Here we are folks. This will pick up where we left off from with Rosa basically obliterating these Heartless.

If anyone has not yet guessed who I based her on, I'll wait after this chapter.

"Strength, to protect what matters."

- Riku

Chapter 3: Mysterious Encounter Pt.2

The heartless went flying from the shockwave created from Rosa's impact. When the dust settled, she looked around to see the results.

'Let's see, there were around 50 heartless before I started. I took out 12 of them from the look of it, add the 3 I took out earlier that leaves me with a good 35 of them left. That's good, I was afraid this would end too soon.' Rosa thought while eyeing down the heartless.

Not too far from the battle, Star and Marco along with the puppies were watching awestruck at what was happening. This mysterious person suddenly appears, introduces herself, then seconds after, dive-bombs into the army of strange black creatures.

"Ah Marco? Did you know that people here on earth could do things like what that stranger can do, or have weapons like the one she's using?" Star asks. "No Star, I had no idea because this is my first seeing something like this too. Oh, so you don't have any idea who she is? No clue." He says going back to watching what this mysterious person does next.

What really caught Marco and Star's attention was the odd looking sword she was holding. Neither of them had never seen a weapon like that before, it interested and perplexed them both at the same time.

"So hey Star? Do you know anything about the weapon she's using? I figured you'd know since you were trained by your royal guards." Marco asked. "Yeah I was but, none of them ever had or showed me a weapon like the one she's using so, I have no clue what it is or how someone gets it. So, we basically have a mystery red-haired swordswomen, using an equally mysterious sword, preparing to fight even more mysterious monster?" Marco says like it's not obvious enough.

"Hmm, pretty much yeah. So then, why are we just standing here instead going to help her? Well, I don't really know. I mean want to rush over there and help her fight those things as much as you do Marco. But, something is telling me that she can handle this herself so, we shouldn't try to jump in and help. Are you sure Star? I mean she did take out the ones that were about to attacks us from behind and she managed to defeat a couple more when she dove at them but, she still looks outnumbered. Marco how many times have we been outnumbered in a fights, and how many times have we won said fight?" Star asks with a cocky smile on her face.

"Alright, alright I get it Star, we'll leave to her. Actually to be honest, I've kinda been having the same feeling you've had about her. Really? Yeah, I'm not sure why exactly but, I just had this feeling in my gut that she'll be okay. Just like I get the feeling you'll be okay when we're in fights." Marco says rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

Star felt something inside when she heard what Marco said. She didn't know what this feeling was but, it made her very happy to hear that he has that much faith in her.

"Thanks Marco. Now, that we've got that settled," Star says turning back to the battle that was about to begin. "GO SHOW THOSE MONSTERS WHAT YOU CAN REALLY DO…UMM? Marco? Do you remember what she said her name was? I kind of forgot it." She says rubbing her head feeling embarrassed about forget the name.

"How do you forget a name 5 minutes after hearing it? And second, why are you acting like a cheerleader right now? Well, I figured if we're not going to help her fight, we could at least cheer her on. Also, I was so distracted by how cool and awesome she looked, I completely forgot she told us her name. It's okay Star. She does look pretty awesome. Anyway, she said her name was Rosa Avenger Star okay?" Marco says.

"Oh, Rosa Avenger. How could I forget a name like that? It's just a cool too. Yeah, I guess it is. Okay, now I can really cheer for her with everything I've got. Come Marco, you should cheer too. Wait hold on, I'm not sure if I should. I mean, what if our cheering distracts her?" he says in concern.

"Trust me Marco, our cheering won't be a distraction for her. In fact, if we cheer well enough, she may show us something really super cool." Star says. "Star I don't think she'll-"Marco was about to say something before he and Star heard someone call to them.

"You know, if you two wanted to see something cool, you could've just asked you know? Although, the cheering part, would only make me want to show you both some of my coolest move."

Star and Marco look to see the person they were talking about, had turned her head slightly and was looking at them with a cocky smile and a battle hungry gleam in her ruby-red eyes.

Star didn't know how long she could contain her building excitement when she heard Rosa say she'll show her and Marco her best move. "You'd really show us? Like REALLY, REALLY?!" Star yelled back at her. "Ha ha yes, really, really and Marco don't worry about your cheering distracting me okay?" Rosa says looking to Marco.

"Oh, alright then. In that case, TAKE THOSE GUYS TO THE CLEANERS ROSA!" Marco yells with vigor. "YEAH! WHAT MARCO SAID, GO KICK THEIR BUTTS ROSA!" Star also yells along with Marco both them pumping their fists in the air. Rosa see the puppies also cheering for her by jumping and barking.

"Heh, alright then," Rosa says turning back around towards the waiting heartless. "Sorry to keep you little guys waiting, so should we continue?"

As if waiting for her to say that, five of the heartless rush forward, then jump up and dive down at her with their three clawed reared back preparing to scratch at their prey. But, before their claws can even reach her head, Rosa brings up her Keyblade and with a second blocks all five attacking heartless before they can even so much as touch a hair on her head.

When she felt the attacks stop, Rosa flung the heartless back into the air and then jumped up after them. She then continuous pass them and stops in mid-air above them and then begins to channel red and black energy into her keyblade.

Then, a red and black energy sword suddenly sprang out of the blade of the keyblade. Rosa then dove down at the five air born heartless with incredible speed.

"TRY THIS! BRUTAL CUTTER!" she yells and swings the blade slicing through the heartless like a hot knife through butter. As she nears the ground, she flips front-wards and lands feet first in a crouching position, while holding her keyblade in a reverse grip with the glowing red and black sword still visible. Rosa looks up to see the 30 remaining heartless eyeing her carefully.

Star and Marco's jaws fell open after watching Rosa deflect five attacks at once, then summon a crimson and black energy sword to cut through five of the black monster while in mid-air.

"Oh. My. Gosh. That was THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!" Star yells with excitement at seeing Rosa's incredible skills so far. "First of all, yeah that was really amazing. But Star, could not yell so loud, I'm right next to you" Marco said checking his ears to make sure he could still hear.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry but Marco? Did you see what she did? How can you expect no to yell after seeing that? I guess you're right. I mean if this how good she is, I wonder what else she can do." Marco says still awestruck.

"Alright, Star and Marco? I'm about to finish this now. But, for safety's sake, you two might want to take those puppies and back up to a safe distance. Aww how come?" Star asks/complains. "Because this next attack is pretty destructive and I don't want you all getting caught in it, just back up to a safe enough distance where you can still see, this the move that got me the nickname 'Crimson Avenger' so make sure you both get a good look at this one." Rosa says while still eyeing down the heartless.

"Uh Star? I know you want to see her big finishing move, but maybe we take her word for it and put some space between us and whatever it is she's going to do." Marco said placing his hand on her shoulder to reassure her.

"Sigh okay. Just tell us, will it be something really cool and amazing?" she yells to her. "Oh yeah trust me, this is something you won't soon forget. Yes alright then. Come Marco, grab the puppies and let's move it!" Star says excitedly as she drags Marco, who managed to gather up the puppies and speed off to a safe watching distance.

Once she felt that they were at a safe enough distance, Rosa sends a glare at the heartless.

"Okay you little heartless, time for you say goodbye to this realm!" she says lunging towards the heartless horde with a red streak coming off from her. The heartless responded to this and started to rush at her as well, their yellow eyes glowing in fury.

When they were almost close to each other, Rosa saw her opening. "Right where I want you BLOOD CUTTER!" she yells and then swings her keyblade from behind her firing the energy blade off it, which then started to spin like a vertical saw blade, which then began to rip and shred through the heartless army who didn't notice Rosa was now directly behind them due to the chaos of her attack.

By the time what was left of them notice she was there, she was already channeling that same red and black energy into her keyblade again. When she lifted it over her head, an even larger energy blade shot out towards the sky.

Once they were sure they were at a safe distance, Star and Marco turn back around just in time to see the gigantic sword shining red and black in the sky.

"OH MY GOSH MARCO DO YOU SEE THAT?!" Star yells out amazed at the giant blade. "Yeah I see it alright, now know why she told us to get back." Marco said equally awestruck at what he was seeing.

"NOW DISSAPER INTO THE CRIMSON LIGHT, BLOOD FALLS!" Rosa roars and slams the gigantic scarlet blade into the ground creating a massive crimson explosion which eradicated the remaining heartless in an instant.

Star, Marco and the puppies shielded their eyes from the light of the explosion with their hands/paws. When it died down, they saw that area where the attack happened was completely barren; but outside it, everything else was okay.

"That was so, so," Marco said trying to get the words out but couldn't. "AWSOME!" Star suddenly blurted out.

"OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH! THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY WHOLE LIFE! Yeah that, that was definitely something!" Marco said still in shock at the spectacle he and Star just saw.

"Well, come on Marco, huh? Wait? Where are we going? Where do you think? We're going to go talk to her. She did say she would answer some of our questions and I've got a ton of them to ask her, so come on already! Alright, alright hang on." he said running with the puppies after Star who was already speeding towards Rosa.

Rosa looks around at the aftermath of here attack with a satisfied expression. "Well, from the look of things, I kind of managed not to completely wreck this place, that's a plus I guess." She says scratching the back of her head modestly.

"That was so cool! You're so cool! Where'd you learn to do that? Take you tell me? Please? Pretty please?" Rosa turns around to see Star asking her a lot of questions with an excited look in her eyes.

"Umm, Star hold on a sec, you're talking so fast she can't understand you." Marco says pulling Star back so that she's not so close to Rosa. "Sorry, it's just Star gets like this whenever she sees something really amazing, and seeing you do all those crazy attack moves basically put her in overdrive. Well can you blame me Marco? If you were me, you'd be completely amazed too." she said.

Watching the two debate, Rosa couldn't help but start laughing a little at what she was looking at. Star and Marco stop debating when they hear her laughing.

"Hey, what's so funny? Ha, ha; I'm sorry, it's just you both are the spitting image two friends I once knew. Anyway, I assume you came running up to me because you have a lot of questions don't you? Yeah, and judging from Star's expression, I think I know which one she'll ask first," Marco said pointing to said princess who had her sparkling eyes on the weapon in Rosa's hand.

"Ha see what you mean. Okay princess, go on and ask." Rosa said motioning to Star.

"Alright so, could you tells us about that sword in your hand and where you got it from?" Star asks pointing at said weapon in Rosa hand.

"Oh this here?" she said lifting it up so that Star and Marco could see it. "To answer that, this is called a 'Keyblade', it's a weapon whose history is a completely mystery, so I don't know much about. As for where to find one, I'm afraid it's not so easy, due to the fact that so few people know about." Rosa explained. "So then, how did you get yours?" Marco asked. "I got mine from my master after my inheritance ceremony. Huh? What's that?" Star asked.

"A keyblade inheritance ceremony is when someone who already has a keyblade and is at a master's level can choose a successor in receiving a keyblade. Oh, so it's kind of like how I got my family's wand." Star says showing her wand to Rosa.

"Well, kinda. Except, for one thing. When a master choose a successor they need to test the strength of their heart." She says. "How do they test a person's heart?" Marco asks curiously.

"To test the strength of someone's heart, the master must allow them to hold their keyblade. If the keyblade approves of the person, then it will stay in their hand. Wait, if 'it' approves of them? What do you mean by that?" Star asked confused.

"Oh right, forgot that part. You see keyblades have wills of their own or simply put, they have hearts of their own, so if a keyblade senses that you have a strong heart, then you can wield it does that make sense?" Rosa asks hoping she didn't confuse them more.

"I think I got? What about you Marco?" Star asks her friend. "I think what she means Star, is that if a keyblade wants to be friends with you it will let you hold it, is that it Rosa? Umm, that's a lot simpler than how I put it." Rosa said scratching her cheek with an embarrassed smile. "So hey, are there other ways someone can get a keyblade Rosa?" Star asked.

"Hold on Star, ah Rosa before you answer that can you tell us about those monsters that attacked Star and me?" Marco blurted out suddenly.

"Oh right, it's a good thing you brought that up, I might have forgotten about it." She said. "Those monsters are called 'Heartless.' Heartless? Yes, their beings born from the darkness in people's hearts and are only seen in places that are either close to a place called 'the realm the Darkness?' or places where darkness is present and before you ask no, earth isn't anywhere near the realm of darkness. So, you don't have to worry." Rosa says already seeing the worried look on Marco's face.

"Whew, thank goodness."

Suddenly, Rosa felt a familiar presence enter her mind.

"Okay Rosa, I think you done enough spoiling things that I wanted to tell these two for now. I need to speak with you in private, I found something out." The voice of Rosa's master said in a little grumpy tone. "Understood and I'm sorry?" She said in her mind.

"Rosa? Is something wrong?" Star asks seeing how the red head suddenly stopped speaking.

"Oh no, it's nothing. My master just contacted me, so I have to go now. What?! Aww, but you never got to answer the rest of my question? Star said disheartened. "I'm sorry Star. Look, if we run into each other again, I'll answer your other questions okay?" Rosa asks looking to the young princess.

"Hmm okay, it's a deal. Good. Oh by the way, that puppy you two were looking for, he's at the park entrance waiting for you." Rosa said about to enter the dark corridor that appeared in front of her.

"Wait, how do you know he's there?" Marco asked. "I saw him sitting there before I came to help you, he looked as if he was looking for the both of you. See Marco? It's like I said, you did a great job of training him." Star said hugging Marco.

"She's right Marco, you should have put more faith in yourself. Now, I should get going I'll see you two around kay? You bet, right Marco? Yeah really hope to see you again Rosa and thanks for helping us."

Rosa wave's goodbye, then enters the dark portal, which closes behind her.

"Come on Marco, let's go get Barco and then hurry back home. Huh? Why do you want to hurry back to the house all of a sudden Star?" Marco asked confused.

"Because I want asks Glossaryck if he knows anything about what Rosa told us." Star says. "Alright, right behind you" he said following after Star as raced towards the entrance.

(Neighboring building near the park)

On the roof top of a building, a person wearing the same black hooded coat as Rosa, watched as Star and Marco headed for the entrance.

"Hmm, looks like things may begin to move forward sooner than we thought. Especially, with everything I've set in place here." He said leaving through a similar dark portal.

A/N: I'll end it here for now. I know I said Glossaryck would tell Moon and the commission about the Keyblade war but, I feel that this is a good stopping point. So put the pitch forks down I'll include it in the next chapter that I'll be working on right after this one.

Anyway, I'll see you all in the next chapter.

A/N: hey there, so i know this is last minute but, i wanted to ask you guys something. Do you guys want drive forms to be in the story? and do you want either Star or Marco to be able to sync keyblades?

you can leave your answers in your reviews or pm me. okay, now i'm done see ya.