To Arms

(For this next part I would suggest listening to that game play music where Sora is fighting 1,000 heartless by himself or just whatever for this next chapter)

Alan soon arrived in Radiant Garden and once again it was threatened by the likes of the Viraltroopers, desperately clinging onto dear life with whatever they could in the giant canyon where he and Nadia defeated the 100,000 Viraltroopers from before. He saw Odressil and some of his finest men in their armour with mere swords and shields and they were outnumbered 10,000 to a mere 300 soldiers (Hello!). It didn't take long for Alan to arrive on the battle grounds and with the keyblade in hand and his tree bark beige suit he transformed into on as well. Odressil looked a little wounded around his legs and Alan then tapped his right shoulder as he said, "Thank the heavens…aren't you a sight for sore eyes!!" Alan smiled as Odressil said, "Thank goodness you came. Those blokes have us surrounded. Tyrannil was here tormenting us about destroying our home unless we gave into his demands. When we refused to give up our world and its heart, things just got worse."

Alan then thought as he looked around at the menacing group of Viraltroopers that surrounded them and then he said, "I know that Nadia is on her way. We should be able to beat them by the time she gets here." Odressil then asked, "You have something in mind then for a plan?" Alan smiled as he said this and scraped the ground with his keyblade generating sparks in the process.

Then Alan stared at the various different coloured Viraltroopers from blue and red to white and black and saw a Viraltrooper that looked like a grey wolf and at twenty feet high would have been a massive creature to face. Alan stared into its vicious yellow eyes and then said to Odressil without looking at him, "Odressil, take your finest men and head back to the farthest corners of the canyon and block the entrance. With your bodies straight in a line and the canyon entrance being so small, they can't get to the town or the castle." Odressil was surprised as he said this and asked, "But what about you?" "I can handle stuff like this. Trust me, I have been through a lot and if I can't last a mere hour with these guys let alone a minute, then I haven't learned anything except to rely on my friends too much.", Alan said. Then Odressil left Alan and took his men to the canyon entrance and then Alan remembered something Aranse told him as he travelled through to Radiant Garden and first arrived.

(Flashback)

('Alan, Nadia may be a little longer here in the abyss. She's doing fine, but won't be able to help you for about an hour at least. Can you handle things by yourself this time?', Aranse asked. 'Sure thing Aranse. I can do this. Since Nadia and I have done so well together, we should be able to great things alone just the same. I have to go now, take care.' As Alan rushed off to meet Odressil, Aranse said, "Alan!!" 'Yes Aranse?', Alan asked. A brief silence occurred and Aranse said, 'Take good care of Nadia and everyone else. They're counting on you.' Alan nodded as he heard Aranse speak through his watch for the past five minutes and then rushed off to meet fate and destiny in one area.)

(Present)

Alan then said, "There isn't anything that is gonna stop me this time." Alan then dashed towards the Viraltroopers just as they dashed towards him at the same time. Alan slid under the giant grey wolf and sliced three Viraltroopers that were underneath him and hearts flew into the sky. Then Alan jumped high into the air and glided along the ground picking up four Viraltroopers at the same time and doing a classic (pokemon of course) Seismic Toss to the ground causing more hearts to fly into the sky. 'This'll take forever at this rate. I'll use up my energy quickly if I'm not too careful. Maybe if I get them attacking each other things can work in my favor. Then all I'd have to do is take care of the wolf.', Alan thought to himself. Then Alan slammed the ground killing five more Viraltroopers.

Then twenty Viraltroopers from each corner rushed towards Alan and as he jumped into the air, they slammed into each other and they just kept fighting each other from there on while Alan dashed towards the menacing grey wolf to get his attention. As he did so, the monster swung his paw across the landscape, to which Alan ducked, but certainly did kill off a thousand of the Viraltroopers in the process. Alan then thought to himself again as he stood up on one knee, 'This is going to be tougher than I thought. While I got these Viraltroopers fighting themselves, I got no idea where his heart symbol is…unless it's invisible!! That would explain everything. Maybe my keyblade can help me out.' Then Alan zapped the sky with his keyblade and the clouds moved into area with their shadows pointed towards one spot on the wolf's body: its right leg.

Alan then climbed onto its left front paw just as the wolf howled menacingly killing two thousand more Viraltroopers and slammed the ground to get Alan off of him. Alan then powered himself up and transformed into the 'Armour of Love' that Nadia was told it was and he didn't know about at the time and hid in the wolf's fur like a flea on a dog and as such the wolf behaved like a dog and tried to scratch Alan off with its right leg. Then Alan felt the tremors of this effect and the ground rattled each time as the wolf killed off another three thousand Viraltroopers with its scratching. Then it tried to slam the ground as Alan kept crawling up its body and finally reached its right leg killing more of its own kind again as he killed off another two thousand five hundred more of the Viraltroopers.

Then Alan zapped the invisible heart symbol on its right leg and it soon became visible. Alan noticed the wolf's leg reach for him and before he could get away was knocked off the wolf's leg and slammed into the ground hard at over five hundred miles per hour. Injured, but not beaten yet felt more slams on the ground as the monster killed off more and more of the Viraltroopers leaving only four hundred remaining. Alan stood up and felt a sharp pain near his left shoulder and thought to himself, 'Man this guy's nuts! He kills of his own kind and everyone else in this place. Figures Obeion must tired of playing games with us and wants to end it quickly.' Then Alan zapped the heart symbol once again on the wolf's right leg and as he did, a giant heart came out and the wolf collapsed on the ground killing off three hundred and ninety more of the Viraltroopers since the last ten were a little occupied further south towards Odressil and his men's location. Alan jumped up and as he landed on his own two feet zapped the heart and unlocked it and as he did, it disappeared and left one last tremor that annihilated the last ten Viraltroopers in the area and saved the world once again.

Then Odressil said to Alan as he rushed up with army of 300 soldiers, "Well done Alan. Once again you and that 'key' weapon have saved us and once again I am baffled and unable to repay you for this." Alan held onto his right shoulder as he said looking into Odressil's baby blue eyes said, "Think nothing of it. But of course if you do want to help my body got pretty roughed up back there…" "Yet you beat those Viraltroopers with your hands tied behind your back…", Odressil added. "I know, but if I hadn't transformed into that golden armour I wouldn't have been able to beat that wolf alone. I still have a long way to go before I can call myself a true warrior.", Alan said.

"Don't count on it.", a voice said. Alan turned around and smiled as he saw Nadia running towards him in the distance and as she caught her breath continued, "That Armour of Love really helped me too, but we're just as powerful alone as we are together." "Armour of Love?", Alan asked. Nadia told Alan what she was told and he said, "Amazing. Maybe we could use this power to defeat Obeion once and for all. It's a crazy thought since he's just as powerful as Aranse, but it might just work." Nadia then said, "But first things first. Castle Darkhand is the place we ought to go first." Alan nodded as Odressil said, "I can get you two there." Then a little surprised Alan and Nadia exclaimed in unison, "You can?!"

They soon followed him back to his castle and up to the Dining Room. It was a giant room like that of the ballroom in Beast's Castle but its table was huge (30x13 to be exact) and covered in a fine white silk cloth with all sorts of plates, cutlery, candle sticks, etc. Then Odressil raised his hands in the air and said something in that was a cross of Hebrew and Irish blended together and presto a black sludge looking portal appeared. Odressil then turned to Alan and Nadia and his men that surrounded the Dining Room and said, "This should be it. I wish I could help, but my people need me here in Radiant Garden should things go to worse here. Can you two look after yourselves alright?"

Alan and Nadia nodded as Alan said, "You have been a big help not just for me, but also Nadia as well. I wonder, will we ever see each other again?" "Who knows? I'm going to be a busy man here for a long time: I have a queen that needs me here, an unborn child I will have to look after until he or she grows up, not to mention that I have to take care of my people until my future child becomes heir to the throne." Nadia and Alan laughed a little out of friendliness and then began to head inside the portal. As Nadia headed inside, Alan was stopped by something holding onto his shoulder. "Give those wretched Knights of the Realm and Obeion my regards for me, will you?" Alan nodded from his right side and dashed inside the portal. It closed shut and disappeared and as it did one of Odressil's men asked, "What do we do know milord?" Odressil stared into a sunny sky that blanketed Radiant Garden and said, "Pray, hope for the best, and move on. There's nothing more we can do at this point. This time those wielders of the key will have to take care of this matter by themselves.

(Now the plot thickens again. Castle Darkhand, The Knights of the Realm and Obeion are coming up next in the following weeks to come. There still is more to come yet so stay tuned.)

(Next Time: Castle Darkhand.)

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