Chapter Four: A Quick Leave

Leon fell down and didn't get up. It looked as if he was going to lose the match. Then out of nowhere, a white cocoon of light formed around him and lifted him up. Then, it broke, and Leon was standing there he lifted his gunblade and pointed it towards Cryra. It then, fired eight bullets of different colors at him. As each bullet hit, Cryra lost more and more strength. Then, after the eight bullet hit, Cryra fell down on the floor. Adrian ran over to him to check if he was alright but when he touched Cryra, Cryra got to his feet and yelled at the top of his lungs, in a voice that was oddly familiar to Sora, "No get away from me, death sewer!"

"What?" Adrian said as Cryra ran away from the arena. "Oh well, I pronounce the winner of the fight to be Leon. Now onto the final match Sora vs. Leon begin." Adrian announced, as he walked out of the arena. He then looked at Sora and saw the power of chaos in him. Then, he looked over at Leon who had a white light gleaming in his eyes.


Could it be? Adrian thought. Could that be the power he has? It is not chaos as I thought it would be, but he taped into the eight powers so well. And it looked as if he was surprised by the happenings. He has done it. He has tapped into the power. He will be the new guardian I can feel it.

Leon ran towards Sora his gunblade ready to accept the victory, he himself ready for the new title. As he swung, Sora just dodged it. He knew he couldn't win this way so he enlarged his sword. But before he could swing it, his finger pulled the trigger making a white bullet shoot out and hit Sora, as he was casting a spell. When the bullet hit, a dark purple energy jumped all over Sora's body apparently dealing him great pain till he was unconscious. "One, two…" Adrian started to count and continued on till ten. Then Adrian announced the winner, and told Leon to meet him in his hotel room for the title.


Leon came to the room and Adrian was there putting a cold washcloth on his head. "So what's my title? Champion? Lord? New King?" Leon said confidentially.

"No your title is guardian, Leon." Adrian replied to the gloating sense Leon had, "This job entitles you to guard Traverse Town from the heartless, and you can use that new magic you learned to do it. For now, the way the heartless are getting in is through a hole I have corked up. But when we leave it will be open and you must keep this city safe till we can seal the opening."

"What I thought-"Leon started

"You thought wrong then, but the fact of the matter is you are the strongest here and so you must protect the citizens from these monsters, for they can't do it by themselves you get it. I don't care what you want; it is your responsibility to do this." Adrian interrupted. Leon looked into Adrian's eyes and what he saw there was a stubbornness that he knew he would never change.

"Fine I'll do it." Leon said as he backed out of the fight.


Sora awoke to the sound of thunder. He heard the rain hitting his window softly as the wind deflected its course. He looked at the door to the room and saw three little shadows move in. "Shit, the cork has broken." he said, as he went to Adrian's bed. "Wake up we have a problem." Sora said shaking Adrian's body Adrian got up and opened his eyes.

"What?" Adrian questioned still half asleep.

"The heartless are here." Sora said looking worried as the shadows moved towards them. Adrian got up and saw the moving shadows. He quickly got to his feet and summoned his keyblade. Sora did the same.

"Lets go" Adrian said as he pulled Sora with him out the front window, and began to run but were greeted by thousands of heartless. Adrian and Sora looked at each other and understood, in some under rooted way, what each other were thinking. They both turned to the heartless and began to cut them down one by one.


"Where are you Sora?" Cryra asked himself. "Do you remember what has happened and who you are with? What has happened to you?" Cryra was standing at the top of a building looking down on the courtyard he soon saw Adrian and Sora enter only to be stopped by the heartless. "I will not let you destroy him with your own twisted creations Ansem." Cryra then jumped off the building and began to run straight down the side. As he reached the bottom, he pushed off the wall and landed on the ground only to start running towards Sora again. As he got there he pulled his keyblade thought the darkest shadows to himself and ran right into the thousands of heartless. He swung the blade and killed them all leaving only Sora, Ansem, and himself. "I know who you are Ansem. You may have been able to corrupt me through my desires, but I will not let you show Sora the darkness." Cryra said as he pulled back his hood to show his real face.
"Riku?" Sora asked, looking upon a face from his childhood, which he had long since seen. The face was that of Riku's, but it had lost its innocent smile had its soft look. Now it had a cold look upon its face, as if had seen the most horrible things in the world, which it probably had. It also didn't contain the smile, but rather an accusing look on it as Riku's eyes stared at Adrian.

"I am not Ansem, Riku," Adrian told him, "I am Adrian, a master of chaos magic, but let us have formalities later." Adrian soon grabbed Sora's and Riku's hands and pulled them from Traverse Town. He began to fly in a straight direction, as if he knew where he was going. Soon, Adrian was approaching a barrier as black a death itself.

"Um Adrian we're headed for that wall!" Sora warned

"I know." Adrian stated.