Raid #1(Snow, Cecil, Lightning, raid invite only)

Hollow Bastion. The castle of Darkness and one and only place where a certain silver-haired Remnant and a blond-haired Keyblader grew a massive rivalry together. It was also here that the said Remnant learned to harness his power over the Darkness and use it to boost his strength and speed. The witch, Maleficent was to thank for that since she had trained Riku before helping out the Remnant, known as Kadaj and the Keyblader, known as Keldric to better enhance themselves. Those thoughts brought back some fun memories to be honest. Keldric was always so determined to show Maleficent just how good he was doing, only for the Remnant to beat him at almost every turn. Keldric's heart was too Light for him to grasp a powerful enough grip over the Darkness, where as the Remnant himself was nothing but the purest evil, born directly from the Legendary Sephiroth's hate.

This castle, also the stage for one of the three great battles Kadaj had fought against the Twilight Keyblader, Riku. Each time their weapons crossed, the match resulted in a draw. It had been several months since they last encountered one another and the silver-haired Remnant couldn't help but wonder whether the two forces would cross blades once more in the war of Light and Darkness.
~I better see you again... I want to see how much stronger you've become...~
The Remnant thought to himself as he stepped out of the shadows from behind one of the pillars upon the upper floor surrounding the water fountain. Two powerful Light presences were in this room as well as a single Dark one. As Kadaj stepped into view on the second floor, he leaned forwards on the balcony casually and just smirked down at the two men.
~This is it? This is all the Light could gather to attack this world?~

The area dimmed into a purple glow as a spell from the Dark presence was unleashed upon the unfortunate heroes. Kadaj's glowing, mako-fueled eyes traced up the fountain until they landed upon the figure of Ultimecia. Sure she was pretty in some twisted and dark way, but she certainly had the temper and attitude to match it as well. Maelstrom. A nasty spell inflicting Curse to the victims and blasting them with a powerful darkness aura. Not nice at all, but thankfully, the attack wasn't aimed at the Remnant. Kadaj himself just remained leaning against the balcony and wondered just why his new ally was rushing head long into battle so soon? It was much more fun to play and tease the enemy to get warmed up first. Kadaj shook his head slightly and pushed himself up off the balcony before jumping up onto it and peering down at the two unsuspecting heroes.

~Of course... she's a magic user. She has no need to warm up since spells come at the mere flick of a wrist...~
The silver-haired man thought to himself as he peered at his left forearm that housed his Materia from Gaia. This was certainly going to be in interesting battle. To fight his enemies at close melee range and not to get struck by any of Ultimecia's spells. He smirked as the thought reminded him of his four-on-one match in Spira against Tifa, Vincent, Tseng and Rufus. That was good fun, but now wasn't the time to dwindle. The Light needed to be destroyed and these two fools would be the first victims! Kadaj threw one of his hands back and grasped at the handle of his Souba, pulling it out the sheath and listened as the blades sang as they sliced through the air. The Remnant twisted his wrist and flicked his weapon around his hand, before holding it in a reserve hand grip, his eyes glaring down at the two heroes.

Ultimecia stood there, lightning cracking in her hands as the Thundaga spells reached full power. She ignored the coy remarks of Kuja, not bothering to look towards him to dignify the harbinger with a response. The heroes continued their introductions, followed by attacks to Kadaj and Kuja by Snow and Cecil. The sorceress leaped high into the air forwards, then fired both powerful Thundaga spells down towards Lightning. It mattered not if the spells hit her or not, but what was certain that the highly decorative floor would become fractured and undone upon impact.

She rotated in the air after firing the spells at her foe into an elongated front flip, then she finished by landing on the upper floor. She looked over towards her allies to see both Snow and Cecil engage them with a form of physical combat. Then she used her ability of matter manipulation to sink through the floor to the first level where she had fired her her spells moments prior. As she descended slowly Ultimecia fired a Meltdown spell beneath her. Should it hit, Lightning would be completely vulnerable to physical attacks.

It was indeed odd to find herself fighting for the Darkness rather than herself. Normally Ultimecia would be running the show, and not a group of Heartless. However, with the way things were she had decided to go out and claim worlds for them, for a reason more blacker than the darkness they Horsemen relished. The evil of the sorceress knew no bounds, and playing with her foes like Kuja would do was but a waste of time. To what purpose did it serve, to affront one's enemy for the sake of lowering their morale?

Rather than letting herself land, Ultimecia teleported to the outside of the front doors to the entrance hall. Quickly she charged two more Thundaga spells, then fired them forwards, resulting in an explosion that blew the grand doors inwards in an attempt to crush the female hero. The heroes were in for the fight of their lives, and if not that, then one of the most epic and disastrous they would ever bare witness to. "I am Ultimecia." spoke the sorceress to Lightning. "I shall send you to a dimension beyond your imagining, denizen of Light."

Lightning just rolled her eyes when she heard Snow mention how Lightning had not greeted him with a hello or something like that. Typical of Snow. What else was she expecting from him. "Snow this is serious...act like an adult for once in your life." Lightning said at him. She sighed growing angry with him aready. She had to calm down a bit though. Fighting with Snow would just be pointless right now. She listened to Snow's reasoning for why he was here and she just nodded her head once. "I didn't come here by choice...but I'm not going to back down now that I'm here. This darkness can't go on." Lightning said and she looked down for the moment. Darkness...she still felt so intimidated by it.

Lightning looked up studying each of her future opponent. A new one seemed to have join the groups. He looked a bit...well feminine. But she wasn't going to determine his strength just on the basis of physical appearance. He called them fools and seemed to be underestimating them. Lightning figured that she would just let them underestimate them. She knew that she was strong. And despite how she thought him to be an idiot, Snow was a good fighter. And she really didn't know anything about their third party member. But if he was willing to take the dedication to come to this fight against the darkness, then he must be a good fighter. Or strong to an extent. She wanted to try and keep the thoughts of her teammates high. It was good to have a little bit of confidence. It was just being over-confident that was the bad. As well as underestimating opponents.

Lightning also noticed Kadaj give her that smirk. That cold smirk. He obviously remembered her if that was the case. She remembered him too. She wondered if she was going to get the chance to fight him. She didn't really get much of a chance too during the alst time they had met. She was curious about this man. Lightning turned her head when she heard Snow speaking of strategy. Why was he planning everything out here? What made Snow think that he was strong enough to take on Kadaj. He didn't know that. Lightning wondered if he was underestimating Kadaj. Or just being overconfident. Lightning assumed overconfidence from Snow. Just when she was about to take the moment to scold Snow for this, Snow already charged at the silver-haired man. Lightning watched as Cecil decided to take charge at the other man. She was a bit annoyed that Snow was planning it out with Cecil and just leaving her with whoever was left. She wasn't going to let something like that influence her that much. All three of them had to be defeated if they had any hope of winning.

Lightning looked to who she was going to be fighting. The three versus three seemed to be separating into one versus one. Lightning was going to be going against the female of the dark group. Figures. She watched as the Sorceress jumped into the air and aimed a magic attack at her. Lightning reacted quickly and she activated her temporary energy shield to protect her from this attack. So this woman specialized in magic it seemed. The two men seemed to be more brute fighters. At least she god that idea from the one she met prior to this, Kadaj. She had a feeling that fighting with someone who specialized in magic would be tough. It was mainly going to be dodging and attempting to get in a hit or so. Lightning was lucky that she was fast and that she could manipulate her speed though. That should be an aid to help.

Lightning watched as the Sorceress aimed the Meltdown spell at her. Lightning reacted quickly dodge rolling out of the way. She remained safe from this one. But this dodging would get harder and harder. She watched the Sorceress disappear and then burst the doors open. Lightning looked to her, now on the same grounds as her. She introduced herself and mentioned how she would send her too a dimension beyond light. Of darkness. Lightning wasn't afraid. She knew to keep her light with her. "Lightning...and good luck with that." Lightning said in her cold tone of voice and she activated one of her speed up techniques. She jumped in the air and charged at the Sorceress with full force. She practically ran while in the air and when she came back down, she swung her sword down hard, aiming it at the Sorceress.