Chapter 2:The Master's Apprentice:
The sunlight of the beginning day was starting to shine through the windows of the Twilight Mansion, and Artina was just starting to roll out of bed. Artina is a woman of 19 years standing at about 5' 2'' with long blue hair, and deep green eyes. She is wearing black leggings, a white waist coat, and a dark green shirt. She has been training under Master Zant in the use of a Keyblade for about a year and a half now. (A/N: Forgive me for the long character introductions, but since a lot of the characters are OCs I need to describe them)
She always loves to get up just as the sun was rising over the mountains as it gave the town a bright glow that made it look magnificant. "It's no wonder they call this place "Twilight Town", there's really no better time to look out then twilight hours..." Artina trailed off her thoughts as she remembered Zant wanted to speak with her as soon as she got up. She rushed down the stairs to the library that had become her master's personal study. After knocking on the door, she was greeted by her master's gruff voice, "Come in."
"Ah, Artina. I should've known you'd be up soon." Zant said with a smile. "Well of course, you said you needed to see me." Artina replied. She was extremely curious as to what her master had to tell her as he usually did not ask her to see him so early. "Well Artina, while I was doing my rounds yesterday, I found a young boy trying to fight a group of Heartless on his own. I have decided to take this boy on as a second apprentice." Artina was shocked. Her master had been been avoiding taking on even one appentice for most of his tenure of being a Keyblade Master until she came along. "That's great! So when will I get to met him?" "Soon, he should be arriving shortly," Zant replied.
"Since he's new, I am going to trust you to show him the basics today." Artina looked at him quizically. "Why me Master? I have only been training for a short while and it's not really my place to-" She was cut off by Zant responding simply, "Artina, you are the best student I could ask for, but if you want to be able to become a Keyblade Master, you must not only learn, but be able to teach." She just smiled and nodded. He won this round.
Later, Lucius was waiting outside the Mansion impatiently. He had been told to come here at this specific time, and he had already knocked twice with no answer. Right when he was about to storm off however, Artina opened the door. "Hm? You're not the old man I talked to yesterday." Artina sighed. "No, I'm gonna be your your training partner, call me Artina." Lucius had heard that name around town before. "Wait, so you're that chick all the guys in town keep talking about? Well I guess you are kinda cute." Artina blushed slightly at that. "Uh, thank you...I didn't know I was so popular around town..."
"Anyway, please follow me." Lucius nodded and followed Artina through the mansion. "Whoa, you live in a mansion? Beats my shitty apartment." Artina gave him a tour of the place as they walked through. "And over there are the rooms. Second door on the left is off-limits." Lucius, confused, asked why. She laughed a little at that. "It's my room, duh." Lucius slapped himself for not realizing that beforehand.
Eventually they made it out back where a nice training area had been set up. "Master Zant wanted me to test your abilities before you begin your training. We're to have a sparing match." Lucius was a little suprised. Considering she had been training under this guy for a while, he didn't think he stood a chance. "Why would he want you to do that? You're gonna destroy me." Artina gave a little smile. "Well we don't know that till we try, do we?" And with that, she summoned her Keyblade, Stormfall. Lucius jumped back and summoned his Keyblade, getting into a battle stance.
Lucius charged at Artina, but she simply flipped over him and shot a Blizzard spell at him. It hit and Lucius was thrown back. Artina then charged forward at him to get a combo in. Lucius however, was too fast to recover and managed to counter her attack. Artina relented her physical assault and stuck to using Magic. After a couple more Blizzard and Fire spells, Lucius was exhagusted from dodging them. "If you just use your physical strength, you're not gonna win." Artina advised. Damn, thought Lucius, She's tough. He was having a hard time just keeping up with her.
As the fight intensified, something unexpected happened. Lucius's Keyblade began to transform! The Kingdom Key gave way to a new Keyblade. The blade now resembled a long thin black pipe. The hilt had a guard resembling batwings and was prue white. The keychain that hung off of it had a strange symbol. (The Heartless symbol, however white, and no X through it) Artina gasped and was for a few seconds, caught off guard which allowed Lucius to score a combo on her.
Lucius now had a slightly dark aura around him and before he knew it, he fired a black wave of energy out of his Keyblade that smacked Artina against the wall of the mansion. Lucius came to his sense as he saw Artina slump to the ground. "Artina!" He ran over to her. "Artina, are you all right? I'm sorry, I don't know what happened." Artina slowly started coming around. "It's fine Lucius. I was just caught off guard." She looked up and had a frown as she seemed to be looking behind Lucius. Lucius turned and Master Zant was standing right there. "Follow me Lucius...now."
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(A/N: Lucius is in trouble now, but why did he suddenly become much more powerful? well if you liked this chapter, favorite or review it and stay tuned for more!)
