Hello, epicgamer484 here and welcome to fate/keyblade of wind's second chapter which Is where the story truly begins as the previous chapter was just a prologue, I have to admit that I am somewhat disappointed that I only got 1 review, but then again the first chapter was only over 4000 words but I will try to make it bigger as I go along but no promises.
The story will take place between day and night segments, with the action and Nasuverse style horror taking place at night and the daytime acting as a rest period for the masters to plan their next move recuperate, as resurrected heroic spirits fighting out in the open would be to obvious for normal's to see during the day, and would give Ventus some time to rest as he tries to survive the war.
(Spoilers ahead, read at your own discretion)
To answer nightmaster000's question I was originally only going to include Vanitas in the story as he as the means to track Ventus down being the dark side of Ven's heart and all but I decided to let the readers choose, so I set up a pole on my profile page to decide who will appear, and I will change my story depending on who gets voted
So enjoy and remember, review, as it's the only way I will get better.
Chapter 2 the first day
It was a bright sunny morning in the residential area of Fuyuki as people were getting up from their rest the previous night, well everyone except a certain blond haired, blue eyed keyblader who was still asleep in a spare futon.
Which was understandable considering what happened the previous night, after getting blasted halfway across the multiverse by his friend Terra.
And ending up on an alien world where everything involving magic was kept secret by an organization called the magus association.
How Ventus new this fact could be traced back to the previous night after he arrived at the Mackenzie's house.
(Flashback)
"Waver-kun were back could you come down here for a minute" Martha said as the three entered the house in order greet their other housemates.
After a minute passed with a few russling noises that could be heard upstairs a young black haired man wearing green trousers, a vest over a white shirt. And a striped tie came downstairs to greet the elderly couple.
"Oh Martha-san welcome back, did your walk go well" he was about to say more when he spotted the young keyblader with the couple and froze " Glen-san, Martha-san, who's this?" he asked with a slightly nervous tome.
To which the elderly woman said " oh sorry Waver-kun we should have introduced him sooner, this is Ventus, we met him alone by the coastline asking us for directions to the nearest hotel and we offered to let him stay the nigh rather than let him wander about at night with that vicious serial killer on the loose.
Glen then continued by saying " we decided to bunk him with you and Alex for the night as we unfortunately didn't have anymore spare rooms, hope you don't mind as it will only be for the night"
After going in deep thought Waver said "no that's fine, nice too meet you Ventus" he then walked up to Ventus and gestured to shake his hand, which Ven did after saying "nice to meet you to Waver-san" after Martha asked If Ven wanted some dinner thee young keyblader accepted and started eating the eastern cuisine with the mix matched family.
After a while Glen said "oh almost forgot, Waver-kun could you ask if Alex wants some dinner' to which the young student replied "I already asked before I left but he says he wasn't hungry as he was too engrossed in playing those stupid video games".
"Oh that's too bad" Glen replied, and went back to eating with the rest of them, after leaving the elderly couple to wash the dishes the wind user followed Waver into the upstairs bedroom where a rugged red haired man was sitting playing a videogame and munching potato chips during intervals,
As soon as he spotted the towering man the young keyblader froze and knew he wasn't an ordinary man, as he could practically feel the waves of mana emanating from him that was even stronger than master Eraqus or Xehanort.
He magically towering titan in human flesh then stopped playing and turned around to face the pair before saying.
"Ah Waver-kun good to see you back, and who's this with you" he said staring the youngest occupant in the room.
Rather than wait for his roommate for the night to say anything the wind user snapped out of his stupor and said "I'm Ventus, but call me Ven… your Alex right?"
"Ah Ventus, a fine name you have there lad, yes I am Alexander, but as you already know I am also referred to as Alex for short, If I'm not mistaken Ventus means wind in Latin is that right"
At this unexpected bit of information the named keyblader replied "eh yes that's right" as he addressed the charismatic man that was sitting across from him.
Suddenly he heard the sound of a door locking and found Waver staring at him with cold calculating eyes before saying "okay Ventus I'll get straight to the point, what is a magi like you doing with Martha-san and Glen-san"
Frozen at this unexpected question the exposed magic user said "eh? Magi? Waver-san what are you talking about"
"Don't try to play games with me!" he said with a raised voice "I could practically feel the prana emanating from you as you came in through the door so I know you're a magus so I'll ask again, what is someone like you doing in Fuyuki.
At this Ven suddenly realized that the person in front of him was a magic user like him, which meaned that his cover was already blown as far as him being able to use magic was any indication and said "what a minute Waver-san you're a magi"
After hearing genuine surprise in the young keybladers voice the master of the rider class servant said "what do you mean I'm a magi shouldn't you know this already"
To which Ventus replied, "what do you mean should I know this already, Waver-san what the hell are you talking about"?
"I'm talking about the holy grail war you stupid idiot, why else would some one like you be in a backwater country like this!' he shouted.
At this Ven said "wait wait wait, what's this about a war?" after saying this waver stopped and thought "could he not know about the war!" it was possible that either he didn't know about it or he was a very good liar.
Coming to a decision the conflicted magic user carefully said "Ventus I'm going to ask you some questions and I want you to answer me truthfully can you do that for me?"
After hearing Ven say "okay" Waver continued a said " okay, first question does the names Tohsaka, Makiri, or Einsbern mean anything to you"
Ventus then answered "who" which waver was surprised to hear as unlike the first two Einsbern was a fairly famous magus family from Germany so but rather than contemplate on it he needed more information.
"Okay next question does the name Kayneth Achibald ring any bells?" if Ventus was working with his old teacher then he would have to make appropriate measures.
At this question the wind user replied "Achibald? Whos that" to which the master of rider thought "okay so he doesn't know that bastard of a teacher"
He then asked "does the terms Saber, Archer, Lancer, or Berserker mean anything to you" know he was sure he would know this as the 7 servant classes names were commen knowledge who people who knew about the war.
However Waver was surprised yet again as Ven said "no" to which the interrogator dumbfoundedly thought "is he serious?" how could he not know that!, that was basic knowledge even 2nd or 3rd generation magus families knew "could it be he really doesn't know"
At this point Waver saw something odd about Ventus that he didn't notice before, the keybladers clothes were very out of the ordinary even buy today's standards.
He thought Ven was cosplaying at first as it was called in Japan, but now he wasn't sure anymore, deciding to take a chance Waver decided to ask the keyblader his final question.
"Does the term magecraft, or clock tower ring anything bells?"
At this unexpected question Ventus said, "Well I haven't heard about anything called the clock tower, but isn't magecraft another word for magic"
"Magic!" the dumfounded magus choked out, what the hell is he talking about, everyone knows that magecraft and magic (which is referred as the five true magic) are completely different like oil and water.
At this the master of rider came to two conclusions, either his teacher was a nut job who didn't know his circuits from his mystic codes, or Ven was from a parallel universe were Thaumaturgy was taught differently.
"Okay Ventus I think got the jist of it now" as Ven waited for Waver to reply, they were suddenly interrupted buy a loud booming voice from the other occupant in the room.
"Oi Waver-kun don't you think your being too hard on the boy" at this the named magus replied back " would you please be quiet Rider I'm trying to interrogate a dangerous interdimentional magus here.
When he heard the word inter-dimensional, Ventus went into a cold sweat "could I have been exposed already" he thought nervously.
Just when he thought about how he was going to get out of this mess Rider once again said "well lets hear him out first before jumping to any conclusions, after all information is vital in situations like this"
He then turned to the young keyblader and said "well Ventus-kun how about it, do you have something to say?"
At this the wind user went into deep thought, it was obvious that these too knew about magic to a degree, so it wouldn't be surprising if he came clean about his origins, and the fact he was on an alien world with no way home he needed all the help he can get.
So making the decision to come clean Ven said "before I tell you about myself you have to promise not to tell anyone about what I'm about to say, especially Martha and Glen as I don't want them caught up in this".
Seeing Ven show genuine concern for the elderly couple, which was rare for a magus, Waver and Rider both agreed not to tell anyone about it, which was standard procedure when keeping magecraft a secret from the general populace.
"Thanks guys, now before I start there is something I like to show you" at this point Ven stretched out his hand and summoned his wayward windkeyblade in a flash of light which caused Waver to shout and fall over and Rider to whistle in amazement.
"This is called a Keyblade and just like you guessed I am from another world"
At this point Ventus started to explain to the pair about what a keyblade is and what it could do such as being to open any lock, allow its user to cast powerful magic, and that it chooses its master while Waver and his servant listened in fascination.
At which point Ventus got to the point about telling them how he got here:
Training with master Eraqus and his two students Terra and Aqua,
Chasing after Terra after being goaded into doing it by a boy in a mask.
Visiting various different worlds battling strange blue monsters called the Unversed
Fighting off the masked boy Vanitas with a humanoid mouse called king Mickey
Reuniting with Terra and Aqua in radiant garden only to get separated again
Finding king Mickey's starshard in Neverland and getting transported to master Yin Sid's tower
Finding out Mickey was in trouble and set out to rescue him, only to run into master Xehanort who told him about the masked boy Vanitas and the χ-blade.
Confronting his master Eraqus about what Xehanort told him, only to get attacked by his teacher, but saved by Terra and thrown through a portal to another World
Arriving at an unknown section of the multiverse and falling towards a nearby world, before landing near the coastline.
And finally meeting the Mackenzies who offered to let him stay for the night, which brings the story up to the present time.
After finishing his tale with Waver and Rider silent, the oldest of the pair broke the ice and said "you certainly have been through a lot in your short time, which is commendable for someone your age" Rider was generally impressed with the feats the boy supposedly did.
"Thanks Alex-san" Ven replied, Waver who was silent until now as he processed what he just heard nervously asked "Ventus about these other worlds you keep mentioning, can you travel to any of them freely" this was an important question he needed to hear as it was possible that the young keyblader was a user of the second magic, as one was bad enough thank you very much.
At this question Ven shook his head and replied "I'm afraid not Waver-san, you see every world out there is protected by an impenetrable wall that prevents people from leaving or entering that particular world".
Waver then said "wait a minute if that's true how did you get here" to which the wind user replied "I came here through a set of corridors between worlds called the lanes between, well more like fell through but that's besides the point, you see only keybladers like me can unlock these roads with our weapons, and they are often infested with darkness so I wear a suit of armor to protect me"
At this point Ven pressed a panel on his shoulder plate and materialized his armor in a flash of light to prove his point once again surprising the two with the powerful magic he just displayed.
"This armor not only protects me from both magical and physical attacks but it also looks cool too" he then dismissed it in a flash of light and said "so is there anything else you want to ask me"
After letting Ven finish his explanation Waver was once again in deep thought, while he was glad that Ven's dimension hopping had some limits his mystic code or keyblade as he called it sounded like it had the conceptional ability to unlock anything it wanted as long as there was a 'lock' on the thing it was aiming at, combined with the fact it could be used a focus point for magecraft it could be very useful to some magi if they could get their hands on it.
Though considering you have to be chosen by the keyblade first, they probably won't work for anyone else other than their wielders, and based on what he heard about his exploits he can probably handle a few immoral magi that come after him.
Deciding that it was best to inform Ventus about the moonlit world of magi rather than let him do something stupid and risk exposing Thaumaturgy to the world he said "Ven, I'm fine with the explanation you've given me but there are some things you need to know if your going to stay in this world so pay attention".
Waver then explained about Magecraft or Thaumaturgy, which is the artificial reenactment of a mystery, the five elements that comprise it, and the organization that studies and guards its secrecy called the Magus association, which is comprised of the main branch called the Clock tower, the alchemy organization Atlas, and the Sea of Estray which is comprised of smaller institutions that weren't part of the association.
He also told him about the difference between Magecraft and true magic, such as that Thaumaturgy can do things that science can replicate, while true magic does things that science can't, such as materializing the soul to achieve immortality, traveling to parallel worlds, and time travel.
And finally he gave a warning that Ven must not under any circumstances use magecraft or do anything supernatural where people can see him like during daylight, as in order to preserve secrecy the association would depending on the level of exposure to normal's either do some memory wiping and mass media manipulation to cover anything up, or in a worse case scenario kill him, the witnesses and anything or anyone that has any idea about what happened as most Magi are pricks at best and immoral monsters at worst.
Surprised at what he just heard and horrified at the lengths this worlds magic users would go to preserve secrecy, Ven could only nod in agreement and swear not to do anything that could expose magic to the world.
To which Rider said "well then now that that's settled how about we turn in for night and continue this tomorrow, Ven and Waver surprised at this looked at the clock and realized that it was already past midnight. Deciding that it was too late to worry about such things the three went to bed with Ven seeping on the floor in a spare futon.
(Flashback end)
Which bring us back to the present day as Ventus was laying in the spare futon waiting for Waver to finish in the shower as rider was still asleep snoring to his hearts content (Waver even considered using a command spell to get him to stop as he was keeping the rest of them from going to sleep, before using some reinforced earplugs to block out the noise).
As the young keyblader lay there, he contemplated his next move, at first he was thinking of finding a way off this world so he reunite with his friends, Terra and Aqua, but he would have to do it tonight as summoning his keyblade to open a lane between in the middle of the day is a sure fire way of alerting the locals to the supernatural.
So the first thing to do is to scout the city for any sign of the Unversed as the blue monsters would stand out like black paint on a white sheet of paper, he also asked Waver and Rider last night to slay any of the monstrous creatures if they happen to find any, and if he had time, find out anything about that serial killer that he heard about from Martha and Glen and bring him to justice.
When Waver entered the room saying he was finished in the shower, Ven went in and after getting out, got ready and headed downstairs with the young magus where Martha was making breakfast and Glen was reading a newspaper at the table.
"Ah waver-kun, Ventus-ken good morning, did you two sleep well" Glen greeted from the table with Waver replying "I did grandpa thank you for asking".
Ven then said "I did too but it would have been better if it wasn't for Alex's snoring" to which Alex laughed and Waver face palmed.
"I see well sorry to hear that, ah looks like breakfast is served" Glen said as the two of them sat down with Martha with the food in tow.
As Ven munched down on the eastern cuisine he hadn't tried before he was interrupted with Martha asking him a question, "so Ven, what are your plans for today going to be"
At this the young keyblader replied "I'm just going to do a bit of sight seeing for today and hopefully find a good hotel to stay at" at his reply the two exchanged glances and Glen said "wait, didn't you say last night that you were going to visit your relatives"
To which Ven said "yeah but after talking with Waver, I found that they live in Misaki, so I decided to going to call them first to tell them that I'm alright before doing a bit of sight seeing, actually is there any places that are I could see?"
To which Martha answered "well there is the Shino district across the Miongawa River we told you about last night, there is also Ryuudouji temple atop Mount Enzou, and Fuyuki church found in the miyamachou district.
"Thanks for telling me Martha-san" Ven said before continuing eating his breakfast.
After finishing and helping the elderly woman wash the dishes, the young keyblader left the house with Waver and Rider in toe after saying goodbye to the Mackenzie's before splitting up with the two in order to go their separate ways.
The first thing he was going to do was search the Shinto area first as it was the most crowded area of the city and plenty of negative energy for the Unversed to feast on, as he crossed the bridge over Miongawa river that connected the two halfs of the city he noticed the difference between the two, while Miyamachou was full of old traditional buildings, while Shino looked new and modern.
The only thing that was not out of place was Mount Enzou in the distance, where Ryuudouji temple rests.
As he was admiring the scenery, Ven was surprised by the sound of a metal thing that drove by, which he thought was called a car he thought, now let it be known that because master Eraqus forbade Ven to leave the land of departure, he was a little ignorant of the outside world and it was only thanks to Aquas books and Terras storys that he didn't get culture shock when he visited other worlds for the first time.
Deciding that he was wasting too much time Ventus decided to cross the bridge and enter the shino district.
(4-hours later)
"Well that was uneventful," the bored keyblader thought as he was walking the streets of the Miyamachou shopping district to look for somewhere to have lunch.
Patrolling Shinto for signs of the blue monsters was a lot harder than he thought, because not only were there crowded areas with lots of people to see anything, but he couldn't even ask someone about them without blowing the whistle on magic and getting everyone in the vicinity mind wiped.
Then there was the fact he couldn't even use his magic to look for them without attracting unwanted attention, so deciding to try his luck elsewhere the wind user crossed the miongawa bridge back into the residential area to look for the Unversed.
Which brings us to his current predicament as he found a nice looking restaurant to have lunch in, checking his wallet to see if he had enough money (or yen as it was called) Ventus decided to enter the restaurant called KoushuuensaikanTaizan.
(One agonizing hour later)
The young keyblader left the restaurant with his mouth feeling like had shoved 5 litres of molten hot lava down his throat.
Now although the food was good, the amount of spices it had made you feel like you could cast Firaga spells through your mouth, that's how hot it was.
Although there was a brown haired man in priest clothing munching down on a dish that the chef said was called mapo tofu, so when the chef came around to my seat, I choose to have the same.
Which I later regretted as it felt like my mouth was on fire, as I walked the streets trying to take my mind of the burning sensation in my mouth, I noticed something that caught my eye.
There just up the street was pair of women consisting of a white haired, red-eyed woman with pale skin, a white coat and a top hat. The other one was a blond haired woman with emerald green eyes, a single strand of hair hanging from her hair, and wearing a black business suit that almost made Ven mistake her for a man, she also radiated an aura of royalty like a queen or king.
Now although these two were out of the ordinary what really caught Ven's attention was the blond woman in the suit, as she emitted that was similar but at the same time different from Wavers friend Rider.
As they walked through the crowd and faded from view the keybader of wind wondered out loud "what the hell is going on with this city" now at first Ven thought that the pair were Magi like Waver but judging what he felt from the blond one she wasn't was feeble as a mere magus.
The closest the keyblader could compare her to was a proud lion, or a dragon.
Putting those thoughts away Ventus decided it was time to continue with his search and left the shopping district.
(As Ventus left)
Unknown to the young wind user the pair he noticed saw him as well although without giving themselves away and were observing him as he left.
" I don't think he noticed us Irisviel, so do you want us to follow him" the blond one addressed the woman named Irisviel.
"No Saber that won't be necessary, though I am curious about what a magus like him is doing out here he didn't seem like the suspicious type" the white haired princess replied before saying "although those clothes he's wearing are lovely, I wonder who his tailor is" she said in happy admiration.
The king of knights could only groan in silent at her fake masters antics decided to inquire more about the snow fairy's thoughts, "actually Irisviel was there anything else you wanted to say"
At this question the fake master said in thought "actually there was, he was staring at you in particular for a brief moment in concentration"
"Really!" now this got sabers attention as even though she was a resurrected heroic spirit chosen to fight for the Holy Grail she looked like a ordinary, Albert very pretty 15 year old girl, to tell she was something else entirely would take a magus of great skill or another servant.
"You don't think he could be the seventh master do you" due to the last servant having been summoned at the last minute, and the fact that the unknown master didn't register at the church they had close to zero information about them other than the last servant being Caster due to the other 6 having already been summoned.
"Its possible but we can't jump to conclusions, let's let Kiritsugu know just in case"
"At your command my lady" Saber said as she followed her charge down the road, now although the blond knight agreed that the boy wasn't ordinary she also didn't think he was dangerous either.
Of cause she had to thank her Instinct for that little of information but you can't be too careful when it comes to magi.
All well if she encounters the young magus again then she will react when the time comes, for now she needs to concentrate on the war.
(8 hours later)
High above the night skies of Fuyuki was a strange metal platform with Ventus riding in while wearing his armor, "well that was an interesting day," the young keyblader thought as he processed what he just learned or lack of.
Turns out that there wasn't any sign of the Unversed in this world as he searched every nook and cranny of the city for the little monsters, which was good in his book as their lack of subtlety would have caused a mass panic among the residents
Shaking the disturbing thoughts out of his head Ventus decided to do the one thing he came up here in the first place, open the gateway to the Lanes between and get the hell of this world so he can reunite with Terra and Aqua.
As he thought of them he had a sudden idea "maybe I should have bought them some souviners, oh well too late now" he said as he summoned his keyblade and pointed at the sky to summon the gate.
As the white beam of light erupted from his sword and shot towards the sky he silently thanked Glen and Martha for their hospitality and wished them good luck.
However as he thought this he noticed that the gateway was taking its sweet time in order to open, so he decided to wait a minute.
Then 5 minutes, then 10
Suddenly having a bad feeling the young keyblader decided to summon the gateway again and watched as the beam of light shoot towards the night sky yet again.
After what seemed like eternity the wind user erupted into a cold sweat as he came to a sudden horrifying conclusion.
He was stranded on an unknown world filled with amoral magi, with limited money, and for some reason the gateway to the lanes between weren't opening so he couldn't leave to reunite with his friends.
"Can things possibly get any worse?" he said to himself.
As if to answer his question a strong wave of prana hit Ven's senses which almost caused him to fall of his ride.
"What the hell was that?" he said to himself as he straightened himself out and searched for the source.
"What ever it was its coming from the harbor" he thought as he stared at the area of the coastline that stored the different crates that arrived from the boats that dock at the harbor, and ones that were awaiting transport.
As the stranded keyblader contemplated whether to investigate his gut feeling told him that whatever was waiting for him was probably a trap, never mind the fact that who or what was waiting there emitted danger like the stronger Unversed he encountered on his journey maybe even stronger.
On the other hand it was the only lead he had to finding a way off this world, so deciding his next course of action Ven nudged his keyblade turned hover board and flew towards the source.
However unknown to the young wind user this course of action will propel him into a conflict he was not prepared for and would change his life forever.
I do not own the characters featured in this fanfiction, kingdom hearts, and fate zero are the property of type moon and Square Enix respectfully.
