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[[Louis : Hawaii : Village]]

Louis struggled to stay on his feet, even more so, hold on to Sayrike. The boy managed to keep on his feet for a little bit, but eventually having the heartless on his back caused him to fall. Louis scrambled to get back up with both of his hands trying to do something else besides help him to his feet. He got half way before Sayrike yelled over the noise, "Louis, watch o---Ack!"

"Sayrike?!" Louis yelled, before he could turn around he found himself again in darkness. He froze. Louis was blind again. His lifeline was cut. All he could do was hear the noise in his head, feel the grit of dirt on his skin, the blasting wind of nearby canon fire tearing at his hair, the taste of dust in his mouth, and sense the eyes looming over him once more.

The world became more clouded as the noise drilled into his soul, his darkest thoughts climbing to the surface, dreams he'd left forgotten returning to haunt him once more while he stood awake. Louis' breathing grew heavy, his chest rising and falling faster and faster, "Sayrike?" He asked, not able to hear any reply, only the high pitched scream of his eardrums like the aftershock of a grenade, not able to see if she was alright.

Nothing was clear anymore, nothing made sense, his thoughts were jumbled, his mind's eye filled with horrors produced only by one's imagination. To Louis, everything just seemed to fall apart, all hope lost. At last, a tremor followed by an explosion of rubble, dust, wind. and debris knocked Louis on his side.

As Louis lay on his stomach, coughing, a trail of blood trickling down before being absorbed by the blindfold on his forehead, all sense seemed to return. There was a deep, vibration that shook the air itself around the arcanist and Sayrike, That's right, he only had one thing to worry about, I won't get anywhere trying to put all my efforts into defending one person. Another deep rumble, If I was going to protect anyone, my best bet, Louis stood to his feet and turned to Sayrike, not giving her any time to react before pulling her into him, holding her with his free arm against his chest protectively, is destroying the ones threatening their well-being.

Louis turned his blind gaze on Beatrix, Terra, and her half demolished mecha as the dust settled behind him. A shadow from the dreadnought passing overhead cast a shadow over the boy blocking out most noticeable features, leaving only his and Sayrike's silhouette. Behind him as the dust blew away with a strong wind, a massive shadow much bigger than his, loomed with it's own giant yellow eyes accompanied by many tiny ones setting a disturbing background for the arcanist.

[[Cue: Shadow Covering The Town ~ In the Bottom of Fear ~ by God Eater]]

"Don't let go," Louis said, gripping the girl tighter, trying his best to ignore the warm liquid he could feel on her back, even if the thought plagued him like his nightmares.

Darkness flowed around the two, covering them completely before they both vanished from sight. They reappeared from a portal above the behemoth, dropping onto its back as Louis pulled his hand out of the portal. Two streams of darkness poured out from his hand and tied themselves around the monster's horns. Louis leaned forward with a whip of the reins as the heartless reared, slamming its giant, bestial talons into the ground releasing a small tremor before charging forward.

It rushed forward with little to no regard for those in the way before ramming the screeching mecha with all of its collective strength, plowing it into a building and shattering it into countless unrecognizable parts. With a strong pull on the tendrils, the beast tore its horns from the building's interior a loud crack heard from inside as the entire building lost integrity and collapsed on it's side into another building.

The eye on the side of its head locked on Terra, as Louis spoke mostly to himself, "You're next."

[Anthony ~.~ Hawaii ~.~ Village]

Anthony gave a victory fist pumped, surprised him and Auron were able to pull off the combo without any prior communication. If it were any of the other inexperienced fighters, the plan would've probably failed. They needed the machine to be, for the most part, inoperable and crippled.

His celebration was cut short as Terra, prior to ditching her Magitek, cast one more status effect--confusion. A sharp, ear-splitting noise radiated out of the mecha-suit, causing a piercing ringing in Anthony's ears. On top of the confusion, the young man winced as he was reminded of his previous ailments, the poison, though not as fierce as before, and sap eating away at him.

The knight looked around in complete bewilderment, totally at a loss of what was going on around him and unable to tell friend from foe. He caught sight of the significantly taller samurai in red beside him and, unable to recognize the other, was startled.

Anthony, not wanting to take the chance of Auron actually being an enemy, mustered up as much strength as he could and swung at the fighter beside him. He could only hoped the other wasn't a ally.

As he followed through with the punch, the ground beneath him began to shake once more from the cannon fire and the tremors from the large shadow-creature charging forth to crush the Magitek to small pieces, putting an end to the ungodly shrieking noise. Confused, poisoned, and drained, the knight was no longer able to keep himself from toppling over. "What is going on?!" the young man shouted, desperation and frustration in his tone.

{Bobbi .:. Hawaii .:. Dogfight}

"Bobbi, keep the gnats off me!"

"Gotcha, Dart!" the Archer responded, wishing she could see Kyle's face. She wasn't about to let him live down the Divine Dragon Zord, and was probably going to be giving him crap about it for a week.

She had just gathered for a dive at a cluster close to where Kyle had positioned himself when another bird-Zord swooped by. She had seen it coming, just a glimpse, and since it looked like Joe's Zord she'd assumed he was helping with the scattering. But when a shock went through her Zord at the attack, she knew something was wrong. She didn't quite scream at the impact, but she did gasp in surprise and nearly bit her tongue.

"Careful, Joe, that was me you hit!" she admonished, thinking he had mistaken her for one of the enemy ships. She checked to make sure her Falcon Zord was alright, but the hit was a light one and didn't do much damage. Again Bobbi swooped and dove at the gathering ships, using the gatling fire she'd discovered earlier to her advantage.

In one of the turns of her Zord, she saw the huge mecha piloted by Ivan Ooze was down, like an EMP had hit it and temporarily disengaged the systems. She watched a moment as Dani shot a water blast at it, but had to put her attention back on keeping Kyle's butt in the clear as more of the small fighter ships amassed.

[Anthony ~.~ Hawaii ~.~ Village]

Anthony curled up, grabbing at his side where Auron had kicked, and tried his best to play off the pain. Just then, his distortion cleared and he was able to make sense of his surroundings again. Even the ailments, poison and sap, seemed to be wearing off and their affects weren't as hurtful. "I think your foot is magical, Auron," the young man said as he rose to his feet.

The samurai redirected his attention back to the massive shadow-creature, which the knight hadn't noticed earlier on account of his confusion. "Ohmygosh,whatisthat?!" he quickly spat, totally caught off guard by its sudden appearance. Anthony cleared his throat, pretending he didn't just freak out as he played it cool. Spotting Louis and Sayrike on top of the creature, he could only assume it was the arcanist's doing.

"I think it--whatever it is--is on our side," the knight said, looking over his shoulder at Auron and pointing at the the young boy and girl riding the monstrosity.

Suddenly, there was another explosion beside him, which caused the young man to crouch and cover his head with his large gauntlets out of reflex. Then there was another, which knocked him over to his side. He stumbled and fell in his panic as he tried to get up and move away to take cover, but instead he crawled back towards Auron and took refuge behind the samurai.

"So... what's the plan?" Anthony ask sheepishly, nervously chuckling at the end.

The blood began to flow more freely from the wound on Sayrike's back. Sh*t, the shuriken must have cause a lot more damage than I thought. The poison still drained the girl, making her cough and forcing more blood to ooze out. Her thoughts weren't exactly clear, almost as if she were still confused, but who could blame her? In a matter of seconds, she had been whisked off her feet and onto the back of a humongous Heartless--a Behemoth, or something, if she remembered correctly. Her stomach had yet to catch up with the rest of her body, and she wasn't quite sure it was due to the rapid movement and loss of blood. Louis' body was warm against hers in the breezy seaside air, and she had never been held by someone before. It was a strange sensation for a girl who usually kept a bubble of personal space about her. (Still, she couldn't help but feel guilty, knowing that her "body juice" (as her sister jokingly called it) was getting all over his arms and clothes.) Reflecting back on the few moment seconds, Sayrike had to suppress a giggle as she imagined how everything must have looked to anyone watching, like it was taken right out of a movie. It was kind of thrilling, being wrapped in darkness and pulled into its arms, only to be released above a waiting Heartless steed.

Ugh, if only she wasn't dressed in a Ranger suit. So uncool.

The green-haired woman's mechanical device-thing was quickly eradicated. Thank God, I do not need any more poison or confusion today, she thought to herself, though aloud she voiced quietly, "Thanks for that, Louis." But her face froze when she saw his own visage hardened in cold anger. The building in front of them toppled over into the next, its crash lost to Sayrike's ears as she stared for a second. For her, time seemed to slow down as she studied Louis--the way the flashing lights played across every pore and crease, and how determination set into his jaw and mouth.

Hmmm. So that's the kind of man you are.

"You're next." Louis' words brought Sayrike back to the present. The battle still raged on, and she needed to do her part as well. The random attackers had come and gone so fast that Sayrike had no idea where they went. However, she could see the green-haired lady attacking one of the newcomers (whose name she had already forgotten in the chaos). Through the fatigue and sickness, she threw one of her hands forward, launching a smaller mirror at the woman (Terra). In its flight, it broke into shards and continued on its course. Sayrike hoped that the lady would have been too busy distracted by the newcomer's flames. The other two mirrors Sayrike drew in close to her and Louis, hoping to protect them from any further surprise attacks.

[Terra ; Quina : Hawaii : Village]

[Cue=Music]

After landing on the ground, Terra immediately rolled to the side. Though she wasn't fast enough to dodge the majority of Matthew's Flamethrower, she was able to dodge a majority of the mirror shards. As she was raising to her feet for a counter attack, Terra was immediately was surrounded by the Bio spell cast by Seymour. Her face showing no sign of pain or illness from the poison. She jumped away from the group that had gathered around her. As she was in the air, she began charging a spell in her own hand, unleashing a Holy spell in the direction of Seymour. Before landing several feet away from the group, just near the edge of the trees.

Quina, who had been with the group of Sora and Riku. He stared up at the massive man. Quina knew nothing of him, only that the man was attacking so Quina must fight back. In attempt to aid in the fight, and slow him down. Quina unleashed his Bad Breathe on Lexaeus.

[[Louis : Hawaii : Village]]

The arcanist watched through the eyes of the behemoth as Terra leapt away from the group and retreated to the forest edge. The boy's arm felt soaked, his sleeve sticky and pasted to his arm like a salve. Louis' mind flooded with his imagination's color, red, scarlet, deep and foreboding, the girl's words of thanks fell on deaf ears. Louis' heart burned with a violent fury of emotions, rage, wrath, hatred, and revenge, he could feel himself joining with the behemoth, its mind melding with his, leaving only one thought on his mind, crushing Terra. The monstrous heartless jerked its body to face the mage as Louis pulled on the reigns. The behemoth roared in unison with Louis, it's voice drowning out anything else and it's horns sparking with bright yellow energy before it lowered its head and charged. It rushed up, tearing away at the ground with its claws, each step digging in only to push the monster faster.