Burst: Hi everyone! I'm the second Kira and I'm going to kill you! Just kidding! I didn't make the eye deal! Ok! Ryuk: He he he. Kaito: And I'm the co-host! Burst: Because I'm lazy! That and the others are busy. Meanwhile! Sora: Everyone run for your lives! Cyclops: Get in ma belly! Donald: I just wet myself! Night: But you're not wearing pants! Cera: Ew. Burst: Ahem. Well my semi toddler partner! Why don't you begin! Kaito: Well this chapter you'll learn about Shadowbringers like me! Plus, we land in Pie Fight Town! Burst: He means- oh whatever! Before we start I have some things to point out:
I made a mistake in chapter 1 as only Night's heart is completely cloaked in darkness among the 3.
I know she was called Alice at the start but I will now refer to her as Amy, since Alice is already a character. This is not a reference to Sonic; it's her original name when I first thought of this years ago.
You might have noticed some of the characters, specifically Night, Haio, and Kaito, have blurted out things. There is actually a reason behind that in which I plan to explain this chapter or the next one.
I kinda changed my mind mid story about the magic. They have all the spells, just at basic form.
Burst and Kaito: That's it so let's begin the story! Ryuk: He he he. Burst: Shut up!
Shadowbringer info! Twilight town reunion!
Sora's room
Our trio was together, Kaito and Donald watching as Sora stood by the light switches by his bed. Sora grinned as he told them "Watch this." Flicking the middle switch, they all watched in awe as the whole room changed, revealing only silver-gray walls of an empty room. "Whoa." "This is super awesome Sora!" It didn't end there. Soon popped up a holographic- "Big brother!" (Burst: I hate being interrupted!)
"Hello! I am V-Haio! This is the virtual training station! Please tell me what you wish to improve! Touch me and I will burn your parts off!" As our trio stared in a mixture of shock and amazement, V-Haio held out his hands, and orbs with binary code appeared before them. "Super awesome!" "Pretty cool. Heh." "Holy quack! What are those?" V-Haio grinned. "These are the cyber files. They handle training data, meaning enemies and areas. In addition to that, since Jiminy isn't available, the ship will keep records of the events on the worlds you enter. Oh yes, there's something creator wanted me to show you."
"From big brother?" "Show us!"
V-Haio grinned as he disappeared along with the cyber files, replaced with a robotic voice. Initiating Shadowbringer tutorial program. First part: The original. A hologram of a Shadow Knight appeared. (Kaito: See the review for a description! Burst: By the way, from now on I will only describe those who haven't been seen yet.) This was the first Shadowbringer created by Ansem. He created it by infusing a heartless with a heart shrouded in darkness. Due to this trait, Shadowbringers possess dark power, but can faintly hold on to their emotions. As stated, they can't normally hold onto their strongest emotions. See for yourself later duesh bags. (Burst: Somewhere in there is some of Haio's personality.) Unfortunately these specimens eventually escaped. But they are not the most important.
2nd part: The Shadowbringer Children. The Shadow Knight hologram was replaced by three young children. 2 seemed to be young versions of Night and Haio, while the third a young girl with white hair. These are the Shadowbringer children. They were created by combining certain human's DNA with Shadowbringer's before birth. The black haired boy is Night, of Darkness. He's infused with Riku and Sora's DNA. The young girl is named Alice and possesses power of light. She's infused with Sora's and Kairi's DNA. Unlike most Shadowbringers, instead of darkness her heart is shrouded by light. Finally, the ever handsome Haio of Twilight. (Told you!) His heart is surrounded by a golden aura of light and darkness that consumes a lot of energy to make use of both at once. He has all 3's DNA. I will explain more characteristics of their hearts later.
3rd Part: Variation. The previous image was replaced by two images, a Shadow Wolf and a Shadowbringer resembling Vivi but with an orange witch costume, including a staff/broom hybrid with the Shadowbringer symbol on it. You have seen the original projects, but variations were formed later during other circumstances. The first is rather simple. There are many variations of heartless, and as Shadowbringers originated from heartless, you could say they mimicked them. Some Shadowbringers will take upgraded forms of heartless, such as the flame witch shown before you, who is an enhanced form of the heartless red nocturne. Ok then. The second and last circumstance is similar to survival of the fittest. This is where it's believed the most powerful non-humanoid Shadowbringers come to be, such as the Shadow Wolves. As animals must adapt to their surroundings, some Shadowbringers will adapt to dark power around them. They will continuously try to surpass the darkness around them and become more powerful. However, this urge can be limited to a varied amount of time, so they might stop using this method to take a more powerful form eventually. Anyways, let's move on.
Final part: the incomplete. Although they unlike heartless and nobodies, as they possess heart, soul, and body, Shadowbringers are not complete. You can also remember unlike Heartless and Nobodies once again, Shadowbringers originated in the lab. Ansem's technology turned the bodies of heartless, which as you should know are made of corrupted hearts, into beings of even greater and complete darkness. He didn't stop there; he had to create something new. Though his methods are unknown, he was able to insert artificial hearts made of darkness into them, which resulted in them gaining boosts of intelligence and dark power. This heart creates a dark aura that fills the body and powers them more over time. But his true experiment had yet to come. Unfortunately, he lacked the DNA he wanted. Luckily, he made due with Sora, Riku, and Kairi's DNA, as well as his own. Thus creating: Amy (authors note: originally Alice, but changed due to already existing character with that name) of light, who's artificial heart is of pure light, and body filled with an aura of light. She's filled with only innocent thoughts. Then there's Night of darkness, whose heart and aura is complete opposite of his sisters. He's stubborn and troublesome, but is not evil and has shown to be sweet at times, especially around his sister, thus showing that perhaps not all darkness is bad, in theory. Moving on to Haio of twilight, both his artificial heart and aura in between light and darkness, giving him abilities similar, and possibly greater, than Riku's. When young he was shy and often picked on by Night, though now is just as confident. Finally, the 4th and unstable child not only with powers of light and darkness, but with a power that Ansem noted taps into the universe itself. This child was taken away before awakened and little is known about him other than the fact it's Kaito. This report doesn't cover how Kaito reached Haio. REPORT END.
Sora, Donald, and Kaito just stood with their mouths dropped. "Sora?" "Yes Kaito?" "I'm hungry!" "Let's go get some poptarts. We can let Donald turn the room back." "Yay poptarts! Bye bye duckman!" After the two left Donald turned to V-Haio. "You think you could play some pop music vid-" And then a mechanical foot kicked him out, the room then changing itself back.
About a minute later: the main room.
Sora and Kaito were relaxing on a couch munching on strawberry poptarts, as Sora bragged about his adventures, Kaito in awe. Donald was in the kitchen making eggs, as he watched/listened to the two, not sure whether he should smile or scowl. Sora acted like his normal self around Kaito rather than focus towards the 3 captured and the appearance of the Kairi look alike. What bugged him was dealing with the Shadowbringer squirt. Sure he proved himself in battle, but there were other problems. He only listened to big brother figures, he loved foods that make you fart, and he still took baths. (Donald also had a feeling Kaito was "watering" the plant Haio was so nice to place as a decoration, but he was unsure.)
"Oh! The scrambled eggs!" Licking his lips(?) he carefully began to bring the pan to a plate when "DUCKMAN! COME E'RE!" "BWAAAAAACK!" Duckman- er, Donald freaked out in surprise, and the eggs ended up on his head. (Note to readers: Donald's words that took place in his thoughts were slightly altered to fit the tone for the deep in thought thing. Donald: But why? Burst: Because I have no freaking idea what you sound like in your head.)
About 1 minute of untranslatable cussing later.
Donald sat between Sora and a bouncing Kaito, who was either impatient or really had to pee. Possibly both. (To remind readers a final time, their ship was heavily decorated and furnished by Haio, though unknown how.) "What's going on Sora? He wet the bed?"
"I'll have you know that only happened once! Here!" "Then what is it little buddy?" Sora asked, ruffling the 3 year old Shadowbringer's hair.
"I remembered something! I remember something Haio said! He said he left something important in a super computer!" Sora and Donald looked at each other and sighed. There were 3 computers like that in Twilight town. Then the three heard a beeping sound. Arrived at destination: Twilight Town. Auto pilot shutting down. "Is it me or does it seems like we take a lot longer to get from world to world?" Donald shrugged and walked over to the ship's controls and turned on the transportation beam.
Twilight Town: Sandlot
The trio came to the sandlot just in time to see a struggle match between Hayner, and Seifer, who was the current champion. Sora and the others sat down with the crowd.The fat man-er judge raise his hand to begin, and the two immediately go, their struggle sticks clashing.
"So Hayner. You actually think you can beat me? Try again never." "Grrrr! Shut up jerk!" Meanwhile, in the crowds a young girl with brown hair reaching her shoulders and a rather heavy set boy with black hair call out from the crowds respectively call out "You can do it!" "Show him the results of your training!"
Hayner looked at the crowd and then back to Seifer. "Olette... Pence... all right!" With all his strength Hayner forced Seifer back, forcing him to the edge of the stage in surprise, his struggle stick lying beside him. Hayner smirked, in position to strike. What surprised him was the committee leader leaving the stage and leaving with his crew.
"Well, er- I guess by default Hayner is the winner of the struggle match!" There were some cheers mixed with silence as Hayner was given the champion belt (let's just say Seifer took it off before the fight) and was put around his waist. He was given a struggle trophy shaped like a knight. The difference was it held a struggle stick, and was divided into the four colors red, yellow, blue, and green. There were some more cheers before most of the crowd left.
Sora and friends climbed up onto the stage. Hayner turned to them with a grinning, shaking Sora's hand. "Hey Sora! Did you see me? I kick some Seifer a- uh why is there a little kid hiding behind you?" He said, pointing at Kaito. "Oh that's Kaito. His brother sent him with us because he thinks he has some hidden strength. By the way, I think Olette and Pence bet on you." Everyone looked to see Pence handing Olette a bag of munny. She looked at yelled "Hey guys! Now that I've come into money let's get some grub!" "I'm not hungry." Kaito muttered, but then his stomach growled loudly, and he blushed. Everyone laughed, until their stomachs did the same, and decided to follow Olette. (Donald: Why hasn't ANYONE noticed me? Burst: You have a bigger role later.) As they all ran the image of a goldenrod clock tower with a sunset over it opened, matching letters in front of it reading "Twilight Town."
The secret place.
Everyone sat together eating cheeseburgers and fries. "Wow. To think you can find a McDonalds on more than one world." Sora said before munching on a fry. "Hey Sora. What's with the kid? He's been silent for a while now." Pence asked, meaning Kaito. Before he could say, Donald started. "I don't know what's with the kid. Usually he's more hyper than the time Sora-" "We said we wouldn't ever repeat that Donald." Kaito then got up, picking up an old looking struggle stick and pointing it at Hayner. "F-fight me." "Oh crap. You think I'm really going to fight a kid?" Kaito responded by hitting him on the leg. "Fine."
Back Alley
Kaito and Hayner stood at the opposite ends of the area, the others to the side. "Uh, should we really let Hayner fight a little kid?" "Humph. I'm sure the kid will show off a little." Donald said with a sigh. It seemed a lot of people have been paying attention to the kid lately, which annoyed him. Sora, acting as the referee, gave the two the Ok. Kaito immediately charged at Hayner, only to be blocked. Kaito did this several times, only for the same thing to happen each time.
Kaito's eyes widened in surprise. "That dark smell... you're a Phantom member!" 'Hayner' formed an evil smile, before being cover by a dark aura, taking the form of a girl with long green hair and a black cloak with green triangles all over it. Sora and Donald stood in front of Olette and Pence, the three of our heroes then summoning their weapons.
Salina(remember from C4) clapped, her evil expression turning to an innocent look. "Wow! All this coming from a teenager, a bipolar duck, and a little boy barely potty trained! Luckily for you, I have other plans! Say hello to Thorn Trap!" Salina snapped her fingers and out from the ground came a large egg shaped Shadowbringer about the size of two fridges. It was a made of a sickening green colored wood covered with thorns. It had 3 three vines on each side (which also were covered with thorns.) The Shadowbringer had the Shadowbringer symbol carved into it. (Final time: Please check earlier chapters for symbol description. Oh, and now a message from Kaito. Kaito: I bought a taco! Burst: Back to the story.)
They all then stepped back in surprise as Seifer jumped from a building nearby, a pistol styled gunblade with a dark aura in his hand. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. Guess where Hayner is!" Olette opened her mouth to say something, but was stopped by Pence. Meanwhile, Sora turned to Donald and Kaito with his signature grin. Knowing him well Donald pulled Kaito towards Thorn Trap, though the latter wanted to fight with Sora. (Note: Now switching between POV.)
Sora's POV (Please tell me if think his personality is off!)
I'm glad I got those two to fight that Shadowbringer. It's not often I get to fight a gunblade wielder! I want to talk to him, let our blades clash along with our thoughts. (Burst: You're trying to sound cool while we're in your thoughts aren't you? Sora: Maybe.) Anyway, I doubt Donald and Kaito would do well in doing that... (Especially together. It's more Donald but yeah.) I smirked as I pushed back against his gunblade with Waveride. His eyes were filled with anger. "C'mon now! Do you need to call your mediocre friends to beat me?" I jumped back to get a little breather space. Ok. This is going be harder than I thought.
Donald's POV (In the easiest way understandable. Even I don't know what he sounds like on the inside.)
Why did he have to stick me with the kid? That's what I thought as I blasted the enemy with fire. I mean he's only 3 years old! He may be a bit smarter than the average, but c'mon! Well at least he can fight. "Yeah you think you can beat Kaito? Nobody can beat Kaito! You're not so scary!" The runt said as he jumped back and forth between vines cutting off a thorn each time. I guess he's pretty go- wait a minute! "Kaito look out!" "Huh?" But it was too late. That dumb plant thing (plant thing?) whipped the kid in the face, a remaining thorn left a long cut across his cheek as he was knocked to the ground. "Kaito!"
Sora's POV
I want to help so badly, but it's a little hard when you're clashing blades with someone with so much strength. "C'mon! You think you'll beat me with such a small blade?" I looked at Waveride. Then I remembered what it was best at. Magic. I jumped and smirked. "Thunder!" I smiled at the results. It was almost as good as a thundara. He was electrified instantly and passed out. Guess all that power and no defense to back it. I walked over and let my keyblade disappear as I reached for the dark weapon, but it pulled away from me and an Anti-Seifer formed from it with the weapon in its grasp. I sighed. "I knew it wasn't going to be that easy."
Donald's POV (Once again translated from Quackenese.)
I ran over towards the falling little boy but was too late as he fell to ground with a thud. I know I don't exactly act like I like him that much (biggest understatement of the year.) But I looked at him and realized that despite the speed and power he has, his body is nearly as wimpy as a regular 3-year old's. As I heard cracking noises from his left arm and saw his unconscious body shudder I felt this bitter feeling. This same feeling made me want to kick some booty! (Burst: I'm REALLY translating him.) "Face the might of my blizzard barrage you dumb plant monster!" I shot blizzard after blizzard till I didn't have any magic left in my feathers. Then I threw my staff at it before I began to pass out. The last thing I saw was Olette and Pence running towards Hayner as he fell out of the shattered Thorn Trap.
Sora's POV
Magic not working for me and without enough energy for drive I was running out of options. Normally I'm stronger than this but ever since I used that dark power I've felt really drained. If only I could use more of my abilities! I know the movements and power, but it's like when Night supposedly 'stole' them, he just locked them away somewhere inside. As much I hate to admit it I might lose! "Better watch out kid!" The Anti-Seifer said hitting Waveride hard with a backhand slash, knocking it out of my hands. I blocked his next strike with a reflect spell and dodged rolled to get Waveride. (I'm glad I still have that.) But as I picked it up I was blinded by a sudden flash of light.
Awakening: Sora's POV
I slowly floated down to the ground. I looked ahead to see a white door with several chains on it. There was someone standing beside it, but for some reason he was really blurry. Then I heard him speak. "I'm sorry but for now I can only remove one chain. But please be sure not to take the power you get from it for granted Sora." As he summoned forth a keyblade I got a glimpse of his face. "Wait! What are doing here Roxas?" 'Roxas' frowned and put his foot down in a jokingly matter. "Aw, you don't remember me? I may have never told you but I'm sure it's etched it your heart." I wanted to ask more but the same light returned bringing me back to the battlefield.
Back to the battle.
I opened up my eyes to see myself about to have the crap beaten out of me by my enemy. Almost by instinct, I quickly slid dashed away and hit Anti-Seifer with a strike raid! I guess that Roxas looking guy was right when he said I'd get back some of my abilities. I just wish I'd get them all back- hold on a sec! What is that? A bunch of thorn covered vines wrapped around Anti-Seifer, causing him to disappear into the darkness with him. "I guess that means I win. Woohooooo- ugh." Without realizing how tired I was I fell on my butt. "Maybe I'll take a little nap." I said as I fell on my back.
Burst: What's up Kaito? Kaito: The chapter is over! Hooray! Burst: It was a lot of work. I've been working on a lot of ideas, and I've remade this chapter so many times. I also apologize for listing my mistakes, but it kinda helps me move on. Kaito: Burst is still undecided on the name of the next chapter so we're gonna do it a different way! Burst: Ready? Kaito: Yep! Burst: Next chapter Sora and the gang reunite with old friends! Kaito: But a character from big brother's past appears making everything go nutty! Burst: Not to mention we learn a little more about the enemy! Kaito: Is that it Burst? Burst: Um, is there anything you want to do? Kaito: Phurrrrrrt! Burst: Oh god! That was huge. Oh god it smells! Donald: He only eats Mexican food and sweets. Kaito, was that it? Kaito: Yeah! But big brother can make bigger ones! He's so cool! Haio: Hi. Burst: Run for your lives! Adios readers!