Keyblader Apprentice Quest (Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep)

[x] Question.

"So," You lock eyes with Master Xehanort. "Have you told the other masters?"

"I'm afraid I haven't had the chance." Xehanort looks to the side, seemingly ashamed. "When Vanitas first escaped I knew I had to act immediately. You see, he finds himself drawn to hearts with powerful light within them, and would waste no time trying to destroy them. If I hadn't acted immediately, the consequences could very well have ended up dire for us all… but perhaps if I had caught out the aid of my fellow Masters, we could have tracked down Vanitas before he could attack his first target. Still, I did what I thought was right, and the light can always be returned once it is safe."

"Don't worry Master Xehanort." Terra steps forward. "You did the best you could… Scena and I can take it from this point, right Scena?"

"Thank you Terra. Your help will be needed in the war to come, as well as yours Scena."

"Mine?" Well that's not something you were expecting. "But what could I do?"

"As you already know, your nature as a Fey gives you a host of abilities inaccessible to normal Keyblade bearers." Aww… you actually feel a little flattered at that. "Among these is the power to resurrect yourself - even a Fey who hasn't mastered the art of self-resurrection can easily be revived by others provided they know the right spell. Still, I must ask that you be as cautious as possible."

"Really? Why?"

"Because if someone else resurrects you they can also bind you to their service, regardless of your own will. All great power comes with a great price, young Scena, and I'm afraid your immortality comes with one of the steepest prices that anyone could have to pay - the price of binding."

"I see." This is actually very good to know, You've heard about the Fey skill of self-resurrection, but you'd thought that if you were killed in battle without knowing it you'd just stay dead. That you could be brought back and turned to the service of whomever did the deed… it could lead all manner of uncomfortable situations. "Thank you, Master Xehanort. I hadn't know about that little facet of my biology."

"It's no problem young Scena. Just make sure to stay safe on your journey. It would be a tragedy to lose such a promising young Keyblade bearer, especially one as well versed in the dangers of Darkness as yourself."

"Oh thanks." Creepy or no, you can't help but feel a little flushed at a Master praising any of your skills. "I mean, you kind of had to know that sort of thing when you grew up in Midnight Town."

After your little conversation, Master Xehanort points you to the next most likely location of this Vanitas - A world known as Radiant Garden.

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If you had to choose one phrase to describe Radiant Garden to the citizens of Midnight Town back home, you say the best one for the job would 'the complete opposite of Midnight Town' and leave it at that. More specifically, the place is beautiful with decorations and plant life everywhere. It's no wonder that this place was named after a garden, because it has the beauty of one with all the happy citizenry to match. Heck, even the sky in this place is different, the bright illumination contrasting with Midnight Town's sky, which is dark and gloomy even on the sunniest of days.

All in all, you must admit that you're kind of jealous, but you're sure all the excessive sun would get on your nerves after a while. Luckily, it's not like you're here to enjoy the scenery anyway.

You're here to help Terra!

And speaking of Terra… do you make any recommendations to him?
[x] Nope
[x] "Hey Terra, let's go find some monsters - they're pretty good at leading us to problems."
[x] "Should we ask the locals if something's up? If anyone should know, it's them."
[x] "That big castle looks important. I mean, it's the kind of place I'd try and take over if I was an evil Darkness monster."

[x] Ask Around

"Hey!" You shout out to the nearest person. "Have you seen a creepy-looking young man in a mask that creates monsters?"

"No," The citizen, a young boy, points to something behind you as a look of panic spreads across his face.. "But I have seen a giant monster!"

You turn around to see a giant mechanical-looking torso fly past you, the symbol of the unversed prominently displayed on its back fin. Well actually you wouldn't say prominently, as the armor itself is colored black it's actually quite hard to see the symbol of the unversed on the machine, and only it's close location too you makes the location obviuse. Aside from black the second most prominent color of the armor is red, which forms bands around two horn like protrusions jutting from the bottom of the torso, as well as a pair of red eyes towards the top of the thing. However though red is more common on the machine their is a predominately blue crescent that on the center of the armor that draws your eyes to it, almost as if to compensate for the lack of the color on the armors other parts.

Well it's not Vanitas, but at least you've found a lead.

"Come on, Terra!" You shout, your wings appearing behind you. "We need to follow that thing before it gets away! I'll give you a lift!"

"Ok!" You wrap your arms around his and lift off into the sky.

…you have to admit; he's got some nice feeling muscles.

Mmmmmmmm.

You like this.

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You keep flying until you see the mechanical unversed combining with three others in some sort of large circular plaza. It's like some sort of cheesy children's toy. Well Vantis is supposed to be about the same age as Ventes so that might actually be what he had in mind.

"Terra! Scena!" You hear Aqua's voice call out from below you in surprise.

You land to see both your blue haired comrade and Ven stare at the two of you before focusing back on the monster.

More than anything you want to talk with your friends, but there isn't any time - you have a monster to fight!
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Well…

As it turns out, that monster wasn't nearly as strong as you thought it would be.

The first thing you and Terra did was to attack it's arms, the both of your managing to obliterate them, Terra with one of his well known earth shatterng spikes and yourself with an absolutely brutal bombardment from your magical arson.

At the same time Ventas and Aqua had done the same with the legs mirroring the attacks you and Terra had unleashed at around the same time, though Ventas attacked the legs several times instead with one large swing and Aqua used more water based magic than you did.

Either way after it's arms and legs had been vanquished Terra was quick to go after torso getting a direct hit on it as you flew up above it and kicked in right into the swing of his attack.

That isn't to say it was weak monster, in fact if any of you fought it alone it could probably have put up a very good fight, but with four Keyblade wielders of near Master level going after it the thing kind of disintegrated in short order. It's actually kind of surprising really to see how much the four of you have grown; you remember a time when the four of you working together would have struggled against something of half that strength, but now you can take it on easily. It makes you feel like all that training you've been doing is finally coming to fruition.

At least you've got some time with your friends.

…well, except for Mickey.

Darn, now you're a little sad.

Still! Most of you are together again. You probably won't get a chance to talk with all your friends again for some time after all of you become Masters… and have to start taking on your own apprentices among other duties.

Do you bring up a topic?
[x] No, it looks like Ven wants to talk anyway.
[x] You might want to warn the others about that creepy masked boy.
[x] It's been so long since all four of you have been together. Ask how they've been doing.
[x] Right! You'd forgotten until recently, but Aqua's a master now. You should congratulate her.