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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 4, 2018 3:28:28 GMT -5
Keyblade Graveyard was a simple world compared to most others. There weren't any inhabitants that lived there and there weren't any building to speak of. It was the perfect place for a giant battle where everyone could go all out without worrying about collateral damage. It just so happened that today one of those showdowns would be taking place.
In the middle of a valley between several cliffs a hooded figure was battling a giant heartless that was most likely the one the group was looking to hunt. The Heartless was badly beaten and was already on it's last legs. A familiar woman wielding a black and white keyblade was with the hooded figure. Her keyblade glowed as she launched an orb of white magic at the Heartless. The orb exploded taking out the Heartless and releasing it's massive heart.
The Alyson flew by them as the heart started to disappear. The keyblader and hooded figure watched the ship go by, and once she realized who was on it the woman smiled. "Riley right on schedule," she laughed. She looked over at her friend. "Why don't you send the new Keyblade Master a little welcoming gift?" The hooded figure nodded as a sword appeared in their hand. It was the same sword the king used to transform during that fated adventure four years ago. It glowed with the power of all seven keys. The figure point the sword at the ship and fired seven beams of different colors at it, each beam growing to be ten feet wide as they got closer and closer to the ship.
Back on the Alyson Riley and Nazo had just finished their game, with Nazo having one card left. Riley was about to say something when he got a certain feeling. It was a feeling he hadn't gotten in four years He suddenly stood straight up and somehow looked right where the two were despite not being near a window. "No. it can't be," He said. "It's her... and that energy. It couldn't be the king so what the hell is that?!"
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"IT'S THAT KEYBLADER FROM FOUR YEARS AGO!! AND SOMEONE HAS THE SAME POWER BUT SOMEHOW STRONGER THAN THAT KING THAT TRANSFORMED USING THE SWORD!!!" Riley shouted loud enough for everyone to hear.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 4, 2018 3:49:42 GMT -5
Lucia had just finished cleaning up the dishes when Riley shouted, followed by the ship rocking violently and sending her sprawling against the nearest wall as sirens began to blare. Even after six years her instincts took over as she sprinted toward the bridge and threw herself into the pilot's seat, the dust from her room following her.
Jason and Jennifer quickly joined her and without looking up from the controls she spoke in a forced calm. "Something hit us bad enough to make it through the shields. We're gonna have to land now, or not at all." Jennifer disabled the siren and activated the intercom as she summoned her armor again, Jason doing the same behind her. "Everyone, we're going in rough! Hang on to something or use a shield spell!"
Lucia somehow stabilized the ship enough to turn it toward the hearts they all could sense, guiding it as best she could. As they approached the half mile range she fired every gun the ship had where the Heartless had been in an attempt to distract them, or at least cover their decent. That proved disastrous however, as the recoil shook apart the few stabilizers left and the ship dove into the ground. At the last possible second Lucia cut right, sending the ship into a drift rather than crash outright.
Once the ship finally stopped Jennifer and Jason readied themselves as the ramp slowly lowered. Lucia initiated the auto-repair program, only realizing after she finished what that meant. "Nobody can stay in the ship while it's repairing. I'll stay near it though."
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 4, 2018 17:53:49 GMT -5
Nazo barely had to to process what Riley was yelling about before the ship got hit, causing her to fall flat on her backside. She shook her head and got up. She recalled the story Riley told her some time after they first met about the adventure involving the seven keys and sword. Out of all the outcomes that could have been in Keyblade Graveyard she didn't count on it being something like that. "The Keyblader.." Nazo remembered the last time they encountered her, chasing her all the way to the top of Castle Oblivion. She then remembered that she talked about how Riley was a Null-Trigger of some sort and he was supposed to break the seal on some god, bringing about the end of the universe. She also told them that his ancestor was the one who sealed that god away, and that Shade was connected to Null through bloodline. After they fought her she managed to get away like she always did, but for some reason told them that they would all play a part in bringing Null back if they wanted to or not. During the landing she held onto Riley.
Seamus was relaxing on the guest bed when he heard Riley. He quickly jolted up remembering what they went through because of that sword. His thoughts came to a halt as he fell off the bed due to the ship rocking. He rolled back onto his feet and looked at Celeste who was brushing herself off from her fall. "Come on! This is god-level stuff we're dealing with now if it really is that sword." Celeste landed on his head as he ran out the room to join the others, only to fall over during the crash landing.
Riley had so many thoughts running through his head as he held onto a chair. How was that energy still around? Surely that sword would have been destroyed along with the king, right? Was it yet another ancient god weapon that had somehow made its way into the hands of someone? He snapped back into reality during the crash landing. "Damn it no time!"
As the ramp slowly lowered Riley jumped over it and started running towards the two, only for Nazo to call after him. "Riley wait!" She then looked at Jason and Jennifer. "Did you ever tell Lucia about what happened in Castle Oblivion? Because I have a feeling it's about to be relevant again." Nazo then flew after Riley not wanting him to get them all killed.
Seamus looked at Lucia then back towards where Riley and Nazo were heading. He looked up into her eyes. "You know if I could I would stay with you, but if it really is that sword then you know why I need to help. I just hope my new form is enough to do more this time around." He ran after the others.
Celeste looked at Lucia. "I can stay here with you, if it really is god stuff then I wouldn't be much help anyway. If all goes wrong I go in andcan do my thing and heal, but only one person at a time, It takes a good while for my fairy healing to recharge so I hope this goes well."
Riley slid to a stopped a few meters away from the two, and soon after Nazo landed right by him. Seamus stopped right at Riley's other side. "I had a feeling it was you," Riley said. "You're that Keyblader that helped the Prince and mind controlled the Titans!"
"Oh come on Riley," The Keyblader smiled. "We've known each other for so long we should be on a first name basis by now. You can call me Rxokni." She crossed her arms and smirked as she noticed the others. "I see the gang's all here except for Shade... no matter I'm sure she's no too far behind you anyway."
"What are you doing here and why-" Riley trailed off as he noticed the sword the hooded figure was holding. "No it really is that thing! How did you get that and who are you?!"
The hooded figure laughed. "You were all so early celebrating killing the prince and king none of you bothered to check to see if the sword was destroyed along with them. The seven of us found it laying on the ground right where the king died, still glowing with so much power. At first our leader used this sword while the rest of us were keeping a close eye on you all, but they have a new weapon now so it was passed on to me. As for who I am.." She slowly took off her hood revealing her long silver-blonde hair and pointed ears. She had red eyes that were like a dragon's and wore black lipstick. She smiled a friendly smile before she spoke again. "Long time no see Riley, I see you've grown a lot since I last saw you."
Riley wanted to slap himself after he realized they never did bother to double check to make sure the sword was gone too. Riley blinked once she took off her hood and spoke as if they were long time friends. "We've met before?"
"Oh I guess you wouldn't remember seeing me since you were so young, but I was there when when you were first born. Granted I was a long distance away but I cold still feel your father's energy, as well as two much weaker ones that was so similar to his just coming to be. I didn't actually get to see you in person until you were five, though I have been keeping an eye on you ever since."
Nazo knew Riley never did well in situations like this and she took a step forward. "Why were you all watching us? Too scared to actually face us head on?!"
"Trust me if we didn't need you alive we would have killed you. But since we still need the Null-Trigger alive until we can revive Null were decided to wait and watch until the time was right, that being now. Over the past four years we've been watching all of you, making sure you all kept killing Heartless and releasing their hearts. We were also hoping that you would come across one of the seven Null Gems we need restore Null's full power. But you all had no such luck, and with you finally becoming a Keyblade Master we decided now was the time to act before you achieve your god powers. We wouldn't want to to follow in your ancestor's footsteps and be able to take down Null or reseal him away now would we."
"Null?! so that's what you're after. Why in the name of Kingdom Hearts do you want to bring back the god of destruction?!"
"Oh I'm sure you'll find out soon enough, but for now let's just say that you all aren't the only ones seeking to gain higher power. Although now that I think about it together you were all able to be the Titans, and that was four years ago. We only really need the ones who wield a keyblade alive, so the rest of you can be taken care of ahead of time. Rxokni you already had your fun, I think I'll take care of them this time."
"Fine, I was tired of always fighting them anyway." She turned to the others. "Put on a good show for me, and don't hold back. I wouldn't want you all to die too early."
The other woman looked at them and laughed. "It's been so long since you've face the power of this sword. I wonder how you'll do against someone who can use it's power to its full potential." The sword glowed with that familiar power once more, but this time its wielder didn't transform like the last. Only her aura grew to be the same as Chaos Riley's and the Aspects. She suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Nazo before kicking her sending her flying, then she quickly dashed at a blinding speed to hit Seamus sending him crashing across the ground. She then appeared behind Jennifer before sending a blast of powerful energy at her, then doing the same from above Jason. She then landed in front of Riley. "We still need you and Nazo alive, so don't get in the way. Unless you want to repay for your family's sins."
The seven elemental rings appeared and did their thing as Riley became Chaos Riley again. "As if I'd stand by and let you have your way." Riley flash stepped behind her, only for her to the the same to him and kick him away.
Meanwhile up on one of the cliffs two more people in cloaks appeared, one who's aura felt like a heartless version of Riley and another that had no aura. The one with no aura looked over the cliff and saw the others. "Well looks like we've made it just in time. There's our somebody right down there. I guess we should wait until we get an opening, or else we would get caught in the crossfire."
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Post by Ziya on Aug 4, 2018 18:43:36 GMT -5
Jennifer barely even registered the woman before she was blasted across the ground, tumbling to a stop nearly twenty yards away. As she struggled to her feet a blinding pain ran through her right arm, making her drop her bow, but she focused through it somehow as she looked for Jason. He hadn't moved a foot, unless you count straight down, where he had been instantly knocked out into the massive crater. She threw a Holy Curaga at Seamus almost casually, gathering Light around her with each step back toward the battle as her eyes began to blaze with blue fury and her hair began to glow. "Screw this, I'm tired of being the powerless one! Let's see how you handle this!" As the Light reached critical mass it obscured her from view for a moment before exploding outward violently to reveal her Aspect. Only, this time there was no bow of Light. Instead, the Light formed two unassuming bracelets as her gauntlets vanished. At least, they were unassuming until she brought both arms back and forward quickly into a fist fighting stance, at which point they unfolded into full gauntlets of their own with what appeared to be shotgun barrels in each side. As Lucia watched in horror a sudden blare of static burst from the Alyson's speakers, before a hard rock beat began. Jennifer couldn't help but grin at the music before charging at the woman, firing blasts behind her to accelerate beyond even her usual Aspect' speed into the territory of Seamus and Riley. Just before she entered the woman's blade's reach she fired beneath her, launching into the air a dozen feet before creating a large sphere of Light between her palms. "Seraphic Strike!" The sphere split into eight angels that raced toward the woman from all sides before exploding on contact into a 5 yard wide explosion each.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 4, 2018 20:49:14 GMT -5
Seamus didn't even have time to summon his armor before he found himself sliding across the ground. He finally came to a stop about fifteen yards away. He slowly sat up and rubbed his head. He had to shake her head before he could think and see straight again. Well this was going to be fun wasn't it? "I think I might have preferred to face that god again than this," He said as he felt the Holy Curaga heal him. He noticed the barrier around him and smiled. "Looks like there's no running from this fight," He slowly got up to his feet. The woman swung at Jennifer but missed as she went up into the air. She watch her create her sphere of light and smiled as the angels came towards her. She stabbed the sword into the ground as a magic seal appeared below her and a sphere of purple energy covered her. The angles made contact with the sphere exploding around it. The sphere gained white swirls and started expanding. Soon it got taller and out from it a large armored knight standing five stories tall and wielding a sword countless feet long and wide jumped out of the sphere. Both the knight and its sword was made out of glowing purple energy. The sphere faded away as the woman dashed out of it followed by seven afterimages. The knight swung it's sword at Jennifer.
Riley rolled in the air and regained control before he flew over to Seamus and landed next to him. "So how are we going to deal with this?"
"I'm not too sure we can," Seamus did a quick scan of the battlefield noticing that Jason down for the count. "Looks like we have to-" He stopped as he noticed a familiar looking red card fly through he air right passed him and land between them and the knight. "No way is that!"
The card glowed a bright red before a pillar of flames erupted from it. The flames faded away revealing OverLord Kai's dragon summon! OverLord gave out a loud roar before blocking the knight's sword with his own. Two people walked up behind Riley and Seamus. "Long time no see guys, looks like we missed a lot." Riley and Seamus turned around to find that the two were Zero and Kai.
"Zero! Kai!"
"Riley is that you?"
"You know it!"
Zero took a step forward before he did a scan of the battlefield and looked back at the others. "Alright looks like we'll have to go all out from the get go. Kai and I gained super forms of our own."
"About time you two did," Seamus laughed. "Looks like Team Surge is back and better than ever! Let's do this!" Zero, Kai, and Seamus were covered in auras of their element. Soon after their auras exploded revealing their forms.
"Alright all together now let's knock that knight down to size!"
Seamus flew up and launched two Aeroja Cannons, one each at the knight's legs. They exploded causing the knight to stagger backwards. That was enough for OverLord to push it back. Zero got some distance away from the others before he held his sword to the sky. He formed an= large orb of light at he tip before firing it up into the air. Soon it started expanding to a meteorite before it began falling down towards the knight. Kai ran under the knight and got a good distance away before six orbs of white fire appeared beside him. They all launched a beam of white fire towards the knight. Riley's aura grew stronger as it glowed brighter. He then flew at the knight and his aura exploded every time he made contact with it. Right before Kai and Zero's attacks landed Riley hit it one more time before flying away. With both attacks landing their was a massive explosion knocking the knight over.
Nazo was already getting tired of this woman. "That's it you're going down!" Nazo's five clones appeared and all six of them went after the woman. The woman batted away the barrage of sonic orbs they were firing at her before she looked back a launched some crescent waves at Jennifer. She then focused on Nazo and her clones at they were coming at her from all directions.
Celeste had been sitting on Lucia's head as the battle was raging on. "Can you heal Jason?" She asked her. "I'll be with you the whole way. Eve if we can't fight we can still keep them going."
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Post by Ziya on Aug 4, 2018 21:13:33 GMT -5
Jennifer landed wight in the path of the massive blade, only for it to be blocked by another as Kai and Zero entered the fray. "Nice to see you again!" As the others unloaded on the construct she closed on the woman again, using the recoil from her gauntlets to spin and weave around everything sent her way until nothing was left in her path. Another quick round of blasts launched her into range, where she let out a cry as her fists became blurs. "First Light's Flurry!"
Twenty times she lashed out, each punch strengthened by a blast from her elbow, and twenty times she pulled back again, each time with a blast to the front aiming at the foe before her. On the final punch she brought both of her hands together to fire a larger blast with another cry, using the double recoil to distance herself again. "Rising Hope!" The blast split into twelve before firing again at the woman from nearly point blank range as Jennifer slid to a stop about ten feet away.
Meanwhile Lucia nodded at Celeste, quickly attempting to move to Jason as the dust followed her. The sight when she got there was not pretty; Jason's face was covered in blood and he likely had at least one broken leg. "This is too much for just one spell. I'll have to use both of my healing tricks. Cura!" Green magic surrounded Jason's leg to set it any any other broken bones before she knelt and placed her hands on him, closing her eyes in concentration as she used her Reiki abilities to finish the healing. The dust swirled around the crater almost protectively, as if it were attempting to shield her from view.
As calm as she looked, inside she was a dangerous mix of panicked and angry, terrified that in her helplessness she'd lose everyone once again. Just like the Heartless and later the Nobodies, she couldn't do a thing to stop it. Would she be left singing the requiem all alone once again?
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 5, 2018 2:33:50 GMT -5
Riley landed near Nazo, who had landed on the ground to watch her clones deal with the woman. The woman wasn't letting up at all as she flew threw the air dodging the Sonic Orbs they were firing at her. Riley looked back to the others, seeing that the rest of Team Surge was trying to take out the knight she had summoned. That was good, if Zero and Kai hadn't shown up he and Seamus might have had to use everything they had to beat that summon. He then noticed Lucia and Celeste helping Jason. "We have to finish this soon," He told Nazo. "Let's get Double Goddess Attack version three ready and I can get the others to join it. It's the best chance we-" He was suddenly hit by an orb of chaos that sent him flying a few feet. He regained his footing and looked back to find the other two cloaked figures from the cliff.
"We meet again Riley," the one with an aura that was a Heartless version of his said. "Though I suppose this is the first time we met face to face."
"Who the hell are you two?"
"We are you, or at least what you could have been," The Heartless threw off her cloak, revealing herself to look just like Riley's old body, with a few changes. Her hair was a dark purple and her eyes were a lighter shade of purple. Instead of the old curse mark she had the Heartless Emblem over her chest. The other one took off her threw off her cloak as well, looking just like Riley currently did with a few changes as well. Her hair was a dark red and her clothes were purple and black instead of Riley's red and black. She had no aura, but her energy was only slightly different from Riley's.
"The name's Xiyrel," the Nobody told him. "And you have something we want."
"We don't have time for this!" Nazo yelled trying to shake off her shock. She fired a Sonic Orb at them, but Riley's Heartless blasted it back with a bigger orb of darkness. The Heartless then appeared in front of Nazo and grabbed her by her neck. Her arm glowed with a dark aura. "Stay out of the way, what else happens here is none of our concern." The aura exploded sending Nazo flying off. Meanwhile Xiyrel summoned a keyblade that looked just like Riley's and clashed with Riley. Riley's Heartless appeared behind Riley, and suddenly the three of them disappeared. For some reason they could still be sensed, but it felt like they were in the general area.
"Riley? Riley!!!" Nazo didn't have time to try to figure out what just happened, there were too many things going on to deal with them all a once.
Seamus launched two more Aeroja Cannons into the knight while Zero got on top of it and starting running towards it's head. Once he got there he slid to a stop and covered himself in an aura of light. His aura exploded nearly turning the knight over. The knight had enough and got up on it's feet with a jolt, causing Zero to start falling from it's head. Seamus caught him and flew him down to the ground a good distance away. Nazo flew to them. "We need to use a combination attack and get rid of that woman now. Something happened and Riley's gone!"
Zero looked to where she was then looked back at Nazo. "Alright we'll do our best, but we'll need an opening."
"I'll make one, and on my signal we all fire it." Nazo flew over to Jennifer and the woman.
"Overlord take care of this guy and we'll deal with the other!" Kai followed Seamus and Zero to the other side of the battlefield. OverLord gave out a roar before it start sword fighting the Knight, with each of their blows causing strong winds to go in the directions of their swings.
The Woman slashed away at each blast Jennifer fired at her, while trying to dodge all the attacks Nazo's clones were firing at her. When Rising Hope was coming at her she took the hits but only staggered a bit before she disappeared and reappeared away from everyone, only to be suddenly hit by a kick from the real Nazo. She moved back a few feet but grabbed Nazo's leg before she started spinning her around. She let go and sent her flying before Nazo's clone came at her from different directions with punches and kicks.
Nazo slid to a stop in the air, then quickly flew over to Jennifer. "We need Wrath of the Archangels!" She told her. "Don't hold back at all this could be our only chance!" Nazo then summoned her axe and started flying at the woman. Just before she got caught by her or her own clones she phased through them before landing far away from them. She charged her axe with white and red power before she waited for the perfect moment.
Zero, Kai, and Seamus were in different spot around he battlefield, and were all facing the woman as she was trying to deal with Nazo's clones. Kai was charging powerful fire magic in his hands. Zero was doing the same with his light magic. Seamus flew up and got closer to where the woman was and began to charge powerful darkness in his hands. They all waited for Nazo's signal.
Meanwhile Celeste got off of Lucia's head and started hovering around Jason. "Come on Jason you have to pull through," She said. "We've come to far for any of us to die like this." She pulled a towel out of nowhere and started fanning Jason as if he were a boxer that just got knocked off his feet.
Meanwhile Riley, his Heartless, and Xiyrel were transported somewhere strange. The place seemed to go on forever, but the only thing that was visible was a stain-glass circle. It had Riley on it was well as some portraits of people who were close to him. There was Lana, his father Derio, Nazo, Seamus, Ren, his wives, and Elizabeth. Out of nowhere Riley and Xiyrel clashed their keyblades together, before both of them jumped backwards. Riley's Heartless floated down next to Xiyrel. "What the hell are you two and why do you look like me?!" Riley demanded.
"We're your Heartless and Nobody you idiot," Xiyrel told him. "I thought a Keyblade Master like you would be able to figure that out."
"What? How can you two be that if I never died..." His voice trailed off once he remembered the last part of his exam.
"That's right, we were created when your old body was destroyed. Xiyrel did look more like Nazo since you two share a heart, but since you forged your old body into your current one Xiyrel here transformed to match when you made the change. As for me I remained the same."
"Then why are you fighting me? What could you possibly gain from this?"
"What we want is your chaos form, and to make sure you don't get in our way. On top of that, if you die again another Heartless and Nobody will be made, and from there we can increase our numbers and gain Kingdom Hearts even faster."
"Like I'll ever lose to you two!"
Riley's Heartless' hands glowed with an aura of chaos. They soon formed two swords made of pure chaos. With that the three of them clashed swords, with each blow sending Riley back as they pressured him. Riley managed to spin in between the two and slashed his Heartless sending him back a few feet. He then clashed with Xiyrel again, but this time he put more power behind his swing and with an upwards slash sent him flying in the air. He flew up to meet him in the air.
Xiyrel did a back flip before noticing Riley was chasing after her. She readied his keyblade and met Riley's key when they got close enough. RIley's Heartless appeared to his side and grabbed Riley back his neck and dragged him back down to the ground slamming him into it. Xiyrel then came down with her keyblade trying ti impale Riley. Riley recovered just in time to roll away before he kick Xiyrel away. Riley didn't have time for this he needed to get back to the others, He flashed stepped into he air and began to charge powerful chaos into his keyblade. Just before he could fire his attack Xiyrel smiled as her body glowed white. "Stopza!"
The entire area was filled with with a barrier of white and black magic. Suddenly Riley stopped moving, and had no idea what had happened. Xiyrel flew up to him and grabbed him by his neck. "I'll be taking that chaos form from you now." Her arm started glowing as the aura around Riley was slowly disappearing. The same aura started to form around Xiyrel and Riley's heartless.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 5, 2018 3:10:49 GMT -5
Jennifer was shocked that the woman could withstand so many attacks without damage, but she quickly took to the skies regardless at Nazo's cry. "Alright, let's do this then. Wrath of the Archangels!" Two clones of Jennifer split from her, moving to the other points of an invisible triangle with the woman in the center before channeling every spare bit of light they had into a vortex in the center. Such was the power of that vortex that it drew in everything inside them as if it were a Magneja spell, pulling dust, rocks, and even a few keyblades into it. At Nazo's signal it would burst into a massive explosion 20 yards across, decimating everything within it, before the clones vanished and Jennifer fell to the ground, exhausted but barely clinging to Aspect.
Lucia heard the finishers going off from the crater as she cursed her powerlessness yet again. As she watched Celeste try to wake Jason her panic slowly turned to angry determination. She would not let the others fight to protect her. She could still fight as well!
She stood slowly, head high as she wordlessly surrounded herself in an Aeroga barrier and jumped up to the edge of the crater. Just 40 yards away sat the center of the battle, an easy shot for her combo magic, a skill she had secretly been honing for the past year. Her hands rose at an angle before she announced her presence with a shout of "Waterga!" The torrent of water arced through the air gracefully until she closed her fists to freeze it solid with Blizzaga, sending the massive block of ice hurling toward the woman. The dust of her keyblade swarmed around her in reaction to her emotions, for once uncoupled by Light or Darkness. This was all she had, but she would keep fighting!
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 5, 2018 4:10:27 GMT -5
Nazo watched as Jennifer started her Wrath of the Archangels then looked back at the woman was finally destroying her clones. Just as the last Clone was putting up a bit of fight she threw her axe as hard as she could at the woman. "EVERYONE NOW!!!!"
At Nazo' signal Seamus launched Dark Ragnarok at the woman. He then started flying down knowing what will happen once all their attacks met each other. Kai's fire orb glowed brighter right before he fired it. "Mega Flare!" he fired the orb right at the woman with it leaving a trail of flames behind it. His form ended right after he fired his attack, but he was hoping it wouldn't matter after this.
Zero waited a bit before he fired his attack, making sure it would meet the other attacks just in time. "Light Grenade!" Zero reverted back to his normal self as his attack went through the air. "This better work..."
The woman finished off Nazo's last clone, before noticing Nazo's axe heading her way. "Still fighting?! As if that would ever-" She then noticed everyone else's attacks coming to her. Her eyes widened a bit before she smirked. "Come on then let's see what you got!" All the attacks hit her dead on, causing a bigger explosion than the other team attacks they used before. The ground shook and the explosion lingered for a few minutes. Dust and smoke filled the air and the only sound that could be heard were rocks falling down. As the dust settled it was revealed the woman was still standing, with a few scratches on her. "Well would you look at that," she crossed her arms and smiled. "You finally scratched me."
Nazo, and everyone else, stood speechless at what was happening. How could this be happening? Was this the power of a full god? If only she, Riley, and Shade had become ones already none of this would be happening.
Zero dropped down to his knees. It was one of the few times in his life where he didn't see any winning outcome for them. He hadn't felt this hopeless since the battle with Ren back on Old Yuio.
Kai had to blink three times before he could accept what he just saw with his own eyes. He didn't want it to be true, he and Zero had trained so hard in the last few years and yet it still wasn't enough.
Seamus was the only one still in his form, but it looked like it wasn't going to matter. He took a few steps back. "N-No way.." He could barely make the words come out. "That was everything we had!"
"And yet it was still not enough. What a shame, guess there's nothing to worry about after all." She looked over at where Lucia and Celeste was. "I doubt things would have done differently if your now useless girlfriend over there could still fight."
"What did you say about Lucia?!" He stood still for a few moments as he felt a range of different emotions. Mostly fear and anger. The biggest attack they ever did just did next to nothing to her, yet after what she said about Lucia he wanted to rush in a beat her down. Would it really be worth it? Dying defending the honor of his girlfriend of just a few hours? To him it would be a honor to die for her. She put her life on the line for them back in Sugar Rush, now it was time for him to return the favor. "I'll murder you!!!"
Seamus flew at her with all of his speed and might. He slashed at her with his claws only for her to block it with her sword. Seamus flipped over her but before he could attack again she grabbed his arm and started slamming him on the ground around her. Kai couldn't just sit by and watch Seamus die, he at least had to go out with honor. " To hell with it!" He summoned his sword and started running into the fray. Zero sighed and did he same, if he was to die at least he died alongside his old friends.
The woman tossed Seamus aside before launching a beam at Jennifer. She then grabbed Kai out of his run and placed her hand on his head. She fired an orb of magic at point black range sending to flying through the air. He crashed right into a cliff creating a creator in it. He was knocked out before he slowly fell out of it flat on his face. Zero was swinging his sword at her but not of his attacks were connecting. She kicked Zero away before going over to Seamus. He was slowly trying to get up but she stomped on his back. She didn't over and over again pushing him down in a small creator. Zero ran in to try to stop her, but his sword did nothing to her. She grabbed Zero by his face and near instantly appeared in front of another cliff slamming him into it, he suffered the same fate as Kai.
The woman than appeared back beside Seamus. She put her sword right by his right wing and sliced it off. Seamus let out a loud painful scream before he was picked up by her. Before she could finish him off she heard Lucia. She turned to see the massive ice block coming for her. "Fine, you can have your boyfriend back!" She threw Seamus right at the ice block and he crashed with it in mid air. His unconscious body fell with a thud as he reverted back to his normal self. Ice shards stuck all over his body and blood was forming a pool around him. "Such a shame he had to go out from an attack from his own girl, but you'll be joining him soon." She dismissed her sword before she formed a large orb of pure energy between her hands. She then fired it at Lucia.
Then out of nowhere Riley appeared back into reality, before falling to one knee. Whatever happened to him had left massive holes in his body that were bleeding. Xiyrel and Riley's Heartless soon appeared next to him, glowing with the power of their own Chaos Riley forms. "Still alive huh?" His Heartless laughed. "Guess it helped that you could move through stopped time for a bit, even if it was only for a few seconds."
"Such a shame you have to go out like this, but you are far too weak to be any help to us." Xiyrel smiled an evil smile as Riley fell flat on his face no longer having the energy to even sit. "Your aura is very weak, if you come back from this than you really are lucky." She then looked to see what was going on. "Looks like they couldn't stop us even if they tried. Let's go, we have work to do." The two of them disappeared, leaving Riley in a worse state than some of the others
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Post by Ziya on Aug 5, 2018 4:28:31 GMT -5
Jennifer took the beam dead on, causing her to be thrown through the air to just behind Lucia with both wings torn off. Fortunately it was only then that her Aspect reverted, healing her fully as she returned to her mortal body. Unfortunately, nobody else fared the same. Lucia surveyed the scene in shock, unable to comprehend what just happened. Even at their best, with their strongest attacks, they had barely done anything. She fell to her knees when she finally saw Seamus, her own attack causing him to slowly die. Once again she had been unable to win, just like the Heartless. Just like the Nobodies. She didn't even try to move when the orb raced toward her, shackled by her failures both past and present. At least she would be reunited with everyone... "LUCIA!"Jennifer's shout as she rushed past brought Lucia back to reality, only to nearly vomit as she saw her sister standing before her. She stood only for an instant more before collapsing into Lucia's arms. Lucia cradled Jennifer in her arms, nearly half of her torso gone thanks to the orb, as tears streamed from her steel blue eyes. ”Why? Why am I so helpless every time?” Jennifer slowly raised her hand to touch Lucia’s cheek, her voice weak but comforting. ”Because… You blame yourself for every failure. You’re afraid of trying, afraid of failing. You forgot to look forward… because of what’s behind you. Let go of that… Use it to fight for the future… I know you can, sis…”As she trailed off she passed out, hand falling to the ground once more before Lucia set her down gently. But her words had sparked something within Lucia, something that illuminated the barriers she had put within herself. She had been too afraid of repeating the past to fight for the future, and she realized that even her keyblade had shown her this. Fragments of the past glued together by will and hope? There was nothing of the future in that. With a primal scream those barriers broke at last, flooding her body with Light, Darkness, and something more. For the first time, she used not some mystical power, but her own soul, and created pure Twilight. The dust of her keyblade gathered before her in a new yet familiar shape, solidifying in a blinding flash of all three Elements into a beautiful blade of stained glass and gold as she took hold of it. ”My past is my strength, but it’s time to fight for the future.”Her heart told her what to do next. Lucia began absorbing vast amounts of Light and Darkness from the area as Jennifer and Jason shrank into spheres of golden light and rocketed toward her. Upon impact the elements burst forth into a swirling maelstrom of Light, Darkness, and Twilight, shrouding her from view as her voice echoed out ”Remembrance!” A moment later the elements burst away to reveal her new form as motes of each slowly fell like stardust. Lucia’s violet hair had changed to match the maelstrom from before, hidden eddies of power catching it in unfelt winds, and angelic wings now grew from her back in the same seething hues. Gone was the dust of her keyblade, replaced by a blade of pure Darkness and a shield of pure Light, and her armor had returned, now forged of pure Twilight with spiraling lines of Light and Darkness as embellishments and scroll work. Suddenly her eyes snapped open, revealing that her irises had become a vivid blue and the whites a fiery crimson, both glowing fiercely with untapped energy as she radiated power twelvefold to before. Three voices rang out in unison with the weight of their entire people to name the new form. ”Requiem of Ascension!”
Somehow the speakers had remained untouched in the fight, and a new song began playing. A single slash of that blade sent the motes flying in all directions as she cut the very air before her, the shock wave racing toward the woman. An instant later she had gathered all the injured and placed them 10 yards away, sonic booms going off whenever she moved, before creating an impossible sphere of Light and Darkness between her hands. ”Feel the power of a dead world. Dark Holy!” The orb shot out, landing just shy of the woman before detonating in a massive chain explosion as the Light and Darkness mixed. Seamus and the others were within the radius, but somehow were healed fully by the blast even as it assaulted the woman. Lucia hovered a foot above the ground twenty yards away, eyes hard with determination and righteous fury. She looked every inch the angel of destruction and retribution. ”Never again will I dwell on the past. Instead I will draw from it the strength to protect the future.”
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 5, 2018 16:29:43 GMT -5
Seamus could barely even breathe after all the attacks he took. His vision was fizzy and he could barely hear what was going on. He doubted Celeste could even heal him enough at this point. What a way to go out, from and attack from his own girlfriend. He would never hear the end of it in the afterlife. He hoped at the very least made Lucia happy during their short time together. Then out of nowhere a felt a very strong power start to form, but his vision and hearing was almost completely gone at that point. To him it must have been whoever that woman was getting ready to finish the others off, at least they would all die together like he always figured they would. His eyes got heavy as he was nearing the very end of his life. Then out of nowhere he felt something, like someone had carried him off somewhere. It must have been him being carried off into the after life. He only hoped he did enough good during his last few adventures to not end up going down.
As Dark Holy exploded Seamus and the others were fully healed, but none of them realized it at first. Seamus slowly felt his body being healed, and after a while he was well enough to sit up. He shook his head and sighed. "Guess that really was the end after all," he said not realizing what happened. "At least I got to see Lucia one last time, even if it was her attack that killed me. Maybe she was able to get away in time, and will live a long happy life even after all that." He slowly got up to his feet and sat the sky. "Guess even in heaven the sky is blue."
Meanwhile Riley got up to his feet once he realized he was fully healed. He had to look at his arms and heel his face before he believed it. He then quickly looked around, trying to find Xiyrel and his Heartless. There was no sign of them, but he did find Lucia looking very different from before. He felt the explosion around him, but it wasn't hurting him but healing him instead! He quickly put two and two together. "She healed us!" Riley then spotted Seamus and ran over to him. "Seamus we're alive!"
"Riley? You're here too? Then this can't be heaven, I must have ended up in hell too. I knew we should have payed off those tabs."
"Very funny," Riley put a hand on his hip. "Look around you! We're not dead your girl saved us yet again!"
"Come again?"
Riley sighed and moved Seamus' face towards Lucia. The gears in Seamus' head started turning as he started to put two and two together. His eyes lit up with joy as he finally realized what happened. "Lucia you're the best!!"
"Simply amazing," Zero said as he looked all over his body. "It's like none of the fighting happened at all."
"Guess four years wasn't enough after all," Kai said shaking his head. "But at least the gap between us isn't as big as it was back then."
Seamus flew over as fast as he could in his normal form over to Lucia and Celeste, he was floating right by Lucia after she stopped moving. He hugged her. "Lucia! I can't believe it! How did you do all this?" he let her go before looking at her new form. "It's so amazing just like you are~" He then noticed the woman who had tossed them all around like rag dolls. "And you didn't kill her..."
"Nice to see you too," Celeste crossed her arms.
Nazo couldn't believe what she just saw. But she knew there wasn't time to stand around in awe as the woman was still alive. She flew over to Riley. "Riley what happened to you?" She asked him. "You just disappeared when those other two showed up."
"I'll have to explain if we make it out of this. It's a very long story."
The woman had been caught in Lucia's Dark Holy. Only instead of healing her it was hurting her. Her eyes widened a bit as she noticed she was actually taking damage from this attack unlike the others. He growled as purple energy erupted from her body before exploding, counteracting the Dark Holy around her. After the explosions were over he landed with her feet on the ground. She looked at Lucia before she started laughing. "That one actually hurt me, so you have my attention." She looked at everyone else before looking back a Lucia. "As expected of you you somehow found a way to bail them all out yet again. As annoying as it is to see them all alive and well I guess that will just make what happens later much more interesting. Though I wonder something; just how long can you maintain all of that power?" She unfolded her arms before she gave out a loud roar, soon and aura of strong purple energy covered her before dust and rocks were sent flying away from her. "This should be fun~"
Rxokni had been watching everything from the top of one of the cliffs, knowing better than to get caught in the crossfire. "Well that's new," She said laughing. "As much fun as it would be to jump in I think I'll save my new tricks for later. I look forward to seeing how powerful they all get when it's time to face them." She disappeared.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 5, 2018 20:46:48 GMT -5
Lucia smiled softly at Seamus as he gushed over her form. "I do not know how this form came to be. It is enough that it has." Her words were oddly formal, as if her personality itself had been altered by the transformation. Later she would realize that it was the influence of the other two merging with her, but for now her only focus was on winning.
A single flap of her wings was enough to send her into high into the air as she raised her unearthly voice for all to hear. "I don't know how long this will last, but I do know one thing. It will be enough to beat you. Riley, Nazo, Seamus, be ready!" In her right hand she channeled Light, in her left Darkness, and in both Twilight.
"Dawn of Time, invigorate! Voice of the Fallen, silence!"
The Light and Twilight orb split into three before flashing into the three she named, Augmenting them and refreshing every skill they knew. The Dark and Twilight orb also split into three before firing at the woman one after another, each exploding on contact into a five foot explosion that inflicted Silence.
"Now, while she cannot use magic!" She rushed forward as well, choosing to use her literally Herculean strength and hyper sonic speed to slash four times with her blade, each swing carrying with it the force of a blue whale, so quickly that a trail of Light left behind a perfect square surrounding the woman.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 6, 2018 3:06:45 GMT -5
Zero and Kai knew when it came to situations like this it was best for them to fall back and play support if needed. Overlord and the knight the woman summoned took each other out and with a roar Overlord reverted back to being the red card before it went back to Kai. "Looks like we won't be needed to finish this," he told Zero. "But knowing how it goes we should probably go we should get back."
"Good Idea," Zero told him. "If I had to guess that ship belongs to one of ours, so we should wait there till this is over." Zero and Kai made their way over to the Alyson, where Celeste met them and started explaining what all happened while they were gone. It was going to be a long talk since they haven't seen the others in four years.
The woman tried to bat away the Voice of the Fallen with her sword, but they just exploded when she hit them. She managed to block two of Lucia's swings, with each time they clashed leaving deep cracks in the ground all around them. She got hit by the last two which sent her sliding a countless amount of meters away. She used her sword as makeshift breaks before she slid to a stop. She held her hand out and tried to fire something at her, but it just fizzed out. "Well looks like this will be the first decent fight I've had in a while."
Riley, Nazo, and Seamus felt the effects of Dawn of Time. Seamus figured since Lucia was in her new form it would alright for him to transform. "Alright, let's finish this for real this time!" A dark aura covered him as he entered his Darkness Unleashed form once more. He quickly flew up into the air faster than he ever did. He started charging a dark aura around him.
Nazo summoned her keyblade and flew right at the woman. She wanted this to be over already so they could all just rest after the long day they had. Right before she got to her Nazo made her five clones appear again. Two of them started fighting the woman while the real Nazo and three of her other clones formed a circle around her. They fire sonic orbs at her as she was avoiding the two clones. Soon the real Nazo dashed behind her and slashed her back with her keyblade. The woman spun around and kicked Nazo away.
Riley didn't move at first. He was still trying to get over what happened inside his heart. His Nobody and Heartless were running around the worlds doing god knows what. Xiyrel had the power to stop time, but yet he could still move in stopped time for a few seconds. Why was that? He snapped out of his thought with the sound of Seamus' Darkness Burst exploding. "Damn it I don't have time for this," he said. He entered Chaos Riley again before he dashed off towards the woman. As he ran past her he fired Blizzaga at her leg freezing it to the ground. That didn't matter as she broke out of it batted Seamus away. Riley flew to the end of the valley before he starting flying back towards the woman with his keyblade in hand. The woman blocked his slash, but the force of his attack caused her start sliding along the ground even as she was blocking his attack.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 6, 2018 3:53:18 GMT -5
As the others fought with everything they had Lucia paused for a moment, wondering how the sword made of pure Darkness left trails of Light when swung. A few seconds later she decided it didn't really matter and dove back into the fray, yet another sonic boom behind her. Despite the distance she was within striking range in seconds, delivering a flurry of six strikes before dancing backward as an idea came to her.
Experimentally she willed the shield of Light in her left hand to become another sword, and a little of Jennifer's playfulness came out when it actually worked. "I saw this in a show once! Starburst Stream!" Both blades flashed out rapidly in a brutal 16 strike combo ending in a thrust that created a sonic boom of it's own.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 6, 2018 16:43:49 GMT -5
The woman pushed Riley away just before Lucia came to her. She blocked the first few hits, with every time their blades met sending strong winds across the valley tearing up the ground. She was hit by the last few strikes, which made her slide along the ground a few meters. She looked at Lucia before she blasted an orb at the ground, making a dust cloud form around her before she disappeared. Out of the dust cloud two clones of her appeared ready to fight Lucia.
The woman then appeared again somewhere else in the valley, but Riley was close to her. "I've always liked that move but you should have played the games," Riley called out to Lucia with a smile. "Because then you'd know about this trick!" Riley summoned one of his twin swords Dawn. "The Eclipse!" He rushed at he woman while he did a twenty seven strike combo moving forwards and pushing her back while he did. In he middle of the combo the aura Lucia gave him ended, meaning he was now back to being regular Chaos Riley.
The woman blocked that last few hits of his attacks, seeing he had gotten weaker with out the buff. "So you're back to normal already," She said with a smile. "Then you are no threat to me anymore." She disappeared then reappeared with afterimages circling around Riley. Riley looked confused then readied himself for his counter attack. The afterimages can at him one by one before disappearing. Riley blocked each hit as he kept jumping back trying to get out of the circle. Soon the real woman hit him and sent him flying across the valley.
Riley did a back flip after a few good meters and shook his head. His chaos form was powerful, but it looked like it wasn't going to be enough anymore if this was the kind of people they were going to be dealing with. Why was he still not strong enough? He finally became a Keyblade Master, and yet he still wasn't able to do these kind of things without a lot help. "I'm still not good enough.. even after all this time."
The woman then appeared by Nazo just as her buff ended as well. "You're lucky we need you alive too," She told her. "Otherwise I would have finished you off like I did Seamus, before someone saved you all like she always does."
"Like I'll let you get that lucky a second time," Nazo snarled. "I may not have Lucia's buff anymore but I don't fall for the same trick twice!"
Nazo's body glowed with Sonic Barrier as he woman flew around her and started firing purple orbs at her. The Barrier made the orbs bounce off making them land all over the valley before exploding. The woman then kicked Nazo from behind and went down with her making her slide across the ground. Nazo made herself intangible during her slide before she sank into the ground, making the woman slid to her feet. "Well it's about time I made her do that," She said as she looked around for places Nazo would go to hide and plan. "But now that she can't really do anything to me it's time to finish this." She disappeared again.
Seamus dropped down to the ground as Lucia's buff ended. "Great now she can just wipe the valley with us again," He sighed. "Looks like Lucia will have all the fun again." He made a silent vow that he would get stronger after all this was over. Even without wanting to impress Lucia he would have to if these were the type of people they were going up against in the near future.
The woman reappeared a few meters away from Lucia as she was fighting her clones. "I must admit I am impressed with your new form. But from the data we collected about all of you I know you won't be lasting too much longer in it before you go back to normal." Her sword and body started glowing with a stronger purple aura. "So I'll make this quick before you can pull anymore tricks." There was then a sonic boom as the woman flew across up into the air. Her body glowed brighter before countless beams of energy started forming around the place. "Let's see how you all handle this!" The beams starting moving randomly around the valley exploding wherever they landed, creating dust clouds everywhere. The woman then kept disappearing and reappearing in the different dust clouds, firing orbs and more beams from her hiding places.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 6, 2018 17:21:02 GMT -5
As Dawn of Time and Voice of the Fallen wore off Lucia geared up for the real fight, once more becoming serious. Faced with two foes she reformed the shield of Light and concentrated on the very basics of her style of swordplay, blocking and countering. Each blow was directed away from her by an angled blade or shield before a swift swing of her own, creating twin paths of Light and Darkness as her arms blurred before her. Even her wings came into play as both shields and weapons, as they were created from the same Elements as the rest of her form.
Despite her skill, strength, and speed numerous nicks and scratches appeared on her armor as the fight continued, a testament to how powerful her foe truly was. A quick duck under a swing gave her the opening she needed to take out one clone, allowing her to bring all four limbs to bear on the other. That clone too was quickly dissipated, only for the original to begin throwing beam attacks everywhere. "You are beginning to irritate me!"
While her armor and wings would likely be enough to protect her, Riley and Seamus were still in the crossfire. Turning both weapons into large shields she quickly threw the Light at Riley and the Dark at Seamus, where they embedded themselves into the ground as bulwarks against the storm of energy. Lucia protected herself simply by covering herself in her wings and bracing herself, though maintaining the shields away from her meant that anywhere she was hit twice punched a hole in the wings, and another hit would make it through her armor. "You cannot kill me with this. Even if I lose limbs, it means nothing!"
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 6, 2018 18:16:13 GMT -5
Nazo had made it over where Riley was before she made herself tangible again. Once they saw the beams and orbs going around everywhere Riley and Seamus were prepared to do their best to block and dodge, but they didn't have to once Lucia threw them shields that were protecting them from the blasts. Nazo was still protected by her Sonic Barrier, so the beams just bounced off of her and went in other directions.
Zero, Kai, and Celeste had taken cover behind the Alyson. Celeste looked over the top of it to see what was going on. "Knowing you all this looks like this will be the end of it," She told Zero and Kai. "Hopefully we manage to pull though this one." She flew back down to them.
"We'll just have to train even harder once we get out of here," Kai had kicking some rocks. Between him and Zero he was the one who really wanted to close the gap the most. After this display they still had a while to go, but what made it worse was that they were relying on Lucia again.
"I don't think just training will be enough this time," Zero told the two as he sat down. "If there really are seven people like this than it will take more than strength alone to get through whatever is happening."
The woman stopped moving and looked at Lucia. "Oh is that so?" Her body started glowing again before ten large orbs appeared around her. They then went into her body as the aura around her flared up even more. "I'm not supposed to kill you since you use a keyblade, but knowing you you'll find a way to match this anyway." Her hand began to sparkle before sparkles appeared all over her aura. "This should be entertaining." She would fly over the ground at Lucia and when she would get close enough she would detonate her aura as if it were a bomb.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 6, 2018 18:55:09 GMT -5
By the time the barrage ended Lucia had only stumps left of her wings and her armor was in tatters. Somehow she hadn't lost a limb, but her left arm hung useless and her right eye was blinded. Until now the form had shown her what to do, how to use it, but she needed no help in understanding the final ability. Her good eye glanced over Riley and Nazo, then turned to Seamus with warmth. "I'll be right back."
Lucia took slow, steady steps as the woman began to absorb the orbs she had created. Battered and damaged as she was, when she raised her voice again something unexpected happened.
She began to sing.
"Light for Life, Dark for Death," a massive orb of each of those Elements appeared on either side of her as she mentioned them, "and one between for those who fret." Twilight joined the others just above her, all three orbs spinning madly around her.
"When all is gone, who's left to sing, the Elegy of Ending?"
The orbs suddenly slammed together into an orb nearly twice the size of her, seething Light, Darkness, and Twilight twisting and swirling together.
She placed her hand on the orb as she continued.
"For those long past, and yet to come, someone must fix what's come undone."
The orb merged with her aura into a blazing mass of raw power that blended with her hair and what was left of her wings as she stood still finally.
"My path is thus, my way is clear, this is for all those I hold dear!"
Just as the woman detonated her aura Lucia matched it with her own, her power such that just her explosion would have covered 40 yards. Even the keyblades resting in the ground were annihilated by the blast.
As the smoke cleared, Lucia stood mortal again alongside Jennifer and Jason, all three fully healed. Lucia's hair and eyes were a vivid violet once more, and her true keyblade rested easily in her right hand. The three stood confidant and defiant, ready to face anything together once more.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 9, 2018 21:52:05 GMT -5
Seamus swooned over Lucia's singing. He had never heard such a beautiful voice before. It seemed like the more time he spent with her he just fell even more in love with her. He daydream was cut short once the two explosions met and he was knocked off his feet by the wind from them. As the smoke and rocks were still falling and fading he looked at where the two met. "Lucia!!!!" He feared the worse until all the smoke finally settled and revealed that Lucia was alright, and even Jason and Jennifer was just fine.
Riley's chaos form ran out a lot sooner than it normally did. He looked at himself as he noticed. He tried going into it again, but a pink aura just sparked around him for a few seconds before it disappeared. What was going on with him? He always had perfect control over that form ever since he first got the elemental rings. Was it because of something Xiyrel and his Heartless did while they had him frozen in time? He didn't have time to try to figure it out when the dust started to settle. This woman had attacked them because of him, they all got hurt so much because he wasn't strong enough to deal with his own problems on his own, and now the form he always relied on wasn't working. He just fell to his knees and looked down at the ground.
"You copycat," The woman said as it was revealed that she was back in her normal form. She noticed Jason and Jennifer were back and fully healed too. "Well you certainly have my attention now. I must say that kind of power does suit the one you all rely on so badly. Tell you what, I'll let you all live for now, but if you think the other six aren't at least as strong as I am things won't go any differently when we make our real move." She looked behind them to make sure Riley was still alive, she noticed the way he looked. "Well it's good to see some things never change, but what else would you expect from the weakest hybrid. Such a shame he had to be the Null Trigger, I would love to put him out of his misery." She looked back to the twilight trio. "You're lucky after that little move I can't use the sword's powers for a while, but we'll all meet again real soon, take care~" She disappeared without a trace.
Seamus made it over to Lucia and the others just as Celeste joined him . "Lucia that was amazing!" He told her as he hugged her.
"As much as I'd hate to ruin the moment it's far too early to celebrate," Zero told them as he and Kai joined them. "If there really are six more like her then we all have work to do, especially if they really have been keeping an eye on what we've been doing. The best thing we can do right now is try to recover from this and try to figure out what she meant and what all this Null stuff is about. I have a feeling what happens next will be far more dangerous than gathering those seven keys four years ago."
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Post by Ziya on Aug 9, 2018 22:18:05 GMT -5
The trio tried very hard to continue looking defiant right up until the woman left. The instant she did Jennifer sat down with a sigh. "You think she knew we couldn't do anything else for a while?" Jason wiped the sweat off his brow as she helped her back up. "I doubt it, otherwise she'd have finished it." Lucia just stared at her new keyblade with a soft smile, oblivious to anything else. "Requiem's Resolve. That's your name."
Before she could do anything else Seamus reached her with a hug she gladly returned, dismissing her blade as she did. Once Zero mentioned the other six her mood dampened somewhat, but she remained hopeful. "We should train some more, but in the end I'm sure we'll find a way. We always do." Jennifer jumped in, hoping to lighten the mood once more. "Yeah, next time we'll have even more firepower from the get go! If I can find a magical smithy at least."
Meanwhile Jason noticed that someone was missing, quickly noting Riley on his knees staring at the ground. Rather than draw attention to him, he quietly walked over to stand before him face unreadable. "I don't have to see auras to know what you're thinking. Whether they were here for you or not, remember that we chose to be here. We chose to support you, knowing the risks. Doubting yourself can be useful, but only for so much," he chuckled a little, "as I learned the hard way. You've been there for us at our worst. We won't give up on you now." He offered his hand to help Riley up, hoping he'd take it.
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