Kyda kept her weapon ready as she and Olbart watched both Arakiya and Yorna charged at the old Keyblade Master together.
Xehanort smiled as he simply stood still for a moment, not phased by the two divine generals charging at him.
Once they were within hitting range, both Yorna and Arakiya swung their fists at the old man, using all their strength in the hopes that they can kill him with just one hit.
Before either's fist could connect, the old Keyblade Master teleported out of there.
"Huh?!"
The two divine generals were caught off by this and quickly looked around to see where the old man could've teleported himself.
As the looked and looked, Yorna was suddenly hit in the back and send flying a few feet away.
Olbart and Kyda were both shocked by this since they didn't see Xehanort teleport behind her.
Arakiya took this opportunity to throw her punch, now knowing where her target was.
As she did this, Xehanort blocked off her attack effortlessly.
"Hm. I was expecting more."
"S-Shut up!"
Arakiya jumped back and started using some of the spirit powers she had acquired over her lifetime.
The first being fire, trying to throw as much fire towards the old Keyblade Master before combining that with wind.
As the wind was moving the fire in rapid speed around the old Keyblade Master, Xehanort looked at the fire without fear.
Although this didn't faze him at all, he was rather curious on what Arakiya's plan of attack.
He lowered his weapon as the fire around him was closing in.
After a moment, Arakiya quickly started to use a couple of icicles thanks to the abilities of the fire spirit.
As everything was created to surround the old Keyblade Master, she commanded the mana to attack.
As everything was being thrown towards him, the old Keyblade Wielder smirked at this, seeing that he could teleport himself out of this situation with ease and yet he had another idea in mind.
He allowed himself to get attacked by everything Arakiya had in her disposal, allowing the divine general to smile since she assumed that victory was at hand.
Kyda also thought that this was it, knowing that an attack like this would kill anybody, or at the very least wound them.
"She did it!" Kyda shouted. Olbart continued to look with a critical eye, knowing that this was too easy.
"I wouldn't count this as a victory. Just because he was hit with this attack, it wouldn't mean that it's the end. The fact that he took the attack means he has something ready."
The moment Olbart said this, the smoke had cleared from the explosion caused by the combined mana attack to reveal a bubble surrounding the old Keyblade Master.
"What?!"
"You know, that attack would've done something had it hit me...yet it wouldn't be enough to beat me."
As Xehanort said this, his barrier had gone down with him slowly approaching the second divine general.
Arakiya was a bit intimidated by Xehanort's presence, understanding now just how dangerous he is yet she was more frustrated that he's had the advantage since the very beginning of the fight.
'There must be a way to beat him!'
As she was thinking this, Xehanort prepared to attack only to pause for a moment, looking very intrigued by something else.
Arakiya noticed this but before she could look around to see what got her opponent's attention, she noticed Yorna walking past her as she was approaching Master Xehanort.
"Hm. I'm a bit surprised that you are still able to stand. Most impressive."
"I hope you enjoyed saying that because you are going to die...my people of Chaosflame...they will be avenged with your death!"
"Hm."
Xehanort did not respond to Yorna's comment and just watched as the divine general glow for a brief moment before charging at him.
The old Keyblade Master stood still since he did not view this as a threat to him. Arakiya noticed this and quickly started to summon mana from within in order to provide some assistance to the seventh divine general.
'If I want him dead, then I'll have to work with that woman! Together we will show this bastard the might of two divine generals!'
Using Earth magic, she uses the ground to attack the old Keyblade Master while Yorna prepared an all-out attack with her fist.
Xehanort jumped around to avoid the attacks from the ground created by the second divine general while preparing his own attack to finish off his two opponents.
Arakiya continued her earth mana attack until she quickly shifted to Yang magic, using rays to try and damage the old man.
This prompted Xehanort to use No Name keyblade to block off some of these rays. As he was doing this, Yorna saw an opportunity and quickly acted upon it.
She swung her fist at Xehanort with everything she had in her, using the strength she had gained from her people and her love for them.
Just as this attack was going to connect, the old Keyblade Master did not hesitate to block off Yorna's strong attack all the while making a barrier around the two in order to deal with the issue of Arakiya's long range attacks.
Xehanort looked at Yorna with a sinister smile, a bit impressed that he has to use a bit of force to push back her attack yet it wasn't too alarming.
This angered Yorna since she doesn't want to keep dragging on this fight. She pulled out her golden kiseru and attempted to stab the old man.
Xehanort smiled as he teleported out of his own barrier, allowing it to break in order for Arakiya's attacks to be targeted at Yorna rather than him.
Yorna immediately realized this and quickly jumped out of Arakiya's wave of Yang magic.
While this was happening, both Olbart and Kyda continue to observe the fight with the divine general formulating a plan that can either take the old Keyblade Wielder out or at the very least temporarily put him out of the fight.
Kyda on the other hand was wanting to join in on the fighting, wishing to help out the two female divine generals despite the issue that she wouldn't be able to do much and could possibly die.
'Damn it all! I'm a proud Shadruq warrior! I'm a born fighter...so why am I still standing on the sidelines...?'
Kyda's pride was wanting to take over, despite the fact that going into battle without a proper plan will get her killed.
Before she did anything, her and Olbart both noticed Xehanort suddenly teleport behind Arakiya and grab her head.
Arakiya was caught off guard by this while Yorna turned towards their location, worried for Arakiya's safety.
"Let her go!"
"..."
Xehanort didn't respond to what Yorna had said yet he did sensed Kyda charging at him from behind.
Kyda had finally snapped and knew that if she did nothing, both Yorna and Arakiya would lose.
'I don't care if I can't contribute much but I just can't stand idly by anymore!'
She had her spear ready as she closed the gap between herself and the old Keyblade Master, she went for a stab only for Xehanort along with Arakiya to teleport out of there.
"Huh?"
Kyda was surprised by this, not expecting Xehanort to just teleport away from her attack just as she was going to stab him in the back.
Just as she was about to look around, she felt a sudden kick to the face.
This kick was not only strong enough to knock Kyda out but also sent her flying a few feet away.
Just as Kyda was about to hit the ground, Olbart managed to move swiftly to catch her, not allowing one of his allies to be knocked to the ground in such a brutal way.
'You did your best. You earned my respects, young one.'
As Olbart thought this, he looked to see that Xehanort was hovering above them with Arakiya still being grabbed by the head.
He noticed that she was attempting to free herself using magic of this world, prompting him to first say to the second divine general,
"You are a talented warrior. I will give you that, but..." As he paused himself for a moment, he instantly froze her in the same way he had frozen Ventus many years ago. "...you lack the strength to even face me."
After having finished speaking, he let go of Arakiya, allowing her to fall down towards the ground while frozen.
Olbart gently set Kyda down before going off to catch Arakiya, having an understanding now on just how big the gap is between their strength and the old Keyblade Master's strength.
Yorna also noticed this, realizing that her strength isn't enough to take out the old Keyblade Master.
'He's...he's...he's a monster...how can we beat him...?'
Yorna wanted to avenge her people, especially the children that were consumed by the darkness yet she realized that she might end up failing to do so.
"Don't give up just yet."
Yorna turned towards the voice to see that it was Olbart standing next to her, having already set Arakiya down somewhere that's safe along with Kyda.
"This fight will likely end with our death, that's just something I can see here...but we must not give up. The game is only done once we are dead. So, we must not die."
As Olbart said this, he looked directly towards Xehanort with a confident smile. He pointed his kunai at him while saying,
"Shall I join this game of yours?"
"Hm."
Xehanort looked at Olbart with a curious look, wondering what his new opponent will do. Olbart slowly started to approach Xehanort in a calm gesture before suddenly disappearing in both Xehanort and Yorna's eyes.
The seventh divine general was curious to see what move the third divine general has up his sleeve while Xehanort closed his eyes, feeling his surroundings.
Yorna kept a distance as she watched the old Keyblade Master stand still with his eyes closed, not feeling any sense of danger or urgency.
'Could this monster be ready for whatever that old shinobi has in stored?'
With this thought in mind, she prepared herself for battle, aware that she's next after Olbart fails his attack.
This continued on for a moment before Xehanort opened his eyes and quickly moved his keyblade towards his back side.
As he did this, he managed to block one of Olbart's quick attacks. The old shinobi noticed this, yet he did not stop on his barrage of attacks from all sides of his opponent.
Xehanort noticed this and quickly moved his keyblade around to counter each and every attack without much trouble.
Yorna was impressed by the quick attacks Olbart was throwing at the old Keyblade Master yet she was also aware that none of them were landing.
Olbart was also aware of this, prompting him to quickly increase his strength and speed, seeing just how tough this fight is compared to his fight with Luxord.
'No matter your speed, you'll soon reveal your opening.'
He continued to attack from multiple directions at once, trying to out-speed his opponent only to see that Xehanort was somehow keeping up no matter how fast he was going.
Starting to see that this isn't going anywhere, he jumped away from the Keyblade Master's position and quickly threw a couple of fire stone bombs towards him.
Xehanort noticed this and quickly knocked them away before they could explode, knowing that these could do some damage to him.
As he knocks a few away, Olbart starts throwing more and more until saw the opening he needed to strike the old keyblade master down with one blow.
He threw a few more fire stone bombs before moving with immense speed to reach Xehanort's opening.
The moment he had reached it, he went for the finishing blow only to suddenly see Xehanort grab his weapon with his free hand.
"..."
"That was impressive. Had you been one second faster, I would've been hit for sure."
Yorna and Olbart both noticed Xehanort's words, noticing that he was impressed by the third divine general's skills. Xehanort's smile turned into a serious facial expression has he continued to speak,
"However, I've been going easy on you. Let me show you just how far our levels are."
Just as he was about to attack the third divine general, Yorna charged towards Xehanort with her golden kiseru ready for an attack. As she swung her weapon, Xehanort swiftly blocked off the attack.
This gave Olbart the chance to let go of his kunai and quickly prepared for another barrage of attacks. The old Keyblade Master jumped up as he created a powerful darkball on his left hand before throwing it towards the seventh divine general.
Yorna saw this, prompting her to use the smoke from her kiseru to block off the darkball. Xehanort was intrigued by this, noticing how the smoke from Yorna's kiseru had some odd magical properties that can serve as a shield.
Being aware of this, he changes back his tactics to being physical attacks towards the female divine general. He teleported behind her and prepared to use a powerful attack once again with his No Name Keyblade to knock her out of the fight.
As he swings his keyblade, Olbart manages to move fast enough to help Yorna avoid the attack before attempting once again to land an attack of his own while Xehanort is on the offense.
Xehanort took note of this, causing him to quickly shift from offense to defense by knocking away Olbart's new kunai from his hand. As he was able to do this, Olbart grabbed another kunai he had on him and tried to once again go for another attack.
Xehanort easily blocked off the attack once again, this time breaking the kunai in the process. Olbart started to get a bit frustrated that he's struggling to land a single hit.
Yorna was also getting frustrated since they aren't getting anywhere and yet she didn't feel discourage to keep fighting anymore.
Watching someone like Olbart, who normally wouldn't keep fighting an impossible fight still going was somehow affecting her fighting spirit, allowing her to keep going regardless of the odds of success.
'No matter what, I will avenge them all! Even if it kills me, I won't let my people's killer roam free!'
She joined Olbart in attacking Xehanort, wanting to push the old Keyblade Master back with everything they got, both divine generals not afraid of failure.
As they continued to increase their strength and speed of attacks while also managing to slowly coordinate their attacks.
Xehanort noticed this, prompting him to start trying as he finally saw both Yorna and Olbart as a bit of a threat to him.
He blocked off the attacks with aggression before finding the openings he needed to easily take the two of the divine generals down with just a couple of swings.
As Xehanort landed the multiple attacks on both Yorna and Olbart, the two divine generals kept on standing despite the injuries they received from the old Keyblade Master.
The two kept on fighting even though by this point they were barely conscious. Xehanort had noticed this yet he did not let his guard down for even a second, knowing full well that it could make a difference.
He continued to land a couple more hits on the two until finally he send Olbart flying a few feet away from him with his mind unconscious from all the hits he received. Yorna was still standing but not for long since her mind was just blanking out.
"...I-I c-can't...g-give up...I-I...w-w-won't...g-g-gi—ve up..."
Xehanort looked at Yorna with a serious facial expression, watching the seventh divine general trying to stay standing with everything she has yet her energy was extremely low and her conscious was fading in and out of reality.
He put away his No Name Keyblade before approaching the divine general. As he was near her, he set his hand on her shoulder as he said in a respectful manner,
"You fought valiantly."
As Xehanort said this, he walked away as Yorna collapsed to the ground, having no energy left to stand.
'I'm sorry my people...I'm sorry I failed you all...I'll leave our vengeance to the rest...'
Forced to leave her hopes of avenging her people to Sora, Subaru, Theresia, Vincent, and everyone else, she finally lost consciousness.
Xehanort turned his attention towards the battles of Sora and Cloud, watching how the young Keyblade Master was taking on seven halibels with four being from the original and three are pure heartless form and Cloud holding his own against a more powerful version of Cecilus.
Both Cloud and Sora turned towards Xehanort's direction, both being aware that the three divine generals had been defeated by the old Keyblade Master.
'Darn, this is a problem.' Cloud thought to himself, realizing that their group had lost a good number of strong fighters.
'I will take you down, Xehanort. I won't let you hurt anybody else.' Sora thought this while keeping his calm, preparing himself for when he must face off against him once again.
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Heinkel and Kafma continued their assault on Young Xehanort, trying to coordinate yet their different ideas of attacks were conflicting with each other, something the Organization member had noticed.
He deflected every attack thrown towards him from Heinkel while dodging all of Kafma's vines with ease, making him eventually reach a point of boredom.
"If this is the best you have, then my time here is being wasted."
"Don't look down on us!" Kafma shouted as he started to increase the number of vines he was summoning.
While Kafma was doing this, Heinkel pulled out a bottle given to him by Sora in the case he was reaching his limit.
As he proceeded to drink this bottle, he could feel his energy returning to him though not all of it.
'This is weird but useful. Sucks that I was only given one.'
With some of his energy restored, Heinkel got himself ready for battle, seeing that Young Xehanort had turned his focus on dodging each new vine that Kafma summoned.
"Long range attacks ain't doing shit. It's time we go for a more close quarters combat, Vollachian scum."
"Insulting me serves you nothing but show how much of an annoyance you are."
"Hmph."
Heinkel charged at Young Xehanort with everything he had, wanting to put everything on the line if it means that he will achieve victory.
Kafma saw this and couldn't help but view this sort of method suicidal, especially someone that's beyond their strength and skills alone.
He used his thorns to try and back up Heinkel, wanting to avoid his ally from easily being taken down. Young Xehanort noticed this yet he wasn't worried at all.
Being overly confident in his abilities, he continued to slightly put pressure on his two 'opponents'.
Heinkel swung his sword with everything he had, trying to land a hit yet his opponent was easily blocking them while also blocking off any of the throwing thorns from Kafma.
As their odd coordination was somehow keeping Heinkel alive, Young Xehanort stopped time for a moment in order to gain some distance away from the group.
Once time resumed, Heinkel and Kafma were both dumbfounded that the Organization member had suddenly disappeared.
"What the hell?!"
"Where did he go?"
"I don't fucking know."
"I'm up here, morons."
Kafma and Heinkel both heard the Organization member's voice, prompting the two to look up at unison.
As they were looking at Young Xehanort's direction, the Organization member pointed his keyblade directly at them while stating,
"You two are not worth my time. Go and rot somewhere else."
With that being said, he prepared to leave the two warriors until Heinkel started to shout at the boy.
"What?! Just because you are stronger doesn't mean that you have the right to run away! Come back here you fucking coward! Come on!"
"...do you really believe insults will provoke me? You are nothing but ants compared to my true power."
"That may be so, but we still are going to beat you no matter how hellish that task will be."
"..." Young Xehanort looked at the two with annoyance before turning around, preparing to leave.
Kafma reacted to this by shooting a large amounts of thorns towards the Organization member, forcing Young Xehanort to block off the attack.
"Was that supposed to do something?"
"It got your attention."
"Congratulations for such a small victory, do you feel good for yourself?"
"Yes." Kafma said as he fired another barrage of thorns at the Organization member. Young Xehanort stood there for a moment before disappearing once again.
Kafma and Heinkel were both caught off guard by this and before they had a chance to react, Young Xehanort landed a strong blow to Kafma's stomach, sending him flying into a wall with great amount of force.
As the general crashed into a wall, Young Xehanort proceeded to say in a cold tone of voice,
"If I really wanted to kill you both, it would be so easy."
"..."
Heinkel was shocked by this for a moment before looking with a serious facial expression, preparing himself for whatever Young Xehanort was going to do.
The Organization member looked at the drunk Lugnica deputy with a threatening facial expression before suddenly moving close to him.
"You act strong. You act like no matter what you do, you'll eventually succeed. That's more than pathetic, that's just straight up delusional."
"The hell would you know about me?!"
As Heinkel shouted this, he swung his sword at Young Xehanort only for his attack to be easily deflected by the Keyblade wielder.
"I don't care about you. You all are going to perish in darkness regardless of what you do. So just accept your faith."
Heinkel was frozen for a moment, looking afraid for a moment as he knew that this was probably the end for him.
He thought back about his wife, how he never found a way to wake her up from her slumber.
He thought back on how he never got the chance to speak with his revived mother once the conflict had settled, wishing to apologize to her for not having gone to face off the white whale regardless that it would've ended in his death.
These two thoughts were on his mind the most out of everything, causing him to react to Young Xehanort's attack by creating a blade lock with the keyblade wielder.
Young Xehanort was slightly surprised by this, not expecting Heinkel to have a backbone to create a blade lock with him despite how badly this would end for the Lugnica deputy.
Although Young Xehanort would finish this façade, he was a bit curious about something. He had noticed something was different about him compared to the Vollachian general.
"What do you hope to gain by fighting me alone? Fame? Recognition? Self-gratitude?"
"..."
Young Xehanort didn't like the silent, yet he knew that he was heading in the right direction, having seen Heinkel's anger slightly increased with each added question.
"You believe this will make you feel better? Because you aren't good enough? Because you are truly pathetic? Is that way you put on the tough guy act?"
"Shut...up...!"
Heinkel was increasing his anger, catching Young Xehanort's interest.
'Hm. You could make things interesting, Heinkel Astrea.'
Just as the Organization member was about to do something, he had felt a vine preparing to grab him.
This prompted him to quickly teleport away from Heinkel's position by a couple of feet.
As he does this, he turns towards the wall he had sent Kafma towards to see that he was still standing up despite bleeding from the right side of his head and having a broken left arm.
"Seems like you haven't understood that you stand no chance against me, no matter what you do."
Kafma looks at Young Xehanort with anger in his eyes. He spit some blood on the ground before saying,
"Doesn't matter if it gets me killed or if its beyond my skills, a Vollachian never cowards!"
"Hmph. What a pathetic and delusional pride."
The Organization member charged at Kafma, ready to finish off the warrior only for Heinkel to get in between the two and continue to take on Young Xehanort.
As the two had returned into a blade lock, Young Xehanort once again took this opportunity to antagonize Heinkel once again, wanting to see just how much darkness was on his heart.
"How pathetic it is for someone like you to receive help from a weakling. Doesn't that sound about right? A weakling like you constantly being saved by others, never being able to do anything on your own."
"Shut up!"
Heinkel's sudden increase in strength allowed Young Xehanort to see that there's an immense darkness inside the warrior's heart yet there's something preventing it from fully coming out.
Having a full interest on this warrior now, he teleported behind Heinkel before using his stop ability to temporarily stop time on his two opponents.
As he did this, he took a moment to think back on everything his older self had told him regarding this world.
'Being that you are the child of the two friends of my older self, you sure do have a lot of hatred in you compared to your parents.'
Using this information, he thought thoroughly to everything he knows about this world's history along with everything that had happened to both Wilhelm and Theresia.
He thought and thought for a moment before something came to mind. He reversed time to allow Heinkel and Kafma to move around once again.
Heinkel looked around until he was able to spot Young Xehanort to his left side, walking around him calmly without his keyblade.
"You know, you are quite interesting. You are still a weakling compared to me but there's something about you that caught my attention."
"..." Heinkel didn't respond. All he did was continue to swing his sword at the Organization member. Young Xehanort dodged all of the attacks with ease yet he continued to speak to the deputy of Lugnica.
"You've felt like this since you left your mother to go to what basically was her death. You had wasted your life underneath other's accomplishments. All you are is just a pathetic excuse of a man. Makes one question what's your purpose in this world? Why are you even here if others will do your job for you?"
"Shut up!"
Heinkel continued to increase his strength and speed until he had finally reached his limit.
Young Xehanort was continuing to dodge each attack while continuing to dig deeper into Heinkel, wanting to reach the critical point. He continued to speak,
"Your son, the great swordsman, has completely overshadowed your importance. If he was here instead of you, then maybe I would consider it as an actual fight."
"..."
Heinkel had a moment of pause when this was said, being reminded on how his son is better than him by a long shot.
This anger started to slowly increase the amount of darkness in his heart, making him desire for that kind of power.
Not for his own sake but for the sake of his wife, for the sake of his mother to make sure she doesn't ever get killed again, and for the sake of the kingdom he cares for.
This anger boiled enough to start showing signs of dark aura surrounding the deputy of Lugnica. Kafma took notice of this, making him speculate that the Organization member is trying to convert Heinkel into one of the creatures the people of Chaosflame had become.
Because of this, he quickly used up the remaining of his strength to shoot a barrage of thorns at the Organization member. Young Xehanort noticed this and just simply deflected off the thorns with his keyblade.
"Hm. I'm surprise that you have some energy left."
"As a general of Vollachian...I refuse to give up...no matter what..."
"Hm."
Young Xehanort teleported behind the general before knocking Kafma out with one swing to the back. Kafma tried to stay conscious yet the hit from Young Xehanort's keyblade was strong enough to finally knock him out of the fight.
'Damn it! I'll just have to put my faith on that jackass of a Lugnica warrior...'
Kafma collapsed to the ground with Young Xehanort looking at him for a moment, wanting to make sure that he won't interfere with what he was doing.
Once being able to confirm that the general was knocked out, he turned towards Heinkel, having sensed him trying to attack him while he wasn't looking.
Young Xehanort blocked off the attack with ease while looking at the deputy with a blank facial expression.
"Did you really think that would work?"
"I'll do anything to kill your ass!"
"..."
Heinkel moved back for a brief moment before swinging his sword a couple of times with all of his remaining strength, motivated by the promise Priscilla had given him to help find a way to wake his wife up.
Young Xehanort continued to deflect each attack until he easily hit the deputy's stomach with intense strength all while saying,
"You are worthless."
There were so many thoughts going through Heinkel's mind, with many of them being related to his arguments with his father and with him berating his son.
("It's your son's fault! He killed my wife! Your mother!")
("I'm sorry honored father...I'm sorry I once again angered you...")
("Had you gone and not been a coward, my wife wouldn't have died.")
("Honored Father...")
("Drinking? How does that solve anything?!")
'Damn it all...DAMN IT ALL! HOW IS IT ALL MY FUCKING FAULT?! I DID MY BEST...I did everything I can...but of course I'm not good enough...Nobody Appreciates My Fucking Work At All!!'
Heinkel's darkness in his heart was preparing to possess him, having to be reminded of just how useless he is compared to the others and being reminded of the worst memories.
Young Xehanort smiled as he can sense the strong darkness within Heinkel preparing to take control until suddenly it stopped.
"Hm?"
Young Xehanort was a bit confused by this while Heinkel had his mind paused for a second, having thought of a memory he hadn't thought in so long.
He saw a memory of his wife, the very first time he had met her and the beauty that she showed him.
'Louanna...that's right, I'm doing everything to help you wake up...'
This caused him to lower his head for a moment, catching Young Xehanort's attention. He stood like this for a moment before looking up with a different emotion emanating from his face.
"...well, this is new."
"You won't win now. I'm going to kill you with all I have in me. And if that's not enough, I'll keep fighting even if you take off all my limbs!"
As Heinkel said this, he stood tall with his sword ready for combat.
Young Xehanort was annoyed that something had suddenly stopped the darkness within Heinkel's heart from conquering it.
He pointed his keyblade at the deputy while saying in a threat like manner,
"Just know that you are the one that asked for this."
"I don't care. I won't lose to you. I refuse to lose."
"We will see about that."
The two looked at each other with a serious facial expression before clashing weapons, Young Xehanort wanting to just end this fight while Heinkel found himself motivated by a memory of his wife but also motivated by his mother, wanting to keep her safe this time.
'This time I won't cower mother. I won't let you die again!'
Heinkel smiled as he thought this, confident that he will win regardless of the gap of power.
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Pooka and Salum looked at Replica Riku with Pooka preparing her fireball, Salum holding closely to his curved sword with jagged blades close to the hilt, and Replica Riku having his sword ready for battle.
They were in a stand off for a moment before both sides charge at each other, both sides confident in their abilities to beat the other.
Salum and Replica Riku clashed swords with all their strength while Pooka created a powerful fireball to attack from a distance.
Salum sensed this and quickly jumped away from Replica Riku to allow Pooka's fireball to hit the Sin Archbishop of Pride.
Pride noticed this and quickly countered this by throwing his own fireball. As he was distracted for a second by Pooka, Salum took this opportunity to charge at his opponent.
As he swung his weapon, Replica Riku blocked off the attack only to see Salum was attempting to grab his arm. Replica Riku had noticed this which prompted him to jump away from his opponent.
'That was odd, I sensed something odd from him, something threatening. I better keep my distance from him.'
As he thought this, Pooka charged at him while continuing to fire a barrage of fire mana. Replica Riku deflected each of these with some effort, seeing that he shouldn't underestimate the squirrel like spirit.
While he was focused on the spirit, Salum once again tried to strike him down with his sword only for the attack to be blocked off swiftly.
"If it didn't work the first time, it won't work the second time!"
"..."
"No words to say!"
As Replica Riku shouted this, he began to throw everything he had on his opponent, pushing Salum back.
Pooka attempted to intervene in the fight at assist her spirit user yet Replica Riku started to use some of his techniques to keep both of his opponents from gaining the upper hand on him.
He used a couple of totems to gain some distance while preparing the ground for an attack on Salum's location.
Pooka didn't think much of these totems and just pushed one of them out of her way only to suddenly have the totem explode on her.
"Pooka!"
"I'm okay Salum...it was just a little scratch." The spirit said slightly weak. The young man looked at the totem with a blank facial expression before grabbing one of them.
As he was grabbing it, he was surprised that his ability worked without the totem exploding on him like it did with Pooka. As he absorbed the energy from the totem, he began to feel a massive increase of power within him.
As he felt the power increase, he charges at Replica Riku with this power, surprising the Sin Archbishop of Pride since he didn't expect a sudden increase in speed and strength from his opponent. He was able to block off the attack quickly while he was thinking to himself,
'What the hell happened?! How did this guy get suddenly faster and stronger?!' Pride thought quickly what Salum had done in the past few minutes in their fight to see what could've changed.
The only thing that came to mind was when he saw Salum grab one of the totems without the thing exploding. 'Wait, he attempted to grab me earlier. Does that mean he can gain strength like that? By grabbing power or a person?'
Because of this, he now is aware of Salum's ability, meaning that Replica Riku will make a conscious effort to not only take him out first but avoid getting close or using any abilities that can help boost his opponent's strength and speed even more than it already is.
'A clever ability...but not one that I will allow you to use against me for long!'
Replica Riku jumped high as the ground underneath Salum's feet was filled with darkness, making a circle.
Salum at first wasn't sure what to think of this until he noticed what seemed like scythes around the circle preparing to be launched at him.
Using his new added speed, he was able to just barely escape the death trap laid by the Sin Archbishop of Pride.
"That was a bit clever of you, Sin Archbishop, but Salum here isn't someone you can trap so easily."
Pooka said with pride, prideful on Salum's abilities. Replica Riku just looked at the spirit with an annoyed facial expression before throwing another darkball at her.
Pooka was able to dodge the attack while taking this chance to insult her opponent,
"Wow, that's how you respond? That's very petty and childish for a Sin Archbishop, wouldn't you say?"
"..."
Replica Riku gave the spirit a death stare before turning his attention back to Salum, noticing him swinging his sword at him with great speed. Although Replica Riku still had the upper hand for now but he knows that it can change at any moment.
With Salum having a power up and Pooka being a good diversion, he started to think of a plan to handle the two with his own skills and wits.
Once he had something in mind, he quickly started to teleport all around the area with a barrier surrounding him to prevent either of his opponents from landing a hit on him.
While he was doing this, whenever he saw Salum attempting to absorb any of his attacks, he used the scythes on the ground to keep the warrior from using his ability to get anymore stronger.
This fight stayed like this for a while until finally Pooka was able to get close enough to Replica Riku's shield to use her most strongest fire attack in order to break it.
Once this was broken, Pooka shouted to her spirit user to attack, seeing this as the opportunity to land a blow on their opponent.
Salum charged in and managed to close the gap between himself and his opponent.
Replica Riku reacted to this sudden movement from his opponent by blocking Salum's sword though as he did this, Salum used his free hand to create a strong fist to go and land a punch on the Sin Archbishop of Pride's face.
As Replica Riku took the hit to the face, he was angered by this enough to start creating red lighting around himself, Pooka, and Salum.
Both Salum and Pooka both noticed this which prompted them to gain some distance from the red lightning while Replica Riku prepared a powerful technique.
"Salum, you need to get close to him and absorb more energy. Even if it doesn't take him out, we need to get him out of here."
"...okay..."
"Don't worry, I have your back." Pooka said as she could feel that Salum was slightly hesitant about this strategy. Salum looked at his spirit and just simply nodded while still having his blank facial expression.
The two looked at Replica Riku before charging at him, making sure to avoid the red lightning all around the area.
Pride took noticed this and quickly started to throw totems at the two, trying to keep them at a distance while he prepares a technique.
Salum attempted to absorb the totems only for them to explode near him.
"Be careful Salum!"
"...sorry..."
"It's fine! Just be careful! He isn't going to let you get energy that easily this time."
"..."
Salum nodded before turning his attention towards Pride once again, this time more prepared.
He moved around using the power he had gotten from the first totem to move around in rapid speed, avoiding each totem and red lightning thrown towards him and Pooka.
As the two were closing in, Pride closed his eyes as he began to build up the dark energy from within himself, knowing that he needs to go all out if he wishes to win this fight.
Once he was covered with darkness and the witch's scent once again, he pointed his sword forward before beginning to create shockwave all around his surroundings.
Salum and Pooka both picked up on this and immediately adapted to the attacks, avoiding that along with the other attacks their shared opponent has been throwing at them.
This continued for a bit before Salum was finally about to reach Pride's location.
As his hand was preparing to grab him, Replica Riku teleported all around Salum and Pooka, landing a couple of slashes at them.
As the two took damage, Replica Riku was preparing to land the finishing blow onto Salum.
"This is the end of you!"
"Salum!!" Pooka shouted as she was completely worried for her spirit user's sake. Replica Riku smiled as he was about to take out Salum only to see the warrior suddenly grab his sword despite that causing a bit of injury to his hand.
As he was holding the sword, he began to absorb the Sin Archbishop of Pride's power, starting to feel a different kind of power mixing with his mana.
'This power. It's not like any I've ever felt.'
As Salum was taking note of this, Replica Riku realized that his immense power was slowly starting to be drained away.
'Grrr! I won't let you!'
Pride made his sword disappear while preparing himself to punch Salum on the face. As he swung his arm for a punch, Salum easily blocked the attack while going for a kick to the gut.
Pride noticed this and quickly blocked the attack, knowing how dangerous this new strength Salum as now.
"I won't lose to some weakling like you."
"..."
Pride summoned his sword on his left hand before slamming the ground, creating a shockwave all around them before swapping where his sword was being held from one hand to another.
As he did this, he started to create red lightning once again to keep some distance between the two.
Once he did this, he didn't hesitate to start teleporting around once again, trying to corner Salum while Pooka was away unable to provide assistance to Salum.
Although Pride had the advantage at first, the new power that was absorbed from him allowed Salum to quickly catch up, using his sword to block off any of his attacks from his own sword.
While their swords clashed multiple times, Pooka looked from a distance as she saw that Salum had boosted in power more than she expected.
'Mother would honestly be very impressed by this...I wonder if she's watching...'
While thinking that, she could see that her involvement will allow them to finally push back the Sin Archbishop of Pride.
She flew high up and prepared two separate fireball from the mana she had left.
As she was doing this, she continued to observe the way the battle was going between her spirit arts user and their opponent.
"You can do it, Salum!"
Pride and Salum both noticed what Pooka said with Salum keeping his blank facial expression while Pride looked more annoyed than ever.
"Enough!"
A sudden explosion of power had been caused that pushed Salum away from the Sin Archbishop of Pride.
As this was happened, Salum had managed to land on his feet while noticing a strong beam of darkness being shot up onto the sky with Pooka also noticing this with some fear in her eyes.
'What kind of power is this? I've never seen anything like it at all...'
While Pooka was thinking this, Salum got up and looked at just how powerful his opponent really is.
'So this is your power, Pride.' He paused his thoughts to look at his hand, feeling all the power he had absorbed thanks to his unique ability to absorb mana from people or objects. 'Whatever his source of mana is, it's not normal at all...I'll have to be careful.'
Salum held his sword with a tight grip as he prepared to deal with a powered up version of Pride.
As he was preparing himself for battle, the dark beam that was shooting up towards the sky eventually faded to reveal Pride with an overwhelming aura surrounding him.
Salum and Pooka both waited until their opponent made the first move, noticing that his movements have increased exponentially.
Replica Riku was able to land a couple more attacks on Pooka despite the spirit having had two fireballs ready to attack while finally landing a couple of damaging blows on Salum, seeing him as the biggest threat between the two.
Salum used the extra power he had gained from absorbing the power of Pride's sword to add in some defense to his body in order to avoid getting a fatal hit.
Despite how this helps, he still receives damage from all of Replica Riku's attacks.
Pooka managed to recover from the attacks she took from Pride after giving her body a moment to recover.
Once she recovered, she looked to see that Pride wasn't giving Salum an opening and was throwing a relentless amount of close range attacks.
'Salum's strong but he won't last long like that! I have to do something!'
Using up all her remaining mana, she combined both fireballs to create an ultimate fireball made up of her mana before throwing it towards Pride's location, hoping that this would do something for them.
As the attack was closing in, Pride was preparing to finish off Salum with one slash only to sense the heat of Pooka's attack hitting his backside. He turned around and with one slash, he was able to destroy the attack, rendering Pooka shocked.
"Wha...just how strong...is this guy...?"
As Pooka said this, Replica Riku gave her a death stare before turning back towards Salum to finish the job. The spirit arts user attempted to absorb Pride's energy a third time only for Pride to grab his hand with a firm grip.
"Not happening a third time."
Salum was a bit caught off guard by the tone Pride was speaking, seeing it deeper and a lot more intimidating than usual. Just before he took down his opponent, the Sin Archbishop of Pride suddenly stopped as he heard a soothing voice speaking to him.
"Bishop Riku, please return to me. Allow them to live."
"..."
Replica Riku stood silent for a moment before beginning to move in rapid speed away from Salum and Pooka. As he went towards the forest, both Salum and Pooka were uncertain of what had happened.
"...Salum, are you okay?"
"Yes...let me give you some mana."
Salum approached Pooka and began to share the mana he had gained from the Sin Archbishop of Pride to his spirit.
While he was doing this, he began to wonder more on the type of enemies they might encounter on their attempt to find the Keyblade Wielder.
'If this is the kind of people we will face, then we must return to Tiga and Melty.'
Salum put enough energy into Pooka to allow her to roam around once again with new found strength she didn't expect.
"This mana is completely different from all the others you've given me...what exactly is that guy?"
"Don't know...we must get to Tiga and Melty."
"Agreed. They might be in danger!"
"..."
Salum nodded to what Pooka had said before the two made their way towards the capital of the Vollachia Empire.
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Al looked at Xigbar for a moment before charging at him, confident that he can take the Organization member on his own. Xigbar tilted his head with a bit of curiosity.
"What do you hope to gain fighting alone? Don't you know you aren't that special to beat me?"
"I know I'm not special. I'm just a simple warrior fighting for his princess."
"Oh really? What do you gain by being with her?" Xigbar questioned, wondering what is making his opponent side with the sun princess. Al lowered his sword for a moment as he heard the question he was asked.
"...well, let's just say I pledged to follow her no matter where it takes me."
"Even if that leads to your own demise?"
"...yes, I will serve her until the very end."
"...as if."
Xigbar didn't like the answer he got, which prompted him to start firing a couple of lasers at the one armed man. Al noticed this and quickly charged at Xigbar, blocking off all of his attacks away.
Once he managed to close the gap, he swung his sword which prompted Xigbar to teleport away. As he did this, Al quickly deflected an attack aimed to his back side. He turned around to see Xigbar still pointing his right arrowgun at the one armed warrior.
"Hm. I can see that your little technique is the only reason you are alive."
"What technique?" Al questioned with a blank tone. Xigbar was silent for a moment, annoyed by what Al had said. He closed his eyes for a second before saying,
"Okay...then let's see how long that little trick will last on you."
The second he had finished his sentence, he started to teleport all around Al while firing a couple of lasers at Al.
Using his authority, he was able to dodge the attacks thrown towards him, having found one out of a multitude of paths to successfully escape the barrage of lasers shot towards him from multiple directions.
As he was escaping the barrage of attacks, he waited for the right moment before attempting to attack the Organization member.
He closed the gap between the two and swing his sword straight for Xigbar's neck only for the Organization member to teleport behind him swiftly in an attempt to shoot his back.
Al wasn't able to dodge this attack but he moved himself in a way were the shot wasn't lethal to him.
"Seems like your little ability as its limits."
"..."
Al turned towards Xigbar unfazed by the pain to his right side of his back from the shot he had received from Xigbar's arrowgun. Xigbar was a bit impressed on Al's resistance to pain, yet he wasn't afraid of him.
He saw Al as his warmup before having a chance to face someone with actual power. He teleported around for a bit with Al keeping his guard up, prepared for whatever his opponent would throw at him only to suddenly receive a kick to the gut.
"Hm. I'm surprised you didn't see that coming."
"...don't think I'm done yet..."
"Hm?"
Al smiled underneath the helmet as he swung his sword swiftly towards the top of Xigbar's head.
The Organization member took notice of this and quickly reacted by moving away from the one armed warrior with only a couple of pieces of hair having been cut off.
Xigbar looked at the string of hairs that had been cut off from him.
"Seems like I landed a hit on you." Al said in a snarky manner. The Organization member looked at Al with a blank facial expression for a moment before point his arrowgun at him.
"And you believe this gives you a chance to beat me? Ha! As if."
As Xigbar said this, he combined his two arrowguns to create a bow before pointing it towards the sky.
Once he pointed towards the sky, he fired a purple shot towards the sky before reversing the bow back into his two arrowguns.
Al was a bit skeptical on what Xigbar was doing until he saw an enormous amounts of arrows coming down from the sky in incredible speed to surround the area.
"What the?!"
"You'd better run!"
While Xigbar said this he pointed his two arrowguns towards his opponent before rapid firing a couple of laser bullets. Al's authority kicks in and allows him to find the correct path to victory after a multitude of fatal choices.
As Al manages to dodge majority of the laser bullets while also managing to cross by putting away his sword for a moment to grab a random shield nearby to pass through and avoid taking a fatal hit from the arrows being shot from the sky.
As he managed to get through, he threw away his damaged shield and pulled his sword back out to deflect a couple of the arrows still being fired at him by Xigbar.
Once he reached the Organization member's location, he swung his sword only for Xigbar disappeared and teleport a couple of feet away from Al.
Although he could continue firing, he wanted to observe how his opponent was holding up, noticing that he received a couple of hits though non-fatal wounds. He had landed a few burns on the warrior's back and on his left leg.
"Hm. For someone with just one arm, you can be an annoying pest."
"Trust me bro, I'm always underestimated."
"Well who can blame them? When someone sees a person with odd attire and only has one arm, of course everyone won't think much into it."
"Now that's just low, bro."
Xigbar shrugged off Al's comment before resuming the fight, beginning to fire another barrage of laser bullets at the one armed warrior. Al blocked a couple of them before deciding that dodging is the best move for him.
This caused the two to be in a temporary stalemate, with Xigbar giving some effort to try and eliminate Al while the ability Al is using was keeping him in the fight, preventing him from receiving any fatal blows.
As this goes on for a bit, eventually Al realizes that his authority's territory was starting to dwindle.
'I better be careful. If the territory disappears, I'm dead.'
Al ran towards Xigbar's direction to keep the territory from breaking while also trying to come up with different ways to take him out.
"You do realize its futile, right? You stand no chance against me."
"I know. I doubt I could kill you if I die million times. Actually I did already about half of that...but regardless of that fact, doesn't mean I won't try to beat you."
Al closed the gap between himself and Xigbar before swinging his sword with everything he had. The Organization member teleported away again though he was thinking deeply into what Al had said.
("...I doubt I could kill you if I die million times. Actually I did already about half of that...")
'Why would he phrase it that way...hm...'
The Organization member continued to analyze the words Al had used meanwhile the one armed warrior continued to attack despite how swiftly and effortlessly his opponent was dodging his attacks. After a couple of swings, Xigbar started to say,
"So, you have tasted death. That's actually intriguing. It explains now how you are able to avoid most of my attacks."
"..."
"What? Cat got your tongue?"
"..."
Al was stunned by the fact that Xigbar figured out how his authority somewhat works, which made him stay silent since he doesn't want to give any more away.
The Organization member took notice of the silent response he was getting, making him figure that it is an admission that he's on the right track.
He eventually teleported above a building, giving a gap between himself and the one armed warrior.
"What bro? You don't want to fight anymore? Afraid that you would lose?"
"As if. You can talk big, but nothing has change."
"Then what's the meaning of this?"
"Just changing up the fight."
As Xigbar said this, he snapped his fingers which caused a couple of dusk nobodies to appear all around Al, surrounding him.
"I see, you want to get a read on my ability."
"Bingo." Xigbar said in an exciting like tone. "Your ability as my attention, so I want to study it."
"I'm not a lab rat, bro."
"Doesn't matter, I'm still going to study you."
"..."
Al pointed his sword at the closest dusk nobody before charging at it, seeing that if he wishes to continue his fight with the Organization member, he'll need to beat all of the nobodies before him.
While he was doing this, Xigbar turned his attention towards the cards, a bit curious on Luxord's progress. He then turned towards his left side to see that Sora and Cloud were engaged in battle with Halibel and Cecilus.
"Hmph."
The Organization member chuckled as he found the keyblade wielder along with his ally from another world holding their own amusing.
He looked back at Al to see that he was somehow doing better against the dusk nobodies than expected.
Al swung around his weapon while trying to not rely on his authority, knowing that his skills have improved far enough to handle a couple of lackies.
He dodged a couple of attacks from the ten dusk nobodies before taking his opportunity to take them out one by one with his strength.
Xigbar noticed how well Al held his own, leaving him a bit impressed on how a weakling can hold their own.
Once the fighting was over, Al looked back at him with his sword pointed back towards him.
"If this is the best you got bro, then we are just wasting our time."
"As if, even if you all were prepared, the old coot and the rest of us would've defeated you all without much problem."
"That's because I haven't been involved yet!"
Xigbar and Al both noticed another voice speak out to what the Organization member had said, prompting the two to turn towards the direction of the voice.
As they turned towards the voice, a powerful wind was thrown towards Xigbar. The Organization member was surprised yet he was quick enough to use his arrowguns to block off the attack.
"Clever."
Xigbar was impressed by how he was almost caught by an attack, making him realize that he's going to have some actual fun with an opponent that doesn't carry some kind of hacks with them. He looked at his new opponent with a smile on his face.
"I was wondering when you were going to show up. Ready for round two?"
"...you won't get lucky this time."
Zarestia spoke with her sanity reaching its limit. Al noticed her which prompted a small smile on his face, seeing that he has a powerful ally by his side.
As Al was trying to find a way uponto the top of the building Xigbar was located in, the Organization member snapped his fingers which caused seven samurai nobody types to surround the one armed warrior.
"What the?!"
"You need a distraction."
"What? Afraid of a two on one?"
"As if. I just prefer to have an actual fight with a worthy opponent. You aren't that worthy even with your sneaky ability."
"Hm."
Al stood silent for a moment before preparing himself for a fight against a couple of nobodies.
'Alright then. Let's not disappoint my opponent.'
He got himself into his fighting stance as he waited for his seven new opponents to make the first move.
He waited for only three minutes before blocking off a swift attack from the samurai type nobody behind him, having only need three tries before managing to get a successful block.
Once he managed to block this attack, he turned towards two samurai type nobodies approaching him, having a feeling that they are about to attack him. He charged at them and quickly blocked one attack of the two attacks while dodging the other one.
Once he succeeded in doing this, he swiftly turned around and managed to land a hit on one of the samurai type nobodies. As his sword connected to the nobody, it looked like it received the damage, yet it wasn't enough to eliminate it.
Al figured this since the nobody type he was facing looked stronger than the previous one.
Although this was the case, Al still felt confident that he would succeed in defeating the seven nobodies on his own.
While this was going on, Xigbar pointed his right arrowgun at Zarestia while saying to her,
"I was wondering when you were going to show up. I thought that kick might've done you in."
"Don't talk so high and mighty! You are nothing but an annoying worm! One that needs to be put back on the ground."
"Strong words from someone who can't take a simple kick." Xigbar spoke in a cocky like manner. Zarestia looked angrily at the Organization member, hating the way he was talking to her.
She pointed her right hand towards the Organization member before shooting a powerful wind magic towards him.
Xigbar made a smirk on his face before teleporting a few feet above the Great Spirit of Murder.
"Heads up!"
"..."
Zarestia looks up to see a barrage of laser bullets shot towards her position. She quickly created a wind barrier around her to block off all of Xigbar's attack.
The Organization member noticed this, prompting him to point both his arrowguns at her while holding both triggers for a bit.
After a couple of seconds, he fires one Ricochet bullet at the Great Spirit of Murder, confident that this along with his next attack will break her wind barrier. He moves back for a second before firing a field of arrows to surround her.
The Ricochet bullet bounced away from Zarestia's barrier and started to destroy a couple of buildings. As this happened, Zarestia's barrier had suffered a blow yet it was still standing until the arrows surrounding her all started to be thrown towards her.
All of these attacks were too much for her barrier, causing it to break apart which forced her to start making her way towards Xigbar with her wind powers.
As she was flying swiftly towards the Organization member's location, Xigbar waits for a moment before teleporting away from her long range attack.
He teleported all around her position, making sure to keep his distance from her while also trying to corner her with a barrage of laser bullets.
"Is this the best you got?" The Organization member spoke in a demeaning way, wanting to see just how long before he overwhelms his new opponent.
He does this for a bit until finally Zarestia's sanity had reached her limit, causing her to start shouting in complete anger.
This explosion of anger caused a barrage of wind attacks to go all around the area, destroying a couple of buildings underneath her and even assisting Al in taking down a few nobodies unintentionally.
The one armed warrior was surprised by this which prompted him to look up to see what exactly was happening.
As he looked at the sky, he saw that Zarestia was violently sending a barrage of wind attacks all around the area.
Seeing some of the buildings near him breaking apart with parts of said buildings falling all around him, he retreated to avoid getting caught by these attacks.
As he did this, Xigbar was forced to keep teleporting all around the area to avoiding getting caught by any of the attacks.
While teleporting all around, he continued to shot his bullets from both his arrowguns, knowing that eventually he will land a hit on his current opponent.
This continued for a bit until Zarestia suddenly charged at Xigbar's direction with the Great Spirit of Murder's eyes showing bloodlust.
Within eight seconds, she closes the gap between herself and Xigbar. Once this was done, she goes for a punch only for her opponent to barely dodge the attack.
"Nice try!"
Xigbar landed a kick on Zarestia to get her away from him before he teleported a couple of feet away in order to reload his arrowguns.
"Hm." Xigbar waited a moment before starting to reload his weapon. "R for reload."
Zarestia recovered from the attack before turning towards Xigbar for a second before throwing a barrage of wind attacks.
The Organization member smiled at this for a moment before teleporting a few feet behind the Great Spirit of Murder.
He pointed his left arrowgun at his opponent while saying in a cocky attitude,
"Gotcha now!"
Once he said this, he was prepared to pull the trigger only to suddenly get kicked on the face without him having sensed any other presence nearby him.
As this kicked had gotten him, Zarestia took this opportunity to throw another wind attack while Xigbar was not looking.
This wind attack was successful in landing on Xigbar's chest area yet thanks to his coat, it was able to prevent him from being killed from such an attack.
He teleported a few feet from where he was to regain his balance for a moment while also taping his chest. He was surprised by the two hits he had received.
He turned towards the one that landed a kick to his face, seeing that it's a girl with blonde hair and white attire. The girl looked at her with anger before landing on top of the building underneath her.
As the girl landed, she prepared to jump as high as possible to try to land another hit on him.
Zarestia took this opportunity to also start another barrage of attacks on her opponent, wanting him to die for having harmed her and being in her way to get back her sphere.
Xigbar looked at his current opponent and on his new opponent with a serious facial expression before turning that into a confident smile.
"Okay, now we're talking!"
The Organization member pointed his two arrowguns at their respective targets before firing a couple of laser bullets, continuing the match.
While this was going on, Al looked at the three remaining samurai type nobodies he had left to deal with.
He was annoyed at this point since he hasn't been able to take these three specific nobodies down lately yet he wasn't going to back down.
Just as he was about to charge at them, a young man with a rapier sword managed to land a hit on the middle nobody hard enough to cause it to disappear.
Al was taken aback for a second before returning his mind to focus, feeling a bit relief to have some allies by his side. Alongside the young man was a young lady with long purple twin-tail hair.
This caught his attention since he can tell just by one look that she isn't a fighter by any means.
This few seconds of analyzing allowed a samurai nobody to teleport behind him with the intent of harming the one armed warrior.
Al turned around and was prepared to rest with the territory only for someone to shout,
"No!"
"Huh?"
Al was confused by this shout until he saw Medium jump in between himself and the samurai nobody.
Medium with both her swords managed to block away the attack from the samurai type nobody. As she did this, she shouted to Al,
"Now's your chance! Take this thing out!"
"...right!"
Al nodded at what Medium had said before swinging his sword at the samurai type nobody with everything he had in him.
As his sword managed to connect to the nobody, Medium saw her opening to land a couple of hits on it too.
Once she did this, the nobody disappeared since the attacks had weakened it enough to cause it to disappear.
As the second to last samurai was defeated, the young man with the jet-black bowl-shape hat had managed to outmatch the last remaining samurai nobody with his swordsmanship skills before eliminating it.
As this was done, Al turned back towards Medium to see that she was bleeding from the right side of her head.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah! I'm okay! Just took a big hit but nothing I can't shake off."
"Don't lie sister." Flop spoke out as he started to approach the two. "You are still injured, you need to rest."
"I know! But I just can't stand on the sidelines any longer! I have to help!"
"...I know what you mean, I'm just worried about you as well." Flop said, agreeing with the sentiment that they need to help their allies. Before anything more could be said, the two new people approach the three of them.
"Hey, who are you?"
"I'm Tiga Rauleon but you can call me Tiga."
"My name is Melty...Melty Pristis. Pleasure to meet you all."
Al, Medium, and Flop all three looked at Tiga and Melty, viewing them as non-threatening. Flop smiled at the two as he said,
"Pleasure to meet you, my name's Flop O'Connell. This here is my sister, Medium O'Connell." Medium smiled at both Melty and Tiga.
The two smiled back at the female warrior before turning towards Al, wondering if he's going to say anything. Al noticed this which prompted him to say in a calm manner,
"The name's Al. You don't seem to be from around here...so why are you here?" Al questioned both Melty and Tiga while remaining calm and friendly. Tiga and Melty both remained calm by this question since it was an easy one.
"We are looking for the Keyblade Wielder."
"Keyblade Wielder? Which one?"
Before that question could be answered, Louis and Zarestia were both kicked towards their location, forcing Tiga, Al, Melty, Medium, and Flop to get their guards up as they looked up to see Xigbar looking down on them with a condescending smile.
"So more small frays have arrived. This should be fun."
Tiga and Medium both got in front of Melty and Flop, knowing that the two aren't fighters and need to be protected. Al took note of this which prompted him to turn towards Flop to tell him,
"Go take the girl to safety. We got this."
Flop nodded as he understood that if the two stayed with Al and the others, they will just drag them down.
He turned towards Tiga first to ask him permission to take Melty to safety before actually doing it.
"Allow me to take lady Melty to safety."
"..." Tiga took a pause for a moment. He looked up at Xigbar for a couple of seconds before looking down for another more seconds, thinking deeply on the request Flop had asked.
After thinking deeply into this, he looked back at him and nodded, having a good feeling that Flop will protect Melty while he deals with Xigbar alongside everyone else.
Flop nodded back at Tiga before telling Melty to follow him. Melty had heard the conversation between the two boys.
She nodded at Flop before following him away from the area. As the two were running away, Xigbar pointed his gun at the pair while saying,
"Who said you could run?"
"Hey!"
"Hm?"
Before he could fire his arrowguns at Flop and Melty, a gash of wind was thrown towards him, prompting him to teleport out of the way.
He looked back down to see that Zarestia was charging at him with Al, Louis, Medium, and Tiga all four preparing to assist the Great Spirit of Murder.
"Alright then, let's see what you got."
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Author's Note:
For those wondering when will Emilia, Reinhard, Crusch, Felt, and the others will join in, that'll happen soon. As for the end of this arc, it'll be a while but for sure we are starting to reach it. Think of it as we are reaching the 2/3 point of the arc. Aside from that, there a few special chapters I'm prepared to write about, with them involving Roswaal and Subaru.