In a New York Minute: MAP - Central

In a New York Minute: MAP - Central
Date of Scene:	09 December 2012
Location:	Manhattan - Central Park
Synopsis:	The Heartless have swarmed the Central Park, the Shard Seekers, lead by their Fearless Leader Reize, move in to try to stop the commotion. However, the storm in the sky had greatly enhanced the lead Heartless's strength, ensuing a difficult battle. Will the Shard Seekers surmount this obstacle?
Thanks to:	Palom
Cast of Characters:	Reize Seatlan, Lily, Deelel, Palom, Lenn
Tinyplot:	In a New York Minute

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Reize Seatlan has posed:
The Central Park is ordinarily a peaceful place. It is where everyone are able to gather together and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere. Grass is generally green and the place offers nice sightings. However, within this night...

Everything has gone wrong.

There has been a large concentration of Heartless emerging from underneath the city. Millions, if not billions, have raced out of the gates and the portals to take over the area and populate the surroundings.

The Heartless....

ARE EVERYWHERE!!!

The forest is nothing more than a big blob of darkness considering the concentration of their presence. This leave the forest, once a peaceful place, now a land filled of horror.

This is why Reize stayed in Manhattan. After getting the Shard Seekers to meet up at the Twilight Detective Agency, with the commotion getting worse, Reize finally gathered his trusted friends to mobilize with him to rid of the Heartless.

As the boy is running through the park, he is calling out from behind him, "Everyone! Remember! The numbers are greater than before! Because of that, we need to stay close together! If they try to corner you and isolate you, take to the air and regroup. We cannot separate for one instance!"

He withdraws both boomerangs, "We need to take them down!"

Lenn has posed:
Lenn gulps. The blonde is behind Reize. She's still not sure what's happening... but all of this reminds her of home. And she can't let that happen. She's got a big back. "Umm... Come to me, if you're hurt. I have a whole lot of cure crystals."

Lily has posed:
Lily's teeth are clenched tightly. "Reize, I really don't like the looks of this at all. Can we really handle so many?!" She's all but back to back with Lenn, for the two are a team with Reize, didn'tcha know?

Colorful swirls of light that shimmer with the imagery of the elements gather around her otherwise empty hands just before she gestures at her two friends. "I hate these things... they don't CARE who or what they hurt and just do it! Hate these things. HATE THEM! Go away stupid Heartless!"

Deelel has posed:
There's a whine of an engine of some sort. Deelel had spoken with the Turk briefly he'd chosen to go to another area of the city while she'd departed south. She'd never seen anything like this, this was an user space viral infestation there's no other worlds for it and she's certain LEXUS is a part of it. Still there's no time she's leaving light wall in her wake destorying numerous heartless as she goes but there's always more. There's always more of the creaturesd as Reize and the others are movng in they might hear the bike then see the thing a flash of ligh in the darkness coming near them. She'll bring up Still something's wrong the bike doesn't look right it's clearly got some data issue there's static marks over the craft as she's coming in.

Palom has posed:
The Heartless...

ARE EVERYWHERE!

Among the horde of shadowy monsters are those tiny flying mage ones -- you know, with the robes and pointy hats? Bizarrely reminiscent of mages from the World of Ruin...

One stops briefly, hovering in place to look around. Then it looks up at the storm overhead.

That is when lightning strikes. The tiny Heartless shakes... and then begins to grow, and change. it lands on the ground as it reaches the size of a human and keeps growing, into a monster. Like seven feet tall and hunched over, its forearms and hands growing to support massive claws, sharpened fingers the size of small swords. Its clothes such as they are grow with it but grow ragged and tattered around the edges, puffy white-and-green striped pants and orange boots now visible under the robe.

The new Heartless looks at its claws for a moment, wiggling the massive sharp fingers. And it senses... hearts. Well, there's only one thing for it to do, isn't there?

In one claw is clutched a scepter, which looks a bit comedically small. It raises and waves it a little, and clouds form over the City's defenders, lightning striking down at them -- and then in a flash, the Heartless is off, running on all fours like a gorilla or something -- leaping at foes and pouncing them. It tackles Reize and swipes at him and Lenn, then dashes off towards Lily to swing at her and try to knock her into the horde, and then Deelel finds that his Lightcycle is about to get a very unwelcome extra passenger trying to rip into it and get at him!

Lenn has posed:
Lenn winces as she's hit, but sees Deelel is hit even worse... A crystal is produced, as she begins to release the magical energies within, setting about the task of healing the motorcycled fighter...

Reize Seatlan has posed:
As the boy gazes around the surroundings, he can see those tiny little mages. He gets a message from one of those Ma Belle radios that were given. When he hears the sound of Deelel, Reize speaks on it.

"<Good work, Deelel.>" The boy narrows his eyes, "<We need to get rid of these Heartless!>"

As a storm manifests, Reize looks ahead towards the Empire State Building, "...Huh?" And then, the eyes become wide. "Wh--what?!" The body shudders and his pendant begins glowing violently. As the Child of Light turns towards the little shadow, he witnesses the storm transform it into a giant beast.
The bolt of lightning inches near Reize's foot, catching his attention before he stepped completely in his vicinity.

"Gah!" He looks towards Lily and Lenn, "Lily! Lenn!" The boy attempts to shove them out of the way. However, it was only he that had been able to be quick enough to sweep away from the incoming tackle coming his way. As the boy spings back, the boy manages to claw swiping at him completely. Instead, it gazes his cheek, releasing a bit of blood that drops.

"Lily, Lenn, take rear! I'll try to keep it occupied!"

The boy charges ahead towards the large Heartless beast. As he springs closer to it, Reize is moving head to head with the Heartless. "HEY UGLY!" Once Reize nears the large Heartless, he is lunging forward with his foot towards the creature's knees to get its attention, then he reaches into his bag to withdraw a small ball. He spins around to toss it at the Heartless's face and then he lunges forward with both boomerangs towards the beast. The speed of the boy will likely blur past the monster as he 'slashes' the blunt weapons across.

"KEEP YOUR EYES ON ME!"

Lily has posed:
Through all of this terrible weather... Lily's already a bit soaked and glum. The hordes of darkness are just making things worse. MUHC WORSE, as she's forced to dance about between several lightning strikes, block a third with a swift swing of an arm - the bolt simply stops before her hand, fizzling into nothing.

... And then, while she's distracted, a few more get through her defense. "--Yeeghkaaaa!" The girl's robes and flesh are both singed, but this is just the start.

This has left her disoriented and quite open to the rampaging beast lashing out every which way. The claws bite into her body, spreading a dark curse and knocking her tumbling. She rolls to a halt, but by the time she's done she's already up on her knees, defiance burning in her eyes even as a few drops of blood stain her robes near the claw wounds.

Up Lily stands, turning to face Reize. Her words are simple.

"Reize. Beat them ALL UP. Every last one of them!"

The magic she'd begun gathering earlier's unleashed in a wave of power upon the boy... strengthening him!

Deelel has posed:
Deelel comes under attack the blasts of magic rip into her light cycle caysing the canopty to shatter and herself to be harmed by the bolts of enery the heartless are able to brng forth against her. As Lenn acts Deelel herself is healed. The bikes's going to need to be derezed and rezzed again to fix the damage it's taken. Still she's got some puraches and she's going to drive right into the throwngs of heartless as the light wall contiunes to be formed behinf her.

<Avoid the wall, it will harm or even kill you! Also thank you!>

Palom has posed:
The Heartless doesn't face much _immediate_ retribution, as half of the hearts it's fighting focus on strengthening their comrades.

Except as it's attacking Deelel, it suddenly finds Reize running alongside. It turns and looks at him.

?

And then it's knocked right off the lightcycle and finds its claws full trying to defend itself. As it fends off Reize, it has no chance to run into the light wall, though a small chunk of the horde is snuffed out by blundering blindly into it. The Heartless beast tries to shove Reize off, and looks around at its fellows. The beast shudders, and the hearts can feel a sense of something dark and foreboding... And then the heartless swarm swells as more seem to come from _everywhere_, and instead of milling around directly converge on the city's defenders -- The ones attacking Reize in particular trying to tackle him and keep him away from their ally!

Lenn has posed:
Lenn gasps as Reize jumps in to protect her and Lily, then falls. "R... Reize!" She pulls out some more crystals. "Come on, Get up!" She launches the same spells as Deelel received, putting everything she's got into this.

Lily has posed:
Oh now this is no good at ALL. A matter of seconds. Seconds. That's ALL that it takes to drive lily into a panic as she sees ALL of the things that could possibly be going wrong hapening at once and advancing at them all.

She takes a step back. She takes many many many steps back, trembling and shivering.

But after about twenty of them her steps stop, and both her arms come up as if winding up to pitch something.

She very quickly decides it's better to get close. So she DASHES in instead, panicking to put Reizebetween herself and most of the offenders... and, with an alarmed cry, unleashes an enormous WAVES of power from her arm. A wave of sparkling white blasts out, bigger than any she's unleashed before, as the power of light and life is unleashed like a dam breaking to smithereens.

All of that power entwines with Lenn's spell at the same time.

DON'T DIE, REIZE.

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Lily is there to offer Reize her encouraging words. As Lily channels the elements of fire, water, and earth, he can feel those elements imbue him. The flames erupt around his body, strengthening him. The elements of the earth swirls around his skin, hardening around his body like a shell. But last, but not least, that flow of the magic spins around him. Everything feels clear to him.

"Understood, Lily!"

And then, the Heartless begin swarming in. All of those presence of darkness sweep across Reize. They are sweeping against the Child of Light, trying to blind him, graze him, tear him apart. Reize is undergoing the struggle that is the essence of darkness clawing, smacking, and kicking him around. The young boy staggers about, trying to keep up to his feet.

Reize is going to take the heat off of his friends. That is why that Reize is trying his damnest to start racing through everyone. As he tries to sweep around the area, the boomerang starts hacking and slashing at all of the Heartless. While he doesn't manage to stave off the storm, he at least holds them off from getting to his friend.

And the storm spits Reize out, he drop with a thud.

"I'm ...so sorry.."

The poison seeping into his body, Reize shudders violently. But then, there is the health that is radiating along him. Feeling the powerful burst of the healing, Reize is slowly starting to rise up to his feet. His vision is blurry, but he manages to stagger back to his feet.

"G--guh... I'm still alive...?" Reize staggers, looking up into the air. Sucking in a breath, Reize shouts, "...I... I won't let you all down!" Reize slowly extends a hand out, shifting into his fighting stance.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel is able to evade her fate by leaping off of the light cycle given the destroy canopy this is a very wize thing as she does so she triggers it to D-reze back into the baton. This save both her and it from the huge terrible attack that came towardss it. She's landing on her feet in a crouch as she sees what's happened to Reize she's suprised he's alive but in a good way. The Heartless however are still standing and she leaps into the thick of them with her light disk. She throws it into the tick of the creature trying to keep their attention off the nearly dead Reize. "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE DREEZED REIZE!" The disk meanwhile is bouncing about like Xenna had thrown it.

Palom has posed:
The swarm of Heartless closes in on our heroes... and then Reize takes them all on. ALL OF THEM. The entire swarm! It's incredibly valiant and heroic, but the heartless have no hearts to be moved by this. They simply swarm over him...

The Mage-Beast Heartless finds itself confronted by Deelel. Her disc spins through the swarm, sending heartless flying through the air and uncovering Reize to be healed by his allies. The disc finally smacks into the beast, sending it flying. It doesn't like this -- the beast flailing about, it channels energy into those claws and then swings, bolts of dark energy flying over the field at Reize's allies! The monster doesn't seem to realize he's not dead!

Lenn has posed:
Lenn smiles as Reize gets back up... He's still hurt, but... he's standing. She, however, is too distracted to avoid the incoming claw, knocking her away... She gets up, a little slow, but she does produce a few crystals... She's not gonna let Reize fall again!

Lily has posed:
Lily can only put her hopes in the boy when she sees him go careening into the storm of Heartless, while the rain falls and the thunder rolls and lightning flashes.

Her heart plunges deep into fluttering terror, a lump catching in her throat... until she sees him get back up. That's when the girl in sopped white gives Lenn one of the most relieved expressions the other mage has likely ever seen, and spreads her hands out wide at the incoming shots.

"No you don't!" A sphere of shimmering cerulean light that seems to be coming from the jewel in her forehead crackles to life, coursing with torrents and streams of raw mana. "I'll hold them back, Reize, Lenn, Dee... Deel!" No, she doesn't know how to pronounce the program's name exactly. Hopefully that's close enough.

The shots slam into her shield, some of the energy spearing through and tearing at her flesh... but the vast majority of it is instead absrobed into the shield's roaring surface. The barrier, however, doesn't last. It compresses down to a point between her palm, a tiny gleaming star the size of a softball. With a soft gesture, she wills it towards her target...

DOWN the ball comes, for the big bad heartless...

And should it hit the ground near it, it will simply erupt into a geyser of scorching blue power, her magical power in its purest form!

Reize Seatlan has posed:
Meanwhile, Reize is trying to get back to his feet. Holding his head, Reize is wincing as he looks over towards Lenn, managing a weak smile. Reize is still pretty hurt, especially when the pain of the poison lingers. However, as Lenn starts to release more of that healing spell upon him, the rejuvination gives him a refreshed feel. "Thanks!"

As for the monster in question, Reize sucks in a breath and then he starts to quickly throw his boomerang out towards the monster. It arcs around from tree to tree, ricocheting around to start smacking the Heartless upside the face and head. Reize charges forward as the boomerang is to serve as a distraction.

"THIS IS OUR WILL!"
A bright glow engulfs Reize.
Reize brings his form out to starts fading out and reappear behind the creature with a kick. Then he dashes over to the other side to greet it with a strke to the chest. The boy keeps coming from all sides, the speed making him appear like a whirlwind as it begins to aim for withering the beast down with strikes from either kicks and strikes of the boomerang. And last, but not least, the boy springs off of his feet and he starts releasing a spinning round-house and then a hook kick at the creature's head.

Deelel has posed:
Everyone is opening up, they are not backing down here, the mage beast ones are coming for her but they are just still here. There are always more it seems and this one eems to be a bit stronger than the rest of them. It's not dead but he can finish that. She knows how to end the game, she's been forced to do it before. Now however? This thing isn't a person, it's not a basic, it's not a user, it's a thing that eats both. She leaps at it Disk in hand to just drive it right through it's midsection and pull up wards with the killing edge of the weapon.

Palom has posed:
The Heartless Beast suddenly has a bad day. The enemy it thought knocked down for the count returns. His boomerang smacks it upside the head, sending the hat falling down to the ground. The whirlwind strikes and kick send it down to rejoin its hat -- just in time for Lily's spell to hit it and engulf it!

When the Heartless is visible again, there are still bits of blue flame here and there on its clothes as it stands up. It raises its claws in the air and shakes them about, but it seems more aggravated than casting a spell. ...And then Deelel just slices right into it, leaving a large tear in its robes and... well it's hard to judge damage to Heartless but that's a pretty big wound! Now it's pissed! It tries to grab Deelel with that massive claw and *fling* her right into the lost boy! The heartless swarm, meanwhile, seems to recover from the disruption of Deelel's disk, and begins to swarm in around the supporting healer and mage, all manner of claws and swords and whatnot swinging at them from all directions!

Lenn has posed:
Lenn winces... This heartless is taking a lot out of her... More crystals, and more magic, this time the magic is being unleashed on both Reize and Lily, both of whom are in worse shape than she is. "Keep going, guys... We can do this!"

Reize Seatlan has posed:
After the boy unleashed the whirlwind of an attack, he sends the creature onto the ground. In his descent, Reize kneels and he rises up to his feet. Reize is out into his fighting stance, bringing the boomerangs over towards his side.

This is not without the healing energy from Lenn, whose magic fills the boy with invigorating energy, "Thanks Lenn!" He looks back at Lily and Deelel, "Let's do this, everyone!"

Not just that, but when the Heartless takes Deelel to fling her at him, the boy is running towards Deelel. As Reize races her way, he springs up off of the ground and he quickly starts leaping into the air, rolling along the air until he grabs a hold of some trees. When he finally gets a hold of the tree, he swings himself across and right behind the Heartless.
As the boy lands right behind the large mage-creature, he looks over all of the Heartless swarm crowding around him. Reize is starting to bring himself right behind the Heartless. As the boy feels the glowing essence surrounding him, he boomerangs are drawn and he starts dashing though the creatures. Both boomerangs hack and slash across each and every single Heartless that comes across his way.
"Here we go!"

Then, Reize shifts around to spring up into the air, spinning around to release a roundhouse kick and a hook-kick at the Heartless. "YAH!" While in mid-air, Reize soon descends to the ground with a diving kick to strike down the monstrous Heartless and the creatures.

Lily has posed:
Lily can't hide her amazement at the onslaught unleashed in tandem upon the creature, but the insane fact that it somehow survived it. Oops? "Ah...wh-no no no----ooowah!"

THere are HEARTLESS everywhere, all shapes and sizes, and Lily valiantly tries to leap up into the air, propelled by mystical winds... but one of them grabs her robes and slams her back into the ground.

Then the screaming starts.

Darkness. Claws ripping at her flesh, and no light in sight. Lily whimpers more in terror than pain at the beginning, curling up inside the onslaught.

No, no no no. Not a return to that miserable existence. Of all the things in the world to experience, she would give everything up to never EVER experience that again.

Brilliant cerulean light spears from between the gathered shifting bodies of the Heartless, piercing outwards more and more just as Lenn's healing spell reaches the girl.

Heartless go flying, many of them torn in two and exploding into nothing as they are prone to do when defeated by crescent flashes that lash through the air, blurring everything.

It's the WIND. The WIND is cutting them by the dozens until she bursts free.

Lily's face is torn in several different emotions at once. Rage, terror, loathing, desperation, and a primal need to just lash out all at once. "GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

Bladewinds cut every which way, just barely missing Lenn, Deelel, and Reize but lashing a path outwards and freeing her of her imprisonment.

And then... she gestures once, and unleashes a beam of light from her hands up into the air. It flies up high... higher... higher...

And then splits.

Down comes the light of judgement, bolts of magical power that decimate everything in their wake.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel is going to give the Heartless a worse day now. She knows things are not going well elsewhere in the city. It's going pretty terribly really but what can they do? The Heartless has one very angry program as her comrades just attack, there's no mercy this isn't a person as she's realised. It's a thing and her friends are just tearing into it. Evehn for all her might learned on the gaming grid it's not dead yet, it won't die. She launches her disk again with about all she can muster she wants this thing to go down and stay the heck down!

Palom has posed:
The Heartless Beast roars in frustration as it misses Reize... and then trouble comes in from all sides! It raises its scepter to the oncoming light of judgement, and a barrier of darkness appears and absorbs it -- but this leaves it open to the physical attacks, Reize and Deelel slicing it up from both sides! It's heard to see wounds in a Heartless, but its clothes are torn to rags and darkness is bleeding out of it and dissipating like smoke!

It's hard to tell whether it's shaking from rage or just falling apart as it smacks at Reize and Deelel, trying to send them flying away!

And then... then, dark energy gathers in its claws before it slams them into the ground. A wave of force washes over the ground, over the whole park -- and the brave Hearts still fighting it suddenly find magical force trying to grab them and pull them to the ground and simply *crush* the life out of them!

A large portion of the remaining heartless swarm is *also* crushed to the ground and dissipated, though. Seems the mage Heartless is getting careless in its desperation!

Lenn has posed:
Lenn is brought to her knees, under the crushing force. "Uhnnnnn....." She fights to get more crystals from her pouch. This time, both she and Reize both begin to feel the healing power of her magic. "Just a... bit more!"

Reize Seatlan has posed:
After striking the creature down, Reize immediately lands on the ground. That is whn the lumbering Heartless lunges its massive arm towards him and Deelel. The boy attempts to leap over the arm, but instead is at the height where he is swatted like a fly.

"GAH!" His head spins as he impacts one of the bushes in the midst of it all. s te boy is slowly starting to get to his feet, "Guhh...."

The tidal wave of dark energy washes over towards him and the group, "Everyone, watch out!" Both arms rise as the boy attempts to brave the fearsome storm. The darkness erupts and sends him flying against the tree once more. Smacking his back against the tree, Reize releases a scream, "Argghh!"

Reize staggers about, the boy looks over towards Lenn as she manages to seal the wounds just for a good temporary time. As Reize sucks in a breath, he can feel the energy resonate. Sucking in a breath, the boy looks ahead.

"Alright..."

Reize quickly throws his boomerang towards the Heartless, letting it ricochet out and about near the creature's head. And then, as Reize gets a chance, he whips out his bag from his pouch and he grabs his small device.
The hookshot.

Reize seeks to send the weapon flying towards the Heartless, trying to hook against it. Then, Reize will lunge forward to close the distance before the beast. He'll launch imself forward to release a kick to the knee caps, then he swings the boomerang out to strike its chest, and then he'll rise off of the ground to shoot towards its head.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel is just spent she's pressed so hard she's forced to try to fall back but she takes several hits from the heartless they just keep coming. They are not dying they are just not dying really. She's force dto fall back and reun a system restore command while she hopes her friends can hold out.

Lily has posed:
Lily has fury. So much scathing fury! When the gravitic forces begin gathering, Lily's eyes blaze with that same blue power that's seething from her jewel. She simply WAVES a hand, yelling in a rough and angry voice quite unsuited for her young throat.

With that wave, the spell that approaches her's halted in midair, bends, then explodes as it's torn asunder and scattered, unwoven at the roots.

The girl's panting heavily for some reason or another, despite rarely needing to actually breathe, her eyes still burning with panic and hatred. "Go away. Become nothing. I never want to see you again. All of you. GO AWAY!!"

... she does sound just a bit psychotic perhaps while yelling that out, yes.

Once again she raises her hand, this time light shines from her fingertips, needles flying from them like machinegun fire and up into the air, before they come down like arrows upon the Heartless!

Palom has posed:
The Heartless Beast beats back one of its attackers, but others keep coming. As it turns to face Reize, it raises another shield to block Lily's magic needles -- but while a few get stuck in the dark barrier, the rest punch right through, sticking into the Heartless! More darkness flowing out of it and dissipating, the beast's form growing smoky and unstable. It begins to charge towards the boy, but then it gets clocked in the head with a boomerang! Its ragged hat falls off, again. The hookskot pulls Reize towards it, and the boomerang

SL/
./ASH

cuts _through_ the smoky Heartless, dividing its body into rapidly-dissipating upper and lower halves. Reize pulls the head towards him and punches it into smoke! The bottom half falls over and fades to nothing, as well.

The remaining heartless in the area, cut off from direction and weakened by the earlier attacks and their own ally' gravity, will be easy to mop up. Central Park is saved!

...Right?

Reize Seatlan has posed:
As Reize catches the boomerang...

Slash.

Reize passes through the smokey Heartless, then he rolls along the ground. As the boy falls onto one knee, the boy notices that the remaining Heartless are around. "Clear the Heartless out of here!"

....Yet, after everything is said and done...

The good thing is that the Heartless are cleared.

On the other hand...

The Boy With the Long Yellow Scarf, leader of the Shard Seekers, collapses onto both knees. His body completely tenses as sweat drops. He winces, the wounds being pretty bad. "Hggh...."

Lily has posed:
Lily herself collapses to her knees just after the main force has gone poof. Breathing heavily, apparently if only to cool herself from the blaze of power that coursed through her body just a while ago, she looks pitifully over at Reize and Lenn, then Deelel alike, before dropping forward and supporting herself on hands and knees, shivering and shaking.

It will be a bit before she can clear her head from THAT shot of terror...

"Is... is everyone OK?" No they're not, she knows they're not, but what else can she ask?