Three young faces looked up at the archaic Yen Sid; the group standing in a special room within his own personal tower. Yen Sid brushed his long, gray eyebrows as he stared on with his rather large eyes. He was decked in his typical garb; an all blue robe with sky blue lining and his favorite, cone shaped hat that was littered with golden stars and crescent moons. "I'm very proud of you; my three young apprentices. But now is the time to put all of your skills to the test and take the last step to becoming keyblade masters. "Yen Sid paused for a moment, before continuing his speech. "Dream." He looked at the young man on his far right as he spoke.
Dream was a fairly tall, dark-skinned teenager with Amethyst eyes that caught every last fraction of light in the room. His hair was stylized in a night colored afro, with a lavender and sky-blue headband covering his hairline. Dream was rather bulky, especially above his waist. He was wearing an all purple sweater, to match his uniquely colored headband and black jeans to match. Finally, he decided to wear purple and black shoes, with the laces matching the lavender in his headband. "Illusion." Yen Sid continued, looking at the young man in the middle now. Illusion looked up at his master; his ruby eyes brimming with courage.
Illusion, like his two partners, was a dark skinned teenager; standing just an inch or two shorter than Dream. Illusion's hair was slightly ragged and brown; extending down to his shoulders. His face was outlined by long side bangs that covered his ears and ended at his chin, as well as numerous bangs that ran through his crimson eyes and forehead; coming to an end at the bottom of the bridge of his nose. Illusion was wearing a white, hooded cloak that lacked sleeves. It did however, possess a hood which had crimson trim, and was fastened low right above his ribs, forming a v-cut at the top, and left the rest of his pants and clothing revealed. The ends of the cloak were designed to look like two tails and end at his shins. The cloak had various, rune-like gold symbols on the front. Underneath the cloak, he wears a black zip up vest which is also sleeveless, and slightly opened at the top to show his neck. He wore a pair of black pants, with a red strip of cloth tied around his right thigh, and a golden belt worn diagonal off his waist. To complete the outfit, he wore black and red streaked sneakers, and red fingerless gloves. "And finally you, Reality." A slight murmur escaped the third teenager's lips, while his sapphire eyes refocused.
Reality was lanky and the shortest compared to his two friends, but he was the most tone. His hair was extremely short and onyx colored. Reality was wearing a blue zip-up hoodie, with a white t-shirt underneath; choosing to keep the sleeves rolled up. He also had two blue wristbands on each arm. For his legs, he covered them in black jeans and his feet were covered by blue and white sneakers. "For your final test, you will have to defeat me in combat." Yen Sid had a slight smirk upon his face, which frightened the teenagers.
"Defeat you, huh?" Reality held out his hand and in front of his palm came a white, almost egg-like orb. It possessed an omnipresent glow; shaking louder, with a thunder like noise filling the area. The ball then cracked open, and his keyblade, Exist Actually, formed in his hand. The hilt appeared gold and v shaped, with a black handle that possessed a sky-blue eagle shaped pattern surrounding each side. The blade itself was blue with three spikes, one long and straight with an arrow at the end, one large one on the right side and jagged, and one small jagged one; causing the teeth of the blade forming a shark fin.
"It's three against one." Dream withdrew a small, purple crystal and gave it a quick flick. The crystal then vanished, and instead his keyblade known as Cloud Catcher. The blade was purple with the traditional symbol for bad luck, a black cat, at the center; it's circling the blade. The hilt was also purple and surrounded with a mixture of lavender and blue spikes. The teeth were designed to look like purple shark fins with a black star at the very top.
"This should be easy." Illusion extended his hand and six outlines of various keyblades began to encircle his hand, before he finally reached out and grabbed one. The mirage keyblades faded away, leaving only his actual keyblade, Phantom Avenger, in his hand. The hilt appeared like a normal handle with a silver spiral encircling it on either side, which joined together at the bottom. The blade itself was silver and straight and changed between being narrow and wide, with numerous light blue miniature blades crossing over the silver blade in no particular pattern. The keyblade's teeth looked like four miniature versions of the keyblade but light blue. Yen Sid said nothing, but summoned his keyblade, the Star Seeker, with a brilliant flash of light. The guard appeared to be two shooting stars. The blade was blue and decorated with stars, while the end was a crescent moon and star. The Keychain design was a crescent moon.
"Ready? Let's begin." The trio didn't get a chance to react, before Yen Sid casted Firaga, Blizzaga, and Thundaga. His magic speed was so incredibly fast, that it was like the three spells were cast at once with no verbal command and no change in his stance. The force of the three elemental spells striking sent all three keyblade wielders crashed down several feet away and flat on their backs.
"Still think this will be easy, Sion?" Reality groaned as he rose to his feet, and helped his two partners up. This time, the three would be ready for their master. Dream had the strongest physical attacks, but the weakest magic, whereas the inverse was true for Reality. Illusion was more or less balanced between the two, but he was certainly the fastest. When the group moved to attack Yen Sid, it was natural for the fastest was the first to attack. While Illusion was performing his low swing, Reality was backing him up with a blizzard spell aimed directly for Yen Sid's chest. But Yen Sid was no stranger to combat against multiple opponents. He escaped both attacks with ease, but was unpleasantly surprised when Dream approached from behind Illusion and connected with a powerful, upward slash.
The unique thing about keyblades, is that masters and potential masters can change the keyblade from a blunt object to a cutting object, so that training battles like this could take place, without fear of that certain lethal aspect. Yen Sid slid back and gripped his stomach, where the bulk of Dream's attack was dealt. He then released another torrent of spells, but this time Illusion was ready. He stepped up front and cast his reflect spell; something that he excelled at since it involved both the element of light, and was a spell that required being casted quickly. The spells smashed into the barrier, which was further enchanted by the stop spell. The attacks froze in their tracks, while Reality struck Yen Sid with a Thundaga spell.
Yen Sid was an absolute master of magic though, and as such had a far greater defense towards elemental magic than even Reality could ever dream of. He staggered a bit, but did not fall. It did give the trio time to close the distance however. They all knew that Yen Sid would fair far worse when the attacks were physical; a statement held true. Yen Sid couldn't keep up with Illusion's speed, nor could he counter against Dream's strength. And whenever he did escape their strikes, Reality was there to strike while he was unguarded.
"Not over yet." Yen Sid released a wave of white light that knocked the wind out of the three, and gave Yen Sid some well needed distance. To make things worse, he cast aero on himself which would push away anyone who got too close.
"Now what?" Reality stared at the vortex of wind, wondering if he had any attacks that would break through it.
"I got a plan. Come closer Real and D.K." Illusion gathered his two friends close and whispered their plan of attack. Yen Sid was kind enough to await them. It wasn't like his Aeroga would be running out any time soon. With Yen Sid's level of magic, he could cast any fire, wind, lightning, or ice based techniques almost indefinitely. If his magic gauge were visible, it would fill up half the room.
"Everyone ready?" Illusion asked, as both his friends nodded and stood at the ready. "Zantetsuken!" Illusion cried, after holding his keyblade at the side like a sheathed katana for a brief moment. Then, he was gone; moving too fast to track. He reappeared behind Yen Sid, stuck in a slashing motion that managed to cut through and destroy the wind barrier.
"My turn. Strike Raid!" With all his might, Dream threw his keyblade and sent it flying to the momentarily stunned keyblade master. It smashed into him, before flying past and landing in Illusion's hand. It was only then after recovering from the well placed strike raid, did Yen Sid notice that Reality had sent forth a perfectly timed crawling fire magic; the compound sphere of pure fire just inches away from his torso. He attempted to back up, but was halted when he saw Illusion, his own keyblade in one hand and Dream's in the other, coming straight for his back with his keyblades crossed into an 'X'.
"Checkmate." Reality taunted, as both his attack and illusion's attack contacted simultaneously, sending little bolts of fire raining behind Illusion and the floored Yen Sid. Dream summoned his keyblade back to him, and joined the others in helping their master stand. He was a little bruised up, but otherwise okay.
"I expected no less from my students. You are now worthy of being deemed keyblade masters. The road will be tough, and at times you may feel like giving in, but I can see the true power you all possess."
"And our memories?" Dream was anxious. They all were the only thing that the three remembered waking up in Yen Sid's castle two years prior, able to use the keyblade and knew their names, but that was all. They shared a common goal; to find their memories.
"I trust they will return in due time, on your journey. Now go, and begin your journey. I have other matters that I must attend to." The group shrugged in unison, before exiting the castle and vanishing into swirling portal of light. Nearly right after they left, someone else arrived. Two people in fact. "Ah yes, there you are."
The first young man had tanned skin with a lanky body when compared to his paler and more muscular companion. He had caramel colored, spiked hair along with true blue eyes. He was wearing a black and silver outfit that was baggy. It contained a dark style, using many zippers and extra leggings and wore a crown necklace. The second person had long, silver hair and blue-green eyes. He had a black zip-up tank-top and a white and yellow vest over it. His pants were a pair of baggy blue denim jeans held up by a black belt covered with square spike studs, and a simple pair of sneakers. "Ah yes, there you two are. Welcome Sora…Riku…are you ready to become keyblade masters?"
