Undesirable Neighbors (Uldor, closed)

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The city that stood between the two castles of Dark XII and Organization XIII mostly stood deserted. All that came here was teh occasional Heartless and Nobodies, but they always fought each other off. So it was the perfect place to be alone.

That was exactly what Xaldin wanted. He sat on the steps of Memory Skyscraper, staring at the divide of the two castles. He looked deep in thought, and summoned the occasional Dragoon out of boredom. He had gone there to try and find a way across the barrier. But he couldn't think of anything, and it irratated him.

After a while, he stood and summoned his lances, looking for some Heartless to eradicate. He floated down a narrow alley, a couple Dusks flanking him behind. He wished that one of those Dark XII would come and fight him, actually give him a challenge. But, when he turned the corner, a smile was brought to his lips.

The next best thing had crossed his path. In his way stood a Behemoth, and it was getting ready to charge. He laughed aloud and grabbed three spears, forcing the others to fly at the Heartless with him close behind. They hit home, and the Heartless roared in anger. Smiling yet again, Xaldin whipped his hands up, his other spears blocking the Heartless' charge. Now all six floated in a circle around him, connected by air currents that would block even strong physical attacks. But, as a result, he couldn't attack at that moment.

Suddenly, he caught the scent of something...darker. He looked away from the giant creature at the top of the nearest building. Something strong was up there, and it knew he was there.

"Show yourself!" he said, flinging a ball of compressed air to the top of the building and letting it loose.

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'Jump the Rooftops'. Yes, that was a good name. A very good name indeed, considering the rules of this game. Jump from rooftop to rooftop until you slip! Not that fun, but really, what was Uldro supposed to do to pass the time in this boring old city. A few Dragoon Nobodies crossed his path in the skies, which he took out with a die or two, but other than that occasional treat, no fun. No new card games, video games... Uldro was actually considering making a trip to Traverse Town to play a game with the citizens, before he noticed... that.

Uldro knew what that was. That was the scent of a Nobody, of course, but it was much stronger. It was the scent of a member of the Organization XIII. The scent of Dilan's Nobody, to be exact. Uldro didn't really like the Typhoon Angler(he was too forward with stuff!), so he knew he'd hate his Nobody, too. Xaldin, was it...?

No matter. This 'Xaldin' was attacking a Heartless in an alleyway. Unacceptable, but interesting. The longer Uldro could watch his enemy, the more he'd understand him, and the more he could disturb him by dodging all of his attacks.

Oh well, this Xaldin apparently didn't like fun either. Uldro had been sensed, and Xaldin had attempted to take him out with a hard ball of air. Uldro smiled. Baseball! He conjured up his dice-chucks and smacked back the ball of air with a laugh. "Home run!" he laughed, then flipped down from the rooftop to the midst of the Dusks. He summoned up a large, wide, ten-foot domino, and sliced it around in a circle, barely able to hold on without dropping it and sending it flying like a missile into the wall.

"Uldro, the Perverse Gamer, at your service," Uldro grinned with a sweeping bow. "Would you like to play a game with me?"

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Xaldin just stared at the Heartless that stood before him. He cocked an eyebrow and said, "A game?" Then he snorted and grabbed his spears again, holding one to the Heartless' throat. "Why should I play a game with you, Heartless? You may be Luxord's Heartless, but you are no friend of mine." It was then that Xaldin felt the ground shake once. He had totally forgotten teh Behemoth, and it was once again preparing to charge. He raised his palm at the Heartless and cats an Aeroga at it, causing it to fly away. He then turned back to Luxord's Heartless and said, "How about we play MY little game." He started to float and, once again, made his lances rotate around him. "Try and beat me!" he yelled.

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Uldro smiled at this man's willingness to play with him. Even though it wasn't the game Uldro had in mind, Uldro wasn't the type to be a spoilsport. But, Uldro was the type to make the rules. And he did.

"Alright, I'll play with you. On a few conditions." Uldro grinned, and rose his arms up to the sky. The air began to buzz all around the city, and suddenly, in large poofs of purple and black mist and energy, ten-foot tall playing cards with rounded, silver edges and the symbol of the Heartless on their center appeared around the city, lining every wall. They began to move, slowly at first, then faster, and faster! They began to move so fast that if one were to put their finger into the speeding walls, it would certainly be cut off.

But after that large-scale spell, Uldro just managed to push out another one. "Now... for the rules." Uldro snapped his fingers and wall of light rose up ten feet above the top of all of the cards, where it then shot across the whole city, boxing the entire city in at twenty feet in the air, and not allowing anyone(or anything) to leave. The light began to fade away, though, until only lines resembling hexagons remained, and those faded as well, although the wall was still very much there.

"No flying of up to ten feet above the cards.
No destruction of the barriers.
No leaving of the city.
Defeat me, and you win!"

Uldro then jumped into the spinning cards, sucked into one, and within seconds he was halfway across the city. But Uldro couldn't leave without leaving his guest a present...

...And leave a present he did. Swarms of Air Soldiers stormed down from a cloud of darkness(which was located at the top of the makeshift arena) and attacked Xaldin, attempting to overtake him with their numbers.

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Xaldin laughed, a slightly maniacal look coming on his face. "You have got to be kidding me!" he said out loud, lances at the ready. "Do you not think that I would know this trick? Luxord uses the same one!" He took a deep breath and let it out, focusing his air powers at the same time. A hurricane-force wind blew through mst of the maze, ordered by Xaldin to find and encounter Uldor. He also summoned three Dragoons and cast Aeroga shield on them, to allow them to move freely and block attacks.

As for Xaldin, four of his lances surrounded him, moving so swiftly that it made an air shield around the Whirlwind Lancer. His other two were in his hands, ready for any surprise attacks. Then he started to use Jump, randomly warping around teh maze until he would find Uldor.

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So he had summoned a hurricane and sent out his henchmen, big whoop. It didn't matter to Uldro how much wind blew around his city, those cards weren't budging! His cards weren't like the ordinary game of solitaire on a windy day, heavens no, they were strong! And they were tricky, too. As shown by Uldro as he hopped from card to card through teleporation to get away from this wind and those spears. He began to sing a song from a favorite World of his;

"Maybe you've heard of a terrible place
Where the soundrels of Darkness
Collect in a lair

Maybe you've heard of that mythical place
Called the Court of Miracles
Hello, you're there!
Where the lame can walk
And the blind can see
But the dead don't talk
So you won't be around
To reveal what you've found
We have a method for spies and intruders
Rather like hornets protecting their hive
Here in the Court of Miracles
Where it's a miracle if you get out alive!"


Uldro sang this out as he danced from card to card, his voice echoing out from every one, and sending his Heartless at every Dragoon he saw, soon taking out all three. He certainly was enjoying their game of Dance Dance Revolution.

"Now for the spell that's just to DIE for! You'll be ROLLING with laughter!" Uldro laughed and then summoned up giant die to roll down the road of the city that Xaldin was in. And by giant, Uldro really worked hard on it. It was huge, with dozens of sides, each red dot on every side sparked with fire, steamed with ice, shone with lightning, rippled with Gravity, several different and probably nameless spells floating around inside the die, ready to explode out on contact with their target.

Uldro then flipped into the cards and flipped out on the other side of the road Xaldin was on that the die wasn't on, and summoned up a hallway of huge dominoes. "One falls, they all fall... Including you, Xaldin!" Uldro laughed and kicked one down, which fell and smacked down the next in line, which in turn fell and made the next fall, until they were falling at the same rate as the die was rolling. Uldro smiled at his handiwork, but then, tired by all of the work, he swooned right into the cards and watched Xaldin from there.

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So this Heartless was craftier than he made himself to be. Xaldin smiled, pleased with the new challenge that Uldor presented. But the dominoes would be easy to stop, the die as well. His spears turned into whisps of wind, which surrounded his hands. He then pushed his hands out, causing nearly solid walls of air to push out towards both obstacles taht were coming towards him. They were strong enough to hold the weapons up, at least momentarily. Then he focused his senses instead of using most of his power on attacks and found the scent of the Heartless. He ripped open a dark portal and jumped through it, coming out behind the higher Heartless. "Gotcha!" he said, hooking his hands under Uldor's and linking his hands behind his neck, in a full Nelson style.

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"Oh, getting into my cards, are you?" Uldro grinned. "You know these are worth lots of munny, and they're not for playing!" Uldro then exploded into Darkness, and reformed as a trumpeting elephant, and headbutted Xaldin out of the card he had been hiding in. The place he had pushed him into, though, was the exact place he'd set up his walls of air. Uldro leaped out and transformed again, this time into an eagle, soaring as high as the barriers allowed.

A rippling sphere of solid time energy, a Time Bullet, this one of Speed, formed in Uldro's talon, and blasted the wall holding back the die with it, exploding it into a giant hurricane, speeding up the time it took for the wind to blow around. The Time Bullet was the exact frequency Uldro needed, though - just strong enough to set off the die.

The die exploded, creating a large excursion of mana that rocked the whole city. It tore up buildings and lingering Heartless and Nobodies with storms of fire, ice, lightning, water, earth, time, gravity, every spell that Uldro could shove in there, blasting everywhere.

The wind and explosion also sent the dominoes flying through buildings and smashing into the buildings and impaling the battling Dragoons and Air Soldiers. Uldro then, having used up most of his energy, managed to teleport completely across time, land inside of a card, and rest up in the Darkness there. Was that slippery Air-aligned Nobody gone yet?

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Was that the best the Heartless could do? Xaldin sneered and made his air shield die down, which had taken most of the rouge magic for him. The rest hit him, but it wouldn't be a problem. What WAS a problem was finding where Uldor was while he kept jumping around. So Xaldin decided to use a strategy that he didn't often use--taunting. "You are a coward!" he yelled, mangifying his voice using air. "You hide in your cards like armor that nobody can pierce. You run like a frightened child!" He thought for a second than said, "You can't even live up to your Nobody, and he is rank X out of XIII! You are weak!" With that, he held his lances at the ready, sure that he would get a response.

(SO SHORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Uldro laughed from all of his cards. "Ha ha ha! Taunting? That won't distract the Perverse Gamer from his goal!" With that, a die was flicked from one card, another from one on the other side of that road, and he threw a Large Body from another, all in the span of a few seconds. The Large Body smacked in first, holding Xaldin tight. Ordinarily, the Heartless should've died quickly, but it wasn't supposed to live for long. It was actually just meant to hold the slippery Xaldin still while the dice thunked into him. They discharged their spells, a Blizzard and a Fire, respectively, and the Large Body dissipated. With Xaldin distracted by a Heartless and two weak dice already, he was easy pickings for a far-reaching cloud of fifty-two razor-sharp cards going straight for him. Each card also held an Air Soldier inside, so even if they missed, they could just release the Heartless inside to attack. And with them so far-reaching, and Xaldin most likely dazed, could this maybe do something useful?

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"Fool!" yelled the Whirlwind Lancer, swinging his right-handed lance through the air. He was starting to get angry, and when he was angry, bad things happened. First he focused on the cards. It was foolish of teh Heartless to prepare an aerial attack. He caused a wild gust to blow the cards in multiple directions, then summoned about 40 Dragoons to deal with the Heartless. It took quite a bit of energy, but he still had an immense amount in store. He threw his lances in the air and used the air to form the Cyclone Dragon. Massive force winds blew bact the fire and blizzard spells at their producers, destroyiung them. The dragon then rose in the air, Xaldin standing on top of it, watching.

Uldor would not get away this time.

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Uldro gasped at the large dragon. "...Wow." Uldro said, surprised. "That seems a little extreme, doesn't it?" Uldro said, nervous. This Xaldin seemed like he was going to hurt him! Didn't he know this was just a game? Oh, well. Some people are sore losers.

"Well, if you're going to be extreme, then..." Uldro pushed out a powerful spell, very powerful. He summoned a shell of Stop around Xaldin, to keep himself safe for as long as possible, then covered this shell with dice, simply hanging in the air with the inability to keep moving in an area where time wouldn't move, each infused with one elemental spell, and a Speed, to keep them moving faster than Xaldin could block.

Uldro waved a hand, and dispelled the Stop shell. The dice thudded in, striking with pointed ends, and exploding into both the dragon and even Xaldin himself, with Fires, Blizzards, and Thunders. Would that spell out 'GAME OVER' for Uldro's opponent? Hopefully.

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As the dice hit Xaldin, he fell from his dragon, trying to catch a sphere. He finally closed his eyes and created a platform of air, landing on it. He was hit pretty bad, but he had been hurt worse. He got up and recalled his lances to him, having them surround them with an Air Shield. "Very well planned." said Xaldin, "but I'm afraid it isn't enough." He sat down, focusing his powers so he could heal, as his shield grew to the intensity of a tornado, with him in the middle.

His time was limited to heal, but he woudl take advantage of it.

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Uldro frowned. Hiding during a game? Odd. But, whatever this guy's strategy was, it had to fail. That's like allowing an infinite combo in Magic: The Gathering. No, Uldro had to eliminate that wall of wind as soon as possible. And he did.

Uldro hurled a Time Bullet of Speed into the storm, and the winds began to hasten. The grew faster and faster until, finally, they fell apart, for they were moving too fast even for an Organization member to keep tame. Uldro grinned at this small victory(though the wind could probably be set up again soon, anyway), and flicked a die containing Gravity straight for Xaldin, hopefully keeping him in place to stop him from conjuring his winds again. Really, at this stage in the battle, there wasn't much for either side to do. Uldro was hiding and so was his opponent, and though Uldro had already exhausted a large amount of power(but was quickly regenerating it), and Xaldin hadn't exhausted very much at all, the both of them had really noticed by now that there wasn't anything that they could do to each other while they were both hiding.

Now, Uldro was not a party pooper. If his opponent didn't come out on the offensive again soon, Uldro would, if only to keep the fun going.

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As Xaldin watched his air shield dissipate and the die thrown at him, he sat still, watching the projectile approach him. Then, by flicking a finger, he instructed a Dragoon to block the die far enough so he wasn't affected by it. He stood and sliced both arms through the air in an x motion. As he did so, many replicas of his lances were formed from air and were flung in all directions and down every alley. He then summoned a horde of about 150 Dragoons and sent them to look for Uldor and capture him. To assist them, he also granted them the power to use air to trap the Heartless and hold him still. After that, he set up a Lance Shield to protect him while he once again rested, but also cast a Reflect spell over a ten foot area, using it as a block for Uldor's spells.

But that was the last of his energy, so he sat and meditated, focusing his willpower to regain power.