The Great Maw

[Hansy]

<sup>Hansy had been wandering around the Radiant Garden for a while. Not particularly finding anything of interest, but, then again, it was a very large place. He finally came to a huge opening, cliffs on all sides, save another spot to continue through on the other side of the gap, much like the one he had just come from. Hansy walked forward, till eventually, he reached the center of the grand spot, he looked around, it was a nice view, the sky completely visible, a ton of space, until a pulse eched through the ground.

Odd... Hansy thought, when a plethora of heartless appeared all around him. The katana at his waist was out in an instant, as he prepared to attack. He jumped into the air, falling upon the heartless, Armored Knights to be exact. Clattering all around him as he flipped around slicing.</sup>

[Axel]

A figure dressed in dark watched the single warrior from a nearby cliff, take on the Heartless. he smirked and then opened both arms as two Keyblades appeared in each hand. With Lion Heart in his right hand and Sleeping Lion in his left, he launched into the air going a huge distance and landing near the warrior. He too began to hack and slash at the Heartless doing flips and dodges. He used his reactions well and managed to eliminate the Heartless around him, however, there was more to come.

"Xegato...My name. You need Help?"

[Hansy]

^{"Sure...thanks." Hansy said shyly. Though, he still didn't have much time to talk, as he jumped into the air while an Armored knight smashed the ground where he stood a moment ago, its sword getting stuck. Hansy meanwhile, backfipping over the heartless, cut right through it before landing perfectly. He blocked the attack of another, pushing it back before shooting an orb of Gravira at it. The orb exploded, blowing the knight apart before crushing a couple others around it.}

[Axel]

Xegato kept focus as more armored knights attacked him from all sides. He used his swordplay to parry attack and he initiated a spin kick to knock most of them back. He placed his Keyblades on the floor while still holding the hilts so they would drag along the floor. He ran at a singled out Heartless while creating sparks with his keyblades.

"Lion Divide"

Xegato screamed as he cleaved his blades in and rose high into the air while eliminating the heartless he attacked. Now in the air he began to flip back wards slowly. Once the height had reached his maximum Xegato uncurled from the ball and pointed his keyblades towards the ground. The tips began to glow red and then multiple fire spells came out of the tips in about half a second each time.

"Blasting Lion"

Then Xegato was still firing while he was falling through the air. Many heartless were injured from the attack but not killed and before Xegato hit the floor he stopped firing and back flipped once and impaled his Keyblades into the ground and roared one last phrase while creating a huge hurricane of flame.

"Infernal Lion"

The Hurricane ripped through the Heartless in a 3 meter radius and the area was clear for once but then more armored knights filled the gaps. Xegato got into his reverse stance once more, this was going to be a long battle.

"Won't they give up?"

[Hansy]

<sup>"Doesn't look like it..." Hansy said, his sword spinning through the air like a wheel as it cut through about 10 knights in a line, before flinging back to him. Hansy took to the air, a sleu of heartless jumping after him. He sliced one in half horizontaly, before backflipping past anothers attack and finishing it in a vertical slash, before falling to land on the ground. He didn't stay long however, as he temporarily escaped from the frey in another backflip, he landed a few feet away from the knights, getting back into a stance and taking a breath before leaping up to destroy one coming down upon him.

They are eternal... he thought to himself. Blowing a couple away with a whirling aerora attack. As the tornado spun around him he fell back to the ground, moving a few steps, and was eventually back-to-back with Xegato as the heartless crept in.</sup>

[Axel]

"!)amn, we need to think of something quick. There is too many for even us to handle. Is their a leader somewhere?"

As he just finished his sentence Xegato noticed a figure dressed in black with a heartless emblem on their chest. Xegato narrowed his eyes and then spoke to Hansy once more.

"Get that person, then it should be over quick enough. Got it?"

Xegato leaped away from Hansy and begun a series of spinning attacks rapidly until he was stopped by a bigger Heartless. It got blocked and then he was thrown to the floor with its massive hands. Then a group of armored knights dived on the floor after him. He used his wits and managed to back roll and get back on his feet within seconds so the knights landed in a heap on the floor. So Xegato jumped int he air pointed his blades to the floor and smashed through them all with a impalement.

"Come on lets go"

[Hansy]

<sup>Hansy nodded, jumping up slightly and bouncing of a Knights head. Then, with his acrobatic skills, he jumped from head to head, working his way to the one in black with a heartless symbol. He contantly slashed from side to side, not even caring whether a heartless was there. As he did so however, any heartless that jumped in front of him to attack would be obliterated. The ones behind him he just outran. A heap of knights jumped up to attack him. Hansy concentrated magic into his hand, before pounding them all back to the ground by sending a gravira spell smashing on top of them.

He flipped sideways to dodge a knights attack, and returned to near Xegato. "If you want to get that guy, i'll keep these off you." Hansy said, a hint of nervousness in his voice. He wasn't worried about the battle, but he had never fought alongside anyone in his life, so he certainly wasn't use to it. Hansy jumped away from Axel again, using slowra on a group of knights. He then cut through them easily, as they moved like snails through the air.</sup>

[Axel]

"Yea...I'll do just that."

Xegato raised both blades as he concentrated his own magic. Soon enough he was engulfed in his own flame and he was now wearing shiny red Armour and his blades were longer and aflame with crimson. he also had a pair of newly formed wings made of pure flame. he had no idea he could do this but it was pure impulse. He jumped into the air and skimmed above the knights spinning keeping his blades low and decapitating the odd knight. Then he finally reached the man in black who just stood there with his arms folded.

"Who are you?"

The man made no reply except he outstretched his right hand and a dark light appeared in his hand that was long like a stick. Then he slashed the floor causing it to make a nearly invisible fine cut slit in the ground. Xegato smirked while hovering near the man and then charged towards him both blades raised. He tried to attack him on his head but the man in black was too fast and raised it above his head so both of Xegato's blades came in contact with this blade of darkness. Xegato realized he had failed and flew into the air several feet above the man and charged down through the air trying to attack him once more.

Again the man blocked it with ease and Xegato tried one more attack by front flipping and using all his strength smashed the blades upon the blade of darkness. However the guard wasn't even faltered never mind broke. Xegato flew back wards and landed on the floor and was puzzled as to what this things was, most likely a Heartless.

"Hansy, I'm gonna need some help!"

[Hansy]

<sup>(Sorry for taking so long to post, and since when does Xegato know Hansy's name XP)

A burst of wind shot up as Hansy obliterated all the heartless around him in a strong Aero move. Now having a semi-clear path towards the cloaked figure, he moved quickly to help out Xegato. Hansy ran towards the cloaked figure, slicing through the heartless as he went. By jumping off the Armored Knights heads, it was pretty easy to stay both aloft and out of danger. Finally close enough to the Heartless Boss, Hansy tried his hand in swinging at him. It had relatively the same result as Xegato's attempt, and Hansy was sent hurtling back, before hitting the ground and rolling to a stop.

Hansy swiftly jumped right back onto his feet, jumping away as a Knight plunged its blade through the ground he had layed upon only moments before. Hansy concluded he might have to try one of his strong, but less perfected techniques. He put his hand to the side, as a mix of energy, and what seemed to be some darkness took the shape of a small blade in his palm. He opened his palm, splitting the blade into three, before swiping at the cloaked man from afar as if attacking with claws. The blades shot out in claw-like streams, arcing toward the foe.</sup>