Well, I have nothing to say...
Prologue Three
"Sure…"
"Okay let's recap." Sora said enjoying his hot chocolate. He, Riku, Kairi, and Roke were sitting in chairs made by Yen Sid. Everyone else was in the next room chatting about things. "This Rayn person, came to the Realm of Light, started working for Maleficent, and brought you here to capture Kairi. Meanwhile, Maleficent is building some kind of personal guard to do her bidding as well as an army of Heartless. You also know where Vanitas is in the Realm of Dawn. Your plan is storm Maleficent's castle, stop her plan, take the portal to Realm of Dawn, have us help you defeat Black Phoenix and capture Vanitas."
"In a nutshell." Roke replied. "Don't see why you need Marshall alive though."
"We have our reasons."
"Here's my question." Riku said. "Why should we trust you? You kinda attacked us a couple hours ago."
"Which in my opinion is water under the bridge." Roke lacked hesitation. "At any rate, even if you get to the Realm of Dawn, you'll have no way of transportation. And even if you did assuming you knew where you were going, the two of you alone aren't nearly enough to take on Black Phoenix."
"And what makes you so sure of that." Kairi spoke up confidently. "If they can beat someone like Xehanort, these guys won't stand a chance."
"This Xehanort person sounds like he was the man to beat around here." Roke said calmly. "However, how much of a chance would you stand against ten people of that level? Each member of Black Phoenix is monstrously powerful in their own way. To make matters worse they're all about your age meaning they can still get stronger. One magic user and nine Access three of whom have S-class Pieces." Roke paused. "Now that I think about, you guys don't know what Pieces are, do you?"
"Know we do not." Yen Sid said. "Would you care to explain?"
"Well for starters, you should know that there are people like you, who can use magic of their free will without a manadrive. Access, such as me, are a different breed of human." He held out his hand and let out a blue lightning like energy that jumped from finger to finger. "This energy is known as PT, short for Piece Trigger. All Access naturally generate PT as a byproduct of natural functions of the body all working in unison. This energy is run through the brain and parts of the body to form abilities know as Pieces.
"The thing is, the ability you get is completely unique, written into the sum of your DNA. These abilities are classed based on destructive power from D at the bottom to S at very top. Of course these classes are given at birth. A person can raise the strength and class of their ability by using it more and more and pushing to farthest stretches of it capability. That being said, there are quite few people with D-class Pieces who could destroy S-classes in battle. Of course there's always the factor of the Access themselves. An excellent fighter can make one ability do countless things. For example, the hallmark of a good flame user is the skill to generate wind from the heat.
"Oh, here's the best part. Using Pieces frequently, causes the body produce more PT. Of course excess PT is generated. That PT seeps into the cells. The cells then become stronger than before. Super strength, high endurance, better immune systems, extended life spans, these are just a few advantages of the process known as cell charging."
"And we're supposed to believe this sci-fi stuff?" Riku questioned.
"Correct me if I'm wrong but, your weapons of choice are giant keys." Roke pointed out simply.
"I have one question." Yen Sid said. "What are the chances of another Access entering the Realm of Light?"
"In terms of population, ninety-two out of hundred."
"You think that girl was Access too?" Riku asked.
"I see no reason not to." Yen Sid said sternly.
"I don't know who you're talking about but, I must admit, I'm not interested." Roke said in his usual formal tone. "What I'd like to know is, are we in business or not?"
Sora looked at Yen Sid expecting an answer. "Sora, I believe this your decision."
"I don't know. How can we be sure you're telling the truth?"
"Okay, then…" Roke began. "I'll tell you the city their base of operations is in a city called Daltus."
Pieces
"Don't these things know when to quit?" Jake said calmly. The snow covered city was filled with Nobodies as well as a few Heartless. Controlling that particular area of them was a man in Marluxia's employment. He was slender with brown hair and was dressed for Daltus's winter. He floated watching Jake and Felix fight off the Reaper Nobodies under his controlled. "Felix, think you can take this guy for me? I need to chase down Marluxia before he wakes that thing up."
"For you?" Felix said as he punched one of the Reapers. That Nobody flew into a few more sending them all crashing into a building. "I was plannin' to take the bastard myself anyway. Tell the scythe bitch I said 'hi' while you're at it."
Jake hopped on his motorcycle and sped off running over anything that stood in his way. Marluxia's henchman fired an orb of flames at him but missed destroying some of his own troops. "Damn…" He muttered. "You shouldn't have let your friend go like that. It will cost you dearly."
"What? Interesting conversation? That's why they invented Bluetooth." Felix remarked launching more Nobodies. "All I gotta do is kill you and these fuckers'll go away, right?" Felix charged through the Reapers sending them flying as he threw punches to clear a path. When got a ways through, he jumped and threw punch directly at the man's face. The punch was blocked by honeycomb shaped reflect spell and sent Felix flying backwards with the force of his own fist. He crashed into a building which the man proceeded to blast with an intense fire spell causing it to collapse in the flames.
"Is that really the best you can do?" The man mocked. The top half of the build then flew at him. He quickly flew out of the way avoiding what would have certain death. In utter shock and fear, he watched as Felix dusted off his coat of debris.
"Man, I won't even have to use my Piece to beat ya." Felix said with a bored expression. "What's the point of a fight if I can't enjoy it? Can you even Drive?" He looked at the man for a moment before turning to punch a Nobody. "Feel free to go. I'll let Lightning and the Guardian Corp deal with you."
"Don't look down on me you damn brat!" The man shouted in pure rage. Over his head formed a huge ball of flames that melted the snow around him. Felix smirked as the orb fragmented and pieces flew around making their way towards him. Felix jumped and his hands lit up a magenta color. He spun and flipped in mid-air avoiding the flames with ease and quickly getting right in the man's face.
Felix promptly delivered an uppercut knocking a few teeth out and sending the man high into the air. He dropped to the ground then jumped straight up to the man's height leaving cracks in the ground. "The first to lose his cool is the first to die." He said as delivered a downward punch that sent him crashing into building. Felix landed as the building began collapse. "Have fun in hell." He mocked.
He began to walk away from the scene without any further thought. His boots sloshed in the melted snow as flame roared in the among the city's buildings. "Oh, wow…" He said as raised his hands with thumb, index and middle fingers extended. At that moment a woman spring with a sword poised to kill. "Fuck, wrong signal." He said as she was quickly gunned down.
Pieces
"This Isabel Sanchez." Roke said holding a poster. The image of a girl with short orange hair taking aim with a Barrett M82A1M sniper rifle was on it. "Felix Hunter's second in command and sniper. Most people know her as the 'Latin Devil,' 'The Walking Amory,' or that psycho girl with guns."
"Okay, I gotta where 'Walking Armory' came from." Riku said looking at the poster noticing that Isabel was rather short when compared to the gun.
"Well, her clothes contain the same technology to make sub-space pockets." Everyone except Yen Sid raised an eyebrow. "Basically it creates more space in a sub-dimension. She uses that to store enough firearms, explosives, etcetera to arm a decent sized militia. Rumor has it she carries a nuke with her."
"I'm still not convinced we can trust you." Sora admitted.
"Since when did you actually start distrusting people?" Riku asked.
"It's not that," Sora answered. "It's just that anything Maleficent has been involved has never really gone over well."
"So it all comes back her." Roke noted. "If she's the 'Queen of all Evil,' is there some kind of 'King of all Good' I can talk to? No offensive but you're a little bit too indecisive."
Pieces
The only king Sora could think of at the moment was the mouse king Disney Castle, Mickey Mouse. After Xehanort's defeat he had taken to ruling his kingdom once more. Recently he had been occupied with finding a way to defeat Maleficent for good but had to deal with diplomatic matters as well. Worlds like Radiant Garden who were aware of the fact that there were other worlds had taken an interest in inter-world relations. Walking down the white halls of his castle was the prime minister of Radiant Garden, Dick Stalwart.
At the present moment Mickey's mind was occupied not with Stalwart but with an intruder. So far no damage been done to castle or its occupants but it was still troubling. "Really, I'm sorry about this. A simple meeting shouldn't have broken down like this."
"Don't worry about," the prime minister said. He stroked his beard that was graying with age. "The ones to be blamed are Xehanort and his cohorts. If it weren't for him Maleficent wouldn't have this kind power."
"That's the problem." Mickey said as they came to the huge doors of his throne room. He held up his and signaled for the doors to open revealing the long red carpet that led to the royal throne. "Maleficent shouldn't be able to do this."
"What do mean?" Stalwart asked following Mickey in throne room. Suddenly the castle entire shook with a crash. "What was that!"
"Come on!" Mickey ran to his throne and raised his hand once more. A flash immediately shone from the throne blinding Stalwart. When the light faded, Stalwart found the throne had moved back several to reveal a stair case. He followed Mickey down them to see the protector the castle, large orb with bright light swirling around it. "The Cornerstone of Light, it's just fine." Mickey said sounding surprised but relieved.
"This is the Cornerstone?" Stalwart asked in awe. He could feel the warmth of the light radiating from the orb. He slowly walked towards mesmerized by the light it emitted. It felt it calling to him to come closer.
"Well, Prime Minister, I have good news and bad news." Mickey's word snapped Stalwart out his trance. "The good news is as long as the Cornerstone is safe, neither Maleficent nor the Heartless can come into Disney Castle."
"And the bad news?"
"I have no idea who's attacking." The King admitted. At that moment the two heard a series of thuds. The Captain of the Royal Knights, Goofy, and the Royal Court Magician, Donald, came tumbling down the steps followed by the Turks Reno and Rude who'd been assigned to guard Prime Minister Stalwart. "Are you guys alright?" Mickey asked immediately.
"Gawrsh, your Majesty, we're fine." Goofy said standing up. "All she did was pluck a few hairs."
"You mean feathers." Donald said rubbing his rump.
"Still hurt. And she took my rod." Reno stood up and dusted off his slovenly worn suit. His red hair was tied in a pony and a pair of goggles rested on his forehead. He helped Rude, a bald man with a thin beard around mouth.
"Oh, would you stop whining." The footsteps of heels came down into the Hall of the Cornerstone. Down the stairs walked a tall Indian woman with a long black braid wearing a lab coat. "All I wanted were samples for DNA. And here's your toy back." She tossed the electric rod to Reno. He inspected it, making sure it hadn't been tempered with. "Oh please, if I tried fiddling with that thing, I'd electrocute myself but, where are my manners. Dr. Agrima Jhevari at your service. Sorry barging in like this but I don't the patience to wait for an appointment."
Stalwart gritted his teeth. "What are you two just standing there for? Capture her!"
"No need to shout." Reno said calmy. Before Reno even could even raise his weapon, it was swatted out of his hand with the sound of metal clashing. A cold sweat of broke out on his face as the red blade of a scythe was in his face. Listening to clatter of it hitting the ground, Reno found his rod was far out of his reach.
"Sorry about that. See, I was quite the delinquent before college. Cleaned up my act and got a PhD." Dr Jhevari said with a smile. "Of course, old habits die hard. I simply don't like being threatened is all. But believe me. I'm in no way out practice. If I wanted to I could slaughter you and your bald friend over there and destroy this castle quite easily, but in the long run that would cause me quite a bit of trouble." She stopped when Rude attempted to grabbed her free arm. She let go of her scythe leaving it in mid air revealing a chain going into her coat that was attached to it. Dr Jhevari struck Rude multiple times at high speed with PT charged hands. Rude collapsed as she reclaimed her weapon.
"What did you do…?" Rude grunted from the floor.
"I simply used my PT to block your nervous system from sending voluntary commands to your muscles. Your body should be quite numb since it works both ways. Impulses can't go to or from your brain. Look at this way: I could have hit your pain receptors while I was at it and locked that in." Dr. Jhevari looked at Mickey who had his own Keyblade ready. It was similar to Sora's Kingdom Key but seemed to be polarized. Donald and Goofy each had their weapons, a staff and shield respectively, ready as well. "Why does everyone here seem to think I came here for a fight?"
"Well first starters…" Donald was cut off by his king.
"If you're not here for a fight than why are you here." Mickey demanded. "You have no right to barge in here like this."
"Well, looks like we're ready to talk." The doctor said as she set her scythe on her shoulder. With her left hand, she reached into her pocket and pulled a CD which she handed to Reno. "Now, give it to his Majesty." Reno handed it to Mickey who immediately went wide eyed. On the cover was a former member of Organization XIII, Demyx. "About four months ago eleven beings were spat of Kingdom Hearts onto the grounds of Sera Castle. Currently we know the locations of seven of them. The others have kept their heads down."
"Wait a minute just who are 'we' and what do you have to do with Kingdom Hearts?" Stalwart asked.
Dr. Jhevari thought for second before answering. "This world we live in is constantly progressing, changing, and advancing. It needs to. However, a certain balance must be maintained. The countless factions that exist trying to gain power have to be controlled to some degree. An example of when this balance was disrupted in what you call the Keyblade War. From that war spawned what became known as Kingdom Hearts. Currently that balance has been drastically shifted. As you saw with the destruction of Xehanort's Heartless, the amount of light far exceeds the darkness. Eventually that darkness will be snuffed out."
"And this is bad how?" Stalwart spoke. "For twelve years we've been plagued by the darkness. And you think you can show up and tell that we should let it be. Do you realize how many lives have been lost or ruined by it? We need to find a way to make sure it happens."
"Tell me something. Do you realize what will happen when the darkness is destroyed from Kingdom Hearts?" Stalwart didn't. "First of all, you'll simply have eliminated the darkness of Kingdom Hearts. The rest will still exist all the same. More importantly, the result will be far worse than anything the darkness has caused. For starters, Kingdom Hearts will explode.
"The Realm of Dawn, where I come from, will suffer the longest. The direct result will be massive amounts of destruction from the blast alone will destroy at least an entire galaxy killing everyone in it. Then we have the magical fallout to worry about. People will consumed by light and become beings we know as the Blinded. With those monsters running around no one will be safe in their own home. Looting and the like will become rampant. There are also the Nobodies to deal with and, let me tell you, there are quite a few already dangerous people who will become like Organization XIII. Put simply, it's very bad news."
"The Realm of Light, what will happen to it?" Mickey asked.
The doctor sighed and looked Mickey dead in the eyes. "Without Kingdom Hearts supporting them, the Realms of Light and Darkness will collapse in on themselves and cease to exist. That's why Zero Scale exists, to prevent such a catastrophe from happening. And that's why I'm here.
"Truth be told, I consider you to be an intellectual equal, King Mickey, having discovered the properties of the Gummi Blocks. Quite a few people agree with that. It was thanks to your research that we were to travel here instead of simply viewing you from afar. That among other things is why you've been chosen to join Zero Scale. As for you Prime Minister Stalwart, I can't help but to wonder why Ansem chose you to be his second in command in the first place. I can understand wanting someone to help you run a kingdom but wow." She said mockingly. She turned on her heel and began up the stairs. "Well, your Majesty, I'll be back in about a month to hear your answer. Until then."
"Wait!" Mickey shouted. "How do we know you're telling truth about all this? You could be working for Maleficent for all we know. And also, when will this man be able to move again?"
"Yes, well, in that case is a disk containing all types of information about the Realm of Dawn. There are even instructions for building a portal to get there. As for your friend, the paralysis should start wearing off in a minute or so."
"And all that can easily fabricated." Stalwart stated.
"Yes, I figured you wouldn't bite so, how about this?" Jhevari said with a smile. "The corpses of four members of Organization XIII. I'll even put bows on them."
"Say what!" Mickey said in shock.
"Yes, well, it seems that four of the members have underestimated this scythe's successor as well as her friends."
Pieces
Simone stood in Daltus wearing a black, sleeveless, open long coat, a purple tank top over her large breasts that revealed her midriff and black boot cut jeans. Her snow white hair was in contrast deep brown skin but blended perfectly with the snow. Standing down the road from her, wearing his Organization coat, gloves, and boots, hood up, was Zexion.
"So you're the one controlling those things?" Simone said calmly. "To think I could be reading a book right now. Gulliver's Travels is so interesting. The way Swift makes the story enjoyable to kids and adults at the same time is brilliant. Kids at the time it was written dreamed of adventure at sea yet, the adults found themselves comparing their lives with the adventures is a genius use of satire. It kinda makes you wonders why writers don't use it in their nowadays. Sure a good fantasy novel interesting but, a story that you can relate real life requires serious skill and dedication writer's part. Hell, it even translates into TV. The reason animation lost steam in after sound came into play was because people stopped thinking it could be enjoyed by adults. How'd they fix it: why with satire. They made jokes that went over kids' heads but, the adults watching could enjoy mixed with the simple humor. Of with that came the child over protectors who thought kids could be 'scarred' by it. It's more like they feared their kids thinking differently. Y'know, it's sorta like the plot from Fahrenheit 451. People thought differently so what d'ya do. Get rid of the books. The writing was bit dry to me but, the plot was absolutely amazing. I personally find it hilariously it was on the list of banned books in the United States of America. Sorta contrasts the whole 'land of the free' thing. Can you believe they banned books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn just because the writer used 'nigger'? What kinda bullshit is that? It had to be one the least racist books of the time it written. Of course looking at the view from people at the time of controversy, I guess I could understand seeing as the 'nigga' debate was going on around the same. But still they should look at that as part history as a racial issue. Being of African descent myself I was always in how the word 'negro' used to be an acceptable term but changed to a slur in less than a century. Hell, most variations of the word in other languages are completely neutral. The really don't get is why black people can call each other 'nigga' but white people can't. It never made much sense to me." Simone paused and realized how long she'd been talking. "But that's really off topic; isn't it?"
"Are you done yet?"
"And if I'm not?" After which Simone went on for another five minutes of unfocused yammering.
"Enough…" Zexion said. In his hands the Lexicon appeared. Its grey cover opened and flipped to a page containing a powerful spell. "This will be enough to handle you." He snapped his fingers and, a large black orb appeared over him. Seeing this, Simone closed her mouth and watch calmly as the orb flew towards her engulfing a full block. "Now if you'll excuse me, I must be going." Zexion waited a moment as the darkness dissipated to insure he had won. All that was left in the area was blue tinted sphere. Everything else was indiscernible as to its original form.
The sphere crumbled and revealed Simone who had been completely unharmed but, now, she was flipping him off and had a cigarette with a strange blue smoke. She stood and simply looked at him. She smiled at the destruction, amused by Zexion's attempted attack on her. "You're too slow." She said as she thrust a knife at Zexion's neck. Zexion teleported into the air and realized he had been looking a mirage. A scythe connected to a chain rocketed up with purple flames from where the mirage was. Zexion evaded and moved to distance himself. The scythe circled around surrounding him in the air with the chain set on fire. It closed in, creating a bright flame in air among the city building. "How'd you like it, Little Boy?" She said still smiling.
When the flames ceased a large jagged crystal was left in their place. The crystal shattered and evaporated. Simone was now resting her second scythe on her shoulder leaving the other in the air and observing the landscape. She looked down and noticed a set of runes glowing on ground around. "Shit…" She muttered before the runes exploded beneath her. Launched, into the air Simone looked down and saw multiple Zexions smiling at her. Rather than fall she hopped into her scythe and stayed in the air using flames. More copies appeared around her as the chain began to coil around her. "You're wasting your time with the cheap tricks." Simone held her left hand and looked at a large building rather than the copies. "…Napoléon Folie." A large mass of ice erupted from her hand ripping apart the copies and shattering the windows of the building freezing its interior.
Zexion teleported outside and narrowly avoided being frozen. He looked around baffled as to how he was discovered so easily in the building was beginning to collapse. Simone flew at him with flames erupting from her feet and a scythe gripped in both hands. She swung hard but was dodged and met with a lightning spell. At that close range Zexion could not help but notice her eyes. The word "death" was literally written in them that the smile on her face accompanied quite well. A shiver went up Zexion's as he realized that something was severely off about Simone. However, being assaulted by a scythe prevented him from pondering the matter much further. Despite his thoughts he maintained a calm demeanor knowing that panicking would invite death.
Zexion opened his Lexicon and releasing a flurry pages that took the shape of spears. He watched as the pages were burned to ashes as he had anticipated and took the chance to distance himself from Simone. He making began observations and running possible to abilities through mind. After the events in the dream world he had arrived in the Realm of Dawn with the rest of Organization XIII. One of the first things he realized was that the best way to defeat an Access in battle was to figure out what their Piece was first. He also noticed that truly skilled warriors were cable of hiding their true ability. Though it was painfully obvious her power was heat based, pinning down the exact nature of it was quite difficult. It subtle things the average Joe wouldn't notice that gave it away. For example the air temperature around Simone dropped and rose with each move. Zexion also noticed the scythe left a trail of ice in the path swings. He paid attention to the breeze around them. He took this data into account and made a hypothesis.
To test his theory, Zexion teleported once again this time to the ground. "I'll take a page from Axel's book." He flipped open a page in the Lexicon and allowed it to float in the winter air. Flames red spewed out of it and took the shape of two huge rings. The rings flew at Simone from side either and, as Zexion had predicted, were absorbed. "Sorry, but this battle is over."
Simone rested her scythe on her shoulder and floated to the ground still smiling. "Big words coming from you." She said. "Why don't you show your face if you're so tough?"
"Because it's cold." He replied plainly. "I'm saying that you've lost because you've completely lost the ability to catch me off guard. That ability of yours is quite simple. You can freely absorb and eject heat from your body or anything within direct contact of it."
Simone held out her left hand palm outward facing Zexion and chuckled. "Fairly useless information, Fat Man." A massive blast of purple flames erupted from her hand. The road in front of her was completely engulfed in fire melting the snow instantly. She raised her eyebrow as she realized Zexion had survived unharmed. He stood at the end the charred road with another man in front of him. This one wore same Organization cloak as Zexion and had spiky red hair. Two small tattoos were under the black pits where his eyes were supposed to be. His hands held two flaming chakrams. "The hell? Who is this, some kind of zombie?"
"This man is Axel." Zexion said calmly. "Or at least a well made copy. This is my Drive, Book Maker. I'm sure you can tell just looking what it can do."
"So that's it." A flame burned intensely at the end of Simone's cigarette accelerating the rate at which it burned. "I thought there was something strange about those fire wheels. I'm guessing that book of yours lets you copy attacks and cast illusions. I don't really understand magic. Damn, I woulda called it Copy Machine; I've always been bad at naming stuff. Ya know, speaking of naming…"
"Before you begin, I believe it's best that you realize that I won't hold back." With Zexion's warning came a block of ice encasing Simone's scythe. Simone had dropped it and lunged forward propelled by flames. Her cigarette had incinerated away and her smile crept open even wider as her the second fell into her hands. The copy blocked a powerful slash with his charkrams only to be struck and sent flying by a rocket powered kick. The chain ignited freeing Simone's frozen scythe. The scythe was promptly launched at building shattered windows. A man with platinum blond hair and large blue shield that blocked the scythe stood wearing the Organization coat. Like Axel his eyes were nothing more than black pits.
Zexion smirked from his position observing from the sky. He calmly watched Simone attack patterns as she fended off the "Books" as he referred to his creations as. The main assessment that he had made was that she could detect people and people only. Zexion based this on the fact that she attacked frontally right into Vexen's shield. He noticed that there was a mental limit on Simone's attacks. From his knowledge, Pieces required mental strength to control them as well as physical strength to use them. There had been multiple openings to attack him, but none could be taken. She was fighting with a scythe in hand, controlling her free one, and using her ability all while fighting against two opponents at once. Once again he set to test his theory.
Zexion snapped his fingers and the street began surging upward knocking Simone into air. Axel threw his chakrams at her. One was deflected; the other sliced her side. Simone quickly turned as Lexeuas, another one of Zexion's "Books," appeared. Also wearing the black cloak, this man was larger than the other two and held a massive axe like sword. The man swung down hard clashing with Simone's scythe launching the girl through the window of a small convenience store.
Simone climbed out, clutching her bleeding midriff. "Tricky little son of bitch, aren't we?" She said with a devilish smile directed at Zexion. "Linking your Heart, Soul, and Body to a hundred percent and allowing you true power to take shape. That's the secret of the Drive. If I don't step my game, I won't be able to kill you." Simone's body was surrounded by a gust of frozen wind that emerged from her feet and was encased. The ice shattered leaving Simone with icy bracelets on her wrist and ankles. A choker was around her neck and her hair was tipped with ice.
Before she could move any further, Simone was attack by the man again. She counter attacked again, this time freezing her own feet in place to avoid being pushed back. Her arms were stressed to hold out against the man's massive weapon but, she wasn't helped by Axel's flaming chakrams flying at her. Rather than shifting her focus, Simone created a barrier of ice that caught the weapons and drained their flames instantly. She realized trying to overpower the man in front of her was useless. Opening her mouth she forced as much air out of her lungs as possible. She proceeded to suck in high amounts, creating a suction of ice that froze Lexaeus as well a large area behind him leaving a land locked iceberg in its wake. Simone quickly threw a kick that shattered ice as well the "Book" within.
The next decision Zexion made after the destruction of the "Book" needed to be swift. He reminded himself that he had two goals. The first was to stop Marluxia's plot to awaken an ancient demon that lay dormant within Daltus. The second was to destroy Vanitus and any trace of Xehanort that was in the city. He and Lexaeus had set out to end the legacy left behind by Xehanort leaving the man himself to be defeated by Sora. Marluxia on the other hand, decided to do what he'd been since he joined the Organization. Upon realizing that Marluxia would be there, Zexion and Lexaeus decided that now was the best time to act in the confusion of the battle. They had anticipated resistance from all fronts, but nothing this intense from single girl. Zexion realized that the rumors of Black Phoenix's strength did in fact have truth in them. He concluded that facing Simone would be a long, arduous task that required time he did have to spare and that his best option at this would be to retreat.
Zexion's thoughts were interrupted by a scythe that was flying at him. He quickly made a copy of Marluxia that deflected to scythe. Simone yanked the chain and pulled the weapon back towards herself. She twisted it over her head and changed its trajectory and released it, decapitating another Book with lances and dreadlocks. This one disappeared in a black haze. "Question." She said pulling her scythe into her hands. "Big guy and flowers up there, the real ones I mean, they're in this city right? Why don't you just call them for help?"
Zexion was taken aback by these questions. He was not sure how she knew that Lexaeus was near but he was curious. This girl was some type of monster that he couldn't describe. She was clearly enjoying herself and Zexion figured it was safe to assume that she enjoyed fighting in general. But that scared him to a degree. However, his curious was to whet to leave.
Pieces
Jake calmly floated in the winter air with his arms folded. In front of him, Marluxia was locked in battle with his telepathically controlled Keyblade. Jake's was design with two, black flat note symbols facing outward from the green hilt. The blade was thick and gray with two speakers on each side and a sharp symbol served as the teeth. Its keychain was tuning hammer.
Marluxia quickly broke of the Keyblade's string of attacks and rushed Jake who disappeared in a puff of darkness on contact. He turned around and found Jake holding his Keyblade with a playful smile on his face. Jake snapped his fingers and materialized a massive piano key that dropped onto Marluxia. "Now start talking. What the hell do you want to wake that thing up for? It's too powerful to be controlled and too irrational."
"That's exactly why I intend to absorb its power rather than control it." Marluxia wiped the blood from his mouth and levitated back up to Jake's height. "Was it not you fools who created to device to seal it rather than destroy it. Don't think people couldn't see through your little scheme. It's obvious you have some method of controlling it and are simply waiting for the opportune time to use. If my plan fails, I already have someone stealing that method right now."
Actually we never bothered even trying something like. Well now I wanna see what would happen. Jake thought. "Kay'. Let's see if you'll live long enough to confirm that."
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