A special night for a couple of chapters; yeah that's right two. Since tonight is the festive night of Halloween me and a certain catgirl we all know and love sat down and prepared these two pages of story for ya. Enjoy because it includes some surprising tricks and some amazing treats. Keeping it short because you all should know how the story works now and I've actually on the move a lot while writing. This chapter was finished a while ago but was held for reasons you are about to see now. Enjoy.


Shadow yawned and stretched as he lay down on a grassy river-bank under the shade off over hanging foliage of a tree behind him. Amaya yawned as well as she wrapped herself up in her ears as curled into the crook of Shadow's neck.

Things have been surprisingly peaceful considering they just had their first Guild War and few days ago with a Guild from Animetropolis called the All-Stars. It had been a huge deal considering it was broadcasted live and everything.

"Oh well, might as well take this opportunity and have a little R&R," said Shadow turning over to Amaya who was lightly snoring.

At that moment, a young boy who had spotted Shadow some distance away smirked as he made his way toward him, gliding on a pair of Air Treks.

(Scene Change)

The others members had also gone off to do their own things as well.

In Downtown Tokyo City, Illu and her pets were checking out a shopping list of some new items she wanted. On the East side, DB was out on a date with Naenia at a pub. Bella was heading uptown to a new Prank Novelty Store that had recently opened up. Key currently was with Rina attending the monthly Administration-Beta mixer meeting while Ravena and Punnya were in the middle of a meditating session near a forest just a little out of town.

Seemingly unknown to them, each member was being watched afar.

A single girl trailed some distance behind Illu. Elsewhere, a boy stood in an alley across the street form the pub where DB had entered with his date as he readjusted his sun-glasses. A silhouette looked down at Bella's happy skipping form from a rooftop while another boy sat in a tall tree just outside the Admin building waiting patiently. Peeking out from behind a tree, a pair of white ears twitched as a figure poked her head out and spotted Ravena.

(Scene Change)

Back with Shadow, everything seemed fine as the figure slowly advanced on Shadow's sleeping form. The person's right arm suddenly glowed and transformed into a black curved scythe blade as he raised it high, the sunlight glinting off it before bringing it down on Shadow.

SHING!

(Downtown)

The girl continued to trail Illu when the she suddenly turned a corner. Not wanting to lose her, the girl quickly followed after Illu only to see a large empty lot.

At first the girl looked around in confusion, until she heard a flutter of wings behind her, alerting the girl to turn and see Illu with a tip of her glaive just inches from her nose.

Illu widened her eyes once she saw who her stalker was. "Uso, You're just a kid!"

Sure enough, Illu's stalker was none other than a young girl of 11 years of age. She had fair skin and long periwinkle colored hair tied back in a ponytail with a white ribbon with her fringe and bangs held back by a pair of Aviator goggles like a hairband.

The girl's clothes consist of white gloves, a violet tight sleeveless top, cream-colored cargo shorts with belt, and black ninja shoes. Hanging off the back of her belt were three hollow white tubes with gold accents.

Instead of looking scared, the girl beamed brightly as she stared at Illu in awe before squealing in delight, startling Illu and Mukurowl visibly.

"WOW~! I can't believe it! It's really you, Illusionist Owl! You look so much more beautiful in person!" squealed the girl bouncing up and down.

Illu looked a little confused as she lowered her weapon at the child who was clearly having a fan-girl moment. "Um…Thank you? Why were you following me?"

The girl finally stopped as she suddenly looked serious. Without warning, she suddenly pulled out the tubes and swiftly joined them together before swinging it hard at Illu.

(East Side)

DB walked out the pub with Naenia hugging his arm as the two strolled down the street.

"He's beginning to follow us, DB," whispered Naenia looking into a small ice mirror.

DB didn't have to look behind as he could hear the footsteps walking in time with them. "Maybe you have a little admirer Naenia," he suggested with a wink.

Naenia chuckled a bit in amusement. "Maybe, but I don't think that's the case this time, Sweetie," she said giving DB a kiss on the cheek. "Go easy on him ok, Hot-Stuff?"

"I'll try Babe," replied DB with a smile as he and Naenia parted ways. DB smiled a bit before his expression turned serious. "Mind telling me what you want?" he asked as he turned around to face the boy that had followed him.

He looked around 12 years old. His skin was pale which is further enhanced by his shoulder-length jet-black hair tied up in a short pony-tail. For his clothes he wore a white short-sleeved button shirt under a black vest with gold buttons and red cargo pants with black shoes and a brown holster belt. He was also wearing a wireless black and red headset and sunglasses that obscured his eyes.

The boy grinned revealing a sharp set of fangs. "I don't expect you to remember me but no matter," replied the boy as he adjusted his shades, a pair of red glowing eyes being visibly shown through the lens. Suddenly, the boy whipped out a pair of Dan Wesson 8 co2 revolvers from his holsters as he fired at DB.

(Scene Change)

"Ah Marx's Joke Shop; my home away from home!" Bella said as she stood outside of the new shop that had opened up. "To think it was rare to find one of you and now you're practically in my backyard; somebody pinch me!" The toon girl jumped around happily, attracting many stares from the players walking by.

As if to answer her requested; Bella was instantly flattened by a large chunk of rubble that seem to have come from the sky.

Up, on top of a neighboring building; stood a large four-armed giant that soon vanished in a red light showing a boy. The boy had on a black beret, where long, messy, turquoise hair fell down framing his face. He had brown eyes, a one-piece army green jumpsuit, brown utility belt and black combat boots. On top his left wrist was a small green watch with a familiar symbol.

The boy seemed to look down at his work and scratch the back of his head embarrassed, thinking he had overdone it. Just then, green slime shot from out the cracks and onto the roof in front of him, collecting into a large green humanoid.

"You know, when someone asks to be pinched they kind of mean the hands type not the giant rock from the sky." Goop explained before turning back into Bella who had a grin on her face. "But still, nice set up. What do you call yourself kid?"

The mysterious kids eyes seemed to widened in excitement before shaking his head and vanishing in a green light. The answer to Bella's question was a tall warrior made of purple crystals, with hands and a face made of a lighter magenta crystal. The one eyed alien then shifted into a fighting stance.

"Want to play that game? Ok I'll bite, but I have to warn you nothing beats the classics." Bella then transformed into a large alien made of cyan blue crystals, two large spikes sprouting out his back and green eyes. "All right little buddy, let's play!" Diamondhead's hand then shifted into large blades.

(Admin Base)

Key let out a soft whistle as he walked out the large base and into the residential district of the town. "To think today's actually been peaceful. We actually didn't get another challenge yet, possibly because of what happened back in Animetropolis." He pondered as he continued walking; while the Beta was distracted with his thoughts, he wasn't distracted enough to notice a signature trailing him through his powers. After seemingly walking into a dead-end alley, Key then teleported in a flash of blue light.

"Oh bollocks, where did he go?" A boy with a noticeable British accent seemed to walk out of the shadows and inspect the area for any kind of exit. He wore a black and silver baggy outfit, with many zippers and extra leggings. He had black shoes, gloves, a hood attached to the jacket over his outfit, and a silver necklace with a crown on the end. The boy had blond spiky hair and blue eyes that searched the alley thoroughly.

"He just completely vanished; I wonder if it's…" Hearing a sound he turned around and saw Key standing behind him.

"I was honestly expecting another guild to be tailing me but you don't look familiar or belong to any guild I know of. So how about you explain why you're following me?" Key asked as he waited patiently, with his hands in his pocket.

"Really I was only just keeping surveillance; I wasn't thinking of trailing you forever." The boy then took a bow. "I'm sorry if I was intruding on something."

"You really weren't, I was only just getting out of a meeting." Key said, 'Though it would had gone better if I didn't have to deal with RoM.' He kept that thought to himself as he thought back to the meeting; luckily Rina was able to calm him down before he left. "So, why were you running surveillance?"

"I wanted to test something against you." Holding out his hand and in a flash of light a keyblade appeared. Key's interest went up a bit seeing the boy hold the Kingdom Key in a battle ready stance. "I request a battle with you, Keybladedude!"

"Well you're polite I'll give you that. If only everyone else who attacks out of the blue had your manners." Key then held out his hands and, in bursts of light and darkness, Infinity and Oathbreaker. "Fine, I accept your request. Are you ready?"

"Y-yes!" The blond seemed too had been lost in his own world seeing Key summon his keyblades but he then charged forward with a lunge of his weapon.

(Tokyo Outskirts)

"What's she doing, she hasn't moved from that spot in like forever," A girl said in a loud whisper as she watched Ravena and Punnya from behind. She had been waiting for an hour for either to make a move and so far all she has seen was small breathing showing the two were alive.

"Minnya…" A small neko manju mewled out as it was on the same boat as its owner.

"I know, I thought she was probably readying up some kind of spell, but she's done nothing but stay in that pose. It's time to add some magic into the mix." The girl reached into a small pouch she kept at her side and pulled out a card as she grabbed for a small Star key hanging on her neck.

"Minnya~"

"I'm not going for anything big. Just something to help speed this waiting along." The girl promised as the card began to glow.

(With Ravena)

"Nya, it's been ages since I meditated for that long! We've come a long way since we first met each other and began learning, huh, Punnya?" The catgirl smiled as she stood up and stretched.

"Punnya!" Punnya flew in agreement. "Nya?" The manju's eyes then caught something shining in the distance.

"Hmm?" Ravena then turned Punnya's direction. Both girls saw a white light and a large gust of wind flying their way. Punnya then got behind Ravena as she calmly held out her left hand towards the wind to block it.

"Mao-Mao-Maomoru!" she chanted instantly conjuring a barrier and blocked the wind as it sent grass flying around her. Once the gust faded, Ravena allowed the shield to drop.

"Either the wind has it in for us or somebody tried a sneak attack…" Ravena commented as she observed where the wind came from.

"Punnya nya nya!" Punnya fluttered as she pointed her tails towards where she saw the glow originate.

"Yeah you can come out! The windstorm kind of blew your cover!" Ravena yelled, trying to coax the person out of hiding.

"Then I guess we have no other reason to hide!" Out of the brush jumped out a girl and a small white manju, surprising Ravena and Punnya slightly. "I thought you were sleeping so I thought a quick gust would wake you up!"

The girl was a pretty young thing of 11 with a bubblegum pink bob haircut adorned with a large white ribbon at the back of her head. She wore a pale pink scrunchie-choker around her neck that matched her white frock with white and light pink layers making up her skirt. On left leg was a long white boot with a yellow star on the foot while a frilly white garter can be seen tied on her thigh with a fluttering pink ribbon that trailed a little in the wind. Her right foot had a matching ankle boot with a shorter pink ribbon.

Her right wrist bore a gold bracelet with a round pink gem while in her left hand was the Star Cardcaptor Staff. White cat ears twitched a bit out of her hair as a sleek white tail waved around behind her.

Ravena whistled a little. "Oh…A Cardcaptor…..that's new~!"

"Punnya…." Said Punnya nodding in agreement.

"So you blocked my attack. I should expect nothing less from Ravena Felidae! And that is why….!" declared the girl haughtily jabbing a finger at the older cat-girl. "I CHALLENGE YOU!"

Ravena tilted her head and smiled as she grew out her wings. "No thanks, I don't fight kids~!" she answered cheerfully before flying into the sky.

The younger girl faulted a little when she suddenly puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. "I AM NOT A KID!" she screamed to Ravena in the sky as she stamped her foot. "FIGHT ME RAVENA! NOW!"

Ravena frowned as she looked over her shoulder at the kid. "Yeesh, what a brat-"she was saying when suddenly she heard a rush of wind coming at her from behind.

Quickly, Ravena and Punnya twisted their bodies just narrowly avoiding the sharp blade of a sword.

"FIGHT ME RAVENA!" declared the girl who held a sleek decorated claymore in her hand as a large pair of white wings flapped a little keeping the girl afloat in the air with Ravena.

"No."

"OH! WHY NOT?!"

Ravena sniffed a little as she raised her eyebrows a little recognizing the magic scent. 'Aera magic…She's not just a cat-girl…this kid's an Exceed…' she noted before narrowing her eyes.

"First off, you have to be more polite," replied Ravena folding her arms. "It's a shame a young Magical Girl like yourself can't even use the basic magic word; Please."

The Exceed girl's face went red a bit until Ravena narrowed her eyes. "Secondly…" she said as she summoned her whips and cracked them in the air. "Children should not be playing with sharp objects!"

Steam erupted from the child's face in anger as she screamed and waved her sword that glowed and transformed back into her Star Staff as a card disappeared back into a pouch on her hip.

"I AM NOT A KIIIIIIID!" she screamed as she pulled out another card and threw it into the air, tapping it with her staff.

"ARROW!" she called out.

There was a flash as the card transformed into a smallish pink girl, wearing a bluish-purple outfit consisting of shorts, top with long back tails, long gloves, and long boots topped with balls on the foot, with a pudding basin haircut, a red circular gem on her hair, and two long pigtails held by balls holding a small bow that she aimed directly at Ravena.

"FIRE!" commanded the Exceed girl.

Arrow narrowed her eyes as a volley of arrows materialized and flew directly at Ravena.

(Back to Shadow)

Shadow jumped back a few steps after dodging another wild swing from a scythe blade that grew out from the leg of his attacker.

"Not bad Shadow! You're as good as they say!" said his attacker cheerfully spinning back onto his feet.

Shadow quirked an eyebrow at his 'opponent'. It was kid, probably around 12, who visibly resembles Shadow himself save for the Byakugan in both eyes.

He wore a plain black long sleeved Shirt under a Dark blue sleeveless hoodie and khaki cargo bermudas with Air Treks modeled like Shadow's shoes. He also had on black, metal-lined gloves along with black and blue elbow and kneepads.

"Hey Kid! Don't you know it's rude to disturb a sleeping someone!" chided Shadow. "And you woke up Amaya!" he scolded holding up the little Usa-Manju who began sniffling at being suddenly woken up from nap.

"U-U-U-UPYOOOOOOOOOOOON!" she began wailing making the two cringe.

"There, there! It's ok! It's ok! Shh…It's ok I'm here…." Said Shadow as he bounced Amaya a little and scratched her ears calmly as the baby stopped crying and smiled a bit at Shadow before nuzzling against his face and jumping into his hood.

Shadow smiled a bit before turning back to the boy with a dark look on his face.

"Lets make this thing clear, Kid," Shadow began to say, anger radiating a bit off him. "Nobody. Makes. My. Amaya. Cry." He growled.

The boy seemed a little taken aback as he swallowed a little in fear. Quickly he covered it with a brave smirk. "Ha! You don't scare me!"

"You will be…" replied Shadow as they both took their stances.

"BYAKUGAN!" they both cried out activating their respective kekkei genkai as they launched themselves at each other.

(Downtown)

CLANG! SHING! SHANG! Went Illu's glaive as she deflected Mira's staff multiple times.

'She's quite good,' noted Illu avoiding the last swing.

Mira widened her eyes in awe as Illu gracefully dodged her last attack by back flipping some distance away. "I also knew you were graceful in battle but seeing it first hand is even more amazing~!" she swooned. "I want to see more!" she exclaimed suddenly pulling apart her staff as she swiftly slid the pieces back on to her belt.

Just then wind began to pick up as it swirled around both girls.

"You use Wind Dragon Slayer Magic, right ?" asked the girl.

Illu nodded, a little suspicious until she saw the wind turn black as it swirled around the younger girl's limbs.

"Then it's only appropriate that I use Sky God Slayer Magic!" she declared as she began running at Illu with two streams of black wind aiming at her.

Quickly Illu began concentrating.

"O swift wind that dashes through the heavens!...VERNIER!" she cried as her whole body glowed as she manipulated her body past the Sky God Slayer pushed her into her own attack.

"KYAAAAAA!" screamed the child as she suddenly found herself sucked into her own whirlwind and shot far off into the distance a sparkle twinkling indicating her distance.

"That went by quick, Illu-sama," noted Nyoka sliding out from Illu's scarf. "But who was that child?"

"I don't know Nyoka, I don't know…."

(East Side)

Shots flew everywhere as DB rolled a bit before returning fire with five shots. His opponent smirked as his eyes glowed red, the bullets slowing down in his vision.

"Fast Tempo….five beats," said the boy to himself as he began bobbing his head to an invisible beat.

DB's eyes widened as he saw the boy began to dodge the volley of shots as if he were dancing to a hip-hop beat. The vampire soon released his gun to pull out his sword to deflect a bullet aimed at his chest. The boy then stopped firing but still nodded to the rhythm in his head.

'Well this kid's got style I'll give him that.' DB then sheathed his sword and pulled out his other pistol. "Mind if I ask you something short-stuff?"

"Only if you won't call me that again." The boy answered, having read DB's lips before he could take out his headphones.

"Well I don't exactly know your name; you pretty much interrupted me while I was out with a special…friend." DB chuckled a bit.

"That…is true…" The boy rubbed the back of his head as he thought back to his approach. 'Then again this wasn't exactly my plan to begin with.' He thought to himself. "My name is Beat-Boy; it's just I really wanted to see what you could do."

"Hence causing a shoot-out in the middle of town." DB pointed to the few bullet holes that lined the buildings around them from Beat-Boy's shooting. "I'll tell you that you've been going about this the entire wrong way."

"Huh, how so?" Beat-Boy asked confused.

"See, usually I wouldn't even bother fighting with a kid; I've gotten into my share of fights but never with someone who's head doesn't even reach my shoulders." DB said. "That being said, you're going to have to do something big to even catch my interest."

"Catch your interest?" Beat-Boy said confused.

"Yeah, anyone could try shooting a gun at me. You wouldn't be the first to try. Unless you can try something I haven't seen, I'm just gonna walk my way out of here." DB said in a bit of a bored tone.

"Interest huh…" Beat-Boy then rose up his guns, though this time they were both glowing a bright blue light. "Then I'm sure to have something that will get your attention! Gun Magic: Blast Bullets!"

Two large balls of blue flames then scorched through the air as they rushed to their target. The balls of fire formed on large bullet of flame only for it to stop midair an inch from DB's face and just stayed there to the boy's confusion.

"Blue flames, haven't seen this in a while." DB commented as he felt the intense heat of Beat-Boy's attack. "Well you got my attention, but…"

"But?" Beat-Boy wondered.

"I'm still not up to fighting a kid so…" The flames then turned from azure blue to burning orange as DB took control of it. "Try again when you're a bit older."

DB then sent the fireball back towards its wide eyed sender, causing an explosion that sent a char-covered Beat-Boy flying into the distance. While DB looked at the trail of smoke he wondered what he done to be sought after by the young player.

(Tokyo Rooftops)

A sharp punch and the young Chromastone slammed into another building, causing more players and NPC's to leave the area. The silicon alien slowly stood to his feet as Diamondhead walked towards.

"You know, this would be a lot more fun if you would chat just a bit." Diamondhead commented. The alien was then met with a torrent of flames as the alien had changed to HeatBlast in order to enclose the older warrior in a prison of flame.

The pyronite ended his flame and saw nothing but the blacked street. He looked around for his opponent only to be met with a flying fist from the ground. HeatBlast rubbed his chin confused as he now saw a clown-like pirate coming out the ground and reattaching his arm.

"Note to self, never change from diamond to Chop-Chop underground. Now let's try this again…um, who are you?" Buggy asked, replaced his ruined and burned glove with a new one.

Once again Bella got no answer, but what she did get was the alien's eyes widening a bit in awe.

"Come on kid use your words, you aren't shy aren't you?" Suddenly the clown's face then changed to that of concern. "Oh my gosh you are shy aren't you?"

This time she actually heard the boy talk as he began to snicker loudly at Bella accusation. HeatBlast tried again to hit his target with a fire ball only for the clown to jump back out the way.

"Ok, so you're not shy." The clown said, somehow able to get that from the mute. "But I still would like it if you spoke up."

HeatBlast seemed to smirk as he slammed the large symbol on his chest to transform once again to the small Sonian alien, Echo-Echo. The alien then replicated itself around Bella.

"Guess I really should have chosen my words wisely."

In unison, all of them released sound waves that brought the pirate to his knees as he covered his ears. Buggy continued to stumble around as the repeated sounds continued assaulting his ears. He then reached for the symbol on his chest and set a combination before transforming. All of the Echo-Echo's stopped when they saw the new form was no longer affected by their sonic screams.

"Ok, you guys seriously gave me a headache." The monotone voice of Ultimate Echo-Echo spoke to all of the clones as he began to levitate. "My head is still ringing, so the least I can do is spread a little of it around." He then pulled the speakers off his body and have them all circle around the clones.

"Wall of Sound!"

The disks then emitted high frequency sounds that blast all the clones away using shockwaves. The Echo-Echo's all collided into each other coming together and transforming back to the unconscious kid. Bella transformed back and saw the beret fall off the child showing long hair and she then began to panic.

"Oh no, I hurt a girl! An innocent little girl; I can't believe it!" As Bella continued running around in hysterics she never noticed the 'girl' open their eyes and dusted off the debris from the battle.

"I can't believe I committed such a horrible deed! What a horrible person I am, to even go so far!" Bella then felt a tap on her shoulder and turned to see the kid smiling at her.

"Thank toon you're all better! Now I feel even less worse about beating up a little girl!" Bella sighed in relief.

The kid smiled before shaking his head.

"What…then that means…you're a, boy?" Bella asked confused.

The boy nodded his head, with his smile still present on his face. He then began waving good bye as he then vanished with a puff of smoke.

"That was a shadow clone pop just now. So he was never really here." Bella then crossed her arms and pouted a bit. "The little sneak," Still a smirk soon overtook the girl's pouting face.

(Scene Change)

"Ah!" The boy cried out as he rolled along the ground. The large curved blade vanished in light as it turned into his arm as he began to rub his aching head. While he recovered Shadow just stood in place.

"You know I really should be smacking you around a bit more for making Amaya cry, but the more I do, the more I remember I'm just fighting a brat." Shadow then sighed as he put his scythe away.

"Hey I'm not a brat! You just got a few lucky blows in but don't act like you already won!" The boy yelled as he got back on his feet.

"Whatever kid, I'll say this one more time. Turn around and roll out of here, or I can give you the express way back." Shadow said.

"Hah, like I'm going anywhere! My goal is to defeat you, so I'm not going to run away! No sir!" That was the boy's response back as he prepared himself.

Shadow then sighed; he would be more impressed with the boy's determination if he weren't so annoying. Amaya then snuck herself out his hood and on his shoulder looking at the boy confused.

"U-Pyon?" The Usa squeaked out.

"Just a kid who doesn't know when to quit." Shadow said.

"Hey don't ignore me! I'm going to defeat you, so my guild will become the best in the world!" The boy shouted.

'A guild huh?' Shadow thought silently.

"Zero-G!"

The boy raised his arms and anything that wasn't attached to the ground began floating into the air as gravity began to disappear. Shadow used his own powers to keep him still while he kept a steady grip on Amaya so that she doesn't fly away. Shadow almost sighed again but he noticed that his 'opponent' was floating ever so slightly.

"Hey kid, word of advice…"

"Huh?"

A black wind then began to swirl around Shadow's right hand. "Whenever you use gravity, make sure you weigh yourself down first." The scythe user then sent a gale that blew the boy up and into the sky thanks to the lightened gravity. After the kid disappeared Shadow then set the gravity back to normal.

"I've been attacked by many things, but never a kid." Shadow said out to himself.

"U-Pyon" Amaya hopped up to his head.

"Hopefully no time soon." Shadow said and then yawned. "Come on, let's go finish our nap back home."

"U-Pyon~" The manju yawned in agreement.

(Downtown)

CLANK!

The metal of the keyblades collided with each other as the two fighters met in a stalemate. Key was able to knock the weapon out of the boy's hand and got him on the defensive as he backed up and let the Kingdom Key reappear in a flash of light.

"I know you can do much more from your fight back in the Eclipse Tournament, but I can hardly keep up with you now." The boy rubbed his sore wrists from repeated use of his weapon.

"I can't, in all honesty, go all out against you. I don't need to add beating on a kid to my conscious even if I agreed to this duel." Key explained.

"I see, well I haven't even used all my abilities myself." The boy said. "But there is something of yours I would like to see."

"And that is?" Key asked.

"Your Forms; like the ones you used back in the tournament. They were so awesome and powerful…I've never seen a type of power like that; even the power I have doesn't even compare that much to it." He said sparkled-eyed.

"My forms?" Key said in surprise. "And why would you want to see them."

"Like I said, I want to be able to test myself against you and I won't even be able to gauge myself properly unless I fought against you in your form!" The boy explained.

"Properly gauge yourself, you wouldn't be able to say that unless you had a similar type of power." Key deduced.

"Eh-heh, guess I kind of let that slip." As he scratched the back of his head a yellow screen appeared in front of his face pulling him back to reality. Quickly skimming he then sighed and then had the screen disappear.

"Guess I'm going to have to cut this short." The boy raised his hand and a ring began to glow a bright light causing Key to cover his eyes. When the light faded Key saw that he was now alone in the alley.

"This day just gets better and better." The Beta said.

(With Ravena and Punnya)

"THUNDER!" cried the girl activating another card.

Ravena yawned a bit as she easily dodged the other girl's attacks one after the other.

'Nice attacks….Lousy aim though…she's wasting so much magic….' Ravena thought inwardly as she flew out of the way of an attack from the girl's Thunder Card.

'Dee-Dee….This is boring….Can't we just blast her and be done with it?' complained Felis irritably.

'Tempting but no…'

"STAY STILL AND GET HIT!" screamed the girl in irritation.

"Why don't you try the Shot card?" suggested Ravena smirking. "You know the one that relentlessly attacks until it hits its target-Oops!" went Ravena suddenly covering her mouth in mock surprise.

Just then the little girl smirked. "Oh yeah the Shot Card…" she said slyly. "Not so smart huh?"

"Oh dear….I've said too much….What will become off me?…." Said Ravena in a blunt voice obviously feigning regret.

Apparently the girl did not notice Ravena's feint as she pulled out the Shot Star Card and tossed it to the sky and tapped it with her staff.

"Aim at Ravena, SHOT CARD!" she commanded as the card glowed and literally shot straight for its target.

Ravena simply side-stepped in the air letting the Shot sail past her as it doubled back to aim at Ravena from behind. The Nekomata didn't even try to move as she simply smiled. "And in 5…4…3…2…1…"

ZAP! Suddenly just inches from Ravena's back, the Shot Card flashed and returned its pouch.

"Huh?! Wh-wh-what happened?" asked the girl in confusion.

"Seriously? It's obvious, you're out of gas kid," pointed out Ravena. "If I were you I'd land the plane now."

"Huh?" asked the girl in confusion when she looked over her shoulder and saw her wings vanish. "Uh-oh-KYAAAAAAAAAA…!"

Ravena and Punnya exchanged looks as they watched the girl plummet down screaming but then shrugged as they folded their own wings and began falling too.

"This is what happens when you use magic recklessly~" said Ravena in a sing-song voice reclining in the air smiling as she ended up next to the girl who flailed about in panic.

"Punnya~!" agreed Punnya when she noticed a white ball shot out from under the girl's hair.

"No need to help Punnya, she looks like she's got this," said Ravena smiling dismissively as Punnya nodded and went after the ball.

"NO! NO! I DON'T GOT THIS! HELP ME!" screamed the girl in panic as she flailed about.

"What's the Magic Word~?"

"NOW!"

"Bzzt! Sorry wrong answer~nya!" replied Ravena as she looked down. "Wow, look how fast the ground is approaching~!"

The girl widened her eyes and looked down to see it was true as she now looked more terrifies than ever. "KYAAAAA! PLEASE! OK, PLEASE!"

"And…~?" Ravena pushed a little further.

"I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY, OK! PLEASE HELP MEEEEEEEEEEE…!" screeched the girl but it was too late as she was about to meet the ground in a few seconds.

At the last moment, a dome of energy appeared on the ground catching the child as she bounced on it like a trampoline once in the air as Ravena caught her by her collar and set her down gently while the dome disappeared.

"Now that wasn't so hard now was it?" asked Ravena.

When Ravena got no response she turned the girl over to see that she had passed out from the shock. "Ha, what do you know? She fainted-nya!"

"And they say I'm the Evil One…" smirked Felis shaking her head.

Just then Punnya came fluttering down to her Mistress with her tail curled up.

"Hey, Punnya! I was wondering where you were-nya! Watcha' got there?" asked Ravena as Punnya landed on her shoulder.

"Punnya~" said the Neko-Manju as she uncurled her tail to reveal a small white ball.

At least that's what it looked liked until it opened a pair of red eyes and popped out cat ears and a tail.

"Minnya…" it mewed a little nervously.

"Aww~ A Manju kitten~" cooed Ravena as she stroked it while Punnya groomed it a little. "Where did you come from Sweetie?"

"Mi!" it mewed as it hopped off and landed on the passed out girl's chest.

Ravena knelt down next to the girl as she gently stroked the kitten. "Don't worry, she's just exhausted, she'll be fine dear," said the Nekomata with a smile as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small vial of blue liquid.

"When she wakes up, tell her to drink this, it's liquid mana, it should restore her magic a little faster," instructed Ravena as she was about to get up to leave when she remembered something and tapped on the girl's card case.

The cards began glowing in response as they all flew out and floated in front of Ravena. "I know you guys chose her for a reason, watch over well ok?" said Ravena with a smile.

The Cards all seem to nod in response as they flew and formed a protective ring around the girl while Ravena and Punnya flew away.

(Back at the Kurostubasa Base)

"Hey guys, you won't believe what I ran into on my run today!" Bella called out as she walked inside seeing the other members of the guild gathered in the café.

"Does it involve getting attacked by some unnamed munchkin?" DB asked.

"No, I got attacked by a- Wait, How'd you know?" Bella asked surprised.

Key came up and decided to answer. "Apparently we've all been 'attacked' by child players. For some reason, they've been scouting us since we got back." The Beta explained the situation.

"So any clue who these kids are?" Ravena asked. "I don't think any of us did anything to warrant them coming after us."

"I agree, in fact the one I fought sort of stared at me with…"

"A sparkly look in their eye?" Bella guessed.

"I guess that's one way to put it." Illu answered. "It was like the look you would expect someone to have when seeing a person they idolize."

"So you're saying these kids are…fans of ours?" DB asked and then turned to the silent leader, lying in his seat. "What's your take on this Shads?"

"All I know is the one I dealt with came out of nowhere talking about beating me for no reason. He did mention something about a guild." Shadow said.

"Are you sure?" Key asked.

"He said something about his guild becoming the best in the world, or something like that. I mostly drowned his yelling out." Shadow then lay further back staring at the ceiling.

"Then these children are all part of a guild nya? That goes to show you that go to show you how many different kinds of players there are." Ravena thought aloud.

"I didn't think there would be people that young who aren't NPC's." Illu said.

"Well the age limit for FFW is 10 and upwards, so they must barely qualify to play. Or at least the youngest members that is." Key explained as he pulls up a screen and began to search. "It's going to take a while to find a guild like that, since we don't know anything about them."

"Would it be faster if you knew some names?" DB asked.

"Yes, immensely" Key said.

"The kid I met said that his name was Beat-Boy; will that help narrow it down?" DB offered the name of his challenger as he saw Key's hands move along the screen.

"More than you think; the long lists of names have now shortened into one." Key's expression then turned surprised when he saw the final result. "Well this is certainly…interesting."

"Hey don't keep us hanging Key, who are these guys?!" Bella asked impatiently.

"Hold your horses Bella; I'm going to project it on the wall so that you all can have a look for yourselves." Key then moved the display on the flat wall so that they could all see the guild page. On the wall the last thing they all expected to see was a simpler 'cartoon-ized' version of their own guild symbol.

"That emblem, even if it is different its looks exactly like ours." Illu was the first to announce. "Even their names are almost the same…Kotsubasa." She read out the guild's name in slight confusion and interest.

"Guess this would explain why I had to deal with a magic using Exceed girl. I mean look of them all nya, it's like looking into a time mirror!" Ravena said as she looked at all the members. "Even the one in the middle looks like a Mini-Shads!"

"Whoa, I like my mini-me more and more." Bella then turned to Shadow who was now up. "Can we keep them Shad?!"

"They're not pets Bella," Shadow sweat-dropped as he read off the guild's information. "This is the first time I've heard anything about protégés; they sound more like a fan group than an actual guild."

"Well it says here that they're legit, though it looks like they haven't been active for much too long." DB pointed out.

"So they're a newer guild; that must explain why we've never heard of them." Illu then looked at the screen in worry. "Still, new guilds are usually the first targets in Guild Wars. And since their site almost says that our guilds are related…"

"Some guilds might go through them to get to us; especially when they're using an emblem like that." Shadow then stood up. "I guess we've got no choice, we have to find them before any other guild does."

"Come on, are you sure we can't keep them? We can feed them, keep them safe and warm. Oh; they can probably be our little sidekicks!" Bella said with much excitement present in her voice.

"You seem almost too excited Hy-Nya." Ravena chuckled at the girl's plan. "Well we better get on the hunt for them; Ani-Key where are they located?" The catgirl asked.

"It says that they're in Tokyo City, and it looks like their guild is…" Key was then interrupted when they all heard a loud knock on the café's front door.

"Well that saved us some time." DB joked as they all stood and went to the door to answer. Kurotsubasa then gathered and waited a bit before opening the door and stepping out and were immediately met with a large amount of smoke. Illu was able to quickly remove the smoke with Mukurowl's help and they all saw the members of Kotsubasa coughing on the ground.

"Shade you idiot, you added too much gunpowder again!" The small catgirl yelled out as she tried to remove the excess smoke from her lungs.

"Minnya!" The manju also complained having to deal with the heavy smoke.

"I wasn't the one who was in charge of the props this time! Cadet was supposed to be one who was supposed to be the one to supply the smoke today!" The now named Shade coughed out.

*cough* "…" *cough*

"Angel, Shade, you can both quiet down. What happened already happened!" Beat-Boy said, being one of the first to recover from the smoke debacle.

"S/HE STARTED IT!" Both kids pointed to each other.

"I DON'T CARE WHO STARTED IT, I'LL PUMMELL YOU TWO IF YOU BOTH DON'T SHUT UP AND END IT!" The other girl of Kotsubasa yelled raising a fist, having Angel and Shade cower before nodding in agreement.

"Yes, Mirage"

"Guys we might as well look sharp we kind of blew our entrance a bit." The last member voiced as they all saw the confused looks from Kurotsubasa.

"Change of plans then!" Shade then stepped up to his feet. "Mirage, time to roll with Plan B!"

"We should've gone with this one before than have a ton of smoke blasted in my face!" Mirage yelled again as the air then picked up and Kurotsubasa's vision all turned black.

"Nya, what kind of trick is this now?" Ravena asked as she looked around.

"This is a minor illusion Ravena-chan nothing harmful; it's mostly used just to have people see and hear a certain thing, kind of like a detailed show." Illu said as she could easily tell what the minor illusion did.

"The thing is what are they trying to show us?" Shadow asked as they all soon lights shine down and brightened a small stage in front of them. Soon they all heard what could be described as a 'Super Sentai' intro theme as silhouettes appeared on stage.

"KOTSUBASA ROLL CALL!" called out Shade suddenly as a spotlight shined on him first.

"I Am The Leader Of Kotsubasa; The Guild That Will Surpass Kurotsubasa!..." he called out doing dramatic arm gestures before striking a pose with a fighting stance as his name flashed behind him. "SHADE!"

The next flash appeared on the boy to his right wearing the Kingdom Hearts outfit who whipped out his Keyblade. "The Genius Mind Of Kotsubasa!..." he cried out performing some fancy swordplay and striking a pose with his name flashing in the background as well. "SORA!"

The next spotlight went on the headphone-toting boy who whipped a small mic box and began beat-boxing. "Check it yo! The Rhythmic Fighter of Kotsubasa!..."he started as he suddenly got down and did a back-spin that transitioned into a head-spin before flipping himself back on his feet as he pushed up his glasses and posed with his name in the background. "BEAT-BOY!"

The next one who was introduced was the one Bella fought as he began transforming into multiple aliens. "The WildCard Hero of Kotsubasa!..." Beat-Boy began introducing for him as the boy reverted to his original form and also struck a pose, his name flashing. "CADET HERO!"

The spotlight was now appeared the Exceed girl who had activated her Star Staff. "The Magical Maiden Duo of Kotsubasa~!..." She called out as she expertly twirled her staff around striking a typical magical girl pose and winked.

"ANGELKITTY AND MINNYA!"

"Mi-minnya~…." Mewed the kitten shyly appearing on the girl's head as their names flashed in the background.

Wind began to swirl around the final member as the spotlight was now on her as she swiftly pieced together her staff and spun it around. "The Sky Warriors of Kotsubasa!...MIRAGE …"began the girl going through elaborate staff-play before pointing to the sky as thunder rolled as a large figure swiftly flew down from the sky and landed behind Mirage revealing to be a Hippogriff as it stretched its wings and screeched loudly.

"AND HIPPO!" completed Mirage as their names in the back-ground while she struck a pose.

"WE ARE THE PROTOGES OF THE MOST AWESOME GUILD EVER, KUROTSUBASA!" all the members introduced as they spun once and assumed new final poses.

"WE ARE KOTSUBASA!" They announced as colored smoke exploded behind with their symbol flashing over-head.

DB and Ravena whistled a bit while the others just stared save for Bella who was the only one clapping enthusiastically.

As quick as it came; the stage and theatrics then disappeared leaving a proud standing Kotsubasa in front of the base, if their looks spoke anything about their pride in the entrance.

"So what do you think; we've spent weeks getting that entrance ready and I say we got something special." Shade said confidently. "I can tell you must be frozen in awe…"

"More like frozen in trying to figure out what I just saw." Shadow said, bursting the kids' bubble and causing them to comically fall to the ground. "Well you've introduced yourselves and know who we are, so what do you want?"

"Ah come on Shads, we let them do their whole intro. We can be patient and here them out." Bella said.

"Why don't we all go inside nya; it's probably better to talk indoors and not have to worry about the people staring from across the street." Ravena said pointing out to the number of people staring at the two guilds.

"Right," Shadow then relented. "Come inside…and try not to touch anything." He said as they went inside the base.

Once inside all of Kotsubasa oohed and ahhed the interior of the base, eyes moving all over to take in their idol's base. Before any of the more excited ones could take off to explore, Kurotsubasa suddenly pulled them away.

"It's not necessarily safe to wandering on your own. Especially with some of the things we keep around." Illu reasoned with them.

"That also goes back into when I said don't touch anything." Shadowwarned as they all sat down. "So what's this talk of protégés come from; today was the only time I've ever really heard of your guild." He asked as he wanted to be somewhat professional with them.

"Well we haven't been a guild for that long," Beat-Boy began explaining. "We were already friends who met and partied up together often. When we saw you guys fight at the Eclipse Tournament…"

"You guys were awesome! The way you guys fought and took down all of those other players and even that evil guy at the end; we wanted to be more like you guys." Mirage continued on as Hippo went to stand in one corner as Punnya flew up to him and bowed.

The Hippogriff was as large as the stories say. Large and majestic, with blue-grey feathers with a white speckled chest and a silver dappled horse body along with piercing eagle eyes.

Hippo tilted his head at the Neko before he bowed back, allowing Punnya to sit on his head and apparently started a conversation.

"So I came up with the idea to form a guild where we would be your protégés." Shade said as he then pointed to Kurotsubasa. "Proteges who would one day be even stronger than their teachers!" The boy's words would've had more merit if he wasn't suddenly pulled into hug.

"Nya, he's even more like a Mini-Shads! I almost agree with you about keeping them Hy-Nya!" Ravena said as she held a bright red, chibified, Shade close to her chest. Illu giggled a bit at her friend's behavior though she did have a small blush appear.

"Ravena-chan, I don't think he can breathe." Illu pointed out as she helped Ravena deal with the nosebleed, comatose, kid.

"Looks like he has about as much luck as you do with girls Shads." DB snickered.

"Shut up you jinx" Shadow said back and turned back to the resolved situation and saw Shade now recovered. "So you want to be stronger than us, how are you going to manage that?"

"Isn't it obvious, by beating you guys of course!" Shade proclaimed.

"That was the reason we all tried to attack you in town. We thought we could plan an ambush and have you guys submit, but it turns out the plan didn't go so well." Sora said as he and Cadet were the ones who had to carry their injured friends.

"…" Cadet then made an excited look and balled his fists and punched the air.

"Right what Cadet said; it's time for students to become masters!" Angel chimed in.

"Only you guys aren't even students." Key said to them. "We didn't agree to naming any protégés and right now there are a few people who would target you just for saying you are related to us."

"Please, we can deal with any problem." Shade continued to bolster with confidence. "You guys just have to worry about our challenge!"

"Challenge?" DB asked.

"A Guild War, us versus you!" Shade declared.

"Denied." Shadow crossed his arms bringing the boy's plan to a halt.

"What, but why?!" Shade asked as he and Kotsubasa were curious to know why their challenge was declined.

"We've just come back from doing a challenge so we're kinda enjoying a peaceful break until the next big guild comes along and tries to offer a challenge." DB said.

"Also, We really have no reason to face each other." Illu also added.

"And I don't know about everyone one else but I think we can all agree that if given a choice, we don't fight kids." Ravena said with the others nodding in agreement.

"Hey we aren't kids!" Angel's tail stood up in irritation as she was reminded of her battle earlier stamping her foot in irritation. "We're players too and we've got our own guild! We take quests and battle monsters, all sorts of stuff! We're more than ready for a Guild battle!"

"And that battle won't be with us." Key said.

While the banter went on, Amaya had poked her head out from Shadow's hood and peeked out. Suddenly she caught the eye of another baby manju, a Neko, who blinked at her with curiosity.

The two hopped off their respective owners and shyly made their way towards each other.

"U-Py-pyon~" greeted Amaya shyly holding out an ear.

The other kitten hesitantly tapped Amaya's ear with her tail before curling it with the Usa. "Min-Minnya~…" replied the kitten just as shyly as the two smiled at each other.

"Look…we'll write off your protégé thing as an act. So just go home; you guys have only just become a guild right well take the time to enjoy it more than trying to start a fight." Shadow said.

"What are you scared, scared that you wouldn't last against a bunch of 'kids?'" The junior leader taunted.

"Don't play a game you can't win brat." Shadow waved him off.

"Hah, Kurotsubasa is many things, but I didn't expect you guys to be cowards! Isn't the rule that once a challenge is announced in person you have to accept?" Shade said.

"No, in mail or in my face we can still deny a challenge." Shadow said as he then flicked Shade's forehead. "Take the chance and go home kid; you aren't ready for a Guild War."

The little leader rubbed his forehead a bit before growing angry. "We aren't kids! We're as good as any other guild under the sun!" The rest of Kotsubasa added to that as they repeated tried to challenge the older guild.

"As fun as our little battle was, I think I'll pass." Bella said; the thought that she had almost hurt Cadet before still swam in her head.

"Like I said, we need R and R between battles and right now its rest time." DB said.

"Really new guilds should further try to identify themselves. If you all practice your techniques and train for a year I'm sure you'll be more than ready." Illu said. She didn't want to give in to the challenge but she didn't want to be negative about it.

"No. Fight. Children; plain and simple." Ravena all but repeated her earlier answer.

"Punnya!" Punnya mewled in agreement while Hippo snorted a little.

"Hey! Whose side are you on Hippo?!" demanded Mirage frowning at her Hippogriff in irritation, only to get replied with a small screech.

"Fighting another guild is not what I had in mind for today. I got things that need to be done and fighting would just eat up more of my time." Key said.

"There you go, it's unanimous." Shadow said as he picked up Amaya who was talking to the other small manju.

Kotsubasa was about to protest again when Cadet moved forward and smiled before starting an imitation of a chicken in the middle of the two guilds. "…" The boy kept his grin.

"Cadet is right; you guys are probably too chicken to fight us anyway." Shade said. That final talk caused them all to suddenly start rising in the air, all of them outlined with a thin blue aura.

"Well I think we're done talking." Shadow said as his hand was also covered in dark blue energy.

"Go easy on them Shads." Bella said seeing him lift them off the floor.

"I will; I'm just giving them a little shove out the door." Shade then threw his arm and all of Kotsubasa were quickly out the door and piled up outside by the gravity technique.

"First lesson, learn to take no for an answer." Shadow's voice called out to them as the door then shut when he suddenly turned and found himself staring in the fierce glare of Mirage's Hippogriff who snorted at him.

"Pardon me," replied Shadow politely as he bowed and opened the door.

Hippo nodded as he casually walked out while Minnya who was riding on his back looked up at Amaya who waved sadly with her ear while the kitten did the same as the door closed behind them.

"Little harsh don't you think Shads?" Ravena asked.

"It's for their own good; from the way they acted, I'm just glad no other ruthless guild preyed on them already." Shadow explained. "I may have been rough but I know they'll be back. It's better if they focus time on us than on a guild who have no conscious to PK'ing pre-teens."

"I see, so you're keeping them safe in your own special way." DB said. "I didn't think you would, doesn't that go against your 'not a hero' trope?"

"Shut up" Shadow said as he looked away.

"Big brother Shadow-kyun looking out for the kids; makes me wonder how you'll act when Amaya-chi gets older." Ravena added to the teasing.

"Shut up I said," Shadow avoided eye contact as he began to blush.

"I still say we should keep them." Bella said adamantly.

"Forget it, Hyna!" the rest of the gang yelled making Bella shrink back a bit.

(Outside)

"Well…that went well…." Said Mirage sarcastically as she got up and dusted her clothes as she got a nudge from Hippo followed by a small whinny.

"Yes Hippo I'm fine," replied the girl before putting her hands on her hips and frowning as she faced the hybrid creature. "A Big Help you were! What happened to intimidating them?"

Hippo snorted, shaking his head and rolling his eyes as he turned away.

"…."

"Shut up, Cadet!" snapped Mirage making the boy put his hands and exchange a questioning look with BB.

"What do you mean, 'What's with her?!'? She's your cousin!"

"Now what are we gonna do, Shade?" asked Angel after cleaning herself off as Minnya hopped back onto her shoulder.

Shade sat cross-legged on the ground as he stared hard up at the Guild Symbol on the door with a determined look on his face.

"Sora, pull up whatever you got on Kurotsubasa!" commanded the boy to Sora who saluted.

"Aye, Sir!"

"We're gonna get a Guild War with them no matter what!" declared Shade as the rest of the members nodded in agreement.

(The Next Day in the Real World)

Leon was sitting in the common room looking up stuff on the Net on his laptop when a ring from his PT sounded alerting him of a new entry in the forums.

Quickly he logged onto to the main FFW website and looked at the forums before widening his eyes.

"Uh…GUYS!" he suddenly called out to the rest. "You might wanna look at this!"

In a matter of minutes the others soon crowded around Leon as he showed them his discovery.

"You've got to be kidding me…" groaned Shawn.

There on the forum page were several threads and posts with the same repeated message from a familiar Guild; Kotsubasa.

BATTLE US!

BATTLE US!

BATTLE US!

BATTLE US!

BATTLE US!

BATTLE US!

Line after line it just kept saying the same message.

Kurotsubasa all exchanged looks with each other silently as they all nodded to Leon who began typing.

(In FFW)

Several alerts sounded out at the 'home base' of Kotsubasa, which really just a large tree-house in the forest.

The Kotsubasa members eagerly pulled up their message only to find that they all got the same response.

NOT! A! CHANCE! Were the big red letters shown in reply to every single one of their posts making them groan in disappointment.

(The next day in FFW)

There was a knock on the door of the Kurotsubasa base as Ravena went to answer it.

"I got it-nya!" she called out before opening the door before suddenly being greeted by loud party wheezers and confetti explosions to the face.

Beat-boy, Cadet and Mirage stood there smiling as Cadet suddenly transformed into Echo-Echo and sat on BB's shoulder who suddenly began beat-boxing a funky beat as Echo-Echo began providing back-beats.

Mirage bobbed her head a little as she began bouncing to the beat.

Mira:

Hey there member of the Black Wing Guild,

just listen to this rap please if you will,

We got BB busting out a funky tune,

and Cadet's Echo-Echo will be joining in too!

I'm your pretty little rapper best known as Mira~!

And we're here to challenge you to a big Guild War!

"YO!" went BB and Mira as the trio struck a Home-boy pose while Ravena just stared blankly at them.

"That's a cute little rap you got going on, I'll admit it was creative and a little fun, But listen here Cadet, BB and Mira, Our answer is still No! Denied! No Way! See Ya~!" rapped Ravena in reply as she smirked and clicked her fingers as a portal appeared under the trio, sucking them in and transporting them back to their base as Ravena closed the door behind her.

"That was fun~!" she said giggling before walking back inside.

(A Week Later)

"I know I made a deal about not fighting kids, but they are really pushing me to the breaking point." Shadow said in irritation. All through the week the guild had to deal with constant attempts from Kotsubasa to receive a challenge. It seemed every time they denied one, five more offers continued to pop up. "There's a limit to how much I can take."

"They're just kids being kids; they want what they want and they won't take no for an answer." Bella said. "If it's really such a big deal, why not just accept their challenge?"

"It's just as what Shadow said last time Bella; as long as they keep worrying about challenging us they aren't acting as targets for other guilds." Key said. "We want to keep them from attracting too much attention."

Illu nodded her head. "The threat of disbanding is there for all guilds in the Guild Wars. With every battle there is a chance that the loser will be forced to break apart and when a guild is disbanded they can no longer run under that name, a dead guild. Kotsubasa sound proud of their guild and it would be cruel if another guild took it away from them."

"I can tell that some of the other guilds around aren't going to be as friendly as us. So we keep them distracted with us, while making sure no one else challenge them." Ravena sounded out the plan.

"Well even if we are doing this for their safety, they didn't have to try the constant challenges. You know one of them tried to follow me into a bar; caused a ruckus right in the center. I was lucky to get him out alive." DB said.

"Not to mention their pranks, I had to avoid a whole arsenal of water balloons and cream pies just to get to town and back." Bella said as she remembered. "Do we really have to keep the tough love act going?"

"Either until the threat passes or until they get the message." Shadow answered. "The number of guilds in Tokyo City has dropped and they have avoided being prime targets because maybe they're hard to find. It won't always be that way."

"Their area has to be known to all and there will be guilds that will search high and low for a potential target." Illu said.

"Well hopefully they aren't accepting any challenge. You said there were only two ways for a guild to be challenged officially right?" DB asked Shadow.

"Yep, the only ways are for the leader of the challenged guild to accept or if the challengers place their emblem upon the other guild's symbol." Shadow explained.

"The ultimate form of challenge." Illu said.

"So it looks like the little tykes only know about the first one. That's good; all we really have to do is just keep declining them right?" Ravena said. "I'm sure we can handle any other guilds that come charging through the area."

As Kurotsubasa continued to talk they weren't aware of an object fall out of an open window. The miniature creature ran out of the guild's base and out into the district where it ducked into an alley…right in front of Shade.

"Hey Cadet, did you find anything out?" Shade asked the small transformed Cadet.

The small alien, Greymatter, nodded his head before changing back into Cadet. The shapeshifter then began to explain what he had heard when he began spying on Kurotsubasa.

"…"

"Is it really that simple, we tag their emblem so they'll have to accept?" Shade asked hopeful at learning the new information.

"…" Cadet then pointed out to the large emblem posted above the guild's door.

"Then let's go tell everyone else; tomorrow we get the battle we've been waiting for!" With that the two then hurried themselves off back to their base to plan out their next challenge.

(The Next Day)

"Are you sure there is supposed to be something for us here Key?" DB asked as Kurotsubasa was gathered waiting outside of the guild.

"It's what the message sent to us from the site said; I know I sent you all a copy of it." The Beta answered him.

"An offer we can't refuse, think it's another attempt from Kotsubasa?" Illu asked out of curiousity.

"With all the plans they've come up with it sounds like it nya." Ravena agreed.

"Punnya!" Punnya chimed with her.

"I don't know, after a whole week this seems kind of…weak on their part." Bella said, thinking back to the other attempts the younger guild made during the week.

"If it is, we'll just give them the same answer as always." Shadow said as Amaya sat perched on top his head. The guild wasn't surprised to see Kotsubasa appear to meet them outside their front door.

"I didn't think you would answer to my message, but it was a good thing you did." Sora said, revealing that they were the ones that called for the meeting.

"Well speak of the little devils and they appear; though really only sending a letter was kind of lame after all the other events you tried." Bella said causing them all to face-fault.

"Hey the message was truthful; we are here to offer you something you can't refuse." Mirage said as they all got back to their feet. The only ones not affected by Bella's blunt response was Hippo who just stood by his master and Minnya who had hopped off Angel before she fell.

"Ok I'll bite, what's this little offer you got for us nya?" Ravena asked.

"The offer is that you're going to accept our challenge!" Angel said pointing at her idol.

"No thanks, what else you got?" DB asked.

"Speaking of what else, you haven't brought the lead brat with you this time. Did he finally take the hint?" Shadow asked seeing that Shade was not amongst the group.

"…" Cadet pointed to their base as if to answer his question.

"That's right Cadet, the only way to see me is to look up!"

Following the voice they all turned to see Shade was standing on top of Kurotsubasa's base with a proud look on his face. "We told you this would be an offer you can't refuse and I got the best way to show you!" He then jumped down and slapped something on the large banner that hung over Kurotsubasa's door; all eyes could see that he had placed a sticker that looked like a small black wing over their sign.

"You don't have any idea what you just did do you kid?" Shadow asked.

"I know exactly what I did; if we couldn't get you to accept the challenge directly then we had to do it another way!" Shade said with a proud grin.

"An ultimate challenge, one that no guild can ignore" Illu said still looking at the small sticker. "You do realize what that means…don't you?"

"It means that now Kurotsubasa has to accept a Guild War between us." Beat-Boy said.

"Oh there's much more than that." Shadow said as he turned to face Shade. "You wanted a challenge, guess we've got no choice now. However, you just made this an emblem battle. Hopefully you know what those are."

"Of course, we did see your battle against the All-Stars a week ago." Shade said. "We each offer up our emblems as prices right, and the loser does whatever the winner wants! So the losers have to disband and admit that the winner is superior, those are the conditions!"

Shadow then shrugged his shoulders. "You keep saying you aren't kids, so I'll take it that you all thought this through." He then got serious. "Fine then, the game is All Out battle, no tricks, no games. Guild vs Guild and winner takes all."

"Now that's more like it!" Shade said getting excited. "The battle field will be in the forest outside of Tokyo! Six versus Six!"

"Ok then, let's make our way to the battlefield then." Shadow said as they all began to make their way with Kotsubasa leading the pack.

"Are you sure this is all right Shadow? We can't let them win, but with those conditions they'll end up getting dissolved." Illu asked, a bit unsure about the battle.

"It was inevitable either way Illu; we'll worry about the outcome later." Shadow said as they continued on their way.

"I almost pity their naivety…."Muttered Ravena under her breath as the group soon arrived at the battlefield.

"Take care of the babies would you Punnya?" requested Ravena who nodded as flew over to Shadow and Angel to collect Amaya and Minnya respectively as she held them in her tail and flew to the sidelines.

Ravena nodded to Shadow who returned the gesture as the Guild members took their places on either side of the field as tensions ran high.

"Ready?" called Shadow to the opposing Guild.

"You bet!" came the reply from Shade who smirked confidently.

"3!" began the countdown from Shadow.

"2!" followed Shade.

"1!" they yelled together.

"GUILD WAR, LETS GO!" commanded all the players at once.

In a flash, the ground began to rumble as both Guilds were lifted into the sky on a large floating platform. High above them, both emblems were projected along with the words, KOTSUBASA VS KUROTSUBASA flashing across the sky.

"HI~ EVERYBODY DID'JA MISS ME~?" a cheerful voice piped up as a familiar reporter and floating Mokona popped up on the field between the two Guilds much to their sudden surprise.

"Masukomi-san? What are you doing here?" asked Illu in surprise.

"I'm doing my job Sweetie~! As with every Guild War, it's my duty to perform the play-by-play no matter where it's held~!" the reporter explained as her glasses gleamed. "Plus, NO way in heck am I missing out on a major scoop like this~!"

"Puu~PUU~!"

Everyone tilted their heads a bit in confusion.

"Wait, if you're here, then what about the other battles going on now?" asked Mirage out of curiosity.

"Shadow Clones," replied Masukomi cheerfully pushing up her glasses.

"Pu-pu-pu-Puu~!" said CAM as if reminding the reporter.

"Of course CAM! Without further ado~! Let's get this PARTY STARTED!" cheered Masukomi excitedly as she jumped up and back-flipped to a special floating booth where Punnya and the babies were.

In a swift move, Masukomi took a seat and pulled out a microphone as CAM began recording.

"Hello FFW! Your No.1 Reporter Masukomi is here reporting to you live from the Forest just outside of Tokyo City where a new Guild is about to take place! The name of the game is an All-Out Battle between the rising star Guild Kurotsubasa and Kid Guild Kotsubasa!"

"WE ARE NOT KIDS!" yelled Shade and Angel irritably from the field.

"BITE ME!" retorted Masukomi as turned her attention back to CAM.

"ANYWHO~! Let the match Begin on my mark!" announced Masukomi pulling out a bell.

Both Guilds began to brace themselves as they readied into respective fighting stances. The air was still as tensions grew with a major staredown.

Punnya and the babies looked on and swallowed a bit when suddenly-

DING-DING! Masukomi sounded the bell.

In that instant, that was when the battle began. Gunshots rang out as DB and BB withdrew their weapons and began at each other as Shade transformed his arm into a scythe and lunged at Shadow who deflected the blade with his own scythe causing sparks to fly.

Two different colored flashes illuminated briefly as Cadet now transformed as Wild-Mutt snarled loudly as he body-slammed into Bella who had transformed into Hyna-Wolf as the two canid creatures began snarling and clawing each other.

The sound of metal rang out as Sora began swinging his Keyblade at Key who blocked with his own before dodging.

Up in the sky, wings and screeches could be heard as Illu and Mirage chased each other above the field riding an enlarged Mukurowl and Hippo respectively. At that moment, Ravena flew past the two maneuvering while dodging fire blasts from Angel who pursued her while blasting fire at the Nekomata with her Firey card.

"And they're off; looks like instead of any effort to try and team up a strategy, Kotsubasa branched out and separated into their own battles! Let's see if this guild's got some skills." Masukomi spoke into the mike.

(Shadow/Shade Battle)

Shade had now activated his AT's and was using them to add speed with his kicks; his large black scythe blade extended out his leg. Shade use his own scythe's blade and pole to deflect the boy's slashes. Shadow made a move to back away only to find he couldn't as he looked down and noticed the black threads holding his feet in place.

"Shadow Pull Jutsu!" Shade announced with a smirk as sparks of light lit up in his hand. "And now you're mine; Soul Wavelength!" Grabbing onto his own shadow he sent the sparks through the threads tying Shadow down.

The sparks streaked quickly across their path before the connected shadow then shot up into the area creating a spike where the energy began to gather. Shadow looked confused at the shadow's movement only to Shadow manipulating it, sending the current through the ground.

"Interesting trap you set up; I know there is a lot you can do with shadows, but to send your soul wavelength through them." A smirk ghosted it's way on Shadow's face. "You've really planned it out and it was a flawless execution; you've been practicing."

"Of course; those days when we weren't trying to get you to accept we went through hours of training, more than we ever did! We wanted to make sure we were ready for this battle!" Shade said getting pump.

"Well it shows in fact…" Shadow then slid into a proper stance with his Byakugan fully activated. "Show me what other tricks you've came up with Kid."

"I'll make you eat those words!" Shade said as he rushed back into the fray blade ready.

(Key/Sora Battle)

Blades clashed again as Key and Sora held onto their stalemate. After the clang of their metal they slid their weapons apart with Sora raising his ring and Key raising Infinity into the air.

"Faith!"

"Regulus Impact!"

Two columns of light burst forth from their respective items and pushed the fighters back from each other. Key now saw the large lion's head heading towards him; he responded with slamming OathBreaker into the ground and a pillar of dark flames absorbed the light based move.

"You really are the Key of Twilight; user of not just light but darkness as well." Sora said in response to the technique.

"One cannot be without the other; that's a lesson you learn quickly if you choose to wield a keyblade." Key said as he held his weapons proudly. "Like you I started with just a Kingdom Key and furthered my path. That's the start of how you learn…"

"Just like the forms" Sora said.

"You can blame your namesake for that." Key said joking about both of their favorite series.

"Well he had a good sense of forms when he got his." Sora smiled as well before holding his hand as it started to glow. "But Kingdom Hearts isn't the only place that I learned moves from." Just as he spoke three golden screens appeared around Key before they exploded in a bright light.

Sora relaxed his guard only to be shocked as Key suddenly appeared in front of him. Seeing the Beta already had his weapons primed he moved to defend only he was too slow as he received two strikes from the twin keyblades. As Sora righted himself he noticed a red outline fading around his body.

"What magic is that?" Sora asked.

"That spell, would be one you call Slow and I had to use its opposite Haste to avoid your archive magic." Key eye's then flashed and Sora saw the outline appeared again. The blond moved to defend only to see his body move as if through water. He turned up to see Key already before him with a gold outline around his form.

(DB/Beat-Boy Battle)

Both fighters rushed around each other as their guns fired, littering the ground with bullet holes and casings. DB was enjoying himself as the battle continued while Beat-Boy bobbed his head to the music only he could hear.

"I know you can hear me under those headphones. Those must really give you an edge in fights like this." DB complimented him as they both took a reprieve from the shoot-out.

"It helps getting rid of distractions; you can do wonders listening to the beats of your soul." Beat-Boy said.

"Couldn't have said it better myself; well I know your guns are special but if they only shoot fire then you'll need another weapon soon." DB said bringing up their last confrontation.

"These guns of mine do more than just shoot fire, just watch!" Beat-Boy's yelled as he then shot his guns in unison. "Tornado Shot!"

The two shots merged into one as they then wrapped themselves in wind. Soon a large tornado beamed through the air towards DB. The vampire smirked before jumping to the air and was expecting another shot of wind only to see Beat-Boy aim straight up.

"Sunlight Shot!"

The release of light was enough to blind DB temporarily as he wasn't expecting it; he could feel parts of his beginning to burn but he began to regenerate just as quickly. DB landed on the ground and wiped his eyes enough to clear his vision and see his opponent now holding a shotgun.

"I've heard some of your music, but let's see how well you dance!" The boy smirked.

"Bullet Storm!"

DB's eyes widened seeing the barrage of magic shots sent his way.

(Bella/CadetHero fight)

The two beasts kept clawing and swiping at each other after they separated from their tumble ball moments ago. The two feral fighters roared at each other as they began to circle around. Wildmutt chose this time to lunge only for Hyna-Wolf to knock him aside with a wide swing.

The vulpamancer rolled a bit only to transform into a large blue lizard and released a chilling cloud from his mouth that froze Hyna-Wolf solid. Articguana moved closer to observe his ice breath's work only for the ice to shine green and for it to shatter. Its green eyes looked up to see Bella free and now taking the form of…

"Let me tell you something little lizard; no one puts Rath inside of an ice cube without expecting a beatdown!" The biped tiger roared out as he made his way to the lizard.

Cadet responded by changing as well and now was in a grapple between Rath and his Four-Arms form.

"You think Quad-Hands is gonna help you; let me tell you something junior. I eat small fry like him for breakfast!" Rath said as he pushed his strength against the red skinned humanoid.

Four-Arms appeared to struggle but then smirked as he made a hand sign with his two free arms. Instantly two more Four-Arms appeared behind him with rasengans ready in their hands; Rath was then hit by a barrage of rasengan as the sphere sent him spiraling away into the ground. Dust flew as Four-Arms then changed into XLR8 and cleared the dust and saw Rath was not in the crater he made.

The raptor scratched his helmet in confusion, not noticing the trap until a hand broke out the ground and pulled him down to his neck. XLR8 moved and moved as Kakashi then dug his way from underground.

"Always expect the unexpected my cute little genin." Kakashi playfully said as he read his favorite book.

Cadet then changed back and was now able to climb out as he took a second to catch his breath. He then gave the jounin a closed eyed smile as he materialized more clones around him.

"Shadow Clones again, you got Rath with that technique but you forget I do have experience with this jutsu." Kakashi said, though he became full alert as all of them opened their eyes to reveal red pupils with two black tomoes in each eye.

"This battle just got a whole lot more troublesome." Kakashi pulled up his headband and revealed his own Sharingan.

(Illu/Mirage Battle)

The aerial battle continued with Mira directing Hippo to try and strike while Illu had Mukurowl evade their efforts. Mirage had used her staff to try and hit them with a spear of air only for Mukurowl to once again evade it.

"I won't let keep dodging forever; Sky God's Boreas!" Mirage then sent out a black whirlwind towards them. Illu was prepared to avoid the spell only to see the whirlwind trap them, limiting their mobility.

"Looks like her plan wasn't just to attack you, but trap us so that we can no longer dodge." Nyoka pointed out as they started at the cyclone swirling around them.

"This doesn't remind me at all of how she first attacked, could they really have learned so much in only a week?" Illu then tensed up as she saw movement from behind the storm. "Muku-chan, dodge right!" She ordered and the large owl veered out the way of a large wave of air that was aimed at them.

"Above!" Illu called out as another portion of the whirlwind branched off to attack them. Soon now blades of wind came from all directions; after a while Illu looked down to Nyoka who nodded and proceeded to transform.

"I haven't used this sphere much; Kagutsuchi-san please give me strength." Illu prayed as bright ribbons wrapped around her form.

"Did we get her Hippo?" Mirage asked from outside the cyclone having used Sky Dragon's Claw multiple times to attack the group from the air.

The Hippogriff screeched a reply as he didn't lighten his guard for a moment. Mirage's answer came when a large blast erupted out of her attack. Mirage was about to order an attack only to see that no one was riding on Mukurowl's back; the confused girl looked and was too late to see the sword that was coming down her way.

"Ignition Break!" Illu called out her attack as her new long sword lit aflame. Mirage quickly used her staff to try and make a wall of wind and an explosion had both girls flown back. Mirage had got Hippo steady in the air as Illu was then caught by Mukurowl.

Mirage took a minute to admire Illu's new change. The hybrid now sported heavy black and spiked armor that covered most of her body. Parts of Illu's thighs were visible and showed she also had on dark green shorts; also Illu's face was still visible as the helmet piece remained open and over her long hair. In her hand was a large custom broadsword, the Masamune.

"Sorry Muku-chan, the armor isn't too heavy is it?" Illu asked in concern while Mukurowl showed no problem supporting her in the air.

"So that's one of your dress-spheres, even in armor you still look elegant and feminine." Mirage stated as she the armor wasn't that bulky the way it formed around Illu.

"Really I don't like using this sphere since it puts me in a position I'm not usually comfortable in; however," Illu then placed her other hand on the Masamune and arced it. "This sphere allows me…to fight along the front with my friends!"

Mirage was in awe at that statement before she reminded herself she was in a battle. "Right, but how are you going to be able to dodge now that you're in heavy armor? Not even your owl can fly you as fast as before to dodge me now!" To make her point, Mirage then began sucking in the air around her.

"Sky Dragon's Roar!" Mirage's cheeks puffed out and she released a large tornado blast towards Illu.

Instead of dodging Illu mentally told Mukurowl to hover still as she held her sword in front of her. As the blast met them Illu's sword then began absorbing the attack into itself.

"Magic Break!" Illu called out as the wind was completely swallowed up by the sword. Illu then swung at the air releasing a shockwave that Mirage had Hippo quickly avoid. "With this sword I might be slower…but your magic is now useless."

Mirage clenched her teeth as she began focusing her power into her Hurricane Tact. "You forgot something, my element is the sky and guess exactly where we're fighting?!" Soon wind traveled along her staff and formed a visible blade creating a scythe for the girl as she brandished it before her.

"Hurricane Tact, Weapon Mode! Kamaitachi vr.1!"

'So she can materialize the wind into a solid construct. Her skills have improved since last time…though she is still a reckless child.' Nyoka spoke telepathically.

'Reckless or not; this battle will go to who can make better use of the sky.' Illu thought back as she readied her sword once more. The fighters then had their pets charge forward letting their blades clash.

(Ravena/Angel Battle)

"Come princess, ya gotta do better than that if you wanna hit me~!" teased Ravena as she easily maneuvered around Angel's blasts.

Suddenly Angel smirked as she sudden call-whistled. All of sudden, Ravena felt her arms being gripped as she looked to her sides to a red and blue hulking spirit on either side.

"Zenki and Kouki?" asked Ravena in surprise before smiling, sincerely a bit impressed. "Ha, so can you use other magic besides the Star Cards."

"You ain't seen nothing yet!" smirked Angel as she kept her Star Key and held up her bracelet making Ravena widen her eyes in recognition at the artifact.

"No way! That's the Magical Bracelet!" exclaimed Ravena in surprise.

"Then you should know what it does!" stated Angel as the bracelet began to shine as a sphere popped out and entered Angel's body, making her glow.

Transformation Music began to play as Angel's body began to grow into that of a young woman as her hair extended out and turned blond. Her dress disappeared and was replaced by blue and white tunic/dress of sorts with a red mantle and shoulder armor along with red and white ankle boots.

"With Love," began Angel now with a more mature voice as jewelry such as winged diadem, a brooch, choker and bracelets with the Magical Bracelet on her left wrist. "Courage….and Hope…"

"I give you, Magical Princess Holy-Up!" finished Angel with a pose and a smile in her new form.

"Akazukin Cha Cha…. She really has a thing for the classics doesn't she?" muttered Ravena while Zenki and Kouki nodded in agreement.

"Magical Serene Arrow~!" called Angel summoning a golden bejeweled bow and drawing back the arrow at Ravena with a confident smile. "We're done here…."

Ravena narrowed her eyes as if to challenge her.

"MAGICAL SHOOT!" yelled Angel firing at Ravena who kept her head down as the glow advanced on her.

Unknown to Angel, Ravena gave a small smile as the arrow seemingly made contact and exploded. As the smoke clouds rose Angel was smiling at her successful attack only for her eyes to widen seeing as the arrow remained embedded within a magic barrier.

"Like I said, it's going to take more than that if you want to beat me!" Soon two large tails wrapped around the summoned demons and held them high in the air as they released Ravena. The nekomata then used her tails to throw the oni at Angel only for her to change them back into spirits.

"Oh I got more; I haven't even gotten close to showing you what I got!" Angel said as she used her bracelet again to transform.

"Like I'm going to let you change without attacking nya!" Ravena took a step only to feel a sharp pain as holy energy appeared around her. As she looked around she soon saw that she was surrounded by a large ring of purification beads.

"It seems that the girl has learned her lesson a tad bit, or at least she's learning better ways to manage her magic." Felis said in annoyance to the holy energy conflicting with their demonic energy.

'Well I kind of did give her a chance to Felis.' Felidae thought back as the transformation died down.

Angel's form this time looked close to her original only she had fairer and light skin and black cat features with a large red ribbon and golden bell on her tail. Short bubblegum pink hair and pink eyes replaced her features along with a shoulderless pink dress with pink lace chocker and armbands as well as red gloves and boots.

"What better way to finish off a cat, Mew Ichigo!" Angel announced her new form as she struck a pose. "For the People's Protection of the Earth, I will serve you nya~!"

From her tail she summoned a weapon to her hand, the Strawberry Bell. It was a pink heart shaped ring with a green top and gold ribbon with a bell attached to the center.

"This will take you out for sure! Ribbon Strawberry Surprise!" A blast of light fired out directly towards the paralyzed neko.

"It looks like there are more to these kids than meets the eye. Will the black wing's reign end or will they finally take off the kiddie gloves?" Masukomi asked seeing how the battle continued.

(Shadow and Shade)

"Kiddie gloves, what does she mean?" Shade asked as he gathered his breath after his continuous assault. He had stopped using his blade in exchange for his chakra blades and his clothes showed ruffles and scratches from the battle. Shade looked to Shadow who still haven't received a scratch yet.

"She means exactly as she said." Shadow then sighed. "Do you really think any of us would seriously use our full power?"

"Full power…" Several explosions went off and cause the two guild leaders to watch as their teammates battle. "You guys aren't fighting as hard as we are?! How can you not be going all out?!" In his rage Shade rolled forwards with blades of chakra ready.

"Simple…" Just before the blades connected Shadow then vanished. Shade stopped himself and looked around not feeling something appear directly on his shadow.

"If we went all out this battle would've been over to fast."

Shade froze hearing Shadow speak directly behind him; he turned to try and land a slash only to feel a palm press into his side and arm causing him to drop one blade. As Shade stumbled he barely got his remaining blade up to guard Shadow, now using the fallen chakra blade.

"Now you're using my weapon?!" Shade then winced feeling the pain the suppressed chakra points.

"Well I needed to distract you somehow." Shadow admitted.

Shade wondered what he meant until he saw Shadow's free hand which grasped his scythe. In a second the blade grew white and transformed into the signature Witch Hunter.

"Might want to brace yourself kid, this is going to hurt." Shadow then slashed the Witch Hunter downward, blasting Shade away with the shockwave. Seeing Shade off on the ground he then called out to the others. "This challenge has gone on long enough; start wrapping it up everyone!"

(Bella and Cadet)

"So we can finally stop playing around?" Kakashi then closed his book as he observed the battle field around him. The clones have been reduced down to a single Cadet whose focus was on the jounin with his own spinning Sharingan. "Well Cadet, at least that's what Bella said you're name I'm afraid I'll have to wrap this up." A flash later and then Kakashi was gone.

Cadet scanned around for any movement just as the air behind him distorted. The young teal head boy was too late and turned to see the punch from Tobi that sent him sprawling across the stage. He tried to stand up to see the Uchiha gone but a hand phased from the ground and then threw him away further.

"About time Shads called it, even though I was having fun." Bella said as she changed back.

(Key and Sora)

Within another stalemate Key used his higher strength to push Sora away. The young fighter was about to bring out his regulus again when he then felt more power coming from Key.

"You wanted to see a forme right; well to make this fight end quicker I'll show you one." Key then closed his eye as he focused his powers. Soon a brilliant light erupted that made even Sora wince and turn away to avoid being blinded. When Sora was able to look again he stood frozen at Key's new look.

Key's outfit had changed, mimicking that of a sage or a priest and was white with gold trim in contrast to his signature black coat. The Beta's appearance had changed as well now having crystal blue eyes and blond hair. In his hands, Infinity still remained but in his other hand stood the new keyblade, OathKeeper.

"Bow before the light; Holy!" Key aimed his keyblades and they fired beams of light at Sora, though his eyes also shined a dull grey color. Sora made to move again only for a new grey outline to form around him except now he could not move. The beams weren't powerful to penetrate through him, but had the force to knock him toward his teammates.

(DB and Beat-Boy)

"Oh well, I guess this concert has to end." DB said as he avoided another wave of magic bullets.

"And how are you going to do that?!" BB asked as he combined his guns again to form a shotgun for his attack. As the wide spray of bullets aimed at DB, the older vampire lit up a large ball of fire that formed a shield that swallowed the bullets.

The flames died away showing DB in his battle mode; katana in hand as he ignited it. "Let's wrap this up!" DB then slammed his sword down on the ground creating a wide fissure of flame that swirled and swallowed everything in its path including Beat-Boy.

The vampire blood protected Beat-Boy but he was carried away by the flame's power and spiraling outwards away from the older player.

(Illu and Mirage)

Illu then nodded her head and then held out her hand allowing for her outfit to transform back to its original appearance. Nyoka appeared snaked on the girl's wrist and traveled back to her spot around Illu's neck.

"I'm sorry I had to go so rough, but it appears that it's time we end our match." Illu said to her airborne opponent.

"What do you mean time to end?" Mirage asked as she and Hippo were starting to waiver in the air. After Illu's transformation the dogfight continued but with Mirage and Hippo playing defense from Illu's new magic blocking potential. She looked down to her Hurricane Tact and saw the wind scythe wavering slightly.

"You two can barely maintain this air duel and before your magic had no chance as long as I was using my dressphere." Illu explained. "It is best that we end this before you both drop from exhaustion…Muku-chan!" llu then ordered as Mukurowl flew straight towards the two.

"No way are we going to back down…Hippo!" Mirage ordered and the hippogriff resumed the dogfight.

Just as the two were playing a game of chicken Mirage noticed the air wavering around the large owl. "Illusions don't work on me, there is a reason I'm you're protégé!" Mirage yelled as she kept her pace. What she didn't expect out the wavering form was a lavender blur to shoot out and capture them both.

Illu; now in her hybrid form, grabbed hold of the hippogriff with her large talons as she continued her divebomb towards her goal, just as she got close to the ground she did a quick turn throwing the two down back into the ground and towards her guild before landing herself. Seeing that she didn't hurt them took badly Illu then returned to normal.

(Ravena and Angel)

Angel saw the smoke from her attack and let out a sigh as she began to change back to normal. "I've used up almost all my mana with everything, but I'm sure that was what got her." She said in relief.

"Hey you need to watch it with that, nearly took the fur off my tails nya!" From the smoke two enlarge tails appeared with a metallic sheen to them. Ravena's tails then shrunk back as she used them to block the attack the magic girl had used previously.

"Looks like you ran out of power, your beads are gone." Ravena said noticing the beads were lying useless on the ground before they vanished.

"I have just enough to keep going!" Angel said as she began rummaging for cards.

"Oh really, even if you're able to use magic with the cards that would make them weaker because your magic pool is draining." Ravena lectured her. "But you won't have to worry about that."

"Huh?" Angel stopped.

"When you're sleeping you get mana faster." Ravena smiled as she summoned her magic. "Here's a special one of mine, Hana Hana Hanabi!" A flurry of fireworks flew out forming sparks of flowers blinding Angel. As the girl tried rubbing her eyes she never noticed the black energy spreading around her body that then sent her flying into her guild's power.

"You're not the only one with classic powers." Ravena said as the black energy left her hand.

"KYAAAAA!" screamed Angel before suddenly being caught by a strong pair of arms as she and the person tumbled a bit.

"That was a close!" exclaimed Shadow who was holding Angel close to him, making the girl look up at him with a twinkle in her eyes. "Next time a little closer to the ground Rave!"

"My bad!"

Shadow placed Angel down and smiled not noticing the girl's eyes had gone all big and sparkly. In her eyes, all she saw was her Prince Charming as she just sat there on the floor as Shadow walked back to his team.

"Angel!" called Mira as she and Hippo ran up to the Exceed her and saw she had a goofy smile on her face while bubbly hearts were floating around her. Slap! "Snap out of it Angel! We're not ending this battle yet!"

Angel quickly snapped out of her stupor and nodded as she stood up while the others gathered with her. Shade stepped forward with looking incredibly angry. "We were serious fighting you guys! And you're all treating us like a joke!"

Shadow returned the glare to such a degree that the Kotsubasa guild shrunk back a little. The older boy was clearly annoyed.

"Look Shade, we are well aware that you are serious. But don't you dare say we were taking you and your group as a joke!" he barked as the rest of Kurotsubasa also began looking just as stern. "But if you want us to show you how serious we are…then so be it!" he said darkly as Kurotsubasa began rushing at them this time.

The Kotsubasa Guild cried out too as they ran forward for the final clash. "BB!" commanded Shade as he grabbed the boy's hand and glowed.

BB's eyes glowed red as Shade fully transformed into a black scythe with a decorated blue blade and swung him around as he made a full dash at Shadow. DB quickly jumped before Shadow and fired a few rounds at BB who expertly deflected them as he jumped into the air and brought the blade down on Shadow who blocked the strike as Ravena placed her hands on Shadow's shoulders and used them to lift her body up as she swung around and knocked BB out of the air with a swift kick.

Angel jumped in just as quickly as BB got knocked away and swung her Star staff at Ravena who evaded it easily. Angel flipped a few times as she landed before pulling out a card. " Bestow upon me your fighting prowess! FIGHT CARD!" she commanded as the card glowed and entered Angel as she leaped forward and began pulling out a barrage of kicks and punches like a martial artist master while Ravena dodged, blocked before jumping away as Illu appeared and knocked Angel back with the bottom of her glaive.

Suddenly, Mirage jumped in pulling apart her staff into two as she began flinging small shots of wind at Illu who easily cut them apart when she heard a screech as Hippo suddenly landed on top of her and pinned her down her talons.

The Hippogirff screeched to deliver another blow when Nyoka suddenly shot out of Illu's hair and enlarged herself, hissing as she tackled Hippo away. Nyoka quickly coiled herself around Hippo to prevent him from flying while Mukurowl also flew in and raked Hippo with his talons as the three creatures tumbled about on the field.

"Regulus BEAM!" cried out Sora, blasting a stream of light at Bella who quickly redirected the light at Mira and Cadet by transforming into Diamondhead.

Cadet quickly became Cannonbolt and rolled away from the danger before releasing her and transforming back some distance away. Cadet quickly pulled out a slingshot and created a Shadow clone who along with Mira began forming a Rasen-Shuriken in the original Cadet's hand. Just as soon as it was ready, Cadet was able to fit it onto his slingshot as a teal colored visor materialized over his eyes.

With the Visor, a target began fixating on Key who was clashing with Sora as the body released the Rasen-Shuriken which flew directly at Key. Shadow quickly jumped forth and slashed the Shuriken away resulting in a huge explosion.

Masukomi, CAM and the Manju quickly dove under the desk for cover as the explosion blew across the field. When it finally passed Masukomi and the others cautiously popped their heads out. The blast had left them all in a mess with Masukomi's glasses slightly cracked with her hair standing up while her uniform was all messed up. Punnya, CAM and the babies all had their fluff standing out as well from the blast but were otherwise alright.

"Wow! What a blast! Literally!" exclaimed Masukomi readjusting her cracked glasses as she peered into the dust cloud, the air now quiet. "But is the battle finally over? Who won?!" she asked when CAM tapped her shoulder and pointed up to the floating emblems.

The small group looked eagerly at the two emblems when suddenly- FLASH! The Kotsubasa emblem disappeared as the Kurotsubasa Emblem enlarged and stood out just as the dust cleared to show all the Kotsubasa members lying scattered everywhere on the field all stunned with swirly eyes having being knocked out from the force of the explosion. Hippo was on his side also stunned and knocked out as Nyoka and Mukurowl returned to their master. The Kurotsubasa members were also slightly stunned but otherwise alright as they all stood up and waved to CAM.

"Kotsubasa Is Unable To Battle! THE WINNER IS KUROTSUBASA!" cheered Masukomi as she made hands grow out of everywhere with the Devil Fruit power to create loud sounds off applause while some of her clones appeared and applauded while cheering loudly as well.

In a flash, the field disappeared leaving things as they were before.

A few minutes later, Kotsubasa stood together with their heads hung in shame. Mira half buried her face into Hippo's neck while Minnya tried to comfort Angel who was holding back tears of frustration. BB and Sora both looked incredibly solemn while Cadet wrung his beret in his hands, his usual grin now gone while Shade was clenching his fists while wiping his nose that had begun to drip.

Kurotsubasa was standing a bit farther away from them having a small discussion.

The girls looked over at the other guild pitifully. "Oh, do we have to disband them Shads?" asked Bella feeling sorry for them.

Shadow nodded and folded his arms. "Yes Bella that was the agreement. This is for their own good."

"It's a shame, I kinda like BB," stated DB looking over a bit. "He's got some good moves."

Illu also looked sorry. "Can't we-?"

"No!" came the sharp reply form Shadow.

"But-" Key tried this time.

"No!"

"You kn-" Ravena tried to say.

"For the last time, NO!" said Shadow stubbornly when Punnya suddenly smacked him upside the head with her tail.

"PUNNYA! NYA-NYA!" she scolded Shadow wagging her tail like a finger. "Punnya-Pu-pu Pun Punnya!"

Ravena nodded in agreement while the others looked confused. Nyoka slithered out from Illu's sleeve and slithered onto her shoulder. "Punnya-san said that Shadow-san is being incredibly stubborn and unreasonable and you should be ashamed of yourself!" translated Nyoka to Shadow.

"But I-"

"NYA! Pun-Nya! Pu-Pu-Nya-Pun! Punnya!" scolded Punnya some more as she jabbed her tail at Shadow. "Pun! Punnya-Pun-Nya-Nya!"

"She said you are not being fair to Kotsubasa since they looked up to you and the others," translated Nyoka some more. "She said Amaya would be very upset too."

In order to prove her point, Punnya held up Amaya who began looking up at Shadow with huge, huge sparkly sad eyes. "U-Pyon…"

"Oh…Amaya…don't look at me like that…don't-Oh come on!" Shadow tried to protest as Punnya also joined in as well as the two manju flopped their ears down a bit.

"I'm not gonna fall for that! It won't work!"

The girls all exchanged looks and nodded as they too joined in and began looking at Shadow with big pleading eyes. DB and Key were snickering as they saw he was starting to crumble.

Shadow tried closing his eyes to resist until he made the mistake of peeking to see that the Manju and girls had resorted to using the quivering pouty lips. Poor Shadow finally caved in as he gave a loud groan.

"OK FINE! Maybe there is another way…." He muttered as the girls and Manjus exchanged victorious smiles and high-fived each other while Key and DB both jokingly kow-towed several times to the girls in respect. Sighing in defeat he made his way to the dejected Kotsubasa.

"We were doing so good from the start, how did we end up losing?" Shade asked no one as he tried to hold back his tears.

"You don't know? As a guild's leader you should know your teammates limits better than anyone."

Kotsubasa all looked to see Shadow standing before them. "If you had known you wouldn't had put the stakes up so high."

"Well I guess I won't be making that mistake again." Shade said as he pulled something out from his jacket. He then handed the emblem to Shadow, who looked down at the small silver item.

"That's right, you won't be making that mistake…" Shadow said and tossed it back to a surprised Shade.

"Huh, but I thought the losing guild had to disband." Sora said as he brought up the condition of the match.

"That is true, your rules were the losing guild had to disband and acknowledge the other as superior." Shadow said. "However; you need to look up all the Guild War rules. The losing guild first does one request from the winner regardless of conditions." He explained.

"So what is the request?" Mirage said nervously.

"We'll let you all stay as a Guild," Shadow said. "Provided you all drop out from the Guild Wars."

"Eh?!" All of Kotsubasa spoke at once.

"You heard me, quit the Guild Wars and you don't have to disband." Shadow said while folding his arms. "Unless you all really want to quit."

"Oh no no, we definitely want to stay a guild!" Shade said waving his hands while laughing nervously. "Ok We'll do it!"

Shadow then sighed again. "Honestly, you all have potential but you're too misguided. It took us rejecting you to get you more prepared and ready for a battle; I'll admit you did better than I anticipated but if we accepted your first challenge the match would've ended quicker." Seeing their sad faces now he then added… "So what's a protégé supposed to do but seek help from their teachers."

"Really, then does that mean?" Beat- Boy asked.

"With this that part of your guild won't be a lie. However; know that if you keep this up we'll expect you to work hard." Shadow said.

"Of course we will, we all promise right guys!" Angel said wiping away some loose tears as the rest nodded their heads.

"That's good to hear hopefully you don't regret it." Shadow said as the battlefield soon returned back to the forest. "It's getting late, so tomorrow you'll get to the base and meet your teachers."

"Got it, you won't regret this I swear." Shade said after wiping his face and smiling. "Of course all this would do is help me defeat you in the future."

"We'll see about that kid, even if you try you'll have to get in line."

"Hey my name is not-" Shade's mouth was then covered by Cadet's hand.

"…!"

"Right what Cadet said, we'll meet you guys tomorrow!" Mirage said clearly happy as they all gathered up and dragged Shade away with them.

"Looks like that went well, seeing those smiles on their faces nya." Shadow then turned to see the rest of Kurotsubasa walk over to him.

"Yeah, if not for you all guilt tripping me." Shadow said with a frown.

"Hey Key and I had nothing to do with that; it's not our fault you can't resist cute faces." DB said with a smirk.

"Whatever, just be sure to deal with yours when they get to the base tomorrow." Shadow said as a tick-mark formed.

"Still I think it was a good thing to let them stay active; seeing a fun guild like that is rare. That's why I like small guilds; it makes sure that all the members are close." Illu smiled.

"I get what you mean Illu-tan; we got a big house, a nice family and now we've got kids to spoil. Kind of feels that we skipped marriage in a way huh Illu?" Ravena said a bit teasingly.

"R-Ravena-chan, I don't really t-think about it that m-much." Illu said blushing a bit at Ravena's notion.

"Well at least we now have fun little students to teach!" Bella said in excitement.

"You say fun now; you've never really been in a position of having to teach before." Shadow said.

"Still what happened between you and Rose has a less likely chance of happening now, and even then we have everyone else to fall back on." Key said.

"I was talking about that, you'll see when you guys actually start teaching." Everyone seemed slightly confused over what Shadow mean by that but before anyone could ask he had already started walking. Kurotsubasa then set off back to their base to rest for the day and await what teaching would be like tomorrow.

Meanwhile Masukomi stood in front CAM with her mic and smiled. "Well, there you have it folks, it looks like Kurotsubasa won and kids lost, but it looks like those kids gained new mentors as well. I guess everyone leaves a winner today~! Until next time~ This is news with me! Masukomi!"

(The Next Day)

The next morning, Kurotsubasa Guild met up again outside their base as Key unlocked it.

"Man, was yesterday's battle exhausting or what?" stated DB stretching himself as the group entered as soon as the doors opened.

Bella pumped a fist in the air excitedly. "I can't wait to start training with-!"

"SHH!" Ravena and Illu said together suddenly and pointed in the direction of their living room where they heard excited chatter. Quickly the group moved in to see, much to their surprise, Kotsubasa running about the room checking out stuff excitedly.

Mira was chasing Cadet about with her staff as he ate chocolate bar while Sora shifted about the room taking note of everything in fascination. Hippo lay down in a corner asleep with Minnya. BB had somehow gotten a hold of a pair DB's drumsticks and was tapping out a rhythm.

"Hmm lets try this spell, Light and airy, floating in the air, conjure me some lovely bubbles to spare~"chanted Angel reading from one of Ravena's spellbooks which she somehow acquired making some little heart shape bubbles appear around her.

Shadow face planted himself in his hands and groaned. "How the heck…-Is that my Jacket?!" he demanded as he pointed to Shade gaining the attention of the younger Guild.

"Oh, Hey Shadow! You got so much cool stuff in here!" exclaimed Shade who was wearing Shadow's jacket.

"How did you get in here?!"

In response the kids all pointed to Cadet who grinned and waved. While Key made a mental note to change the locks and up the system.

"Angel! Please give me that book back, that is not a toy!" asked Ravena when Angel suddenly stuck her tongue out.

"Make me!" she said suddenly flying off.

"ANGEL!" yelled Ravena giving chase.

"Hey! My Lucky Drumsticks!" exclaimed DB as he made a grab at them only for BB to pull them away as he too dashed off.

"NOOOO! THAT'S MY LAST MARSHMELLOW FLUFFY CHOCKY BAR! I WAS SAVING THAT!" wailed Bella in despair as she ran after Cadet angrily.

"Bella-chan! Mira-chan! Please Calm Down!" exclaimed Illu chasing after them.

"Can I please have a tour of this place Key?" asked Sora walking up to Key who smiled.

"Sure lets go!" answered the Beta as he lead Sora away, leaving Shadow to groan and face-plant himself.

Shade walked up to him grinning happily. "We're gonna have a lot of fun aren't we Shadow?"

Shadow slowly turned and glared at Shade with a dark look on his face as he slowly raised his fist.

BONK! "YEOW!" Shade's cry off pain could be heard echoing loudly in the air.

AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR, FFW NEWS!

Trumpets fan-fared in the air as a news room illuminated revealing Masukomi sitting down at her desk.

"Hello to all my viewers~! This is FFW News with me, Masukomi~!" greeted the reporter cheerfully.

"Pu-PUU~!" greeted a Mokona jumping onto the desk.

"And CAM~!" added Masukomi petting the Mokona. "Also I would like to introduce our special guest, the Head of Administration; Cast49~!"

The sound of audience cheering and clapping could be heard the light shone on Cast49 who waved to the camera.

"Hello everyone~!" she greeted.

Masukomi smiled as she adjusted her glasses. "Today on FFW News, we are talking about the one subject that everyone's been talking about nowadays; The Guild Wars~!"

"Pu-Pu-PUU~!" cheered CAM, bouncing up and down excitedly as Masukomi turned to Cast.

"So Cast, can you give us a brief overview on what the Guild Wars is for our not so experienced viewers out there?"

Cast smiled as CAM hopped into her arms. "Of course, it would be my pleasure~!" she replied as CAM's gem glowed and projected the many different emblems of the various existing Guilds on to the background.

"As you can guess from the name, the Guild Wars is a major competition between various Guilds in FFW," Cast began explaining. "This competition is extremely important for Guilds as the more victories each Guild secures, the faster they rise in ranks and the more fame and territory they can gain as well."

Masukomi nodded a bit. "BUT, while FFW is home to various Guilds across all servers but usually there is a case of overcrowding," the reporter said. "That's why we have the Guild Wars as a mean to help regulate the numbers."

"Pu-Puu-pu-PUU~!" agreed CAM.

"That's right Komi-chan~ that's because when a Guild loses a War they have to abide to the one request posed by the other Guild, and the most usual one being to disband," continued Cast as she indicated on the screen the red Xs marking the already disbanded Guilds. "However, even if a Guild is lucky enough not to be requested to disband, they would have to eventually if said Guild earns too many losses during the War."

Masukomi adjusted glasses as she and CAM both folded their arms and nodded solemnly. "That is a very sorry thing to hear," she commented when she noticed the time.

"Uh-oh! Looks like we're out of time! Thank you for joining us Cast!" said Masukomi regaining her cheerful demeanor once more before turning to the camera. "And thank YOU all for tuning in to FFW News! Stay tuned for the next program which is our Halloween Special~! And that's news with me, Masukomi~!"

"Bye~!"/ "PU-PUU~!" said Cast and CAM in unison.


Looks like another guild battle is done and ended with another ally for Kurotsubasa; for those of you wondering it won't be that way for long. It's about time we get back to the more serious nature of the story. That won't be for a while since after working on these two and another special project I'm taking a small breather from writing FFW…need time for the imagination tanks to fill for it and I've been neglecting other works. So until next time everyone and Happy Halloween!

-Shadowlight0982 out.