A Blind Search for the End (Closed)

With the map and the first half of odd, golden object, the contents of the map had changed. The previous contents seemed to have evaporated and something new appeared. It was just an arrow that pointed forward, but would turn if you ever strayed from that direction. It was like a compass, except instead of north, it instead pointed them towards the direction of the next half. Or, at least, that was the conclusion that Zyv came to. It was the only lead they had, in this place that seemed so broken and chaotic. The journey itself took a while. Zyv lost track of time it was so monotonous. It was probably hours. Occasionally, they'd run into a small pack of heartless, but nothing that they couldn't easily handle. And then finally, they arrived at the mouth of a cave.

"It looks like...we're here," Zyv said, looking up from the map. She had asked Veara to allow her to lead the way earlier and he had given her the map. She looked at the others before looking into the inky depths of the cave that stood before them. She breathed in deeply and then exhaled before walking into the cave. Within the darkness, she created an orb of light. It wasn't particularly bright as it radiated moonlight, but it did light up around her several feet. She created several more, one for each person in the group that would orbit around them.

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MP = 205
Ability Name: Encompassed moonlight
Ability Type: Support
Ability Cost: 5MP
Ability Element: Moon
Ability Description: An orb of translucent magic that emits moonlight. It is capable of lighting up a small area around itself (about five or ten feet). It lasts five posts before having to be recast. It rotates around Zyvonia and she can will where it can go, though has a very limited range with it.

Schwartz came through on the other side of the portal and found herself next to Zyvonia and Veara. The area they were in was quite dark, with the map showing them their way. The petite woman looked over to see how the map was operating and since the only way it allowed them to go, was in the direction it pointed, they didn't have much of a choice. Along the way, they dealt with small groups of heartless, which the assassin felt rather annoying. They did their best with them, however and eventually made it to their destination. A giant cave of some sorts.

"This it...?" She asked when they entered the cave. The darkness was thick, much like the world the cave inhabited and it caused the woman to curse her eyes for not being as advanced, as a comrade's of hers. However, she didn't voice her own thoughts and simply waited for an answer. Zyv constructed some form of light, while it wasn't much, allowed them to see several feet in front of them. Schwartz was then accompanied by orbs of light on her own being, which allowed them to expand the over all distance they could cover with the luminescence.

Aqua stepped out of the Corridor of Darkness into a world that wasn’t so much better than the said Corridor. As the group made their way through the world, if she could even call it that, they fought small group of Heartless, nothing they couldn’t handle, however. It felt like hours, they finally reached the mouth of a cave.

The bluenette gulped, the depths were deep and dank. Darkness seeped from within, chilling the young woman to the bone.

“It seems this is it..” she muttered.

She hung around until Zyvonia formed several orbs of light, one for each of the group members. The light was dim compared to the Darkness that surrounded them, but it was better than fumbling around in the Dark. She followed the others, staying close to make sure no one was lost.

Coming out of the portal, Zienna could already tell this world would be one that Wolfram would enjoy for the darkness he could fight within. When they engaged in a number of skirmishes against the heartless in the area, the strong bonds between Zienna and Nero could be seen as they made short work of whoever attempted to attack them, double-teaming to dispatch a group at once. It would even seem as if the two of them and the attacking forces were part of a choreographed demonstration.

As they reached the mouth of the cave, the two of them were chuckling as they recounted their kills, playfully exchanging taunts and jabs as they did so. "Well, well. This is turning out to be quite romantic, don't you think?" Zienna said when the orbs of moonlight hovered around each of the party.

"What makes you say that?"

Zienna giggled. "Think about it~" she'd say, her eyes glancing between Veara and Schwartz without moving her head. "Venturing into a cold, dark place that might be teeming with dangers. A soft glow that lights the way, yet keeps things shrouded as partners gently brush against each other under the darkness, feeding off of the warmth they give off, reassuring each other that things will be fine."

Nero smirked, deciding to play along. "I guess all that's missing is the light suddenly shutting off, making people hold hands to keep from being separated, no?"

When Veara initially came out of the portal he took a good couple steps forward and took a deep breath and exhaled before the others came through he still didn't have control over his full powers and he already felt the physical aspects that he had undergone after being chosen by this blade. With both blade keys in hand it was currently impossible for him to de-summon them for some reason or another. Though at the same time he figured he might as well get used to fighting with these blades. Looking over at the others when they initially came through it was almost a hassle giving Zyv the map considering the moment he dropped one of his blade keys in an electric surge they reappeared once more in his hand. Veara still refused to talk not sure if he was able to get control of his voice so their entire travel the boy stayed silent.

Little groups of heartless would attack and of course Veara contributed his best within the fight as well. Though one strange application of his blade keys he noticed while fighting is that well, after two strikes or so the creatures disappeared, and every time he struck them with these blade keys it seemed that one side of the body got heavier then the other, not to mention after every strike huge sparks would come rising out of the collision and straight into the victims face, Veara simply assumed this was one of the keys traits. He noticed other things on their trip, for example the keyblade said could be held within the air around even quite far away and still he could swing them as though they were in his own hands. The blade key had a knack for slicing through things as in materials like solid rock and steel, they were clean cuts too. Just how tough was this new weapon?

Veara let these thoughts sink to the back of his head once the groups were taken care of and he made sure to take note of everyone else fighting and whether or not they needed help during it, however that didn't see to be the case.

When they finally approached the place the moment they reached it, both of Veara's blade keys disappeared into thin air and Veara has to stop for a second and simply look at his hands annoyed by the blade keys and how they refused to listen to him. Veara put held onto his hood for a moment before exposing the now larger mop of blonde on his head sighing. "Good Grief...controlling those blade keys is going to be harder then I thought." The boy spoke outloud to himself as he approached the cave the first words he had said that entire trip when they finally had gotten there. Veara from this point on when the lights were lit had his change to pure white so that he'd be able to do a quick map of the area ahead of them in his head. Though his eyes suddenly went back to normal when he heard everyone else talking. Deciding to not be an anti social and figured he stayed quiet for enough of the journey here he listened to what the rest of them were speaking about, nodding to their words. "mhm...sounds good to me. Time to get the sister for that little gold thing." The boy spoke out and still hovered next to Schwartz and Zyvonia as the little ball of light appeared next to him to light the way. Smiling at Zyvonia for a moment the boy began to fly forward keeping up with Schwartz now as he turned around hearing Nero speak. "Don't worry birdy it's only dark you shouldn't have to be too scared." The boy spoke completely mistaking what he said for a silent cry for help of him being scared rather then the actual teasings for which it was. Veara turned back around and finally allowed his feet to touch the ground. Walking forward next to the shorter blue haired girl Veara thought about what awaited them next within the cave...hopefully no more blade key.

The group traveled deeper into the cave. Though the mouth had been wide, the walls grew closer together the deeper they went. It wasn't suffocatingly narrow, as two people could walk side by side without their shoulder touching the walls or each other, but it was noticeable. It seemed as though it was pretty straight forward. Only one passageway. It wasn't evident at first, but it was like that for a while. Fifteen minutes passed. Then another fifteen minutes. Then another. Zyv was starting to get worried. How long would they have to walk like this? Maybe it was a trap.

About an hour or so in, the passageway they had been walking through suddenly opened up to a large clearing. Zyv breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, something to confirm that they were progressing. However, when they entered the new room, several heartless appeared. They were mostly Neoshadows with a few fat ones. Zyv quickly flashed her eyes from each one. There were fifteen in total. Three for each person in the group.

Zyv drew her two orbs and created a scythe out of them.

Time to fight.

200MP Remaining

"We've been walking in this dank and dark place for over a fucking hour now... Where the hell is this map even leading us?" The woman asked herself while she walked. She unknowingly found herself walking shoulder to shoulder with Veara, after they all stopped for the moment to receive Zyv lights. Since then, however, she hadn't made a peep until... Until Zienna and her partner, Nero, had to say what they said. This caused a low growl of irritation to echo from Schwartz's throat. How she desperately wanted to pull out her knives and slit their necks just right, so they couldn't talk for the remainder of the journey. But of course, she couldn't do any of that, due to being horribly restricted in behavior, so she merely settled with being annoyed by their antics.

Eventually, her mental pleas to cut into and kill something were granted, when a total of 15 Heartless all appeared for them to fight. She drew her blades immediately, with her body's natural electricity coursing through her muscles. The woman was loosened up and performed a therapy upon them, to essentially make her faster. Afterwards, her body glowed brightly, as she coated herself in lightning. Her Deadly Acceleration was active, so she charged off as quick as lightning, even faster with her Faster, Faster! activated.

Schwartz drew her blade outwards, as she skirted through the group and purposely avoided the fat creatures, while aiming for the upper bodies of the skinnier models. Her thought process was to only slash into them, not stab, so she could continue her quick assault on the group for a total of three times. This would help disperse the heartless quite nicely and leave their tactics in disarray. For now, she stuck with one usage of her skill and waited for any form of retaliation, before continuing the next assault.

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Skills Used:
Faster, Faster!: Schwartz invigorates her body, by using the Lightning element on her body. When she does so, her movement speed is increased and she becomes slightly faster than before. The increase lasts for 3 turns and has a 5 post cooldown.

Deadly Acceleration: Schwartz becomes as fast as a lightning bolt, able to charge forward with her blades pointed towards the opponent, in an attempt to stab into them and deliver a moderate amount of damage. Should she miss, she can continue to attempt to hit the opponent for a total of 3 times, before her acceleration runs out. 4 post cool down

The cave they went through seemed to stretch forever. While endless the endless walk was bad enough, the fact that this cave got narrower and narrower seemed to be the more unnerving aspect. Despite this atmosphere, Aqua knew they will have to keep going, no matter how long this cave kept going. If this were indeed the path to the key, then they had to keep going. They’ve made it this far, and the stakes were to high to turn back now.

It was almost an hour later before the group made it outside the never ending corridor and ended up in a clearing, with a Welcoming Committee consisting of a moderately sized group of Heartless. It appeared they made up a group of perfect 15; 3 for each member.

The bluenette drew out her rapier, flourishing the blade before holding it in a defensive position ready to strike any of the creatures that dared to approach.

"Ahh, but fear is all part of the experience, don't you know." Nero said, holding up a lecturing finger. "Nothing gets a girl to think of you as a protector like holding her when she's scared."

"A little sneaky, isn't it?"

"Like you haven't tried that with a few people. See? It works both ways."

"Shhh~"

The two of them chuckled as they continued to march on. The path began to get narrower, but the two of them didn't seem to be bothered by the constricted space. It was hard to be, considering they had been in narrower passages a number of times before. When they reached a clearing after what felt like forever, they were greeted by a number of heartless. Most of them were the cute Neoshadows that Zienna had taken a liking to.

"Shall we?"

"Dance~?"

"Oh yeah."

The enemies weren't much, giving each person three things to kill. Well, gave four people three things to kill, with Nero and Zienna sharing three, but really, who was counting kills?

The pair flared their wings in synch and flew towards a group of three Neoshadows, with Nero preemptively firing a volley of his feathers at them. Their weapons lit up with their owners' affinities, and were swung left and right as Zienna and Nero flawlessly ducked and weaved around each other to cut their enemies down. Zienna was quicker and more agile than Nero, so she got around eight attacks in--twice than what Nero could manage, although he had a longer reach, which he used to his advantage when their enemies would try and back away.

They knew by now how the Neoshadows operated, so they made sure to aim their attacks a little lower to catch the Neoshadows when they tried to sink into the ground. A serpent of flames coiled around Zienna before bursting around her to burn all the shadows who were unfortunate enough to be caught.

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100/120 MP
0/4 DP

Abilities used:

Veara for the time being retreated into his conscious simply on autopilot mode while he allowed his feet to once again touch the ground, finally he seemed to once again have control over his body. Every step he took wasn't creating small craters within the ground. So for now he simply thought about random things walking next to Schwartz which he was very much aware of, however it didn't seem as though she was either that or she was simply annoyed by something. Either way Veara figured it was better to be quiet. For now at least and simply focus his thoughts within his head.

They walked for awhile and by awhile it really was awhile...Veara ended up stumbling from time to time while in the dark, despite the help light of the small orb which Zyvonia had given them all, however from time to time Veara was caught between the map within his head and what he saw in front of him within the thick darkness.

Finally they reached a small clearing and it seemed as though they were out of the narrow cave way it seemed as though another problem stood in their way.

Veara was automatically able to get a head count thanks to his sensory ability, there were a total of 15 of the enemies and with the light shining on them none of them were humanoids in fact it turned out they were those creatures that he initially met way back when he randomly sent himself to the realm of darkness.

So in other words, just like back at Traverse Town at least for a split second Veara didn't have to hold back.

A large creepy smile spread across the boys face while his eyes were currently pure white with lightening fluxing within them.

In that moment the boy disappeared leaving his orb of light behind him, instantly reappearing behind the pack of heartless that was waiting for them. The boy gripped a neoshadow  by back of its head. Once again the blonde teleported himself carrying the neoshadow within his hand. When the boy reappeared he repeated his action grabbing another neoshadow by the back of its head and holding both the creatures tightly. Quickly he scanned within his sensory and found the one that he remembered giving him trouble back in Traverse Town. Not letting up a single bit Veara activated his telekinesis on one of the larger fat heartless  and the creature went flying into the air towards Veara. Not waiting for them to get there Veara began to slam the two heads of the neoshadows he had grasped within his hands in complete darkness until finally the large body got close. With the large body being slammed into the cave wall, Veara threw the two neoshadows into the large body, and quickly he opened his mouth. The sound of electricity could be heard charging and then flying forth from Veara's mouth and illuminating the entire cave for a total of five seconds was a huge lightening blast. Veara activating his flight ability and flying upwards utterly    decimating his enemy until even the dark matter that the creatures were made from was obliterated.

After Veara's attack the boy flew to the top of the cave within the darkness and simply watched, realizing that he just created an incredibly large crack inside the cave and for now it was better to let the others work rather then have him possibly risk a cave in.

Spoiler:

Three heartless in front of her, in a slight arc. The center one jumped at her. She whipped her scythe around with the blunt side, bashing the heartless into the nearby wall. Keeping up the momentum, she quickly twirled her scythe, raising it up as the next heartless charged at her. She slammed her scythe down in a vertical direction, sending the blade into the heartless's head before it could reach her and pinning it to the ground.

The first heartless she had knocked away and the second came at her. She let go of the scythe and spun around, kicking one into the other as they came close enough. As she spun, she grabbed the handle of her scythe, wrenching it out of the ground and flinging the final heartless towards the other two. Her scythe transformed into a spear and she empowered it with Moon to an extreme degree and threw it towards the three heartless. The spear pierced through all three of them and into a nearby wall, defeating them. She walked over to the spear and pulled it out of the wall.

Schwartz watched as her teammates went to work on the creatures and three of them were kicked up in the air for her to play with. She had two more units of her attack left, so she utilized them in the most effective manner possible. The petite woman dashed into the air, then coated herself in lightning once more and sliced across all three of their bodies, while she used the last one, to stab deep into the middle of the group. This stab was powerful and sent both Schwartz and the Neoshadow to the ground.

Afterwards, this left the other two to fall down and attempt to face her. Their movements were fast and powerful, but she was faster and even more agile than they could imagine. A lick of her lips and she was off, assaulting the one of the Neo's with a strafe around to its backside. With one fluid movement, she came up with a vicious vertical slice from the underside of the heartless and sliced it in half, then used the momentum to avoid its partner's incoming attack, to mount its shoulders and slice its head off. Afterwards, she flipped off and took her defensive stance, waiting for any others to come after her.

The three Heartless hung in front of Aqua, arranged in an arc shaped formation. Neither parties moved for several brief moments, seemingly waiting for the other to make the first move. After several seconds, the Neoshadow to the young woman’s right took initiative, rushing toward her with clawed hands outstretched.

Aqua cletched her teeth, deflecting the attack with a circular parry then used the opening to impale the Heartless. The other two followed suit after the first fell, both of which running at her on all fours. She held out her hand toward the closer Heartless with her palm open, transmuting her mana into the aspect of [Water], launching the spell at her designated target throwing it out of commission. The last one swung down at her with its claws, an attack Aqua barely blocked before dicing the beast with several brutal slices.

The bluenette gave several heavy breaths, keeping her weapon at the ready in case another wave showed up.

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Abilities:

Water:

Spoiler:

3 Posts CD remain

MP: 70MP - 25MP = 45MP

MP Remaining: Pool 1: 45MP || Pool 2: 70MP

"Tch. Showoff," Nero scoffed when he saw Veara's display of might and raw power. Sure, he missed out on with the fight with the cyclops, but he didn't have to be flashy now.

"Do I sense a little envy, my dear Nero?" Zienna teased, leaning against the raven.

"As if."

The three Neoshadows were almost dead, but their lust to shed blood kept them from running away. Zienna unhooked the chains on her left gauntlet. Nero took the end of the chain and the two of them spread their wings before flying towards the trio of shadows, clotheslining them with the chain. As the three sprang up, the two of them went back, but this time, they spun around as they passed, catching the Neoshadows with the chain and having them tightly snared.

Zienna blew a cloud of dark smoke onto them, and within seconds, their struggling ceased. Nero released the chain, and Zienna coiled it back over her arm. The three Neoshadows just stood there, dazed with an even blanker expression over the one they usually wore. They only moved when Zienna giggled lightly. Without a word from her, the three Neoshadows faced each other and pulled back a claw each. Then with a smirk, Zienna said, "Finish it."

In a chilling display, the three Neoshadows lunged their claws at each other, each piercing through the others' skulls. Needless to say, they collapsed soon after with not a single sign of life.

Veara sat there watching all of the different attacks and skills of them within the darkness. Each of them had different methods and forms to taking them out, unfortunately veara could only see them when they used magic which was about most of them except possibly two. He was able to see the outline of Schwartz literally turn into electricity. While Aqua seem to be able to channel water through her blade striking the ones that attacked her. Then there was Zienna and her friend who simply seemed to bag their heartless then Zienna blew some odd smoke into their faces and then they attacked and ended each other.

An from there that was it all creatures of darkness had been taken out. Jumping down from the cave roof and touching the floor he looked around and ensured once more that there was no one else within the room other then them. Sighing the boy, snapped his neck and ran a hand through his hair tussling it this way and that, not to use it being this long yet. "Niiiice, that's one room down...possibly a lot more to go." Veara spoke then simply began to walk forward into the darkness away from the lights losing his light long ago when he initially teleported. He began to briskly walk ahead of the rest into the next portion of the cave wondering if there were more enemies for them to take on he could use a massive move and take them all out without possibly hurting the others.

Everybody quickly dispatched the heartless. They seemed to work well by themselves, but Zyv was unsure as a team. They never really had an opportunity to fight with each other. Except for the cyclops, but that ended much too quickly to see how everybody clicked with each other. She shrugged it off. It would be one of those things where they would have to worry about it if the situation ever happened. As for now, they had a quest to finish, to find the treasure and save Veara's soul.

She walked forward. At the end of the large room, a old, stone door was revealed. She tilted her head in surprise and curiosity. "Huh, I guess we're in the right place," she said aloud. She pushed the door open and walked through. Inside, she, as would the others, would find themselves in another room. This room was very much different than the previous. The floor was polished stone. In fact, the whole room was polished stone, with designs. There were chains hanging from the ceiling and spikes covered the walls. Random holes were scattered across the floor, each with seemingly no bottom.

Once everybody entered the room, the door would shut. When that happened, Zyv suddenly felt very hot. Her face quickly went red, as she was blushing deeply. "W-what's going on?" she said, her voice shaking. Were the others feeling the same thing? She was having trouble thinking straight.

"Hmph. Talk about pathetic..." Schwartz said easily, as she sheathed her blades and stood upright. She had forgot to stretch beforehand, so her muscles tightened up a bit. The assassin utilized her body's natural electricity, to give it a form of body relaxing therapy. This helped ease her muscles and soon enough, she was as limber as she could get. A sigh of relief had escaped her lips.

One thing that caught her eyes, was how everyone managed to hold her own and much to her surprise, the blond haired simpleton didn't slack in his strength. This proved that what she had seen back then wasn't just a fluke, but was his true strength. She had to give him respect for that. Everyone else though, displayed skills she hadn't necessarily expected out of them. Much like her queen, Zyvonia was adept at using a scythe and had some form metal manipulation. Zienna, though she dreaded having to even compliment the woman, had impressive skills that worked well with her bird-brained companion. Last but not least, Aqua displayed her magical prowess and fencing skills with a form of finesse, that the petite woman herself could respect.

After her analysis of everyone, it were time to move once again. This time, there progress was impeded by a door that the current leader, Zyv, had managed to open. When they all entered, the blue-haired woman was surprised at was shown to them. The floors, though they had holes in them, were nicely polished and well-kept to a degree. A more creepy addition were the chains, but that didn't really unsettle the assassin one bit. A ritzy area like that was odd in a place like this... The catch soon made itself clear when the door suddenly slammed itself shut. Schwartz's eyes darted over to the door and saw that it had closed itself.

"The hell!?" She asked aloud and had half a mind to go check it out, but was suddenly stopped. The room felt hotter, she felt hotter. For the first time since forever, the petite woman felt warm under her clothing. Not only that, but she felt bothered at the same time... A deep blush took to her face and her breathing came a bit heavier. "W-What's happening...? I'm so... Horny, all of a sudden..." The young woman said to herself.

Aqua smiled to herself as she observed her teammates easily taking out their advisories. Though, she will admit they weren’t working ‘together’ per se, but they still were able to overcome this latest challenge in their own very unique ways.

The bluenette twirled her rapier before sheathing it, taking in a deep breath, “Well, let’s see what’s next then.”

She followed along with the group, arriving at a foreboding stone door. Zyv was able to open it up, allowing the group to enter. The room they stepped into gave Aqua a deep feeling of dread. While the floor did appear to be well kept, the walls and floor made of polished stone, several chains with shackles and spikes hung from above. Several holes dotted the floor, seemingly bottomless upon looking at them.

The room was unsettling, but it wasn’t exactly unexpected. This world was one filled with Darkness. As the young woman was examining the room further, the door slammed shut behind the group, causing her to jump.

“What’s going---”

Before she could finish her sentence, Aqua felt a deep burning sensation within her. Her face flushed, this feeling wasn’t unfamiliar to her. Arousal.

Why, she thought, What’s happening?

Was it the world? Was it the room? She looked to the others of the group, were they feeling the same thing? Her eyes fell onto one of the chains in the room,her body moving her closer to them on hands and knees. Her breath was becoming heavy, one not knowing her state would think she was about to pass out.

Oh no. No nonono… the bluenette thought in a panicked tone.

The winged duo followed the group into their next destination, which was through a set of doors that the youngest of the party opened for them. The polished stone interior was a little bit of a surprise, given that the area they were in before was all dank. When Nero looked up and saw the chains hanging from the ceiling, he smirked and turned to his succubus mistress. "Don't get too excited now. We're on a mission," he teased.

Zienna giggled and squeeze his arm. "Aww, not even for a quick break?" The doors behind them creaked, making Nero turn his head to the source. He quickly dashed towards the entrance, but before he could get to it, the doors slammed on him. He let out an annoyed tick and slammed his fist against the stone. "I guess we can't turn back now..." Nero gulped as a sudden heatwave made his throat seem dry. Then his heart began to beat a little harder. Oh no... It can't be her time yet... He spun around and saw that all the girls, for a moment, seemed to simply freeze.

The succubus felt the sudden heat from the room, and from her body as something peculiar began to happen. Suddenly, her hormones shot up, causing her to fall on her knees, with her hands propping against her lower region. She suddenly felt sick. This room... this room was doing something... she could feel it. Her cheeks burned, and her body quivered in anticipation. She could feel that the others were experiencing the same sensations as she was. With a sultry grin, Zienna picked herself up, and went over to a certain other who was already on her knees as well. "Aqua~ What do you have there~?" she'd say sweetly, as she stood over the blue-haired woman, no doubt enjoying the view.

I got to stop this... but... dammit! I should be stronger than this... I'm frozen... damn... alright... just keep it together... you've been with a succubus for years, you can handle this... Nero was fighting the urge, but it was clear that it was a losing battle.

Veara halted his pace and his attempt to go forward before the rest of them, realizing that the simple fact of the matter was that up ahead may not be enemies waiting for them, but in actuality it could be a complicated puzzle. Either way it wasn't fair to treat his friends as though they were second fiddle and be the big ole 'leave this to me' type of guy. They had something to prove too so he should allow them the chance to prove it. Allowing Zyvonia and the rest of the group to get in front of him, he walked behind all of them. Who knows what awaited them in this next room...

Huge doors, perhaps there was something huge like a gigantic monster they ate people his size for lunch or something like that or even worse a jigsaw puzzle...he was always terrible at those back on the islands. Slowly Zyvonia opened the doors as Veara got ready to summon his clones so the could either brainstorm or attack...then....nothing. There was nothing, there was just a nice looking room..with chains and polished stones and a couple big holes in the ground. Veara walked in with the rest of the group gazing at the room and how different it was from the rest of the cave.

Odd, and very off actually.

The blonde hummed to himself for a moment next to the doors, then 'SLAM' the doors next to him slammed loudly. Looking over Veara simply blinked while the birdy ran up to the doors banging on it for a moment. Veara simply blinked at him and patted Nero on his back. "It's okay if worse comes to worse we can just punch them open." Veara spoke to the once bird trying to relieve him of his fear. Veara smiled at the bird though the bird man simply seemed to ignore him and he turned towards where the rest of the group currently stood. Veara turning that way noticed all of them seemed to be frozen still...did time stop? Trotting up to them Veara noticed that suddenly Schwartz wasn't moving at all. Zyvonia face was completely red and she seemed shocked by it. Aqua looked like she was about to pass out on the floor on all fours. An sister Zy was also on the floor and she seemed to be moving towards Aqua who was still on all fours. Looking towards the birdy he seemed to try to be focusing himself on one thing.

Veara suddenly felt it and he nodded his head with a quick 'mhm' coming from his mouth. "I understand...honestly you guys must have pushed yourself a little too much in that last fight after all that walking and you guys never gave your body a chance to properly stretch aside from Schwartz, but she did it afterwards rather then before so she's feeling the after effects. Not to worry guys, I'll help you out a little." Veara spoke smiling and nodding feeling not the least bit different as he walked over to where Zienna and Aqua we're currently both in their precarious position. "That's great Zy, but it's obvious what we have here is Aqua trying to stretch her back so to help her we wanna just go like this..." Veara stopped talking and kneeled down for a moment grasping aqua's sides and gripping them running his hands up and down in an attempt to relax the midsection and stretch her out. "Just like that Zy." Veara spoke while standing up straight and gripping Zienna's shoulder before the boy pranced over to Zyvonia.

She seemed to simply be standing there, her face flushed and completely red. Veara put a hand on her forehead and the the same on her cheek feeling it for a moment before he realized the problem. "You must have gotten a little heat flash during that last match just practice your breathing and lay down on the cool stone and you'll be fine." Veara spoke and laughed a little bit at the girls ability to push herself. Patting the girls head he looked up to the door where the bird was..."This is a little awkward but...I don't know birds...so just do bird things!" Veara quickly looked away slightly ashamed he couldn't do more to help his bird friend and simply went to Schwartz.

Staring down at the girl who simply seemed to be breathing heavy and not moving an inch Veara states down at her hard for a moment before a smile came on his face. Quickly insta-teleporting behind the girl he gripped her shoulder hard and began to massage them digging into the skin. "An your problem, little adorable is after all that stretching you never once got them most important part, your shoulders! You should be more careful with your body, I don't want you to hurt yourself over something as silly as body neglect." The boy spoke with friendliness and cheerfulness as he continued to massage Schwartz shoulder.

Completely unaware of the aura within the room.

The people around her talked, but Zyv found that she couldn't focus at all on what they were saying. Though, she distinctly detected that they were having a similar reaction. She was trying to register what exactly she was feeling. She suddenly desired desperately...no, it wasn't her exactly. It was her body. Zyv wanted physical contact. She wanted more than that. It was starting to drive her crazy. She needed to get out, but she couldn't move. She felt as though if she moved, she'd explode.

Suddenly Veara was in front of her. Before she could react, he touched her. When his hand came into contact with her forehead, Zyv felt even hotter than before, her eyes widening in reaction. She quickly scrambled away from him, falling on her butt in the process. "D-don't touch me!" she yelled, raising her voice for the first time since meeting these people. Losing her composure for the first time. She curled up, pulling her knees to her chest.

Her heart felt like it was going to burst from out of her chest, it was beating so fast. She found that she liked the touch from Veara. She liked it a lot, so much that it was scaring her. She just needed to stay away from Veara. From everybody, in fact, as the more she thought about them all, the more intense she felt.

"Make it stop," she muttered, so quietly that she doubted anybody could hear her.

Schwartz felt heated rather greatly and her lower area burned with a form of anticipation and horny feeling that she hadn't felt in quite a long time. She had only really felt this want from a certain someone in her inner-circle and even then, it was quelled as quickly as possible. However, this time was different and she was left rigid to the feeling of building lust. She turned to see the others and watched as Zienna had a better time with everything, but her aura was... Dangerous. Not dangerous to the degree of where she needed to defend herself, but there was something about the winged-woman that just gave her all the wrong, yet right vibes... Suddenly, the succubus, along with Aqua, Zyvonia, Nero and especially Veara, were all looking rather delicious to her. The assassin's breaths came heavier and she tried her hardest to keep herself contained.

This all changed, though, when that idiot blonde, with his... Very firm and loving hands, came upon the shoulders of the woman. A loud, husky, lusty moan left her lips, as her knees buckled under the pleasure. Something was seriously wrong and she was very aroused just form a stupid massage. Everything felt hot and the young woman pulled down her scarf for the first time in ever, to cool herself down. The petite woman contained any and all moans from then on, as to not overload herself so suddenly. That became increasingly hard however, as the man continued to massage her to such a pleasurable degree.

"Y-You idiot, stop..." She said briskly beneath her breath. Her flawless, bronzed skin showed a bit of itself, as her full lips quivered beneath the pleasure.

It wasn't often that people would enter the Heartless Queen's domain so when heartless were defeated and steps were taken further into the darkness, it would only come back to the Main Core ever so swiftly. This time it had taken awhile however, the heartless defeated and those that observed would find their way back to their 'mother' to report on the happenings in her world. There was a group, they weren't weak and there were a few keyblade wielders in there, something Ophelia wasn't very fond of. "I'll have to pay these people a visit." Her voice echoed in the throne room of her castle as she waved her hand, her loyal heartless descending back to the darkness to leave her alone. The witch stood up from her throne and opened a portal.

She stepped through, the portal opened in the room that the group had just entered. She stood there silently for a moment observing as they seemed to be in trouble with the aura of this room. There was one that held his composure quite well however, talking and touching without a hint of lust in his breath, unlike the others who shooed him away. As the masked woman scanned the room she recognized a familiar face - Schwartze, one of Marigold's followers. For some reason it felt strange to see her without her leader and even more so questionable as to what she was doing in Ophelia's world, killing her kin.. Though the heartless did attack her and her new friends, which gave reason but none the less wasn't acceptable to the Heartless Queen. The Main Core scratched her head shortly before speaking. She stared at the woman she knew firstly,

"Schwartze... And friends. State your business here."

She spoke loudly enough for them all to hear and her tone dead serious. As if the aura around them wasn't enough globs of darkness started to form all over the room, darkness dripping out of them thick like blood then solidifying to swirl across the floor beneath the intruder's feet.

While Schwartz suffered under the strange, arousing aura of the room they were in, the others seemed to be under the same effects. However, there were something that entered the room, something dark and insidious, that immediately snapped the other foreign energy from her body. Immediately, she broke free from Veara's grasp and pushed him away with a brisk huff. She glared at him for but a moment beneath her hair and quickly raised her scarf to cover her mouth and nose once more. It appeared that the petite assassin had started to calm down.

Her attention was grabbed at when the Queen of Heartless, Ophelia, revealed herself to them all. Schwartz herself were directed by name and familiarity, thus, she out of all of them tensed up just a bit more. After being freed from the blonde's grasp, she looked over to the equally small woman and gave a slight bow of respect. The blue-haired woman remembered the strength of other before them... She were strong enough to defeat her Queen Marigold without breaking a single sweat. That was a woman definitely not worth trifling with. Schwartz, with that manner of thought, decided to answer honestly and skip the nonsense.

"Lady Ophelia." She started simply. "Judging by your tone of voice and request, I can only surmise this is your domain, is it not?" Her question was mostly rhetorical, but if Ophelia judged it fit to answer it then she could, however, the assassin was going to continue with answering the question. "Excuse our intrusion on my behalf, my lady. We are currently searching for an object and this object, as elusive as it is, simply creates corridors that leads us to all manner of worlds. I didn't expect it to send us here of all places." Schwartz explained calmly and with a certain tone of respect. If there was one thing she didn't want to do, it was the act of ruining the relationship between the queens, due to a misunderstanding. No, she was going to be honest and not show a single hint of disrespect.

Ophelia gave a small nod in response to Shwartze's short bow. The dark holes of Ophelia's mask remained locked on the petite assassin as she spoke, searching for any sort of hiccup of information that could have been missed. However, the woman's tone and stature only gave off respect... It only seemed likely to the heartless that Shwartze was the only one there who knew what Ophelia was like and therefore, wanted to avoid a fight at all costs. The heartless witch placed her fingers on the chin of her mask for a moment as she listened - thinking as to what it was they were looking for and whether they would find it or not here. Secondly, what would they want with this object and how would it affect the heartless queen herself? Eventually the woman dropped her hand back to her side, looked around at the others once more and then back to Schwartze.

"Do you know the name of this item? I'm not sure what it is and whether it will be here.. But anything that leaves and enters this place I wish to know about which I'm sure you can understand."

She paused for a moment, staring at the blonde keyblade wielder for a moment then the other. Her eyes squinted behind the mask as she could feel the disgusted look form behind the mask, it was always an unsettling thing for Ophelia to be around the one thing that could really kill her. She returned her gaze to Schwartze, awaiting an answer with anticipation. She wondered if she or Marigold had figured out the power of keyblades yet.