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Chapter Two:

Broken Keys

Sora wasn't surprised by the fight, he knew he'd have to at some point, and getting it over with now saved him the time and trouble of hunting them down. What surprised Sora was the presence of the Keyblades, how many wielders were there? Keyblade's Chosen, well, it was starting to look like the Keyblade didn't have as much preference as everyone thought it did.

(A/n: was I the only one to notice that, Roxas included, there were five people to use Keyblades throughout the game?)

Purple started the match off, by given Sora time to recover, he thought she was going on easy on him, everything she threw at him, spins, slashes he either blocked or dodged. Until toward the end, when Sora's patience was running out. That was when she swung the blade with fire wrapped around the hilt, the key part being a little dragon wing extended, with the flame coming out of the dragon's mouth, (A/n: I've drawn these and I'll see if I can't get my lousy scanner to work again, to put them up.) high, like she was going to hit Sora over the head with it.

Sora raised his own Keyblade, and the two were stuck for a second, the metal making grinding noises, before Sora noticed or remembered the second blade. It was coming around, and unless Sora got his Keyblade around he'd get sliced open, but if he moved this one, then he'd get it on the head.

Sora's hesitation gave Purple the chance she'd been waiting for, abruptly turning her second Keyblade, and shoving him back with the first, she let the Dragon Claw do what it did best, It's three needle sharp points, digging into the startled 'wielder's' shoulder, before he had a chance to correct his balance.

Purple landed in a crouch, and waited, watching to see just what Sora did.

As for the said person, he blinked stupidly before putting a hand to his wounded shoulder, he'd never actually been hit hard enough to hurt for very long, the few times he had, Donald had used Cure and he'd forget it had hurt at all. That had been a cheap shot.

"That was cheap." He comment through grit teeth as his vision started to blur.

"That's life." The one on the roof stood, and waved a mocking good-bye, before vanishing into thin air.

"How—?"

"'Jumping.'" Purple responded, before doing the same, mocking Sora in the same fashion as her companion.

Now wounded in body and pride, Sora wondered just what he would do, how he would get back?

"You're good at getting into trouble."

Sora's rapidly fading vision showed a face he almost mistook for Roxas, as it had blonde hair and blue eyes. But he couldn't fight off the black tide any longer and let it wash away all feeling he had left.

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"Wait," Leon asked Cloud outside Merlin's, once he had brought Sora home, and the teen's wounded shoulder had been tended too.

Cloud paused and looked over his shoulder. "If I had stepped in, it would have been worse."

"Maybe."

Cloud didn't respond but went on his way, feeling he'd done enough and too much. He didn't know what was going on, anymore then the others. He just had military training and could see a few points that the others couldn't. Like the self-preservation. He'd seen it often enough with military powers, they'd destroy one another until one was left with the remains of whatever it was they'd been fighting over, and honestly, he didn't want to see it again.

Leon only shook his head before looking back at the house. Now where had Roxas gone? Cloud had carried Sora back, and Roxas had taken off while everyone else was preoccupied with the wound. He was probably wandering around close by, since Roxas didn't know his way around Hollow Bastion, but there was a chance he'd gone looking for the cloaked people, and that would only lead to even more trouble. He'd send Yuffie to find him.

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As for purple she was honestly disappointed in the 'Key wielder's' skills. She heard so much and expected a little more. The Kid, though he was no older then herself, may have had practice fighting Heartless and No bodies but the Chapter were in a whole another league. (A/n: this sentence just sounds wrong to me, but I tried putting in different and that didn't help, so maybe it's just me. I had trouble with putting had had in a sentence too, but my English teacher said it was right. Past tense or something.)

A league that Key Boy didn't stand a chance in. Shrugging, she pulled off the heavy Purple leather Trench coat or cloak or whatever the rest of the Chapter called it. It was unbearable sometimes, hot and heavy, she wasn't a big person.

In fact, She commented looking in the mirror, she was a very tiny person, no taller then 5'4 (A/N: a guessitmate, she's roughly as tall as Sora.) and weighed maybe 100 pounds, but for every one of those pounds she had the same skills as say Red or Green. She wasn't weak for her small stature. Her hair was short and slightly spiked, blonde in color, she had never seen the importance of having long hair which only got in her face while she tried to fight, or got wrapped around one of the Keyblades, this had happened once, after that she had cut her hair without waiting for a second opinion.

The few times that she'd been seen without her coat, she was mistaken for a young boy. Not that it mattered to her; it helped her stay hidden at the worst of times.

"Zytine?"

Zytine glanced over her shoulder, but didn't say anything. She was more worried about finding her other jacket, smaller, lighter and one she wore around the base when she could take that blasted heavy coat off. If the information weren't so important she'd have ditched the Chapter a long time ago.

"You know," Green, Kovik, said opening the door and leaning on it, as Zytine found her red jacket, to put over her otherwise black outfit. "One of these times I'm going to walk in when you're changing because you never answer."

Zytine grinned but shook her head, not likely. She liked Kovik's company of all the rest of the Chapter, mainly because she looked at him like a friend and as it turned out, both had other things to talk(not that she ever talks), about then just the Chapter's plans, a nice change of pace. Still, she had to be careful. Kovik worked closely with Blue and Black and they did not need to see her out of uniform, or to hear her speak.

She gave him a pointed look, out of her dark blue-green eyes, both colors were separate and went in a spiral, it had cool effects on people, if she should her eyes to them.

"They've called a meeting, one I don't think you're going to like."

The look turned curious.

"Seems like they didn't like our show, and Blue wants to work in groups."

Zytine tensed, looking rather angry. She had been given orders to test Key Boy, (A/n: sorry, it's a lame nickname, but it suits its purpose for now, right?) and to separate the Organization Member. So whose leg were they trying to pull? Zytine held up a hand for 'Wait-a moment', took the jacket off, careful to hang it in it's proper place, and opened what looked like a keep-sake box and pulled out a rolled piece of paper. Which she held out triumphantly to Kovik while she glared at the heavy Uniform, before pulling it over her shoulders, wishing she could grumble, but her real voice had to remain secret, so she settled for an annoyed expression.

"Blue's orders." Kovik nodded, pulling his own hood up as the two made their way through the halls, which were oddly grey in the light of a dozen electronic bits of equipment. "That will be helpful. Still, I don't like the different sections working together; it only spells trouble in my mind."

Zytine nodded. It only spelled out trouble for her too.

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Another boy, dressed simply in all shades of grey, looked at the town before tilting his head and grinning. This place would be a knock over. These pathetic people didn't know what to expect from him, the heartless yes, stupid lackeys, and No bodies sure, blindsided determination. But him? Never. He was neither and at the same time, both.

Shrugging he watched and waited. Getting more and more bored with the present situation, if he didn't get orders soon he'd act without them. On the other side of town, he could feel the mass of heartless, waiting for orders.

Stupid Lackeys, doing everything they were told like blind fools. Well, he wasn't, and he was only here on a request from someone he knew. Knew and Respected, in fact she would meet with him soon enough. If she hadn't been the one to ask, he'd be at home, in their little corner of the Void and be going constructive things. Constructive to him, meaning destructive.

But he had been asked to be a messenger, to gather information for his friend. He didn't often give out his respect, so those rare few to receive he held in high opinion, if she wanted to know, he'd get as much as he could.

An irritated sigh and a glance at the yellow moon to see how much longer this would take, he had never been known for patience.

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"We have another problem." Yellow spoke up, toward the end of the meeting and Zytine wanted to smack her, didn't they get tired? Or was that a trait she alone had? She had places to go still! Things to do! "Those Heartless are growing in number."

"Let them." Black was disinterested.

"They've also picked up one of the Keystones."

Silence greeted the comment.

Zytine paid full attention now. Keystone? She tilted her head, apparently from the way Kovik echoed the word, and she heard a few 'huh?'s she wasn't the only one left out of that particular loop.

"That can wait." Blue interrupted before questions could be asked.

So that's how it is. Zytine thought. Keep the lackeys in the dark. Well, now what are you going to do blue. This is a council, not a heigharcy.(A/n: I know I spelled that wrong, but my computer doesn't list it. It's like what kings used to have.) You're going to get questions.

"What Keystone?" Demanded Red, sounding indignant. "What's going on?"

"The Laws state that no project maybe undertaken without approval of the rest of the council, or at the least, notification. It's why we formed a council."

Zytine nodded, crossing her arms. Not only that but it screwed with her information. Not that she'd tell them that. What they don't know can't hurt them.

"It's trivial matter." Blue tried to cover up Yellow's slip of tongue.

Though Zytine got the feeling that Blue had told Yellow the rest of the council knew, otherwise the egocentric female would have never helped. She was one for rules; Zytine had learned that the hard way.

"Trivial?" Kovik's tone was wary. "Then why would you need Yellow's help? You have lackeys, and the Nothings are good at finding things, be they in the Void or lost to Time."

Zytine had to nod at that. She'd outrun enough of them to know. Of course, Even Nothings couldn't find something if it were directly under their nose. The closer to Danger the farther from harm, as the saying goes.

"Give me time to get an example then the council will know, I simply did not wish to waste the council's time if these prove to be a false lead."

Yeah Right. Zytine couldn't help think.

The meeting was dismissed before things got really sticky. Zytine went back to her room, ditched the uniform, and grabbed her red jacket. The person she was going to see needed to recognize her, and she hadn't spoken to him in over a year.

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"About time."

"Sorry, Beta." Zytine apologized. "I though you wore red."

"Too boring."

"And grey isn't?"

Beta grinned, though he was moving restlessly, looking up at the moon and then out over the town. He was waiting for orders or something. Hmm, not a smart move, Beta wasn't very good at waiting.

"Get the info?"

"Yeah, not a bit of Chapter contacnt, a few threats but they're not helping."

"Yeah, I figured as much…Beta, have you heard of a Keystone?"

"Keystone?" Beta's stormy grey eyes, which seemed to roll from light to dark grey, look confused. "No…but the term rings a bell."

"I know, it's right on the tip of my tongue…well, thanks for the help."

"I can figure it out." Beta suggested. "give me something to do…besides, I'm curious now."

"If you want." Zytine had never really minded Beta's…different nature. "but don't—"

"Get Caught?" Beta asked grinning to look over his shoulder slightly. "Please, there's no fun in that."

Zytine smiled, but was too tired to respond. "Well, see you soon, hopefully once I get to get some sleep!"

"Getting worked to death is part of the job." Beta shrugged it off, again impatience to move. "The elder's response should be worth it, no more hiding."

"I hope." Zytine sighed, truly wishing this were true.

"Hey." Zytine looked up to see Beta's eyes mostly light grey, and reflecting silver in the moon. "Things will work, we're fall proof, remember?"

"Ha!" Zytine couldn't help laugh at that one. "If only!"

Zytine heard people coming and quickly jumped into the Void, disappearing in the blank emptiness. Beta sighed and quickly shifted. He went from an impatient boy, into something similar to a heartless, crouched, one arm moving ready to lash out at any threat, his body and clothes darkened to a charcoal black, with bits of shadow flowing off to vanish into the thin air.

This is what made Beta different.

---End Chap.

Well, I hope people like it, I brought in Beta as part of the agreement with my brother. I hope his character winds up working. Names, we have names of two of the Twilight Chapter's Council. And another key piece, the Keystones! I hope I'm not dragging or rushing the story, next chap should be done soon.