Chapter 2: Let There Be Magic!
The run-down looking cab drove through the road like a speeding bullet, dodging the passing cars in sharp turns without slowing down, while the passengers so far… fearing for their lives after realising who the cab drivers were and not feeling so safe with three old hags with only a single eye.
"OH I know! I didn't like how it showed my nose. Awful pictures." Lachesis said, oblivious that they were spooked by their appearances while they were too busy driving, tiers screeched as the cab made sharp turn to the nearby corner. Slamming the teenagers to the side.
"That we took when we set up this cab business." Clotho added after her.
"And we do so have an eye we take use to travel." Atropos finished while keeping her eye on the road. The passengers calmed themselves down until they realised they were on a busy road and saw a truck coming towards them and again screamed. "LOOK OUT!" Ben was the first shout and pointed towards the coming right at them.
"Clotho time to split!" Atropos exclaimed to Clotho. She reached out to the lever and turned it from one side to the other. The passengers behind them didn't know what was going on when the cab started to split between them and clearly see the truck up ahead, however Ben who sat in the middle was clinging to both sides for his dear life and couldn't hold on to either side much longer.
"BEN!" Taren latched on to his arm and pulled him to his side of the cab right in the nick of time before he could've been made into a human pancake. The two halves of the cab returned to being a single vehicle and the greater relief to the three.
Mal wondered. "You ok?" Trying hide her concern for the brunette with the blush on her cheeks for bringing it up. He looked at her and smiled when keeping his breathing steadily.
"Yeah, I'm good. Thanks Taren." Thanking his best friend for saving his life.
Taren waved his hand while trying to hold on to his breakfast. "No prob."
"We pay extra for that option." Clotho said, with that out of the way they were still a little worried for the driving. "Let me use it and see where we are so far." She reached out towards Atropos and pulled the eyeball RIGHT of her eye socket before inserting it in her own eye socket before turning to the bearers. "No need to be frightened. We haven't had an accident in 45 years."
"46, if you remember the time we were in Russia after making the wrong turn." Lechesis countered.
"Oh but that was when we started getting used to driving. Not as difficult as keeping our eye since the incident with Perseus."
The three were a little grossed out of seeing her put that eyeball in her, Mal was the first to speak up while a little discomfort. "Uh, yeah, but I don't understand why the Three Fates of Olympus be-
"Doing a taxi service? Its to expand the business for our services." Lechesis answered her question.
Taren had thought of something that may sound important. "Um, not to sound rude but shouldn't the driver get the eye?" That was something the other two agreed by nodding their eyes.
Mal eagerly nodded her head. "Yeah, there's health and safety regulations for that."
"Bah, she's doing fine." Waving her hand before her as if it was of no concern.
But Atropos had thought of what Taren said. "Hold on a moment, he has a point! The one behind the wheels should have the eye."
"You couldn't reach the peddle without those books!" Clotho responded, pointing her green finger.
Lechesis gave out a mocking "HA!" at her statement. "She didn't get us lost in the middle of the ocean floors on our first day." She suddenly receives a smack on the face by the back of Clotho's hand. The keybladers winced after seeing what the middle fate did. Lechesis gasped and glared at her. "Ooohh, you did NOT do that!"
"I certainly did!" Then suddenly all three of them were slapping each other despite the fact that ONE of them should be driving the cab and started arguing over whom should have a turn with the eye.
"Gimme the eye! It's my turn!"
"You had it too long!"
"No way, you dropped it in the car and took us ages to find it!"
They were beginning to wonder if this was such a good idea after all.
"Oh we're gonna die before we even started." Mal groaned.
Taren couldn't agree more. "Yeah, and all because over an eye."
Atropos pulled away while trying to get a hold of Clotho to prevent her from trying to reach for the eye the blue Fate was in possession with. "Oh pipe down." She proclaimed. "The prophecy said you will find the Dragon's Flame in the end."
The keyblade wielders looked at each other after she said something about a prophecy. Did they know of the events beyond their dimension?
Ben was the first to speak out to know what this prophecy they were aware of. "What prophecy? You know of the Dragon's Flame?"
The Fates paused for a moment and looked at the teenagers when they inadvertently revealed what they weren't suppose to know. Clotho gave a nervous chuckle and about to speak until both her fellow sisters clamped her mouth before she could say anything.
"Oh no you don't!" Lechesis narrowed her gaze at her. "Mortals aren't supposed to know their future."
"What about Hades? We told his future of wanting to overthrow Zeus." Atropos brought up as Clotho agreed by nodding her head.
"That was different! He's a god and yet he was unable to alter the future that we told him despite his attempts to change it." Lechesis argued when suddenly Clotho smacked the back of her head, projecting the eyeball out of her eye socket, bouncing all over the back seat as the trio tried to not touch it, when it landed on Mal's lap she yelped and swatted it aside, Ben accidentally grabbed it but slipped from his fingerless gloved hands as it once again bounced against the window and landed on Taren's seat. Without hesitation he grabbed it in his hand, ignoring the feel of it when holding it out from the pleading Fates that want their eye back.
"Tell us about the prophecy and I'll hand you back your eye." Taren said, but could tell they were a little hesitant.
They huddled together, muttering to each other over whether or not they should reveal anything to the new keyblade wielders. Finally they made their decision and turned to the teenagers. "Alright, you win! So heed these words well cause we're only saying it once." Lechesis didn't like it but they could not afford to loose the eye. "To find the flame that lies within, the last child of Domino is whom you seek."
"And when its power is unleashed, so shall the darkness be freed." Clotho spoke out. "But with the strength as many can challenge them."
"But a word of caution for you to remember most important." It was Atropos' turn and narrowed her 'eye' at them. "Should Tezzerat be defeated. The Fallen shall rise again."
Listening to the prophecy the Fates told them and yet not of it made any sense. Will they find succeed in their mission or fail, and who was he last child of Domino Taren couldn't understand what they meant, especially the last one. But why did it sounded familiar to him. "What? What's all that mean?"
"You got your answer and we have our eye back!" The eye appeared in Atropos' hand despite any struggle to reach for him, allowing her to place it in her single eye and the Fates resume their driving.
"Almost there now!" One of the Fates said. Mal noticed the rising price on the taximeter, far passed the amount of cash they could afford. Nudging to the boys to get their attention and tries to make it quiet enough to avoid the drivers from hearing her.
"I think we might be a little low on cash."
"WHAT?!" The Fates had indeed heard her despite their appearances and were not so happy about it. All three instantly slammed their feet onto the breaks, causing the cab to halt, screeching the tires against the road and hit the pavement by the side before it was flipped four times in mid-air. The keyblade wielders let out a scream until it finally landed on its wheels by close to a sign without any damage or harm to the passengers, much to their great relief and try to regain their bearings together. The Fates turned around and were not so happy.
"What are you-"
"Think we're-"
"Running here?"
"A CHARITY?! Get your cheap butts out!" Tossing them out of the cab and immediately took off on the road until it disappeared into the smoke that flew into the air. The three looked at each other and now able to see the sign "Welcome to Gardenia".
"Well, least we're here." Taren said, practically glad to be out of that death trap as he feels the alternative would be better. And Safer.
"But we still need to Magix, which can only be done by Fairy who we're to find." Mal brought up, wishing things could have been easier for them had master Yen Sid used his magic to open a gateway for them to pass through. But unfortunately as she remembered a couple of days back when finding out that travels between dimensions is a lot more difficult then she thought since it could only be done from both sides and also require a lot of powerful magic which could risk revealing their hideout to the Grimm.
Taren had thought of that too and they needed ways to find her. "Well, maybe we can try feeling her magic. I did some of that on our first month of training."
Ben started to get where Taren was coming from and caught on. "Yeah, like when we did it for practice of finding each other. But, so far you and Mal are more skilled in it, I could only sense others are a closer range at the moment."
Mal nodded and cupped her chin to think of how they can do so without revealing their magic to public. "Yeah, and like the master said that we're not allowed to reveal or use magic in public. So maybe we can use our magic to feel her presence if she's here. I mean, we know what she looks like and obviously waiting for us so should be fine." Working out a plan and finds it could work out in their favour.
"Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me." Taren liked it and Ben agreed with him. They helped found an open field away from the roads while a little more closer to Gardenia, Mal sat on the grass with her legs crossed and placed her hands on her knees and closed her eyes.
"Right, I need to focus and no distractions." She said, closing her eyes and began to meditate while the boys just waited and think of something to do while.
"So… what do you think it be like in the Magic dimension? Obviously be no different to ours, right?" Taren asked Ben of what he thought of the place. "I mean, we'll be there for… a while maybe?"
Ben raised one eyebrow. "Well, I doubt it, from what we know it be mostly of fairies with magic over. But I'm actually interested to find out, but no doubt the Grimm would start to become a problem there."
"Yeah, I've been training hard and took notes of things we've been told, especially about the Grimm from what Macbeth talked about." Taren told him. "Speaking of which, how do you think he's going to get there? Will he be meeting us here, or does he have some other magical item do that?"
That was something that even Ben didn't thought about, they hardly know about his past since he didn't say much and so far only knows the keyblade master so well. "You know that's a good question. I've been curious about that too ever since we met him. So many questions and hardly any answers."
While the two were in an open discussion of it, they were unaware that Mal was having a difficult time concentrating, her eyes scrunch together, supressing the urge to let her emotions get the better by remembering Yen Sid's teachings of keeping her mind at ease. "Yeah, maybe I can find out how my eyes became like this, but like to find out what the foods like thoug-"
"HEY! Will you two zip it and let me focus!? I can barely think with you two!" They were startled by Mal's outburst and clearly see her gritting her teeth and twitching eyebrow.
Both the boys backed off and made a reasonable distance to avoid disturbing her concentration again.
"Man, and I thought my mom was scary when she gets mad." Taren could feel a chill in his spine just by mentioning it.
Ben sighed and knowing how he feels. "Yeah, sometimes my dad can be like that when mom's not around."
"Got it!"
Both of them blinked in surprise and turned to Mal who got up on her feet, which surprised the two of how quick it took. "And it would've been sooner if you two kept quiet.
"That's great, so where is she?" Ben asked her. Pointed her finger towards where they could see a large forest within the city.
"Just within the forest so we should reach it by a few minutes. But…"
"But what?" Taren asked.
"I'm not sure... its like it feels faint and yet something about it feels like nothing I ever felt." She couldn't describe it but something very powerful was here. Even the boys were confused by what she mean "Can't waste anymore time, we need to go."
The trio made their way towards it the city, taking a mental note of the place full of people who were going about their daily business in the morning, so they have to be very careful of using magic in public. Much as it seems like a nice place, they had a mission to complete and no time to stick around for sight seeing. Following the source of magic, it was coming from the park up ahead but couldn't pin point her exact whereabouts.
"Ok, think maybe we could split up and find her to make it easier." Mal gave a thought of the idea.
"Sounds good to me, best of luck." Ben said before making his way to one direction while Mal took the other.
Taren was already ahead of them as he made a head start on the search in one direction while the other two went their separate ways to find her. Mal wasn't the only one who could feel the magical power radiating within this area and he could feel it nearby but unable to tell WHERE exactly. 'Ok, if I were a fairy and came to Earth? Where would I be hiding in a large park?'
Looks up at the sky, keeping his eyes protected with his hand, if he could get a chance to use some magic to fly or jump high he would get a clear look of the area, but that would be a bad idea as they were not to reveal any magic or existence of other worlds to people who have no understanding.
Taren sighed and finding this mission much harder then he thought. "Sometimes I wonder how dad done it when he first started this whole keyblade thing?" Trying to pinpoint the whereabouts of the magical source, yet he feels something powerful close by, this was strange as if he felt it somewhere before, like it was… familiar to him in a strange sense.
Receiving a call from his phone ringing, reached into his pocket and brought it up to his ear to answer the call. "Taren, it's Mal. Anything from your end?"
"Nah, just having a hard time pinpointing her location, feels like something stronger close by but don't know what it is."
"Weird, same thing for me. But let's hope we figure it out sooner before we head off, don't want to attract anything bad and-"
Taren couldn't hear the last part of her sentence when a loud roar and strange noises were coming from the dense forest. Whatever it was, it didn't sound good from his perspective. "I think I just found her. Get Ben and but a lock on my signal."
"Just don't get your ass kicked before we get to have some fun!" Mal said before hanging up.
He ran towards the source as he can hear it much clearer and see figures through the trees. The red haired teen saw the blonde haired fairy, she had wings that were noticeable and wearing a sparkly orange outfit with a pair of boots, in her hand was some sort of staff with a sun-like symbol on top. He noticed she was fighting a group of small gremlin-like creatures that were ganging up on her. Taren better do something to help out before its too late.
Elsewhere in the park..
While things were calm and peaceful, a young girl was carrying her bike through the park with a pet bunny, she had long flowing red-orange hair wearing a teal coloured top with yellow sleeves and a pair of blue flared jeans that had stars on the bottom, along a pair of sandals. Her name is Bloom and just started her summer vacation since school was over and can enjoy herself, but her friends were away on vacation and wished to go someplace other then the beach house her family always goes to every year. She was sixteen and still feels like her parents treat her like a child, but least they bought her a bike as a gift, but thought of maybe a scooter to start with but her dad, being overprotective.
Decided to go to the park should be a good place to relax and finds a tree to sit by while her pet rabbit runs off for fun. "Alright Kiko, don't go too far." She said before taking a bite of her apple she brought along the way.
Let out a soft yawn as she was feeling a bit tired from the late night of reading a book about fairies as she loves fairy tales, fantasies and myths since childhood. Despite her mom thinking she was a little too old to believe in them she just couldn't stop believing in fairies. She wanted to do something different, wanting an adventure or maybe meet new people and new places to go to celebrate her summer vacation.
While she was trying to relax, her pet rabbit ran right up to her all panicked and tugging the bottom of her pants, frantically trying to tell her something.
"What's the matter Kiko?" She wondered what scared him so much, she could tell something was wrong and was anxious to show her. Decided to follow her rabbit to what he found and what she saw was like something from a fairy tail. A battle between a blonde haired girl fighting against small horrible looking creatures trying to attack her
"SOLAR WIND!"
Slammed her staff into the ground and released a powerful blast of light energy, throwing them across several feet. Taren who just saw the demonstration was impressed how she took on several of those ghouls by herself without help, thinking she got this in the bag and no reason to intervene for the moment. Didn't need to summon his keyblade and make his introduction to the fairy named Stella when something in the shadows caught his attention, a large skinned ogre with brown sideburns and wearing only a pair of brown pants. He saw one of the creatures fell into his large hand, crushed instantly and vanished as they were possibly summoning creatures.
Taren saw her take a fighting pose with her staff, glaring at the monster, possibly the leader of the group. "Go away villain, or you will feel the magic of the Sun and Moon fairy!" She proclaimed to her opponent.
The young keyblade wielder could easily tell by the look of that ogre's face, he wasn't going to give up. He let out a roar and charged at her with full force, ready to knock her off her feet, but he wasn't going to let that happen while he was the chosen wielder of the keyblde.
"Aero!"
Before the ogre could get anywhere near her, he was suddenly lifted up from the ground by the swirling tornado, spinning his body around and was thrown several feet. Groans in pain but shook it off as well as the dirt in his face with his hands before he stood up. "Who did that? Show yourself!"
Stepping out of the trees was Taren who glared at the ogre while making his way to the fairy. "That would be me, don't usually like those who bully someone smaller then them. Ya big dumb brute." He said before turning to the blonde haired girl, recognising her as the one named Stella.
"I have a name you know and its Knut, so don't you forget it!" The ogre gritted his teeth and glared at the boy for interfering, sensing him to be threat. "I don't know who you are, kid. But you made a big mistake. Get him!" Ordering his ghouls to attack him with their numbers. Noticing that the red haired teenager wasn't moving, thinking he was too scared to move.
Stella wondered who he was and didn't want him to get hurt. But unaware of someone else who was watching and she too feared for his safety, they leapt towards him, ready to sink their claws and teeth into his body.
"Look out!"
He ignored someone's cry and only raised the corner of his lip, in a split moment all the ghouls that were within arm's reach didn't suspect what came next as a flash of light streaked past them before their eyes and then vanished the next second. The ghouls felt nothing until their bodies split across their bodies, only thing they last saw before fading away was a key-shaped blade in the boy's hands.
"Really? I'm surprised how weak those critters are." Taren said, lifting up his Light's Rebellion and held it over his shoulder, ignoring the shock and surprised looks he was receiving from everyone who just witnessed. He was surprised how easily he took them out with ease. Turns around to see the fairy he just saved and check if she was ok. "Stella right? Names Taren, sorry for butting in but thought you could use a hand."
Stella didn't seem to be bothered and smiled in appreciation. "No prob, so your one of the three I was told to meet up on this world? Gotta say that's some magical sword you have." She looked at the keyblade in his hand and never seen anything like it before, but can feel a powerful magical energy within it.
"Yeah, the others are on their way so we should be able to handle these critters."
"Oh, you think so, huh?" The yellow skinned ogre called for their attention after he was fully recovered. "Then how about some friends of mine who love to sink their teeth in ya." Pulled out a strange looking amulet, too far for them to see what it is until it glowed in a bright purple colour. Taren couldn't understand it but every nerve in his body was crying out 'danger!' to him, two blank swirling portals appeared in the ground and a large black paw with bone white claws emerged before lifting the rest of their bodies out of the swirling darkness. They were all black except skull-like masks on their faces with red markings on them and small spikes protruding from the spines and shoulders.
The ghouls made a short distance from them, trying to hide as little fear by their presence as possible. Stella didn't know what they were but for some reason she tried to keep a brave face when they appeared. She turned to the boy named Taren and saw the shocked expression on his face.
"What are those things?
"Grimm. Very bad and very dangerous so be very careful." He said but something he didn't understand. "But how could this guy be able to control them?"
Smirks with confidence and eager to get the sceptre from the fairy now he brought the reinforcements. "Not so confident? Too bad, Ursa, tear the guy with the key sword to pieces! But don't destroy the sceptre." With the Grimm to do the work he could just watch and take the sceptre from her when she's down.
With the order given to them, both groups separated to attack their targets as the Grimm let out a beastly roar before they charged in towards Taren. The two had no choice but to split up to avoid their claws but were more focus on Taren, they made certain to block him from helping Stella. Tumbled to the side when one in front of him tried to swipe its claws towards him but missed by a few inches form his cheek. Remembering the training he took from Macbeth, knowing much about the Grimm as he could and how to fight them. 'Ok, they're Ursa just like the big log said. They seem fast but not strong, so must be young ones if they have less spikes.'
Stood on its stubby legs and using the claws to attack, leaving the belly exposed for Taren to use his keyblade to slash down across from shoulder to chest. Only left a wound but caused it to stagger, given him the chance launch a strong kick in its chin after that. Roared in anger then pain, it lashes out when a beam of light shot it and was thrown against its fellow Grimm. He turned around and saw it was Stella who smiled.
He smiled at her. "Thanks."
"Now we're even." She said before the ghouls joined in to surround them with Knut approaching them as the Ursa recovered.
"Its only a matter of time for you to surrender." The two glared at him as they refused to back down, knowing his friends were on their way so shouldn't be long.
Bloom watched the whole thing, decided couldn't stand around and do nothing. Without thinking, she stepped out and decided to help them by calling out. "Leave them alone!" Catching their attention as they all turned to where Bloom stood with her smirk and hands on her hips. "Or else I'll… wait what am I going to do."
"You're in for in now, bud. We got the cavalry!" Feeling ecstatic of seeing more of them show up.
However, Taren didn't share her enthusiasm. "Uh, one problem to add. She's not with us." He proclaimed and realised the Grimm now seem to take notice by her presence. Stella realised what he meant and turned to the red head.
"Quick, get out of here, its not safe!"
Knut had no idea who the girl is but was getting really annoyed with more teenagers popping out of nowhere and decided to get rid of her as well. "GET HER!"
The ghouls were the first to attack her, the two tried to get the monsters out of the way to save her when Bloom raised her hand and created a barrier that surrounded her body, blocking their attempt to come close and were repelled by the magical force. Taren and Stella saw what she did and were surprised to learn she could use magic.
Bloom felt something flowing through her body, it was unlike anything she felt before and wondered how she did that. "Did I just do that?" Ask she asked herself, looking at her hand that was still glowing with red aura for a moment.
When she saw her rabbit beside her, a ghoul snuck up behind him and was going to attack when she tapped its shoulder to get its attention. "Hands off Kiko!" Held a branch and used it as a bat to swat the creature away from him, causing it to hit a tree and burst in to magical lights.
Smiles after taking care of the thing, she was unaware of one of the Ursa approached her until she saw the large shadow looming over her. Gasped when Knut came up without making a sound and grabbed her arms while the monsters. "You wanna cause trouble, girly?"
Bloom shut her eyes tight and the red aura returned, this time her whole body was glowing and an overwhelming power growing inside her. "LET GO!" Without realising what was happening, she released a powerful wave of energy threw everyone away, causing Knut to let go of her due to the overwhelming power, turned into a shape of a dragon and flown into the sky.
Taren was awestruck as he watched it leave, this power was incredible and she took down the whole group, even the Ursa were blown over as they wouldn't have expected a girl to do all that. This was the same feeling he sensed and had to be her.
"Whoa, such power!" Stella was awed and amazed when she never saw anything like it.
Taren agreed with her, slowly getting up on his feet as the two were the least injured of the blast, seeing Knut just barely getting up but trying to reach out for the sceptre that was dropped to the ground. Ignored him and decided to check up on her after what she did. "Yeah, that was awesome! How did you do that?"
She looked up at him after studying her hands after what she did. "To be honest, I have no idea. It was like something that felt natural."
'That power. I swear I felt it somewhere before and it was coming from this girl. It was powerful!' While thinking he took a good look at her, for some reason he couldn't take his eyes off of her as she was really beautiful. But he had to stay focus and not get easily distracted when there were monsters present, especially Grimm.
Stella fired her sceptre at Knut when he was still down and taken care of the ghouls but then realised one of the Grimm was coming towards
Bloom looked up and smiled at him when he reached his hand out to help her until she saw one of the black monster bears charging at them. Stella also noticed after taking care of the remaining creatures and one of the two Grimm were coming at them.
"Watch out!" Bloom cried out to him, but he didn't seem scared and only narrowed his eyes when it threw one of its paws at him.
SHUNK!
The Ursa backed up, cried out in pain as it lost its right arm completely by the keyblade in the boy's hand. Roared and glared at him for cutting its arm off.
Taren glared at it and watched it clutching to its wound. Obviously wasn't happy for what he did, but hardly cared. "You stay there, I'll handle this fella." Bloom didn't understand why but despite only recently met him, she didn't want him to get hurt. But, he seems to know what he's doing and more of her well being then his.
Taren thought this should be different from the last fight, studying the creature's physical body. Knowing that it has one arm left and would rely more on defending then attack. Once he deals with this one, the last one will be next. Sprint towards the Ursa, ducking the remaining arm it had to the side and slashed across the exposed stomach and rip, leaving another slash wound and making it loose its stand. Grabbed its bone-spikes to throw himself over its back and launched a powerful kick which caused the Grimm loose its balance and forced to use its paw for support. But it wasn't going to loose to the Keyblade bearer. Turns its head, snarls and tries to surprise him using its claw, but he wasn't there and tried to search with its yellow eyes.
"Hey, down here."
It took a turn to the left and realised the boy was standing in front of him, smiling brightly and waving his hand to him. Before it could do anything, a bright flash appeared for a brief second, at first it didn't feel anything until its body fell to the ground. The Ursa didn't see it coming and was killed, the beast of darkness slowly begins to evaporate as its body fades away.
The girls were amazed by his skills and took on the monster despite its large size. Knut however was in disbelief that a Grimm was taken down so easily. "No way! He took down a Grimm?"
"Hah, not so tough without them, monster?" Stella taunted him now that he seemed less confident with one of his top monsters defeated.
Taren realised he actually killed his first Grimm, sure there were simulated monsters during training but nothing compared to the real thing. The power and adrenaline flowing through his body felt incredibly. The red head was about to check up on the girl he was with when suddenly he cried out in pain as something was biting his leg. "AH! The hell?!" Looks down and found one of the gremlin-like creatures biting on his leg, not all the way in but still painful. Tries to get it off and feel it tear off the bottom of his pants.
Bloom rushed over to help and kicked it away from the keyblade wielder, forcing it to run back to its master with the piece of torn cloth in its mouth. Taren couldn't believe how he let his guard down by those things, he can see the bite marks on his lower left leg but doesn't seem to deep. "Are you ok?" Bloom knelt down and checked on the leg the creature bit.
Taren winced as she touched it but tries to ignore it. "Yeah, can't believe that thing bit me."
Eager to avenge its fallen kin on the boy, the Ursa unleashed a loud roar and run on all fours to charge at full force. Taren was unable to get up probably to use his keyblade, the girl was right beside him and saw it coming at them. Without thinking he just threw himself over the red haired girl, forcing her to ground and using himself as a human shield to protect her. But an unexpected moment came when a human-size blur shout out of the forest and came straight at the unsuspecting Grimm, colliding into the side of its face by a powerful impact and hurtling it across the field and leaving it buried in debris of earth it made.
"Damn, if it wasn't for this magical aura protecting my body, that would've seriously broken my fist." Taren opened his eyes and slowly raised his head up, letting go of Bloom when they both see Ben standing a few feet across, shaking his hand after using it to throw a punch.
Ben looked at them and smiled. "Sorry if I took the fun but figured you could use a hand."
Taren grins and couldn't be glad to see his best friend. "I could've taken that thing, if it wasn't for that stupid imp biting me." Sat himself up and dusted the debris off of him.
Ben let out a chuckle by Taren's tough guy act. "Yeah, sure you did. And that gave you the chance to save a damsel in distress."
Bloom couldn't help but feel her cheeks flush by the comment, uncertain why but was more grateful for him trying to protect her from the monster.
Knut couldn't believe what he just witness, not just one keyblade bearer but TWO and defeated the Grimm with incredibly power. Decided not to chance it and make a retreat, received the cloth from one of the creatures, this could prove useful to him. "We'll meet again." Clapped his hands and vanished in a thick purple cloud enveloped his body and all the remaining ghouls with him to make their escape.
The Ursa was left behind, not knowing the others had left but hardly seemed to matter for the creature of darkness. Slowly brings itself up on its feet, feeling the side of its face fractured by the impact it received and now prepares to attack the second keyblade bearer.
"Are these monsters that tough?" Stella asked as she joined them, but was feeling weak through exhaustion and uncertain if she could keep up.
However it felt something sharp run down its back, staggered for a moment as it received their attention of what was going on until it collapsed. Standing behind it was Mal with her keyblade. She walked around the corpse, not bothered to cast a glance of her kill and carried her keyblade in one hand with the other in her pocket.
She sees her friends present and spotted the blonde haired girl who they were searching for. "Do you have any idea how big this forest is just to find you? Next time why not come to the front door to save us the trouble."
Stella didn't take her tone well and huffed, crossing her arms over her chest. "Well, its not like I asked to be chased by monsters. And those clothes, ugh, so tacky, seriously have you looked a mirror?"
Mal instantly felt a twitch from her eyebrow and disn't like how the blonde girl just commented on her taste in clothing. "Well look whose talking, that outfit shows too much glitter it could blind someone with that."
The two glared at each other with intense gaze, sparks of lightening danced between them. The boys could only sighed, they only just met and already arguing over their choice of outfits.
"Sometimes I wonder why girls can be so obsessed over fashion." Taren muttered next to him, not wanting to draw the girls' attention.
"That's just something we may never understand in our lifetime." Ben agreed with him. The two didn't know whether to intervene or leave them be then risk
Bloom on the other hand didn't want to see anyone fighting after what happened, happy it was over but couldn't help but think about what that power she used just earlier, Kiko was beside her and was glad he was safe and sound.
"Hey, you alright?"
She snapped out of it and looked up to see Taren beside her. "Uh, y-yeah but thank you for saving me just then." Stroking her arm and felt herself very nervous all of a sudden. "But, what about your leg?"
"Its fine, doesn't seem much but I'll fix it up."
Received a smile in relief from her, but noticed the blonde girl looked drained and collapsed but was caught by Mal before she hit the ground. They witnessed her clothing changed into a dress after loosing conscious. "Is she ok?"
Mal check on the girl she caught from falling. "She seems fine, but exhausted after that fight." Knowing she won't be strong enough to take them back to her home dimension, so they're stuck on Earth for a while until she gets better.
"Well we can't stay here, too risky for us to stick around if they come back." Ben said.
Bloom had an idea and spoke out to get their attention. "You guys can bring her back to my place, she'll be safe there."
The three looked at each other and felt a little uncertain. However Taren seems ok with it. "Ok sounds good to me." He came up to pick her up from the shoulders while Ben took her feet.
"Hold it! First up, we don't even have a clue who this girl is and clearly isn't with her!" Mal stated and looked at the red haired girl, clearly feels something very off about her and didn't know what it is. Something about her aura was way off and didn't like it.
Ben sighed and knew she had a point. "I understand how you feel, but we got no choice as we can't leave this girl out in the woods by herself."
Taren nodded and turned to Bloom. "Ok listen, we'll explain everything after we take her to your house. But its gonna be hard for you to believe us."
Bloom understand him completely, its not everyday someone meets magical creatures and people wielding large key-shaped swords. "Ok, follow me." She picks up Kiko and head back to her bike before she returns home with four people she just met.
Mal let out a groan as they walked, having a bad feeling that neither Yen Sid nor Macbeth will be happy when they find out. "How did I get dragged into this mess?"
I hope you enjoyed it and thanks for the likes and follow ups since I started this fic, hoping to receive honest of the fanfic so far of what you think as I'm trying to make the story good as I can. I also hope you liked the first battle with the Grimm, was thinking of which one the keybladers would fight first so decided to go with the Ursa. Have some ideas for their abilities with and look into RWBY for research. Also be using the Rai version of WC rather then 4Kids.
also just noticed some mistakes as I was a little rushed and tired to get this finished so any mistakes I've left out just give me a heads up. I changed the name of the spell from Blizzard to Aero, sorry been awhile since I played KH ^^!