Yo! So... 'Nother chapter. Had a lot of fun writing this one, we finally get to a plot point that I've been waiting to get to for a long time. It relates back to Violet's first day of school. I'll let you guys read to see the rest of it. Also, Yuri should be back sometime in the coming chapters. Always fun having him around. Anyway, I should let you guys get to it. Enjoy!
-Aftermath-
"Ah, there you are. I was beginning to get worried you had gotten lost." The Principal said, with a smile, looking at the group of four. Violet smiled with a slight tinge of pink to her cheeks, Kya just nodded stiffly, with the same shade of pink on hers.
"Almost did, this place is big." Violet said cheekily, the Principal chuckled slightly.
"That it is. Regardless, it is time for your first mission. I have already briefed Miss Kya, so I will allow her to fill you in once you step through the portal." The Principal said, motioning to a stone arch against a wall.
"Right Sir." Kya said, summoning her Keyblade, and pointing it at the arch. She let out a breath, and shot a beam of light into the arch. A Corridor of Light formed inside. Kya quickly dismissed her Keyblade, and attached her Key-Chain to her belt.
"I wish all of you luck, but be careful, you're fighting Heartless, and Nobodies." The Principal informed them, Violet nodded, and held out her hand, Kya rolled her eyes, and grabbed her wrist, throwing her into the portal, before she looked at Meian and Seilo, and motioning to the portal.
"Go." Kya told them in an authorative voice. Meian got a deer-in-the-headlights look, and rushed to the portal, Seilo went in after her. Kya nodded to the Principal before heading in herself.
When she emerged on the other side, she saw Violet, on the ground flat on her back, and Meian and Seilo looking at a small village down the hill. Kya walked up to Violet and stared down at her, with a raised brow.
"What are you doing?" Kya asked, Violet looked up at her with a pout.
"You pushed me!" Violet exclaimed, in a childish tone, Kya rolled her eyes, with a slight chuckle.
"Technically I threw you." Kya said, noticing when the stone arch behind her stopped hosting the Corridor of Light she made.
"Fine, threw, whatever." Violet said, grabbing a few blades of grass and throwing them at Kya, they just fell against her shirt harmlessly. "Bad Kya."
"Just stop and get up. We have to go talk to the Village Elder." Kya said, looking over at the small village, Meian, and Seilo turned to her. "Our mission comes from him. Apparently there's been a new sprouting of Heartless and Nobodies around the village. We're to investigate, find out the cause, and eliminate it. Most likely it's some person messing with the balance of Light and Darkness in this area."
"Are we still in Virtuoso City?" Meian asked, Kya nodded as Violet pushed herself up, and dusted herself off, looking up at Kya.
"Yes, we are in the World of Virtuoso City, but not Virtuoso City Proper."
"Why's the whole world called Virtuoso City, and not something else, more universal?" Seilo asked, Kya shrugged.
"I didn't name it. But, usually worlds are named after their most important aspect. Agrabah is more than just the city of Agrabah, but since it's the largest city, and typically where the most people live, it's just named that. Virtuoso City Proper is the biggest city in this world, so it's named Virtuoso City."
"That's weird… So… find the crazy, kill the crazy is the mission?" Violet asked, Kya rolled her eyes.
"If that were the case we'd have to kill you babe." Kya told her, Violet giggled.
"I'm crazy about you." Violet told her, Kya smiled.
"You're very sweet. But, we have a mission. Let's not keep the good people of the village waiting anymore than we have to." Kya said, as she lead the group down the hill, on a cobblestone path. Seilo looked at Violet and Kya in front of him.
"Speaking of waiting, what took you two so long?" Seilo asked, Violet giggled.
"Someone got a little excited in the bathroom." Violet said, Kya glared at her.
"No… You said, and I quote. 'Off with the pants wench.' I know because I glared at you, and smacked you in the back of the head." Kya said, Violet smiled at her.
"Out of love. Which got me… In the mood significantly more than I was." Violet said, Seilo raised an eyebrow.
"I would like to say that I find it extremely creepy how getting hit in the back of the head turns you on." Seilo said, Violet glared at him.
"Only from Kya, and only when we're already talking about sex, or thinking about it. BDSM is a thing, whips, chains, nipple clamps, studded paddles. All that is right up my alley… What?" Violet asked, looking at an angry looking Kya.
"Stop talking about it." Kya said quickly, in a firm voice, Violet smiled.
"Whatever you say." Violet replied in a dreamy voice, Meian, at this point was bright red. Seilo just raised an eyebrow, but said nothing about it further.
"So… What was that portal thing?" Meian asked, Kya cleared her throat.
"Well, that portal thing, is called a Corridor of Light. It's a means of instantaneous travel from one location to another. Unlike Corridors of Darkness, which take you directly to the realm of Darkness, leaving you to find your way out, and to your destination from there."
"Is that how you and Violet traveled to Radiant Garden?" Seilo asked, Kya nodded.
"Through a Corridor of Light yes. I can only form them when a frame is provided for me. I haven't learned how to stabilize it yet. Once the year's out I'm supposed to return to Yen Sid's for additional training."
"You're leaving?" Violet asked, Kya looked at her.
"You knew I was. You're going on vacation during that time, if you recall. Destiny Islands." Kya said, Violet smiled, and giggled.
"Yeah, you're right. Sorry, forgot for a second. Just kinda panicked when I heard you were leaving." Violet admitted, Kya smiled.
"I know, but relax." Kya told her. Violet nodded, with a smile.
-Aftermath-Apex High-
"Why hello Antonio, what brings you to our table?" Victoria asked, they were in class. She was sitting with Emma at a table in the back of the room. Antonio looked at them, brushing his long black hair out of his eyes, and narrowing his golden eyes.
"Just got out of individual classes. So, figured I'd rejoin my old group." He told them, sitting in the empty chair next to Emma. She gave him a small smile, but seemed a bit reserved.
"I think it's terrible they put you in isolation just for a little spat." Victoria said, Antonio shrugged.
"What I did was messed up. I hurt that poor girl because I was stupid, and angry." Antonio told them, looking down at the table.
"You were stupid because you let the Darkness control you." Victoria told him, Antonio shook his head.
"No. I was in control, but I used the Darkness to hurt her… I regret it every day, it's all I thought about sitting in there studying for the next exam. How I would apologize to her… Do you guys know her?"
"She's a friend." Emma told him, he smiled at her.
"Where is she?" He asked.
"On a mission right now. She should be back by tomorrow. But, I gotta tell you… Violet is… Difficult, she may not want to forgive you, or even hear you out." Emma warned him, he nodded.
"I understand. I wouldn't forgive me either. What I did was truly wrong, I want to at least try and tell her that." Antonio said, Victoria rolled her eyes.
"It's not worth it, she's just a stupid spoiled little cunt." Victoria said, causing Emma to glare at her.
"Don't be so hateful Vicky."
"I hate that name."
"I hate you bad mouthing my friends. Just because you don't like her, doesn't give you the right to talk about her like that. Have enough respect, if not for her, then for me, to keep your mouth shut." Emma said, with a glare, Victoria stared at her, anger boiling up inside her, how dare Emma talk to her like this!
"Let me tell you something Emma, even if you are still pathetically in love with her, don't make me censor myself just because you cant take the truth. She's the one who abandoned you, I don't know why you're still holding onto that relationship when it's so toxic."
"Our friendship is not toxic, you're just jealous is that it? Is that why you don't like her, because she was my friend before you? I can have more than one best friend you know." Emma said, Victoria glared at her, gritting her teeth.
"I'm not jealous of Violet." Victoria spat out, Emma glared at her but dropped it, it wasn't worth fighting with her. The two had been fighting more and more lately, mostly over Violet, but sometimes over other smaller things.
"That was… Something, can we just focus on being positive? I mean, anything's better than being alone, but I don't like thinking about negativity. Personally thinking of switching sides, maybe Darkness isn't for me." Antonio said, causing Victoria to glare at him.
"Don't do that. Who would have you? You nearly crushed some poor girls skull, if not for that bitch pulling you off, she would have died by your hand. Something tells me that neither faction will want someone like you on their side." Victoria told him, Antonio looked uncomfortable with Victoria's words, but she wasn't exactly wrong. He dreaded thinking of where he would be if he would have killed Violet that day.
-Aftermath-Apex High-Violet's First Day of School-
"Get the hell off her!" Jesse yelled rushing over to Antonio, and grabbing his arm, trying to pull back, Antonio glared at him, golden eyes glowing brightly, and used Darkness to throw Jesse off him. Antonio lifted Violet by her neck once again, and slammed her head into the wall, causing more blood to come out of her mouth, leaving some on the wall.
Kya heard the commotion and came running, she glared at the scene. Some student using Darkness on the girl from earlier. The one who had made everything brighter, more colorful… And rage bubbled up inside her, true rage for the first time directed at something other than Heartless, or Nobodies.
"Let go of her!" Kya yelled, remembering what Master Aqua taught her. Kya took a breath and gathered Light with her hand, she hoped this would work, she could never get it to stabilize before. It always exploded, or fizzled, never formed into a ball of energy like it was supposed to.
To Kya's surprise the ball of Light stabilized, it was about the size of a baseball, but something was better than nothing. She glared at Antonio and threw it at him, once it connected the Darkness surrounding him faded away, Kya rushed forwards and grabbed him.
"I said let go!" Kya yelled as she pulled Antonio off of Violet, she picked up the discarded Oathkeeper and pinned Antonio to the ground with it, placing her foot on his wrist, and pressing down, so he couldn't use his scythe to attack her. Kya looked up at Jesse.
"Do you know any advanced healing spells?" Kya asked Jesse, who shook his head. Kya glared at him, and looked down at Antonio, punching him in the head, and knocking him out, before she got off of him, and moved over to Violet. "Jesse make sure he's retrained. Ruby, go and get a teacher." Kya ordered, as she pulled Violet's head into her lap, moving her upside down so she could look at the back of her head.
Luckily there was nothing permanent. Kya placed her hand on the back of Violet's head and used the powerful healing spell, Curaga. Healing most of the damage, but it was all she could do, she didn't know if the girl had any lingering problems with her brain. Kya shook her head, and flipped Violet back over, he hands now covered in the blonde's blood.
"I'll take her to the infirmary, faster that way. Jesse wait with him until Ruby comes back." Kya told him, before she picked the blonde up, and held her in her arms, rushing off to the infirmary to get her proper medical treatment.
"Would you like to wait with her?" The Nurse asked her, but Kya shook her head, she had to get cleaned up, and she had some training to do. No time for that.
"No, I have to train." She said before walking off, she stopped and took one last look at the blonde on the bed, who was being tended to by another nurse before leaving the room.
-Aftermath-Hospital, Violet's Room-Two Days After Violet Woke Up-
"One thing still confuses me… Why would Victoria just leave Oathkeeper lying there?" Kya asked, just as the door opened, and Violet's Uncle, Tyler walked in.
"I can answer that for you. It's the spell I placed on it, before I gave it to her." Tyler told her, Kya looked at him, with a raised brow. She had never officially met him before, but he smelled of alcohol slightly.
"What do you mean? What spell?" Kya asked him, her hand still gripping Violet's who just shrugged, this was the first time she was hearing about it.
"Well, I know Magic, and when I say Magic, I mean advanced, old magic. Magic from other worlds, with different sets of rules. I learned a spell from the Book of Prophecies, one of them at least… It was a special charm, used as a means to protect Keyblade's, and make sure only their owner, or someone important to them touched it. Anyone else get's burned, literally."
"But I touched Oathkeeper long before Violet and I even knew each other." Kya said, Violet raised an eyebrow.
"Really? When?" Violet asked him, Kya frowned.
"When you got in that bad fight." Kya answered quickly, before looking to Tyler for explanation. He chuckled a bit.
"It's from the Book of Prophecies. Those things don't use normal rules of time and space. It knew you two would be important to one another, I don't know how it works, but it just knew." Tyler told them, with a slight chuckle, he pulled a flask from his back pocket, and took a quick swig, before putting it back.
"Is he drunk?" Kya asked, in a low whisper, Violet giggled.
"Yeah, he's kinda always drunk." Violet told her, Kya shook her head, before giving Violet's hand a gentle squeeze.
"Anyway, Violet, I came here to tell you that I'll be back in town for a month, so as soon as you're well we'll get back to it okay?" Tyler asked, Violet smiled at him, and nodded. "How's your magic?" Tyler asked, Violet shrugged.
"It's… Off, like it was so strange. It was just gone for a while, and now… There's not much, is it ever gonna come back?" Violet asked, Tyler nodded, but a frown on his face.
"Yeah, it was a toxin. It's illegal, black market stuff, or you can make it from non magical blood, and Darkness. Real nasty shit, depending on the dosage, you can lose your magical ability forever, or suffer permanent effects. Would you mind if I checked your magic, just to make sure everything's going to be okay?" Tyler asked, Violet shook her head, and Tyler walked towards her.
"How exactly do you check other people's magic? Master Aqua never taught me." Kya said, Tyler chuckled.
"It's simple. I'll show you, so you can check on it, even after I leave. Since you have a connection with her, you should be able to do it. Just watch me." Tyler said, before he made a small amount of Light in his hand, he pressed his hand to Violet's forehead and closed his eyes.
"That all it takes, just light?" Kya asked, Tyler smiled and pulled his hand away from Violet's forehead.
"Yes. You just need to be wanting to link your magic with hers, Light is the easiest catalyst for this. Since you two are already close, this should be easy." Tyler told her, Kya smiled.
"Thank you Tyler." Kya said, he shook his head, and waved his hand.
"Okay Little Hart, your magic is just fine. It should be back fully in a day or two. You've got so much that it takes about two weeks for it to recover fully. So if you ever lose it again, don't stress yourself for two weeks okay?" Tyler asked, Violet nodded.
"I'll make sure she doesn't, just in case." Kya assured him, Tyler nodded, and smiled, before looking back at the door.
"Your mother's coming, I better stop with the magic talk, she'd kill me if she heard. All recovery in her eyes for her baby." Tyler said with a chuckle, as he walked back towards and wall and leaned against it.
Moments later Toni, and Kelsi walked into the room, Toni having a plastic Tupperware bowl in one hand filled with soup, and a spoon. In the other hand she had a can of pop.
"Violet, I brought you some soup, and a drink baby." Kelsi said, in a doting voice. Violet smiled with a slight blush, Toni rolled her eyes.
"I technically brought them babe." Toni said cheekily, as she placed the soup, and drink on the table besides the bed. Kelsi rolled her eyes, and moved over, pulling the lid off the bowl, and grabbing the spoon.
"Sit up baby." Kelsi said, Toni rolled her eyes.
"She can eat by herself." Toni said, causing Kelsi to turn with a glare. "Or you can feed her…" Toni added on a little quieter, Kelsi turned back, and smiled. Kya chuckled a bit.
"I could do that, Mrs. Hart." Kya offered quietly, Kelsi smiled at her, and handed the soup, and spoon over to her, Toni looked uncomfortable with the idea, but said nothing about it, she didn't want to be grounded, Kelsi was already in a mood due to Violet's situation.
"You're so sweet…" Violet said, Kya smiled and sat on the side of the bed, dipping the spoon in the soup, and carefully bringing it back out, and to Violet's lips, the blonde happily complied.
"Just eat the damn soup, and get better." Kya told her, with a slight smile, Violet smiled back at her.
-Aftermath-New Devon-Present Day-
"Only one room?" Violet asked, with a raised brow, Kya nodded, as she held a room key in her hands. They had spoken with the Village Elder, and were about to set out on their mission. If they couldn't find the source today, they would have to try again tomorrow, so just in case that happened they had a room at a hotel. Only one room was available at the time however.
"Yes, but if we get our mission done today, we wont need to use the room, and can all sleep in our own beds tonight." Kya told her, Violet pouted.
"What about you sleeping in my bed with me. Or me sleeping in your bed?" Violet asked, Kya rolled her eyes.
"You know what I mean, point is, we'll be home if we get this done today. So, let's not waste anymore time." Kya told them, then hummed for a moment. "Okay, Meian you're acting as our mage, so you need to stay next away from enemies. Support us, and keep yourself away from enemies. Seilo, you're the acting Warrior, you need to protect Meian, and make sure nothing get's to her. Violet and I will move around the battlefield, and take care of any stragglers, if there are any. Neither of you are to engage directly with them, just in case there are more."
"Understood ma'am." Meian said, Seilo nodded.
"I'm all for that plan, less pressure on me." He said, Kya glared at him.
"Don't be so cocky, you can get killed out there, if you mess up." Kya told him firmly, and shaking her head, before looking at Violet. "Violet, stay next to me." Kya ordered, the blonde smiled and nodded obediently. "Let's move then." Kya said, before she turned and walked towards the edge of New Devon, with Seilo, and Meian in tow, and Violet next to her, humming.
"Hey Jude, don't make it bad… Take a sad song, and make it better. Remember, to let her into your heart. Then you can start to make it better…" Violet sang, causing Kya to look at her with a raised eyebrow.
"What was that?" Kya asked, with a slight smile, Violet blushed with a shrug.
"It was Hey Jude, by The Beatles… I love that song, and just kinda got the urge to sing it. Happens all the time, you ever feel like that?" Violet asked, Kya just shook her head, Violet shrugged.
"No… And I've never heard of The Beatles before." Kya told her, Violet's eyes widened, and she shook her head.
"How are we even dating… I'm going to have to educate you when we get home, okay?" Violet asked, Kya chuckled a bit.
"Sure Violet, whatever you want." Kya told her, Violet smiled, and looked ahead, getting a serious look, and grabbing Oathkeeper's Key-Chain from her belt.
"Heartless." Violet said, summoning Oathkeeper, Kya nodded, and looked at the Heartless in front of them, summoning Rainfell. Meian let out a breath, and summoned Diamond Dust, Seilo chuckled, and summoned a black and blue lance, with a silver bladed tip in a flash of light.
"Let's get to work then… Stay alert everyone." Kya told them, narrowing her eyes, and rushing forwards, with Violet beside her.
-Aftermath-
So, there it was. Obviously I dont own Hey Jude, or The Beatles. Like, duh. New Devon is an Uncharted 4 reference, and it may be used in further chapters of the story, maybe. Possibly. It could become important, havent decided yet. So, yeah, hope you enjoyed, I know I enjoyed finally getting Antonio involved in the story once again. He was planned to come in way earlier, but things kind of took a different path than I originally intended. I'm glad he's here now, and he will have a couple scenes with the Oc's particularly in the Children of Darkness. Anyway, guys hope you enjoyed, and I was gonna come up with a name for the magic toxin thing, but... nothing I came up with was good. Maybe you guys can suggest things, or not. I dont know, either way works. Be sure to Follow, Favorite, if you havent already, and drop a review leaving me your thoughts guys, until next time!