Altered Tundra

Men vs. Women Race to 1000: Version 2.0

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𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘶𝘴𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘯 | 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐 // 𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂

Something that Kai noticed almost instantly when he ventured closer to the northern mountains was just how harsh the weather was. The closer to the mountains it seemed that he got, the worse the snowstorm seemed to be. He thought it wouldn’t be so bad, so against the voice in his head telling Kai to turn back, he proceeded past the point of no return. As it would turn out, however, Kai would come to regret this.

When the storm waged on, Kai didn’t know left from right. No matter where the blond teen looked, all he saw was snow, wind, and depleting temperatures. While the clothing he had on surprisingly provided him with enough warmth to protect him from the dangers of frostbite, they didn’t, however, give him any idea where he was nor did they even have any hidden voice mechanism that could actually point him in the right direction. Truly, as Kai finally accepted the fate, he was lost - and in more ways than one. He had no idea where he was and in a figurative sense, Kai was lost.

And boy did it depress him out.

Just as the boy was about to give up hope, something called out to him. He didn’t know if it was an actual light from somewhere close or if something else was at play, but as he looked around, a bright, warm light that created a trail of sea-colored particles, Kai kicked the horse’s sides. “Yah!” The horse neighed and he was going as fast as the horse he rode on would allow him. Much to his delight, it brought him to some sort of cabin that had its own horse stable.

As Kai would anchor the horse in the stables, letting it feed off the straw and take in some warm water, Kai entered the cabin. He wasn’t exactly sure what to say about it. There was this very homey feel about it. Various items of clothing that fit the kind of weather outside were in stock, though Kai’s wandering gaze went from the boots and scarfs on the wall to a man who stood taller than even the roof itself. A tall man dressed in a fur scarf was taller than three Kais put together. He was pale-skinned and had blond hair much like Kai himself did. Whoever this guy was, the smile on his face sure didn’t fit the monstrous vertical frame he had.

“Uh..hi..”

“Hello!” The tall man said with a smile, looking down at the young Kai, “how may I help you?”

“You’re...big.”

“Why yes, I am, sonny boy.”

Okay, so after the moment of being surprised at someone this tall, Kai shook his head. “I was hoping you could--”

“Attention good sir! I require some assistance,” Kai couldn’t help but notice a man force himself into the cabin, thusly interrupting him.

“Excuse me! I was here first!” Kai protested, walking up to the slightly bulky man.

He looked at Kai, brushing him aside. “Sorry boy, but I have some manly troubles,” he walked up the counter, “gotta get some straw for Sven.”

“Hello.”

“So yes, as I said, I need some help. Can you help me, cabin person?”

“I can, yes. What do you need, sir?”

Kai felt insulted. He was here first, so he should have first dibs at the service this tall cabin keeper provided. “I was here first!”

“Hold your jets, little man. I just need one thing and I’ll be out of your way.”

As this guy would soon realize, Kai wasn’t one to wait around, let alone let this guy walk all over him. So in response, Kai shoved him out of the way. “Learn proper manners, old man!”

And thus began the struggle between Kai and whoever this guy was. When Kai shoved him, he shoved back. Punches were thrown and names were thrown out there in the open. After a while, it seemed like the two would then break out into a song, singing about the woes of being a man and how patience was for children. Granted, Kai was technically a child, but he wasn’t about to give up.

...Well, that was until the shop owner put an end to that. “Okay, that’s enough of that,” he said, holding both males by the collar of their shirts. “Boy, what is it you need from me?”

“I came here from the Castle. I’m looking for Princess Anna.”

“Oh! Why didn’t you say so?” He said, giving Kai the impression that he knew something, “she’s over there,” he looked to the back room.

Kai was let go and he ran towards the back room. Meanwhile, the guy tried to force his way free by karate chopping the man’s arm. As one might surmise, that didn’t go according to plan.

“If you wanted free, all you needed to do was ask, sir,” the man said, dropping him down to the ground.

“Is this how you treat all your customers?"

“Only those who don’t behave.”

He huffed and followed Kai.

As Kai went to the back room, he saw Princess Anna resting on a bed. He rushed over to her. As fate would have it, she started to wake up the moment he was at her bedside.

“KAI!” Anna’s eyes were wide open at the sight of a familiar face, “what are you doing way out here?”

“I came looking for you. Well, I and Cielle went looking for both you and your sister,” he admitted.

They both hugged and she stood up. Off in the distance, she saw another familiar face. “Kristoff! I thought you went back to those trolls?”

Kai looked back and saw it was the man from before. “You know him?”

Anna nodded, “that’s Kristoff. He helped me get here. I didn’t think he’d make it back, though. I’m glad he made it here, too.”

Kai wasn’t sure what to make of this, but he didn’t have time to ponder these new names. He had to focus on what was more important and that was getting Anna to Elsa and getting himself to Cielle. “Did you happen to see Cielle on your way here?” Kai asked though she shook her head. “What about your sister?”

As Kai asked that, Kristoff spoke up, “I might know the answer to that,” he confessed.

“What do you know, Kristoff?”

“I saw some blonde head tot he northern mountains. My best bet is that she’s there.”

“Then that’s where we shall head too!” Kai seemingly decided for the entire group.

“Absolutely not! It’s a madhouse out there. And why are you so interested in finding the queen?”

“Because my friend is there. She might be in danger. Plus, I need to apologize to her,” Kai admitted

Anna looked at Kai with a curious expression, though she could see the conviction in his eyes. Even if something might’ve happened between him and Cielle, she could see that he wanted to make it right. “Well, I’m going too. I need to find Elsa!”

Kristoff shook his head. “I can’t believe how nuts you two are being,” he sighed, looking at them, “fine, I’ll go too. I know a shortcut. It shouldn't’ take us more than an hour,” he told them.

And so they were off. With a reindeer, three humans, and a horse, they made their way through the frozen wilderness, across a bridge or two, and eventually made their way to the mountains. To their surprise, however, it seemed like there was more than just a simple mountaintop. There was no real way to describe it. It was..

“A frozen castle?”

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

In the span of just a few, long moments, Jaakuna had experienced an all-time high after he saw that his diversion worked long enough to seriously damage Rio. Even someone as frequently ignorant like Jaakuna Darcone saw as clear as day that his purifying fire and Shion’s Light dealt a major blow to the artist formerly known as The Creature. It was a proud moment that he owed everything to Shion and Belias. However, just as he was feeling proud of himself and wanting to take a moment to bask in his own glory, the blond soon noticed that not everything was as it appeared to be.

Stand ready. He comes. Belias had warned Jaakuna, but nothing could warn him for the gut-wrenching pain that was his beloved getting shot through the heart. And Jaakuna, despite his overwhelming power, was to blame because he could not stop the copy of Rio that hurled a sword straight for Emiri - not even Shion could stop the cruel act with her impromptu barrier.

As Jaakuna was about to rush over to her side, knowing full well that his elevated powers could get her out of the dire situation Rio has created for her, he was blocked by the lack of light within the dome of darkness that Rio created previously. In addition to that, every time that Jaakuna tried to move an inch, he felt the touch of dark magicks block him. If it wasn’t for enhanced senses, he would be blind in this darkness. It was thanks to Shion’s Light that Jaakuna was able to anticipate the attacks of the shadow clones. When they came at him, he dodged, parried, and counterattacked. And as well as it was going for him, it seemed endless

"You'll pay for that!"

And so Jaakuna decided to create an opportunity from within the dome itself. Building it from his hands and deep into his body, Jaakuna suddenly was radiating a bright light around him -almost like a mild aura that illuminated parts of the dome. At that moment, the blond prince saw where the shadows were and with several, precise strikes from his twin swords, Jaakuna vanquished them all and would turn his attention on Rio. His love for Emiri lit a fire inside his belly and with rage being his main motivator, Jaakuna pounced. His swords shot forth two streams of Firaja while he zipped through each stream, using his new-found ability of Fire Teleportation, when the fire would near Rio’s body, Jaakuna appeared above the man. Within seconds, Jaakuna kicked into the fire with a flarega-infused fist, exploding on impact while also giving Rio a first-hand account of the Firaja streams and how painful it would be.

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It wasn’t long at all when Wesley and Grant had arrived where Nadeline was in the process of getting knocked left and right by what appeared to be Ren. He nor Grant had the time to question why, of all people, Ren was attacking Nadeline. The only thing that the two men had on their minds was making sure she wouldn’t harm the blonde princess any further. And at the moment that Ren went to deliver was could only be surmised as a final strike, Wesley and Hashmal prepared to intervene, but something got in their way.

“What the--”

A portal of various colors appeared before the two and as they went to strike, the two men, as well as their espers, were teleported above them. It was then that Wesley noticed something was off. Not only were they above Ren and Nadeline, but it seemed there was some kind of force that was prohibiting them to move. One thing that the Dalmascan King noticed was that the force keeping them at bay was stronger than anything Wesley had ever experienced.

“Grant! We’re stuck up here!” Wesley said, trying his best to break free of the invisible prison that he and Grant and their Espers were in.

As he could do nothing but look on, Wesley’s heart was pounding a million beats per second as he saw Ren aim her sword high and poised it to strike fast. Tear flew from his eyes and the worst thing imaginable crossed his mind. He closed his eyes. Wesley couldn’t bear to witness the end of his love in front of his very eyes.

“Wesley, it is not over. Open your eyes,” Hashmal suggested.

And so he did. To his surprise - and likely even more surprised, Grant - the sight of an unlikely group of four people appeared before them, blocking young possessed Ren’s attack. Wesley saw Michel was among them. The other one, of course, was Ivy, the one who caused many troubling comments for Michel and his girlfriend, Meli. But to his surprise, along with Meli, Wesley didn’t believe it at first, but with them was…

“Miss me Grant darling?” Leviathan blew a kiss at Grant, her bare hand stopping the attack of Ren. She smirked as it seemed Michel, Ivy, and Meli were pretty content with the current situation at hand.

“My apologies, Nadeline. We were fooled into thinking the waystone we took would lead us to you. In actuality, it led us straight to Venat’s stronghold. But fret not, it wasn’t all bad. We’ve discovered something crucial to--”

Levi hissed, urging Michel to shut up. “Now is not the time, Michelangelo. We have to deal with this one.” Briefly, Levi looked up. “My apologies, King Wesley and Princey-Poo. Your attack would have caught Nadeline in the crosshairs. Plus, Little Ren here isn’t exactly someone who is in her right mind.” Levi hummed, a dark energy surrounding her hand, dissolving the sword that Ren had in her hand and forcing the girl back about five paces. And as soon as she did that, Levi snapped her fingers, dissolving the barrier that kept Wesley and Grant suspended in the air.

Wesley and company dropped to the floor and he couldn’t shake this uneasy feeling of Levi’s presence. “While I appreciate the assistance, what is this about, Levi? Why are you here?”

Ivy looked between the two, snickering to herself, yet she said nothing about what was really going to happen.

“All in good time. First thing’s first! We have to cleanse this one here,” Levi said, her palm radiating with a dark, yet non-evil, magick. As she would be covered in purple energy, from a small portal to her right, a little serpent-like creature crawled up her body, latching itself around her neck. “Zodiark: Cleansega!” She commanded, a fierce scream came from the little snake and froze Ren in her place.

Palm Beach Royals: Senior Year

_{I N T E R A C T I N G W I T H / / The Misfits and self}

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It didn’t take Sonny Drake that long to realize that it was really boring when the usual suspects chose to leave him by his lonesome. Marisol ditched him for Tinkerbell. Kavi was nowhere in sight. Last he saw, the polyasian mix was picking on that Jewish kid, Donjah or something like that. The others either were already inside the main school building where most of the first classes were, or they hadn’t arrived just yet. Not even Jun, as fun as it was to poke fun at his asianness, was providing Sonny with any entertainment.

Sonny had his hands in his jacket pocket as he followed Apoo Jr’s lead and made a direct beeline for the main building.

As he wandered inside, Sonny thought about a lot of things, but one of them that instantly caught his attention was spotting, of all people, Victoire Bailey and Stella Lambert together. Though he obviously saw Vic’s usual bitchy expression, he couldn’t help but notice her sigh in a defeated way as he heard Stella say something to her. Now, Sonny wasn’t typically thrown of a loop. The teen prided himself as someone who could handle surprises, but seeing those two acting somewhat chummy with each other definitely gave him his first ‘well that happened’ moment of the year.

“If those two are hanging out, then this year might just be more interesting than I thought it would,” Sonny noted to himself.

And as Sonny wandered to his locker and gathered what he needed for his classes from now until lunch, the thought that lingered was how Sol Jr would get a kick out of Stella and Vic. If anything, it would get a reaction out of her. To Sonny, that was the best thing he could ask for. Oh, how he loved seeing her get visibly angry about Stella. Plus, they both harbored a mutual hatred for the President BItch. Knowing Stella as he did, Sonny knew that, at some point, Stella would annoy the crap out of her.

What a time to be alive and an asshole!

Shuffle your music player and post the first 10 songs

_{Treasure of the Four Crowns — Nox Arcana — Blood of the Dragon
I Was A Kaleidoscope — Death Cab For Cutie — The Photo Album
Here to Die — Five Finger Death Punch — The Wrong Side of Heaven And the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. II
Death Tone — Manowar — Battle Hymns
Working Out — Jim Gaffigan — Mr. Universe
The Outcasts (Call to Arms) — Black Veil Brides — We Stitch These Wounds
America — Tha Trademarc — Infuriority Complex (Chapter One)
Goku Volunteers Gohan — Bruce Faulconer — Best of DBZ Volume V
Roxas’ Theme — Yoko Shimomura — Kingdom Hearts II Original Soundtrack, Disc I
Sleep With One Eye Open — Bring Me The Horizon — Suicide Season}

Palm Beach Royals: Senior Year

Keep in mind that in two days (American time zones) the time skip will happen. So do what y'all need to do before then.

Ban the Person above you

Banned because assassining should be a word.

Ban the Person above you

Banned for beeing

Ban the Person above you

Banned for claiming the title of RPG's grope master and taco hunter.

Iquenos: In Nomine Domini

At long last, my brother returns!