How do you know that the side you're fighting for is right? That darkness is bad? When a painting is made the light and darkness work together to be something amazing...

Chapter 3: Balance

Vias sits next to Kairi waiting on the stairs when Mickey comes back with a Gummi ship. Vias jumps up and sees the amazing guns on the ship and beholds in its beauty.

"Whoa" Vias' jaw drops, "is that for me?"

Mickey jumps outa the ship "Yea!" He says, "It's a gift from me, it's all I can do to help your world"

"Thanks Mickey," Vias takes Mickey's hand "you actually did so much for me. I won't forget this." Vias turns around and stands to look at everyone. "Thanks guys, you've all been so nice."

"Don't mention it," Mickey says "you got a big mission ahead of you"

Vias looks to Kairi and says "Kairi, what about you? You staying here or going home?" Before Kairi can answer Vias continues, "or you could come with me, sounds like I'll need help"

"Um..." Kairi answers, "I'm fine, I'm no fighter"

"You need a ride home?"

Mickey looks to Vias "You go ahead; we'll take care of her"

Vias Smiles at everyone and waves goodbye as he gets on the ship.

"Try looking in Twilight town!" Mickey shouts

Vias nods and gets in and flies off. After a while the heartless surround his ship and attack different parts. Vias spins the ship sending them flying behind it. He turns the ships around but keeps flying to his destination. "Now let's test these guns" Vias says with a grin. The Gummi ships guns annihilates the heartless and Vias turns the ship forward. "That was awesome!" Vias says to himself.

After a while Vias lands in Twilight Town on top of the clock tower and jumps out. He looks down and sees 3 people in organization coats sitting on the clock tower, looks up to the sky and when he looks down they're gone. Before Vias could question it he hears a scream in the distance.

"What's that?" Vias runs towards the scream and finds a few kids being attacked by nobodies. Vias takes out his Keyblade and handles the nobodies and then turns to the kids. "It's okay," Vias says "I'm Vias and you guys are?"

A boy answers, "I'm Hyner and this is Pence"

Vias smiles and asks "you guys know anything about a powerful weapon?"

Hyner and Pence look at each other and then at Vias suspiciously. "I've never seen you around." Pence says with suspension.

Vias scratches his head and thinks to himself, "Oh yea, people must not know about the outside worlds." Vias then says aloud "I'm new in town."

"Struggle match! C'mon" Hyner commands Vias.

Vias steps back of confusion. "St...Struggle?"

Hyner crosses his arms "how can you not know what a struggle is?"

Vias looks around as if looking for an answer and responds "I don't get out much"

Hyner walks away and uses his hand to call Pence to follow. "Pence, let's go!" Pence looks at Vias and says "Sorry" then walks away with Hyner.

Vias looks around. "Where to begin... Where to begin..."

Heartless appears before Vias and he starts defeating them eventually realizing that he's been following a path that the heartless have been laying out for him. But Vias follows regardless and ends up at the front of the Mansion. In front of the gate Vias defeats the last heartless and looks up to the manor before a dark corridor opens behind him. Vias turns around and steps back as a figure in a black coat steps out and removes her hood.

Vias sheathes his Keyblade, "May?"

"Vias... Before you go in there and check the research you need to know things"

"You tried to convince me to accept darkness" Vias says with flare.

May walks up to Vias and puts her hand on his shoulder "I never meant it like that. In there you will find research of Ansem's about the X-blade. It's the ultimate weapon."

"Will it be able to save our world?!" Vias interrupts

"Let me finish," May says calmly, "Vias we were always taught to fight the darkness but the X-blade is made of 13 parts darkness and 7 parts light. It is the union between the two that makes it so powerful."

"So you just want me to accept evil?"

"No..." May steps back "I have used up all my power. I just wanted you to hear this from a friend." May opens a dark corridor and starts to walk into it

Vias reaches out "May! Wait!" But the corridor closes. Vias sighs and turns around. He slowly walks into the mansion and looks around. Vias eventually finds himself in front of Ansem the Wise's computer.

"This is what May was talking about... So she led me here? With heartless?" Vias closes his eyes shaking his head slowly "what have you done May?"

Ansem's computer seems to busted up to read anything but Vias pulls out the hard drive from the mess. "Great! I can check this out in the Gummi Ships computer." Vias walks out into the mansion but crouches down to the sight of heartless fighting nobodies. The nobodies were easily defeating the heartless. "Should I interrupt this? Nah I'll just walk pass." Vias slowly walks pass before all the heartless and nobodies looks towards him. Vias throws his Keyblade upwards causing all heartless and nobodies to follow it with their heads while Vias runs away. As it drops it disappears and reappears in Vias' hand as he runs outside the mansion gates.

After a while Vias gets to his ship and gets in. "Finely time to check this out." Vias tries to insert the hard drive but it doesn't fit. May appears behind him. Vias looks to May and asks "what happened to 'out of power'?"

"A little of this and that." May responds

"What happened to you May. Why have you been appearing to me?! Leaving your Keyblade for me, haunting my dreams and controlling heartless with the darkness!"

"What's to say the Darkness is bad? You have to think of it as two friends Vias, friends of different nature. One more aggressive and one gentle."

"That's..."

"The Darkness is but a force that spreads itself in a demanding way while the Light is more nurturing."

Vias turns to May in the seat of the Ship. "May, that goes against everything we learned"

"Vias, aren't you the one who told me that everything is about balance?"

Vias holds onto the hard drive. "I'll believe you, if this information backs you up." Suddenly the hard drive is gone. "Where'd it go?!"

May points up, "That Heartless has it"

Vias starts up the ship and follows. "You just gonna sit there?"

May sits relaxed in the back seat, "Yea. Hey, do you still like me?"

Vias looks to May and then focuses on the heartless "Follow that heartless now, talk later." May looks to Vias as a slight smile appears on her face.

Vias follows the heartless straight to Radiant Gardens and as it lands Vias flips out of his ship and follows it.

"So there I was," Leon says to everyone "1000 heartless surrounding me when I suddenly..." The heartless runs pass and Vias follows saying "Sorry! Coming through!"

Leon pauses for a second. "So anyway..."

Vias follows the heartless to the Grid computer where it drops the hard drive and vanishes. Vias slowly walks and picks it up.

"I wonder who's guiding you Vias" May says

"You?"

"I just helped earlier," May looks down sadly, "Vias, do you forgive me?"

"Yea, but I thought you were dead, can't you tell me how you're still here and why you're using the darkness?"

"Vias we all have darkness in our hearts and what you see before you is..." May hears the sound of steps coming their way and vanishes into a dark corridor. Vias calls to her, "May! Wait!" But she's gone. Leon rushes in the room

"I heard someone was in here..." Leon calms down, "oh it's just you"

"Sorry, a heartless took this hard drive and lead me here"

Leon walks up to Vias and examines the hard drive. "This only fits in this computer. Where did YOU get it"

Vias gulps "um..." Vias thinks to himself "I can't tell him about the outside worlds. Man I better think of something"

Leon looks at the hard drive again after taking it from Vias "This is from Twilight Town isn't it?"

Vias steps back "you know of other worlds?"

"Yea"

"Finely, I don't have to lie to protect some order" Vias says with a sigh of relief

"What's on here... Um..."

"Vias"

"Vias," Leon chuckles "Leon. So what's on here Vias?"

"Hopefully, information about a powerful Keyblade. One strong enough to be able to help my world."

Leon scratches his head, "You know, Sora didn't have a strong Keyblade, he just came here and helped our world with his"

"Yea, but my home world, Decention City, has been corrupted by the darkness for years. The heartless have found their way into the heart of the world but unlike other worlds it's still around."

Leon plugs in the hard drive, "okay kid, but don't become mad with power just because you might obtain the most powerful Keyblade"

Vias nods and the computer goes on. Leon walks away, "I've got stuff to do, have fun"

Vias turns to the computer. "The answer is in here somewhere!"