Kingdom Hearts: The 13th Requiem [PG-13/Not Accepting]

[Kōsuke Ueki]

It seemed as though after a minute of his allies fighting the Wraiths, Ryan had somehow disappeared from the chair he was sitting in while recooperating. The oddest thing was that nobody noticed. But really, Ryan had went near the back of the shop, concentrating a thin flame aura around his hand with the ring. When he concentrated as much as he could, which wasn't much since he was still exhausted, he aimed for his target after going into the shop. He noticed 3 more Wraiths going after Viola, so he thought up the spell. [i][color=#b22222]Fire![/color][/i] Extending his hand out, he launched a Fireball at one of the Wraiths. But then, he did the same thing twice more with the other Wraiths. It's mainly to get their attention off of Viola so she can prepare another spell. He then proceeded to run out of the shop and hide just before the Wraiths noticed Ryan behind them. He never thought he'd have to do this. To be honest, because Ryan is lacking in energy and momentum, he's gonna need to play it safe if he's gonna help. [i][color=#b22222]This is what I get for running so much. It would've helped a hell of a lot more had I just walked with Trevor and Shuren. Well, too late now. I just got to hold out long enough to let Viola fight them off.[/color][/i] Ryan thought.

[Ghoulish]

OOC: Don't think anyone's interacted with my character since my last post. If i've missed something let me know.

Dawn continued theading towards the end of the valley on the hover bike with the dwarf man seated behind him. Alot of questions were coming into his mind leaving him silent for the most part. Towards the end of the large valley was a pathway that seemed to lead to a higher are, the Dwarven man sighed a sigh of relief that they had not come across any other Heartless or threatening figures.

[color=#b22222]"That's the entrance to the Main Town." [/color]He stated as he pointed toward the ascending path.

[color=#000080]"Who is this Wizard anyway? What kind of help can nhe be to someone like me, who you know...fights with swords?"[/color] Dawn asked causing the Dwarven man to shake his head.

[color=#b22222]"It's not the equipment that he'll teach you of, it be the powers that are within yourself, the powers of Light and Darkness."[/color]

[color=#000080]"Darkness I can assume are these Heartless creatures are the "white creatures" supposed to be of light?" [/color][color=#000000]Upon saying this Dawn began to remember the Dark light his Yin blade often emitts, was this the "Darkness" that his hearing about? And if so, why would he possess Darkness or anything originating from it?[/color]

The dwarf shook his head violently. [color=#b22222]"They are just as dark as the Heartless, Don't worry Merlin will explain everything to you."[/color]

[Love of Ghibli]

Nerhyx was done with one place as he opened his corridor to another. When he walked out he realized that there standing atop a large clock tower at night. As far as he could see he was in a city of lights and he took a moment to be impressed by the beauty of it. He looked down at this clock tower though and opened his hand which he then used to cover the faces of the clock in darkness. Though it wasn't truly darkness it was just a large collection of heartless that took over the tower. It was interesting though it seemed there was residual magics left in the clock tower. It was as he surmised he was able to use the residual magics of Phantom the heartless that possessed this tower before to create a new beast.

From the swirling mass of creatures erupted a new [url="http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=heartless&offset=48#/d2krj2"]heartless[/url] yet it seemed to be still incomplete as it was missing an arm and oozing darkness trying to create said arm. Nerhyx was once again pleased with his efforts as he was infecting this world with heartless. The faces of the clock tower appeared to bleed darkness as they made their way into the city. Now that this place had been taken over he would be able to go on to other worlds. But which world should he go to next. With so many possibilities it would be hard to choose. He "appearified" a book and cracked it open. It was really a summary of the keyblade wielders travels. He decided that it would be a good idea to really back track this person's journey. If a Keyblade wielder went their before then why wouldn't another one go their again. He made it to the part about the 7 different princesses. If anything that looked like a good place to start.

"Well I just made myself a lot busier." He opened a corridor of darkness and went in to his first stop on the princess tour.

[Merci]

Several more attacks were thrown at the Wraiths, but they just kept on either enduring or dodging these attacks, trashing the shop even worse. Ryan saved her from a sudden attack she hadn't foreseen with a fireball he threw at them - she probably had to thank him for that later - and so she decided to continue onward, casting an invisible forcefield to protect herself from the rain of knives. Once they were done, she took the instant before they could had a chance to send another wave.

[b]"As the Prime Merlinean, I wonder if you guys like it cold~?"[/b] Viola asked, though she didn't give them more than a split second to comprehend her pun. She hadn't just soaked them to reveal the invisible ones; there had been a secondary purpose.

Pointing her dragon ring - the proof of her amazing powers - up to the ceiling, she muttered yet another inaudible spell that was Phase 2 of her [i]soak-everything[/i] plot. Suddenly, the Wraiths in the shop found the soaked water around their bodies frosting, freezing over. As fast as they were, being somehow able to dodge spell attacks that (should) go at the speed of light, there was no way they'd be able to thaw themselves without some sort of firepower. Of course it wasn't their entire bodies freezing over, just the soaked parts...which was a lot, still.

After a few moments, they [i]should[/i] become icicle statues with only very slight movement, unable to escape or do anything of the like. But there was no telling with these nobodies, so Viola could only hope that her plan worked.

[Phantom Roxas]

Kreix sighed as the Dream Eaters destroyed the Heartless one by one. "Did you not hear me? It's futile to send your Dream Eaters after these Heartless. Until the Keyblade destroys them, they will continue to be reborn, maybe even go stronger as their heart persists. However, you do have a point. Should a novice Keyblade wielder show themselves, I will send weaker Heartless to train him for the bigger battles. As for the pages, I'll help. I wouldn't risk allowing the information they could have to elude me.

Kreix gestured to the two Paladins. "Doxfer, Lexyk, you and the Dusk will return to base. We'll resume our business later." The two Paladins bowed, and Jumpsuit mimicked them. Lexyk opened a Corridor of Darkness, which the three Lesser Nobodies stepped through. Kreix turned to the stranger. "You never did say your name. It seems you know that mine is Kreix, but what of yours?"

[Barian Warlord]

As the Nobody began to leave he finally asked Xemyrom for his name which was amusing because it is something you normally give at the beginning of a conversation.
[color="#4b0082"]"Xemyrom, and about having my Dream Eaters fight the Heartless though the Heartless will return the chance they will comeback stronger is slim do the them both being entities of Darkness so the Dream Eaters will grow stronger with each Heartless they defeat. Oh and about the notes why don't we meet in Twilight Town in say six hours, I feel you should be able to locate any already in your possession and finish any other business in that time."[/color]
After finishing Xemyrom Waed his hand and a Corridor of Darkness formed in front of him, unknown to Kreix he was going to look for some youths with the potential to master the Keyblade.

[Mugendramon]

One by one, the Wraiths were beaten. Their stealth element lost, they didn't pose much of a threat. A few Thunder spells would not kill them off, but they could only do SO much damage, with just some throwing knives.

Eventually, one girl which the Wraiths all individually decided had delusions of grandeur, managed to cast a powerful ice spell. The Wraiths screamed inaudibly, and the observant one noticed. They Wraiths fell to the gound, unable to move. With their abstract green bars rather depleted, they just shattered into a million pieces as they fell from the air. Said pieces turned to fog and vanished.

No sooner did the last one, still invisible, Summon a corridor and escape through it.

[hr]

Omcraxs continued his ascension through this dungeon. He didn't have the slightest idea what he was doing, however.

[Ghoulish]

Dawn and the dwarf had arrived into the main town of Radiant Gardens. The streets were swarmed with people and characters of all kinds they travelled slowly through the mass of people with directions being given by the dwarf to this mysterious wizard that he spoke of. Dawn was both excited but confused as to what he would learn of the wizard and whether or not it would actually be of use to him, he knew that though there may be no point to it he really had no other options, he was still wounded and should he run into another powerful foe it could mean the end to him.

 

Once the two made it through the town they came across an underground passage way, only small globes hung wwithin the dark tunnel that seemed to have no end from first sight. They made their way through the barely lit passageway eventually entering a large swamp-like area with a large tower in the centre of it. A small cracked path over the muddy swamp led to the Tower's front bit of grass. The two were directly underneath the main land of Radiant Gardens.

[Phantom Roxas]

"Xemyrom. I'll be sure to remember that." Once Xemyrom left, Kreix turned back to focusing on the invading army. As the Dream Eaters went back with Xemyrom, Kreix clapped his hands. Most of the Heartless went away, save for the Possessors that kept consuming the castle. Kreix was called off for his search for the mysterious place, and now he had to go away. Did this stranger seriously think he could just tell Kreix what to do? Then, it hit him. Was he one of the people in that area he saw displayed on the terminal? He had to check that and see what it showed now.

Kreix opened a Corridor of Darkness, that would take him outside the tower. As he did, he sensed a presence drawing near. Walking closer, he could see that it was Omcraxs. Looking at Number III, Kreix shrugged. At least it was someone he knew would listen to him. "Well then, Omcraxs, what exactly brings you here?

[hr]
Viola finished off the mysterious white creatures, although Ryan at least tried to fight. Balthazar wasn't exactly surprised that the Prime Merlinean was able to be the best fighter, even defeating the enemy before Balthazar could help Trevor. At least Trevor and Ryan tried to fight, though. Shuren ran support, while James did… Well, Balthazar didn't want to say nothing - that wouldn't be encouraging, even though it was well within Balthazar's place to say that. So how should he handle this delicately?

"Each of you did very well," Balthazar said as he walked back into the shop, not facing any of his apprentices. "However, James, I would appreciate it if you showed up more. If you're late, any of your friends could get killed. Do you want that to happen?" Balthazar shook his head. "Sorry. The thing is, the reason I gathered apprentices is because of the kind of monsters we just faced. They are known as Nobodies." Balthazar waved his hands, and the shop slowly began to rebuild itself. "Come on, get inside. It's not the first time this place has been wrecked, right?" Thank God Shuren didn't lose control of his Haste spell this time. Balthazar waited for his apprentices to all come inside before he could continue.

[Yosuke-kun]

Wile Shuren had expected nothing less from Viola, he was still astounded that she managed to perform magic that far ahead of the  others. His jaw might have dropped, but as he was on standby supporting the others, as well as guarding James, who seemed to've frozen up at the start of the fight, he kept it closed. That, and it'd be embarrassing if it just fell open in front of her. Wait, what?

 

He focused himself on inspecting James for injuries now rather than become fixated on why not being embarrassed in front of Viola was important to him. He seemed to be in one piece, if anything he was just shaken, so Shuren sheathed his sword, and patted James on the shoulder. "Don't worry me like that again, okay?" he said smiling at him, mostly just glad he was unharmed. He began to walk back into the shop, feeling slightly useless as far as combat went, but then again, there wasn't much that he could have done more than what he did.

 

As he began to catch up to Viola, he  remembered the gift he'd gotten her. Now would be as good a time as ever to give it to her, since she was more focused on other things from the look of it. Yes, now would be perfect. He walked past, rather closer than normal, removed the necklace from his pocket, and slipped it into her. when he was a good distance away, he turned around to look her in the eyes. "Nice job back there." he said with a pleasant look on his face. He HAD just pulled off one of his best marks yet after all, and more importantly, he survived his first battle using magic. "Seriously, I'm almost jealous." At that last comment, he added a teasing wink, though he wasn't sure why.

 

Even with all this going on though, there was still one thing weighing on his mind. Nobodies... The word seemed harmless enough, yet there was nothing harmless about  them. What were they, and why did they attack now? He'd known that Balthazar was keeping secrets from them, but this one. This was one of those things he should have mentioned on orientation day. Not that Shuren would have refused to be trained even if he had mentioned it, he just would have liked to know.

[Merci]

Viola frowned when each creature shattered and faded away instead of staying frozen like an ordinary being. Something told her that these 'Nobodies' weren't of a normal plane of existence. They just didn't fit in, somehow, as if they shouldn't exist. But enough of that. She didn't know what sort of creatures they were, exactly, but she wasn't surprised that Balthazar had kept this information away from her - it might've been distracting, or the apprentices might not have fully gotten used to a world of magic, that kind of thing.

 

"So what are these...invisible Nobodies?" she asked their master. "Primordial creatures? The offspring of some demon? The evil in the hearts of humanity given form? Aliens from another world?" Off she went, firing one piece of speculation after another, each of which sounding strange when paired up together in the same sentence.

 

Shortly afterwards, Shuren walked oddly closer than normal before turning around to thank her. She smiled back, disregarding the wink as nothing more than a friendly gesture.

 

"Right. Thank you, S- Shuren," Viola replied, unexpectedly tripping on her own sentence for a moment. Though confused, she continued on with a grin. "Almost jealous now, are we~?"

[The Warden]

Haxz and the rescued TRON returned to the Library via Corridor, and this time, the Elites sort of, left him alone; no doubt still reminded of his last outburst. But, this wasn't on his agenda anyways. Passing by the clear white bookshelves, Haxz came to the large computer terminal that housed all the data of the Organization. "Okay TRON, time to hold up your end of the bargain."

 

Inserting the USB, the light began flashing. "Download in progress."

 

A large bar appeared on the screen and filled rapidly, in a matter of seconds it was done. The screen fizzled for a brief moment, before TRON's old circa-80s visage appeared on it. "I'm in Azh."

 

Haxz smiled a little. "I, kinda lied to you about that one. My name isn't Azh, not anymore anyways. I'm Haxz, of the New Organization. You are currently inside the main database of the Castle That Never Was."

 

TRON looked, what's the word? Anguished? Yeah, I'll go with anguished. "I knew things were too good to be true."

 

"Don't look at it like that TRON. Now you have a chance to aid the Nobodies in their plight for wholeness. And I want you to strat by digging up the files on the Replica Program. It's something I read about from Vexen's logs, but I could never find them. But now, I have you for that."

 

TRON was hesitant, but, there was little he could do. "Okay Haxz, a deal is a deal. It will only take me a brief cycle and- oh, oh dear."

 

Something juicy, already. "What is it?"

 

"I'd, rather not show you. It's something, ungodly."

 

"We had a deal TRON."

 

TRON gave a pained look, but shrunk his avi box down to reveal a large report titled "Number i". "This was a project made by Vexen and Xemnas to create their own Sora through a Replica. This Number i, known later as Xion, was able to siphon the shattered memories of Sora after his journey through Castle Oblivion; she did this by using Sora's Nobody, Roxas, as a conduit for the memories. Slowly, she gained consciousness and soon her own Keyblade. Her main process was too... absorb Roxas, and become a whole Replica under the Organization's control. This is disgusting, and absolutely wrenching of all the senses. How could they even consider doing this?"

 

"Because, a Nobody doesn't have a Heart. They don't feel remorse for what they did, and, the New Organization doesn't either. Still, it's a shame we don't have a Sora anymore to siphon memories from."

 

For a brief moment, TRON had a guilty look on his face, but he masked it quickly. Luckily for Haxz, he caught it. "What are you not telling me TRON?"

 

"N-nothing."

 

"We have a deal, if you don't feel like keeping it, then I may not feel like keeping you."

 

The pain was highly evident on TRON, even for a program, this kind of guilt will be too much. "There is a copy of Sora still existing. During his adventures, he entered the computer you found me in by the machinations of the MCP. Because he and his friends became a part of the system, the OS made backups of them in case of a critical malfunction. I kept and nurtured those backups after the Terminal became disused; loneliness is a cruel thing."

 

That, that was something big. The gears turned, and a cruel idea formed. "If we get that Sora backup, and load it into a Replica. We can literally BUILD a Sora to work for us. This is magnificent, this is wonderful. DUSK!"

 

At that call, a Dusk appeared immediately. "Yes my liege?"

 

"Go find Kreix, tell him that I may have found a way to get a Keyblade that we can control."

 

The Dusk was shocked, but fled quickly.

 

[hr]

 

The Dusk appeared before Kreix, oh, and Omcraxs was there too. The Dusk was fidgeting more than usual; but, then, this was his first major assignment and boy was it a good one. "Great Superior, pardon my interuption, but Lord Haxz has sent me here at great emergency. He claims to have found a way for us to get a Keyblade."

[Barian Warlord]

Xemyrom Present

In his Corridor of Darkness Xemyrom noticed a Nobody fleeing which meant it had probably fought something or someone that was able to hurt it which caused Xemyrom to smirk and consider entering into the next phase of his plan. After following the path the Nobody had taken Xemyrom found himself in a modern city and it didn't take long for him to find where the Nobody had fled but before engaging whatever scared it off he saw a red coat in a window and warped into the store taking it and luckily it didn't have a security tag so he could take it with no problems. After leaving the store he took off his jacket and put on the coat then he messed with his hair so his bangs were down and walked towards the game shop where the apprenticed had just had their battle, looking around and then to the group specifically the girl, and noticed that she and the other youths there had the potential to wield the Keylade.

"It seems like your first encounter with Nobodys went well but as it is you probably won't be able to handle all of the threats that face your world, unless of course you get a key to solving the problem at hand."

He could tell the store was where the battle had taken place and hoped that they would accept his "Gift," and thought this world might even hold more people with the potential to use the Keyblade.

[Mugendramon]

Omcraxs was caught off-guard by the sudden appearance of Kreix. "Well, Superior... I happened to find that Haxz had come to the Radiant Gardens, and I wondered why... perhaps you could enlighten me on it?"
 
Then suddenly a Dusk. It brought news. Omcraxs was rather surprised to hear them, but...
 
"blah blah Lord Haxz-"

 

Omcraxs let the Dusk finish, as it was obviously not talking to him, but as soon as it was done... "HAH! LORD  HAXZ? He makes you call him that? I feel sorry for you. But this isn't the time for banter. Tell us where Haxz is. Or rather, just make the Corridor. We'll follow suit."

 

The Wraith behind Omcraxs was ready to flip out AGAIN. This was exactly what he tried to tell his master! But the one behind Kreix yelled at it, inaudibly, to calm down.

 

[hr]

 

The sole survivor of the battle against Balthazar's apprentices returned to the Castle. Not finding his Master to report to, it simply wandered around the castle, invisible.

[Love of Ghibli]

A Corridor of Darkness opened and this time Nerhyx instantly held his breathe as he realized he was now underwater. He looked around and noticed that he wasn't dying from the immense undersea water pressure, but that could be attributed to his generic Nobody toughness. He called his gentlemen and they when they appeared from the oceans depths they came with a dark orb and they forced him to swallow it. After a couple moments of discomfort from swallowing sea water Nerhyx realized that he was able to breathe underwater. It was an odd sensation and one he couldn't figure out. But it made sense that the organization would have something like this up there arsenal. Its not they would just leave worlds unchecked just because of a terrain issue. With his Gentlemen Nerhyx traveled the ocean floor looking for their target. The Gentlemen in there own version of non-verbal communication were wondering who could they be here for. Surely the 7 princesses and their immediate descendants were long dead.

 

"Correct my Gentlemen I do believe we're a little late for to extract the hearts of those significant parties. But there is one thing I have seen that has survived the test time and that is a grudge." Nerhyx and his Gentlemen kept walking and they realized it was steadily getting colder and colder as they progressed. Nerhyx smiled because that means they were getting closer to their target. "You see Gentlemen, in my readings I learned of the story of Ursula and her bouts with King Triton and her contribution to the Heartless cause. Unfortunately that well has been long been tapped dry for darkness and magic." The Gentlemen nodded in agreement as they read the stories. It's not really clear how seeing as they have apples for heads and whatnot but they were able to function like other living beings. "But did you know that there was another one?" If the Gentlemen could raise an eyebrow out of curiosity they would. Instead they just tilted their heads. Nerhyx wave his hand because he saw the target sitting at the bottom of the see and as it came into focus for the Gentlemen... "I present Morgana, the sister of Ursula the Sea Witch, she has no talent for magic and has an inferiority complex when it comes to her sister thanks to bad parenting according to the records. Nevertheless she also attempted to take King Triton's trident and bestow dominion over all the seas for a couple of minutes. We shall use this perfectly preserved shell to do our work for us."

 

Nerhyx called forth his blade which now looked slightly ornate and odd like the other Nobody weapons of the organization and he thrust through the ice touching Morgana's frozen skin. Nerhyx removed his blade swiftly and looked to the side. Morgana's body began to glow in a dark flame and the ice around her shattered. Nothing else happened as her body just floated there lifeless. "Hmmm now that the hard part is over." Nerhyx lifted his blade and called forth a seemingly endless number of heartless. Luckily they were able to adapt to the terrain and some mermaid-esque creatures appeared. The creatures swam straight into Morgana's body and little by little he could see life return to the sea witch. After about a full minute of sacrificing heartless to her Morgana moved her eyes, her fingers, her tentacles.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH, Mommy LOVE ME! These weren't the words Nerhyx expected, it seems parenting issues run deep. He still had an army of heartless and three Gentlemen with him so this could get entertaining. Wai...what's happening? Where's Triton? Who are you? The newly freed witch frantically swam around and asked. She was entering panic mode but Nerhyx blank face showed he didn't really care. "You were frozen, I unfroze you, Triton is dead and same goes for Melody and Ariel for that matter, and you can call me Nerhyx." LIES, LIES, LIES, LIES, I CAN'T HAVE DIED! "Really what's your last memory?" Surely enough she remembered King Triton's trident blasting her. O Okay so...I don't get it. Did you kill Triton? Where are Cloak and Dagger? Where is UNDERTOW? "They're all dead and the same thing that killed them killed Triton." What...

 

Nerhyx took the time to full explain Morgana's situation and the heartless that are now fulling her existence. After violently going through the five stages of grief she finally reached acceptance. This sucks! I'm all alone and a failure. You know this is just what my mother used to say about me. She hung her head in shame. I don't have anything now, no Cloak and Dagger, no Undertow, no magic no anything. Why didn't you just let me stay dead? "Who said you didn't have magic?" What? "Give it a shot you might surprise yourself." Morgana concentrated really hard that she was visibly scrunching up her entire body trying to master something. Unfortunately nothing happened. ARGH!! LIAR you just wanted something to criticize. "No, try this...um...think of something you really want and just picture it." Morgana thought really hard again, but this time she got a reaction some of the Heartless that Nerhyx had summoned were being drawn into this two black holes forming at Morgana's sides. After a while two Emblem heartless that were shaped liked manta rays appeared from those holes. Yes I did it, Cloak and Dagger! Nerhyx raised another eyebrow as he was tempted to feel sorry for this women creature. She clearly just needed affection in her life. Wait...Does this mean? Nerhyx nodded as she closed her eyes and concentrated again Nerhyx just watched as this time the remainder of the army he had combined to make a shark like creature. His eyes widened as Morgana called for this thing.

OH Undertow you're just like I remember you! Morgana hugged her new heartless monstrosity. Nerhyx deduced she must have had some brain damage from being frozen for so long and this...thing must be something she acknowledges as a memory. Nevertheless it would do. Morgana swam up and hugged Nerhyx so tightly that he almost felt pain. THANK YOU!!! Tell me what can I do to repay you? "That's easy Atlantis still exist right, go remind them that you do too. And take them with you." He pointed behind Morgana and she would see Heartless spawn right behind her and that was to be her new army. Tears literally came out her eyes as she had so much power. No...problem. Nerhyx bowed as the Gentlemen opened a corridor and he took his leave. Surely she could handle herself now.

[Super Chaos Sonic]

Nobodies? That was a completely different concept that Trevor was used to. "Nobody" would've just meant like he's a loser or something, but Balthazar put emphasis on that word. "H-Hey! Balthazar, mind explaining what these freakin' so called Nobody things are??" he asked, trying to stop himself from bleeding as much from these cuts.

 

[hr]

 

Kingdom Hearts 2 OST ~ This is Halloween

 

Meanwhile, in the pumpkin patch near Curly Hill, Zack stood in the shadows as he watched Lock, Shock, and Barrel lead silver bodied creatures back to the remnants of Oogie Manor. It appears as if those three are already causing trouble again. Honestly I keep telling dad and the Mayor to lock those three up for good, but they insist that they will change. he thought, putting the hood from his hoodie over his skeleton head. As he watched them leave, he whistled and watched as a ghost dog appeared next to him. "Zero, can you keep eyes on those three for me? I'm going back to the main square to get a few things."

 

Zero barked with a ghostly grin, as he began to float off, following the group quietly and secretly.

[Phantom Roxas]

"Haxz is here? He's probably at the terminal, then." However, just before he could go go back to ascending the tower, a Dusk appeared before him. When the Dusk informed Kreix that Haxz had discovered how to find the Keyblade, Kreix couldn't resist smiling. "Well then, congratulations are in order. Very well, you go check the terminal and see what else you can discover. Omcraxs, let us return to the castle." The Dusk floated past Kreix, who opened up a Corridor of Darkness. He had to go back to the castle anyway, but there was no way those pesky notes were more important than the Keyblade.

[hr]
The Phantom Heartless gazed into the distance, where Halloween town resided. It was a white cloak without a body, but darkness covered its sleeves and formed a hand, with which it used to summon more Heartless. Wight Knights shambled across the ground as Gargoyles and Search Ghosts floated overhead. For some ungodly reason, it was decided that Oogie's Manor had to be rebuilt. Lock, Shock, and Barrel apparently spent years cobbling together a recreation of it, and the Heartless decided to help when the kids weren't looking. It made for a nice home for the Heartless to stay in. The Phantom waited for Kreix's order to strike, hungry for more hearts.

[hr]
Balthazar wanted to say more, but then a stranger showed up. If only Ryan and James had walked in fast enough so he could just lock the doors, then this sort of thing wouldn't be happening. Might as well clear up the confusion before continuing with the stranger. "Yes, Trevor, Nobodies. Viola was close when she asked what they were. The darkness in people's hearts, however, are reborn as Heartless. A Nobody is created when a someone with a strong will falls to the darkness. What is left of that person becomes a Nobody, and the strongest of those Nobodies even resemble how they were when we were human. This, however, is a rare occurrence, and yet six people have gathered together, calling themselves the Organization. I'm sorry I kept quiet about this for so long, but the reason I took all of you on as apprentices is because we are not alone in this universe. Our world is so small, and there are many more out there, in ways you wouldn't believe. The Organization is attacking the worlds, and we have to stop them."

Balthazar approached the stranger, and spoke uncomfortably close to him. "I know we need the Keyblade. I found the Prime Merlinean, but I can't afford waiting the same amount of time I did before I find it." He looked back at his apprentices. "Any one of you could wield the Keyblade. I don't want to ask this of you, but we have to leave soon. Those monsters are attacking the worlds, and we have to stop them."

[Kidd Buu]

Exiting the corridor Xelo found himself in a strange place it was dark and gloomy. He wandered around for a bit trying to figure out what kind of world it was, the place was deserted no one in sight. Until he heard a voice behind him. "Excuse me this place is for the DEAD I would assist you to your death but I'm terribly busy planning something, So come back when you're...you know... dead." Xelo turn around to see a tall, lean man who had blue skin and blue flames for hair. The man had very sharp teeth and an unnatural black mouth. His face was quite long and thin, with his chin jutting out abruptly. "And exactly who are you?" Xelo questioned the man. "Me...oh you're talking to me....I'm no one just the LORD OF THE DEAD, HADES!!!" The man boasted putting on an unnecessary fire work show. "Well....Hades would you like to make a deal?" Hades looked at the hooded figure and though for a second. "No...The last hooded person to come here was sent running home with his tail in between his legs." Hades chuckled trying to be humorous. "Well I guarantee I am no coward, I could be of use to you and you...to me." Hades thought about for a moment and snapped his fingers then a massive three-headed dog with black fur appeared behind Hades. "Well I thought about it and it's a no, now leave or Cerberus here will have you as a snack." The massive dog barked all three heads snapping their jaws at Xelo.

 

Xelo didn't move an inch and never losing his composure. "I must insist you re-think about my offer." Hades sighed and snapped his fingers again, The three-headed dog stopped barking and laid down. "You got one minute before I have Cerberus eat you." "You said you were planning something maybe I can assist you. Maybe an army of heartless?." Hades rubbed his index finger and his down his long chin. "Maybe.....Maybe you could be of use to me. I'm planning the Hades' Cup it happens every year or so, but the same thing happens every time....Wonder Boy wins and my subjects lose..blah blah blah." Xelo listened though he didn't really pay attention. "Well why don't you fight yourself?" Xelo asked. Hades looked at the hooded man "Tried that, I was beaten by that meddling boy and his friends" "Then have someone fight for you." "I tried that...twice....one of them turned on me the other was worthless." Hades responded in disappointment. "Well third time is the charm." Hades face lit up then he stared at the hood-man. "Follow me."

 

Xelo followed Hades to a giant green portal in the ground that seemed like a bottomless pit. Hades looked at the portal and threw a large fireball down the portal and up came smoke. Once the smoke cleared it reveled a man who was wearing a long red coat with black clothing underneath, black boots,  black shoulder guards, a large red sword and a large black wing on the left side of his back."Though the morrow is barren of promises Nothing shall forestall my return....." "Stranger meet... G, a very dangerous man." "Hades." Hades took a few steps back away from the man named G. "I have a deal for you, you cut down a couple of people for me and you can have your freedom." "Hades....why have you to brought me back?" "I have plans for you G...." "Who are you hooded man?" G asked cutting off Hades. "Me?....I'm nobody." Hades turned red and stared evilly at G. "Anyway G...." Hades calmed, continued to talk. Though Xelo's job here was done he had no intention to hear Hades talk. He turned around creating a corridor of darkness, but before he walked into the dark portal G spoke interrupting Hades again. Hades turned red again with his hands cupped as if he was choking something breathing angrily.  "My friend, do you fly away now? To a world that abhors you and I? All that awaits you is a somber morrow .No matter where the winds may blow. Loveless Act IV and you may call me Genesis. We shall meet again....Nobody." Xelo continued through the dark portal knowing his mission was complete.

[Kōsuke Ueki]

Ryan couldn't believe what he was hearing. And he could hear everything as he was walking back into the store when a stranger came out of seemingly nowhere. Other worlds? Heartless? Nobodies? A "Keyblade"? In the 2 months that training with Balthazar had happened, he could have easily talked about all of this if he had done it right. But no, he had to keep it all to himself. His fear got in the way of bringing about bigger opportunities to make everyone stronger as an Apprentice, and possibly gain a new ring for a new Spell. But again, fear and procrastination got in the way, and now Ryan is left with anger and a pain in his chest that most likely won't go away until he gets some rest and regains his strength. But, now was the time for Ryan to speak up for once in his life and actually make something of himself as an Apprentice. He was done just being another face in the group. It's time to make a man out of himself.

 

"Did...did you just say you're sorry?" he asked to Balthazar as he walked up to him, nearly in his face. "An apology will not make up for all of the time that you had wasted by not telling us about there being other worlds, and these...Nobodies and Heartless as you call them. If you had told us all about this from the beginning, or at least at some time after we started training and gotten used to doing it and told us then, I wouldn't be angry with you now. But, you blatantly ignored telling us the truth from at least Day 1 of our training, and look where it's gotten us?! Nowhere! We would have been prepared for this attack weeks ago, and we would find a way to take them out without any complications! Now, I'm not saying you're failing as a teacher, I'm saying you're going to crash and burn as a teacher the more these mistakes come up. So, next time there's something important you need to tell us, be sure to tell us at that time, or I'll have to remind you day in and day out of the mistake of procrastinating so much and keeping all of these secrets from us!!" He sighed, feeling as though he's made his point. "Now, Balthazar, could you possibly explain to us what this...Keyblade...is by any chance?"

[Yosuke-kun]

"A strong heart falling to the darkness?..." Shuren looked down at his feet, feeling suddenly very ashamed. When Balthazar had first met him, he told him that one day he might fall to the darkness too. Does that mean Balthazar thought that he would one day become one of these Nobodies, or a Heartless? The thought filled him with sorrow, but not from the thought of becoming one of them, but the thought that in so doing, he would betray his friends and master.

 

The mention of other worlds came as no surprise to him, since  he knew it was impossible for there's to be the only one, but that there was other life on those worlds was... not impossible, but a somewhat fun thought to toy with. He'd thought that the odd occurrences had only been happening here, but he was obviously wrong if the Organization had been attacking those worlds too. The Organization​... Who were they? What did they want? Why were they attacking the worlds? Balthazar had said they were all powerful Nobodies, but why would the Nobodies want to destroy the worlds? And the Keyblade... What relevance did this seemingly mystical sword carry?

 

Trecor was still bleeding rather badly from multiple areas. The Nobodies had been hurtling knives at him through the whole battle, but Shuren had hoped his Haste would have kept him less scarred than he was. He walked over to him and waved his hand. "Need a band-aid?" he asked somewhat jokingly as he cast his Cure. The bleeding stopped, but the cuts were still open. That was a problem. He waved his hand once more, casting a second Cure on him, and depleting the last of his Magic Energy, but closing the wounds slightly more. Then Ryan began to shout, angered with their master for having kept this much knowledge from them. Shuren thought he was getting a little too bold in his speech though, and stepped in towards the end.

 

"Calm down Ryan. Your making way to much calls that you don't have the right to make." He kept his voice calm, so as not to start a fight with his friend, but allowed himself to show force in it to get his own point across. "Even if he had told us about this before, we'd have been just as prepared fort this fight as we were now. Possibly less so as we would've been arrogant as to what it was we were fighting and underestimated our opponents. I understand your anger, but I'm sure Master Balthazar had his reasons. Besides, we all knew we were being trained for something like this when we became his apprentices."

 

When Ryan had calmed down, Shuren let out a small sigh. He wasn't exactly happy that Balthazar had left this information out either, but as he'd stated, he was sure he had his reasons for leaving it out. All that was left now was for Balthazar to give them his explanation of everything. He'd felt that now there was no reason  that Balthazar shouldn't tell them everything, but one thing he managed to piece together himself. "The Organization is after the Keyblade or Keyblades aren't they? That's why they're attacking the  worlds isn't it?"

[The Warden]

Haxz was waiting patiently for Kreix, god damn did that bastard enjoy taking his sweet time. Oh screw it, it'll be faster for him to go to Kreix. But first, he'll gather TRON. No doubt he'll be needed to find the backups of Sora and his friends. Facing the terminal, TRON wasn't to be found on, looks like there was only one way to get his attention: Haxz pounded on the keyboard viciously, the keys clattering loudly with the strikes. TRON appeared back ons creen in an instant. "Ow ow OW! WHAT! What is it Haxz?"

 

"I'll need you to find the Sora backups from Ansem's computer. So we'll be going for a little road trip."

 

TRON rolled his eyes and faded from the screen as a bar appeared and filled rapidly. It was a good thing that he had kept the external hard drive still connection. When the bar was then filled, Haxz removed it and left in a Corridor.

 

[hr]

 

Whilst in Betwixt and Between, Haxz came across the same Dusk he had sent to find Kreix. It told him what do and pointed the Greater in the direction of the Superior. Haxz followed the trail to the end.

 

[hr]

 

His Corridor opened up several feet away from Kreix and Omcraxs. He stepped out of it and ir faded away as usual. Haxz lightly dusted himself before choosing to address Kreix. "Hey Superiority, I hope you got my message, as what I have here is pretty big- Oh, hey Om. So, you chose to follow me then?"

[Mugendramon]

Omcraxs sighed. Bold, as per usual. Assuming he's the centre of attention. Not that he isn't, in this case... but hell. What a diva.

 

"I... didn't know you had come here, actually. And even if I did, what makes you think I came following you, anyway? It'd be kinda hard for me to, given how you always somehow find my Wraiths... By random chance, I figure. Lucky, you are. The Dusk you sent did get to us, though. That's some important stuff you've got to say, hm? We're finally getting a Keyblade, after the longest time?

 

Wait... didn't you tell me about some shit that went down with the last Keyblade user? That Roxas kid, the one who betrayed the Old Organization?"

[Merci]

[i]The darkness in people's hearts, however, are reborn as Heartless. A Nobody is created when a someone with a strong will falls to the darkness. What is left of that person becomes a Nobody, and the strongest of those Nobodies even resemble how they were when we were human.[/i]

 

Heartless and Nobodies. Other Worlds. Keyblades. Some random stranger who apparently already knows about the Nobodies. She didn't mind that Balthazar was only telling them now - really, she was surprised Ryan put up a fuss about it - but still. They were attacking other places, threatening the existence of all worlds. She thought about the darkness in peoples' hearts. What defined darkness and what defined light? Regardless of the answer, somewhere deep down, she knew what the core of her heart was. While letting Ryan and Trevor talk, she kept to herself silently, thinking about these revelations.

 

[i]A strong will, and a body. That's what it needs to create a Nobody, if I heard that correctly. Then...[/i]

[Barian Warlord]

After hearing Balthizar's speech and his apprentices response Xemyron covered his mouth and chuckled then regained his original stance and moved away from Balthizar and looked over to the apprentices.

"You seem to miss understand something, just having a strong heart is not enough to summon the Keyblade, if someone with the potential to wield the Keyblade does not unlock that potential then it will not come to them. Lucky for you it seems your apprentices have to potential to use the Keyblade and I can unlock that potential and am willing to. All I ask is that you help me locate group of documents with the same symbol as on my gloves on the pages, though sheer luck I gained the ability to awake your potential to use the Keyblade and read those document but I don't know who else can read them and fear the Organization might also be looking for them. They were written by the leader of the original leader and may hold the key to defeating the Heartless once and for. So what do you say, will you try to walk the path of a Keyblade Master or stay in your world and continuously fend of the Heartless and Nobodys?"

Xemyrom could tell they would accept even if they didn't know, hero's are always willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of others.

[Kōsuke Ueki]

After hearing what Shuren had said, Ryan thought that maybe he was getting a little ahead of himself. Shuren was right, But at least he understands why he did what he did. After thinking it over, Ryan realizes that he may have gone overboard with this. He wasn't blaming Balthazar, he was trying to get his point across. He didn't mean to go crazy about it, but considering what happened to him as a child, he didn't want to feel like he was reliving the same event in a completely different scenario, and he was helpless to do anything. If he hadn't done anything, then he would have done a lot worse in the future had Balthazar been hiding more from him and the others. He thought he was doing the right thing, but now he understands how much of an ass he was to Balthazar. "I'm sorry." Ryan said in a whisper, not letting anyone hear it but himself.

 

But then, the stranger began to talk more about the Keyblade, saying something about retrieving lost documents and awakening his potential to wield it, whatever it could be. He promised a chance to do more than continuously fight the Heartless and Nobodies to no end without it. And so, to make up for the deep hole he has already put himself into, he decided this was best, no, the ONLY way to make up for the mistake of shouting at his own master. Ryan stepped forward. "I'll help you." He knew that would shock everybody, but he didn't care at the moment. "If it means stopping these things for good, I'll do anything to protect the innocent lives taken by these...Heartless and...Nobodies. No matter how high the stakes are, I'll do what I need to." Ryan then took a deep breath, and noticed that after he said all that, his heart was racing slightly. Could it be because of the choice he made? He wasn't sure, but maybe this is a driving force he needs to be able to do more than what he's capable of.