Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Etrius let out a short gawking sound as Glen hit the floor like a sack of potatoes. He did not expect the girl to hit Glen that way, but Etrius was satisfied all the same. Etrius' smile grew a little wider as Flynn tumbled out of the girl's dresser.
"Weeelllll...so Cat's not the only one who's ga-ga for Flynn, ay?" Etrius said, watching Cat scratch the chin of the chameleon, before turning to the long-haired girl. She looked realtively the same age as Cat, but had the innocent eyes of a child, as if she was just learning to walk. "You did the right thing, milady. Sadly, Cat doesn't seem to have the guts to do the same thing." Etrius reassured her, walking over to Flynn, and lifting him up with a little effort, and lay him on his back, with his head facing the side. Etrius put Flynn's arms and legs parrallel to each other, ready for tying. Etrius saw a bit of rope within the dresser. Etrius grabbed it, and tied a firm knot on both arms and legs.
"Sorry, if you might need that, but Cat's right. We ran into this man, and he left us to fight his enemies." Etrius said, explaining to the girl. He checked on Glen last. Other than a nasty-looking bruise, Glen was good, but Etrius would not deal with him.

OOC: I warned you, Dr_Wigglz. I warned you. I knew that would happen.

@Nui Harime
@Dr_Wigglz

 

Cat looked over to Etrius, just about ready to take the girl's frying pan and leave him in worse shape than Glen. It was bad enough that he was spilling her personal feelings out into the open, but he also insulted her drive, and that was something she would never let slide. "D-don't talk like you're perfect either!" It took a moment for her to even register her outburst. She hadn't meant to say that out loud, but at the very least she hadn't let anything more slip. Was being near him really messing with her head so much? She saw Etrius grab some rope from the dresser and start to tie up Flynn's limbs. Honestly it was the best course of action, but she couldn't help but feel a bit bad for him. Before he could finish tying it, she saw a chair and ran over to grab it. "Hold on. It's better if we get him in this. Might as well get some answers out of him once he's up." She moved him onto it and got his arms behind the back before Etrius tied them down. Once he'd gone to check on Glen, she looked Flynn over. He didn't seem to have any bruises on his face, so he must've been hit from the back. It looked like he had a few splinters on his arm from being stuffed in the dresser, and she sighed, plucking them out as quickly as she could before anyone else noticed. Once that was done, she saw a staircase spiraling upwards and decided to sit herself down on the second step. The arm rail let her keep an eye on the situation without anyone else being too aware of where she was looking. She sighed softly, unable to keep her eyes off of the handsome trickster. "Why do things always have to be so... so complicated? This is ridiculous! I should be able to have more self-control, but..." She sighed again, unable to restrain herself this time. "Damn it. Damn all of this... I just want to go home." She couldn't tell, but her eyes were starting to water. Luckily she was in a darker part of the room, but it was likely that they'd notice her all the same. She stuffed her face into her knees and bit her lip, keeping herself isolated. She just wanted to be alone with her thoughts, but she wasn't going to get that for a while. In the meantime though, being alone in the corner of a tower was enough.

 

Etrius looked back at Cat with an unsatisfied frown.
"First off, Cat," Etrius said as he saw her walk to the darker corner of the tower, "I was joking around. If I had meant to come off as rude, my comment would've been a lot worse. And besides, it's no surprise. Flynn would be one of those guys who charm the ladies well." He walked past Flynn, giving the unconcious man a salty look before going on, "Second off, you need to focus. This isn't exactly our party, so unless mingling with our guests is part of our agenda, I'd would think you need to figure your priorities better."
Etrius suddenly realized that he was being a little negative. He walked a little close to Cat, but was far enough to give space.
"What exactly happened while I was asleep Cat?" Etrius asked, his voice lowered. He wanted to get Cat's mind off about Flynn, "First thing I remember, I went to sleep, and dreaming....." He suddenly hesitated. Cat wouldn't believe what he had experienced, so he decided to leave that out. He finally continued, "And the next thing I remember, I was in this place, nearby you and Glen."

 

Cat heard Etrius' attempts to sway her. He wasn't really being supportive, but at the same time it wasn't meant to be a pep talk. She didn't dare to look up, even as she heard him walk closer. And almost out of nowhere, he asked about the time between his 'sleep,' if anyone could even call it that, and their arrival. "Well," she started, taking deep breaths to keep her voice even. She lifted her head and put her chin on her arms, not daring to shift her gaze. "I really don't have much of a clue. I mean, you were... asleep, and the rest of us had to rush off. I didn't bring you here -- in fact, I don't think anyone could've. It was-" she stopped herself. He didn't know about the all-consuming darkness, and there was no reason to worry him with it. As far as she could tell, he'd majorly improved his ability to control it from their last excursion to Kingdom of the Sun up till now. Why should she worry him? "Nevermind. Could you just... give me a minute? I want to figure some things out, that's all." With that, her face fell back into her arms. It was true, she needed to figure out more than a few things out, but one thing Etrius had said was stuck in her head. "Flynn would be one of those guys who charm the ladies well." So she'd fallen for him like any other clueless broad would? That certainly didn't make her feel any better about the situation. She might be overthinking it, sure, but she'd taken pride in her ability to focus on whatever task was at hand. Now though? She was just a joke.

 

Seeing Karina warp away only made Eon more angry. He was trying to act calm. That's how he was raised to act. Listening to orders was just what became grounded into his mind. However her vanishing only made him snap. This was like losing someone he cared for all over again. Eon chose not to obey this girl at all, no matter the case. He summoned his keyblade and began to charge at her, only to result in being warped away by her along with everyone else.

A few moments passed and the group transported to a small wood shack, Maurice's home apparently. Seeing Karina alive however, his heart continued to beat once again. She was still alive thankfully. The girl spoke again telling them to not pursue the mission given. Eon was done listening to her. He threw his keyblade up and summoned his glider, grabbing Maurice, nodding towards him to indicate him to hold on. He dashed after Karina, hoping Kross would follow them as well, and more importantly, the girl lose her interest.

Catching up to Karina, Eon called out to her. "Karina!" He sped up to make sure she could hear him. "If that woman pulls a trick like that again, we need to fight her. It's the only way we'll be able to complete the mission and help Maurice." His restraint had gone away almost entirely. "Even if she is with the Order, we'll need to possibly kill her."

 

Stratos was kind of interested by the man before him. He seemed to be rather obsessed with weapons and apparently and seemed to think that he was the most worthy person to wield the mighty sword in the stone before them. He proceeded to explain how he had weapons that most men would kill to have, or something to that effect, and began to showcase off some of the ones from pulling them from him back. Wait, were those there before? Regardless, he showed off some large blade known as a bustersword, then he had something called a revolver which looked to be like the most impractically designed weapon, yet still kind of cool. He continued to on until he noticed Stratos's keyblade. As he asked him about where he could get something like that, Stratos said calmly, "well, you don't just...find one of these blades. It's just kind of a thing you happen upon really. At least that's how it was for me. This things varies a lot." Stratos had noticed how extremely fixated the man, Gilgamesh, was on his keyblade and seeing as he was extremely intent on getting that blade that he obviously couldn't pull out...he was not confident that the response he was going to get would be an understanding one.

 

Ananta stayed in her defensive position as Gilgamesh showed off each different sword he had amassed. The buster sword was way too big and clunky for a human to wield and the gunblade looked pretty cool. However, once he began to question the keyblade, Ananta knew this was gonna either be really bad or really funny. Lowering her defense a moment, she approached the 4 armed man. "So, you want a keyblade, huh?" she held hers out in front of her. For the moment, she exchanged her keychain so it would look like the Kingdom Key. After this exchange, she would change it back of course. "Go on, take it." she offered, switching her hand to the blade itself, leaving the hilt pointed towards the 4 armed man. Her plan was for him to hold it only a moment and then she would call her keyblade back to her. Hopefully it worked...

 

As the four arm giant named Gilgamesh took his attention away form the sword and focused on them, he went ahead and showed off some of the swords that he's collected. First was the buster sword, which looked like something that Kel would love to use, then the revolver, again something he would love to use. But since he still had his keyblade, it was good enough for him away. When the giant had taken an interest in the keyblade, he added on to what was already said. "Well only a select few can wiled something like this." While in truth there were a lot more than a few people wielding the keyblade, but Gilgamesh didn't need to know that. Next thing that happened was Ananta walking up to the giant again, this time however instead of flirting with him, she was offering her keyblade to him. Whatever she was planning, it could either go well for them or not so well.

 

Steel ran to intercept Krowley as he prepared a final attack, but was beaten to the draw by a candelabra with a french accent. He was relieved that the Beast hadn't been killed, and furious that Krowley had actually intended to kill him. "I -thought- the plan was to merely incapacitate him!" He shouted towards his comrades with an edge of irritation. He turned his head to see Cogsworth's futile attempts to nudge Base towards the exit. He decided to join in. He walked up to Base and began pushing. "Agreed; If you guys can't behave, then you will have to leave me to my business." He pushed without the use of his upper body strength, which basically meant that Base made no movement whatsoever; Steels legs merely slid against the carpet as he continued to walk forward, his outstretched arms placed on Base' back. His actions were basically as Futile as Cogsworth's but he executed them with a perfectly straight face. He was hoping that this pause would be ample opportunity for his allies to redeem themselves by explaining their actions: he was giving them a second chance.

 

Beuce walked to the front of the party, ready to initiate the inevitable battle with Gilgamesh. "Keep those things in the gates of Babylon do you?" He summoned his keyblade and stabbed it into the ground, causing cracks in the area around it. What can i say, it was a very fragile patch of ground. "Enough expository banter! Now we fight like MEN! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! Yes i stole your quote! Do something about it!" Beuce taunted. That ought to get Gilgamesh fired up. He readied himself into a high guard stance.

"Alright, look guys. If i've learned anything from Fate/Stay night, it's that anyone named Gilgamesh has got weapons out the whazoo. Any of us go charging him alone and we'll get overwhelmed pretty quick. Kel, you're on close up duty with me. We'll charge together. You parry his blow to create an opening and i'll attack, then we switch back. Ananta, Lady who dresses like a man, you'll play support. Poke him down from a range with magic. Eventually he's going to pull some kind of BS desperation move like these types always do, Like, Ea or something, so you two stay out of the way when that happens, ready to heal us." Beuce said, giving everyone their roles to follow in the fight. He didn't seem the type, but he DID lead an army on Atreia. He was quite the tactician when he cared enough about the fight.

 

Kross had to commend Karina, she was very brave for facing this less-than-pleasant lady. When she disappeared however, Kross's eyes widened and he swallowed, tensing quite a bit, was this the power of that lady? He backed up a step as she trained the keyblade onto them, uttering an incantation to a spell he had not recognized, at least not yet. Just then, a tug could be felt in his stomach, and before he knew it, he was on his knees, doubling over and shook the stars from infront of his gaze. He stumbled to his feet just in time to see Karina summon her glider, before he knew it, both Karina and Eon were off. He looked at them."Take Maurice to the castle! Don't worry about me!" He shouted out. He then breathed out and slowly turned, facing the lady, fists clenched, he was more tense now than ever."I want answers, who are you and why are you doing this?"

 

Luna wore an expression of shock as she saw the clock and the candle talk. She listened closely as she heard the objects speak. "Wait a sec.....that creature is your MASTER!?!?!?" Luna was quite confused at the current situation. Luna took a moment to calm down and processed the current situation. She took some deep breaths and spoke. "I apologize but we had no choice but to take offensive measures." She bowed toward the four objects. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Luna Kiatespira. Forgive us for intruding but when we entered this room we saw a young woman running from your master."

 

Being pushed lightly on both his torso and legs, Base almost tipped over from the sudden invasion of his personal space. He wouldn't allow for this, and so he wheeled around the spot and broke their holds of him. "Hey! Watch it would you?" Base tried to catch up on everything that was happening. "What's going on here. I have answers and I want questions."

 

Ananta shrugged and flipped the keyblade back around. Hopping backwards, she stood beside Goofy with a defensive stance. "My magic will assist us, do not worry. I can heal as well as give defense to people. Yell if you need some healing!" she announced to the rest of the group. For the time being, she cast Aero upon herself and stood back. As much as she wanted to cast a spell at Gilgamesh, she was not built for taking direct damage, therefore she would be useless against him. Also dead.

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1/15 Body Guard posts completed.

 

Etrius just sighed at Cat's response. He turned to leave her be, but not before saying, "Cat, you're right. Nobody's perfect, me especially. But I still want to know what happened, because I know that I still lack some control. Anyway, food for thought." Etrius then walked over to the chameleon, watching what it was doing. As Flynn awoke, Etrius remained in the shadows, his eyes turning red. He had already began to loathe the trickster, and as he began to refer to Glen, and Cat, then finally Etrius himself.
"Let's just assume for a moment that everyone in this room, doesn't like me!" Flynn was saying.
"Darn right, we don't." Etrius said. His light and casual voice took a more guttural turn, and he stepped out, his red eyes shining, "You left us to do your dirty work..thief. You better zip it, because last time I checked, Rapunzel here was the one who knocked you and my acquaintance out." He finshed motioning between Glen and Rapunzel.

@Dr_Wigglz
@Nui Harime

 

Stratos was pretty confident that anything that they would have said to this weapon crazed person was simply going to fall on deaf ears. In fact, the more they seemed to talk to him about their weapon, the keyblade, the more he seemed ready to totally just kill them. The straw that broke the camel's back, though, was probably Beuce. With his exclaiming to Gilgamesh there that they should just skip banter and get straight to the fighting, apparently this was actually a quote from Gilgamesh himself. Who would of guessed? Keeping his keyblade drawn out he got ready for whatever Gilgamesh here was going to throw at them, but thankfully this wasn't going to be some long winded battle that they were going to have to take turn after turn. Good thing to, because Stratos was feeling inexplicably weaker then he had felt when he left for this mission. Not to mention this was his first actual combat the entire time he had been a keyblade wielder, so hooray experience.

Knowing that, even though his unbound keyblade was radiating with strength, he was still stronger in the magical department, and so he had to just follow through with using his magic to keep the big guy at bay. Thinking through his massive compendium of equipped spells...all two of them...he found one to use in this situation...ya know, the only offensive one he had. Getting his keyblade ready to fire at the giant multi armed red giant weapon wielder, Stratos started to channel his magic through his keyblade until it fired out as just a chunk of ice hurling at the foe. Blizzard was definitely a funny spell like that. Hopefully they'd be able to take this guy without too much trouble, and with the assistance of this Goofy guy and the probable large strength from his more experienced friends, he felt a little more confident in their chances against him.

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Cat heard Etrius' response and said nothing. She remained where she was and didn't move a muscle. "Yeah, well, it's not like I know how you ended up here either, man." She heard some slapping in the background when suddenly she heard it. Flynn woke up. And that was the last straw. It was going to end here and now. She was done running -- whether it was away or towards anything was beyond the point now. The girl mentioned that her name was Rapunzel in response to his ridiculously selfish ego stroking. She wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her jacket and glared at him. He started to sound scared when he looked towards the three of them, and just couldn't help but be snarky about it. Etrius was over by Glen, but his flat tone made him sound more intimidating than she knew he could get. Once he was done, it was her turn. She took the flap of her hat and pulled it down over her face, casting a shadow over her eyes, stuffed her hands into her pockets and got up with a new purpose. "That's riiiiiight." She couldn't help but draw out her words, savoring each syllable she got while he was a captive audience. With each step closer to him, her grin grew. "And let's not forget who's tied up here. So if I were you..." She put one foot on the chair, causing it to lean back. Two legs stood between Flynn and an unfortunate fall. "I'd watch my mouth." She leaned in and whispered in his ear. "You said you wanted a castle, right? Well maybe you'd enjoy a lifetime in its dungeon."