"Turn into a giraffe!" Kaida replied instantly kind of enjoying the whole animal changing thing. She clapped her hands and rubbed them together with a mocking devilish grin, "Swing your neck at your enemies to perfect the art of war." Kaida paused a minute and looked a little disappointed and looked towards AJ, "I was kind of hoping to make a funny pun about like... having him turn into a giant gorilla and go into attack and call it 'gorilla warfare' but I got set on the giraffe thing cause I thought it was funny and now the fun of it is gone." she was quiet and then sighed, "Proooobably the shark then."
Take really wasn't sure what he was going to do at this point. He knew he was riled up after seeing the dragon, probably to an unnecessary degree than he needed to be. And with the way conversations seemed to be going today, he didn't wanna even bother trying since he knew he'd probably piss off someone. He thought about just going out for a jog, probably the same route Boreas took them all on the first time he jogged. But his mind became distracted by hearing a constant mewing and Nini looking up at him. He looked down at her with the most unamused face ever but eventually asked, "What, are you hungry?" at the question the cat started running and headed towards the front of the castle, so Take just went along with this ride since there was nothing better to do. Nini kept a little bit of a pace ahead and kept stopping occasionally to look back and see if Take was still following her, and he was doing so at a rather glacial pace. He had no idea where this cat was going but the further and further they got from the castle the more he kept looking back in hesitation. He stopped a minute to keep looking at the castle and not long after he did Nini stopped in her spot and kept mewing again. He sighed and said, "Alright. Alright..." and continued on. He didn't really pay attention to the direction there, just kind of watching the tiny black cat walk until she suddenly started running and Take looked better in that direction. The first thing he noticed was the spot, which he admittedly found quite beautiful and peaceful. Then he noticed the stones and wasn't entirely sure what was going on until he got closer and gave a closer look at the stone. When the realization hit, he felt quite a bit of sudden heartache. They were little grave markers. They didn't look like the ones he had at his home so it had taken him a bit longer but he understood. He watched Nini shift her way over towards the one marked for Mika and curl up beside it looking sad. Takehiko knelt on down closer towards them and looked at the names. These weren't people he knew very well and he knew that. Mika, the first of Choma's students he met who he was grouped with in Eventide, someone with a lot of energy and a good sense of humor. someone Take felt guilt over the fact he may have been able to save her had he not been idly chatting by with Torrin. Glyde, the kid who randomly fell from the sky one day and wouldn't wake up, who was quiet and distant but a pretty good gunner who he wished he gave a lot more praise and appreciation when he was there. Adalric, someone he barely knew who he thought seemed pretty approachable and was definitely a good fighter. And Dentro, someone who may have caused them quite a bit of grief over being on the other side, but maybe in other circumstances could have been someone he got along with very well. The boy sat in silence and closed his eyes for a moment, and in his mind he could see the graves of his brothers in front of him. He didn't exactly remember when he stopped going to mourn, probably before Yasushi died. He only remembered seeing his grave once anyway. He felt so much anger and sadness and a bittersweet feeling looking back at the positive memories he had with them. The positive memories he had with Mika and Glyde even though they were few. And a deep feeling of worry that he was going to feel this way again about another person if there were more losses. He knew there were casualties in war and accepted that, but it didn't mean it was easy to cope with when you knew them beyond a face and a name. He took a deep breath to calm down and stop thinking about it too much. He had the urge to get up and go and do something so he wasn't wasting his time. But at the same time there was so much he didn't know if he really wanted to think about anything. And without really thinking about it he had started to meditate inwardly. Not really thinking about anything. Just listening to the wind rustling the leaves, the quiet snoring a breathing of Nini, and just the sounds of nature.
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Take had kept his hand held up a little longer even after she had backed up and away from him. He looked a little confused and unsure but soon let his hand fall back towards his side. Maybe his politeness came across too fake? He felt pretty genuine about it even if it was coming from a place of necessity rather than want. But at the rate everything seemed to be going, everything just kept going downhill. First Boreas and Illiana had already run off after making absolutely certain to make Chrysanthemum uncomfortable. Then Tinarah stated getting at it rather quickly with Fost which was surprising. And then suddenly there was a kid with... Take's body completely turned as his immediate reaction was to summon his keyblade and stand on guard upon seeing dragons. But he quickly realized what exactly was going on and made a loud noise of disgust and said, "I'm out. I'm not dealing with another dragon situation today." he waved towards Chrys and said, "Well, Chrysanthemum. We don't need to be close or anything but if you need any help with anything just look for me and I'll do my best. Or... ya know... don't if you don't need it... free will and all that... mmm..." and he summoned away his keyblade and went to walk away. Nini had wriggled her way out of TInarah's arms mewing and ran her way towards Take and followed after him.
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Take had not expected a sudden crowd when he asked that question, but Boreas seemed to go ahead and answer it. So it was a civil war. This made Takehiko have several more questions that he wanted to ask, but then even more people joined the courtyard... then some master he didn't recognize came in with a girl he didn't recognize. But he introduced himself and... kind of introduced the student. He mentioned something about a change of heart which made Take wonder if this girl was one of the Light Chaser's students or something? It could have just been they were trying to convince more kids to fight while they stayed all cozy in their castle, but he wasn't exactly getting that impression. Especially once he mentioned her being a former enemy and if she was under their protection he wondered if they had run into her before? He didn't hear anything about it a girl on the Light Chaser's side. Either way, he'd never seen this girl before, so he didn't have any particular contempt for her. And since everyone seemed to be focusing more on Fost and glaring daggers at the girl... Take just decided to walk on over towards the blond haired girl and he held his hand out towards her,"I don't think we've met before anyway. My name's Takehiko, you can just call me Take. Good to have you on board."
After a bit of Thea's yelling, a deep baritone voice boomed out, "I'm right here!" there was a pause when they both looked around in different directions to look for the source of the voice and he shouted, "No not that way. Right here. No! To the left! Gah! Behind you! KID, LOOK DOWN!" When they finally turned to look at them, they looked very agitated. Spoiler: Paul Tater, Master Baiter "Poseidon's shoes, are your perception skills normally this bad?" Paul began to look at the two curiously and skeptically and rubbed his chin, "A shame... they could only afford t' send twoya? Mmm, hopefully it's quality for lack of quantity." he began to walk past the two and said, "C'mon. We gotta get goin' else we'll miss the best o'the catches. Hope ya got yer boatin gloves and didn't eat a heavy meal. I've got potatoes at the boat if ya didn't eat yet." they kept walking without a care or even checking to see if they followed. He had a large fishing rod he was holding and walking with, carrying it with no sweat despite the size being a problem.
Take was in a strange middle ground. He was well aware he overreacted when this wasn't all necessarily Qamar's fault. But before he apologized Boreas had come up and reaffirmed another feeling, one where he wasn't fond of the idea of being coddled. It eventually just resulted in Take zeroing back to the status quo and letting his keyblade disappear as he held his head and said,"It was a risk we chose when we decided to work with your powers and use keyblades. I'll admit I overreacted a bit." he rubbed his head and felt something wet and looked at his hand which had some blood on it. Not enough for him to really be concerned about it as he said, "I'll be alright without a heal. But maybe more of a warning as to the limitations of the duel? I wasn't even aware keyblade transformations or anything like that was fair play. Especially considering all I was doing was guarding." he walked to grab his water bottle and took a sip and looked over at Boreas and smirked a bit and said, "I know why you overreacted to the comment about royal crests now. Well, some of it." his smile faded quickly and he admitted, "I do have a kind of random question though... since the more I hear about little details the more confused I get." he sipped his water and put away the bottle and asked, "In your homeworld... is the war against heartless? Or is it against other people?"
Take stared straight at her with a look of much concern when the keyblade stabbed just by his head. He stood up and wasn't entirely sure when and why Qamar was starting to go all out in her attacks. He kept his keyblade up and was blocking most of her attacks but after a while his arms hurt and just as he was about to readjust she knocked the key out of his hands and as it flew up into the air he was knocked back by her other keyblade half. His reaction time to another attack afterwards made it so he managed to back away from another swipe but he hadn't noticed his keyblade had started coming back down and hit him straight on the head. The boy instantly grabbed his head pained and took one more of Qamar's attacks. His key hit the ground and disappeared and the boy stopped everything and took a knee,"Okay OKAY STOP!" he wasn't even looking at her he just kept holding his head and kept his face down towards the ground. After a minute he growled out, "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
Take was concerned when she started attacking him with darkness, but was actually more surprised that it wasn't... hurting him. Well, it hurt him, but more because of her own force behind her punches and pulling the chains. When he watched her react the way she did to using the darkness and being afraid of hurting him, he opened his mouth to reply and assure her it wasn't even all that bad, but then he was tripped and fell straight onto his back and gasped out in surprise as he made impact. He thought that was very uncalled for, and his reaction was just to go and trip Qamar back.
"No I didn't mean it like-" Take realized he was pretty defensive over a fairly innocent comment but cut it off as soon as she decided to start hugging him. Which just made him react with a blink as he just kind of let it happen. He was starting to get a bit used to the hugging he supposed, he was getting quite a few of them lately. When she mentioned the mosquito he shifted to go and look only to not see anything, as he expected. He did miss Qamar's comment about them not existing and just kind of kept staring in the implied space as she stood up and summoned out her keyblade and mentioned sparring. He didn't quite get the whole gist of the conversation as he summoned out his keyblade and responded, "Yeah sure, I don't see why not." unaware of what exactly he just consented to as he got back into a defensive stance and refocused from the invisible mosquito to Qamar.
Take listened to her side of the story and getting into a scuffle with Illiana sounded about right. At least from what he'd known from her if people weren't prepared to handle her... quirks. But when she got closer to finishing her statement she asked him if he was a prince of heart and he sighed and said, "Well, apparently I am. It was news to me. Thinking about it longer it made sense but it still feels... off." he took another sip of his water and shifted his sitting position and said, "You really shouldn't be worried about Aria. She can handle herself fine, and from what I can tell she definitely doesn't like the coddling. I know I wouldn't have liked it, and I still don't like it. Now I feel like people are constantly looking at me." he looked around for a moment and said, "Could be paranoia. Or the Flammie stalking in the clouds or something." Take looked up nervously before looking to Qamar, "I mean I guess I'm just assuming you're coddling her. You might not be, but the people who tend to worry the most about Aria usually are the one's who do it. Ya know who needs to be coddled? Tinarah." he chugged his water this time quickly before wiping his mouth and looking at Qamar, "And by coddle I mean that girl needs a hug. And by a hug I mean don't run up at her hugging cause I said that."
So much had happened in the span of several minutes that she wasn't entirely sure what to respond to. On one hand, she could have reacted to the fact they barely got out of there from the giant crab. On the other hand, she could have agreed to helping with fighting this Ta Ka creature. It wasn't like they had a good way to get out of here and maybe after all of this they could get a proper boat to try and find others. Maybe a little more carefully and better equipped for a storm. But all that stopped when the fish hook started glowing. When Maui mentioned the princess of heart, she was surprised he knew what that was. Unless he was faking the name for the SOS or something and actually knew them. But before she could even address that, the companion that was a wolf was now not a wolf. This shouldn't have thrown her off as much as it did, but mayb it was because of how much like a wolf this person had acted before... this. And they said they were normal again. Again. So this was their normal state. Her reminder of the wolf licking her face and wrapping itself around her to keep her warm when she fell in the water made her start without thinking much about it wiping her face vigorously with the sleeve of her shirt before she cleared her throat and held a single finger up before she lost her thoughts and her question and just kind of stood there with a face that made it look like her mind was rebooting. Finally she just said, "Well, hey, at least I don't know two wolves with keyblades now..." she looked unsure of her own response before she walked towards the boat and sat down at the edge of it and said, "Well, I for one say we go for Tika. We made it this far and I guess it would only be fair to finish what we've sta- okay what is your name and why were you just playing up the wolf act?"
Take didn't feel like a break was necessary, but he went with it anyway since Qamar seemed intent on it. And from what he gathered, she was just curious about what happened on their end of things. The boy rubbed the back of his neck as he let his keyblade disappear and he also sat down."Um, I'm not sure what you mean by 'better' but we did help them by keeping lookout while the city was rebuilt. There was a random duck who showed up claiming to be a superhero, there were some hats that did mind control stuff... I'm not entirely sure if their whole plan was well thought out... then we had to go deal with some heartless that got into the core of the world and I mean, I don't know what happened with Torrin and Boreas but Chrono, Tinarah, and me got to square off against the clown. It wasn't fun but we did it, and then we went to bed. Then we went to find you guys. The only other thing I think is important to note is the fact that Torrin got sliced out of the sky by the guy with the hat and the swords. But I figured you figured that out." Take pulled a water bottle out of his bag and took a sip before saying, "Probably more detailed than you wanted but trust me, I cut out the unnecessaries."
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When the two made the switch to keyblades, Take's blocks were a lot less refined though his timing still seemed pretty good. But he also was a bit thrown off since Qamar suddenly decided to just start doing flips and tricks along with her attacks, which compared to with the swords was definitely new, but he just kind of let it happen. Her attacks being a bit faster made it hard to telegraph her attacks and a couple more broke through as he tried to readjust on the fly to moving slightly faster. As she asked questions he blocked a couple more attacks before responding, "From what people tell me, I was trained young. But I've heard of people training when younger than I started." he missed blocking one of her attacks which got him in the side and he stepped away from her at that and grabbed his side a moment before re-positioning again, "And I'm sixteen." he didn't sound particularly offended that she guessed fifteen, he didn't mind people being a couple years off. It was when people asked him if he was twelve or thirteen he really started having problems. He looked her over a minute and said, "And what, I'm guessing you are around twenty? If you're older than that it's whatever, I hear girls like being told they look younger after a certain age.... mainly by girls." Take took a step back a moment to cast cure on himself since he started feeling it quite a bit more. From that point on he'd try to sneak some attacks in after blocks, not going too hard since he knew they were sparring, but it was totally to get back at her a little at this rate. "Anyway, I don't think it was difficult for the most part. But I don't have much to compare it to. I do know it spiked up in difficulty before I was sent off to train with a keyblade, but otherwise after about half a year of boot camp I was in the front lines by the time I was eleven." Take shrugged a bit and said, "I'd say that's young but everyone in my company was between the ages of ten and twelve. Training wasn't the difficult part, the war was."
Her name starts with a Q? Take ended up asking himself as he continued his way out towards the courtyard. When Qamar told him to take off his jacket so it "wouldn't get dirty" and "because it was hot" he raised an eyebrow a bit amused and looked at his jacket. There was very little she necessarily knew but he found her comments amusing since he didn't care if his jacket was dirty, it was designed for combat scenarios in the first place. And he didn't even want to get into the "too hot" comment, mainly because he didn't wanna think about the several times he was set on fire by a dragon soaring down towards him. So the boy kept the jacket on, though he did place his bag down sine he didn't think it was necessary to have the extra weight. As Qamar passed him the sword and tried to explain how using a sword worked, he was wondering if she really had no idea he was raised as a soldier. Cause this seemed like babying as far as he was aware and while a part of him knew it was well intentioned another part of him wanted to call her out on it. When she warned she was going to start, Take hadn't given himself time to get a proper stance. So when she went in for the first jab, he had jumped back a bit. When he realized it was a feint he shifted to block the attack towards his left side. He held it there a moment before pushing her back and saying, "A little too early I'll admit but I should be fine now." As Take repositioned himself to prepare for more attacks, his stance was far more refined than it usually was when he used his keyblade. His posture was proper and he seemed to be able to balance himself a lot better. Considering he was raised to use a sword and a shield together, this didn't surprise him since it was much easier to hold the wooden sword one-handed than his keyblade. He only felt a little uneven for the lack of shield. From that point on, Take just seemed to be pretty focused on attempting to anticipate Qamar's attacks to block them. But a couple hits definitely broke through at him. Since she wasn't trying to hit him hard, he didn't feel the need to ask for any healing. After a little while the boy loosened up slightly and said, "I don't feel like I'm getting much out of this, so I hope you are."
"There are kind eagles hiding inside king's orchards." Take responded pretty quickly before continuing, "High in deserts are killer ants." he sat there mouthing things out before saying "T-a-k-e-h-i-k-o." he looked at Qamar and said, "That's how I remembered how to spell it when I need it. I had a couple of those for my brothers: I want an orange. I-w-a-o. Shores hug oceans, just improperly. S-h-o-j-i. Your always standing under sunlight heavily impeded. Y-a-s-u-s-h-i. Angels knit innocent offerings. A-k-i-o." Take paused a second and said, "I've only ever made two more. Apples trees must outgrow shrubs. A-t-m-o-s. Can he really only need otters? C-h-r-o-n-o. Don't tell Chrono that's what I think every time I spell his name I think he'll think too much about it, wondering why otters." Take realized he went a little too long on that topic and just repeated, "T-a-k-e-h-i-k-o. Anyway, yeah um... wait... invisible mosquitoes? Then... how do you know they're actually there?" he seemed skeptical but went over to the kitchen to put Tinarah's food aside before he headed towards the door and said, "I'll head towards the courtyard then."
Take looked over at Qamar when she started speaking to him and he admitted,"I'm fine... my mind's just all over the place..." he looked over where Tinarah had run off until he heard Qamar mentioned the library and winced a bit and looked back at her with a straight face, "I actually was considering going for a jog to work off breakfast rather than doing reading, I spent all morning doing that." he looked to Chrono and Tinarah's plates and he went to clean up Chronos and wrapped up Tinarah's and pulled a marker out and ended up writing Tinarera on it before he looked back at Qamar, "What did you have in mind otherwise? Need a meat shield to hit repeatedly?" he paused a long moment before saying, "No I don't enjoy getting hurt it's just that usually when it comes to sparring that's basically all I... what did you have in mind?"
