This challenge and the characters I write about do not belong to me, the challenge belongs to Wishing-Fire, and the Kingdom Hearts characters belong to Square Enix and Disney.

Author's Note: Again, not sure if I wrote Braig up to scratch, but hopefully he's not too far out of character. Since he's mentioned wanting a Keyblade to Terra, I played off that.


10. Ansem the Wise or Braig - Progress

"So, old coot, how's me messing with this kid gonna make you all powerful?" Braig narrowed a set of brown eyes at the Keyblade Master, as he paced back and forth.

"Be quiet, I'm thinking." Xehanort ordered, as the sound of the waterfalls echoed through the purification facility. "Terra's potential will progress when he finally unleashes that sea of darkness raging in his heart. Your… antagonizing may do just that."

Braig leapt off the perch he had been sitting on, spinning one of his weapons in his hand. "And when he goes down, I'll get a Keyblade too? Just like that?" Braig snapped his fingers to emphasize his point.

"You will have great power, when at last I have completed my plans. I assure you of that much." Braig liked the sound of that, at least. Ansem The Wise had been too caught up with that damn research to realize that his other apprentices wanted power, although it was so highly pronounced in Braig, so much that the man's singular drive was the obsession and desire for power. Braig didn't care that by conspiring with Xehanort, he might be putting innocent lives at risk, endangering the safety of Radiant Garden but Braig didn't care. If messing with this Terra kid's head was the price he had to pay to achieve the power he had dreamed about, Braig would do it.