Video Game: Kingdom Hearts SOS: The Road To Light

Kaida was fatigued when she finally caught up to the white horse. She had been chasing a horse for who knows how long and was running at fully speed. She was lucky she could run fast, or else she would probably have lost him a long time ago.

He had sniffed around and revealed a cavern and Kaida's energy seemed to call come back at this discovery. She followed the horse into the dark, which her eyes adjusted to rather quickly. At the end of the cavern were a pair of twin doors. Maximus neighed at it and Kaida's eyes brightened up and she spoke, "Oh, I'll get it!"

Kaida ran up to the door and yanked it open and on the other side it revealed a tower. Kaida stared at it in amazement, but the horse was more focused on the scent he was tracking. Maybe this tower was their destination.

 

Cat moved away as Flynn and Rapunzel struck a "deal." She'd wanted to speak up, to tell the girl that he'd screw her over one way or another, but she figured he deserved a chance to mess up. And as soon as he did, she'd be out for his head. She glanced at Etrius, who sauntered over to her, and listened to his opinion. "I'm not. There's a difference between evil and arrogance. And as much as I'd love to kill him, maybe this is good. If we go in a group and the guards spot us, we can get our names cleared on the spot -- I'm sure whatever was in that satchel is what he stole anyway." She wanted to torture him, make his life miserable, but she'd learned to be patient. Besides, Rapunzel had wanted to see the kingdom, and they didn't exactly know their way around. Like it or not, Flynn was her only hope. If she and her mother were in constant fear, she'd need people prepared for anything, and she was more than willing to do it for her. "Hey," she called out to Rapunzel. "Is your mom coming back anytime soon? She should probably know that you're going out before we leave."

 

Cat rolled her eyes almost constantly as Flynn continued to make his case and figure out how to make the situation work in his favor. At the very least, he acknowledged his fear of the trio, and that made her feel a bit better about the whole situation. He mentioned ruffians and thugs in the forest, and how they had to go to a place called the "Snuggly Duckling." Honestly, how was that not a lie? He motioned toward the three of them as he stated that they were the hold up. "Whoa there. You're the one holding us up, trying to figure out how you'll manipulate the rest of us." She walked up to him and put her finger on his nose. "And I swear, if you betray any of us again, you won't live to worry about that satchel." With that, she turned back around and waited. At this point, that was all she could do: wait for him to try something.

 

As the fighting went on, Kel was starting to feel good about their chances of beating Gilgamesh. With their current system of attacking the fact that he had four arms was becoming less and less of an issue. It really did seem like to hey go through this fight without any serious injuries. However that was the mindset before Gilgamesh decided to pose before them. It was an unexpected thing, mainly since he figured that Beuce was the only one who would make references, but the worst thing was that he grew four extra arms.

Now they hand to deal with a eight armed giant opposed to a four armed one. Great, just great. Before he could even make an attempt to do anything, Beuce had ran past him, grabbing him keyblade in the process. Kel had no problem with Beuce borrowing his keyblade, so long as it wasn't used in a wasted effort. For a moment it even seemed like Beuce would be able to hold back the eight armed assault, a feet that would be impressive if pulled off.

However it wasn't Kel or anyone else blocking the assault, it was Beuce and while Kel did have some cruddy luck when it came to fights, Beuce one the other hand had it worse in this instant. For he was soon attack by a sword that squeaked as it hit him. Seemingly nothing was done, but after awhile Beuce was sent flying into Ananta, who then crashed into a building. This was where Kel's cruddy luck came into play as how it was now him versus an eight armed monster.

On the bright side, Ananta had managed to disarm the giant by a sword so his efforts would be less wasted. First, he recalled his keyblade back form the K.O'd Beuce. If only he could call for Beuce's keyblade as well. Meh, his was good enough. Especially since it seemed to glow brighter due to a recent increase of power. The increase would be well used, especially in this situation. Holding the Oathkeeper by his head, he charged at the giant.

Gilgamesh saw this attempt and swung one of his seven swords at him. Kel dodged this attack and used the blade, now stuck in the ground, to get a boost into the air. His target was the two upper arms, but it seemed like he was going for his face. Gilgamesh took the bait and used two of his blades in a attempt to guard. What came next were two sharp attacks to both wrists that were guarding, causing the swords to fall to the ground with a clang.

While he was down three of his eights blades, there was nothing stopping him from using two of his remaining swords to knock Kel back onto the ground. Even though the attack was blocked, it didn't stop the force behind the blade. Leaving Kel quite injured as he stood to his feet. "Didn't think I'd need to use this." He said, before casting cure on himself. It was a precaution considering all that's happened to him in the past. Once the spell was finished, Kel was feeling better and a lot less willing to take another attack like that.

OOC:
Words: 541
EXP: 27
11/15

TOTAL EARNED
Ananta 53
Stratos 72
Kel 46
Beuce 45

 

Okay, so Eclipse's reply answered some questions, but he still had more. Maurice's safety was his priority and he also needed to see if the others were all right. They didn't take up Maurice but he hoped that Eon and Karina was safe. That was what mattered to him. Just as he was about to reply to Eclipse, he heard the distinct searing whistle of the glider. He glanced up, lo and surprise there were the two that were exactly on his mind, he tensed, why had they come back? Were they worried for Maurice and him? He watched as they dropped down. "Eon? Karina?" He asked, turning towards the two."What's wrong? Did you forget to take Mr Maurice?"He asked, jarred from his question at someone yelling about a beast. He watched as Karina left and then looked at Eon with a questioning look, then rushed to follow Karina, using his fleet footedness to easily bound onto rooftops and landing infront of the tavern where Karina was, seeing her fall down. He gasped and ran to her side, seeing her get up immediately after."Karina, are you okay?"He said in a half whisper, regarding the people she was questioning.

 

D'daear stood silent while Cogsworth and Lumiere spoke. The story went on about how the Master of the house was mean and cruel in personality; the boy nodding in agreement. They went on about how one evening an old lady appeared on his doorstep in need of a place to stay. When D'daear found out about how cruel the man was, he shook his head, but soon stopped when the story got to the twist. "An Enchantress!? Whoa!" he blurted out in surprise. D'daear moved a bit closer, expressing his interest in knowing more. As the story went on, he could feel himself a bit conflicted. "Yeah, why ARE you people trying to hook your Master with Belle?" he inquired, trying to reinforce Krowley's question. The situation was starting to feel heavy. He crossed his arms, portraying a pensive demeanor as he stood looking at the residents. "And does Belle know about this?" he asked in wonder.

 

Eon smiled as Karina turned back. The girl had some problems sure, but deep down she was a good person. They rushed back to Maurice's. The girl was still there and Kross was being a good lad and protecting Maurice from Eclipse. However, things were only going to be peaceful for a while. Someone yelled Beast outside. Eon along with Karina and Kross, rushed outside to see what the problem was. The bombardment of questions Karina threw out were the rights ones to ask. Now they just had to wait for a reply... or an attack from said terrible beasty.

 

So the plan was going...weirdly. So somehow, Beuce had managed to go on a massive dual wielding spree using Kel's keyblade. Somehow he had managed to grab it without the keyblade immediately returning to Kel, but it was all necessary to combat the now super powerful Gilgamesh. And by super powerful Stratos meant that he had managed to give himself more arms which meant more weapons. At least he wasn't flinging these swords and making them explode. However, Beuce was met with a comedic end by the weakest sword in existence. A sword that did not discriminate between defense ratings and damaged all equally. And so he was completely knocked out. It was then that Ana had rushed over to him and tried to do a little medic work with her own cure magic, though he still wasn't really up yet.

Ana then had figured something out for all of them. She simply knocked away one of his blades and then told the rest that they should probably do the exact same thing as well. Well that was certainly a simple strategy. And one Kel had managed to pull off quite easily. Once Ana burst out in a laughing fit over Gilgamesh being some sort of octopus or something, Kel rushed into action and managed to knock out two blades before he had been pushed back and forced to use cure on himself. All that left was five blades in Gilgamesh's arms.

As of right now it was Stratos's turn to go and fight. However, he only had one MP left to actually cast a spell for this fight. Stratos knew that going one vs one against Gilgamesh was a truly terrible idea as Stratos had virtually no strength to back himself up in a fight. In fact, he had the lowest strength possible, save for his Unbound giving him a boost. However, due to having to post in a one on one format, Stratos was left with no other options.

Stratos started charging forward, when he remembered that rolling was still way faster. So he started rolling towards Gilgamesh and once enough distance was closed, he went in for a straight attack at the multi armed behemoth. Staying on the ground, Stratos struck at the giant's leg once with his keyblade. While Stratos would've easily liked to follow that up with at least two more strikes to preform a combo, it was simply not an ability that Stratos could physically do at the moment. Furthermore, because his attack was so terrible, Gilgamesh was mostly unphased by the strike, and he only really succeeded in drawing his attention away. Which was more or less a successful thing in terms of providing a reprieve for the others.

Regardless, Gilgamesh was now aggroed onto Stratos, and so he had to act quickly. With the eight armed giant bringing three blades down onto Stratos, he quickly reacted and put up his keyblade to guard the oncoming strike. Mitigating a good deal of the damage, he then dodge rolled away to avoid another two blades coming down onto him. Stratos then dodge rolled back as Gilgamesh's blades connected with the ground. With them exposed, Stratos was easily able to strike at one of the wrists with his keyblade, though he didn't managed to actually break his grip.

Stratos then started rolling away as the blades continued to try and decapitate him, only for Stratos realize what needed to be done. As two blades were brought down, Stratos guarded against the attack to mitigate most of the damage, and then parried the both of them back. The next three blades came towards Stratos, which he avoided by jumping upward and then casting blizzard on one of the wrists, freezing it, and causing him to drop another blade. Unfortunately, the three unoccupied arms then came it him with a solid punch and knocked Stratos back. Wow that hurt. However, due to the wrist injuries he had suffered, Gilgamesh didn't seem to get off scot-free with that attack either. Well, now there was only four blades they needed to take out before he was completely subdued.

OOC:
Words: 690
EXP: 30
12/15

TOTAL EARNED
Ananta 53
Stratos 102
Kel 46
Beuce 45

 

Ananta, having gotten over her laughing fit, stood up. Wobbling from the laughter making her a little weak in the legs, she stood there with her keyblade ready. Watching Kel manage to knock away two more blades, she almost ran in to do some more damage herself. But then, she saw Stratos charge in and knock away another blade. Scoffing, she looked at Gilgamesh have a clear look of panic on his face. It seems he didn't estimate these people to be able to knock away his precious blades. Stratos was hit pretty hard by Gilgamesh and Ananta almost ran over to help him. However, she had bigger problems. A swordsman was rushing at her with his four blades, ready to do some massive damage to this poor mage.

Hopping back, she managed to avoid the attacks. Holding her keyblade in her hand, she looked at Gilgamesh. Stepping towards him as he tried to remove his blades from the ground, she swiped her fingers along his chin. Flicking his face up, she brought her keyblade down onto an arm that managed to free a blade. The blade went flying and thunked into the ground beside Goofy and Wart. They both reacted by jumping backwards in astonishment and also from almost being hit by a sword. "Sorry!" she called back to him. Hearing Gilgamesh having pulled the rest of his blades out, she turned to see one more sword had come swinging down at her.

Rolling over to the side, he had managed to slash at her leg. "Augh!" she said, feeling the hit course through her leg. Ananta stood up and tried to step on this foot. It stung, but it wasn't too much pain that she couldn't walk. She moved back towards Wart and Goofy to try and heal herself in the meantime. Luckily, this was just a roleplay and she didn't suffer any substantial damage from that strike. All it did was cause some great bruises in the area. For good measure, Ananta applied a Cure spell to her leg and sat there to let it heal.

Goofy scooted towards Ananta and looked at her as she healed herself. "You okay there? You're not hurt or nothin', are ya?" he asked her. Wart had also moved over and knelt down beside Ananta. "You can do magic, can't you? Like Merlin?!" he exclaimed. The boy certainly was excited about it. Ananta chuckled awkwardly, not used to this kind of attention. "I'm okay, it's just a bruise. I'll be fine in a few turns anyway." she said. "Turns?" Wart asked. "Er, nevermind. Just keep back and don't get hit. Goofy will protect you, he's done a great job so far!" she said. Goofy scratched his head in embarrassment. "Aw, shucks!" he laughed. "In any case, I'm more worried about my comrade over there. The one knocked out? He hasn't woken up yet..." she said, staring at Beuce's lifeless body.

Standing back up and testing her leg, she found that it didn't hurt as bad now, but it was still annoying. "Seems like I can't do much for the rest of this battle...but I'll try my best." she said. Thinking, she remembered that by now, she only had 1 MP left. A single Magic Point that would most likely need to be used on one of her party members when they needed it. Maybe Stratos or Beuce or even Kel. That reminded her, she needed to get to know Kel and Stratos, they were strangers on the same mission, but she had never actually talked to them before. Same with Beuce. He was still a stranger, but he was....nice. Ananta shook her head. "Now is not the time for fantasies. I need to do something..." Ananta thought to herself. "But what can I do?"

OOC:
Words: 635
EXP: 30
13/15

TOTAL EARNED
Ananta 83
Stratos 102
Kel 46
Beuce 45

 

Etrius didn't even bother to speak during the time Cat. She had said everything that was on his mind, and he silently vowed to support Cat with her threat against Flynn.
Still, a small part of Etrius hated all of this. Though he was dealing with a criminal, Etrius learned from his studies back on Abraxas that he must always mantain not just vigilance, but also mercy at times. It can also be proven in history that if you spare an enemy, they would be in their debt.
In short, Etrius hated the torture part of this, but kept true to two beliefs: They had spared Flynn. Hopefully, he would be kind enough to repay the debt. Etrius suddenly felt like getting a move on. According to Rapunzel, they had another danger to deal with: her mother. As far as Etrius has known, never deal with a wrath of a mother.
"May we get moving, please?" Etrius said to Cat and the others, "As much as I'd love to antagonize the rodent, we do have a mission to complete, not to mention fufilling someone's greatest wish?"

 

Luna listened carefully as Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts told their tale. Luna began pondering for a bit until Mrs. Potts asked a favor from the group of 5. "Want us to convince Belle to go to attend the dance with the Beast?" Luna did not want to meddle in the love lives of others but she was torn on what to do. What should I do? I don't want to meddle in their love lives but if I don't then the curse won't be broken and the Beast along with his servants will stay the way they are forever. After careful thinking, Luna reached a decision. "I'll help convince Belle to attend this dance with your master!" Luna crouched down to Lumiere, Cogsworth, and Mrs. Potts and spoke once more. "I promise you guys that we'll do everything we can to make sure that this night will be a success and will put an end to your curse to ensure everyone's happiness." She stood up once more and a sharp pain ran through her head. Everything stopped for a moment in Luna's head as she felt her legs giving out, causing her to collapse to her knees.

 

Thanks to the combined efforts of Ananta and Stratos, the five armed giant was down to three sword now. Unfortunately though, the both of them had taken some injuries from his last two attacks. While Ananta did manage to heal herself, it probably meant that she was starting to run low on magic and since he definitely wasn't a healer in the slightest. It may pose a problem in the future if they didn't put an end to this battle soon.

So holding his keyblade in a reverse grip fashion, he wasted little time charging at Gilgamesh. While this could be seen as a foolish move, remember this is Kel and he always has a plan to justify his actions. Whether the plan was good or not is an entirely different matter that would be left up to fate. Again, not a good idea considering that it was Kel. Oh well, too late to back down away now for Gilgamesh had also charged towards him with his three sword all in striking positions. Come on lady luck, be a dear to Kel for once.

Ask and you shall receive for Gilgamesh first attempted to stab the spot where he assumed Kel would be at. A mistake on his part since he also assume that Kel would attempt to use his sword as leverage to get to his face, leading to his swords being held in front of his face. What really happened was that Kel blasted the wrist of the sword that was stuck in the ground at point blank range with his fire spell. It didn't matter that it was a low level spell, point blank was point blank. Meaning that enough damaged was done to cause him to release his grip on the sword.

Next was Kel tossing his keyblade at one of the other wrist while he was preoccupied with the burning sensation on his wrist. The keyblade had made successful contact, leaving the sword that had beaten Beuce in his hands. Too bad for Kel, lady luck's grace only lasted for so long. Before he could even get his keyblade back, he was struck dead in the get by Gilgamesh's fist. It was something he wasn't expecting, nor being sent flying due to the force of the hit. In fact, you could hear him shout "Aw come on!" as he landed not too far behind Ananta, Goofy and Walt.

"Man has a mean right hook." A few moments were used coughing but Kel managed to get on a knee. Least he managed to get him down to one sword before behind sent flying. On the bright side though, he wasn't in so much pain that he would need to be healed. At least not right now. Probably after the fight ended for sure.

OOC:
Words: 467
EXP: 23
14/15

TOTAL EARNED
Ananta 83
Stratos 102
Kel 69
Beuce 45

 

As everyone was seemingly on their last leg against this swordsman, it went without saying this fight couldn't be drug out much longer or they likely wouldn't come out on top. Beuce recovered from his K.O.'d state and walked up behind his comrades. "What do you say we put the whore of Babylon over there out of business?" He said with a cocky smile, as though their victory were assured from the start. From the looks of things, they'd been reducing his arsenal. Good plan. plus they had managed to reduce his blades down to just the sword which had knocked out the red-clad wielder. Perfect. Time for a little payback. Fortunately, Gilgamesh hadn't been smart enough to go and recollect the weapons he'd lost during the time the party sat there.

He ran forward at the multi-armed giant, tossing a strike raid in front of him as an initiator. Gilgamesh blocked the projectile keyblade with Excalipoor, but Beuce wasn't far behind it. Following a hard uppercut to the stomach, Beuce re-summoned his keyblade and slapped his last weapon, the knock-off legendary sword from his hands with a swing to the wrist. But that wasn't all. He jumped, kicked off the giant's face, and caught the blue sword midair. With the Mighty Gilgamesh down to nothing but his bare hands, it was relatively safe to go on the all-offensive. He ran in and began swinging his weapons wildly. The sheer amount of squeaks made it sound like a near constant tone, and the ones were a blur.

Finally, Gilgamesh fell back onto his backside, causing the ground to shake and throwing up dust as he did so. He was staggered, vulnerable. It was time to finish this! Beuce waved his hand in motion for the rest of the party to charge in. This would end the fight. "Lets finish this!" He yelled out.

Spoiler: All-out attack!

All four wielders ran at the staggered swordsman for their all-out attack. As they collided with him, a literal cloud of dust materialized from seemingly nowhere and obscured the battle from any outside view, save for the occasional fist which would emerge and wielder knocked back, only to get up and run in again. Don't ask me, because i don't know. Odd things tended to happen around Beuce. You learned not to question it after a while. Various pows, crahes, clunks, and for some reason a shout of the word "Persona!" could be heard. After a few moments of this clash, the cloud vanished as swiftly as it had come, and the party stood victorious over Gilgamesh. Beuce hummed a small victory fanfare in celebration before looking at the blue sword Excalipoor, still in his hands. Deciding that this may come in handy later for entirely serious purposes and not comedy at all, he put it in his magical bottomless pockets which all characters stored items in. Out of all the swords laying around on the ground, that was the one he kept. Not the gun-sword fusion thing or the magical water blade, nope. The one that squeaked when it hit things. Did you expect anything less of him?

"Gwarsh fellas...That was somethin'" said Goofy, scratching his head in understandable confusion as to what exactly had just happened.

"Oh tell me about it. That guy was un-BEAR-able." He said as though there were something extremely funny about the word bear, and put quite a bit of emphasis onto it.

Words: 612
exp 30
Total exp
Ananta: 83
Stratos: 102
Kel: 69
Beuce: 75

~Mission Complete~

 

Listening to what Flynn and Rapunzel said, Glen was unsure about his stance on this snuggly duckling place. On one hand, Etrius was right and they did need to complete their mission. On the other hand, though, could Flynn be trusted? Probably not. The keyblade wielder didn't trust the thief as far as he could throw him. For the sake of the mission though, he would have to go along with it. He sighed. Sometimes, doing the right thing really sucked. "Fiiiine, lets get going" Glen said.

Walking over to the edge of the window, Glen looked out of it and down below. They were somewhat high up, but that was expected when you're isolated in a tower, wasn't it? Carefully, he lifted his leg up and over the edge, before doing the same with his other leg. He then brought his whole body out of the window, and gripped the edge of it with his hands as he lowered himself down slowly. For once, he was being cautious; this was a rare thing for him. Lower and lower he got, until he was about halfway down the tower. It was at this point things went poorly for him. He became suddenly aware of an itch on his nose, and an unbearable one at that. His face turned into one of annoyance as he tried to ignore it, but eventually he gave in. Holding on with only one hand, he carefully began scratching his nose. For a second, everything was fine, and then he lost his grip with his right hand and fell to the ground with a loud "oof".

 

Stratos wasn't entirely sure what to make of the scene that had just transpired in front of him. After preforming an attack that could be considered an Almighty attack, Gilgamesh seemed to concede that he indeed lost to all of them. He still seemed fixated on getting the sword, though and was going to keep going at them...until someone kind of strange appeared. She was a young, petite looking thing with blue hair. Interesting. She basically seemed to boss Gilgamesh around, and was all up in his face, so to speak. It was then that Mizu, as her name appeared to be, seemed to have some sort of prior relation. It was then that Merlin told her to go and continue her discussion with Gilgamesh in private and then asked for a status update from them.

"Well you see, after leaving your tower," it was then that a massive white bubble seemed to encompass the entire background with chibi versions with all of them doing very simple actions, reenacting everything that he was explaining appeared and the setting changing to match the setting that was being used at that time. "We wandered through the forest, asked some questions to Wart and Goofy, Ana had a moment (pretty sure she had to pee,) then we got back to town. It was there that we saw some other keyblade wielder, probably evil, here talking with Gilgamesh, the big dude over there. Then Beuce hit on her, and she left. Ana hit on Gilgamesh and he ignored her. Then Gilgamesh noticed our keyblades and hilarious antics ensued in the form of a fight. After we preformed some kind of all out attack on him, we won and this happened." With that said, the giant bubble disappeared. Stratos looked over to the girl talking with Gilgamesh and then back to Merlin. "So Merlin, who's this Mizu person over there?"

 

D'daear cocked his head to the side. "A rose?" he questioned. The servants continued to give out the details revolving around the mysterious rose that had been left behind by the enchantress. He crossed his arms, as if in deep thought. "You guys have it rough... No wonder Beast is so cranky..." he assumed, trying to make sense of the situation. This whole adventuring thing was just so new to him. Who would have thought he'd encounter a world where magic so powerful as this existed? He was still getting used to the fact of seeing these enchanted people in the form of...well objects. A thoughtful sigh escaped his nostrils. Mrs. Potts continued speaking, finishing with a query for their help. A motivated D'daear jumped at the opportunity, forgetting the rest of the details. "Of course! Yeah, count me in too!" he replied, following up on Luna's willingness to help the castle denizens. He turned to the others, waiting for their reply when suddenly he heard the floor beneath him reverberate slightly. The keyblader turned, eyes widening in worry as he found Luna on her knees. Even if he didn't know her too well, he would have acted the same way towards any stranger. "Luna, what's wrong?" he inquired, kneeling next to her in sincere concern.