Kuza woke up on a deserted field. She was alone with the exception of hundreds of weapons, armor and bodies scattered throughout the area, it was clear she was on a battlefield. She got up as she realized she was the only one there alive and had no idea where Val and Shade went.

Kuza- "Shade! Val!"

No one replied when she yelled. She noticed smoke about 2 miles away and assumed it was a camp, and seeing as she had no other options as to where she would go, she decided to walk there.

Kuza – (Where could they be?)

When she arrived where she had seen the smoke she found a half destroyed camp, there weren't any signs of life but it was easy to tell if anyone was ever here they had left only recently as the campfire was still going. She noticed some footprints leaving the camp and was about to follow them when a strange man appeared behind her. He was wearing a black undershirt with a red and black vest over the top which had a gold lining and a collar that extended up to his chin but was open so you could see his mouth, He had Black pants on with heaps of pockets witch were covered in buckles, his shoes had metal plates on them and black leather, his hair was black and extended down halfway down his back and was quite spiky, he had small black belts around his left arm which had gold buckles. He also had two gold earrings on his right ear and crimson eyes, as well as 2 black belts with gold buckles which held his pants on. He rested his arm on Kuza's shoulder.

Man- "What are you doing here? You should have left with the main unit"

Kuza- "Huh, I don't know what is going on. This man in a cloak with this strange sword attacked us and then this black sphere swallowed us up…"

Man- "There are more of you?"

Kuza- "There 'were' more of us, only I lost them after we got sucked into that sphere"

Man- "I see what happened, your world was destroyed and…"

Kuza interrupted the man.

Kuza- "Destroyed!"

Man- "I can see this is upsetting you, perhaps we should not go into detail about what happened to you just yet. For now we will wait until the main unit returns, as it is nearly nightfall and you cannot go out alone to join them"

Kuza- "I suppose so"

Man- "Where are my manners. My name is Javo. I'm here to take care of this encampment whilst the main unit is defending the castle far beyond the other side of the field"

Kuza- "All by yourself?"

Javo- "I can assure you I am capable of this task, and seeing as the castle defense is our number one priority, the more that go the better"

Kuza- "So where are we exactly?"

Javo- "You are in the world of nightfall"

Kuza- "Nightfall?"

Javo- "One of the few dark worlds that are not held by the heartless"

Kuza- "Heartless?"

Javo- "I can see you are rather ignorant in regards to the situation. Such can be expected from someone whose world was only recently consumed"

Javo realized that Kuza was carrying a rapier.

Javo- "So do you know how to fight then?"

Kuza- "I spar with Shade every now and again, but I aint no professional like you claim to be"

Javo got pulled out his gun arrows and Kuza stepped back.

Kuza- "What are you doing?"

Javo- "I am going to teach you to fight. Lesson one, dodging"

Javo fired at Kuza who did a back flip over the bullet.

Kuza- (Gymnastics don't fail me now)

Javo- "Not bad for a newbie"

Javo put away his guns.

Javo- "Come on, I will take you to the training area so you can defend yourself. You will have to if you plan to stay here"

Kuza began wondering about Shade and Val and if they made it out okay. She knew she would have to find a way to go looking for them at some stage, but there was no way to do so now, and she got the feeling that she could trust Javo despite his appearance so she decided to train with him until the main unit got back.

Kuza- "Okay, for now you can teach me"

Javo and Kuza left the main camp and went to the training area where they trained for the next 3 weeks. Kuza had gotten very strong and was now a rather competent and agile fighter with some impressive skills. She was sitting by a fire with Javo when they heard a noise. It was a small unit of heartless and they were approaching the camp.

Kuza- "So they are called the Heartless?"

Javo- "Yes. I can tell that the main unit is close, but it looks like we will be taking care of these heartless alone for the moment"

Kuza- "That's fine with me"

She drew her rapier as Javo pulled out his Gun Arrows and they slowly approached the heartless which were still moving slowly.

Javo- "You good to go?"

Kuza- "You know it"

They charged the unit of heartless which had about 300 heartless in it and began tossing them aside like road kill. Javo was able to dodge every attack and blast the he11 out of them while Kuza pulled insane acrobatic stunts whilst at the same time killing up to 30 heartless at a time.

The fight was over quick.

Kuza- "To easy"

Javo- "Don't be so sure"

A huge heartless appeared. It was a giant dragon shaped heartless which had thousands of heartless symbols all over it.

Javo- "I'm not sure we can take it!"

Kuza- "Me neither!"

Just then, an arrow appears out of nowhere and hits the dragon in the side of the head, knocking it over. Then a huge blue figure with a large lance runs and jumps over Kuza and sticks his lance in its body and the heartless fades into the shadows.

The figure then jumps in front of Javo as a second figure walks up next to Kuza, she is holding a bow.

Javo- "Fran, Kimahri About time you guys showed up!"

Kuza turned to Fran.

Kuza- "So are you guy's the main unit?"

Fran- "Yes. But who are you?"

Kuza- "It's a long story"

Fran- "Come child, we can hear about it by a warm fire while the soldiers fix up the camp.

The four of them walk back to the main camp.