Chapter Three: Rebellious Ideas
"7: 00 A.M. wake up!"
Nick struggled to open his heavy eyelids. He opened them slowly listening to his alarm clock repeat the same words over and over again.
"7: 00 A.M. wake up!"
He grabbed the clock and pressed a small button under it to turn the alarm off. He stood up and went to the bathroom a few inches away. He washed his face and took out a small box about the size of a bubble gum wrapper. He opened the small carton box and took out a pill he put in his mouth after squeezing it tightly. After thirty seconds, he spat a white liquid out and in an instant he had clean teeth. After changing, he took his briefcase and a book called "Legends and Myths of the Keyblade". He got into his Flyer parked in his garage and set the coordinates to the university. He turned the automatic pilot on and read the book on his way to work.
After parking, he exited hisFlyer and met with one of his most brilliant students, Stephen Carlski. The student greeted him cheerfully and approached him quickly.
"Hey Mr. Bolsey, how are you?"
"I'm fine Steve; I'm just in a hurry."
"Why's that?" The teenager asked.
"Because your history class begins in five minutes."
"Oh shoot!" Carlski exclaimed as he then rocketed into the building.
Later that morning, in the second hour of history class, Nick asked a question about the Keyblade and the Key Master.
"So, does anyone know exactly why the Keyblade was given to the Key Master and not to his friend?"
Of course, Steve was the only one to know the answer. Nick rolled his eyes and sighed before selecting Stephen.
"Because his friend chose the road of darkness?"
"Correct Mr. Carlski." The unsurprised teacher replied.
Right at that moment, the alarm rang.
"History class over, get ready for math; students." The computerized voice said.
All the students began to get up immediately. But Nick stopped them before they could leave.
"Just remember you have a test tomorrow. So study from pages 106 to 130."
After the reminder, the history teacher let his desperate students run to their lockers. Later that day, when all his classes were over, Bolsey left to the parking lot to leave the university when he heard a man screaming. He was about to get into his Flyer but he let go of the door and turned his head towards the sound.
"No please, no! Don't—AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" A frightened man pleaded for mercy.
It was a Heartless. Obviously, the man had broken the law and had now gotten his heart taken away from him. It would not be the first time Nick would've had to witness such horror, in fact, it happened on a daily basis. Nick was sick and tired of having to see such things on what should be a normal day; but then again there was nothing he could do…or was there?
"No…" Nick shrugged it off.
He exited the parking lot and drove home. The next day, Nick walked slowly across the classroom, collecting the exams as he went.
"Mr. Carlski, your test please." He patiently remarked.
"Oh, yes." Stephen woke up from a daydream.
Of course the wise Mr. Carlski had finished the exam a long time ago, so he just waited for the time to be over and before he knew it he was daydreaming. After having collected all of the tests, he sat on his chair and began correcting them right away on his desk.
"Let's see…" Nick whispered under his breath as he began to check each test.
After ten minutes or so he reached Steve's test. Ready to just write down a big one-hundred on the test, he was a bit surprised to see the answers on Carlski's test:
1: Why did the Key Master fight the Heartless? To ensure the worlds' safety.
2: How did the Keyblade wielder get presented with the two final options regarding the worlds' fates? When he finally reached the world of light, the unknown entity inside offered him the two options that the light could spread across the universe.
3: Why did the wielder choose the option of creating one planet made up of all the worlds without a barrier protecting it? He chose it because he thought it was the best thing for the worlds.
Nick hesitated, but he marked questions one and three wrong. Ever since he was first told the legend of the Keyblade and its wielder as a child, he knew that the wielder wasn't the hero everyone thought he was. He was the cause of what was going on now. It was all the Key Master's fault.