Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'? (Rience, anyone else who want to deal with sadistic heartless)

Molly was hungry, bored, and just needed to nom on something. The three-hundred year old young heartless look out of place in Wonderland. She had on a pink dress fit for someone in a pagaent with tiny shoes with bows to match. Her brown hair was curled up in ringlets and her eyes were bright as ever, Molly giggled and skipped around the maze as if she had no place to go. Maybe she could look for a new family or maybe... Well, she was too hungry to wait for anything! Molly wanted hearts! But there were no humans to feed on... Well, three hundred years of experience shaped her into a knowledgable person, humans weren't the only ones who had hearts.

This was her third visit to Wonderland, she did have quite the appetite for Card Soldiers but sometimes they weren't enough. The little girl heard a small stampede of card soldiers and hid behind the bushes, she looked up to see how many there were. Only one... ONE!? Molly was about to freak, but she did remember someone by the name of... Well, all she knew was that this man was human. He killed everyone in Wonderland according to gossip, even the Queen! She didn't know whether to congratulate him or kill him for stealing one of her food sources..

Molly licked her lips as the card soldier wandered around confused, as if looking for it;s flock. Ah, a card soldier with a herd mentality.. How common. The young girl lunged at the card, she hopped on it's back with a laugh. Molly's hand flew to her dagger which was on it's holster wrapped around her thigh. She gripped the dagger, "Off with your head!" The heartless shrieked as she swiped the dagger under it's neck in a quick motion. As the head fell off, it dropped it's lance and fell to the ground.

Satisfied, Molly placed it on it's back and patted it's chest looking for the heart. She felt a presence tower above her, without looking up or behind her she rolled her eyes, she could sense that it was a heartless, another Psuedo-Heartless at that. "Can you move out of my way? I don't like it when other heartless watch me feed.."

While, yes, there was a presence looming over her..it was not that of the other Pseudo-Heartless in the area. Rience was not as foolish as to approach another heartless on his own. After all, heartless did still possess hearts..just not emotion. So, rather than Rience himself being behind her..it was his Glass Golem. Oh, I am not here to observe your feeding..I'm here to punish you for exterminating the last being on this planet that I could have taken without notice for experimentation. He said simply as the giant beast swung its massive club-like arm down towards the little girl.  As he swung downwards, a massive chunk of glass quickly sprung out of nothing before large chunks of it broke off, leaving a moderately large sword in his left hand. He began walking forward. He was of a moderate distance away, and he expected her to run. But if she sprang towards him, he had longer reach, he would definitely win this battle, unless she somehow was smarter than him.

(Cristallum Elementari: 75 mp -10 mp = 65 mp left)

Storm wondered in his own maze, aimlessly, as the night took him in as if he were its child. The night was his only true mother, the shadows his only friend, and the darkness his power. Storm could feel it in his veins. He strolled the maze, knowing it like the back of his hand. But then, he saw a vile creature eating one of his card soldiers hearts. Just as he walked up to it, it seemed another person was there. Seemed like they were going to have it out. He then neared the scene.


I suggest both of you leave now. If you do not, you both will pay the price. Storm let his claws lose from his gloves. He was prepared to do as he was trained...

Identify and kill all targets.

A portal opened atop a large mushroom, out of it stepped the heartless witch. Wonderland was always one of her favourite places to visit, not only for its obscure arrangements and citzens but also the interesting range of ingredients to make potions from. This was her reason for visiting in the past as a human, but the time had escaped her as she had progressed on to becoming a heartless, finding hearts to feed on and working her way to the top left her surprisingly busy. However, as the worlds were somewhat at peace she had time for scouting before starting to cause some chaos again. So here she was, emerging from the Realm of Darkness dressed mostly in black with her distinctive mask covering her face. Her arrival consisted of a deep inhale through her nose, gaining the scent of the dark, damp and unique Lotus Forest.

Though she usually found the place serene due to the lack of people around she found it wasn't to be so today. The shattering of glass crashed in her ears as she noticed more muffled noise. 'Interesting' thought the witch as she scanned the area for trees to sneak around in, it was a forest so that was easy. Moving at immense speeds with a swift quietness in her movements as to not rustle a single leaf the heartless perched on a branch nearby, watching the scene unfold. There were two of her own kind, one feeding as the other appeared to be attacking the younger looking one. Perhaps the heartless wanted that heart to itself? She wasn't sure, the nature of other heartless were often random, sporadic and dangerous. They were both quite a bit weaker, so it wasn't something she'd involve herself with at this point in time.

However, another being approached his heart strongly aligning with the Darkness, though he hadn't yet succumbed to it fully, maybe she could help him with that... He was strong though, his power levels staggering above the heartless before him to be on par with Ophelia's. Another interesting note that the witch would take. But why would he be here? Was he your typical do gooder type? Or maybe he held a connection to this world as his home. After all, no one else ever really cared about those pesky card guards. Though she was interested to know, the heartless queen wouldn't interfere with the current happenings, it interested her ever so much as to how her brother and sister would respond to this high threat before them.

The figure spoke to Molly, a male who sprung forward and attacked her. She rolled out of he way, getting two glass shards stuck in her right ankle. She stifled a moan as she toppled over and fell, watching what was suppose to be the heartless she watched as the club turned into a sword. She wasn't as weak as she thought but she was too smart to attack a minion of the fellow heartless. She gripped tighter to her dagger as she saw the heartless reveal itself and walk towards her.

As soon as she struggled to stand up and attack him, another man approached them. What was with all of these grown men in a maze? He suggested that he would leave or else, "Oh no Mister! We're just talking! This card soldier is just resting, nothing to worry about!" The little girl pipped up cheerfully as she hid the dagger behind her, clutching onto it as the man equipped his weapon of choice. 

Molly finally realized, the human was much stronger than she and her fellow heartless. But thankfully, he wasn't a keyblader. This was no time to res-pawn, she didn't want to spend time in the underworld. She cringed as she ran to the heartless, picking the card by it's collar dragging it along, "Well, you're going to have to chase us then!" Grabbing Rience's hand, she ran further into the maze.

Storm smiled.

Marked.

Precursor sensory picked both of them up as they ran. Storm hit his top speed near instantly, running 105 miles and hour after them. He would soon catch up. With a wicked smirk, he reached out to grab the girl who had his card soldier with her by the hair. With the amount of speed and agility Storm possessed, this was almost instant, giving little room for reaction. If Storm would catch this girl, he'd throw her hair back, bringing the top of her back and neck to his knee, and lunging his claw right at the mid back, aiming to impale.

Running does you no good.

When he was dragged along by the younger girl, and the man following them very nearly teleported over to them, grabbing her by the hair, Rience gritted his teeth. He had one distraction that could be done..he just needed to aim it properly. As he felt the younger girl's hand become yanked from his own, he whirled around, aiming for the head of the other man..this wouldn't really harm him..but if he hit the man correctly, he would have at least distracted him long enough for the other girl to start running again. He fired with both hands: One fired at the claw that was aimed at the young girls neck, and one aimed at his head, in hopes of connecting and getting the glass powder in the weaker eyes, which, even with the mans immense lead in power over them, would likely do SOMETHING to help their situation. As he fired these two, he fired off two more, both at the head, in an attempt to maximize the effectiveness of his attempt to blind. As soon as the last projectiles left his hands, Rience's eyes started darting around, looking for something, anything massive...then he found it..a large tree. It was a living object, yes..but it was inanimate..he could take it over. So, forcing the sword, Minutum Gladium, to vanish, he dashed forward, turning into a ball of darkness as he merged with the tree, the massive, old thing suddenly becoming heavily gnarled, with its branches quickly losing all forms of life, as the ends became razor sharp, as did the branches themselves. To top all of this off, a group of five shadows, and three mega shadows appeared. They all began to converge upon the powerful man as Rience swung one of his many razor branches at him.


(Glass Iaculat Used, -10 mp. 55 mp left.

Heartless Possession ability used, Taken over a tree.

Passive heartless control used, five shadows and three mega-shadows summoned.)

Storms amazing speed let him read the muscle movements before the entire thing happened. He would let go of girls hair to do a quick twirl, letting the one hit his claw to give him momentum to dodge the head shot. He was then, again, quickly on pursuit. Storm would raise Molly's shadow in front of them, splitting it into three. This should stop them from running. Storm then quickly switched places with the one copy of Molly that was in the middle, and began to run again, this time them facing him. He would summon his dagger, throwing it at the man this time. Storms deadly accuracy would make this an extremely tough feat to dodge.


Let the game begin.

Shadow crafting cooldown: 10 posts

Shadow melding cooldown: 5 posts

(Storm I suggest you dodge Rience's tree attacks too )

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The pursuit of the two heartless had begun. There wasn't much of a chance for the two with this guys power level over their own, however smartness could win them sometime, to which the older looking heartless appeared to have as he possessed a tree, using his traits as a heartless to his advantage.. Where as the girl took the option of running... To which she wasn't going to get far at all with the speed their hunter moved at. However, maybe it was lucky for them that Ophelia was there, she wasn't one to let her kin go down just like that even though they were clearly weaker.

Following the three, moving through the trees the witch moved just as quickly as the hunter, she wasn't bothered about noise at this rate as she was soon to be going into battle. The three seemed to come to a stop for a moment, to which the heartless queen emerged from the trees, landing swiftly on the ground, not too far from the small girl and Somebody. Her mask presented her as a mysterious figure as she made herself known. A dark blob emerged from the ground behind the taller heartless, a shard of darkness shot out clashing with the thrown dagger with perfect timing to throw it completely off course. With that part done the witch touched her hand to the ground, her body changing to a position that looked like she was about to begin a race, the ground below her formed a layer of ice as if turning the forest into a skating rink.

With this the witch shot forward, instead of running she was skating, moving even faster than she was before. It would seem she would be the only one who would be able to move around so easily on the hard, slippery surface but who knew, maybe one of them knew a bit about skating without skates or something. To make things even better Ophelia seemed to be moving from one place to another in a split second, her body having completely turned to lightning for her to appear by the little girl and the hunter, her dagger summoned ready to defend herself or her fellow heartless. She was holding herself back from eating the man's heart for herself however she allowed for chance, for him and her weaker kin to get away.

"Seems a little unfair and strange a grown man chasing after a little girl doesn't it?" The witch taunted, her voice young but deep. "But then again she did kill one of your guards.. The other one, I'm not too sure why you're chasing after him either.. Hmm..." Ophelia seemed to be taking the situation quite calmly and relaxed, she was ready to fight if things went sour after all.

As Molly was running, She felt a large hand grab her by her perfectly rolled up curls. She screamed as she felt a claw go into her back and a knee hit her in the back of her neck. The small girl was left paralyzed as she was thrown to the ground, As the heartless took care of the man she craned her neck to look at the decapitated soldier next to her. He was starting to reek of maggots! She better hurry before..

The little heartless heard something whoosh past her and start conversation with the clawed man, What was with heartless today? Sure this one had more experience than she did, but they were just so fresh and lively.. Acting just like humans instead of acting like their own kin: Bloodthirsty. The girl had nothing against the recent heartless but she found their human behavior strange, but they were newborns they would get use to it. With that thought in mind, she bit her lower lip and placed a hand over the chest of the soldier, better get it while it's fresh!

Molly clutched on to it's shirt as her eyes glowed a crimson hue, a dark aura arose from the card's body into Molly's nostrils. The small girl inhaled all of the darkness in, the card soldier had a big strong heart so it was difficult to devour it all and he was loyal to it's master who was the clawed man that she had encountered. She was slowly getting all of it's memories, the dark aura would be noticeable if the man had turned around..