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Who: Ren, Aerith, anyone who wants to help fight back some Heartless
What: The ritual succeeded, but it's not over yet.
Where: Radiant Garden
When: immediately after the ritual

This log is pretty much a free-for-all. Start wherever you like, by handwaving how you got to RG or starting on the world you were shifted to as you make your way here. More importantly, fight back the Heartless! This is the 1000 Heartless battle, WR style! Bring on the epic!

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[seolearo.livejournal.com]

"Not an Earth embassy," she answered, kicking away a Shadow that strayed too close. "There's the old military academy near the university, though, and then there's the place next to it, which as about as close as you're gonna get. I'll take you there, but they might not have the sorts of weapons you're used to."

Unexpectedly, however, Ray didn't start heading towards the town. Instead, she stopped where she was and fired off both a Thundaga and Firaga to eliminate the Heartless immediately surrounding them, and suddenly there was a dark stone in her hands. As she whispered the spell, it began to glow a deep purple, and a roar of challenge echoed through the Maw as a massive black dragon rose into the air before looping back down and landing before them. The Heartless unfortunate enough to be stuck beneath him vanished into darkness.

"Bahamut will get us there faster," she said with a wild grin.

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

"...Ah... Alright." He said. Shaderic was about to climb on the back of a dragon, summoned by a person who threw lightning and fire around like candy, to make their way into city he'd previously thought fictitious, to look for weapons to fight an enemy he'd believed unreal.

If not for the fact that his very life was in danger, he'd probably spend more time dwelling on the impossibility of the situation.

Instead, he climbed up the spines onto the dragon's back.

"...O-OK." He gulped, terrified, but still holding on tight. "R-ready!"

Don't think about the scary things, or the things that could kill you. Think about what you can do to stop them.

"Any idea what kind of weapons we can expect to find?" He asked as Ray climbed aboard. "I mean, I know a little bit about guns, but I have no clue whatsoever what kind of weapons we'll find at that academy. If I pick up a sword, I'm just gonna end up cut-up!"

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Shad's question made her grimace as she climbed onto the dragon. She gave Bahamut a little nudge to tell him they were ready and he pushed off smoothly, letting loose another roar.

"You may be in trouble, then," she told him. "As far as I know, it's mostly swords and staffs and lances and things of that nature. They have guns, but not so many. You might find a gunblade easier than a regular old gun, though I don't think those are very common, either."

Before long, they were passing the university and hovering above the military academy. Bahamut suddenly flew higher and, spreading his wings out wide, fired a blinding Mega-Flare at the Heartless below. When the light faded, the majority of them were gone, and they were landing again. As they dismounted, the dragon gave a low rumble and finally vanished again.

"We'll have to fight our way back, or just work on securing the town," Ray said absently, trying the door. Surprise surprise, the door swung open easily; it was unlocked. "I've never been in here before, so I don't know where their arsenal is. We'll just have to search until we find it, and hope it doesn't take too long."

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

"... Fantasy weapons, for a fantasy setting, I suppose." He muttered, flipping on a light-switch. The door led into hallway, with a heavy looking reinforced door halfway down on the right side. There was a small window next to it, with mesh behind it.
"Weapons are always locked up tight, so this should be the armory..." After a moment of handle jiggling and pulling on the door failed to provide access, he stepped back. "No good."

His eyes turned to the window.

"Think you can break that?"
[[OOC, Can I really have a gunblade? I mean, not a long one, like Leon/Squalls, but a shortsword/dagger version? A giant blade like that is just asking for me to loose an arm.]]

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Ray threw a knife at the window in response, watching passively as the glass shattered.

What? It answered the question, didn't it?

She walked over and poked her nose in the window, curious about the things inside. "Yep, mostly swords and staffs and such," she said, stepping back. "Go on in, soldier; choose your weapon. Oh, and can you get my knife while you're in there, too?"


((Go for it!))

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

Shaderic looked at the warped and tangled mess Ray made out of the window, and it's reinforcing mesh.

'These people are another level.'

Carefully, he climbed over the ledge, avoiding the sharp edges of the glass and iron that once made up the window.

'No, more like they've been grinding for years, and have just gotten around what normal people consider to be possible.'

He eyed the blade, stuck deep in wall, with only the hilt sticking out. It was a concrete wall, so it should have shattered, rather than allow the blade to sink so neatly into it. 'Not like anything else makes sense.'

Glass crunching under his feet, he started toward the wall of staffs. Like he said before, he'd only hurt himself with a sword. Then, he noticed the gleaming silver on the right wall of the room.

Gunblades.

Well, more like revolver-daggers, but that didn't quite ring as well.

Common sense said that this would be a very bad idea. The extra weight at the end would make the weapon heavier, and harder to aim. And, it was a sword. And didn't he just admit that he would be a hazard with one of those?

Then, Shaderic realized just how little say 'Common sense' had when he'd been turned into a fish.

Buckling on the sheathes on the next shelf over took a minute, but they had ammo pouches with speed loaders ready to go. He took another second to make sure that he'd loaded the gunblade properly (it was a lot like a normal revolver, once you got past the sharp thing on the barrel, and the handle's weird angle), and put the safety on, before he stepped out.

Then stepped back in to try and worm the knife out.

A few minutes of struggling later, he walked out again, holding knife, hilt first toward Ray.

"OK. I'm armed. I got your knife. Where're we headed next?"

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

She eyed the knife as he returned it to her. Either she'd gotten stronger than she realized, or she'd somehow managed to swindle a Star Market merchant out of an enchanted knife without realizing it. Either way, it worked.

"Thanks," she said, looking thoughtfully at the gunblade before heaving a sigh. "I wanted to go back and fight in the Great Maw, but I suppose someone's got to secure the town."

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

"Alright."

He inhaled, and then exhaled. Combat. Deliberately, this time. His hand tightened around the handle of the blade. He could feel the safety just barely against the tip of his thumb.

Before he knew it, they were at the door again. On the other side, he could see a small group of Heartless. Mostly shadows, with some soldiers mixed in. He drew his blade. It felt heavier than before, somehow. He put it a low-ready position. Arms straight, both hands on the weapon, barrel down toward the floor.

"Lead on. I'll follow."

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

Ray glared out at the Heartless before pulling out an Ether and gulping it down. "Be careful out there. I've got Potions and Elixirs, but only so many. And I'll be slinging around some more magic, too, so try to steer clear of that if you can. I'll be doing my best not to hit you, but it doesn't hurt to look out for yourself."

That said, she flung the door open wide and threw a wave of blue fire at the Shadows. She followed closely behind it, swinging her knife at the closest Soldier.

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

Shaderic flicked off the safety, took careful aim and...

Hold your breath, and squeeze slowly...BAM!

It almost jumped out his hands, but he held on tight. The Heartless, however, exploded into cloud of purple smoke, that swirled away in a breeze that wasn't there.

"Got one!" Despite how scared he was, how lost he was, and how much he would get into trouble if he didn't get back in time... He found himself grinning. He sighted another Heartless, a Soldier this time, and fired again. With another crack, he realized that the bullet had struck the arm, instead of chest. He was just about to try again, when a Neo-shadow jumped at his face.

Panicking, he brought his arms up to protect his face. And almost cut his head on the blade part of his gun. Eye's wide, he swung it away from his face, cutting the Heartless in two. The cold wisps brushed his face before disappearing. Shaderic shivered. It had felt like he'd brushed with ice water.

Still, he couldn't afford to blank out now. He swung the blade at another nearby Heartless.

"I think I'm getting the hang of this!"

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

They were moving pretty quick, so Shaderic almost missed him.

A tall guy, wearing a black coat and traffic cone orange hat that looked like it should have been on Link's head. He was standing there, leaning against the wall casually. Any other day, Shaderic would have passed him by.

But relaxing in the middle of a Heartless invasion? No one who had any idea what they were would do that.

Shaderic stopped, and turned to face him.

"Who are you?" The man inhaled deeply, and then sighed.

"You know, I wasn't planning on getting involved today." Shaderic blinked. What was he talking about? "I was just going to gather some intel, but now that you've seen me, I guess that's it."

"What's 'it'? What are you talking about, and who are you?" Shaderic brought his gunblade up, but he didn't aim it at the man.

"Ah, well. You're going to die today anyway. I suppose it'd be common courtesy to at least tell you the name of the guy who decided your fate." Shaderic fired. If the other guy says he's going to kill you, you shoot. That's what he was taught.

Then his arms started shaking. A black blade had shot out of the ground in front of him. Embedded in it, he could see the bullet. He couldn't see the man's face around the pillar, but he had a feeling that the guy was smiling.

"Too bad I don't do that sort of thing." With a snap of his fingers, tall Heartless began pouring in.vEverything Shaderic had fought before had only gone up to his chest at the tallest. These things were just as tall as him.

"Bu-bye, now." And the strange man sunk through a shadow in the floor. Leaving them alone with the Heartless.

"Any bright ideas?" Shaderic asked, blade trembling before him.

[seolearo.livejournal.com]

"What the hell--" The guy was gone without another word, and they were surrounded by the odd Heartless. She'd never seen any quite like this before, but they were still Heartless, which meant they had the same weakness. "Hit 'em with Light," Ray growled, and her Light spell flared up from the ground, lancing out at the creatures before them.

"I don't think even Calum caught bullets with Darkness," she said, more to herself than anything. "Great. Like we really needed another thorn in our sides..."

She shook her head and threw some lightning into the mix. "Once we get past these guys, we're going to Rainbow's End. It should be safe there; Mabry did her best to make it that way. And even if it isn't, there might be more stuff we can use to heal up." She stood back for a moment to catch her breath. "If Mabry got here somehow, she'd be heading there, too. It'll make things easier if we can meet up with her."

[shaderic.livejournal.com]

"Like I said, I'll follow you!" He ducked another swing, lined up another shot, and pulled the trigger.

He was rewarded with a loud bang, and the satisfying disappearance of another one of the Heartless.

"One question, though!" He shouted between between blows. "What the hell's Rainbow's end?!"