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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 0:12:30 GMT -5
Henry's breath finally slowed down to normal levels. Releasing the rigid clutch upon his breast the child opened his mind's eyes to the connection he shared with the enchanted armour of the Black Knight. Through the helmet's "eyes" he saw the dimly lit storage room he had hidden the shell in and returned to when events in the town started to become a bit too intense for him. Lately Heartless always seemed to attack whenever he was outside of his suit... it felt like it had only gotten worse since becoming the White Squire.
Currently the child was inside his adult-sized armour, floating in a dark void while it fed on a trace amount of darkness seeping from Henry's heart. The amount increased ever so slightly, enough to power the shell for basic movement, as the scaredy-cat inside willed its feet to move. The tall form marched toward the door, closed after Henry had ran in to escape the weird characters outside earlier. When it attempted to open the wooden construct, however, it was met with resistance. Something had fallen loose on the outside after Henry had slammed it, causing the door to be jammed shut.
'No,' he thought at first in disbelief, though with increasing nervousness as more attempts failed. 'No, no no no no! Let me out!'
Allowing his still-jittery nerves to control him for a moment Henry's heart instructed the armour to make an exit if this one was not complying. An axe just as pitch black as the seamless suit Henruy now occupied appeared within the Black knight's hand, which it then proceeded to slam into the door repeatedly until finally bursting outside with a final shoulder ram to the threshold, brining it out onto the street with destructive flair.
The type of flair that might be misinterpreted by any heroes looking for knights causing vandal acts to the town...
~*~
"OK Sora! I'll take the Boroughs! Leave it to me!" Guy called out enthusiastically as his new ally in all things good and just took off for the back streets behind the market square, the very same that bore the Black Knight's resting place on one particular stretch of alley. The long-legged martial artist was left alone in the square with a young blond girl in metal armour-like dress after a stranger warned them that two "knights" were causing problems to the local restoration efforts. Having volunteered to help the Restoration Committee after coming to this world in order to gain some good hero experience Guy took this very personally.
"Oh hey! There aren't three ways form here. Would you like to come with me?" Guy asked, remembered the girl present just before he was about to take off. He hadn't seen her fight or anything, but the clothes she wore seemed to suggest that she was a warrior of some kind. The enthusiastic black-haired martial artist started to jog in place, knees reaching up high on every bouncy step as he awaited her answer. "Or maybe someone should cover the town below too?"
As he awaited her answer, however, Anna was about to find out that the current state of her loathsome armour wasn't as stable as she might have liked, nor was she as used to it as she would have to be to maintain its form. Before she or Guy could be out of each others sights more white metal plating would soon start to cover her body...
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 0:47:02 GMT -5
 "A shared existence...was harmony truly possible or would the Chains of darkness seal her forever?"
Of course his question left her with a quizzical response. "Does he think I'm some damsel in distress...?" Incidentally enough, this caused her eyes to look lost. Subconsciously she was recalling the men of her own world. The state of affairs of her own world...women were treated differently back home. It wasn't necessarily bad, it was just...smothering. There were plenty of young men whom wanted to protect girls from anything that came their way. Being quite the tomboy, this lifestyle just wouldn't do. She didn't need protecting, she did the protecting. It was time that this young man realize such! Already her lips curled into a frown, her eyes changing to a sharp look. Yet before a word could come out, the renegade armour began to act up. Thus, like any normal girl her age would do, she panicked.
"I-I'll cover the town, we'll rendezvous in an hour..."
Anything to get Guy away from her, yet already the metal plating was starting to cover her form. She turned her back towards Guy at that moment. Looking to move on into the distance. Enough to go out of sight before the helm would materialize. Yet mentally, the lioness was quite furious.
"Stay back...you...you...I shall not have you control me anymore! I'm your mistress, you do as I say!
Would she be able to suppress the White Knight?  "It's Hero time."
"Who are you and what are you doing here!?"
Considering that the statements from the unknown man was true, it meant this Knight was similar to the White Knight. The actions certainly indicated as much but he just had to be sure. If there was no immediate answer, Sora would engage the Black Knight. Keyblade ready to slash at the mid-section in a quick dash. |
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 1:15:04 GMT -5
'Huh? What's going on!?' Henry thought within his shell. While he was panicking the armour had acted on his instincts instead of his mental guidance, breaking out of the storage shed forcefully. He had barely come to mental grip with that when he was called out, the helmet of the armour turning right away to view the boy with the legendary weapon. 'He's bringing out a weapon? Is he trying to attack me?'
Still unaccustomed to the idea of talking while inside his armour Sora would get no answer from the Black Knight. Instead the suit turned to face him and raised its axe defensively in front of itself, taking a single step backward. It was a very incriminating act... one which ushered in Sora's opening strike. Still slow on the uptake Henry failed to give any instruction to his golem as Sora rushed in and slashed. The amrour did its best to take the blow with its axe placed over its midsection but was still caused to slide back across the stone path a few feet from the mighty blow.
'Hey! Stop it! Go away!' the Dark Battery cried, grabbing on to both sides of his head and curling up in his void after feeling the shaking form being blown back. Henry simply wasn't prepared for this and his heart expelled darkness into the suit to reach battle-ready capability as a result. It took one giant step forward and moved the axe off of its front, creating a horizontal back slash from its left to its right. Even if it missed Sora the axe would slam into the wood of the building next to the knight as they were in a narrow alley, breaking the wood.
~*~
"Hey! You all right, miss?" Guy asked, his jogging no longer taking place. The girl seemed perturbed now, and something was happening to her suit. Suddenly his face turned from concerned to excited. 'Oh! Maybe she's like those science guys back at school with super robot suits?'
Interested to see if this was the case here on this seemingly under-advanced world the teen walked a few steps closer, not exactly sure what to say for the moment.
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 1:55:55 GMT -5
 "The Darkness...I'll stop it!"
"Why are you doing this?"
Sora questioned once more, before charging in to attack The Black Knight again. This next Slash would serve to clash weapons. Perhaps if Sora could get a look into the eyes of this stranger... "What would I give...to be...me."
Was the first response Anna gave, there was clear frustration in her voice. All she could do was look at her form taking on the plates. At this stage the 'dress' had now transformed into leggings. These leggings were to match the basic armoured legs of the White Knight. Around her shoulders, light gathered before turning into a blue cape. It had an emblem to it, but it was quite foreign and couldn't be deciphered by those outside of Enchanted dominion. The chest plate and upper torso had yet to transform, though the process was already starting.
Still, Anna was diligent and made sure to turn. This was to make sure Guy wouldn't approach. Unlucky Anna, the boy's curiosity got the better of him. He took a few steps closer, at which point he could catch a glimpse of the sadness in Anna's eyes. It was rare that the Charleston would ever succumb to such emotions. It made her feel weak, fraile...like a damsel in distress. Yet now that the process had already started, she was indeed helpless. Thus when the tears started to stream down her face, she quickly turned her head. No boy should see her like this, least of all this stranger.
Thus she bolted, her legs, now armoured slowing down her run. Where could she go? ANYWHERE but here, thus she went in Sora's direction. Perhaps if she could meet up with the boy, maybe...maybe she could explain herself. It wasn't too late!
"I...I need to be faster! I...won't let him take me over....!"
Her mental anxiety was building up rapidly. The white platting already building up the torso now. If this kept up, the transformation would soon complete. Anna's "identity" as the White Knight would be revealed. Yet it was this thinking that got her to trip just before reaching the back pathway. The armour weighed her form down, it was hard to move...all she could do was scream.
"Why won't you let me go...I don't need your power, I don't want your protection..." Her words came through the clear sobbing she was doing. |
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 2:22:03 GMT -5
Living Battery Charge: 5/10
Henry's fear intensified. The Black Knight was already running on a half tank of gas and this fast little guy seemed intent on beating it up for some reason. What did he do!? All the darkness he'd expelled earlier that had drawn Heartless and breaking out of the shed had drained him. He didn't have much time left! he had to get rid of this person or run away!
Feeling Henry's thoughtless panic the Black knight turned around to face Sora, its right hand continuing to hold the axe still embedded into the wall beside it. The suit stood tall now, looking down at the boy with literally nothing in its eyes. No voice would come to answer the hero's call. Instead it seemed to invite the attack.
SHHHHNK!
Suddenly Sora would find the armour's counter-attack coming from an unexpected angle. Though he ahd intended to lock weapons the axe started to glow blue and, in that moment, the knight had turned and cut right through the wall with it as easily as if it had been warm butter, the Cleave ability ranting the weapon power to slash clean through any physical medium. The axe approached Sora's right as he came into range, poping right out of the wall next to him.
~*~
"Hey, what's wrong?" asked Guy, holding Anna's form in both arms and preventing her form falling onto the ground. How on earth had he gotten in front of her, anyway? Actually, within seconds of her running away he had used his superhuman legs to run just ahead and had been running backwards to face her when she tripped.
The would-be hero did his best to gently help Anna down to the ground. He wasn't exactly fluent in what to do with a crying girl but he guessed not being too rough and popping her back on her feet right away was a good start.
Is there anything I can do to help? he asked, intentions noble but voice cracking with nervousness at the situation he had entered.
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 2:58:22 GMT -5
 "This was serious..."
Just what in the world was that ability? How could he even get near the Black Knight now...? Well certainly not through physical means. Still, he looked into the soul-less eyes. There was nothing, perhaps no sign of 'eyes' at all even.
"Just leave these people alone..." "Taking over me..."
"You can't be near me...not like this. If I change...no, I won't allow myself to be subjected to anymore of this..."
Her voice had trailed off and no doubt it sounded as if she was rambling. Still, like a true gentleman; Guy had asked if there was anything he could do to help. Of course, the right arm had now become armoured, leaving the left arm as the next target. Moving her left hand to touch Guy's arm, she looked into his eyes. Despite the tears streaming down her cheek, she managed a serious expression.
"Erase me...If you don't, then this town will be subject to harm just like before."
Responding to the fatal comment, the armour speeded up it's process. The left arm seeming to become armoured in an instant. If not for will power alone, the helmet of the White Knight would have materialized completely. Instead it snaked it's way up from her neck and torso. Her right side being taken away by the helmet of the White Knight. At which point her right arm moved to grasp Guy's other arm. By seeing the helmet take over half of her face, it should be clear to Guy just who Anna was. For staring back at him was The White Knight. Anna's sole visible eye looked away, yet her control was vanishing.
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 3:21:25 GMT -5
Living Battery: 4/10
The Black Knight looked completely unmoved by Sora's injury or selfless words, as it was of course. The unfeeling automation knew nothing of mercy, only following its master's will. The axe in its right hand lost its blue aura, returning to its normal level of sharpness. This did not deter the suit, however, which began to moved as quickly as it could toward Sora again, this time going on the offensive itself and holding the axe overhead for a downward slash.
"STOP!"
It froze mid-step. The axe was still hanging in the air and Sora only a couple of steps away, the Black Knight ceased to mvoe. It certainly wasn't in result of anthing Sora did. No, rather Henry, momentarily shocked that his suit had almost killed the boy, finally snapped back into reality, screaming for the machine to cease doing this darker, selfish will. To Sora the voice was incredibly muffled, but it had certainly come from inside the suit. The Black Knight remained frozen while Henry desperately caught his breath in gasps, horrified.
~*~
"... say what?"
Ok, not exactly what he'd been expecting. The more Anna became covered in the white metallic coating the wider Guy's green eyes became in awe and understanding. He didn't exactly have much time to think, but this was definitely fitting the description of one of the people he and Sora had agreed to find. But this girl... crying and pleading for him to erase her?
That was messed up!
He looked away at the same time she did, into the distance of the buildings. 'No way I can get her to the holding cells in time at this rate,' the trainee hero thought desperately, thinking of the distance between them and the Garden's makeshift jailhouse. He didn't consider the girl's request for an instant of course, just thought of getting the White Knight contained. She had mumbled enough for him to guess that whatever was going on wasn't her fault, or at least wasn't supposed to look that way. 'Only one chance!'
"Hang on!" he declared, scooping the girl right up in his arms and hopping to the nearby edge of the cliff wall. The armour made her quite heavy, but only his arms felt the weight. He could manage for a moment. "Keep it together for a second!"
A tenth of Guy's physical stamina disappeared in an instant. His legs suddenly ignited with fiery red light, flaring brightly around his ankles. Combining all of his leg strength with Mystic Leg's magical enhancement the martial artist did the only thing he could think of and jumped.
Boom!
The pair blasted off of the wall and went flying upward and over the town way down below, the castle staring at them from the other side of the canyon. Guy did his best to hold on tight to the girl and keep her to him, hoping she could stay herself. If this turned out the way she was making it seem like it would, and if this White Knight was as potentially hostile as he'd been led to believe, well the two of them were going to potentially be spending some quality time together in free fall.
It was a long trip back down to the ground.
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 3:55:36 GMT -5
 "Be weary of the unknown..."
"You won't be erasing Miss Charleston anytime soon. I won't let you."
The voice was quite masculine, though it lacked it's air of heroism. No, this time it was quite malevolent. Had Anna's own dark ways corrupted the White Knight? This was not in it's enchanted functions whatsoever. With the transformation complete, the armour was no longer in the form of a rather short girl but that of a tall man (or really tall woman), at about 5'11 in height. Both it's hands would attempt to grasp Guy, ready to take the duo for a spinning nose dive. Only one of them had the defenses to sustain a head on collision with the ground. A new light radiated from the Knight. It was a powerful aura, but it mostly served to block out the town below. All eyes would be on the opponent, a duel to the death in free fall.
Though perhaps something would surface within the martial artists mind: is this Knight really a criminal.  "Careless...now it would lead to the end..."
"Huh, there's someone in there? A-are you...?"
Sora was at a lost for words, he wasn't sure if the person in there had any control or if they were trapped or...why he hadn't been hacked into pieces. Of course Sora rolled back a bit to get some distance. He'd need to eventually stand if he wanted to figure out the mystery of the Black Knight. |
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 4:12:01 GMT -5
Living Battery: 4/10
'Ah!' Henry exclaimed in his mind, both hands clapping over his mouth. He'd yelled that out loud! Someone knew he was here! No! 'This can't be happening! Nobody should know! NOBODY!'
Henry was panicking like he'd never been before. To him the sanctuary of the armour meant everything. For this boy, anybody, to know that he was inside was like being torn right out of it, all safety gone for the rest of his life! What was he supposed to do now!? His heart was in turmoil, doubt and fear generating huge amounts of darkness.
The Black Knight went berserk. Sora knew its secret... Sora had to be erased. It came barreling forward at top speed again, heavy armour clattering menacingly as it stomped across the stone path, bearing its full weight down toward the boy. The unfinished slash from before was resumed, ready to be brought down upon Sora's head.
~*~
If the newly resurrected White Knight looked down it would soon realize the position that Guy had put them in. He hadn't simply laped high into the air, but high and forward in an arch. While the market square they ahd been in was located on the top of a cliff wall the main town of Hollow Bastion was within a deep canyon surrounded by that wall. Using his Mystic Leg to put his power into overdrive the boy had sent them flying deep into the territory of that chasm, leaving the "ground" very very far below them both. Even if it held the spin it would be a while still before either of them would reach earth again.
"Heroes... don't... erase... girls!"
Guy's legs were still burning with their aura, increasing their already moderate strength and moderate speed by 50% more. Utilizing this Guy could easily break them free of any hold the knight might have tried to place them in with its own legs and then swung them forward, past both sides of the grappling opponent. They kept swinging vertically with guy's body, aiming to slam them both into the backs of the armour's shoulders with enough force to knock its grip around his body loose. If freed he could then grab the knight's leg in between two of his feet and start to spin them both around in the air horizontally like a propeller, slowing their descent further and keeping their hands away from each other.
'I can't attack it if she might get hurt. Have to stall for time!'
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 4:37:02 GMT -5
 "But why...?"
"Back off!"
Sora yelled as the Knight ran towards him. He had begun to activate the Explosion equip. The orbs circling his form intending to collide with the Black Knight as he attempted to rush him. If Sora was able to keep the Knight at bay, he'd be able to get in some words.
"I know you're holding someone hostage inside! Let them go!" Sora didn't have much time for idle chatter. He summoned the keyblade in his left hand before holding it out high. If the Black Knight were to come at him once more, he'd be ready for him.  "The Revival...the hero was reborn."
"Your plan won't work."
The nosedive of a spin the White Knight attempted barely begun. The grip that he managed to gain had tightened, his form attempting to alternate the direction of the spin to act as a counter-balance. When Guy mentioned not erasing girls, the hero of light chuckled.
"You're not ready to be a hero yet. Release my hostess now, otherwise you'll taste the power of light."
Unaware of Guy's attempts to alter the situation, the Knight held on. The sudden attack to the shoulders was unexpected, the force indeed able to release the grip. The stumble would not last for long. Eloquence was soon summoned into the knight's left hand. The attempt to grasp the knight's leg would be met with the sword-edge of the spear attempting to slash down into it. If it missed, the horizontal propeller motion would begin. However it would not go without the knight's attempts to stab at the martial artist.
"You will regret this..."
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 21:18:25 GMT -5
Living Battery: 3/10
Sora's Explosion would create a spinning force of three white orbs, catching the armoured form of the Black Knight in their wake and then blasting it away when they promptly exploded seconds later. The young hero would find, however, that the attack would never have hit him even if he hadn't countered. The Knight's arm swung early and at an angle that would send the swing way over Sora's head, harmlessly flailing into the air. At the same time the armour's form shifted off to its right and was caught by the Explosion while slightly to Sora's left rather than head-on. Whatever had frozen it before must have interfered again. Indeed, that was exactly the case. Henry finally managed to grasp the fact that his panic and nerves were causing the armour to lash out on instinct. Even if Sora was an enemy... he was still just a kid like him right? This was no Heartless or wild monster. Henry's blood boiled at the thought of taking a life outside of noble cause.
As the spheres of power burst apart the armour was sent flying off its feet into the wall at Sora's left. It slid along it by about a foot before collapsing face-own onto the alley street, unmoving. Inside Henery was sweating and gasping, but also hugging his form tightly. That blast was... intense. Usually he barely felt anything himself thanks to the suit he hid within. The aftershocks from that attack, however, had run deep.
~*~
'Well if I was ready then I wouldn't need this field trip,' Guy thought with some glib satisfaction after the White Knight's insult. His legs were struck at, but the metal greaves hidden under his red coverings made great hidden shields at times like these. The spear's point wouldn't cut into him and he could use his superior raw power at the moment to get his grip and start the spin. Mystic Leg's aura would also add to his protection in the legs and feet for now, making the knight's resultant hacking relatively useless. Still, it wouldn't last. This was the last turn Mystic Leg would burn for unless Guy drained away another chunk of his physical energy away.
"OK, so heroes don't erase boys either! But that didn't really fit the context of our situation!" the martial artist yelled over the wind that beat over them as they fell. The ground below was becoming frighteningly close now. Not much time left to get the situation under control. "Now unless you think you can withstand a fall from this height unscathed how about you start cooperating so I can make sure neither of us goes splat!?"
If the knight refused his invitation Guy would have no choice but to release his grip. When Mystic Leg wore off his feet wouldn't be able to handle the jabs of Eloquence without injury anymore... and they were already starting to get sore.
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Post by yami on Dec 7, 2009 23:12:13 GMT -5
 "Was it too much...?"
Was he thinking straight? Well, it was hard to say. His approach was anything but reckless at the moment. The keyblade dangling in his left arm. The point being aimed to the ground below, his defenses were...lacking. If this had been a heartless, he wouldn't hesitate to strike it down with any technique in his arsenal. The problem was the muffled voice he heard. Even now it echoed through his cerebral. "Stop...that sounded like a kid...someone is really inside. They sounded afraid, how do I save them?" Once his soles were align with the knight's shoulder's, he'd proceed to look down upon his fallen foe. There was a look of pity in his eyes, at the same time there was uncertainty. There was a serious judgment call to be made here. How much could he trust the Unknown Man? He was apart of the Organization was he not? No, Sora had decided that he was going to take the risk. He shook his head to clear his mind. He had to figure out a way to release the captive within the armour. The best thing he could do was...remove it.
Slamming the Keyblade into the ground a short distance from the helm, he leveraged the key as a crutch. This helped Sora to kneel down beside the fallen warrior. His left hand moved to touch the helmet of the knight.His right arm pressed against the trapezes muscle area (below the neck area between the shoulders). He couldn't properly use that arm, so it was best used as leverage. His blood trailing down the arm and onto the black armour. Yes, Sora was going to pry the helmet off and bit, by bit...he'd remove the black armour and reach for the captive inside.
"Listen...I know you're in there, let me help you. Just...reach out for my hand, everything will be ok!"
He tried to put a bit of umph into the last part, but it didn't come out as well. If Sora was successful, light would soon shine into the armour. Exposing Henry to a light which might look rather distant and scary. At the same time, just how would Sora's words resonate within the young man? They were about the same age after all. True Sora was his enemy earlier, but would an enemy try to help their foe after they had fallen?
"I'll protect you...from this armour?" He wasn't sure what else to call it at that point. "The scariest place to be...was immersed in a never ending light." Free falling towards Radiant Garden below, the hero of light was engaged in mortal combat. His strikes with the Spear were not affecting his opponent. The eye slots within the White Knight's armour illuminated with a blue aura. It was a response to Guy's comment about erasing boys. "The only co-operation that I need is for you to release me---"
At which point the menacing White Knight's form began to dissolve into light. The plating which had captured Anna began to dissolve, revealing a similar armoured skirt as before. Except this time it was different, the White Knight's armour was quite obvious in this design. It provided a chest plate, shin/foot guard and a wrist guard. Yet the shoulders and back were bare. The dress was not blue like prior but white, resulting in a somewhat regal attire. Thus the attacks ended yet Anna's form seemed to be caught up within the fall itself, eyelids closed. Was she even alive? Was she simply unconscious? |
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 7, 2009 23:51:37 GMT -5
Living Battery: 3/10
Henry was really OK now. Sora's period of registering the situation was enough for him to get a handle on himself again. Honestly he wondered why he kept getting so worked up all the time. His recovery was faster now. Was he actually getting used to all of this? This... fear? Sora came prodding toward the fallen suit but it wouldn't remain wholly inactive. The figured stirred, slowly moving its left arm udnerneath itself to try and push the torso up. It moved very rigidly though, as if the person who ought to be wearing it were exhausted. Really it was just a result of Henry's unfocused mind trying to make it rise but also very uncertain of what to think of this boy.
Sora reached for the helmet's back seam and it failed to really resist him, taking no direct action toward his presence. The hero offered encouraging words to the would-be captive. Maybe they would have touched the heart of a certain regal girl... but not this descendant of knights.
'Everything will be OK? Is that really true?' Henry wondered. Was leaving the armour behind the answer? That strong man... he said strength was with other people right? If he was in danger he could be safe if he was with strong people... and he could live in the light, just as he wished he could.
"I'll protect you...from this armour?"
Henry's eyes opened wide in shock. This person wanted to get rid of the armour? The Black Knight? But, it was his only friend! The only thing that had kept him safe in that horrible Halloween Town for all those years! Did living in the light mean leaving the suit to the darkness? Henry had never even began to consider that implication of his desire to be in the world outside! Somehow the armour still being a part of his life had seemed so elementary. Now he was being called to be shielded form it, forced apart forever!
'No.'
The helmet came off and fell to the ground. It wasn't easy, especially with Sora's wounded arm, but the disarray in Henry's heart and the fact that he wasn't pumping the suit with battle-level power at the moment allowed the Key Bearer to eventually pry it off. Light streamed in and Henry found himself as far back into the suit as he could get, hiding from the path to freedom for all he was worth. Sora wouldn't really be able to see Henry due to the angle of light not filling the inside, but he might make out some movement of the boy's fidgeting. The suit was perfectly still like a statue now, the head of the Black knight sitting on the ground in silence.
'Go away!' Henery would cry in his mind, curled up and afraid. He closed his eyes tight and found that he could still "see" out of the fallen helmet's empty eye holes despite it being tossed aside.
Invisible darkness poured out of him.
The helmet began to glow a faint blue.
~*~
Guy's cheeks turned red. As happy as he was to see the less cooperative of the two personalities this body seemed to inhabit go away again, he was definitely sure that heroes also weren't supposed to be looking up girl's skirts. There wasn't actually anything indecent to see thanks to the makeup of Anna's new outfit, but Guy's knee-jerk reaction at least reminded him of the potentially fatal situation he had place don them both when he looked away and it happened to be "down". That ground was getting way too close for comfort.
'Oh. Right. The not dying. Better get on that.'
Guy's Mystic aura was gone now and the damsel's leg was already released from his ankle hold. The boy had let go when the amrour started warping again, unsure of whether or not he could get caught in it somehow but nto wishing to risk the chance. He glided over to the lady's side and took her up properly in his arms again, as she ahd been when they took to the air in the first place. Crouching in free fall he looked down, aiming their descent toward his intended target by leaning into the wind with as much time as they had left. It was barely enough.
'Note to self: Don't do this again.'
Guy's legs exploded with red energy once again at the same time he brought the flats of his feet into contact with a stone wall. A clock tower, a few stores tall with a widening width as it descended, was his best chance to pull off this landed for them both. Sparks erupted as he tore down the face of it, not tearing his sandals and flesh clean off only because of the Mystic Leg that now protected them again. Their descent became a painful slide, albeit one that slowed dramatically from terminal velocity as they approached the ground. At one story remaining, still moving too fats for a graceful ending, Guy used his enhanced leg strength to push off of the wall and somersault through the air. He landed with a loud, crunchy impact on both feet, still holding Anna in his arms.
Guy stood there on bent knees for a few seconds, Mystic Leg still bruning. He breathed heavily, having drained more stamina to fuel the life-saving power. He stared at the wall he'd slid down, mentally thankful that it was there. And lastly, he winced, as every muscle and bone in his legs rattled on cue in delayed response to the effort.
"OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!"
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Post by yami on Dec 8, 2009 0:57:33 GMT -5
 "A shared existence...part 2"
Wheter or not Guy's contingency plan was improvised or planned, it worked. He performed quite a feat, reducing their freefall with friction, sommersaulting to eliminate remaining velocity, and what...a classic olypian pose. Of course his yelling due to the pain caused the sleep beauty to stir within his arms. Her eyes fluttered for a moment, making it hard to believe the girl was such a tomboy. Looking up to him with hesitant emerald hues, she simply looked at him. There was no emotion expressed to betray the damsel's thoughts, which must have made for an akward situaiton. Though if young Guy didn't break the silence, Anna would.
"...Thank you. Can you please release me now?"
A normal request... "To save someone..."
"Hang in there, I'm coming to get you!"
An unclick here, an unclick there, if Sora's nimble fingers had their way he'd be rescuing the poor captive.
"Don't worry, the Black Knight won't keep you prisoner anymore. The Darkness will go away..."
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Post by Heroic Bilby on Dec 16, 2009 21:49:54 GMT -5
But the darkness was his only friend...
As Sora moved to continue his dismantling of the Black Knight a firm grip would suddenly come over his injured arm, catching him mid-action from behind. There had been no footsteps to indicate someone was approaching yet he would clearly see another metal armour gauntlet just like one he'd stripped away clutching him. There were not two Dark Knights, however. It was indeed on and the same piece.
Sora would be jerked away by the floating armour, probably causing pain to his already-injured shoudler, but immediately let go after to keep itself safe from counter-attack by the hero. Back at the main body of the Black Knight, all the separated pieces were rising up on their own and rejoining the torso again, rebuilding itself. As one of its arms returned the suit picked up its axe again and pushed its form back up to its feet, head and left arm still missing. The former was floating upright a little farther down where Sora had flung it, watching the scene. The top half of the latter was floating away from the Key Bearer and in a curved path back toward its source.
The bottom half of its left arm rejoined the open socket and then turned so that its length was pointing directly at Sora. What sort of gesture it was trying to make was impossible to tell without the hand though. Whether or not it would be allowed to get that farm however...
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"Yeah... ow... Sure... ah..." the would-be hero said without too much actual focus on the girl in his arms. He promptly knelt down and angled his hands so that Anna's feet would be let down to the earth safely and then let go, falling back onto his butt. Guy quickly went about rubbing the sides of both of his lower legs vigorously through their red coverings. Though Mystic Leg could continue to burn he allowed its power to vanish prematurely in his distraction(A rookie mistake, really. But then again, that is what he was).
"OK so.. I should get you to a holding cell. You know, before the more troublesome side of you comes back," he mentioned casually, though continued to place all of his focus on his legs rather than his would-be prisoner. "There's this... great wizard guy who lives here... Should be able to... help you out..."
'Really, really, REALLY never do that again!'
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I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao