Special Thanks TO: Firagamaster, Yunastrife, Elric the White wolf, Kuro Suzaku, Kiako Ornitier and myself.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the titled games and characters in this fic.

Chapter 2: A Dark Sorcerer

Narrator: Avalon

Yup, here we are sittin around a campfire before the glorious ruins of Zanarkand. Yea I know what your thinking, Zanarkand what the hell? Yea… And this isn't one of those Final Fantasy X jump in CO fics. This shit is real. I'll explain the details later, hell your gonna read the fic you'll find out soon enough! Just for now know that I'm traveling with abunch of crybabies! Here we are the six of us in another world instead of exploring we're quote on quote " Trying to find a way home!" Damn that Fira. He's been down with me this entire time now that we find out something new he want's to switch out and go home! Listen folks I know I'm not making any sense so lets just get on with this flashback o mine! This is Avalon and this is my side of this stupid journey!

Time: 7:56pm

Location: Avalon's House

" Dammit… I lost again!" I said drinking a canned soda and tossing it behind me into the trashcan. I was playing Soul Calibur for the Xbox in my room. I had Spawn and I was kinda getting my ass handed to me by Soul Edge. Hell I can't help it the difficulty is all the way up… I pressed pause and looked over at my desk where my computer lay present next to abunch of books. I had piles of homework and it was already going on eight-o clock. Shit I hate being an honor role student… they expect everything from you!

" I really should get on that!" I said walking over to my TV and cutting it off right along with the Xbox. I yawned and stretched before returning to my desk.

" Whoa!" I said sitting down in my rotating chair. I opened the book of physics and another book on Trigonometry.

" Man this really blows…" I said closing my eyes trying to imagine the homework disappearing. I opened my eyes to disappointment, as the homework was still visible. I then looked at my computer, which was off, I cut it on and watched it as it booted up. I thought maybe I would check my mail, maybe Firagamaster has reviewed my story fic… Latunza Hit Volume 2. I gotta atleast get a message to him about my other fic not being updated for the past couple of weeks.

Yea just as you may read I'm a fic author too…

The computer finally booted up to speed and I logged onto the Internet. Then from there I logged into my Yahoo account. To my thoughts exactly I had one lone email.

" Yea" I said to myself silently. I clicked on the mail thing then went to Inbox where I found the sender name to be # It was a sorta an infected kinda virus name. I couldn't decipher it… When I clicked on the letter this unknown person sent me my entire computer screen went blank!

" Wha…what happened?" I asked myself as my heart jumped from the knowing of unsaved data being lost. I looked at the computer light it was still green and the generator was still running my computer and monitor was still on!

" What the hell?" I said. Just as I was about to turn my computer off a small Card shaped like those cards from the game Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, floated by and stopped in the middle of the screen.

" Whoa…" I sat back in my chair and watched it as it twirled around as if being spun by the wind. The card all of a sudden stopped and faded away into darkness with the rest of the screen. Then from out of the disk socket in my computer came that very card! I jumped alittle and my heart started races to the thought of that movie "The Ring" Being real! Boldly I took the card from out of the socket and looked at it. On the little golden card was a picture of the… Millennium Rod, the one that Yami Bakura wielded in Yu Gi Oh!

" Dammmm… a mysterious Yu Gi Oh card and I got my hands on it!" I said to myself in wonders of my new card. When I looked up at my monitor screen it had a small door on it. Looked much like those church doors you see in New York City! On the door was a picture of seven hearts, one of them was black, one was red, another was blue, another was purple, another was white, another was green and the last one in the middle looked as if it was sown together like a made up heart. Sudden my new card shot a spark as if it caught flame for only a Milo second. With that the door opened and disappeared,

" Man, that was weird" I said looking down at my card. The card's color was no longer golden it was all gray and the picture didn't have the millennium rod on it anymore.

" Wait what just happened now?" I asked myself. Sudden I could feel myself slowly lifting off of the floor, then all at once I started to fly into my computer monitor!

" AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" I screamed as I flew through a long tunnel that consisted of dialed numbers flying past and through me. I was moving at the speed of light! Just flying! All of a sudden the tunnel came to an end with me meeting a white light, when the light cleared I was floating around on the clouds.

" Man I've had too much Coke a Cola!" I said to myself. Then suddenly I started falling…

" AHHHHH!" I screamed again, I started to fall in the middle of this broken down city! I fell and fell as I came up on the ground I stopped six inches before touching the ground and landed on my back.

" Ow… sheesh…man what a wild ride" I said as I rubbed my head. I looked up at and around, I was in a ruin of some sorta, abunch of buildings broken down everywhere, crows and other birds flying around cocking at stuff and the sun covered by gray clouds as far as I could see.

" Hey I seen this in a movie once, I've gone into the future! Everyone I knew, mom, dad, girlfriend their all dead!" I said. " NOOOOOOO!" I screamed while dropping down to my knees.

" No need for tears, your not in the future" A voice said from nowhere. I jumped up on my knees and searched around for the wielder of this voice. " You are merely in a desecrated city known as Midgar" I turned completely around to see a very tall man in a long black jacket with a long zipper. He also had a hood on that hid his entire face in shadow, it was pretty cool I wonder where he got that jacket from.

" Wait Midgar?" I repeated.

" Yes" He replied.

" The Midgar that Avalanche resides?" I asked.

" Avalanche is no more, Shinra had been broken down by the Heartless" He replied.

" Whoa whoa whoa happy boy, your saying I'm in a Final Fantasy World!" I shouted.

" Yes, in lamer terms" He replied.

" YIPPEEEE!" I jumped up kicking my heels like Fred Flinstone!

" Huh?" The man didn't know how to reply to my actions. I was pretty damn exciting, I'm living some nerds dream right now!

" So I'm in the Final Fantasy 7 world huh? And the heartless are here too?" I asked.

" All will be revealed in do time, for now take this!" He pulled out a deck of those KH: Chain of Memory cards and threw the deck at me. I caught the deck with my left hand and stared at it, it had a small belt around it holding them together. " And this too" He tossed me… THE MILLENNIUM ROD! I almost foamed out of the mouth as I held it in all of it's glory. The millennium rod!

" Now listen carefully…" When he said that all of time stopped, the birds stopped moving in mid air, the fly that buzzed around my head stopped moving an even the bird poop in the air stopped as well.

" In this world, to harm or deal damage to anything is used by cards only" He said. I held the millennium rod in my hand with the deck as I shook my head in understandings of his word. I strapped the deck to my beltloop as I put on a dark navy blue cape I found on the ground to shield my attire. I wore a white sleeveless hoody that fit like a shirt and dark black jeans with small pockets to the sides of them and on my feet I had black boots. For accessories I wore a pair of sunglasses on my collar,

" Watch as I demonstrate" He pulled out a sword twice the size of my body and tried to cut me I just back but wasn't able to dodge it. The blade went right through me like that of a ghost weapon!

" You see, weapons are of no effect without a card to guide it's power" He swung the sword into pillar the sword went through that too! He then pulled out a red card and slapped it on the sword. The card levitated from the sword like it was magnetically floating over it. Something you would probably see on Shaman King. Suddenly he swung the sword into the pillar again and the sword broke the pillar in too…

" I don't feel I need to explain any further, magic and summoning is the same way as well…" The man said with his arms crossed.

" Whoa…" I said stunned by the circumstances of this world.

" There are five types of cards, Attack Cards, Magic Cards, Summon Cards, Darkness Cards and Key Cards…" He said.

" Darkness sounds like a good place to start" I said. He pulled out a card that was completely black!

" Everyone, you, me everyone, everything… has darkness within them this card helps unleash that" Darkness said. He walked over to a healthy blossom then placed the darkness card on it, the healthy blossom turned from pink to green and it's stem gained thorns and from the peddles of the flowers leaked acid.

" Whoa!" I said stepping back abit from the deadly plant.

" Darkness Cards, only unleashes the darkness, your weapon the M. Rod was designed to house the power of darkness… You have more darkness cards in your deck then you do hair on your head" He said.

" Okay one last question… where do you come from all of the time" I referred to his constant teleporting around the place.

" Hahahahahahaha… all will be revealed in do time until then keep the light within your heart burning strong" With that he disappeared. To me it was all nuts but then again it's not everyday that a guy gets cut a break and thrown into another world right? Suddenly time returned to it's normal flow as everything went back to moving. I held and gazed upon the M.Rod… Nothing concerned me at this point, Heartless nah, World not the slightest! The only thing I was worried about was scratching the paint on this beautiful rod. I then looked around at the broken down city of Midgar breathing in the smell of oil and gas from old machines.

" Hmph" I started walking around in the wasteland of the Heartless. In the game Meteor totally wrecked this town now all of a sudden the Heartless done it? As I walked along the wreckage I all of a sudden I heard the clashing of steel and gunfire. I hit the deck as soon as I heard the gunfire, then started crawling over to the scene. Standing back to back was… a guy with blonde spiky hair, whom wore a crimson cape and wielded a huge buster sword that was wrapped in bandages, a huge guy with a gun for an arm and a hot chick with blue hair and gun barrels on her boobs... A ring of heartless surrounded them,

" Chance of Escape 24.7percent" The hot blue haired chick said.

" I hate your stupid estimates Kos-Mos" The spiky headed blonde said.

" Hey I'm outta cards" The huge guy said.

" Here make em count!" The spiky headed blonde said tossing the big guy three cards. All of a sudden the Heartless jumped on all of them, the blonde haired guy started swinging wildy destroying heartless making them explode on contact with his buster sword.

" Damn outta cards" The spiky headed blonde said dropping his buster sword low to the ground.

" Me too again" The huge guy said.

" Cards Depleted" The blue haired chick said. Hey if I can remember from what that guy told me you need cards to fight and since they ran out of cards… the heartless will… I watched as the heartless slowly attack them slicing them and kicking them. They tried countless times to revive their decks but they needed time. Ahh what should I do! I jumped out from my hiding place, with five cards in my hand, I slapped the cards on the M Rod. I then swung at the first wave, the Millennium Rod extended about 10feet destroying the heartless that nibbled away at the blonde's arm. I then spun the rod around in a propeller motion wiping out all of the nearby heartless with every attack I noticed on card being knocked off and disappearing. I cleared all of the Heartless within 4minutes I gained afew scars here and there but I was fine.

" Who are you?" The blonde suddenly rushed me.

" Is that's how you thank someone for saving your butt?" I asked putting on my sunglasses.

" Yea Cloud this kid saved our asses back there" The big guy said.

" Affirmative" The blue haired hot chick said.

" Screw this… hey baby, what's up with me and you? Wanna hook up?" I asked the blue haired chick. She slowly turned her head towards me and her eyes were blank.

" Improper use of grammar" She said.

" So is that a yes?" I replied.

" Hmmm… I said he can't join Barret" Cloud said arguing with the big guy.

" Listen here you ain't the leader of this operation, I am… If you don't like it Cloud… then tough" Barret said. Barret rushed over to me.

" Hey kid, you ever think about joining Avalanche?" He asked.

" No" I replied.

" Come on… Come take a walk with me." He said. With that Barret and I walked through Midgar, where the homeless slums lived.

" They had nothing, now they have even less than that, when the city was destroyed" He said.

" Oh my god…" I said looking at all of the little kids running and playing with no shoes they truly were homeless and the heartless sure weren't making things easy.

" So… changed your mind" Barret asked.

"…"

"…"

"… Where do I sign up?"

Shine-Avalon

Posted BY: Firagamaster