A few days later, Aqua wandered around the castle library with a book in his hand to tidy up but heard someone speak and say several swear words as if he was looking for something for a long time without finding it and was frustrated. She reached the part of the library from which the voice came to see Aaron at the top of a ladder looking for a book on the highest shelf.
"But hell, is there a book on it?" Said Aaron still searching.
" Are you searching something?!" Aqua said loud enough to be heard by Aaron who, taken by surprise, slipped off the ladder and fell on your buttocks. "It's okay?" She asked as she stepped forward to help her up.
"Yeah. Even though I know how the guys in the fistinière feel." Said Aaron with humor.
"What?" Aqua asked.
"Nah, forget about it." Said Aaron giggling. "And to answer your question, I'm looking for a book on the Keyblade War. All I learned about it is a story for kids and yet I am very curious about it." He said.
"Well in this case, I know why you do not find it." Said Aqua giving her the book she was holding. "I've had it for a while. I finished it a while ago but I did not think to put it back here or I did not have the time." She said as Aaron took it without hurry.
"Thank you." He thanked.
"Why are you so curious?" Aqua asked.
"It's important in the history of people like us. The more we learn the more we can know our enemies of darkness." Replied Aaron.
"It's a good reasoning." Said Aqua.
"That's how we can tackle anything in any world. Learn, adapt, and face." Said Aaron before giving him a friendly smile which Aqua glimpsed a bit of sadness before leaving.
A few weeks later Aaron was training Aqua in a forest near the castle. During her many training fights, Aqua noticed that Aaron was distracted with her but not with Terra and Ventus. She finally stopped attacking her and her Keyblade disappeared and Aaron did the same.
" What's the matter?" Asked Aaron.
"You are always distracted with me. Why?" Aqua asked.
"It's... complicated..." Said Aaron scratching the back of his head.
"We have all our training time." Said Aqua.
"This book on the Keyblade war tells me nothing about what I do not know." Aaron lied, but Aqua believed the lie.
"What are you trying to learn?" Aqua asked.
"As much information as possible about the masters of the Keyblade of the time. We don't know anything about them, whereas without them we might not be there." Said Aaron putting a hand in his pocket to pull out a key ring representing a blue jewel.
"It's true. I wonder why we know so little." Aqua says realizing that the events of this war are almost voluntarily hidden from them.
And they kept arguing until Aqua's training time was over.
Several minutes later, at Aaron's request, Aqua told Terra that he wanted to see him in the forest and he went there to find a man in purple armor and with a style more aggressive than his.
"Who are you"? Terra asked before the person in armor did not reveal a particular design Keyblade.
It is a long Keyblade that appears chipped and very asymmetrical in its design. The handle is smooth and red-orange and is surrounded by a roughly rectangular guard. The guard is predominantly black, though it fades into dark red toward the base of the blade, and has uneven, chipped spikes on each of its corners. The shaft of the blade is black with a faded bronze border along its edges, which are lined with prominent chips. The head of the blade is decorated by several chipped and oddly-shaped red-orange spikes with black tips, which also form the teeth. A blue eye is also set in the head of the blade.
This is the Chaos Ripper Keyblade.
The man in armor rushed at him attacking him. He dodged the attack, showed his Keyblade and began a fight where the man in armor was content to be the most aggressive blending fist and Keyblade. Terra defended himself as best he could before finally being surrounded by a black aura. He fired a black ray that struck a hand and the helmet of the armored man broke revealing a hand now bruised by the shards of metal and Aaron's face with a trickle of blood on the left side of his skull.
"Aaron, it's you!" Said Terra realizing what he has done.
Aaron got up and removed his armor by taking a potion out of his jacket and applied it to his hand, removing his wounds.
"I admit I may have pushed you a little further." Said Aaron laughing a bit despite his head injury.
"I'm sorry, I gave in to darkness during the fight. Said Terra feeling guilty.
"But don't say bullshit like that." Said Aaron, surprising Terra. "You did not succumb to it. Things are not so binary. There is certainly good and bad. But bad things can be done with good intentions, and vice versa. The most important thing is not to get lost." He said.
"But, Master Eraqus says that you must never succumb to darkness." Said Terra."And in a sense, he isn't wrong. We can use them, but not succumb to them. And the best thing to do is stay calm in combat. You don't need to have rabies in your stomach to beat you. Don't think about what happens if loses. Think of that feeling of pride that you will have once you win. And if it's against your friends during your exams or a friendly fight, think about happiness they will feel. You'll see, it helps to relativize." Said Aaron.
"I see. Thank you, Aaron. You're really a good teacher". Said Terra.
"At the same time, I'm more open-minded, that's all." Said Aaron.
"And how did you change the look of your Keyblade?" Terra asked before Aaron pulled out the key ring of his keyblade.
"I simply changed the keychain. It allows to change its appearance and its characteristics. Eraqus gave it to me a week after my arrival." Aaron replied by changing the turnkey to return to the Nameless.
"I simply changed the keychain. It allows to change its appearance and its characteristics. Eraqus gave it to me a week after my arrival." Aaron replied by changing the turnkey to return to the Nameless.
Later at the Keyblade Necropolis, Aaron found himself in the area where the final fight of his three students and friends began, wearing a cloak covering all his body from his shoulders. Where all Keybades of fallen bearers during the war were left as a grave. He looked carefully at each row of Keyblade hoping to find that of a particular person. Of the person who during this conflict deserved the least to die. And while he ended up dark on this world, he didn't find the Keyblade sought or even one of four people who helped make this conflict possible.
"If they are not here, then where are they?" He wondered.
"What are you looking for young master?" Asked a voice from behind him.
He turned to see in the only empty aisle of the rows of Keyblades, the person he hates the most in the play saga... Xehanort accompanied by his creation, Vanitas.
"The past. And what are you looking for here?" He said.
"Like any wise and ambitious man, I seek balance." Xehanort replied.
"We both know it's wrong. You're looking for Χ-blade and Kingdom Hearts for you. For the worlds to bend to your will. Because you are a human-looking monster, not caring that the worlds are going to be destroyed. And I came here for two reasons. The first being to find you and kill you." Said Aaron raising an arm towards Xehanort showing his Keyblade pointing straight at his target.
Vanitas popped up his Keyblade and prepared to fight, but Xehanort motioned him to stay away.
"So you want to fight me. A fight between masters could be entertaining." Xehanort said.
"You have no fucking idea." Said Aaron before giving a shot in the empty deKeyblade sending projectiles rights Xehanort who dodged.
As the fight progressed, he was brutal with Xehanort and Aaron clashing with each other with one hand in the back. The fight was difficult for Xehanort who tired as and when. He finally tried everything for the whole and was about to stab himself with the tip of his Keyblade. But Aaron's Keyblade stretched out and hit the Keyblade disarming Xehanort as he was close to him and unsheathed a dagger with his free hand to stab Xehanort in the heart.
"If it were up to me, you wouldn't be dead. But I know too many things to save your life." Said Aaron has his ear before pushing the dagger enough into Xehanort's heart to finish it off.
Xehanort's lifeless body eventually fell to the ground as Aaron took his Keyblade before making it disappear and watching Vanitas.
"You know, you can bar yourself." Said Aaron to Vanitas who had his Keyblade pointed at him.
"And why ? Who says you aren't going to kill me?" Said Vanitas with arrogantly.
"For I have nothing against you. You can live your life now. Without having to do what Xehanort wanted. Take advantage of it for I do not know, open a shop, play the masked avengers, deal with the case of evil that there is in the worlds, go to whores, this kind of thing." Said Aaron winning a Vanitas laugh.
"You're a big number, you. Do you realize the mistake of leaving a being like me alive?" Said Vanitas.
"Yeah. So break down, empty the gargoyle, and live your life." Said Aaron bursting out laughing Vanitas who disappeared into a dark portal.
Aaron now alone, looked at the night sky before seeing a light form towards a kind of underground tunnel, about a hundred yards to the left of where he went to enter this makeshift cemetery.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Said Aaron heading towards the tunnel.