A/N:Now would be a good time to introduce the crew, as I won't have time to do it later

Chapter 4- The Keymaster's Nobody

A/N:Now would be a good time to introduce the crew, as I won't have time to do it later. Too much action and I won't be able to pencil it in. A lot is just boring back-story, so you can skip it if you want. However, if you come to something you don't understand later on in the story, this will be here for reference.

First there's Pat, with his semi-Roxas/ Sora Hair. I believe I've described him already, but this is just to neaten things up. He has eyes like the clouds before the storm, with turmoil hidden in them, but also peace. He was the Second of Auron's "Prodigal Three."

Then there's Rain. She has black hair and emerald eyes. Her hair cascades around her down to the small of her back. If you look closely, you can see streaks of red shining through it. She hated her original red hair, so she dyed it black. She was the Third of Auron's "Prodigal Three."

Chris was the calm one. His large size and powerful build didn't betray his inner nature, but his golden eyes did. They were more feline than, well, human. He spoke quietly, more or less muttering to himself, but everyone understood him perfectly. In school, he was the only one to beat the "Prodigal Three." The Gap between him and Ben who was second in the class was about the same as from Ray who was in fifth to the sixth ranked kid. Super smart and with a flair for strategy, he rarely rushes in without assessing the situation. Which he can do in about 4.3 seconds I might add.

Kard was, well, a wild card. Jet-Black Hair framed her face, and her fiery blue eyes blazed under her bangs. She was VERY moody and would be one thing one day and another thing the next. One day, she could be a prep school Barbie with all of the boy's fawning over her (Well, except for Pat) and the next she'd be the Gothic Girl. All black with Tattoos that looked SO real but by the next day would be gone again. Her parents owned a LOT of money. She was best friends with Rain, which everyone else always found as an odd match, but it gave the gossipers of the school something to mull over in their dim-witted skulls. Lord knows they would rather try to figure out the two girls relationship than do their homework. Naw, they'll just copy off someone else the next day. Back to Kard, she had a thing for Pat. I might have mentioned above that he wasn't interested, but she didn't seem to have learned the word N-O. I do believe their was one occasion after she asked him to go to a school dance with her that he told her to look it up in a dictionary. According to recent reports, I HIGHLY doubt it.

Ray is fun-loving and happy go lucky. He doesn't worry, is always optimistic. Favorite pastime? You bet. Annoying the hell out of the others so they want to throw him off the nearest skyscraper. All in good fun, of course. He's the shortest of the crew, and is the youngest of them. He skipped a grade which is why he's in high school. Pat always says to Chris that smarts must just run in their family.

Ren is the quietest of them all. Rain and Kard are always trying to get her to talk. But she just hides beneath her brown bangs and listens. And learns. She has an amazing memory, and one can get lost staring into her deep brown eyes. They show not just knowledge, but wisdom. She had a crush on Chris, but that was a while back.

I'm not going to reveal too much on Ben just yet.

And here are two coming up:

Leah J. Seraphiel. She was given that last name by the scientists who molded her into what she is: a half human, half angel. This was done using DNA taken from Sephiroth. Sephiroth found the lab, and he destroyed it in one of those mad rages he's famous for, almost killing the infant Leah in the process. Snapping out of it, he felt sympathy for her condition and took her with him. He trained her incessantly until she was nine. They were in Traverse Town at the time when he felt someone other than him going through the supposedly impassable world border. That was where he fought Cloud in front of Leah. After that battle, she was on her own. When Gummi travel was capable again, Traverse Town was almost overrun by Heartless and other creatures. Coming to the rescue, three figures dressed in Organization Cloaks appeared and asked Leah to take their ship and leave. The strange talking animals remained behind to fight. Why her presence seemed to be attracting Heartless is unclear.

And I do believe that you know my first Cannon character already. I'll give you a hint- ...No I won't actually, the title says it all.

Roxasdouble9 or Twilitsomeone

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Ben found himself in the dream world, yet again.

He grinned as the boy he had fought before walked towards him. He followed the direction of the out raised hand, where a portal of darkness awaited. "Thanks friend," He said," And you can have this back," he threw Soul Eater. Riku caught it without even looking.

As Ben went through the portal, he looked back. Was he imagining it? No, there was the one Riku, standing there with Soul Eater in his hand. But behind him, there was an older boy, with the Keyblade Way to Dawn, poised as if to strike the real Riku down. Ben blinked, and the apparition vanished. Unnerved, he walked through the gate.

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The friends ran into the Secret place, pursued by a ton of heartless. They skidded to a halt as the door which no one had ever seen opened before them. More heartless poured out of it. Trapped, they backed into each other.

"Now this isn't very good odds," Chris muttered.

Kard replied vehemently, "Shut up Chris!" She charged into the darkness suddenly, a Black and Gold Keyblade forming in her hand. She didn't look half as surprised at her impromptu weapon as Pat had, but then again, the world was pretty much falling to pieces. There would be time to try to find a reason for Randomly Materializing Weapons later. If there was a later. At the amount of Heartless surrounding them, "later" was looking to encompass pretty much the next few minutes, and the future after that? Well, let's just say no one was betting who would eventually win.

"Let's do this!" Ray shouted, plunging into the Heartless as well. A sickle shaped Keyblade formed in his hand.

One by one, the others drew their own Keyblades and leaped into the fray. Except for Pat. He tried to make the Keyblade from before appear, but it wouldn't work. He couldn't understand. That Heartless bit him and scratched him, while he tried futilely to make his Keyblade appear.

He was crying from his wounds now, and the darkness surrounding his vision. Where were the others? Why weren't they helping him?

As he drifted into unconsciousness, he heard the voice again.

Courage comes from a pure heart.

FLASH

Pat opened his eyes to find himself away from the Secret Place. His friends were gone. His world was gone. Everything was white for a moment before his surroundings appeared, and he found himself holding a Keyblade.

The Lionheart.

"Whoa..." he whispered. He then noticed his new surroundings. He was in a hallway made of purple... blocks? Anyway, down the hallway came a mass of creatures he had never seen before. They looked like Heartless, but their symbols were different. Almost a cross between a heartless symbol and a nobody symbol.

His friends didn't even come to mind. There would be time to ponder later. Now it was time to fight.

"Yeah!" He cried, plunging into them with ferocity. He struck and blocked, flipped and ducked. Yet they came on by the hundreds. He felt so good slicing through them, even though the process was tiring himself out tremendously.

"Strike Raid!" He called, flinging his Keyblade, destroying a good number of enemies. When it came back to him, he broke and ran.

Left, The voice said, as he came to an intersection. Pat ran down the left hand corridor, the wave of enemies carrying after him. He passed a few portholes and when he glanced at them, he saw the strangest thing. A world being consumed by darkness, and beyond that:

Stars.

He kept following the voice's directions until it finally said, Now down. While he was wondering what that meant, he suddenly tripped and fell down a circular shaft. The Strange beings fell after him. Pat got his feet under him and began running down the duct, barely keeping ahead of the horde behind him.

"Any ideas how to land??" He yelled at the voice over the roar of adrenaline.

Yes, let her catch you.

"Let who- ack!" He cried, as the shaft ended and he found himself in free-fall towards some sort of hangar floor. He'd had the breath crushed out of him as a girl had bolted out of nowhere, catching him by his middle. They were still falling pretty fast however, but she used her one... wing?... to stabilize their descent.

She dropped him from about ten feet, and Pat ducked and rolled. He came up in time to see the horde of creatures blast out of the air duct.

I'd run if I were you. The voice suggested.

"Shut up!" They both said at the same time.

Giving each other weird looks for apparently talking to midair, they ran to the nearest passageway and bolted down. The creatures kept following.

"You sure know how to tick off Souless don't you," The girl asked between ragged breaths. The directions from the voice were getting faster, and it was all they could do to not take a wrong turn.

"Yeah, though I have no freakin' clue to why," Pat huffed, "I'm Pat, and you?"

"Leah," She replied, running along the passageway, "Leah J. Seraphiel." She spun around and threw three glowing cards down the passageway.

"Don't look back," she warned.

BOOM!!

"Light cards, create booms of pure light for ten minutes," She winked at his questioning glance, "Creatures of Darkness simply hate them. I was lucky to have a few, but those were my last ones."

"Got it," Pat muttered, turning down another hallway, putting as much distance between him and those 'Souless.'"

Here. They stopped before an immense white door. On it was the Nobody symbol, and around the edges were strange pictures. ((A/N: Supply pictures from KH I & II. Use your imagination.)) Tentatively, Leah opened it by pulling on the huge handle.

Inside, it was dazzling white. The room was enormous and circular, and only occupied by one thing. A capsule in the center, based on the shape of a flower bloom. Inside, a person slept.

Leah drew a Keyblade, but Pat was no longer shocked by the many people who seemed to have them. He drew his, and together, they unlocked the Capsule. Stars and Sparks flew around the room, growing into a crescendo of sound and light. Pat and Leah covered their eyes and ears as the roar grew deafening. The floor seemed to spin, and then finally, all was still.

The Boy stepped out. He was blond, with blue eyes. His black and white pants matched his shirt and vest, and he had a matching wristband and finger bands to accompany the get-up as well.

"Well thank you, my friends, staying cooped in that capsule for a thousand years was as boring as all hell," Roxas told them with a smirk.