In this chapter we see the Keyblade change into a version of the Metal Chocobo, except it isn't as heavy and causes less damage…

Chapter 6: Destiny is but a Memory Away…

Back in Castle Oblivion…

"What do we do?" Aaron said frantically

"…I don't know…. Hey, what is that Tidus?"

"I found it near the doorway where Namine left, just a piece of paper…." Tidus mused as he handed it to Ashura.

"…It simply says…. Orcata… Leravam"

"What the hell?" Tidus said, his voice full of confusion

"…..Maybe its one of the books here….. let's start looking" Ashura said glancing at all the books before them. The others groaned but began their search as someone entered Castle Oblivion….

A girl with blackhair and striking silver eyes strode into the main hallway with a katana clutched in hand. She instantly headed through the first door and looked around the next corridors which lead to floor 1 of the castle. She was met by a robed figure with fiery red hair.

"Looking the balance I suppose?" Axel questioned the stranger.

"Yes, where is he?" the black haired warrior asked sternly

"Feisty… he's in the library in one sense and not in another, hahahaha!" Axel faded from the room as he laughed manically. The warrior wasted no time and swept out of the room and into the first floor room.

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"Come on Seth, hurry up, I wanna get outta this dump and return…."

"Okay, geez, well the last mural is….. right up there…." Seth trailed off as he pointed upwards to the Chapel's main ceiling where a massive mural of Destiny Islands was. Without warning the entire Chapel faded from around the duo and was replaced with a warm sandy beach and hot sun.

"What? Destiny Islands…. What the hell is going on…"

"It's a pretty real memory if you ask me…. Erm… Dav who are those three approaching…." Seth asked as he looked over to the approaching trio.

Selphie, Wakka and Tidus came runing up but they where dressed indarkclothes similar to Aaron's old costume except there was no Heartless symbol. Each clutched a version of their sparring weapons, Wakka's a red and black ball with spikes running all along the outside, Selphie held a pair of Numchaku which had a much longer connecting chain than a normal pair would and Tidus clutched a long bladed turquoise blade withlines running up the steel. They all grinned as they saw their old friend across the beach. As they approached Seth summoned his Scythe and looked toward Dav.

"I sense Heartless crawling all over the other side of your island…. Leave 'em to me why you greet your friends…" he ran toward the door connecting the two sides of the Island and disappeared to fight the Heartless. Dav meanwhile turned to find all three of his friends standing before him grinning menacingly at him.

"Well, what do we have here, ya?" Wakka asked in his Island accent

"You up for a round Dav?" Tidus asked, a wicked gleam in his eye

"Yeah, to the death!" Selphie shouted enthusiastically

"…WHAT?" But Dav had little time to question as Tidus jumped forward at him swinging his sword in an arc.

Dav ducked under the shot but then got Wakka's ball straight in the chest, the spikes cut the skin and caused blood to soak his blue shirt. He got to his feet and summoned his Great Blade and held into the air and reformed into his old Long Swords, he then sheathed one and look out his Keyblade and attached his Balance pendant as a Keychain and it transformed into a long dull grey bladed Keyblade that gleamed in the Island's morning sun.

Tidus went to attack again but Dav blocked with his sword and countered with the Keyblade, opening a gash in Tidus' head. Selphie ran forward swinging her extended Numchaku in the air intending of catching Dav with the sharp bladed edge, but missed as she tripped over her own weapon, Wakka growled at her for her incompetence. Tidus charged again, this time with his sword pointed ahead of him to impale Dav's chest. But he knocked it aside and spun in mid jump, bringing the blunt side of his Long Sword colliding with the young blonde's head, a snapping sound echoed through out the Islands and Tidus' limp form pathetically collapsed to the floor unmoving.

"You'll pay for that, ya" Wakka growled and charged at Dav with his ball held as a deadly club, ready to strike.

Dav ducked the first attack and rolled to the side of the second but felt the full force of the third as Selphie had hit him in the back with her weapon, using that as a distraction Wakka clubbed him across the head. Blood poured from three fresh gashes on the side of his head and he collapsed to the floor, dazed. Wakka held his ball above Dav's head and prepared to deliver the last blow but instead a Sycthe came careening toward him and sliced his entire arm off which held the ball. Wakka stumbled backwards in both shock and pain as blood oozed from the wound and blanketed the yellow sand in red.

Seth ran up to Wakka and drove his knee into Wakka's abdomen, delivered a swift elbow to the jaw and then finsished with a crushing back hand blow to the neck which snapped upon impact. He then turned to Selphie who took a swing to at him so he dropped to the floor, rolled forward and launched himself at the fussy brunette. He impacted with her and drove his shoulder into her face, knocking her to the floor with a broken nose that helped blanket even more blood on the now crimson battle field. Seth took a small, conceleddagger from off his belt and launched himself at Selphie, but she was not going to go down without a fight.

She rolled away from the attack, clutched her Numchaku and swung it diagonally toward his head quickly. As he jumped clear of the attack it caught his leg and something snapped, his thigh bone. Selphie grinned evilly and stood over Seth who was now clutching his leg.

"It was fun, but now you die" she said happily and then looked over to where Dav was lying, he wasn't there. She turned around suddenly and felt a blade pierce her neck and delve deep, causing her to gag as her airways became severed. Dav held his Long Sword at her neck, ripped it out which sprayed blood and gore everywhere and then swung horizontally and took off her head in one clean, rather bloody sweep. Her head hit the sand with a soft thud seconds before her torso which also landed quietly. After helping Seth stand he looked over the land which slowly faded and Destiny Islands disappeared and a large Coliseum replaced it. Seth looked down at his leg and then focused, casting a regeneration spell (regen) on his self and felt his bones and skin slowly move and repair themselves, causing a lot of pain as they did.

Dav saw the pain the spell was causing and cast a white magic spell of his own, Curaga. Seth's pain lowered to a dull ache as the bones snapped back into place quicker than before and the skin healed back as it once was. He then supported himself with his Scythe as Dav looked at their new surroundings.

"What now?"

"..I don't really know…. Maybe we have to fight someone else... thanks by the way"

"No worries, I'd have been dead if you wasn't there to put Wakka down like that, but man, brutal or what, I've never seen so much blood…"

"Yeah well, lets concentrate on our situation for now…."

"Why this place….. Maybe it's some screw up"

Doubt it... hold on a minute,are you saying my head is screwed up?" Dav asked jokingly

"Well…." Seth grinned as he shifted uncomfortably while leaning on his Scythe still "You are talking to a Nobody and fighting inside your own head… what do you think?"

"Heh, point taken.. Hey looks like its go time again.." Dav said as two figures entered the arena where they were now situated. "Its Yuffie and Leon….. Well, this is going to be interesting…."

Both enemy warriors assumed battle stances without even saying word, Dav and Seth did the same, although the leg pains remained. Seth smirked and charged at Leon and swiped for his head which missed inches and was countered with a powerful uppercut with the gun of Leon's weapon. Seth slid across the floor and crashed against Dav's legs who merely looked down at him seriously.

"You'll learn to not underestimate Leon or Yuffie, they're a powerful combination…. So carry on" Dav finished and started to circle Yuffie who stood in her battle position with a throwing star in her hand. Dav moved in quickly to attack and Yuffie jumped out of the way and slashed at her attacker with her Kunai Star causing a gash on his head to reopen and bleed again.

Flinching slightly as he backed away from her and to Seth's side the blood slowly trickled down his face and dropped on the floor. These guys are playing defensive…… that is not like them at all…… well we'll have to get by their defence by provoking them… well it's worth a shot…

He formed a fire ball in his hand and launched it at Yuffie who back flipped out of the way and launched a Kunai Star counter attack. Dav raised his Great Blade up and whacked the attack back at Yuffie which scratched her left cheek painfully. She scowled at Dav, jumped into the air and launched three stars at both her opponents, Leon still stood observing the battle quietly. Both Dav and Seth deflected the attacks and they all hit Yuffie, two in the arm and one in the head again. She became angry and charged towards Seth who avoided a close quarter star swipe and tripped her up using a leg sweep. Dav again launched a Firaga spell at her but this time it connected full force and stunned her as well as causing pain.

Finishing her he raised his Great Blade high and plunged it straight through her chest, sending yet more blood careening all over his and Seth's clothes, "Sorry Yuffie" he muttered as he did so. Leon's eyes grew wide from being emotionless as Dav drove the blade through her chest. "Bingo" Seth muttered as Leon charged straight toward him with his GunBlade held at throat level.

Using this to his advantage Seth knocked the blade upwards with the staff of his Scythe and swung the blade through Leon's chest in a pendulum motion, the long curved blade appearing out of the other side of his body. Leon gasped as the blade drew blood and slumped to the ground, still impaled on the blade. Seth dislodged the blade and looked over to Dav who was stood with his head hung low and his sword discarded on the floor.

"Whats up?"

"….Why, I've had to cut down Leon, Yuffie, Tidus, Selphie and Wakka but for no reason….. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, ITS JUST SICK…"

"Its over Dav, you've defeated all that girl's mind blocks…. She delved into your memory and found people both you like and hate and made them guardians to stop you but it failed….. Here we go…." Both Seth and Dav collapsed to the floor almost immediately and landed silently to the floor which was now a marble white. In a few short seconds they had exited Dav's mind and landed in the library of Castle Oblivion without a sound. Tidus was the first to notice that Dav was laid on the floor instead of slumping against a bookcase and someone unfamiliar next to him.

"..GUYS LOOK!" an exited Tidus yelled.