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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome to another chapter of From No One to Someone.*
*Anyway just a heads up, but this will be a short chapter. I figured I'd write a short chapter right before I go on a hiatus for Kingdom Hearts as a thank you for all of your support.*
*This chapter will only cover Vanitas and reveal a little bit about him. What that is...well that is a surprise that I think no one will see coming.*
*So anyway let us get this started.*
*So take a seat, relax, maybe put some music on, and enjoy.*
*Also so I don't forget, I do not own Kingdom Hearts.*
*Now then, let the chapter begin.*
The author pulled out a remote and with the click of a button the chapter begins.
Garden of the Foretellers
Vanitas was mulling over his fight with Roxas as he had finally set up everything needed for the weakling Ven.
Even making sure that the Mad Treant was weaker and lacked the flamable poison of the one that faced Roxas.
He didn't want to kill him just yet, or acidentally burn this world down in the process.
Still after reviewing the fight with Roxas he could tell immediatly that he needed to step his training up.
Roxas with his two Keyblades and mastery over light proved that he could be both valuable and problamatic to his plans. His main saving grace was that Roxas seemed to lack control over his light and seemed like it would kill him overtime.
However it was something that he was sure that Roxas could easily fix with time. So he better step up his training before then if he wanted to stand a major chance against him.
He had quite a few ideas in mind, but the first one is to perfect the Slow and Haste spells. From what he saw and figured was that due to the abundance of temporal energy that Roxas possed through crossing into this time was that he was immune to anything that stopped or possibly reversed the flow of time. Since the Slowga worked multiple times anything that only slowed or speed up the flow of time would work against him. So focusing on those spells would be paramount.
Along with digging up any spells that the old coot had lying around among the texts in their home. There was bound to be something interesting in there that he could us.
If not there was at least a few thing he could us.
The first was he could aquire that Keyblade in a world that Xehanort was sensitive about. He didn't know why as the world seemed about average to what he has seen, but the Keyblade itself was impressive.
It was a Keyblade of Garland's making.
While most of the Master of Masters was the maker of almost every known Keyblade and the way he makes them are wide spread through his own and the current era, it was an actually fact that Garland along with their Master was the greatest Keyblade makers of all time.
The Master of Masters himself admitted that it took him nearly 140 years of practice to get the craft right and was absolutly abysmal as a beginner, his younger brother was the opposite. He was a prodigy with forge Keyblades with abilities and powers rivaling and sometimes surpassing his brother's strongest Keyblades on an average basis.
Then again he was know to be extrealy picky about what he created, valued quality and technique in his works, and absolutly hated to mass produce his work.
Somewhat similar to their Master, Tatsumi who was less picky and had created some absolutly beautiful Keyblades and even mass produced some of them while keeping their quality.
Sadly after his defeat, most of his Keyblades where either destroyed or lost to time just like his Master's ones.
They don't make Keyblades like that anymore, literally as Garland and Master Tatsumi had a talent for the subject that has not been seen again in millennium.
Still despite the old coot's love for the anything concerning Keyblade history, he wouldn't allow him near the Keyblade and has actually threatened to end him if he were to take it.
Considering how important he was to the old coot's plans, it was very telling on how much he valued that Keyblade.
Why though he would have to find out, there must've something big if he could get that defensive about it.
Anyway his other method would be the back up plan he had. All he needed was for it to be activated though.
Once it did though he would have an edge over Roxas.
He just needed to wait until then.
Vanitas was broken from his musings when he sensed something familar. Something that his brother taught him to sense, a skill that any note worthy Keyblade wielder should know.
Something lost on most Keyblade wielders in this era.
"It should be right around here." Vanitas said as he looked around the surrounding area before focusing on a spot about a few hundred feet from him. "There it is."
Vanitas teleported to the spot and focused on the ground infront of him.
"So it is underground then." Vanitas said as he summoned a trio of Flolods. "Dig."
Obeying their king, the Unversed began to dig in the spot. Vanitas waited patiently as they burrowed into the ground, knowing that the reward would pay of big time.
After a few minutes the hole they dug was about two feet deep and five feet wide when the Unversed stopped digging. One of them picked up something and brushed the dirt off of it. Then it turned to it's king for conformation.
"That's it, bring it here." Vanitas ordered with his hand outstretched.
The Flood simply slinked over to it's king and deposited the object into his hand.
Vanitas inspected it and behind his helmet smiled.
"Perfect." He said.
Inside of his hand was a small white metal fragment that was about a inch long. While it didn't look all that impressive, it was core to any self respecting Keyblade wielder.
For it was a fragment of Zohar Steel, also known as Deus Steel.
Along with one's heart it was the key component to forge a Keyblade's core.
You usually find them around this size, but they were rare to find unless you knew how to sense them like he did. If not then you were out of luck, as he had heard cases of Keyblade wielders unable to sense them would literally spend their entire lives looking for even a single one. Then again they could always buy one, but they where damn near impossible to buy due to their rarity. Or dirt cheap if you were lucky enough to stumble upon one in the posseion who thought it was useless.
With this one fragment, he now had something that could give him an edge against Roxas. All he needed was the correct materials and he could forge himself a Keyblade.
He would have said something to his Nobodies, but something caught his attention.
In the corner of his eyes he saw two camelia bushes. One with pink flowers and the other with white flowers.
Turning to face them, he looked between the bushes and the fragment he sighed.
"It's been a while since I've visited the garden. Might as well go there while I have the chance. Besides there was something I can do use there for material anyway." Vanitas said before facing the Floods.
"Listen up, there is a diamond mine on this world. I want you three to find two diamonds for me. A small diamond and a larger one about this big." Vanitas said while making a small circle with his hand for comparison. "Once you find the small one, bring it to me immediatly. The other one hold onto it until I call for you."
Nodding at their king's orders, the Floods took off to do their task.
Once they were gone, he turned to the flowers he noticed a few other flowers growing around him. He immediatly eyed a bunch of blue rose and a lone marigold.
"Those will do." Vanitas said before he walked over to them.
A minute later a Flood returned and immediatly rubbed it's eyes to make sure it wasn't seeing things.
It saw it's king with a bunch of flowers in his hands amd he was picking up a lone blue rose.
"So have you found both diamonds?" Vanitas asked, causing the Unversed to shake it's head while presenting the small diamond.
"I thought as much, keep looking and inform me when any of you find it." Vanitas said as he took the diamond.
The Unversed nodded and took off to join it's kin to complete the king's task, no matter how long it takes.
Once it was gone, Vanitas summoned a Corridor of Darkness and walked through it. It closed behind him leaving nothing to ever show that he was there except for the hole in the ground.
Vanitas stepped out onto the otherside to see a familiar landscape.
Nothing but rock formations, dirt, and a few scattered Keyblades lying in the background.
About as expected of the Keyblade Graveyard, the world that he called home. And the same one where some of his comrads including Lauriam and Hibiki fought in millenia ago during the war.
However unlike most places on this world, this spot he was on was of holy ground and the nearest Keyblade was around 1,000 feet away from the plateu he was one.
Speaking of he turned away from the usual doom and gloom of the Keyblade Graveyard to see grass with a few flowers growing in.
He was currently on a small plateau that rose around two hundred feet from the surface , about two and a half miles long, and contained just about the only greenary on this world in the form of tall grass and desert flowers.
But the main attraction wasn't in the grass, but in the large rock pillar in the center of the plateau. It contained one of the holiest grounds for Keyblade wielders in existence at the top of the pillar, a full 350 feet off of the surface of this world.
Vanitas teleported up to the top amd was welcomed to a site that was out of place in this world.
At the top was paradise.
Green grass, colorful flowers, a few rock formations, a small pound in the center, and a peach tree right next to it with it's petals in bloom. At the edges of the pillar were seven small memorials with three of them barring Keyblades.
This was a sacred site that every Keyblade wielder should know due to it's importance. Although it lacks their bodies, this place was the official resting place of the greatest Keyblade wielders of his era.
This was the Garden of the Foretellers. Named so and established by Keyblade wielders after the Keyblade War in honor of the Foretellers. With the help of Gula and Ira that is. Well that is what all the texts he can find say and he can defiantly agree with that.
It was also as a nod to the Garden of Garland, which was basically a entire field of flowers, a magnificent ebony tombstone, and what earthly possessions he had treasured including a number of his Keyblades buried safely within an small underground tomb his brother told him. The Master of Masters had built it there after his death in Garland's favorite spot in the world. He also put up some pretty nasty enchantments to ward off grave robbers.
If they still worked then he didn't know, because no one knows where the garden is. It was a small side project of Xehnaort to locate it, but so far it proved fruitless to find it.
Breaking himself out of his musings, Vanitus teleported on to the top of the rocky out crop next to the pound.
It wasn't much but a 10 foot slab of stone sticking out of the ground that could sit three people on top of it.
Vanitas sat down and placed the Zohar Steel fragment and the flowers onto the kept the diamond in his hand for a few more seconds before tossing it into the pound.
Considering the number of other gems and flecks of gold gleaming in the murk it was natural to be used like this.
With that done he made a quick prayer to Kingdom Hearts and grabbed a peach off of a nearby branch. He dispelled his helmet and immediatly took a bite out of it.
One of the few rules of this place is that if you wish to take anything from the garden you must pay a toll. If not you will be cursed. Nothing major, but from what the old coot has described that just taking a single peach can cause intense pain for about a day or two before ending. This was to deter anyone from stealing from here.
Thankfully hardly anyone was stupid enough to do so and most paid the toll with bits of treasure as a sign of respect.
Considering the history of the peach tree tough it made sense.
The tree was deeply connected to the root of his former master, Gula.
It all started when the Master of Masters found Gula when he was a young kid.
He found him dead after his village was razed to the ground by bandits. The Master, horrified at the way he was killed revived him. Normally this would be impossible for almost anyone else without some dark magic, but Gula's body was still in perfect condition and was within the conditions for the Master to revive him.
It worked, of course the Master had to remove the knife embedded in his skull first.
That would also explaine why he didn't have any memory at all when he was brought back to live.
The Master quickly got him out and feed the child the only food he had on hand.
A single peach he had for a snack.
After that and discorvering the child's talent with the Keyblade and appearntly no living family, he named him Gula and took him as his apprentice.
Though as far as the situations where the Master found the Foretellers, it was right behind Luxu and Ava in how messed up the situation was. For those two it was pretty bad and it was down right apocalyptical for Ava.
Thank Kingdom Hearts she was only an infinte when he found her so she didn't remember.
Anyway years later during the Master's 335th birthday, Gula presented him with the sapling as a gift. It came from the very same peach the Master had given him that day.
He was so touched by the gift that he enchnated it in a way that was a little similar to the world trees he had studied on the core worlds with the Celestial Aegis.
The tree has lasted this long due to those enchantments. It was also due to this that there was even greenary there. The tree also actively warded off anyone with evil or malevolent intentions towards the garden making sure they couldn't enter. The petals provided protective properties if used correctly and the peaches were capable of healing most wounds and restoring someone's staminia.
That defiantly helped as Vanitas felt his strength return with each bite of the peach.
Anyway after the war Gula had moved the tree to the garden had been here ever since as a memento of better times and hoping that it would eventually heal the war torn land.
It never did as trees magic only stretched for as far as the plateau.
Anyway Vanitas finshed his peach and placed the pit on the rock before grabbing the flowers and teleporting infront of one of the graves.
It was time to pay his respect after all.
Judging by the fact it was Keybladeless and bore the sygil of a goat's head, this was Luxu's memorial.
Vanitas just placed the blue rose on it and sent a silent prayer before teleporting away to another grave.
He never met Luxu after all, he had disappeared shortly after he was inducted into the Unions. So he had no idea what he was like besides what his brother described. Besides no one had ever seen him again after he disappeared.
The next grave's sygil was covered with plants making it unreadable, but the Keyblade was more then telling.
The Keyblade was a bit similar to Xehanort's Keybalde in appearence. It had a black handle with a spiral curve to it, golden angle wings for the guard, a roaring lion etched into the base, two golden blades for the shaft with four small blades lining the insides, the top resembled an axe head with a small spike at the back end and top and the teeth resembling a mix between sun and an axe blade. In the top a blue cat like eye was embedded in and the keychain was four long golden chains connecting to a golden sun with the Mark of Mastery etched on it.
This was the Master of Master's first Keyblade and as far as Vanitas knew the last known Keyblade made by Master Tatsumi besides his main one in his tomb and the one he made for Garland that was buried in the Garden of Garland. Making this one of the oldest Keyblades in existence.
Vanitas just put the marigold on the grave and made a quick prayer for him.
The Master had been the one to have found him and was actually one of the last Keyblade wielders that was recruted by him personally before his disapperance.
He had found him when he was still young and after his parents passed. Recognizing his talent immediatly, he had placed his in the Leopardos Union amd eventually reunited with his brother.
He had a lot to thank the man for, and possibly curse him too for the chaos caused by his disappearence. All they could find was his notes and his old Keyblade was found on a random hill, gleaming in the sun.
Vanitas stopped and comptiplating puting one of the camellias down, but remembered how the Master was severely allergic to the flowers in life. So he kept the flowers to himself and teleported to the next grave.
Without the Keyblade and with only a cobra sigil, he recognized it a Invi's grave. Master of the Angius Union and Brain's former Master.
He placed a single white camellia on her grave a her and made a small prayer.
He only meet her once, but he respected her for her intelligence and her cunnig. To bad that she seemed to have lacked some sense though. Would have made things a whole lot easier for everyone if she was less loyal to Ira. Might've saved her during the war.
Vanitas then teleported to the next grave, which bore the sigil of a unicorn and hand a pridormally white Keyblade embedded into it. This was Ira's grave, Leader of the Foretellers, Master of the Unicornis Union, and Skuld's former Master.
He left a single white camellia and made a quick prayer.
He respected Ira for his strength, ability to maintain a level head, and his ability to forgive. He was a great leader and warrior, however his lack of social skills and charisma made him a terrible leader as his judgement only split up the Unions in the end.
He teleproted to another grave with the sigil of a fox and the Keyblade missing.
This was the grave of Ava. Master of the Vulpes Union, founder of the Dandelions, and the former Master of Lauriam, his sister, and Hibiki.
He placed a white and a pink camellia on her grave before making a prayer.
She was the kindest of the Foretellers and the one that advocated for peace the most even during the war. Sadly she was too good for this sinful world as she was brutualy cut down during the war. No one could find the body, but considering how Gula described it in some of the texts Xehanort found, it was probably for the best that it wasn't.
Even the old coot looked like he was going to puke at that.
"I'm sorry Master Ava, but I failed you." Vanitas said softly before teleporting to another grave.
It had the sigil of a bear and lacked the Keyblade as well, meaning that this was Aced's grave. Master of the Ursus Union and former Master of Ephemer.
He placed a single white camellia on his grave and made a quick prayer.
Aced had arguably the strongest will of the Foretellers. But while had meant well, his actions resulted in escalating tensions between the Unions. In the end though he became blinded for his own envy for Ira and his wrath and was lost to the darkness during the war. In his last moments pleading for Gula to end him if the texts were of any indication.
With that done he teleported to the final grave.
It was marked with the sigil of a leopard and had a Keyblade that looked like it was primarly made of lightning embedded in it.
This was the grave of Gula. Master of the Leopardos Union, Leader of all Keyblade wielders after the war, his former teacher, and the one that was closest too before the Dandelions.
He was arguably the most approachable of the Foretellers afte Ava and a bit of a recluse. He cared about his friends deeply and was willing to cause the apocalpyse to stop the war and stopped the war. He succeeded and had payed a high price for it. He atoned for it by bringing an era of temporary peace and restablishing to way Keyblade wielders operated after the war for the rest of his life.
He was also established the Land of Departure and had forged the Master Keeper that was now used by Eraqus. He also began the chain of apprentices that eventually lead to him for Xehanort, the weakling, Terra, Aqua, and now Roxas for Eraqus, and someone named Mickey for Yen Sid.
Gula also had a penchent for keeping secrets, something he learned to fix only right before the war.
But Vanitas didn't care about any of them, except for one. One that he made absolutly sure that Xehanort could never find out.
Vanitas just sighed as he placed two pink camellias and a single white camellia before sitting down in front of it.
"It's been a while, hasn't it brother." Vanitas said with a small smile.
That he and Gula were related.
Hell, he didn't know that his older brother was even alive before reuniting with him.
His parents rarely talked at all about Gula, with him being presumed dead during the attack and in shame due to sacrificing him to save themselves. A fact they felt guilty about for the rest of there live.
The fact that had also been born years after Gula had died also helped.
His parents never said anything about him, even his birth name as they were so ashamed for what they did.
So it was a pleasent surprise to find his brother alive when he was in the Unions and more specifically.
They quickly got along and decided to keep it a secret from the other Foretellers and Keyblade wielders. As Gula described it that it was best to keep the fact that they were brothers out of their profession.
So they got together when ever either one of them wasn't busy and manly just acted like brothers then.
It was the best time of his life, sadly those times ended when war began to brew...
Vanitas broke himself from his thoughts before it could go any further. He always summoned some Unversed when he got like that and it would be best if their kind never touched this place. Except for the sentient one that is.
"Sorry I haven't visited in a while. The old coot has been keeping me busy with the plan, but anyway I have brought you a few camellias. I know how much that you love these flowers,and how you imparted that onto me." Vanitas said foundly.
Truthfully he gotten the love for it through Gula's camellia tea. He loved the stuff so much that he perfected his own recipe for it. It was so good that the Master of Masters had gone into shock because of how good it was.
Also because of his camellia allergy, but he had claimed that it had been worth it.
Vanitas would have to agree with it. He was thankfully Gula taught him the recipe, though he never had a chance to use it.
"Anyway some interesting things happened. First one of the Unversed has gone sentiant. Caught me by surprise, but I've have to admit it is an interesting creature. I can't wait to see how it developes." Vanitas said before gaining a thoughtful expression. "Speaking of which I really need to come up with a name for it. It seems to have gotten intelligent enough to be entirly seperate with the swarm. So I'll come up with a name for it later. Has to be something meaningful though."
"But I think the thing that'll interest you the most would be Roxas. He looks just like the last time you saw me only older, and Ven too I suppose. Anyway you would like him, and be impressed by him. He can use Limit Break and can use light almost as well as you can. But the most amazing thing is that he can wield two Keyblades at once! I thought that only the legendary Master Tatsumi could do something like that! Still that is not what I'm interested in. Well besides the fact of his appearnence and the fact he is also time displaced. It is the fact that he seems to be like me and what I'm currently am. I'd like to know a bit more about him, before I might have to kill him that is." Vanitas said before sighing out.
He would hate to do so. But if it provide him with the chance to be whole then he'll do so.
"My king, Roxas is awake." The Unversed said through their connection.
"So he is up already, I'd thought it would take a bit longer. Still wait to report back to me, I'm going to see the old coot." Vanitus said as he got up.
"Very well." The Unversed said before cutting off their connection.
"I'm sorry brother, but I have to go. It has been nice catching up with you. Hopefully the next time I see you I'll be whole and I've made things right. So I'll see you later Gula." Vanitas said before walking away.
Only to sigh in annoyance when something appeared in his hand.
He looked down to see it was Gula's Keyblade.
"Really, you do this everytime I visit you. Look I'm touched you want me to have this, but I'm not ready yet Gula or even worthy of it. So please let me find out who or what I am before you give this to me." Vanitas said as he put the Keyblade back where it was. "Take care Gula."
With that Vanitas teleported back on top on the rock and grabbed a handful of petals from the tree.
He had paid the toll and piad his respects, now it was time to test something.
Picking one petal, he charged it with as much darkness as he could. It turned a pich black. To Vanitas's surprise it still possed it's magical properties.
"Perfect." Vanitas said as he summoned his helmet back on. An instant later he repeated it with all of the petals and got the same result.
With these, the diamond the Floods were looking for, and some materials he could get from the Moogles, he could make the perfect Keyblade to help out in his plans.
Once he was done, he picked up the Zohar Steel fragment and the peach pit when he noticed a single white camellia lying there.
"Must've forgotten about it." Vanitus said while studying it. "Maybe I could use it for the Keyblade, or something else."
He summoned a Corridor of Darkness to report to the old coot when the idea came to him.
"That'll work, besides I think it'll like this." Vanitas said as he walked through the corridor.
But not before sending a small breeze into the tree, scattering a lot of petals over the garden and onto the world below.
Vanitas took a minute to appreciate his work before closing the corridor behind him.
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*I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter.*
*Anyway to get onto the official news. I'm going on hiatus for Kingdom Hearts 3. I'll reply to any replies or PM when I can, otherwise I will not be writing anything til I beat Kingdome Hearts. So please no spoilers if you can.*
*Finally onto the harem. I have one new adition and that is Kairi.*
*Any with those out of the way, it is time for me to go...wait a minute...I knew I forgot something*
*I already decided to release the surprise harem member next chapter, well expect both of them to be revealed next chapter. Of course the second one will be revealed in the author's note next chapter. That one will reveal a spoiler for a world that I'll be covering soon enough.*
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