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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 2, 2018 19:43:36 GMT -5
"Well, that's good to know now." Nazo's clones avoided Seamus' attack as they fired more orbs this time aiming for the new guns like everyone else. After Jason took care of the jawbreakers and some of the guns Nazo had them fly off of the Heartless and drive through the air closing in on Celeste and Lucia. "This is still a race and I don't plan on losing my winning streak anytime soon!" She had the car drop right by them and kept up with them. "My clones and Seamus should be enough to take care of it for a while."
Riley kept speeding along an eventually getting some good yards ahead of Celeste of Lucia as he got back on the road. "I would love to help out with the battle but with my keyblade being used as the bike and my swords being busy I'm stuck with mostly driving. But I can do this!" The seven elemental rings appeared and started spinning around them. They then went back into his body and with a bright pink flash he turn into Chaos Riley for the first time since they fought the titans together. A bright pink aura glowed around both of them and the bike, and they started to go even faster making a bigger gab between them and the others. He turned around and started driving backwards again. "Try this on for size Chaos Ragnarok!" Twenty orbs of powerful chaos appeared in front of them and soon they all fired out towards the Heartless.
"About time you finally figured it out," Celeste giggled. "No acting included he really has it bad for you, and just like you he can't put it to words. You should have seen him try to tell me he liked you before I had to cover for him with the bad beef nonsense. He likes ya girl and it doesn't take rocket science to see you have it bad for him too. You two have the love bug and Doctor Celeste is here to tell you the only cure is some good old fashioned confessions." Celeste nudged her. "You two are really cute together you should see how hard he tries to mask his passion for you."
Seamus got out of the way of Riley's attack just in time before the beams landed all over the Heartless. Seamus then formed powerful wind magic in his mouth before he fired three Aeroja Cannons at it. The three orbs exploded over the Heartless and that on top of the others attacks making their mark made it slow down a bit. That was until it gave out a loud roar and it started grumbling again. Soon there was a burst of dark energy as rocket boosters appeared all over the Heartless greatly boosting it's speed. It's body turned silver making it's armor harder than every. It jetted along the track catching up with the others trying to run them over. Seamus was caught off guard and was knocked way by the Heartless landing a god distance away from the track.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 2, 2018 20:13:49 GMT -5
Seeing Seamus get hit Lucia panicked at threw a Cura at him, praying it was enough. Images of the devastation of Celderat flashed before her again, and her one blue eye turned crimson as the other fully faded into blue. Turning her sight to the Heartless again something snapped within her, leaving only cold determination that she would save them. "Shattered Sunset: Shields of Dawn." The twin shields formed, one enveloping the Dark rose and darkening with the Darkblade skill while the other absorbed Jennifer's shield as it triggered Lightblade.
Both Jason and Jennifer snapped their heads around to stare at Lucia, feeling what she was doing. "Guys, Augment the keyblades! It may be our one shot at this now!" Jason shook his head in disbelief. "Are you insane?! We still have our Aspects!" Jennifer echoed him a moment later, only to fall quiet at Lucia's tone. "We were hired to kill this Heartless, and I'm the only one that can use their keyblade right now. Just do it!"
They hesitated for a moment more, but the Heartless barreling down on them left them little time to do anything about it as Lucia's now fully blonde hair flew within the barrier of wind surrounding her. "You'd better not die sis. Light Augmentation: Second Style!" "If you do I'll never hear the end of it. Darkness Augmentation: Second Style."
The twin shields struggled to contain the sudden surge of Elements before Lucia allowed them to flow into her as well, using all of her willpower to keep them separate. All she needed now was a chance, and no regrets...
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 2, 2018 22:06:13 GMT -5
Riley had remembered the power Lucia had when Jason and Jennifer used Twilight Augmentation on her four years ago, but she was in aspect then so would this really be enough to finish off a Heartless of this size? He knew Lucia was strong, but this Heartless was something else. He knew one way to help Lucia. He stopped the bike and pushed the button opening the two sections. He got his Scythe of death from the bike and then ran over to the others." We'll make an opening for you," He told Lucia. He looked over at Nazo. "Get ready for double goddess attack version two!" His body started to glow with a blue aura as he flew up into the sky, not wanting to make them deaf with the sonic boom that was coming.
Nazo looked at him and then sighed. She stood up from her car and summoned her keyblade, looking a lot like Riley's. "Let's get this over with." Nazo and her keyblade glowed with a white and red aura. She then started flying right at the Heartless. Right before they clashed she phased right through it before landing on the other side. She then threw her keyblade at it. "Riley now!"
There was then a sonic boom before a blue and pink streak quickly flew right at the Heartless. With seven power slashes an explosion happened right when Nazo's keyblade struck making the two explosions join together. The Heartless slowed down greatly, with darkness spilling from its body after the attacks.
Seamus couldn't tell what happened after he got hit, he only knew that he was flying off away from the others. After the Cura hit him he was brought back to reality and did a back flip before he started floating again. That speed of the Heartless as well as how much it weighed made that attack Seamus suffered through damage him greatly. He did a quick look around before seeing what was going on. "Damn it I was supposed to finish this so Lucia wouldn't have to do this!" He quickly flew towards them trying to beat the Heartless to them. He knew even in his new form he wasn't fast enough, so once they came into view he flash stepped behind Lucia. "Lucia please don't-" It was only after he appeared that he saw it was too late to stop her. He saw the change in her hair and wanted to stop her, but he knew there was no going back after this. " I was supposed to kill this thing so it wouldn't come to this. But even in this new form I'm still not strong enough to protect what I care about most. I just wanted to kill this thing so you wouldn't have to save us all like you always do. I wanted to impress you but instead I made things worse. Lucia I can't let you die like this because...I love you Lucia! I really do and I want you to live!"
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Post by Ziya on Aug 2, 2018 22:30:02 GMT -5
Jason and Jennifer had no choice but to take over their respective vehicles, eyes on the road but hearts with Lucia.
Lucia found herself staring with mismatched eyes at Seamus, hardly daring to believe what he had just said. Why was it that only now, at the final moments, they could be honest with each other? The strain of holding the Elements back left her face as she looked at him, replaced by a small, sad smile as she spoke with all the feelings she had held back. "I love you too." With that, she jumped through the wind and toward the Heartless.
Many things passed through her mind as she flew across the track. Images of her past, family and friends from before and now, old hopes shattered and put back together. In her hands the shields grew more unstable, cracks even forming in the shards of color themselves as she readied a Nova in each. Within herself she forced the last remaining core of Twilight into another Nova.
She always wanted to be the bomb.
Upon contact all three blasts went off simultaneously, creating an explosion at least half again the size of the one Jennifer and Jason had made last time. The shock wave tore apart the track and Heartless, leaving a massive crater with an equally sized heart slowly drifting into the sky.
A sob tore from Jennifer's throat as all thought of the race left her mind, and she quickly spun around for the crater. Jason tried to do the same but only managed to spin out, jumping clear just before the car started to roll. As she neared the smoke finally cleared, only to reveal another, smaller cloud of oddly reflective dust in the very center surrounding something.
That something was Lucia, badly injured and slowly dying from overuse of her Elements, her clothes lying in tatters around her.
Jennifer abandoned the bike at the edge before jumping down to cradle her before yelling desperately. "It's her! Seamus get over here, we need to give her Light and Darkness!" She knew that in Lucia's state she had no way of balancing it on her own, so they'd have to do it together.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 3, 2018 0:28:43 GMT -5
Seamus blinked as Lucia confessed to him. "You do?" Before he could say anything else she went off to kill the Heartless. She loved him, she really loved him. He knew deep down she felt the same and now he heard it with his own ears. He put a hand to his cheek as he watched her destory the Heartless with help from Riley and Nazo's Double Goddess attack. "That's my girl~" He swooned as he started day dreaming about the two of them fighting alongside each other. His mind raced with images of them sparing and coming up with new team attacks together.
Riley looked over the edge and got a look at what was going on. "Nice," He said noticing Lucia. Before he could go down there Maple suddenly appeared behind him with her battle axe. She lifted it up and hit him over the head with the flat of her axe before disappearing. Riley fell flat on his back with stars circling around his head. Nazo shook her head and sighed.
Seamus was only brought back to reality once Celeste started snapping her fingers next to his face. He shook his head as he looked at her then back at the others. Gears started turning as he put two and two together. "Lucia my love!" He ran off towards the crater. He slid down the side and came to Jennifer. "Lucia, Lucia speak to me! Hang in there Lucia!" Seamus picked her up. "Come on Lucia I won't let you die on me! Lucia! Lucia! Luciaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!" he shook her a bit before giving up on that. He screamed. "No this isn't happening! There's no reason for me to go on! Wha-What am I fighting foooooooor?!!!!!!!" His performance was cut sort once Riley came to and slapped him across the face.
"Geeze, and people call me dramatic." He put a hand on his hip. "Just use your darkness and Jen will use her light for goddess sake."
Seamus looked at him, then at Lucia, then at Jen before looking back at Lucia. "Right.. right!" Seamus' hands begin glowing with darkness as he transferred it over to Lucia. "Come on this has to work!"
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Post by Ziya on Aug 3, 2018 0:54:49 GMT -5
As Jason neared the edge Jennifer quickly matched Seamus's Darkness with her own Light, bringing Lucia back from the brink just enough to regain consciousness. "Come on sis, wake up!" As her blue-gray eyes slowly opened her first sight was Jennifer and Seamus's worried faces, bringing a weak smile to her face as she spoke softly. "How nice, to have both my old and new family here. Give me a minute please." Shutting her eyes again, she drew on the only power she had left and focused, remembering the lessons of the monk who taught her long ago. Her injuries faded into nothing a few minutes later, but she was still exhausted and unable to use any Elements.
Jennifer squeezed her hand one more time before backing away to join Jason, who was staring at the swirling dust still surrounding Lucia. "Is that your keyblade Lucia? I've never seen it so broken down." Frowning, she raised a shaky hand to reform it, and the dust pulled itself into a sword shaped mass. For a moment all seemed normal, but then...
The dust drifted apart again.
Eyes wide in fear Lucia tried again, and again, and again. Each time the dust began to pull together before falling apart once more. For the first time in four years Lucia began crying in front of others, as the dust swirled around listlessly. "I've lost everything then. My Elements, my family, my world, even my keyblade. I have nothing now." Her eyelids grew heavy again, and just before falling into sleep again she looked at Seamus, her mouth twisting up just slightly as she finished in a murmur only he could hear. "Nothing but you." The dust collapsed onto her body, almost as if it were protecting her as she passed out, though it seemed to twist around Seamus' arms as well.
Jason pulled his helmet off in shock as Jennifer fell to her knees sobbing beside him. Reaching into his pocket he pressed a button on his communicator to call the ship before kneeling down to comfort his friend, speaking to everyone there. "The ship's on it's way. I think we're done here."
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 3, 2018 4:36:20 GMT -5
Seamus stayed silent but smiled once Lucia opened her eyes. He was just glad that she was still with them even if she was in such a weakened state. it wasn't until Jason asked about it that Seamus realized the dust was supposed to be Lucia's keyblade. He looked back down at Lucia as she began to speak again. He couldn't hold back the tears any longer after her last words before passing out again. He place his head against her forehead. "And you'll always have me." He said low enough only for her to hear.
"The last time I saw a keyblade do that after I had to kill a keyblade Master for my exam.." Riley said in horror as Lucia couldn't summon her keyblade. He had faced many keybladers in his time and the only times he saw keyblade turn to dust was when they were destroyed, or when their wielder is killed. Riley knew deep down Lucia was still alive, she just had to be. "What kind of Keyblade Master am I if I still can't take out Heartless like this without people I care about getting hurt like this..."
"There was no way any group of people were going to take out that thing without some type of causality unless it was a group off full gods," Nazo told him as she floated down next to him. "Let's just be thankful that she's still alive."
"Whatever the hell is in Keyblade Graveyard is going to be stronger than what we just faced," he looked at everyone. "Lucia won't be able to free the heart properly, so it looks like it's up to me and Nazo this time. If anything goes wrong like it did here... I want you two to use Aspect Augmentation on me."
"What?! You know how unstable that is! You wouldn't survive or would be put out of commission for at least a week!"
"There won't be any other way if it ends up being stronger than our others forms put together. It's bound to happen with our luck, and out of all of us here I'm the least important to the other worlds. I'm the one who became a Keyblade Master so it will have to me my life we put on the the line before anyone else."
About a mile off a hooded figure was watching them from one of the trees. They were talking to someone in another world with their mind. "It's all going perfectly," They said. "Yet another massive heart released. At this rate and the journey they're going to go on trying to stop us we'll have all the hearts we need in no time. The only hard part will be tracking down all of the gems and finding the damn place. Keyblade Graveyard will be the place where we make ourselves known to them. Let's hope she doesn't go overboard and kill the keyblader of twilight while we still need her." They then disappeared.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 3, 2018 7:27:44 GMT -5
As Jennifer finally began to recover from her own tears Jason looked up from her once more to answer Riley with a shake of his head. "Every time we've attempted to Augment an Aspect before and after that one failed miserably Riley. The effects never stuck, and it usually left all of us unable to do anything for minutes at a time due to rebound." He helped Jennifer to her feet at last as the Alyson landed nearby.
As she rose Jennifer wiped her eyes and looked at the group, particularly Riley. "Don't blame yourself Riley. That way lay her path, with all it's baggage." She giggled softly at the uncharacteristically wise advice she had just given, then looked at Riley again as Jason opened up the ship. "Do you know what happened to her keyblade? Can it be fixed?"
Jason jumped back down into the crater as the ramp hit the ground, looking at Seamus cradle his best friend. Silence reigned for a moment, before he spoke once more. "Don't pull an Atsuma. Don't leave her side." With that he boarded the ship, pressing a few buttons in combination that Lucia did not know about to trigger the transformation gummi, revealing a longer, slightly wider version of the ship with another guest room and a full bathroom across from each other beyond the kitchen and living room.
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 3, 2018 13:41:15 GMT -5
Riley looked at Jason and sighed. "Then we have no plan B if our forms aren't enough," Riley looked back at Seamus and Lucia." And with Lucia out of commission we have one less than we normally would have, on top of Shade still being busy on the mission she went on. That means if all goes wrong the best we can do is Double Goddess Attack Version Three on top of a double Aspect attack." His hand glowed with chaos as his bike disappeared then reappeared in his hand as it's usual keyblade form. He nodded to Jennifer. "It looks like it was shattered and completely destroyed in the blast. She will either have to reforge it or forge a new one. If that wasn't her keyblade's true form then depending if she wakes up and on what happens at Keyblade Graveyard she might unlock it, being much stronger than Shattered Sunset. If she manages to do that then she'll be stronger than ever."
"I won't ever leave her," Seamus assured Jason. Once the Alyson arrived Celeste floated over to Seamus carrying his shirt and jacket. Once Seamus got on board he carried Lucia over to her room and laid her on her bed. He then went to her closet and laid out new clothes for her next to her. He took her hand again. "I'm just so glad you're still with us." He let her go and just sat on the floor. Celeste went back to her smaller size and landed on Seamus' head. She didn't say anything which was unlike her, but she figured Seamus had been through enough.
"So this is a Gummi Ship," Nazo looked around as she and Riley got on board. She had always just went world to world like the others, but had heard of Gummi Ships while she was still on her old home world. "Are you sure you three still want to go to Keyblade Graveyard? You've been through so much in this world and whenever something pops up in that world it's stronger than most others."
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Post by Ziya on Aug 3, 2018 14:26:37 GMT -5
Jennifer followed the others onto the ship, deep in thought about Lucia and her keyblade. None of them had ever figured out what exactly had happened to create it, and she doubted it could happen again anyhow. All she knew was that something had happened to disconnect her heart from the weapon at the same time her last reserves of Twilight had gone. Could it be that her soul was the only thing holding it together in the first place?
She tuned back into the conversation right as Nazo asked if they wanted to continue. Jason hesitated, but Jennifer nodded immediately. "Not only would Lucia never forgive us if we left this unfinished, but maybe there's a clue there as to what's happened to her. She can't be the first Wielder to make a keyblade out of the Light and Darkness of their own heart and soul, right?"
Meanwhile, Lucia woke up yet again on her bed, though this time much weaker than before. Slowly she sat up, confused by the dust surrounding her before the memories rushed back. Had she been alone the tears would have come again, but Seamus' presence was a comfort she had never expected. The smile she gave him was still tinged with the loss, but it was genuine just the same as she willed the remnants of her keyblade up to the ceiling. "Thank you, Seamus. Looks like I'll be staying out of the last fight though."
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 3, 2018 16:31:41 GMT -5
"That's how she made her keyblade?" Riley asked. "That's how my mother made her two keyblades." Riley thought about the story his mother told him some time after his keyblade came to him. "That's it! Once we kill that thing in Keyblade Graveyard we can take her back to New Yuio. There my mother can train her like she trained me, and you two can also train there. She could even become a Keyblade Master like yours truely!" He struck a pose. "It will be great, you can all come to my kingdom and meet my other wives and even my father!"
Nazo sighed. "Knowing our luck there will be a clue at the graveyard, and that will make us all go on long quest together again with a lot of close calls." She had been around Riley long enough to know how it always went. She was enjoying their time off away from all the fighting for once, but the chance to face more god level people brought a smile to her face. "I'm sure Shade will want to join us later when this turns out to be the case, so I should warn you know she's gotten stronger since Castle Oblivion and with all that new power she can get carried away even more now."
"You don't have to thank me," Seamus told her smiling.
"Yeah, what kind of boyfriend would he be if he just sat their daydreaming about you while you were knocked out?"
Seamus looked over at Celeste, but looked back at Lucia once he realized there was nothing to be embarrassed about anymore. "Don't worry about not being able to fight for a while, you've done more than you're fair share."
Celeste flew up to Lucia and wagged her finger. "You really gave us a scare back there. You two haven't been together for an hour an you almost gave your new boyfriend a heart attack. Though I'm sure he'll have to get used to it seeing how all you two do is hunt Heartless."
Seamus got up and with a small flash he was back to looking normal again, his regular clothes and hair back to the way Lucia always knew it as. He walked over to her and took her hand. "The important thing is that you're still with us. I don't really know what I'd do if I lost my true love moments after she finally told me she loved me~" He kissed her cheek.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 3, 2018 17:12:48 GMT -5
"Then it's settled. Jennifer, have the ship get us to the world, since it won't listen to me. I'll check on our Romeo and Juliet." As he left the room Jennifer called back playfully. "Careful, you don't want to barge in on them!" She turned back again to the console before speaking directly into the mic carefully. "User ID Ziya. Plot course for Keyblade Graveyard, fastest route." The A.I. responded quickly. "Welcome, User Ziya. Course plotted, warp drive unavailable due to proximity. ETA, three hours."
Lucia was starting to recover a little more, though without her keyblade and Elements she was back to the strength of a normal human. She had the grace to look embarrassed at least as Celeste chided her, but she really hadn't had another choice. All thought left her for a moment when Seamus kissed her cheek, a quick peck that did nothing for her, only to be replaced by a wicked grin as she grabbed his shirt before he drifted too far away. "Oh no you don't. You've got a lot to learn if that's your 'thanks for saving me and not dying' kiss. This is how one of those should go." With that she pulled him back onto the bed before kissing him squarely on the lips, and time froze.
Jason heard every word and chose to keep walking, headed to the simulation room. It was time to keep working on that training, if he could ever made the weapon...
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Post by Lord S-Sha (CTG) on Aug 4, 2018 0:21:23 GMT -5
"Three hours?!" Riley asked. "That's way too long."
"You could always wrap there by yourself and try your hand at killing what's there until we get there."
"Looks like its card games for us then!"
Riley and Nazo sat at the table and both pulled out a deck of cards. Soon both sides of the table were covered with countless cards. Each card had some type of warrior on it, with Riley's side of the field being mostly females of different races and classes and Nazo's mostly being dragons and other monsters. The cards also had different numbers on them, and various symbols written in some type of elvish. "One hundred and five to one hundred and five!" Nazo said with a grin on her face after counting all the cards. "This will be one to remember, the day I beat you in the longest game ever"
"In your dreams!"
"Wait Lucia I-" was all Seamus could say before Lucia pulled him in for a passionate kiss. Seamus had never kiss anyone before, so he had no idea how the first kiss with one's true love was supposed to feel. But the feeling he got when Lucia kissed him was magical, it was like time had stopped around them. He closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around her as he kissed her back. After a while he pulled away from her and smiled. His face turned red and he put a hand to his cheek. "That was..amazing. You really are amazing Lucia~" He fainted falling over backwards.
Celeste shook her head. "Looks like you've got your work cut out for you if you want to get him to be used to being with you." She floated over to her and giggled. "Though if you don't want him to faint again you might want to put these on." She flew in a circle over the clothes Seamus laid out for her.
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Post by Ziya on Aug 4, 2018 1:06:51 GMT -5
Lucia gigged at Celeste's words, her blush hidden behind a flushed face as she quickly retrieved the clothes. "Surprisingly good taste for a guy. He's definitely a keeper." A few minutes later she emerged from the bedroom in a dark green T-shirt and short blue jean shorts, her hair clipped and tied into a ponytail as she headed to the kitchen. They had just eaten a few hours before, but if she was going to make her famous mead beef stew with homemade herb bread she needed a few hours anyhow.
Meanwhile Jennifer smiled at the other two's antics, having followed them into the living room from the cockpit. "Have fun you two. It sounds like Lucia's making some food, so you're in for a treat later. If you need anything let her know." Satisfied, she left them to their game and slipped into the simulation room behind Jason, who chuckled as he loaded a program. "You too, huh? Same one as last time?" She nodded and moved to the middle of the room before he joined her.
The room shimmered as the program took effect, quickly shifting into a familiar barren wasteland, only this time full of Nobodies of various types, with even a few Boss-tier approaching from the horizon. Jason readied himself, but his weapon in here was not his Nightblades. Instead, he held a sharpened sheath in one hand with a pistol/sword hybrid in the other. "You ready?" Jennifer's Wings of Light were missing as well, replaced by two unassuming silver bangles on her wrists. At least, they were unassuming until she activated them by connecting her Light to them, at which point they quickly expanded into full sized gauntlets with what appeared to be a shotgun barrel at both ends. "Let's do this."
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