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Chapter 2

Dalynx woke up, stretched, then got ready. He walked out into the grey area, where he saw two people standing before him. Roxas and Xion. They looked at each other and then at him.

"Hey, I'm Roxas, and this Xion. We've, uh, been told to test out your abilities and stuff." Roxas said awkwardly, and Xion nodded. Dalynx smiled.

"Well then, where do we do this? I doubt this is a good place." Dalynx asked, and Xion opened a corridor of darkness, then pointed into it.

"Through here. We can do it in Twilight Town." She walks through the corridor, Roxas following. Dalynx steps through the corridor, and they come out in the plaza in Twilight Town.

"Alright. First up, we want you to take on some of these heartless with your weapon." Roxas orders, as four Shadows slink up from the floor.

"As you wish." Dalynx held out his hand and the rapier appeared. As one of the Shadows approached him, he dashed forward, his rapier becoming a blur of silver. He stopped, and the Shadow died, scattering. Dalynx then flicked his rapier, knocking the remnants of the Shadow from his blade. He ran then towards another Shadow, and impaled it upon his blade, and as it scattered, he spun round, slicing the third heartless in two. The fourth Shadow began to approach, cautiously, and Dalynx threw his rapier at it. The blade went through the heartless, killing it. As the rapier hit the floor, it disappeared. Roxas and Xion looked on, shocked.

"So, do you like it?" Dalynx asked.

"Wow...you're almost as fast as Larxene. That's amazing!" Roxas laughed, and the two walked over to Dalynx.
"So, what did Saix say we had to test after that?" Xion asked Roxas.
"My magic perhaps?" Dalynx suggested.

"Yeah, that was it." Roxas confirmed. Three more heartless appeared, Soldiers. "Go ahead, show us what you've got Dalynx."
"So be it." Dalynx held out his hand, and from the corners of the plaza, the shadows, the darkness, was stripped from it's place, and started to come towards Dalynx. He pointed at the Soldiers, and the shadows started flowing towards them. Hands came out of the mass of shadow and grabbed at them. The three Soldiers were held in the air, and as Dalynx clicked his fingers, the hands tore the heartless apart. This time, Xion and Roxas looked at each other, worried.
"Just how strong are you?" Xion asked.

"I don't entirely know myself, sorry. However flashy I may look, I'm still learning how my powers work." Dalynx replied, shrugging.

"Ok." Xion said. "So finally, we had to have him test his power against one of us didn't we Roxas?"

"Yeah, do you want to fight him, or shall I?"

"You can, unless Dalynx wants to fight me." Xion looked at Dalynx, curiously.

"No, I am fine with duelling whichever one of you is more comfortable with me." Dalynx stepped back, summoning his rapier. Roxas walked forward and summoned Kingdom Key.

"Is that…" Dalynx started

"A Keyblade. Yeah, I'm a Keyblade wielder, it's why the Organization have me. I can collect hearts and kill heartless, all of the legendary Keyblade wielding things." Roxas cut him off.

"Well, don't hold back, I'd hate to win just because you went easy." Dalynx smiled, and went into a combat stance. Roxas ran at him, and brought his Keyblade down, but Dalynx sidestepped, and tried to stab Roxas. His rapier was blocked by Roxas' Keyblade, as he had turned just quickly enough. Roxas then levelled his Keyblade at Dalynx, and a beam of light fired out towards him. Instead of dodging, Dalynx merely copied Roxas' movements and fired out a beam of shadows. The two beams collided, both trying to break the other. Dalynx then jumped up, stopping the beam. Roxas' attack carried on, and hit a wall. Dalynx landed to the side of the beam, and rolled towards Roxas. He jumped to his feet, and slashed down with his rapier. Roxas brought up his Keyblade, but not before he had received a cut to his arm. The two blades clashed, Dalynx's rapier surprisingly being able to block the Kingdom Key. As the two members sparred, Dalynx quickly bought his free hand up, and threw a ball of shadow at Roxas. The ball impacted heavily, hitting Roxas' gut. The blonde Keyblade wielder fell back, grasping at his gut, winded. Dalynx walked over, and held the tip of his rapier to Roxas' neck.
"I think that I win now Roxas." Dalynx said, smugly. Roxas then spun upwards, smashing his Keyblade into Dalynx's side.
"Oh? Still got a bit of fight in you, eh? Well I won't complain." Dalynx was breathing heavily, the large wound in his side clearly taking it's toll. "No more niceties now, time for the proper fighting." Dalynx laughed as he threw his rapier into the air. The shadows formed around it, making it appear as just a black blob in the sky. Dalynx pointed down at Roxas, and bullets of shadow started firing down at him, in barrages of at least ten at a time. Roxas stood his ground, trying to block all of them. Most of them collided harmlessly with his Keyblade, but eventually, one broke through his guard. It smashed into his shoulder, making him drop his Keyblade. Four more of them smashed into his body before he fell down, and Dalynx held up his hand. The shadows returned to their normal places, and the rapier fell back into Dalynx's hand.

"Are you done now?" Dalynx asked. Roxas, still on the floor, nodded. "Good. Here, take this." Dalynx threw some potions to Roxas, and he drunk them. Now healed, Roxas got up.
"You're good." He said, shaking Dalynx's hand.

"So are you, I haven't had to fight that hard before." Dalynx replied. "It's getting late, shouldn't we be getting back to the castle?" Xion and Roxas looked at each other, then nodded.

"Well, you can if you want, but we have a bit of a tradition, I guess you could call it. If you want to just go back, go ahead, but me, Roxas and Axel all go up to the clock tower, to have ice-cream, and talk, you know, normal friend things. You can come if you want." Xion said, hesitantly.

"Wait, so I'm your friend now?" Dalynx tilted his head, but sounded hopeful.

"Of course. You seem nice, and Axel said he already likes you after what you did to Saix yesterday." Roxas added.

"Axel? Sorry if I sound rude, but I don't know any names yet, other than the two of you." Dalynx sounded confused.

"The guy with the red hair, the one that came down to calm down Saix, the angry blue haired person yesterday." Xion elaborated.

"Oh, ok, got it." Dalynx nodded. "If you'll let me, I'd love to come up there with you." He seemed happy. Xion smiled. "Great! Roxas, it's your turn to get the ice cream, we'll meet you up there!" Xion walked into the clock tower and started to climb the stairs. Dalynx threw some munny to Roxas.
"This should cover the cost of a fourth ice cream right?" Dalynx shouted, as he ran to catch up with Xion. Roxas nodded, but Dalynx was already out of sight.

Dalynx Roxas and Xion sat atop the clock tower, waiting. Roxas held four sea salt ice creams in his hands. Axel then walked up onto the roof.

"Hey! How was your first try at babysitting guys?" Axel asked, then he saw you. "Well, looks like it went well enough, you brought him here!" Axel laughed as he sat down on the edge. Roxas handed the ice creams to everyone. "You haven't had sea salt ice cream before, have you kid?" Axel asked Dalynx, as he bit into his.
"No, sounds weird though. Who'd put salt in an ice cream?" Dalynx said as he bit into his ice cream. "Woah. This tastes way better than it sounds like it should." Dalynx started eating his ice cream really quickly. Roxas laughed.
"Yeah, it's salty, but sweet at the same time. I don't know how they did it, but it tastes great." Roxas finished off his ice cream.

"So, Axel, what did you do today?" Xion asked.

"Oh, the usual, had to go sniffing around this Agrabah for Vexen. Crazy guy thinks something is going on there, but I couldn't find anything." Axel leaned back. "New guy, Dalynx was it? I haven't introduced myself have I?" Dalynx shook his head. "The name's Axel. Got it memorized?" Roxas groaned.
"Seriously? What is it with you and saying that?"
"Hey, it's a catchphrase, it's just my thing to say that." Axel jokingly ruffled Roxas' hair. "Anyway, how is he? Saix had you testing him didn't he? How good is he?"
"He's really good." Xion said, "He's almost as fast as Larxene, with the magic of Zexion. He's not too bad with his weapon either."
"Wow, that strong? No wonder he stood up to Saix. Good job there by the way, that was hilarious!." Axel grinned. They carried on chatting and laughing, having fun for a while after that.

"Well, we should be getting back now, come on." Axel pushed himself up, and opened a corridor. Dalynx, Roxas and Xion followed him through it. When they emerged in the grey area, they all separated off, heading off to their rooms, or to run some errands. Dalynx sat down in the grey area, relaxing. Marluxia walked over to him.
"I heard from Roxas about how strong you are. You seem like you can be very useful." He said.

"Oh? Would you mind telling me who you are?" Dalynx stayed seated.
"Of course, I am Marluxia, number eleven. Roxas can only train you so much, he is still young, and naive. Saix won't give you any missions for a few days now, so if you want a proper taste of combat, come with me tomorrow. I can show you what you'll really be facing off against." Marluxia, after saying that, walked off. Dalynx sat there, thinking. He decided that he would take Marluxia up on his offer, then went off to bed. In his room he found a blank diary, with a note from Saix on top of it. It read: "You should keep a diary during your time with us, it will be useful." Underneath the text was Saix's signature. Dalynx shrugged, and opened the diary, then started to write.

Marluxia knocked on the door to Larxene's room. She opened the door and let Marluxia in.

"Well? How was he?" Larxene sat down on the bed, swinging her legs.

"Roxas says that he managed to beat him, so he has to be good. The puppet even said that he could go as fast as you." Marluxia sighed. "But, true to form, Axel is trying to rope him in. I asked him to join me on mission tomorrow, so I can get a better image of his abilities, but I have no guarantee from him that he'll come." Larxene scoffed.

"Ha! I think you'll need to have Xion see Vexen, she's getting delusional. There's no way that the new kid could outrun me."
"Don't forget Larxene, he managed to break into the castle and get to the round room untouched. If it's his speed that was the reason for it, we have an explanation. Better to have him just be fast than him having some other method of getting through all of the guards." Marluxia turned around, and started to walk out. "Still, when I get back tomorrow, I'll tell you how he really is." Marluxia left the room, shutting the door.