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12 year old Riku and Sora:

At the White Castle, where kids start from the age of 7 to start training to become TITANS, which was known as a hero or warrior throughout every single world in the universe, fighting off heartless, kids would grow older to protect those who they care about. They are trained in magic, fighting abilities, strength, and will power. All to destroy the darkness looming in the atmosphere just waiting to strike.

As the darkness is compelling into worlds more often, TITANS and other types of fighters have done the best they could to hold them back, but slowly, is it getting harder to hold them. Slowly the darkness is winning, or at least pushing the everyone back.

How would the worlds face the darkness?

But who would defend the universe?

Those from the White Castle and those from Dark Castles. Titans from two training Academies learning to defeat the darkness.

When I first attacked the pyro with green blazing eyes, his blonde partner hadn't defended him right away, almost like he was stuck with fear. But then he retaliated by diving at me with some sort of weapon held tightly in both of his hands, keeping a good rythym as it clashed with my key blade.

One after another.

I tossed my weight to my side, rolling and the knocking him off his feet, using my key blade to trip him. Landing on his back he gripped my key, pulling it right from my hands and then tossing It an impressive distance.

The pyro jumped directly behind me, locking my throat in his grip.

I opened my hand, allowing the handle of my key blade fade right into it, as I was able to grasp it again, I knocked my elbow so hard that I could feel the wind blew right out his mouth and he dropped to the ground.

"Y-y-you-"

"Can breathe and you can't? I know!" I boasted, "Next time watch what you say and who you're talking to!"

"S-shit," he breathed shallow, the blonde grimaced and then glared back at me.

The blonde rushed to the pyro. Both glaring at me, because I had beat them both without my own partner, who was stirring his own shit up with other partners.

Which was how we had ended up running drills together.

"You need to keep up. You keep slacking over there."

"You need to watch your mouth when I'm picking up your slack jackass," I glowered over at the silver haired speed demon who was leaping from tree to tree, a step behind me. Close as he'll ever be to first place is a solid second. I kept my speed up, hitched a solid first, sure he wouldn't be able to cut in front of me, because he may have been my partner, but he wasn't my friend.

"Sora, how long are we going to have to do this?"

"Well Riku, maybe next time we could keep ourselves pumping to get out of this punishment of running the same basic boring drill over and over again."

"You should've kept your mouth shut."

"Axel should've minded his own business, besides, you lunged at Cloud."

I wasn't tired at all, but running the same basic drill over and over again was boring and in the end, I was getting tired. We were ordered to run the perimeter of the training forest in the battle arena, over and over and over again as our punishment.

Our being Riku and me.

Punishment being, me destroying a red head pyro, who thought he could toy with me and Riku picking fights with a blonde ass hole.

I don't know how many of the five hundred laps we'd completed before we both started to run shirtless, the breeze allowing us to continue without trying to outrun each other. It was starting to be an unbearable to see the blur of the same trees, like I was just twirling around and around. I was starting to feel dizzy.

I finally stopped.

Abruptly.

Riku slammed behind me, I didn't move, but he angrily shoved me forward, "If we stop, we'll have another hundred laps!"

"I can't take anymore of this!" I exclaimed, dangerously, shaking my head while throwing my hands up to the sky.

Riku glanced around, waiting a bit for a sign of someone in the distance, but no one came. He nodded and leaned against a tree as I wandered on the ground more slowly, taking in our surrounding.

"We've been doing this for hours! Why aren't those other jerks running drills!"

He shrugged, not as bothered, my temper flared easily, so it was assumed that I would be the one to freak out.

Riku and me were partners, in everything, I hated that this guy thought he could amp up to me, but couldn't. But he was definitely second in the school, so I could get over it. We were going to graduate from training school to become TITANS

TITANS was a branch linked to SOLDIER, a type of team that was designed against the heartless. Soulless and lost creatures who created chaos in other worlds, TITANS were there to wipe them out. That was what I wanted to be.

A TITAN.

A hero.

TITANS were running the worlds around ours. It held the training facilities White Castle and Dark Castle, which were academies held for magic users and warriors. I was here, training, and growing up to become a hero. I am going to be a hero, shameless and amazing. Famously protecting everyone in my path and never think twice about it.

I was currently being punished.

But I would soon run this world with my Key Blade.

Nothing but to help everyone.

Which was the whole point, soon I was going to grow up. I didn't need a to be tied down to anything but my dedication into training, I was flying through courses and drills effortlessly, and I was going to become a TITAN. Nobody would be able to do anything to stand in the way of my dream. Otherwise they would be nothing but another pyro situation.

I could hear his words, "Okay runt, you think you can be a TITAN with your skills? I don't think so."

I snapped to quickly. I should've let him talk and go. That's the way of a TITAN.

I turned to Riku, who wasn't looking at me, just at the grass. I focused my eyes on the sky, shaking the brown spikes out of my vision, "When we become heroes, what will you do?"

Riku looked at me, "When we become TITANS? I'll just advance, keep going."

"Me too. I'll be the best."

"Not a chance, you'll be right at second place."

"That so Riku? Last I checked, you were behind me the whole way!"

"Whatever."

"Exactly, I'm going to rise higher than everyone, I'm going to be the best."

"Not with the slacking you're enjoying," We both turned to see Cid, a teacher at Dark Castle, moving in on us with a toothpick between his lips and a smug look painted on his face, "Slackers."

"I'm not a slacker!" I shout exasperated, "I was defending my title."

He shrugged, "By just standing next to a tree?"

"Oh shit…" Riku murmured.

He sighed, "You two aren't getting anywhere if you guys can't take punishment accordingly."

I shook my head embarrassed, "I didn't see you standing there sir…"

"Just get your asses running."

"Yes sir!"