Joshua smiled slightly as the heartless approached. Once they were within range he quickly jumped towards them and got in the center, a few slashes taking out a few Aeroplanes and Hook Bats. He quickly scanned his enemies and saw he would need a mixed bag of tricks to get rid of them. Once again he thanked the gods that the Defense Committee kept a database of heartless on their computers and that he had spent hours studying it. He also liked that he had a better mixed bag of tricks as well.

The first thing he did was cast a Dark Thundara spell. A single black bolt of lightning fell from the sky, striking a nearby Aeroplane heartless. However the Dark versions of common spells tended to have to distinguishing characteristics: They tended to be more powerful and they often had a little extra trick to spread the damage or cause more to a single enemy. In this case several smaller bolts arced from the point of contact and hit several more nearby heartless, destroying all those not immune to magic. While he had been casting the spell however, a Runemaster cast it's own spell at Joshua but he instinctively teleported away and finished that heartless out with a powerful counter-slash to the back. He then pointed Total Eclipse behind him and cast Dark Blizzara, hitting a Magic Phantom, Destroying with and several of it's companions that were following it as the initial shard broke down into several smaller, but no less deadly, shards. He then spotted a nearby Hook Bat and, smiling, jumped up and grabbed it by it's hook.
"Pardon me, I need to use you for a second." he said to the heartless before swinging it around wildly, battering several heartless and cybugs, either weakening or destroying them with several hits. When he was done with his battering ram he stabbed the Hook Bat with his keyblade, destroying it, and landed on the ground with a bit of breathing room but still surrounded by a big swarm of heartless" Oi vae, you lot just don't end don't you?"

Laughing he cast several more spells, destroying small to medium amounts of the heartless and cybugs, all the while taking and avoiding several blows. Sadly, while he hadn't been paying attention a fair amount of Magic Phantoms had surrounded him and, as one, tried to swing their candles at him. Joshua managed to raise his Dark Barrier at the last second and blew the heartless away with his Counter Aura ability. Feeling his mana running out, he decided to get a bit more physical, especially since a vast majority of the heartless left were Rune Masters, which were completely immune to magic. Switching his focus to them he used Shadowbreaker, closing the gap between him and a few of them with two jumping slashes, one of darkness and one of light. The moment he was near them he seamlessly went into Dark Break, preforming three, jumping downward slashes, were the heartless didn't seem to be capable of blocking for some reason. The next couple of minutes were filled with him either teleporting behind the Runemasters and counter-slashing, using either Shadowbreaker or Dark Break on them, or trying to get behind their defenses by normal means. When he finally had enough, as there was no way in hell he could take out the entire cloud by himself, he used a CoD to get to safety
"Alright... your turn... to show off." he said to Thomas and Oner, breathing a bit heavily