Kingdom Hearts - Blades of Three Realms

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Kefka had hummed a bit, and was tapping his foot when he felt another -off- presence, this one due to the clear nervousness and insanity clearly written on the almost horrified looking face of the.. pink haired androgynous individual coming out of the Corridor of darkness "that was too creepy, and dark.. i don't know how to deal with going through that again..." s/he said, while Kefka just cackled a bit, waving it off "Mwee Hee Hee Hee... no worries, i'll send you back to Medusa when she feels like she's seen enough of your sk--" of course, he'd be cut off mid speaking by the Chibi-Bahamut's Ultra Flare, whose magic power actually woke Shiro up, his eyes switching from their normal blue color to that of being.. spiral'y in looks (like a Hex Maniac), and red, with a bright blue array forming slightly outside of them "Hee hee hee hee hee~! oh-ho... looks like kingy is around some chaos! goodie!" he said, standing up rather comically as if he was a blow-up punch-doll, before tilting to the side looking at Crona "hee hee hoo heeeeee~! now just what are you then hmm? i wonder how well you bleed~" with that, Shiro would summon a normal longsword into hand as if by instinct and proceeded to slash at the individual, dealing some minor damage and revealing his blood to be black, but not as much damage as a normal sword slash would do "oh ho oh ho.. what's this, the blood is black? what a coincidence!" of course, with that, he'd stab himself in the shoulder, splurting out Black blood giggling all the same "so do i, say, are we brothers? or brother an sister? can't really tell with how ya dress~" of course when he saw the Ultra flare die down he'd toss aside the 'bloodied' sword as it shattered into prana, and spied Chibi bahamut in the sky, before giving off a squee "Dragon!" cue a poof of black and grey smoke, and out flies the Chibi-Shiro aiming to latch onto Chibi-Bahamut giggling madly "my dragon~! let's cause chaos, havoc, destruction, let's destroy them all, hee hee hoo hee!" he giggled out while egging Chibi-Bahamut on in continuing his assault on Kefka. the swordsman just sweatdropped at Shiro's antics as Kefka spat out a puff of smoke comically ".... oh-kay then, seems they're getting a bit serious on me..." he would then look up to the Chibi-Bahamut and Chibi-Shiro, sweatdropping ".... this is clearly an insult torwards me." he said calmly twitching an eyebrow.

Shiro, meanwhile internally, would still struggle underneath the grips of the two others holding him down in the black liquid his mental plane had now, and with it, came the larger whispers, which sounded like multiple voices, to one voice, from nowhere, and everywhere, asking for giving in, embracing the madness, letting loose the control, cause havoc, become an incarnation of chaos, become -insane-. these were just a few of the words, and while submerged he was unable to control his mind as well as he should hence what was happening in the physical realm ~<********, three eyes, and now this.. black s**t in my mind... and it's more influential than the cursed mud Shishou had told me about! Gah, LET ME GO YOU TWO!~ he yelled mentally, squirming and wiggling, trying to get loose dammit, but nothing going at this point as it seemed the two had a good iron grip on him.

Roveth meanwhile just nodded as he saw Chibi-Bahamut's summoning, and subsequent disappearing from the area as he looked to the cloudy sky outside with narrowed eyes "for bringing out... that... we'll need to be there in the area where Kefka is, as for the.. other deterrent..." he then would smirk a bit, the Arch-b*****d smirk all the same before flicking up a card into the air, as it enlarged, and showed a large green border and cartoon like book photo "i call upon the childish desires of the shadows, come forth and be awakened! Continuous Magic... TOON WORLD!" he then would grunt as a reddish haze came off of Roveth as his health was shaved by a good bit to activate the card, before bringing out two monsters, flicking them up to be summoned in facedown defensive position "Next... as sacrifice to the shadows, these two monsters shall bring forth an Advent of chaos and Destruction that literally abides by very few rules, of both reality and common sense! ADVANCE SUMMON! Come forth now, Dragon Sleeping within the world of Toons, grace our presence with your radiant scales! Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon!" with that, he flicked the prismatic glowing card into the air, as it enlargened via the two tributes being made, and sure enough.. a cartoonish and chibi-version of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon would appear, being at least about waist-height on Roveth as it cheered on being freed, before spinning around to face Roveth with googly eyes "you know what to do.. find the man responsible for my light's pain and predicament.. and like Chibi-Bahamut.. Do not hold back, and NEVER SURRENDER!" the Toon Dragon suddenly snapped to attention with salute in place at those two words, before quickly flying off towards the massive light pillar to go find and join in on the festivities going on over there. Roveth of course just clenched his hands a bit, and brought his hand up to his eyes, both of them becoming inverted and blood red, yet with the clear someone done f00ked up face of insanity as a blood red version of the eye of horus formed on his head, clearly showing he was not in best straights at the moment "let's go... we shouldn't keep the clown waiting with our opening act shall we?" he said grinning all the while.

Axel just nodded to Crystal's idea of the fire and ice magic, as he grinned "leave it to us Crystal, we'll make sure to keep him all too busy!" he would look to Xion next, smiling a bit "the only reason timing is the hard part is because we have to in essence synchronize our spellcasting, but i think that won't be much a problem, we just have to remember to use the right strength of spells otherwise the weaker one might get fizzled out." he said, nodding a bit, as if thinking it was that easy.. probably harder in application, either way he'd quickly follow everyone once the light pillar lit up where Kefka was and all.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Roxas simply stared dumbfounded at Roveth's Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon as it flew off toward where Chibi Bahamut was already going to town on Kefka. He decided at that point that he wasn't even going to ask why there was now a second comically small dragon that most likely had similarly destructive tendencies to the first now being added to the mix. It was scary enough just thinking that Crystal and Roveth, of all people, were somehow on the same wavelength at the moment. Even so, Roxas had to trust that they knew what they were doing as he continued to run alongside Crystal toward the place where the two smallish dragons were going to be raining hell down upon Kefka without mercy. Chibi Bahamut being egged on by Shiro wasn't doing the crazed clown any favors as Chibi Bahamut took in a deep breath and promptly exhaled a second Ultra Flare, although this second blast wouldn't be as potent as the first since Chibi Bahamut was expending a great deal of magic simply by his continued existence and all.

"That makes sense," Xion nodded in understanding of what Axel was saying about how the combination magic should work. She would of course be sticking close to Axel as the group started making their way toward the spot where Kefka had reappeared with Shiro, although it felt like there might be someone else there too now. "So then we just need to agree on which tier spells to be using and keep it consistent until we manage to get the proper timing down. And obviously we'll get the best result from using the highest tier magic so that would be combining Blizzaga and Firaga. It shouldn't be too difficult for us to sustain that."

It would likely take a few tries for them to get the timing right, but as long as they were patient about it they would probably get the hang of it well enough to make good use of the combination against Kefka.

Riku was nowhere to be seen as he was already exploiting his Dark Teleport to fade in and out of view while bouncing between the party as they split into their respective subsets to get Crystal's plan in motion, although the sight of Chibi Bahamut and Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon did nearly cause him to facefault into the pavement when he first saw them, but he managed to regain his composure before he might otherwise have risked giving himself away to Kefka for the moment.

When Crystal and Roxas reached the area where Chibi Bahamut and Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon were going wild against Kefka they of course also saw the strangely androgynous pink-haired demon swordsman and a steadily growing number of the bizarre snake-like Heartless beginning to rise up from out of the ground with some being equipped with tiny crossbows and wearing an outer layer of segmented armor. Roxas started tearing into the Heartless without hesitation, moving with incredible speed from the Auto-Haste cast on him by Road In Between and also because the newly synthesized Keyblade seemed to enable him to string together an infinite number of hits without having to begin a new combo meaning he was able to just keep swinging at the Heartless without ever slowing down. Even with their own new upgrades, the Heartless were finding Roxas extremely difficult to contend with.

Crystal was going to cover for him with a bit of Holy magic, but the sudden close proximity to Shiro was causing her headache to hurt even worse again and it was making it difficult to concentrate on using her magic so instead she just went into her own melee combat against another batch of Heartless to try to clear her head.

"Pretty soon you won't be calling the shots anymore. It'll be me," the small and angry version of herself spoke up inside her head again. "You can't stop the madness from taking hold."

"Is that what this is all about? But I wonder, which of us really embodies my madness? Is the me that I was really as a crazy as I am now?" Crystal's mental projection of herself stood resolutely before her younger self. She sat down cross-legged in front of her younger self and materialized a stick of sea-salt ice cream in one hand to begin snacking on.

"This has to be some kind of trick," her younger self stared incredulously at Crystal as she took a great big bite out of her ice cream. "What are you even doing?"

"Isn't it obvious? We're having a battle of wits and I'm eating sea-salt ice cream because it tastes good," Crystal grinned widely and took another great big bite. "Wouldn't you like a taste?"

At that statement her younger self was practically fuming.

The headache faded a bit and Crystal was able to concentrate on her magic again. "Holyra!" Crystal channeled the spell through her newly synthesized Angelic Prism because it provided a huge boost to Holy magic and the resulting spell annihilated a good number of the nearby Heartless.

"It looks like Kefka brought some pretty bizarre backup," Roxas remarked with regards to the strangely androgynous pink-haired individual there with the crazed clown. It looked like Shiro had managed to free himself, although the way he was acting was by far the weirdest thing Roxas had seen so far to day and that was including the likes of Chibi Bahamut, whom Chibi Shiro was clinging to rather insanely, and the Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon that wasn't far behind.

"It'll be a problem if the Heartless become too numerous," Crystal pointed out as she took in their surroundings. She had to do something while she was still reasonably lucid, before the madness tried to subvert her efforts again. "It might be a long shot, but let's try to stick to the plan. If we can pull it off it should do a ton of damage and at least get rid of these Heartless before even more of them turn up."

"It's worth a shot," Roxas agreed.

Crystal's first order of business, of course, to cast Haste on herself to buff her speed to the same range as his. After that it was simply a matter of coordinating their spell casting so that they were casting Holy at the same time. This time, though, instead of just seeming like an accident or a mere coincidence, there was a tangible pull that could be felt within the magic itself that seemed to be guiding them into the combination. Which meant it wasn't a simple fluke the first time they'd used the simultaneous casting. It was an actual technique that had somehow manifested itself to them.

"Holy!" sure enough, they called it out in unison and the entire street lit up with light elemental magic that completely eradicated the first wave of Heartless that had materialized while also probably laying down some hurt on Kefka and his very strange accomplice.

"I'm beginning to think we might just have a knack for this," Roxas was actually slightly amused by how easily that had worked.

"You might be right about that," Crystal had to admit. The way it felt that time, it was the same feeling she usually got when she was dual casting by herself. The spells were synchronizing like a dual tech.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

of course after the second Ultra Flare had ended, Kefka twitched an eyebrow, and grew an anger-vein, and just as he was about to speak in came the Holy Combo, which actually also sent the swordsman flying a bit, before some of the black blood came out in a rush to form into a straight edged blade with a mouth "aaah! the light is too bright, i dunno how to deal with this! Scream Resonance!" with that, the mouth would open up and began screeching hard vibrating the blade "Screech Alpha!" with that, the swordsman swung in a vertical slash downards, unleashing a large wave of black blood enveloped in a purple hue and opening to form a mouth to attack everyone closeby, thankfully not Kefka, who was starting to look angry if the second anger-vein was any indication "seriously, i'm now starting to get Angry..." he muttered, before looking up at the dragon, now only seeing two with a grit of his teeth, before the toon dragon looked down at Kefka.. and unleashed a MASSIVE Burst Stream of Destruction to envelop kefka with another yelp of surprise and destruction that did no damage to the surrounding area, just Kefka. of course, with about three blasts from the Toon Dragon later (due to Shiro egging the dragons on), Kefka had finally had enough, and in a flourish of raw magical presence brought his hands up to point at Chibi Bahamut and BETD "Die you miserable existances! HYPERNOVA!" he roared out, unleashing two LARGE blasts of magic which wouyld envelop the two (three) in pillars of destructive light energy, destroying BETD in one shot, and knocking Chibi-Shiro off of Chibi-Bahamut before more than likely dismissing that summon. of course, while Shiro bounced around close to the swordsman he'd turn to face Roxas and Crystal "you really are trying my last nerves!"

Shiro meanwhile giggled all slightly singed from Hypernova, thankfully the black blood protected him, and after a few attacks from Screech Alpha and Screech Beta, the pink haired swordsman would notice Shiro and blink, as he returned to normal size, idly swaying a bit with his crazy eyes "heee hee hoo hoo hee~! sorry about that.. you know, i never got your name." the swordsman responded kinda meekly "oh gosh.. i don't know how to deal with this... uhm... well.. my name is Crona." Shiro bobbed his head giggling, before flopping onto his side with a grin as Crona lurched forward a bit, while he still held the blade, but it seemed that seeing such a blade had not resonated in Shiro yet, but when the odd apparition came out showing the X over the face with two eyes between the X and have X's on themselves, looking at Shiro, his own body lurched and pulsed, as if something felt familiar and awakening, and with a similar surge, a being similar to the one that had just appeared would form, only along the arms and body, and the face, were clear draconic features, like claws, scales, even almost a snout, but the same eyes and X would form in the same motif "Ah! i'm finally out! whee hee hee--- wait..." the being would blink, and look at his counterpart, who stared back, before they pointed at each other "oi, you handsome b*****d, who the hell're you!?!" they would say in synchronized voices, before the one coming from Crona would pipe up "i'm Ragnarok, Crona's Demon Sword." he said, pointing an egotistical thumb at himself, while the dragon-looking version of Ragnarok would puff up in defiance and equal ego "well i'm Apocalypse, the Demon Sword forged from your black Blood and this brat's capabilities." he said, placing a hand on Shiro's head, before leaning down to get to Shiro's eyes "kill'im and eat him." Shiro just giggled a bit and tilted his head, while Ragnarok was threatening Crona as per the usual "but whyyyy, i thought i could give him a -HUG-...." of course, this would creep anyone out how Shiro said it, before he started being pummeled, prodded, ear tugged, nose tugged, so on, teased and tortured by Apocalypse probably looking pathetic doing so "because i said so and their souls look yummy dammit!"

Roveth of course just stared at the fight, more focusing on the pissed off Kefka, before bringing a card into hand as he started focusing his voice, which began echoing throughout the city as he brought two monster cards into the air as two pillars of clear energy formed next to him "with the Scale 1 Stargazer Magician, and the Scale 12 Pendulum Statue Dark Sun... i now set the Pendulum Scales!" with that, the cards vanished, forming into the twubes to his left and right, rising into the air in their monster forms, as a crystalline pendant formed behind and between them, swaying a little "with this, i can now summon monsters between levels 2 through eleven, at the same time!", with that, the crystalline pendant started to circle, and then sway, much like a Pendulum "Sway... Pendulum of the shadow's soul! Draw an Arc of light across the very Aether! PENDULUM SUMMON! Now.. Come forth! DENZIENS OF THE SHADOW REALM!" he had actually called up a large portal, which summoned six monsters total, three Blue-eyes White Dragons proper, and three Darkness Neosphere (The one with the eye in the chest) of which all of them cheered/roared and chomped at the bit, so to speak to fight, but Roveth was setting the stage, to be sure, as he brought out three more cards, with one still hidden amongst his Keyblade held hand, the ace to literally (and hopefully) wipe Kefka out.

Axel of course would notice the heartless, but he nodded lightly, while he felt like he could go one tier higher, he knew better than to go all out, especially if he was going to team with Xion as he brought his hand up, large amounts of fire gathering within them "guess the best time is to start now huh?" he said, aiming at the heartless, Crona, and Kefka all "FIRAGA!" he shouted, unleashing the first volley of Fire Magic and all when Xion was ready to fire Blizzaga.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"Blizzaga!" Xion unleashed the first volley of ice elemental magic and sure enough within seconds there were huge explosions of magic everywhere in the surrounding area. It wasn't the least bit subtle at all. "Huh, that was surprisingly easy to pull off... I wonder if maybe it's not so much the timing of the spells as it is about compatibility." That would go a long way toward explaining how Crystal and Roxas were originally able to pull off simultaneously casting Holy without any preparation at all.

Meanwhile, Chibi Bahamut was blasted well out of commission by the power of Kefka's Hypernova becoming immediately dismissed from the battlefield. Down on the ground Crystal was disappointed to see Chibi Bahamut taken down, but she started cheering enthusiastically when the explosions started going off all over the place. "Yes, Antipode III! That's the best one there is!" Crystal was grinning entirely too much at the explosions. "I knew they'd be able to figure it out."

"Do you think we should go ahead and light things up again?" Roxas was certainly capable of pulling off a few more Holy spells with the MP he had remaining.

"Sure, let's go," Crystal agreed easily and mere seconds later the street would light up again as they both cast Holy, vaporizing the second wave of Heartless that had begun to spawn in the area. The way things were going the poor Heartless literally didn't stand a chance.

"I don't get it," the younger version of Crystal was becoming perplexed by the actions of her older self. "How can you just be sitting over there casually eating ice cream in here while the real you is out there fighting so easily?"

"It's really not that complicated," Crystal's mental projection shrugged mildly. "It's because I'm not alone."

"You don't mean... because of Roxas, do you?" her younger self sounded highly skeptical. "Sure, it might seem okay now, but you do remember what happened, don't you? You didn't even know him, not really, but you were pretty broken up about it when he disappeared. Aren't you still scared that it might happen again?"

"You're right," Crystal's mental projection admitted. She had finished off her ice cream and whipped out a cup of instant Ramen to begin slurping away at causing her younger self to scowl at her. A scene played out, a flashback vision of sorts, showing Crystal after Namine had told her that the boy on the clock tower wouldn't be coming back to Twilight Town. She was upset and furious, wishing she had found out more about what was going on and that she could have done more to try to help even though at the time she'd really believed it wasn't any of her business. Afterward she left Twilight Town, went back to El Nido for probably a solid month to mope about it in Termina while she waited for more of the world gates to open up again. After that she went on her Heartless killing spree across the many worlds she visited until she eventually met Shiro in Traverse Town. "It seemed so stupid at the time, but I was a real mess, there's no denying that. And when I went back to Radiant Garden and found out more about what had happened from those reports in Ansem the Wise's library and in the laboratory I was even angrier about it. It inspired me though, you know. I mean, if I hadn't gone through all that, I might have made the same mistake with Shiro and who knows what would have probably happened to him if I hadn't been there?"

"But didn't you avoid Roxas after he reappeared on the Destiny Islands?" her younger self insisted. "Because you were afraid he was only going to disappear again and you didn't want to let yourself get too attached to him knowing that might happen. Am I wrong?"

"You're missing the point," Crystal's mental projection laughed a bit. "That was a mistake and a wasted effort on my part. Even though it hurt to think like that, even though I knew, or at least thought I knew, that it was a real possibility, however remote, and even though I tried to avoid admitting how I felt even to myself, it didn't stop me from falling in love with him anyway. I couldn't stop how I feel. The funny thing is there really isn't even a particular reason for it. Seeing him makes me smile, talking to him makes me happy, and having him nearby makes me feel safe, but I couldn't begin to tell you why that is."

"Stop... just stop! That's enough with the damn mushy stuff! Seriously, when the heck did we become so sappy?" her younger self made a rather rude gagging noise.

"I think, deep down, I've always been this way," Crystal's mental image replied with a thoughtful expression. "It just took some time for me to stop trying to fight it. By the way, would you like some Ramen?"

Crystal liked to think she was doing a very good job of keeping her madness internalized and very much in check at the moment.

Riku, meanwhile, decided that Shiro's antics under the influence of the madness were becoming downright embarrassing, not to mention how pathetic he looked getting harassed by the weird draconic blob of a thing protruding from his back. "Come on Shiro, stop being a chicken-wuss and make yourself useful!" Riku decided to borrow Seifer's preferred insult for provoking Shiro to see if that might aid in getting through to him although he had a strong feeling he was probably going to regret saying it once Shiro was back to his regular self again.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

granted, if Riku kept his mouth shut there probably would've been some sense smacked into him by Roveth eventually, as it is... with his shout, there was a sudden stop and pregnant pause on the battle field, with Roveth and Axel clearly staring at Riku in shock and wide-mouthed horror (well, shock for Axel, given he was also surprised in seeing Crystal being such a pyromaniac like him, though he himself was cheering on the inside. Horror for Roveth as who knows -WHAT- using that insult will do to a clearly insane Shiro.) Crona and Ragnarok also seemed to be wide-eyed from the sudden stopping of both Apocalypse and shiro's movement. within Shiro's mind he had somehow managed to hear that shout of the insult even though the whispers, piercing through the blackness, and immediately stopped struggling within the depths of the black blood, the black and white Shiro's inside his mind blink in confusion at this, before his mental representation literally jerked his arm forward, dislocating it, and using it to slip out of their grasp before he violently re-located that shoulder with a slam of his own fist into it, and when his eyes opened, both physically and mentally... his presence would blast out much like an explosion in of itself, the eyes glowing bright icy blue as his body and mind Synchronized ". . . . Riku, as a friend and ally of light, once this is over.. i will give you a Five second head start before i hunt you down and turn you into a pile of quivering organs and flesh." he said in a dead monotone and literally hollow voice, before looking at Crona, who seemed literally spooked, as he raised his hand up, and Apocalypse without a word formed into sword form in his hand "Scream Resonance." the mouth would open on the blade, giving out a loud screech of its own as Ragnarok widened it's beady/googly-eyes in surprise as the blade ignited in black liquid-like flames. "Bloody Flames!" he'd call out, ad fire off a blast of the liquid fire right at Crona and Ragnarok, causing a nice explosion in that direction as well as he turned to face Kefka, all three eyes boring right into the man's skull with their hatred as he glared at him ".... knowing my Dark Half, he has a plan for you.. i'll leave him to it." with that, he'd turn around, and shortly after that he'd literally dash off using Black Blood enhanced speed, to clash swords with Crona who seemed to be yelping about not knowing how to deal with such a scary guy hounding him.

Kefka of course just winced a bit, seeing how 180 Shiro seemed to flip after one measly insult, but he did frown and look seriously at Riku for ruining the entertainment, well, he supposed it had to end eventually "Mwee hee Hee Hee Hee... well.. that was interesting to see, but it seems you fools want to get down to the nitty gritty huh? fine!" he then would raise his hand in the air, before charging up his magic "Chain Tornado!" he called out, sending large twisters onto the field to start trying to ravage the field of battle, not hitting any heartless or Crona, but still aiming to devastate the good guys with wind damage.

Roveth of course would growl seeing the incoming tornadoes and all sweeping the field, he would at least focus a bit as he brought up Bloody Ultima as it formed a black orb "BLACK HOLE!" he roared out, firing off the blast to at least use the black hole to suck up tornadoes trying to stop his work, before he would start to get that crazed look in his eyes as he grinned, pulling out three more cards, this time with a green background "well, thankfully Shiro is right... i do have plans... first.. i activate a few Ritual Spells... all with the same name." he then tossed the three cards right towards the three Blue-Eyes White Dragons,which began enveloping them and slowly drawing them into blackened portals "Chaos Form. a Ritual spell that requires sacrifice of monsters equal to the levels of the monsters i intend to summon. Dragons of Sapphire Eyes ad white scales... join now between the light and darkness, and let Chaos reign SUPREME!!! RITUAL SUMMON!" with that shout, three pillars of white and black energy launch into the cloudy skies, not illuminating the time of day/night in the least, but hanging in the sky were three absolutely powerful looking dragons, almost looking on par with one of Crystal's dragon summons (Bahamut Zero) in power "Rain down the fires of chaos and destroy everything i call enemies! BLUE-EYES CHAOS MAX DRAGON! GIVE KEFKA NO QUARTER AND SEND HIM A MESSAGE HE WILL NOT FORGET!" the dragons all roared in agreement to that order, and launch down to the field beginning to unleash bombs of explosive Chaos Lightning energy, and deadly claws lashing out as well, clearly taking their master's frustrations, anger, and hatred out on the clown. Roveth meanwhile was not idle as the Darkness Neospheres seemed to turn to their master, and nodded, understanding what he intended for them "Ah... do not worry.. your sacrifices won't be in vain." he said, looking to the sky as he switched his keyblade to his now free hand, and flicked out the golden card palmed within the hand to between his finger-tips "soon... the Sun will show and the wrath of the gods will be known..." he muttered to himself.

Axel meanwhile was cheering on the explosions, bombs, so on, though seeing Shiro now hyper-focused also made him wary of getting anywhere -near- that fight, as he readied another Firaga, grinning a bit "okay, i might be a bit of a pyromaniac but who cares, explosions are awesome, and they tear into the heartless a lot easier, once more... FIRAGA!" he shouted, unleashing the large tier fire spell he could safely mix with Xion's magic, with explosions everywhere you'd think a war was going on huh?  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"Blizzaga!" Xion called out unleashing another large tier ice spell to combine with Axel's Firaga to generate even more magic explosions everywhere. Some of the explosions even detonated in close proximity to a few of the magic Tornadoes that had been conjured up by Kefka effectively dispersing them.

"Right, I'll keep that in mind and stay out of your way," Riku took a step back from Shiro after the other boy had issued his threat for using that particular insult against him. At least it had worked to get Shiro to snap out of that weird state he was in before. While Shiro went off on his rampage against the demon swordsman, Riku smirked at Kefka. "You really have no idea what we're up to anymore, do you?" Riku promptly vanished using his Dark Teleport, reappeared somewhere behind Kefka pointing his Way to the Dawn at the evil clown's back. "Dark Firaga!" he announced while unleashing a large purple-colored fireball. Then he immediately vanished again.

"I should be good for one more spell," Roxas mentioned to Crystal since he knew that was going to be the limiting factor for how long they could keep up their magic assault. Crystal had a lot more magic to work with in general so she could probably keep up her own assault well after Roxas was spent, but there was definitely going to be a significant difference in power output at that point.

"Okay, then let's shake things up and try something a little bit different," Crystal gave a slight smirk. She had a good feeling about this. It was going to work this time. She had wanted to try this for quite some time now, but she could never get it to work on her own because she couldn't cast the two spells simultaneously because of the differences between casting white and black magic, but with two people casting the spells it was a whole other story entirely. "Let's combine the strongest spells in white and black magic!"

"Right, we can't let Axel and Xion have all the fun," Roxas thought this was probably getting a little excessive, but still, it was probably worth a shot and he couldn't deny being a bit curious now to see what would happen. At least all he had to was cast the same familiar light spell to pull it off. "Holy!"

"Flare!" Crystal brought out the highest tier of fire magic to combine with the powerful light spell that resulted in a massive explosion of purifying flames washing over the battlefield likely dispersing any remaining twisters that were still in the area and inflicting a ton of damage to any Heartless that had appeared since the previous wave had been eliminated.

"Looks like it's probably over," Crystal's mental projection spoke again to the younger version of herself. "You see, it takes a special kind of crazy to pull off being me."

"You can't do that!" her younger self protested. "I'm supposed to embody your madness!"

Crystal's mental projection stood up and walked over, snatching up the smaller wigglier version of herself in an unrelenting hug. "It's not your fault you can't measure up to the real thing. I'm more refined and experienced at being myself. And I've never stopped being crazy. Without my madness, I'd be pretty dull and ordinary."

"What the... no, stop! Why are you hugging me?!" the smaller younger version of herself squirmed in defiance.

"Because you're me, the way I used to be," Crystal's mental projection replied with a knowing look. "And all I ever wanted was for someone to drag me away from myself and to show me that it gets better and that I don't have to be alone all the time. You think I've forgotten what it felt like, but I haven't. The isolation, the loneliness, the pain, the desperation to be acknowledged as a human being, fabricating false friendships trying to imagine what it might be like to have someone out there who really cares. How could I ever forget after how long it's taken me to finally find somewhere to belong? That's why everyone I've met since then is so damn precious to me."

"Bloody hell, this is getting way too weird!" the younger version of herself seemed to finally give in as she promptly poofed away in a flash of light.

Of course, as things finally quieted down within Crystal's mental plane the lasting effects could be seen in the tears silently streaming down Crystal's own cheeks at those same bitter memories. Those tears didn't go unnoticed by Roxas who was obviously worried.

"Did something happen? You're not hurt, are you?"

"Huh?" Crystal blinked. She hadn't even noticed the tears, but she quickly wiped them away. "No, I'm fine. Whatever got into my head seems to be gone for now. It just reminded me of some things that I don't generally try to think about."  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

of course if the explosions and purifying fire and the purple fire of Dark Firaga were a Diss Track, Kefka would more than likely be burnt to a crisp in anger, as it is, he was blowing out smoke comically, before finally getting fed up and with the incoming claws of the three chaos dragons, Kefka would unleash a burst of magic around his body to send them back a bit and transformed into his god mode glaring at the dragons charging up their blasts, and sure enough, when they fired, Kefka brought up his barriers, only for the barriers were vaporized all too easily and wide-eyed as he was exploded -once more- due to the damage piercing attributes of the dragons. of course, after the dust cleared, there'd be a bloody and -very- angry looking Kefka staring at the three dragons incoming with claws at the moment his eyes locked with theirs, and he spoke out angrilly "Disappear... WINGS OF RUIN AND ULTIMA!" and not too long after the area around Kefka erupted in purple and green dome of destructive energy, and once it grew to nearly big enough to get the Neospheres too, wings would sprout out of the dome, before revealing the massive crater and Kefka floating in the middle glaring at them "i'm done fooling around now, you want to attack me with explosions? have some METEORS!" he called out, launching large rocks of death for Non-Elemental damage and such at everyone attacking him.

Shiro of course continued attacking Crona, even with the Scream Resonance, Shiro was actually doing well against Crona, but yet neither had yet to deal much damage, despite the elemental version of black blood attacks, and even copying the attacks he saw from Crona as he growled a bit "Apocalypse!" he called, the sword thinning out before forming an equal blade in shiro's off hand, causing Crona to go wide-eyed before now having to defend from two swords at once, and with one vicious kick to Crona's gut to send the pink-haired swordsman into the wall before both swords disappear as he growled a bit "I am the Bone of my Sword..." he said, causing Crona blink a bit in confusion "what in the...?" of course Shiro brought his hand up as swords starting to appear and his voice continued "Trace.. on. safety systems.. unlock, Parallel Gradient, maximum." as the swords hovered in the air, Ragnarok would appear to try and cover Crona with his body "bring it you weakling!" Shiro would narrow his eyes "Trace overclock.. Time Alter... Triple Accel... Continuous Barrage.. FIRE!" of course, the swords would fire at near sub-sonic speeds, slamming into Ragnarok and Crona with Crona screaming in fear, and kicking up a large dust cloud. of course, after a minute of the barrage Shiro would stop, showing a large amound ot swords poking out of the dust-cloud, bnut nothing there but a small splatter of black blood, and a closing Dark Corridor (which dropped Crona back to Medusa.)

Roveth of course hadn't cared about Shiro's fight as he narrowed his eyes at the meteors, and flung his hand in the air to get the Darkness Neospheres into the air as he took some of the barrage of meteors with a yelp and explosions hitting and a dustcloud forming. (of course, with the fact Kefka was watching their reactions...) either way, inside the dust cloud Roveth was coughing up a bit of blood, and closing one eye with a slight pant as he growled, and pulled out his own Rainbow Gear, and slammed it into the keychain causing the blade to shine with black light, before changing into Delusional Gaze as he started feeling a bit better, green sparkles going around him to start healing his wounds slowly.

Axel would at least have enough time to set up Blaze Diffusion and proceed to start slashing down the Meteors, leaving the halves to crash behind him and leaving him unhurt, but he did narrow his eyes seeing Roveth take such a nasty hit from the mess, even if -everyone- was targeted this time, well, everyone but Shiro, who was dutifully ignored.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Riku took off with another Dark Teleport, this time moving to cover for Roxas and Crystal with his Dark Shield as the Meteors started to rain from the sky. This proved to be relatively pointless as Crystal saw the Meteors coming and cast both Shell and Reflect on herself and Roxas in rapid succession to cushion any potential damage that might get through and also causing some of the Meteors to bounce comically off of the Reflect magic to be flung back at Kefka. Roxas, of course, went back into melee combat with the final wave of Heartless that had come through the Dark Corridor before it closed after Crona was removed from the battlefield to be returned to Medusa, skillfully evading the Meteors with the combination of Haste and Evasion Boost he had gained from Road In Between. Basically, Roxas was moving faster than he had any right to be and it made him an even more difficult target than ever.

Once the defensive spells were in place Crystal finally noticed Riku as she began scrolling through her fully charged element grid to select a particular technique to try out on Kefka. "Riku, you dumbass, get out of here and go cover Roveth! He needs it way more than we do!" Crystal yelled at him as she activated her level 5 tech skill on Kefka. "Now then, let's see how you like this kind of magic... Phone Booth!" A split second later a phone booth materialized over Kefka and then immediately dropped down on top of him as gravity would naturally dictate it should.

"Do I even want to know why you have a spell like that?" Riku pondered as he vanished with another Dark Teleport to do as he was told by reappearing an instant later over by Roveth to begin covering him with his Dark Shield instead of focusing on Roxas and Crystal who were clearly much better equipped to handle this situation than he had expected.

"Why do you have a spell like that?" Roxas was also understandably curious, although he did assume it had to be similar to that Bottomless Pit thing she had done to Seifer's gang back in Twilight Town since she was using the same magic system to pull it off.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time," Crystal shrugged a bit. "Hitting an enemy with something weird, random, and innocuous, I kinda thought it was a clever form of misdirection. Now it just seems silly, but hey, sometimes that sort of thing just works."

With that being said Crystal also started going to town on the final wave of Heartless in the area, namely by dual casting Thundaga all over the place to strike them down with lightning magic.

Xion was also unhurt thanks to Axel's quick thinking. It looked like Roxas and Crystal were doing just fine on their own, given how quickly they had sent Riku away when he tried to cover for them with his Dark Shield, but it looked like Roveth wasn't doing so great. And, given that there wasn't any more big magic coming from Roxas and Crystal that could only mean that Roxas had already exhausted his MP for the moment. "It looks like Roveth still needs more time to prepare his secret weapon so let's give him a bit of extra cover," Xion suggested as she readied another round of ice magic. "Blizzaga!"  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Axel had noticed what Xion wanted to do, and nodded, he still had magic to burn, but thankfully he was probably going to need an elixir or something after this as he brought up his hand and gathering fire once more in it as he focused on Kefka "Ah, surprised he hasn't used his ace he was grumbling about by now, but i guess a bit more explosions can't hurt. Firaga!" he called out, firing his own Magic blast into the mix once more.

Roveth groaned, as Kefka had continued bombarding Roveth more focusedly with Meteors while riku created the barrier, Roveth just scoffed a bit, slowly moving to his feet, one leg was really not wanting to hold his weight but he forged on regardless, but just as he was about to start the summoning, a nudge hit him ,causing him to go wide-eyed, seeing through the dust the Firaga and Blizzaga, he'd narrow his eyes before bringing up his keyblade as a black pyramid began spinning at its tip as he growled out "let's see you get out of this... be consigned ot the void... DARK MATTER!" he yelled out, firing the blast to join with the other two attacks, as he groaned, slumping back to one knee before looking up to the sky as he growled out "i call upon my three Darkness Neospheres, hanging dutifully in the skies, to release themselves, and allow their power to bring forth a greater power beyond their own! Advance SUMMON!" he called out, before throwing the card up into the air, joining with the three darkness Neospheres... and with that, a radiant light began forming as the black ball grew much bigger, becoming nearly the size of a mini sun, and solidifying into a large golden orb. (???? ATK/9999 DEF)

Shiro meanwhile had frowned, staring at the lack of Crona, but seeing the incoming heartless he'd notice Roxas's new keyblade, of course, with that he'd also hear a whistling noise, before turning to the side to catch two things that had been sent in his direction, of course, said two things were a new keychain and a Rainbow gear, he'd look over to the direction and only caught a nod from Roveth within the smoke, before giving off a snort, and summoned Ancient into his off hand, unclipping its keychain and then clipping on the new one, before finding out he held in his hands an Ultima Weapon keyblade, causing him to raise an eyebrow a bit in surprise, he'd at least put the Rainbow Gear away for now, and launch into the fight with the Heartless as well with his own speed and agility and the blade's new capabilities.

Kefka had indeed focused on firing more meteors at Roveth seeing he -was- hit, but had not seen Riku jump in to Dark Shield Roveth, at least until some of the smoke blew back to reveal the Dark Matter ,and given the incoming Firaga and Blizzaga he'd frown, and formed a barrier of his own to try and stop whatever was coming and all, paying no attention to the large golden ball in the sky just yet despite Roveth's summoning it and all. of course, given he too ignored the incoming phone booth, he was blindsided by it and sent crashing to the ground with a clear 'Gah-heh!?!' with his train of thought disrupted from trying to dodge or block the incoming Firaga, Blizzaga, or Dark Matter.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"Yeah, got him!" Crystal gave a small cheer of enthusiasm when she saw the phone booth actually connected with Kefka and knocked the crazed clown to the ground. She was surprised, afterward, when she saw the Blizzaga and Firaga from Xion and Axel being drawn into Roveth's Dark Matter spell. From the looks of it, the pyramidal void that now surrounded Kefka was localizing the explosions from the ice and fire magic so that it was all right on top of him. "Huh... that's new. I guess that's what they'd call a triple tech."

Roxas wasn't really paying attention to any of that because he was way more focused on smacking down Heartless and moving as fast as he was that was probably for the best because it meant he really needed to be paying attention to where he was going so he didn't crash into something and hurt himself. Of course, it also made dealing with these weird kinds of Heartless much easier because they were having a tough time keeping up with him more-so than he was anticipating their bizarre movements.

Once she got over the surprise of seeing that triple magic combination from Roveth, Axel, and Xion, Crystal quickly returned to dual casting Thundaga to eliminate even more Heartless so they wouldn't have even a remote chance of going after Roveth. Angelic Prism aside, she was really going to have to go back to Radiant Garden to thank Leon properly for Lionheart. It was way more useful to her than she had originally anticipated.

Crystal wasn't the only surprised by what had happened, of course, as Xion wasn't expecting that would happen either seeing as she and Axel were only attempting to perform the same combination from before. Still, it did have the desired effect of getting the magic right where they wanted it, right on top of Kefka. Of course, it was also pretty random and surprising before that to see a phone booth suddenly appear out of nowhere to collapse on top of the crazed clown dropping him onto the ground like a sitting duck. Unless that came from someone who actually lives in this world, the only one who could come up with something that random would have to have been Crystal.

"It looks like we can probably leave the rest up to Roveth," Xion pointed out watching as the spectacle continued to unfold. "Besides, I should probably conserve the rest of my MP so I can cast Curaga once we catch up to the others since they're probably going to have burned out their magic by then."

Riku was more than a little surprised that Crystal's ploy with the phone booth had actually worked, but he wasn't complaining that it had. And seeing what happened afterward with the combined magic from Firaga, Blizzaga, and Roveth's Dark Matter, Riku was definitely impressed by what this group was apparently capable of. All that was left was to see this ace Roveth's had up his sleeve to finish the job. Since Kefka was pinned down for the moment, Riku decided to start helping out against the Heartless since that was going to be a bit more helpful than pointlessly using his Dark Shied while Roveth wasn't even being targeted anymore.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Kefka of course would scream and scramble trying to get out of the Dark Matter and the explosions, while also trying to crawl out from underneath the phone booth as well cursing that bratty blonde girl for all this when he finally looked up towards the sky, seeing the massive mini-sun like golden orb he'd frown, but feeling the aura off it, he'd immediately pale, even in his god form.. he could tell this wasn't something he should mess with carelessly, thus his tries to get free were increased, with increased futility. "no.. s**t s**t s**t, LET ME GO!" of course, with his painful lack of getting away, he'd be a sitting duck for Roveth's Final Draw, so to speak.

speaking of Roveth, he'd look to the sky, chuckling a bit as he opened his closed eye, showing that blood had already gotten into it, but he didn't care, he still could see pretty damn well and all from the hit "yes... this shall be the instrument of your demise Kefka..." he then swung his upgraded Keyblade, dismissing both the dust and revealing his health was back to full in rather quick order as he reached up using his sleeve, cleaned off the blood from his face and eye, before the blood red eye of horus started to glow once more on his forehead, and proceeded to get the insane crazy look "Too bad for you Kefka, but this game's OVER! Great Beast of the Sky, please hear my Cry! Transform Thyself from Orb of Light to give me Victory in this fight! Envelop the desert with your glow... AND CAST YOUR RAGE UPON MY FOE! Unlock your Power from deep within, so that together we may win... Appear now from the Shadow Realm as i call your name... WINGED DRAGON OF RA!!!!!!" with that, the orb would start shining brightly before opening up, revealing the sphere was actually wings, and when the beast unfurled out with solid bright red eyes glaring down at Kefka, its body radiating divine light before it let out a massive roar (12900 ATK/12900 DEF). Roveth of course looked at Kefka with utter craziness and contempt before smirking a bit "Behold.. with this Egyptian God, i have been tasked, Kefka... WITH YOUR OBLITERATION! make no mistake Kefka... i will follow through with this, now, Ra, i activate one of your abilities, and humbly give up almost all of my life force to strengthen you even more!" with that, Roveth's body started wisping away into purple smoke, of course, the damage/draining would regenerate as well, so really, if Roveth had wanted, he could make Ra's attack infinite, technically, but the only thing left showing on the ground is one of Roveth's own eyes, looking insanely crazed, while atop the growing Ra and brightly shining ring as it started powering up its attack, was Roveth, sans a missing eye (the same one still on the ground hanging in the air) looking like a smirking b*****d all the same "you see Kefka, you're not the only one who holds a path to the realm of the gods! however, unlike you, i have no reason to be a god, except to destroy another fake god, you! WINGED DRAGON OF RA, IGNITE YOUR MIGHT GOD BLAZE CANNON AND OBLITERATE KEFKA ONCE AND FOR ALL!" of course, with that, a large ball of divine light and fire charged in front of Ra's mouth, and proceeded to fire down right on Kefka, causing a massive earthquake and explosion sending everyone skidding away from the blast zone, as it was much like a nuke going off without the radiation fallout as Roveth cackled from atop Ra seeing the hopeful instant annihilation of Kefka. once Ra finished its assault, the Egyptian god would start fading into sparkles, allowing Roveth to land on the ground and return to his body remainder, while said dark half looked beyond exhausted even when he returned to himself and all.

Shiro of course had got flung around from the explosion blast and crashed right into and wrapped his spine right around a street lamp with a yelp before crashing to the ground with a groan "Gah! god damnit Roveth..." he muttered under his breath, before laying there a bit, frowning lightly when he still felt a flicker of darkness coming from the crater and dust, when he looked up, he met with Kefka's insane and very pissed eyes, but given what he just went through and looked near dead, Kefka opened up a corridor of darkness, and disappeared off world without another thing said at this point ".... damn... it..." he muttered, trying to get up, only with his back protesting profusely after the ragdoll abuse.

Axel of course would slam Blaze Diffusion into the ground and unleashed a flame-style barrier to block the explosive force from sending him and Xion flying as well while giving off a hoot of clear agreement "Whoo! now that is like going out with a Bang, Got it memorized!?!" he called out ,cackling all the same.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

When Roveth's Winged Dragon of Ra blasted Kefka and the ground started shaking Roxas very quickly dropped what he was doing, dismissing Road In Between and Sweetstack to grab Crystal and duck into a nearby alleyway to give them some cover from the resulting blast zone. Of course, as soon as they stopped moving Roxas was overcome by a sudden wave of dizziness as he hadn't fully adjusted to once again remaining stationary quite yet meaning Crystal had to dismiss Angelic Prism and Lionheart to hold him up after Roxas went all dazed and swirly-eyed, but that wasn't a problem because Riku showed up using another Dark Teleport and used Dark Shield to block off the entrance to the alleyway until the blast zoned finally cleared.

"Nice timing," Crystal sounded appreciative seeing Riku this time around.

"Roveth wasn't joking about that ace he had up his sleeve," Riku sounded impressed as he looked on at the aftermath of the Winged Dragon of Ra's massive assault on Kefka. "I mean, that sure took a while to setup, but I don't think we'll be seeing Kefka again anytime soon... although I'm afraid he did manage to escape." Riku had sensed Kefka's evil darkness escaping through the Dark Corridor so he knew the blast, as powerful as it was, hadn't managed to kill him off for good, although if Kefka had waited around any longer it probably would have been fatal for him.

"That's too bad," Crystal frowned a bit, but managed to remain neutral to the idea. "I really thought we had him this time. Oh well, at least we don't have to worry about him coming after us again anytime too soon."

"You're taking this incredibly well," Roxas managed to snap out of his daze of dizziness, although he was still leaning on Crystal for support because now he just felt exhausted from all that running around.

"I've decided that I won't let him frighten me anymore," Crystal stated simply. "And after that display he'll have to think twice about going after Shiro again."

"I have to admit, that plan of yours really came through for us," Riku pointed out while waiting for the smoke and dust to clear so they could go find out what had become of Roveth and Shiro. Those two were probably going to necessitate some healing magic or recovery items after all the abuse they had taken.

Xion, of course, stuck close to Axel once the explosive force of Roveth's Winged Dragon of Ra's attack went into effect. She wondered on whether or not Roveth was going to be okay after using so much power, considering he never used a card like that before in the time they had known Shiro's shadow half and all. And, of course, there was still the question of what had been done to Shiro in the time he had been carried off by Kefka too.

"Okay, I can see Shiro now," Riku mentioned to Crystal and Roxas from the cover of the alleyway they were still hiding in. "Oh man, that looks like it had to hurt," he added with regards to how Shiro way laying on the ground looking like a pile of pain.

"Then you'd better take us to him," Crystal insisted.

"Right," Riku nodded as he took hold of the both of them and used his Dark Teleport to re-materialize the three of them next to where Shiro had fallen, at which point he took Roxas off Crystal's hands since he apparently still wasn't having much luck with standing on his own. "Funny, it looks like this time you were the one who overdid it. You two really do make an interesting pair."

"Shut up, Riku!" Roxas growled mildly at him because he was too tired to smack him for his obnoxious comments at the moment.

"Alright Shiro, let's patch you up... Curaga!" Crystal ignored Riku's comments entirely as she went to work on healing Shiro of his injuries.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would of course flail a small bit having heard all too easily Riku's comment about the pain "Oi, you try getting flung like a ragdoll from an explosion into a metal street lamp pole and not be hurting!" of course, he would settle down once the curaga started working on soothing that pain, and groaned appreciatively before sitting up "ugh... thanks Crystal... and riku, for snapping me out of whatever had a hold on my mind." he said, sitting there for the moment, before using his Ultima Weapon to get up as he grunted "so.. i take it by the new keyblades Roveth found out how much you had been hoarding Synthesis materials?" he asked crystal, looking a bit amused, given he knew about her hoarding them, he just didn't know how much she had hoarded at the time.

Axel thankfully would lower the barrier once the forces were done trying to send him and Xion flying, as he dismissed the blaze barrier with a sigh of relief "man... that was an ace and a half there, holy cow..." he said, flopping to one knee pretty much spent on his MP at the moment having used the most of it to create that barrier "still, Roveth doesn't do it by halves... wow, i think even Xehanort had better watch out for that monster showing up..." he said, glancing around to see everyone well picking themselves up at the moment, well, almost everyone, given he was glancing towards Roveth.

Roveth, of course, had managed to pull himself back in one piece with the help of his shadow magic, once everything was done, he'd pretty much collapse coughing up a good bit of blood, apparently slowly ripping your body apart to fuse to a divine spirit like Ra was -NOT- one of his smartest ideas, even if the damage was healing moderately it was still extensive. either way he was slowly trying to get back to his feet and failing miserably as his body won't completely cooperate, so it looked like he was a wounded duck more than anything trying to get up "Blurgh... okay.. note to self, aftermath of using Ra is excruciatingly painful." he muttered to himself, though he kep his hand on Delusional Gaze he was still only healing at a moderate rate.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"No thanks, I think I'll pass on that," Riku responded with his usual smirk. "But, once we find a safe place for Roxas to sit down so he can regain his strength, then maybe I'll let you take a few swings at me."

"Yeah, Roveth found out about my stash of synthesis materials alright," Crystal confirmed. "And from how loud he was yelling at me about it I'm pretty sure the whole town heard about it too, not that they'd necessarily have any idea of what he was shouting about."

Roxas at that point helped himself to a Hi Potion, but drinking it didn't really seem to help him much. "Huh, I wonder if it's expired..." he said while looking more closely at the label on the bottle. "No, that's not it. Then why isn't it working?"

"You aren't injured, Roxas, you're exhausted. Even if your natural abilities were being boosted by that new Keyblade, running around like that burns a lot of energy," Crystal explained. "Meaning, right now what you need is rest and a good meal. Potions don't help with that."

"Oh... yeah, I guess that really would explain it," Roxas looked a little bit embarrassed for not having realized that himself.

"They've probably got a cafeteria or something inside that academy place we were in earlier," Riku suggested. "And we already know where to find the infirmary."

"I expect it will probably be a while before Roveth attempts to pull a stunt like this again," Xion reminded Axel. "It looked to me like he barely managed to handle using it just this once." Now that the force zone was clear she could start heading for where Roveth was struggling in vain to get back on his feet and even though it looked like he was gradually recovering on his own there wasn't any reason to be stingy with MP at this point now that the battle was clearly over for now. "Curaga!" she cast the healing magic on Roveth to supplement his recovery progress. "I'm beginning to think in some ways you might be even more reckless than Shiro."