Let's Play Dark Souls!
Summary: Sora, Riku and Kairi play one of the hardest games out there! What can possibly go wrong!?
Chapter 11
Manus…the bastard.
*Three days later…*
Naminé: 'So can I assume its safe to come home now?'.
Kairi: 'Yes…I swear the only thing I broke, other than my sanity for a while, was a controller'.
Naminé: 'I'm standing by my opinion that maybe this game isn't worth beating, if you're gonna abuse your stuff'.
Kairi: 'Naminé if you were invaded by THREE people at once at two different occasions, even you would be a tad bit upset'.
Naminé: 'Just tell me two things: First, was Sora brought over?'.
Kairi: 'I'm not ashamed to say I may have used him to relieve my stress and rage…and might have gotten a bit…overbearing'.
Naminé: 'Ok…second, did you sterilize the couch?'.
Kairi: 'NAMINÉ!'.
Naminé: 'You said you used him to relieve stress…'.
Kairi: 'I meant sparring sessions! Playing other games that don't make me wanna tear my hair out!'.
Naminé: 'Sure~'.
Kairi: '…least I can with my boyfriend if I wanted to!'.
Naminé: '…well played…'.
*Pre Session*
Sora: 'So…I heard, this place is supposed to be SUPER hard'.
Riku: 'Based on the comments on the wiki? Wow…'.
Kairi: 'Sora, I wanna apologize in advance for your controller'.
Sora: 'Its ok Kai, I've got like two…'.
Riku: 'Hey guys, just saying, maybe we can ask someone to help us?'.
Kairi: 'Is that really a good idea? The games hard with the three of us already'.
Riku: 'Yeah…but it'd help with invasions-
Kairi: 'GET US SOMEONE TO HELP!'.
Sora: 'OOOH! AQUA! Terra said she's really good at this game!'.
Sora yanked out his Gummi phone and immediately dialled Aqua's number, who answered in two beeps.
Aqua's Place
Aqua: 'Hi Sora, is something wrong?'.
Sora: 'Kinda, listen, remember that DLC you told us about?'.
Aqua: 'Yeah? How's it going?'.
Sora: 'We're kinda having trouble, see Kairi uh, did a bad, and we're constantly getting invaded…'.
Kairi: 'INVADERS ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE!'.
Aqua flinched at that, hearing Kairi through the monitor, and even sweated a bit.
Sora: '…anyways, we really wanna get this over with. You've played the games, can ya help us with it?'.
Aqua turned very pale, her eyes widened and she began to sweat. She looked at her console, which was on and spotted her Player ID on it…the name that will forever haunt her. Shaking, she bit her nail and looked around for a solution…then remembered she did have a solution…
Aqua: 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I'd help, buuuuutt…my console isn't…working right now'.
Sora: 'Really? What's wrong with it?'.
Aqua summoned her keyblade, and turned on the system…
Destiny Trio
Next thing Sora knew, he heard a loud crashing sound that made him jump.
Aqua: '…it exploded yesterday…'.
Sora: 'How!?'.
Aqua: 'Oh ya know me, I spilled something on it and boom, clumsy me!'.
Sora: 'Aww, well, sorry. Thanks anyways'.
Aqua: 'OH NO no problem!'.
Ventus: 'AQUA! THE HELL DID YOU DO TO THE CONSOLE!?'.
Aqua: 'OOPS GOTTA GO SORA SORRY I CAN'T HELP KAY THANKS BYE!'.
Never had Sora seen anyone hang up so quickly, though he couldn't help but wonder how Ventus only noticed now did Aqua break the console. Still it was strange, she was normally careful around electronic stuff. He shrugged regardless, Aqua and the other two were out.
Kairi: 'What about Axel and the others?'.
Riku: 'I…think they're gonna avoid DS for a while'.
Kairi: 'Why?'.
Sora: 'You violated them remember?'.
Kairi: '…ooh right…'.
Sora: 'Guess we're on our own'.
*Arriving to Axel and co's graves*
Cautious as new born kittens exploring their home, the trio went deeper into the dungeon. They descended a wooden, which they encountered on their right was a resident, but it made the terrible mistake of standing on the edge.
And underestimating how strong Riku's kick was and the price of its poor choice was a one way trip to the abyss below them.
Further down the evil rabbit hole, they came to an open space with FIVE residents and one sorceress, but the latter was protecting a Dark Bead, a very over powered spell.
The residents charged at the them, Sora immediately going tank mode and blocked their ferocious attacks. Riku ran at the sorceress while the five were focusing on Sora, making the rightful choice to murder anyone that can use spells or magic. Plus they were VERY squishy beings which means easy kills.
One clean sweeping attack from Riku and the evil witch person is deader than Ven's chances of acing Aqua's math test.
With the power couple, Sora kept blocking and parrying the attacks of the residents while Kairi pelted them with fire balls and pillars of burning agony. They may have gotten a few nasty hits here and there, but it paled in comparison to the victory they achieved. Once the fight was won, they made a turn onto a rocky path, that gave them a great look of…
Sora: 'Guys…there's ghosts'.
The two peered to see said ghosts, and true to the boy's words, there were a swarm of ghosts. Humanity ghosts to be specific, floating in the darkness like lost souls of the damned.
Riku: 'We…have to go that way don't way?'.
Kairi: 'Well, time for camping sniping!'.
Kairi began to throw several giant balls of fire at the them, hitting several of the ghosts and killing many of them, but not only that…she was also gaining humanity too. Needless to say she was contented to stand there blasting them all to ashes and reaping the rewards via cheap tactics.
After, they ventured to the left where a platform they stood on suddenly vanished, made them scream before they landed. Death via falling was not to be their end yet. Before them was the Spirit of Alvina (Cat creature from Darkwood Forest)
Sora: '…Is that Cheshire Cat!?'.
Kairi: 'Does it have a smile that screams "Only hell and misery awaits you"?'.
Sora: 'No…just a "I'm gonna ruin your day" smile…'.
They approached the cat but it suddenly vanished, revealing a hidden pathway for them. Curious, but mostly because they had no other pathway to go, they proceeded further in the cave. The cat kept leading them on, they slew a few more humanities (by this point they all carried a respectful twenty two humanities each) and finally they arrived to an open area.
On their left was a door, along with another illusionary wall where the cat disappeared. They decided to explore the false wall first which led them into a cave. But there were also Humanity ghosts prowling around the spot, surrounding a wolf cub.
Kairi: ' *GASP* A PUPPY!'.
Sora: 'SAVE THE PUPPY!'.
The two rushed in head first with cries, and destroyed the ghosts, rescuing the cub. Surrounded by a yellow light, the wolf stood up on all four legs and howled, then disappearing before their eyes leaving a shield for them.
Kairi: 'Puppy is safe :D'.
Sora: 'Hopefully we'll see it grow up, into a strong and lovable wolf!'.
Riku: 'Yeah, it's gonna be awesome!'.
Once the pup was saved and after Kairi threw the shield on her back, they continued their exploration through this dark and abysmal place. They fought more ghosts, another sorceress and after many kills, getting lost, and dying to pit falls and confusion, they finally came to the fog wall. The last boss of the main quest of this area was right before them, and if Artorias was any indication, this was going to be rough…
They passed through the fog wall and came to a cliff that oversees nothing but darkness before them. Then a giant hand reached out from nothing and grabbed all three of them, yanked them into the darkness, slamming them onto the ground.
Sora: 'SOMETHING IS EAGER TO MURDER US!'.
Before them stood the dark demonic monstrosity, Manus, Father of the Abyss.
Riku: '…he looks like tough'.
Manus immediately slammed his hand down upon them, smashing all three in one hit. To give you an idea how much damage his attack does, he one shot Kairi and nearly killed the other two.
Kairi: 'I WAS KILLED IN ONE FREAKING HIT!?'.
You Died.
Riku and Sora rolled away to give themselves some space, but the monster leapt and slammed his hand on Riku, killing him just as he attempted to heal himself.
Riku: 'GOD DAMNIT!'.
You Died.
With two of his friends down, Sora gulped in fear as Manus turned his full attention to Sora. Sora used his shield, but Manus then performed his possibly most broken attack he, or any DS boss had, and roared. He then slashed in a frenzy manner and hit Sora in a total of six times, his first two broke Sora's guard and then the remaining four killed him.
You Died.
The trio sat there, looking at their monitors in dismay, and horror. Not even two minutes in, and they've already been demolished by the boss. And no one had even laid a hand on him yet.
Kairi: '…I'll be back'.
Sora: 'Candy and soda?'.
Kairi: 'YYUUP'.
Snack Replenished
Attempt 2
They re-enter the dungeon once more, got grabbed by the grabby hands of Manus once more, and now here they were facing him once more.
Manus leapt at them all, making each of them run away from his over powered attack. Once each of them were at a fair distance, Kairi began to throw balls of fire at him, while Riku would cut and run him after each attack animation. They were few however, because every time he missed, Manus would suddenly leap away from them all and then whenever he was close, he'd go nuts and strike at everything around him.
Manus then performed a dive attack, and managed to hit Sora. The boy losing half his hit points BARELY had any time to take a quick sip of his healing potion before Manus bitched slapped him again, taking even more hit points. Riku took his best friend's beatings as opportune moment to strike at the father of the abyss, delivering several combos that did decent damage at best and at worst. But this would be his undoing, for Manus performed a spin attack, which smacked both boys like flies and like that, they perished.
You Died.
Riku: 'BASTARD OF A BOSS!'.
Sora: 'You're on your own Kairi!'.
Kairi: '…meep…'.
Despite her best efforts, Kairi had tried her best to use pyromancy, dodge and strike at the boss, but thanks to Manus' wild and chaotic movements he mostly unintentionally evaded half of her fire balls, and even managed to get right behind her.
Kairi: '…this isn't going to end well…'.
It ended poorly…
You Died.
Attempt 3
This time, Kairi finally changed into a more heavier but far greater defensive armour, forgoing speed for better defence and a wanton desire to survive more than ONE hit from Manus.
Well…she got her wish…it now takes TWO hits to kill her. One leap attack followed by a hand slam and presto, you got yourself a dead pyromancer.
You Died.
Kairi: '…I HATE YOU!'.
Sora and Riku, now down their pyromancer, they did their best to fight the monster with all their combined might. Unfortunately Manus' aggressive combat strategy of "smacking everyone as hard as he can" and that seemed to pay off, for he managed to get both of them in a frenzy attack, killing them both on the fourth hit of the combo.
You Died.
Attempt 4
Kairi: 'AGHHHHHH! This is ridiculous! He's freaking broken!'.
Riku: 'This isn't working…maybe we should train a bit more?'.
Sora: 'I guess so…maybe, Kairi, you could invest in some vitality?'.
Kairi: '…fine…'.
Thus, the trio spend at least four hours of grinding, hunting monsters around the DLC, plus the invasions had been rather quiet lately, not that they ceased all together, but just enough to allow them to get a few levels, upgrade their stuff and even re-adjust their gear for better results. Riku had fully upgraded his black knight great sword, regular black knight sword and shield, Sora built enough endurance to wear Havel's full set and shield without weighing himself like a rock.
Kairi, against her pride, upgraded the thorn armour to full and her halberd to maximum power, she even had it enchanted with lightning. And…she finally upgraded her vitality.
So now after that, they entered the darkness once again to TRY and beat this boss. Manus stood there for them this time, Sora rushed in first, shield up high while Riku circled around the boss. Manus performed, immediately, his frenzy attack on them, but this time Sora ran away from him, and once he was a finished with that op attack, Riku charged in and began to hack away at him, his great sword doing a large amount of damage to him this time. A total of over a thousand damage after expanding his stamina meter.
Great you'd think, but Riku seemingly forgot stamina was used to, ya know, run and roll…
Manus didn't forget. He never forgot. And his hand sweep DEFINITELY didn't forget that.
Tremendous damage, and with not enough stamina for him, one more hand slam upon the boy and he re-joined the dead once more.
You Died.
Riku: '…'.
Riku got off his chair and approached his bedroom door…and started to bang his head repeatedly slowly. He didn't have to worry about keeping up this abuse, for two crashing and crushing sounds later from his monitor.
Sora: 'DAMNIT!'.
Kairi: 'OH MY GOD!'.
You Died.
Attempt 5
Not even bothering to prep themselves with grinding or new weapons, this time they all just jumped in and without any regard for themselves, they all rushed in this time. Manus dived at Kairi, who ran away from him when he landed. Sora and Riku ran and struck at him, this time both keeping an eye on their stamina meters. Once they were low enough, they backed away from Manus, who performed his spinning attack.
No one was harmed (YET), so Kairi began to use fire again, throwing both giant and regular sized spheres of burning heat at him, while the giant was sweeping his hand at Sora. Using Havel's shield, Sora mitigated the damage enough for him to keep up his guard but also let Riku attack him while he kept him busy. Riku did two fully charged attacks that brought down his health by ten percent, which put him just a little over fifty percent of health remaining.
Kairi: 'That's it guys! Keep it up!'.
Sora: 'I think we might be winning!'.
Unfortunately, Manus then lifted his hand up, the catalyst (weapon) in hand, it glowed in a dark light, and then suddenly a rain of dark homing missiles fell from the sky, and rained down upon Sora. The attack ate his stamina and then next thing they all knew the boy was reduced to a pin cushion.
Sora: '…OH COME ON!? MAGIC MISSILES!?'.
You Died.
Riku: 'Ok, so his attacks deal a bullshit amount of damage, he's got a fuck-ton of health, AND NOW HE'S GOT MAGIC!? FUCK RIGHT OFF WITH THAT!'.
Manus, apparently he must have heard Riku's raging complaints, turned on the boy and perhaps just to show off, he performed another magic based attack. He swung the catalyst sideways, spawning a wave of dark bolts in a very rough cone shape before him, which consumed Riku and, you guessed it, killed him.
Riku: 'GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!'.
You Died.
Riku: 'FUCK THIS! FUCK THIS BOSS! GOD DAMN IT!'.
Kairi started to run around the area, dodging and evading every attack Manus had up his non-existent sleeves, forcing herself to stick with using quick but weaker fire spells to even scratch his health. However, when she rolled to evade his next hand sweep, she found a summon sign just waiting there for her. Caution to the wind, Kairi touched it and soon, out came the very same wolf that they rescued earlier, carrying a sword in its mouth.
Kairi: 'Guys? Remember that cute wolf cub we saved earlier?'.
Sora: 'Yeah?'.
Riku: 'I DON'T FUCKING CARE!'.
Kairi: 'Well…he's fighting Manus with me'.
Sora/Riku: '…WHAT!?'.
True to her words, the wolf leapt and slashed at Manus' legs, dealing not as much as Riku did, but enough to warrant concern from the giant demon. But unlike the others, the wolf was much faster and more agile than them, making dodging even his largest attacks a breeze for the wolf. This gave Kairi plenty of time to strike the large demon with all the fire balls she could possibly muster, spamming them without even pausing to catch her breath.
This slow deliberate plan was tedious, and more than once Kairi had to run for her dear life when Manus figured she was acting the coward and spamming magic at him, but thanks to the cub, Manus was slowly being whittled down to just one fire ball away.
Finally, Kairi fired her final giant ball of fire at the monster, landing on him and finally, removing him from this mortal coil and freeing herself from the abyss.
She stared at her monitor, eyes wide and jaw slack.
Kairi: 'I-I did it…'.
She jumped out of her seat and threw her arms up in the air with the loudest cry of victory she could ever muster.
Kairi: 'I BEAT MANUS!'.
Sora: 'OH THANK YOU LIGHT!'.
Riku: 'YES! YEEEEESSSS! GOD BLESS THIS PERFECT WOMAN!'.
Kairi turned to the cub, beaming at it approached her, tail wagging before it vanished, returning to its own world once more. She had felt so good about winning in so long, an achievement that was long overdue, satisfaction worth crying over and Kairi managed to do this without Sora or Riku.
There was nothing could break her cheer…
…
…
"Darkheart831" had invaded.
Kairi's eye twitched, her smile went crooked and more insane like…before she let out a scream of pure rage.
*One… "fight" later...*
After respawning the boys, they all returned to where originally entered the DLC, not even bothering to fight the dragon. They were done with this wretched place, and the sooner they just finish the game's main campaign the sooner they can stop putting their blood pressures in danger.
But in a wonderous turn of event, Kairi managed to obtain the Antiquated Set and the Dusk Crown Ring, which boosted her pyromancy to knew levels, but halved her health. She claimed it was worth the magic~
Now with the DLC finally done and over, they all agreed it was time to finally put down the Four Kings, but first they needed to this Sif first…
Unaware of the pain…and not from the fight itself…
A/N: I struggled with this chapter, and am ashamed it took all week to get this done. I'm sorry for the delay, I cannot promise I'll get the second chapter out this week but I'm gonna try.
Thank you all for the patience and support for this story, and if you all want, after the Four Kings, you can decide who they go for next.
Thanks for reading, stay awesome but more importantly stay safe!