awakening of destiny

Thinking quickly, Yukomo leapt into the air, narrowly dodging two of the strange shadow beings and as they struck each other they dissipated into nothingness. Another of the beings jumped up into the air and slashed its oversized hand at Yukomo, and he brought his sword up to block and was sent flying backwards into a previously invisible barrier. It flared up with a brilliant white light as he struck it, and he let out a yelp of pain as he fell to the ground. Using his sword he pushed himself up and looked about at the well organized gang of shadows that were nearing him like the oncoming darkness of a starless night. He had to act quickly and just then one of them lunged at him with great speed, and the only thing he had time to do was jump out of the way. "Damn it" he thought to himself in complete panic, a cold sweat enveloping him entirely "what are these things!"

"they are the hearts of the lost, the darkness that has consumed those souls that have allowed themselves to drift into nothingness…" came the voice in his head that he was getting from the figure he had previously come in contact with before he was attacked. "They are the shadow, they are those who seek out the hearts that they do not have, and the remnants are the light…"

Yukomo slid his right foot back, and then made a great sweeping motion with his sword to slash through one more of these shadow beings and cut straight through it, its body fading into nothingness like the two others had done. "Those without hearts" Yukomo thought to himself as he ran across the large pentagram that he was busy battling these shadows in. "I shall call them the heartless, but why are they here?"
"There was one other man who thought as you do" the voice said once more "do not let yourself become as he was!"
Yukomo spun his body around and threw the sword out in front of him and it slashed through one of the heartless as it moved quickly across the area, hitting the barrier and rocketing back towards him. Yukomo turned quickly and started running towards yet another one of these heartless, and it sped up its pace and knelt down a bit before jumping and ascending at him at an incredible speed. Yukomo slid under it and as it landed the sword that was moving back towards its wielder thrust right through it. Yukomo slid to a halt and kicked off the ground, back flipping over his sword and grasping onto the hilt as he landed, slashing it to the side and smiling a bit as he noticed that he had done away with all the heartless single handedly.

Just then a great blinding white light shone through out the area that made it impossible to see for a time, and then it faded away just as quickly and all that remained was a cylinder of white energy. Amazed, Yukomo walked over to it to examine it and before he could get even five feet from it, it reformed itself into a strange white being. It was almost human, except for the fact that it had almost a tube for a head and its arms and legs ended in a point. It had two swords- or sword like objects –at its sides, and it stood there with its right on the left sword, and its left on the right sword. Yukomo took a few staggering steps backwards and brought his sword up to shoulder height, holding it with both hands so that the tip of the blade faced his new foe. "to become one with the light, one must cast off the shadow…" came the voice of that unknown being once more in Yukomo's head, and with that said the being of white vanished without a trace. Confused and slightly annoyed, Yukomo dropped his guard, and just then he sensed something come up from behind him. Quickly he turned and brought his sword up; just barely blocking the attack from what he thought was gone. It brought its other blade around in a quick but powerful horizontal slash and it connected with Yukomo, sending him back a ways and leaving a searing pain in his side. He leapt high into the air and came crashing down upon the being, it blocking his Arial attack and using its other sword to swing around at an upwards slant. Yukomo quickly moved his sword and slammed it down upon the slashing sword, driving it into the ground. He then slammed the other out of the white being's hand and quickly grabbed it out of the air, and then tossed his own up to grab the one that was embedded into the ground. When the being reared back to get away from Yukomo he just smirked and knelt down to the ground, and then pushed himself off and through the air, thrusting one of the blades into and through the beings chest and pressed him against the wall. Yukomo then reared backwards and using as much force as he could he thrust the other sword into the beings head, and then back flipped and caught his own sword in midair, and then jumped again forward once he had barely landed on the ground and flipped a few times through the air before finally slashing all the way down through the being to the floor, and then in one more quick movement he turned the blade upside down and slashed up through him at a slight diagonal upwards slant; turning slowly from the ending blow to stand straight up facing the opposite direction.

"So that must have been the light separated from the darkness that whoever that thing is was talking about" Yukomo said out loud walking to the center of the pentacle "so just what's next then?"

As he walked to the center he was halted by the subtle laughter coming from his side, and he turned his head a bit just so that he could see what it was coming from. As it turned out, two of the dark and looming hooded figures stood there, one of them had their arms crossed over they're chest and as it seemed they were the ones laughing, while the other had their arms crossed behind their backs. The one laughing turned they're head a bit and in a pompous tone said to the other "so this is the kid that you were telling me about? Piece of cake, he can't be that difficult even if he does unlock it!" He began to walk forward towards Yukomo "don't worry, I'll take care of this little runt, you can go run along and take care of whatever you need to" he said and the other figure disappeared leaving he and Yukomo standing there facing each other.

"So who the hell are you" Yukomo said with a sneer as he walked further forward to the center of the pentagram "and what do you mean by 'unlocking it'?"

The black hooded figure brought both hands up and removed his hood, revealing a sharp face with hair that resembled Renos's hair, only this was very full and spiked backwards slightly. "Just reach out with your sword in hand to the keyhole right at your feet kid and you'll see what I'm talking about" he said "and by the way, since this is one of the last moments that you'll have to enjoy, I may as well tell you my name. I am Axel, member VIII of Organization XIII."
Yukomo nodded and reached out to the keyhole in center space of the pentacle and his sword turned a brilliant glimmering white and then black, and then back to white again before the blade jutted out a bit further and curved at the end down into a large hook, a second hook swooping down and almost touching the inside of the larger one. Down near the hilt the blade extended out on both sides, the lower more than the higher until it made sort of a crescent moon, and a swooping hook appeared at the top of the blade nearer to the center. Slight curves formed on both sides of the blade and the guard exploded out around Yukomo's hand and went into a sort of wavy hook like way, a chain extending from a ring at the end of the guard and ended at an emblem of sorts that seemed to consist of the same strange material as the blade and took the form of a heart with a sort of split lance jutting out from the bottom. And it wasn't just the weapon that Yukomo was wielding that changed, his entire outfit changed as well.

His shoes changed to kneed high black boots and his pants stayed the same, but that was about all that did. A belt formed around his waist that had a pentagram in the center of it, and a flowing white cape like garb started to grow downwards from his waist that was of brilliant fabric, a black vest formed around him as well over his shirt, and it had three white straps that connected the split piece of fabric together. His sleeves had large cuffs now that were white with black ring like stripes down them and black leather gloves formed around his hands that cast a glare in the light that surrounded him. On one shoulder a long piece of fabric- the same as what was adorned around his waist –flowed down from his shoulder past the tips of his skeletal fingers, and the same emblem that was on the end of his new sword appeared around his neck upon a chain. Axel smirked when he saw the new Yukomo and extended his arms out to his sides "so you really are destined to be a Keyblade master then huh?" He said as if questioning himself, but then something hit him like a brick would if it collided with the back of his head "wait a minute, that's the— I'll be back to finish you off kid, you just wait!" and with that Axel faded into the darkness from whence he came, and as he did, the darkness started to dissipate and Yukomo fell back into that sleepy unconsciousness he was in when he descended to this sacred place, no less confused than before.