In a cataclysm known as the Nightfall, the worlds were almost completely destroyed by a harrowing surge of darkness.
In the shadows of the ensuing chaos a new group has taken shape. Led by an Aegyl named Kalos, the 11th Hour touts an esoteric knowledge of how to combat the darkness and restore the worlds. They might be the worlds’ best chance at survival; but nobody really knows enough about them to confirm or deny their claims.
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Third District. Ah, Third District. Possibly the most dangerous place in the nebula, outside of the so-called Corridors of Darkness themselves.
Lily swung at the nearest Soldier heartless with a piece of rebar, scavenged earlier in the day. She connected with a ringing noise, beating it about the helmet until it piffed into wisps of darkness, and went for the next one, grinning, slightly mad with adrenaline.
The Defender slammed into her from behind, throwing her jaw-first into the wall. Lily scrambled back to her feet and dodged, head ringing. The shield chattered its teeth at her, eyes glowing, and when she tried to dart around it and get at its back, the shield shot out and chomped the rebar right out of her hands.
A pair of Soldiers grabbed her, metal claws cold, and the Defender advanced on her. She kicked out, catching one of the Soldiers in the gut and not really doing herself a lot of good.
Shiru backed up, sword in one hand, keyblade in the other. This was bad...
It had started as a simple fight; a small hunt venturing into the more dangerous section of Traverse. Quickly, though, as heartless after heartless joined the eager throng, it had begun to look like they may have to back out. Unfortunately, neither Lily nor Shiru were sane enough to heed that warning, and had simply engaged them all, taking them down one by two.
As he was taking down yet another eager shadow, something pricked at the back of his neck; an awareness that he'd come to recognize as Sentinel's warning. There--!
Without even turning to look, he took a step backward, pivoted, and jumped straight back at the largest heartless with a warcry.
Both blades struck into the defender's back, and he twisted his body around to try to kick it as well for good measure. It wasn't a good angle; even one that could knock it directly into Lily, but he was more concerned with doing enough damage to finish it off before it could finish off his team mate than with thinking about how he'd pull that off. It'd taken enough damage so far that just a few more hits should kill it. If this didn't do it, then there'd probably be no more time left to try to distract it anyway.
Lily twisted this was and that trying to get enough leverage to - Ha! Like that! - through herself backwards and down letting them take all her weight as she kicked out with both feet. She hit the ground hard, but one went stumbling into the defender, and the other went down with her. She grabbed at the head of the one on the ground with her before it could phase or get up, and slammed it into the ground until it was gone.
The defender fell just where Lily had been, and where a soldier was now, managing to crush it with its own shield and weight. Shiru took the opportunity to deliver a few more strikes until the thing finally wisped into black smoke, and was gone.
He stood there for a moment, where it had been, before whirling around to take down the last shadow just about to reach out to him. "Nice TRY!" It, too, followed the defender in a matter of seconds.
With that, he straightened and glanced back to Lily. "Hey! You alive? We should get outta here. Now."
There wasn't time to pause and figure out locations. Shiru knew of two in this world off the top of his head, and neither of them were in this area. Looks like they were going to have to run.
"Figure that out later. Come on!"
He backed up a step closer to Lily, at least until she started moving. More things were starting to crawl from the ground; there wasn't any length of time in between waves. If this kept up, there'd be no place to run.
Lily took off, knowing he would keep up. They'ed definitely been here to long this time, and she hadn't paid enough attention to which why they'd come. Which way was Second District?!
Okay, this wasn't a good thing. She didn't feel like she remembered this street at all.
Was that a pair of Neoshadows back there? Oh, not good at all.......
Always a few steps behind her, to keep anything from catching up from behind and keep an eye forward, Shiru followed. They had gone farther than he'd intended; this area he didn't recognize. Or had Traverse shifted itself again? There was no good way to tell.
Things appeared and vanished to the sides; as long as they just followed. They could follow all they wanted to. When they appeared longer, he'd take them down - so he kept affirming in his mind. Nowhere to go but forward, so they'd --
Something wheeled in front of them; Shiru reached out to snag Lily's arm. "This way!" With that, he darted down a side corridor. Funny, it almost seemed as though he had a clue where he was going.
Lily categorically refused to look back. She knew better. There were things to both sides, flickering in the corners of her eyes, and they'd better not be being herded - but Heartless generally weren't that smart. Or good at teamwork.
She didn't even see what appeared in front of them before Shiru's hand on her arm turned her down the side street. She ran, nearly sprinting, neck and neck until a group of shadows wriggled up from the ground ahead. She dropped back about half a step - they'd done this before - Shiru could kill them without breaking stride.
Shiru charged them, engaging them automatically. Kill them before they attracted more; for heartless tended to draw more heartless faster. The faster they were downed, as well, the faster they could keep moving; and they needed all the speed they could keep at the moment. At least until they found a less... populated area.
A few hits managed to disperse them without even slowing him down much.
Shiru plowed though the shadows like paper, and Lily was right back beside him.
Running, running, the world was narrowed to Running Away and she still didn't know where the warp was or where the Doors were ---
Doors! In the wall beside them, she had not seen that there at all, Second here they came. She grabbed Shiru's arm for another abrupt turn, and felt her hand slip - he was bleeding when had he got cut - never mind. She flung herself at the doors.
He didn't even notice that much, just that she'd grabbed him and that it stung far more than it should have. Pain was something he'd registered somewhere, at some point, but it was quickly overtaken by adrenaline.
He followed Lily's lead this time, throwing himself at the doors as well. There they were; finally.
And thankfully, also, they opened. Just in time.
"Alright!" He didn't cut his speed by much, though, once he'd recovered from being thrown through the doors. "Little further." This time, he knew exactly where he was headed.
Nothing followed through the doors - no idea how that worked, but she was really glad for it just now, as they stumbled through. It was quiet on this side, for now, making it all the easier for her to hear how out of breath they both were.
"Right." She let him take the lead without stopping - it was quiet, but so not safe.
