Hey Guys! Already got a new chapter out. This was close to completion already so it didn't take long to get it out. Now, onto the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. That privilege is Tetsuya Nomura's.

Chapter 3: Time of Arenas

'Where are all the Heartless? When Master and I came in here, this place was littered with them, so why is it so empty?'

Currently we see Tempus in his G.C. The G.C. was a huge place in the shape of an egg, with different shades of gray swirling around. You couldn't see the floor, giving the illusion of walking on nothing. (A/N: Basically, a larger, gray version of Betwixt and Between.)

As Tempus was thinking, he didn't notice the Shadow rising from the ground behind him. Right as the Shadow jumped to attack, Tempus moved out of the way. 'Thankfully I heard it jump, or else I would've taken a bad hit,' he thought before destroying the Shadow. Several more Shadows appeared around Tempus to replace the fallen Shadow. 'So that's where they were hiding. Well, it's never a bad thing to take out Heartless.' And with that thought, he began his attack.

"Stop!" Tempus shouted, casting said spell. The Heartless around him froze in place, and he started going around slashing as many Heartless as possible. In this case, three were killed. However, six more appeared in their stead. Casting Stop again, he tried to destroy all of them before the spell ended, however he was only able to get five of them before time resumed for them again. Ten more appeared, making a total of thirteen Shadow Heartless around him.

Jumping back, he thought, 'What the? It's like a group hydra.' He rolled under a shadow that tried to jump him, and then jumped further back. 'Wait… If they're acting like a hydra, then I need to kill all of them at once. The only problem is that my Stop spell won't last long enough. What if I…? Yeah, that might work,' he though.

Jumping back into the group of Heartless, he started casting Stop. However, before he cast the spell, he tried casting another Stop. He then released both at the same time. "Stopra!" Tempus knew he succeeded with making the spell. He wasted no time and immediately started his onslaught of Keyblade strikes and Sphere's. He luckily the last one right as the Stopra spell ended. Seeing that no more Heartless were appearing, he promptly fell on his rear, panting. 'I. Hate. Hydras,' he venomously thought.

Exiting the corridor, Tempus found himself on a half-sphere inside a bubble. On one side of the room there was a blue and yellow circle, while on the opposite side there was a dimly lit terminal. However, what stood out was the orb in the center of said room, above a small, circular, red trench. Two rings were surrounding the bubble outside, much like how electrons' rings surround a nucleus. There was also a small half-sphere platform in the distance, which also had a blue and yellow circle.

'So, this is the Mirage Arena, huh? Well, might as well get on with what I was going to do,' he thought to himself. He pulled a microchip out of his pocket and looked at it, remembering his second mission.

Flashback

"Wait a moment, Tempus."

Turning around to face Master Eraqus, Tempus gave him a confused look while waiting for him to continue. "I have a second mission for you," he said while pulling out a microchip from who-knows-where. "I want you to go to a place called Mirage Arena, and install this device into the terminal there," he said while giving the microchip to Tempus, who pocketed it.

Nodding, Tempus said, 'Alright, sure. But why?" "I have a feeling that something terrible is going to happen soon, and I want everyone to be capable of facing whatever that is. That device, once installed, will allow battle simulations that you guys will partake in. This actually reminds me of something. You will need to go back and update it every once in a while. You will also need to test if the simulation works," Eraqus explained.

"That sounds simple enough. Why did you choose me, though?" Tempus asked. 'Because you are the only one who would think this simple,' Eraqus did not voice this, but instead said, "You were the last one here." Tempus sweatdropped at the statement.

Flashback End

'Last one my ass,' Tempus thought. Walking over to the terminal, Tempus inserted the microchip into it. Afterwards, he started to do a few keystrokes. 'There. Now to test to see if it works,' he thought.

Typing a few more things into the terminal, he saw there was only one option. 'Day of Reckoning, huh? Sounds pleasant,' he thought sarcastically. After selecting the match, he walked to under the glowing orb. He was then teleported to a transformed area of the hub, making it a much larger area. (A/N: Area where you fight the Iron Imprisoner's.)

'What the…? Where am I?' Tempus thought to himself. Right after he thought that, five Floods and a Bruiser appeared in front of him. 'Are these Unversed? Well, they don't look friendly. Might as well get this over with,' he thought before going in to eliminate the Unversed.

After eliminating the group of Unversed, a new group appeared composing of six Scrappers and three Red Hot Chili's. Casting Stopra, Tempus took care if four of the Scrappers before time resumed. However, not realizing that, he didn't notice both a Scrapper and a Red Hot Chili attacking him. "Ahh!" he shouted while getting thrown forward. Recovering mid-air, he sent a small wave of Gray towards the two, destroying them and another Red Hot Chili as well. (A/N: His recovery attack.)

'A normal Cure won't heal this. How about I try the thing I did to make Stopra earlier,' he thought before putting his plan to action. Making two Cure spells at once, he tried casting both at once. The result: an explosion destroying the remaining Unversed and sending Tempus flying back. 'Note to self, don't try melding new spells in combat,' he thought while balancing himself in the air before landing.

Drinking a potion, he felt some of his wounds beginning to heal, before narrowly ducking under a punch from a Bruiser. Looking at his surroundings, he saw two Floods, three Red Hot Chilis, and three Bruisers around the arena. Casting Sphere at a Flood, he ran up to the other Flood and slashed at it thrice, before it dissipated. Seeing that the other Flood wasn't there, he figured that his Sphere destroyed it.

After he finished off the other enemies, he found himself back to his starting location with two Red Hot Chilis and three Thornbites in front of him. 'I guess this is how every round starts. I believe that the terminal said this match was four rounds. I hope I don't have to fight any people here,' he thought.

Tempus cast a Sphere at a Red Hot Chili before slashing it once, destroying it. He then cast Sphere at the other Red Hot Chili, and afterwards bashed it to the ground, destroying it. He suddenly felt an energy similar to Gray coursing through his body and into his Keyblade. 'Is this one of those Command Styles Master Eraqus told us about?' he thought. 'Well, let's try it out.'

Dashing to a Thornbite, he started stabbing it three times, before doing a spinning attack on a horizontal axis, and finishing the combo by making a large black cube and a large white cube make a 360 orbit around him, destroying the Thornbite and a Thornbite behind him, leaving one left. Running up to the last Thornbite, he did a full combo, destroying it and a Bruiser that appeared behind him.

Feeling even more energy coursing through him, he made a large black circle and a large white circle on the ground. He jumped onto the black circle and sent out a shockwave, before jumping onto the white circle and doing the same. This destroyed all the Unversed and the next wave of Unversed as well.

After the next wave appeared, Tempus jumped into the air while the two circles merged into one gray circle. He then slammed down onto the circle, making a large explosion as he felt the energy leave him. 'That was awesome! I think I'll call that Command Style "Balanced Formula,"' he thought while panting.

After fighting the Unversed in round three, successfully melding two Cure spells into Cura, and developing a "healthy" hatred towards Archravens, we see him looking at the Iron Imprisoner. 'I'm screwed,' he thought.

The Iron Imprisoner went higher up in the air and shot six yellow beams onto the ground, before slowly floating towards Tempus. 'Something tells me I don't want to be hit by any of those things,' he thought before running away.

After the laser attack ended, Tempus ran up to it and cast Stop, freezing the Iron Imprisoner in time. He then jumped up and began slashing away at the Iron Imprisoner. He was suddenly knocked back by its cage(?). 'It should still be frozen in time! What happened?' he thought in shock before recovering himself and sending out a wave of Gray, only to be knocked back again.

Right as he landed, he was attacked multiple times by a spinning flame attack. After the Iron Imprisoner passed him, it turned around to try and attack him again. Tempus, seeing this, began to run in wide circles to avoid it. Right as he thought he was in the clear, the Iron Imprisoner jumped high into the air before slamming down, barely missing because of a well-timed roll from Tempus. It did so twice more before the flames around it dissipated.

Seeing the flame disappear, Tempus quickly cast Cura before running up to the Iron Imprisoner and attacking it. Right before it smacked Tempus away, he used its body as a springboard to backflip away while casting Sphere, staggering it. Seeing the opening, Tempus rushed in to continue his attack, only to be trapped in a cage.

'A cage? Really?' he thought while destroying the cage. Blocking the Iron Imprisoner's attempt to smack him, he ran up and delivered a combo in its face, destroying it. 'Finally,' he thought, panting.

Tempus found himself back in the hub, and he promptly fell back on to his rear. 'That was exhausting,' he thought to himself.

After resting for a few minutes, he got up and looked around quickly and saw a paper laying next to a holographic Moogle. 'What's this?' he thought. Picking up the paper, he saw it was titled "G.T. Report II: The Element of Gray." Tempus began reading.

This report discusses the element of Gray, as well as writing down any of my own discoveries and theories about Gray.

Gray is an element that is created when Light and Darkness are perfectly in sync with one another. However, the two elements do not have to have equal amounts. If you look at a microscopic level, you will see Gray looks like a dissected DNA strand, with each side being either Light or Dark.

Because of the two elements working together so perfectly, it is near impossible to use one element separately. There are exceptions, however. When one has a masterful control of Gray, they can separate the element for a short period of time. But they must exert the same amount of power of the other element within a certain time frame. The frames differ between each individual, but the average is about five minutes. If this does not happen, the consequences would be equivalent to that of splitting an atom.

Controlling Gray can be both easy and difficult at the same time. First, you need a very creative mind, as Gray can take many forms. You must also keep in mind that, for many cases, you cannot just force the element to do what you want. You must guide the element into the form you wish, as many things you do with Gray changes it to the point where it can sometimes think on its own.

I have a theory on Gray pertaining to its uses. If Gray is just Light and Dark working together, and since in some instances you can use the two elements separately, is it possible to use opposite effects at once? Things such as healing allies while harming enemies? While I have not tested this theory, I do believe it can be done.

There are most likely more things that have yet to be discovered about Gray, and I doubt I'll find them all, so to whoever is reading this, I ask that you help out as well.

-G.T.

'This will be very useful in the future,' Tempus thought while storing the paper away. 'I wonder who G.T. is, though?'

Suddenly Tempus saw Terra being thrown back by a huge Unversed with instruments. Terra wasn't getting up as the Unversed closed in on him. Tempus's vision then went back to the hub. "Terra!" Tempus shouted in distress as he opened a G.C. and ran in.

New chapters will most likely not be out as fast as this one was, sorry.

The G.T. Reports will be my version of the Ansem/Xehanort Reports. It will be how Tempus learns and develops his abilities.

Original Moves:

Sphere - The basic Gray spell. It is a gray orb that follows the target.

Counter Wave - Recovers in mid-air and sends out a wave of Gray to counterattack.

Please R and R. Constructive criticism is appreciated, but please, no flames.