A True Warrior

Alan and Nadia soon arrived, but they noticed that they were in a huge, blue, rocky cavern (they're in that place where Sora fought 1,000 heartless in other words). Nadia then said pointing to her left, "Oh no!! I heard something coming from that direction. We should hide and quick!!" They then hid behind some tall rocks and watched as they saw what all the commotion was. They saw an army of 100,000 Viraltroopers in their original forms, the new form discovered back on Destiny Island and two other forms as well. The first of the two new forms was red in colour, resembled that of skeletons, vampires, and witches, and their eyes were black as death itself. The next form was giant, they had spikes covering their bodies, their skin was purple and green, and their eyes were yellow as banana peels. Some of the Viraltroopers that had spikes on their bodies could fly and resembled that of bats, magpies and crows. They were marching towards an odd looking castle of the sort (the former headquarters of Maleficent and the place from this time of course where Ansem would one day rule Radiant Garden). Alan then said, "They don't seem to stopping for anything. I don't see any clouds around here so we got here in time I think. Plus I don't see any of those knights anywhere." Nadia then said, "Yeah just like some of those goofs down at the beach have said, 'Come on in, the water's fine!' and then a shark gets them." Alan then summoned his keyblade with the Mickey Mouse Keychain attached to it and then as he looked at his keyblade, Nadia asked, "What is it?" Alan then said, "I felt something happen to the keyblades when Yen Sid put in those two white orbs into them. It's like they've changed." Nadia then asked as they came out when the coast was clear, "What do you mean?" They then heard a scream and Alan then rushed off grabbing Nadia by her arm and as they ran, he said, "I'll tell you later. Let's go now, someone's in trouble!!"

They headed into the town of Radiant Garden and found the Viraltroopers were everywhere and taking many hearts at a breakneck pace. They also saw many homes broken down and torn to pieces because of this onslaught. They then saw a tall, valiant dashing man in a red cape, in a brown robe cloak, and wearing black pants added with an old set of hunting boots jump from a nearby set of stairs and slash five of the creatures' hearts away with a black samurai like sword. Alan then yelled as the tall blonde youth turned to look at him, "Over here. You'll be safe with us." He nodded reluctantly and ran over Alan and Nadia. Alan and Nadia took out their keyblades and noticed they were surrounded by Viraltroopers of all forms. They also noticed the yellow and gold Knights of the Realm there as well on the same set of stairs overlooking them. Alan then said, "Ryansk, Grogonopse!! I should have known." Ryansk then said eagerly, "You guys are out of options so I'll give you a chance to surrender yourselves and if you're lucky I'll let you three go free of charge in exchange for the world's heart." The blonde youth then said taking out his samurai sword, "Never you coward. You attacked my home, my kingdom, my people and you expect us to give up. You Knights of the Realm are a disgrace to your people who have been widely known as true peacekeepers." Ryansk then said, "Save the pity speech for someone who cares! Go you guys, attack!!" Then both Ryansk and Grogonopse disappeared as the Viraltroopers closed in on them. Nadia then got cornered by a dozen of the creatures and as Alan tried to help her out, he too got clobbered by a whole dozen of those skeleton, vampire, and witch looking monsters.

The blonde youth slashed back and forth with his sword to protect his friends and as he cleared away more and more from Alan and Nadia, even as they got up, the saw that they were surrounded by more of them. Then Alan said looking at his keyblade, "Useless!! I can't even protect the people around me let alone myself." Nadia then replied, "Now's not a good time for this Alan, we have to protect this guy here. Speaking of which, he doesn't look too good." The blonde youth then transformed with a dark aura glowing around him and his face got covered in red stripes, his cape became white, and his hair along with his eyes went from blonde hair and baby blue eyes to white and charcoal brown. He then laughed sinisterly as he yelled, "Come at me you cowards!! I can beat the whole likes of you!!" Alan and Nadia then felt the sting of fear at their spines for the time ever as the white haired man launched a shockwave of dark energy releasing hearts everywhere across the planet and destroying every last Viraltrooper. He then returned to normal and collapsed on the ground. Even as Alan picked him up and Nadia as well as Alan headed to the castle, they had to slash and fight even more Viraltroopers along the way until they were greeted by a red headed blue eyed woman in a turquoise dress and glass slippers. She gasped as she saw the blonde youth and screamed, "Oh Odressil!! Please be alright!!" They laid him on a soft bed in their royal chamber room, then Nadia and Alan talked with the girl would turned out to be the queen of the castle in Radiant Garden as was Odressil the king of Radiant Garden. The girl's name is Danielle. After a brief conversation about the Viraltroopers and what had happened she then replied stroking Odressil's chest, "I knew this would happen." Alan then asked, "Knew what would happen?" "It's Odressil. When he was an infant, a witch plagued him with a curse because he was so handsome. He grew up the same way too, one the reasons he stole my heart and as we married. He would forever be cursed with his dark side, in a way he is like that of Dr. Jekyll and his other half is Mr. Hyde or what he calls him as Darthesis. What's worse is that he's the king of this world. Anything he declares could overrule anything I have to say, including war. If this isn't deal with soon, I fear the darkness could consume him. I wish there was something I could do." Alan then said, "Maybe there is something I could do."

Alan and Nadia nodded as they took out their keyblades and as Danielle asked, "What are you doing?" Alan and Nadia unlocked Odressil's heart and Darthesis, the same white haired man they saw before, appeared before them and then disappeared into a dark aura. Danielle gasped as she saw her husband arise and yawn and then he scratched his head as he said, "Thank you. I don't know how you did it, but thank you." Alan then explained, "This is called a keyblade. It holds very mysterious powers that Nadia and I are trying to figure out for ourselves. We've also been sent here because we were told that you might have a special potion that we can take only when we prove ourselves worthy." Odressil nodded as the young youth then said, "It would seem your lady may make a fine mother." They both gasped as Nadia asked with a cold chill in her throat, "What? Mother? What are you talking about?" Danielle smiled as she said, "On our planet, we have a special talent for predicting the future, the blessings one might have, the bad things one might have, anything to do with a person's future. Odressil saw that you two are to be parents of three fine children." Odressil then added, "Three young boys to be exact. However that is all that we can say. We can't tell what their names are or anything because that's all we can predict is a person, not their character." Alan and Nadia then nodded and flushed a little as they looked at each other and Alan then shook his head as he asked, "So is there a test or not?" Odressil then replied, "Well…" Then before he could reply, the Viraltroopers as well as Darthesis stormed the castle outside. Odressil took out his sword and replied to his wife, "I'll be alright my dear. You must stay here and assure my people of their safety." She nodded and then ran to the lower chambers as Alan, Nadia and Odressil headed outside to the gates of the castle and noticed on a huge blue circular platform, Darthesis and more Viraltroopers there as well as a giant beaver Viraltrooper to add to the tension. Alan and Nadia zapped the beaver and unlocked the heart on its tail with ease as Alan added, "Is that all you have to offer Darthesis? We could easily beat you guys if that's all there is to this fight." Darthesis laughed as he said, "I wouldn't say that the heart is still unlocked no?" He pointed to the sky above and they all noticed there was a huge heart in the sky with a lock still in the centre of it. He then added, "Now that I am free from the clutches of Odressil's kind heart, I can create my own destiny. Thanks to the Knights of the Realm, I can control this world with an iron fist and with a dark purpose too. Come then you heroes. Take me on. In fact…" He then destroyed all of the Viraltroopers around him and then finished, "…I'll fight without the aid of these pathetic creatures the Viraltroopers. They're endangered as we speak. Thanks to these key wielders you have at your side Odressil, they're weakening and it's only a matter of time before they disappear all together."

Then Odressil took out his samurai sword and noticed it turned into a keyblade, just as Mickey's sword turned into the Star Seeker as well, except Odressil's looked like that of the Oathkeeper. Darthesis then replied as he took out a black and white rapier, "Very impressive. Let's see how it does in battle shall we?" Then Darthesis dashed towards Odressil on a wave of wind (similar to that of the Guardian (recently revealed to be known as Venom) and how he rode the wind in the KH 2 Final Mix secret video.) He slashed at his robes and Alan and Nadia zapped the dark being with their keyblades as he then said, "So those keyblades as you call them are powerful after all. Perhaps I'll learn how to use those things and conquer this planet with their aid." Alan then combined his slashing skills with Nadia as they both ganged up on Darthesis all the while he was avoiding each strike they did: left right left right and then he slashed both of their keyblades with ease out of their hands and then Alan and Nadia reached out for them as they called them back. Alan then replied, "You'll never be able to wield the key. It will only go those who are pure at heart with their intentions. It is a majestic weapon that can only and should only be used by those who do have 'good' within their hearts." Darthesis then replied as he used telekinesis on all three of the young warriors and sucked out their energy, "Naïve fools. Do you really think such great poetic intentions really matter? There is darkness in every heart no matter what you say and what you do, you know that." Nadia then replied, "Doesn't mean that the keyblade will take you as its wielder."

Darthesis then replied as he clashed with Nadia and her keyblade, "So I suppose that you are feeling confident about now?" He then grabbed her by the throat and as Alan tackled him to the ground, he began to fight move for move against the white haired brown eyed swordsman. Odressil then picked Nadia up and brought her to her feet as he asked, "Are you okay?" Nadia nodded and then took out her keyblade once more to clash with Darthesis. Alan then received his armour from when they were on Earth and it occurred as did Nadia receive a set of armour herself in a golden colour like Alan's armour was. Their attacks increased and Darthesis then replied, "Yet again I am impressed. That power you hold is something of legend. I am surprised that such of its kind exists. Yet it won't save you." Alan then clashed his keyblade once more and then saw that Darthesis had always covered his back side with his cape and then figured that there might be a weak spot on there. Yet Darthesis punched him three times every time he even got near his back. Nadia then jumped behind him and zapped his back once. He then collapsed with both of his arms around his stomach as he said, "So you've found my weak spot have you little lady?" Nadia then shouted, "There's more where that came from!"

Darthesis then replied as he then captured Odressil and took him over from inside his body, "Let's see how you face up against your ally then." Alan and Nadia gazed upon their friend who was taken over by their dark enemy who started to glow red eyes instead of youthful blue and whose grin was evil looking no matter where you looked at it from. Then he slashed Alan and Nadia repeatedly as Alan clashed with the Oathkeeper and then replied, "Wake up Odressil!! We're your friends remember. We helped you when you collapsed. Fight the darkness!! Fight it. It has no control over you!! It doesn't!!" Then Darthesis said as he jumped high in the air and launched a huge cross of black fire towards the platform, "I wouldn't even bother. He's mine now!!"

Alan then replied, "I wouldn't say that." Then Odressil came to his senses and drove Darthesis out of his body and from his mind entirely. Odressil then came down just in time to defend them from the effects of the blast with his keyblade and deflected the blast high into the sky. Darthesis then grew enraged and started to power himself up. Odressil then yelled to Nadia and Alan, "Now's our chance. If we can get a few good hits on his back perhaps we can weaken him to the point where he can't fight no more." They then slashed at his back many times, but it didn't seem to work. In fact, Darthesis just rejuvenated even quicker with it and launched the attacks right back at his enemies. He then gathered a lot of dark energy together as he then said, "Prepare yourselves. I have a special surprise for you now. I have a special kind of power that can combine the power of my weapon with my thoughts in unison." Odressil then replied, "This isn't good at all. With his evil superiority, he'll be twice as hard to beat as we have been trying before." Darthesis then began to change his rapier and it looked like it was beginning to become two separate swords and soon enough it did.

Darthesis then duplicated his rapier and sliced Alan and Nadia at once and took the rest of the power within their armour rendering them weak and unable to fight on. Then he said as he laughed at Odressil's shocked reaction to this violence, "You're next and like your friends here, you won't be able to get up from this attack." Odressil then pointed his keyblade at Darthesis as he said, "So long as I am king of this planet, I will have to be its protector, and I will never fall, especially to the likes of you Darthesis. You're me incarnate and I know my weakness, do you?" Darthesis then lost his grin as Odressil teleported and ran around in a quick circle and then landed a few quick strikes at his back and around his front side as well paralyzing him. Odressil then launched a series of zaps at his heart weakening him bit by bit and Alan and Nadia came to just as Darthesis got rid of his copy rapier. Darthesis then did the exact same thing that Odressil did in kind to him and he also began to crack the platform as it began to weaken and tear itself to pieces. Even in the face of danger though, Odressil didn't flinch, but he kept his keyblade pointed at his enemy. Darthesis then asked, "Why must this charade go on? I keep pushing you all back with ease, and you all just keep coming back for more punishment. Darkness is all there is in a world so I ask you again. Why?" Then all three of the key wielders said in unison, "As long as we have a good intention to fight for, we will never give up!!"

Yet even as they said this, Darthesis launched a series of black orbs at them and then sliced their clothes and at their skin with his rapier. Alan attempted to clash his keyblade with Darthesis, but he got blown away by Darthesis' quick kick to the stomach and his back flip toward his back and got slashed their to boot. Odressil then began to glow and he soon got a white set of armour and he stared down Darthesis as he launched a great amount of light waves towards his enemy and recovered. He then healed Nadia and Alan and then they ran in and closed him off in a huge triangle like formation. All three of them together with their keyblades zapped Darthesis and then they all zapped a spiral like shockwave through his heart and towards the lock on the Heart of the World and unlocked it in the process ending the battle, not only on Radiant Garden and everyone else, but also the fight within King Odressil. The Heart of the World disappeared, the sun shone brightly as it always did in Radiant Garden and the people were cheering for their king and their visitors from Earth.

A few hours later, inside the castle, Odressil then gave Alan and Nadia two black orbs and said, "This new power you have gained will determine the keyblade's chosen wielders depending on their good qualities. Also from what you told me about Yen Sid, those other orbs were for the keyblade's good intentional fighting and its masterful swordsmanship which it will always be known for here on Radiant Garden. I also want to thank both of you, Alan, Nadia. Thanks to your help, my kingdom is safe. Thanks to you, my home has a fighting chance against those things the Viraltroopers and perhaps we may be able to save this universe from the darkness that encroaches it." Alan then replied as he said, "Just remember, you must always use the keyblade for good and you must always use all of the keyblades tricks to your advantage. I know its saved Nadia's skin as well as my own from all sorts of trouble before." Then Alan pressed the yellow button to leave for the next world and as he did, Danielle told Nadia, "Take care of your future children. If anything I will know what it's like too. I saw my future and I saw that I will bear a son. This time I caught his name." Alan and Nadia then asked, "What is it?" Danielle then said silently as she could, "Ansem." They then disappeared leaving behind the king and queen of Radiant Garden in their quiet peaceful castle.

(A crazy thought, if they did have that power to gaze into the future. I know it's a little farfetched, but you never know. To add to those three tests, there are three qualities I've noticed every keyblade has for a wielder: The wielder must use it for good instead of evil (meaning no darkness in their hearts at all or very little at most), the keyblade's abilities are often differentiated between its chosen wielder (i.e. Terra is said to have Strength as his power, as Ven is said to have an agile sort of attack method for BBS. Sora I've noticed too has a combination of agile attacks and occasional strength moves as well.), and the wielder must have been able to wield another weapon beforehand (henceforth why I would think that Kairi has never been able to use one since she never practiced with a sword fighting against Riku or Sora (excluding as well the keyblade Riku gave her too)). Alan is more like that of Terra or Sora with the way he attacks and Nadia is more like Ven or Mickey when she fights since she is more defensive. I have mentioned a lot about their attack strategies, but that's their style of moves. The final test will be revealed in the next chapter, although you can still take a guess, so stay tuned.)

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