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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome to another chapter of From No One to Someone and the first half of the final two 2019...maybe.*
*That's right final chapters for the year, and if you ask why it is for two reasons. The first is that these chapters with cap off this little arc of mine and the next chapter will mover back into the main BBS storyline next chapter. The second is so that I will have more time to focus on my other stories, more specifically Familiar of Twilight.*
*And what I mean by maybe is who knows, I might release the next chapter after these chapters this Christmas. But if not then I will return to writing this story in January.*
*Anyway this chapter features a little happenstance in Radient Garden, a truth that will once again shake you all up with the next chapter featuring a big surprise and the omake I promised you all.*
*So anyway, lets begin shall we.*
*First off, I do not own Kingdom Hearts.*
*Finally just sit back, relax, maybe put some music on, and enjoy.*
*I will see you all at the end of the chapter.*
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Timebound Truths
"You hear about what happened in the square earlier today?" Lea asked Isa as the two of them walked down the backroads of Radiant Garden. "I mean it was just crazy. Six crazed Unversed tore up the square and proved to be a match for Lightning of all people!"
"I have heard, it has been spreading throughout the city like wildfire." Isa sighed out. "That and the wild girl, Rosso went on another one of her blood rages."
"Didn't hear that one, where did you hear that?" Lea asked.
"From Aeleus, who was debriefed about it from Braig and Lightning." Isa said, shocking Lea.
"Him, the guy who keeps throwing us out whenever we sneak into the castle! I thought he hated us, grumbling about us after he tossed us!" Lea exclaimed.
"On the clock he does, off the clock he hates only you. Then again most of Ansem's apprentices don't like you especially after the incident." Isa said with a small grin, getting Lea to shudder and cross his legs.
"I thought I told you to forget the whole thing Isa!" Lea shouted out.
"Odd, That is coming from the guy who keeps asking people if they got it memorized." Isa said with a chuckle, getting Lea to groan.
"Okay I will admit, I had that one coming to me." Lea sighed out. "So if you heard from Aeleus, then you must know about what happened."
"I do, just not much. He was keeping a few things confidential, but I do know that the Unversed attack was caused by somebody wishing to kill Lightning." Isa said, shocking Lea.
The idea of her being killed was beyond him, considering how easy it was for her to rend him into a bloody pulp during the incident. Still by the sound of it she was alive and kicking, which was good.
"That is pretty hardcore, using those monsters to kill someone. Any leads on who it was?" Lea asked, getting Isa to shake his head.
"Aeleus never disclosed anything towards me about the identity and I feel like that is going to stay that way. What I do know is that he has moved on and his sights are focused on someone else in the incident. Someone who has already left the city." Isa said.
"Let me guess, someone else trying to kill Lightning?" Lea asked, getting the blue haired boy to shake his head.
"Quite the opposite actually. He actually helped fight off the Unversed with her and Braig, even managed to kill one with a little girl Yuffie if I heard correctly. He even held his own against Rosso before Even knocked her out." Isa said, getting a sharpe whistle from the red haired boy.
"He managed to do all that and managed to hold himself off agains that crazy girl, well consider me impressed." Lea said. "Did they happen to catch his name at least?"
"They did in fact, Aeleus mentioned that his name was that if he returns Radient Garden, he'd thank him for helping his fellow apprentices in the square…and maybe to keep away from Lightning. Claims she wants answers from him." Isa said, getting the both of them to shutter.
"I kind of feel sorry for the guy, still Roxas that's a unique name." Lea said.
"One that you could say that you won't be forgetting anytime soon." Isa said, with a slight teasing tone.
"You can say that." Lea said, before chuckling along with Isa.
It didn't last long as they heard the sound of something tearing around them, forcing the boys to huddle up, back to back.
"You think it is Unversed?" Lea asked, pulling out his frisbees.
"If it is stun them, and then let's get the hell out of here." Isa said while readying his bat.
They were not like Ansem's apprentices or Rosso when she goes insane after all.
"Sounds like a plan." Lea noted, ready for anything.
Except for a tear to appear in front of them and something to crashing down right in front of them, kicking off dust before closing.
"Lea, what the hell was that?" Isa aske.
"Not Unversed that much I can tell." Lea said, before jumping back as something embedded into the ground in front of him.
It looked like some kind of sword with part if a key?
It was primary blue with astronomical symbols with the teeth resembling some kind of gear and at the end of the sword was a chain with a small green book at the end.
Lea stood there for a few moments, before trying to touch it.
Only for the thing to vanish right before his eyes.
"That was a stupid thing to do, who know's if it was possibly cursed or not." Isa said from behind him.
"I know, still just seeing if it was real or not." Lea said, eyeing the indent left by the the pavement. "It was definitely real."
Isa just grunted at that as the dust began to clear up and a groaning coming from a small crater.
Both boys widened their eyes at the sight and rushed towards the crater.
For inside it was a young girl, looking only about 5 years old.
She had violet hair and was wearing a tatter white and purple dress that stretched to her knees with the symbol of a snake of some kind printed on it. A cobra to be precise.
She was in pretty bad shape and looked to be passed out.
Isa and Lea crouched over her to check her condition and breathed a sigh of relief that she was alright.
Lea made a move to try and move her, only for Isa to slap away his hands.
"What the hell man!" Lea snapped at him.
"You can't just move someone in her condition, at least without the proper training." Isa admonished his friend.
"So you want me to get one of the apprentices?" Lea asked, getting the blue haired teen to nod.
"Yes and do not leave out any details. You were the one who saw what happened after all. I'll keep an eye on her while you get her." Isa said, getting Lea to nod.
"Alright just make sure that she keeps breathing when I get back!" Lea called out as she ran off as fast as he could.
Isa crouched over the girl only to here her groan and her eyes to flutter, revealing purple eyes that fluttered for a few moments before closing and returning to the depths of unconscious.
He breathed a sigh of relief that she was in a better shape then he thought, until he thought he sensed something. Isa turned only to find nothing around him.
Still, he wasn't taking any chances.
Once again pulling out his bat, Isa stood there. Keeping a vergil over her until Lea came back.
That sword that Lea almost touched, that was similar to the ones Aeleus described Roxas had and considering the fact he had someone who was trying to kill him meant there was probably a connection to them. So it was for the best that he stood guard here incase anyone, human or Unversed decided to try anything.
"That kid has excellent senses, I'll give him that." Luxu replied watch Isa stand guard over the little Keyblade wielder. "Might be a good idea to keep an eye on him in the future."
He had been watching Rosso, who woke up and tried to bust out through the reinforced door when he sensed something he was all too familiar with.
A Dandelion slipping through the cracks of the world that the Master has set up for theming order to save them.
Sadly that turned out to be flawed possibly beyond what even the Master of Mater's could see and occasionally Keyblade wielder would slip out.
More so now then in recent years with examples such as Ventus.
With him being the only one that has not suffered anytime of effect slipping through time and space.
In fact it cured him of a nasty nasty little problem, well at least until Xehanort got his hands on him.
Curious about who it was, he knocked Rosso out and came here only to find that he was beaten by Isa and that troublemaker, Lea.
Still he was more then surprised to see that it was in fact a girl so young, but considering that she appeared to be from the Anguis Union's it made sense.
If a Keyblade wielder was found to be that young, unless they were an orphan they were left with their families. No use in separating a child from their parents after all. Still if they were an orphan they would be temporarily be taken care of by one of the Unions and trained for a bit to defend themselves before they were found a proper family or stayed within the Union to train.
The later had to be accepted by one of the Foretellers within the Union, something that rarely happened.
Invi however was a major exception as she mainly held on to the ones that wanted to stay within the Angius Union and were magically adepted.
All of them were either sent away or sent with the Dandelions when the Keyblade War began.
And this girl seemed especially magically adept if her Keyblade was a Spellbinder, one of the rarer ones the Master created.
"Speaking of which, I need to return this to the girl when I get the chance." Luxu said as he spun around the Keyblade before dispelling it.
"Poor girl trapped in an unfamiliar world and era. Hopefully she is among those who lost their memory as that kind of trauma is bound to affect one greatly at that age. At least she has someone to look after her." Luxu said before pulling out a small thin black book.
Bearing the sigil of the Mark of Mastery.
He would have placed his Master's sigil on it…if he knew of this's existence after all.
No this was his own Book of Prophies…one that is pretty much useless for so long and vastly inferior to The Master's or the copies once held by his adopted siblings.
But with Vanitas's and the inclusions of Roxas, it might finally come into use.
"Let's see." Luxu said as he flipped open the book. "Page 4."
It was double sided with the right side picturing a image of a paradise full of people and below it was the image of a falling angel, with broken wings, and Keyblade in hand. All glowing a soft silver.
A little morbid mind you, but he felt it was perfect to capsular the image and to match the title.
As on the left side glowing in silver was just a few simple words.
Fallen from Paradise
Considering this page activated whenever a Keyblade wielder fell from the world of the Dandelions, it made sense.
Normally he would have ignored anything else as the glow would have died down after a few days.
But with recent events…well the earlier pages deserved a check.
"Let's see page 3." Luxu said as he turned the page, only to cough up dust. "Note to self clean this thing later tonight. And just as I thought, a match."
On this page on the right side was the image of a blacksmith's forge with a young man working on not one, but two Keyblades. Both Keyblades ones he didn't recognized. In the background was the sigil of the Mark of Mastery.
Fitting since on the left said it simply read.
Legacy of the Forge
A fitting title as this page, as it only supposed to activate if someone forgets a perfect and completely new Keyblade on their first try. An event that hasn't happened since himself all those years ago.
So to his surprise, it was glowing silver.
"I thought so, now let's see the if any others are activated." Luxu said as he turned to page 2 and coughed up some more dust.
On the right side was the image of a small monster and arrows pointing to more forms with each and every image becoming more and more human.
The left side simply read.
Evolution of a Demon
And it was flickering unlike the consistent glow of the others.
"So this one hasn't happened yet, but the glow is promising. Just one more to check." Luxu said as he turned to page 1 and once again coughed some more dust. "Oh dear Kingdom Hearts I really need to clean this thing off."
On this page was the images of multiple clocks being torn apart and being pieced back together with the image of three fighting figures in the background. One wielding two Keyblades, one he knew fairly well as the younger incarnation of Xehanort, and the third one blurred. On the left side it simply read.
The Battle in Between Time
And this one was glowing silver too.
"So three fully glowing and one half glowing. Things might actually come to a heel soon. Still just one and a half more pages then I will finally know if it is time." Luxu said as he put away the book as he sensed something. "Shit Rosso's awake once again, better knock her out again before she tries to break down the door."
With that Luxu vanished into a Corridor of Light, just missing Aeleus and Lea arrive to help Isa with the little girl.
Roxas half expected himself to either fall asleep and wake up the next mourning. Or to experience another memory into the Era of Fairy Tales.
But not to see the Master of Masters putting away a game board.
"You might want to cover your eyes Roxas in about I'd say 10 seconds." The Master said as he closed the case housing the game board.
The Nobody pondered what he meant for a minute, before the Master's form began to glow. Roxas covered his eyes for a second as a big flash engulfed the room.
A few moments later the flash died down and Roxas uncovered his eyes as the flash died down and he felt a little disoriented with every breath.
Wait breath?
He didn't need to breathe before hand, so how was he able to do so now?
"I'm glade to see that it actually worked." The Master said happily. "I have to say I was half expecting you to wake back up in your era."
Wait does that mean-!
"That's right Roxas, you are in the past! Welcome to the Era of Fairy Tales!" The Master said as if reading his thoughts , clapping excitedly at the prospect of doing the impossible.
Considering what just happened, it might as well.
"How?" Roxas questioned before his breath felt heavy and fell to a knee to support himself.
First he travels now possibly millennia into the past and now he feel like his lungs were on fire, just what in the name of Kingdom Hearts was going on?
"I'll tell ya in a few, just let me help you up." The Master said as he crouched down to help the Nobody help and levitated a chair towards for him. "Sit down and take a few breathes. The mana levels in this era are much higher then the ones of yours it will take a few minutes for you to get used to it. Once you get used to them then we'll talk okay?"
Roxas just nodded as he steadied his breath and sat down in the chair.
The Master just gave him a reassuring pat on the back before walking towards his desk and began shuffling through papers.
Roxas just sat there as he continued to get used to the mana levels and the fire inside his lungs started to die down a bit by bit, but with each breath he noticed two things.
First was that inside him, the familiar sensation of Ava briefly surfaced and emitting a feeling of happiness and sadness. Happiness he guessed at being back in her home era and sadness he guessed because she couldn't leave him to experience it or the fact that the past version of her was running around here somewhere.
Maybe both.
Before it started to get too much for the Nobody to bare, the feeling quickly disappeared back within himself.
Hopefully he could find a way to help Ava out soon.
The second was that he felt stronger, in just about everything. With every breath he took and the less the pain in his lungs subsided and the stronger he felt as energy began to course through his veins and his magic reserves began to expand.
He felt any and all form of exhaustion he has had these past few days began to melt away.
Basically he felt felt like he was at his full power, for the first time in forever.
"The pain gone Roxas?" The Master asked as he continued to look through papers.
"It is, but why do I feel stronger?" Roxas asked as he stood back up, his lungs no longer feeling like they were on fire.
"Simple, it's your body adapting to the ambient levels of mana in the air. Most worlds in your era has about on average a third of this era's mana levels more or less. With a few worlds probably having the same level and even fewer having even more. As time went on the body has adapted a slight decrease in it's ability to store and process this mana and I mean slight. A quick scan revealed when we last meet that the difference between someone with your skill in our era I'd say there was a four percent difference. A small difference none the less. The pain was your body getting used to the difference and it should by now be working to close that gap" The Master explained, shocking Roxas.
He figured that there would be something like that, but a few minutes of pain and according to the Mater a 4% increase in power. It was just a little hard to believe. But he could literally feel the power coursing through his veins,
"Is this permanent?" Roxas asked as he slowly adjusted to his new found power.
"If you mean when you wake back up in your era I'd say probably about an 80% chance. You will have to experience the same amount of pain when you wake up, so I hope you are looking forward to that." The Master said sarcastically. "Other then that the same thing would have happened if you If you found the right world you would have experienced the same thing as this only really affects those with heavy magically sensitive world travelers like Keyblade wielders. Word of warning though try to keep away from worlds that are richer in mana. If you are not trained enough or strong enough the backlash could kill you, but for you it would knock you out and leave you defenseless."
"Got it." Roxas said, filing away that information for later.
He also noted that while his morning was probably going to suck waking up and training with Terra, he needed it.
With his new increase in power he found it was already starting to affect him as a simple test with his fingers showed that his movements were a bit too fast for him to handle.
"Wait speaking of which, how did I get here into the past and how are you sure I will return back to my era?" Roxas asked.
"I'll explain just give me a second." The Master said before finding the sheet of paper and began to trace a complex azure rune in the air faster then what Roxas could follow. "Now brace yourself as this will sting your ears a bit."
Before Roxas could even react, with the shove of of his hand tha Master sent the rune flying into Roxas's face. Which promptly faded after touching the Nobody and the next thing he knew his ears began to ring badly.
He barely had the urge to groan out in pain before the ringing stopped. It took a few seconds for Roxas to recover, before the sound of static filled his ear and died down.
"It works perfect." The Master said happily.
"Warn me next time you try something, still what was that?" Roxas asked with a groan.
"Sorry about that, that was a communication spell. One designed by my older sister to work through huge spans of time. It doesn't always work according to what she wrote down, but then again it is spanning millennia of time. So the fact it even worked in the first place was a miracle. Still to answer your question, it is to go with the spell with that I slipped on you last time. One that allows me to see your era through your eyes."
With that Roxas summoned Oathkeeper and Oblivion and trained them on the Master.
"You better have a good reason for doing that or else." Roxas threatened.
The last time something like this happened was when Ansem had him imprisoned within the virtual Twilight Town. So he didn't take it well if he was being monitored against his wishes.
So Master of Masters or not, he wasn't afraid to fight against him if that was the choice.
"Relax and put those Keyblades away, I am sorry about slipping that on you. But I was and still am too damn curious about your situation that I had to try. Hell I was half expecting it to work, but it did and I can turn it off and on at will. Need to craft a automatic filter for that though." The Master said with a shake of his head, before his tone grew serious. "Be thankful that I did, otherwise I wouldn't have figured out this whole situation until it was too late."
"And what would that be?" Roxas asked, figuring just by the tone of that it couldn't be good.
Only to be broken from his the Master smacked him on the head hard, causing the Nobody to groan out in pain.
"I would do the same to Ava, but as she lacks a body currently I'd save it for later." The Master said sternly, getting a brief shiver from presumably said person from within Roxas. "You two messed with time far worse then you could possibly imagine."
"You don't think I already know that, I find myself 12 years into the past and have all but erased everything from happening in my era along with finding myself now even further in the past and from the way you say it this is only temporary. So from the way I see it both me and Ava messed with time, so tell me how bad it is." Roxas said, his tone indicating that he only wanted the truth and nothing more.
The Master could only sigh at that and pinch his nose.
"I figured that you would have asked for something like that and it is something that you need to know. However I have to ask one thing, when you hear the truth are you willing to accept it? No matter how grim it could be?" He asked with the upmost seriousness.
"I do." Roxas said simply, getting the Master to sigh as he sat in his desk.
"Well if you are so sure then alright I'll talk. There is no easy way to say this so I will be blunt." The Master sighed out. "You were never meant to exist in this timeline Roxas, and I mean you as yourself and not in general."
"So you were saying that I was never meant to exist in this timeline, that's impossible…unless I'm not from this timeline aren't I?" Roxas asked with dread.
It shouldn't be possible, couldn't it.
He didn't really have a good ideal on how time travel works except from his memories of when Sora travel back to Timeless River and the rough explanation Merlin gave him.
Unless it wasn't as linear as what he had first though.
"Sadly you aren't, but Ava is." The Master said sadly. "The Realm of Nothingness is a world without any kind of existence, including space and time. However it is so fast that it is nearly impossible for anything to fall in there and to encounter anyone else from a different timeline or era. However Ava managed to do so through someone. Someone you know quite well in fact, as he essentially had you as his prisoner."
"Ansem." Roxas growled out. "She meet Ansem."
"That's correct, but from my calculation it was a long time before he meet you. Isn't it true Ava?" The Master asked.
Roxas could feel from within himself a feeling a anger possibly directed at Ansem, regret, and a pulse of emotion which might have been the best she could do for a yes before the feelings died down.
"I believe so, though I will have to question her about it later." Roxas said, getting the Master to nod.
"Probably for the best, I'd imagine that particular issue is especially touchy for you." The Master sighed out. "That encounter tied her with your timeline if my hypothesis is correct even in the depths of the Realm of Nothingness slowly erasing her. However she couldn't exactly escape back into her own timeline, at least on her own. So when the two of you open the Corridor of Ages, it opened a link between the two timelines. And erased not only your 12 years off of your timeline, but also wiped 12 years of existence off of my timeline."
"So your telling me that I erased 12 years off of this timeline as well!?" Roxas asked, a little horrified.
He had come to terms with doing it in the first place, but that was when he thought that he was still in his timeline. But now in this timeline, he didn't need know how exactly to deal with that.
"No, you wiped them out from existence. With your timeline line there was bits and pieces left after it was erased and things now are now looking better then when you erased it as it is being put back together." The Master said, filling Roxas with relief over that.
Also making a note to study the Power of Waking further.
"But for this timeline they are completely erased from existence, gone, nothing more then a blank slate. Honestly if it was any other option I would admonish you two for taking such an action, but due to the fact events played out just as bad as it was in your timeline Roxas I'm letting it slide. Besides changing things for the best is the only option for you two if you wish to continue existing." The Master said sadly.
Roxas felt his blood froze at that statement.
He had just gotten a chance of existing once again, and now he is being told that not only his own existence but Ava's as well were at risk.
"Explain." Roxas said, getting the Master to nod.
"Was planning on it, but for that I have to give you a quick lesson. Roxas you were able to use the Keyforge on your first try correct and forge a perfect Keyblade am I correct?" He asked.
"Of course." Roxas said, summoning it and taking a few practice swings with it. "From what Terra told me this is a big deal."
"Oh it is Roxas, it not only symbolizes a channeling of era's, but also that you are a candidate to be the Master of Masters." The Master said, shocking Roxas and Ava if the pulse of emotions from inside himself was of any indication.
He could figure that the changing of eras was due to him and Ava messing with time travel, but him a candidate for being the Master of Masters.
"That's impossible isn't it?" Roxas asked, getting the Master to shake his head.
"Normally yes it would be, because in this timeline it is. That trait doesn't exactly guaranteed you the mark, but it is a good guaranteed that you are worthy for the title. I myself am the second Master of Masters without that particular trait. But this trait can also apply to multiple incarnations of the original source. And I know for a fact that neither you or Sora have this particular trait in this timeline as it only shows up once a century and only once. The only exception is that from another timeline as I already know who it is in this timeline." The Master said, getting to nod at that.
So Sora was the candidate in his timeline and he simply inherited it from him.
"If that is true, then why didn't I or Sora activate it before hand and how does this go with the possibility of nonexistence?" Roxas asked.
"I'll get to the later, but for the first part it is too unknown about that. Besides yourself the only others I know were three previous Master of Masters, two of them being my teacher and younger brother while the other one is Luxu. Of course his first attempt was a failure in his opinion, but the potential and ability clearly showed that he was a candidate. Of course when I offered him my title, he declined and I have respected his wishes. The only other one made that talent known about 12 years after where you are, but now they might just discover their talent sooner. As for their identity…well can't quite reveal their identity just yet. Besides there have been plenty of other canidates throughout history, but besides the ones I mentioned not a single one has managed to unlock it before." The Master explained, getting Roxas to nod.
There was just too many unknown variables to determine how to unlock it then he supposed.
"Still onto the matter of your non existence the issue can be traced back to my title. I am the fifth person who can actually holds the title, but the only one people really remember. Most of this information has been lost to history including that these people actually held these titles. Without going into a brief details the main way to acquire the title is to bequeath it and a certain item to the next candidate. The first one was Master Nomura, the first Keyblade wielder ever and the inventor of the Keyforge. During his time very few people even knew about it. Before his death he passed it down to Master Kisara, the first and so far only nonhuman Master of Masters. Wasn't a wise choice mind you, Keyblades didn't really spread out during her era until the very end, and that was to use for a war she started. The first war to use Keyblades and a war her successor and my teacher Master Tatsumi ended." The Master said, getting a confused look from Roxas.
"I thought the Keyblade war began at the end of this age?" Roxas asked, getting the Master to shake his head.
"Not really, that war is technically the second Keyblade War. I fought in the first one although that war goes by a different name and the other two wars fought using them had them configured on one side specifically. Anyway before her death and the end of the war she passed the title to him and he made Keyblades wide spread, but not that much selection. Then before his death and the second war involving Keyblades he passed it to my younger twin brother, Garland. He held the title for two years before he passed it to me and this is where our timelines diverge." The Master said as tears started to slowly spill from his eye. "In his second year as the Master of Masters we were only 14, yet had saw more horrors the men twice our age. It had been a year since what we called the First Liberation War and we had lost just about everyone to it. Our mother, our father, our teacher, and our older sister. And Garland pulled me over one night and asked if I wanted the title and for me to hide the item in question. He also asked to me about what I could see will happen in the future, because he was in fear of snapping as people continued to mock our sister unaware of the horrors she had gone through that caused her to snap. He was in fear of snapping himself with the power of the item in hand. SomImdid and I didn't like what I saw."
"And what happened after that? I take it that this is where our timelines are different?" Roxas asked, wondering just what in the name of Kingdom Hearts did his man had gone through.
From the sounds of it he was younger then Sora before he went on his first journey when both he and his brother experienced the horrors of war. That and combined with the Master's ability to see the future, he couldn't even imagine what horrors this man had faced.
"One of two, but this is the main one. All I saw was horror, a city burning down and Garland quite a few years older laughing over the corpses of those who mocked our sister and insisting it was there fault that he turned out like her. Then he turned and asked me to join in him making sure the rest of the world would understood how badly they messed up. It was brief, but that was the image I saw over and over again. I viewed over 100 possible futures and out of all of them only 4 futures were not of that nightmare. Garland shook me awake and asked what I saw. There is were the split lies." The Master said, his voice hallow.
"In my timeline I caved and told him everything, how he had snapped years from now and with the item in hand he was practically unstoppable. It took me a few hours to snap out of it. We hatched things out and I ended up accepting Garland's title and buried the item where no one could find it. Of course things changed, but that was a story for another time. But for your timeline…I killed him then and there out of fear, using this." The Master said while shaken up, reaching into his black coat to pull out a sword.
It was a simple gladius with the Mark of Master symbol on the guard with a simple black grip and a worn black scabbard to match the color of the guard and pommel.
"This blade, the first weapon I ever used. Me and Garland got a matching blade during our training during the First Liberations War before we met Master Tatsumi and trained to become Keyblade wielders. I still carried mine around and I still us it, not sure of what happened to Garland's though. Anyway in your timeline I killed him with this out of fear and ran away. From there the timelines diverge. I don't know the exact specifics, but I do know that essentially over time we became too different people. There are still some similarities, but there is one major difference. He was afraid to die but not before seeing his work finished to the end. Well I myself am not afraid to die, as I feel like that all I could do is just prepare the future for the next generations as best I can." The Master sighed out, wiping his tears away.
Roxas couldn't think of anything to do, but walked over the the man and just patted him on the back to confront him.
He really didn't know how to deal with this, especially someone who saw an alternate version of themselves kill their own brother out of fear.
By Kingdom Hearts his short life was already complicated enough without the time travel.
"Thanks you the attempt Roxas, but I'm already used to this kind of stuff. Downsides of having your literal life flashing before your eye every waking moment I suppose." He said, brushing the Nobody's hand away.
"No problem, but how does that tie in with us being wiped from existence?" Roxas asked.
"Simple, the moment the two points diverge at such a crucial moment in history and the millennia afterwards had long since separated the two timelines. Meaning for you to have reached this timeline, you would have to have crossed a giant swath of time and through an unknown number of timelines. That kind of damages have unstabilized time itself and as a result to fix itself, your and Ava's existences are unstable as well. It's why you can travel to and from your era and this one Roxas, at least while dreaming apparently, you are torn between two different points in time." The Master said, getting Roxas to give a shaky nod at that.
Once again it seemed like he is teetering on the chance of being erased, but instead of like last time. He was going to fight it.
"So basically outer existences our unstable as well and if time corrects itself we'll be erased from ever existing in this timeline?" Roxas asked, getting the Master to nod."Then is there anything else I should know? I already know what I have to do, but it couldn't help to have some idea of what to watch out for."
"Wisely said Roxas, and there are quit a few things to look out for. The main thing is the effects of time itself." The Master said. "There have already been some changes mainly harmless ones like Ira getting a beard."
"Seriously?" Roxas asked incredulously.
"Completely serious." The Master said in the most serious voice he could muster, getting the Nobody to deadpan at him.
Elsewhere in the castle, Ira had taken off his mask and was shaving the more unruly parts of his beard when he sneezed. Causing the razor to accidentally cut his neck.
"Damn it." He cursed out as he dropped the razor and started to apply healing magic to the wound.
"But there had already been some major changes to the timeline curtesy of you. Some good like helping others or inspiring others to better themselves." The Master continued.
Back in Radiant Garden, at Kairi's grandmother's house Kairi was sitting around the dinner table with Nero and Weiss, as the later two really didn't have anywhere else to go to.
They would have also had Rosso here, but as she was still in a blood rage she was confined to the castle.
Anyway her grandmother and Weiss were passing out plates, when the girl suddenly sneezed.
"Bless you dear." Her grandmother said, handing her a tissue.
"Thank you grandma." Kairi said, blowing her nose. "Though I feel like someone is talking about me."
"That's just a superstition Kairi, isn't it?" Weiss asked Kairi's grandmother.
"Maybe it is." She said while sitting down, a teasing glint in her eye once again. "Or maybe she is just hoping that boy Roxas was talking about her. Weren't you dear?"
Kairi once again turned an atomic shade of red, Weiss just sighed, and Nero looked confused at what was going on while waiting for the cue to eat.
He was hungry after all.
Meanwhile in a closed off room, Jasmine sneezed and was sent down to the ground as a stick struck the ones in her hands.
"You need to work on your footwork so even when you sneeze you could still stand your ground and block. Now I suggest you take five kid or just call off the training for now as you are supposed to be up in half an hour and myself reporting to your father in 20 minutes as Jafar." Chaos said, floating around her with a stick in hand.
"No I can keep going teacher." Jasmine panted out as she stood up, not willing to back down.
"You have guts kid, I will give you that. But if you feel like you need to take a break kid let me know. Can't have my student passing out during her first training session after all, especially when there is only 15 minutes left." Chaos said as Jasmine stood her ground and raised her stick.
"If it comes to that teacher I will let you know, but as for right now I can still fight. So bring it teacher!" Jasmine said, stunning Chaos for a second before he let out a chuckle.
"I knew I made the right choice with ya. Now brace yourself kid!" Chaos said as he flew towards Jasmine, continuing their training.
"Yet where there is good, there is also the bad. There have already been some drastic changes already and it is all due to you throwing time out of whack. Nothing word destroying thankfully, but plenty of problems none the less." The Master sighed out.
"Including?" Roxas asked.
"Time affecting the displacement of a world or too. Thankfully only a minor displacement, yet you might have to face a challenge or two earlier then Sora down the line possibly." The Master said.
Back in a world in Roxas's era, a young girl sneezed as she was looking out on the horizon at a passing pirate ship, a gold doubloon in hand.
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"But there is worse such effects, like niches being filled in for key events like in your timeline but with different individuals from ours."
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"Is she going to be alright?" Lea asked as he and Isa looked over the subconscious form of the girl.
She was currently in the castle in a medical bed with Even and Ansem monitoring her condition and Aeleus watching from the back door.
"For the most part she will, sadly she is currently in a comatose state. It might take days or weeks for her to wake up." Ansem sighed out. "Any questions we may have for her will have to rely unanswered for now."
"I see." Isa sighed out.
"Then if it isn't too much to ask, is it alright for you guys to notify us on her condition." Lea said, surprising all those around him. "Whatnshe crashed into the ground in front of us and we helped brought her in. I figured that we at least had a right to know if she was okay or not."
"I can't believe I am saying this, but he has a point." Even sighed out. "Are you sure this isn't a ploy to get into the castle wheneveryou want."
"No it is not, besides I think Isa here might be have a soft spot for the kid." Lea teased, getting Isa to turn his head away.
"No I don't." Isa grumbled out.
"Don't try and deny it, I'll saw the same protective look while you were guarding her that Even here when something concerns Lightning, not that she needs help anyway." Lea said, getting both Isa and Even to huff.
"I will make sure you two are informed of the girl's condition. Just please stop taking jabs at my apprentices Lea." Ansem sighed out, getting Lea to nod. "Speaking of Clair, where is she. I thought that she would have been here by now?"
"She has switched places with Braig watching over Rosso, said he needed the bathroom. Tried to do the same with me, but there is no way I am going around that girl when she is like that." Aeleus explained, getting Ansem to nod.
"I see then, well then Aeleus do you mind escorting the Lea and Isa out. It is starting to get dark after all and I'm sure that they can visit the girl tomorrow if you two wished." Ansem said, getting the boys to nod.
"Of course, come on Lea." Isa said as he walked towards the door.
"Fine." Lea said, the two walking away with Aeleus leading them. But not before Isa threw one last concerned look at the girl before leaving the room.
"And the worst of them all, I fear that something might have been created by your actions. Something dark." The Master said with a shudder.
"Any ideas of what?" Roxas asked, getting the man to shake his head.
"No clue, but it can only spell trouble for you." The Master said with a sigh.
"Great, just great." The Nobody sighed out.
The Unversed sneezed, still clutching to Roxas's back,
"Why did I sneeze, more like how did I sneeze? I don't even have a nose?" The Unversed whispered not to detected by Terra.
However it was proven false when it heard Terra's footsteps and cloaked itself.
Terra walked over and draping an extra blanket over him.
"Can't be having you catch a cold now." Terra said before returning to tend the fire.
The Unversed can only blink as it now had warmth coming from the blanket and the back of Roxas along with a new wellspring of temporal energy off of him.
"Huh, this is actually kind of nice actually." The Unversed said as it moved itself closer to Roxas and began to siphon off the new energy.
Roxas began to shiver as he felt something was off, but decided to focus on it later.
"But there are also threats within my own timeline that are much more dangerous then in yours, I believe that you have already met the most dangerous one." The Master said.
"It's Vanitas isn't it, speaking of which do you know anything about him?" Roxas asked, getting the Master to sigh.
"Sorry Roxas, can't spill that. Sadly some things you must find out on your own. All I can tell you is that he was from the Leopardos Union before being selected for the Dandelions. Even before being stranded in your era, he was having trouble with balancing the darkness within his heart. Besides that his movements are becoming hard for me to read even with being able to see through your eyes. Combined with the fact he was one of the best Keyblade wielders to come out of that Union and the Unversed he is the possibly the most dangerous direct threat you will have to face." The Master said, getting Roxas to sigh at that.
He didn't get any real answers, but still it just reaffirmed his thoughts about keeping his guard up against Vanitas.
In the Keyblade Graveyard, Vanitas sneezed himself awake.
"What happened?" He groaned out as he picked himself up.
Vanitas tried to remember what had happened to him, but all he could remember was attacking Radiant Garden with the Lurkers and then training. And something involving the sentient Unversed.
"I suppose I should ask the Unversed about that later, but I should continue to train. Can't fall behind my other half after all." Vanitas said as summoned his Keyblade and went to work.
"Even then, just make sure to watch yourself. Cause even with my knowledge I cannot see everything, so a word of advice keep an eye on the shadows. There is no telling what lurks there."
In a dark chamber, Luxu sneezed.
"Hope I don't come down with a cold or something." Luxu said as he checked what was in the center of the chamber.
A large black box, with multiple locks on it.
And three of them on the floor.
With each lock having a engraving matching the images in his book.
"Just as I thought, three down. Two more and then I will know that everything will begin." Luxu said as he inspected one of the locks. "And I hope that you won't disappoint me Vanitas."
For on that lock was the engraving of a demonic humanoid with claws emerging with from a book. One with the Unversed emblem on it.
Below that image was just two words engraved.
The Tantarian
"Well that should about cover it." The Master sighed out. "There are many threats that you along the way Roxas, but if you continue to do what you believe is right then your chances of nonexistence will be well…nonexistent."
"Seriously." Roxas said with a deadpan.
"Yeah I will admit…that was terrible." The Master admitted sheepishly, getting the Nobody to sigh.
"Besides that, I suppose it will just be like it always has been. Fighting just for my continued existence. I have basically been doing the same thing my whole life, but this time I have Ava inside with me for the ride. I just need to push on until I can finally exist and hopefully help give Ava the ability to exist in her own body again." Roxas said determinedly, getting the Master to nod.
"I sincerely hope so, Roxas. And I will help you…after I drag you into the second reason for bringing you into this era." The Master said, a ecstatic glint in his voice.
"And that would be?" Roxas asked, getting a feeling from Ava that he could only intercept as nervousness.
"Simple, a long standing tradition for the Master of Masters. To test a candidate's first Keyblade through the only real tried and true method, a spar. All of my predecessors have done it and so have I through the Foretellers. Now you may not be my student, but as you are one of the rare few Keyforgers, you are automatically a candidate. And since my successor to my title has long since vanished and the title dormant it is up for me to test you." The Master said excitedly, opening up a Corridor of Light behind him.
"So I take it that this is something non negotiable?" Roxas asked, before finding himself bound in azure ethereal chains sprouting from the Master's outstretched hand.
"Not at all." The Master said with a smirk, before sprouting more chains and pulling himself and Roxas through the Corridor and onwards towards their battlefield.
The screen dies down as the chapter ends and the author reappears.
*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hoped that you enjoyed this chapter.*
*As you can see there was a lot to impact here, a new arrival in Radiant Garden, a brief history of the Master of Masters, Roxas once again facing the chance of nonexistence and the true consequences of Corridor of Ages, a brief glimpse of other events, and Luxu's starting to make his move.*
*Honestly I can go on and on about this, but I'm running short on time. I have two weddings to attend within these next next few weeks with the first one being within this week. And I hope to have the final chapter out before it.*
*So I am going to go over more details in the final chapter and get some rest. Going to have to get up early tomorrow if I want to be finished in the allotted time.*
*Anyway next chapter will have something you all will be waiting for a spar between the Master of Master's and Roxas and how will that go, you will all see. Along with a bit of Luxu in the age of Fairy Tales and the omake.*
*So if you have any questions PM or review and I will get back to you when I can. So until later this week, I hope you all look forward the final chapter of this year. Until then, ciao!*
The author waves goodbye as the doors open in the back and you walk through them into the darkness beyond.