This chapter follows Matt as he has his meeting with Master YenSid.

Chapter 36

Master YenSid's Second Encounter

Matt stared at the spot where the girl had vanished. He changed his stare to the man standing across the room.

He was wearing a blue gown similar to the one that Merlin had worn. On top of his bearded face, was a hat decorated with stars sewn into it. He glared at Matt with extreme concentration.

"Welcome, Matt," he said as he took a light bow.

"Are you Master Yen Sid?" Matt asked. Matt almost slapped himself in the face.

"Of course he's Yen Sid stupid!" he thought to himself.

"Yes…I am him," he replied. "Step forward."

Matt took a few steps forward into the room. Slowly but steadily he made his way up to his desk. He almost puked as he blurted out, "Will you teach me magic?"

He let out a course laugh, "Of course, but first I need to tell you why I sent for you…have a seat," he said as he waved his hand.

A chair from the back of the room began to shake. Then after a few seconds it slid forward and stopped two inches behind Matt. Matt sat down yearning for what he was about to hear.

"I'll get right to the point…as you probably know you have a very special gift. In fact only one other person shares it with you. You see Matthew, you are a Lightbearer."

"A Lightbearer?" Matt questioned.

"Yes…a Lightbearer. As I said you share this quality with one other person, in fact you just missed her."

"Why couldn't I meet her?" Matt asked.

"Because neither of you are ready for the responsibility that comes with your power," he answered. "As I was saying, your gift is very powerful, but be warned…if you lose your power to darkness, they will be able to control it. Your gift is incredibly powerful, so powerful that it can be used to open the door to Kingdom Hearts, and if evil controls your power…that's what they will do."

Matt sat still in his seat, pale as a ghost.

"Why me?" he asked.

"You were born with this gift. It was by fate that you were given this power, and it is your destiny to use it," Master Yen Sid assured him.

Matt looked down at his feet and began to fiddle with his thumbs. He looked up at the old man with a depressed look upon his face.

"I don't think I can handle all this responsibility," Matt whined.

"You will…you must. It is your destiny."

"I don't think I'm ready."

"That's why you must prepare. When you are ready…you will know."

Master Yen Sid walked over to Matt and began to scan him.

"I presume you already know how to summon your Keyblade."

"You mean my Dreamscape? Yeah…I can summon it," Matt answered summoning the weapon into his hand. "Why do I need this though?"

"You need it to use magic, and I thought I was going to give you lessons."

"Oh yes…of course! Thank you, Master."

"Now…just as a safety precaution," he started. He clapped his hands and all furniture in the room vanished, even the chair Matt was sitting on. Matt fell to the ground.

"Sorry. Should have given you a warning," he said.

"Aaah…it's okay," Matt responded rubbing his backside as he stood up.

"Now, when casting spells, you must focus all energy and yell out the spell you wish to cast. They vary from easy spells like Fira and Blizzara to difficult spells like Aero and Gravira…now…raise your Keyblade and point it at me."

"Whuh?" was the sound that came from Matt's mouth.

"You need a target. Don't worry…if you actually get it to work I will block it. Now…try Fira."

Matt hesitantly raised Dreamscape towards Master Yen Sid. He started to shake as he stuttered, "F…Fira!"

An explosion came out of the other end of Dreamscape launching Matt to the opposite side of the room.

Master Yen Sid glided across the floor towards Matt.

"Cura!" he yelled.

Right away Matt's pain subsided. He stood up and looked into the stern eyes of his teacher.

"Without stuttering this time," he instructed as he walked over to his previous position. "Now…"

Matt this time raised Dreamscape with more steadiness. He closed his eyes and focused on the Fira spell. He opened his eyes, pointed the Dreamscape towards Master Yen Sid, and yelled, "Fira!"

A massive fireball erupted from the tip of the Keyblade. It approached Master Yen Sid with great speed.

"Aero!" Master Yen Sid yelled. A wall of gray shears began to form around him. They deflected Matt's fireball with ease and it was only then when Matt noticed the shards were made of air.

Matt stood still for a while. It was about five more seconds before he began to jump up and down from excitement.

"Good…now let's try Blizzara," Master Yen Sid added.

About two hours and several bruises later, Matt was able to cast, without hurting himself, Fira, Stopra, Blizzara, Thundara, Aero, and Cura, but he did have a lot of mishaps.

For example, when casting Blizzara, he managed for the room to transform into a Dairy Queen shop; when casting Stopra, he froze time on himself; when casting Thundara, he caused a power outage in the tower; when casting Aero, he caused all of his clothes to fly off; and when casting Cura he caused a permanent smile on Master Yen Sid's face (which made him look extremely creepy.)

After Matt had finally successfully cast the Cura spell (and the permanent smile had worn off) Master Yen Sid had one more spell for Matt.

"Gravira…the most powerful of the spells you need to know. With this spell you can make your enemies back off, you can summon stationary objects to launch forward, and you can crush your enemies by force."

"Oh geeze…I can just see the bloopers waiting to happen on this one," Matt said raising Dreamscape at Master Yen Sid.

"Oh no…you won't be casting on me. You'll be performing on this," he said.

With a snap of his fingers a chair appeared in the middle of the room.

"Remember…focus," he instructed.

Matt changed Dreamscape's pointing direction towards the chair. He closed his eyes and concentrated deeply.

"Gravira!" Matt yelled with his eyes still closed.

He opened his eyes and looked at the levitating chair in the middle of the room.

"Good job, Matt!" Master Yen Sid yelled in shock. "Now move it around."

Matt directed the chair across the room making it do back flips and such.

"Put it back down and try crushing it now," Master Yen Sid instructed.

Matt followed his orders. "Gravira!" Matt yelled. The chair collapsed at the exact word. Matt let out a silent yelp as splinters flew everywhere.

"Yes…very powerful," Master Yen Sid stated. He clapped his hands again and all the furniture magically reappeared filling the room. "I'm afraid to tell you that that was the last spell. My magic lesson is done."

"Thank you Master," Matt said bowing before him. He turned to walk out of the room.

"Wait!" Master Yen Sid hollered.

"I said that was our last magic lesson. I still have to teach you how to activate your power."

"What power?" Matt asked.

YenSid looked at him with a perplexed look as he answered, "Why…the gift of the Lightbearer of course."

Written by Matt.