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Tussle With A Demon Tide!

Traverse Town - Third District

The swarm of Heartless; this 'Demon Tide', continued to swim in the sky before the yellow eyes of the swarm began to glow a menacing red tint.

"That doesn't look good!" Rito panicked. The swarm suddenly dove down as one and charged the group with breakneck speed! Rito dodge-rolled while everyone else jumped or slid out of the way of the rush.

"We may have an issue!" Yami sliced the Demon Tide several times as she dodged to the right "These Heartless can't be truly destroyed with brute force!" she informed everyone, keeping her eyes on the Tide.

"Don't worry yourself Little Blonde, we have Keyblades!" Lea responded while transforming his Keyblade back into his Chakrams, setting them ablaze whilst spinning his weapons at the sides of his open palms "So when these guys go poof, they're gone for good!" he flung them one after the other at the Demon Tide. Yami watched as the two flaming Chakrams spun into the cluster of Heartless, scorching and knocking off Shadows, making them explode into black smoke.

'Keyblades...So that's what those weapons are called, and his appears to be one as well.' The 'Little Blonde' went over mentally 'I'll keep that in mind, but I told him not to call me that...' she finished with irritation.

While the Chakrams continued carving into the tide, Leon attacked the tail end of the swarm with combo swings from his Gunblade; ending each hit with a pull of the trigger for a critical slash/shot. Yuffie slowly raised her Fuma Shuriken into the air as it started to glow with a green light that doubled it's size. "Now you're gonna get it!" she threw the enhanced Shuriken at the Tide! The Chakrams went back to Lea's hands just as the Shuriken attacked the cluster of Heartless, bouncing off and rebounding back for consecutive Demon Tide swerved back around; knocking back Leon who was in the middle of another swing, and Yuffie's Shuriken for another rush attack, this time aimed for Kairi! The girl quickly swerved to the side of the attack; arriving near near Leon, while the red eyes of the Tide went back to being yellow and noticed a red-orange core hidden within the front of the Tide.

'Hmm...I wonder...' she pulled her keyblade back and threw it at the core! Destiny's Embrace spun vertically, became coated in light, and made contact with the core at the front. Many more Shadows, various flowers, and light yellow feathers came flying out and disappearing from the core as her blade dealt multiple hits.

'I thought so!' Not thinking it was a good idea to go into a Heartless tide head on, she glowed with a dim white light while she twirled slightly above the ground and pushed her hand into the air. "Light!" she shouted, causing a pillar of white light to rain down where her Keyblade was and on the core itself! Many more shadows fell off the core and disappeared as the magical light caused damage to the Demon Tide.

"Everyone! There's a core at the front of the swarm! Try to focus our attacks there!" she directed everyone to its potential weak-point. After her light spell finished, she re-summoned her Keyblade to her hand and healed whatever injuries Leon might have had with a Cure spell.

Rito nodded, following Kairi's advice "A-Alright, if you're sure!" Yami had already been watching the others with intrigue, but she observed Rito with a particular silent intensity. Her eyes narrowed as he pointed his Keyblade to the ground, gathered light at its tip while he focused on the spots of red-orange at the front; the core that Kairi was talking about he figured. He then raised his Keyblade up, and thrusted his Keyblade forward while letting out a short shout; shooting out many small spinning blades of light accompanied by a black-purple aura. The spinning blades bombarded the core, causing even more Shadows to fall off and disappear. She noted that his movements (besides his stance and combat roll) were rather plain and stilted compared to everyone else; who moved with more finesse.

The eyes of the heartless swarm glowed red once again as the swarm rushed back into the sky and started to rapidly twist in the air, getting faster and faster until-

SHWOOOMMM!

The swarm of Heartless released an avalanche of Shadows down at the group below! Kairi put up a soft yellow light barrier around herself and Leon while Lea spun Flame Liberator in front of his body and put up a tall fire wall around himself, Yuffie, and Rito, burning away any Shadow that threatened them. As for Yami; who was separate from everyone else, she transformed more locks of her hair into many curved blades and cut away at the Shadows that came at her with blinding speed. Lea watched the girl from behind the fire wall, noticing that her attacks weren't just extremely fast, but also precise. She was going for what would be weak points on any other enemy besides the Heartless; slicing and stabbing at their eyes and the area where their necks would be (if Shadow Heartless had any necks).

'Woah...It like she just transforms and uses her whole body as a weapon. She's no run of the mill fighter, that's for sure.' the firey Keyblade Wielder thought with a serious face before becoming aware of Rito watching her with curiosity. 'Hmm...?'

The Demon Tide stopped spewing heartless from it's cluster and dove for Lea, Rito, and Yuffie! "Dodge!" Lea commanded. Rito broke his concentration away from Yami to find the Tide rushing at them! Lea quickly shifted out of the way with Yuffie while Rito dodged rolled just barely out of the way of the Tide; which went into the ground disappearing into a black mist. Everyone looked at the ground where it disappeared, waiting for it to pop up again at any moments notice.

Eventually, Rito piped up. "Is it over?...Did it leave?" he slowly asked, his body slightly trembling in a mixture of anticipation and fright.

"No." Yami stated "I still feel its presence; its darkness, within the area." she camly shifted her gaze around the district. A strong bloodlust was all over the district. It had sunken into the ground, yet she felt no movement nor a rumble of the floor...

'So from where?'

"She's correct, I am able to pick up a hostile presence with my sensors. However, it may or may not be her interfering."

Yami was thrown off guard by the out of nowhere, unknown reverbed voice, and turned her head to the source; that being Rito.

Leon was thrown off from concentration as well. "Who was that?" he questioned.

Suddenly, The Demon Tide erupted up from under Yami, taking her into the sky along with it!

"Yami!" cried out Rito. Unfortunately, at this point more individual Shadows arrived on the ground, separate from the Demon Tide to fight the group.

Meanwhile, the blonde let out a shout of pain as the cluster of Shadows went on to consume her being into its swarm. From within, many Shadows continue the assault, bomboarding her with slashes and tackles.

Snap!

Yami heard something behind her snap. Heard, not felt! Her eyes widened, realizing that could've been only one thing.

'My backpack!'

"Wind!"

A strong gust of green wind suddenly bellowed through, blowing around the Heartless swarming Yami, her bag, and Yami herself. She fought against the sudden burst of wind to locate her backpack and indeed, the shoulder straps of the bag had torn and broke no doubt due to the assault of the Heartless. The bag had a thin open gash and she can also see that something had already fallen out of that gash, outside of the safety of the backpack...

A Keychain with a strange fish shaped token; a Taiyaki token.

She let out a quick gasp and dove for the Keychain. The sudden wind had died and she grew her usual wings to gain speed as it headed for the ground. She reached out for it, and caught it before it was able to hit the floor. The girl flipped and landed on the ground boots first, bending her knees to brace herself of the impact.

"Look out!"

Yami looked from the ground in front of herself and saw the red eyes of the Demon Tide rushing at her! However, before she had a chance to act, Rito suddenly got in front of her vision.

"Huh?"

He growled, grit his teeth, and thrusted his Keyblade into the air with both hands around the handle! "BACK OFF!" he yelled with power in his voice; making a very large pillar of barely greyed light erupt from the ground. Yami continued to watch wide-eyed as The Demon Tide was redirected by the light pillar back into the air; where it dove down once again...

Right onto Yami's small red backpack; which was a few paces in front of Rito and herself!

SHWOOOMMM!

The Tide rushed into the ground, disappearing into a thicker black mist than before. A few seconds after it had completely gone...

'No...!'

Yami pushed passed Rito and hurried over to where the Tide had disappeared and where her backpack once was.

It was now gone...and so was her way back to Sainan.


A short fight I'm aware, but it's probably for the best, as I'm not good with combat scenes. I really wish I had the ability to write combat scenes well like other writers on this site.

Where has Yami's backpack gone? Only time will tell...