Blue Action to copy Kaida's speed and using December Snow, Vorpal Blitz and Strike Raid on the face of the wind Titan.
Its time for the annual Moksha spending spree First off, gonna buy me Dolphin Kick, Grave Digger, Powerline, Sliding Dash, Ice Barrage and the Diamond Dust keyblade Next gonna spend 100 crowns on MP, 80 on Resistance, 90 crowns on Defense and 90 on Speed (40 if I don't have the extra 50 Crowns) And lastly gonna redeem some achievement points to get the HP Up, both AP Ups, 50 crowns, another HP Up and an accessory ticket. (Disclaimer; I am not entirely sure how much of these I actually can still get other than last HP Up and Accessory ticket. So feel free to ignore all before those if something's wrong) And also getting/equipping Blue Mage Stats should (hopefully) be as followed. Munny - 3950 Crowns - 9 HP - 128 MP - 10 (+2) Spd - 30 (+3) Def - 37 (+5) Res - 30 (+5) Skill Commands Sliding Dash Strike Raid Vorpal Blitz Blizzaga Ice Barrage December Snow Fox Taser
With the crowd having fled soon after the cyclops had made its entrance, the plan to trip it lost its share of risks with them being the only ones in the arena now. Especially since Jehct was forcibly removed by the cyclops itself. "On it!" Kel answered before turning his full attention back to the cyclops before it did to him what it had so proudly done to Jecht. He moved out of the way to avoid the risked of being stepped on in time for Karina to have tossed the other end of some rope of him. He nodded at her request and gripped the part of the rope that he held. "Consider it done." It had already been shown that the two of them working together with their strength can pull off some impressive feats. Toppling a giant such as this would be the same as long as they worked together.
Even Kel, who had been keeping a close eye on Luther once it was known that he was Nequa's side, had been caught off guard when Karina's attack had struck nothing. It was unknown to him at what point Luther had gotten behind her, or how fast he had to have moved to have achieved that. It left a bud of concern when it came time to inevitably fight him, as well as whoever else, was on Nequa's side. "Next time we see him, he likely won't be letting us just walk away either." In the moment he had turned to look back to the fight, the others had appeared in a flash of light. Naturally, that was followed by a cyclops intruding on the final match. Maybe AJ was right and that this tournament was fishy, even if he had no reason to think so until literally a few moments ago. Jumping over the railing, not using his arms as that would lead to potential failure given they were only just starting to feel better. Landing on the ground in time to see Karina outright just deck Jecht in the face, he instead looked to Stratos saying "Congrats on making it to the finals by the way."
As the situation around them continued to escalate around them, AJ had provided some clarity that did less to ease him and more so put him on edge. He wasn't certain, but the 'Red Society' failed to ring any bells in his head, but the mere mentioning of the name Nequa had sent a multitude of warning bells throughout his body that had quickly got on guard for what was to come and a glare directed towards Luther. Talk of the supposed traitor only served to irritate him further as his fist tightened, yet he restrained himself from calling his keyblade. Kel irritation only grew knowing how right Beuce was regarding their chances. He'd only just gotten healed to the point in which where he could actually move his arms. What he could do now was nowhere near what he could to do normally. Karina eventually attacked and Luther's presumed 'friend' had attempted to defuse the situation. Regardless of that working on not, Kel had remained on in the event something else was tried.
Kel had definitely started feeling better after AJ's healing, more notably in his arms as they became much easier to move around. The healing had allowed him to relax his body so that despite him still sitting, he wouldn't experience any pain just by moving slightly. Karina's sudden hostility was odd as Kel had no idea who this guy was. He could guess based on her question about Lea that he was one of the ones she'd met while she was off on her own, but beyond that nothing. Faust, who properly introduced himself thus confirming that Kel had the right name in mind, approached him soon after. "I'm Kel and I actually don't know. I guess he did something to some of her other friends." He only knew of them and vaguely saw some of them during the last heartless horde they had to fight.
The moment Kel had gotten warped back to the waiting area, his legs had turned to jelly and he immediately collapsed onto his rear. He knew that his arms were in immense pain from all of Karina's attacks, but it had only just hit him how worn out his body was from that fight. He had just enough energy to look around and see who else was here too. AJ and Beuce were here, as was that guy he'd meant while in Monstro. Faust? Sounds about right. That meant that Karina and Stratos were the only ones left in the tournament in their group. Well, that was until Karina had ended up warped in here too, immediately blaming him for her loss. Which while fair, he looked up to her and said, "If it makes you feel any better, I probably wouldn't have done any better given the shape you left me in." By this point, his arms were still bruised as they just sat in his lap.
It had happened just as fast as his own attack. He felt his keyblade connect with her as he caught a glimpse of her striking his keyblade towards him. At the time he'd figured that he'd be finished with his attack before she could finish hers. Now, however, he was lying on the ground in an immense amount of pain. "Ow. Okay, what the heck was that?" Kel wasn't even trying to hide his confusion as he slowly worked his way to a sitting position. He may have had the strength to get back on his feet, but to swing his keyblade was a different matter entirely. Kel soon saw that Karina was still standing and sighed. "Guess I'll take this as a loss, but only this time."
Both of his attacks had hit their marks and yet Karina didn't do anything in response. No witty remark, not the counter-attack of her own, nothing. She just stood there, staring right at him with a roaring fire in her eyes. That and the growing power coursing through the arena were both reasons keeping Kel from immediately attacking. Whatever she was doing, it was gonna be big and his instincts were telling him that it would be best to stop her now before it could go off. Kel adjusted his footing and held his keyblade to his side, taking in a deep breath he vanished. Leaving a trail of cherry blossoms behind him as he intended to end this with a Zantesuken of his own.
Fortunately Kel was able to adjust his hand to block Karina punch, fighting through the stinging that followed through his arms as he was knocked away from her. Before he was able to prepare a counterattack of his own, the spot Karina had punched soon detonated and while all his limbs were still intact, it definitely hurt, to say the least. "Good move, but try this one." With keyblade in hand, he stuck it into the keyblade calling forth a torrent of waves that surged towards Karina. Even if she should manage to avoid this attack, the ground around her would still be wet with water, making it the perfect conductor for the electricity that shot forth from his keyblade.
Kel had briefly thought that things were going exactly as he thought they would as he saw Karina prepping for her next attack, but that illusion came to an end when he recognized the attack that she was preparing as Zantesuken. This revelation greatly limited what he could do to feasibly prepare for this strike. His keyblade was still away from him, leaving him wide open even if he took the time to call it back to him. Time was running out and Kel did the one thing that he could think to do and brought in his arms to defend himself against the blow that had connected moments after the decision was made. It was a strong hit, one that had knocked him back, but fighting through the pain in his arms Kel's ice-coated keyblade returned to him in time for him to make a strong leap towards Karina as a barrier formed around her. The barrier crashing into her was sure to do some damage and he had every intention to follow that collision up with a strike from his keyblade while he was that close.
Kel had kept a close watch on Karina as she circled around him, not taking his eyes off her for a second. One of the two things that had been successfully beaten into him, both figuratively and literally, was to not take your eyes off your opponent lest you give them an opening to attack. He remained on guard, keyblade in hand, waiting for her to make the first move. It became clear that Karina wasn't going to be the one to make the first move, leaving that up to him. There were a number of ways that he could go about that and most of those definitely left him open for a counter-attack. This is where lesson two came into play, be one step ahead of your opponent, which made him wonder if he could bait out Karina's attack and respond in kind. Kel waited until Karina had walked in front of him again before leaping back and tossing his keyblade at her. Midflight the spinning blade was coated with a thick sheet of ice as it drew closer to its target.
Given that Vincent had been one of Kel thought looked on the stronger side of things, he was quite surprised when the fight had ended in one blow from him. It was short and he did win, but it didn't really feel like he had earned it. His next match would not have the issue as he was paired off against Karina. "And whatever those differences maybe, I won't go down without a fight. So may the better man win." This seems to fit within his general luck, somehow manage to get an easy win in the first round, then get put up against someone that will make him work for a victory. He held no complaints though as while he held no real drive for the tournament's prize, his competitive side was looking forward to this match.
Kel shall attack, with Vorpal Blitz
I am uncaged...I CAN use my turn to unlock Beuce
Kel did the only thing he really could do an attacked.
Kel used Fist Bump and Splattercombo on the cage
Seeing Vincent avoid his attack with ease, it was a pretty quick indicator on how he should approach this fight. Range would not the best against someone who could just easily outclass him in it. He avoided the bullets until the next time Vincent had to reload before beginning his charge, covering his approach with a burst of thunder as he further moved to closed the distance between the two. With one more step, Kel's offensive had begun with three consecutive upper slashes towards Vincent.
Kel had just enough time to wonder why he was given the unlucky number of 13 before being whisked away by black smoke to where he assumed he would be fighting. It was much smaller than he was expecting, especially considering that they were fighting in a coliseum. He'd thought that they would have the entire arena for their fights. Oh well, there was still enough room to move around. When the intros came rolling, he was confused by Vincent more so. Did he really look gloomy and creepy at all right now? Seeing Vincent hang his head though, Kel opt to not question that any of that any further and instead whispered back "And I don't think you're spooky either." The fight soon began and so did the rain of bullets from up above. Dodging out of the way, Kel responded by launching his keyblade out towards his cloaked opponent.
Kel listened to what AJ had told him and the whole curse that would make them younger made him feel somewhat better about ending up in space with a bunch of space pirates. When it came to everything about Hades though, that was a different matter as he didn't really know who that was, so as far as he knew there was no reason for him to be suspicious of anything regarding this tournament. Least for right now as given their general luck, something could easily come up and change that midway through the competition. "I've been alright considering that I got spat into space and met some less than friendly space pirates." He chose to leave out the fact that he nearly died twice, once cause of Castur pushing buttons and another when an entire planet was rigged to explode.
