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[Nick :: Narnia :: Grand Hall]

"Thank you, Teacher. I shall not fail you or the Meister again. I have one question before I go." Nick bowed once again, then rose and gave his teacher a curious glance. His outfit began changing back to his disguise.

"Who is the group fighting against? I'd rather have an idea so I don't get burned horribly like I did with Sephiroth." Nick couldn't help but grimace at the name, remembering how badly he had been attacked by Sephiroth's spell.

[Tortuga ~ The Challenger]

Jack took a moment to stop his goofy wind dance to look back and check their progress. The ship had just cleared the docks and was on its way out to sea. That was a relief. He turned back to the helm and took hold of the wheel.

"Just keep going, lads." He called out encouragingly, hoping to be annoying because of his uselessness in the situation. "Show those feculant bastards what for!"

[Angel Grove ~ City]

"Hey princess, nice outfit." The replica snorted, looking Amy up and down. Pathetic . . .

Elleon summoned her spear and casually flourished it before sticking the blade in the ground. Azrael came up next to her and she tossed her golden hair from her face as she looked to him. "Looks like the beach is going to have to wait. The baby-sitters' club wants to make things difficult. They have a problem with flaming townsfolk or something . . ."

[[Captain's Note: Just imagine she's in her power suit]]
[[Noelle's Note: Yeah, forgot about that sorry . . . >.>]]

Jacob ll Tortuga ll The Challenger

Jacob's steely blue eyes traced the path of a cluster of air pirates as the zipped around, taking cover behind the battleships. One of them broke off and just as Jacob was going to put a dagger in it, the heartless knocked Dawn to the ground. Jacob's eyes furrowed and his goggles slid down over them. He dashed up, tick-tacked off the mast, grabbed the air pirate by it's scrawly little head and smashed it into the thick, hard railing of the ship. He scrabbled up the riggings and leaped out onto a battleship. "I'M SO VERY TIRED OF YOU GUYS!"

Get down...be careful.

Instead of landing on the small ship (and invariably getting knocked off), he clung to the The Challenger's rigging at the last second and threw a salvo of daggers at it, well within the effective range. Jacob recalled these things being notoriously tough.

[Isle of Tortuga :: The Challenger]

The mage smiled sheepishly, feeling the heat creep onto her cheeks. She still didn't know how to handle compliments so she merely bobbed her head in thanks. For a second, her heart assumed the worst when someone rolled onto the deck, but only after she saw the accompanying poof of a heartless did she breathe a sigh of relief.

... Wait, I don't know any Final Fantasy character like that. Is he from Earth?

Jenny hardly had any time to question, or stare for that matter as the heartless seemed to double for every one they managed to take out. The musician knocked out a few more with some well-placed glyphs before running up to Noelle on deck, whose shoulder skimmed with a cannonball. "You alright Noelle?" Jenny summoned up a Reflect spell to veil over the agromancer. She watched as everyone scrambled above deck, taking out heartless, if the ship went down they'd all be doomed. Dawn! She's powering the ship at the moment! The melody strained and carried a little farther, before settling around the Tessen wielder to shield against further attacks.

[Anthony ~.~ Isle of Tortuga ~.~ The Challenger]

Anthony nodded at Kyle, both greeting him and acknowledging the present circumstance they were in. "Right!" Anthony said in agreement, shifting his attention from the boy to the eminent heartless threat around them. He managed to block many of the on-coming cannonballs the Cannon Heartless had fired; however, the several Air Pirate Heartless flying around were hard to keep track of, especially once the Battleship Heartless appeared above them.

"Ugh... this was so much easier when I was able to button-mash my way through mobs in the game!" the boy vented mentally.

The impact from one of the cannonballs deflecting off his gauntlets forced Anthony to turn and stumble back. Behind him, he noticed a young lady, the same blonde girl who created the earth ramp he leaped off of earlier, facedown on the deck after being clipped on the shoulder by a cannonball. He scampered onto his feet and rushed to her side; however, a another young lady with dark hair had managed to get to her first and cast a deflect spell. Regardless, Anthony stood in a defensive position in front of the two woman, his back turn to them.

Anthony looked over his shoulder at the young woman beside the blonde and asked, "Is she alright," then turned back just in time to block and knock back a swooping Air Pirate Heartless.

{{Definitely herped and put this in the ATE thread by mistake. I fixeded it though.}}

{Kyle : The Betting Table -> The Dark Margin}

Kyle said nothing as Cory talked, not wanting to fall into a lull in his defense just because of some conversation. Cory could say whatever he wanted, that didn't mean that he was going to quit. And then the strange thing happened. Cory...quit. He surrendered. Out of all the things that Kyle had been expecting, that had most certainly not been it.

And when it was all over, they hadn't moved at all. He was still in the same place as before, except feeling quite a bit better. All of his wounds were gone, his hands weren't swollen, his body wasn't cut up, there was nothing wrong with him. All of his energy was back as well. Just what power is that? To completely heal the victors? Crazy...

Kyle was almost tempted to say something to Cory. Almost tempted to respond to his earlier words, before he'd quit. Almost. But Cory wasn't being that rude anymore. And he could think what he wanted. Let him think that Kyle was just foolishly pushing on, when that was all Cory seemed to do.

"I appreciate that Cory. Thank you. And you can feel free to call on me for one favor as well." He finished, glancing back at the ocean of darkness once more. It was so intriguing...but it wasn't worth falling into the darkness for. At least not yet anyways. Maybe someday it would be, possibly necessary, to explore.

[Anthony ~.~ Isle of Tortuga ~.~ The Challenger]

"I... erm...," was all Anthony was able to muster up in response to what the young blonde said. His cheeks flared as he instantly felt rather embarrassed as to why he didn't ask her in the first place. "Well, um... I'm glad you're alright," he said, taking a moment to clear his throat, then continued, "Um... I think I'ma go, uh... that... way now... erm..." Anthony pointed his fingers in a random direction in a pistol-like fashion, wiggling his thumb as if it were the hammer of the gun, then sidestepped away after waving at the young ladies and saying, "Goodbye."

"Smooth move, Anthony... smooth...," Anthony thought to himself as he returned to fighting off Heartless.

{James : Tortuga : The Challenger}

{{Cue : He's A Pirate(Combat)}}

"Thank you for pointing out that fact Kyle! I wasn't serious!" He yelled back, taking aim and firing at another Air Pirate Heartless.

His attention was drawn away from guarding Dawn though as more Heartless appeared, Battleships this time. He remembered these ship heartless all too well, they were tough in a fight. He opened fire on them, hoping to take them out before they could do any substantial damage to the ship. However, that is when Dawn got hit by an Air Pirate that knocked her down, he turned his hexagun to fire at it just as Jacob grabbed it and slammed it's head into the mast.

James' attention was going to return to the battle when all of a sudden he saw someone soaring through the air... only to crash into the mast and hit the deck yelling about his back...

'Ouch... that had to hurt...' He thought, with a chuckle that accidentally slipped out.

Everyone else's exclamations, confirmed his suspicions that he was another Earthling, the more the merrier. He would make sure to have proper introductions when the chaos was done. He wheeled around, facing the stern of the ship, pulling an elemental card from the deck box in his pocket.

"Fire Shot!" He yelled, pulling the trigger, a fireball blasting from the barrels of his hexagun and engulfing one of the Battleships in flames.

{Black Waltz : Angel Grove : City}

The Black Waltz's eyes narrowed coldly at Stitch as he managed to dodge the simply fire spell. It's attention not leaving the strange alien as it jumped on top of and then went under a blue car. The Waltz simply cackled as Stitch then threw the vehicle right at him.

"Pathetic!" It replied in it's eery whispery voice.

It conjured up a Firaga spell and unleashed it at the buggy. Effectively decimating the car and causing a massive explosion to go with it. It would then vanish from sight briefly only to reappear behind Stitch, it then unleashed two Fira spells from it's hands at the blue alien.