Hoping a little that someone else had a thunder ability on them and took advantage of the showers, Kaida charged on into Scar (since she felt no need to assist yet) and with an electrical surge she struck him, hoping for the best. Kaida used Powerline
The hit itself was hard enough, but after experiencing the gift of flight for 30 feet, Take didn't take the ground very well. The gold knocked up and nearly covered the boy and he began to feel faint, everything slowly turning black for a moment. Then he felt a warm sensation as he was healed and brought to his feet. A bit disoriented, he was surprised to see Silver stepping up. But once the cyborg ran ahead, Take couldn't help but smirk a bit at that, then the boy closed his eyes and used his keyblade to d-link. He felt a sudden connection with Atmos, even if she wasn't there, he felt himself surge with a bit more power and the boy lifted his keyblade to cure himself, then repeated that just the same and he took a deep breath and charged on back in once more, this time with even more force behind his swing and following it up with blitz and a couple more attacks. Then the boy leaned back into a defensive position to provoke him again. HP: 25 AP: 10 MP: 0
Ria wasn't stupid enough to keep his hands on Alder while Daeni went for the slash. Ria quickly pulled away only for Cerdic to come in between him and he let out a sort of a growl. Ria reacted on out towards, almost expecting him to attack next and tried to paralyze him instead, but ended up getting thunder for his trouble from Alder instead. His leg was distorting into whispers of darkness as the creature backed away. He couldn't react fast enough to avoid the rock, but managed to block it hitting his head by blocking his face instead with his hand. As his leg distorted, darkness from the heartless slowly began to feed darkness into his leg, and Ria's leg slowly began repairing itself. He smirked, almost feeling like he had the upper hand here as he spoke, walking so he was facing all of them with his back towards the cliff's edge, "You can keep on trying to break me, kids, heck you can even try to kill me, but you're living in an unfortunate reality where I can repair myself. Just takes a bit of time, but not too much. So what are you gonna do?" Ria raised his arms outward, almost challenging them to come and try to hit him as he said, "How will you try to break me toda-" Suddenly, a loud blast could be heard and suddenly Ria was struck in the back by what looked like a blast of... darkness. Either way, it tore straight through Ria's back and through his chest and he began to clutch it, letting out an inhuman scream. At the same time, Chrono should have felt the same pain as well, immensely and in the same exact spot. Everyone else could also feel this pain, but it wasn't nearly as intense. But only Ria gained a physical wound. Ria distorted into a blackened shape, with parts that still remained looking like Aevum, but it mostly looked like a heartless, a shape-shifting heartless type. As the screamed ended he yelled in a distorted voice, "i'LL MakE YOu ALl SuFFER SlOWER anD MORE PAinful DEaTHs For thIS. JusT WatCH. I'LL SuCK OuT wHAt'S LeFT oF yOUR LIghT beFORE I forCE ALL Of thE AiR AnD ENERgy OUt oF YOUr bODIES UNtIL YOu're BEGging ME To KILl you." Ria's wound repaired, and the creature seemed to slowly grow larger and more distorted as a result. But for this moment it's first instinct was to flee, and the creature reluctantly disappeared into the shadows. As Ria disappeared, the spot behind him had Mora standing there. Her head was bleeding as were her hands, and her side seemed to have the same lingering darkness on a spot on her side that Ria had pretended was there. In her hand though, pointed in the direction where Ria was, was a keyblade. Mora lowered the keyblade and looked at the others and tried to walk forward saying, "Everyone dig... I'll... I'll keep watch." she didn't look in the state to watch anyone, but she insisted.
When Hikaru spoke to her, Kaida nodded at him and said, "We'll become masters together!" the bird summoned out her keyblade and while Scar began to surround himself in flames, she knew it would be best to use water against something like that. Kaida motioned her keyblade towards him to begin April Showers, and water began to pour on top of him, and she hoped the others maybe had something better, but she couldn't imagine this was the worst attempt. Kaida used April Showers!
The desperation attack knocked Takehiko back a lot harder than he expected and the boy gasped out in pain as he tried his best to get up again. He was fine, it was just a shock how hard a hit that was, and he didn't know how many of those attacks he could handle. Or if his team could handle it at all. Take quickly charged forward and stabbed at Scroop towards the face and ducked down quickly in order to aim at his claws with two attacks. The boy took a step back and pointed the keyblade at him screaming, "Blizzard!" once more, letting a surge of ice towards Bright Eyes. He got on guard again and asked, "Everyone's alright, right?" HP: 30 AP: 15 MP: 0
YOU ALMOST MISSED IT (wait actually maybe you didn't time zones are a funny thing)
Take attempted to brace the attack to keep Aria from being getting hurt but it seemed he did not know the way and got a good hit for his troubles. Because the laws of nature compel the writer to continue anyway, Take pointed his keyblade to blizzard that mother before he attacked normally and braced once more. HP: 50 AP: 15 MP: 10
Yum yum yum yum ALL OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY REALLY CUTE I JUST WANNA EAT THEM UP
We were born to make history ⛸️彡♪
Daeni's questions hadn't seemed like something odd to answer, but before she could speak, she felt eyes on her and looked over in the direction as Alder had called out a warning to Daeni and ran straight at her. Mora looked scared for a moment before a sudden smirk appeared on their face and they quickly summoned out a keyblade to block it. But the keyblade itself was Xen's keyblade. A sigh was heard as the darkness seemed to leach off of them a bit and their skin and hair began to change, "I was hoping maybe your rush to get in there and Cerdic and Daeni's continued stupidity might have given me a little longer. But, I guess I was wrong." The darkness stayed but the form changed into the usual one to expect from them at this point. "That would have been really unfortunate if it turned out I was Mora and decided to make you suspicious but oh well. The fun of pretending to be Mora is over. It's a shame she died for a one minute act." Ria quickly attempted a kick at the stomach to push Alder back but instead got a keyblade to the leg. With a growl Ria ducked down and just grabbed a hold of Alder's leg. A quick shot of pain should have met Alder, and he should definitely have not been able to move and Ria sighed, "I thought we already had a lesson in close combat with me, but it'd be more fun to kill you first."
Mora raised up her arm when asked to show the injury and the spot seemed to just have darkness linger in the spot painfully (think like, Braig's face in BBS if you're having trouble imagining what I described). She took in a sharp breath and said, "Maybe focus more on the heartless?" The heartless seemed to double in number at that statement and a couple of them began running straight towards Cerdic and Chrono. The one's fighting with Cerdic seemed to go down fairly easily, as if they were weaker despite there being more in number. Mora covered up her injury again and hid behind Daeni when one of the heartless lunged her way. Two others ran towards her from behind but Mora looked at them and her eyes briefly flashed gold and the two seemed to awkwardly redirect themselves to Alder. Tunnel Completion: 50%
>aelin and cstar EVEN RNG KNOWS WHAT'S UP
Take wasn't particularly fond of the way this guy attacked, something about it rubbed him the wrong way and if this guy had a stinger he might have been going through a whole other kind of PTSD but for now Take at least knew he was handling this fight okay. Though he was surprised Aria didn't have a glowly glow glow bracelet reaction to being hit this time. He hoped that was a... good thing? He didn't think about it too long and instead tried to slash another attack in while the guy took a breath from his attack. Then he lunged and managed another one before getting back into a defensive stance, glaring daggers at Bright Eyes. HP: 56 AP: 15 MP: 20
Take held up his keyblade towards Scroop and immediately began attempting to provoke the guy to try and draw away the attention and he said, "Yeah yeah, kill crush kill crush, whatever, can't kill or crush when you're dead, crabby!" he went and got himself a decent hit in before he braced himself knowing full well that was probably not the greatest idea but it wasn't like he'd been a bundle of good ideas before this point anyway. HP: 60 AP: 15 MP: 20
Takehiko was a bit thrown off when Jim had yelled for them to help Silver and Aria was running off. The boy already had firsthand experience with Silver switching his position on opinions of people depending on whether it benefited him. So Take didn't understand why he should help, when the next thing he knew he might just be jumped by the cyborg again, maybe even dying this time. But then Take remembered the night before when they were just... talking in the kitchen of the ship. The fact that Choma could sense good in the man still. Take placed a hand on his head where the first attack landed, he knew Scroop probably would have killed him if not for Silver's orders. But... He always did see people as good with only some pieces of evil. It just seemed in this case, Scroop had a lot more of those pieces. Take scoffed a bit at himself before summoning out his keyblade and running to help as well. As he got closer, he noticed the wisps of darkness emanating from the bug again and Take's eyes narrowed at him. He held back a minute while Aria cast Thunder and threw himself at Scroop with his keyblade to knock Scroop off Silver. Take then stood between Silver and Scroop, hoping someone might pull Silver back to heal him. This time, Take wasn't going to attack Scroop again, he was in defensive this time. Take sighed and said, "Honestly is it gold you want or blood? Cause at this rate I think you're just hungry for blood."
Mora accepted the help and shifted over onto the cliff and took a deep breath, getting up slowly and saying, "C-can we make sure that doesn't happen again? What even happened?" she held her side and moved closer towards the cave. She tried picking up a rock but immediately stopped to hug her side as she looked around. Shadow heartless began to appear and she quickly shifted behind Alder and Chrono, "Well, I guess there's that..." Tunnel Clearing Percentage: 40%
Takehiko eyed the place, fascinated by all the shiny objects and seeing everyone suddenly all in on the idea and Take... just didn't get it. Not the appeal or anything of the sort, but it made all of these people excited so he just shrugged it off and let them have their fun. When the captain mentioned securing a ship, he figured he would probably be one of the better ones to do that since everyone was so focused on the treasure, so he got himself walking towards the ship. As he did, Aria seemed to join him, asking about his head and he shrugged, "Oh, my head's fine. I wasn't knocked out by a hit to the head I lost air because I was being strangled... which actually... sounds a lot worse now that I say it out loud... my head is fine." He continued climbing over hill sized piles of coins, jewels, and treasures. But the only thing on his mind was how tired he was by the time he got back to the ship. He looked over and mumbled, "Wait... did I lose my mountain legs? Are you kidding me? Atmos... you softened me up... I'll get you for this." he joked, slightly, under his breath before he began looking around the ship for something to begin getting this ship afloat.
Mora had joined in with the focus on the rocks and replied to Alder, "Not... really. But I know the extractor was the start of all this, and I'm absolutely sure it is what will finish it. But what I have absolute no idea on is what exactly we need to do to finish this up." Mora grabbed a larger rock and began to carry it to a spot to clear it out of the way, when a blackish-purplish flash happened and Mora was knocked over, letting out a grunt as it happened and she flew towards the edge of the cliff. Mora tried to cling onto the cliff but lost her grip and she seemed to quickly fall down. A thud noise echo'd but after a few seconds, a pale, feminine hand popped up and Mora's head popped over. She looked extremely disoriented and having trouble keeping a grip as she said, "Help... mmmm... what.... what was..." and she felt her grip start slipping again.
Kaida didn't take any offense to the "mutant bird" comment. She had no idea what she was either, but hey if she looked edible enough to the hyenas- wait. Live bait? Kaida looked more offended by the idea her use was more needed for live bait. She was sure she wasn't the yummiest looking animal here. She looked around at the others and wodnered potentially what wolf would taste like seared before the decision seemed to be already made for her. Kaida flapped her wings and said, "You better hope I get eaten Aux. So I don't have to come and kick your butt afterwards for that." she grumbled and said, "Fine. Fine. Hula time... But I ain't doin much. I don't sit on your back or anything... I'll just... make a noise maybe once or twice..." Once the song was done, Kaida flapped her wings quickly and quickly led the charge going, "Aaaand then we ruuuuuun!"
Although Scroop's reaction to Aria's comment was cold and wordless, Silver waved his hands at him to allow it. As such Aria had pulled her keyblade out to heal Take and the black haired boy stirred and slowly began to get up asking, "What... how did I...?" he looked up and stared at Aria a moment and asked, "When did you get here?" he then heard a sharp breathing behind him and turned around to see Scroop looming over with that same intent to kill and Take said, "Oh. Hello there. I guess cranky here got the headstart. Good job, you managed to knock a kid out after an hour or two, I'm sure the captain is very proud of you." "Don't get smart with me boy. I'll snap your neck in a second." Scroop growled and Take rolled his eyes, turning to look back at Aria, "Thanks..." he stared at the ground a minute and asked the world, "Am I allowed to stand up?"
