"When you're all done chit-chatting and are wiling to face me like grown-ups, let me know any time!" Lucus shouted at everyone as he flew around in Serins electric cage while avoiding the stream of electricity. Both were rather annoying but amusing and he was timing himself to se how long it would take for him to get bored, which was pretty quickly. When he finally reached that point he tried to bombard Serin with windblades from every angle but Joshua and Xahsouj intervened and blocked enough for Serin to make an escape. Now even more anoyed Lucus looked around for something to take advantage of... and he found it rather quickly.

without warning Ascot's chocobo would find itself lifted into the air by powerful winds only to be slamed into the ground by more powerful ones. The process would repeated itself over and over until the giant bird was either dead or dismissed by a, no doubt, very pissed off Ascot. Once it was gone though Lucus beelined to were it had beelined to were it had been, breaking through the lightning cage and seemingly not bothered by it. Once he was were Chocobo had beenhe quickly grabbed Amelia by the throat, blowing away anyone else who happened to be there and tried to protect her, before holding her in the path of Serin's electrical beam, letting her take the spell in his place

"My, my, my, what do we have here." he said, brining her closer as Amelia struggled to get out of his grip and to breathe" Such a pretty litle thing, almost like my sweet daughter. Doesn't she lok a bit like Elyse, Rosey? I wonder what would happen if I 'accidently' broke her during this fight? Anyone care to find out?"

"Damn bird should've carried her away" Joshua muttered under his breathe

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Chocobo!" Ascot shouted, appalled at Lucus' abuse of his summon. Quickly dismissing the bird once he realized that it would not survive any more ill-treatment, the boy was now angry...although that anger was replaced by shock as the Wind Mage took Amelia from her guardians and began using her as a hostage/human shield. This...was not taken lightly by Ascot.

"Amelia!" he screamed in shock and fear, fear of what Lucus can do to the poor girl. What should he do? Fighting was out of the question with the Wind Mage having taken a hostage, but, at the same time, the other option was to offer himself in Amelia's place, and Ascot didn't know if that would work, because Lucus seemed to prefer tormenting little people like Elyse and Amelia.

Wait a second, Reflect can be cast on other people as well, right? Ascot thought. Same for Haste. Wait a second, Fira!

And with that, Ascot cast Fira on Amelia, surrounding her in a ring of flames; thanks to his Keyblade, it didn't harm the little girl, but it would harm Lucus.

"Amelia, escape!" the boy shouted, casting Haste on her. This would be followed up by Reflect, just in case Lucus tried to harm Amelia further.

"Amelia, run to me!" he spoke.

"Smart move, kid," Jake whistled. "Looks like Dad isn't getting the hint, though."

Then he knelt down and whispered in Ascot's ear.

"Keep him busy. The prick's full of himself, even if he's got the power to back it up. We need to outsmart him if we can't overpower him."

With that, Jake ran forwards, ready to grab the girl the moment she got away from the insane Nobody. He drew Kaiser Leo, gripping the handle tightly with one hand. He readied himself for anything the attacker might counterstrike with.

Lucius sighed as he saw the flames from Ascot's Fira spell form but they were quickly extinguished as he called on the wind to blow the flames out while his grip on Amelia's throat tightened. When he saw Jake approaching he simply blew the young man away
"You lot just don't get it. The only ones here who have even a remote chance of beating me are Rosey and Serin. And even their chances are slim" he said while laughing to himself." You kids aren't on the same level as those two. You're so inferior compared to them so what makes you think you can even touch me?"

"Sadly he has a point I think." Joshua muttered angrily as he turned to Belle and Exo in" Sorry for not giving an opinion earlier but I was a bit distracted by the battle.

First off good but pointless plan. The boots, while deadly, ain't the threat here. And if he dismisses them then he simply becomes faster. Second that sound more like gravity then polarity.

Also is it me or is the sky getting darker? Was rain in the forecast?"

"Uh-oh" Satoko, Rika, and Xahsouj said at the same time

" 'Uh-oh'? What's 'uh-oh' and why don't I think I'll like it?" Joshua said

"Well let's just say Amelia lacks control and restraint... especially when she's upset." Xahsouj said

"Which of you brats is Amelia so I can ki..." Lucus said before a blinding flash and deafening crack filled the Sandlot. Several more bolts hit the sandlot but luckily most of them avoiding hitting anyone other then Lucus. Once the lightning stopped Lucus would be a few feet from Amelia, slightly damaged but absolutely livid. Amelia herself was still recovering from him choking her as arcs electricity appearing around her body.

"You... YOU LITLLE BITCH!" Lucus shouted as he sent a lethal wind blade at her but Xahsouj blocked it while Satoko managed to send the madman flying with a successful lamppost to his back. Seeing an opening Joshua quickly called down a bolt of black lightning, sending Lucus into the ground

"Everyone, I would unload right now while his defence is down!" He shouted

As mentioned, Ascot's ranged capabilities were limited, so the boy was reduced to using his Shotlock at Lucus, as well as another Fira. While this made him of little help in the battle, it did give him time to express surprise at Amelia's abilities.

"You were awesome!" he shouted at the little girl, casting another Haste on her. The boy considered that it might be the first time someone called Amelia's powers awesome. And, with that, the boy zig-zagged to Lucus' position so that he can use Faith.

Serin was able to block the wind blades that Joshua and his Nobody didn't block, the Red Wizard nodding at them in thanks. "Thanks, Im not sure if even I could have blocked all of those". The battle was quickly going from bad to worse. Even if he hated Lucus' guts he had to admit that the man had power and skill. Certainly not as much as he clearly claimed to have, but still was enough to be the gigantic threat that he was right now. He watched with a bit of a smirk on his face as he was pretty much taken down by a kid. "Must suck to be taken down by a couple of kids, huh Lucus!"

Serin's sword suddenly seemed to literally turn into a bolt of lightning as air, ice, fire, lightning, stone, and even meteors seemed to all slam down onto Lucus in what was a storm of immensely powerful magical spells that would only target and hurt Lucus, no one else, the lightning cage that was still around also targeting the man. Serin was not done yet though. Serin was not just a mage, but a very skilled swordsman as well. His entire body was quick and his sword arm strong. He was slashing his blade, which looked as if it was a bolt of surging, powerful lightning, at Lucus, not giving him any moment to rest or counter as Serin went all out. Even if he was only a Red Wizard he was an extremely skilled swordsman, his powerful will and magic being able to be felt in each slash that he threw at Lucus, Serin not wanting to give the man any chance to rise back up into the air.

rose watched looking for an opening while waiting for amaya and elyse to be a good distance away where lucus couldn't reach them

"good keep them safe"said rose to herself as she looked wards Xayama "hey open a corridor of darkness and have anyone who doesn't have magic throw things and send them are lucus "she saidq

rose saw her opening when lucus was flung to the ground before she moved quickly using her own shadow to attack him as she moved towards him

Jake was knocked back by the wind - fortunately, not as far as Lucus would have liked. He struck the ground with his Keyaxe, anchoring himself to the ground to prevent himself from being blown back. He had to admit; the old coot was a pretty dangerous enemy. No sense in letting him get up again, no second chances. He acted the tough guy, now let him see what it was like now the shoe was on the other foot.

Jake summoned his second Keyaxe, König Raubtier, a silver-and-platinum color palette of Kaiser Leo. He charged his attack, and attacked with his shotlock; Photon Charge. Lucus was immediately slammed by Jake multiple times, the blond-haired man effectively leaving afterimages with every attack. Every axe blow exploded with the power of light, driven hard by muscles honed by years of exercise and battle.

"Bad man!" he teased. "No! Means! No! Now get lost before you lose more than your dignity."

He danced and wove with ever blow, using his axes to carve through any wind the Nobody could throw at him. The trick here was to avoid letting the man use his wind magic to trap him, and to constantly keep him off-balance.

Though she thought the plan of Exomin was very good, Joshua was right. Their opponent could just get out of the boots, and that would probably make him even more faster. But luckily something else was already done, she saw Joshua cast Lightning down on Lucus, and that left him open for attacks. Belle, not wanting to get too close to the enemy, didn't have any magic, and also didn't want to wait in line to throw something through a Corridor of Darkness, decided to grab her green summon stone. "Cactuar!" she shouted. The green humanoid cactus appeared on the battlefield. "You know what to do." she said. Cactuar nodded He ran as fast as he could on the place where he was standing, before taking a giant leap in the air and unleashed a barrage of needles, this time not around the whole battlefield, but all into the direction of Lucus.

No, a needle didn't do much damage, it could kill a Shadow, a Soldier etc, but not an Angel Star, for example, in one hit. However if 1000 Needles were all send into one direction, hitting one person, it would inflict massive damage. Belle threw her fist in the air, cheering for Cactuar as he performed his attack. Exomin tapped on her shoulder.

"Sorry I couldn't be of any help..." he said. "My polarity, or magnetism, as they also call it makes me just able to control a metal weapon, or item. But I can change the properties of the metal into making it heavier. The mass of the particles in the object will become much heavier. But this guy indeed can just jump out of his boots. It's not like I can make his body heavier." he said.

Belle however knew, not from experience or anything, just from basic logic, that there are metal particles in a person's blood. Iron, zinc, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum and selenium. So many, they can all be made heavier. "Exomin. There is metal in the blood of people. You could make that heavier, if he gets a cut, and it starts to bleed. But..." Belle got interrupted by the female version of Exomin, Eximna.

"I can cut him. Brother, make his particles heavier afterwards." she said already walking towards Lucus.

"Sis, wait!" Eximna turned around. "Shall we use that special ability we've been working on?" Eximna shrugged and gave a 'go ahead' look. Exomin nodded and jumped towards her hand while he transformed into a foil in the process. Eximna rushed at Lucus. She summoned a few blades in front of her to cut Lucus' arm. Afterwards she would proceed to touch the cut with the foil that had her brother inside of it. Upon contact with the blood, Exomin could change the properties of the metals in his blood to make his body a lot heavier. Although because it is just a low percentage of metals in a person's blood it would only make him slower, he still would be able to move.But hitting him would be easier now, if he were to get up again. After the attack was done Exomin quickly changed back into his human form, exhausted from the transformation.

"Are you alright brother?" Eximna asked. Exomin nodded. "I just need to rest a bit, just let me rest here against the wall." he said. Eximna, as well as Belle, continued to attack Lucus with their weapons. Belle mostly throwing shurikens and kunai's towards him, while Eximna summoned entire blades out of nowhere and threw them at him.

Lucus stood no chance. Serin's spells and Ascots shotlock hit first and resulted in a massive explosion that sent Lucus flying. Followed up by Ascot's Faith, Rose's shadows, Belle's 1000 Needles and thrown weapon assault, Serin, Jakes and the twins melee assault and the Nobody was being sent reeling. Joshua, Xahsouj, Satoko and Rika didn't give him breathing room either, the former three attacking him with their weapons while Rika slammed him with barriers. It looked like Lucus was going to be eliminated for good when everyone who had a metal weapon that was close to Lucus, aka Joshua, Xahsouj, Satoko, Serin, Ascot, and Jake, were flung back through the air by their own weapons while Belle's and Eximna weapons were flung back at them. Rose's and Rika's attacks were blocked by a dome of pure metal.

"My my Chaos. Seems you got yourself in a little too much trouble this time." A voice said as a CoD opened in front of the dome. The person who stepped out wore a bright red robe that was covered in cuts, burns, bullet holes, and bloodstains. With a wave of their hand the dome was dismissed.

"Fuck you War. Don't you have something else to do?" Lucus said.

"Just saving your sorry ass. Now move before our leader decides you need a punishment."

Lucus grimaced as he slowly walked through the CoD, muttering all the while.

Once Lucus was safe War closed the CoD before turning to everyone else.
"So what now fellow warriors? Is your blood still running hot with battle fury or will you calm those flames and stand down. I'll go along with whichever choice you make." He said calmly

Even if Serin's sword pretty much turned into a lightning bolt from the powerful magic that Serin put into it in the end it was still a metal weapon beneath that. Serin kept a tight grip on his weapon, as he was currently letting his mana recharge with its quick rate so he didn't want to let go of it, so when flung back he certainly wasn't expecting it. Was Lucus truly that great to withstand that incredible result? Apparently not as suddenly another man appeared, this man most likely being responsible for them not being able to finish Lucus off, which they were so close to doing. Apparently the man had some kind of metal control, judging from the metal dome that appeared to block Rose's and Rika's attacks.

They seemed to call themselves Chaos and War. What were they, the Four Horsemen? No, Chaos wasn't a horsemen. War was, but Chaos wasn't. Serin was back on his feet quickly though, making another fast rush for Lucus as Serin wasn't one to stay down for very long, aiming to still cut Lucus down. Unfortunately though it was too late, Lucus vanishing into a corridor of darkness before Serin could get to him thus causing the Red Wizard to stop his rush short. He turned to the man named War, still holding his sword at the ready in case the man tried anything funny.

"A man named War willing to forgo battle? Well I guess that makes sense, a fight at the right moment type of matter". Serin sighed and just shook his head, walking over to his fallen hat and putting it back on his head. "I will only fight you though if you raise a hand against anyone else here since you don't seem as hotblooded as that cur Lucus". Serin pointed his blade, which literally looked like Serin was holding a bolt of pure lightning, at War. "Before you do leave though why don't you tell us who you are. After all, its only polite. Who exactly do you work for, and why would he have Lucus working with him, a man that shouldn't even exist anymore for multiple reasons". Serin lowered his blade, the magic still infused and around it, but not crackling as wildly now as Serin was keeping it calm and ready for now.

Observation: Just when they were winning, the group were blocked by another Nobody, one who seemed to have Exomin and Exmina's metal powers. This Nobody apparently managed to rescue Lucus, and revealed that the latter's name was now Chaos (how fitting), while his was...War. This gave Ascot enough clues to ascertain that they were part of an organization, perhaps one more powerful than the Six Senses.

Not that the Six Senses would want to hear that, though. Oh, in other news, his 'Faith' spell actually worked, albeit in conjunction with other spells! Anyway, back to the subect at hand; Serin had a point, the man named War was willing to forego battle, which was a good thing. Hmm, did he have any connection with the black-cloaked man who had interrupted Satoko and his' duel?

"Are you under the command of the black-cloaked man?" he finally spoke.

Jake continued to hammer away at the adversary when suddenly the axes in his hands vibrated strangely and suddenly yanked him back. Jake struggled to control them again, but had to unsummon them, enabling him to land on the ground. He resummoned his Keyaxes, but by then, he was too far away from Lucus to continue the fight.

"Okay, that was new," Jake muttered, feeling the axes in his hand. He looked at the red-robed mage that had just appeared.

"Great, another clown," he grunted. He should have realized by now that bad guys were like Russian dolls; open one up and another showed up. "You jerks have a union or something?!

"You tell me, buddy. Your twisted comrade attacked us, and tried to kill several people. His former family clearly doesn't want his psychopathic sorry ass back, and his mouth had written a check his ass couldn't cover. So keep your rabid dog on a leash."

They certainly had inflicted much damage on Lucus. A few more hits and they might be able to finish him off. But then something happened. Belle's shurikens and kunai's were thrown back at her. She quickly cartwheeled out of the weapon's range and looked to the one who caused it. A new person was standing there, one who was wearing a rather odd costume. "War..." Belle mumbled under her breath when she heard the name. It obviously wasn't his real name. "Chaos." the nickname for half-dead Lucus. It seems like that War was going to take Lucus back to their home department. As expected Silas was the one to be very reasonable towards War.

Indeed, the latter seemed more calm and relaxed than Lucus. Which only made him more dangerous in Belle's opinion. She then heard Jake, unlike Serin, he was being very rude instead of trying to settle this nicely. "Jake. Stop that." Belle said. "Let Serin handle this." she tried to not sound mean or angry, but it might feel to Jake that it did.

Eximna was able to slide underneath the storm of swords that she fired herself in the first place, but got reflected by an unknown force. When she was back up she looked back at Exomin who only gave a thumbs up, indicating he still was doing fine. Eximna noticed that the new enemy was one that also could control metal. However on a much larger extent than her and her brother combined. Combined they may be able to stand against him without dying. That was the vibe she had when the new enemy appeared.

"If you and your disgusting companion leave right now. We won't attack you nor him. We don't want this town to get in danger, it is not something that mayor Hayner wants to happen." she said with her strict and monotone voice. "Hopefully both sides can agree with this. Just don't come to this world again."

Jake raised an eyebrow.

"Whatever happened to 'let Serin settle this nicely'?" However, he did give a smirk; he liked this one's spirit. "And let's be honest, given the type of company this guy's keeping, I don't think being nice works here. I mean, his buddy did try to murder your friend, wasn't he?"