At the rate they were going some of the walls could possibly be destroyed by the end of this fight. With Pete still reeling form the attacks that Raisor had done to him, it was again Kel's time to strike. He pointed the far end of his keyblade towards Pete and cast gravity to further unbalance him and lift him off the ground. With his MP, he could be able to cast about four more spells this post so spell number two he'd chosen was stop, freezing the overgrown fool in the air. Next, with the aid of aero, he launched himself towards the frozen Pete while tossing his keyblade towards him. The keyblade was the first to strike him and was followed by a punch to the gut from Kel. Despite all this, being frozen in time had prevented him from feeling the damage from his attacks, for now at least. On its trip back to him, Kel caught his keyblade and casted square directly under him. The Preparation had been complete and with a quick snap of his fingers, time resumed for Pete. The pain from Kel's blows, gravity wearing off and his falling onto the mines below had all happened at the same time. To make it worse on him, the mines exploded dealing even more pain to the large about that Pete was experiencing all at one time. Pete: 225/300
"I figured that much and he did succeed at riling them up." Hasu just being a guild member wasn't the answer he was hoping to get. He'd thought that there would be some more specific to it not just he was a member of the guild. So their reasoning for nearly attacking Kageyama right off the bat was simply personal. Figures. "However they got the information isn't the issue right now, if we can't the guy then we can interrogate him then. By this point Zephyr had placed his hands into his pocket, so when Cassandra had asked about a possible location, he just shrugged his shoulders. "He was too busy talking about Hasu and threatening Ander to say, so I guess we're Kunugi Station then." Things were definitely interesting as everyone who had their bodies swapped with someone else reacted to the situation in various ways. There were the ones who were calm, the somewhat panicked ones and the ones who had urges because of the bodies that they were now in. It was quite a sight to be seen, that much was for sure. That was about when a girl named Rennette had spread her arms out pretending to be something else which didn't last long. Charlotte had spoken up about finding out more about the spell and hopefully finding out a way to reverse it. Seeing as how only one person at the time had the paper prior to all this and said person had turned it into a paper airplane and threw it in some direction, asking her would be a good first step. "So which direction did you throw the airplane?" Veilen asked Rennette.
"Thanks." Leo took the princes handkerchief and placed it into his pocket. Skadi had been the first one to agree to be part of the search party for the prince, Sara had zoned out on everything that was said and went off to lala land and Amanda had decided to stay. That left Silvia who to decide what she wanted to do. Zwei didn't have much choice in the matter so he wasn't able to be counted. Back to Skadi, she had said something that he was curious about. "How would this be your fault?" Seems like he wasn't going to have much say in this at all. Here he was trying to avoid having the fact that he looked like the prince revealed and yet, it was probably going to be the better solution despite the risks. "Alright, I'll do it."
The train had suddenly come to an abrupt stop as everyone was knocked around in the middle car. Amidst all this, Zephyr heard the sound of something hitting the floor. Something wood like. His eyes landed on Kageyama as he darted out the window of the car. That flute of his could've been the one that they were looking form, so Zephyr quickly picked himself up and left the exited the train. The first thing that was to happen was Cassandra calling them foolish for getting lost. "Well for starters, we didn't get lost, we went to a different part of the train. Plus, as Caleb said, we weren't given any kind of heads up." As everyone else got up and spoke their piece, Zephyr took this chance as to get some answer on Hasu. So he turned to face Cassandra. "Who is this Hasu they kept mentioning? Those guys almost got into a fight on the train because Kageyama mentioned him and other reasons." He made sure to direct to the ones on the train with his, cept Therity since she actually stood by and didn't try to instigate a fight. All he had to go off of was that he was someone that they all looked up to, now whether they were actually friends or not was unknown to him. "Is there anything that has the princes scent, I might be able to track if its that the case." Leo said. His dragon slayer nose would be a useful asset to have right now. Silvia had brought up a good point, the reason why Damian vanished could be the same reason behind the princes disappearance as well, then it was possible that it was done by the same people. "If I am able to track him, who's going to come along with me." He may have been as S-class, bu there was only so much that he could do alone. Especially with the number of unknowns surrounding this.
"Um, well I don't have much more to add other than what Silvia already said." He hadn't really paid much attention to how the prince behaved to accurately answer her question. Leo then turned his attention towards Silvia just as Sara, the problem one of the group, had arrived. She was talking to Damian on the carriage, so she might've seen him as well. "By the way, have any of you two seen Damian at all?" Alisa used Barrige Surge on the whale and blocked for Beucette.
Zephyr Asura Hearing Freya's response to his suggested had cause Zephyr to think about the various reasons why they were looking for the hero. he knew for a fact that getting him to go along with not having the hero kill the goddess would be an easy thing to do. It might be easy to convince some of the others the same thing, but Caleb and Xander clearly were all for killing her. The numbers weren't on her side either right now. Basically there wasn't much that Freya could do right now and right now she was a bit preoccupied with fighting Xander. While all this was going on, Zephyr himself had barely even moved from where he was standing for he was too preoccupied trying to decide where he stood in this whole mess. He'd always tried to stay out of things that didn't have anything to do with him. So two people desire to kill the goddess that he wasn't even sure deserved to be killed and the dragon that currently one person was fighting (Go Asura! Slay that dragon!) were things that fell in that category. Okay so that numbers jumped from one to four, but the point still stood. Along with the other people who had arrived to aid in fighting the dragon, another person on the goddess side had arrived and Zephyr actually recognized this one. The person being Stratos, who not only deflected the blade that Caleb had thrown at Freya as well as put up a aerora barrier around the both of them. His actions had made the fight an even 2 v 2, but he still greatly doubted Freya's abilities to fight. Plus her pleas from before didn't seem like an attempt to lie to save her own skin, but pleas of someone who cared deeply for their mother. If he was going to make a decision, he was going to have to do so now. His blue keyblade appeared in his hand and with all his might, he threw it towards Xander who had appeared between Freya and Stratos. The cycle of attacking the dragon as well as dodging its attacks was a repetitive one., but he couldn't allow that to cause him to slip up. For that mistake could be a fatal one. Though it would appear that his 1 vs 1 of dragon would come to a close as others had leap in to assist him. Their efforts were greatly appreciated, though before he could return the favor by continuing to help them, he would have another matter to deal with. Through his peripheral vision, he was able to notice a bullet heading towards him. Asura wasted no time in trying to dodge it. He had successfully managed to avoid one of them, but there were more wind bullets aimed towards him. Not being in the best of positions to dodge the attack, he did the next best thing, for him anyway, and slammed his hand into the ground and picked up a chunk of it with his bare hand and tossed it towards the remaining bullets. The rocks had made impact with the bullets, stopping them in their tracks. The threat of the bullets was taken care of, but he he wasn't out of the clear just yet. However the one who had shot at him fortunately didn't hide themselves from his field of view. Asura took up another chuck of rock from the ground, used his magic to mold it into a spike and fling it towards the one who had shot at him.
Due to trying to not sound like a parrot Zwei had been fairly silent trying to think of something to say. He didn't get much of anything to say so he just stayed silent. Though he almost said something when Amanda had made things very complicated when she'd almost blew the fact that for some strange reason he happened to look just like the prince. Fortunately the King didn't hear what she had said, which had gotten a sigh of relief from Zwei. Onto questioning the King, there was something that he was curious about. "You said that you were in debt to the Kingdom of Dulcinea, just how did that happen?" First thing that Zwei could think of was that something had happened to this Kingdom and they had asked the Kingdom of Dulcinea for help. Which they provided for a price, hence the kingdoms current situation. Leo was much more concerned with their missing guild mate to be concerned with asking the king any questions. In fact, he was more curious as to how no one else hasn't noticed that he was gone. There were two guys on this mission, one of which being himself, so it was reasonable enough to think that if the one and only other male had gone missing that they would notice. Apparently that wasn't the case. He'd stood around listening to everything that had been said to the king and what the king had said in response and he gradually started to lose interest in it. Yes they were here to help solve the problem and knowing what was the root of said problem would be helpful, but these kind of things were what Leo didn't have much interest. It was hard for him to fight his nature, so eventually he spoke to Johanna. "I'm going to wait outside for a bit." That being said, he proceeded out of the room. Upon stepping out of the castle Leo reached into his pocket and lightly tapped on his camera that was resting safely there. He wanted to look around and see if there was anything that he could take a picture of. He could also ask around if anyone seen Damian while he was at it. He'd started to take a step forward when he'd heard some voices. Leo turned towards the direction that he'd heard the voices and saw Silvia talking to someone. He had overheard the part about her not wanting the fact that she was a princess known as well as the reason behind it. This had lead Leo to approach the two girls. "Hey Silvia and um" how does one address someone who doesn't want their royal identity known. There didn't appear to be anyone within ear shot, but just in case he spoke next in a hushed tone that only they would hear. "Your majesty." And things had just gotten worse with the other two getting ready to fight Kageyama. Yes Zephyr wanted to punch this guy too, but there were better times to do so. in fact, any time that wasn't on a train filled with people would be better. So in hopes of keeping the situation from descending further into chaos, Zephyr stepped between Jack and Kageyama with his arms outstretched as to keep to two parties apart. "I don't know if you've all forgotten this, but we're on a train with innocent people! I know he doesn't care about that." Zephyr paused, motioning with his head towards Kageyama. "But at least you all should. You're so willing to jump into a fight against someone you know nothing about, especially his magic. But what happens if your fight brings innocents into harms way? Will it be worth it then?!" This whole thing was tarting to anoy him. Actually it started to annoy him before Jack and Alessia had joined in. Now it was just ticking him off a bit. This was the last thign that he could keep them all from fighting and regain some form of peace. For his guild mates anyway, with any luck Kageyama will decide that its not worth the trouble to fight them and just leave. The rainbow lights had faded and Veilen's eyes had started to readjust to the standard lighting that the guild hall had. He'd blinked a couple of times before everything finally came into focus and the first thing that he noticed was that he could see his own body. His first assumption that that someone had put a mirror in front of him and he was just looking at himself through it. However upon hearing Dale's outburst and noticing that his voice had come out of Thomas's body, he was suddenly prompted to rethink that idea. Veilen decided to check something and see if he could grab his sword off his back. He didn't get far, for when he moved his arm upward, he felt something scarf like around his neck. Now there were only two people in the area that were wearing scarves and Ra was in the body of one of them. Thus meaning that Veilen had ended up in the body of Gaius. The thought had sunk in as he looked down at his/Gaius's hands. "It's a good thing I'm used to using fire magic." That, punching and the obligatory Team King ego were about all that he knew about Gaius, which made handling it temporarily an easy thing to do. Key word is temporarily. He would much rather have his own body long term. "So how do we get back in our own bodies then?"
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Contrary to Ander's beliefs, Zephyr had no idea just what he was trying to do at this point. At first he thought he was planning to side with Kageyama just to get some more information, which isn't a good idea right now since they know nothing about the guild, but they already have information on them. Now he was given him a speech abut weakness and such. That right there had thrown him for a loop. Whatever Ander was trying to do wasn't working and would likely just get him into more trouble if they didn't intervene. "Hold on there, why waste energy fighting him now when you could do so at a later date. Sure everything he said about weakness might've gotten on your nerves, but fighting here could cause a ruckus which'll attract unwanted attention." Kageyama probably wasn't the guy of guy to care about the well being of others, but maybe the guild he was a part of didn't want unneeded attention for things no related toward any grand scheme they have. Zephyr was betting on that possibility to hopefully convince him not to fight right here and now. The second guard that had arrived to take the prince was defeated and it didn't look like there were any other guard running towards Johanna and himself. The others on the other hand however weren't quite done with the guard that they were up against. Namely Skadi and the Prince. Instead of just waiting around for them to finished, Zwei decided that ti would be better to assist them, so he toss a throwing knife towards the guard that they were fighting. Zwei use Strike Raid on Guard 2.2 With this being the first time that she's gone up against a whale, there was no way that she could expect that it could do so much damage from water alone. Fortunately she shield had managed to protect her from its attacks, some of the others on the other hand weren't so lucky. Alisa needed to attack the whale as well as try to protect some of her comrades, so with that in mind she ran toward the railing on the boat. That was when she placed her foot on it and propelled her self towards the whale. A small ring of flames surrounded her as she collided into the whale and landed back on the boat, this time landing in front of a white haired girl. The flames that had surrounded her had died prior to landing so she held her shield in front of her without having to worry about accidentally burning her. "You seem a little worse for wear, I'll try to take the next hit for you." Alisa used fire surge on the whale and blocked for Beucette.
The beagle boys had been taken down and removed from battle field, leaving Pete as the last obstacle before the keyblade wielders. "Last chance Pete, you can come quickly or face our wrath." He likely already knew what the answer was. When do the villains ever take the easy way and surrender to the heroes and even when they do there's always some kind of alternate motive. So Pete's answer was pretty clear basically after Kel had given him the offer. Still Kel was a nice guy, so he gave him about 30 seconds before making a move. When his time was up, Kel dashed towards Pete, his keyblade ready to strike. At first it looked like he was going to strike him right in the gut, but what instead happened was that Kel slipped underneath Pete and right through his legs. he had also casted aero while doing so to send Pete into the air. Then, using his keyblade as a brake, he stopped, quickly go in his feet and sent a punch right at Pete. The attack had sent him flying the other direction and towards the next person who would injure him. Pete: 274/300
Zephyr gave Ander a confused look before he figured out what he was doing. It was an interesting plan to say the least, but he wasn't all to sure about it. That's quite the idea, but I don't think he'll go for it. He didn't seem like the kind of guy to just accept help form people that he was toying with. His guess was confirmed when Kageyama spoke, refusing Ander's offer to help. Zephyr let the hole flies remark slide just for this time. "Alright Kageyama, you've had your fun. Was that the only reason you'd brought us here or what?" "I'll leave healing to you then." Zwei said in response to Johanna. Long as he didn't get hit by another attack like that he should be fine. for now though he took the knife that he had been using for strike raid and instead of throwing it, he dashed towards the guard with it aimed towards her. Zwei used Sliding Dash on Guard 1.2
This guy sure was good at pushing a certain two peoples buttons. They must have thought highly of Hasu. Still by drawing their weapons and getting ready to fight, they were likely walking into a trap. "Sure, tell us you're name. It won't change a thing, but least you'd have a name." Zephyr then looked towards Jack and Ander. "As for you guys, you shouldn't be taking his bait so easily. He could easily be saying this just to get under you're skin."
Waiting for them in the middle car was the voice who had been on the intercom. He'd somehow knew that they were part of Sapphire Eclipse, which could be an issue especially now that they were split up. "Is that all you have to say?" Zephyr started. "I have no idea who this Hasu person is or why he left, but that's none of my concern. What is my concern is why you called us here. If it was just to threaten us, then can we go now." Zephyr clearly wasn't intimidated by this guy at all, he was much more concerned with what he was doing here and why he'd called them here. Zwei used Strike Raid on Guard 1.2
Okay, that makes more sense. Still a bit surprising though.
Ah, that explains it
Before the duel, formerly known as the joust, could take place some guard had arrived to capture the Prince. The first bit of clarification that they'd gotten on why this was going on was that this has happened before. A few times in fact. Normally when something like this happened more than once, you'd think they would try to get to the bottom of why it was happening and not brush it off like it was nothing. Still with that being the case, Zwei might just keep his hood up for the remainder of this mission. Last thing he needed was to be attacked just because the prince looked like him. He turned his attention towards the guard that had stopped before him. She didn't look so tough so he took out a knife and actually threw it at the guard. He was actually using a throwing knife the was it was supposed to be used. What madness was this. Zwei used Strike Raid on Guard 1 When the guard had appeared to arrest the prince, Leo had very little choice but to resist his natural urge of helping his fellow guild mates out and leaving the situation to them. he wasn't sure why he wasn't allowed to help, it was as if some very questionable force was keeping him from doing so. This force was strong so he had to have faith in his guild mates and that they could handle this situation without his assistance. That said, Leo noticed something while he was waiting on the sidelines. Damian was nowhere to be seen. He was certain that he was on the train with them, for he'd gotten off to move the apparent big tree limb that could block their path and yet he was nowhere to be seen now. "Damian, where the heck are you!"
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~One obligatory trip the the Keyblade Graveyard Later~ Landing in the Keyblade Graveyard and apparently in front of the Hero's cave, things were going all but easy for them. Freya, otherwise known as the girl who was overly attached to her brother's friend, had put up a barrier to stop Caleb from going towards the cave as well as revealing that the goddess was her mother. Man there were a lot of things that he didn't know about. This was where Zephyr's lack of knowledge on anything related to the goddess may have been a hindrance, but there was one thing that he was wondering. It wasn't why Freya was acting as an inside person. "I don't really know the whole deal the goddess and your apparent mother, but why not try convincing the hero that he shouldn't kill her." His general view of a hero was basically there stereotypical shown one. So to Zephyr, that seemed like an idea that could very well work. Seeing as how they weren't going to be making any more progress towards the cave, so he turned his attention towards the sky to see what this whole dragon deal was. Surely after looking into the sky, he saw the aforementioned dragon. One look at it and well, Zephyr wasn't quite sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, he would get to fight a dragon. If he had a legendary weapon then he would be very much ecstatic right now. But on the other hand, if this dragon was sent by the goddess, then it could be a problem. Not that the giant sting ray was anything to go off of. Acting reckless in a situation like this could be hazardous to his health so he wouldn't just rush in to fight it. Not yet at least. For now he was being accused of murder. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I ain't trying to murder anyone." His hands waved to and fro along his dismal of the attempted murder claims. Seriously was the goddess really so bad that she needed to be killed. Which again goes back to his 'convince the hero to not kill her' suggestion. Asura, not really knowing what the hell was going on, just went towards the dragon. It looked to be a threat so yeah, that's all I got. Xross on the other hand first act wasn't to go fight the dragon. As curious as he was about the hero, there were too many potential obstacles that would hinder any attempts to get close. While he wasn't worried at all about Freya, the ones that she always followed behind could be a problem should he try to harm her. He's only seen one of them in action thus forming a capable counter for them would be difficult with the one unknown. His gaze turn towards the dragon as he stood back and watched as anyone else went to face the dragon. What he would for the time being would be to observe. From this distance he would simply observe how the dragon behave against the one fighting it. Should a stray attack come near hitting him, then he would simply dodge or block it. If not, then he would be much more preoccupied with thinking of ways to handle said dragon. He paid no attention to the words of the girl who'd appeared out of nowhere. Xross had no intentions of fighting her, but he did wait to see how anyone else would react. Now finally having something to do, Avi was the next person to appear in the Keyblade Graveyard following Xero. Though unlike her, he didn't make a proclamation about them being placed under arrest. In fact he just stood back. He wasn't giving off the best first impression with how he was acting, but it wasn't like he could just up and run. Well he could, but Sapphire seemed pretty damn serious about stopping them this time, unlike the other two times he was sent to stop them.
Not to long after the other Beagle boy was launched into the air, Kel quickly moved in to attack him. The blue haired wielder leap into the air after the airborne foe and dealt a quick strike to his side, slamming him back down onto the ground. The attack was followed up by Kel casting fire and Blizzard down towards the Beagle Boy. Small Beagle Boy: 28/100
