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The air, Nova had thought would be his greatest ally, but the heartless had taken that as well. Nova looked down and saw a brave ninja charging into the battle, a blaze of fire going directly for him. Nova saw this as an opportune way to save his chakra, and another ninja. With his Shichibi's control, he drew the chakra into the air around him, using it as sort of a shroud defense so the wyverns would not get near. But their attacks were in such great multitudes, Nova had to continue moving. Through the air, they began to barrel roll left and right, nosedive down, only to soar back up. They avoided taking much damage, and let off lots of light energy shots at the smaller wyverns, hoping to take them down.

Damage, was unavoidable, Nova needed someone else in the air, his dragon had taken some wounds to the wings, and was falling downwards like a meteor. Nova placed his hands in the wings, and patched it up quickly with his medical expertise. The dragon, almost hitting the ground, veered back up in an amazing rebound. Their next target: the heartless' general.

Still having the shroud of flame around them, Nova stretched the flames to create a very thin orb around himself of flames. Only a small hole was in front near Nova's face so he could see and guide Doragon. It was the only way they would be able to get close enough to the general. Hold his Raiga blades out to his sides, they stuck out like blades as he commanded Doragon to charge straight towards the general. As they passed by many wyvern, bolts of electricity would catch onto the blades at the sides, hopefully striking down any opposition with a bolt charge.

"Heartless, are the real Nobodies. At least the nobodies know what they are doing, though without cause or reason."

As they came close to the general, Nova directed the dragon to unleash a charged light ray directly at the monster. He would take care of the rest, hopefully. Or he would be taken care of himself.

A minor heartless jumped at the escaping group of Nazuki and the children, uttering a cry somewhere between a whine and a nasal grunt. Nazuki grabbed the nearest frying pan and dealt it a tremendous blow over its black visage. The children also picked up pots and pans and prepared to attack, some of them using the cooking utensils as helmets. Nazuki's heart melted alittle, seeing the children at war.

This represents not only the degrating of hidden sound's peace and order, but a loss of childish innocence that is inevitable during wars. Nazuki desperately hoped for her chakra to be regained, but with each step draining her already-depleted stamina, it was hopelss.

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Kaito watched as his trap had been sprung. "Thank god" Kaito said as he whipped his spear around his back. He suddenly let the spear disappear in a cloud of smoke, then jumped over a heartless and whipped out another scroll. He summoned and umbrella, and threw it into the air. He aimed it so the umbrella went up right under the scroll, then he himself stood directly under those two. He made a hand seal which triggered a jutsu. Needles started spraying down in all directions from the umbrella, sort of giving Kaito a force field of needles. He stood there, perfectly still, arms crossed, legs slightly apart as he watched the heartless look up at the kunai & needles that were raining down together now. "Hopefully that buys us some time" Kaito thought to himself.

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Kaito looked at his foot and saw his shadow changing. He immediately jumped into the air, reached into his pocket, pulled out a kunai, and went down, shanking the heartless in the head, making it disappear into the shadows around him. "C'mon boys, that all you got?" Kaito shouted as he watched Needles and kunai rain down onto the battlefield. Kaito made sure to keep a weather eye out now that he knew those little bastards could generate from shadows anywhere. He scanned the battlefield, watching as the Otokage still fought, even though he was greatly outnumbered by the heartless and still had to square off with their commander.

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As more fire technique were shot forth in the battle, Nova manipulated it up into his shroud of flames, his dragon concealed within. From the center of his stomach, he began to breath out an immense amount of flames, the shichibi's inner fire was releasing into the air. In the sky, where Nova was flying towards the leader heartless with full speed could only be described as a black flaming sun. In his hands were the two Raiga, sticking out like a lance, as the entities moved in for one swoop at the leader. Nova hoped his plan would work, but he had already thought of a rebound if it had not, though it was risky. Maybe even fatal for the two.

[ Hurdy, don't auto-hit heartless and destroy them like paper. Let the other side do their part, and their supposed to be rather tough.]

"Uh...kids, it's alright. I think its had enough for now." said Nazuki as the heartless was beaten into an unrecognizable sheet. Nazuki turned around to see Tamao arrive after dodging three heartless. "Quick, tamao...I'm out of chi or chakra or something. We have to get these kids to that shelter over there!" said Nazuki as she pointed to an entrance to an underground station.

A hand of some kind grabbed onto her hair and yanked backwards, making Nazuki fall down on her back. Nazuki responded by grabbing the neck of the heartless and thrusting its face into the ground.

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A portly child of 10 years old swung a cheese grater at the heartless and started smacking its head into the ground. The heartless had let go of Nazuki's hair by the end of the eigth smack. Nazuki got up and put one last stomp over the back of its head. Getting up as if nothing had happened, Nazuki led the children towards the shelter.

Three or four heartless were already in that direction, and Nazuki didn't know how to actually get towards the shelter without them noticing. But afterall, no where in the village was safe, and you can meet death in the most convenient places.

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[Okie-dokie.]