Re: Kingdom Hearts: Hearts in Unison (Chapter 37 posted)
It's finally time to introduce the fourth party in the mix and reveal the identity of the hooded figure first introduced in chapter 8 together with Braig and Isa.
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The hooded figure dispelled the dark communication sphere he had holding up and turned to Ienzo.
"We have an additional assignment, can you keep up the illusion while walking?"
The teen's visible eye flared up with a questioning stare.
What? How can he get an assigment from someone? He's the boss...
Ienzo was clearly confused, with who had the hooded figure spoken just now?
"Didn't you hear me?" The figure asked now, a bit colder.
"Y...Yes, it's all ok now. I am used to this kind of illusion now and can keep it up without any problem."
"Good. Then let's move out. The Dark Depths aren't far from here and we have to fetch something from there."
"Huh?"
"It's not neccessary that you understand the task. Only that you keep up and help complete it. Be alerted, we might encounter some Heartless."
The figure brushed off Ienzo's lingering questions, already stepping forward with determination.
As they crossed the Great Maw already the hooded figure turned his head around several times.
"It's strange. Normally it should attract Heartless like moths, yet not a single one is here. Did the reconnaissance department mess up...or...?"
"What is it?" Ienzo asked with a puzzled expression, his lexicon already under his arm.
"A shard, a shard filled with dark and light energy." The figure answered as they turned around the last rock wall to reach the Dark Depths overlooking the remains of Villain's Vale.
"Ah...who's that?" Ienzo stopped, noticing another person already standing there.
The hooded figure snorted shortly and the teen now noticed the stranger holding a shard of dark metal.
The person wore a very tight-fitting suit in the color of light grey with dark green lines and certain silver patches distributed on certain places like knees, elbows and around the waist.
The outfit was completed by a thin, black belt and half-length black boots lined with the same dark green.
Ienzo could clearly spot by the body form that they had a young male standing before them, apparently aged between 13 and 16 as he could observe.
The boy's face was not identificable as he wore a broad, dark purple cape over his shoulders which had also a hood that was kept closely over his head. The hands of the strange teen were covered by somewhat odd black gloves with white palms.
He had not noticed Ienzo and the figure yet as he was busy blasting three Heartless apart with a Thundaga spell that was way more powerful than Ienzo had ever observed, the lightning crashing down a bright purple-blue hue instead of the usual yellow.
A neoshadow now started a jump attack with its claws which the boy barely avoided with a sidestep, finally noticing the newcomers.
Swirling around he kicked the neoshadow off the cliff before letting the shard slide into his back pocket.
"That's a bad idea, little boy!" The hooded figure said in a low, threatening tone now, stepping forward and extending his right hand towards the strange teen. "Hand over that piece of metal!"
The boy didn't answer, he only stepped backwards slowly towards the cliff.
"Don't be foolish!" The figure shot at him. "You won't be harmed if you quietly hand over that shard."
Shifting his body around the teen still didn't answer.
Observing calmly from his position Ienzo assumed the kid was evaluating if he should flee or attack.
He's a tad insecure, maybe I can force him into submission with another illusion?
The hooded figure now crossed slowly the distance between him and the boy in the skintight suit, almost hovering over the floor.
"Don't waste my time, boy. Defying won't lead you anywhere but to obliteration."
"The one to get obliterated is YOU, sucker." A high, but sarcastic sounding voice interrupted, the hooded figure jumping back to avoid the jumping swordslash of another person coming right at him.
"Agent L! Right on time!"
That was the first time the boy actually spoke, now performing a cartwheel away from the cliff shooting a silver-white energy projectile at Ienzo and the hooded figure.
Dodging it, Ienzo turned to take a quick look at the newcomer. It was obviously a female, as she wore the same type of tight-fitting clothing as the boy, showing her features very blatantly, even in the same color scheme and also the dark purple cape with hood was exactly the same model, only several sizes bigger.
He estimated her age to be between 19 and 23, at most.
"Agent H, didn't I tell you to take the thing and then immediately return to base?" The woman snapped at the boy, swinging her futuristic looking saber-like sword around into a battle stance.
The boy adressed with 'Agent H' cringed shortly at that outburst before straightening himself.
"But-but there were just too many Heartless to safely open a way back to base without bringing some with me."
The woman called 'Agent L' hissed angrily. "How many? H?"
The boy shrugged. "About thirty or forty, didn't count them while striking them down, then these two fellers suddenly popped up."
"So it's true, the Grand Mistress was right. These shards are a danger to world order." The woman whispered that more to herself, now taking a stance that would allow her to immediately cover the boy if an attack would be directed at him.
The hooded figure stepped forward again.
"You will give up that shard to us. We know exactly what to do with it."
Do we really?
Ienzo thought unsure.
We don't even know what that is!
"No, correction: I don't know, but that hooded guy who I thought up to now is the boss seemingly knows. Who is he?
"Yeah right. Like I would believe some strange guy clad in black who reeks of evil. You don't seem very trustful."
The woman pointed her saber at the hooded figure.
"Says a pair of strange warriors who are disguised as well...tsk. I would rather say we are on equal terms. But unlike you, I know exactly what you are handling here. Answer me this: What do you want to do with that thing?"
"That's nothing of your concern, back off. We won't allow worlds to be overrun by the forces of darkness again." The boy interjected before the woman could answer.
The hooded figure made a sweeping arm gesture.
"But on the contrary, this shard is of very big concern to us because we need to bring it to the place were it belongs, and that is not a world in the Realm of Light. If you won't surrender it willingly I am afraid we will have to use force."
"We need to take that thing and examine why it attracts creatures of the dark, so I am afraid surrendering it is out of the question." The woman, Agent L, answered in a serious tone.
"But, if they know where it belongs!?" Agent H sounded a bit doubtful.
"Listen to your heart, H, we need to follow our path, not the seemingly easy one out which will sabotage our cause." She hissed back without looking at her partner.
"Heart?" The hooded figure asked in a bit of a dreamy tone, surprising Ienzo.
"Ah yes, the vast power of hearts, truly marvelous. My heart, my own heart, if it even is one already, ah?"
He tilted his head.
"WHAT?"
Agent L, Agent H and Ienzo all shouted out, equally confused about the weird behavior of the hooded figure.
"Well, that doesn't matter right now, only your two hearts matter. And they have led you to obliteration! Ienzo!! Take the shard from that boy, I don't care if you kill him in the process!" The figure shouted in a thundering voice, kicking the woman back with a fast roundhouse-kick.
"You crazy maniac, you will go down!" Agent L shouted charging at the hooded figure with her saber raised high.
Ienzo was way too surprised by the sudden turn of events to react properly as Agent H raised his hand with the black and white glove and fired a whole salvo of five fire spells at him.
Barely dodging, Ienzo saw Agent L suddenly flicking her saber around mechanically transforming it into a gun starting to fire rounds of bullets at the hooded figure which was already a stunning feature of her weapon, but his 'ally' shocked him even more.
The figure first raised a square energy shield blocking the bullets, dropping the hood of his black coat to reveal messy silver hair then crossed his arms with red energy blades flashing from his palms.
Wha, wha, what? XEMNAS? How is this possible!
Tumbling backwards he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
A crackling sound forced him to turn his attention back to Agent H. The boy had now brandished a big boomerang that was loaded up with blue electricity.
Damn, from where the heck did he pull that thing? It's almost one and a half times as big as his whole upper body.
"Take this!" He shouted, hurling the boomerang at the black coated teen.
Ienzo dodged the weapon first, expecting it to fly back, but it instead changed course and came flying from the other side.
"What the?"
Jumping over it he barely avoided an electric discharge, dashing aside immediately after to avoid a third attack.
I see, he can remotely control that boomerang loaded up with thunder energy. Bothersome.
Flipping open his lexicon Ienzo put his left hand between three pages, one between each finger.
Three energy pages manifested which he threw at Agent H in a fluid motion, dodging another diving sweep from the electrified boomerang.
Agent L had by now switched her weapon back to sword mode, parrying a barrage of Xemnas's energy blades.
Bringing some distance between them with a backflip she quickly raised her free hand.
"Ruinga!"
A bigger silver-white energy projectile was shot out of her hand.
Xemnas readied to block it, but it exploded before into a bright silvery white explosion of neutral-elemental energy which threw him back slightly.
Agent H had dodged the energy pages and countered now with three fast water-spells while still remotely controlling his electrified boomerang.
Clearly a mage-type that little bugger, with the boomerang as an extra. Ienzo snorted annoyed. This boy was more trouble than necessary.
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It's finally time to introduce the fourth party in the mix and reveal the identity of the hooded figure first introduced in chapter 8 together with Braig and Isa.
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XXXVII. New complications
The hooded figure dispelled the dark communication sphere he had holding up and turned to Ienzo.
"We have an additional assignment, can you keep up the illusion while walking?"
The teen's visible eye flared up with a questioning stare.
What? How can he get an assigment from someone? He's the boss...
Ienzo was clearly confused, with who had the hooded figure spoken just now?
"Didn't you hear me?" The figure asked now, a bit colder.
"Y...Yes, it's all ok now. I am used to this kind of illusion now and can keep it up without any problem."
"Good. Then let's move out. The Dark Depths aren't far from here and we have to fetch something from there."
"Huh?"
"It's not neccessary that you understand the task. Only that you keep up and help complete it. Be alerted, we might encounter some Heartless."
The figure brushed off Ienzo's lingering questions, already stepping forward with determination.
As they crossed the Great Maw already the hooded figure turned his head around several times.
"It's strange. Normally it should attract Heartless like moths, yet not a single one is here. Did the reconnaissance department mess up...or...?"
"What is it?" Ienzo asked with a puzzled expression, his lexicon already under his arm.
"A shard, a shard filled with dark and light energy." The figure answered as they turned around the last rock wall to reach the Dark Depths overlooking the remains of Villain's Vale.
"Ah...who's that?" Ienzo stopped, noticing another person already standing there.
The hooded figure snorted shortly and the teen now noticed the stranger holding a shard of dark metal.
The person wore a very tight-fitting suit in the color of light grey with dark green lines and certain silver patches distributed on certain places like knees, elbows and around the waist.
The outfit was completed by a thin, black belt and half-length black boots lined with the same dark green.
Ienzo could clearly spot by the body form that they had a young male standing before them, apparently aged between 13 and 16 as he could observe.
The boy's face was not identificable as he wore a broad, dark purple cape over his shoulders which had also a hood that was kept closely over his head. The hands of the strange teen were covered by somewhat odd black gloves with white palms.
He had not noticed Ienzo and the figure yet as he was busy blasting three Heartless apart with a Thundaga spell that was way more powerful than Ienzo had ever observed, the lightning crashing down a bright purple-blue hue instead of the usual yellow.
A neoshadow now started a jump attack with its claws which the boy barely avoided with a sidestep, finally noticing the newcomers.
Swirling around he kicked the neoshadow off the cliff before letting the shard slide into his back pocket.
"That's a bad idea, little boy!" The hooded figure said in a low, threatening tone now, stepping forward and extending his right hand towards the strange teen. "Hand over that piece of metal!"
The boy didn't answer, he only stepped backwards slowly towards the cliff.
"Don't be foolish!" The figure shot at him. "You won't be harmed if you quietly hand over that shard."
Shifting his body around the teen still didn't answer.
Observing calmly from his position Ienzo assumed the kid was evaluating if he should flee or attack.
He's a tad insecure, maybe I can force him into submission with another illusion?
The hooded figure now crossed slowly the distance between him and the boy in the skintight suit, almost hovering over the floor.
"Don't waste my time, boy. Defying won't lead you anywhere but to obliteration."
"The one to get obliterated is YOU, sucker." A high, but sarcastic sounding voice interrupted, the hooded figure jumping back to avoid the jumping swordslash of another person coming right at him.
"Agent L! Right on time!"
That was the first time the boy actually spoke, now performing a cartwheel away from the cliff shooting a silver-white energy projectile at Ienzo and the hooded figure.
Dodging it, Ienzo turned to take a quick look at the newcomer. It was obviously a female, as she wore the same type of tight-fitting clothing as the boy, showing her features very blatantly, even in the same color scheme and also the dark purple cape with hood was exactly the same model, only several sizes bigger.
He estimated her age to be between 19 and 23, at most.
"Agent H, didn't I tell you to take the thing and then immediately return to base?" The woman snapped at the boy, swinging her futuristic looking saber-like sword around into a battle stance.
The boy adressed with 'Agent H' cringed shortly at that outburst before straightening himself.
"But-but there were just too many Heartless to safely open a way back to base without bringing some with me."
The woman called 'Agent L' hissed angrily. "How many? H?"
The boy shrugged. "About thirty or forty, didn't count them while striking them down, then these two fellers suddenly popped up."
"So it's true, the Grand Mistress was right. These shards are a danger to world order." The woman whispered that more to herself, now taking a stance that would allow her to immediately cover the boy if an attack would be directed at him.
The hooded figure stepped forward again.
"You will give up that shard to us. We know exactly what to do with it."
Do we really?
Ienzo thought unsure.
We don't even know what that is!
"No, correction: I don't know, but that hooded guy who I thought up to now is the boss seemingly knows. Who is he?
"Yeah right. Like I would believe some strange guy clad in black who reeks of evil. You don't seem very trustful."
The woman pointed her saber at the hooded figure.
"Says a pair of strange warriors who are disguised as well...tsk. I would rather say we are on equal terms. But unlike you, I know exactly what you are handling here. Answer me this: What do you want to do with that thing?"
"That's nothing of your concern, back off. We won't allow worlds to be overrun by the forces of darkness again." The boy interjected before the woman could answer.
The hooded figure made a sweeping arm gesture.
"But on the contrary, this shard is of very big concern to us because we need to bring it to the place were it belongs, and that is not a world in the Realm of Light. If you won't surrender it willingly I am afraid we will have to use force."
"We need to take that thing and examine why it attracts creatures of the dark, so I am afraid surrendering it is out of the question." The woman, Agent L, answered in a serious tone.
"But, if they know where it belongs!?" Agent H sounded a bit doubtful.
"Listen to your heart, H, we need to follow our path, not the seemingly easy one out which will sabotage our cause." She hissed back without looking at her partner.
"Heart?" The hooded figure asked in a bit of a dreamy tone, surprising Ienzo.
"Ah yes, the vast power of hearts, truly marvelous. My heart, my own heart, if it even is one already, ah?"
He tilted his head.
"WHAT?"
Agent L, Agent H and Ienzo all shouted out, equally confused about the weird behavior of the hooded figure.
"Well, that doesn't matter right now, only your two hearts matter. And they have led you to obliteration! Ienzo!! Take the shard from that boy, I don't care if you kill him in the process!" The figure shouted in a thundering voice, kicking the woman back with a fast roundhouse-kick.
"You crazy maniac, you will go down!" Agent L shouted charging at the hooded figure with her saber raised high.
Ienzo was way too surprised by the sudden turn of events to react properly as Agent H raised his hand with the black and white glove and fired a whole salvo of five fire spells at him.
Barely dodging, Ienzo saw Agent L suddenly flicking her saber around mechanically transforming it into a gun starting to fire rounds of bullets at the hooded figure which was already a stunning feature of her weapon, but his 'ally' shocked him even more.
The figure first raised a square energy shield blocking the bullets, dropping the hood of his black coat to reveal messy silver hair then crossed his arms with red energy blades flashing from his palms.
Wha, wha, what? XEMNAS? How is this possible!
Tumbling backwards he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
A crackling sound forced him to turn his attention back to Agent H. The boy had now brandished a big boomerang that was loaded up with blue electricity.
Damn, from where the heck did he pull that thing? It's almost one and a half times as big as his whole upper body.
"Take this!" He shouted, hurling the boomerang at the black coated teen.
Ienzo dodged the weapon first, expecting it to fly back, but it instead changed course and came flying from the other side.
"What the?"
Jumping over it he barely avoided an electric discharge, dashing aside immediately after to avoid a third attack.
I see, he can remotely control that boomerang loaded up with thunder energy. Bothersome.
Flipping open his lexicon Ienzo put his left hand between three pages, one between each finger.
Three energy pages manifested which he threw at Agent H in a fluid motion, dodging another diving sweep from the electrified boomerang.
Agent L had by now switched her weapon back to sword mode, parrying a barrage of Xemnas's energy blades.
Bringing some distance between them with a backflip she quickly raised her free hand.
"Ruinga!"
A bigger silver-white energy projectile was shot out of her hand.
Xemnas readied to block it, but it exploded before into a bright silvery white explosion of neutral-elemental energy which threw him back slightly.
Agent H had dodged the energy pages and countered now with three fast water-spells while still remotely controlling his electrified boomerang.
Clearly a mage-type that little bugger, with the boomerang as an extra. Ienzo snorted annoyed. This boy was more trouble than necessary.
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