The King of Hearts (Open to all)

[Heroic Bilby]

"Whaaaaaaaaaa?"

Chaosin was dumbfounded(Which was really easy to achieve). No Shortbottom? Man... what kind of a fight would it be without someone who's antics could be as entertaining as that? Certainly nothing worth writing home about.... not that the Nobody had a home. Well... Eldin had a home. Did that count as Chaosin's home? Then again Eldin was sort of just housed more than having a home... and he abandoned it to go hero-ing around. This also brought up the deeper philosophical questions of existence without a heart and the true way to define a person's ho-

Wham!

Having melted his faux boxing stance into just a limp standing pose followed by a drifting look off to the side as his mind wandered into randomness, the shell of Desura made a pretty easy target. Sort of like a practice dummy propped up in the middle of a field for football players to charge at over and over, except without the pole to keep it in place. Struck full-on by the mysterious new entry into the tournament Chasoin was sent fly and landed hard on his back, sprawling out across the grass. His eyes seemed glazed over for a minute but after a few blinks the red irises within seemed to come into focus. He tilted his neck down a little to look back up at his attacker.

"Huh? Oh, were you saying something? I tend to stop listening when things get boring."

And with that bland statement Chaosin puled himself up into a cross-legged sitting position and started picking the wax out of his right ear with his matching pinkie finger, eyes closed and expression dulled from disinterest. Still.. he didn't officially quit or leave the field either.

[gouki]

The fighter didn't hesitate at all as he began to rush over to Chaosin at full speed. Even though no one was aware of his name the match had now begun. The fighter jumped into the air flipping over Chaosin before firing a blast of his life energy which took the form af a white ball of flame in Chsosins direction. Once he landed which would be about seven feet from where Chasion was at the the moment the fighters left foot began to glow a bright yellow color. With one swift backflip, he shot out the yellow energy that had been concentrated on his foot. The energy shot out in a cresent like shape that was about 8 feet tall and 8 inches thick but as sharp as a new blade from a perfectly made sword.

The queen seemed quite interested in this new contestant straight to the point with no talk just action, action, action. Why couldn't more fighters be like him an not try to make a long speech during their fight? But it was rather rude of him to just jump in without telling the audience or the queen herself what his name was.

One of the card soldiers that had gone off to find Alice walked over to the queen whispering something in her ear. At first her face became quite pale then turned into a bright red before going back to its normal skin complexion.

"So thats how they want to play the game eh? Fine! They'll wish they never messed with the Queen of Hearts. Stand by until the end of the tournament got that?"

The card nodded and took a few steps back.

Meanwhile outside the arena Sir Longbottom sits behind one of the large flowers in the forest pulling out a green cellphone. After punching in a few buttons it looks as though he sent a message to someone. A few moments later he recieves a message back with the words "Whatever happens make sure the Heart is still intact." written in the message.

Longbottom looks at the message and sighs in discontent when he places his phone back in his pocket. He gets up picking up his longsword and heads back to the arena.

[Heroic Bilby]

Sniff sniff.

...

"AAAAAHHHH!!!!!"

Chaosin seemed to barely react to the fireball of life energy that struck into his back and burst into flames. He had been bumped into a forward lean in the middle of cleaning out his ear and wavered back from the buffeting force, but otherwise didn't seem to indicate much damage had been dealt. There had even been a few sparks of what looked like purple electricity mixed in with the impact of the life energy, as if some other force had been at play there. It was only moment later when his nose had been greeted by the smoke of the dispersed shot that he had suddenly leaped into a panic(At precisely the right moment to avoid the deadly cutter by a bare millimeter one might add). The Nobody ran about right and left in pure random zig-zagging screaming "I'm on fire!" in an expression of uncharacteristic panic.

Of course, Eldin wasn't on fire at all; he had simply smelled the smoke caused from the blast's impact. Chaosin probably knew this seeing as he wasn't burning up at a drastic rate. Still, he persisted in acting it out as if he was anyways, ignoring the crowd and his would-be opponent all in the name of dashing about and yelling like an idiot, a sadly common occurrence for him.

Chaosin couldn't just go along with things like a normal person. If he did, if he really slowed down and paid attention and thought rationally instead of filling every waking moment with lunacy and forced exaggeration of everything... well then he might just have to admit to himself how empty he was. He just might have to admit to himself how nothing was really that amusing to him. He might just have to admit to himself that he didn't really feel alive.

Frankly, Chaosin just couldn't do that. The Nobody was apparently far weaker-willed than the somebody, regardless of holding its humanoid form.

[gouki]

Just as the fighter was about to pull of another move to stop Chaosins ridiculous antics, he stopped suddenly standing as still as a statue. Sir Longbottom had stepped into the arena which was most likely the cause of the sudden halt. He walked over to the fighter and bent over whispering something into his ear. Whatever it was that Longbottom said, it caused the fighter to get up and leave the arena with no questions asked.

The crowd was quite confused by all of this. The queen on the other hand was very curious. Why did this talented fighter just stop the fight and leave? Was something afoot?

Longbottom was now looking over at Chaosin. He was very disappointed at the young Nobody. He crossed his arms and just looked at him as though he made an F on his report card.

"You really are something else aren't you. Why is it that most Nobodies try and act human when they really aren't? I do say though you really do know how to milk that dopey persona quite well. You almost made me a believer."

Longbottom then pulled out a cigar lighting it with his thumb which was on fire then putting it out like it was a lighter. He took one big inhale of the thick brown gigar then let out a large cloud of smoke. He grabbed his long shiny hair and ripped it off revealing his true hair which was just a shorter and spiked backwards blond hair. His voice changed now and wsa more rugged and didn't have that cheezy heroic voice like before. Tossing the wig aside he inhaled again letting out another big cloud of smoke

"How could someone like you have had the ability to wield the Keyblade?"

[Heroic Bilby]

"You really are something else aren't you. Why is it that most Nobodies try and act human when they really aren't? I do say though you really do know how to milk that dopey persona quite well. You almost made me a believer."

Chaosin stopped his errant running with one foot still held up in the air in front of him and his upper torso leaning backwards. The Nobody turned his head towards Longbottom with a grin that still maintained all of its simulated innocence despite the malevolent - Or perhaps uncaring was a better word - spirit reflected in its red eyes.

"That's quite a compliment coming from you, Shortbottom. Rainbow over there really disappointed me when he cut your own show short. I don't think I managed to follow the act very well though."

The knight(A title that was still technically possible but now very questionable) was still having a smoke and losing his partial disguise as Chaosin brought both feet to the ground and turned fully towards the human. The empty shell still leaned back but very slightly and he allowed both of his muscle-mass-lacking arms to hang limply from either side as if paralyzed. The silver-haired lunatic's chin propped up a little to show off the wide toothy grin set into his face, enough so that Chaosin had to "look down" on the man a little just to set his sights upon him. Not an intentional reference, he would assure anyone. This was a human he liked(As much as his nature allowed).

"But hey, give me a little slack. When you don't exist it takes quite a bit of exaggeration before life feels like something you're living," Chaosin explained in a rare show of honesty before taking the time to close his eyes and snicker to himself.

"How could someone like you have had the ability to wield the Keyblade?"

"Is it my outgoing personality?" Desura's body replied with a smirk and a shrug, signaling that its arms were indeed still fully functional. The Nobody's posture corrected itself to stand straight now while his hands drooped back down. "I dunno. What's a Keyblade?"

Eldin's remnant didn't question Longbottom on where that information(Whatever it was supposed to be) came from. There would be more fun in milking this little scene for all it was worth before seeing how it was meant to end. Distractions were things he thoroughly valued.

[gouki]

"Lets go ahead and make things clear right now before I go and off the person that came up with that ridiculous name. Longbottom is not my name, it was just a alias for this shindig but there has been a change of plans."

The man who was known as Longbottom, or in this case Shortbottom dropped his cigar on the ground and stepped on it, slowly crushing out the remainder of the cigar into the dirt. He pulled out a pipe this time placing it in his mouth then lighting his thumb again. After a few puffs he blew out a big thick cloud of smoke.

"Back when you were, human you were able to summon a very powerful weapon called the Keyblade. Whether or not you can do this now that you are a Nobody is unknown at the moment but that is why I am here."

He turned away from Chaosin and walked over to the queen of Hearts. She seemed somewhat frustrated to see her knight in shining armor turn into this chain smoking, rude man.

"Your Majesty, I hate to do this but I'm gonna have to borrow your little target here, he is needed for something else. Besides he was gonna end up on the chopping block anyways."

The now infuriated queen stood up pointing directly at him, her face turning blood red now. You could see a large vein on the top right hand side of her forehead pulsating faster and getting bigger with each pump.

"Seize these two immediately!!!" she screamed out.

Soon dozens of card soldiers began pouring all around the arena entrances blocking any exits the two might have been able to escape to. The unknown smoker looked around with his eyebrow raised high as he took another puff from his pipe. His right hand was caught on fire, but then formed into a ball of flames in the palm of his hand.

"Hey kid, look alive would ya. You wanna get out of here alive don't cha?"

[Heroic Bilby]

"Keyblade..."

Chaosin took on a thoughtful look, crossing one arm in front of him and using it to hold the other as it caressed his chin. The brow arching the bridge between his two red eyes furrowed in though as if recalling an important distant memory... which of course was all just another act that ending with the Nobody snapping his fingers and taking on an expression of slight accomplishment.

"Oh! You mean that funny-lookin' stick Desura ended up with after he turned into a wimp," he said, validating what the one now not known as Longbottom had claimed. "Would you really call that a key shape though? That seems like a stretch to me, Shortbottom."

Chaosin laughed, of course.

Despite refusing to change the fire-user's dubbed nickname, Eldin's empty shell decided to go quiet and stand limp with blankly plain look on his face while the Queen was addressed. He wasn't quite smiling, but neither was he staring. It was sort of like the look a child would have while daydreaming, which probably meant he was bored(Or feigning it at least) from not being the center of attention for more than one second. He didn't seem to "snap out of it" until the former "knight" brought up his attachment to life in the face of many enemies.

"... eh, as long as I have fun on the way the destination doesn't matter much," he said with a shrug before his face twisted into another deceptively innocent mixture of smiling and smugness. "But it sure has been a while since I actually fought on the same side as someone else. Care to entertain me for a bit with some moves I haven't seen before?"

With that the Nobody's feet spread apart and his body slouched forward, arms out and tensed. Drawing his palms in towards himself the fingers opened into claw-shapes instead of fists as if they were holding hand-sized balls. Chaosin seemed to be in an actual fighting stance now, though his back was still to the card soldiers surrounding him from that side as he faced the Queen of Hearts and her offender. The one without a heart was sticking with this guy for now. It looked like new and amusing things might be in store if he did and that was more than reason enough.

"Shall we battle royale, or just make a run for it?"

Chaosin laughed, of course.

[gouki]

“Fun huh? Thought Nobodies couldn’t have fun.” He jokingly remarked before swinging his flamed hand at the ground which spun around the ground for a minute before he lifted his leg up and kicked the fire ball with full force. It was sent hurdling towards one of the nearby Card soldiers exploding upon impact which covered the card entirely in flames which burned its victim until there was nothing but ash. Two card soldiers went charging with their heart shaped lances towards the “knight”. He ducked down holding his arms out behind him as they caught aflame again instantly jumping into the air as they were fully covered in fire. He swung both arms against each other and fired a huge ball of fire at the ground near where the card soldiers were. Nothing happened once it hit the ground and as the soldiers were running past where the flames had it the ground it seemed that the attack was nothing more than a dud.

He smiled as he snapped his fingers causing a tower of flames to burst out from the ground right under the two card soldiers. He landed back on the ground and looked back at Chosin. “Not the fanciest of my tricks but they do alright. How about you? Surely you have some killer techniques being a Nobody and all.”

The queen grew even angrier seeing her soldier’s burn to ashes. But instead of ordering them to fall back and not risk anymore casualties the Queen of Hearts summoned more decks onto the playing field. The man formerly known as Longbottom shook his head in discontent as more soldiers went charging towards them. He pointed his finger at the card soldiers like a gun and fired small bullet sized fire balls at the cards. The speed from the shots went right through the soldiers like they were made of paper.

But even with the large number of soldiers depleting quickly more and more just came and took their place, lucky for them help was on their way. The unknown fighter from before appeared out from the trees and landed next to Longbottom instantly taking his defensive stance.

“About time you got here. So you took care of that job I gave you?”

The fighter nodded confirming that the “job” was completed.

[Heroic Bilby]

"You know, if we're gonna be friends, you really need to stop disillusioning me," the Nobody told the pyromaniac as he side-stepped some spears and tripped up the very light soldiers with some low leg swings. He left some to fall over each other and got closer to the blaze, taking in the bright burning show.

"Bravo, bravo," Chaosin said, clapping his hands at the fiery display. "What puts on a show quite like fire? I don't know, but I'm dying to find out some day."

Speaking of dying, another red card's spear arrive don the scene, entering the stage through Chaosin's stomach with a fleshy squishing noise. Pitch black blood fell form the wound and scattered on the grass below as Eldin's body began to go limp.

"Heh," the victim chuckled, his eyes going hazy. Chaosin still smiled but his expression seemed slightly sadder about it now. Once again he'd fallen victim to having nearly zero sense of anything going on around him besides what he could see. "This is what I get for being used to having eyes in the back of my head.

The card soldier took this chance to lift up his weapon, dangling Chaosin's limp body in the air off the earth. The Queen was no doubt enjoying a dark pleasure out of it. Before the warrior of the heart suit could feel too good about himself though he herd something drop to the ground with a small thud. Looking down it was the heart-shaped spearhead of its own weapon, simply fallen clean off. Another second later and Chaosin himself suddenly fell into a kneeling position with his back still to his would-be slayer, simply giving in to gravity as if there were no longer a pole stuck through him. As the lancer looked at the now empty tip of his weapon's shaft he could see it actually shrinking back more even still with some of the shell's blood still on the end. It looked down at its victim only to find Eldin's right hand flinging a splatter of the black stuff, gathered from his open wound a moment before, into its face. The card soldier jerked in agony as the acid burned into its form and dropped the remains of its weapon altogether in favour of running randomly about, blind and in pain.

"Thanks pal, I was hoping for a little ammunition," the silver-haired done grunted a she got back to his feet, still looking a little more shaky and drowsy and usual as what could assume to be blood continued to drain slowly from his gut.