Onslaught [Plot] [Sora, Yazoo, Mickey, Ferser]

[Valerius]

Valerius hadn't rushed his journey through the darkness, almost savoring the travel time. They had won, their little plan had succeeded. He felt like he was a member in a gang of kids that nobody ever took seriously, only to turn around and take first place in the big competition. Of course this was all quite a bit different then that, Valerius was a player in a game, and the whole universe was their board. He had never been in anything this big, not as a human and not as a Heartless. He'd always been low-key, not even well known throughout the worlds because he didn't make a lot of noise. He was the mysterious stranger that showed up, challenged the best fighter in the area and then left after winning. Nothing more, nothing less.

The Harbinger stepped out of the dark portal, looking around. So far there was Ferser, sitting in the throne, who had executed the whole poisoning the Cornerstone plan. He didn't much care for the guy, he was conceded as heck and fancied himself to be in charge. Valerius didn't care, no one was his boss and that's all that mattered to him. The only reason he was even in this deal to begin with was because Maurelle, who fancied herself a destroyer of light and all that was good. As far as the whole good versus evil thing, Valerius wasn't attached. He would be off doing his mysterious strange deal if it wasn't for Mara, though he had to admit that this had been quite a bit of fun so far.

He looked over to his side to see Maurelle, giving her a grin and scratching the top of his head. "Aw man Mara, you beat me here!" He gave a little shrug and crossed his arms, Maurelle has aspirations, something he had never had before. He didn't care about coming out number one, but if Maurelle did he would do his best to help her. It was weird, he had never been particularly attached to anyone before, but there was just something about Maurelle that drew him to her... He pushed the thoughts away, if he wasn't careful she would start reading his mind, and where would that get him?

He looked from Maurelle back to Ferser, the only other Heartless to have appeared yet. "So what's the deal now? We just gonna sit around until the heroes come in to save the day, or what?" His interest in the matter could be barely classified as idle, Valerius didn't really care about Ferser's plans, he was just a little curious as to what they would do next. They might try to send Valerius on missions or something, and he wasn't entirely sure if he liked the idea of being bossed around, he was his own Heartless and that was that. He glanced back at Maurelle from the corner of his eye, she was the only one who could really afford to try and boss him around, and even then he would still resist the whole process.

[Maurelle]

Mara sensed Val before she heard him. A huge grin sprawled across her face before she practically glomped him, minus the running start. "Of course I did beat you. You move too slow threw those portals." It was unusual for a heartless to express any emotion or even try, but she did feel very attached to Valerius too. It was like an invisible leash. You can't really ignore it, you can't see it, but you know it's there. The funny thing is that she heard Val's thoughts and chuckled. "Aw, great minds think alike." Now she was just teasing him. "I might be flattered if I could be flattered."

Valerius's question did cause her to stop and think, though she didn't let go. "Hmm. I doubt sitting around would be good. Maybe we should give them a chance to surrender? Might make it easier on our part. Probably no serious missions yet." Mara shrugged before shifting to let Val go, she didn't want to make him claustrophobic. HAha.

She shifted to think about that, and await Stroud. He might have a better idea, or shove it into action faster. She was still surprised by the fact they won. "What's taking him? I'm sure we'd know if he was dead." She grumbled this, arms folded.

[Ferser]

He looked over at them from the throne as he let his leg swing and hit the side of the throne as he let his head lean backward on the other side making him see the room upside down. He let them talk as they both appeared before him in this dark castle. Some questions were thrown at him but he just let them go as his friends... much like companions were too talkative to let him start a sentence, especially Maurelle.

As they both got silent for a few seconds, Ferser decided to take back his turn and sat in a more convenient way to get back his credibility from being a lazy *** that never gives a ****. He looked at them and said. "I've poisonned the Cornerstone of Light and turned it into a Cornerstone of Darkness... The world's heart is turning dark quickly so we can take it and obliterate the world, or keep it dark and use it as a second stronghold which will change us from the crappy End of the World..." he made a pause. "Keeping it however gives the risk of it being taken back but as I'm going to answer that question of yours... We should fortify our hold upon this area. I'm also taking into consideration that you suceeded in your own respective areas... ..." He scratched the back of his head.

"I was planning to call a couple of Invincibles as well as a few Neoshadows. Those would perform well at keeping the place safe of intruders. Also there were no casualties during the raid, or maybe one... But I think he survived." He said waiting for them to say something.

"Either ways it looked like an unkown force carying the light took them all away, the ground looked deserted as I entered the world... It annoys me to know that our enemies had a step ahead of us as I had a hell of a welcome party... I mean an old mage, an armored female keyblade weilder, the King of the castle, a young male keyblade wielder and a woman I don't know that popped out of nowhere.... Durring the whole operation I didn't have the chance to even see my back up Yazoo. I don't know what was up with that but it still got pretty easy to do my job. Just went in, fought a bit and went directly after the stone, trusted my poisonned sword in it and bang. Too easy if you ask me." He made a pause while thinking about things.

"I need to investigate on that force that took every single of my defeated preys away too. So that's an important priority of mine. Unless something is of higher importance I won't do anything else." He wondered if any other would show up before he leave.

He then looked at Maurelle as he raised an eyebrow at her and said in the most sarcastic tone he could find. "We got your castle, give us your heart now... This will work for sure against the wielders of the light that have the reputation of being brave and full of hope... Surely they will accept." He then stood up.

"I say blitzkrieg, don't let them the time to recover and attack them merciless. They're already weakenned, and if you managed to get The World That Never Was and that Radiant Garden has already fell... then our victory is pretty much secured as they have no more back up to expect. We'll force them to make their last stand in a crappy world unprepared..." He made a pause. "Or if you really want, we can take our time and assemble our forces, also letting us the time to get intel on their exact situation... and maybe on that misterious force I spoke of earlier. Though they will have the time to prepare for another attack." Right now that's what he thought of. He would hear their thoughts, they would make a plan and everything would go on as it always does.

Though he wanted to know without delays. "So on your side... it went well? Also some ****ing details wouldn't hurt too... I need information in this confusion. I just remembered I forgot to mention that half of my crew was nearly completely useless and left durring the operation."

[Yazoo]

Yazoo came from behind the Cornerstone and looked over the Heartless. Three of them had arrived, only Stroud missing. And he wasn't too sure about Genesis, Silv and Megara returning as well. The remnant had continued into the room when Ferser used a corridor up at where Sora, the girl and the king went. They all passed him without a word and he had ignored them pretty much as well. The darkness of the Cornerstone felt rather strange to him. Light turned to Darkness. He thought to himself calm and had removed his hood after all the Light-hearted had left.

Ferser was explaining his operation in the castle and telling them about his 'welcome' and how he hadn't had the chance to see Yazoo. "I assumed that we wouldn't cause such a chaos and went for our target. But instead this operation seemed to have been... rushed out." He smirked a bit. "The citizens fled when you ran for the Cornerstone while only Sora and the King remained." He continued after a pause. The girl was just popping out of nowhere, which he had no answer to either.

Yazoo sensed out to Kadaj, who still was in The World That Never Was. After Ferser was done talking, he raised his voice again a bit, but in a calmer tone. "It appears the people of The World That Never Was are still there." He was sure that Maurelle could see the rest in his head and he didn't need to say more. Kadaj's presence was still strong, so whatever happened in the Nobody's world, the fighting was seemingly over.

[stroud]

"They are... but not for long."

The cold voice came out of nowhere, then suddenly, a portal of darkness appeared and out of it came Stroud Harkdren's Heartless, the Destroyer, and finally the Horsemen were complete once more. A dark chuckle emerged from his lips, like he was humored at some joke that nobody else understood, and in some aspects that was true. For the moment his presence was sensed in the room, everyone could feel how his power had increased the last time they had felt it. Of course, this was only a mere sample of his power level he had pushed down to make everyone think it was his true level of power, but no-one understood the limit of potential he had achieved in his secretive goal. But from the level of power he exerted, which was quite enough to take on anyone or even everyone in the room, it was quite clear from his slow relaxed gestures and his tone of voice that he was the one in charge of running this show.

He had heard quite a bit of the conversation while coming out of the shadows of the Corridors of Darkness, and felt quite confident in what he was going to say, reminding himself to be mindful of his thoughts from Maurelle as he spoke. "The objective was to distract on all worlds except this one, which was our main target, and it worked. All that matters now is what is to come." He looked to Maurelle, who had been the only one out of the group who noted his absence. "I am here, and your words have given me an idea." he humored, tilting his head slightly, his white hair cascading off his brow like silky spiderwebs. "This surrender of yours... while it is hardly fun, I have noticed on the Nobody world that there is discord between them and the Somebodies. If we summoned the leaders of Light and Nothingness before us, and demanded them to surrender or die, they would be forced to work together to try and stop us. And look how well that turned out the last time..." he paused, scoffing lightly again, and continued. "They're probably squabbling and pointing blame at each other now. There is no certainty they would ever work together, and pressure would only force them to divide... so we may conquer." he smirked, and looked at Ferser and Valerius.

"I commemorate you on your successes, this world will make a fine fortress for the darkness. You are forgetting, however, we cannot steal the heart of this world, for as much as we loathe the cursed keybladers they have placed a seal over the keyhole of this world years ago, to keep out our ilk." he informed them, looking namely at Ferser, who had brought the idea up. He also looked at Yazoo this time, aware how his Organization appearance would only add more to the distrust between the two factions. "So that is what we're going to do. Last time the forces of light and darkness worked independently and won against the nothingness, but this time will be different. United, they will inevitably fall. And Ferser, you are correct in saying we should keep pressure on them, we will do so to give them little time to prepare the moment we threaten both the Light and Nothingness will be obliterated." He swaggered into the center of the room, choosing at this moment to certify he was the center of attention, bringing a commanding presence with his slow and powerful movements. "Silv will be along shortly, I have sensed she has not been sent to the Void... I have sensed in our victory, others from the darkness will join our cause soon. Beings that the heroes once only saw in their nightmares will rise again... now is the time of the villains." he smiled a wicked grin, considering saying something for importance, but would wait for the time being until someone stepped out of line and did not follow orders.

No-one needed to know where he got his new powers from, anyway... not if they wished to live.

[Maurelle]

Maurelle looked squarely at Ferser when he began talking. Ugh, that guy could talk. But, she pretended to be listen to his ranting. He informed her about the corruption of the stone, and she nodded. When he brought up succeeding in their own areas, Mara nodded to a point. "Yes, we held them off. But there were too many to take the world this time."

He continued talking about the dark hearted beings that left in the middle of the battle. "Well, that's why I didn't ask them to join us. At least Yazoo held strong threw the battle. Right?" She looked to Yazoo as he entered the room, a light smile spread on her face. Good, he was still well and on their side.

That's when Ferser ridiculed her idea. Mara's eyes narrowed as he practically laughed at her. "You don't see the point in bragging and dropping their hopes further, do you." She growled in response. "It's not all about the physical battle. It's about destroying hope and the plotting behind everything."

Ferser asked about their battle. "It went as well as expected. But it seemed the area was already prepared for a heartless invasion. From what I got from the ninja, they've have thousands of heartless attack them before. So, the machines did weaken us a bit. Plus, we had a few rather strong beings put up a decent fight. Princess of Heart was there. Too bad I couldn't get to her though. Hmph."

When Yazoo spoke up, Mara turned and nodded to him. "I see." She continued standing near Valerius. But it wasn't long to she felt Stroud enter the room. Her eyes darted to him instantly as she felt herself tense up a little bit. There was a higher power surge in him now then before. But, how was that possible?

Mara fully faced him, careful in her movements. It was almost instinctive and she didn't like it at all. "So, you think this meeting would only fuel their own destruction? It's possible." Mara continued to listen as Stroud spoke of how they already sealed the world and that they can't destroy it anyway. That was highly annoying. Maybe they should find a way to reverse it?

"So, where are we going to start this ceasefire and who will be going?" Maurelle asked curiously, still standing in the same spot even though Stroud was freely moving.

[Remember, no posting order here!]

[Ferser]

Ferser listenned to everyone, taking into consideration each of their arguments when suddenly a powerful force got his attention. It was Stroud the dark. He of course held a much stronger power from before which made him grin. The four would be able to pull this out apparently. He listenned as he started talking jumped down from the throne to get near them. "Why it looks like Stroud has changed." He said with a laugh. Surely he would now lead the operation as the horsemen's main force.

"I'm ready to go anywhere when you want... It's not like this fight here was that hard, trust me... however I'm sigthly concerned about that force of the light that warped the citizens of the castle out of reach." He pointed out as he was now standing a few feet from the group. Man, just getting nearer to Stroud could be felt.

"Anyway man, just tell me when we'll be able to cut loose on them again because this here did not look like a fight at all."

[stroud]

"If this meeting is to fuel their own destruction, then we should summon them here. Let them see what the darkness has done to their world to give them a taste of what's to come, and give us a home advantage if they try to retake their world." Stroud simply replied to Maruelle, turning to look her way with eyes of red. "And I will be attending as well, of course." he added, humored by the thought. How he'd like to meet this keyblade master and see him squirm, when he was going to be told that everything he worked for was about to be undone. Perhaps they could bring the King here and make him see how they had re-decorated his castle. And of course, they'd need a representative of the cowardly beings with no hearts who hid behind their schemes and hoods to cause any kind of destruction, preferably Xemnas so he could order the rest of his Organization to realize the gravity of the situation. And how unreliable the Light had been in having their own central Kingdom taken over.

Ferser had announced aloud what all of them were thinking by now, and he chuckled openly, not making any attempts to confirm or deny his recent increase in power. Ferser had always been too openly observant for his own good, and even though Stroud held the title of the Destroyer among the Horsemen, it seemed like Ferser was only a weapon that he could point towards targets. So much the better, he thought carefully, knowing Maurelle could read his mind, and looked to the poison expert as he spoke about a being of light warping people out of the castle. "Such beings on the side of Light are not unheard of, but do not let it distract you from our goals, just because they cheated you out of hearts you could have reaped. If you come across said person again in our takeover, do not hesitate again to take away that asset of the Light permernantly." he advised Ferser, then turned to look at the others. They all wanted their shot to get back at the light again, but like dogs on a leash, they would have to be restrained for the moment. They would get their opportunity, but the ones who broke their opponent's will to fight and take away their hopes were the ones who would survive and win this war.

Stroud paused to think for a moment, forming a plan in his head, before he spoke carefully and confidently again. "The light will be regrouping and assessing their losses, swapping information about what to do next. The Nobodies as well, all we need to do is find them and deliver a message, to coax them to come find us here. Tell them anything you want, their curiousity will be their undoing, if they value their castle they will come. Even if they sense it may be a trap." he decied, and smiled wickedly. All they needed to do was find out where the little rats had fled to, so it would not take long, as they could move in and out of the darkness of each world's heart as they pleased. "We will gather two of the Light and two of Nothingness, any more and they will outnumber us, and any less they will doubt the sincerity of their leader's words. We want to make one message clear when they get here: surrender or die. And I have the feeling they will not surrender..." he chuckled darkly. This would be interesting, and he opened a dark portal behind him, adding "We will meet back here this time tomorrow. Find the keyblade master, the King, the Superior and one of his second-in-command. Now, go."

(OOC: We don't need to make threads of them finding them, we'll just contact who we need and make a new thread inviting them. Sorry about the delay in reply.)

[Maurelle]

(Excuse the short post. But I figure I will post my reply, then create the thread for the final meeting! Ferser, feel free to reply since Stroud did address you in the comment. I may g-mod Valerius in my posts as he's away till next week! He gave me the a-ok to do so.)

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Maruelle stayed out of the way and listened close to what was said, and what wasn't. It was annoying how Stroud was able to sensor his thoughts and keep her only looking at the surface. She could probably crack the shell if she wished to know something, but it wouldn't be worth the physical after-effect from Stroud. So she listened.

"...we should summon them here."

"And I will be attending as well, of course."

"We will meet back here this time tomorrow. Find the keyblade master, the King, the Superior and one of his second-in-command. Now, go."

Maurelle nodded lightly. "Understood." She glanced at Valerius before moving to go off and find these beings before tomorrow. Right now, she was not trusting Stroud as highly as she might have before. He seemed to have a different objective in this battle.

[Exit Thread with Valerius]

[stroud]

Stroud watched as Maurelle and Valerius moved off without much word... much like the lapdogs they were. He snickered to himself, how easy this all was, having assumed his rightful status among the Heartless. Everything was going according to plan, just as he intended it. And as long as everyone had a purpose, they would live to see it out. And if they didn't, Stroud would back himself up with the new power he had just recently acquired.

Nothing could stop them now.

Whether Ferser answered him or not, he didn't care. Just as long as he knew his objective, and his place, he could destroy all he liked. Stroud would soon simply remake it... in his image. Such would be the desired outcome once this was all over, and there was no-one left to challenge them. All the gears had been put into place , and everything was running like clockwork. And should that fail, it would not upset his grand scheme of things.

He chuckled darkly once more, and opened a Corridor to Darkness behind him. Time to find these pesky representatives of light and nothingness. And then, the real game would begin. He turned and walked into his portal, eager with these feelings fresh in his heart. He could taste the destruction to come already. But he would not let that unsteady his hand for what was to come, calculating cold plan after plan in his web of schemes, and in the process disappeared into the ebony black.

Stroud has left the thread and the thread has ended, unless Ferser wishes to post.

[Silv]

Green swirls appeared and slowly formed Ark at the cornerstone. "I thought I'd find you all at the darkest place." She said clearly annoyed. It then appeared to her that some had already left. "Can someone explain what in Altana's name is going on? Did this mission fail or succeed?" She looked around herself to look at the place.

The strange dark stone appealed to her and made her wonder what was wrong with it. Even though the place seemed very dark, there was something off to her. She hadn't understood even the beginning of the mission. Surely they had to find this Organization XIII and fight them. Probably distract, reason why she fought the goofball, but why did they leave? Many questions, but she didn't care all that much about the answers. The Emptiness did, however.

[*kicks her brother* Couldn't you tell me this was going on?]

[Larxene]

The Thread had ended, but feel free to kick him all you'd like!

End Thread!