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Post by Sprow on Apr 30, 2014 0:38:36 GMT -5
(OOC: Believe it or not, I knew that xD I left it as is because at the time, I was on my dad's computer and every time I made to edit it the darn computer wouldn't let me so I left it as is. Fixed it on my laptop now lol.)
Amaya didn't wait for Asami to react. Instead, she just simply pulled Arin along as she ran. When they got out of the library, she heard him state that he hoped she had a plan to get out of here. He apparently used up his means of escape already and it would take him a day, at the most, to be able to travel again. Checking Asami hadn't yet left the library to pursue then but knowing her sister was coming, Amaya ran on.
As she went, she huffed out "I...do! W-We...just...gotta get...outta here!" Amaya replied as they went down the long hallways. Amaya ran as fast as she could. She couldn't risk fighting Asami in such close quarters. Not only that but there was a chance the fight might bring the ceiling down on them or something. They needed to hide before she could get herself and Arin out of here. Why did she have to hide? Asami could track her if she saw them leave right before her eyes. Amaya wasn't sure how Asami could detect it but she knew it would be best for them to hide first. Unfortunately, since they were found, it would be a difficult attempt.
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Where Reiko normally should have died, she didn't. In response to the other's words, there was just a laugh in response before Reiko took on more attacks and yet again, remained alive as that regeneration took place yet again. It was, strangely, of a dark nature. Strange considering a Dragoon Warrior was suppose to be associated with the light and not darkness.
A different voice spoke from within Reiko. "Try as you might, you will not be able to kill my vessel. Not by those means anyway," it said with a dark laugh.
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Post by Raphael on May 1, 2014 1:13:10 GMT -5
Arin followed close behind Amaya, trying his best to control his breathing while they were running to escape from Asami. The brief look at the corrupted warrior was enough to notice a strong similarity in appearance between herself and Amaya. But considering they were running not just from Asami, but also from Arin's own incoming pursuer, now wasn't the time to question it "Well, whatever it is, I hope it won't take long! If those other dragoons are able to track you, then we're in it deep!"
For the slightest moment, he could have sworn he saw a figure hiding in the shadows, but they were too busy with trying to escape detection for him to get a good look at who could have been hiding. Whoever it was, it had to be human from the shape, but was it friend, foe or a neutral party?
((we can discuss the second paragraph through PM. I have an idea for stalling Asami that might or might not be ok))
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Nirax's mouth twitched slightly as he listened to the dark voice, curious now that he noticed the dark manner in with Reiko was healing herself. Fusing his two keyblade halves back together, he called back his Samurai minion and circling around the clearly possessed dragoon warrior while gaining a bit of distance in the process "So…The 'great' dragoon warriors have all fallen under a spell…How pathetic can the human race be that that will let themselves be possessed so easily…"
waving the Samurai away in dismissal, the Nobody vanished, returning to its search alongside of the Neoshadow for Arin's location. This left Nirax to deal with Reiko alone ""Still…This doesn't change things…If you pose a threat, I will find a way to eradicate you…" He aimed his key at Reiko's body, and a black beam shot straight for Reiko's chest "If physical violence won't work, then I'll try a more indirect approach by stripping your body of its heart…"
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Post by Sprow on May 2, 2014 0:23:28 GMT -5
Amaya didn't look back as they ran. Asami would surely follow them out of the library in hot pursuit. If she dared to take a glimpse behind them, she would only slow herself down by a few seconds which could mean whether or not Asami caught up to them. No, Amaya couldn't afford to check and see if her sister followed. As she ran, she heard Arin's voice not that far behind.
"The sooner we get into hiding, the better!" Amaya retorted as she sped down the hallway. Just where could they lose Asami for those most crucial moments that Amaya would need to transport them? That's what was floating through Amaya's mind as she raced down the hall, leading the way. She wasn't aware of the figure that had arrived on the scene. In the meantime, Asami stormed out of the library in search for Arin and Amaya.
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Reiko said nothing as Nirax circled her with his minion while he stated how they had all fallen under a spell. "It wasn't as hard as you might think...most of weaker will power fall to me in an instant," came that dark voice that wasn't Reiko's. It couldn't possibly be her's anyway since it was male. There was a dark smirk on Reiko's face.
As Nirax waved away the Samurai to dismiss it, Reiko kept her eyes on him. "I'm only a threat because you continue to perceive me as one. I am purely content going about my business but if you continue to insist..." the voice trailed off. Reiko didn't move as Nirax took aim with his keyblade and unlocked her heart. "Amusing that you think the power of the keyblade can take from me what I have already tainted. This body, where it has a heart, is so corrupted that if I were to let you take it that it would be a blessing on this poor sap. No, this one's heart, along with the others, and soul is mine. I have plans for them but first that starts with corrupting all of the Dragoon Warriors." Although Nirax was clearly trying to take out Reiko, the dark entity controlling her didn't seem the least bit disturbed. In fact, it had Reiko turn away from Nirax, leap into the sky and take flight in the direction of the castle.
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Post by Raphael on May 2, 2014 23:18:50 GMT -5
And Asami was met at the door with several shuriken in her path, and a larger shuriken imbedding itself on the doorway of the Library. Yuffie was hanging from the chandelier while Reno (that's right, a non-KH canon FF7 character xD) was walking around the raised walkway of the main lobby of the castle, right in Asami's path, his electro mag-rod resting on his shoulder "Now that wasn't very nice, babe, breaking the library's window like that." Yuffie dropped and landed onto the railing of the walkway, leaning against the support pillar in front of the library entrance "Yeah! A lot of work was put into that, you know!"
Reno flipped the electro rod from his right hand to his left, pointing it at Asami accusingly with faint signs of an electrical current running at the tip "So, breaking and entering aside, wanna tell us what you and those other two bystanders are doing here?"
Arin was keeping stride with Amaya, following her wherever she thought was a good place to hide. Trying to think of some good ideas to use, he remembered where they were "Hang on! This place is a castle, right? Wouldn't there be some kind of secret passages in this place, like the ones that led to the library?"
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Nirax noticed that trying to extract the heart from Reiko was pointless, ceasing his attempts as he watched the 'puppet' turn her back to him. He was about to cease his pursuit…Until he noticed that the puppet was heading towards Arin's location, and that actually caused him to show a disapproving scowl, something not commonly done for an emotionless being.
Leaping up onto a rooftop and using his double flight to gain height. His body burst into darkness and his appearance changed, changing his clothing to pure black with pale gold trim all around. Nirax also lifted the blindfold to rest on his forehead now, his glowing yellow eyes now visible, before tossing his serrated gold half of the keyblade and impaling it into Reiko's side (sorry, needed a way to get up to Reiko), before pulling back and lifting his body closer until he could get within reach of Reiko. Black half of his keyblade ready, he would parry her sickles in an attempt to latch onto her. Using the aura tether on his arms as an anchor, he would keep attempting this until he would succeed in grabbing her.
"I would have let you go, but you picked the wrong direction to fly in…I can't very well let someone else have the pleasure of killing my target, not if he's helping your untainted warrior…"
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Post by Sprow on May 5, 2014 7:21:33 GMT -5
Asami was met with Shurikens being embedded nearby. Upon pure reflexive action, Asami had barely avoided them. When she had, her eyes focused on two individuals that had arrived on the scene. Her brows furrowed. "I could care less about a window I've shattered." If it were the real Asami, she wouldn't have shattered a window without good reason. While where this was Asami in the flesh, it wasn't her doing all of these things. Much like Reiko, it was because of someone else making her do these things.
As the red head with the electro-mag rod stepped into her path, Asami didn't look the least bit intimidated. All that she knew was that her prey was getting away. "Such nuisances! What I'm doing with them is none of your business! If you really must know, why don't you chase them down too and find out?"
With that, Asami retreated back into the library and flew out the shattered window. She could catch Amaya at another time.
When Amaya and Arin reached a certain point, she came to a momentary skid. A secret passageway? "One would think so...but where to find one?" Amaya questioned him. "Is your keyblade able to figure that out for us maybe?" It looked as though Asami and stopped following them. Just who were those people?
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Reiko dodged the attack that Nirax tried to use to get himself elevated in the air with her. The keyblade or whatever it was never embedded into herself.
"Well, too bad! I've only one target and you're not going to make me stop." Reiko flew higher into the air, as she did so, two others joined her. The three of them only paused a moment as one clad in white came in their direction.
"I almost had her but she was with someone. Then, two idiots got in the way. We can catch her at another time." The others laughed darkly before, suddenly, they were gone.
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Post by Raphael on May 5, 2014 13:38:21 GMT -5
"Hey! come back here!" Yuffie chased after Asami, but had to stop when she flew back out of the window, causing her to pout and cross her arms "Shoot!" Reno and Yuffie looked at each other as she exited the library, nodding before following the last known path that Arin and Amaya had taken "I always hated people that could fly without a chopper…Oh well, let's find those other two and figure out what this was about." "Right!"
Arin looked at his hand, before summoning forth his key "I've learned some things about this blade I didn't know, but not much about finding hidden doorways…I'll give it a shot though…" Holding the kay close to his body, he closed his eyes and focused on his objective, the secret pathways of this castle.
A couple minutes passed and he couldn't feel anything, sighing in exasperation "Nothing…we're just going to have to search for one as we go…" Waiting for Amaya to take the lead, he searched for possible doorways that were built into the walls, keeping his keyblade ready at a moments notice.
He then felt a cold breeze hit his face as they were running, and he stopped suddenly "Wait up!" He back tracked until he felt the breeze again, and spotted an odd crease in the wall pattern. Morse specifically, it looked like many of the bricks weren't cemented together, forming an outline large enough to fit an adult through "I think I found one." Aiming the keyblade at the spot in the wall, the same beam of light pierced the door and it came to life.
The door slid back slowly, before lifting up high enough to reveal the secret passage. Arin walked through and waited for Amaya to enter before tapping on the misplaced piece of wall. As the wall closed in on itself, he looked at the keyblade curiously *If it can unlock, then maybe it can do the opposite as well. Only one way to find out.* Aiming the keyblade at the wall, the beam connected again and he could hear a locking sound echo in the passage.
Satisfied, he walked silently through the passage, seeing some light in the far distance that possibly led to the outside, or maybe a more lit up area of the castle "…That white dragoon looked a lot like you, Amaya…I'm guessing that one was the sister you were telling me about?"
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Nirax stopped following from the rooftops, his dark mode shutting down as he made his way to the castle, to find his own target. While annoyed that the dragoons got away, it was pointless to think about that since they were no longer a threat…For now, anyway… Now all he needed to do was concern himself with finding and eliminating Arin, then target the next keyblade wielder and repeat the process until they were all gone…Then he could search for the final target to destroy, the source of power and knowledge that spawned the blades in the first place.
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Post by Sprow on May 5, 2014 19:36:05 GMT -5
Amaya was unaware of the company they might soon have as Arin looked down at his hand where the keyblade was. As he spoke, she gave a nod. "Even if you can't find anything, don't worry about it." Patiently, she waited as Arin closed his eyes and tried to see if he could find any secret passageways. When he announced that he couldn't, Amaya didn't say anything. She just merely nodded. Well, at leas the tried. As Arin stated that they were going to have to search, Amaya turned and took the lead again.
The pair of them went some distance before Arin made a discovery. Swerving around, Amaya watched as Arin inspected some kind of spot in the wall. It had an outline the size of an adult could pass through. As Arin pulled out his keyblade and pointed, Amaya watched as he unlocked a secret pathway. "Good job!" Amaya exclaimed before heading inside with Arin.
Arin turned around and closed the doorway behind them. Now, that was certainly handy. "Good idea!" she stated. The pair of them walked through the dark passage toward where there appeared to be some light. As they went, Arin took that moment to bring up the Dragoon in white armor. Amaya was silent for a moment. Although Asami and Amaya were opposites in personality and appearance, somehow others were always able to tell that they were siblings.
"...Yeah." Amaya seemed to become a little downcast. "That is Asami, my older sister and only sister. She is the leader of the Dragoon Warriors...or rather, she was before becoming how she is now..." Amaya trailed off sounding a bit morose. It wasn't easy for her to be fighting her friends and family.
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Although the Dragoon Warriors had left, they would be back. Maybe not here in this world but back for Amaya wherever she would go. As for Nirax, they were still trying to figure out what he was and why he acted the way he did. He was an interesting being, that was for sure.
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Post by Raphael on May 5, 2014 20:45:47 GMT -5
Arin sighed and rubbed his neck *Well, it would only make sense she'd feel bad…* As Amaya began explaining who Asami was, before she and the others were corrupted "…I'm sorry I brought it up Amaya, I know how it feels to have everything you knew taken from you…"
He sighed and recollected when his home world was still intact "I should look older than I do now, but my entire world was plunged into darkness. One minute, I'm walking home from combat training, the next, I'm fighting an entire army of Heartless and eventually became one…I didn't become a human again until over a decade later…"
He started chuckling softly as he recalled the day he came back from the darkness "Next thing I knew, I woke up to be chased by Heartless through a giant wasteland filled with keyblades, and wound up creating my worst enemy just trying to stay alive…"
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Post by Sprow on May 5, 2014 21:52:55 GMT -5
Amaya didn't look up as she kept her gaze downward. No doubt, she was remembering the times when she and Asami trained together and hung out together. Even though they were complete opposites, they got along really well. The thought of her sister being controlled against her will and likely suffering bothered Amaya. The fact that they were even fighting against one another hurt her. She didn't hear Arin as he let out a sigh and rubbed his neck after unintentionally reminding Amaya about Asami and the painful memories. She only brought her gaze upward when Arin apologized for bringing Asami up.
"No...it's understandable that you would be curious."
Then, Arin began to talk about his past. According to him, Arin should look older than he was now. His entire world had been plunged into darkness. All he remembered was training and then heading home. Before he knew it, he was attacked by Heartless and even became one. He didn't become human until much later. Amaya's eyebrows rose. ust how old was he suppose to be?
When Arin had awoken, becoming human again, he had found himself being chased by Heartless in a huge wasteland of keyblades. In his fight for survival, Arin had created his worst enemy. "Ah, so you've awoken in the legendary Keyblade Graveyard."
Amaya could see ho painful it had to be for Arin. His family and friends, depending on how long it had been since he had become a Heartless and then became human, could be dead. His world, even, might be gone. In a sense, he likely hadn't a home to go home to. Amaya, out of respect, did not bring that up. "So that's why you drift between worlds..." she trailed off thoughtfully.
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Post by Raphael on May 5, 2014 22:15:55 GMT -5
Arin nodded and sighed again, pocketing his free hand and resting his key on his shoulder "Yeah…No place to hang my coat, I'm over a decade ahead of my own timeline…And I have a dark doppelgänger hunting me down wherever I go. As much as I want to, I can't stay in a world for too long, or I might run the risk of bringing my own personal affairs into the world."
A smile grew on Arin's face, as he looked at Amaya from behind, staring at the back of her head as she led the way to the light at the end of the tunnel "In a way, we're a lot alike, we both have our own demons to run from, and we're not yet ready to face them…"
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Post by Sprow on May 5, 2014 23:15:53 GMT -5
As they walked, Amaya listened while Arin spoke of his misfortune. He hadn't a place to relax for very long. If he stayed in a place for longer than just a moment, his enemy would arrive and pit the world in Arin's own personal affairs. On top of it all, he was behind the times because he wasn't as old as he should have been. It sounded similar to her own problem but she didn't voice it. Of course, there were differences since Amaya hadn't been left behind by time.
It had been Arin, though, to bring it up first instead. She walked for a moment as she thought about what he said. "...Yeah, you're right. We have our similarities."
By the time she had finished saying that, the two of them had finally come out into the light. Amaya had to bring up a hand to shield her eyes for a brief moment until they adjusted to the light. "Hm, where could we be?" Amaya stated, looking around.
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Post by Raphael on May 6, 2014 0:29:23 GMT -5
Arin squinted his eyes and looked down as he was also blinded by the intense light. As he looked down, he noticed the brass colored floor. When his eyes finally adjusted to the light, he looked up to find that they had entered a large room, with enough space to fill more than 100 people. As Arin looked around, the only thing he could see was a doorway which seemed to be locked, and a greenish black portal near the far end of the room. Aside from that, everything was either floor, wall, or brass pipes inside of the very spacious, tall ceiling room (the same room with dragon Maleficent in KH1)
After getting a good look at the room, he didn't see anyone else lurking around, which gave Arin a very promising thought "A little roomy, but…I think we found our hiding place. What do you think, Amaya?"
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Post by Sprow on May 6, 2014 3:21:13 GMT -5
Amaya blinked for a moment as her eyes adjusted. Glancing around, she realized they were in a large, spacious room. It was rather massive for such a place. Oddly enough, it made her a bit uneasy. It was, in her eyes, much too open. Yet, there appeared to be no one in their immediate area. It was just the two of them. There was a doorway on one side and a sort of portal on the other end.
Arin spoke, tearing Amaya's attention away from the room itself. She gave a nod of agreement to what he said about it being their hiding place. "Not sure how well known this area is but it'll have to do. No one appears to be here."
Since she already had her armor on, Amaya gently placed a hand on Arin's. "Sorry, I have to in order to ensure that I don't accidentally drop you off in the wrong world while we're traveling." Honestly, the trip itself would take a matter of seconds. She just didn't want to accidentally let him go during that moment and accidentally land him in a completely different world than where she would be going. After all, she had been genuine in that she would agree to cooperate with Arin if he proved he could be of help.
After saying all of that, Amaya shut her eyes. It happened instantly. One second, they were in the castle in Hollow Bastion and the next, they were in a town that was stuck between day and night. They were in Twilight Town.
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