The Means of An End: A Kingdom Hearts Story [DISCONTINUED]

[Venom Adhamm]

Hiro took the potion, nodding and quickly drinking from it, dropping it to the ground once it'd been emptied. Unversed? He'd never heard of them. But an enemy was an enemy, no matter what name they went by. And enemies had to be beaten down, that much was definitely not something new to him.

He reached over to his shoulder pauldron, pushing it in and activating his Keyblade Armor which quickly unfurled and covered his entire body in a metallic mass of black and silver, with light sand-colored accents. Hiro's metal-clad fingers tightened around his weapon in anticipation for the fight to come.

 

[Riven]

The grin on Queal's face was bright, definite pride. As the armor began to be absorbed by the swarm, the entire form of the Guard Armor had changed as it brightly glowed with purple energy while it was being corrupted. Still resembling the Guard Armor, the purple was replaced with Reds and Blacks with small colorings of bright purple, and with it, it began to reassemble itself. Each clang was threatening and horrifying loud, piece by piece stood up and began to form.

Legs, body, arms, and finally, the head. The armor suddenly began to violently vibrate as the piece to cover the face opens up, revealing a mixture of yellow and red changing eyes. It looks to its hands, feeling its claws as the Heartless symbol had changed to a different purple logo of the Unversed.

With another look at the students, it roars, louder than ever as it scratches the ground, leaving heavy marks upon the ground as its wounds began to disappear, and the cuts into the floor began to make the room become darker and darker, filling it with mist. The bright lights of white that filled the arena, now changed to a darker tone of purple.

Queal moves closer to his students as he prepares a battle form with his keyblade, the smile on his face showing with what seems to be an excited one as he gives all of his students approving nods. "Students, let's do this!"

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MISSION OBJECTIVE: FIGHT ALONGSIDE YOUR MASTER AND DEFEAT THE KNIGHTMARE. DO NOT LET IT ESCAPE!

Arena Loaded: Mirage Arena

Battle theme: KH3 Vim and Vigor

 

[Ilikepie]

Akari watched as the enemy formed from the defeated enemy from earlier into this giant unversed thing and was slightly confused why it made the lights purple. Akari rushes at the enemy and quickly hits it with a two-handed slash that doesn't cause it to flinch at all showing that it's much tougher then the previous giant enemy she fought. She casts block to prepare herself for when it decides to attack her back. "You don't scare me you overgrown soup can".

 

[Venom Adhamm]

Hiro ran forward, leaping towards the enemy's right arm, apparently trying to cut it right off. Though as he draws close, the creature's arm detaches, causing him to pass right through before it reattaches to his body. He lands on his feet, quickly spinning around and preparing himself to try it again.

 

[Superwholock]

Dom took several large strides back to gain more distance between herself and the target and then charged, only releasing a grunt of effort as she lept at the last minute and whirled Blitz around to hit the Knightmare upside the head. As the creature stumbled to the side and dropped to a knee, Dom took the opportunity to fall back to a safe distance before it could retaliate.

 

[Riven]

The Knightmare had taken some damage as it got thwacked by Akari, surely she's going to pay for that. With a fast reaction, it notices Hiro's charge in for its arm, flinging its arm to the side so it extends from his reach as he whiffs through it. As it prepares an attack for Akari, it is suddenly taken off guard at the immense hit onto its head from Dominique as it drops to a knee.

Her agility has rewarded her greatly as it swung at her with its reattached arm to try and grapple the girl. She successfully avoids its grasp, however, she doesn't completely go unscathed as she is scraped by one of its large nails. As it does that, it tries to swing its other arm, dragging its nails to the floor and uppercut Akari with a surprise attack. To be rewarded with a successful parry and a counter strike at its arm.

The Knightmare is furious as it recoils from the counter attack, angrily roaring as it does a quick punch to the ground to prepare for its next attack.

 

[Riven]

Queal watches as his students went to work, surely his age hasn't gotten the best of him in speed yet, but, perhaps it would be more entertaining to allow his students to make their first moves.

The master gazes over at Seines, making sure he remains at a safe distance as he rotates his reverse keyblade to an upper held position. With that, he aims its teeth to the ground and holds both of his hands to its handle, a small bubble of bright white light beginning to glow at the tip of the blade. The flashes aren't intense, but they are certainly bright.

"Keep it busy and off of me!", Queal yells through the chaos of battle, continuing to keep his focus as he moves his strength towards the tip of his keyblade, struggling to remain still. The Master switches to a brace stance, trying his best to remain focused.

 

[Kapowne]

Desmond hated how useless he had been during the first fight. In be last three months he’d worked hard to not be on the sidelines, to be able to stand side by side with his fellow students, and he had totally failed. This time things would be different.

Standing beside his master, he poured mana into his keyblade. He knew just what time of attack would do this time. The tip of his keyblade pointed towards the sky it began to glow a Smokey white hot color. Feeling the mana reach it’s apex, he let it go.

“Blast salvo!” He called out as three large white hot magic missiles shot out from his keyblade. They bobbed and weaved through the air excitedly until two of them crashed into the unversed knights arms causing explosions. One of the missiles careened to far left, missing the knight by a fair bit, but the damage from the other two knocked it off balance and back two full steps as it flinched, looking for a new target to attack.

 

[Ilikepie]

Akari is a little surprised that the enemy is still standing after all the hits they have been giving it, but then focuses on her next attack. She takes a two-handed slash at the unverse's torso dealing some damage to it's metal body with a loud clank sound as the keyblade made contact. She remains close to the enemy so it can keep focusing on her and away from whatever Master Queal is planning to do. She once again casts block and prepares herself for another attack. "This tin can doesn't understand that it's already lost this battle".

 

[Venom Adhamm]

The moment Akari's attack was finished, Hiro ran forward at the Unversed, his eyes focused now on the spot where Akari had hit it. There was a small dent there, and Hiro took that to mean with enough damage, the whole torso might just cave in. He drew close to the Knightmare and leaped up, stabbing at its torso and landing beside Akari. There was a scorch mark left on the Unversed now, and for a moment, it looked as though the thing felt pain from that attack. Hiro steadied his balance once he hit the ground, sticking close to both Akari and the enemy, ready to strike again in an instant.

 

[Superwholock]

Dom brushed her fingers against the cut on her left arm, silently cursing her mistake. She should've moved faster and been more aware of her surroundings. This was real; she couldn't afford to make mistakes.
Shaking off the irritation, she readied herself and charged for the Knightmare's legs, slashing blitz around to strike. As keyblade met armor, sparks flew and energy was discharged. She quickly took a few steps back as the Knightmare dropped to a knee. Seeing a potential opportunity, Dom dove in for a follow-up strike only to miss as the Knightmare moved. Without the expected resistance of the enemy, Dom stumbled, off-balance and once more cursing her stupidity. With a sense of urgency, she moved to put distance once more between herself and her enemy, needing to regroup and get a hold of herself. She should not be making these mistakes, especially not at a time like this.

 

[Riven]

The impacts done by Desmond's Blast Salvo successfully did a couple of small explosions to the Knightmare's arms, causing them to panic and flail rapidly in a slight panic. Before it could take the moment to refocus, the continuous assaults continued.

Akari and Hiro both land critical strikes against the towering demon of an enemy against its torso, causing more leaks of gas and essense of darkness to seep from its dented and cracked shell of armor. Dom proceeds to follow up with a secondary strike after knocking it down from the solid blow to its knee.

Unfortunately, she misses the follow up strike with a slight misfiring with its flinching as it uses the momentum to swing towards Akari in a rapid swing around with both of its arms. Akari successfully blocks the first strike, and successfully parries the second with no worry of a drop to her defense as she strikes back in retaliation!

With her sudden swing, it's right arm suddenly drops, hanging as if a broken limb still attached to its body, but its fingers continue to move. The Knightmare gives a few seconds to look at its limping limb and turns its bloodthirsty eyes back to its enemies.

 

[Riven]

The final few seconds were what Queal needed! The orb at the teeth of his keyblade grew to a nice size as it glowed brightly. He flips his keyblade back to it's standard reverse held fashion as with a sudden whip of his body in a fast turn, he suddenly swung, his keyblade launching 3 smaller split variants of the same orb at the knight from the weapon's tip.

One of the orbs missed as it flew past the Knightmare and shattered into a splash or sparkles. Two hit true, one smashing into it's right arm, and the second splashing it's left foot. The orbs left a glowing white liquid like substance that dripped to the ground like liquid webbing.

With a smirk to see his spell worked, Master Queal suddenly stabs into the ground with his keyblade, its tip glowing white similar to the spell casted orbs as it caused the puddles of liquid to flash in reaction to his impaling of the floor. With that, he suddenly yanks his keyblade out from the ground, the substance clinging to his keyblade like it was wrapped tightly around his teeth as the liquid webbing suddenly tightened and turned into puppeteer wiring around the two Knightmare's joints.

"You are NOT GOING ANYWHERE!", The Master yells, "Light Imprisonment!" With that, he begins to whip and reel his keyblade in several random directions like a fishing rod with loud grunts as it yanks the arm and leg of the Knightmare to the ground, pulling it to the floor and temporarily restraining it.

 

[Kapowne]

Desmond watched as his master trapped the unversed knightmare with a spell he had not only never seen before, but never heard of either! To say he was awe struck would be an understatement. With a shake of his head, he told himself to get back into the battle. Since the knight was immobile, he decided he could take an extra moment to charge up a spell. Pouring his mana into his keyblade, he could feel it heating up. The hairs on his arms began to stand on end and the excess electricity fired blue bolts around his blade.


“Thundara!” Desmond shouted as he fired the bolt directly at knightmares chest. It’s body twisting and shaking as it reacts to the spell, still trying desperately to get free.

 

[Ilikepie]

Seeing Master Queal using a strange magic spell distracts Akari as she makes her next attack at the unverse. She completely misses the large target that is being restrained by magic. Confused on how she missed she casts block and prepares herself in case the enemy somehow can still attack. "Why are enemies that can't move always so much harder to hit?"

 

[Venom Adhamm]

Hiro's attempt at casting Fire suffered the same fate as Akari's, and left him confused. He'd be scratching his head if it weren't for the helmet covering it.
"You think that imprisonment spell is messing us up?" He asked Akari, "Might be doing more harm than good..."

Could be possible. Hiro had stepped back from the Unversed to cast that spell solely because he didn't trust Queal's magic. He didn't want to be anywhere near it, and it definitely seemed possible that it was throwing off their attacks.

 

[Superwholock]

Dom frowned as each of her teammates missed their attacks. A sinking in her gut told her she was unlikely to break that pattern. Still, she charged in and slashed at the Unversed, unsurprised when she barely managed to graze it, no proof of her attack remaining after the fact as she took quick steps back.
"What the hell is going on?" she growled.

 

[Riven]

The Knightmare remained restrained as it howled, trying to get up from being stuck to the floor. As it watched its opponents continue to attack and barely miss, it takes the time to suddenly yank on its arm to break free..

With that, the wire on its arm snaps, releasing its arm as it looks to the group with an outstretched left arm to try to reach the students. It is still unable to move however, as its foot remained trapped in the wire webbing.

 

[Riven]

Queal continued to struggle as he suddenly lurched to a knee, almost losing the grip on his keyblade as one of the light wirings snapped. One can see that he was intensely gritting his teeth to the point that it could've shattered as he continued to physically wrestle the monster with his spell.

He continues to barely brace himself as he suddenly yanks his weapon to one side again, causing the Knightmare to think it was free before suddenly pulling to the ground by its foot. Queal yells at his students, honestly able to hear the disappointing sound of frustration in his voice, "Stop messing around! I don't think I can hold this thing any longer!"

 

[Kapowne]

Desmond wasn’t sure what was going on with this unversed creature, but since his last attack seemed to have a good effect, he decided to follow it up with another. Pouring his mana back into his keyblade he felt the electricity charging happily. Having just discharged a thundara, his keyblade seemed primed for it, and charged much faster this time. Desmond held the charge though, feeling the spell practically shake in his hands, and pointed the spell at their foe, hoping to put it down for good.

“Thundara!” He shouted as he crackling boom burst from his keyblade. The bolt of lightening crashing into the right side of the unversed knightmare, causing its right arm to poof into black mist.

“Yeah! Take that!” Desmond shouted uncharacteristically , feeling excited in battle for the first time.

 

[Ilikepie]

Akari watches Hiro and Dom also fail to hit the unmoving target making her earlier theory about unmoving targets being harder to hit seem to be true, but then Desmond somehow hits so maybe magic is better against unmoving targets. Considering she can't use magic to attack Akari just goes for another two handed slash and misses again. "It's so annoying missing like this". Akari casts block in case it manages to get free to attack her.

 

[Venom Adhamm]

As the Knightmare seemed to be starting to break free of the seemingly cursed wires that worked against the students, Hiro grinned behind his helmet, ready to move back on the attack. Though, upon realizing it was still stuck, he sighed softly and took another step back. At Queal's annoying and misplaced tone, he almost considered firing off a spell at that teacher to get rid of the bad luck charm he was casting. He shook his head, casting a weak Fire spell that took little, if any, of his mana and watching it fly right towards the Knightmare, then suddenly veer off to the side.

 

[Superwholock]

Dom cringed as Master Queal yelled at them to get it together. She hated getting yelled at by their mentor, especially when they really were trying.
Seeing Desmond land a hit with his spells made Dom feel a little more hopeful, but that hope was crushed by watching the other two fail. Seriously, what was going on?
Taking a deep breath and trying her best to shove her doubt aside, Dom charged in and aimed a roundhouse style slash at the Unversed's head. She let loose a yell of frustration as she missed, again. Dom took steps back to a safe distance, muttering curses in a multitude of languages under her breath.

 

[Riven]

Almost in a snarling manner, the Knightmare seems to grin as it witnessed its multiple assailants miss their attacks at it, the massive Unversed suddenly decides to jump upwards, stretching as far as it can while restrained. The sounds of clanking from its armor, almost ear shattering as it whips its foot with a solid yank.

It doesn't take much effort however, as it was rewarded with its final wire restraint snapping in a burst of white.

 

[Riven]

Master Queal has been continuing to try to keep his form, the current state of damage he is in though, is starting to not help at all. The master can be heard softly cursing at himself as he watches his students miss another wave of attacks. The Knightmare barely lurches and The master is forced to pull his arm to the side, dragging the wire back down as he desperately grasps his hold on his keyblade.

"Students! Get your heads together! We need to-!" The sound of Master Queal's yelling attempt at rallying his students, is suddenly interrupted with a loud snap and yank. With the sudden appearance of Queal being flung into the air. The next few seconds felt like an eternity, the moment the light wiring had snapped, the force from the Unversed had practically pulled the Master into a slingshot.

The room almost felt slow and quiet, to be interrupted with a loud crashing of metal as Master Queal was thrown into the far East side wall of the arena. The sounds of his armor slamming against his body and concrete, making disturbingly harsh sounds. The moment his body finally hits the floor, The Master in his armor lies there, unmoving.