Ventus calmly walked through the castle with his keyblade in hand, looking for any sight of Braig. The young keyblade bearer was not exactly sure where he was heading, but he only figured that the higher he went up, the higher of a chance he had to finding Braig.
After several more moments of walking, Ven found himself in a large room that looked like it was used for stealth practice. The keyblader took note of the several small walls of barricades that looked like they were used to hide behind scattered across the room, all of them not being placed too far away from each other. Besides the barricades, the room really didn't have anything else different about it besides the fact that it was very quiet.
"Well lookie at what we got here," Ventus turned his head to look around, searching for the owner of the echoing voice. Ven knew that Braig had to be here as soon as he saw the barricades, since Braig had a gun as a weapon most of the times, it would only make sense for him to be in the stealth room of the castle.
"Show yourself Braig!" Ven hollered, searching the room carefully for any signs of the will.
"Have to admit," the voice continued, despite the fact Ven still couldn't figure out where it was coming from. "I should have suspected you of all people would be the one to confront me. Lemme guess, want to avenge your friends even though that whole incident happened over a decade ago?"
"Something like that," Ven admitted, but it was so silent that even in a room as quiet as this the words didn't echo off the walls.
Before Ven got a response, he looked up, seeing hundreds of Braig's arrows falling towards him like rain. Acting quickly, the keyblade bearer jumped out of the way, performing a backflip as he avoided the arrows. Once the arrows hit the ground and vanished, Braig's lingering will jumped down from his hiding spot. Even though his face was long gone, Ven knew that if he could, Braig would be grinning like a maniac at this point.
"So tell me kid, what are you doing here?" Braig asked, summoning his keyblade in the process as if he knew exactly what Ven was going to say, which he did.
"You know just as well as anyone what I am here for," Ven spoke. Then, taking in a deep breath, Ven pointed his keyblade right at the lingering will. "I'm here to end this, Braig," the keyblade bearer spoke to the will.
Braig's lingering will placed one hand on his hip in response.. "I hate to break it to you kid, but you're not going to get very far," the will said.
(Battle of Great Valor – Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) Before Ventus could even prepare for an attack, he found Braig jumping towards him and pinning his keyblade against his immediately, allowing the two to look right at each other. "You want to try and kill me? Well you are going to have to try a lot harder than that," what was left of Braig continued.
Ventus only growled in response before he had the strength to push Braig off of his keyblade, making the will stumble a few steps back. Once he got Braig off of him, Ven looked back over to where he thought he pushed the will only to see he was no longer there. Arching an eyebrow, Ven soon found out where the will was when he heard something zip past him. Turning around quickly, Ventus saw the will was standing upside-down on nothing but air, firing the familiar red bullets that came out of his guns that also seemed to come out of his keyblade as well. Ventus immediately took action of the bullets and quickly jumped back to better position himself and used his keyblade to repel the arrows back at him. Even though Ven was proud of his accomplishment, Braig's lingering will managed to teleported away before the arrows could hit him.
Keeping his eyes and ears open, Ventus continued to look around for the lingering will. The lingering will was good at stealth, Ven admitted that, but the keyblade bearer knew if he just listened and looked out for the shooter, he would be fine. After several long seconds of silence, Ventus finally heard the sound of something going off behind him. On instinct, the keyblader jumped into the air, but when Ven felt something colloid with his armor, he knew it could not be good. Right after he heard the noise he felt a pain in his leg that felt like something was pinching him. This pain was enough to make Ven lose his focus and fall to the ground face first, landing in a belly flop like position.
Once the keyblader was able to come back to his senses, Ven looked down at his leg to see three arrows sticking out of the leg part of his armor. Moving quickly so he could try to avoid any more attacks made by Braig, Ven took his hand and pulled the arrows out of his armor, which made the pain stop. The keyblade bearer figured that the arrows might have pierced the armor and touched his skin, but it didn't make his leg bleed or cause anything serious. Once the arrows were out of his armor, Ven was forced to roll out of the way quickly since he saw Braig jump towards him with his keyblade pointing down, trying to stab Ven with his keyblade. The keyblader managed to roll out of the way just in time though and then pointed his keyblade at the lingering will, firing a blast of blizzard at it. This blast of magic hit the will dead on, sending it flying back several feet but unfortunately, Braig seemed to regain his balance before he gained any serious injuries.
The will only laughed, "Nice try kid, but you are going to have to do better than that!" The lingering will then disappeared again, even though Ven was hoping that he wouldn't, completely out of sight. It was then when Ven thought of an idea though that he hoped would work to his advantage. This is when Ven quickly shot back up and used reflect, trying to hold it for as long as he could to protect himself. Ventus was then relieved when he saw several arrows bounce off the reflect right in front of him, the red arrows flying back and hitting the now upside down Braig. The sudden impact of the arrows shocked Braig and made the lingering will fall off the air he was standing on and hit the ground face first.
Braig's legs shook as he started to stand up, but he eventually kept his balance and laughed maniacally. "I admit, I should have expected that," Braig wiped off some of the dust that seemed to appear on his shoulder, "But I can assure you I am not going to fall for that again!" The lingering will then once again ran towards Ventus, his keyblade pointed directly at the keyblade master as he ran. Ven prepared for Braig to disappear again, but this time the lingering will actually ran to him, their keyblade's making contact quickly. Ventus growled as he tried to push Braig off of his keyblade, but the will was showing no signs of backing down and eventually was forced to back away. Once he jumped back, Ven looked over to see Braig was no longer standing where he once was, and that scared Ven to death.
"Hasta la vista, kiddo!" Braig's voice echoed through the room. This is when Ventus turned around and looked up, seeing Braig in what appeared to be his first hiding spot when he first came in the room. However, unlike the first, Ven actually spotted him and saw Braig pointing his keyblade right at the young blonde. Before he even had time to think, Ventus saw several arrows flying right towards him, spiraling in the air quickly. Once the arrows came close to him, Ventus jumped out of the way just in time to avoid the arrows, some of them being so close he could hear them zip past him. Once he avoided them all, Ven could literally feel Braig's frustration in the room, and he knew the worst was yet to come.
"Get a load of this!" Braig's voice said. Ven looked up again at this, seeing Braig's keyblade pointed at him again. However, unlike the other arrows, this one had a deep blue color to it that almost looked like it electrified from the distance. It didn't take long for Braig to fire it right at Ven, who managed to time the arrow and avoid it. However, Ven did not know that this arrow was different from the others, and didn't even notice when the arrow came right back at him. Ven noticed the arrow coming towards him again just when it pierced his armor by his upper leg, the arrow being so sharp that it managed to pierce Ven's skin deeply. This injury caused Ven to yelp out in pain before falling to the ground.
When Ventus made contact with the ground, he immediately gripped onto his wound, pulling the arrow out of his armor and placing his fingers in the hole to feel the wound. He knew it had gone deep into his body judging by all the blood he felt slowly leaking out of his armor and onto the floor. Ven then looked up at the spot where Braig was, seeing he was no longer there. The keyblade master figured that he must have teleported away, and he knew that this was his only chance to hide from the far shooter. Looking over to his left, Ven saw one of the barricades not to far away from him and then, slowly but surely, crawled over to hide behind it, resting his back against the barricade for support.
Once Ven was safe behind the barricade, he remained silent and heard Braig's voice echo through the room saying, "You can't hide forever kid!" As Ven continued to hide behind the barricade, one hand gripping his wound while the other gripped his keyblade, he listened as Braig's footsteps began to get closer to where he was. This is when Ven looked over, seeing a trail of blood starting from where he was shot, and ended right where he was hiding. Ventus knew at that point that Braig had to have seen the trail, and was coming right for the keyblader's hiding spot.
Ven took in several quite, deep breaths as he heard Braig's footsteps coming closer. When Ventus heard the footsteps stop moving, he knew Braig had to be right on the other side of the barricade, preparing his keyblade to end the blonde. Ven clutched onto his keyblade firmly, knowing that he had to do what Master Eraqus told them thousands of times not to do: attack blinded.
So as soon as he found footing to quickly get up, Ven sung his keyblade behind him, hitting Braig dead on and sending the lingering will flying across the room and hitting the wall hard. Ven thanked Cosmos that the plan actually worked, but saw Braig's small movements from this far away and knew he was not down yet. Using cure on himself quickly, Ven used his keyblade as a cane to walk over to Braig's lingering will. Once he was closer to him, Ven noticed the huge crack in the side of the armor and knew that it was the finishing blow. When he noticed the keyblade master's presence, Braig sighed, gripping his side as Ven pointed his keyblade right at him. (End Battle of Great Valor)
"I'm impressed kiddo…" Braig barely said.
Ven growled. "Hopefully this is the last time I will have to teach you to not mess with my friends," he said angrily.
"I think it is actually…" Braig continued, "I hate to admit it, but Xehanort doesn't stand a chance to your group… None of us ever did…" He laughed, "I just wish I wasn't brainwashed into believing we could beat you kids by that old man."
Ventus looked at Braig confused, and was about to question him, but the keyblade master looked at him again and knew that Braig's will was gone.
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So I know I haven't updated in a long long time, and I am very sorry. I had writers block for who knows how long but finally got some assistance and light inspiration to get this chapter out. Also, I apologize since it is not my favorite chapter... But hey, the best has yet to come!
COMIC CON OH MAN. So. Much. Information! Tom Hiddleston (dressed as Loki XD) was there and presented a new Thor: The Dark World trailer (WHICH I AM STILL WAITING FOR!), a new Captain America: The Winter Solider trailer, and the Avengers 2 is now called Avengers: Age of Ultron! I am so fluffing excited... Even though there is still no official word on Loki at least making a cameo in A2 and Ant Man was confirmed to not appear in it despite the fact he created Ultron...
Anywho so I have some news to tell you guys just in case I don't get the next chapter out soon. I am going away this weekend and (unfortunately) I don't think I am going to be bringing my laptop with me. Its a shame since I really did want to try and finish this story before that but the writers block kind of prevented that from happening...
Now if you excuse me, I have like ten other stories I need to read cause I put reading them off until I could force myself to get this chapter out... So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!
