Tying Knots

[Rikugurl]

OOC: MY LOVE MY LOVE MY LOVE <3333333333333333

Ventus frowned as he watched the barrier go up and around. The crowd started to cheer at the fighters glared each other down. They all knew how well Sora fought... they wondered how this man would do against him.

Ven however didn't cheer like the rest around them did... and neither did Terra, Aqua or Fujin.

Riku frowned more and looked down slightly, feeling Vi press on his leg. He smiled softly and reached down, petting her soft green fur. He had brushed her out the day before while Sora was at work.
His aquamarine eyes glared down at this Hatori guy.

His eyes darkened more as he saw the whip. He had never taken that out before.

With every cry that Sora made, Riku's heart sank and his teeth clenched. Sora was getting hurt... and he couldn't do anything about it. He blinked when Roxas suddenly left but Riku couldn't... he had to...
"Ah!" He gripped winced as Sora was struck, feeling the faded pain that Sora was.

Damnit... there wasn't suppose to be any blood shed in these battles! Where was Phil and Hercules!?


Tied up.
The large, muscular guy and his fawn trainer were tied together with a metal rope and duct tape around their mouths. Every time they tried to squeeze out, the metal would rip into them... so they didn't try that all too much.

"I'm sorry you two... but I can't let you interfere."
The dark skinned woman was able to get them both here, her looks attracting Phil as if she was a nymph and Hercules for a question about her... 'hero'. It wasn't hard tying them up at all.

To Herk, she reminded him of Meg. A beautiful woman who seemed to be good inside... but forced to do such evil things.

She walked out of the room and closed the door, breaking the handle behind her with her powerful hands. Slowly she walked to a door that looked out to the arena. Her amber eyes widened a bit as she saw Sora. He had already done so much damage to that little boy.

Get out of there kid...


Fujin winced every time she saw Sora get thrown around. She couldn't imagine how painful it must of been.

When Ven saw the whips around Sora's wrist and he called Thunder, chill went down his spine as he held his scared arm. It quivered, remembering the volts going through it. This guy was smart to let them go.


When the demons appeared, everyone gasped. Axel's eyes widened as he watched the demon like creature got after Sora. Damn, he would be scared as hell... but when he saw how easy Sora got rid of them, his heart settled.

He thought it was kinda cool how Sora could so the wind tunnel of fire. He could do that too... but it was much more bigger and more violent. He hadn't used it since he became a Somebody.


When Sora started getting the upper hand, people started to cheer more... but the minute Sora went flying, the crowd stopped and watched with suspense.

Riku choked, feeling the lose of breath too. Axel blinked as he heard Riku and looked over, frowning. Roxas wasn't back either.

When Hatori started to walk towards Sora, Way to Dawn suddenly appeared. People around him blinked as they heard an odd noise and looked up, seeing a weird... weapon?

Riku looked down at it... and knew that it was time to stop this fight... with or without Phil's help. He growled as he stood.
"EVERYONE! GET OUT OF THE ARENA!"
People just stopped and looked at him as if he was crazy. There was no way they were leaving a great fight! And they paid a lot to see it too!

When the silverette noticed that no one was leaving, he growled more.
"NOW!"
He suddenly slammed his keyblade into the stone, making a black ring around the tip. Suddenly black and purple energy balls flew into the sky and flew around wildly.

The crowd started to panic and people screamed, fleeing the arena quickly. The balls had no intention to hit anyone, just burst in the sky.


Ventus blinked as he looked over to the other side of the arena, seeing the black and purple balls of everywhere. Because of this, Aero Maxim appeared in his hand. He blinked. Did Riku's power draw it out... or was it Hatori?

Either way, he understood what Riku was trying to do in a matter of seconds. "EVERYONE! GET OUT! GET OUT!"
From Ven's order and the chaos across the arena, the people on his side started to panic too and began to flee outside.


The woman watching from inside frowned, her amber eyes narrowing.


Riku rushed passed the panicking people, heading straight to the arena. He was followed closely by Axel, Donald and Goofy, along with Vi.
"BREAK!"
He commanded as he swung his keyblade into the barrier, making it shatter.

He wasn't sure if the barrier was less powerful that Terra's... or if he had just grown stronger now that his Darkness and Light were balanced.
"Dark shield!" He called out towards Sora, making a dark circle around him.


Ventus growled and he too quickly jumped around the fleeing people, heading towards the arena with his group behind him.

[Reno]

"Ice!!" The frozen water coating the ground and shimmered out in front of the bunnie figure, surronding her.

Roxas ran from the shadows, his eyes narrowed. "You!" He didn;t trust her, not one bit. "what are you planning?!" He demanding, pointing bond of flames at her. He looked furious, and jsut a bit scared. Even from here he could hear Sora's continued yells. His brother was being hurt and he wouldn't allow it anymore!


Terra stood by Ven's side, his own keyblade appearing. It was time to stop this crazy ass fight! Aqua and Fuujin stood as well, preparing for battle.


Donald was on his feet, eyes worried for his good friend. He reached for his staff. He'd never seen Sora this overpowered before. Who was this Hatori?!

Invidia barked once, worried for her master deeply. She couldn;t help the urge that was overcoming her to get to Sora as quickly as possible!


Hatori smirked, looking at the shaken boy. This fight was over. He rasied his hands, claws growing grostequely, lengthening his fingers.

There was yelling going all around him. Sora could hear it. He didn't know why - he wasn't stupid enough to look away. He had to protect himself against whatever Hatori was planning. He watched the claws grow, griaming in disgust - and then suddenly Hatori's hands plugned forward, right for his chest.

Then suddenly, two things happened enarly at once. the barrier around them shattered - and a new one popped up in front of Sora. The claws met the shield.

"Riku..." Sora murmured. They were coming for him...

Hatori growled as his claws smacked into the barrier. So the keybladers wanted to interrupt him did they? "Demons come, strike down for an instant kill." He hissed, magical energy radiating off himself. This time, rather then a black fog black lightning stuck from the heavens towards the ground. they never made it to the ground however - the electricity seemed to take shape, reforming into the bodies of grotesque-looking creatures, landing in front of Riku and Ven's group paths - six in all. They, like the fog demons, where made up of the substance that created them. Pure electricity.


"Shit!" Terra snapped, the sudden appearance of the monsters forcing all of them to slide to a stop. One, tiger-like and sparking with withheld energy, was already swiping it's claws, sharp claws for them. No for the closest one to it - which was Ven! Oh hell no - he doubted Ven wanted to get a FULL body fry.

Terra put an extra burst of speed in his run, reaching out and grabbing hold of the back of Ven's shirt collar. He jerked the blonde backwards without any warning so he went stumbling, and a surprised Aqua caught the fumbling blonde, making sure to keep her keyblade out of harm's way. Ven didn't need to get impaled today either.

However Terra's move put him straight in the path of the demons. That was what he wanted - and counted on. He raised his keyblade, mustering all the magical strength he could as he planted his feet firmly on the ground, his body beginning to glow golden. "Balance!" He yelled just as the tiger's claws connected, expelling it's black electricity. It flowed over Terra's body like water - not burning him at all. But why would it? He was earth - electricity was absorbed by him - or more specifically he was acting as a lightning rod, guiding the electricity to the ground under his feet. The spell had taken him a long, long time to learn - and it still wasn't perfected.

The more the tiger expelled, the weaker it got, until Terra finally sliced through it completely, the tiger disappating as if it had never been there at all. The golden glow broke from around the earth keyblader and Terra breathed in and out shakily. His muscles were spasming a bit, sending him too his knees. Damn that had been too much.

The tiger's companions, a bear and a rhino, twisted around, charging for him. That's when Aqua finally got her head out of her ass long enough to realize she could end this a LOT more quickly. Blue energy wrapped around her keyblade, and suddenly torrents of water shot from the ground under the electricity monsters feet - short-circuiting them both into nothing in moments.

"Terra?" Aqua asked, concerned for her friend. She knew that move was dangerous.

"Get to Sora!" the leader ordered - his voice odd because his vocal muscles were jumping as well. but even still he was not to be defied.


Invidia gave a sudden bark of surprise, the ruby on her head glowing - automatically a Protect spell covering Riku, Axel, Donald and Goofy to help protect them against these electrical beasts. She twisted her body underneath the legs of the new animals, running a straight path for her master. Miraculously she was not hit by any of them. She knew Riku and the others were forced to a stop. However, Sora was who needed her most.


Donald along with the others slid to a stop as the viper, bull and lion lightning demons appeared before them, already ready to strike. He was going to cast some protective spell when one appeared in front of him - the carbuncle's Protect spell. So he moved on. "Water!" He cried, having the same idea as Aqua would later realize. The stream of water hit the bull and it was gone within seconds.

The viper hissed, striking for Riku who was closest to him - being in the front and all. The lion gave a roar, pouncing for Axel. Goofy was just lucky he was the slowest runner and therefore the one in back.


The appearance of the creatures though allowed for many precious seconds to be lost. Just enough that Riku's dark shield broke - only a small temporary spell as it was and Hatori was clawing for a baffled Sora - too panicked by what was happening to his friends to realize he was STILL in danger. There was a bark of warning and he looked for the source - only to see Hatori reaching for his chest again. Sora jumped backwards, narrowing being missed.

Invidia, who had given the bark, was dashing forward as fast as her fox legs could carry her. A second light came over her, a red light that soon covered Sora as well. Healing ruby, the spell was called. It didn't do much for the deep whip wounds but it did clear the brunettes vision, the muffled feeling in his head going away.

Now carbuncles were not fighters. They were healers, they were protectors, and they were back-stabbers who made their enemies taste a hint of their own medicine. That still did not stop little Invidia from pouncing at Hatori, her jaws clamping down onto his arm.

The man gave a yell, more of fury then anything, his claws gleaming as he prepared to gut the little fox. "You little-"

Sora's eyes widened, heart close to stopping, and he rushed forward, using Hatori's distraction to his advantage. His keyblade came down. There was a screech of pain. Invidia let go, teeth gleaming with blood and more splashing onto the ground. she landed easily onto her feet, the man she had attacked stumbled holding his face. Sora had cut straight through the eye.

Apparently no one should mess with Sora's pets.

"you... you HOW DARE YOU!" Hatori screamed, red eye gleaming furiously at Sora. Black power was wrapping around him, dark and raw. At about this point, Terra's group had dispatched of their demons - too bad they barely got thirty feet forward upon their leader's request.

Hatori took a breath, then yelled, that energy exploding around him in a great big wave. It sent everyone in the vicinity off their feet and flying backwards, harming especially those closest.

Sora yelped as he was once again sent off his feet - damn what was this the third time?! But this time, Invidia was right by him. He knew he didn't have the energy or physical capabilities of gliding away or aerial correcting himself - the attack had been too close to him, not allowing him to gain his bearings. So, in midair he wrapped his arms around the fox protectively, their flight not stopping until they smacked into the stone walls that made up the coliseum. Or moreso he was, since his pet was cradled against his chest. That was good though - it now made him the person farthest away from Hatori.

Also probably the most unconcious.


Hatori was growling in fury, blood running down his neck. New plan: He needed to get his hands on Terra first before this unsightly wound bled him dry. The only one who could heal extensive wounds like these were the Atterian energies themseleves. I knew there was a reason I let him live. He looked towards the fallen Chaser group.

Once he was done with that - he'd CHOKE the life out of that spiky haired fool.

[Rikugurl]

The woman blinked as she heard a cry. Before she could react, there was ice all around her. It was chilly for someone who was barely wearing anything.

Her amber eyes narrowed as she looked through the ice at the other. An odd weapon was pointed at her. Probably this thing called a 'keyblade'... however, it looked nothing like a key at all. She could easily melt the ice and go after the young blonde... but she was neither on their side nor Hatori's. She wouldn't gain anything from helping that evil man except her life.

"I'm not the one you should be worried about, little man." She put bluntly as he put her hand on her hip. "You should be more worried about your friends out there. It seems like they need help. They could use another hand. They're going to need it." She looked at the window again, seeing all of the people were now gone from the stadium.

"My ma--" She stopped. Master.... She wasn't going to lower herself into calling him that. He might of made her a slave of some sort... but she still held her pride. "My client is very skilled in all the arts and even ones unknown to many people. It would be wise to join the fight."


As Riku rushed towards Sora, he frowned as he heard the chant. Great. He blinked though as he heard saw lightning coming straight down. A crack of thunder came down on them when all of a sudden odd beast started to form, making his 'team' slide to a stop.

Aquamarine eyes widened as he saw how realistic these creatures behaved. How... how did he know such things!? Diz never told of majick like this. Then again, it might be ancient majick... then only Yen Sid would know of it.

Donald had an easy time getting rid of the bull. Riku wasn't all too keen on water majick though. There was no way he was going to slash at it either... knowing what would happen thanks to Ven's mistake. All he could do was...

Disappear.

He reappeared behind the viper right as it launched for him. "WATER!" A goofy voice called as water splashed around it. Riku glanced back at Goofy, smiling and received a thumbs up.


As for Axel, he growled, seeing the beast appeared. Red chakrams appeared in both hands, formed out of fire. When the lion jumped for him, he growled again and threw the chaks at the beast. The electricity was attracted to the metal of the chaks, wrapping around it. The lion form disappeared as it wrapped around the airborne weapons.

The chaks flew right into the ground, making the electricity obsolete the minute it touched it. Axel quickly rushed for them and pulled them out of the ground quickly. Exotic green eyes looked around, his red hair following with them. Where was Roxas? His eyes dashed around the whole arena... but the blonde was no where to be seen. When his eyes hit Ven, he got a small bit of hope but quickly realized who it was.

His teeth grit as he looked around more but was suddenly blasted with a dark majick, pushing him off his feet even further than anyone since he didn't even see it coming.


Ventus blinked as he saw the monsters be created from the lightning. Whoa... that was pretty coo--
"AHHN!" He choked as he felt something pull hard on his collar. He suddenly whirled around and bumped into Aqua. It all mattered in seconds, making him a bit off course.

He blinked when he looked back, seeing Terra's move. Hmm... looked like those books made him really powerful after all. Guess he wasn't kidding and just trying to look smart. However, when the brunette fell, his eyes widened. "Terra!" He and Aqua jumped out towards the fallen man.

He shifted a bit when the loud roar of the water flew up at the monsters. He frowned as he heard Terra's order and Aqua nodded, rushing towards the rest. Fujin quickly passed him as he stopped by Terra's side. An arm reached around the other as he leaned down. "Terra... you ok?"


Fujin frowned as she watched the animals form. Seeing that she and Rajin grew up together, she knew that Wind and Lightning went together in harmony if it was done right. She could he--
She blinked as she saw Terra and Aqua already jumping on it.

She frowned. She would have to get faster if she was going amount to the Chasers. A shine appeared in both her hands and blue chakrams appeared.
She rushed pass Ventus and Terra, right on Aqua's heals when she was hit by a strong force of dark energy. She yelped as she tried to protect herself but she was thrown off her feet anyway.


Ven growled as he saw the energy rippling right towards them. He crouched in front and around Terra, a small wind surrounding them. The energy pushed through them, making their clothes and hair whip around, but they were unearthed.


Riku's eyes widened as he saw Ultima slash through the man's eye. There was a lot of blood on the ground that wasn't even allowed to be on. He growled, seeing the dark energy forming and then suddenly burst.

Sora and the other's went flying, but Riku held his ground. He was Darkness too, dark energy was a piece of cake.
His silver hair whipped violently behind him but he didn't care.
"SORA!" He called as he saw his lover pushed back and smacking into the rocks.

Worried eyes only looked at the brunette for a second. He hoped Sora would be smart enough to realize that he shouldn't fight anymore.
He then glared back at Hatori who was now looking at the 'team' opposite from them. Way to Dawn glowed as he rushed towards the red eyed man. "BASTARD!"


Goofy was baffled by the blast as well and once he hit the ground, he shook his head. "Gwarsh!" He blinked though as he looked away, seeing Sora far off. "HEAL! SHIELD! AERO!" These protective spells should keep him safe for awhile.

[Reno]

Roxas' eyes narrowed at the bunny woman's words - then slowly he glanced out one of the windows. The fight had raged like crazy out there, and he saw the ending of of the lightning beasts from both teams, just as Sora slashed.

Hatori gave a cry and then suddenly everyone was falling back. It didn't effect him or the bunny thing since they were inside - and far away. He saw his lover fly though... straight for them?! Roxas didn;t pausde, jumping out the window putting his Quick run to good use as Axel's flailing body came for him. he held his hands out and caught him, grunting as his feet slid across the ground - and then Axel's weight caused him to topple over. "Ack!" Axel was kinda heavy for such a thin dude!


Terra's teeth clacked once or twice. "Y-Yeah." He mumbled to Ven's question. He'd be fine once the damn shaking stopped! Until then he couldn't even move. He'd NEVER balanced that much electricity before. Just who was this Hatori? And how did he know such powerful fucking spells?

He could see from where he sat as the dark energy was pushed out. Well that was going to hurt and he couldn;t even move. The brunette shut his eyes when suddenly he was surronded by wind. He opened his eyes, seeing Ven before him.


Aqua ehard Fuujin behind her, glancing back momentarily, before a sudden yell brought her attention back to the fight. She grimanced, seeing what Sora had done. god she was glad he was on their side now! But then suddenly the energy whipped back and Aqua started to fall backwards. she grunted, a wave of water appearing close behind her, turning to ice and she smacked into that instead. It was a lot lighter of a hit then if - per say - she had kept flying back and eventually hit the arena.

She did the same for Fuujin.


Donald gave a quack, his little bod falling farther because he was so light. He hit the ground, and blinked dizzily at the sky. What was that?!


Invidia's ear twitched and she looked up at her master, barking up at him questioningly. there was no response. Her master was out cold. She didn't get the chance to cast any spells seeing as goofy did it for her. She nuzzled the underside of his chin, grateful to him. Her small body probably wouldn't have survived the impact.

She jumped from Sora's arms, standing in front of him protectively, watching the fight in front of her progress. Her eyes stayed on her master's lover, concerned for him the most.


Hatori heard Riku's yell and jumped backwards, Way to Dawn slicing at where he just was. He looked towards Riku, his eyes narrowed. "you really shouldn't announce your attacks." He said. even one eyed he looked quiet fierce.

He continued to back up before he was beside one of his fallen whips. He picked it up, the elctrcity dispersed from it, and then struck it towards Riku.

[Rikugurl]

The woman's eyes widened as she saw something... er.... someone heading right towards them. The boy pushed through the door, making it shatter. She dodge the wooden pieces that moved over the ice. She winced though when a shard ran through one of her long ears. Quickly she pulled it out, some blood trickling down the short fur.

She growled, sick of this ice. Her powerful hands slashed at them, long nails making the barrier shatter. She looked down at the two before running out towards the arena.


Axel flew back and hit something hard... and went right through it. "AHHHHH-oof" He hit something soft and tumbled over. He blinked, his green eyes looking around and then down. "Ah! There you are." He grinned, leaning down to give Roxas a passionate upside down kiss.


Fujin cried as she was pushed back but suddenly hit something, feeling old shards fall onto her. Ice. She gained her ground and looked up through her one eye, seeing Aqua. A smile ran over he face towards her lover.

It became fierce as she looked back at Hatori, seeing a whip heading towards Riku. "HAAA!" She flung her chakrams towards the black haired man, seeing that he was distracted by the silverette. Hopefully she could catch him off gua---


Arrows caught each chakram in flight, making them stop and were pinned to the side of the arena up high, totally missing their target. Fujin blinked and growled, looking around to see where the arrows might of come from.

She caught sight of the rabbit woman with a bow in her hand. Another growl came from Fujin as slight wind started to brew and an arm slashed forward, heading right for the rabbit.

Amber eyes narrowed as she saw the wind and was baffled but sharp claws dug into the stone, making the wind only whip her long bleached hair behind her. He helmet like head ornament also flew off and her ears flapped. Looks like they are real...


Riku frowned as his attack missed, but he was guessing that it would. He backed away, seeing the man grab a hold of the whip. When it was slapped at him, it grabbed hold of his wrist. This didn't worry Riku one bit though.

Aquamarine eyes turned golden as he growled at the red eyed man. Suddenly a powerful dark energy wrapped around the whip and shot right towards Hatori.


Ven's blue eyes met Terras' and a small smile appeared on the blonde's face.

[Reno]

Roxas blinked in surprise, but ksised back all the same. that was ONE way to thank him. He grinned. "Yes it;s me you idiot. Now come on we have a fight to join!" He laughed, helping the other to his feet.


Aqua smiled back, watching her lover go to work - but seeing her chakram fall short drew her attention to the bunny woman as well. Fuujin brought up a wind but the bunny lady didn;t move, digging claws into the ground.

She paused looking between Hatori and the bunny woman. ah crap. She slammed her keyblade in the ground, a stream of water slamming up under the woman. Who the hell was she anyways?!


Donald shook his little duck head, getting to his feet. He could see Riku and Hatori fighting with dark magic. He glanced towards Sora, seeing Goofy;s protective magic. He raced forward, towards the silverette and red-eyed man.


Hatori smirked, seeing the energy filtering for him. He breathed in then blew out, black fire shooting out and flowing down his whip, crashing into Riku's energy. the whip snapped at the pointed where the two energies met. Hatori dropped his half, jumping high in the sky to land behind Riku, slashing with his claws.


Terra looked up at Ven, smiling gratefully back. He nodded towards the fight however, indicating that Ven should go help out. He'd be fine. He couldn;t move but he;d be fine.

[Rikugurl]

Axel grinned but nodded. Yes! This wasn't the time to do this kind of stuff... but it was nice none the less. He pushed himself up with some help from Roxas and looked around. Wasn't that hot chick here a second ago?


When the rabbit thought it was over, she growled, only to have water... come up on her. "YAAAAAA!!" She was blown up into the air, her bow at her side falling to the ground. She landed on the stone bleachers with an 'oof'. Her amber eyes came too as she looked up at the dark sky. It was quickly taken up with something green and red. "Wha...?"

Axel grinned down at her and suddenly pushed down his chakrams on both wrist... obviously not the spikes. The spikes dug deep into the ground, holding tight.
A bright smile looked at her sneer. "Sorry babe, you need to stay out of this. K?" He tilted his head and jumped back next to Roxas' side. He was out of weapons now... but he had his fire.


Goofy got to his feet and huffed a bit. This was getting really bad, really quick. It didn't seem like this guy was gonna give up! He raced to Sora and leaned down. "Sora?" He reached down and shook the brunette a bit but there was no response. "Gwarsh, this is bad." He looked back at the fight then down at the brunette again.

He wished there was a way he could get Sora off this world. He didn't possess that kind of power though and everyone was too far or too busy to make a portal.

He finally pulled the brunette up and over his shoulder. "Up we go." He watched Vi run around him as he started getting to the exit as fast as he could with his friend's weight on him.


Riku's eyes widened as he watched the attack and the whip breaking. He growled and threw the whip away only for Hatori to jump up. Unfortunately the dim sun caught his eye and in a flash, couldn't see.

That was when he felt claws run down his back. "GAAAAAAAAHHH!!" He yelled in pain, his own blood meeting the current blood on the ground. His eyes darkened as he quickly slashed his keyblade back, hoping to hit something. Damnit... he was faster than this!


Fujin frowned, seeing the dark skinned woman go flying. That would keep her out of this for a little bit. He looked back at the fight, hearing Riku's cry. This wasn't good. "Heal!" She called but of course... her healing majick wasn't much up to par either. It only made the bleeding stop but his wounds were well open.

She quickly dashed around them, heading for her stranded chakrams. Without them, she wouldn't be much help.


Ven frowned as he got the silent order. He didn't want to leave the other's side but... He whipped around and started rushing towards Hatori. A blast of wind came from behind him, pushing the red eyed man towards Riku. His keyblade glowed as he jumped and slashed down towards the man. If Hatori decided to move back or forward, he'd still be hit by a key.

[Reno]

Roxas grinned as his lover held down the bunny rabbit. He and The red-head shared a look, before once again they were taking off down for the reason. One obstacle was gone. Now they just needed to take out the big one.


Invidia's ears lowered as her master was taken up, but as goofy started to vacat the area she chased after him, not wanting to leave Sora to the hands of a... dog.

Donald saw goofy leave as well, and after a moment of thought, changed his route, following his two friends. He knew if anything happened... Goofy wouldn;t be able to handle the problem alone - especally not carrying Sora.

The duck was just coming to the other;s side, farther away, when they ehard a faint cry. Sora twitched and with a groan his eyes fluttered open. "Riku...?" He mumbled at the faint pain on his back - unable to identify if it was riku;s or his own or a strange mixture of both.

He blinked a few times, clearing his vision, suddenly realizing he was being carried by... "Goofy?" He heard flat-footed footsteps, turning his head to the left. "Donald?" A bark and he looked to his right. "Vi?"

what the HELL was going on?


Hatori felt the wind push at his back just as riku struck for him. Ven was behind him he knew that, and Riku was in front. Oh they thought they had him beat did they?

The ground under his feet rippled, and suddenly he just seemed to... sink into it. Quickly. Both keyblades sailed over his head, and he was gone.


Aqua glanced at fujin as she ran off to obtain her weapons, then started running to where Ven and Riku were - when Hatori just... disappeared.


The man climbed out of the ground at the other side of the arena, smirking. "Nice try." Blood was still dripping down his face, but it was going ignored for now.


Roxas, seeing his chance, threw himself into a Quick Run, speeding past Axel and he jumped high, striking down towards Hatori's back. Hatori looked back, smirking and reached up, clawed fingers grabbing onto Oathkeeper.

Roxas eyes widened. How?! He thought just as he was carried over in a big arc like a pendulum... and smacked into the ground on his back, hard enough to make him gasp. He rolled to his feet, backing away quickly, stumbling a bit because he didn;t have any air in his chest.


Terra watched from the sidelines, his eyes wide. how the hell... that wasn;t possible was it?!


"Everyone attack him at once!" Aqua cried. That seemed like their only hope!

[Rikugurl]

OOC: Oathkeeper is gone TAT Yous got Bond of Flames.

Goofy's ears perked under his green hat as he heard Sora come too. That was a good thing! He also noticed that Donald had come to his aid, probably to protect them. He's be a sitting duck if Hatori came his way. No pun intended.

"Sora, we're takin ya outta here. It ain't safe for ya now." He nodded and he continued to walk towards the large doors where he could already hear everyone else. They seemed worried, upset or just frustrated that they could hear all the noises of the battle but not the battle itself.

Slowly the large doors opened and a bunch of people looked behind them to see what was happening. Goofy, Donald and Vi pushed themselves through the crowd and Donald closed the doors back up, making the crowd complain more.

Goofy walked over to a somewhat empty space and laid Sora against the wall. "How ya feelin?"


Riku swung low and Ven high. Their blades slashed through the air at nothing and it either were a foot higher or lower, Ven would of lost his feet and Riku would of lost his head.

The blonde landed behind Riku and growled, seeing that Hatori was on the other side of the arena now. "Damn... you have to teach me how to disappear and move that fast!"

Riku glanced at him and frowned. "It's more of a dark power. You still need your heart opened."

"Shut the fuck up." Ven snapped back only to hear Aqua's call. He clenched his teeth and nodded, quickly leaving Riku's side.

"Didn't I tell him this was a trap? Didn't I!?" Riku's eyes narrowed as he rushed after Ven.


Axel grinned and ran off with Roxas... but blinked when he noticed the blonde running faster than him. "Hey Rox!" He continued to rush after the blonde but only slid to a stop when he saw what happened. "ROXAS!"

When the blonde hit the ground, he could feel some air leave his lungs. Shit, that must of hurt.
His green eyes dashed towards the Chaser who had called out. All at once? Would that really work? Damnit... there was six people fighting this guy and they still weren't getting anywhere. They needed more help!

He could summon Demy... but that freak was a horrible fighter... and hated fighting in the first place.
He quickly looked around, seeing if Donald or Vi was anywhere. Maybe they could cast haste on them... but they seemed to be gone too. DAMNIT!


Ven took the call too and watched everyone dash towards the center man. His blue eyes were dark as Aero Maxim started to glow white. A blue energy started to wisp away from it as he ran, mocking wind movements.

Wind pushed at his feet, making him faster. They needed to pick up some ground since they were now furthest from him. Hopefully Terra would regain some strength by now...


Riku wasn't far from Ven when his own keyblade started to glow black with dark purple energy. He pointed it out, the tip of it begining to glow brighter.
"RAGNAROK!"
The black and purple balls of energy started to pop out of the glowing tip and flew up into the air. All six of them were headed right for Hatori.

The Darkness gave him a boost in speed, making him run alongside Ventus.


On the other side of the arena, Fujin jumped up and grabbed hold of the arrows, pulling her body up with them. She couldn't believe how strong they were. She quickly pulled them out as she got her footing and looked down at everyone.

Her red eye narrowed as she suddenly threw the arrows in the air... and a powerful gust of wind pushed them away. They headed right for Hatori. She jumped down, grabbing her chakrams and rushed towards the fight.


As Riku and Ventus, Axel and Roxas, Aqua and Fujin got inside a close circle, Riku cried out. "NOW!"
He quickly slashed out along with Ven.

Since everyone was so close to each other, Axel couldn't use his violent fire majick... He growled, seeing everyone about to slash. "Shield! Shield! Shield! Shield! Shield!" Orbs covered Riku, Ven, Aqua, Fujin and Roxas.

Fujin could see the arrows and dark matter heading at Hatori around the same time. She wield back he chakrams and quickly let them fly.

[Reno]

Sora groaned lightly as he was placed against the wall. He winced a bit, the whip slash on his back causing him a bit of pain. Donald and vi both mimcally put heal spells over him... but neither really helped. These were wounds that had to heal on their own he supposed.

He looked up at Goofy's question. "You remember the time, right after we fought Demyx, when that big huge rock came flying through the air and you saved the king by getting in the way and got quite a hit on the noggin?" When he got an affirmative answer back, he smiled bitterly. "That sounds kinda good right now."

He sighed, glancing towards where the fight was happening, hearing yells of anger and cries of magic. they were really going at it - now he just felt bad he had caused all this. If he had just listened to Riku...

But damn it f he HAD who knows what that creep Hatori would of done to his friends who live on this world!


Roxas stood, cataching his breath slowly, but at Aqua's call he pulled himself together, rushing forward. Bond of flames in his hand. Attacks were surronding Hatori on all sides - arrows, dark energy balls, and several keyblades - this guy didn't stand a chance!


Aqua was right there with them, her blade glowing blue, pulling more strength into it. she'd cut him down!!!


Terra was watching silently, his heart thumping. his limbs shaking viiolently. But most of all he watched Hatori's face - impassive, as if he didn;t care that several keybladers were charging for him not to mention two pissed off chakram wielders.

He didn;t care... why didn;t he care? Hatori had a fucking CUT on his eye - blood was dripping to the ground turning brown almost instan-wait brown?

Terrified for an unknown reason, his shaking figners curled into the ground and he hissed "Sense." The yellow magic rippled across the ground like an unfelt earthquake telling him all he needed to know.

Ven. Element = Wind. Weak against: Lightning and gravity. unharmed.

Riku. element = Twilight. Weak against: loss of light (Sora he guessed). bleeding gashes.

Aqua. Element: water. Weak against: Lightning. Few bruises.

Fujin. Element: wind. Weak against: Lightning and gravity. a few bruises. (probably when they hit the ice).

Axel. Element: fire. Weak against: water. few bruises.

Roxas. Element: light and darkness. Weak against: fire (well... that was ironic). badly bruised and a few scrapes.

Hatori.

Hatori...

The fuck?

Terra's eyes widened. according to his spell. Hatori was not in front of him. According to him, Hatori wasn't there...

How was that possible? did he have magic that cut off the sensing spell... or... soemthing else?

Terra looked up, seeing it. Seeing the smirk grow on Hatori's face, like a wolf did when it had finally caught it's prey, like a fox did when it was more cunning then it's adversaries. Oh shit! He opened his mouth, yelling, 'Guys!' but it came out more as a "Gu-ugh!" There was a suddenly pain in his back that had him seeing stars.

"Looks like you are useful for something after all son." Hatori whispered in his ear. He was behind him... but he could still see Hatori in front of him. How was that fucking possible? He felt the pain increased and gave a chopped yell.

Terra could still see it, even as his vision hazed - saw the six fighters attacks hit... and Hatori, the one they were surronding... turned to mud.


Hatori had created a clone. A mud clone. He knew that spell. It was... it was a high amount of dark magic only... only Atterians could create.

Hatori looked down at the boy, his claws dug in his back, conencted straight to his heart. Yellow energy flowed from one source to the next like a magnet going to metal. Usually when he stole energy it was blue. but Atterians had yellow energy. It was more fullfilling, more tasteful. And almost instantly, Sora's inflicted wounds were gone.

He tore out his claws, watching Terra collasped onto the ground, blue eyes blankly staring at nothing. He hadn;t taken it all, just enough to heal himself. Terra would live. He wasn;t stupid enough to kill the last Atterian alive. their world was desolute, abandonned, gone. He might need this boys energy one day again.


The brunette gasped desperately, eyes seeing nothing. Did I go blind? He asked himself, the shaking of his body only having gotten worse. what had just happened?


Aqua stared blankly as mud spread to her feet, having to jump away a bit before anyone else hit her. Her ears were drawn in by a noise, a cry of some sort. She looked to her right and her eyes widened in horror, seeing her leader and friend laying on the ground... dead?! "TERRA!" She dug her heels into the ground, racing towards Hatori and him. Hoyls hit what had just happened?!

[Rikugurl]

Goofy blinked and shook his head. "Gwarsh!" He cried as he remembered that. It was horrible! And everyone though he died too.

He looked at Donald and frowned. "Looks like we have to wait n see what happens. We can't leave Sora by himself n it seems like that there guy is pretty strong!" He looked down and shook his head again. This was bad. Sora never got this hurt before.


The balls of energy hit first, but only seconds did everything else. Instead of the man bleeding... he exploded... into mud.

Arrows hit into the ground at the base of Riku's feet but he was already into his swinging motion to take notice. He blinked as he saw the mud, quickly catching himself and pulled away to get away from the other's weapons.
What the...?

His ocean eyes widened as everyone started to realize what happened.


Fujin was shocked, still being a bit far from the others. Blue chaks returned to her as she looked at the group. That was when she heard it. Her red eye looked up, seeing Terra on the ground. "Terra!" She called as she quickly rushed towards the man with Aqua.


The only person who didn't snap back in time was Ventus... because he had fallen into what was left of the man. The mud. Not that he wanted to... but when Hatori had impaled Terra, Ven could feel it. The pain was so unbearable that he fell to the earth. Blonde spikes shifted as he slowly looked up, feeling all of a sudden weak.

Blue eyes focused as best as they could, seeing Terra on the ground.
Terra...


Riku growled, feeling a bit out of it now too because of Sora. Hatori was completely healed. He... sucked the life out of Terra?
"Shit... we need to get out of here!"

[Reno]

Aqua covered the ground in quick stride. Hatori looked up at her evn as she slashed. He jumped back, landing on some of the bleachers in the arena. Aqua didn;t follwo. She fell to her knees next to Terra, shaking him. "Terra? Terra! Come on respond!"


Roxas saw huis brother hit the ground, as if Terr'as pain was his own. He hurried was by his twin;s side. "Ven?!" What the hell had just happened?


Hatori looked over them, all of them too shocked or afraid or incapable of stopping what would be his enxt move. "don;t worry, he'll live. I'd never kill such a useful little tool." he laughed. He glanced down;s his bunny companion, but didn;t stop to save her. He didn;t care if she llived or died - especally if she was weakenough to be caught so easily. "However," he announced. "I know another who will not."

And then he was gone, sinking into the ground again.

Roxas glanced back at Hatori, growing. what the fuck did that mea- "Sora!"


The brunette smiled up at his friends. "I'm okay... really!" He slowly got to his feet, legs shaking.

"Sit down!" Donald order.

"Come on Donald I-" He was cut off suddenly by am omenescent feeling, a chill running down his spine.

Then suddenly, climbing from the ground like somee proverbial heartless... was Hatori. The crowd around screamed in fear.

"Move." Hatori ordered of Donald, Goofy and Invia, and with a sharp push to the duck and dog, and a vicious kick to the fox, all three went spiraling into walls, unconcious almost instantly.

"NO!" Sora cried, Ultima apeparing and he raised it to slash -

Hatori, claws extended and entangled with/... with Sora's own broken crown necklace, plunged them into his chest.

Sora's eyes went wide.

"You made a fair mistake keyblader, carrying around such an item on all your travels. When I steal energy straight from the heart...thats all I get. Energy. But items have a magical power in it;s own or is scarred with magical reminescence - memory if you will." Sora's figners shook, Ultima clattered to the ground. "This memory has kept a record of all your powers, all your attacks all your abilites, your rate of adaption even the very core of your fighting prowess - whats drives it. In anicent times people were smart, they hid such things - but you... you were foolish enough to wear it around your neck. Now keyblade master, all that was you... now belongs to me."

How? How was this happening? He heard Terra and Axel roaring in fury, Aqua crying, Roxas and Ven calling his name - he could hear Riku screaming...

No he couldn't actually hear them - his heart could though. His heart could hear their reactions because he was connected to them so intertwinly. what he really heard... was the crowd around him, screaming in horror.

He gasped feeling pain shoot up a down his spine - then suddenly the loudest most horrible screech met his ears, worse than any cat's claws down a chalkboard, more horrible then a banshee's yell. It took him a moment to realize it was his own voice that made such a horrible noise.

The claws came out.

He collasped to the ground, eyes seeing red like blood was everywhere, breath labored, vision hazy. How was this happening? How? how?

Sora didn't get up again.


Hatori looked down at the master. He would die within the next few days - as did all who befell the fate of his claws. He leaned down, picking up ultima... and it changed, the white becoming black, the blue changing to red, the yellow shading to deep purple. It was his now.

He chuckled, and then he was gone.

[Rikugurl]

Amber eyes looked up at the red eyed man. She growled, just seeing him disappear though. "HATORI! YOU BASTARD! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" She cried as she tried to push herself away from Axel's chakrams. It was no use though... the pyro had stuck them deep.


Axel was the first one to realize that Sora was in danger... and Roxas' cry made him 100% positive. His face hardened as he suddenly dashed towards the large doors leading out of the arena. However, it was still far away and by the time his skinny little legs made it to the door and opened it, Hatori was almost gone.

A roar of furry came from him as his eyes glowed, fire appearing in his hand. "YOU---" The black haired man was gone. The fire blew out and the tall man rushed to Sora's side. "Oh my god... Sora? Sora?? SORA!?"


Riku growled as he watched the man... then blinked.
"Sora!" Riku looked back at Roxas as he cried... but... he didn't have much time to respond.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH" He suddenly grabbed at his chest, Way to Dawn disappearing. He shook, his eyes growing wide as his knee let out.

He fell to the ground, feeling a throbbing in his heart. If Sora was destined to die... so would he. Silver hair mixed with the mud and blood on the ground as he finally collapsed.


Ven's blue eyes darkened as Roxas called Sora's name. "Sora..." He could feel it too. The pain of Terra... and Sora combined and soon his blue eyes closed as his body went limp.


Fujin blinked as she saw everyone around her collapse. All this... from one man...? How...? Tears started to form in her eye as she watched Riku fall. Ventus and Terra already on the ground... Axel had left and Roxas was at Ven's aid.

Tears traveled down her face as her chakrams disappeared and she looked towards Aqua, a hopeless glim in her eye.

[Reno]

Roxas put his hand over his heart, his teeth grit as pain radiated from his heart. "Riku!" he cried, seeing the silver-haired man fall. He grunted, his body curled over, grabbing his heart. Sora... that was Sora's pain he was feeling.

This wasn't happening!

Not like this...


Terra's eyes slowly shut as well, his body falling limp. It would take quite awhile before it regained it;s energy.


Aqua looked up at fuujin, her own eyes reflecting the other;s hopelessness. Frist Terra, then Ven, now Sora and Riku? It seemed so fucking impossible. It made her want to cry.


Sora didn't react to any of Axel's calls, unable to because he was unconcious. His breath shallow and weak. almost all of his life force had been stolen from him. The only thing left behind from Hatori's attack was his own crown necklace... the charm broken in two.


~~~

Terra stared out the window of the Disney Castle;s medical ward blankly, dried etar tracks on his cheeks. Sora and Riku were dying. slowly but surely they were dying.


Roxas and Axel were dozing in chairs at one corner of the room, nearby the married couple. Aqua and Fuujin was between him a Ven. everything else... were the ones in the beds.

Ven had fallen with him, as if the energy taken from him was Ven's as well. The paopu united them... just like they did to riku anjd sora.

Mickey said he and Ven were fine. They;d be okay by tommorrow, their energy naturally replenishing itself.

Sora and Riku however had lost too much. Way too much. The energy left within Sora had no where to hold to hold onto... and was just being used up faster then it could be recreated - even performing the simplests tasks like breathing was too much. And as sora lost energy, Riku's body reflected it.

Also... Sora's keyblade was gone. stolen. That bastard Hatori had taken it but he had yet to fathom how.

Donald and goofy were pretty banged up, but they'd be okay too. a few bandages and a nice long rest would be good for them. Invidia, much smaller, had suffered far worse, little bandages around her middle to keep together broken bones. sheld live too though. She would need much mroe rest though.


Terra rasied his hand to his cheeks weakly, but the movement wasn't so hard anymore. He was getting stronger. Little by little his strength was returning. but...

He was blind in one eye. Hatori had taken half his sight to gain back his own. And he had a feeling it couldn't be returned to him. He'd probably never see through it again.

He supposed that was a small price to pay... considering what Sora and Riku were giving up. He turned his head, looking past the female couple towards Ven, wishing with all his heart that he could lay with the other.

[Rikugurl]

Bleached fluffy hair sat still as so did the long wavy hair behind it. Rabbit ears stuck up from them, a small bandage wrapping around one of them where the shard of wood had hit. Out of any of them... she made it out with the least amount of scratches...

She wondered... why they brought her with them. Obviously because she was the only one who knew Hatori... but that was a far cry. It wasn't like she wanted to. Her leather outfit was gone and was going to be replaced by a very... Disney gown... but she refused to wear anything like that... and just took a medical gown instead.

She was in another room and was asked to sat put... but where was she going to go exactly? Her amber eyes moved, looking out the window. What a peaceful place... but she didn't feel much at peace... not with everyone hurt like that...


Fujin was on Terra's side, looking down, deep in thought. No... she was wrong about this job. She couldn't keep up with them... she was too slow and too weak to be a Chaser. She... wasn't a keyblader and her majick skills were not all too versatile.

They were depending on her to put in her share... and... what did she do? Cry? God... was she even worth Aqua's time? No wonder Rajin stopped talking to her. In the military she was strong... or... did she just tell herself she was?

Terra was now blind in one eye... the King had said it was an echo of what damage that man had. Now he would know what it was like. It would take him a much harder time to get use to it than she did... since she lost her eye when she was very young.

She looked up through her silver hair, seeing Terra looking pass her. A soft sigh. He was looking at Ventus... He... really did love that boy... didn't he?


On Aqua's side, Ven laid at rest. He had still not waken up... because he didn't want to. He wanted to believe that this was all just a dream. Even if he didn't here the news... he knew his brother was dying. They were twins... and they weren't connected like the way Sora connected with things... they were connected... even before they were born.

He shivered as he shifted in bed, turning away from the eyes looking at him. It hurt so much... he was so cold...


Axel was asleep on Roxas's shoulder, a few scratches here and there. He got his chakrams back and quickly brought their other fellow friend with them, leaving Demy alone by himself. Good luck Delshad... hopefully they wouldn't come back to water damages and mass floods.

Xio laid at his master's feet. He had licked Axel's and Roxas's wounds... but he had no idea what had happened to them... and as for Riku and Sora... all he could do was whimper.


Riku laid on Axel's side, his silver hair falling on and around his face. He hadn't moved since they got there. His eyes would open here and there... but he found out that any bit of energy he wasted... would speed up their death. He wasn't going to be the one to kill Sora quickly.


Just think... the last time they were at the castle... it was for their wedding... and now... it was to watch them die...