Heartless' Diurnal Attack
A giant Heartless just appeared at the entrance of Shibusen, during the training class. As Kim deduced, when Sora use much power he attracts the Heartless even more. The Heartless looked bigger more powerful than a normal Dark Follower and was big enough to cause serious damage to the academy so Sora has to make the Heartless focus on him.
The Dark Follower was going to punch the building to makes debris fall and hurt the people covered, but Sora jumped before the fist could reach the structure and hit the hand away. He had to use a lot of force to block the attack, but he still had a lot of energy since he wasn't going all out when he fought with Kilik, Kid and Black*Star before.
"As long as I'm here, you won't touch Shibusen," Sora said. The Heartless growled and used its other hand to try and punch Sora out of the way. The Keybearer put his sword in a vertical position and with both hands, stopped the fist, however the Heartless kept pushing and Sora struggled to not move from his position.
The Heartless was strong, but Sora managed to push the claw back and make the Heartless flinch a little, but enough for Sora to attack. He used the Heartless' arm to reach the head and hit it with horizontal slashes making the monster stagger.
Sora landed on the ground and looked at the Heartless recovering from the hits and preparing other attack. The Dark Follower's claw was now covered with a dark aura and prepares itself for hitting the ground.
The Heartless stuck its claw in the ground and created a dark vortex where Neoshadows and Shadows started to appear.
"Great, like if the big one wasn't enough," Sora muttered and he started to destroy the recently summoned Heartless one by one without giving them the chance to attack.
As Sora fought all the Heartless that came from the vortex, all the people outside the academy were looking at him impressed.
"Now that I'm seeing this, I'm started to think that maybe he didn't even need our help in that forest," Soul said to Maka who nodded still looking at the battle.
"I told you that he was strong, didn't I?" Spirit said to Azusa.
"I've got to admit that you were right for once," she said.
"What is that supposed to mean?!" asked Spirit upset.
Sora defeated every Heartless that came from the hole the Dark Follower did, now he could end with the giant one. Sora ran to the Heartless and did a powerful upper slash making the Heartless stand up from the crouched position it was before. Sora jumped to hit the Heartless in its weak spot again, but the Dark Follower grabbed him really fast and now he was trapped.
"Shit, that was fast," he thought. "I've to come up with something to break free."
Sora struggled, but the Heartless tighten its claw more so the Keybearer couldn't move.
"Damn, this is going to be a bit difficult," Sora said, and then he thought of something. "Maybe with my training I could try to use a Drive Form on my own or at least use another Keyblade like Roxas did, after all we should have the same abilities."
The Keybearer concentrated trying to gather power for being able to summon another Keyblade. He remembered the memories Roxas showed him when he was trapped in his nightmare and how he fought him in the Station of Awakening.
After a minute, Sora managed to gather enough power and the Oathkeeper appeared in his mouth since his hands were trapped inside the Heartless' claw. He managed to obtain the Synch Blade ability without borrowing another wielder's Keyblade.
"I did it! Perfect!" Sora thought and turned his head to point the Keyblade at the Heartless' face and use a fire spell to burn the monster's face. The Dark Follower loosened its grip because of the pain and Sora could get out.
"Let's end this!" Sora cried, then he grabbed the Oathkeeper with his left hand and performed a long chain of hits, alternating slashes with the left and right. Sora used the Heartless' head to impulse him and retreat a little and then he prepared to use a special move.
"Shadowbreaker!" cried Sora and then he whirled forwards going through the Heartless with a dark spinning attack using Oblivion and then he whirled backwards with a light spinning attack using Oathkeeper.
The special attack was the one that finish the battle, the Dark Follower was destroyed and Sora landed, and knelt down immediately. The Synch Blade ability took more energy than expected or maybe it was because he forced himself to use a second Keyblade.
Suddenly he heard claps behind him, he turned back and saw the class clapping and cheering at him, even Marie and Spirit were doing it. Sora smiled at them a little nervous, he had never fought in front of so many people, but he was too focused in the Heartless to notice that before.
The Keybearer's friends and teacher walked to the boy to congratulate him for winning against that huge Heartless.
"You did a good job, Sora," Stein said.
Sora laughed slightly. "Quite a show, huh?" he said as he stood up.
"You used two Keyblades," said Patty amazed. "That was sooo cool!"
Kid looked at Sora with sparkles in his eyes. "You stopped the Heartless from destroying the perfect symmetry of the academy, I'm infinitely grateful."
Sora and the others sweat-dropped when he said that. "That's the only thing you cared about?" Sora thought.
"Are you okay?" asked Maka. "You look a bit tired."
Sora gave her a weary smile. "I'll be fine, don't worry. I've been through fights harder than this one."
"Ah, perfect. Since we have time, we'll continue with the class." Stein said and Sora could swear that he saw a wicked smile on the doctor face. "Volunteers?"
The class was reluctant of fighting Sora after seeing what is able to do when he is fighting serious, although Black*Star wanted another round, Stein didn't let him. The Keyblade wielder fought the next groups of students, although he held back because they looked a little scared and besides, he didn't want that another huge Heartless appeared again.
"It almost time, so the next team will be the last," the doctor said. "Kim, Ox and Maka, it's your turn now."
The three students walked to the fighting area with their respective partners. Sora stood there waiting for them, he already saw Soul's weapon form and now was curious about the other two.
"In an open space like this, the Lightning King is deathly, let's do this Harvar," Ox said and his partner transformed into a long spear. "Besides, we're fighting along my dear Kim, so we've to make a good impression."
Kim looked a little annoyed with Ox's comment. "Focus on Sora or you might lose before you know it. Let's go Jackie," she said and Jacqueline transformed into a black lantern.
"Are you ready Soul?" asked Maka.
"Yeah," he answered and then transformed, "I doubt we can win him, but this is just training so it doesn't matter."
"I know," the meister said, "he fought almost all the class and he still has energy for more."
"He looks slightly tired, maybe we can make it," Harvar said.
Then the three prepared for the fight and started to focus to perform a resonance between them.
"Chain Resonance!" they shouted and now they were prepared to battle. Maka ran to do the first attack; she jumped and swung the scythe, but Sora jumped above her and kicked her in the back with both legs making her lose her balance a little.
Sora landed and Ox near to him, the Spear Meister started to launch physical attacks with his weapon. The Keybearer block them all, and then Ox stepped back which Sora found strange but then he realized that Kim was going to attack him.
"Take this!" she said and then from the lantern a huge ball of fire came out, just like the one he used in the first fight. Sora grabbed the Keyblade like if it was a baseball bat and when the fire ball was near him, he hit the ball and sent it to Maka.
"Watch out Maka!" Soul said and the girl could dodge the fire attack in time. Maka recovered and dashed to Sora who did the same and quickly started to attack the Scythe Meister. He didn't stop launching powerful attacks to her, but Maka managed to block him.
Ox and Kim took chance to attack Sora while he was focusing on Maka, if close combat won't they have to try long range attacks.
"It's time for the Lightning King to shine!" Ox said, then he did and diagonal slash with the spear that sent an electric wave to Sora who narrowly dodge it. After Ox move, Kim used her lantern and formed a long flame that covered the area where Sora was. Maka could move away in time so the explosion of Kim's attack didn't hit her.
"Did it work?" Jacqueline asked.
"Maybe, I don't know," Kim said.
Suddenly a gust of wind cleared the smoke of the explosion, but Sora wasn't there, much to the team surprise. Three Keyblades made of light appeared from above each one hitting a different student. It looks like Sora jumped or teleported, to dodge the explosion.
"Damn, maybe we need to be more aggressive," Maka said. "Soul, let's do a Soul Resonance."
"Are you sure? He already knows how it is," he answered.
"If Ox and Kim can distract him for a second I might be able to hit him," she said and it looks like the other two got the idea because they nodded to her.
Kim started to throw fire attacks to Sora so he moved away from Maka, then Ox ran to the Keybearer and started to attack him several times to distract him from the Scythe Meister.
Soul and Maka could make a perfect resonance and create the Witch Hunt, meanwhile Ox kept attacking Sora and now the spiky boy was between Maka and Ox.
"Now! Lightning King!" cried Ox and his spear and Sora's sword collided, however when both weapons touched, the spear sent an electric blast of energy that hit Sora. He was still blocking Ox, but that attack made Sora's body to stiffen so he couldn't move.
"Witch Hunt!" shouted Maka, which surprised Sora. The girl was going to knock him out if he didn't do anything. If he stopped blocking Ox, he could receive another lightning attack, but if he doesn't stop the Witch Hunt he could lose the fight. So the only thing he could do was to use the ability he just learned.
Maka was about to hit Sora when suddenly the scythe stopped. Sora summoned another Keyblade to stop her attack, but she didn't give up and struggled to finish the move. Sora was now blocking Ox and Maka's attack.
"Kim now is your chance!" Ox shouted to the pink-haired girl and she charged another fire attack to hit Sora from the back, unfortunately for her, the Keyblade that was blocking Harvard's weapon form, had its tip pointing in her direction.
"Blizzaga," Sora said and the ice spell that came out from the Keyblade froze Jacqueline, making her unable to use another fire attack. Then he used a wind spell to send Ox flying away, now that he had one hand free, he used both Keyblades to block the Witch Hunt.
Maka was putting all her efforts to finish the attack, but against two Keyblades was going to be even more difficult. She tried her best, but Sora broke the Witch Hunt and sent her back with a double hit with both Keyblades. The three students were defeated and Stein doubted that they could keep fighting so he decided to stop the duel.
"Okay, that'll do for today," Stein said and told the students that were fighting to come where he was. "Today's results were much better than the first class of Duel Arts, I congratulate you all and thank you Sora for the help."
Sora smiled at the doctor. "No problem, I don't mind being the punching bag of the class," he joked making the class laugh. The professor dismissed the class and the adults left with him.
"He is really strong; no wonder why Shinigami-sama asked him for help," Marie said.
"It's a pity that he's a Keyblade wielder," Sid commented, "with a soul like his, he would have been a top student here."
"What surprises me, apart from the young Keybearer, is your daughter," Azusa said looking at Spirit who looked at her quizzically.
"What do you mean?" asked him.
"She has the ability of Heart Perception; she is able to detect the heart's wavelength," Azusa explained. "And as Doctor Stein said, that's something only Keyblade wielders can do."
"You don't think that now she is going to be chosen by a Keyblade, right?" asked Spirit worried about her daughter.
"I doubt it," Stein told him. "But if that happens, she has already someone that can teach her to use it pretty well, don't you think?"
Spirit started sweating, he didn't want her daughter to left Death City because a Keyblade, she hardly talked to him, so if she leaves she could forget about him.
Meanwhile the class was still outside; some of them were talking to Sora.
"Dude you're awesome," said a boy, "the way you defeated all those monsters on your own was incredible!"
"Also you could face most of the class without losing," praised a girl.
Sora scratched the back of his head. "It was nothing, besides I'm here for the Heartless, so it's normal that I can deal with them whenever they appear."
"Don't be so modest Sora; you were amazing," Liz said, "especially when you pulled out a second Keyblade."
"It's true, could you do that before?" asked Kid.
"Yeah, but not on my own," Sora answered. "I could use two if I took another person's Keyblade or if someone gave me some of his power, but this time is the first time I did it alone."
"Synch Blade is the name of the of the ability, right?" asked Ox and Sora nodded not very surprised, since Ox was someone that looked very intelligent so he must have been investigating about Keybearers.
"How do you know that?" asked a curious Maka.
Ox smiled and his glasses shone. "You're not the only one who is interested in the Keyblade wielders, Maka. I also made my own research about them," he said. "What surprises me is that you didn't know about it."
That comment annoyed Maka a little. "Don't try me, Ox."
Sora chuckled at the two meisters arguing, and then Jacqueline called his name.
"Ummm, Sora?" said her looking at him a little desperate. "Could you please undo this?"
Sora looked at her and noticed that her hands were wrapped in ice and she couldn't separate them.
"Oh sorry about that," he said smiling apologetically. "Give me your hands."
Jacqueline gave her froze hands to Sora who started breaking the spell; the girl blushed slightly because of the serious face Sora had while he melted the ice. Some of the girls around them noticed and felt jealous of her.
"Here you go, and sorry again," said Sora as he let go of her hands.
Jacqueline rubbed her hands to warm them. "It's okay, don't worry," she said still blushing. Kim noticed and nudged her partner in the side while smiling at her teasingly.
"It's partly my fault too," Kim said. "I should have been more focused, although I totally didn't expect you to use ice magic."
"I've got to admit that if I hadn't learned the Synch Blade ability before fighting you three, I would have lost," Sora said.
"Yeah, that huge Heartless appeared by surprise in the middle of the class," Liz said. "It was scary."
"What it was scary was Sora's face when he fought you three," Soul said pointing at Kid, Black*Star and Kilik.
"Huh? I was scary?" Sora said at Soul's statement.
"You put such a serious face and your gaze was really intense," Kid explained him. "If we didn't know you, we could have thought that you were going to kill us."
Sora laughed sheepishly. "Maybe I shouldn't have put that face," he thought. "Well, at least they think that I wasn't holding back."
"Hey Sora," Maka began, "when you were fighting with them, I could see your heart's wavelength. I thought I could only use it on the forest because you lent me some of your power."
"You still can use it?" asked Sora surprised and she nodded. "Well, I don't know the reason, maybe was because of the Chain Resonance we made."
"Prof. Stein also thought of that," Maka told him. "He also said that it was something only Keyblade wielders could do."
Sora looked at her and nodded. "That's right, I think just one or two of us can do it."
"Wait, do you mean that you…" Soul said trying to imply that Sora didn't possess that ability.
"Nope, I can't see other people hearts," Sora said without giving it much importance. "Maybe the Chain Resonance uses part of my power to improve the abilities of the other person doing the resonance."
"So if Kid does a Chain Resonance with you, he should get the same perception improvement," Ox deduced.
"It could be possible," Sora said. "It would be good that two of you have that ability, so you can detect the Emblem Heartless."
Black*Star then pointed at Maka. "Dammit Maka, you're stealing my spotlight!" he said. "First you go in a mission with him when it was my turn and on top of that you get a new special ability!"
"Hey, I didn't do it on purpose," Maka said defensively.
Then Black*Star looked at Sora. "Sora, let's do a Chain Resonance!"
"But Black*Star, you don't have the Soul Perception ability, that won't work." Tsubaki said trying to calm him down.
"Yeah, but maybe if we do it, you will get a Keyblade Mode," Black*Star said leaving the others stupefied, but Sora thought about it.
"That doesn't sound too crazy," Sora admitted and the others looked at him with a "you can't be serious" face.
That's chapter eleven. Sora obtained a the Synch Blade ability in this one, I thought that since Roxas could use it, then Sora should be able to use two Keyblades too, besides he has Ventus' heart in him. In the next chapter Sora will go to another mission, but I don't know if it should be with Black*Star or with Kid. If you want, you can tell which one you prefer.