Fipp: Sorry this one isn't as long as the others were, but there was less to work with here.

III

Onion Knights

Sora laid on the roof, arms folded under his head, having them act as a pillow. He looked to his right, then to his left. Both Donald and Goofy were asleep.

It was sunset in Radiant Garden.

He had considered sleeping himself, but he found himself unable to.

It was then he heard the door of the building he was resting on open up.

"Huh?" he said, becoming startled by the noise. This prompted him to rollover.

Though to his dismay, he rolled down the slope, off the roof, and to crash to the ground.

"Sora!" he heard Merlin through the door. The elderly wizard ran out of his house and kneeled down next to Sora. "Are you all right my boy?"

"I'm fine. Spine broke my fall."

"Is he alright?" said another voice from behind Merlin. Sora looked behind and saw a silver-haired child wearing large, puffy shorts, and a helmet with large, feathery plumes sticking out from the top.

"He will be," Merlin said. He then turned to the child. "Luneth, could you and the others help me out and place him on the bed?"

The child, Luneth, nodded and ran back into the house to retrieve whoever these 'others' were.

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"Thanks Merlin!" Sora said, stretching his newly healed back. He loved magic. Especially when it saved him from possible paralysis.

He looked around the room to see that Merlin had three other guests other than the first child.

The other three were the same age at the first. The second one was a boy with reddish-brown hair, the third an redhead girl, and finally a blonde boy.

They were all wearing the same kinds of armor, with the exception of each one wearing a different color scheme (1).

"So Merlin," he asked the wizard.

"Just who are these kids? And why are they wearing these funny hats?"

"Don't insult my hat!" Luneth called out.

"Sora," Merlin said. "I would like to introduce you to Luneth, Arc, Refia, and Ingus." He gestured to the children. "And they, are Onion Knights."

. . .

"Onion Knight?" Sora asked, perplexed by the title the children had. "So, they garden?"

"We don't garden," the boy with the red-brown hair, Arc said. "We're warriors."

"Warriors?" Sora asked. "But, you're like, twelve."

"You're one too talk!" the redhead, Refia, said. "You don't look much older than us!"

"She has a point," said the blonde, Ingus.

"Yeah, I guess," said Sora, now a little downed as what he said was turned against him. "Still, 'Onion Knights' sounds funny."

"So does 'Keyblade'."

They did it again!

"So, Merlin," Sora said, trying to get away from more humiliation. "Just who are these guys anyway?"

"Well, as I told you just now, they are Onion Knights,"

"Okay, but what exactly is an Onion Knight?"

Merlin cleared his throat. "The Onion Knight, is a title given to children, who show great promise."

"And we have a mission to accomplish to just show how much promise we have," Luneth said.

"A mission?" Sora raised an eyebrow. "What kind of mission?"

"Are you aware of what a Crystal is?" Arc asked.

"Yeah! There's a bunch of them in the caves down in the valleys and ravines."

Refia shook her head. "We're not talking about those things."

Ingus spoke up. "We're talking about each World's Crystals."

"The world has its own Crystal?"

Luneth shook his head. "It does." He paused. "Actually, it has four Crystals."

"A Crystal for each element," said Arc. "One for wind, one for fire, one for water, and one for earth. These are the Crystals that bind the elements of this world together."

Ingus folded his arms over his chest. "Without these Crystals, the world would fall apart without the elements to sustain them."

"So these Crystals keep the elements in check?"

"That's right," Refia said.

"But what about this mission you guys talked about earlier?"

"There's something wrong with the Crystals," Arc said. "It's our job to see if there's anything wrong with them, and if so, purify them to get rid of what's wrong with them."

"So far, we've been to the Crystals of Wind, and Earth," Ingus said. "And so far in each one, there was darkness growing in them, and while we were able to get rid of it," he left it off there.

"You don't know what's wrong?" Sora asked.

"Not in the slightest," Luneth shook his head. "That's why we came to Merlin, we heard he could help us."

"But sadly," the wizard said. "I don't have any idea in the slightest as to what could be tainting the Crystals." He turned to the Onion Knights. "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to give you any help."

"That's okay," Refia said, though it seemed her mind was elsewhere.

"Well, if there's nothing left here for us, we should get going," Luneth said. "It's been nice meeting you Sora and Merlin!" He was half-way out the door, before popping back into the room. "Wait, which Crystal is our next stop?"

Arc gave this a moments though. "I think the Water Crystal is next."

"Right!" Luneth left the room.

"We should get going too," Ingus said, before leaving as well. Arc and Refia followed as well.

"Crystals, huh?" Sora said. Could this have anything to do with the one those two men in the dark armor took.

(1) Blue, green, cobalt, and purple respectively.

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