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Karuta was thrown off balance when Vykeife knocked her keyblade, then stumbled backwards as his fist made contact with her jaw. "D-don't you know it's not nice to hit a girl!" she growled at him, rubbing her jaw with her free hand. "Diamonds of Dread~" Red diamond shards appeared floating in mid air, surrounding the two of them in a dome of shards as the wind picked up. Then the shards flew in, all angled at Vykeife, cutting through the wind.

Karuta growled at the strange shockwave, getting a bad feeling about this. Still, she wouldn't back down from the challenge now. "The Joker's Trick - Breezy Diamond~" Suddenly her original black and red keyblade flashed, changing colors. The wind around her picked up as she somehow became faster. Back to square one... "Hearts of Hate!" Another stream of red flaming heart shards flew towards Vykeife in a stream. If he tried running, the attack stream would follow.

Cerberus dropped his guard at the last second and took the blow to his head, he fell over and landed with a hard 'thud'. He winched In pain as his vision began to blurr, he wasn't sure If Jack's attack was going to knock him out but It was making his head hurt like heck.

All Vykeife had to do was smile. The heartless willingly sacrificed themselves by jumping the way of the flaming heart shards. He turned to Ryou and aimed his guns at him. He then fired two dark shots simultaneously. He sure hoped they might at least knock him back. If so, he could carefully aim his singularity, and it might slow him down enough so that Vykeife could get in a good blow on Ryou.

When Jack saw Cerberus hit the ground, he wasn't convinced he was knocked out. He picked Cerberus by the back of the shirt and slammed the hilt of the keyblade into the back of his neck, at the base of the skull, hoping it would be enough o knock him out, but not cause a lot of pain.

Cerberus didn't move when he felt Jack lift him up, he bit his lip to hold back a yelp of pain when he hit the back of his neck. That did the trick. Cerberus passed out as his body went limp.

Oogie Boogie made his way through the army, taking out rabbits In his way as he got to the earth walls that surrounded the town. He glanced around and spotted Alice who was using her magic to repair a dent In the wall, he walked over to her and picked Alice up my her throat. "Take down the wall lil' bunny~ I would hate to hurt such a pretty girl like yourself." He said with a smile.

Alive tried to call for Jack but Oogie was holding her throat to tight, she trashed to get away from him but It wasn't any good. With what strength she had, she managed to talk. "Valkner!" She shouted. Alice never called Jack's real name unless she was really scared to death.

Jack sighed when he realized that Jack was most likely out. His feet glowed and the rose plant went back underground. Though, the first gut wrenching sound that he heard was his real name. He dashed backwards and then flipped around, hacking at any and all heartless on his way back towards the wall. He looked around once near the wall, and spotted Oogie. He threw a few malted eggs at him and snapped his fingers, making them explode. He then dashed forward and as he neared Oogie, he jumped in the air and came down with a powerful hack to Oogie's hand.

Vykeife got hit on the shoulders by Ryou's keyblades, and he dropped the guns, not as much because of the hit from the keylbades(though, it was partly that), but because he wanted to pound the heck out o f the dual-weilder. He span a little and jumped up, his knee aimed at Ryou. He wasn't sure where it would land, but he didn't really care, as long as he did damage.

Even after the Spades of Sorrow, more heartless appeared and charged again at Karuta. If one was to look over the battle field, the Jack Rabbits didn't seem to do much other than get turned into heartless, though, they did help.

Karuta bit her lip so hard that it bled a little, but that wasn't important now. She was getting extremely irritated and she knew she had to find a way to stop the heartless. For a bit, she merely sliced at them with her keyblade while dodging other attacks. Some got in but they were mostly scrapes. When one of the heartless caught her cheek, she flipped out, raising her keyblade above her head and growling. "The Joker's Trick!" Not only did her keyblade return to it's normal color scheme and battle style, but a barrier of shards made up from all four card suits surrounded her. Then the shards flew out in all directions at the heartless: the hearts on fire, the spades frozen, the clubs made of earth/rock, and the diamond thin yet razor sharp, cutting through the wind and armor of all sorts.