Chapter 29: Battle Strategies
Kasandra's POV
"Who are you?" Donald inquired the blue flaming haired man in our presence.
"Hades!" Squealing, I ran closer to the death god, "Oh my god! Is your hair actual fire?" I jumped up to touch his hair. Wincing, I cradled my burnt hand, the grin still present, "That's a yes!"
Hades chuckled, "Well, well! I knew I was popular!"
"You aren't. It's just her." Hazel snickered.
He pouted and turned to Donald, who was squawking angrily, "Whoa, hold on there, fuzz boy." He began pacing back and forth in front of us, "Wait. Let me guess. You want to enter the games, right?" He put a hand on Sora's shoulder, "Well, then, hey, get a load of this." A large beige card appeared in Hades hand. He handed it to a shocked Sora.
"A pass?" He questioned, taking a hold of it. No freaking duh. Then again... Could've been something else... God I hoped not.
"It's all yours. Good luck, kid. I'm pulling for you, little shorty." I giggled as he pouted.
"Hey! Don't laugh! You're shorter than me!" I stopped laughing, eyes narrowed.
"Say that again. I DARE you." I sneered.
Grinning, Hades chuckled, "Oooooooh! Drama!"
Sora pouted, "Well, you are!"
Left eye twitching, I lunged, sending us both spiralling to the ground. I gripped his jacket with both hands, shaking him back and forth, "TAKE IT BACK!"
He just laughed. Groaning, Hades mumbled to himself. I caught the words keyblade and maiden. I also thought I heard screwed, but it was probably just my imagination.
Pouting, I got off Sora, "You will die."
After another round of chuckles and a disappearing act of Hades, we all followed Donald back into the lobby.
Sora handed Phil the pass. The goat man stared at it bewildered, "Hey, how'd you get this?"
He warily eyed the girls briefly. My jaw dropped, "What? You think it was us? How the hell would we have gotten it?"
He shrugged. Sora grinned, "Can we enter the games now?"
Phil sighed after a moment, "Well... I guess so. We start with the preliminaries!"
The four girls waited inside the lobby for the boys to finish. In the privacy between the walls, we discussed battle strategies.
"Round one: Shadow Scout. Hazel and Sylvia, you guys will take out the three blue rhapsodies." An affirmative nod, "You and I are gonna take out the soldiers, 'kay 'Lena?" Affirmative.
"Round two: Sinisters. I'll take care of the shadows. The rest of you can get eth three blue rhapsodies." Agreed.
"Round three: Heat and Freeze. Five red nocturnes-" Sylvia interrupted suddenly.
"DEMYYYYYXXX!" I patted her shoulder.
"There there." I smiled, sarcastically, "And five blue rhapsodies. By this time you should be out of magic, so just hit things until it's back." Agreed.
"Round six: Big One. Four red nocturnes," Another cry of Demyx from Sylvia, "Four blue rhapsodies, and one large body. Sylvia and Hazel have got the nocturnes and rhapsodies and we've got the large body. And if you run out of magic, we got your back." Agreed, "And the last round is Cloud."
"Wait, wait! One detail you forgot!" Sylvia smirked at my surprise.
"What? You know I know everything to the smallest detail!" I whimpered.
"Well, you know Sora's group is called, well, Sora. What are we gonna be?" We all thought for awhile.
Everyone looked up with a smile on their faces. I put my hand out, palm down. Sylvia put hers on mine, Hazel's on hers, and Elena's on hers. We shouted out loud, together, "Fabricators." High fiving each other, we turned just in time to see Phil walk in, laughing with the three boys.
"Hey, girls! You're up next. So, what's the name I'm gonna put down for your group?" Phil took out what looked like a piece of chalk and a large board.
"Fabricators." Sylvia answered. He raised an eyebrow, but wrote it down, pinning it to the wall next to the arena's entrance afterwards.
"Thank, Cheshie!" I giggled.
"What? You got that from the cat in Wonderland? Are you mad?" Sora inquired.
The four of us shared a giggle, "We're all mad here!"
"Oooh! Is that why you know all these things? You're crazy?" Goofy asked with a chuckle.
Sylvia shifted her eyes side to side, "Yeah... Let's go with that..."
After an awkward silence, I went up to the board. Something caught my eye, "What? Girls!"
They ran over, staring at what I was pointing to, "What? We're fighting... Sora's group?"
"Yeah. That'll determine who fights the man named Cloud." Phil shrugged, "Fabricators ready?"
"As ready as we'll ever be." Gulping, we walked out into the arena. Hazel stood on the left, letting go of her large book. It floated in front of her, pages opening to the middle. To our surprise, she rose a few inches off the ground. Elena stood to the right, with her swords in hand, each pointing to the ground on either side of her body. Sylvia stood on Hazel's right, holding her staff casually, with a smirk on her face. I stood to Elena's right, next to Sylvia, hands on the triggers of my guns. They pointed down on either side of my body.
I glanced at each gun and looked over at Phil on the bleachers, "Can I have non-lethal ammo to fight Sora and Cloud?"
The battles went perfectly until Sora's group. Upon receiving rubber bullets, I stood back in position, guns up slightly.
Grinning, we wished each other good luck. The girls exchanged glances when Phil blew his whistle.
"DOGPILE ON DONALD!" All the girls AND Goofy proceeded to jump and land on a shocked Donald, who was effectively knocked out. Court magician, my ass!
"What? Oh! You meant just the girls!" Chuckling to himself, goofy stood up, taking out his shield, "Oops!" And he's the CAPTAIN of the Royal Knights?
Groaning, Sora ran at us with his keyblade. Smirking, Sylvia stood up, facing him with her staff, "Payback time?"
AN: SO CLOSE! T.T
