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Chapter 2: Working together
April: Friday 20*
It's been 2 days since I met Donald Duck and Goofy after squaring off with Dark Riku. Since then, my heart has been roaring with joy and light as we worked together on combat training, specifically limits!
Learned Whirli-Goof
Learned Donald's Meteor
It was odd, we only met a few days ago and yet it felt like I've known them forever. It was an amazing feeling. Until I had to snap back to reality when my teacher called me out.
Physics Teacher: "Scaelux!"
Me: "Hm?"
Physics Teacher: "You seem to be in a good mood today."
Me: "Yeah you're right, I just had some stuff going on recently that's been making feel very positive and hopeful."
Physics Teacher: "Then let's put it to the test with a question."
Classroom question:
There are two types of friction forces. One force is Static Friction, the friction force that prevents an object from moving that changes according to the force applied to it, but what is the name of the other force?
Me: Child's Play "The answer is Kinetic Friction Force."
Physics Teacher: "Good job! Kinetic Friction Force tries to stop an object that is already in moving but the amount of friction force is constant meaning that it doesn't change at all."
Me: "CHECKMATE!!!!!"
I've been feeling so good about school and my training as of late especially when I had gym class that day.
We were playing basketball which I'd usually never had the chance to even get the ball or even score a basket, but with my new agility from my keyblade training, I figured I'd give it a shot!
My team was going on the defensive with the opposing team having more points than mine. So when it came down to me, I used Sliding Dash to steal the ball from the opposing team catching the ball while making my opponent flinch so he couldn't react me coming at him! Another opponent tried to tackle me in order to take the ball back, but I foresaw his movement.
Reaction: Reversal
I used Reversal to slide passed him making him fall to the floor as I dribbled to the enemy goal. Then three other opponents started to wall me off from the goal.
Reaction: Learn and Jump
I stepped back and forth to avoid their movement like the wind. And when I cleared them, I leapt and delivered the final shot! WE WON!!
Player 1: "Let's go SCAELUX!!"
Player 2: "You were a savage man!!"
Player 3: "How did you do that?!"
We all had an adrenaline filled game that day and we didn't have any hard feelings whatsoever. Then I went home. I never felt so alive! I could do so much more with the power I had. But then... I took the time to focus as I was riding the bus. Just because I had this power didn't mean that I was unstoppable, I needed to understand the limitations to what I could do, and if I was being too prideful, I could get hurt badly. Then my bus stop came and I walked the rest of the way back home. While my parents were out at work, Donald and Goofy stayed behind when I got back, but when I did, those two were passed out on the grass fast asleep!
Me: What am I gonna do with you two?
While they caught some z's, I drew Kingdom Key U so I could practice but before I did, my clothes started to transfiguration back to the clothes I had on when I drew my dual keyblades when I fought Dark Riku. I then proceeded to practice with single blade fighting. I started with my basic upward slash, thrust and spin combo on the ground and my high to low swing, left to right swing and thrusting air combo. Then I practiced Strike Raid and Sonic Blade on some boulders out in my backyard. I was getting pretty good at switching which position I held my keyblade in. I started to spin my keyblade in circles over and over again between my fingers out of boredom once I was done with single blade sparring, putting a towel on my back to clean of the sweat. Thankfully, my new keyblade warrior outfit was miraculously stain proof. It didn't seem to lose its black and white hues even if you spilled on it. The previous night, there was a huge thunderstorm locking the five of us inside and the power went out as a result! We were able to improvise and cook using our fireplace which Donald used as an opportunity to teach me how to cast the basic Fire spell!
Learned Fire
Along with that he even taught me how to use the basic Blizzard spell when were cooling off our water bottles since my house ran off of an underground well and we couldn't get any water that was cold from the faucet.
Learned Blizzard
Eventually accidentally spilled some sauce from my salad on my keyblade warrior attire and when I wiped it off, it was completely stain free! So I didn't even feel the need to change back into my normal clothes.
My father, meanwhile, was busy with the power generator which we didn't have enough fuel for to power it so when Donald and I found out he took another opportunity to teach me how to cast Thunder and give us enough juice to last us days!
Learned Thunder
Personally I was mostly a Fire guy when it came to magic. To me, just something about made me feel determined and bold, while Blizzard made me feel calm and Thunder made me feel very determined and bold like Fire but as you could probably guess, the feeling was short lived, very short lived.
Today, the storm from the night before had left dew on the grass, reflecting light in all directions. Even though magic was usually used for combat, the feeling of casting various types of magic gives a really good feeling. That was when a thought crossed my mind.
Me: When water is poured into a cup, it becomes the cup, when it is poured into a pitcher, it becomes the pitcher, water is shapeless and flexible.
Those were a wise man's words that I learned during my days as a student of Kung Fu. With that in mind, I decided to try to cast Water.
To do so, the keyblade interacts with moisture all around it and groups them together in order to form a small water barrier around the wielder and then once enough water is gathered, it's launched creating a force that was almost getting hit by a large wave!
Me: *closes eyes, breathes in, breathes out, breathes in, breathes out*
My heart rate eventually became slower, but more at peace. Then I began to wave my keyblade in front of myself, gathering water within the air and from the ground and plants around me, and once I had enough water, I launched it at the Boulder I was using, but before I could, I began to lose my chill and accidentally launched it behind me!
Me: "Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA!!!"
The water was flying straight towards the sleeping Donald and Goofy!
Donald: *Duck yell* "COOOOOOOLLLLD!!"
Goofy: *Yells in surprise* "Gwaahhh!!"
Me: "Heh morning guys!!!"
That was embarrassing.
Me: "I'm so sorry about that!! I was just practicing."
Donald: "Watch where you're aiming that!!"
Goofy: "Gotta say though, that splash was really refreshing, Guhhyuck."
Me: "Yeah I was trying to figure out how to pull off water."
Donald: "Well you were able to gather the water."
Goofy: "Yuh know, you're becoming quite the warrior with your keyblade Scaelux."
Me: "Thanks Goofy, I'm usually a quick study."
We spent some time practicing on skills and magic for a while and I was able to get some really good results out of my training with Donald and Goofy
Learned Stop, Gravity, Reflect, and Cure
Learned Explosion, Ripple Drive, and Ars Arcanum
Goofy: "Not only you turned out to be a great fighter but you're a really nice guy. You remind me so much of Sora, never thought we'd seen that kind of person come from someone like you."
That last part caught my attention.
Me: "Goofy what do you mean by "someone like you."?"
Donald: "When we found you we noticed light and darkness coming from you, we couldn't tell whether to trust you or not."
Me: "Light and darkness?"
Goofy: "Yeah you had a good amount both coming from ya but we couldn't determine what you are."
I gave it some thought, light and darkness, I felt like I heard of something like that before. Then I remembered!
Flashback March: Tuesday 20*
Ansem: "A brand new keyblade wielder who can channel both light and darkness without being harmed and yet still hasn't even called upon either one of them."
Me: "That voice, are you Ansem?!"
Back to the present
Me: "I'm not of light or darkness, I'm both!"
Donald and Goofy looked at me with confused looks.
Me: "I should've told you this sooner but a few days ago, on Tuesday, I had a run in with an old enemy of yours, Ansem the Seeker of Darkness."
Donald and Goofy: "ANSEM!!!"
They shrieked in surprise and horror that I would meet Ansem a day before they arrived. Thankfully, that day, I was recording my entire training session with my phone up against a rock, and it caught Ansem and our entire conversation and I showed the two the footage.
Goofy: "Gawrsh, who'd guess that Ansem would get to yuh before we did, now that I think about it, you do seem to be able to control both at once, especially the part when you summoned those two keyblades like Roxas could."
Me: "Maybe we could use this to our advantage in some way. If Riku could channel darkness, and if Sora could channel light, I don't see why I can't do it at all."
Donald: "NO WAY! We can't lose you to darkness, you're the only keyblade wielder we have around here!"
Me: "Ansem wasn't kidding that I could use both, but I get what you're saying Donald."
Donald: "You do?"
Me: "Yeah, one can be consumed by Darkness through fear and obsession with power yet it can be channeled if one chooses to and even then they're ok and light is drawn from positivity and togetherness. I can do this, but I need you two to trust me. Do you?"
Goofy: "Well, if Scaelux thinks he can do it, then I guess it wouldn't hurt to try."
Donald: "I'm still skeptical about this, if you do start to fall out of line, you're getting a BIG BONK ON THE HEAD!!!"
Me: "Yeah, I'd deserve that, so shall we get started?"
With nods of approval, we were able to figure out how to channel light and darkness. Darkness was difficult to master, you had to willingly take in loneliness and channel it, but I was ready.
I took a deep breath and gathered my anger, my fear and my loneliness and tried to channel it. Doing so was very stressful, my darkness wasn't very deep, yet it called to me, I kept on reminding myself that only I could be in control of my darkness, not anyone else, not even Xehanort. And with a wave of the keyblade, I shot a dark shadowy orb from my keyblade. It was slow at first but then it began to pick up speed, and once it had hit the training boulder, BOOM! The Boulder exploded and I was completely unharmed.
Donald and Goofy were surprised to see the results of my skill and bravery to traverse darkness and use it, which added much more to my repertoire.
Learned Abyss
We then moved onto practicing light. Light was much easier and much, MUCH easier to work with than darkness. I took a deep breath, and gathered my happiness, my joy, and my togetherness. I felt calm, gentle and as light as a feather, unchained from any worries and enemies. I raised my keyblade and with all of my light, I created a spinning top of crystallized light that created a rainbow all around me! The three of us stared at the light before it disappeared into the sun!
Learned Spark
I was able to channel both light and darkness with ease and without repercussion.
Donald: "I NEVER DOUBTED YOU COULD DO IT!!!"
Me: "Oh really?"
Donald was flustered at my witty sarcasm.
Goofy: "I guess Ansem was right, you really CAN channel both."
Donald: "And we learned quickly too, if only Sora was able to see how much of a quick learner you are compared to him!" *chuckles mischievously*
Me and ?????: "HEY I RESENT THAT!!!"
We were taken aback from the words that just flew out of my mouth at that moment!
?????: "Sora, I had a feeling that you were somewhere close by."
Donald, Goofy and I: "ANSEM!!!"
Ansem appeared right in the middle of my backyard!
Ansem: "Ah, and if it isn't Sora's friends too."
Me: "What are talking about Ansem, Sora isn't even here!"
Darkness of the Unknown plays
?????: "Oh, but he is more closer than you can imagine young wielder."
We turned to Ansem's right side to find his nobody counterpart Xemnas walking through a dark corridor.
Me: "I take it you're Xemnas, aren't you?"
Xemnas: "Indeed, though I was skeptical at first, it would appear you really are his vessel, child."
Me: "What on earth do you mean!?"
Xemnas: "That night, about a week ago, you had formed a special bond with Sora who joined with your heart much like Ventus did to his heart."
Donald: "SORA!!"
Goofy: "Is he even telling the truth though?"
Me: "As much as I hate to say out loud, he's telling the truth."
Donald and Goofy: "WHAT!?!?"
Me: "Since both Ansem and Xemnas retain human-like forms I'm able to tell if they're lying just by listening to their breathing and looking at their faces for any sort of twitch. Even if they lack emotion that still doesn't let them get away with lying."
Goofy: "Are you sure?"
Me: "I've never been more certain."
I turned to the halves of Xehanort.
Me: "So what if Sora's heart is inside me, what's in it for you?"
Ansem: "Can't you figure it out yourself boy? In order to set his heart free from your own, you need to be willing to surrender to it."
Xemnas: "Is our new keyblade wielder going to submit, and turn to darkness in his heart."
Me: Nice lying brainiac "Again with the paradox, I know you just lied without having to pay attention."
Goofy: "Oh yeah!!! If you can gain power from the hearts within ya, whose to say you can't use the power of waking to awake his heart."
Donald: "YEAH!"
Me: "Good minds think alike boys."
Xemnas: "But how far will you go to even get it? Aren't you still worried about your missing family?"
Me: "As if, I'm getting that power and saving Sora and my family that you took fro... wait."
Flashback March: Wednesday 20*
Dark Riku: "Heh, to think I lost to you and my spot in the organization to some other teenager. No wonder why Xehanort had me go after you."
Me: "Wait Xehanort sent you here?! And who did he replace you with!?"
Dark Riku: "Heh, wouldn't you like to know."
Back to the present
Xemnas: "Now do you see it?"
Me: "Teenager? No most of them are older than me."
Xemnas: "Indeed, we had to recreate the organization from scratch ever since The Convergence had brought us to this world. And soon along with our current 7, we'll have new hearts to fill our remaining 6 of the organization."
From what I could tell, Xemnas was avoiding any words that could have meant it to be my family. He was with holding information from me so I couldn't tell if he was lying or not. But 6? Something doesn't add up so I decided to play his mind game until he let something slide.
Me: "6? I lost 5 cousins not 6."
Ansem: "Was it truly just your family that was connected to your heart? There is someone who never saw you in a long time who had gone missing along with your family."
Me: "Who is it?"
They were giving me the silent treatment.
Me: "FINE I'LL MAKE YOU TALK!!!"
I casted Fire at Xemnas but he successfully blocked it using a barrier. Thankfully since his barriers only withstand a single hit, I was able to use the smoke from the blast to rush up on him without being noticed, except he did. He used his Ethereal Blades to block my assault when I tried striking him with Ars Arcanum (a series of ferocious strikes coming from swinging the keyblade wildly. Eventually, I was able to get a strike in, follow up with Explosion (magical orbs surround me dealing huge damage), but as soon as I tried to use Ripple Drive (A magical explosion from the tip of the keyblade above the user), Xemnas summoned lasers to shoot me knocking me backwards. Dark Riku was bad enough but Xemnas was on an entirely different level, he even fought me one on one and came out on top!
I wanted to make a comeback as soon as Donald healed me, but when he was finished, Ansem spawned shadow Heartless, Lance Heartless and Large Body Heartless then Xemnas followed up by summoning Dusk nobodies.
They were about to leave.
Ansem and Xemnas: "Go, gain your strength, set your heart free."
And with that, they disappeared.
I was still mad about them messing with me like that but I directed it to the fight ahead of me.
I casted Abyss to clear out all of the Heartless in front of me and Donald followed up with Fire. Goofy then threw his shield to cut them down. Then, I jumped to the middle of the enemy and used Spark (Works the same way in Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance only less start lag) to mow them down. Lastly, Goofy and I finished off with Whirli-Goof, first spinning back to back with our weapons out, then followed by grabbing each other's hands and spinning like a top, and finally, we spun like a wheel to flatten the remaining enemies.
End of song
Goofy: "Well that was a successful Limit."
Me: "Goofy that was wild and I love it."
Before we could High Five, we heard an explosion coming from our neighborhood. As it turned out, Ansem and Xemnas had more up their sleeves.
Me: "My neighborhood is a straight line and since we're at one end, we can fight without having to split up."
Ready and able, we rushed out for the fight of our lives.
Rowdy Rumble Plays
The Heartless and Nobodies were swarming the entire neighborhood, we had to up our game just to keep up with them.
Donald and I started creating an opening within the swarm with Donald's Meteor (Summons giant meteors out of nowhere to rain on the enemy). Then I switched out Kingdom Key U with my dual keyblades and performed Roxas's dual blade combo in effort to wipe them out. Goofy gave me his hand and then I started swinging him around and around to build up momentum and send him across the street like a top. We kept on fighting until we were surrounded by enemies! We were at each other's backs ducking, blocking and counter into their attacks but it was too much! They were gaining up on us so much, we couldn't push them back.
Me: "That's it! STOP!"
All the enemies froze in time giving us enough of a breather to make a comeback, but as soon as Stop expired, they quickly ganged up on us again.
Me: "I'm not going down I'll never surrender guys keep pushing!!!"
Suddenly, a huge rift appeared right on top of us! The rift had some illegible text flowing from it but what ever it was, the Heartless and Nobodies were backing away.
Donald: "What on Earth is that!?"
Me: "I don't know but they seem afraid of it."
Goofy: "I think they're afraid of once going on with your keychains LOOK!"
I looked down at the keychains to find that the red crystals on each blade were emanating a strange light.
Donald: "Scaelux, DO SOMETHING!!"
I examined the crystals. They appeared to be radiating a somewhat rhythmic sort of flash, almost like a heartbeat. And then I knew what I had to do. I tossed my keyblades up in the air which caught the eyes of everyone, the Heartless, Nobodies and even several neighbors were watching them as the crystals began to glow brighter. Finally I caught both of them in a backwards position with crystals shining brighter than ever, then something mind blowing happened!!!
The large rift began to fluctuate and two gigantic beings appeared right out of it! A white, silver, gold and sky blue hued Bahamaut and a black, amethyst, gold and dark blue Ultima Weapon!!! Without hesitation they quickly mowed down the Heartless and Nobodies like they were ants but they were also very cautious as to not harm the environment or the civilians around them who were all gazing at the two beasts right in front of them. But we didn't stop there, we kept on fighting back along with the 2 beasts until there were almost no Heartless or Nobodies whatsoever.
Donald: "Well that's the end of that!"
Goofy: "Yeah, and to think Scaelux's keyblades could summon! That was amazing!"
Something was amiss, the Heartless and Nobodies were gone but I still sensed an eerie presence coming from the neighborhood park.
Donald: "Come on Scaelux! Let's get ready to cele..."
Me: "WAIT!!"
They looked at me with concern.
Me: "I can feel darkness nearby. There's something wrong."
Donald: "We'll help you."
Goofy: "Yeah we always got to stick together."
Me: "I'm sorry guys, but I'll have to do this alone. I need you two to make sure that the townsfolk are safe and sound."
Goofy: "Are you sure? What if it's Xemnas again?"
Me: "It's not him, nor Ansem, someone you know... yet altered, drastically altered."
Goofy: "Well you sound confident, I think you've got this."
Me: "Thanks guys."
Donald: "You better win, or else you're getting 20 bonks on the head!!!"
Me: "Ok ok ok, Donald I got this."
Wishing me luck, I went to the park to investigate.
Music Stops
I could sense a strong presence in the middle of the park, and when I came there, I saw someone standing there in an Organization coat! Or at least it resembled an Organization coat. The coat included metal shoulder pads, knee braces and even the gloves were laced with metal, but what really caught me off guard, was that my opponent didn't have any FEET! Just small pegs to stand on.
Me: "Who are you?"
My opponent remained silent, but I could hear mechanical noises coming from it. So I decided to do a little experiment.
Me: "Fine, if you won't talk, then I'll have to put you on ice, Blizzard!!!"
In response, my opponent drew a Kingdom Key to stop my Blizzard. And it wasn't a modded Kingdom Key at all, it was a pure yellow guard Kingdom Key!!! It couldn't have been Sora since he was stuck inside my heart and it couldn't have been Roxas either, which only meant one other person.
Before I could figure it out though, my opponent's feet ignited into some sort of jets and rushed at me with its keyblade.
Reaction: Reversal
I quickly slid behind my foe and used the teeth of my my Kingdom Key U to un-hood my foe.
I was successful at uncovering my opponent only to be met with the most terrifying foe I had to face. The secret 14th member of the old organization, later to become the 13th of the real organization. I was staring into the eyes of a roboticized Xion! Xion was created by the old organization's 4th member Vexen by placing Sora's memories of Kairi into a blank replica body creating a girl who had the same appearance of Kairi but with black hair and Sora's blue eyes, thus making her debut in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days where she had a strong attachment to Roxas and Axel, but after her death, not only did Roxas wanted to take revenge on the organization, but he gained the Synch Blade ability which allowed him to wield 2 keyblades at once. Unfortunately he was stopped by Riku who had turned into Ansem in order to stop Roxas. Later on Xion would return in Kingdom Hearts 3 as the new 13th member but once Sora used the power of waking to give her heart back, Xion remembered who she was and turned traitor to the organization once more to fight alongside the guardians of light. Nobody would've ever wanted to see Xion like how I saw her then. Her eyes were bright red, had metal skin covering her cheeks and had weird headphones on that seemed to have been attached to her skull!
Given the attributes of Xion then, she reminded me a lot like Aigis from Persona 3, a humanoid gynoid created to exterminate shadows. Though resemblance would be an understatement, Xion was literally turned into a gynoid using the same exact technology used to create Anti Shadow Suppression Weapons only that it was used to convert a life form into a machine!
Before I could examine any further, I was greeted by the most obnoxious member of the organization.
?????: "SURPRISE!!! So what do you think of our new super weapon!?"
The organization free shooter himself Xigbar!
Me: "You must be Xigbar. What did you do to Xion?!"
Xigbar: "Well with this brand new tech we were able to take her heartless shell and put her to good use. This little girl can decimate entire armies all on her own!!!"
Me: "THAT'S INHUMAN JACKASS!!! If you don't want me to poke your left eye out, you'd best let her go!"
Xigbar: "As if, the old coot wanted her to test you after you got mopped by Xemnas."
Me: "I'll have you know I failed with STYLE pal!!!"
Xigbar: "Then let's see how much you've improved over the course of a few hours! Kid take it away!!"
XionBot: "Understood, Master."
Xigbar disappeared within a dark corridor then Xion readied herself to face me. But then, she lifted up her left arm and a vortex of darkness started to spew from her palm! I tried to fight it but it was like trying to fight an F5 Tornado! Eventually the vortex cleared out, only I wasn't in my neighborhood anymore!!
I was standing on top of what seemed to be a table fit for a giant, until I realized that the table wasn't for giants, but I was shrunk!!! I was in Wonderland!!!! Despite my curiosity I noticed Xion hovering in the air, off the table and then she transformed into her armored appearance except with purple and black hues instead of red and gold hues. She then sprouted mechanical wings and her keyblade changed in correspondence of the world we were in.
Rowdy Rumble Plays
Xion lunged down at me in effort to skewer me! I switched to my dual keyblades and guarded against her attack. I then proceeded to counter and follow up with with Gravity to bring her to the ground below the table. She struggled to resist it so I dove in after her. She began to fire homing rockets at me in an effort to slow me down! I skillfully avoided them and used Reflect to reflect them back at her. When I was about a foot and a half from her, I took a page from Sephiroth's book and performed Hell's Gate (His down air in Smash Ultimate) to pin Xion to the ground, causing her to lose her appendages. Xion then used another dark vortex to transfer us to another world!
As soon as the vortex cleared, not only we were back to normal size, but we were fighting in a graveyard with a curved hill! We were in Halloween Town run by Jack Skelington! This time, Xion elongated her keyblade as it matched Halloween town.
Vim and Vigor Plays
She started off by converting her free hand into a gatling gun and fired upon me while airborne. Her aim was precise and I almost couldn't keep up! I took cover behind the hill and used Cure to heal. Even though I couldn't see Xion from behind the hill, I could hear her jet feet coming closer. As soon as she appeared I climbed up the curved side of the hill, back flipped over Xion and delivered a dirty slice down her spine! I then followed up with Explosion to rack up damage and finish off with Ripple Drive! Xion used Dark Vortex again!
This time, we were underground and in a sandy room filled with gold and jewelry. I then realized that I must've been in Agrabah!
Anger Unchained Plays
This time, Xion grew not only 4 arms equipped with cutlasses and shields, but 4 extra arms with gatling cannons and she used them as if she were a weaponized spider!!! She then proceeded to rush at me and slice me! I guarded her cutlass strikes as best as I could but she broke my guard eventually, pinning me to the ground with one of her gatling cannons! I felt the heat of the cannon ready to fire on me with my face against the sand! But that was when I came up with something brilliant!
As soon as the gun got hot enough, I casted Stop to get out of the way just in time for the gun to fire, encasing the gun in glass and immobilizing Xion.
Me: Ha, that's Chemistry for ya.
I proceeded to follow up with Strike Raid to break off her new appendages one by one!
XionBot: "Weapons compromised, threat level critical, system failure imminent!"
Me: "You're THROUGH!"
Music Stops
I charged at Xion ready to finish her, but she Dark Vortexed me again for the 4th time! At first my surroundings remained pitch black for a small amount of time, but when the vortex ended, I was standing on an invisible platform by the train station of Twilight Town!!! And on the station, Xion grew giant, equipped with 4 swords and 4 tentacles with rocket launchers!!!
I dove right in to try and take her out. But I was too careless and paid the price with a huge swing to my torso and barrage of missles, disabling my dual keyblades and reducing me to Kingdom Key U!
XionBot: "Target designated Scaelux neutralized, commencing execution protocol!!"
She brought her blades up above her head, she stared directly at me lying on the ground, and brought her blades crashing down on me!!!
Before I knew what happened to me, I was on a stained glass platform! My vision became blurry as I tried to regain my balance. But then, I heard a voice.
?????: "Don't stop now! If you fall here you'll never save her!"
My eyesight was starting to comeback to to find that the stained glass floor had a huge picture of me in the center, 3 portraits in a ring around me, and 6 portraits along an outer ring. Within the portraits, Sora was the only one present in the inner ring while the the other 2 were pitch black and faded. In the outer ring however, Endraxe, Camonixe, Sojaxen, Exbellisa, and Nieldaxe were present except for one in the outer ring that was also faded.
Dive into the Heart-Destati Plays
?????: "Don't forget, you're not alone."
Me: "Wait... Sora!?"
My vision cleared out to find Sora in his Kingdom Hearts 3 attire standing right in front of me!
Sora: "Don't forget your source of strength Scaelux."
Me: "But Sora, Donald and Goofy are still at my home. I'm all alone here!"
My station of awakening began to dim.
Sora: "That may be half true, but you have me, Donald, Goofy and your family with you at all times. Togetherness is your strength, as is mine."
Me: "But Xion is too powerful I can't stop her!"
My station of awakening began to dim even further.
Sora: "Alone you may as well be powerless, that's why I always said, "My friends are my power!" We can win this and save Xion, We can win this together!"
My station of awakening began to enlighten much brighter than before as Sora held his right hand out to me with the Kingdom Key.
Me: "You're right! How could I be so stupid! I'm never alone!"
I drew my Kingdom Key U and crossed it with Sora's keyblade.
Me and Sora: Let's end this together!"
I awoken back where I was before with Xion ready to execute me. But not this time!
Vector to the Heavens (Limit Cut) Plays
I started emitting a powerful light that blinded Xion from striking. I got up on my 2 legs and drew Kingdom Key U. I then tossed up in the air and caught in the same hand, unleashing my new power!
Formchange: Second Form EX
The white of my torso converted to red like Sora's outfit as I began to hover in place while the dragon pattern of my waste cape turned into the Kingdom Hearts Symbol with crowns on them.
Me: "Bring it on!!"
I rushed towards Xion as I dodged her strikes and missiles as they came. She then tried to slice me from low to high but I rode her sword standing on the top with one foot and slid down the blade like a grind rail using another new power!
Learned Flowmotion
I then delivered a series of powerful slashes to Xion's mask with Aerial Finish, knocking her head backwards and pulling it back to me with Magnet Burst sending her head crashing into the station.
Sora: "Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!"
Me: "Sora!?"
Sora: "Don't worry, but you're the only one who can hear my voice while I'm still in your heart though.
Me: "For Real!? Well that's something I can..."
Sora: "Look out, she's gonna retaliate!"
Me: "I got this one. Hey Xion!! CHEW ON THIS!!!"
As soon as she tried to go in for a head butt, my hands began to glow golden again and I trapped Xion just like I did with Dark Riku but on a larger scale!!
Sora: "What are you doing!?"
Me: "Don't worry, I'll explain later, but for now, her power belongs to us!"
I turned my back towards Xion, back flipped on top of her helmet, and stabbed my keyblade into the golden field just like how Yozora steals Sora's keyblade. I may not have gained a lot of power, but when she tried to fire a barrage of missiles at me, I dodged it with STYLE!
Learned Flash Skip (Xion's arcing jumps that she uses in her data battle in KH3) (P.S. sorry if there is an official name for this move, I looked and I couldn't find anything so I'll be referring to this move as Flash Skip for now)
Not only I was able to learn Xion's Flash Skip, that I used to dodge her attacks but I was able regain my dual keyblades again!
Sora: "You siphoned Xion's power and made it your own!!!"
Me: "Believe me." *While dodging blades* "I had that same reaction when I found out I could do that."
As soon as I struck Xion one more time, she started to go crazy!
XionBot: "Critical damage detected! Threat level MAXIMUM!"
Xion started casting Holy as the purple of her armor transitioned to gold! Even with Flash Skip it was difficult to dodge until I tripped! Holy was starting to catch up to me and was almost about to hit me if it weren't for what Sora did!
Sora: "SCAELUX!!!!"
Light enveloped my vision again until I noticed that I had a white glow around me and I wasn't even touching touching the ground!
And there he was, Sora was standing there in his KH3 attire which for some reason had my normal outfit color pallet instead of his normal colors.
XionBot: "Target designated Scaelux has disappeared. Target designated Sora detected!"
Me: "Did you just take my body?!"
Sora drew his Kingdom Key and rushed in to battle as I was being dragged with him being about at most 25 feet from him.
Sora: "I figured that if you could use that power you used on Xion,I thought I could try fighting too!"
Me: "YOU KNOW ABOUT IT!?!?"
Sora: "Yeah, I was the one who gave it to you in the first place." *Sora flying through the air like the total badass he was*
Me: "FOR REAL!?!?!?!?"
Sora: "Yeah but first we need to take out Xion!"
Apparently Sora was able to use what ever power I stole too, he was using Flash Skip to circle around and confuse Xion like a boss, but seeing that I was able to fly without being detected, I circled Xion to see if I could find an opening and I did! There was a large device on the back of Xion's head! It was feeding her orders like a mind control device!
Me: "Sora! I found an opening, let me take the driver's seat."
Sora: "Got it."
In the blink of an eye we switched rolls and I regained control of my body and ready to strike! Xion went all out with swords, missiles and Holy!
Reaction: Stunt Dodge
I dodged them with precise timing and focus, bobbing and weaving and ducking over various attacks and eventually I got to Xion's mind control device.
Sora: "Scaelux, do you know how to use shotlocks?"
Me: "I don't!"
Sora: "I'll walk you through it."
I listened to Sora's instructions carefully while avoiding the chaos.
Sora: "First clear your mind."
I cleared my mind taking a deep breath.
Sora: "Focus on your target."
I focused directly on the device.
Sora: "Aim and FIRE!"
I channeled all my energy to my keyblade and let out a HUGE BLAST critically damaging the device!
Shotlock: Twilight Ragnarok
Me: "Let's finish this."
Limit: As One
Sora and I combined our Kingdom Keys together to form one unified keyblade, we focused all of our power into it and BANG!!! We let out a huge beam of light that outright destroyed the device!
Xion was starting to fall apart.
XionBot: "System failure, all systems shutting down!"
And with that Xion let out a final Dark Vortex that carried out all 3 of us back home.
Music Stops
When we returned I transitioned back to my base form.
Formchange: Base Form
Xion appeared right before us in her still mechanical Anti Shadow Suppression Weapon like form until the metal on her body started cracking like an egg. The cracks grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger until all those augmentations disintegrated leaving us with the normal Xion.
Me: "Hm?"
Reaction: Warp Snipe
I teleported at the sound of a shot knocking the bullet back to where it came from!
Me: "Time to wash you out! WATER!!"
Learned Water
I then spun my keyblade a couple of times to deliver the final blow!
Me: "ZAN... TETSU... KEN!!!"
I delivered a brutal slash to Xigbar's rib cage!
Xigbar: "You clever little sneak!"
Learned Zantetsuken
Me: "I had a little help from you and the rest of your allies for that."
Xigbar: "Heh, this is only just the beginning kid. We'll see how far you'll go."
And with that Xigbar left using a dark corridor.
Me: "How do you deal with a creep like him?"
Sora: "You have no idea."
Mother, Father, Donald and Goofy: "SCAELUX!!!"
Me and Sora: "Donald, Goofy!!"
Me: "Mom, Dad!!"
I gave them all such a big hug I could've popped them all like balloons!
Mother: "How did you survive!?"
Me: "I had a little help from a friend." *putting my right hand on my heart* "Sora guided me to victory, along with all of you."
Mother, Father, Donald and Goofy: "SORA!?"
With a flash of light we traded rolls again.
Sora: "Donald, Goofy!!!"
Donald and Goofy: "SORA!!!!!"
I watched as those 3 gave each other a huge group hug with my parents slightly confused as to what happened. I then took the driver's seat once more as my summons came down to greet us with bravery and loyalty. Then they returned to my dual keyblade keychains. The neighborhood was cheering and praising us with our victory! But just like what Xigbar said, "this is only just the beginning" he was right about one thing, it was the beginning of one thing, the origin of heroes!
End of Chapter 2
So yeah Sora and I can take turns with using my body and my dual keychains were in reality Summon Materia, which is the only teaser you'll see for what comes next! But where did the organization get the technology to transform Xion into a robot to do their dirty work, and if Kingdom Hearts wasn't the only franchise brought to reality, what other friends and foes will we face?!?!
