Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

She kept running through the trees, but it was exhausting. She was already tired from the fight on the bridge, and even if she did catch up to the girl, there was no guarantee that she was one of the good guys. She wasn't in any shape to fight right now. "You! Halt!" She stopped. She knew that voice, and things were about to get a whole lot worse. She hoped the guys were close behind because she might faint if she had to stand alone. "I know you... you're one of Rider's gang." She sighed and put her hands up, keeping her back to him. She had to outsmart him, if anything. She could hear him draw his sword. There wasn't much time left. She looked around and saw a group of vines hanging from a tree, though there didn't seem to be a trunk behind them. This might be her only chance. She couldn't let fear stop her. He walked closer, gently pushing the tip of his sword into her back. "Turn around slowly." She smiled and turned, wiping the grin off her face as he came into view. "Where are your friends?" She sighed again. "Someplace with a better view, hopefully." He looked angry. His emotions were overpowering his common sense, and he let his guard down. That was just what she needed. She lowered her right hand quickly, summoned her Keyblade and knocked the sword out of his reach. She then hit him with a fire and blizzard spell in rapid succession, causing a cloud of thick steam to surround him. She ran off into the vines and hoped that her team was right behind her.

@Dr_Wigglz @mindstorm787

 

Etrius too heard the conversation, and followed Cat's lead. He wizzed passed the guard Cat took down, already two seconds behind Cat, and caught up to her. Though he too was exhausted, he said to Cat, "Who do you exactly think it is? You don't reckon that it's another Wielder?"
Etrius knew that he heard a female voice within that conversation. It was definitely not Flynn, but she sounded like she had a similar agenda of some kind. Hopefully, she wasn't in the same league with Vanitas.
A guard came out of the brush and said to both Etrius and Cat, yelling, "Stop right there-"
A hard "Whack" was heard as Etrius revealed his Oathkeeper, and ramming it in the guard's midriff, knocking him down.
"That guy has a stomach on him like a coffee table." Etrius growled, sheathing his Keyblade as he kept up with Cat, breathing every other occasion.

@Cat~
@Dr_Wigglz
@cstar

 

Steel groaned; he would rather not fight the Beast. All the same, he would also rather not be ripped to shreds any time soon. He summoned his keyblade and held it above his head, pointing into the air. A dark mass congealed at the apex, swirling ominously with energy. As the others distracted it, he utilized the same spell he always did: "Stop!" He shouted into the air. The mass disappeared from his blade and reformed around the beast; slowing his progress as though he were walking through a thick jelly. He heard Base casting another ice spell, and saw the ramp formed by it. "Got it." He affirmed with a nod. He dashed forward with his ever increasing speed, jumped, and kicked the beast down the icy path. At first, his reaction was slow, courtesy of Steel's own spell, But as he slipped down the ramp, he gained velocity. Steel quickly ran to the other end of the ramp, and upon meeting with the Beast at the end, sent several deft slices into the man's face, before holding up his palm and blasting the creature with a fire spell. Steel was painfully aware that his physical and mystical capabilities were somewhat lacking, but what he could not accomplish with power, he could make up for with the sheer number of hits he could execute before his enemy had a chance to strike. He once more jumped back to make room between him and the Beast, holding up his keyblade in a ready stance for whatever would happen next.

 

Glen watched as Etrius and Cat ran off in the direction Flynn had gone. He began to go after them, but turned around to look once more at the castle. "If all this turns out non-appealing and boring, I will be back to see what riches you have" Glen said quietly, greed obvious in his thinking. He then looked back in the direction Cat and Etrius had gone. They were nearly out of sight, and had quite a big lead on him already. If he was going to catch them, he would need to be fast. Throwing his keyblade into the air, it transformed into its glider mode and the wielder nimbly left onto it. He began speeding after them, getting faster and faster. As he got near them, he began yelling out to them. "CAT, ETRIUS, WAIT UP, wait for meeeee" he said, voice being drowned out by the wind as he shot past them.

After only a few moments, Glen quickly realized he had overtaken them, and desperately turned the keyblade glider around, albeit a little too fast. He fell right off the glider, and because of the rider's will, the glider began shooting off towards Cat and Etrius, threatening to injure them if it didn't stop. Reacting quickly, Glen resummoned his keyblade to his hand in its weapon form, making the peril vanish. He then began jogging over to the group quickly, and came to a stop near them, breathing heavily.​

 

As Stratos and the rest of the Camelot Crew reached the top of the tower they were met with Merlin and his rather large amount of ramblings, but most importantly how Merlin seemed to want them to leave this world as quickly as possible. It was then that Ana hit all of the members of the Camelot Crew and scolded them for not following her lead. "Now now, he'd have found out anyway about us being from another world. After all, he figured it out just from looking at us." After both Kel and Ana had said their pieces to Merlin, Stratos said, "and we're here to help stop the forces that are invading and spreading the chaos. So as Ana said, is there anything we could do to help settle things down around here?"

 

Cat shrugged when Etrius asked if the girl could be another wielder. Honestly, she had no clue. Still, she seemed way too confident in all of this, so she was bound to know something. "Stop right there-" Before the guard had a chance to end his sentence, Etrius slammed his keyblade into his stomach, knocking him backwards. She sighed. He may not have known that they were 'wanted' and now Etrius went and made sure that more of the uniformed buffoons would come after them. That was the last thing they needed. "It doesn't matter what kind of stomach he has. He knows our faces now, and any hope we had of being subtle is gone. Let's just keep moving. Maybe there's someplace nearby where we can... rest up." She hesitated as she heard Glen behind them before he zoomed in front of them on his glider. Ugh, was he ever going to grow up? He fell off as he turned the glider around, but it kept flying toward them. She tensed up, not knowing whether she'd be able to get out of the way in time, when it dissipated into fragments of light and reappeared in Glen's hand as his blade. He got up and stumbled toward them. She crossed her arms. She was getting really tired of babysitting him. "Y'know, there's this thing called discretion. You might want to consider using it sometime." She walked forward, trying to block out the others in her group. Frankly, it'd be nice to have another girl in the group -- or maybe Eon since he seemed to be one of the few guys with some common sense. She looked on and saw a break in some of the trees. Beyond it she could faintly make out some structure made of stone -- maybe a house? She moved a bit faster, wanting to get out of these trees, and parted the branches that obstructed her view. She looked on in shock at what she found. "Is that a tower? Man, who would even build this here?" And then it hit her. Who could afford to build such a thing? Or rather, who would ever have any use for such a structure? "Flynn." She looked to the top and saw a window. That was how they would get in. After all, using the front door would be too easy. She summoned her glider, being infinitely more careful than Glen, and willed it to head straight for the opening.
@Dr_Wigglz @mindstorm787

 

Luna crashed into the railing of the staircase. She stood up as Base healed her. "Thanks Base!" She turned toward the Beast wearing an expression of anger on her face. Luna summoned her keyblade with a little bit of blood dripping from her finger. "Now I'm mad!" She jumped over the Beast as she casted Blizzard near the entrance of the East wing. Luna turned back toward the Beast at the end of the staircase. She attacked with a roundhouse kick at the Beast.

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Etrius disegarded everything else (Including the fact that Glen had nearly ran them over) and listened to what Cat had to say. In truth, he was less worried about the guards, and more worried of Flynn. If he stayed out like this, it would only mean more people being taken advantage of. Guards are easy, but Flynn can be more of a challenge. All of that changed when Cat noticed that lone tower.
"Strange..who would build such a thing here?" Etrius asked. His question was left unanswered when Cat threw her key in the air and it shifted form. However, he wasn't able to catch that bus.
"That tower's way to tall for me to climb, let alone jump." Etrius said to himself, then his eyes shifted to his Keyblade. "I don't know if i can do this, but I gotta try." He threw his Keyblade high in the air. 2 seconds pass. Then, a flash of light, and a Keyglider comes barreling down. Etrius surprised and elated dodges narrowly as the Keyglider nearly rams him and grabs it by the seat just in time. He quickly adjusts himself and tries to remember what his father had once told him.
"Remember; Your Keyblade has a mind of it's own. It chooses the master because it has faith in the master." Etrius thought as he grabbed on to the controls. He was looping idly, but the second he grabbed the control handles, the Keyglider responded by heading dead ahead for the window. Almost too fast.
"Hoo BOOOOYYYYYY!!!" Etrius shouted as he cringed for impact. Instead, the Keyblade flashed the second he was away from the window, and appeared in his hand. He fell hard onto a wooden floor.
"Uggggghhhh...." He groaned painfully, "Did I just sink to Glen's level? And I thought that summoning my Keyglider would be the best thing. Better work on it later."
He stood and looked around. It seemed that he was standing in a medium-sized living room.

@Cat~
@Dr_Wigglz

 

The fight had begun, and everyone had already engaged the large Beast. Base had displayed quick and powerful spells, both of which aided his comrades in the offensive as well as defense. He was very impressed at the team work everyone was displaying, what with Luna's Blizzard spell to seal the east wing entrance, Base and Steel's magnificent teamwork with the blizzard spell and stop spell both used to make quick work of the Beast's footing. D'daear was indeed impressed, although part of it was due to him still being the new guy. He could only hope to one day rival his teammates in efficiency. His keyblade came forth without his knowledge, him realizing as he felt the hilt in his hands. "Huh?" he uttered, wide eyes looking at the blade in wonder. Hopefully soon enough he'd be able to fully control the weapon like his group. His grip tightened around the handle, remembering his wish. "I've got to become stronger..." he muttered to himself in thought, the fire in his eyes burning stronger now.

He furrowed his brow in concentration, and ran to Krowley's side. "Krowley, right? So how do we restrain this thing without hurting it? I mean...it doesn't seem to me like this monster wants to hurt us...much... If he wanted to hurt Luna just now...he would have...right?" he said, pointing out at how lethal the monster's claws appeared. With his massive size, upper body strength, and claws, the beast could have easily severely injured Luna with that last attack. "So what exactly is going on here...?" he thought, trying to piece together the clue's. There was a woman in distress who managed to get away; to which at the moment nobody quite understood why, and with this beast attempting to stop her from escaping; which again no one quite understood. Was there more to it than what they had seen?

"Well?" he inquired Krowley, looking straight at him in all seriousness, at the same time display a sense of sympathy in his expression.

 

While Cat and Etrius may have had the sense to use their gliders to scale the tower, and Glen had thought of it himself, he was not keen on getting back on the glider after his accident just moments before. As they ascended the tower and went in through the window, Glen approached the base of the tower. He wasn't sure who the new person that had been near Cat and Etrius was, but he was going to become a professional tower climber and then see about introducing himself. He rubbed his hands together and turned his gaze towards the window. "Well, I've seen other people climb high things before, and they made it look easy. It can't be that hard, can it?" he asked, thinking aloud.

The boy began his ascension rather awkwardly. At first, he couldn't get a proper foothold, and he kept slipping off and falling onto his behind. After a minute or two of trying though, he found himself getting better and better. Halfway up, he lost grip with his right hand and began slipping with his left. Immediately he began struggling and panicking, but did right himself and continue climbing after a few seconds, although he did make a mental note to change his underwear the moment he got back to the land of departure.

Soon enough, he reached the window. With an enormous amount of effort he pulled himself inside and fell with a soft thump onto the floor. He was breathing somewhat heavily, and he felt very tired, but he had done what he set out to do; he had scaled the wall with nothing but his bare hands. He simply lay on the floor there, completely vulnerable to an attack, but confident that he was safe. There were no heartless in sight, what could possibly go wrong?​

 

As Merlin hastily shoved them out the door, Kel started to get curious as to what it was time for. It he went to that much trouble just to keep them out the room, then odds were that it was something pretty important. Oh how he wished that he could find out the answer to his curiosity, but he had more pressing matters to deal with right now. So for right now he simply kept his curiosity under wraps as he looked towards Wart as he started following behind Goofy and Wart. Fortunately there were some things that he wanted to ask Walt as well.

"So Wart, what is the 'training of the mind' that Merlin was talking about?" Obviously it had something to do with the mind, but there had to be something else to it. Unless Merlin was really just teaching him how to be smarter and made him do nothing but read. If that was the case, the he felt sorry for Wart, if not then his feelings of sorriness gets taken back. Simple as that.

 

Ananta didn't need to be pushed out of the room, but it seems that was going to be the case. Scratching her head, she processed all that he said and was beginning to understand Merlin's perception of the future. Turning to look down the stairs and get going, she felt a strange power change in the world. She couldn't put her finger on it, but something just wasn't quite right. At least, that's what she thought. She wasn't too sure and didn't want to trouble anybody else at the time or get Wart and Goofy excited over nothing.
So she turned to them spoke. "Since we were just kicked out of warmest place here, perhaps we should just go to the town and get back when we can later on?" she hurriedly said. It was pretty evident that she had a bad feeling about something, but she was trying to hard to keep the others from suspecting. "Oh, Wart is your name? I'm Ananta." she spoke calmly. She was way calmer than she was before, so that made her feel a little better.

 

Cat saw Etrius fly up ahead of her and sighed. He flew right into the window and she could hear the crash. She jumped in once she'd gotten to the top, willing it to disappear, and looked around. It wasn't very bright, but it looked too clean to be abandoned. She heard some sort of grunting and saw Glen collapse on the window after he'd heaved himself over the frame. Had he climbed up himself? She moved over to the two of them and whispered. "Honestly, don't either of you know the meaning of 'subtlety'?" She rolled her eyes and moved further into the main area. "Be on your guard. If Flynn is here..." She hesitated. If Flynn was hiding out here, what would he say? How would she act? The two boys behind her were bound to do something stupid, but she was afraid of tripping over her words, let alone her own two feet. She kept her back towards her comrades, afraid that she might even be blushing, but she could hear something faint. Breathing? She held her hand up to signal the guys to be quiet and looked around for its source.

@mindstorm787 @Dr_Wigglz

 

Etrius gave Cat a look, hissing back, "Well if you would've given me a ride, you would only be scolding Glen! You know very well it's my first time using a Keyglider, considering I asked Steel for a ride back at the Kingdom of the Sun!" Etrius then strained his ears a little and looked a little. It seemed as if there was someone living here, but seriously, no door? Then it hit him.
"Be on your guard. If Flynn is here..." Cat began, then hesitated slightly, causing Etrius turn his head back to her again.
"Uh Cat?" Etrius muttered quietly, "I don't think Flynn lives here. The tower's built in a way that can't be really climbed by an ordinary person, and there's no door to boot. How would Flynn be able to get up here? Launch himself from a tree, or climb as this guy did?" Etrius pointed on Glen, who was still resting on the floor.

@Cat~
@Dr_Wigglz

 

Eon was grateful of course for the extra clothing Karina willingly gave him. She wasn't all bad. If it were anyone else, she'd probably just let them freeze to death. Some sort of friendship was brewing, a little bit at a time. "Thank you, Karina." He said with a light smile. However Kross seemed to be more in need of warm clothing. Eon did have somewhat warm clothes after all. "Kross, if you want, you can wear this instead. I know it must be cold for you compared to us." He questioned him, concerned for his comrades well being.

Moments later, the group came to a fork in the road. It was clear the old man was trying his best to recall his steps. Things would be alright of course if a pack of wild wolves hadn't suddenly made an appearance in front of the group. "Stay back, sir. We may not look it, but we're capable of many feats." He released his keyblade and targeted the viscous canines in front of them.

He charged ahead with his keyblade behind him, once close enough, he swat the wolf that attempted to bite Maurice. A few bites like those would severely wound him for certain and then they'd have no other choice but to fall back. He kept up his guard as Karina took the offensive. It seemed to be a good tactical strategy, she the offense, him the defense. Kross would be the filler that they both definitely needed. They couldn't do both alone after all. "Good work Karina. Kross, try to bash them away from behind?" It was a request, but it came out sounding like a command, not something Eon was usually use to. For some reason he was breaking some habits, but why?

 

Glen lay somewhat still on the ground, attempting to get his breath back as quickly as he could. "Hey..cut a guy some slack..that climb..takes..effort" he said between breaths, huffing with exhaustion. After a few moments, he sat up, still breathing heavily but not as audible as it had been. "If Flynn really is here, I don't think we're going to have any trouble bringing him down. If he came up here, he's cornered. The tower might be tall, but there's really nowhere to go aside from down. Maybe he's hiding inside something in here" Glen suggested, being sure to keep his voice low in volume as Cat had requested. He, too, began looking around for the source of the noise.​

 

Steel looked on as Krowley and Luna put the Beast into a rather dazed state. The snarling face of the Beast was not something that intimidated Steel, but he still wished to finish quickly and calm the man down. Fighting like this would get them nowhere, so they needed to talk to him. Of course, he probably wouldn't listen too closely, but there were worse problems. He rushed up to the beast once more and attempted another flurry of slices, but this time the Beast was ready. He began swinging his large paws at Steel, who dodged them with expert skill. The Beast continued to aim his blows at the speedy blue blur before him, only for each show of force to be deftly evaded.

The two continued this for at least half a minute, Beast doing his best to strike at Steel, only for the Keyblade wielder to move from side to side, just out of reach, or beneath the blow. The Beast finally formed a more plan like strategy in his quite capable mind and aimed his next blow for Steels legs. Steel jumped just in time to avoid the blow, but he knew what came next. He held his keyblade in front of him in a guard stance as he saw the Beast curl his paw into a fist and punched his opponent in midair. Steel was sent flying to the other end of the room, his body flipped so that his face looked down to the ground as he went. He took the opportunity granted him and stabbed his keyblade into the ground. Sparks flew as the keyblade struck the ground and slowly halted his progress towards the stone walls.

With his body now balancing perfectly on top of the Stroke of midnight, Steel leaned out of his handstand position and placed his feet on the ground with a loud thud. His hands remained on the hilt of his blade, and he now faced the Beast from about half way across the room. Steel pulled his keyblade from the ground and marveled that there was no gash of any kind on the floor. "Truly marvelous weapons." He thought to himself silently.

Steel held his keyblade in the air once more. This time, however, the darkness that solidified at the end was of a different nature. "Darkness of Gravity!" He shouted as the large orb shaped mass descended upon the Beast. The reaction was instant; the creature hunched over as though a quite heavy burden had suddenly been placed upon him, and he was struggling to stay upright. "I suggest we do as much as possible to incapacitate him now, while he is defenseless." He stated rather pointedly to the others.

 

After being promptly kicked out of the tower due to the old crazy man, Merlin that is, the group had now decided to simply travel back through the forest to go to where they had come from. Whilst they were now walking through the forest, it was as good a time as any to learn about things about this world from its locals. "So Wart, was it, I'm curious about that sword. Would you mind telling me about the history behind that Sword in the Stone and as to how it became such renowned blade?"