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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome back to another chapter of From No One to Someone.*
*I said that I was going to update again this week and I did. Just don't expect something like this again. The next chapter will take far longer to come up, so I hope you enjoy this chapter. It maybe be short, but it is full of surprises.*
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*Also so I don't forget, I do not own Kingdom Hearts.*
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Keyforge
"I sense Ven down here." Roxas said as he pointed to a barren patch in the forest. It was faint, but over there was the precense of Ven. He had been there recently.
All something else, something that seemed to be giving him a bit of a headache. It would probably be a good idea to be on guard just in case.
"You sure?" Terra asked.
"I'm positive." Roxas said and Terra nodded and immediatly set down towards the forest.
A minute later they landed in front of a large opening in the earth and Terra dispelled his Keyblade. They walked into only to find a fully fuctional diamond mine. Abet an abandoned one. If the group of Floods digging away in the corner was of any indication then that was why.
Speaking of which, the Nobody felt his sensing abilities abilities were going haywire and where starting to give him a headache.
Whatever the Unversed were digging out must be something very powerful in order to be recking havoc with his senses
"You okay Roxas?" Terra asked as he saw Roxas clutched his head with his right hand.
"I'm fine, but something over there is messing with my senses. I believe that is what what the Unversed are looking for." Roxas said as he summoned Oathkeeper with his free hand.
"Alright but can you still fight?" Terra asked, getting Roxas to nod. "Alright just stay behind my just in case."
"Alright." Was all the Nobody said as the two of them rushed together at the groupe of Unversed.
A moment later three Floods pryed a diamond off the wall when the Unversed finally noticed the Keyblade wielders. They prompty disappeared into darkness with the diamond, leaving the rest of their kind to the mercy of Terra and Roxas.
They were no match for Terra's raw power and Roxas's technique and they were all felled in seconds.
"Roxas keep a lookout for anymore Unversed, I'll see what's in this wall." Terra said, getting a nod from the Nobody. He walked over to the wall and where the diamond once was and swung down on it with all of his might. It cleaved right through the earth and Terra found what he was looking for.
"I should have expected nothing less." Terra said as he examined the small white metal fragment in his hand.
"What is that?" Roxas groaned out as he was still clutching his head.
"This is Zohar Steel. Master taught me and Aqua about it a few days before you showed up. This is the core of every Keyblade made, he was going to have which one of us passed the exam to use one of the two fragments that he had to forge a new Keyblade after the exam. Unfortunatly I guess Aqua never had the time to use her fragment due to the Unversed. No wonder the Unversed cleared out this mine, if they got their hands on this then Vanitas could make another Keyblade." Terra explained, getting Roxas to look at awe. Well as best he could as that thing was giving him a migraine.
To think that such a small thing was important for all Keyblade wielders. Each and every Keyblade had a piece of that in each of them everywhere.
"Do you know anything else about it or why it is giving me a headache?" Roxas groaned out.
"Sadly I do not know as that knowledge has been lost to time according to Master. Along with the knowledge on how to sense them. Though apartly not if the Unversed could sense it and along with yourself if your headache is of any indication. But do you know how you can do it?" Terra questioned.
"Honestly I don't know." Roxas said honestly. He had no clue why, maybe it had something to do with Ava residing with him if the knowledge was lost.
He didn't get much time to ponder on that as the steel fragment flew from Terra's hand and into Roxas own hand. He felt something radiat from it and the surronding area turned a light silver.
Roxas could only sigh as the headache died down, but it was replaced with an image in his mind.
Of a Keyblade he had never seen, one that surpassed most of the one's that he had seen through his own experiences or Sora's memories.
"Roxas are you alright?" Terra asked.
"I'm fine, but what is going on?" The Nobody asked.
"This is a Keyforge. Master taught us that this is a technique created by ancient Keyblade wielders in order to make a Keyblade. It is a space where the normal laws of the worlds become warped in order to forge a Keyblade more efficently then most other methods. It can be activated with or without a Zohar Steel fragment, although it would be without most of it's abilities if there is no fragment." Terra explained. "Yet they only manifest if one has all the materials and the image of the Keyblade they wish to make firmly mesmerized. So you really have never done anything like this before?"
"I've never done it in my entire life." Roxas said while shaking his head. "Do you know how to dispel a Keyforge?"
"I'm afriad not, Master said that forcifly closing one is dangerous for one's health as a Keyforge is tied to ones very being. Also he never had a chance to teach us how to close it. So the only way to close it is to forge a Keyblade." Terra said, getting Roxas to sigh.
"I see, then I'll follow your lead then Terra. But is there anything else I should know?" The Nobody asked.
"Just follow your senses as they will lead you to the materials that you need. And also you might want to use this." Terra said while handing Roxas an elixer. "Master did teach us that a Keyforge is also tied to one's magic and should it run out the forge will shut down as well. Considering what will happen if it is forcibly shut down it is best you keep it handy just incase."
"I will, now let us forge this Keyblade." Roxas said, as he moved towards a spot a little further down the mine that his senses seemed to be calling to him.
Unaware that the events going on right now were being witnessed by others besides Terra.
'You getting this my king?' The Unversed as it witnessed the events unfolding whilst still clinging to Roxas's back.
"Oh, I am seeing it and having trouble believing this." Vanitas said while tossing the diamond up and down in his hand.
A few minutes ago the Unversed he sent on that task returned with the diamond. Along with flashes of other Floods being slaughtered by Terra and Roxas.
He was curious on why they where they were there, but Ventus did stop by the mine before leaving that world behind.
But what he didn't expect that Roxas was able to sense a Zohar Steel fragment, right behind the diamond the Unversed had excavated.
He couldn't blame the Floods for not sensing the fragment as it was behind two feet of solid rock.
He was also thankful the Unversed reported to him immediatly upon finding it.
While he was pondering how Roxas was able to sense it, he once again did the impossible when he activated a Keyforge and seemed to be able create on the cusp of creating a Keyblade.
That was an interesting development.
Roxas was capable of wielding two Keyblades, something thought almost impossible as only one person in recorded history was capable of doing so.
But that one person was also tied with the best postion of being the greatest Keyblade makers in history. Tied along with his students.
The Master of Masters for finding a way to mass produce Keyblades without them losing their overall power and Garland for making the most powerful Keyblades around.
All but the Master of Masters created a perfect fuctioning Keyblade on their first try. His first try was a complete failure that was a halfway mix of scrap metal and a Keyblade.
Sure there have been a few others who have produced similar results to those two on their first try. But none have even come close to their level.
So this will be interesting to see.
"Okay screw meeting him sober, I'm going to need a drink if this goes where I thinks this ishoing to end up as." The Master of Masters said he summoned a jug of the strongest sake he had on hand.
He had only seen a few people with this same reaction to a fragment of Zohar Steel.
This included his former Keyblade Master Tatsumi, his brother Garland, and his first pupil Luxu.
Of course Luxu wasn't successful with his first attempt, but the reaction was still the same.
Each and everyone of them was a sign of one thing in particular, but Garland and his Master where the biggest signs of it ever happening.
A changing of the eras.
Roxas walked over to the wall and found the first thing that called to him, a large purple gem.
Touching it, the gem glowed grey and suddenly floated away from the wall.
"Any idea on what to do Terra?" Roxas questioned the older apprentice.
"Just focus on the shape of the material and carve it into the object. The magic of the Keyforge will do the rest." Terra said, getting Roxas to nood.
That sounded good enough for him.
With that in mind Roxas focused on the image in mind and drew a circle onto the gem. The gem suddenly broke apart to reveal a purple sphere, just like what he pictured. Looking down at the pieces of the gem, he found a big enough piece out of it and cut a small rhombus like shape into it leaveing the rest of the pieces to clatter onto the ground.
The cut pieces just floated around until he found his next materials.
An overturned cart torn beyond the ability to repair to shreds by the Unversed.
Moving towards it Roxas immediatly began to cut the cart up into the magic of the Keyforge. Using that same magic he was able to repurpose the scrape metal into the pieces that could easily be put together into how he pictured the Keyblade.
But these pieces where just the base of it, his sense where calling for him to find the materials to infuse into the Keyblade.
The next of which was located right underneath their feet.
"Terra, do you mind if you can unearth whaever is right here?" Roxas questioned the older apprentice.
"No problem at all Roxas. Quake!" Terra casted, causing a rock pillar to rise from the ground and with it what Roxas was looking for.
Several ignots of gold embedded into the pillar. Roxas just grabbed the smallest one and with the powers of the Keyforge smashed it into a fine powder that soon began to float around him.
"You sure that's enough supplies Roxas?" Terra asked as he looked at all of the materials floating around Roxas, with rings of gold powder foming rings around him with the odd bit of scrap metal added in.
"Almost." Roxas said as he followed his senses and found his next materials located roght in his bag. He pulled out some mythril, some orichalcum, and oddly enough a spare leather belt from his time with the Organization. "I forgot I had those with me, but why are my senses pulling me towards a belt?" The Nobody questioned.
"The leather is for the grip on your Keyblade." Terra said, getting Roxas to nod. "Though where did you get the other items?"
"I got them under my tutalage under my former master." Roxas said getting Terra to nod before taking a quick swig of the Ether. It took a lot of magic to maintain the forge and the drain was starting to get to him.
However his sense where screaming for one more thing he needed and it was within Terra's possession.
"Hey Terra do you have anything I can use in your bag to forge the Keyblade?" Roxas questioned.
"Sure." Terra said before pulling out a handful of Shimmering Crystals. "I got these from some Unversed before I found you. Take any that you need."
"I just need one." Roxas said as he picked one up and his senses turned stone cold. "Terra what happens when your senses go cold?" The Nobody asked.
"It means that it is time to forge your Keyblade." Terra said while throwing him another ether. "You are going to need this, this process takes a lot more magic then gathering the materials. Other then that, focus on your senses again. "
"Alright, just do you know where to start?" Roxas asked.
"Focus on the guard first and infuse the Zohar Steel into it and then work your way up from there. Just remember to save the keychain and the infusion of the materials for last. I'll step incase your about to make any mistakes. Other then that just focus on the Keyblade and nothing else and you will do great." Terra said as he stepped behind Roxas, ready to help out just in case.
The Nobody just nodded as he downed the rest of the first ether Terra handed him and began the forging process.
With a wave of his hand, a bunch of scrap metal and the large purple gem floated over towards him.
Focusing on the image imposed in his hand, Roxas start to piece together the metal around the gem and began to work on creating the guard. Carefully moveing the metal together piece by piece and using his magic to carve away any pieces that were out of place, to weld them together, or to etch onto the metal. After a while he fitted the last piece into place and levitated to Zohar Steel next the gem.
He felt a tug on his magic and offered no resistance to it. Their was a small flash of light and all the was there was the guard, glowing a light silver and the gems glow illuminating the Keyforge.
Next he gather even more of the scrap metal began to repeat the process again. After about a few minute he had crafted the shaft, although it was more like a sword's blade at this point minus the flat top. However he wasn't quiet done yet as he used a little more of the metal to create a metal spike at the top and opposite of where he was going to put the teeth.
Roxas started to run low of magic and grabbed the second ether and downed it whole as he levitated some more of the scrap metal together and the smaller purple gem.
He really had to focus on forming the teeth, as the design he had pictured was a bit tricky to incorporate in real life, so very carefully he moved and shaped the metal together. It took a few minutes to get the pieces to just the right shape before he before joining them and the gem together before melding them onto the Keyblade.
"Have to say I'm impressed Roxas, even Master had trouble doing the teeth correctly and you just completed a difficult set like that flawlessly. Are you sureyou haven't done this before?" Terra asked.
"I'm positve that I have not." Roxas said as he fitted the some scrap metal together into the grip and inserted it into the guard. Once in there he took the belt and ripped the buckle off of it. He levitated the belt towards the grip and wrapped it around it before permanatly binding it to the grip.
"Then you must be a natural at this." Terra said in amazment as Roxas wielded the guard and shaft together. The almost finished Keyblade was now glowing silver, waiting to be finished.
The Nobody then used the last of the scrap metal and the belt buckle and reshaped them into the keychain. It was the easiest thing he had done so far.
He then attached it to the Keyblade and levitated the gold powder around two certain parts of it. Electricity crackled from those parts and the gold powder was soon anodized onto it.
All that was left was the infusion process.
Roxas soon gathered the rest of the rarier materials around the Keyblade. He was about to infuse them when he saw Terra step up next to him and add his own magic to the mix.
"Are you alright Roxas?" Terra asked, confusing the Nobody.
"I am, why you asking?" Roxas inquired.
"Your inexperience is showing, you are starting to look pale and might passout at any moment now. So I'm using some of my own magic to help ease your load, otherwise all the work you have put into your Keyblade will have been waisted." Terra said, getting Roxas to check his complection and noticed that the older apprentice was right.
The Keyforge must've dulled his exhaustion, meaning once it ended it was going to hit him as hard as a Darkside.
"Thanks Terra." Roxas said with a smile.
"No problem, it's what friends are for anyway. So let's finish this." Terra said while getting a nod from the Nobody.
The two of them then poured their magic into the materials and they liquidfied. The liquid then formed a barrier around the Keyblade before collapsing onto it. The Keyblade glowed a bright silver that soon turned to purple before color returned to the world.
The Keyblade was forged and the Keyforge had disapatted.
Roxas couldn't have been more right about his description and soon collapsed unconsious as he took one last glimpse of his Keyblade.
"He actually did it." Vanitas said impressed.
He never actually thought that Roxas would succed, but he did.
He had forged a perfectly flawless Keyblade on his first try, like the legendary Garland.
Now this was an interesting developement.
A talent like that was something Gula had mentioned once to him, a fact connecting to that talent. It was supposedly connected in someway to what he needed.
A smirk grew underneath his helmet at the thought of it.
Roxas was the only one worthy enough, but it didn't mean that the weakling was without his uses.
After all, in the end he would be whole again no matter how he went about it.
"Report back to me when I next contact you." Vanitas said simply as he cut off his connection with the Unversed and went back to his training.
After all it wouldn't do for him to be weaker then his other half now wouldn't it. While it saddened him to do so, he had to be strong enough to kill Roxas if he wanted to be in control when the time came after all.
"So he really did it." The Master said while summoning a sake dish and started to fill it up with sake.
While his Keyblade was compareable to some of the more average Keyblades that Garland and his Master made and he had passed out unlike Luxu had, there was one thing that impressed him.
He was the third person to his knowledge to have forged a flawless Keyblade on their first attempt.
He would have been excited if he didn't have to break the news to Roxas later. And give Ava a small scolding as well.
Still that didn't deserve a small celebration.
"Cheers." He said before downing the whole dish.
"Whatever you saw must've somehow excited and depressed you if your reacting like that." A voice called out behind him.
The Master almost choked on the saki when he heard that and turned to face his unexpected visitor.
A man wearing the Black Coat and the hood obstructing his face.
"Luxu, what are you doing here?" The Master questioned.
"It's been a while, hasn't it Master." Luxu said as he removed his hood, revealing a handsome faced man in his twenties with pale skin, shoulder length white hair tucked into a ponytail, silver eyes, and pointed ears. "I said I was going to visit you today, you did remember?"
"Oh..." Was all the Master said, causing Luxu to sweatdrop.
He had forgetten after all.
Roxas could only groan as light returned to his vision and found Terra standing over him.
"How long was I out for this time?" Roxas questioned as Terra helped him up.
"Only two minutes this time." Terra said as Roxas managed to stand on his own. "Just take it easy until it is time to train. We still have to check if Ven is still on world after all."
"So he wasn't here?" Roxas asked, getting Terra to shake his head.
"We must've just missed him here before we arrived. So we will continue to look in the air." Terra said before handing over something to Roxas.
It was the Keyblade he had made.
It was about the same size as Oblivion and Oathkeeper. The guard was similar to th Fenir Keyblade, but it was mostly silver, the grip was black, it was missing those two pistons, the sides of the guard where white angelic wings, the center plate was gold, and it had a single purple sphere in the center. The shaft was long and thin, silver, had a spike at the end and opposite of the teeth, and two light blue lines that ran along the center of the blade and stopped around two-thirds of the blade's length. The teeth consited of three silver spikes with the outer two curved away from the larger middle one. In the center of it was the smaller purple gem and it was also in the center of a golden piece of metal that connected the center of all three spikes. The keychain was a simple silver chain with his emblem at the end.
Roxas could sense the strong power sleeping inside of it and tried an experimental swing. But the Keyblade dissipated and Roxas took a knee.
Seems like he was more exhausted then he thought.
"I have to say Roxas I'm impressed. When Master showed us how to make a Keyblade, he dilibeatly made a view flaws and pointed them out. But this is lacks any of those flaws he showed and this is on your first try too. You have a gift Roxas, one that you need plenty of work on if your condition is of any indication." Terra said
"I figured, but I won't be trying something this any time soon." Roxas said.
Truly he had no idea how he triggered this or why he seemed to be able make a perfect Keyblade during his first try. He would look into it when he had the chance and would stay away until he knew more about it.
"Smart choice Roxas and speaking of which do you have a name for your Keyblade yet?" Terra asked.
"Sadly I do not." The Nobody sighed out.
"Then maybe you will come up with one while we are looking for Ven or during our training. Either way you will be using that Keyblade for our training. We still need to test out it's full capabilities so there is no better time then when we are taining. But first we need to leave the mine. It would be for the best to leave before the owners return." Terra said as he tapped the rock spike next to him, sinking it back into the ground. With that done he began to walk out of the mone.
Roxas just nodded at that as he followed the older apprentice's lead.
He can focus on his own inquries later, for now they had to see if Ven was still on this world after all.
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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter.*
*As you guys can tell Roxas has done something very few have ever done. I'll elaberate on it soon, but it is very important in the long run. Just don't expect to see this all that much which I'll also elaberate on later.*
*Also what did you guys think on the Keyforge and the new Keyblade. I'll admit it took a while to come up with the Keyforge and had to dig up some knowledge on forging, but I think it turned out well. As for the Keyblade it's true abilities will show up next chapter. It's nothing too complex, but there is a surprise or two in store for you guys next chapter. I hope you enjoy them.*
*Also how many expected to see Luxu in this chapter. The reveal that he was the one behind everything so far in Kingdom Hearts certainly took the world by storm. He will play a part in this story, but what is is I'm not telling.*
*Also what do you think of his appearence? This is a long time before he became Braig after all. So this is what I'd figured that he would have originally looked like before then.*
*Anyway now is probably be a good time to end things for now.*
*If you have any questions or anything to say send me a review or a PM and I'll get to you while I can.*
*So until next time, ciao!*
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