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Post by kadaj on May 28, 2008 5:45:11 GMT -5
Kadaj continued to grin at Keldric and his portal until the young lad slashed it in half with his unusual looking keyblade and made the portal vanish into thin air, just as how it had been created in the first place. The Great Hall became slightly darker now as it returned to it's natural form of lighting. The Remnant turned his gaze away from the blue eyed boy and looked at the witch, Maleficent with a reluctant smile as he slowly nodded his head up and down a couple of times before he spoke.
"Certainly. It'll become a useful way to travel and will make finding my brothers easier." Thats right. Kadaj wasn't the only Remnant in this world. Just imagine what could happen if he were able to pass on all his knowledge and skills onto Loz and Yazoo. The three of them could become a formidable threat to all the worlds within Kingdom Hearts... perhaps become a threat to Kingdom Hearts itself! Yet for now, Kadaj wasn't running any sort of plan or idea through his head. He just kept his eyes on Maleficent with a pleased smile as he felt his heart beat with darkness once again.
"I want to learn everything there is about the darkness. Portals, Heartless, everything!" He said to the black clad witch as he watched her face, looking into her eyes and feeling a sense a pleasure or proudness coming from her. Could Maleficent have her own plans for Kadaj as he learns more about how to use or even manipulate the darkness? The Remnant was unsure, but for now he continued to listen to her words and do as she said.
A smirk spread across his lips though from the uneasiness he could feel from Keldric after he displayed his little show of darkness a while back. He didn't think any of them would have noticed, but obviously he was wrong. Yet true to his words, Keldric did have a point and the Remnant took heed of those words. If Kadaj seeked too much power and dived too far into the darkness, he could loose himself. This was not an option and had to be avoided at all costs, yet Kadaj was determined to her powers greater then what he had back in Gaia.
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Post by wolfsong on May 28, 2008 18:35:31 GMT -5
There was an uneasiness in Keldric as he closed the portal with his keyblade and took a glance at Kadaj. It seems that his other experience with the Remnant wasn't a good one and the witch may have to ask the keybearer about this suspicion later.
"Certainly. It will become useful way to travel and will make finding my brothers easier."
"You have siblings?
This was odd. Do his brothers look similarly or exactly like Kadaj? If it was the latter then the sorceress may need to take aspirin with her coffee each morning due to the fact that Kadaj already looks too much like Riku. What insanity will ensue if there were three Riku look-alikes running around?
"I want to learn everything there is to know about the Darkness. Portals, Heartless, everything![/i]
Wow, this one was more eager to learn about the Darkness than Riku! But learn to quickly can plunge his Heart into the shadows...Perhaps that was the reason Riku's mind became clouded...Because Maleficent had taught him to quickly.
"Not so fast. I will teach you the basics first and you will learn stronger techniques as you master them. Basics first."
Maleficent wagged her pointer finger at Kadaj who was likely to pout due to the fact that he seemed to want to get stronger fast. He won't learn anything if taught to fast and will easily forget what he learned.[/color]
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Post by keldric on May 29, 2008 13:39:10 GMT -5
"Wait, you have brothers? What are their names?"
Keldric thought he might have recognised something familiar about he man, but hadn't put his finger on it until now. Silver hair...green eyes... if he had the same features as his brother, then he might have already met one. Yazoo, one of his friends. But appearences were deciving. They were so different in nature... Yazoo was quiet, peaceful, and always willing to help him. Kadaj, on the other hand...]
His suspicions were heightened as Kadaj proclaimed how much information he wanted to learn from Malificent... and knowledge was power. He raised his blonde eyebrows in surprise for a moment, then lowered them quickly again before anyone could see, noticing they were observing his mood now and reacting to it. If Kadaj got the impression Keldric disagreed with his grasp for power and would try to stop him with any malicious plans he had, he was asking for a lot of trouble. But again, he reminded himself, appearences could be decieving... he would have to witness Kadaj's actions before reacting accordingly.
"So, Malificent, please go ahead and show us the basics." he said casually and a little eagerly, easily masking any concern that he had shown earlier as if dismissing the thought. "You were showing us how to make a dark corridor?"
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Post by kadaj on May 29, 2008 21:00:19 GMT -5
Kadaj looked from Maleficent and then back to Keldric, before returning his eyes to the black clad witch with a confused and somewhat suspicious look on his face, as he folded his arms and started to look irritated at the both of them as they seeming both repeated after him, asking if he had brothers. It was rather amusing for him to be honest, hearing both the witch and Keldric as if he had brothers at the same time, but then he fell silent for a second, his face blank and eyes continuing to slowly flick between the two of them. Did they know something about the Remnants?
"Yes, I have brothers. Four of them to be exact." Kadaj finally spoke out again as he turned his body to face the arena between the middle of Maleficent and Keldric, so he could easily turn his head from side to side to look at them both and keep the pair of darkened hearts in his eye sight.
"Loz and Yazoo are my closest brothers. They look a lot like me, with the same hair and clothes. Call us 'triplets' if you like" The Remnant spoke out. "Then there are the other two. The 'black sheeps' of our family. Cloud Strife and a man named Sephiroth..." His face was disgusted when he spoke those last two names which indicated that he had little love for them, compared to his proper brothers, Loz and Yazoo. He then look aggrivated again and turned to maleficent, pointing a finger at her as he spoke.
"Hey, I thought you were going to teach us how to open Dark Portals anyway, like the kid said..." He moaned slightly, nodding his head towards Keldric while still facing Maleficent. "...Not to question me about my family and private life!" He continued and finished up with a snarl.
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Post by wolfsong on May 29, 2008 21:25:29 GMT -5
"Loz and Yazoo are my closest brothers. They look a lot like me, with the same hair and clothes. Call us 'triplets' if you like...Then there are the other two. The 'black sheeps' of our family. Cloud Strife and a man named Sephiroth...Hey, I thought you were going to teach us how to open Dark Portals anyway, like the kid said...Not to question me about my family and private life!"[/i]
Four brothers...An interesting batch Kadaj's family is. Great, so Maleficent does have to suffer with three Riku look-alikes...Maybe two aspirins each morning will do...
Cloud and Sephiroth? There's a surprise. Those two act like enemies all the time. Perhaps it was just a form of sibling rivalry with Kadaj and his other two brothers caught in the middle? Very likely.
But for now, focus on Keldric's and Kadaj's training as they are already getting impatient.
"Of course, the portal is one of the simplest of the Darkness techniques. Just focus the darkness on a location, a world you have already been to for it's harder to portal to a location if you have not been there before. Or on someone you're looking for; the closer to your heart, the better chance you will find them. Watch."
With a simple wave of her hand, a portal appeared, black and purple full of darkness. Maleficent walked inside it only to walk out of another one that appeared right behind Kadaj!
"It's that simple. You may practice the technique now."
Kadaj's and Keldric's reaction will be quite amusing.
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Post by keldric on May 30, 2008 5:24:33 GMT -5
Looking indignantly at Kadaj with a slight frown, Keldric replied carefully to him, not caring either way that the man had simply nodded at him in identification rather than point at him in accusation. "Hey, I was only asking because I met a man with silver hair and green eyes like yours who called himself Yazoo. Although, the first time I crossed paths with him the world's magic transformed his appearence, so it was hard to ascertain his true identity." Like a living marionette with broom-like hair, he thought to himself, watching for Kadaj's reaction. Maybe he'd run across the room and try to grab him by the scruff of his neck to try and force the answers out of him. Or, maybe not.
He didn't know anything else about this Loz, Cloud, or Sephiroth, but the latter two's names had been inscribed on a tournament board back in Olympus Coliseum. Maybe they were warriors like Kadaj was supposed to be with his two-bladed sword he always wielded.
Turning his attention now on Malificent as she started her lesson, the blonde-haired youth listened to the description of how to focus and use the power, by finding the darkness at a location, the more familiar the easier it would be. She also expressed that it was possible to find people close to your heart.
Close to his heart... he thought, shutting his eyes momentarily and absent-mindedly touched his chest with his right hand over where his heart should be.
A lot of people went through his mind at the moment, suddenly feeling a fluttering of butterflies in his stomach at the thought of who he could find using this technique. His first thoughts were of his mother and father... and then Bella... and then of all the new friends he had made in this vast universe. Kirux. Riku. DiZ. Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother. Leon. Roxas. Lulu. Kujitsu. Malificent, of course. Ven. Luna. Yazoo. Xiuhpilli. Alexander. King Mickey. Sora. And... Naminé. The girl in white's face was the last friend imprinted in his memory, before he suddenly considered he shouldn't be focusing on any of his people. He decided in his mind now that Kadaj was becoming corrupt, remembering what he had said to DiZ not too long ago on the other side of the world.
"It is not the Heartless that shall consume me, it will be I who consumes them!!"
There was no way a single person alone could consume the hundreds of thousands, or even millions of countless Heartless he had come across and seen in total in the worlds and travelling between them. Not unless they gave themselves into the darkness. If he opened a portal to one of his friends, signalling to Kadaj that he had a weakness, he could use it against him later if he tried to stop him.
He opened his azure eyes again a few seconds after that short moment in time had passed, moving his hand away from his chest, placing it before him.
So instead, first he focused on a world: this one for starters, like Malificent had. He held out the hand and concentrated, trying to draw the darkness out of him, like he usually did when making portals with his keyblade.
He shut his eyes to concentrate. Dig deep, he thought to himself. Allow no distractions.
Around his fingers, dark wisps of purple, black and even emerald green darkness started to warp the air and shift the reality before his hand, wafting upwards and outwards slowly like heated air between his fingers.
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Post by kadaj on May 30, 2008 10:21:31 GMT -5
Kadaj turned away from Maleficent for a few seconds and cast his Mako imbued, turquoise eyes onto the blue eyed lad next to him when the name of his brother, Yazoo left his lips, however from the short time examining him as the name of the Remnant drifted into the darkness, it was clear to Kadaj that the boy seemed only half sure on whether or not he had actually saw him. Coming to a conclusion, Kadaj shook his head and looked back at Maleficent, as he heard her start to speak, but within an instant she had opened up a portal in front of herself, and the image that the Remnant saw from within, made his eyes widen slightly.
"Yazoo?" He called out and lifted up a hand to try and touch the image he saw floating ahead of him, but it quickly disappeared as Maleficent stepped through the portal and ended up behind him. The Remnant span around and glared at the witch, wondering who she was until his eyes quickly focused on her. Clever. These portals could make excellent ambush techniques.
~Just focus the darkness on a location? Sound simple enough...~ Kadaj thought to himself as he cast a glance at Keldric and only saw him standing still with a hand placed on his chest, looking deep in thought.
The Remnant shrugged and didn't wait for Keldric to come back to reality. Instead, the platinum haired man lifted up a hand and pointed his palm to the side of him, away from Maleficent and Keldric. He narrowed his eyes and tried to concentrate the darkness he felt from within his heart. At first nothing happened, but then he remember all the practicing and controlling of the darkness he was doing after he left Radiant Garden when DiZ put that spell on him. A small smirk spread across his lips as the Remnant felt his heart beat with darkness and a small aura of black and dark purple flames covered his hand, that hummed slightly with a dark and evil sound.
A bright flash of light quickly enveloped the immediate area as several dark wisps of darkness appeared and created two dark portals next to each other. They both hummed gently but disappeared a couple of seconds later as Kadaj somehow lost concentration and lowered his arm, shaking his head a little.
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Post by wolfsong on May 31, 2008 13:52:00 GMT -5
Maleficent frowned as she noticed Kadaj's glaring eyes were on her but unfocused as if seeing someone else. The glanced at her last location were she first created the portal that ended up behind the Remnant. Nothing there to help her logically reason why he would be like that.
It didn't take him long to focus though.
The sorceress soon walked towards the Keyhole again to get a better view of her two apprentices. Keldric was doing quite fine. He concentrated much faster than Riku ever did. At this success, she gave him an encouraging nod with a small smirk on her face.
Kadaj however...He seemed to have a hard time with this simple task...Perhaps that spell she removed from had given him a hard time to even extend a small amount of Darkness to his advantage...It would have made his Heart a bomb that would have killed the Remnant if the spell wasn't removed in time.
Oh wait, Riku look-alike made the Corridor...Nope, he lost concentration..."Concentrate Kadaj. Focus on a location or a person close to you. It would be easier to concentrate the Corridor on a target."
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Post by keldric on Jun 1, 2008 11:00:15 GMT -5
Opening both blue eyes, and silently glad Kadaj had not pounced at him upon hearing about his brother, he saw Malificent nodding silently at him for approval. He looked at his hand, surprised by the darkness there, and suddenly the shadowy energy disappeared. Loosing his concentration, he sighed defeatingly, and noticed Kadaj.
The older boy was focusing with an intense darkness... he could slowly begin, like before, to get a grasp of his power level. He suddenly went wide-eyed as Kadaj managed to go further than he did, casting not one, but two portals next to each other, before they vanished completely.
Not to be outdone, he focused again. Hallow Bastion. This room. I feel... a great darkness here... below me. He felt it. The heart of this world, like plunging into a black lake. The darkness that emerged before came through his finger again, poking, proking the darkness from the heart of the world. He shut his eyes, and slowly, ever so slowly, the darkened wisps expanded and grew as if cutting a whole in the fabric of reality before him. It developed into a symetrical portal, like it's twin which appeared next to it, one leading to the other.
He heard the humming, but did not dare to repeat himself and open his eyes to check. Concentrate, Keldric, concentrate... you can't fall behind now... he continued to think to himself, over and over again in his mind, as the darkness in the heart of the world opened itself up to him like a vast, bottomless abyss.
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Post by kadaj on Jun 2, 2008 1:52:59 GMT -5
The Remnant lifted up an arm and ran his gloved hand through his long platinum hair as he felt the darkess around him grow slightly more intense from both himself and the young Keldric next to him practicing with the darkness and learning how to open portals to other worlds or to other people. Lowering his arm, Kadaj looked up both his hands which he clenched into fists as he felt his eyes narrow and his temper rise slightly. But the Remnant closed his eyes and let out a small sigh as he quickly calmed himself and looked over his shoulder to Maleficent as she spoke to him.
"Concentrate Kadaj. Focus on a location or a person close to you. It would be easier to concentrate the Corridor on a target."
Kadaj looked back in front of him and nodded his head slightly. Yeah that did seem to make more sense then to try and create a portal out of the blue. So, thinking this, he lifted up his hand again but only to pause for a second to look over at Keldric as he tried a second time to create some portals. A smirk spread across the Remnant's lips as he noticed Keldric's success at creating a couple of portals next to each other that one would assume lead from one another.
Moving his head back to face what was in front of him, the Riku look-alike tapped into his dark heart and drank at the darkness that flowed within it. Lifting his hand and point his finger this time ahead of him, the Remnant drew a circle with his finger and smirked to himself as he watched a portal open up at the exact same time, just big enough for the Remnant to hop through. However, what could be seem from within was something unusual...
...It would be easier to concentrate the Corridor on a target...
...and from within the portal could be seen a young blonde haired lad with bright blue eyes, wearing a headband with an assortment of feathers attached. The dark hum of his portal sung with an eerie sound as the Remnant looked over his shoulder at Keldric and noticed a second portal had opened up behind the Keyblader.
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Post by wolfsong on Jun 2, 2008 19:14:27 GMT -5
These two teens seem to be having fun.
As the sorceress watched her two apprentices, Keldric had lost concentration almost as soon as he noticed her approving nod then watched Kadaj summon his two Corridors. The blonde had concentrated again but this time made a few more next to each other, and the witch presumed that they each led to one another.
Maleficent then noticed a Corridor behind Dark Keybearer that wasn't his. A glance at the Remnant told her that it was Kadaj's Corridor...And a smirk appeared on her face as she began to guess what it was for; a prank of some sort.
Somehow these two might become best friends, even rivals.
It will be amusing to watch their Dark abilities grow stronger...If they don't kill each other first!
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Post by keldric on Jun 5, 2008 11:13:04 GMT -5
Having opened his eyes, Keldric saw his two portals that he had summoned before him, concentrating on only them and the darkness of the world that was constructing their energy, channeling his energy through his body to manipulate it. He held the focus as he made a hand gesture to reduce them and close them, when he sensed another corridor to darkness opening behind him.
He looked through that portal, and saw the silver-haired, impaling green eyes of the young man that stood not too far away from him, Kadaj. He stared at him with that sinister grin on his facial features, like he wanted to literally rip into Keldric and tear out his spine, looking like he was going to act upon the portal he had focused on Keldric.
Not letting any negative thoughts get to him, still content with himself for having learned the basics of how to open his own portal, Keldric smiled as he turned around and faced Kadaj through his own portal, and held his hand out in front of him. He focused his new Dark Corridor power, creating a new portal next to the one he could see Kadaj through. Playfully, another portal also appeared near Kadaj - but to think outside the box, the wisping pocket of shadow had appeared above Kadaj instead, and he could see the top of his silvery head on the other side.
He smiled conceitedly, not saying anything as he continued to focus on the stablisation of the portal itself, being wary of the darkness from Kadaj's heart in precaution to any portal jumping he might do. He also listened out for Malificent, to hear any constructive criticism she had, or to tell them to stop and move onto the next dark technique.
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Post by kadaj on Jun 5, 2008 18:29:11 GMT -5
Kadaj watched Keldric as he realized that he was about to get a prank pulled on him, and this only made his evil and sinister facial features look even more twisted and hateful. Lifting up the same hand in which he used to open the dark portals, one in front of himself and th second behind Keldric, that was not in front of the young lad since he had turned around and smiled at him, as if baiting the Remnant to step through his own portal. That's when Kadaj felt something strange, sensing as a cat could sense danger, but it wasn't a feeling of danger, it was one of darkness. Keeping his eyes fixed tightly onto Keldric, the platinum haired man couldn't help shake off the feeling that something was above him, but instead of looking skywards towards the ceiling of the Great Hall, Kadaj instead stepped forwards and walked through the portal he created that was in front of Keldric.
A sound echoed throughout the Great Hall as the Remnant disappeared through the portal that closed instantly behind him, yet to the young Keldric's surprise, Kadaj didn't emerge from the portal that was shining and humming as normal in front of him.
Instead, Kadaj had reappeared behind the black clad witch, Maleficent, and as he stepped back into the Great Hall, the Remnant lifted up one of his gloved hands and poked a finger into Maleficent's back, pushing and pressing his finger in place so she'd feel it. Then a small laugh emitted from behind the witch as the Remnant lowered his hand and folded his hands across his chest.
"You might be strong Maleficent, but you need to keep your guard up at all times..." He said with a smirk and blinked his mako eyes, making the portal in front of Keldric disappear into thin air.
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Post by wolfsong on Jun 5, 2008 19:29:55 GMT -5
"You might be strong Maleficent, but you need to keep your guard up at all times..."
Except that the Maleficent the Remnant had poked wasn't even real. The Maleficent double turned around that half of her face melting into darkness until she disappeared to reveal a Shadow Heartless. Soon more Shadows appeared in a overwhelming numbers...But where was the witch?
"Perhaps you should keep your guard up and expect the unexpected, Kadaj. I presume you know that these are only the Shadow Heartless, the weakest of their kind but stronger in large numbers? Perhaps you should test your fighting skills on these creatures."
With her staff in hand, Maleficent appeared at the entrance of the Hall with a smirk on her face. So the sorceress was slowly regaining her control over the Heartless. At least she would be able to satisfy Kadaj's hunger for the Dark.
Two separate blizzard spells were sent at Heartless that had almost pounced on an unsuspecting Keldric. Then a fire spell on the Shadow that had almost jumped on Kadaj.
"Do try not to have your Heart taken away."
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Post by keldric on Jun 7, 2008 12:39:50 GMT -5
Watching as Kadaj indeed stepped though the portal, but then instead opted to create another portal within the Corridors of Darkness he was standing in and attempt to surprise Malificent, Keldric smiled a little bit at the silver-haired man while he concentrated on his own portals. He wasn't nearly as twisted and hateful as he made himself out to be, and even though he had seemed arrogant with his manipulation and showmanship of the portals, he had been inventive and had done something to try to show the witch he had made good use of the powers she was teaching them.
The key word there, being tried.
As the Malificent he thought was the real one he had turned away from, to look at Kadaj and his ambush attempt, had turned around she abruptly turned into a cluster of Shadow Heartless. Keldric's expression turned to one of shock as two came for him in a sudden leap, then to one of hatred as he summoned his keyblade in a flash of light to protect himself from the Heartless advance.
A flash of cold Blizzard spells destroyed the Heartless before he could do anything about it, and he turned around to spot Malificent appear near the entrance.
He glared at her with sudden contempt, like he had been betrayed, quickly shouting at her, "Malificent, what did you do!? The Heartless are not something to toy with!!!" Then he quickly dodged a Shadow Heartless as it uncompressed itself from it's shadow form in the ground, obliterating it with a slash from Sacred Dusk. He had never seen Malificent summon Heartless before, and as he had just finished cleaning out most of the Heartless in this place as well as loathing Heartless for being present during the destruction of his world, he demanded an explination of his new tutor beckoning the creatures that were capable of stealing the hearts of the people he cared about or even himself here and now.
With his two portals still open, he jumped through it and jumped out the one in the air with his keyblade pointed downwards in a stabbing motion, destroying a cluster of Heartless in a bright flash of light and wisps of smoky darkness.
He hoped Malificent had summoned these Heartless just to show them a new darkness technique, or she had a lot to answer for.
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