Chapter I: The Preparations
Master Riku and his temporarily apprentices, something that Riku hadn't believed yet, the Princess Of Heart Kairi and the new found ally Lea are training at Twilight Town, Riku is dueling with them, Kairi have perfect control over her Keyblade, Destiny's Embrace but that doesn't mean she are the best fighter he has ever seen, she's just good enough to beat Heartless and take care of herself, her real affinity is with magic, mainly the ones based on her power of Light.
Lea due to his experience on fighting is a very skilled fighter but he is really getting total control over his Keyblade, Flurry Of Dancing Flames, he is even able to something that Riku have never seen anyone else do it, the red-haired man can transform Keyblade which is stylized as flames into a whip of real flames and the handle stylized as his former weapons his Chakram actually is his Chakram and obviously his magic affinity is Fire.
Riku was a little different, now he just wears the black shirt with the zipper in the middle that he always wore underneath his yellow and white jacket, had a short haircut and his already known blue jeans and grey, yellow and white sneakers, and also his wristband at his left wrist.
Kairi was wearing her usual clothes: her pink dress full of vertical zippers and a white T-shirt underneath and her white and purple sneakers.
Lea was wearing a white sleeveless shirt underneath an also sleeveless orange jacket, using a yellow and brown keffiyeh around his neck and a wristband full of yellow flames and wears black socks and white and red sneakers. As another change of look had a shorter haircut which made his hair become very spiked. Had crescent moon like tattoo under his wristband, which Riku and Kairi already discussed but never got to a deal.
They were at Sandlot, Riku was having bad news with that two because they were really tough together, Lea was charging at him causing a line of fire behind him, so when they were about to clash, Lea turns to the right almost making his master to burn his arm, so Riku shots a barrage of Dark Firaga at Lea, which he is able to evade all of them and finish what he was trying to do, surround Riku, then Riku started to look for a exit, but he wasn't able to spot any escape.
Then at nowhere Lea appeared like a jet and almost slashed the teenager and at the same time guided light missiles charge their way to the boy but he shield himself in time.
After some other tries of the same strategy, Lea flies to Riku but before anything he reveals that he was holding Kairi, he throws the girl at Riku and jumps to the sky and shots a Fire Salvo at them, the girls stops spinning when clashes with a just summoned Keyblade, Way To Dawn, the salvo of fire get to them and Kairi cartwheel back leaving Riku to cut the all the fire shots one by one without getting hit.
Then when he looks around, there is no one, but that was just for half of a second, when he notices Lea charging to him when he is getting ready to duel, a blast of light comes at his direction too from the opposite side of Lea.
Riku get shocked when he finds out that blast of light is Kairi, so he charges his Keyblade until it takes a form of a giant sword, that was his Limit called Session and a command named XIII Sword which is based of other multiple light swords of light cut at the same slash.
So when Keyblade Bearers get near he makes a Round Blitz which send Lea flying back, cut the flames and clash with, instead of a flower stylized Keyblade, a light barrier that cracks when slashed but makes appears many floating light sphere that explodes, damaging Riku and extinguish the flames marking in the floor the circle that the flames created.
When Lea is able to sit and Riku barely stand up, some claps are listened so Kairi look all over and is not able to see anyone, so Kairi heals Riku and go to Lea to see if he needed it, but he don't even look to her, so she and Riku tries to figure out to where he is looking, when she stops at the middle of her way, they see now from where the claps were.
At the top of a building, a black coated man was clapping, his hood was down and they could see how he looked like, had a long blue hair, an X-like scar at the middle of his face, and had pointed ear and yellow eyes, which was the "mark" of Xehanort. The three summons their Keblades back but the man doesn't react, just say:
-Long time no see, Lea. Oh, where are my education? I missed you too little princess and also you, traitor.
-YOU FREAK! LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO YOURSELF, ISA! - Lea yells.
- Isa? Lea, that's Saix, number VII from the Organization, the one who got me at that freaking cell.
-I'm so flattered that all of you got memorized me, don't you agree, Lea?
- Shut up, you are just a little stupid puppet of Xehanort now; there is nothing else to be remembered. I don't even know you anymore. –Lea yells and jumps to the man in black but Riku intervenes.
-Lea, don't lose your mind, as you said he is just a little puppet from Xehanort now, he is just taunting you, probably is just a trap – So he turns to Saix or Isa, he didn't know, the only thing that really mattered was that they had to go through it – What you want, Saix?
-Oh I just wanted to pay a visit to see how our new Keyblade Master, our Princess and our friend (giving a disgusted glare to Lea, while pronouncing this word) were doing. And it looks like all is going better than ever.
-Okay, we're going well, now, LEAVE! IF DON'T WANT TO FEEL HOW WE ARE DOING GOOD! – Kairi said angrily because he was really making her new friend suffer.
-Oh sorry, I didn't know the little princess was not anymore that stupid girl that only knew how to get in trouble and in the end be saved but now I really think that it's time to I get into my way- he summoned a Dark Corridor- Ok then, bye my dear friends- and he went away.
The two friends immediately look to Lea, he just take a deep breath and says:
-Let's go have some ice cream- He said trying to look excited with the idea, but making he look even worse
No one refused so they bought their sea-salty ice cream and went to the Clock Tower.
Yen Sid is with Master King Mickey at his room talking about their plans when the old sorcerer listens to the magical train arriving
-I just can't believe that fellows are getting skilled so fast, don'tchya think, master? – Mickey asked
-Oh, it is really unbelievable their progress, but it is these unbelievable things or some miracle to help us fight that bastard. Riku is really good even with his inner conflict at all he does, he is there whenever some friend need him.
-But master, we need more people to fight the Seekers of Darkness, don't we need? We have me, Sora, Riku, Kairi and Lea, we need two more but Master Xehanort mentioned my three missing friends; Aqua, Terra and Ventus. We already gotcha an idea where Aqua and Ventus are, so must I take that Terra is the Light with him?
-I would not be so sure, because with that incarnation of evilness around, I would not be sure of anything. And do not count Kairi on it.
-But Master Yen Sid, didn'tchya …?
-No, my old friend, I took her to train to her be able to defend herself and the other Princesses Of Heart, but she is not one of our Guardians Of Light, besides the fact that she is one of the lights to be guarded.
-Master, I…
-Mickey, whoever is the one who landed on this place by the train is not a friend; I feel such terrible darkness and an even bigger power coming from one of the two visitors. Please my friend, go now, and check who they are.
-I'm on it!
Happens a terrible shake at the tower made by the barrier around it being cracked, then a freaking laugh is heard, so Mickey runs downstairs to "welcome" the new "visitors".
There was tense silence between the three friends until the moment Kairi spoke:
-So … Lea, what is the story between you and that guy?
-Kairi … Do I really have to talk about it?
-Hm… I guess so, we're your friends now, right? Don't you trust us?
-Friends, huh…? Even after I capture you to see your Sora fading away into his own fear and pain?
-Lea, why did you do that? Was it order of Xemnas or Saix that you did it? I remember that after you sacrificed yourself to save Sora, Saix tried to keep Kairi at the cell.
-If you really want to know why I did, you won't hear from me what you want it to! I capture you on my own, when I did it I had already left the organization because they wanted me to kill Roxas, my only friend of the world, and the one who could make me feel like I had a heart, even knowing now, that actually I had a heart. But when found out that he had fused with Sora, I planned to take him out there no matter what! So I tried to make Sora's darkness turn him into a Heartless and give me Roxas back.
-And why did you change of idea in the end?
-Because I figured out that Sora made me feel like that too… I shouldn't have told you, but as you wanted, now…-He gets up- I'm leaving…
-Wait Axel… oh Lea, please, where're you going?!
-I know that you hate me now, so I'm sorry, but it was good the time I spent with you two but… bye.
-NO! WE DON'T … -But she didn't had the chance to finish this line because another man in black arrived
-No, no, please, don't go, Axel – The man did an imitation of a girl voice – Oh, please, after all your "icky" jobs, you turned into a little princess, Axel!? How pathetic! –He taunted and then turned to Riku and Kairi –Don't trust him, I'm searching for revenge on the Organization XIII too, we are allies, got it memorized? – When Riku is able to remember whose the voice is is he quickly stands up, followed by Kairi.
-Oh no, at the same day, two people use MY catchphrase, taunt me and think they're going away without anything in exchange, ho ho! You don't get an idea how I wanna crush your face onto the floor, now! Ah, almost forgot, MY NAME IS LEA! Got it memorized!?
-I wanna see you try!
So he summons his Keyblade, as do Riku and Kairi, so they take their battle stance and their enemy summons a blue and white shield named Frozen Pride and "Anti-Sora"s behind him and takes his first step to the battle…
Yen Sid is searching for the power of the stars to know what is happening downstairs and his eyes are shut. So the door is wildly opened by a man in his Organization XIII attire, when Yen Sid feels his powers, he has to put his hands on his head, because his power was too massive.
-Hey, grandpa, how you doing? –Said the boy under the coat.
-Such… a… power. How can it be? –Said the sorcerer and retired Keyblade Master barely able to open his eyes because the headache.
-I really thought you were better than his pathetic old man on the floor in front of me.
-On the floor? –So the sorcerer he stands up – I am not seeing any old man on the floor. – Said it gravely.
-Oh, no? Don't worry grandpa, I can provide it to you.
With a invisible source a power, the boy without moving any muscle strike down the more powerful sorcerer of the worlds and leader of the Guardians Of Light, who were just about to use Thunder against the new villain.
-I sense that … - The boy say ironically imitating the pose that Yen Sid does when trying to contact the stars- This is going to be interesting- And he holds his Keyblade(a red and black Keyblade called No Hope) high and make it comes down to Yen Sid…