Took a little bit because I added more detail than I usually do. Too much dialogue in the last one. I changed up a scene that was in Truth of the Puppet again. Way better now.
Here it is! Enjoy! :)
World traveling was supposed to be fun and exciting! Only half of that was true. On the first day she did have some excitement running from some Unversed that wanted to kill her, she didn't have fun hiding from them because Twilight was too young to fight and the blue monster was still asleep inside Shion's long sleeve jacket.
The new world that they landed on on the second day was isolated for the most part. They were on the sandy shore of what Shion figured to be another small island world. However that was when she was facing the ocean. Turning around she got the surprise of her life when she saw the giant intimidating jungle looming over her. She was fascinated at the idea of what could be living in there.
Sighing, she pulled the creature out of her cozy bed, waking her up in the process. "You little Missy need to stop napping so much."
The only sign that Twilight was listening was when she purred. The Flood slowly uncurled herself and stretched in the hands she was standing in, for once paying attention to her owner. She titled her head as if asking her what she wanted.
"We need to build up your strength," Shion decided. She set Twilight down on the ground who stumbled the first time trying to walk, which was very adorable, but got it on her second try. "Show me what you can do."
Twilight stayed seated on the ground for a few minutes. Right when the young Master-to-be was committed to the thought that she'd have to start from scratch on the training, she was proven wrong once again.
Twilight stood on her hind legs and began to grow in size. As soon as she reached to Shion's height, her appearance began to change as well. Her arms transformed into the ones of her owners; gloves, fingers, and all. Her legs also shifted, from the intricate designs on her shoe to the scars a little ways above both of her knees. Finally, her head began to morph into that of Shion's, from her short black hair to her glowing blue eyes. Twilight's skin color changed to that of Shion, so now they look like identical twins.
Here comes the scary parts: Twilight summoned out an exact copy of Shion's keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion. Then she spoke in Shion's voice. "I am the first the Unversed that was ever created so that means I am the eldest. I can speak when I am in my Flood form but I chose not to to surprise you. I have the ability to copy anyone and become an exact replica of them. Do not underestimate me because of my original form size."
"Did Van know you could do this?"
"He told you the day he gave me to you."
"Remind me to hit him the next time I see him."
"Fine by me." Twilight got into the stance Shion usually did. "Now show me what you got."
Shion smirked at the challenge that was given to her. "Gladly."
A couple days later, when the duo decided to jump worlds again, they arrived at a world called Radiant Garden, which was true to its name. Shion took her first step, then she stopped. Twilight, who walked a few feet ahead of her, notice the vacant sound of footsteps behind her and came to a halt. She jumped around to face her owner. "Is there something wrong, Milady?"
Shion shook her head, used to the nickname the creature has given her (because Vanitas had told Twilight to address her that way). "No, it's nothing. Just. . ." She looked up at the sky, feeling the presence of a few familiar people in the area, but not understanding why. ". . .my dad's . . . . here?"
"Are you sure? It could be someone else."
She shook her head once more. "I'm absolutely sure it's him, but there's two others with him. I know one of them is Aqua. I think the other one might be Ven. Except. . . ."
Twilight motioned for her to continue, but not before climbing up on her shoulder. "Except what?"
Shion looked at her with confusion shown in her eyes and face. "Why is Van here?"
"Ah, so you do know my pupil." A voice from the shadows intruded. "So he did lie to me after all."
"Who's there!" She shouted scanning the area but seeing no one. When the voice didn't give no name or answer, she grew furious. "You can't just not say anything when you already did. Now answer me: who are you?"
The voice spoke once more. "I'm a man who would like nothing more than to rule all the worlds in darkness for my perfect image. But first I must snuff out the lights of the seven Princesses. To do some I must steal there pure hearts. So far I have three of the seven I need."
Shion froze while Twilight hid inside her jacket, knowing by what he said who he is. "Xehanort," she whispered in fear.
"So Vanitas has told you about me," Xehanort assumed as he appeared from a dark portal with his hands behind his back. He appeared to be an old bald man with a silver curled goatee. For some strange reason his ears were pointed and his eyes were yellow, a sign of darkness in someones heart. He also had a hunched shoulders and a crooked back. His appearance gave off the features of a weak, feeble, old man. But with what she heard about his strength from Vanitas, Shion knew better than to judge him by his looks. "Guess I'll have to punish him."
"What are you going to do to him?"
Xehanort smiled his cruel and evil grin, as though he already had an idea though he said, "Hmm, I'm not sure. I'll think of something sooner or later."
Instead of letting the fear of her friend over take her, she continued to interrogate him. "Why did you tell me about your plan?"
"Doesn't someone like you, who's judge by the darkness inside her instead of what she truly is, want to prove all the worlds wrong that darkness is not a horrible thing?" Xehanort countered with great knowledge of her.
"How do you know what I want?"
His horrible grin grew larger. "Learning what's going on in another one's mind is easy to do, but in order to do so I have to have access to a close ones heart. It is best to do so when that person is asleep; that is when all their memories play in their mind, when their deepest desires are revealed."
"So basically you invaded his heart to spy on him?!" Shion summed up in fury. "What kind of sick person does that?"
"Someone who wants to know why his student fails to answer any of the questions I gave him about where he has been correctly." His eyes changed from having a look of cruelty to one of mischief. "Though if I was you I would be more worried about the friends that are fighting that enormous Unversed-."
Shion fled the area, before Xehanort could finish his statement, to go help her father and friends. Once she was out of hearing distance, Xehanort cackled wickedly. "Looks like I thought of a punishment! I will have to thank that child for giving me the idea!"
Shion ran as fast as she could to help her friends. However, when she arrived, it looked as if they had just started fighting. Xehanort failed to mention that the Unversed were three separate parts that can join together to form one; the one being an armor body when put together. When the monster first separated, they started blasting random beams while they rotated in place.
She made a move to join the fight, but Terra caught sight of her from the corner of his eye. He paused for a moment and motioned for her to stay hidden around the corner above the staircase without the other two noticing then dodged the attacks once again. Reluctantly Shion did what she was told and watched from the sideline. The first thing they did was take out the legs. With it gone they could now stand underneath the monster when it attacked with a large powerful beam spinning in place and then changing direction. Then came the arm, which was much easier. All that was left was the
The trio were at equal distances away from the monster. Aqua charged first with the boys following in suit. "Terra!"
"Ven! Now!" He shouted at the boy.
"C'mon!" Ven yelled back in answer.
Aqua was the first to make the move. She leaped high into the sky and slashed down on the head vertically. As she landed on the ground the two boys jumped up and with a mighty swing slit through the remains of the monster in the shape of a 'X'. It fell from the sky, braking, and disappearing into the darkness.
"Got 'im." Terra remarked as he and Aqua jogged to Ven.
"We make a good team," Aqua commented. Shion smiled from her place, agreeing completely.
"Sure do. Oh yeah!" Ven pulled out something from his pocket. "I got you these tickets."
"For what?" Terra interrogated.
"Life time passes to Disney Town." You need a pass to get in that world? Shion thought when Ventus passed them out. I didn't know that.
"He said to-" He stopped as he looked at the ticket and then his smile turned into a frown. "He said to take two grown ups." He pocketed his ticket slightly upset.
"You mean us?" Aqua questioned curiously. She and Terra laughed and looked at each other. They shared the same look and Aqua continued, "Listen to me Ven. . . We need to get you home-"
"It's okay, Aqua." Ven directed his attention to Terra. "Trust me, that guy in the mask is history. He'll never bad-mouth Terra again."
That can't be. . . . .Van? Shion questioned in her mind as she moved in closer to hear better.
Terra grabbed one of his shoulders in urgency. "You saw the boy in the mask?"
"Y-yes?" he hesitated.
"Vanitas. . . ." The earth keyblade wielder said to himself.
No. Shion thought in horror. Why would he . . . do something . . . wrong?
"-It doesn't sound like what the master told you to do." Aqua countered.
"It might be a different route, but I'm fighting the darkness."
Since when did my dad have darkness inside him? Shion asked herself. Did it happen because of me?
"I've been to the same worlds as you and I've seen what you've done. You shouldn't put yourself so close to the darkness."
"Listen to yourself Aqua." Ven shouted. "Terra would never-"
"You mean you've been spy on me? Is that what he said to do? The Master's orders?"
Did they get into a fight when I left?
"He was only-" Aqua trailed off, unsure of what to say.
"Aqua. . ."
"I get it." Terra turned his back toward them and started walking to the direction of his daughter.
"Terra!"
"Just stay put!" He exclaimed as he stopped for a moment. "I'm on my own now, alright?" He continued not listening to what they were saying. He climbed the steps, rounded the corner, and smiled kindly at Shion, though she thought he was faking it for her. He motioned for her to follow him, which she did silently.
"Why are you trying to find Van?" Shion asked him at Central Square as they tried to reach the Outer Gardens.
Terra stopped, completely shocked. He turned to him with curiosity burning in his facial expression. "You know him?"
"He's my friend," she answered honestly. "The week after I left Land of Departure a couple years ago I met him. He helped me with my training a little bit."
Terra let the information sink in before saying, "He was the reason you met your teacher, right?" Shion nodded her head in confirmation. "Then I guess he can't be all that bad, but how did he. . .?"
"Well, it was sort of on accident," she admitted bashfully. The two sat on the border around the garden as she explained. "The truth is there was this man that was coming to our location. Vanitas didn't want him finding out about me because he knows he'd use my darkness against others. Van tried to get me to leave but I wouldn't without an explanation. He forced my armor out with the power of darkness and pushed me into a dark portal. I ended up falling from the sky of a world I never been to before at the time. Bad part was my armor had deactivated because we were out of reach and I was afraid to summon my rider in midair because I thought I would lose it. I did land on my right arm but the bones shattered instead of it being bruised like I said before."
"That's the real reason why you flinched when I first hugged you when you came back," he figured out.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you," she apologized. "I didn't want you to get mad. He apologized everyday though when we hanged out after my training was done for the day until I told him I'd hit him if he said it one more time."
Terra chuckled a little before becoming curious again. "But from what I heard-"
"You've never seen him?" Shion interrupted.
He shook his head. "No, Master Xehanort told me about him and that he wants all worlds in darkness."
"That's not true. Xehanort is the bad guy," she denied. "We agreed we'd meet at Twilight Town in the future, which is half filled with light."
"He might have changed his mind," Terra offered in a kind way, not wanting to get into a fight with his daughter. "Let me see your arm." When she pulled it away from him he explained, "I want to see how bad it looks."
Reluctantly, Shion took off her right gray/white/black design jacket sleeve (careful not to expose to reveal Twilight) to see her whole arm was covered in various shades of purple, blue, and red. Seeing the look of anger flash across his face, she quickly stated, while putting on the sleeve, "My arm is fine though! It just hurts if I move it the wrong way. The reason it's this color is because I forced myself to train with the bones broken."
After moments of him being painfully quiet, he sighed. "You should be more careful when you train." He stood and stretched. "I have to go." When he saw the look of disappointment he then said, "Aqua has missed you too. You should stay and talk with her before you go off to a different world." Terra walked away toward the Outer Gardens to achieve his objective and to answer some questions.
Shion frowned deeply. "I can't do that."
Twilight popped out. "Why not Milady?"
"Xehanort would come after her," she blunted. "It was risky for me to talk to my dad so long."
"So what are you going to do?"
"The only thing I can do." Shion looked down the Unversed in her hand. "I have to get away from them. So, which world would you like to go to?"
"How about Keyblade Graveyard," the monster suggested. "We could train in the Twister Trench for a while. I'm sure Terra, Aqua, and Ven don't know about that world yet or they just can't go."
"Alright. To the graveyard!"
At the Purification Facility in Radiant Garden after the fight with Terra there were two men all alone. One was calm (Xehanort), the other was furious (Braig).
"Hey, you old coot!" Braig blasted an arrow at Xehanort. The attack never made contact because of the barrier around him. Knowing that, Braig continued with his onslaught as the master turned to him. "You said I wouldn't get hurt! I didn't sign up to be collateral damage!" He pointed the gun to his head. "No way, as if!"
Xehanort summoned out his keyblade and pointed it at Braig's neck, who helf his hands up, without saying a word. "Okay! Okay, fine. Fine," the now one eyed man repeated. "Just. . . . just put that down! You still need me! You still need me to do something, right? And all I'm asking is that you hold up your end of the bargain."
The darkness keyblade wielder made his keyblade disappear and the gun wielder let loose a breath of relief. "Heh, I mean, what's a little scratch on my face, huh? All things considered. Though I'm surprised. As a keyblade wielder he had so much darkness inside him. Almost no light inside him."
"You're wrong," Xehanort spoke for the first time. "A powerful light still lives inside of Terra."
"What light?"
"Not a what, a who," he corrected. "His love for his 'daughter'."
"Daughter?" Braig questioned. "He has one? He's like eighteen!"
"Adopted daughter." Xehanort explained. "They act like they are of blood relation but they are not. The girl is fourteen years old, a four year difference between the two."
"Why tell me all of this garbage?"
"You want revenge on Terra for what he's done and I need to punish my student for something he's done," he continued. "All you have to do is command Vanitas to do something and they will both get their hearts broken."
"Which is what?"
"Kill Terra's daughter, Shion."
First time I did a cliffhanger for the story and first chapter with over 3,000 words!
There are a few points I need to address though:
-As you can tell the next chapter will be the last one. I'm going to try to make it longer than this on.
-The first one to answer this question correctly gets to pick a world that will appear in the next/last story of this 'trilogy' you could say: what is the name of the world at the start of this chapter?
-Last, but definitely not least, there may or may not be Pixar movie based worlds in that last story.
Please review! I'd really appreciate it!
