More Annoying than Legendary

One day has passed since he returned, along with Kid, Liz and Patty, to Death City after he fought against the Freeshooter and he didn't know what to do until the Darkness decides to appear. He told Shinigami-sama about what Xigbar told him and the headmaster decided that Sora should forget about classes and focus on being prepared for that battle. Now the Keybearer was walking around the city, thinking about what he could do.

"I could go to Deathbucks again," thought Sora. It was the first time he was bored on a mission, although it was obvious since not even the Heartless bothered to appear.

Sora walked for half an hour and he still didn't know what to do until he saw that there were a lot of people entering a street in front of him. He grew curious and decided to see what was going on there. When he turned at the corner, he saw a huge market in which there were a lot of people; it seems that the market was a way to earn money for students who were broke.

"Woah, it's the first time I see this," Sora said looking at all the stalls. He started walking around the market and he saw something that drew his attention, it was the mask of Shinigami-sama with the size of a badge. The Keyblade wielder decided to buy one as a souvenir, so he won't forget about this place since he would like to return once all is over.

After buying the badge, Sora continued eyeing the products of the market and then he saw some familiar faces, it was Kim with her partner Jacqueline and they were talking with two girls that were also familiar to the Keybearer, they were the waitresses who were working at Deathbucks when he spent the time there, although he recognized Tsugumi, he didn't know the name of the second girl. The student next to Tsugumi was slightly taller than her and had chin-length brown hair.

It looks like Kim was scolding Tsugumi or something like that so Sora thought of something that could help the girl with pigtails. Kim and Jackie were facing the other two girls, so they couldn't see Sora when he approached stealthily to them.

Tsugumi and the other girl didn't expect that Sora would start making funny faces behind the pinkette, so they found hard not to laugh at that, they had to bite their lips so Kim wouldn't get angry, but the Lamp Meister noticed their weird faces.

"What's wrong with you two?" asked her and then she felt that there was someone behind her so the girl turned and saw Sora making funny faces.

"Oops, you caught me," said Sora with a playful voice.

"Why were you doing that?!" said Kim with an embarrassed face as she hit Sora in the arm.

The Keybearer laughed at her reaction. "Sorry, you looked very serious," he said. "Besides I wanted to help Tsugumi since it seemed that you were scolding her."

"But why did yo-" Kim stopped talking when she noticed that Jacqueline was trying to hide her smile. "Not you too…"

"Sorry," Jackie apologized, "it was funny."

"C'mon Kim, don't be grumpy," said Sora. "I'm sure a smile would look good on you."

Tsugumi found incredible that there was a person that Kim couldn't get angry with, she always thought that the pinkette was someone you don't mess with but it looks like Sora was the exception to the rule.

"By the way," Kim said. "Since when do you know the newbies?"

"Why does she keep calling us that?" thought Tsugumi.

At first Sora was confused when Kim said "newbies", but then he realized that she was referring to Tsugumi and the other girl.

"I met them yesterday at Deathbucks," answered Sora and then he looked at the girl who he didn't know. "But I think I didn't get your name."

"Oh, I am…" she said and then he looked at the girl at her right. "Tsugumi, what's my name?"

Everyone sweatdropped when she asked that. Sora couldn't believe that the brown-haired girl didn't remember her own name.

"It looks like she is a bit forgetful," thought Sora.

"Ah, now I remember, I'm Meme Tatane," said the girl, "nice to meet you, Sora-senpai."

"Likewise Meme and just Sora please," said the boy and the girl nodded and smiled.

"So, what are you doing around here Sora?" asked Jacqueline. "I didn't see you in class; I hope you're not skipping class without a reason."

"Relax Jackie," Sora said. "Shinigami-sama told me to forget about classes because of what I told you and the others yesterday."

"And what have you been doing?" asked Kim.

"Nothing," he said. "There aren't missions for me and the Heartless don't appear."

"Don't worry, I'm sure you will have something to do soon," said Kim.

"How do you know that?" asked the Keybearer.

"Have you ever heard about Excalibur?" asked Jacqueline.

Sora crossed his arms. "If you're talking about the sword, then yes, I've heard about it."

"Then let's just say that you're going to see it soon," Kim said and Sora could swear that there was mischief in her voice.

"So, what are you girls doing here?" asked Sora and Tsugumi spoke.

"Meme and I are trying to earn some money," said her. "We tried to sell this to Kim-senpai but she got upset."

The black-haired girl showed Sora a jacket that at first looked normal, but then he noticed that it had a hood with two tanuki's ears attached.

"I told you that I don't like those kinds of things," said Kim with an annoyed face.

Sora looked at the jacket for a moment and then he started looking at the pinkette; he had to admit that it would fit her very well. The girl noticed that Sora was smiling at her while looking at the jacket.

"Why are you looking at me like that?!" said a flustered Kim and she started chasing the Keybearer while the other three laughed.

Meanwhile Soul and Maka headed to Shibusen's exit after the girl returned a book to the library. The Demon Scythe had been thinking about something that bothered him lately and his meister noticed that he was acting weird since Sora and Kid returned from that mission.

"Kid said that the man who attacked them had a black coat," thought Soul and then remembered that he bumped into someone who had a black coat after the basketball match. "I better talk with Sora about it."

"Soul…" said Maka. "Is there something bothering you?"

"I've thinking about something that might interest Sora," said Soul who felt a little bad because he made Maka worry. "Do you mind if we talk about it with him tomorrow?"

"Sure, don't worry," replied her.

Suddenly the two heard an explosion from outside; the two ran to the courtyard to see a lot of people gathered and, in the middle of the crowd, there were three people on the ground and they looked like if someone burned them.

"What happened?" asked Maka to a girl and she pointed to the sky. When Maka and her partner looked at the sky, they saw a boy with blond hair and with a golden sword in his hand.

"It looks like Hiro has arrived," said Soul like if he didn't care at all. "And those three were defeated…again."

"Let's go home before Excalibur starts a speech," said Maka and Soul agreed.

The next day, Hiro started to do what he did the first time he tried to be Excalibur's meister, he was now like the leader of all students in the academy and the blond could do whatever he wanted since no one could defeat him. Hiro sneaked into the girl's locker room, he fought every student who challenged him and some people began to lose patience.

"Damn," muttered Black*Star. "I'm going to kill him…"

"It seems that this time he's going to make it," Kilik said.

"How dared he?" said a very angry Ox. "He saw my beloved Kim in the girl's locker room; I'm going to make him pay."

"You will end up burned again Ox," said the boy's weapon.

"That guy disgusts me, but we can't do anything about it," Kid said frustrated.

As they talked, the girls approached the group, and two of them, Kim and her partner Jacqueline, had a very red face that could be of embarrassment and anger.

"That idiot is doing it again!" shouted Kim. "Doing what he pleases just because he is Excalibur's meister now!"

"Kim, please calm down a little," said Tsubaki.

"You had to admit that if any of us had such an amazing power, we would use it for our benefit sometimes," said Kilik.

"Well, you don't see Sora sneaking into the girl's locker room, do you?" said Maka. "By the way, have you seen him? This would be a good moment for him to show up."

"Kim and I saw him in the market yesterday," said Jacqueline. "We haven't seen him after that."

"Hey guys," said Soul who just opened the door of the class where the group was. "Hiro wants everyone to go outside the academy."

"That's it! I'm going to kill him!" Black*Star said and stood up, but Kid grabbed his leg and he fell.

"Relax," said Kid. "Let's go out and see what he wants."

Every student of Shibusen was outside the academy, half of them were at the right side of the courtyard while the other half was at the left and Hiro was in the middle with the legendary sword at his side.

"Now that everyone is here, Excalibur would like you to hear his recital!" said Hiro. "I hope you all enjoy it and please be quiet!"

All the area was quiet, but you could feel the murderous aura around the people who were at the courtyard. It's true that the last time Hiro mastered the legendary sword everyone started to admire his strong will and confidence, but now it was starting to get really annoying. Excalibur was about to begin his recital, when someone appeared from the stairs that led to that place. All were glad when they saw that it was Sora the one who climbed the stairs, now he could fight Hiro and take the wind out of his sails.

The boy looked surprised at all the people that where looking at him, he was completely oblivious of what was happening at the moment so he said the first thing that came to his mind.

"Hey there!" he said and everyone fell in a funny way. Sora started to walk to get into the academy when he saw Hiro.

"Ah, you must be Sora," said Hiro. "My name is Hiro, the meister of the legendary sword, Excalibur."

"Excalibur?" asked Sora confused and then he noticed a small white creature that had a top hat and a white cane. The Keybearer couldn't believe that the creature he was looking at was the mighty sword, he looked at Kim, who was in the crowd, with an "are-you-kidding-me?" face and the girl just shrugged.

Sora was about to ask why everyone was outside the academy, but then something hit his chin. He looked down and saw that Excalibur was hitting him with his cane.

"You weren't here the last time," said the Holy Sword. "Who are you?"

"My name is So-"

"Fool! I don't remember asking your name," said the annoying creature.

"Yes, you-"

"Do you want to hear my legendary story?" asked Excalibur.

"Maybe another time, now I would rather-"

"Where are you from?" asked the sword again.

"Me? I'm from-"

"You don't look like a meister," interrupted Excalibur again. "Do you want to hear my epic tale?"

"Don't ask questions if you aren't going to listen," said Sora who was starting to lose his patience.

Excalibur didn't say anything for a minute and Sora was starting to get nervous while the other students looked at them, feeling sorry for the Keybearer.

"I'll tell you something interesting," said Excalibur as he walked away from Sora.

"…"

"My legend dates back to the twelfth century," he began, "I believe it all began on an intensely hot mid-summers day? Wait…it was a chilly autumn day…in those days, I was "bad" and so…thinking about it, I believe it might have been winter. My hometown was really "bad", was even famous for it. I hung out with the wrong crowd. Beautiful women would all fight over me. Wait…yeah, it was a summer day. A really hot mid-summer's day, that's how I remember it. Unlike now, I was a man like a finely honed knife. However for some reason I gave off a noble impression. Everyone said so, and still do. Although at that time I'm not sure if everyone said it as much. Everyone started to say it, that I was surprisingly kind. Now that I think of it o probably was giving off a noble impression. I was often told I was great. Still am great, but I was "bad". All in all it was a winter day full of noble…Alright then shall we get started on my legendary story~"

"How annoying…" said Sora with what some people call "Excalibur face". He now understood why his friends acted weird when he told them the name he wanted for the raft. He couldn't stand this guy and he just met him.

"ARGH!" shouted Black*Star. "SHUT UP, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"Do I know you?" asked Excalibur to the blue-haired boy. Black*Star was about to attack Hiro, but Soul grabbed him before he could do it.

"Where have you been, Sora?" asked Kid who approached him after Excalibur "finished" his speech. Excalibur started to point at Kid with his cane and the shinigami pushed it away with the hand.

"Investigating," replied Sora and Excalibur pointed at him now. "I've been asking people if they've seen someone with a black coat in the city, but no luck."

"Now that you mention it, I'd like to tell you something," said Soul who was also there. "The day when we played basketball, I bumped into someone who wore a black coat; do you think it could be the person you're looking for?"

"Are you completely sure?" asked Sora with a serious expression and Soul nodded. "It could be, but that was four days ago."

"If you ask me," Ox began, "you shouldn't think much about it. That person will appear sooner or later so you don't have to stress yourself."

"I know it's just-" Sora stopped talking when he felt Excalibur's cane touching his face again. "Will you quit that? It's annoying."

"Is everyone ready for hearing my legendary tale?" said the sword.

"NO!" all shouted.

"Alright then, but first let's take a five minutes break," Excalibur said as he whirled his cane. "Everyone sit in seiza position while you wait."

Sora's eye began twitching, he didn't even want to think what would have happened if Donald met Excalibur since the duck was very irritable.

"How can you stand this guy?" asked Sora looking at Hiro.

"It isn't difficult at all," replied him. "For the power given to me by the Holy Sword, upholding a thousand conditions is a small price to pay."

"…thousand…" said Sora in disbelief.

"Yeah, if you want to be this disgusting thing's meister you must meet the thousand requirements of his list," said Kid.

"Don't tell me you actually tried…" said Sora.

"Black*Star and I went to the cave where Excalibur was," replied the shinigami, "but we couldn't stand him and left him there."

"I also paid him a visit," added Ox. "I completely regret it."

"I still don't understand how you couldn't put up with it," said Hiro. "Sora, I'm sure that you, as a Keyblade wielder, understand what I mean."

"Not really," replied him. "I would've ditched this guy immediately to be honest."

"Are you a Keyblade wielder?" asked Excalibur while he hit Sora with the cane again.

"Yeah, why?" said Sora and Excalibur didn't answer anything, he just stood there without saying a word and then he started to walk away. The white creature returned to where Sora and the others were after walking a few steps.

"In my story there were a lot of powerful warriors, would you like to hear it?" asked Excalibur.

"Oh my god…" muttered Sora.

"My legend began on a Tuesday or Wednesday, just like today," Excalibur said. "Maybe it was Thursday."

"If you're going to tell a story, know what you're going to say," said an annoyed Sora.

"No, I guess it was a Monday," continued the Holy Sword. "Maybe Tuesday or Wednesday…Even though I say it was on a Wednesday, there's a chance it was a Friday…It'd be better if it was a Tuesday, but it could've been a Wednesday…Though I could say it was on Thursday, maybe it was a Tuesday, but if it was a Monday, it could have been a Friday…No, perhaps it was…"

"LET ME AT HIM!" shouted Black*Star in desperation while Tsubaki was grabbing him so he couldn't move.

"Could someone tell me what's been going on here?" asked Sora and Kilik told him what Hiro has been doing while he wasn't at Shibusen and that everyone expected that him could fight the blond so he stopped.

"The three of you…" Sora said looking at Kilik, Black*Star and Kid. "With just one attack? Are you serious?"

"Mmmh, a battle between two legendary swords would be something worth watching," said Hiro who wanted to show off his abilities in front of everyone again. "What do you say Sora?"

"It would be a good training," thought Sora. "I must stay in shape for when the Darkness appear."

"You want to fight?" asked Excalibur. "I'm the legendary Holy Sword; a puny Keyblade wielder doesn't stand a chance against me."

"Puny…" said Sora. "Okay, now you're going to get it."

Hiro and Sora took up positions to start the fight while the other students gave them space, everyone was eager to now the result of the battle between Excalibur and the Keyblade.

"So today is Sora against Hiro, huh?" said Sid who just came out of the academy to see what was happening and he was being followed by Stein.

"Professors," began Ox, "who do you think will be the victor?"

"Both are two magnificent weapons," said Stein, "the Keyblade and Excalibur. People know much more about Excalibur so it's normal that some of them consider Excalibur to be the most powerful sword in existence."

"Your book Maka," said Sid looking at the girl. "It doesn't talk much about Keyblades, does it?"

"Not much," replied her. "It just talks about some of the sword's abilities and how some wielders used it to save the worlds."

"And what's your answer to Ox's question?" asked Soul.

"All of you should know the answer to that," said Stein. "If not, just watch."

Sora looked at his two opponents, he didn't have anything against Hiro, but he really wanted to beat Excalibur.

"Alright, let's begin, Excalibur!" said Hiro and the white creature transformed into a golden sword, all the area started to shine and Sora covered his eyes. A light beam came out from the sword when Hiro grabbed it and the boy got wings made of light that made him look like a divine being.

"What a show," said Sora, lightly impressed by the lights.

"I don't have a grudge against you, Sora," said Hiro, "but I can't go easy on you."

"Me neither and don't worry, I won't go easy on you either," replied the Keybearer and then he started to walk toward Hiro without the Keyblade summoned.

"If you aren't going to attack, I'll be the first," said Hiro who was surprised that Sora hadn't the Keyblade in his hand yet. The blond swung the Holy Sword and sent a wave of light to Sora who just kept walking and then, when the wave was about to hit him, he just turned sideways and avoided the attack.

Hiro was startled by this, Sora didn't even bothered in summoning his Keyblade and he just walked and avoided his attack. He was about to attack again, but then he realized that Sora was started to run toward him so he used his wings to fly and get away from him.

The boy looked at the ground to spot Sora, but he didn't find the spiky anywhere, he just saw the people who were at the courtyard.

"Behind you," said the Keyblade Wilder who was just behind Hiro. The blond boy turned his head and then he was kicked and sent to the ground by Sora. Hiro used his wings to stop the fall and looked at the spiky boy.

"How did he do that?" said him, not believing that he was losing so easily against someone without a weapon. Hiro flew to Sora and started to swing Excalibur, sending a lot of light blasts toward the Keybearer. Sora summoned the Kingdom Key and used his own light wave to destroy Hiro's offensive, then he dashed to Hiro really fast and before the boy could react, Sora put his hand on the boy's chest and used a wind spell that made Hiro crash on the ground.

The Shibusen's students couldn't believe what they were looking at; the boy that could defeat the three most powerful students from Shibusen with just one strike was being treated like a weakling. All of them knew that Sora was really skilled, but being able to do that to someone who had Excalibur as a partner was simply impressive.

"He…he's just toying with Hiro," said Kilik amazed.

"Just as I expected," said Kid smiling.

"I don't get it…seriously," said Ox.

"It's obvious," Sid said and some students looked at him. "What is happening here is a good example of experience level difference."

"What do you mean?" asked Maka.

"Let's see," said Sid as he tried to think a way to explain what was happening at the battle. "Excalibur and the Keyblade are two swords with a great power, right?"

All the students nodded, although some of them were still watching how Hiro was getting owned by Sora, everyone wanted to hear Sid's explanation.

"We could say that their power is, more or less, matched," Sid explained, "but in this fight, the power of the sword isn't what is making the big difference, is the experience of the wielder. Hiro has zero experience in combat, while Sora is someone who has been in a lot of battles."

"Then," Liz began, "why when we fought Hiro for the first time, he defeated us in a breeze? I mean, all of us had more experience than Hiro."

"Well, his attack with the Holy Sword hit you directly," said the professor. "Besides your meisters weren't synchronized very well that time and Hiro took advantage of that."

"And people tend to lose their focus when fighting Excalibur," added Stein.

"But even so," began Tsubaki, "in the training class, we should've been defeated immediately when we fought Sora-kun, or not?"

"He said he was holding back, right Kid?" said Patty and the boy nodded.

"Seriously?" asked Soul surprised. "I thought that we could have won against him that day."

"Probably," said Kid. "But he's the type of person who only goes all out when his enemy tries to kill him or if is stronger than him. You also did the same, right Black*Star?"

"Bah, I just wanted to check if he was strong enough to be protecting Death City," said the ninja who was embarrassed that they now know that he held back against the Keybearer.

"Keyblade wielders are amazing," said Kilik. "Too bad the Keyblade isn't a Demon Weapon."

"I wonder how strong he is," Harvar said looking at Sora who was dodging Hiro's attacks and counterattacking when the boy led his guard down.

"He's been here eight or nine days and there're still a lot of things that we don't know about him," said Maka.

"Don't be so curious, everyone has the right to keep something for themselves," said Soul and the girl pouted.

Meanwhile, Hiro continued trying to defeat the Keyblade wielder, but all his attacks were useless. He executed the attack called "Hiro the Atomic" to see if he could beat Sora with that technique but after the explosion, when he started to look for the brown-haired boy, he didn't see him burned like Kid or Black*Star, instead of that, Sora was lying on the spiked structure of the academy grinning at him.

Sora descended to the ground before Hiro attacked him so he wouldn't break the spike and cause Kid a heart attack.

"Do you want to stop or should we keep going?" asked Sora.

Hiro started to lose his confidence and also began to think that maybe Excalibur wasn't so mighty after all or maybe it was that the Keyblade was much better.

"I must try one more thing," said Hiro as he raised the golden sword. After a few seconds, clones of Hiro started to appear and then Sora was surrounded by four clones and the real Hiro. The five started to attack Sora simultaneously but even with five opponents, the Keybearer managed to not being hit with the Holy Sword.

Sora jumped away from the group of "Hiros" and then to finish the battle he used a spell that could be a more powerful version of Firaga and caused an explosion similar to the one Hiro did with his atomic technique. All the clones were destroyed while Hiro and Excalibur appeared on the ground toasted just like Kid and the others when they fought him.

"It's like he got payback for us…" said Kilik.

"Dammit! I was the one who wanted to beat that annoying guy!" said Black*Star.

Sora walked to Hiro and healed him; the blond recovered and sat on the ground, he had an expression of sadness and disappointment.

"I thought I could do anything with Excalibur…" muttered Hiro.

Sora crouched and looked at him. "You know," he began, "if you showed every day that confidence you had with Excalibur, I'm sure you would get a more normal partner."

"Do you think so?" said Hiro while scratching his head. "I've never been a good fighter."

"Hey, when I started I wasn't an expert either," said Sora. "Just don't give up and don't let others discourage you, okay?"

"Right, thanks Sora!" said Hiro who now was more cheerful.

"I congratulate you," said Excalibur who just recovered from Sora's spell. "As reward I'll sing you a song, are you ready?"

"Someone please stop him," pleaded Sora.

"Excalibur, Excalibur …"