Six: Violent

Alice was on her guard. Not only was she in the digital world when she should have been inside the castle (probably a portal of some kind), but also there was a new hooded figure.

"Who are you?" she demanded.

"I told you I'm Axel," he grinned from up above them. "You really should try to get it memorized…"

He had spiky red hair that went n every direction. Either he had some serious hood-hair, good gel, or gravity just ignored his locks.

"So why are you here instead of your friend?" BlackAgumon growled.

Axel shrugged, "I'm here to teach you how this castle works. None of us would want you to die because you don't know how to use the cards."

Alice fingered the card pouch on her waist. She knew how to use them; it wasn't even that hard of a game to understand. All she had to do was swipe a card, shout digi-modify, and strike a cool pose. Pie

"What are the cards for anyways Mr. Axel?" Wizardmon asked.

"No, no, no just Axel," the cloak clad man chuckled. "All of those cards have every fighting ability that the three have ad without using them you won't be able to fight."

"Why would we have to fight?" Alice flinched.

At first Axel didn't speak. He just stood and dusted off his cloak. Then he stretched his arms outward away from himself and clutched the empty space at his hands. Flames spiraled from his shoulders down his arms until they reached his hands and the fire transformed into a pair of chakram.

"These violent delights have violent ends," Axel sighed as he hopped down from his ledge and began to walk toward Alice "And in their triumph die, like fire and powder which, as they kiss consume."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Alice demanded.

Axel shrugged, "That was more directed at your friends than you."

He snapped his fingers and in an instant a wall of flames separated them.

"What are you doing?"

"To be frank, Alice, you should leave," Axel said. He began to saunter around her. To anyone else it would seem just weird, but Alice recognized it for what it was; predation. "You're in terrible danger here."

With speed that rivaled that of Crusadermon Axel knocked Alice to the ground and pinned her with one hand while the other held a chakram dangerously close to her face. Alice could barely blink let alone believe what had happened.

"A lot of your memories are dangerous, Alice," Axel said slowly. "But what's worse are theirs"

He motioned to the Digimon that were trapped behind a wall of fire that axel had created.

"Their memories won't hesitate to kill you hon," he whispered in her ear.

"Get off of me," Alice growled.

"Why should i?"

Instead of being helpless Alice went for what she knew would hurt him, and get Axel off of her. She kneed him in his no-no square.

"That's why!"

Alice ran for the wall of fire and searched the card pouch for something that could help the situation. Finally she found some of Wizardmon's wind magic.

"Digi-modify!" she cried, swiping the card deftly. "Windbreaker activate!"

Instead of a tornado erupting from Wizardmon's staff the digvice changed. Erupting from it was a long silver blade that ended in what seemed to be a key. The part the still looked like a digivice changed then to become a hilt with heptagonal guards. On the left side of the blade was thin line that had to be where cards were scanned.

"What is this?" Alice asked.

"That, my dear, is a keyblade," axel smiled. "The basic once to be specific and if you were to swipe that card again it would change into a more… appropriate model."

Alice clutched the new weapon in her hands. She had never used a sword before, but it had to be easy, right?

***

On the other side of the wall of flames BlackAgumon and Wizardmon were trying to get over somehow.

"Can't you cast some spell?"

"No, all of mine are in that deck of cards!"

"What about digivolving?" BlackAgumon murmured. "We can still do that right?"

Wizardmon shook his head, but then got an idea. "My broom! We can fly over this on my broom!"

"How do you know that it'll work?"

"I just do," the wizard responded as he swung his leg over the broom. "Aren't you going to get on?"

The dinosaur scoffed and steadied himself on the broom.

"No one ever knows about this!" he swore.

***

Alice was unsure of what to do until her companions crash landed on top of her.

"Wonderful, the gang's all here!" Axel exclaimed, sending out his chakram at the trio.

Reaching for the card pouch Alice pulled a random card and scanned it across the blade. In a flash of light from the hilt of the keyblade grew a black shield with three claws and a yellow sun symbol on it.

Alice maneuvered the new weapon to block the projectiles then checked out the card she had scanned: BlackWarGreymon's shield.

"Good, you've figured out how to change your keyblade, but you haven't figured out how to help your companions fight." Axel jeered.

"Give me a card!" BlackAgumon shouted.

"What's that supposed to do?" Alice replied as she tossed the dinosaur the entire pouch. It rifled quickly for something and grabbed a card that seemed to tickle his fancy.

"Let's hope this works," he murmured as he held it up to his mouth

Next up is going to be the trio's forst fight scene.

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