X stood in a wide blue gap where the water went up instead of down. Faintly he recalled that this place was Hollow Bastion. He looked around, unimpressed. Who would be, considering that you could only see water all around you? Kinda gets boring after a while. So X just teleported away to the Marketplace. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Riku looked around him. The marketplace of Hollow Bastion, if he recalled. But, where was the King? He looked around to see that he was surrounded by people. A man pushed his way through the crowd. From the gunblade that hung from his belt, Riku inferred that this man was Leon. " Hey, need any help?" He asked.Riku shook his head. " Your that Riku kid aren't you? The guy that was Maleficent's apprentice?"Riku growled angrily. " No, not anymore, Sora finished her off, remember?" Riku said. " Sora? Who's that?" Leon asked." And what are you still doing on the floor?" Riku got up, embarassed. " So, how did I wind up here? Last I saw, I was on a road." Riku left out the question that he was going to ask, how come he didn't know Sora? But he didn't say it for fear of them thinking him crazy. After a few more minutes of talking, after which Riku learned that he got here by a pool of darkness, the crowd dispersed, leaving only one man left. This kid however had a different scent, with a shock he realized it was another ' nobody'. Riku tensed, which seemed to make the boy chuckle. " Something funny?" he said guardedly. " One of the darkness, my name is... X. " the guy said. " Your a 'nobody', aren't you?" " You could say that. I am a Nobody, a being of darkness, much like yourself, if I do say. although you seem more... whole." X said. " Sorry, I don't speak in riddles, if your a being of darkness, then I got to get rid of you." " Then don't forget to destroy yourself last," X grinned." You are a fool to mess with the likes of me." Riku drew the Soul Eater, and X drew a simple sword that had the King's crest on the hilt and a silver edge. So the battle began. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elsewhere, another warrior walked along a path leading to a bamboo grove. This man's name was Auron. His sword, Battlefeilds of War, was strung on his belt. He came here often to train but this time some one was already there. Or rather, two someone's. A man with a large sword with a demon wing on his shoulder was fighting a man with silver hair with a black angel wing on the opposite shoulder. Both of them, Auron saw, had lots of wounds. Since the one with the long katana seemed the more darker of the two, he calmly spit on his blade, and yelling " Banishing Blade", lept high in the sky and brought his sword down, resulting in flames popping out in pillars tomards the man with the long sword. It struck him dead on, causing him to drop to one knee. Grimacing, he hurtled a dark energy orb at the man with the demon wing. That man fell to the ground, greatly weakened it seemed. " Well, Cloud, since it seems I am outnumbered, I will leave you now. " No, .... Sephiroth, we finish....this... now!!" the other man, Cloud, said. " Sorry, but no." Sephiroth said, teleporting in a flash. Cloud growled, then fell unconscious. Auron looked at him then sighed. Hah,hah, chapter two is up and running, as you can see!!
