Kingdom Hearts - Blades of Three Realms

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Roveth gave off a silent hum of agreement, stepping backwards before turning and heading for the door, motioning for Sora to follow so they can let Aqua ans Ven have their time together unhindered by the two of them for their being there and all. once they were out of the room to let Aqua and Ven have their quiet reunion and all he'd gently close the door behind Sora and crossed his arms a bit, looking to the keyblade wielder "now then... on the topic of comrades... i know Aqua probably feels the same way but if Donald or Goofy continue this train of not aiding you when they physically are capable of it, i want you to contact either me, Shiro, or Crystal, okay? i'm sure you'll probably be teamed with your friends Riku and Kairi soon when Kairi finishes her training as a Keyblade wielder." he said, humming in thought. if he knew that omniscient old man Yen-Sid he wouldn't put it past him to at least let the three be together. "let's see..." he'd mumble, digging in his pockets a moment, before going 'ah ha!' silently and pulled out what looked to be a cell phone, and flicked it open to check something, before pressing a few buttons, and a red one with the crown symbol on it's cover popped into Roveth's hand, a copy, which he'd give to Sora "there we go... use this to contact me or the others in case you need our help or need in contact with us for some reason.. our phone numbers are in the contact list." he'd instruct, making sure to go slow to show Sora how to use the phone for calling him or Crystal or even Axel, so on.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Shiro's training with Cologne would be intense, but nothing he couldn't handle. There was one thing, however, that could disrupt everyone's training and it was also the single greatest nuisance to ever grace Nerima.

"WHAT A HAUL!!! WHAT A HAUL!!!" Happosai's voice carried all across the city as he began one of his infamous panty raids.

"What in the world?" Roxas paused mid-swing while practicing with one of his bokutos to stare as the strange old man bounced off of the clothes lines to fling himself onto an adjacent rooftop and took off running.

"Sounds like Happosai," Crystal sighed and brought her palm to her forehead as she stepped out from the dojo. Training was off for the moment as Akane had to go fetch Ranma to join the angry mob of girls that would be chasing the old man across town until they managed to catch up with him.

"What exactly is a Happosai?" Xion had to ask.

"A dirty old martial arts master who is always looking for trouble," Crystal answered with a shrug. "He likes to collect women's underwear. And by collect, I mean steal."

"Seriously?" Roxas wondered in disbelief. "What a creep."

"You're telling me," Crystal sighed again. "But this happens around here more often than you'd think."

"Maybe we should help catch him," Roxas suggested.

"I mean, we could, but if you get too close to him he might try to pin some of the blame onto you instead," Crystal pointed out with a slight frown. "The girls around here don't always wait for an explanation before beating guys up over a misunderstanding."

"Even so, we can't just let a creep like that do what he wants, right?" Roxas persisted and seeing him look so determined Crystal honestly couldn't argue with him.

"When you're right, you're right," Crystal finally agreed.

"And if anything goes wrong we've got your back, Roxas, so don't worry," Xion added.

"Right then, I guess we might as well look at this as more training," Crystal nodded. "A little bit of hands-on practical application."  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had blinked a moment when he heard the cry from that blasted pervert, not knowing who it was as he sweat-dropped in mid traning, thankfully not sticking his hands in the fire again at the moment for learning the Amaguriken "what in the world...?" he'd mutter, with Sanji eventually coming out to look around, humming "if i didn't know better that sounded like someone stealing something valuable." Shiro raised an eyebrow at Sanji, before moving to the door outside of the nekohanten to peek out, only to have Happosai jump off of Shiro's head like it was a pole vault to move on to his next destination, of course, Shiro would fall face first onto the ground, and then glance up to see the midget old guy holding a pair of panties, which immediately made things connect, especially when he heard vague angry female screams incoming "... oh like hell are you getting away you disgusting little pervert." he ground out, hands immediately snapping out to trace Torashinai's in hands, making his eyes take on a completely feral and bloodthirsty gleam despite the pure coldness in his aura, not to mention his presence starting to blanket the area, which was much larger than normal, not to mention it was -heavy-, almost suffocating for anyone who could feel it acutely (normal people would not notice even up close... others who can sense it? yeah... it's gonna be hard.) with that he'd pull Sanji back into his Guardian tablet, and proceeded to take off all the weights, and even unwrapped the large iron bars on his body to help tie him down and slow him down, before he took up a fighting stance, and -moved-, aiming to quickly catch up to Happosai in a blink, with a Torashinai aiming for a LARGE downwards slash right for the old man's head, not reinforced, but still with enough force if it were a normal human it -might- split a skull open.

Axel of course heard both the voice and the commotion, however he shrugged it off and decided that it wasn't worth his time to investigate when he had been busy conversing with locals about finding someone who knew how to make weapons: Chakrams in particular. granted, he did actually turn and sweatdrop feeling the presence "... definitely not getting involved if he is..." he muttered before continuing to look for what he wanted.

Roveth hummed in thought as he leaned against the wall, thinking a bit on Sora's question with a hum "well, i don't know... Crystal's not the type to care for Titles, but she might take it if it lets us get information more freely so we can react in case you or the others get into trouble that you can't get yourselves out of." he said while glancing to the door, and chuckled a bit lightly "makes me wonder how Crystal will react to Ventus, given he and Roxas actually look quite alike." he said while crossing his arms and continued to wait calmly for Aqua and Ventus.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

Naturally, by the time angry mob caught up with Happosai he was already being beaten into the pavement by Shiro. Not long after Crystal arrived with Roxas and Xion. But, of course, it was Ranma who would quip about how Shiro's efforts were in vain.

"Sorry to be the one to break it to you, Shiro, but the old lech is practically immortal," Ranma casually informed him. "You're not gonna be able to kill him with something like that."

"You do realize that now that you've told him that he might actually try to kill him, right?" Crystal frowned very hard at Ranma.

"I'm just saying, he wouldn't be the first to have tried," Ranma answered with a shrug. "Besides, the old man deserves it for the all the trouble he's caused."

"Well then, I guess we can just leave this to Shiro," Roxas definitely knew better than to butt in when Shiro's presence was in full effect like this. It was best to just stay the hell out of his way when he got like this.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro had stopped a moment, using his heavy boot to slam down on one of Happosai's arms to hold him down a moment while he addresses Crystal and the others, when he looked up, the feral bloodlust was still there going strong, despite the calm, and almost freezing demeanour of the rest of his face "Oh.. so an immortal pervert huh... unfortunately Crystal is right, because now i -am- curious as to how far his immortality extends, is it just the body... or is it down to his very soul?" he spoke in an almost dual layered tone of voice, as if Apocalypse and Shiro's voices were joining, before Shiro raised an arm, and proceeded to twitch a bit "Bloody Crescent." he intoned, causing crescent like blades to suddenly shoot out of his shoulders, leaving deep gashes which didn't hurt, as the black blood began to physically manifest now in a bit of a rush, moving down to quickly encapsulate and encoat his arms and beefing them up, even sending the blood to coat the two Torashinai's in hand before the blood hardened, sealing off the wounds and healing it over leaving two very powerful looking black arms "Scream Resonance." he'd intone with cold deadly precision as Apocalypse's mouth appeared on Shiro's shoulders, doing the silent version screech, but the vibrations and raw purple-black aura around both arms were extremely palpable, before he shifted his footwork to flip happosai into the air, and crossed both kendo sticks with raw cold malice shining in his eyes "infinite Screech Starburst... Stream." he'd intone, before once more he would -Move-, literally vanishing and reappearing right in front of Happosai, starting to literally beat the s**t out of him with combo after combo after combo of the twin copies of Torashinai, strength enhanced, and the vibration effect slamming into his soul as well ringing it around horribly much like a tuning fork to the spine if not worse, and Shiro did -not- let up for a second, even making it to where his hands were unpredictable blurs even for the martial artists, the only ones who could probably see his speed would be Roxas, or Crystal. thankfully said brutatlity would last for only about 20 minutes, though for the old letch it'd probably feel like an eternity of pain and suffering, when Shiro was done, he'd let the now probably unidentifiable lump of flesh land on the ground, with Shiro landing after, absorbing the black blood back into his arms and body, taking a breath, and restraining his presence once more with a neutral gaze downwards, before stepping over and past Happosai "... right then, i have a little bit more of training to finish up before the day's done." he'd said to Ranma and the others, before returning back to the nekohanten to resume his training, and pick up his 'weights' and all.

Roveth had chuckled a bit, waving off the apology with a dismissive stance "not a problem Ven... name's Roveth." he'd state, smiling a bit with his white and amber colored eyes, though he'd look to Aqua and Sora when it was mentioned for Radiant Garden he'd chuckle, getting off the wall and putting his hands in his pockets "that actually is true, we tend to hide out at a bar called the 7th Heaven, run by Tifa, and usually Leon, Cloud, and Yuffie are frequently there, though if Cloud's not there then Tifa's typically absent looking for him so it'd be Leon temporarily running it, but it has been a well respected place to rest, recover, and in general relax as a safehouse, even moreso with Cid having built that security system to keep the heartless out of town." he'd explain, with his hands behind his head somewhat in a similar style to how sora would do it in an innocent way "only other place i -could- suggest is Twilight Town at my mansion, but at the moment it's probably not a good idea given Ienzo is probably still studying in the basement on the tech i've aquired and all." he said, humming in thought "so i'd say Radiant Garden's the best choice, plus if i know Shiro and the others, they'll be heading in that direction soon too, so you'll get to meet them as well." he would finish off with, before turning, looking off towards the entrance of Castle Oblivion with a small smile, secretly glad that Aqua and Ventus were alright, in his own worrisome way, even if he usually hides it deep down like he hides everything else he can.  

[[XIII] Roxas]

The unidentifiable lump of flesh that was once Happosai would undoubtedly survive the encounter, but for now Happosai wasn't going to be causing any more trouble for a while. And while Shiro went back to his training at the Nekohanten the others would be heading back to the Tendo Dojo to get back to their own training. Later on when they had all regrouped and Axel finally came back from his hunt for some new chakrams they would start to discuss where they might go next. Eventually it would have been decided to head back to Radiant Garden since that was the most likely place Roveth would return to with Sora and Aqua as well once they finished what they were doing at Castle Oblivion. It was also probably a much better place for Axel to do his weapon shopping than where they were in Nerima for that matter.

*~Radiant Garden~*

Sora, Aqua, Ventus, and Roveth undoubtedly arrived first. The first order of business would have been to get Ven and Aqua situated with rooms at 7th Heaven for however long they were going to be staying. Then Sora wanted to introduce Ven to Kairi who was over at Merlin's house training. Riku had apparently gone back to Twilight Town with Namine since they had last seen each other which was slightly disappointing for Sora, but at least he could take Kairi's word that Riku was definitely okay. Truthfully, he was still a little bit shaken about what he had witnessed down in the basement of Castle Oblivion even though he knew that Cosmos was taking care of it in her own way. Given how he could still worry so much over Roxas, this really wasn't all that surprising. Even more unsurprising was how quickly and easily Sora and Ventus seemed to be getting along. And, of course, Ven was delighted to meet Kairi. After everything he had been through it was nice to be making some new friends his own age. Aqua was certainly relieved to see him able to adapt so quickly to this new situation, especially since she couldn't be with him the whole time considering she was trying to get acquainted with the locals at 7th Heaven since they were probably going to be staying there for a while.


The other group would arrive not long after. And naturally, while Crystal was making sure that their usual rooms were available at 7th Heaven, the resident ninja would appear from the rafters with a huge grin on her face. "Oh my gosh, Roxas, you never told us you have a twin brother!"

"What are you talking about?" Roxas just deadpanned right back at her.

"You know, that kid Sora and Roveth brought back here with them," Yuffie persisted barely able to reign in her amusement as Roxas continued to glare at her. "At first, we thought he was you!"

"So that means the others already made it here before us," Xion realized.

"And they must have succeeded at finding that kid, Ventus, we were all so worried about," Crystal nodded in agreement.

"Apparently he prefers to be called Ven," Yuffie casually corrected her. "But if you haven't met him yet, I'm sure he'll be happy to tell you that himself once you see him."

"Right, so where are they now?" Roxas just wanted an excuse to get away from Yuffie at the moment.

"Probably still at Merlin's house," Yuffie helpfully informed the group. "Sora was taking Ven to go meet Kairi."

"In that case we'll see you all later," Crystal nodded to Leon who had been helping her to make the necessary arrangements for everyone's sleeping accommodations in Tifa's absence. Cloud was notably absent too so that could only mean one thing and Crystal had a sneaking suspicion that Shiro wouldn't be sticking around for very long since he'd be the one having to take care of the situation more than likely.

As they were leaving 7th Heaven to go meet up with the others at Merlin's it so happened that the other group was also just leaving Merlin's given that it was going to be very much impossible for Kairi to focus on her training with both Sora and Ventus around so Merlin had let Kairi off early. When Crystal's group finally saw Ventus they were certainly surprised, albeit for different reasons. In Crystal's case she was less surprised by the fact that he looked practically identical to Roxas and more surprised by the fact that he was barely older than the vision she had seen of him at the Keyblade Graveyard. From the look of it though, Ventus didn't seem to recognize her so he very likely didn't remember that encounter. Then again, Ventus was staring more at Roxas as if sizing him up.

"Geez, he really does look just like me, doesn't he?" Ventus finally spoke up while glancing to Sora.

"I told you," Sora was grinning. The fact that he was grinning like that made Roxas want to throttle him.

"Come on, be nice you two," Kairi tried to tell them off although it was totally lost on them because she was struggling not to laugh.

"So you're Ventus, huh?" Roxas decided to ignore Sora rather than act upon his own violent impulses for the moment.

"Call me Ven," Ventus smiled cheerfully. "And you're Roxas, right? Sora already told me a little about all of you, but I really wasn't expecting all this."

"You're telling me," Roxas was having a difficult time processing this because Ventus was slightly smaller than him so it was like looking in a tiny mirror.

"So, were you going to show Ven around town? A lot's probably change since he was last here," Crystal suggested helpfully.

"Oh yeah, that's a good point," Sora realized. "And then we can all get ice cream," he added trying to appease Roxas who was clearly still mad at him for setting him up like that.

"That's a good idea," Crystal easily agreed. Truthfully, she was trying to keep them all as far away from wherever Shiro was going as possible so that they wouldn't be caught in the crossfire when he caught up to Cloud, Tifa, and Sephiroth.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Shiro would undoubtedly be frowning the moment he saw Leon in charge of the tavern, as he knew exactly what that meant, of course, he would close one eye and started hyper-focusing, extending his senses of signatures, thankfully he had much more increased his range ten-fold due to the training he had done and all, and when he picked up on Cloud, he also picked up on an all too familiar Darkness in the area as well "... of all the.. even if Sephiroth did show up here this time he could've called me first instead of go charging off like a bull whose seen red..." he'd continue to mutter and grumble, keeping his words at least hidden cause one could probably tell if he wasn't around impressionable kids like Sora (or Ven) he'd probably be cursing like a sailor. thankfully though, once he triangulated the position of the signatures he'd turn and walk in that direction, though as he passed crystal he discreetly handed her his guardian ghost tablets, so that they wouldn't get harmed in this, his eyes starting to hollow out as he walked past, and worked to becoming the emotionless machine once more, given he felt he'd need to be to keep from responding to any taunts from Sephiroth in his normal snarky manner.

Roveth had been with Sora and Ven, mostly to keep a helpful eye on the two while Aqua had been busy getting acquainted with the other locals and all, when they saw Crystal's group back, though he did raise an eyebrow when he saw a lack of Shiro, but when he checked his own senses he found Shiro's signature and sighed, having a good guess as to why he went in a different direction "sea salt ice cream sounds like a good idea." he'd say with a smile on his face to at least avoid revealing where Shiro had gotten off to, but the worry was quite clear in his eyes when he gazed to Crystal even though he knew he couldn't do anything to help Shiro against -that- monster.

Axel of course had hung in the back of the group, mainly because he didn't want to be seen just yet by Ven, but also because he wanted to get a look from a distance before actually saying hi and all. was Axel being a bit shy and nervous? yes, but not in the way people think, his mind won't change, Roxas was still his best friend, even if Ven was his second friend after Isa and all. of course, at the mention of ice cream he did agree that was a good idea, given that he glanced in the direction Shiro was heading, and he knew it'd be best to stay away from A: the nuke that was Shiro, and the fact getting caught up against Sephiroth is -NOT- a good idea...  

[[XIII] Roxas]

While Axel might have been trying to take his time getting reacquainted with Ventus, Ven was way less hesitant about getting reacquainted with him as the group started heading for the ice cream vendor to get some bars of that tasty sea-salt ice cream.

"Don't tell me... you're Lea? Man you got tall!" Ven greeted him with a smile and decided to make light of the weirdness of the situation rather than dwell on any misgivings he might still have about how long he had been asleep. After all, he wanted to stay cheerful so that Aqua wouldn't have to worry about him so much.

While there was no denying this whole situation was rather weird, Roxas clearly didn't have any animosity directed at Ventus. He wasn't going to be clingy or jealous about him trying to get reacquainted with Axel. Considering the poor kid had been asleep for more than a decade after some kind of very traumatic experience, Roxas really couldn't fault him with wanting to latch onto anything that was even remotely familiar. Besides, Axel was going to have to come to terms with Ven being back sooner or later and sooner was probably better in this case. Of course, that didn't mean Roxas wasn't a little bit worried about it and Crystal could easily see that so she took him by the hand a gave it a light squeeze which really did make him feel much better by reminding him that he really wasn't alone in all this. It was probably awkward for everyone. Roxas therefore could have done without Sora wedging himself between them to hug them both with a huge grin on his face.

"Isn't it great that we're all back together again?" Sora was clearly enjoying this reunion very much.

"Didn't I specifically ask you to warn me before you go to hug me again?" Roxas shot back at him although it was clear from his expression he wasn't especially upset by it at the moment.

"But if I warned you, you'd just run away from me," Sora pointed out without missing a beat. He did, however, let Roxas and Crystal go after that. "And then I wouldn't get to hug you at all."

It was hard not to smile with Sora acting so cheerful, although Xion was also concerned by the fact that Shiro had gone off by himself and Crystal and Roveth both seemed to be going to great lengths to make sure no one was following him.

*~Radiant Garden: Ravine~*

Shiro would easily find Cloud and Sephiroth clashing blades out over the ravine overlooking what had previously been Maleficent's tower which now boasted the extremely garish logo of the Shinra Electric Power Corporation plastered to the front of it.  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Axel would raise an eyebrow at Ven's comment, and just grinned his Axel style grin and all "yeah well you're still small yourself Ven, at least it means we have a pint and a half with you, Roxas and Xion now." he'd say cheekily in return while they continued to walk along as Axel at least was getting into things and returning to his normal self despite his own nervousness "but anyway... i go by Axel nowadays more-so than Lea, due to some... stupid choices i've done in my life." he'd finally say, humming a bit as he looked up to the skies a bit.

Roveth would notice Xion's own concern for the one not there at the moment he would move to step in time to Xion and hum a bit "don't worry too much about Shiro, first off Cloud's gonna be there on hand to help out, and if i know Tifa, she's probably not too far behind either, so she'd be able to patch up Cloud or Shiro one enough to carry the other if they get bad off injured against him." he'd say, smiling a bit lightly while he himself was worried, because even if he knew that Shiro was much stronger since the last time he fought Sephiroth... he wouldn't be surprised if the b*****d was toying with them as much as before...

Shiro meanwhile had seen the two clashing at the fun ravine cliff overlooking Maleficent's old tower he would take in a deep breath before summoning Kanshou and Bakuya, narrowing his eyes, before flinging them much like boomerangs to send them in an arc that'd head straight for Sephiroth while avoiding Cloud entirely before Shiro summoned twin longswords and moved to get ready and join in on the fight, his dead eyes glowing in their prismatic fashion and getting as much info as he could in the area so he'd be ready at a moment's notice.  

[Kailah S Majessta]

Tifa was watching from a short distance away, having finally caught up with Cloud far too late. It wasn't long after that Shiro appeared, but she wasn't sure if this was a good thing or not. It was already bad enough that Sephiroth appeared again- even worse that Cloud suddenly up and left, causing her to try and find him again (interrupting the lessons she's been having with Kairi), and worse STILL that she knew there was really nothing she could do to stop the fighting.

Cloud needed to do this on his own.

It didn't stop her from worrying, and worrying more-so because of Shiro's appearance... she knew how powerful Sephiroth was, and how manipulative he was. Hope was the only thing Tifa had at this point, as was always the case when Sephiroth was involved.

Back at 7th Heaven, the ruckus downstairs caused the resident vampire to wake up a bit early. Not being a "morning" person per say, she didn't actually roll out of bed until it died down a little.

Kailah washed up in the restroom before groggily walking downstairs, heading behind the bar, and making herself some coffee, even taking a few sips before realizing there was a new person in the tavern.

"Oh! Hi! Hello!" she smiled, setting her coffee down to extend a hand to Aqua. "It's nice to see a new face around here. Has Leon already taken care of you?"  

[[XIII] Roxas]

"Okay, Axel then," Ventus nodded as he processed this new piece of information. It was nice to see another familiar face besides just Aqua.

"Hey, what about the rest of us?" Sora protested with an audible pout. "There's a lot more than a pint and a half with all of us here."

"Yeah, with all of us it's really more like three pints and a half," Crystal had to agree with a slight chuckle. And yes, she was totally including Roveth in that measurement just now.

Roxas couldn't help but smile. It would have seemed ridiculous if it had just been Sora complaining about not being included in Axel's measurement, but the fact that Crystal got on board so quickly was what really sold it. It was a silly argument to be having for sure, but it did kind of make sense. Even if Shiro and Roveth were a bit more ambiguous about their feelings, they were all part of the same team and Crystal, especially, always seemed to be with them now.

"But shouldn't you or Crystal be there to back him up?" Xion had to ask as she addressed Roveth. When he mentioned Cloud and Tifa it wasn't hard to guess who Shiro was after even though Xion hadn't actually sensed what was going on herself. Crystal and Roveth had certainly done an impressive job of using this detour for sea-salt ice cream as a diversion to keep Sora from noticing that Shiro was missing from the group.


Meanwhile, out over the ravine, Sephiroth would nimbly dodge and deflect the two blades thrown by Shiro to draw his attention. "Well now, I didn't expect to see you here today," Sephiroth greeted him with amusement. He glanced back to Cloud who was still seething and swinging wildly at him. "I'm afraid you've lost your edge, Cloud, but perhaps this new arrival can at least make this dance a little more interesting." He would make a series of very rapid swings with the Masamune to unleash razor-sharp shockwave projectiles to launch at Shiro before diving down to strike him at close range.

Cloud, meanwhile, became agitated at being ignored by Sephiroth and would attempt to dive bomb him with a powerful downward stabbing strike.


And finally, back at 7th Heaven, Aqua took notice of the young woman who had joined them from upstairs. It seemed to take a moment for her to even notice Aqua sitting there at the bar where she had, in fact, been chatting with Leon trying to get a sense of what was going on around this particular world since he seemed to be the guy to ask about that sort of thing. When Kailah finally addressed her Aqua smiled and nodded, "Yes, Leon has been very helpful. By the way, my name is Aqua. Myself and Ven are going to be staying awhile, but he's out exploring the town with some other Keyblade wielders right now. And you are?" Aqua couldn't quite place it, but there was definitely something not quite completely human about this young woman she was speaking to. She seemed nice enough though so Aqua wasn't really too worried about it.  

[Kailah S Majessta]

Kailah smiled at Leon, slightly embarrassed that she hadn't been more aware of her surroundings sooner, but gladly answered the new girl.

"I'm Kailah! I'm a transplant, but Tifa hired me to work here, so if you need anything and Leon's not around, you can come to me okay?" She gave a sheepish grin, "Although I'm still fairly new, and I don't really know much. But I can definitely help as much as possible if you'll be staying for a while."

She finally turned and grabbed her coffee, leaning against the back wall behind the bar as she relaxed.

"So that's the noise that woke me up. Everyone's back!" There was a smile, then a small frown, "Too bad Tifa left... she'll be happy when she gets back." The smile was back again, "And Kairi will be happy to see her friends again too!"  

[Kuukyo_Fushichou]

Roveth of course would shake his head a bit as he kept moving forward and all "do you really want to alert Sora of the fact that he's not here?" he'd whisper to Xion, as he frowned a bit in thought "we're doing this to keep everyone from panic'ing and going to save him when it'd only put everyone else in danger, besides... Shiro is much stronger than the last time they fought, so if anyone's gonna be in for a surprise, it's not Shiro." he'd finish, while speaking up more loudly with an indignant 'Oi!' "i'll have you know i constitute as three-quarters a pint!" he'd snark in return, smiling regardless while of course reaching and pulling out his munny bag to make sure he had enough for at least one for everyone, even pass one along to Aqua later in fact.

Axel just laughed hearing the argument while looking over the crowd "okay okay, i meant the pint and a half because of Xion, Roxas, and Ven here, got it memorized?" he'd mention while idly summoning one of his chakrams to spin lazily on his fingers "besides, i consider you, Roveth, and Sora full pints in of themselves, well Roveth a gallon maybe, due to how big of an ego he gets after one of his shows." he'd quip, only to get an explosive furball known as Kuriboh to the face, leaving him with the cartoonish soot face and whited out eyes blinking at sudden explosion "... okay, i totally deserved that." he said, puffing out a cloud of smoke from his mouth.

Shiro had expected his blades to be deflected, so he had already caused them to shatter, and when Sephiroth sent the razor blade energy slashes, he would clench his arms, and intone out "I am the Bone of my Sword." he would state, before he -moved- and literally slashed into the energy blades from the side, destroying them like glass before moving to guard against Sephiroth's incoming close range attack by crossing the longswords he traced to block it. of course when he saw Cloud he would focus a bit of his presence and use it in a controlled burst to blast it in his face to snap him out of his rage before speaking "that depends, Sephiroth..." he would say, disappearing, leaving a solid after image for the one winged angel to cleave through while Shiro reappeared on his left, with Durandal in hand next, aiming for a downwards slash at the unguarded side if he could "can you keep up with me?" he'd state in his glacial cold tone of voice.