Kuran and Kairi were walking together with Rena to the town and Kuran wondered to the princess, "How is it going between you and Sora in this universe?"

Kairi got silent at that question. "Sora... Sora has been missing for over a year, after he saved me after the Keyblade War."

"Wait... Has your war already happened? Well, in my dimension we are still entering it." He said. "Xehanort is for his 13th vessel, and to make things worse we have a murderous cat that is hunting down everybody who has a keyblade or is connected with darkness."

"I see." Kairi said

"And by the way, your reaction to Death was less shocking than ours, you know?" asked Kuran.

"It will be because I have already met Death for real. It almost killed me then. Luckily now he can't touch me." Kairi explained

"What?!" He asked in shock after hearing her, but then wondered. "And why can't he touch you?"

She sighs and moves her hair a little, showing a small magic circle on the back of her neck. "A mysterious woman put this on me in Radiant Garden; just before my first encounter with the Fallen. This seal happens to protect me from that being. Genie confirmed it." She answered. "And he told me that who created this seal was a so-called 'Abyss Lord', a king of the 'hell' or 'Abyss'. I still have no idea who of the existing four made it."

He then reached behind him to get his bottle but found instead a can, "I should have left these energy drinks with Will."

"And what are those energy drinks?" Rena asked.

"Let's just say… if I would hand some of them over to you, this chapter would be M-rated really quick for a reason."

"Chapter?" Rena asked.

"In other words; we could fill an erotic book after drinking it." sighed Kuran.

"I don't want to know where you got that," Kairi replied.

"I got it from Will, who gets it from one of his wives." He replied

"Wives? He has more than one?" Rena asked.

"Two! Both dragons," told Kuran, both looking at him shocked. "He is a half-dragon after all. Long, complicated story."

"I see." Said Kairi.

Then he found his bottle with water and drank a bit as they reach the town, "Here we are."

Then he carefully opened the door and looked into the town, and they hid when they saw a small fat man being taken by some robotic soldier to Zarok.

"'Ey! Stop! You can't do this to me! I'm the Mayor, I am!" Said the small man.

"I can do what I like, you foolish potbelly. Now once again, WHERE is the shadow demon CLAW?" Asked Zarok to the Mayor.

"I can't say! I'll not betray my constituency! Not in an election year!"

"Oh, you misguided assortment of porky scratchings…" sighs Zarok, "To the asylum with him! He'll remember soon enough - once he's spent a few nights slopping out with a possessed lunatic!"

Soon some of his guards took the Mayor away. "By 'eck, you'll not get away with this!"

"A traditional, but factually inaccurate, statement." countered Zarok "Captain! Tear this pathetic village apart. The Claw will be here somewhere! And don't forget to check in fat boy's biscuit barrel." He ordered.

Kuran looked to the girls, "Something tells me we have to hurry to save this major before he gets mad."

"Yeah," Kairi said, but then saw that Zarok's henchmen took somebody more to him: a strange woman apparently wearing only a corset that only came to cover the breasts and lower parts, with long gloves and boots. It seems a normal woman if it were not for her purely dark hair, the black tail behind her, the two long bat wings on her back, and the two horns on her head, without counting the eyes, which were red blood; a Succubus that somehow Kairi knew. "That's Morrigan? Oh oh…"

"Who're you?" Zarok asked the woman.

"Sorry for presenting myself as this: I'm Morrigan, one of the Dark Lord's Three Devil Wives." Presented the Succubus.

"The Three Devil Wives, uh?" Zarok said and remembered something. "Oh, yeah, I know you. Tell me something; why did you break your word of aid to conquest Gallowmere FIFTEEN YEARS AGO?! When you broke your word I was forced to wait 16 years until finding the curse to take this realm!"

"Sorry for that. We had some problems related to the Order of the Phoenix, and the Oracles of the five Unions." She replied.

'16 years ago? Now I think... that's when my memories began to miss.' thought Kairi.

"Don't tell me we have to deal with her as well," whispered Kuran

"Remember the list of people that want me dead? She is one of them, and is one of the few ones that control the Fallen completely." Whispered Kairi, "Surely will meet some of them around, and not just the ones that Null took."

"And talking about the devil," Rena whispered, and they saw Null, being taken by Zarok's robots to him, still hurt by Rena's punch.

"And now, who the hell is this Heartless?!" Zarok asked, annoyed by having to deal now with a lot of people.

"Great… Null is making new friends."

"You only need to know that my name is Null and better order your goons to free me unless you want one of them over your head!" Threatened Null to the necromancer.

He sighed and snapped his fingers, making his men release him.

"Can I know why are you here?" Zarok asked.

"I'm chasing a pair of keybearers, that is actually with a group of three girls and a skeleton," Null said.

"Oh, yeah, I think I know who do you mean." He said, remembering the encounter in the graveyard.

Null then spotted Morrigan and looked her body up and down. "And who is this devilish beauty?"

"I'm Morrigan, one of the Three Devil Wives, and if you ask, I'm married." She replied.

"And why you're here?"

"I'm here to aid Zarok, and to find and kill the Princess of Heart."

"Who?" He asked. "You mean Kairi? And why do you want to do that?"

"That's doesn't of your business." She said, with a wink.

"How about this?" Zarok cut the discussion. "Actually we have common targets, so, why not make a pact, and work with me to conquer Gallowmere, and deal with that group of annoying rats?"

"Work with you? Don't make me laugh!" Null said. "But maybe I can tag along with your plans if I can deal with those two morons."

"I wish I could kill him for good" muttered Kuran.

"With an arrow shot in his groin, I can be happy," Rena whispered.

"Anyway, let's try to go to the Asylum and try to rescue the Mayor before they discover that we're here," Kairi suggested.

"Easier said than done! As long they stand there, we need an alternate path"

Soon they saw that they stopped of talk, and he seemed to 'order' Null to go somewhere, using an unblocked Dark Corridor, while Zarok and Morrigan left the street.

"This is our opportunity," Rena said.

"Get the weapons ready… I don't think we pass this town without wrecking" told Kuran, moving through the gate, his blades ready.

Clearly, they were surprised by some Zarok's 'boiler guards' and some patrolling Armor Knights, but they were easily taken away by them, and that gave Kuran the opportunity to test the Bow he got before. Conjuring some dark arrows he put them in and aims, releasing the projectiles. But he had some problems with aiming, so Rena had to teach him some lessons about how to aim and shoot.

And then he got lucky to hits one directly in the face.

"Good bullseye," Rena said. "Now try to do it again but faster." She said, shooting two arrows at two Fallen at the same time, without looking, taking both out.

Nodding, Kuran made three arrows, shooting one after another. Result: Two bulls eyes and one was hit in the leg.

"Two of three, not too bad," Rena said, smiling.

"We can chat after of reach the Asylum!" Kairi said, shooting a Blizzaga to a passing Spectra Ignis.

Nodding he moves forward, keeping to shooting arrows, a few times spears or if the opponents are shooting too many projectiles, he pulls out a shield to hide behind it before countering.

"What are you? A living swiss army knife?" jokes Kairi on the way.

After a long way inside the town, they finally reached the Asylum's entrance.

Kuran went to the door, and tried to open it but has to sigh "Why are even in times like these the doors locked?"

He got his keyblade out to unlock the door. "Ladies first"

"Oka-"

Suddenly a trapdoor opened under them and the three inside it, landing in the Asylum's underground.

"Who… the hell… got this idea?" groans Kuran as he landed on the ground… with the girls on his back.

"I bet it is to catch any madman that tries to escape…" Rena groaned. "Or anybody who gets there. Usually only somebody nuts would come here."

"True." Kairi groaned. "And sorry for making you our cushion."

"While I'm not immortal… I think I'll survive" he groans "But at a calm minute we could talk about compensation… AND NOW OFF OF ME!"

The two girls got off of him quickly.

He slowly stands up and groaned, while throwing absently away what he thinks to be his broken bottle.

"Well, now we must try to find the Mayor, and with our luck, will be in the deepest zone of the Asylum, and surely will be full of possessed madmen and Fallen, now that Morrigan is with Zarok," Kairi said.

"Like these guys over there?" suggested Kuran, pointing to a few doors that just happened to open up, releasing a large number of local zombies and Fallen Zombies.

"Really, we NEED that minute," Kairi said.

"Agreed," told Kuran, shooting down a few of them before switching to blades and cutting the closest one down.

Kairi began to hit the nearest enemies with her keyblade, while Rena began to shoot against them her arrows like a machine gun, always hitting the mark.

Soon their enemies are cut down and it seemed they have now their minute... in a rather uncomfortable place

"So… pause or continue? Because I have the feeling in each room we go to, we have to face mad people and Fallen, until the last one. There will be a boss," told Kuran "At least my feelings tell me so."

"Really, with all this type of mess, someday I will need some kind of relief," Kairi said. "But still we must continue. The Mayor is the only one who knows the fragment's whereabouts."

"Then let's go," told Kuran, pulling a shield out "I hope you don't mind if I go first."

"Fine, just don't get on my aim," Rena said, bow-ready.

Kuran nodded and gets to the next floor, where he was promptly greeted by axes, thrown by Axe Armors. "Get down but beware throwing weapons!"

"Yeah!" Kairi said and began to move, avoiding the axes, while Rena shot some arrows at a distance.

Kuran stepped forward, taking the attacks with the shield to get close to their targets, and bashes them with a mace, and Rena took down one that was getting near Kuran.

Kairi kept fighting the Fallen and madmen there but thought about an idea. "Kuran, Rena, give me some time. Maybe I can do something."

"Better hurry up with the idea," told Kuran, using a club to get some of them into the distance.

Kairi began to concentrate for a while until she flashed brightly, and when the flash disappeared, she was now wearing a black and purple armor consisting of a breastplate protecting her chest and groin, a pair of elongated pads, metal gloves arriving at the elbows, and a pair of metal boots that reached the knee.

On a spark, she appeared in the middle of the enemies and shocked everyone with a wide thunder wave that took down all of them.

"Neat!" told Kuran "Able to do it more often? Because I am willing to bet we have a few more rooms to clear."

"I can hold it for a time, so better finish this job quickly," said Kairi.

"Your Kairi can do that?" Asked Rena to Kuran.

"Not that I am aware of… but my Kairi is still at the beginning levels, just starting to grasp the more advanced techniques." explains Kuran "While Sora and Riku got amulets that allow them to summon dragons from a certain world or…" he paused to recall how Aqua explained it to him "using part of their power by summoning a second keyblade."

"I see. In my case, I can't summon the beast, but I can call their power on me. Actually, I have Chocobo, Ifrit, Shiva, and Ramuh." Explained Kairi. "But still I don't know how I have these powers."

"I am not an expert in summons or magic! In fact, of all Keybearers, I am the worst at the magic subject" shrugged Kuran while proceeding to get to the next room "Which is pretty much balanced out by weapons skill."

They followed him to the next room, finding more freaks inside.

"Kairi? Would you please?"

She nodded and sent a large Thundara that deal with a large part of them. Kuran went to shoot at the others more arrows at the same time as Rena. Only a few who get too close gets hit by Kurans's Keyblade.

Soon the room was empty.

"Next room," told Kuran "hope it is the last one"

They went inside and, know what? More freaks.

"This joke goes a bit too long," told Kuran, getting his arrows ready

"Yeah." Said Rena and shoot from her bow a flaming arrow similar to a phoenix that burned all of them.

"Wow, I never saw you use it again after the tournament." Said Kairi.

"I take a guess: Has high cost to use it?"

"In numbers, 300 MP."

Then in the ground opened a trapdoor.

"And I take 300 is your max?" asked Kuran, looking down the trapdoor, before jumping down, blade ready to strike an incoming attacker.

As he didn't see anybody coming, he called "Right now it is safe to come down!"

The two girls jumped down, and the room was small with four pillars with spikes.

"This place is safe, right, but something is off." Said Rena.

Suddenly a closed door began to be hit by an ax from behind, and from a crack of it appeared somebody with an iron mask. "Heeeeeere's… Mr. Axey!" It said before of open wide the door with the head, preparing his axe.

"Boss fight," sighed Kuran and looked around "Don't you think the fact there are four spiked pillars might be to our advantage?"

"Only if hits his head against them," Kairi said.

Then he jumps aside as the madman threw his axe "Or how about we try to make him have it stuck on these?"

"The only form I got is attacking him until infuriating him." Said Rena.

"I think both will work as long we can hit him."

Rena nodded and began to shoot arrows against Mr. Axey, while Kairi shot a volley of Fira against him, Kuran shoot arrows as well but jumps behind one of the pillars as he roars and threw his axe, which got stuck in the pillar. And Kairi got the opportunity to throw a large Firaga against him, hitting directly.

He groaned while arrows from Rena impacted him and Kuran threw some daggers, and the huge man got angry and tried to ram him with the head, but failed and hit the pillar, destroying it, and giving to the madman the biggest headache of his life.

Kuran decided to try something and made a large hammer of darkness, which he slammed on the man's head.

His head hurt more and tried to chop him with his axe. Kairi decided to attack him, but her instinct made her look to the top of the Pillars and gasp. "Watch out!"

An arrow nearly hit Kuran and saw why: Standing on the pillars saw the Null's Bodyguards, more exactly the archers, and now they were aiming at them.

"It starts to annoy me those archers." Said Rena, shooting at one of them.

"I say the same." Said Kairi, avoiding an arrow. Kuran just threw a few daggers and did the same with his Keyblade, taking one down and making a few fall down to make it easier to get dealt with, without forgetting the madman which they were fighting now.

Rena kept dealing with the archers and spotted the crazy man rushing against her, and she jumped away, leaving him to break another pillar with his head.

And Kuran rushed in to attack the madman again, though he also hit the legs to cause him to fall down, but was strong to resist the hits and tried to cut him with the axe. And Kuran got into the distance to avoid being cut in half, preparing to get him into the trap again.

Rena kept shooting at the archers that were attacking them for help Kuran, while Kairi continued her attacks, using some Thunder and Fire, and some Thundara against the Fallen.

Thought Kuran had to slam a blade through a head to prevent one to jump at the girls before going behind the next pillar as the brute was charging again, and when he avoided it, it had the same result as before."How much more does this thing take?"

"We have only a pillar, I hope is the last one," Kairi said.

"Then time to annoy him," told Kuran and threw some daggers, getting the wanted result.

The freak kept attacking Kuran blindly, and at times Kairi if she got near him, but she avoided quickly his attacks. "Come on," mumbled Kuran and stood before the last pillar, shooting arrows to annoy him more, but instead saw his axe come to him. Luckily Rena deflected the axe with one of her arrows.

And Kuran threw his own axe at Axey, but he surprisingly grabbed it and threw it against Kairi, but she avoided the attack and sent a Fira against him, setting his butt on fire, making him rush madly to where Kuran was. Who jumped away at the last possible second. With that, the crazy man slammed his head against the last pillar, breaking it, and he fell on his back, without moving.

"Please, if I turn crazy someday, don't send me to this asylum," Rena said.

"Well… then you have to ask Kairi," told Kuran "The only other I know is Arkham."

"I will not ask about that place." Said Kairi, but then looked at the corpse.

The madman's corpse was just now generating some dark smoke surrounding it, and from it appeared a large creature made of steel.

"This is how the Fallen are generated? Just like the Heartless and Nobodies?" Kairi asked, weapon ready.

"Exactly." Said a voice, and then near the giant appeared Null. "Is the first time that I see this effect in person but is exciting. Not as turn into a Heartless, but you understand me."

"I hate when the bad guys appear in the worst moments." Said Rena.

"Hey, I don't write the rules, 'cow-girl'," Mocked Null.

"COW-GIRL?!"

"Null… I have the feeling you just made a big mistake" deadpans Kuran "Where can I get popcorn?"

"I would like to feel her hand hitting me, but, first you must deal with this Iron Golem," Null said and the Fallen began to walk against them.

Kuran got his Keyblade out, stepping back slowly to look where he should strike. The iron monster raised his arm and tried to smash him with his iron hand.

He got aside and slashed the hand twice before getting behind it and cutting the legs. But it was very resistant to the attacks, and the monster tried to turn around to attack him, but a shot from Rena caught his attention.

Kuran threw his Keyblade but bounced at the hit, but the Iron Golem walked to Rena who kept shooting arrows at its body, trying to damage it, while Kairi used thunder spells against him. Luckily for them, this enemy was really slow.

"Where is the weak point" he mumbled while eying the beast.

Flames began to appear in his mouth and when the Iron Golem opened it, shoot a stream of flames against Kuran. Who got his shield out and blocked it "Damm! Why does it have to be that complicated?"

The golem kept shooting his flames, but Rena shoot an arrow, and Kairi sent a Firaga, getting both inside the mouth, causing the head's explosion, which caused the Fallen to disappear soon.

"It was worth a try." Commented Kairi when Kuran looked at her "Really? Why fire and no ice?"

Then he shook his head "Forget it! Let's find this major and ask him about the stone. And I will laugh if he tells us it is hidden in his house."

"Sorry, but you don't go anywhere." Said Null, prepared to attack them. "This time you will not escape, Kuran." He said. Then he felt something behind him, and when he turned around, found a big white gorilla-like monster without hair, pure red eyes, and a jaw that can divide into two (Inacors).

Before he could say anything, the beast grabbed him with both hands, bitten his whole head, and literally decapitated Null, sending the head to a side and the body to another one. "DAMN IT!"

"Well… nice that we don't have to deal with him," told Kuran "But now we have THIS? This is getting to a joke."

"And I have NO idea of what is." Said Kairi.

"Anyway, let's deal with it now," Rena said.

The Inacors roared and rushed against them, first charging against Kuran, who pulled a spear out and held it towards the beast, letting him run into it to hurt it, a thing that happened, but the beast nearly hit his head with his arm.

He dodged it and slammed his spear into the chest while making a slicing motion with his keyblade, at the same time that Rena shoots a large arrow that perforated the beast side to side and Kairi hit the beast behind with her own keyblade.

Then it fell back and as it roared, Kuran forced feeds it with his Keyblade, forcing it through the head, which caused the monster to disappear like a Nobody.

"Now let's find this Mayor! I start to hate this place"

"Yeah, but I will do something first," Rena said and went to where was Null's head. "This will teach you to hold your mouth and not insult anybody!" She yelled, kicking Null's head, directly to his body, pushing him back across a door. They didn't see what happened, but they heard a lot of things being clashed, either they heard the yell of a cat on it.

"She should work a little on her reactions," Kairi said, sweatdropping.

"Rena… next time make sure his head and his body are kept at a great distance. "

She doesn't answer and moved to the open door.

And on the other side, they found the cell holding the Major and they heard him say "My pie, my pie! My majorship for my pie"

"Seriously?" asked Kuran and they went to the cell and open it with a keyblade

"by 'eck! I've seen some nutters in 'ere, but never witnessed such beauties with a rather tasteless guy. Anyway, can you help? I shouldn't be here, I'm not mad - I'm the mayor!"

"Yes we know," told Kuran "And we are looking for the Anubis Stone."

"If he says that is in his house, I'll laugh," Kairi said.

"The Anubis Stone?" asked the Mayor "Now there's a thing. I know the whereabouts of a piece of that stone. But I tell thee, it won't be easy to get at. It resides in a proper scary place - the Shadow Demon prison - down in't Enchanted Forest."

"And how did that get there?"

"Left there many years ago by my Grandad's Grandad - for safety reasons"

"Well, something is something." Said Rena. "And how we can get it?"

"It's right complicated. First tha'll need to get into the Enchanted Forest. Luckily I've got the key with me 'ere." He said and offered them a key made of wood and leaves, which was picked by Kuran. "Second, you'll need the Shadow Demon Claw that'll get you into the prison itself. The Claw's in the safe in my 'ouse."

Kairi began to laugh after hearing that. On the other hand, Kuran was groaning "Seriously? We could have saved half of the trip if we had broken into his house beforehand"

Then he added, "Thought, on the other hand, we had no way to know beforehand…"

"And I left clues how to get the safe open all over the village," told the Major "Last, you'll need to find the witch that resides in that dark forest. She knows where the entrance to the prison is. Got all that? Because I think this blond guy is too dumb to listen, and you girls… well… when are women listening at all?"

"Can I murder him?" asked Kuran, trying to decide which weapon would be the best one for this task.

"Not, better not." Said Kairi.

"Oh, by the way. There is somebody that you could help with too. For some reason, he said that you will come here. Just after causing a mess near here." The Mayor said signaling a nearby jail, where was a bald man with closed eyes, a red line crossing his two eyes, wearing a brown tunic. "I have no idea of how was able to guess ALL that."

"My guess: He can see the future," told Kuran and went to open the door "Brought in by you or Zarok?"

"By that madman, of course!" Said the Mayor.

"Then let's get him out of it"

"Yeah. If he can see the future, better free him before they use him for anything bad." Said Kairi.

Shaking him a little Kuran attempt to wake him up… doesn't really have the mood to carry him.

"You came, as I saw." the man said, rising from the ground, without opening his eyes. "Now that I'm free, I will get out, but you must find the form of open the Mayor's safe. The keyblades don't work by the Claw's proximity."

"So, we must look around the village to open it the old way." Said Rena.

The man moved and put a hand on Kuran's shoulder. "In the dark fairy's fortress, don't trust the snake, either if he says the truth."

Kuran looked in wonder at what he meant "Well… guess that makes only sense when I am in the situation where I listen to a snake… anything else?"

The left Kuran and then put his hand on Kairi's shoulder. "When they messed it up, and you can hold yourself any longer, only wish." He said.

That got Kairi more confused than before.

"Don't try to think about it," told Kuran "From what I heard, it makes only sense once you are in the situation."

"Okay," Kairi said, still confused.

"Well, let's get outta here before we turn as the people here," Rena said.

Nodding in agreement he began to look for an exit but was told: "Why does it always have to be more complicated than necessary?"

"Tell it to me." Said Kairi.

Soon they were outside the Asylum and returned to the town, where they began to look around.

"Hey! Come here!" Said a voice coming from the crunch.

They went there and found inside a bald man with a black tunic with a cross on it.

"Oh, it's you," said Kairi.

"You two met?" asked Kuran

"My name is Htaed, a member of the Church, sent to investigate the Fallen."

"Church?"

"Yeah, they believe that the Fallen have an objective in mind, but they don't know what is. So I'm investigating them."

"I met him before in Radiant Garden, and later in Athenas." Said Kairi.

"So then he is on our side? Perfect!" told Kuran "Any way you can help us?"

"Depends on what you need." He answered.

"We're trying to get the Shadow Demon Claw, but is in the Mayor's safe, and we need to open it." Said Kairi.

"And because of this Claw, we cannot just open it with Keybaldes" added Kuran "And all the hints to open this thing were scattered all over the village"

"Well, in that case, here is a tip." He said, signaling an altar that was supposed to have two golden crosses and only had one. "Surely this empty spot has something to see with that."

"So, one of the tips is to try to fill that empty spot," Rena said.

"Or maybe the key to this mess." Said Kairi

Kuran moved over and tapped the empty space a little "I agree with you! We need to find the other one and place it on the altar… or we try to make a new one"

"If you will get outside, remember this: the townspeople aren't demons or Fallen, they're only possessed." He warned.

Kuran showed a club "Sending them to sleep is allowed?"

"Kuran!" Scolded Kairi.

"They will be in our way" countered Kuran "And I want to have options to defend ourselves."

"With not kill them is enough." Said Rena.

"The club isn't intended to kill anybody! Only knocking out! And since when is knocking out killing?" replied Kuran.

"Depend if you go excessively strong with that club." Said Kairi. "You can break a skull with a club if you have no precautions."

"Just enough to make them fall."

"I will watch you with that." Said Kairi.

He nods and they head out, where they found the first possessed peasants, between them some kids, holding daggers.

"Why don't I trust these kids?" told Kuran

"I don't trust them either" Said Kairi.

"Let's be careful"

They began to roam around the village, trying to avoid any contact with the possessed people.

"How many people are going around here?"

"Surely every living man, woman, and kid of this town," Rena said.

"that is a lot of people we have to avoid" he groaned.

"But we have no other options." Said Kairi.

They kept looking around the town, soon finding that the golden cross was destroyed by the Mayor before being captured by Zarok, but soon they found a mold for fabricating a replacement, but now they needed to find something big made of gold, but luckily they found the existence of a golden statue that was given as a price to a villager, so now the turn was to try to find the statue.

Which wasn't that hard to find either… they only had to avoid the pan-hitting women on the way to get the statue. Once they had their hands on it, Kuran wondered "So… does anybody know where to go to molt this statue down?"

"Maybe in the blacksmith." Suggested Rena.

"We can use the mold right away then." told Kuran "Just doesn't know where one is…"

Then he saw something in pics it up "A map of the town? Helpful!" he told and looks at it "We have a course!"

They went to go, but suddenly hid when they saw some of Zarok's Boiler Guards. "Hurry, comrades, tear zis place apart. If we don't find ze Demon Claw, Zarok will have us mucking out the lavatories for the next millennium!" Said one of them. "And zent the Fallen Pursuer if it is needed!"

"I suggest a split up… one makes our key… the rest clears these boilers," said Kuran.

"And who does that?" Asked Kairi, having no idea of how to forge something. Sighing loudly Kuran told "I go… I may find somebody who could do it, and if not… I got a few lessons from my father before he disappeared."

"Well, then we take care of the Boiler Guards." Said Rena. "I just hope that not be here time enough to meet this 'Pursuer'."

Kairi and Rena began to deal with the boilers, leaving Kuran to move to the blacksmith building and start to work in the new cross.

Though it took some time since it had been years since he got these lessons but he managed to melt the statue and use it to make a cross in the molt. Thought now the biggest problem was to wait until the new cross was cooled down enough that he could move it.

Kairi and Edea just cleaned the place of Boiler Guards in time, and they went to the blacksmith to see how was doing Kuran.

"I am so far done that I have to wait for the cooldown," told Kuran as they got in while throwing daggers at a roughly drawn picture of Zarok.

"We took care of the patrols, but still we don't see this 'Pursuer' that they named. I hope not to find it outside." Said Kairi.

"Kairi… never, NEVER say something like that," told Kuran "Because it could make it true."

"Let's just wait. Or better, use a freezing spell to accelerate the cooling." Said Rena.

"No!" told Kuran "You could shock the metal with freezing and then might break. Cooling, a good idea but not with ice."

"Sorry, but I don't know water spells, only ice spells."

"How potent are your ice spells?"

"I can use up to Blizzaga spell level. But they get more powerful if I get into my Shiva Form." Said Kairi.

"I asked because of making cold water! We just use one or two buckets of water and you cool it down with a spell WITHOUT freezing it." explains Kuran

"Well, we can try that." Said Kairi. "Maybe a Blizzard will be enough."

"My thought," agreed Kuran and got the buckets.

After some problems with the ice spell, they were able to do what they wanted and cooled the cross perfectly.

"Let's hurry," Kuran told and grabbed the cross.

They quickly returned to the crunch and used the cross in the empty spot, and with that, they revealed a fake wall that had inside a key.

"Surely is the key that we're looking for." Said Kairi.

"More than obvious" agreed Kuran "We should go now." They went to the Major's house and look for the safe to unlock it.

Inside it, they found what they were looking for, a black-like key: the Shadow Demon Claw.

"I really expected that it looked like a sort of claw" admitted Kuran while taking it

"Anyway, let's get outta here." Said Kairi.

When they got outside the Mayor's house, they soon found that in the Village was something new: A huge humanoid creature wearing black clothes from up to down, revealing only a bald deformed head with what seemed to have two eyes, but one was buried under a scarred flesh (Nemesis). The monster was patrolling the village at that moment.

"Why do I have the feeling that this thing is the 'Pursuer'?" asked Rena, trying to hide from that thing.

"Because it looks like somebody who follows you to the end of the world" whispered Kuran "We should make sure its attention is anywhere but towards us until we are in this forest."

"Yeah, because if he got us, we will have to knock him out for win time." Said Rena. "I feel an odd aura on it, so surely will not be killable in the first stance."

Kuran got a knife and aimed it before throwing it into some bushes, causing a sound that got the Nemesis' attention and he turned to check, giving them the chance to sneak past it.

They crossed to a safe spot until the Fallen stopped to watch the bushes and began to patrol again.

"I think we can leave now," whispered Kuran as he began to move to the exit.

But the way was blocked by what seemed a flying eyeball with a steel eyelid and an iron chain floating with it (Peeping Eye).

"Great, if that thing sees us, we're in trouble." Said Rena. "Better take down it fast."

"I don't want the title captain obvious but we should aim for the eye."

Rena aimed with the bow and impacted a mana arrow in the eye, soon destroying it, leaving the path free for getting outside the village.

And they left… as fast as possible and head directly to the forest.

"I think they might take some time until they realize we are gone." told Kuran "But we should block off the exit to ensure they take time to follow."

They closed the door and left it, returning to the meeting post.

And Kuran looked around to see where the others are.