Prince of Heart fans, prepare to scream in delight...
Chapter 36: Fallen Hero
Derelict Castle...
The group of five were standing on a series of rocks on what looked like a waterfall. It LOOKED like a waterfall, but the water was flowing upwards instead of down.
"Well, this is an interesting case of geology." D-Dude commented.
"Looks like something weird, too." Loony added.
"Wow. Look at the castle." Kakashi said, pointing upwards.
"Huh." TL said.
"What?" Sasuke asked.
"Nothing. It's just...I've got a warm feeling in my gut, almost as though I've been here before." TL answered.
"I think it's more likely that feeling's coming from your stomach, Goofcase." Sasuke stated.
"I don't think so. I have it as well." D-Dude said.
"Yeah, I do, too." Lunatic nodded.
"Let's just go try and find Keyblader and Hanabi." TL said, leading the group away.
They jumped from rock to rock until they arrived at the top of the 'waterfall'. There, they found two people who seemed to be fighting. One was a tall man with brown hair under an Aussie hat, a white shirt, black jacket, jeans, and crocodile-skin boots. Two bony spikes were protruding from his wrists, but he was on his knees as if beaten into submission.
The other person was Keyblader, standing proudly with his sword over his shoulder.
"Hey, Aussie." Keyblader called, "I wanna know something—how can you be here if you haven't got a vessel or help from Dark Souls."
The man drove one of his spikes into the ground to prop himself up. He coughed up a bit of blood before replying, in an Australian accent, "To be honest, I dunno myself. My world just got consumed in darkness. When that happened, my mates were taken from me. I vowed to find 'em, no matter what. So, I'm 'ere. One of 'em's gotta be close. And I ain't stopping 'til I found 'em."
"If you think one of them's here, try and get past ME to get to them." Keyblader commented.
The Australian yelled as he pulled his spike free from the ground. He charged at Keyblader, who jumped over a thrust. He delivered a slash only for the Australian to evade the strike and lash out with one of his spikes, grazing Keyblader's arm, but it was only a shallow wound.
"Too close for too little." Keyblader said, running his sword through the Australian's side. He yelled in pain as he fell back into a heap. Keyblader raised his sword over his head and said, "Say g'day, mate."
"STOP!" TL shouted as the group arrived on the scene.
Keyblader looked over and sheathed his sword. He smirked before asking, "What took you guys so long? I've been waiting."
"This can't mean anything good." Lunatic murmured.
"We've always been rivals, haven't we?" Keyblader asked, "We've been always pushing each other to do our best, even BEFORE we were Fictron Knights. But NOW, it's gonna end."
"What're you talking about?" TL yelled.
"How about we let your Keyblade choose its TRUE master?" SK asked, thrusting out his hand.
TL looked confused about this. However, in a split second, Konoha Ninja appeared in his hand. His eyes bulged at that, he hadn't wanted to bring out his Keyblade. Suddenly, it felt like it was pulling away from him as if something magnetic was attracting it. He gripped it as hard as he could, trying to hold it back. However, the tug only got stronger until it flew out of his hand and vanished.
In a burst of gold lights, the Keyblade reappeared...in the fist of Silent Keyblader.
"WHAT?" everyone shouted in unison (even Kakashi showing a bit of emoition).
"So, Jadis was right all along." SK said, swinging the Keyblade. Unlike when DarkMagicianmon swung it at the beginning of their journey, it remained in Keyblader's fist, "Only the true master of the Konoha Ninja can open the Keyhole and change the world."
"Wh-WHAT THE HECK'S GOING ON?" TL yelled again, "I'M THE ONE WHO FOUGHT ALL THE WAY HERE USING THAT KEYBLADE!"
Keyblader scoffed before saying, "You're just the glorified delivery boy. But if you still wanna play 'hero', just go play around with this."
Keyblader tossed a wooden sword, which landed with a clatter at TL's feet. The hedgehog fell to his knees before landing on his hands.
"Now, THAT'S going too far!" Lunatic barked as he charged at Keyblader with his chakram disks out. He jumped at the person he once counted a friend, who evaded the strike.
"You're pathetic." SK commented before kicking Lunatic over the edge.
D-Dude quickly sped over and grabbed Lunatic with his mouth before pulling him up. He dropped the Fictorian Ninja, who immediately tried charging after SK. His older brother's clawed hand grabbed the back of his sweater.
"No, Lunatic." D-Dude said, "I know how you feel, I want to as well. But we both know he could defeat you without even trying!"
"Looks like God gave ya a brother instead of a brain, Lunatic." SK said, walking away.
Sasuke looked over to Kakashi before saying, "Sensei, we should go."
"Why?" Kakashi asked, looking over at Sasuke.
"Remember the Hokage's orders?" Sasuke said.
"Well, I know he told us to follow the Key, but I think that's taking it a little TOO literally." Kakashi commented, "And..."
"Let's just do it." Sasuke said. He and Kakashi began walking away. Sasuke looked back to TL, who was still an emotional wreck. He then said something that no one who had traveled with them expected, "Soul, sorry."
The two ninjas quickly jumped after SK.
"Those two no good..." Lunatic growled.
TL sniffled as he stood up and looked directly at the Australian, who was still bleeding on the ground. He pulled off one of his boots before taking out the potion he got all the way back on Fictor. He used it on the Australian, whose wounds immediately healed over. He yelled before jumping up.
"Strewth, that was weird." He said. He looked around before asking, "Where's that son of a bludger?"
"Gone." D-Dude said.
"I'd say 'you're the weirdest thing ever', but I've seen weirder." The Australian commented before standing up and tipping his hat, "Scott Highflier, anatomy changin' superhuman at your service."
"I'm Dimensiondude." D-Dude said.
"I'm Lunatic the 121st, great ninja in training." Lunatic said.
"TLSoulDude." TL murmured.
"Nice meetin' ya, but now, I've gotta go." Scott said, "I came to find me mates. And nothin's gonna stop me getting there."
TL looked at the wooden sword before picking it up. It was better than nothing, after all.
"Hey!" TL called. Scott turned around, "How about we go together? We're both trying to find people we care about and won't let anything stop us...no matter what."
Scott grinned before tipping up his hat and saying, "Why not?"