing her arm after feeling the painful vibration travel up her arm.

The blonde squinted at what seemed to be nothing there to see what had shocked her. She could see the faint lines of wires latticed in spider-web style accross the opening. This was not going to be fun.

[[The groups are as follows:

Left Tunnel : Noelle, Joseph, Bobbi, Auron, Louis
Middle Tunnel : Dawn, James, Sora
Right Tunnel : Kyle, Jenny, Zeba, Nanaki]]  

[fractalJester]

[Kyle ; Sora : Sewers -> Labyrinth of Nightmares]

Kyle twisted and turned down the pipe, nearly out of breath when he was spit out on the other side, Jenny still on his back. He'd luckily been able to land on his side so as not to hurt her. Hopefully, she hadn't hurt herself on the trip. Gasping for breath and coughing, he jolted up and looked to Jenny. "Hey, you alright?"

He noted, somewhere in the back of his mind, that his clothing immediately began to dry itself out. Ah, the perks of magic.

--

Sora dispelled his Keyblade as the pipes pulled him in, making sure as to not hit anyone on the way down. He was an ace at holding his breath, having lived on those islands for all his life. Still, when he was thrust out into the room, it took him a moment on his knees to catch up. He noticed that Dawn had been sucked in as well...

Observing the room as he got to his feet, he noticed the mirrors and the openings... and how dark it was beyond them. Once again, he summoned his Keyblade.

"Is everyone alright?" he asked quietly, keeping his eyes on the doors just in case.  

[LavenderSakura]

[Jenny :: HT :: Sewers -> Labyrinth of Nightmares]

There was the initial panic as she felt the pull of the water. Then a mounting fear as she spun through the tunnel like a water slide that didn't quite pass safety inspections. This was why she absolutely hated roller coasters, the lurching of her stomach as she twisted and turned only made her want to clench her eyes and scream... that or bite her tongue. Without thinking about it, she tightened her grip, not wanting to end up alone.

Then the tunnel spit them all out as if they were badly flavored jelly beans and she felt the adrenaline finally rush her. She coughed and took in shallow breaths of air before opening her eyes and brushing the plastered hair from her face. The mage looked down at her body upon Kyle's question, there were a few nicks and scratches, a couple of them thin lines of blood mixed in with ... stuff, but nothing too major. She nodded weakly to the Holy Knight as if not trusting her voice to speak before she realized-

"Zee!?" Jenny spun around from where she sat, searching for the girl.  

[Riorin]

ɀ·ვ·ს·მ ჱ

ღ Halloween Town | Waterway | The Sewers -> Labyrinth of Nightmares :.

The pipe was unlike any of the other water slides the teen had ever slid down. She would have had the time of her life if years of mildew hadn't lined the walls, with the decomposing corpses of small animals encased in the slime. Not to mention the state of the water that was driving her down towards impending doom.

Needless to say, Zeba shrieked like a banshee the whole way.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

She twisted through the long tunnel, smacking against sharp corners and finding herself in odd and painful positions - she was even upside down at one stage during the terrifying ordeal.

When the end came into sight, Zeba was overcome with an immense sense of relief. Not long before, the Earthling had thought she would never feel more disgusting in her whole life.
She couldn't have been more wrong.
Battered, bruised, and completely covered with slime encrusted cuts, the ninja was spewed out the end of the waterslide of rabies at an alarming speed, smashing straight into Kyle and Jenny.  

[RhikoDemson]

[[Louis : HT : Labyrinth of Nightmares]]

Louis saw Noelle get sucked in, immediately giving him a sense of fear, "S**t She needs help!" He swam under to try and save her, but suddenly found himself in need of saving. The current pulled him under and through the tunnel in seconds. When he found himself free of the water and in the mirrored labyrinth, Louis felt a little dazed. His eyes couldn't make out what was real and what wasn't. He ran in the direction of Noelle's scream finally being able to pick out the real one instead of the numerous reflections, "Hey... uhh... Noelle right? Are you ok?"