Take summoned out his keyblade at those words and moved himself a bit closer towards where the mech was approaching. He took a deep breath and placed two hands on the handle and held it forward and called out,"Aeroga!" as he did, the wind blasted forward quickly, pushing the boy back suddenly as he let out a yelp and flew to his back. The wind quickly gathered around the mech and began to spin kind of like a tornado was forming upwards until it began to go unsteady and tip over. But as soon as it was rushing to get up the boy cast graviga. Unfortunately, that spell didn't work as he intended and seemed to have no effect on the mech easily shifting to pick itself up while Take cast aeroga two more times. This time it looked like it had a lot more trouble getting back up and Take said, "Y-Yeah that was... that was totally first try."
Kaida did not appreciate the fact that these pirates called her a "lost boy" and definitely did not like the sudden attacking. Kaida summoned out her keyblade pretty quickly and watched the others take care of some of the pirates, breaking the circle. Kaida spun her keyblade a bit and charged at two of the pirates. They held their swords out ready for attack before she dodge rolled right underneath their arms to go behind them. Kaida did not feel very confident she would get any really good hits on them considering how much shorter she was, definitely being in the 4 foot range now. She figured maybe she could get them dizzy or something like that. They began to chase her since she kept running around the mast hoping to confuse them. She ran faster and faster as they tried to keep pace. She quickly turned around as they ran and summoned out her second keyblade and rolled under them again, this time one slashing at her and just missing. They began chase around the same way again before one clicked onto an idea and told the other to run the other way. As they did, they both ran quickly around before running into each other. Kaida had jumped up onto the ladder and was looking down at them and said, "Ooosh, that looked like it hurt. I'm sure you can do better than that though! Did you want to try again?" they looked grumpily at her while she resummoned her keyblade and parried their blows as she held onto the ladder. Eventually she broke one's formation and she used the opportunity to jump off the ladder and jump off of their head. They let out a yelp in annoyance as she ran away from them towards some stairs and as they caught up she rolled past them again and ran the other way. They were clearly starting to get tired and were visibly out of breath so she used the opportunity then to hit them very quickly in many parts of their body until both of them fell to the ground not wanting to get up. Kaida smiled a bit triumphantly before running back to the rest of the group again. Kaida ran up to one that already looked dizzy from the other attacks and she jumped up and got a good hit on the back of the head and it made a ringing noise which actually made Kaida cringe a bit and say, "Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to be that har- ah!" and she quickly ducked at another pirate aiming for her and she tried to go for this one's legs. But he managed to get a grip on her shoulder to keep her from moving as she struggled yelling, "Let go let go LET GO!" and she threw thunderbell right at this guy and he backed off her dizzily while she glared at him and said, "Don't you EVER grab me. I'll cut you down!" and she held her keyblade up towards him threateningly. Pirates: 9/12 Pirate Hurt: 44/50 left Words: 508 EXP: 100 Total Munny: 30
Take was excited to show what he thought his magic would be capable of, and was extra excited when he got to go with Chrono since he felt pretty good being able to try this out without Tinarah right there like he still had training wheels. When Chrono asked about how he wanted to do this he said, "I'm gonna try and create enough wind around it to make it unstable and knock it over. While it's falling you should run in and try to get inside. I'll even cast some gravity magic on it to stay down and make it easier for you to break in... how's that sound?" he asked as he looked at Chrono, "If you have a better idea let me know."
And as seemed to be tradition, events went south quicker than she anticipated and she found herself flown into a boat before she could process it. By the time they were out of the whale the only real solace the girl had was that they at least had a midway point. As the rowboat landed suddenly on another boat and shattered, Kaida was alarmed by the pirates that had surrounded them. Kaida immediately picked herself up with her hands up dizzily to try and say, "Woah woah it isn't what you think we ju-" Kaida heard her voice and reached up to her neck in confusion before seeing how small her hands were and her hair was long. Her outfit was something similar to what she used to wear on her homeworld: bright yellow dress with no pattern with an armband that looked like it had a flashlight connected to it. She was noticeably younger, about 8 or 9, and definitely a lot shorter and she let out a sudden shriek of fear at her form and didn't even bother finishing with what she was trying to say to the colorful pirates.
Stat time! 10 crowns for 1 strength 10 crowns for 1 defense and 110 crowns for 11 magic totaling a beautiful 9 crowns left (sob) stats now: Strength- 30 (+6) Defense- 26 Magic- 43 Crowns- 9
Kaida was very surprised when Karina walked up to her and started giving her gifts. Yes, she did contribute to the previous conversation as much as she could, but it still felt quick. She looked at Castur when she mentioned the jacket and she said under her breath, "Wait, who are you and why would you wipe blood on my..." Kaida shook her head a minute before looking at Karina with a smile and saying, "Thank you, I didn't think anyone would catch onto the pin thing, it was just gonna be a silent collection, but I'm more than happy to get two more as a gift." Kaida shifted to put the two pins on her bag and when she was done she reached into a pocket and held out a cat charm and held it towards Karina, "This is for you. I sat there thinking 'what animal reminds me of Karina' and cat was the first thing that came to mind." The blonde stopped a moment and scratched her head and said, "That probably sounds really weird huh? I hope you're more of a cat than a dog person at least."
Kaida was alarmed by the sudden appearance of a mouse that popped out of her pouch. The blonde looked alarmed and looked into it to see if there were other hidden compartments she had in there she somehow missed. She looked at a couple of the wooden charms she still had to give and took them out of her bag and looked over at the mice as they spoke and said, "I don't know what a yank is but it sounds like an insult so I'd watch yourself." Kaida did pause a moment and continued, "Continuing with the reunion point though. If I recall correctly Olympus was mentioned? I don't remember if it was the coliseum or if they meant actual Olympus either way Olympus was mentioned." Kaida looked over at Beuce and said, "Yo king. Have a horse. I bred it just for you." and she flicked the charm over at Beuce hoping he'd catch it as she looked at the others, "Unless anyone else has a better idea on a reunion point? I would say Central Haven since that's my personal default but we all know the answer to that one."
buying breaker for 100 medals
There was a moment where Take was trying to think about whether he could meet any of the magic requirements before he suddenly grinned and got a little excited and snapped his fingers a couple times before pointing and saying,"I can't do any electricity or slowing of time. Buuuuut I can make the air go woosh woosh around intensely like a tornado." he thought a little longer and held out a second finger on his right hand and said, "I can also make it so they remember what gravity feels like. Yes this is with magic. I can do that." he clapped his hands together and looked over at Tinarah and Chrono super excited, "I can do that!"
"I feel like judging him for not knowing us well and then trying to interrogate who he is afterwards isn't gonna help on our end of that problem." Take eventually responded as he rubbed the back of his neck and asked, "But I am curious, how exactly do you know about Ardyn? And if you knew you didn't have the strength to take down the Gigas before, was it because you tried? Would that make it extra guarded?" He thought for a moment and asked, "Do they have any of those Gigas patrolling streets? We could try to take a couple away from the factory and get in using them. At the very least if they are prepared we would have plausibly even more of an advantage... that's all I've got to offer." he looked to Tinarah and Chrono and asked, "Would they be arrogant enough to think no one would be able to steal their own weapons from them?"
Kaida let out a bit of a giggle in the middle of tears and said, "Oh yeah? Where'd ya get it reforged? A whale known smithy?" she hugged him back just as long as he hugged her. When she stopped she rubbed her eyes and said, "Yeah sure. Cool guy image. Definitely the priority... heh." in an obvious tease as she looked over to the others and said, "So it seems we have a lot more people than I thought... although Aislinn doesn't seem to be anywhere... who's faces don't I know..." she looked and pointed towards Faust and stared at Castur a moment before saying at a whisper, "He was the one with Karina before... then there's Marx who's new... so 3... then Karina probably needs catching up if she hasn't already so... this should be fine. Okay." Kaida clapped her hands together as the tears finally seemed to clear up and she said, "Before anything happens that splits us up again, we should try to convene and share notes?" she looked specifically over at Beuce because she knew at least he was listening. And maybe anyone else in the area heard her too, since she didn't say the last sentence at a low volume or anything.
Kaida smiled a bit watching the trio giggling together and messing around... but it made her heart hurt too and she couldn't place why and a tear dripped down her face. She quickly rubbed it away before trying to hide behind a bit of a smile. She looked over towards everyone else but the first thing she did was say, "Beuce, I'm glad your keyblade wasn't accidentally destroyed like I thought it was when I used it to jaws of life a giant crab that tried to eat me cause I wasn't shiny enough to be considered a worthwhile object to keep." she paused after a long moment and said, "That... sounded hilarious when I actually said it out loud." Kaida felt more tears coming down and she was full on crying at a certain point and said, "Man that's so stupid... why... ah..." Kaida covered her face when she realized how the tears were pouring out and admitted, "Sorry I'm just... I'm so glad you are all okay... I'm so lame..."
"From the way things sound we're going to be running into them later anyway..." Take eventually chimed in as he looked over toward Illiana, "I know you wanna get your brother and all but wouldn't it be better for you to do when we have a better plan put together and you aren't running off the initial energy rush of 'oh he's here'?" Take paused a second before waiting for an answer he shrugged and started walking towards Chrono and Tinarah to head where they wanted to hide out before looking back at Illiana, "Plus, despite you not thinking you need it. We could help you, ya know if you decide to let us. Offer's there..."
Kaida threw phoenix down and ultra potion
Kaida threw ether (x2)
I don't know if this has been discussed on any other forum at this rate but this topic has been driving me crazy when I think further about it. So as far as what the public understanding of "norting" was. It was when someone (specifically Xehanort) put his heart inside another person and essentially seized control. We referred to the 13 darknesses having been norted respectively. But... were they? We got to see a lot of them operate and they had their own personalities, their own agendas. Some didn't even end up helping Xehanort in any form by the end of it. So it only begs the question "what did he actually do to them?" Unless the whole system was essentially making people "half xehanort" (like what Xigbar implied happen to him), it seemed very odd to me that this plan would have worked at all if he managed to have gotten Sora. How did we know he wouldn't pull a Vexen? Or would it have ended up working more like... what happened with Aqua? You see we ended up with the scene where Ansem injected some sort of dark thing into Aqua and it ended up making her heart fall to darkness and despair. And I feel like in a situation where Sora was hit with Xehanort's heart something similar would happen. I don't think NORTING is the act of possessing someone. I think it's the act of influencing someone's heart to fall to darkness. He just used his own heart as the catalyst. Or possibly to make them more compliant. The act of possessing someone's body is a different thing entirely with a different set of rules requiring someone to give up their old body in order for it to work. I've been referring to it as being "Luxu'd" now instead and I will whenever I bring it up further in this thread (but not in casual discussion because norted has become the common term). Named specifically after the fact Luxu has been doing the same thing which is how he's ended up in the body he calls Xigbar now. Now I could have missed something completely with how the characters actually acted but considering they seemed to have their own agendas and emotional arcs I have a very hard time believing there wasn't more than just influence to fall to darkness. But if someone has something to point out please lmk.
Weirded out by how possession seemed to just happen Kaida decided to vanish Kaida used Ninja Vanish
Take had been pretty convinced the second the hand went up it was going to be a show. It may have been context clues since it wasn't like something he was used to. But when he saw Tinarah react he had quickly tried to follow after her but got a bit lost in the shuffle of the crowd freaking out. It wasn't until things seemed to be under control he was able to catch up at the tail end of whatever Tinarah was whispering about and watched Chrono and say his piece. Take looked at the machines and asked quietly at first, "You think the Light Chaser would be interested in something like this? I mean they look cool and effective at defense but I mean." Take cleared his throat and pointed to himself and said intentionally being a little vain, "I look cool and am effective at defense." he paused a moment and said a bit louder, "These don't look particularly amazing for anything on the offense. And they don't look very maneuverable either. What would a benefit for this be unless you're taking on something just as big and also not as manu-" he paused a second and stared a long time at them before clicking his fingers against a rail and asked, "Hm... do you think they're fireproof?"
When Aux asked her the question about what she wanted to ask Sora she raised an eyebrow and asked, "What would I even ask him as a kid who seemingly knows nothing yet? Get real..." Kaida watched as Sora managed to hurt this heartless by tripping and dropping the potion which seemed like the most "of course" thing to ever happen and that was saying a lot considering what she'd been through the past few months. After Stratos started throwing Kaida pelted two potions at it herself and hoped for the best. Kaida threw a potion and a hi-potion
Take felt immediately uncomfortable when he heard Fost's orders about Chrys. Not because he trusted Chrys or anything, and not because of any form of pride that may have been there. But because of how much of a jerk he was about saying it. When a distrust is places so heavily out there he had no idea how Chrys would even begin to feel comfortable if she was someone who wanted to stick around to do the right thing... and wasn't just here because she was chased away from the chasers (Take internally found that sentence hilarious and figured he'd save that potential joke for later). As they continued on, Tinarah and Chrono focused special attention on an airship and looked up and mumbled,"...something... demonstration... at central plaza in 1 hour. Don't miss out on the future... did I get that? I think I got it..." he kind of wanted to have asked louder but he decided not to. The boy crossed his arms as he followed them towards the plaza and said, "It didn't say it was free should we be worried about that?"
