Here we are at the second chapter. We'll pick off where we left off- at the third day.
Guest: No need to worry! I didn't find it rude in the slightest. It's a habit most of the characters have, but it will not be the case in this story. The only reason would be that she doesn't really seem to 'belong' in the eyes of the other characters for the most part, and though she's important, the role of the Guardian of Light and Darkness is mysterious in itself.
I only own my OCs.
Now, I present chapter 2.
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Chapter 2: Struggling
The Third Day
In an undersea cavern in a world underwater, the brown-haired boy and the brunette girl (who looked like merfolk; one with a dolphin's tail and the other with a lilac colored fish tail), as well as the duck and the dog (who looked like a squid and a turtle respectively) were presented before a mighty ocean king. His eyes looked fierce; angry, even, and he appeared to be focusing on the boy more than the girl. The girl felt pleased for not really being noticed.
"As the key bearer, you must already know…One must not meddle in the affairs of other worlds." said the King.
With a flash it changed to a lovely, young mermaid who seemed to be twirling in the water as she swam upwards, a huge grin on her face. "So many places I want to see…I know I'll get there someday."
Then, to a room in a coliseum. There was a tall, muscular fellow with short, yet curly auburn hair and pretty blue eyes. A satyr stood on an ionic pillar, reading a paper off to the dog, the duck and the boy as well as the brunette girl. Mainly addressing the first three, he stated, "Thus, I do hereby dub thee junior heroes."
"Hey! What do you mean, 'junior heroes'?" angrily asked the duck, who was visibly unimpressed.
"You rookies still don't understand what it takes to be a true hero. Except maybe excluding that girl." replied the Satyr.
Then, to a building in a desert. "I…I wish… for your freedom, Genie." said a boy with black hair and a darker tanned skin who held out a lamp. The Genie was taken aback, crying out the boy's name... or rather, more of a nickname. "Al!"
With surprise on their face, a burst of magical pink energy swirled around the Genie as they yelled; the boy, the brunette girl as well as the dog and the duck watching.
Then, there was a glimpse of an eerie town set in the holiday of Halloween in another flash. It changed again with the boy in a world of darkness summoning a small red dragon atop his head, as he proclaimed his name as Mushu.
Another glitchy flash showed the silver-haired boy… in an odd place. "Or are you too cool to play them now that you have the Keyblade?" He taunted the brown-haired boy and his other friends as they appeared to face off.
"Riku? W-what are you doing here?" asked the boy in shock.
Nextly, on a ship. The brunette girl was gone, but there was an elf-like boy, the duck and the dog. The boy was in awe. "I still can't believe it. I really flew. Wait 'til I tell Kai-." Her name was cut off with another glitchy flash. "I wonder if she'll believe me."
Then, on a clocktower over a town in the period of night. The elf-like boy was joined by a girl in blue, and a pixie sparkling with golden light flew over to the boy and the brunette girl.
More places then, to a coliseum where the boy spoke to a taller, blonde haired man as he passed by, and the boy in a storybook-like yet forested world surrounded by animals, with the boy stating how he was going to go look for his friends.
It switched back to the ship (which happened to be a pirate ship) on the deck. The boy and the brunette girl were facing off against the silver-haired boy yet again. "Where are Donald and Goofy?" he asked. It slightly scratched out and distorted when the other boy spoke again, revealing the red-haired girl, who almost looked soulless and in a comatose state.
"Instead of asking about them, you should be asking about her." said he, as he revealed the girl.
Another flash showed the boy and the brunette girl sealing a Keyhole at the clocktower. Before it all went to white, the silver-haired boy was seen, crossing his arms, as well as the red-haired girl.
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(Old Mansion- Computer Room)
DiZ was at his computer, monitoring over the progress of Sora's memory recovery. In the Pod Room, a blonde girl in a white dress, or rather, Naminé, stood in front of a white pod that resembled a flower bulb. It switched to black, with the girl being seen. "Who are you?" asked Roxas, causing her to turn around.
She took a deep breath and only smiled, saying nothing.
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Once again, like every day, Roxas awoke to the eternal sunset of Twilight Town, ready for a new day. However, he didn't notice a girl in white standing in his room. Upon seeing something out of the corner of his eye, with a gasp, Roxas turned around, only to see nobody there. Was he seeing things again? Like he had done so yesterday... or at least thought he did so yesterday? He didn't know, but he was filled with uncertainty on the topic.
After getting ready, Roxas went to the Usual Spot to meet up with Hayner, Pence and Olette. However, much to his dismay, none of them were present there, and all that was happened to be a note on the couch. Roxas went and picked it up, reading it to himself. Today, they were to meet up at the station and go to the beach. When he turned around, heading up there at the Station Heights, he saw Pence and Olette.
"Hey."
"Morning!" greeted Olette. The pair of friends were about to come over, but only weirder things happened, and suddenly, time stopped- going completely still as Pence and Olette froze in time. But for some reason, Roxas didn't. He didn't understand what was going on now.
Roxas tried running over to meet with his friends, only to be stopped by the girl in white that he saw in his room? "Hello, Roxas." she greeted him with her voice sounding creepy yet cheery at the same time. Roxas had no idea who this girl was, or how she knew his name, but he greeted her anyway.
"Uh… hi…" He said back, as the strange blonde-haired girl looked around a moment. "And you are…?"
The girl put one of her hands to his face to shush him and moved it away. With a smile, she then said, "I wanted to meet you at least once."
"…Me?" He asked, pointing to himself and raising an eyebrow.
She nodded. "Yes, you."
Roxas scratched his head nervously and looked away from the girl, who turned around and began to walk off. When she was gone and out of sight, the world unpaused, and Pence and Olette were able to move again. The two then approached Roxas, with Pence stating, "Olette dragged me along to go shopping."
Like nothing had happened, Olette asked, "Hey, do you wanna come with us?"
Roxas furrowed his eyebrows together. "Um, uhh, wait… did you guys just see that…" He began to ask, walking forward to see where she went. Pence sighed and shook his head.
"He's stalling." He said to Olette, who agreed.
Olette put a hand on one of her hips. "Very well, then. We'll see you later, Roxas, okay?" She asked. Roxas nodded, still unsettled, and Olette and Pence were as quickly off as they had just met Roxas.
Having no idea what was going on, Roxas decided to follow that one girl, wondering if she went to that one haunted mansion. That almost seemed like the direction she was heading, after all. He ran through town, eventually to the marketplace square and noticed the one hole in the wall that led to the forest. He knew that he had gone through there recently, mainly to go after that one strange creature that had stolen photos (that all strangely had him in it), so he knew where he was going.
However, as Roxas went through the forest, the strange creatures appeared once again, pursuing after him and trying to take him with them. Roxas ended up pulling away before running, passing through the Sandlot…
…Right where Seifer and his buddies unfortunately were at the time. Seifer decided to ruin the moment, yelling, "Hey, chicken wuss!" Roxas ended up stopping, and down from the street came those three, strange white creatures coming after him.
Somewhat fortunately, Seifer and his group saw, with them all getting into fighting stances, as did Roxas. Roxas took the bat he used yesterday, noticing that Seifer and his buddies weren't really able to do anything against them.
Then again… he wasn't really able to do anything either with his bat. He was only really able to hurt them with the Keyblade, if he remembered correctly. However, Roxas then get knocked back by one of the creatures before they surrounded Seifer and his gang. Except, as they walked around, like it did earlier, the world seemed to hit the pause button again.
Roxas had no clue what was going on, but he got cornered by the creatures. Suddenly, he heard that one girl's voice. "Roxas! Use the Keyblade!" she called. He couldn't identify where her voice was coming from at first until he looked up and saw the girl watching him from a rooftop balcony. But, when Roxas looked again, the creature rushed at Roxas, and he tried to defend himself.
But, with a flash of white, he found he was elsewhere upon uncovering his eyes. He appeared to be on top of a circular mural with the one brown-haired boy from his dreams, with pictures of the duck, the dog, the silver-haired boy and the red-haired girl. Then, presented towards Roxas was a sword, a shield and a staff. He didn't know what was going on, but he decided to choose the sword, mainly as it seemed to call for him.
Once again, after choosing, the Keyblade appeared in his hand, and then, he fought the mysterious enemies that kept pursuing him all day for reasons he didn't know. When he looked behind himself, a chest appeared, and he opened it up. Then a door appeared, and Roxas walked towards it as a mysterious voice spoke to him.
"Be careful. Beyond that door lies a completely different world. But don't be afraid. Don't stop walking…"
But, it didn't really lead to a completely different world. It led to the mural, and then had a stained glass path up to another mural. Though, these creatures were relentless; coming after Roxas and interrupting his movements. However, he kept running, and kept climbing up the paths, going through whatever came in his way. At the third mural, Roxas went through another door.
Upon walking in, he was confused. And unfortunately, he saw nothing. When he turned around, he saw a figure in a black coat a moment from the corner of his eye, but when he turned all the way around, he paused, and was shocked by what he was seeing.
Roxas stepped back worriedly, in fear of the great titan slowly coming at him. It was like one of those mysterious white creatures. Except, it was much, much bigger, more threatening and had an entirely different appearance. Roxas's first reaction was to try and run away, but he really couldn't, now that he was pushed to the edge. The monster towered above him, the blue attachments on the scarf-like thing around its neck towering threateningly like it was about to strike.
Roxas didn't understand what was happening, but he was definitely afraid. And he knew he very likely had to fight it.
With the Keyblade in hand, Roxas charged it, only for there to be a white and black aura surrounding him as he approached, and suddenly, Roxas was up in the air and locked into place. His breathing got fearful and shaky, unsure what was going on or what was happening. The creature swirled up and analyzed Roxas a moment, before moving one of its massive arms back, and he swiftly countered, hitting it in the face. However, Roxas was put back into place again, still restrained.
The creature's arms suddenly stretched forward and grabbed him, then chucking Roxas up in the air and trying to strike him. Roxas narrowly avoided and hit it instead. Roxas knocked it over, but then, the creature vanished. Roxas looked around in confusion, unsure what was to happen next. Suddenly, the huge, cylindrical mural was pulled at a 90˚ angle and Roxas fell down with a scream, seeing the monster awaiting him with a huge energy ball. It flipped around, kicking on the cylindrical mural powerfully enough to make it spin around as it then threw the energy ball at Roxas as he fell back.
However, throwing his Keyblade, the energy ball burst upon impact, throwing Roxas back onto the mural. He wondered if this was going to go on for a while as the monster fell down and his Keyblade pierced into the mural.
The battle kept going and going as Roxas had to twirl around in the air to avoid attacks before attacking. As Roxas had to keep fighting through little guys and the large monster itself. It ended up going through a cycle, but Roxas managed to defeat the monster the way the battle had started, landing and sliding back as his Keyblade was dismissed. The monster collapsed and Roxas moved back, hoping that he wouldn't be crushed, and then, it exploded into a huge ball of darkness. Then, it all went black.
Roxas tried to escape the darkness surrounding him, but fortunately, the girl in white pulled him out. As if this already strange day couldn't get any stranger, out of the darkness, Roxas appeared in a strange white room… before that one girl from earlier. He was about to speak to her and try to get some answers, though the blonde girl smiled, putting her index finger to her lips.
"My name is Naminé." she finally introduced. "Roxas… do you remember your true name?"
The cloaked figure that antagonized Roxas from the earlier came by and took her hand, much to her concern. "Say no more, Naminé." They ordered. Namine's eyes lit up as she looked worried yet sad. She tried to convince them otherwise.
"But if no one tells him, Roxas will…" she tried to argue, only for the other figure to interrupt her again.
"It's best he doesn't know the truth."
It took a moment, but Roxas easily recognized this guy—He was the one who stole the 5000 munny from him! Getting somewhat angry, he yelled, "Hey! You're that pickpocket!"
The man paused, going silent before holding out his hand and creating a dark portal behind Roxas, only for the golden blonde-haired boy to hop away, looking at the portal fairly confused. However, the man then got in front of him and pushed him into the strange portal, and like it tended to lately, all went black.
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(Twilight Town- Sandlot)
Roxas awoke in the Sandlot, rubbing his head and groaning a moment. The first thing he heard was Rai's voice. "Seifer, strike a pose, y'know!" He exclaimed. He didn't see what Seifer was doing at first, but he heard him do something.
"How's this?" He asked back.
Rai and his speaking quirk continued. "That's totally perfect, y'know!"
Roxas rubbed his head and looked over in the direction of the noise, noticing Fuu using Pence's camera to take a picture of a posing Seifer while Rai and Vivi stood around her. Enthusiastically and loudly, like usual, Rai suggested, "How 'bout one more, y'know?"
Roxas got up and stood to face them, rather angered. "What's that for!?" He yelled, catching the attention of the other four in the area.
"Keepsake." Fuu replied single wordedly.
Rai nodded, smiling and crossing his arms. "Those freaks in the white jumpsuits are gone, y'know!"
"Cakewalk." Fuu added. Well, not that they did very much anyway, but hey. At least the strange monsters were gone, so that was a positive. Roxas sighed, shaking his head a moment, before asking, "What were those things?"
Seifer crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes, acting like it was obvious. "Outsiders, that's what."
Roxas only shook his head again as he kept listening to Seifer talk. "And if they don't wise up to the rules around here, I might have to take 'disciplinary measures'." He threatened, much to Roxas's dismay.
"Oh yeah, Seifer's always lookin' after the town, y'know!"
By 'looking after the town', what he really meant was probably 'being a pain in the neck to those around him that he didn't like'. Roxas was pretty sure that was what he actually meant, noting how much of a jerk Seifer and his buddies tended to be.
However, he then saw that Hayner, Pence and Olette had come into the Sandlot. And Hayner definitely was not pleased with this. Thinking that Roxas had betrayed them and was hanging out with Seifer and his lackeys (though this actually wasn't the case at all), Hayner simply huffed off, leaving the Sandlot as quickly as he arrived. Pence and Olette followed.
Seifer called after Roxas, "Hey! No chickening out of the tournament tomorrow!"
"We'll be waiting, y'know!" That only really worsened the situation, though Roxas didn't care. He ran after his friends and followed them to the Usual Spot.
He came in, with his friends looking a bit sad (yet also uncertain of what they saw). "So… you hung out with Seifer's gang today?" asked Pence.
"N-no…It's not like that…" Roxas began trying to explain. However, he then remembered something. "Oh right! How was the beach? Wasn't that today?"
"We didn't go. It just wouldn't feel right without you, right?" said Olette. She still seemed to appear somewhat sad, but was trying her best to be a bit happier.
Roxas briefly forgot about the Struggle Tournament, and almost suggested going to the beach tomorrow if Hayner, who seemed aloof in Roxas's presence, stated, "I promised I'd be somewhere."
Roxas remembered the promise then, but Hayner still seemed to be mad. As he waited for a response from his friend, all he got was, "I'm outta here." Then, Hayner was up and he was the first to leave. Roxas sadly and worriedly watched him go.
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(Old Mansion- Computer Room)
As it usually did, the screen became scrambled, with the screen stating "Restoration at 48%". They were almost halfway done with fully recovering Sora's memory. However, with Naminé's previous interference, DiZ was still pissed off as he sat at the computer. But, his oddly calm expression that was somewhat hidden by the wrappings on his face didn't convey any anger… yet.
The cloaked man was up against the wall like usual, with the shorter one by his side. But, he seemed rather confused. "Was that Naminé made of data?" He asked.
DiZ then began to convey anger this time. "No. Naminé hijacked the data herself. Look what she's done now… She's totally beyond my control!" DiZ then slammed down on the desk with his fist, causing the shorter figure to jump.
"Calm down." The taller figure requested to DiZ.
"It doesn't matter. As long as Naminé accomplishes her goal we needn't worry what befalls Roxas." DiZ said rather dismissively, with his back still turned to the other figures. Brown eyes glared from beneath the hood of the shorter figure as she huffed.
"Oh right. It's totally like everyone has complete apathy towards whether or not Roxas dies. It only matters that Sora wakes up. Roxas doesn't matter." She stated with very heavy amounts of evident sarcasm. DiZ rolled his eyes before looking back at her.
"You know very well that we need Sora to awaken. Your meddling in trying to stop us from recovering Roxas only led in vain, Guardian."
"I did it because I care about him, DiZ. There has to be another way to awaken him without killing Roxas."
"There is no other way, and you are aware of it," DiZ stated in response, looking away. "Convincing yourself otherwise is only causing you to destroy your own emotions. Roxas is a nobody. It doesn't matter what befalls him."
The girl began to tremble in anger a moment. "You…you have no say in what I feel. You aren't in control of my emotions." The girl growled under her breath.
"What was that, Penelope?" asked DiZ.
The girl let out an angry huff before shouting, "Oh, f*** off, old man! You don't govern my feelings!"
Penelope stormed out and slammed the door with full intensity behind her afterwards. DiZ simply shook his head and focused on the computer.
There were no words to be said after the outburst that she had made moments ago.
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In the Rising Falls of Hollow Bastion, the brown-haired boy and the girl, along with the dog and the duck were facing off against the silver-haired boy as a large beast was somewhat collapsed in pain from a short battle prior. He took the Keyblade from the brown-haired boy, much to his surprise and shock. "You don't have what it takes to save Kai-. It's up to me. Only the Keyblade master can open the door… and change the world."
Then, they were in a hall of some kind of castle. The girl was up on the area of the stairway, trapped by a wall. The brown-haired boy faced off against the silver-haired boy alone as the dog and the duck were beside the other boy. However, with a flash, it showed the dog saving the brown-haired boy from a Dark Firaga spell. "But I'm not gonna betray Sora, cause he's become one of my best buddies after all we've been through together!"
It then showed the duck joining him. "All for one and one for all!"
This whole scene seemed scrambled, really. "My friends are my power!" exclaimed the brown-haired boy, who reclaimed his Keyblade. Then, there was another flash, as the brown-haired boy passed by a cloaked figure, and blocked a blue wave of energy from the man, sending it at the castle's mortar and stone.
It then changed into another scene. The silver-haired boy was possessed by a manner of darkness, and he tried to take another's heart, being the red-haired girl's (who was still in a comatose state) out of the brown-haired boy's body. But he didn't let him, and the brunette girl was by the brown-haired boy's side. With another flash, though, the brown-haired boy released the red-haired girl's heart, and with another, the red-haired girl saved the brown-haired boy, who was turned into a creature of shadow, from many more.
In another place, the red-haired girl gave the brown-haired boy her lucky charm, and told him to take good care of it. Then, at the ruins of the castle, the boy and the brunette girl sealed its Keyhole.
"Don't ever forget. Wherever you go, I'm always with you."
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The Fourth Day
Roxas awoke, and he looked out the window, recalling his and Hayner's promise. He hoped to fix the conflict the two of them had the previous day due to the misunderstanding Hayner had when he saw Roxas with Seifer's gang. For a moment, Roxas moved like he was fighting with a Keyblade, though he was still fairly unsure what it did and what was going on.
"What a mess…" grumbled Roxas. He scratched his head before getting up and getting ready. He went to the Usual Spot later on, only to find that his friends weren't there. Confused, he left and headed through the marketplace.
One of the shopkeepers called out to him. "Hurry to the Sandlot! You're going to be late!"
Roxas nodded and kept running, eventually heading to the Sandlot. Tons of civilians from the town were gathered to watch the Struggle Tournament. Though Roxas saw his friends, he also saw a strange figure in a black coat. They seemed invisible and indifferent to the rest of the crowd, but they didn't seem to be the same one that mugged him.
Roxas then came up on stage with the other competitors. Pence and Olette smiled at each other from the crowd, but also at their friends. "Who are you going to root for?" asked Pence to the other brunette girl.
Olette was able to easily answer. "Both of them, silly!"
Then, fireworks went off in the sky and the crowd cheered with excitement for the coming tournament.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Struggle fiends of Twilight Town! It's time for summer's most sizzling clash! That's right! Today is the day for the Struggle and title match! Who will be the one to break through the ranks and take on our champion, Setzer!?" began the Producer.
"Seifer, y'know!?" shouted Rai.
"And who will leave today as our new Struggle Champion!?" yelled the Producer, who pumped up the crowd.
"Hayner! Roxas!" cheered Pence and Olette.
"Setzerrrrr!" yelled the rest of the crowd (and especially the Setzer fangirls, who were probably shouting the loudest of all).
"Yes, the crowd is fired up, so you know what's next. Let's…"
"STRUGGLE!" shouted the crowd.
Then, the producer came off the stage to allow for the announcer to come in. More fireworks were set off as the announcer came onstage and was ready to commentate for the event.
"Hey, now. It's time to introduce today's combatants! The four bad boys who struggled their way through the preliminaries!" greeted the announcer, who then got to announcing the final four. "Regular finalist and head of Twilight Disciplinary Committee: Seifer! Completely out of nowhere—who knew he'd make it so far this year? Vivi! An underground favorite and local attitude problem: Hayner! It's his first trip to the finals! And Struggler number 4, who happens to be my absolute favorite customer: Roxas!"
Onstage, Hayner looked to Roxas. Roxas returned the gaze, only for his friend to solemnly look away, worrying Roxas. Still, the announcer kept talking to the crowd.
"So—who will win this sweltering summer Struggle!? Who will take home the grand prize? The summa cum laude of Struggle- the Four Crystal Trophy! AND… a chance to take on our defending champion, Setzer!"
Setzer, who was also onstage, held up the championship belt that would be given to the winner of the Tournament if he were defeated. The announcer smiled and nodded before going back to talking again. "It won't be long now, folks. I'd suggest our challengers went over the official Struggle rules before we begin!"
As it settled down a moment, with the announcer telling the four the rules, the first battle was between Hayner and Roxas. The producer gave Roxas and Hayner each a struggle bat and patted them on the shoulder. As if to intimidate him, Hayner pointed the bat at Roxas, who frowned and relatively appeared unhappy. "Hey… sorry about yesterday." apologized Roxas.
Hayner frowned at his friend and raised an eyebrow at him a moment. "What, you still worried about that? You need to learn to let that stuff go."
"I've got a lot on my mind." Roxas replied, somewhat sadly.
"Sorry, man." Roxas shook his head at Hayner, who then thought about it and frowned. With a smile on his face, he asked, "Wait, what am I sorry for?"
The two friends then smiled at each other. Pence and Olette, who were relieved, stopped their clapping and smirked at each other before focusing on their friends. Roxas readied for battle as the announcer spoke. "Our first match of today's struggle tournament will be between Roxas and his best friend Hayner!"
"Ready, Roxas?" Hayner asked his friend.
Then, with the countdown, the fight began. It wasn't too difficult for Roxas to win and overpower Hayner, though it wasn't like Hayner was a pushover. In fact, Roxas basically made it look easy to win though of course, it wasn't entirely so. "And the winner is Roxas!" The announcer held up Roxas's arm, and the boy smiled, waving to the crowd. "Not even friendship will slow this kid down. And Hayner put up a great fight, too."
After his hand was released, Roxas ran over to Hayner, who was sitting down on the stage. "I lost! Aww, I can't believe it!" He exclaimed, standing up. His brown eyes looked into Roxas's. "I guess I taught you well."
"I had a lot of fun fighting you."
Hayner smiled a moment, only to frown and cross his arms. "Yeah, well I didn't, wise guy."
"Hey, let's find a way to cheer you up." Roxas suggested. Hayner put the suggestion down though.
"Nah, that's alright." Hayner then gave Roxas a friendly punch on the hand before leaving and almost walking into Seifer, who was coming up onstage. Like usual (as it seemed), Seifer wasn't in the best mood. "Out of the way." growled Seifer.
Hayner smirked at him. "You in a rush to lose?" He taunted him before getting offstage.
As Roxas was about to do so, only to be startled by the sudden appearance of Vivi at his side. Vivi simply looked up at Roxas and giggled at him as he got offstage, leaving the second round competitors alone. "Don't mess with your elders." Seifer warned Vivi. His blue eyes had somewhat of a threatening glare, though it really didn't seem to bother Vivi all that much.
"Whew, just look at those sparks fly! I guess Seifer didn't expect to fight one of his own boys!"
Seifer and Vivi had a face off then, but something was off with Vivi. Vivi suddenly flew at Seifer, who managed to jump back, but Vivi was in pursuit of him. Hayner was taken aback. "When did Vivi get so tough?" he asked his friends. Noting that normally, Vivi seemed to flee or cower away in a fight (noting the encounter with the strange creatures the other day), this seemed weird.
Seifer was struggling to hit Vivi as Roxas shrugged. Vivi slashed at Seifer with the struggle bat, only for Seifer to block and finally land a hit on him and get him away, causing Vivi to drop a struggle orb. Noting how the Struggle worked, Seifer tried to grab it.
However, that didn't happen. As Seifer lunged for the orb, Vivi made a comeback and knocked Seifer over, surprisingly winning the fight. It all happened so fast, and everyone in the crowd was taken aback, trying to process what just happened. The cloaked figure in the back found something to be off.
"I-I'm not sure what just happened… um… but… the winner is Vivi! In a positively blistering comeback!" exclaimed the announcer. Seifer sat up and shook his head, glaring at Vivi. Roxas approached the stage, knowing that he was to fight Vivi soon.
"That's not Vivi." Seifer grumbled. Roxas stared at him confusedly, not understanding what he meant. Looking at Roxas, Seifer then instructed, "Thrash 'im."
Getting up and going, basically forfeiting the struggle, Seifer left with Rai and Fuu, ditching Vivi there at the Sandlot. "It looks like Seifer's withdrawn from the Struggle for third place." said the producer, which somewhat excited Hayner, now that he was in third place rather than fourth.
Roxas and Vivi then received a struggle bat from the producer, who told them, "Keep it clean, fellas." The opponents stared down at each other as the producer left the stage.
"And now, the match you've been waiting for: Roxas vs. Vivi!" the announcer exclaimed to the crowd.
So, with a countdown, Roxas and Vivi began fighting. But, like with the fight with Seifer, something was definitely off. Roxas fought him, but as he was getting down to the last strike to finally win the battle, time froze as Roxas was forcibly stopped. He heard a groan of dismay from the crowd. "Oh no. Not this again!" exclaimed a feminine voice.
Roxas looked around to try and find the voice's source (as it seemed familiar), only for 'Vivi' to turn into one of those strange white creatures from the past few days. And there wasn't only one. In fact, more of them appeared. "Again!?" asked Roxas, as his bat turned into the Keyblade again. He looked upon it, knowing what he had to do. His eyes were filled with determination as he got into a fighting stance.
Roxas fought the strange white creatures yet again, not noticing another figure was watching from behind him nor did he notice the more feminine figure coming closer in alarm, as they took off their hood and their long brown hair cascaded out. When Roxas won the battle, he was fatigued and worn out from all this. However, he was then startled by someone clapping behind him (being another cloaked figure) and he turned around.
"Roxas. All right. Fight fight fight." said the cloaked figure, who sounded like they were a guy. Their voice was somewhat enthusiastic yet not, though Roxas didn't recognize them in the slightest. The person seemed rather disappointed as they walked closer to Roxas. "You really don't remember? It's me. You know, Axel."
Taking down his hood, the man revealed his flaming red hair and piercing green eyes. However, Roxas was unable to recognize him or his face. "…Axel?" asked Roxas in response. It seemed very vaguely familiar, but then, Roxas was certain he didn't recognize the name.
"Talk about blank with a capital 'B'. Man oh man, even the Dusks aren't gonna crack this one." Appearing in flames, his chakrams showed up and Axel caught them in his hands. Roxas had no clue what was happening. A struggle tournament was happening one moment, and in the next, this happened.
"Wait a sec, tell me what's going on!"
Axel looked around before he began speaking. "This town is his creation, right? Which means we don' have time for Q&A. You're coming with me, conscious or not. Then, you'll hear the story." Axel prepared to fight, only annoying Roxas even more from the lack of answers. When a strange presence flew around Roxas, Axel stiffened up.
"Oh goddammit. Get on with your fight already before he comes in!" exclaimed the girl, and Roxas noticed her, finding her familiar from somewhere. Axel noticed her too, and was slightly dismayed by her presence, but she wasn't the current focus. The two looked at each other once more.
Still, Roxas had no idea what was going on, and it was making him mad.
"What's going ON!?" Roxas shrieked, throwing down the Keyblade in exasperation. It appeared again in his hand with a flash of light.
Axel, who still didn't respond, only brought up more questions. "Number 13. Roxas. The Keyblade's chosen one." Axel stated, readying to fight once more.
Roxas shook his head. "Okay, fine! You asked for it!"
"That's more like it!" So then, Roxas and Axel prepared to fight, the girl watching in silence and unease as to what would unfold next.
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As much as I want to finish up the fourth day, goodness gracious alive! This chapter has gotten pretty lengthy at best. Despite that we're almost at the end of the fourth day, I have to unfortunately bring you all at a cliffhanger.
In the next chapter, we'll cover the rest of day 4, but also hopefully day 5 and 6. The final day will get its own chapter unless day 6 is unable to be covered in the next. I can't remember what the shortest day in this whole prologue segment is though (and I'm not going to replay Kingdom Hearts 2 to remember, noting the length of the prologue).
I don't really have much to say other than that.
Please review if you'd like, please try to refrain from flaming and please tell me how I can improve.
I will see you all in the next chapter.
Ciao!