V's cane tapped onto the concrete ground, as they walked through Market Street, they couldn't help but marvel the small town. Even though they knew it was fake they couldn't help but look around, people buying their necessities from the nearby shops, children trying to convince their parents, into buying them candy. Nero exhaled a deep breath, while scratching the back of his head.
"V let's go check up on Roxas, if we do this job sooner than later, we might actually get out of here." Nodding in agreement, V led the way towards Roxas' location, since his sensing abilities were stronger than Nero's. As they walked up the path of Station Heights, they noticed the world was starting to shift around, as if something was interfering was wrong. V's eyes widened when he felt someone similar to Roxas, and as he looked up, he noticed all of the civilians were frozen as well. Looking up he noticed Roxas', "friends" were frozen as well. The other being, a young blonde haired girl, wearing a small white dress, was speaking to him, completely unaffected by the time shift. After a very short conversation, she turned around, leaving a very confused Roxas, and started walking towards their direction. Getting into a small panic, they both froze, and waited for her to pass.
Only to stop right in front of them.
'SHIT!' They both mentally yelled. They froze, thankfully she didn't seem to notice their turmoil, and continued to inspect them. She looked them up and down, while she went over V pretty quickly, noticing the strange tattoos, she seemed mostly interested in Nero. Looking at his sword, and the rest of his weaponry, she looked completely confused. While doing so, Nero was sweating bullets, creating a pool of sweat underneath their feet. After what seemed like forever she finally backed away and proceeded to walk away. Finally releasing their breaths, V backed away from Nero's sweat puddle and looked towards the girls direction. They heard footsteps rushing towards them and looked towards the person, it was Roxas and his face was a look of confusion. When he reached them though, it was replaced with a relieved smile.
"Nero, V!, where have you guys been, we didn't see you yesterday after you disappeared."
"Yeah, sorry about that kid, when we were getting ready to meet our business partners, we got jumped y a bunch of thugs."
"A-are you guys okay !?"
"Hell yeah, just cause I got one arm, doesn't mean I can't kick some ass."
Roxas let out a sigh relief, before noticing Nero's new robotic arm.
"WHOA, is that what you came here for !?" He couldn't help but ask, with complete excitement evident in his voice.
"Y-yeah, of course, since I lost my last one in an accident, they contacted me to see if I could test out their newest prototype." Roxas continued to stare at it in amazement, before he snapped back into reality.
"S-sorry but I'm looking for a girl."
"Aren't we all ?" Nero responded with a chuckle, Roxas blushed in embarrassment, while V's lips twitched upwards.
"Nah I'm just teasing kid, she went that way." He responded, while pointing towards her last direction.
"So she is going to the Haunted Mansion, thanks guys." Roxas thanked them, while running towards her direction.
"V, follow him, don't want any "thugs" hurting our new friend. I'll wait for you two in the Sandlot." V nodded in response before quickly following after Roxas. When Nero made it to the Sandlot, he sighed when he noticed the "Disciplinary Committee" ,chatting with each other.
'This is gonna be a long day.'
As V followed Roxas through a large hole in a wall, he noticed a portal forming in front of them. When the portal completely opened, three white creatures, looking similar to white jumpsuits, wiggled out and started to hovering towards Roxas. As two landed in front of him, one of them nearly grabbed him.
Before it was smacked away by a cane.
Blinking in surprise, he looked towards his savior only to see his tatted companion.
"Quickly we must leave here, if we stay here any longer, more of them may appear." Nodding in agreement, he quickly followed V with the strange creatures hot on their tail.
As Nero conversed with the three bullies, he realised they weren't so bad, just that they love to boss people around, and could be real jerks at times. Before they could continue, Nero noticed V and Roxas, running straight towards them, with some slippery looking creatures right behind them."
"So that loser came back for some more." Seifer spoke out with his usual haughty undertone.
"You kiddies better hide." Nero commanded as he walked forward.
"Hey, you can't just order us arou-!"
"I SAID NOW."
They jumped before they stepped back, deciding to listen to his command.
As V and Roxas arrived, Nero spun Red Queen around before slamming the blade into the ground and revving it up to the Max-Act.
"Sorry you two, but I'm bagging these bitches." As the two of them stood behind Nero, he grabbed Red Queen with both hands, and sprang forward.
"ONE, TWO, BLAST!." Nero yelled out as he spun around three times with fire trailing his sword, killing the creatures with ease. Everyone couldn't help but stare in amazement, with the exception of V, they were all about to voice it as well, before more of them started popping up.
V smacked away more of the creatures with his cane, deciding not to use his familiars since they were not much of a threat. He also didn't want DiZ and his companion knowing more about their techniques, they already knew more than enough. Nero seemed to be thinking the same thing, since he wasn't using his Devil Breaker and using basic sword techniques.
Roxas, was amazed to say the least, he never saw someone with a real sword, let alone using one, and the way it just caught on fire when he revved it like a motorcycle it was just...AWESOME, Roxas snapped out of his daydreaming when he noticed one of the creatures heading straight towards him. Quickly dodging away, he picked up a Struggle Sword, and tried attacking it, but no matter what he did, nothing seemed to be working. He started to panic, and it was evident in his swings. He noticed Seifer and his friends were trying to as well but they seemed to be in the same predicament as himself.
"Roxas, use the keyblade!" His head snapped upwards, so did Nero' and V'. He looked upwards a building and noticed the same blonde haired girl from earlier.
"ROXAS, WATCH OUT!" He heard Nero yell, and froze, in front of him the creature twist and turned, and charged him. He crossed his arms in front of him, and let out a panicked cry.
"DAMN IT." Nero yelled as he covered his eyes from the blinding light. He looked towards Roxas' spot, hoping for the kid to be there, only to be gone. Gritting his teeth, he charged towards the nearest creature and killed it one swing. V decided to end it quickly, so he commanded Griffon to attack them with Lightning Balls so he finish them off quickly with his Cane. He knew exactly when to strike, when he noticed the purple hue appearing around their bodies. After a couple of minutes, they finally finished them off. Before Nero could voice his anger, Roxas reappeared unconscious on the ground.
"Were those guys after you ?" Seifer accused in a threatening manner.
"Now that's a strange way of saying thank you isn't it." Nero growled back.
"Those guys showed up when you did, y'know ?"
"Culprits."
'Great, now his cronies are joining the fray.' Already annoyed and pissed off, he walked up to Seifer, with the latter having to slightly look up, and place his left hand on his shoulder and started squeezing. Seifer flinched heavily, but stayed his ground.
"Look you little shit, you better get out of here before I start to get really pissed." Nero threatened, while putting a bit more strength into his left. Seifer faltered and nearly fell on his knees, before he moved away from Nero.
"Whatever, just stay out of our way." and with that they finally walked away.
Appearing in Seifer's place was DiZ himself and he looked worried but for a completely different reason.
"It would seem that you have encountered some new friends."
"Cut the bullshit old man, what were those things, what are you really after, and what the hell is Roxas ?!" DiZ calmly looked at the two young men, before exhaling a deep sigh.
"I guess you have the right to know, those creatures you are referring to are known as Nobodies, but those are just simple fodder, known as Dusk. They way they are created is not very pleasant…...when someone' heart is completely swallowed by Darkness, the Darkness in their hearts turn into creatures known as Heartless. They are nothing but simple minded creatures with no emotions trying to capture the people' hearts, trying to reach a goal of feeling complete again, but that is simply impossible. The Nobodies are not completely different, but still have their own differences. Once a heart becomes a Heartless, the Nobodies are the remains of a heart. The body, for them to have a form, and the soul giving them life, but there certain instances when someone with a strong will, are able to create very strong Nobodies. They are nothing like the ones you just fought, their form appear Human and are very similar to one. The only difference is that they do not have a heart."
Nero and V processed the large amounts of information given to them., Heartless and Nobodies, any normal person would've thought of it as a joke, but when you spend most of your life fighting Demons and the supernatural it's not hard to believe. Looking back up V decided to confirms his theory.
"So Roxas is Nobody as well ?"
"That is correct but he is a very special one, the reason why is because he is the Nobody of a young man by the name of Sora." Nero and V nodded, they remember Griffon mentioning the name.
"Sora is a young man who is able a weapon known as the Keyblade, the Keyblade is an instrument that is able to unlock the secrets of Kingdom Hearts, a world of great power and wisdom, with a certain group trying to learn with any means necessary. The group are the same as Roxas, Nobodies born from strong wills trying to gain more power from Kingdom Hearts. If they do end up unlocking it, then all is lost."
Nero and V looked at each other, before allowing DiZ to continue.
"They would've completed some time ago, if it wasn't for Roxas' predicament. You see, when young Sora turned into a Heartless, he managed to revert back into his former self, because of that Roxas wasn't able to gather Sora' memories and was never complete. With the Organization, known as Organization XIII, scurrying around they trapped Sora into a place known as Castle Oblivion, replacing his memories with false ones. For Sora to truly wake up, we need Roxas here to gather those scattered memories and return them to Sora."
Nero rubbed his forehead when he felt a headache forming after he processed all the information.
"So, the Heartless and Nobodies are bad. Roxas is born from a kid who died, but ended up coming back to life. He owns a special key, but this organization is trying use it for themselves so they could get stronger. They kidnap him, trap in a place where they start messing with psyche, possibly giving him a mental breakdown, and putting him in a coma, and you need Roxas here to bring his memories back"
DiZ stared at Nero before chuckling.
"In simple terms, yes, I must tell you though, there are a multitude of worlds out there and you can't possibly get home yourselves, soooo…"
"We get it old man, you want us to help you, but after we do you're getting us out of here."
"Of course, now then, I have one more request." Nero groaned, he needed to get paid for doing all this bullshit.
"Because of the Organizations stubbornness, they will continue to send Dusk', and as you noticed yourselves, Roxas' fighting capabilities are….not the best."
"You want me to train him ?"
"Well of course, your friend here doesn't seem to use a sword like you, and the Keyblade is very much similar to your weapon." Nero breathed through his contemplating before giving in.
"Whatever, I just wanna get the hell out of here." DiZ thanked him, and before he left he told the both of them to not relay any of the information to Roxas, they just simply nodded in return, and with that he disappeared.
" Looks like we got more food dumped on our plate."
"It would seem so."
Hearing a groan behind them, they walked over to Roxas and helped him up.
"Time to wake up kid, cause your training starts today."
"For what ?" Roxas shivered when he saw Nero' evil smirk.
"You'll see soon enough."
After finding a secluded place and DiZ informing them that no one would find disturb them, V stood farther away as Nero started.
"Alright kid I want you to summon that weapon you had earlier." Nero was dearly hoping that Roxas' knew what he was talking about.
"I-I don't know how though, the only time it's ever appeared is when i'm in danger."
"Danger you say."
Roxas didn't even see Nero move, all he felt was pain. He nearly threw up his lunch when Nero punched him in his stomach. He stumbled backwards, but kept his feet planted on the ground. He looked up only to widen his eyes in fear when he saw him approaching, without even realizing it, he slashed forward with the Keyblade appearing in his hands. Nero couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
'It really is just a giant Key.'
Roxas heaved as he tried to control his breathing and his stomach.
"You didn't have to punch me in the gut, that was a cheap shot!"
"It made it appear didn't it."
"I guess, but-"
"No buts kid, let's just get started, now show me your stance." After doing what Nero commanded, Nero facepalmed, V smirked, and Roxas blushed deeply.
'This is gonna be a long day.'
Sorry I'm adding too much detail into everything, i'm gonna try and stop doing it so much, so I could try and get the story moving at a faster pace.