The 15th Key

by TheTwinKeys

An orphan left to live a dark and unforgiving life in Twilight Town, a warrior left to defend himself in the desert,a child lost and then found in a storm,a girl blinded by the light,a girl left in the cold,and a boy surrounded by a wall of fire he started. Has some boy x boy in later chapters, mostly adventure though. Don't like,don't read. Suggestions and crticisms are apretiated

3. Chapter 3

The 15th Key

TK: Hey guys thanks for the reviews. To XIIIXV, thanks for the criticism, I gladly appreciate it. I always do that when I get in the zone with my writing. Then again, I saw the paragraph blob I had created. I was so excited for finishing a chapter that I could upload, I didn't fix it. XenoInfinity told me about it and I know how hard it is to read with all the lines clumped together like that(it also looks intimidating).

I promise to actually look over my my story at least twice before uploading. Anyway now the actual story begins, with a visit to Yen Sid which will be more story if anything. Since this is your last chapter until way later in the story ( which I have a skeleton plan for but no chapters to speak of) Riku, you can do the disclaimer.

Riku: Thanks. The 15th Key is a non profit, fan based story. Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy are both owned by Square Enix and Disney. Please support the official release.

Chapter Three: Change in Clothes and Plans

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I kept screaming even though, after the jolt into Warp Space, the ride was actually smooth. I kept screaming for a minute, while Riku tried to shake me to stop. Eventually, he stopped and I swear the vein in his forehead was going to pop out. He twisted 90 degrees to the left, then he bitch slapped with his right hand across my face. The sound bounced between the cockpit walls, making the sound even worse than it actually was.

"Thanks, I needed that" I say rubbing my sore cheek. "No problem" he says while walking away. "But if you do that again, you'll get more than a smack. Anyway, we have an hour before we arrive so let me just show you around". We walked into the kitchen. "First off, not only is this a microwave but a matter converter" he said with a sort of smirk on his face.

He then opened the refrigerator and grabbed an apple. He then put it in the microwave. "It takes the molecules in the food. Then it rearranges them into the thing you want". He pressed a button on machine that said MC. "Matter Converter mode activated" said the microwave.

"What would you like ?". " An orange, please". Then the machine started up. At first, it made that normal humming sound microwaves usually make. Then the hum got louder and deeper. Light started to pour out of the microwave.

Finally, when the light died down what I saw amazed me. What was in there was not an apple but an orange. Riku opened the microwave and grabbed the orange. "There are a few limitations to the MC. You can't put in a loaf of bread and get an apple. You get a fruit for another fruit.

Don't put things that aren't food in the converter either. Also, you have to have enough matter to make the desired food, you can't put in an apple and ask for a bunch of bananas" I nodded. He then turned around and headed toward the dining room. The room was nicely lit by a center chandelier hanging over the dining table which had about at least twelve chairs around the long, oval table. The room itself was a dark wood color. "This dining room is also a war/strategizing room".

He flipped a switch on the wall and the whole room changed. The walls flipped to reveal starch white walls. The floor changed to white marble. The table lowered into the floor and up came a flat, white, table with a blue grid on top. The chandelier was sucked up into the ceiling, and the ceiling also flipped to reveal a fluorescent light on a starch white ceiling. The elegant chairs were taken under the floor and in their places appeared black leather swivel chair.

The light dimmed considerably, but that light was replaced with the light the table was projecting. Above the table were blue worlds, well digital, 3 dimensional, touchable worlds. There were at least a hundred of them. Riku sat at the head of the table. He took out an extendable pointer and said

" World organization, sphere formation" The worlds arranged themselves into hollow sphere. He then did a waving motion looking for the world he wanted, then he poked one world.

"World: Mysterious Tower, Heartless rate: 0%, Nobody rate: 0%, Faction: World Federation" said the computer as a tall, misshapen, bent tower on a small island came into view. There were what looked pine trees on the island. "This where we are headed" said Riku. I kinda looked at it sideways, to see if it would change. I just couldn't believe that an all powerful Keyblade master would live in such a weird place. He showed me the bathroom and other things around the ship.

Like where the dishwasher was is and and the automatic shelfer, which puts away dishes,bowls,plates etc, automatically. The Universal EBook Reader or the UER, which does exactly what the name implies. After all that explaining he allowed me to go about my business. I grabbed a Go-Tart from one of the kitchen cabinets and went to go fix my room. I brought my rolling suitcase in and sat down on the bed. I may have been calm on the outside buts thats only because my brain has been so busy taking all of this information in that, my emotions have been stayed dormant.

Recap, I am apparently a chosen wielder of the Keyblade, which is a magic and giant key wielding warrior who protects the universe from the darkness and those who lurk in it. My home world was consumed by the Heartless and I was saved by another another Keyblade wielder named Riku. He is now taking me to his former master to see if I could be trained by Riku. His master lives on a magical floating island in the middle of space which has a slanted tower which apparently has zero Heartless and zero Nobodies. I have no idea what it means by Nobodies but I guess I'll find out.

I open my suitcase to only find 7 white shirts 20 pairs of underwear, some socks, and two pairs of jeans. What am I supposed to wear! I can't just wear my black hoodie everyday. I'll ask Riku about this later. I put away my small amount of clothes and finish my Go-Tart. Then turn on the UER system and search for a book of my choosing. I find an old Vladimir Tod book that I have already read but at least I know what it is.

Most of this stuff is in a different language. Then again it is a universal Ebook library. As I continued reading, I started to feel sleepy and then finally I knocked out. When I opened my eyes again I was standing on the glass platform again. The image had changed.

The ten silhouettes were all still blacked out except for one. Though it didn't exactly give me good reading on who it was. In the picture it seemed to be a girl. Most of her face was obscured by her hood except for her smile and the her blonde hair poking out from her hood. That same girl was now in the central picture as me, only upside down across from me. Then I saw her falling from the eternally black sky.

That same girl came falling down slowly until she flipped over and landed softly. She looked around and saw the same changes that I did and then her gaze directed in my direction. She stood up straight and extended her left hand and in it appeared... Twilight's Awakening?! I extended my right arm to see if I could summon it but then something happened. A massive headache ran through my head. The girl also held her head pain.

The voice from before rang out as the pain continued " Two people cannot wield the same key, especially in your case.(1) Your powers both stem from the same source... so the only way to fix this problem is to split your power in half." Then Twilight's Awakening came shooting down from the sky( what is it with shit falling from the sky?! Is this a dollhouse or something?!). It struck right in the center of the picture. Then it started to break up into grey dust. The dust then collected in a pile in the center.

They were then absorbed by the glass and grey lines started to form. It split me and the girl into a sort of yin and yang formation. My background was no longer bright blue but a very dark grey and hers was a very light grey." The pain finally stopped as keyblade appeared in front of me, from what seemed like darkness. "The Tenebrous Soul is now yours".

(The keychain was made out of tiny chain links and the token was an onyx gem in cased in a silver oval with protruding silver wings. The guard was made of black feathers turned diagonally inward with the points pointing upward. A simple black handle inside the guard. From the top of the guard were two black wings pointed upward with the blade shaft. A silver blade shaft was surrounded by this greyish black aura that if you looked closely, had little black feathers in it. At the end was a silver heart surrounded with the same aura. (The teeth were made out of 3 black feathers)

She also held a new weapon. It's name popped into my head, Incandescent Soul. (Its design was the opposite of mine yet similar. Her keychain was made out of gold, the token being a white diamond inside a gold oval with little wings popping out. The guard was the same except that the feathers were white the handle was white with a gold ring at each end. The shaft was goldc with a greyish white aura around with what appeared to be silhouettes of white feathers. At the end was a gold heart with same aura around it. The teeth were made out of 3 white feathers)

She looked at me then just about as she was going to lift her hood... I woke up from the dream. I just looked at my hand and wondered if I really had a different key now. After awhile I hear Riku over the intercom. " Grey report to the cockpit we are 10 minutes to arrival." I turn off the UER and walk to the cockpit. I strap myself in a chair and say hello to Riku and thats when my previous question comes to mind.

"Riku do you have any idea why Aerith gave me barely any clothes?" I ask. He just looks at me with a knowing smirk and says " Master Yen Sid will explain everything." "Entering normal space in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1". The purple veil came off the ship as we came out of Warp Space. A giant tower came into view. It was straight from the base to the middle but then jerked into slanted slope which then became straight again. It had many tall pentagonal windows and had small towers sprouting from random places. The the walls were comprised (fancy vocabulary) of beige/yellow brick and the main tower had a blue cone roof with a light blue crescent moon symbol emblazoned(fancy vocab #2) on it and at the point was a golden crescent moon and two gold stars at either side.

The smaller towers had teal cone the ground had green grass and around the edges of there were evergreen pine the floating island there was what looked like a golden nebula. Riku landed the ship at the edge and he lowered the walkway. Amazingly, the island actually had an atmosphere so we could actually breathe. We walked up to the tower and there were 4 steps leading up to brown double doors.

I opened the doors to find a spiral staircase room. In the center of the floor was yellow crescent moon on a blue background. The walls looked like beige marble columns rolled out flat. The support bar was blue with gold on the top. The stairs were also beige. I started going up the stairs when i saw a deep blue oval a few stairs ahead.

"Thats a magic portal put in place by the master. He put them there as a precaution when the original heartless invasion began. Anyone who walks through the portal will be detected by Yensid. It also goes through a maze of of magical floating staircases and doors" said Riku. I instantly sighed thinking that we have to go through it. " Though we don't have to go through the maze since he knows me" (1) he continued.

He put his hand through the portal and it changed color from deep blue to star blue ( the colors of stars on a clear night) and then he put my hand in. He then walked into it with me trailing behind. When I walked through the portal, I entered a different room. It had a long desk and a chair with a tall back, both made out of a light wood. There were two tall bookshelves on the walls filled to the brim with books. Another one on the wall to my right.

Three open windows were on the back. Another door was on the right side. Sitting in the chair was was an elderly man. Not old like those kind always smiling old men that squint all the time. His eyes eyes expressed that he was a very serious person. His pupils were little black specks and the rest of his eyes were a plain white.

He had a grey beard extending from his beard. His lightly tanned skin was mostly covered by his robe. It was a normal blue with light blue on the edges on the cuffs which were slightly puffy. He had on a very cliche wizard hat, cone shape and all. It was the same blue as the robe and had golden star and crescent moons in a very random pattern. He was talking to a girl about a year younger than Riku.

She had burgundy hair and pale skin. She had on white hi-tops with purple with yellow laces. She had on a light purple skirt that reached her knees. A purple undershirt could be seen under her short sleeve pink jacket. Her hands had light purple fingerless gloves with the knuckles being white leather with leather at the edges.(2)

"Ah, Riku, there you are" said the old wizard with a very deep voice. Then he saw me walking slowly behind Riku. He stared at me with a stare so intense, it felt like he was looking into my soul(Which he probably was). Finally after what felt like minutes, (5 seconds really) his stare became less intense and he smiled at me.

"You must be the presence I felt before, what is your name, young one?". I came slowly from behind Riku and said shyly " My name is Grey and I'm a ... Keyblade Wielder." "I see...Show me your blade." I held my hand out to summon my key but when I did summon it, it wasn't my key, it was the one from the dream. "Tenebrous Soul" I said staring at my key realizing that what had happened in my "dream" did happen.

" Ahhh... You truly are a keyblade wielder and you contain the power of darkness" he said. "Just like Riku, maybe even darker". I didn't know whether I should take that as a complement or an insult. Then his smile broke into a look of urgency and anger, as he must of felt something. "We must hurry there isn't much time." Riku I need you and Kairi to go find Sora and bring him to Radiant Garden for me once we get to Merlin's house. If you return successful, you will be a Keyblade Master.

" Master what going..." started Kairi but he just talked over her. "Grey go into the double doors on the left, there will be three fairies who will get you prepared for your journey." "Journey!" said Riku surprised. " He doesn't even know the basics of fighting!" " Yet in the report you sent me about Twilight Town's destruction you said that he was in the center of the storm with his clothes battle torn and not a heartless inside the center of the storm and you expect me to believe that he didn't fight them off until they retreated!"

He was yelling at this point and he caught himself, taking a deep breathcontinued. Grey go to the fairies and tell them this, The Key to Twilight is the The Key to Peace". " Got it" I said as I walked toward the door. I closed the door behind me and looked around the room. The same walls and floor only it was a round room with a higher ceiling, meaning I was probably in the tower.

There were a bunch of different sized mirrors covered in white cloth. In the center of the room were three older women one dressed in green, one dressed in red, and one dressed in blue. Each had their own "witch hat shaped" hat and their own gown. They all had fair skin and sort of old yet not, as if in their forties or fifties. The blue was short and plump, the green one was the tallest and the red one was in the middle.

" Why hello there dear, what is your name" said the red one. " My name is Grey and I've come to get prepared as instructed by Master Yen Sid. "Another adventurer I see" said the green one. "Well" said the red one " My name is Flora the tall one is Fauna and the short one is Merriweather."

" Alright ladies lets do this" said the blue one as they started to raise their corresponding color wand. " Wait! Yen Sid said to say, The Key to Twilight is the Key to Peace" I said holding my hands up. They looked me over then went over to the other side of the room and formed a triangle and then they crossed their wands together and lifted them together. A ball of green blue and red slowly formed above them and then in an instance they pointed their wands at me sending the ball in my direction I braced myself as I was enveloped in it. When the light dissipated, I had completely changed clothes.

I was wearing a black short sleeve undershirt with a black zip up no sleeve sweater vest with a hood all woven out of what seemed to be cotton but probably just felt like it. The inside was made of a soft polyester like material. The zipper was made out of silver. Over wear my heart would be on the sweater was the same insignia, in white outlining, that was on Kairi's belt only woven in instead of of an actual badge like her's. I had black cargo pants that were loose yet fit snugly around my waist and was also very light, obviously so couldn't complain about speed. My shoes were also a nice fit.

They were black with a grey under sole. On the side of the shoe ( think of Pumas) was a band of grey material that extended upwards from the under sole and then went to the back of the shoe. Strapped on to one of my belt loops of cargo pants were two black leather fingerless gloves. I put them on and they fit as well as the rest of the close. Tight so they wouldn't slip but not so tight that they'd cause imprints on my hands.

There were little nubs of harder material on the area where my knuckles would be. Like the sweater, the interior was soft and comfortable. On my right wrist was a silver bracelet that was made out of black rectangles surrounded by silver with a little jewel in the center of each, making a total of eight( Most perfect, beautiful, and eloquent number ever and if you get where I got this from your awesome) of those made up my bracelet. All in all these new clothes were amazing. "That bracelet helps contains your darkness" said Merriweather.

"Wouldn't that mean I can't use my powers" I said. "Yes and no" said Fauna. Its there to make sure you don't get consumed by the great amount of dark energy that's within you. It's there to keep you from reaching that point and turning into a heartless." Ok, that makes a lot more sense".

Just then the whole room shook as an explosion rocked the tower. " What was that!" I said as try to catch my balance. "We must hurry to Yen Sid" Said Flora as they hurried forward with me behind them. " The portal was now closed and instead in its place was an actual door and it was open. Battle sounds could be heard as they reached closer and closer to the door until finally Riku came running into the room blasting darkness down what I assumed were stairs.

He pulled Kairi in by the arm and then kicked the door closed. Then him and Kairi moved one of the bookcases on to the door. Loud banging could be heard on the other side. "What's going on!" I said as the banging became louder and louder. "Xehanort knows you survived the destruction of Twilight Town and he knows that you're here" said Riku.

Then Yen Sid continued "He knows what would happen if you reached your full power. He sent an army of heartless to kill you and everyone else here". Cracks started to appear in the wall near the door. Riku gave me a book and the remote to the Celestial Crow. " You have to leave now.

Get on board the ship and ask to go to Olympus Coliseum, the autopilot will do the rest." "What about you guys!" I yelled in concern. This time Kairi spoke "We are going to cover your escape, after we are sure you are gone Yen Sid will use the Star Shard teleport all of us to Radiant Garden. Since the heartless are blocking the only decent way out, you're going to have to jump out of the window. Your shoes should absorb the shock. NOW GO!"

" Thank you for all your help everyone" I said as I climbed onto the sill took one last look at them and then I jumped. I made sure that my feet were the first thing to hit the ground. Not a single broken bone. From there I raced off from the backside of the tower to the front and of course there were heartless there. These new clothes were giving me a major boost in speed.

I summoned Tenebrous Soul to my hand and watched in as I simply slashed through the Shadows as if they were nothing, still running at top speed. There seemed to be tiny purple cannons with black heart outlined in red on them and they had faces! I sliced two of them up and then the third fired a cannon ball up into the air trying to hit the tower. I let my keyblade dissipate so my hands were free and then I jumped. I grabbed the the cannon ball in mid air and threw it back down at the creature. It exploded upon impact.

With my way clear I hurried to the Celestial Crow and boarded. "Computer mark our course for... Olympus Coliseum" I said. "Destination accepted, prepare to for Warp Drive. Estimated time until arrival 5 hours." It left the tiny atmosphere of the The Mysterious Tower and stopped there. Just then I saw blue light go zig zagging at very high speeds to what seemed like the direction of Radiant Garden. That was probably them. Now I no longer had to worry. The ship was in veloped in the same purple light and then it shot forward to Olympus Coliseum.

TK: Any questions, comments, advice, reviews? Oh and sorry about the massive delay but high school is really time consuming. ANd sometimes people are annoying and get in the way. At least I can relax a little since I put out this chapter. Don't expect anything anytime soon though cause its almost summer break and I have finals next week. Also I would like an opinion on something, should I add background music to the story. It wouldn't be there for little battles like what just happen. Just important battles. Please tell me in your reviews.

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