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This temple is located on a island far to the east of the known chain of islands that make up the Destiny Islands. This temple is infested with Dark Knight Heartless and Paladin Nobodies... making it extremely hard to get through alive. The temple is built in a strange design, with snow white and jet black colors prevalent in the temple. You would need a boat to get here quickly but flight would work just the same.

Hikaru jumped back as he barely managed to dodge a powerful strike from the Paladin nobody, and Hikaru grasped his katana tightly as he then charged at his opponent, with a clenched fist in one hand and a tightly held katana in the other. "KAMI NO ITTE (Hand of God)" Hikaru roared as he charged his clenched fist with massive amounts of mana and then attempted to strike the Paladin Nobody with his now glowing fist. Hikaru's attempt proved fruitful as Hikaru managed to strike his opponent, discharging the mana into the opponent, causing it to be severely burned by the intense mana discharge, and Hikaru then tried to finish it off with Raikiri but it blocked Hikaru's strike with one of its massive claws.

Hikaru then jumped back and spun, channeling his mana and holy energy rapidly and then smirked, saying "Say goodbye..", as he unleashed a massive burst of light energy at the nobody, finishing it off quickly and Hikaru continued into the temple, looking extremely worried as he then came to a large square room with a strange pedestal with a female encased in crystal at the top of the dais that was in the center of the room. Hikaru ran up the steps of the dais and looked closely at the female imprisoned within it... it was Hikaru's sister and Hikaru looked at her crystalline prison with horror. "Alaria..." was all Hikaru said, crying then he raised his katana and then channeled his mana into it, making it glow brightly. "LET ME RELEASE YOU!!" Hikaru shouted as he struck the crystal with his katana, but it wouldn't shatter... the bloody thing was indestructible.

((seriously... you just waltz in and ruin my plot... I am half-intending to delete those posts you know))
Shinoko's sword would shatter as it touched the crystalline prison, preventing Shinoko from freeing the person trapped inside. Hikaru grunted and looked at Shinoko with absolute annoyance and then turned back to the crystal and said "Something's wrong... that's not Alaria... but it's something familiar". The crystal started to fracture in several places until it then it completely shattered, sending fragments deep into the walls of the room. The former prisoner then got up and looked at the two with pure malicious intent as she said in a dark, ominous and resonant voice "Prepare to die here... Hikaru... you really are foolish... the memory of your sister is your weakness... but still... neither of you will survive here", and the female started to transform in massive burst of darkness energy, transforming into a large creature that looked like this:



Hikaru stared at the creature and said "Innis... the Mirage of Deceit...", as several Dark Knight Heartless and Paladin Nobodies appeared next to the creature. Shinoko would feel a massive percentage of his power 'disappear' and become unusable while he was in the presence of the paladin nobodies. Hikaru readied his katana and then stood his ground, saying "Shinoko get back... you won't be able to handle this"
((DO NOT! I REPEAT DO NOT HAVE SHINOKO INSTANTLY DESTROY ALL OF THE HEARTLESS, NOBODIES AND INNIS! This should be long like a normal boss fight for story purposes... I outrank you in this guild so listen to me))

((Innis not a nobody... its something totally different...))
"Innis isn't a nobody... its the master of illusion..." Hikaru said as he barely managed to dodge an energy blast from Innis which was fired from the swords rotating on the circle on Innis' back. Innis turned transparent, making it pretty much invisible then totally disappeared making Hikaru wonder where Innis was, then he heard Innis shouted "Listen to what people have to say", jumping up and attacking Hikaru from the side, which cut Hikaru in the air. Hikaru swore and jumped back, struggling to cast Curaga on the wound to heal it. Hikaru managed to heal it and then charged at Innis, with his energy katana blazing with massive amounts of electricity and Hikaru spun around rapidly, the electricity on the blade elongating it so he unleashed a powerful 360 degree radial attack spin with Kawaige using Raikiri. The electricity heavily injured the dark knight heartless and paralysed the majority of them and the majority of the paladin nobodies. Hikaru swore but he dealt an uppercut slash with Kawaige, still charged with pure electricity.

Innis staggered backwards as it was hit, grunting in pain, and clearly it was angry as it said "Mirage Prison", and for Shinoko, his vision would shatter and he would find himself falling down into a bottomless black void while in reality, he collapsed, Innis had placed Shinoko in a nearly inescapable reality created with Innis' mirage power which could create illusions at will and they could affect anyone Innis wanted.

((Your physical body is unconscious... heh... should have said that.. that's what I meant when I said that Shinoko collapsed..., plus in the illusion you are falling so fast that the book would have been ripped out of your hands anyway... plus Innis controls the illusions... that's a superboss for you...))

((It might work... in that it might help Shinoko break out of the illusion... but it isn't in the physical world... but it might talk you into doing something in the illusion that would let you break free of the illusion...))
Hikaru then jumped into the air and shouted "FEEL THE FULL FURY OF THE HIKARI!!!! HOLYGA!!!!". Suddenly, Hikaru was surrounded by an aura of white light that then separated in to dragons made of light energy which then decimated the heartless and nobodies then struck Innis, heavily damaging Innis. The spell ended and Hikaru jumped back, planning to finish it but he was blocked by a wall of force which Innis had summoned at the last minute... its illusion having the ability to alter reality.

((You do realize that one of your swords shattered when you struck that crystal right?))
Innis's barrier still held true and Hikaru then shouted "Kurisutaru Hebun Tate Taipu • Tenrai Soodo (Crystal Heaven Sword Battle Style • Divine Blade)", his katana glowing bright with holy energy as Shinoko's swords bounced off of the barrier but Hikaru charged straight at it and then he combined his Kurisutaru Hebun Tate Taipu • Tenrai Soodo (Crystal Heaven Sword Battle Style • Divine Blade) with his Raikiri (Lightning Blade) technique causing the blade to become covered in a massive wing of holy energy and pure lightning elemental energy as Hikaru then plunged his sword right into the barrier, the barrier starting to ripple and then shattered but Hikaru didn't stop there as Innis tried to strike Hikaru again but this time with an energy blast fired from both swords on Innis's arms and it surrounded Hikaru, Innis shouting "DATA DRAIN!!". Hikaru screamed in pain as data started to surround Hikaru, ones and zeros swirling around him. "Hah... the darkness has increased my powers so that my data drain affects creatures not made of data as well... enjoy your last minutes of life" Innis said, but then stopped as Hikaru swung his katana so it ripped through the orb of energy that surrounded him.

Hikaru then sliced through it, breaking the attack and then Hikaru jumped into the air, diving for Innis and then Hikaru shouted "Die Innis, Mirage of Deceit and Second Phase of the Cursed Wave!", plunging his sword into Innis's chest, which caused the energy in Hikaru's sword to build to intense levels as beams of light burst from the impact site of Hikaru's sword in Innis's 'chest' and then Hikaru jumped back to get away from Innis, as data started to swirl around Innis and Innis screamed "NOOOOOO!". Suddenly, Innis turned into data and then disappeared, and Hikaru turned to Shinoko and looked towards him but then suddenly, from out of nowhere spikes of energy impaled Shinoko and Hikaru in the heart. The spikes moved too fast for either of them to dodge and the spikes wouldn't harm then as they could feel a power rising in them. Suddenly, both their bodies projected a massive orb of light energy around themselves and they started to transform... they had just been granted Drive Forms.

Hikaru transformed into a version of himself clad mostly in white, wielding two guns with blades of energy projected from near the gun barrel, below it actually and the blades were very long.


Hikaru looked at himself and his guns and laughed but then words flashed in his mind saying "Xth Form Obtained". "Xth Form... oh crap... My geass... its gone..." Hikaru said as he realized he couldn't use his geass in this form.