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By the way if you see this '8A8' or 'A8A', its what I'm using to split the story so it is easier to read.

Disclaimer: As much as I want to, I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Disney characters or the Final Fantasy characters. I only own my original character Dav!

Chapter 1: Where It All Began

The midday sun beat down on the Destiny Islands, basking the island paradise in a warm golden glow. On the beach Sora, Riku, Wakka, Kari and Selphie were all sat watching Tidus and Dav in a sparring match on the beach. Dav, who stood about five foot ten with soft blue eyes and medium length blonde hair that spiked out towards the front, was lazily resting against a coconut tree watching his opponent warm up. Tidus stood about five foot eight with pale blue eyes and mucky blonde coloured hair that looked like it had never seen a comb. He was swinging his red cane that he used as a weapon in all directions preparing for the fight that he had lost three times that week already.

"Well, are we ever gonna get started show off?" said Dav with a tone that was full of boredom as he stood upright and retrieved his two wooden swords that were stuck upright in the sand next to him.

"Yeah, lets go then, I'm feeling lucky today" replied Tidus with a beaming grin that made the onlookers laugh at his childishness, it even got a smirk from Dav who was already stood battle ready. His legs were apart with his right foot in front and his body on an angle holding his two swords in an upright slanted position. Tidus however stood with his left foot slightly forward his body in a much more relaxed position clutching his weapon in his right hand loosely.

Before anyone could make the first move Sora and Wakka holding their respective weapons, Wakka's a blue and white Blitzball that he threw very accurately at opponents and Sora with a single shorter wooden sword than Dav's, both charged onto the beach and attacked Dav.

"Well, now this is gonna be fun after all!" smirked Dav as the Tidus and Sora charged him. Tidus swung his weapon in a downwards direction which Dav blocked with his right sword and drove his left knee into his attackers stomach which caused him to fall to his knees to catch his breath. Sora jumped in the air and brought his sword down heavily towards Dav who retaliated by placing his hands on Tidus' back and flipping over him, avoiding the shot. Wakka launched his ball at Dav from high in the air which Dav blocked by crossing his two swords together like an X and took a crouching position to absorb the for attcks force. As the ball flew back in Wakka's direction Sora again charged but this time he thrust his wooden sword straight into Dav's ribs causing him to lurch backwards and fall to the floor, landing on his butt.

Not giving him time to recover Sora launched at him with another jump attack but Dav rolled backwards to avoid it and then got to his feet and ran at Sora. He hurled his swords at Sora as he yelled "Payback Time!".They flew towards him spinning as they drew closer, Sora ducked the first sword and jumped over the second but got caught in the lower stomach by a stiff jumping kick from Dav who said "Gotcha" in a mocking tone. As Dav checked that he hadn't hurt Sora a powerful Blitzball shot caught him right in the back of the head and Sora whispered "Gotcha" and then laughed innocently.

Dav again rose to his feet to see all three opponents advancing on him once again. He grabbed his weapons from the sand and stood ready again, although now breathing hardcourtesy of Wakka'ssneak attack. Riku who was watching from the sidelines ran and jumped high in the air, clutching his own wooden sword and landed to the right side of Dav.

"I've got your back, lets finish this" he said with a confident tone in his semi-deep voice. Wakka and Tidus attacked Dav while Sora took on Riku, Wakka again launched a powerful Blitzball from in the air which prompted Dav to close his eyes and stand there with one sword in his left hand, the other once again stuck into the sand. As the ball came closer Dav formed a fist and pulled his free arm back and yelled as he punched the ball back at Wakka. It hit him in his head and he flew three feet backwards and landed on his back, the force of the hit propelling him across the sand a few feet leaving a trail of sand where he slid.

Tidus raised his sword and swung it horizontally to Dav's head. However Dav ducked the blow and was crouched with his back now to Tidus. He then supported himself with his right arm on the sand and swung his whole body around to meet Tidus who fell backwards after both of Dav's feet were buried into his chest. Dav then stood up and looked around to see Wakka sat up rubbing his head where a now very clear red mark from his own weapon was showing. Tidus was breathing heavily regaining his breath from being winded and Dav then turned around to see Riku and Sora both on the sandybeach staring up at the clear blue sky dazed. After laughing to himself Dav approached Wakka and held out his hand and helped him stand, who although looking a bit war torn was alright.

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Hours later Sora, Riku, Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Dav and Kari were laid around a small camp fire surrounded by rocks to keep the debris from the fire blowing out and causing anything catch fire. With everyone asleep Dav sat up, stretched his arms in the air and yawned loudly, notwaking anybody up. He silently jumped over a sleeping Selphie and landed almost without a sound on the soft sand of the beach which made only a quiet crunch under his faded white trainers he always wore when messing around with the others. He sat himself just metres away from the waters edge and stared out into the endless, peaceful darkness of the Destiny Island's surrounding ocean. As he continued to stare into the peaceful expanse something caught his eye, a small something that was floating out about twenty five feet from the shoreline.

He slowly waded out into the increasingly deeper water and then jumped and dived under the water and began swimming toward the object. After swimming forwhat seemed like forever he reached out and grabbed the small object, he placed into his pocket and swam back to shore. He left the others and made his way to the other side of the island where he found a small alcove ten feet from the ground in the island's rock face. He grabbed a near by wooden crate and placed it at the foot of the alcove and used it as extra height to jump to the alcove, he grabbed the ledge of the small cave and hoisted himself up. Only Riku or himself could have made that jump without the crate but he was aching from the earlier sparring match.

Using a rope that was already in the alcove he hoisted the crate up and placed near the mouth of the cave. Next he raised his right arm with his hand outstretched as if motioning someone to stop and whispered in a clear voice "Fire", from his palm a small ball of flame erupted and flew at the crate, causing it catch fire and warm the whole alcove up. A small stream of smoke escaped from the burning crate and out of the cave mouth, rising to the clear, starry night sky.

He sat at the back of the cave and rested his back up against the cave wall and removed the small object he found from his pocket. It was a small pendant with a small black heart with red outlining and two red lines splitting the heart into four sections on the right hand side and on the left a silver crown. But what stood out to Dav the most was the symbol in the middle of the other two, a pair of red lightning bolts crossing with a sword at either side, this bothered him because on his left leg of his tan coloured combat style trousers was the same symbol which he always considered his symbol.

He ran a finger over the lightning bolts and then over the back and found an inscription that read ' Whether you accept the light or embrace the dark, One of these shall be your mark, One day soon you'll have to choose, Which to gain and which to lose'. He rested his head against the back wall, still clutching the pendant and he fall into a troubled sleep with the inscription whizzing around in his head over and over again.

8A8

"Hey, there you are, I'd thought you'd got bored and gone home or something" laughed Riku as he clambered into the small cave, waking Dav with a jump start.

"Oh...err...heh.. naw, I wasn't tired so I took a walk and found myself here" Dav said half yawning and scratching the back of his head with his left hand.

"Anyway, were all heading home now, you coming or are you going to stay here in your cave" laughed Riku in a taunting voice. Dav just laughed and then punched Riku in his arm and jumped straight out of the alcove and ran towards the door leading to the other side of the island.

"Hey, cheat" Riku called as Dav sprinted away, now followed by a determined Riku. They both arrived at the beach to find everyone had gone back to the mainland and left them there.

"Meh, looks like were swimming back" joked Dav as he rubbed the back of his head again. Riku nodded and they both dived into the water and soon caught up with the others who were rowing their boats back to the island. Dav rocked Sora's boat so he fell in the ocean and then climbed in and laughed.

"Your all washed up Sora!"

"Hey, no fair, you may be good at sparring but you don't have to steal my boat!" Sora said in a fake moaning voice and then pouted. Dav just grinned and then pulled him into the boat and rowed back to the mainland.

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Dav was asleep in his room when a loud crack of thunder erupted from outside. He woke with a start, sitting up in bed and rubbing his eyes to wake him up while the pendant he found earlier was hanging from a black string around his neck . He climbed out of bed and glanced out of the window which gave a spectacular view of the small pier where all the kids docked their boats, the huge stretch of ocean and then Destiny Islands. A giant black orb of swirling energy was hovering high in the sky just to the left of Destiny Islands, the thunder from the big black clouds boomed through the house.

He pulled out a draw from his dresser and got dressed in a black pair of jeans, a black T-shirt with no sleeve on the left hand side and his trademark symbol on the upper left chest area. He also put on a pair of black socks, heavy blackboots and a sleeveless jacket. Lastly he reached into his wardrobe and took out a pair of holsters which he attached to either side of his jeans waist and holstered his Sabre C24 Raptor Handguns and darted out of his room and out into the night. He ran to the pier where the boats where and got into his, he then unfastened it and started off toward the island through the rough sea.

As he approached the Island he noticed three boats where already tied to the pier, he identified them as Sora's, Riku's and Kari's. He tied up his boat, grabbed his wooden swords from the boat and ran onto the beach where he noticed Sora on the small island that Riku usually hung out on which had a bridge extending to the Island and a small shack which contained steps that lead back onto the beach. He watched Sora intently until something moving in the ground caught his eye, a small shadowy patch was moving along the sandy ground toward him and fast. As it grew closer a small black creature with big yellow eyes and sharp claws emerged and leapt at Dav. He brought both his wooden weapons down on it as it flew at him but they simply passed through it and it caught him in his right cheek with its claws. He attacked it again but again the swords passed through it and he continued to get hurt by it.

He threw down his wooden swords and rolled out of the way of another jump assault attempt, he un-holstered one of his Sabres and fired at the little shadow monster four times in total, three in the body and one in the head. It disappeared into thin air and three little green spheres were left behind. Dav walked closer to them and they flew at him and entered his body through his chest, it caused him to glow a green aura for a minute and the scratch marks on his arms and face vanished and he felt as if he had just woke up refreshed from a good nights sleep. He looked up and Sora had vanished from the Island so he walked further up the beach towardit.

He swam out to the small island and climbed a wooden ladder at the back of it and stood in the centre of theIsland and another shadowy patch appeared, first just one then two then three and before he knew it scores of the creatures were surrounding him. He drew both guns and fired at the creatures, he took down seven before he was overwhelmed and a ring of darkness appeared around where he was standing. He began to sink into the darkness, black strands of energy where covering his arms and face and soon he was floating in total darkness. He felt himself slipping out of consciousness all the energy from his body seemed to be draining away and so he closed his eyes.

Thanks for reading again and if you guys like Xiaolin Showdown you have to read Smurf-Chan's fanfic 'The Time Has Come'. Don't forget to review!