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Chapter 15-New Warriors

'Where is Kairi? Where did she run off to?' Riku thought, remembering Kairi leaving the usual spot where he and the others were recently. He thought about ditching others and go looking for her, but he had gut feeling that she left for a reason and needed to be alone.

Besides, he still feels Sora's presence around Twilight Town and he didn't want anything to happen to Hayner, Olette and Pence.

The platinum haired teen was watching Hayner and Olette sparing with the struggle bats. Pence wasn't around since he went into town to purchase more sea salt ice cream.

As he was watching the two friends spar with each other, Riku had to admit both were pretty good handling the weapon. He observed the blond fighting style. Hayner was mostly offensive thats because he is quick with his feet which leaves Olette blocking his attacks. Despite having a good offensive, Riku can tell that Hayner isn't much of a defender which reminded him of Roxas. He remembered facing Roxas back in The World That Never Was and Roxas would always attack and never defended himself, thats was because his attacks were powerful.

As he looked over at Olette, he could tell that she is well-balanced. She can defend very well and counter attack whenever she sees an opening.

"They're both pretty good at what they do," Riku quietly said to himself. "They might one day be keyblade bearers like me."

Hayner swung his struggle bat at Olette, who sidestepped his attack and swung her bat at his head. The impact to the head caused Hayner to staggered back.

"Ouch! That hurt Olette!" Hayner exclaimed, rubbing the side of his head. Olette snickered and Hayner rolled his eyes and groaned. He went over to the bench where Riku was sitting at and offered him the struggle bat. "Wanna give it a try, Riku?"

Riku shook his head. He didn't want to struggle for two reasons. One; he thinks battle with a bat is stupid even though he enjoyed the spar between the two and also Hayner getting whacked in the head. Two; is because he didn't want to hurt the girl even if he was just sparring. His a keyblade warrior remember.

"Are you scared to get beaten by a girl?" Hayner teased.

"No, I just don't feel like it. You're the one who just got beaten by a girl, so don't even talk," Riku replied.

Hayner glared at the older teen and then turned around when he heard Pence yelling out their names.

"Hayner, Olette!" Pence shouted, running towards his friends.

"What's going on Pence?" Olette asked.

"Yeah, what's with you? Did they run out of sea salt ice cream?"

Pence shook his head as he tried to catch his breath. "S-something terrible is happening to Twilight Town," Pence panted as he spoke.

"What do you mean?" Riku stood up from the bench.

"Mon-monsters are attacking the town. We gotta get out of here quick."

Suddenly the four of them saw dozens of civilians running in their direction away from the town.

"Run for your lives! Monsters are invading Twilight Town!" One person yelled.

Through the crowd Hayner could spot Seifer running with them. "Seifer, what the heck is going?!" Hayner shouted loudly.

Seifer over heard him and quickly shouted back. "Getting the hell out of here like everyone else is!"

"For once I agreed with Seifer. I'm getting out of here," Pence said, leaving his friends behind.

Riku quickly summoned his Way to Dawn keyblade and got into his stance. Whatever it is attacking the Town I have to stop it. I wondered if its Sora's doing? Riku thought.

"Woah, what the heck is that Riku?" Hayner asked, staring at the keyblade.

"It's a keyblade. Whatever monster is attacking this town, I have to fight it off. You two need to go with the crowd and get out of here," Riku suggested.

"No way dude," Hayner said, picking up a struggle bat and getting into a stance. "This is my town and I'm not letting any monster or anything destroy it."

"I'm with you Hayner," Olette agreed as she too held a struggle bat.

"You guys don't understand. You don't know what you're up-"

Riku was suddenly cut off when a loud screeching sound caught their attention. Up in the sky flew dozens of nobodies known as the dragoons.

"W-what are they?" Olette hesitantly asked. She wished she went with Pence since she now scare of the flying nobodies. But she couldn't she was determined just like Hayner to stay and defend for the people she cared about.

"They are dragoons. They many others just like them called nobodies, but they're all different in their own way. I really suggest you gu-"

"AHHHHH," Hayner cried out in his warrior like sound. He suddenly rushed towards the dragoons that were attacking the town.

"HAYNER, YOU IDIOT, GET BACK HERE!" Riku yelled at the blond.

Hayner ignored his called and attacked the dragoon with his struggle bat. The bat was useless against the nobody since they weren't vulnerable to it. Hayner finally stopped attacking and looked up at the dragoon, realizing the bat had no affect to it.

"Hayner get away from it NOW!"

Suddenly the nobody used its lance and struck Hayner in the stomach.

"Hayner!" the brunette cried out. She couldn't believe she was about to lose her best friend right before her eyes.

Crimson blood spilled from Hayner's wounded stomach. He slowly fell to his knees and then on all fours. No...I won't...die...I can't...

Before he slipped away in darkness, Hayner saw Olette running towards him crying out his name. He wanted to tell her to stay back, but the words wouldn't come out. Hayner was gone.

"Hay-" Olette was immediately cut off as she tried calling his name.

Riku watched, horrified on what just happened to Hayner and now Olette. Two pair of lances struck the defenseless girl in the back. She feel onto the ground with a thump.

"I'm not going to die...I'm coming Hayner," Olette said, crawling on the floor as she desperately tried to reach for her friend. "I'm almost.....there," She said he final words before she slipped to her death. Her hands were grabbing on Hayner's shoes.

"No...they can't be..." The the platinum haired teen suddenly looked behind him and saw another set of nobodies approaching him. "Great, Berserks. Just what I need."

Suddenly, a rage of anger rushed through Riku's veins. His Way to Dawn keyblade was glowing a dark red. Red aura surrounded the older teen.

Riku didn't know exactly what was going on with him. All he can feel was anger-dark anger raging through his body. His muscles were growing as the this odd, yet powerful feeling was going through him .His gripped on the keyblade tightened, the anger in his, now, crimson bloodshot eyes, told the story.

Riku was pissed.

"You nobodies want to play!" The red aura surrounding him intensely grew stronger. "Let's play!" Riku laughed in a sort of evil way.

He began unleashing his fury.

Tifa was panting heavily as she looked at the Dancer nobodies trapping her in a circle of their own. The raven-haired woman recently heard about unknown beings attacking the town. She left train station where she was waiting for Cloud to return and found her self being attacked by nobodies. She fought of the dusks easily, but when the Dancers came, it became a challenge for her.

Cloud is not back yet. I don't know how long I can keep fighting these things. I just hope Riku, Kairi and the others are okay. Tifa thought.

A nobody grabbed Tifa and tried to kick her, luckily, Tifa had the strength to break its hold on her and shoulder toss it to the other nobodies. Tifa then punched another nobody before it attacked her. Then from behind, the fighter was grabbed and tossed into the air and kicked hard in the gut.

Tifa landed on the ground on her feet, but quickly kneel from the sudden that burn through her ribs. "D-damnit," Tifa coughed up blood. "This isn't going well for me at all."

Tifa slowly stood up, stilling clutching her ribs. "For weird beings, they are tough and powerful. I'm outnumbered. Cloud get your ass here now," Tifa growled to herself.

Just as about the nobodies were about to pounce on her, a sword slash through several of the nobody dancers. "You could at least be more nicer," the blond warrior said, standing next to Tifa.

"Why do I have this feeling that you watch me from a distance Cloud and when I'm in trouble, you like to make your heroic appearance?"

Cloud smirked. "Cause, your my responsibility. I always have to watch over you as if you were a child."

"I am not a child!" Tifa huffed, glaring at the spikey male. Then her expression softened. "Glad to know that you care though."

"What? Nevermind, go look for Riku and Kairi, I'll handle these things."

Tifa nodded and told him to be careful before she left.

Station of Awakening

"Where am I?" Hayner asked himself, looking around at the unknown place where he just woken up at. The last thing he remembered was trying to fight that nobody, getting stabbed by its weapon and hearing Olette calling for him. "Olette," he sighed. "I died trying to protect her and everyone. I hope she's alright."

"Hayner is that you?!"

Hayner's chestnut eyes widened. That voice can only belong to...

"Hayner, it really is you!" Olette came from the shadows and ran up to her friend, hugging him tightly.

"Olette, if your here, then that means...you've died."

"Yeah, I guess so," she nodded. "It's odd though...it doesn't feel like I'm dead. I feel very much alive."

"It doesn't feel like we're at heaven," Hayner said looking down. "Holy crap! Olette look." The blond pointed to the ground.

When the brown haired teen looked at what her friend was pointing at, she was surprisingly shock. "Is that...is that a picture of Sora?"

"Yeah and he's holding a keyblade that Riku has. There's also Kairi and Riku. Where the hell are we?!"

"A place where you're about to choose your destiny," a voice echoed.

Both friends gave each other a confuse look. Then suddenly two keyblades magically appeared from the ground. One was the Sleeping Lion and the other was the Starseeker.

"If you choose to defend and fight those you care about then accept this fate as keyblade warriors."

"Accept," the blond quickly said with no hesitation. He went to pick up the Sleeping Lion.

"Hayner, what are you doing? You actually want to do this?" She inquired.

Hayner nodded. "Yeah, I want to be just like Sora and the others. I want help people Olette. C'mon lets become keyblade warriors."

Olette thought long and hard about this. If she does become a keyblade warrior, then she'll be helping others, like her family and friends, while also risking her life. If she doesn't she probably won't come back to life. She finally made her decision.

"I accept as well."

Twilight Town

"This is crazy!" Riku shouted as he kneel on the ground, breathing heavily. Tifa who also just came to help Riku, was also down on her knees. She was already done fighting in her recent battle with the nobodies and now she was in another one. Plus, her ribs were beginning to hurt her even more than they was before.

"I agree Riku. They just won't stop coming."

"I have to go find Kairi, she could be in danger right now," Riku said standing up.

"You just can't leave Riku."

"But..." Just then a Berserk lifted up it heavy weapon, ready to smash Riku with it. Riku closed his eyes waiting for the impact, but it never came. When he opened his eyes, what he saw shocked him.

Hayner with a keyblade striking down a nobody? Riku had to blink twice before realizing it wasn't a dream or an illusion.

On the other side of the, Riku can hear sounds of a keyblade killing off the nobodies.

It was Olette.

They were dead...right?

Hayner then came beside Riku when he finished off another nobody. "You guys go find Kairi! Olette and I will handle these scumbags!"

"You sure you can handle them?"

Hayner smirked, turning his back to Riku, with the keyblade in front of him. "Its simple right? Get going." The blond then charged to other nobodies slicing his keyblade in all directions.

Riku quickly stood up on his feet wasting no time as he run off to search for his girlfriend.

Back at the train station, Cloud was finishing off the reminding Dancers. When he cut the last one in half, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. "That should be all of them-"

"Not quite my spikey hair friend..."

Cloud furrowed his brows when he heard an intruders voice. The intruder turned out to be a member from the organization wearing its traditional black clothing. In his hands were his red and black charkams, twirling them in a circular motion.

"You must be the one controlling the nobodies," Cloud said.

"Am I really?" Was his reply. Suddenly he threw one of his charkams at Cloud. The swordsman dodged the spinning charkams and was suddenly surprise when he heard a screeched behind him. He turned and saw a nobody dissolving in the ground.

"You forgotten one."

"Who are you?"

The cloak figure crossed his arms. "I wish I can tell you, but now its not the right time."

"Why you say that?"

The figure pointed up in the sky. "Look up."

When Cloud looked up, a giant nobody fell from the sky and onto the ground. It stood tall before Cloud.

"Its the Twilight Thorn. Which can only mean that the lesser nobodies are being eliminated," the cloak figured stated, appearing next to Cloud.

"I'm guessing you're helping huh?"

The figure nodded as both men prepare for battle.

"Kairi! Kairi where are you?!" Riku shouted loudly through the thick woods, outside of Twilight Town.

"AH, SOMEONE HELP ME!" a feminie voice shouted through the woods.

"That voice. Don't worry Kairi I'm coming!" Riku rushed through the woods as fast he could. He hoped the nobodies or worst yet, Sora, were harming her.

As he arrived out of the woods, he saw Kairi at the mansion gates. What surprised him when he got there was the nobodies on the ground dissolving and Sora with his keyblade in his hand, standing next to Kairi.

"Kairi," Riku took a step.

"Rik-"

"Don't come any closer Riku," Sora warned him, grabbing Kairi by her waist and holding the keyblade to her neck.

"Sora, what ar-"

"Shut up Kairi," Sora interrupted her.

Kairi blinked, looking at Sora's eyes. They weren't yellow like the last time she saw them, but his original blue ones. Why is it he acting like this? Just a minute ago he was...

Riku narrowed his eyes at his childhood friend that was holding his girlfriend hostage. "Sora, just let her go."

"No...I need her."

"What?" Riku watched as Sora vanished before his eyes taking Kairi with him. "Kairi! Sora! Damn!" Riku pounded the keyblade onto the ground. "I've lost her."

A powerful fire blast ended the battle against Twilight Thorn as it dissolved onto the ground.

"Phew, that was a tough one!" the cloaked figure said. "At least we got the win, eh partner." He patted Cloud's shoulder.

"Who are you? I know your a member Organization XIII. Why are you helping me?"

The cloaked figure sighed. He pulled the hood off his head, revealing spikey red-haired, green eyes and black dots below both his eyes. "You're my lead to finding Roxas. The names Axel. Memorize it and don't forget it."

"Roxas? Who's Roxas?"

"He's my best friend. You probably don't know this, but Roxas is Sora's nobody, like me. Roxas' presence inside Sora disappeared and I need to know where he is. If I find Sora, I'll find Roxas."

"He was here but not anymore. He's gone."

Axel shrugged and created a dark portal. "Well, guess I'll be going then. See ya round." Axel waved and entered the dark portal.

Weird Cloud thought.

YES, I'M FINALLY DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER! Man its really late here. I don't have time to check over my work or explain things.

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