Another slash from the Graceful Dahlia, another stab from the Foudre, another stream of Fair Game, and another blast of water from the Arpeggio decimated the remaining Heartless. The four took a brief breath before continued on the hall.
"Serve you right," Larxene grumped, rotating her shoulders in exhaustion. "Fighting normally is WAY better than with those damned cards or whatever."
Luxord took a quick glance at Larxene upon hearing the word 'cards'. "What cards, if I may know?"
"It's the thing that make you . . . fight with . . . cards? No wait . . . argh!" Larxene groaned in the middle of her words.
Marluxia breathed out. "It's a system Xemnas ordered me to test in this castle. It make our moves determined by cards that have 'points'. The larger amount of 'points' on the card you use, the harder for it to be 'card break' by the opposing card. When two cards clashed, the card with larger 'point' will 'break' the weaker card and stun the user. Three cards can be stacked, 'points' and all and the move it make are called 'sleights'. 'Sleights' are powerful but made the first card you select disappear. The cards can be summoned back by will if the deck is emptied. The cards are differing in use. There's normal cards, magic cards, and item cards. There's also summon cards but it's only for Sora's use . . ."
"And they're freaking CONFUSING!" Larxene commented.
Luxord could only nod at Marluxia's explanation and Larxene's comment.
"Soooo what's so special of them?" Demyx asked, seemingly not understanding any of Marluxia's words.
The four came upon a large door. Marluxia continued explaining as the door opens. "Xemnas has Zexion and Vexen worked something with Xigbar's space-controlling and hoped that the system would create an advantageous step against Sora," he said as they walked into another round room though bigger and lined with electricity sparks on the ceiling. "But it backfired, in the end," he remembered when Sora defeated him, hard. "Same as Larxene, I didn't like it."
"Yeah, me too," said a too familiar voice in front of them, appearing from a flash of a portal.
In front of them stood all the same man from the last time.
Lea launched straight from another wall of light, slashing more and more heartless mid air that came after him. After he landed more appeared and he decided to throw both of his chakrams, the Eternal Flames, around him and made a fiery tornado of fire that vanquished them.
"Heh, you guys aren't obsolete, I tell you," he said after catching the Eternal Flames.
It's been a while now that he used the Eternal Flames as this past time he always trained on using his new Keyblade, Blazing Corona, an oversized-sword-like-flame-shaped key. It wasn't easy, but he managed to hold himself against Riku and also fellow newbie Keyblade Wielder, Kairi. Though he lost to the former. Now that he could use the Keyblade properly, he used his chakrams too so that they wouldn't become obsolete.
Lea walked forward but then glanced back when he heard cracks. Cracks and fractures started to ruin the wall and Lea noticed something above him. It was a floating pixelated text that reed 'Destiny Islands'.
"Destiny Islands, eh? Isn't that Riku's, Kairi's, and Roxa- err, Sora's home?" he said when he remembered the place he just walked by. "So much place for a closure."
The time Lea spent with Riku and Kairi made them good friends. Especially Kairi who weirdly reminded him of someone important . . . but he couldn't recall at all. Kairi told him many stories including her times in Destiny Islands along with Sora and Riku. She described Destiny Islands in very detail, making Lea somewhat already saw the place.
Lea walked upon a door and walked through. In front of him was another wall light and a field of floating dimension shards. Like then, he walked straight in and took a view of the world.
He couldn't believe it, it was Twilight Town! Complete with occasional trams passing by and the seemingly everlasting beautiful sunset. When he looked down, he realized that he was on top of the clock tower right in place where he and Roxas spent time after missions with Xi-
"Xi? Xi. Xi. Xi. Xi-who?" Lea said to himself, unable to remember whoever he thought. "Probably random people. But she bugged me. Wait, how can I know she's a she? Odd," he shrugged and then scaled down the tower.
"Have a nice battle?" asked the hooded man.
"We're pretty much entertained with the swarm," Luxord answered calmly.
"Hmm. I'm glad you did."
"Hey freak!" Larxene shouted angrily. "Why do everybody's fine but me!?"
Marluxia stepped forward, ignoring Larxene completely and all ready with the Graceful Dahlia in hand. "What do you know about us?"
"And why are you wearing that coat? Are you an impostor?" Demyx joined the quiz.
The hooded man laughed lightly and swiped his left hand across the room that slammed the door behind the Nobodies closed shut, which surprised them.
"Maybe yes, maybe no. It's up to all of you to decide," he answered with a riddle.
Luxord fanned a deck of Fair Game in response. "You're stating to sound like Cheshire Cat."
"Am I? Or am I not? The answer is right here," he flicked a finger and the lights went out before four huge blue holographic panels appear beside him.
"I know you as the Graceful Assassin, Marluxia, and the Merciless Killer, Lumaria," he pointed at Marluxia and one of the panels showed a scene where a man with pink straight hair, wearing brown jacket and pink undershirt along with loose gray pants striking through some bandits and ended up slicing the last one with a scythe.
Then, he pointed at Larxene, which gasped at him. "I know you as the Savage Nymph, Larxene, and the Sadistic Serpent, Relena," another panel showed a scene where a blond woman with straight back-swept hair and two hanging bangs in front of her face. Wearing a blue dress and matching heels with knives in her hands, beating out a woman and a men in wedding clothes.
The hooded man traveled his finger to Luxord. "The one and only Gambler of Fate, Luxord, and the Luck Gambler, Lourd," yet another panel showed a scene where a man in formal clothing identical to Luxord with cards fanned in his hand smiling against his opponents on the sides of a table where coins and card were.
Finally, the hooded man pointed at Demyx. "And the ever musical Melodious Nocturne, Demyx, and the Street Sitarist, Myde," the last panel viewed a scene where a man sitting on a bench among peoples in a park in shorts and blue vest playing sitar. He had dirty-blond straight hair that curved out midway to his neck.
The four were struck speechless as the panels continued on viewing scenes each of them know well.
"Oh. Seems I know a lot about you guys," he said playfully.
"Damn you!" Larxene said as she lunged with the Foudre charged, but she jumped back when spikes of ice sprouted from the floor, preventing her from reaching the man.
"I'm sure you guys have so many questions. But I already gave you a large answer just now and if you want answers of other questions . . .," then he reached to the door behind him, making it open. "Meet me again just ahead," he said before chuckling.
"Wait . . . !" Demyx sent some quick shots of water to him but failed as the man disappeared in a flash of the corridors of darkness. "Damn it!"
I searched and found Lumaria. I also found Arlene and Relena, but I thought Relena's better. I'm completely random for Myde and Lourd, though. R&R please :)