Chapter 5: Pronubius Meets Naraku
Pronubius swiftly darted through the forest with his eyes closed. He felt the air, the essences of the world collide through his nostrils. From his younger years, he learned that seeing did not occur quick enough. His body worked with quick, fluid reflexes as he responded to the essences of the world around him. For some odd reason, from the time of birth, he held no sight, only the ability to perceive the world through feel and essence. When a doctor designed and fabricated the gold lenses to place over his patient's dull blue eyes, Pronubius saw the world for the first time. Immediately he purged finding that evil hid within beauty and destruction lurked within his "family."
The half-human, half-elf haulted and stood before the Bone Eater's Well. "This must hold the gateway inbetween time eras for this world. Somewhere in the Inbetween, I can find the path to Sora's world." Out of the corner of his eye he spotted three black, formless figures approaching him. "Heartless," he whispered, "So, they found the gateway too. That can only mean that the gate disappeared and now the worlds are connected." Pronubius whipped around and un-sheathed his two double-edge swords. With a quick whip of the wrists, the Heartless dimminished.
"I see, you have great power, Pronubius."
Pronubius sensed the presence of a person standing behind a tree. "Why don't you stop sending your weak puppets and fight me yourself Naraku!" Pronubius slashed the air and a pillar of fire disintegrated the tree and the replica of Naraku. "Or maybe its the fact you know you don't stand a chance and yet you keep trying to send me busy-work!" Pronubius shot a whip out from his spine and jabbed another replica. "Maybe you should just die, Naraku, I'll make it easy for you!" Another whip slashed at another tree and yet another puppet dissipated into the air. "You should learn some manners and treat your host to a good show, you cowardly weakling!" Pronubius threw his sword into the face of another replica and used the whip in his wrist to retrieve it back.
"Ha, do you really think you'll get far like that." Naraku laughed amongst the trees.
Pronubius slowed to a hault and smiled his grim smirk of darkness. "Naraku, do you really think you can agitate me with so many worthless puppets... or dolls. You, Naraku, are a coward who hids and sends his little dolls out to pester people who could easily destroy you. You just better start praying that I don't meet up with the real you or I'll give you the fight of your life. Naraku, if you presented your true self to me, I would snare you up in my Nein Exodus. You couldn't run and you couldn't use your puppets, you would fight me one-on-one. I would defeat you in a sinch. Now, Naraku, I didn't come to this world to kill you, so don't be afraid. All I want is Xemnas dead, I couldn't care less about those so-called 'demons.' Just let me destroy my foe and I'll leave you to attend to those dogs." Silence filled the area and Pronubius sniffed the air. Pronubius could tell that Naraku's puppets all retreated. "Good ridence," Pronubius whispered to himself. He started to check the well and finally came to the conclusion that the gate couldn't exist between the time periods. "The gate had to exist in this era but disappear in this era, that only means that Kagome... Kagome's present has a bit of a problem. I bet Heartless are everywhere in that era." Pronubius leaned up against a tree and stared towards the ground.
"Where could that gate exist...where?" he asked himself. "How did I get here...by following Xemnas into the Nothing." Pronubius stopped and looked around, "Where would the Nothing exist in this era?" He started to run through the wilderness and came to the top of a large hill. "By the sea?" Pronubius continued on swiftly approaching a great body of water. "Ohhh, now I see," Pronubius smiled as he looked off over the sea and concentrated on the shimmers of light. The sunlight bouncing off the water presented the outline of a crown with a keyhole in the middle. Pronubius held his swords high into the air and encased the view of the crown in one of the seven-holes for the Hearts of Dragons (another story). Immediately his swords began to glow and a jolt of light shot out from his Gate-Guardian emblem on his forehead. An explosion off into the distance over the water occured and a meteor began to fall from the sky.
"No! You fool!" Pronubius turned and found Xemnas rushing up to him.
"Hello, Xemnas, you're just in time, now watch as I begin the War Beyond Realms. Come now, Xemnas. I'll slay you, the demons will slay Rorikon, then I'll slay Naraku. Have you any objections, you tool!" Pronubius lunged forward with swords in hands.
"Pronubius, this will be a fight for you to remember... Remember as the fight you bit off more then you could chew!" Xemnas lunged forward with his saber.
Pronubius grimly smiled, "Oh boy, do I have a story for you!"
"Let's hear it, Pronubius, while I kill you, of course," Xemnas swipped at Pronubius's head. Pronubius ducked and laughed.
"You know... Once I destroy you," Pronubius sent a few whips out to follow Xemnas as he continued slashing at the black-robed figure, "I will destroy Naraku, and by then," Pronubius flung a pillar of fire at Xemnas. "-By then, those others will have defeated Rorikon," Xemnas slashed frantically at Pronubius who evaded every attempt.
"Tell me something I don't know," Xemnas darted back and forth inbetween the jabs from Pronubius's swords.
"You see... I'm planning on the Key-bearer locking the door to this world." Pronubius shot a few ice crystals out at Xemnas who merely missed getting hit. "Once all that occurs, I can claim an even greater power." Xemnas threw out a few red darts while Pronubius fended them off. "I can claim the ultimate light and up-lift myself from the wretched limitations of Earth." Pronubius swipped at Xemnas's feet then kicked him in the chest. Xemnas flew backwards into a tree and winced in pain. "Then I can become the Platinum Warrior and get rid of my darkness."
Xemnas grunted as Pronubius walked slowly towards him. "Once I get rid of my darkness, then I can become mentally sound. You have no clue what its like carrying emotional baggage like this." Pronubius pointed to his head.
"You're doing all of this for selfish reasons," Xemnas sighed as Pronubius placed the tip of his sword on Xemnas's chest.
"No... you see, once I become light, then the War Beyond Realms can occur. I will completely annihilate any and all evil under the command of God himself. And you, my dear, Xemnas... you are just a puppet and the real you is with Naraku and Rorikon right now, darn it. Oh, well, you can still feel this," Pronubius leaned on his sword and impaled the blade into the heart of the puppet. "I'm a good guy, get that right. I just have mental issues, tis' all."