Author's Note: Well, here we are. Brief warning for those feint of heart, but if you played KH3, then you know what's coming.
Sora held onto the handle of the X-Blade with Xehanort as the two of them flew off to the top of the tower. The two of them fell and slid to a halt as the blade fell out of both of their hands. Xehanort rolled over onto his back as his body continued to fade. The bright light of Kingdom Hearts shone down on the platform they had landed on.
"Why? From ruin comes creation," Xehanort said through a raspy voice. "I could have fixed the worlds from the perverse corruption of darkness. The temptation of darkness is a constant strain on the world and it threatens its people day in and day out. Why won't you let me put an end to that?"
"It isn't your decision to make Xehanort. Those people who fought you today, the people who fought your Seekers, should be proof enough that just because you try to lead the world down a particular path does not mean that it will follow. Because a good leader knows that they can't control everything," Sora replied as he stood up and walked over to the X-Blade. "Destiny is out of your control, Xehanort. Accept it."
Xehanort struggled back to his feet and his hand became coated in darkness. "If no one will lead this world, then it will just succumb to its own darkness," Xehanort said as he struggled to keep himself together.
Sora shook his head as he gripped the X-Blade readying to defend himself. Xehanort jumped forward to grab at Sora. Ducking under the attack, Sora swung the blades upward and Xehanort stumbled forward as he landed. "Even if it does, we will still be here to save everyone we can. We will not give up just because you have."
Xehanort fell to one knee as he looked back at Sora. Xehanort's body faded away as Sora walked away from him with the X-Blade in hand. He sat down on the edge of the tower and stared off at the sky. This would be the second time he had seen that moon in the sky. He let the X-Blade disappear and Kingdom Hearts seemed to follow as it too faded from the sky.
Sora looked down from the sky and watched as Scala ad Caelum began to fade back into the Keyblade Graveyard. There was just one more thing for him to do. As the tower began to turn back, Sora leapt forward and landed down on the ground. He looked around and found himself being approached on all sides by the people who had joined him here, and then some.
"Sora! You're alright!" Mickey called out as his group ran forward.
Sora did not respond. From the other group, he saw Riku who had been joined by Roxas and a familiar girl. Or rather a girl who should have been familiar. Her name was Xion. From the other direction, came the group of Guardians who helped him in his fight against Xehanort.
"So that's it? We did it?" Dante asked.
Sora shook his head. Everyone looked at him surprised. "My journey began the day I lost her. And everytime I find her, she slips away again. This time, I thought we'd finally be together but she's out there alone...not for one more second," Sora said with a determined voice.
"Sora, the power of waking isn't to go chase hearts around! Even if you do locate Kairi, you might never come home to us again," Mickey said sternly.
Sora simply stood up straighter and said, "I will. And we'll both be back before you know it."
"Please," Mickey started.
"Mickey, let him go," Riku said.
Dante nodded and said, "It's what he wants. And I get the feeling that he'll do it even if we keep telling him no."
"You're right," Mickey admitted in defeat. "Safe journey, Sora."
"You sure you want to go alone?" Rise asked.
"We could go with you," Goofy offered.
Sora shook his head, "This is something I have to do alone."
Ruby stepped forward and hugged him saying, "Stay safe, please."
"Yeah, if you get hurt and break my little sister's heart, I'll kill you," Yang said with a cocky grin. Ruby blushed profusely.
Yuna simply giggled and said, "I think she's serious."
"We'll keep things in order here," Roxas said with a grin. Xion nodded next to him
"You'd better get back soon, yeah? Got it memorized?" Axel added.
Sora smiled back and said, "Thanks guys." He turned away and summoned the Kingdom Key. Pointing it up at the sky, a keyhole appeared and the sky shattered around it. After a flash of light he transformed into a small ball of light and floated away, The group began to walk away, but the Guardians lingered.
"Do you think he'll be ok?" Yuna asked quietly.
Dante thought for a moment before he finally said, "You know what, I think he will. I also think that it would be a pretty big disservice to him if we kept worrying about him right?"
"Yeah, I think we've prepared him for just about anything," Yang joked.
Aqua grabbed Dante's hand and said, "No matter what happens, he'll walk the right path."
"What's the right path?" Ruby asked.
Rise looked at her and said, "It's the path we're all meant to take. No matter what darkness may attack our homes, or our hearts."
"If it's his destiny, then every step he takes, will be a step closer to us," Aqua said. "A step closer to home."
Sora felt himself touch down on a watery surface. As he looked around he found himself in a world of sea and sky. The world was quiet except for his footsteps. As he walked he felt himself relax. A world with no conflict, it was peaceful. After a moment, he finally spoke.
"Kairi, I'm looking for you. So why was I brought here?" Sora asked out loud.
"Sora?" he heard a familiar voice say behind him. Turning around he had to squint for a moment but then he saw her. She was a seafoam green outline of the girl he knew, but he could see it clearly now. This was Kairi. He rushed forward and wrapped his arms around her. While he could feel her in his arms, she was the same temperature as the world around him.
"Have you been here all this time?" Sora asked with eyes shut.
Kairi sniffed and replied, "Yeah. It feels like I am stuck here. Can't move on, but I also couldn't go back."
"I never doubted that you were still somewhere out there," Sora told her. "Sorry it took me so long. It has been a very long journey." The two of them finally separated and looked at each other.
"You got older," she commented, eyes tracing the new marks on his face. "It seems like we spend more time apart than together these days, huh?"
Sora nodded. "I still have to tell you all about it don't I?"
"Now seems like as good a time as any, right?" Kairi asked.
Sora looked up at the sky. Now that he had her, she would need help getting back to the Realm of Light. He closed his eyes in deep thought. His thoughts wandered through his journey and he remembered something. The Chain of Memories was a formation of the heart. If Kairi's heart was damaged, then she could not return on her own. So, maybe recounting his tale could help heal her heart and send her home.
So Sora pointed his keyblade across the water and a keyhole appeared. On the other side of it, a warm and inviting town waited. The two of them entered and Kairi recognized it from when she had been there before. It was Traverse Town. Sora explained that the town was basically empty now, since it was a safe harbor for those who lost their worlds. Sleeping until someone found themselves in need of a new world to call home. To Kairi the whole place was empty. To Sora however, he could see different versions of his past selves. Doing all the things he had done during his previous visits. Jumping for Trinities, spinning around the street lamps, even the one fighting an invisible Leon. Sora remembered them all, they were all the individual links of his Chain of Memories. As he walked around, telling Kairi of his time arriving here after their island first disappeared, he made sure that as many of the copies of him passed through her position. As they made contact with Kairi's ethereal form, she began to fill in little by little. Returning the color to her form and she slowly began to look more like the girl he lost so long ago.
Soon after exploring the whole town, Sora opened a pathway to a strange and magical world called Wonderland. Kairi looked around in amazement as the changing proportions and the interesting and unique people who called it home. Sora saw himself running around on the floor, walls, and ceiling. Fighting the Trickmaster and searching for the clues to prove Alice's innocence. He told her of the faux-trial and how he tried to save Alice. Until, she was taken while fighting for her freedom.
The next portal took them to a deep jungle, where they came across the now overgrown remnant of an old camp. Sora described to her the first time he suspected that something was up with her while on the trip happened here and when he saw a slide that looked like Hollow Bastion and it felt familiar to him. Because it had resonated with her when she sought shelter in his heart. He watched his copies doing the tasks around camp, jumping across hippos, and fighting Sabor.
Arriving in the center of a coliseum, Sora told Kairi about all the fights and training that went on there. Phil and Herc, meeting Cloud, fighting the titans. He even explained to her the long excursion into the underworld where he met Auron and the coliseum that existed down there. His tired younger self, ran about fighting desperately for an audience. Many of his copies passed through Kairi and disappeared into her and she continued to fill in the glowing lines of her form.
Next they found themselves in a kingdom by the desert. Sora told her of the young, poor man who found a genie and wished for himself to be a prince so that he could be worthy of a woman he met in the market. The princess of Agrabah, Jasmine. They walked through the desert and out to the Cave of Wonders. Sora watched her from time to time to make sure they were still making progress. When they arrived in the treasure room, he created a new portal.
Arriving inside the belly of a whale, Sora told Kairi of Monstro and the two people he had swallowed. He also told her of the times he clashed with Riku in this place. The first time they had really felt the rift in their friendship. The self-doubt about what he was doing had originated here. It would carry on to the following worlds.
A holiday town, an underwater kingdom, and the pirate ship that Sora had finally found her on. The journey would continue to Kairi's former home, Hollow Bastion and its journey into becoming Radiant Garden. The End of the World came next as Sora finally let her know what had happened when he left her behind in Traverse Town.
By the time Sora got her to Twilight Town, when he woke up, he could feel his energy begin to run low. His feet dragged a bit more than they used to, but Kairi was more full of energy than ever, so he had to keep up with her. He showed her the Land of the Dragons, Beast's Castle, Port Royal, and the Pride Lands. They together recounted their time in The World That Never Was. By the time they finished talking about their time there, the two of them finally found themselves back in the world they had met Dante in.
"Oh," Kairi said after a brief moment. "So, what do we call this world?"
Sora thought for a moment and finally said, "I don't think it ever got a name. Though the city that was over writing Dante's world was called Limbo City if I recall correctly."
"This is where it happened," Kairi commented sadly. "I am so sorry, Sora. I left you and Riku alone."
Sora shook his head and said to her, "It wasn't your fault. You did the same thing either of us would have done. We had no way of knowing just how powerful Vergil was going to be, y'know?"
"But," Kairi protested.
"Kairi... " Sora cut her off. "You aren't to blame for what happened that day, ok? None of us had any control over that situation."
Kairi nodded and they left it at that. They walked around for a time before they ended up at the Devil May Cry shop. They entered inside and looked around at the decorations. They stopped and stood by the jukebox as they recounted the other things that had happened before the fight with Vergil. Sora then took her onto the next world. "This is Inaba. This is where I met Rise Kujikawa. She's a teen idol. Which if I understand correctly, means that she is basically a performer and some kind of really important figure to the people in that world. She does things like singing and acting."
"Really, that sounds like a lot of fun," Kairi commented.
"She says it is," Sora continued. "But apparently it is also a lot of hard work. She has concerns about it now since we have been away for so long."
"What did you do here?" Kairi asked.
"Dante and I helped a group of kids our age save their world from being consumed by Shadows in a foggy world that was distorting their town," Sora explained.
Kairi tilted her head and asked, "Dante?"
"He came with me. In fact, he now has a keyblade," Sora said with a chuckle. "A lot happened after you were gone." He continued to tell her about how they climbed a giant tower and fought a large battle atop the tower that had grown in the middle. By the time they finished the explanation they two of them had sat down inside the shrine in the small town. Another portal took them to a dark beach.
"Sora, why do I see faint copies of you here?" Kairi asked as they arrived.
Sora thought for a moment and said, "These are the links of memory in my heart."
One of the few Sora copies here passed through her spot and disappeared. Kairi looked down at herself while it happened and saw her body. She looked at Sora with a happy expression and Sora smiled back at her despite the suddenly straining exhaustion that began to pull at him. He would need to hurry this up. He described how he, Dante, and Rise worked together to save Aqua from the Realm of Darkness. Soon after they arrived in Remnant.
"What is this place?" Kairi asked, looking around at the buildings around her.
"This is Remnant. Yang and Ruby, call this place home. They came with me to face the Seekers of Darkness," Sora explained.
Kairi asked, "So what are they like?"
"Well they are both super dedicated warriors. On their world they were training to be something called Huntresses. It was a title given to those who hunt the monsters that live on their world. Ruby is quirky and a super dedicated leader. Yang is her older sister and is a bit of a joker," Sora told her with a smile. For some reason he felt like he was going to miss them. But he was going to go home with Kairi. Right?
He proceeded to tell her about the way that the Huntsman School system functioned and how he temporarily lost access to his keyblade while he was there. Their wandering seemed to suddenly jump to Patch while they talked. He went on quite a bit about how strange of an experience it was to deal with. However, he soon found Kairi lingering behind when they were walking through Ruby and Yang's house by the kitchen table. When he looked at what caught her attention he saw a copy of himself with his arm in a sling, sitting in the chair in the living room..
"You got hurt?" Kairi asked after a quiet moment. Sora nodded. "How did it happen?"
"Ruby got hurt. Her leg was cut off by Vergil. We ended up falling from that central tower in the distance," Sora explained pointing at the CTT where Ozpin's office was located. "We lost a good friend that day, I wasn't going to lose another. So I sacrificed myself to save her. To try to save myself… well let's just say I have to work on my landing strategy."
Kairi reached out to the copy and it disappeared at her touch. She walked away from it and looked to Sora next to her and said, "So should we get going?"
Sora made another portal and the two of them passed through to a city in front of them and a field behind them. Kairi immediately turned to the field and looked around as she could see Sora's running about fighting some unseen foe. Sora explained that this was Spira and the people called the Gullwings. When he mentioned the Gullwings, Kairi asked about if they were the ones he met in Radiant Gardens. Sora explained that it was and it wasn't the same group. Long explanations aside, it turned out some people could exist in multiple places at the same time. That they were basically the same person but separated by time.
"That seems really complicated," Kairi commented.
Sora nodded and said, "You're telling me." He proceeded to tell her about the fight that took place in this valley. The aftermath and how Yuna ultimately joined in and became a Guardian of Light. Their journey continued as Sora took Kairi to another portal. To his surprise, it let out into the current day Radiant Garden and the two of them found themselves in the lab. It seemed that the Replica for Namine had been successfully recovered and she was even beginning to look like her. Kairi said that she had felt Namine pulling them there herself. Kairi wanted to help her. So Sora pointed his keyblade at her and used the Power of Awakening to call out Namine. As her body began to move, the two of them disappeared through another portal and in that moment Sora felt something shift inside himself. His mind seemed to blank out and scenes played before his eyes in rapid succession but he felt them like he was there.
Dante found himself outside the door of his main office. By his side was the familiar blue hair of Aqua. It seemed her normal outfit was too out of the ordinary for the world because when she arrived she was clad in a white hoodie, an ankle long slit skirt and black boots with thigh highs. However, her arms still had a metal plate for the ability to use her keyblade armor. Behind them were Ventus, clothes unchanged and Terra dressed in a black polo with tan slacks, a metal shoulder plate standing out. A woman with orange hair opened the door and greeted the strange looking couple. Dante introduced Aqua to her and to his nephew. The energy was high and all seemed to be just enjoying each other's company. Dante and Aqua both turned and looked over at the Jukebox like they expected to see something there. When nothing was found there, Dante walked over to his desk and into the bottom right corner of the frame, he slipped the now worn down photo of Kairi between the frame and glass.
Aqua and Ven walked through the ruined streets of Vale. The two of them walked in relative silence. After a few moments, Aqua leapt up the side of a building and Ven followed soon after. The two of them reached the top and found the person they were looking for. Aqua called out to her and Neo turned to look at the two, on guard. A look of recognition took over her features as she immediately wrote a note. Aqua spoke to her for a little before Ven was brought into the conversation. After he spoke, she seemed indignant. But then she looked over at Aqua who simply nodded to her. Ven took his hands out from behind his back and revealed a familiar black hat. Neo's eyes changed white and after a moment a tear escaped her. Aqua offered her comfort, but Neo stepped away. After a moment, Neo shattered and the two of them were left alone.
Ruby and Yang found themselves back at home. Their father suddenly leapt up from the couch when they barged into their home. He hugged the two of them tight. He walked with them to the kitchen table and began to make something in the kitchen. The two of them talked with him for a few moments, when they were approached by their dog. Soon after, Qrow showed up. The four of them all sat together and ate, enjoying the sensation of being a family again. When Taiyang left to go grab some food, Ruby and Yang both looked over at the loveseat and then back beyond the table in their dining room. They shook off the sensation but made eye contact knowing that they both felt it.
Rise walked away from the Riverbed and up the Samegawa Floodplain. She took out her cell phone and dialed a number. Her eyes lit up as she spoke to the person on the other side of the line. She spoke as she walked through town and was soon found by her friends just outside the Tatsuhime Shrine. Kanji swept her up onto his shoulder while Naoto simply smiled with relief. They were then joined by their upperclassmen who all ran up to them as soon as they heard. As Kanji sat her down she looked up at the sky and with a big smile, she jumped up with a cheer. When she landed she suddenly turned towards the shrine and looked confused to find it empty.
Yuna sat at the end of the pier in Luca as she stared off at the ocean. She whistled once more as a last ditch effort. After a few moments, she looked back like she felt a presence and ran off to follow it. Dashing through the streets she found herself squeezing by people who tried to get her attention and wanted to talk to her. She even ran past Paine and Rikku who were shopping in Luca for supplies. The two of them chased after her until they came across the Calm Lands. Yuna looked lost as the thing she went searching for was seemingly nowhere to be found. She turned to her fellow sphere hunters but the lost expression never truly went away.
The portal let them out in the sky. They fell towards the water below as they had come full circle. Sora and Kairi plummeted downward until their fall suddenly slowed, Sora and Kairi finally felt themselves softly land on the surface of the water. Kairi's heart felt light and free. After all this time she finally got some insight into the adventure Sora had gone on. It seemed so fantastical at times, but now that she heard it in full, it all seemed too real. She turned and looked over to Sora and her happiness transformed to uncertainty as she looked at his face. The skin around his eyes had darkened suddenly, his complexion paled and his eyes seemed to be unfocused. He looked tired and his level of energy also seemed to join him. The two of them were suddenly levitating above the ground, almost like they were sitting in the middle of the air.
"Sora?" Kairi asked.
His eyes focused and when he looked over at her, Sora smiled. "I don't think I'm going to be able to keep my promise Kairi," he admitted with a shy smile. The world around them began to blur as the water below them proceeded to levitate with them now as droplets scattered about the air. The sun that lit the sky began to quickly streak across the sky until nightfall and sunrise. This happened many times in rapid succession until it settled on a gentle sunset.
She looked at him as he tried to keep a brave face on for her. "What do you mean?"
"I've broken too many rules it seems," Sora replied slowly. "I have rewritten existence to have these last moments with you. I think this may be my punishment. But at least I am getting you home. I'd join you if I could, but I think this is my last stop." The water began to regather around them and assumed shapes that soon began to be filled in with color and texture. Wood for the water that now rested beneath them, sand below that, and even a green plant texture of leaves behind Sora.
Kairi shook her head and said, "No, I didn't want this."
Sora tried to reach out to her but his body was no longer listening to him. She took his hand. Within his grasp was the good luck charm, she felt him push it into her palm. "Kairi, all of this started long before now. You have to know that, right?" he told her with labored breaths. "Before you... ever showed up on our island. Your light draws people... to you. But I think the absence of your light does the same thing. I've... met some amazing people since... I lost you. I think they deserve to know you, too."
"Sora," Kairi whispered. "Please stop."
Sora shook his head and said, "Kairi, I have been giving selflessly... for so long. I think it's time.. that I get to be selfish just this once. Please, go on existing. For the sake of us all. Riku needs you, now more than ever. And wherever I go, I'll keep walking. I won't stop... until I can't go any further. For now, this moment... will have to be enough." He gently smiled at her. A small smile formed on her face as she tried to put on a brave face for him, but the tears would not be held back.
"I'll be waiting. You better come back to me," she whispered. "Just like you promised."
Kairi watched silently as his body disappeared before her, his hand vanishing from her own. She felt herself slide off the surface of a curved tree. Her knees hit the sand below her. She felt her chest tighten, her breaths became erratically shallow, and she wrapped her arms around herself. The lucky charm fell out of her grasp. Finally, a heart piercing wail escaped her throat as the weight of his sudden absence crushed her spirit. Her body shook with the despair that now ate away at her. Sora was gone and she was no longer in a place she could call home. He was gone and Kairi knew that she was the reason why that happened. The tears would not stop for a very long time.
Over the depths and forms of existence, a sound echoed. Across the realms of light, darkness, nothing, and even time, this sound resonated and traveled. Its origin came from two different sources, a light fading from the world, another now growing brighter. The sound was a simple message asked by the two lights in unison.
"I've been having these weird thoughts lately… like is any of this for real? Or not?"
As the sound drifted by a form of existence, dressed in a dark coat with hands held firmly behind his back, he chuckled lightly. "Oh, this is very real. As real as the time I spent caging the Power of Awakening. And as real as what happens next," the voice replied to the sound that had traveled an entire year to get to him. From the darkness beneath him came the form of a tall building, a skyscraper. He looked out as a city formed around him. A perfect prison if he had ever seen one. The year he spent carefully crafting it for his prisoner had been worth it. For it reflected in the sheer quality of his creation. Something seemed to pull at his attention somewhere out in the world. He held a hand out and created a portal. Stepping through he found himself in a different city where he was standing near a strange tear in the air. A portal that allowed some kind of wolf-like creature with piercing red eyes through into a world it did not belong to and a nearby denizen noticed.
"Excuse me," the nervous man said into his phone. "This is Devil May Cry right...? Yes, Nero, there seems to be some kind of monster wandering around downtown… Yeah, I guess you could describe it as a portal… You will? Thank you."
The Master of Master's turned away from the scene as he looked back at the portal one last time. A small tisk escaping his lips at the sight of it. Disappearing back into his own portal, he then murmured to himself, "The World has become too unstable. If its denizens refuse to play by the rules, then neither shall I. May your hearts be your guiding keys, Guardians. I am certain that this will be an event you won't want to miss. The next move is mine. One down… six more to go."
Final Author's Note: Hey guys, we made it. Thank you so, so much for reading this story. As you can see here, there is intent for this story to continue. And do I have some plans and ideas just waiting to be executed. You may have noticed that this story has fully replaced Kingdom Hearts 3 now in my lore. The next story is where my version of the world goes next. We'll explore motives, new worlds, re-visit old ones and pick up some crazy crossovers that I have spent some time preparing myself to put into effect.
I think that if you liked this story, you'll come to like its sequel, '16 Hunters' which is now up and ready to be read. However, if you want to have a moment to gauge some interest, here is a small preview of the posted chapter to whet your appetite.
"Duty calls, Kyrie. If I don't investigate this thing, no one else will it seems. Don't worry, if I have to, I'll grow the damn thing back again and I'll be home before you know it," Nero said to her with a cocky grin gesturing to his missing arm. She nodded and gave him a quick peck on the lips. "Even faster," he added afterwards.
Kyrie stifled a small giggle at his antics and replied, "Just be safe. And contact Lady or Trish if you think you'll need any backup. And I'll call you to let you know if Nico has any updates on her mechanical arm idea she's been bragging about lately."
"Of course, you keep the kids in line till I get back and we'll all celebrate with some of the reward money," Nero told her. He put his blade on his back once the blade was safely secured, he grabbed his trusty Blue Rose revolver and placed it in the holster inside his jacket. "See ya." Nero finally stepped out of the office and headed out into the streets to investigate the portal. Some reports advised of red eyed dark creatures wandering out and attacking innocent people when they are nearby but otherwise seem docile when observed from a distance. It was a strange difference from normal demon behavior and was the main reason he was even going to investigate it. When he arrived, he was surprised to find that these creatures were not actually demons. Seeing them in the distance he could definitely understand why people would have thought they were, but no demonic energy was coming off of them like normal demons would have.
"Well, well, well. What is wandering into my neighborhood then?" Nero said out loud to himself and he decided to get a closer look at the creatures and at this strange portal. After he was noticed, a quick skirmish made easy work of the wolf like creatures that had been slowly making their way over. Nero however was too interested in the portal. This was not a hellgate. This was more like a tear in the air that existed in just a way to get from one place to another. When he walked around it, he found it to be almost like a two dimensional object hanging in three dimensional space. But as he looked through the portal he realized that he was not looking at Hell. He was looking at a forest near a strangely advanced but damaged looking city. The young teeneager named Sora came to mind as the realization set in. "Is this a portal to another world?" Nero asked himself.
He reached his hand into the portal and decided to investigate as thoroughly as possible. Nero felt a small tug from the portal like structure and he made his way through to the far side and indeed found himself in a forest on the edge of a ruined city. As he walked across the threshold of the portal he felt a strange weight on his arm. Looking down he found a strange metal device capping his missing limb.
"What the hell?" Nero asked. He had been speaking out loud by himself a lot lately. He walked towards the ruined city. Catching his attention most immediately was the elevated portion of the city's central tower with a stone dragon attached to the top. As he made his way into the city he listened for signs of life. Besides the expected monsters currently ignoring his existence, this city was abandoned as far as he could tell. Making his way through the streets, he finally came across signs of life in the form of combat. Or at least, the sounds of combat. Jumping up on an overturned box truck, Nero came across a strange sight. A young woman with a parasol fighting a man with a cane in a white coat and bowler hat. But the man in question was radiating a dark energy that reminded the young demon hunter of the Heartless that he had fought when those keyblade kids were around. The young woman with the parasol had pink and brown hair with white streaks and some kind of white coat over a brown corset. To Nero, she just looked like the living embodiment of Neapolitan Ice Cream. She also looked like she was in some trouble. Nero leapt down from the box truck and took off in a breakneck sprint.
"Be a good girl, and listen!" Nero overheard the man yell. If it were not for the fact that this man had bright orange hair and looked nothing like the woman he fought, he would have almost believed that he stepped into a father-daughter dispute. The man took his cane and knocked her to the ground. Nero however launched himself through the air and put his feet together. Nero's drop kick never failed it seemed since it still had a 100% accuracy. The man was knocked back and slid to a stop.
Nero landed and with a light footed dance step he taunted, "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to hit a lady?"