Another Patrol and Training Class
It was already night in Death City and Sora was on a roof watching the streets remembering the good time he had in the morning, he was very relaxed after playing basketball and eating in Soul and Maka's apartment, although he would have preferred that Blair didn't assault him like that. Maka told Sora how they met Blair, and he tried to not laugh at them when he heard about Soul eating a cat's soul. All of them decided to tell him about what happened before the Heartless appeared since Sora told them about his problems with that man called Xehanort.
"A Demon God…" Sora thought while he walked on the roof. "That sounds like a big problem, but I can't interfere with it, even if I want to."
He jumped to another roof in front of him while looking below him to see if there were some Heartless prowling around. The city looked peaceful, but the Keybearer knew that it was probable that the Heartless attacked since the last night nothing happened.
Sora jumped to a higher building and when he was in the air he saw from the corner of his eye what it looked to be someone in an Organization XIII coat. The Keybearer almost hit the building's wall because of what he saw, but he could grab the roof's ledge and climb up.
Sora drew his Keyblade and looked at his surroundings, but the figure wasn't there. "What the hell? I could swear I saw one of them." he thought as he looked on the other roofs. "Or maybe I am imagining things..."
He kept watching in all directions, but after a minute he gave up and made his sword disappear. Sora sighed and sat in a ledge. "I've got relax or I'll go crazy one of these days." he muttered. He remain seated a couple of minutes and when he was going to stand up he saw someone walking on the street, it was Maka's father, he was walking to the night club Sora saw the night Kid, Liz, Patty and he patrolled the city.
"I wonder what he is going to do there," Sora said. "Well, it's not my business, but I should stay around here just in case."
Spirit was walking toward his favorite club after escorting Stein to his house.
"Stein's giving me more problems than when we were kids," he thought. "And on top of that, Shinigami-sama has called BJ to investigate."
The red-haired man sighed, although he was worried about the city too. He wished that all of the problems the city was having were solved as soon as possible. Then he had a goofy smile on his face. "Well, at least I'm going to spend this night with the girls at Chupa Cabra's."
He arrived to the entrance of the club and suddenly two young women opened the door and greeted the Death Scythe.
"Good night, Mr. Death Scythe," said one of them happily. She had light brown hair and wore a yellow dress.
"We're happy to see you again," said the other. This one had brown hair too, but was darker and shorter and she wore a light blue dress.
"Hello Arisa, Risa," Spirit said with a happy voice and a goofy smile.
"We thought you were going to be busy these days," Arisa said cutely.
"Yeah, we heard that Shibusen has a few problems," said Risa. "Besides the number of costumers has decreased since those ugly monsters appeared."
"I'm surprised to see that the local still opens knowing that the Heartless are around," Spirit thought. "But I'm not complaining."
"Well, Mr. Death Scythe," began Arisa, "why don't you come in? Let's have some fun."
"Okay~" he said still with a silly face, but then he heard a noise behind him. He turned and saw several Heartless looking at him and the girls, who looked frightened.
"Oh no, they are here!" Risa said scared. "What are we going to do?"
"Stay behind me!" Spirit said as he prepared himself for fight the Heartless.
The dark monsters where slowly approaching the three people in front of the door, Spirit didn't look away from them in any moment.
"Damn, without a meister I don't think I would make it," Spirit thought. "Where is Sora when you need…"His thoughts were interrupted for a moment when suddenly all the Heartless around them were destroyed in a split of a second and Sora landed in front of them.
"…him?" finished Spirit as he saw the Keybearer who was now looking at him.
"In the nick of time, huh?" Sora said with a grin which made Spirit smile with relief.
"You bet," said the Death Scythe, however as he said that more Heartless appeared. "Shit, there they come again. Go inside ladies we'll take care of them!" Arisa and Risa obeyed and went into the local and closed the door.
Sora looked at Spirit worried. "Will you be fine without a meister?" asked him. "It must be difficult for a weapon to fight alone.
"It'll be complicated," Spirit said. "Without Shinigami-sama or Stein here I'm not going to be very useful, sorry."
Sora, while keeping his gaze on the Heartless, made his Keyblade disappear and offered his hand to Spirit, which made the man look at him confused.
"Let's team up," Sora said. "Transform."
Spirit now looked at him dumbfounded, but then he remembered that Stein told him about the fight Sora had with Black*Star and how he could grab Tsubaki without trying to match his soul wavelength with her.
"Oh yeah, I heard about how your soul is compatible with almost everyone," he said. "But do you know how to use a scythe?"
Sora smiled at him. "Surely I'm not as good as Maka or Shinigami-sama, but it will be enough to destroy these creeps," he said.
Spirit smirked and nodded. "Alright, let's finish this quickly," the Death Scythe said and he transformed and went to Sora's hand. The spiky boy grabbed the scythe with both hands and prepared for the upcoming attack.
The Heartless didn't doubt to attack them and so they did, but Sora was faster and swung the scythe like how he did in the forest. A Neoshadow tried to attack at high speed from Sora's left, but the Keybearer stuck the scythe on the floor and use the handgrip to spin around and dodge the attack and kick the Heartless immediately.
Sora ran to the Heartless and cut it in half. He continued slashing Heartless, although he found more difficult to fight using a big weapon, he managed to do it and after ten minutes, the area was clear.
Spirit turned back to normal. "Hey, not bad at all," he complimented. "And thanks again for the little rescue; I'm lucky you were around here when they appeared."
Sora scratched the back of his head. "Actually, I saw you walking and decided to follow you keeping the distance. I had the suspicion that you might be attacked."
The man looked surprised at the Keybearer. "Then I'm lucky you saw me, really, I don't know what could have happen to me and the girls if you hadn't showed up."
Sora grinned. "That's why I'm here, to increase the peace," he said, and then the two young women poked their heads through the cabaret's door.
"Everything okay out there?" asked Arisa quietly. "Are they gone?"
Spirit turned back and opened wide his arms. "Don't fear my ladies," Spirit said with a heroic voice. "All the monsters were defeated, now you're safe."
The two women ran and hugged Spirit who was grinning and laughing victoriously.
"You're amazing Mr. Death Scythe!" said both of them and then they looked at Sora and walked to the Keybearer to hug him.
"And thank you to you too, cutie," Risa said.
"You're really strong for being so young," Arisa said.
Sora's cheeks slightly flushed. He wasn't used to getting compliments, but he had to admit that it felt nice. "Yo-you're welcome misses," he said shyly.
"Well Sora, if you excuse us we're going inside the local," Spirit said and Sora could tell that he was eager to go inside. "You should return to your patrolling."
Sora nodded and before leaving he said goodbye to them. "Using Demon Weapons is really cool; I wouldn't have minded study in Shibusen one or two years ago."
Shibusen
All the students of the Class Crescent Moon were waiting for their teacher inside the classroom. There were all kind of conversations, some students talked about how many souls they have recollected up to now, others about how the Heartless' attack have decreased significantly.
Sora, however, was drowsy, he had his eyes closed and used a hand to hold his sleepy head. He couldn't sleep much because he was still thinking about what he saw the last night.
"It could have been an illusion," he thought. "But I could swear that I've seen something on that roof."
While Sora was lost in his thoughts and trying to not sleep and hit the desk with his face, his friends were having their own conversation.
"I heard that Professor Marie and Ms. Azusa are back," Ox said. "But unfortunately, they haven't found Crona, sorry Maka."
At hearing this, the Scythe Meister became sad. Crona was her friend and she was very worried about him and wanted to know why he escaped from Shibusen. Her partner at seeing her like this put his hand on her shoulder and tried to cheer her up.
"Hey, don't be sad, he'll appear eventually," Soul said.
Maka smiled at him. "Thanks Soul."
"Professor Stein is late…again," Kim said a little annoyed.
"Probably he's in the Death Room," Harvar said. "All the adults went there when they heard about Professor Marie and Ms. Azusa."
"I hope everything is going alright," Kid commented. "The only thing we don't need right now is more problems."
"Don't worry Kid, with me around here the city will be safe," Black*Star said with determination.
"God help us if Black*Star is the one protecting the city…" Kilik said jokingly who made some of the others laugh.
"Anyway, Professor Stein is taking his time," Ox said. "They must be talking about something really important."
"If I had known that he was going to be this late, I would have come later," Liz said while yawning. "I would have liked to sleep more."
Soul chuckled when she said that. "I think you're not the only one," he said and then he gestured with his head to the spiky boy who looked like he was trying hard not to fall sleep.
"He has been like that since we arrived," Tsubaki said. "I feel sorry for him."
"Maybe we should wake him up before he gets hurt," said Jacqueline and the moment she said that, the Keybearer fall asleep for a second and, unfortunately for him, it was enough for hitting the desk with his face.
"Too late…" said Soul.
Sora groaned and raised his head slowly while rubbing his forehead, the hit wasn't very hard but it completely waked him up. He opened his eyes and saw that the others were looking at him.
"Welcome back from the death," Kilik said jokingly and Sora couldn't help but smile.
"Very funny," he said. "You could have waked me up before…"
Then the class' door opened and the professor who everyone was waiting entered the room.
"Sorry for the delay," Stein said. "I had to talk with Professors Marie and Sid, so they could lend me their turn. We're going to have a training class today."
All the students began whispering at hearing what the professor said. It was strange to have these kinds of classes; the last one was about "Duel Arts" where he explained about the resonance between teams, but since that one, there weren't more.
"Why the hell do we need training?" Black*Star said annoyed. "I will crush all enemies we have without any effort."
Stein interrupted the ninja's complaining. "There will be enough time for that Black*Star. The class will be outside the academy, I'll wait you there." As he said that he started to leave the room, while the students stood up from their seats.
When the class reached the courtyard, they saw that there were more people apart from Stein. Sora recognized Maka's father and the man who told him about the Heartless' missions, but there were two women that he didn't see before.
"What are you four doing here?" asked Stein curious.
"Supervising," said one of the women Sora didn't know, she had black hair and wore a pair of simple framed glasses. "I have to be sure that they don't slack off and train hard enough."
"Besides, you took my turn and Sid's so you could at least let us see them," the other woman said. This one had long loose blonde hair and a remarkable eye patch on her left eye.
"And what's your excuse, Spirit?" Stein asked looking at his old partner while he rotated his screw.
"You know why I'm here," said the Death Scythe. "Besides I want to make sure you don't hurt my daughter."
The doctor's screw did a click sound. "Don't worry about that, I won't be the one who is going to fight them," he said which made the other adults look at him confused.
"By the way," Marie began, "where is the boy Shinigami-sama told us about before?"
"He's now one of the students of the Crescent Moon," Sid answered. "He's the boy who is between Maka and Tsubaki, the one with the spiked brown hair." Then Marie and Azusa looked at the students and found him. The black haired woman looked at him like Ox looked at Sora when they first met, however the Keybearer felt even more nervous with Azusa's stare.
"He's young, no much older than most of the students," Azusa commented. "Are you sure that he is helpful?"
Spirit let out a small chuckle. "Believe me, even if it doesn't look like it, he is really strong."
While they were talking, the class was talking about what kind of training could have prepared the doctor.
"Surely is about the Chain Resonance again, since we still have to improve it," Maka said. "I still remember the first class we tried to fight Doctor Stein…"
"Ox and you stand in my way that time," Black*Star said. "I could have fought him alone."
"We're stronger than before, any training that he had prepared won't be a problem," Kilik commented.
As they talked, Sora noticed that one of the women he didn't know was staring at him.
"Is it me or is she staring at me?" Sora said. "I feel uneasy for some reason."
Tsubaki heard him and decided to tell him who she was. "Oh, that's Ms. Azusa, don't worry about her, she may look very serious and analytical but is a good person."
"The other woman is Prof. Marie," Maka added. "She is very gentle and kind with everyone. Both of them are Death Scythes."
Sora was surprised when he heard that the two of them were Death Scythes like Maka's father. Then Stein walked to the students while the others went to the side so they didn't interrupt the training.
"Listen everyone," Stein began, "I suppose most of you have guessed that today the training is about Duel Arts again, which is right, but also I want you to get stronger. Your actual level is not enough if Arachnophobia makes a move or if we decide to do it, so I ask you to take this seriously."
All the class looked at Stein with serious faces; no one said anything but it was clear that they were determined to get stronger no matter what.
"Okay, then let's begin," Stein said. "I'll change the teams a little, so when I say your name please come here."
The professor said three names, Kilik Lunge, Death the Kid and Black*Star. The three of them stepped in front of the rest with their respective partners.
"Sora, could you please come here?" asked Stein. "I'll need you for this."
Sora was surprised but walked to where the doctor was anyway. The three students who were called as well as the rest were puzzled at what Stein said, it's not like Sora needed train in Chain Resonance since his soul matched almost every soul.
Stein looked at Sora, then at his students and smiled. "I'm a little tired lately, so instead of fighting me you will fight Sora, okay?"
All the students as well as the teachers were dumbfounded at what the doctor just said. Normally is a teacher the one who train the students, but it seems that Stein thought that it was a good idea.
"You are three of the stronger people in the class, so I expect good results," Stein said while adjusting his glasses.
"Alright, this is more like it!" Black*Star cheered and Tsubaki transformed.
"Let's see what the almighty Sora can do," Kilik said as his partners turned into two big metallic gloves.
"Liz, Patty, don't let your guard down, you know who we're dealing with," Kid said.
"Okay~" Patty said and then transformed.
"I've got a feel that this is going to end like when we fought Hiro and Excalibur..." Liz commented as she transformed as well.
The team resonated their souls in order to fight the Keybearer. Sora was a bit nervous, but thought that this will be a nice way for him to train too so he was okay with the doctor's plan. Then Stein started to walk where the other adults were, the rest of the class did the same to give the fighters space.
"Okay, start whenever you are ready, I'll be watching you," he said. "And remember, take this seriously, so don't hold back. That goes for you too Sora."
Sora looked at the professor and then at the three people stood in front of him. They were prepared for fighting for real so he was going to take the training serious, but he wasn't going to go all out, but he was going to make it look like it. He summoned Oblivion to his hand which made the people that didn't saw the Keyblade before stare at him in awe.
The Keybearer gripped his sword tightly, and stared at his three opponents with an intense and serious glare which startled them.
"Oh man, I don't like that look on his face," Liz.
"This is going to be intense! Here I go!" Black*Star said, and then he started to run towards the Keybearer. He was already using Tsubaki's Uncanny Sword Mode and reached Sora in a few seconds and clashed his sword with Sora's. To the ninja's surprise, Sora broke his defense easily and started to throw several blows which Black*Star could block, but it was making him retreat.
While Sora tried to hit Black*Star, Kid appeared in the air behind him and started to shoot, but unfortunately for him, Sora noticed and jumped behind Black*Star to use him as a human shield and it worked.
"Shit! He realized I was behind," Kid thought. He didn't realize that Sora was already behind him, and when he noticed it was too late. The Keybearer hit Kid three times and sent him to the floor with a horizontal slash.
Kilik jumped to Sora as he hit Kid, he clashed his gloves and flew to the spiky boy at high speed and tried to hit him with the glove that had bolts in it. Sora launched his sword to the glove and parried it; he took this chance to retrieve the Keyblade and make Kilik land with a powerful blow.
Black*Star recovered from the shots and look up. "Tsubaki, Kusarigama mode," he said and she transformed, then her meister launched one of the scythes to Sora, but he grabbed it. Black*Star smiled since that's what he wanted him to do.
"Now come down here!" he said and pulled to make Sora land. The Keybearer tied the chain to his sword and launched it to the floor. The Keyblade stuck in the ground, Sora landed and then pulled the chain to make Black*Star come to his position.
Kid ran to help Black*Star and tried to kick Sora so he release the chain, however Sora dodged the kick and grabbed the Shinigami's leg and launched him to Black*Star and hit him.
Now Tsubaki was without a meister but Black*Star had an idea. "Tsubaki, Smoke Bomb Mode!" he said and then the area around Sora was covered with smoke and the girl took chance to return to her meister.
"Okay, my turn! Fire, Thunder, Soul Resonance!" Kilik said and then his right glove was covered by fire and the left one with thunderbolts, he then combined the two elements together creating a large blue form of energy and condensed it into a small.
"Aphex Twin!" he cried and launched the ball inside the smoke where Sora was and caused a large explosion.
After a few seconds, something shined in the smoke and suddenly a huge ball of fire came out from there at high speed and exploded near the three students which sent them rolling on the ground. They received a lot of damage from Sora's attacks, but they managed to stand up.
The smoke blew away and Sora was there without even a scratch facing the three students that he was fighting. All the people in the courtyard looked at Sora with shock.
"He's like a total different person," Soul said astonished.
"Not even the three of them fighting together could land a hit on him…" Harvar said looking at Sora with wide eyes. "I recall what I said about him the first time, he really looks threatening now."
Maka had a face between amazement and fear. "Is that…his soul?" wondered her looking at Sora. Through her eyes, she could see a really huge energy wave around Sora; it was even bigger than Stein's.
"No…it's his heart," Maka exclaimed and the others heard her.
"Since when you can see a heart's wavelength?" asked Stein surprised.
Soul then remembered something. "Wait, you did that when we were with Sora in the Heartless' mission," he said. "But it was because he was using his power on you."
"That's remarkable," Ox said. "I didn't hear or read about it any meister using that ability."
"That's because it's something only Keyblade wielders can use," Stein said leaving the other speechless.
"Bu-but then, why can I use it?" Maka asked still not believing that she could do that.
"Maybe it is because you did a soul resonance with him," the doctor answered. "If I am not mistaken you and Soul did a Chain Resonance with him, so you could have acquired that ability from that."
"Is his heart' wavelength that impressive?" asked Jacqueline. "I mean, you looked a little scared when you were looking at him."
"Yeah, I didn't expect to see that so I was a little surprised, but his wavelength is amazing," Maka answered. "I can feel how powerful he is from here."
Then Kim looked worried about something. "Wait a second; didn't Sora say that Heartless feared the Keyblade and that they try to steal the wielder's heart?"
Ox looked at her with admiration. "That's right, you are so intelligent my angel," he said and the other sweat-dropped at him.
Kim continued what she was trying to say. "Then if he is now fighting and releasing a great amount of power…shouldn't that attract the Heartless?"
As they talked, the people who were fighting were having their own talking.
"No wonder he won you, Black*Star," Kilik said. "This guy is a beast."
"Man, I am so enjoying this fight," Black*Star said. "After this training, I'll be stronger than ever."
"We didn't even touch him, now I know why my father said that his skill was above others Keyblade wielders," Kid commented.
"I'm glad that he's our friend," Liz said. "I wouldn't like to be his enemy."
"Are you ready for another round?" Sora said to them smiling, but then he sensed something under him. It was a huge circle made of darkness. Sora could jump away before it swallowed him. The others saw the blot of darkness with wide eyes.
"I think your guess was right Kim," Stein said. "I didn't expect a Heartless to show up."
The hole of darkness grew and then an enormous Heartless came out from it. Sora recognized the monster; it was the one who appeared before his home was destroyed, but this one was bigger and had was red colored.
"Sora, what should we do?!" asked Kid. "We've never seen this kind of Heartless."
"You three are hurt and tired; let me take care of it, okay?" Sora said to them.
Black*Star sighed and smiled. "Okay, I'll let you to be the star today, but don't get used to it," he said making Sora grin.
"Kick his ass and come back in one piece," the Pot Meister said. The three meisters who fought Sora walked to the class and left the Keybearer alone with the Heartless.
Marie looked at the monster with fear. "That thing is going to kill him, we've to do something!" she said but then Spirit put his arm in front of her and she didn't move.
"Don't worry about him. He knows what he has to do," the red-haired man said to her.
Sora was looking at the Heartless with a calmed face. "It looks like he is making a move," he said." Okay, let's get this over with."