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

[Kaegoe]

[Mulan & Mushu : LoD : Throne Room]

Mulan glanced over at the one who was called John finished off the guard who was after her. She nodded her approval to him before she glared up at Jafar as he spoke. Mulan stepped back slightly as he summoned the massive heartless.

"Oh no..." Mushu said as he stared up stared up open mouthed.

"Prepare yourselves!" Mulan yelled out as she jumped back, covering herself with her arms to try and protect herself from the blow she knew as about to come.

Both her and Mushu were blown back by the attack, and flew back towards one of the back walls.  

[Bard of Lore]

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

Relieved that the guard had gone down, he was fully prepared to fight the next one. Funnily enough, Demyx had a handle on that. Soon enough water clones appeared and defeated them, leaving the way open to Jafar. Kyle started to make his way forward, but he hadn't gotten more than three feet when the guards disappeared and Jafar absorbed most of the hearts.

After that, he fell to his knees, awe-struck by what had happened. But not in a good way. All of the hearts had been absorbed except for one and that one became so imbued with darkness that the Heartless it turned into was huge. It looked familiar, and he definitely knew that it was that Agrabah secret boss, but he couldn't place the name. Nor could he truly remember the way that he had beaten him. All he could remember was that he was a difficult boss.

However, he didn't have much time to think. Almost as soon as it was summoned did it attack. Seeing the blade come at him, he quickly pushed off the floor and ran and jumped towards the blade, aiming to clear the blade. Granted, in case that didn't happen, he had his katars crossed in front of him to catch the blade and prevent himself from being killed.  

[Sousei Tatsu]

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.

[Cory .:. Train Rooftop]

"Heh. Had to be him, huh? That fairy is the reason I had to retreat the first time I fought these losers head-on. Time for some payback." Darkness began to gather around the blade, obviously charging for a Cataclysm Mk.II, as the darkness spread to the rest of his body for a slight buff. Cory made his way to the edge of the train and leaned over the side. Just as he began to fall towards the ground, the renegade ronin kicked off of the side of the train and went sailing for the genome, bringing his free hand forward for a powerful punch, his fist covered in the Indomitable Will.

"FALCO- PAWNCH!"  

[fractalJester]

[Kuja : HT/BC : Outside Train]

After a few short moments, the genome heard voices from above- all too familiar male voices. And then, without even having to budge, he felt the presence of summoned Darkness- the hostile intent. The Holy spheres immediately began to spin faster; the moment Cory called out his attack, they flew to his side, spinning wildly around a center focal point.

"Quick Reflectga."

The spheres all froze in place as a mosaic of translucent light appeared at the precise moment of Cory's strike. Normally, there would be a brief time before the explosion of reflected energy; normally, the opponent would have enough time to have a second of thought. Kuja, however, was no fool- he knew of Cory's potential to instantaneously transport from one location to the next- 'Bursting', he'd called it.

Well, for the master mage, all it took was a little preparation. Cory had made himself Kuja's foe the moment he took Timmy and attempted to taint the others. He would have been foolish not to think ahead to this moment. All it took was a little excess magical energy; just a little more of his mana, and the Reflectga spell returned the full force of Cory's attack directly back at him at the precise moment of contact.

"Foolish pawn, do you really think you can out-perform the maestro?" he asked, still not budging from his spot against the train.  

[Sousei Tatsu]

[Cory .:. HT/BC .:. Outside Train]

Cory felt his knuckles crack under the pressure of his own attack turned on him, throwing him backwards and sliding to a stop on the ground. The darkness surrounding the blade had been completed, and was now being followed by the second stage of becoming engulfed in the Indomitable Will. "Maestro? Ha! As far as I'm concerned, you're just a Rattata that got a hold of too many Rare Candies!" The renegade ronin rushed in for another attack, now cautious as to when he fired off his assaults and holding back until the last moment. "Timtim! Back me up! This is an end-boss we're talking about, not one of those random Disney losers!"  

[Enji_Chou]

[Kyla: LoD: Throne room]

(( for future refference, when I meant wall. I didn't mean an enclosed wall around us, but a series of walls, like floating square walls about- 3 feet thick, but only 6 feet wide and tall, that just randomly appeared for them to smack into. They disappeared once the gaurds recovered from the surprize and moved around them^^' but thats ok, it's acomplished a similar effect- SORRY for the logn wait, it has been especially HARD to get online these past couple weeks, due to the fact I'm officially employed as an animator!O///O))

Kyla's fears were put at ease, and she concentrated on just keeping the gaurds away, making it difficult for them to attack but moving walls back and forth like a deck of cards. She made some appear again infront of people and disappear the next moment. This system of confusion seemed effective, and the others were very quick in taking them out wihtout hurting them for good.
It helped to be in such a group cause the mellee users were smart int heir excution.

~Kyla!~

Tyue's cry came a fractiont oo late- but thankfully Riku was faster and the gaurd was shoved away by his strike. Kyla stared at the man, her heart in her throat, beating like the birds she summoned.
Why wasn't she paying attention to herself?! Thank God someone else obviously was- "Thank you." she said to the silver haired keyblader. It felt good... knowing someone was there watching her back. People had done that many times before since she came to this world. It was a surprizing and comforting feeling. Thus she recovered from her shock much quicker.

But then... things got complicated, and she hoped someone was still watching her after this.


Jafar, displeased at this turn of events brought out the big guns, emphasis on BIG!
Again Kyla was cursing her iggnorance from not playing the game herself, she didn't know anything about this creature when it appeared. Only that ti was obviously some kinda brute tank like enemy, with large arms, and HUGE swords... sabers they were called right? No.. something similar...Shotels!

WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING KYLA WHO CARED WHAT THEY ARE CALLED!!! her inner voice screamed! Stop wondering about WHAT they are, and start getting ready to fight!!

Kyla flipped ahead two pages and finished her prepred flight of blades, thinking swords against swords would make a much better deffence when- nothing appeared. She felt a shuddering tension inside her body.The flow of mana from her core, that used to travel to her fingers and out through the image was suddenly haulted. Like a blood clot, it almost hurt. The magic wasn't coming out.
Her pictomancy was useless! Something was blocking it!

And to make matters worse... a giant Shotel was coming right AT her!
Kyla's mind went almost blank except- RUN! Move!

Kyla's legs moved, they did- she wouldn't be one to say she never ran- how many times when she watche dmovies when people just stood there, as she said 'MOVE IDIOT!'! She vowed she'd move- but Kyla knew she would never be fast enough. It WAS going to hit her if something didn't stop it, and with her magic gone, she couldnt' stop it on her own!

' Oh no-!'

~ Noo! aibou!~

 

[Jeimuzu Kuro]

{James : Halloween Town : Labyrinth of Nightmares}

James couldn't help but chuckle at Dawn's comment about him being able to see the wires. It was funny because carrots were one of the few vegetables that the corsair would actually eat, and even then his eye sight normally still sucked... It was only thanks to Fenrir that he could see them. He then outright couldn't help but laugh as despite his warning she had touched a wire. It wasn't really funny that she had hurt herself but still that was karma for you he figured. He watched as the group split up, heading down their own paths and as the paths sealed off to prevent anyone from staying together.

"Be careful guys..."

The corsair said apprehensively as he turned back to the path that he had initially found and walked into the darkened corridor. His hexagun drawn at the ready at his side. His left hand in front of him as he began his trek into the maze.

'Why did it have to be electric wires...?'

He thought to himself as he wandered. He hated how much this reminded him of electric fences. He didn't like those things at all, he still remembered all too clearly getting zapped by one when he was a little kid and everyone just laughed. He was determined not to make the same mistake here...

"Gah!!!"

He yelled out and pulled his left hand away, he was using it to feel where the wall was... a foolish mistake as he had touched a wire... Better the hand though then his chest or any other major part of his body. It still really hurt though regardless. Despite his enhanced sight thanks to Fenrir the mirrors intermingled with the wires made it difficult the difference between what was a path, what was a mirror and what was a wire...

{Auron : Halloween Town : Labyrinth of Nightmares}

"So it seems the trap has been sprung..."

The Unsent Samurai replied as he watched them all go off and be sealed from the others on their own path. There was nothing left for them to do now but to move forward. He walked with confidence into one of the remaining open paths. He didn't seem at all concerned about the wires for now.

"Ngh..."

Auron grunted in pain as he inadvertently touched one of the wires with his large katana. The metal a sufficient conductor to send a good jolt into his hand. It seemed he would have to be careful with how he held his blade in the corridor.

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

Leon was just about to turn his attention to helping someone who was having difficulties with a guard. However before he could do anything else Demyx's water clones defeated the rest of them. Just as they were about to engage Jafar he was thanking them and then summoned one of the largest Heartless Leon had ever seen.

"What is that!?"

Leon scanned the field at the group and noted that one of the members seemed completely defenseless against the blades that the heartless wielded. She only had a sketchbook in her hand. He quickly raced toward her to try and defend her.

"Get down!"

He yelled as he ran as fast as he could as Kurt Zisa swung the giant shotels at the entire group. He stopped short of right in front of her and raised his gunblade to fend off the massive blade. The sheer weight of it forcing Leon's back to arch dangerously. He would not be able to hold it for long but he would try to parry the strike as much as possible. He pushed, his left hand against back of his gunblade hoping he could push it up just enough so the strike would miss...

"We have no intentions of harming the Emperor!"

The General yelled back at the solidier, he was ready to strike him out as well. However Demyx's water clones finished off the guard before he had the chance. That was when he turned his attention to Jafar but before he could say or do anything against the Vizier the man summoned a giant Heartless. About as big as the Dragon one that had attacked the Palace two years ago.

"What on Earth...?"

He had never seen a heartless like this. However, before the general had time to contemplate any type of strategy the massive Heartless swung it's shotels at the group. The sweep though for a martial artist and one as strong Shang was easy to simply evade and he quickly charged forward He jumped into the air, attempting to strike at the massive Heartless.

"For China!"  

[Enji_Chou]

[Axel: LoD: Throne Room]

The nobody did cue on Clouds subliminal plan and went for that 'snake in the grass' ( Jafar) only to be blocked by a most formidable opposition. It was almost symotanius how he followed Cloud, and leaped back to avoid the shotels that swung at them. It was easy for him to deflect the oncomming assult with the blunt spinning sides of his Shakram. The Fury of Dancing flames leaped back to get some distance, smirking, "alright- some excitment finally and-...eh?"

The nobody looked down at his circular weapons as he spun them, but was surpzied to see their red aura was missing. He tested it, trying to summon up his elemental enforcement, but nothing came!
Instead he felt a hindering pressure inside, like when you try to swallow something too big. Only this feeling came from deep inside, he couldn't push his mana through and burn it, to make the flame appear. It was stuck- not, more like blocked!


His magic was gone.

"Oh crap- this is going to make it a bit harder." he grummbled looking at the massive heartless.

Hearing the chinese General make his charge, Axel figured he may as well do what he could, and jumped into the fray once more. Charging low beneath the swungs of Kurt Zida's large arms. He slashed his metal Chakrams upwards aiming for it's joints.  

[Kichi Kuronagi]

[Kichi :: LoD :: Throne Room]

Kichi heard Jafar, and simply said "Oh crap..." He turned and saw the hearts being collected...and then one became.. "Kurt...Zisa? CRAAAAAAAAAP." It was then that the gigantic Heartless swung his equally gigantic Shotel, and Kichi turned about to drop under the swing, when he noticed Kyla Running. He dashed towards her, and jumped, tackling her to the ground as Leon attempted to parry the huge weapon upwards, hoping that whatever room Leon got them would be enough.  

[LavenderSakura]

[Jenny :: HT :: Labyrinth of Nightmares]

The time mage felt better as Nanaki joined their party, though the extra showering of wet goop could've been easily skipped. She shook the end of her skirt, with a slight skeptical look. Even if it was magic clothing, it felt really odd to no have to clean her clothes or wear deodorant. Logically, she should feel disgusting right now.

Jenny let out a small groan at Kyle's revelation. So even if Nanaki was a seasoned fighter, they would all be splitting up anyways.

"Don't look so disheartened... you'll worry the others. I'll be with you." Siren spoke up, alert and already analyzing the surroundings. Oogie Boogie sure seemed to put a lot of thought into the contraption. One course for each person, the ethereal being frowned but there was no way around it.

"Yeah, sorry." Jenny apologized, she didn't even know her face was so readable but she quickly reeled it in. Patting her pockets, she summoned her voice to sound reassuring. "Yup, two potions and two ethers. I'm good to go!"  

[Pie Thrower]

[John.:LoD:.Throne Room]

The appearance of Kurt Zisa left John somewhat shocked. It would be his first real boss battle with the group and hopefully it would not be his last. However, upon seeing the blades, John instantly was brought back into reality in the aspect that he would die if he did not act quickly.

John realized that evading an attack completely would be out of the question, so when he noticed that Kurt Zisa was ready for a fight, John braced himself and attempted to guard himself from the scimitar attack. The scimitar blow hit the shaft of his war hammer and John flew through the air for a brief moment and landed hard a couple feet away fortunately missing any of his allies. Without magic however, Kurt Zisa would be unfortunately difficult to beat. All he could do was offer a distraction to take more of the hits so that the others would not have to deal with it as much.

Seeing as the Heartless would at least need a person to target, John volunteered willingly to be that target. He ran forward and with all of his might, John attempted to smash one of the orbs in Zisa's hand. As he remembered, doing so would bring back magic and reveal the serpent head within.  

[Tao Shukumei]

[Timmy : Train Rooftop -> Outside Train]

Timmy was at first surprised by how fast Cory had rushed in on the opponent, but soon watched in disappointment as the attack failed. As he heard his name being called, he quickly called forth his shields and jumped off the train. "Got it!" he yelled out, throwing one of his shields towards the genome and then dashing in after it.  

[fractalJester]

[Kyle : HT : Labyrinth of Nightmares]

"Well, I guess that's that," he explained, a rather solemn look on his face. He would have felt much more comfortable sticking with them, but it was unlikely. Every so often, in the distance, he thought he heard the sound of moving stone, but didn't think much of it.

"Be careful, alright?" he asked, slowly walking backward into one of the wire-free entrances. "I know it's just Oogie, but who knows what he has-"

SLAM

"... planned."

Kyle looked frustratedly at the wall that had just fallen to separate him from the group the exact moment he'd passed under it.

... I hate this place.

[Sora : HT : Labyrinth of Nightmares]

As the wall fell behind Sora (and, inevitably, James and the others), the Keyblader only grumbled, kicking the nearby wall lightly. Figures, Oogie would have taken every precaution. When did the bag of bugs get so smart?

Sora walked on, keeping his keyblade out just in case. Every so often, he'd just swing to make sure he wasn't heading toward wires; of course, sometimes, he'd accidentally his some thick glass, which he didn't even realize was there. Glass and wires, both impossible to see in the dark... lovely.  

[fractalJester]

[Kuja : HT/BC : Outside Train]

"Your witlessness has no ends, peasant," Kuja replied, finally moving from his position against the train after Cory's senseless response. The six spheres of light began to revolve around him protectively as he hovered across the ground, watching Cory's movements as the Ronin called for Timmy.

"Firaga," he muttered the moment Cory got close enough before becoming enveloped in a massive vortex of flame, much like a fiery tornado.

The only difference being that it moved. The spell lasted for a few seconds, and the tornado (as well as the mage within) continued to hover around the field for that time, dodging the initial attack by the shield. The moment the flames began to dissipate, three spheres of black-magic soared out, all heading for Timmy- powerful Flare spells. However, the white spheres continued to hover around Kuja as he kept an eye on Cory.  

[Enji_Chou]

[Kyla: LoD: Throne Room]

It was going to hit her!
No matter how fast she was moving, Kyla's ego hadn't swollen large enough to pretend she could suddenly manifest lightening reflexes at a drop of a hat!
As she steeled herself for the impact she heard someone shouting, and then something tackled her to the floor, the impact forced her breath out.
She could hear the clash of metal against metal, and the grunt of effort from Leon as he did his best to deflect the attack of the giant shotel.
Through the tangle of limbs, Kyla was finally able to see who it was who the second person was who had saved her as well.

~Kichi! ~

'God bless him! and Leon!'

~ They got your back aibou!~

Kyla would never forget his face. Especially since it was forever imprinted into her book. Hazel eyes, dark brown hair, matching her own. Yup it was him! He was only a few centimetres taller then she was in fact. His face was obscured for a moment, a wash with olive green colors and brown from his clothing.. probably from the dizziness- boy could that boy tackle! Did he take football or something?
Kyla waited till her vision focused again and she caught her breath.

Leon, she could tell it was him from the gunblade tip, and boots she spotted from beneath Kichi's arm.

" I... I lost my powers-! Everything." she finally wheezed out, cutting to the chase and explaining the danger right away.
Without her pictomancy she had no defence or offence. And Tyue... Tyue couldn't come out either!