The waves of Darkness

Nathen walked through the door and on the other side was a glass mosaic floor. His shadow slowly stretched out from him and formed one neoshadow. Then a voice from inside of his had spoken "[ Darkness is always with the light show me your conviction and fight.]"

Nathen courses as to what or who the voice was didn't have time to think as the neoshadow quickly attacked with a side swipe to Nathens right arm. Nathan put up his garde and manage to block the full force of the hit the neoshoadow then jumped and dived underground Nathen thinking fast pulled out the wand and followed the moving black spot around intill he was right over it and held the wand there. Right, when the neoshadow jumped up out of the hole, Nathen brought the wand done on its head with all his might. Usually, it would not have been enough to one strike the heartless but with the combined force of the neoshadow and Nathens wand slamming down on his its head managed to bash the monster on the head sending it back to the darkness.

Nathen entirely out of breath at this point and was gathering his nerve looked down on his left side of his vision to noted that he saw a Hp and Mp bar there just like in the game. "I guess thats Heart one final gift at least it will be easier to keep track of my HP and magic usage. So mysterious voice what's next."

[You can face foes outside of your league but what will you do against odds that hopelessly outnumber you.]

Suddenly 30 Small shadows came out from the floor, and all of them at once turned to look at Nathen like he was there dinner.

" Hay hay hay isn't this a bit of a spike of difficulty here."

Nathen suddenly faced with the overwhelming might of over 30 heartless head no choice but to do what came naturally to him. He ran like his life depended on it and ran he did with the heartless right on his track. Yet again in this world, Nathen found himself thankng the military for keeping him in shape all his time in he knew that he could easily keep up this pace for 40 min if he had to. So he began hit and run attacks after he found a good rhythm to conserve energy. After a while, the number of heartless lowered and he realized that he could even gain XP in this dream world to when he defeated the first three shadows he noticed that his MP and his health increased but since he didn't have access to his stats page he didn't know by how much he could only see the bar get slity longer then what they where.

" Ok, I can do this just a little more and.... ouch who the H*** did that."

Nathen looked at the shadows and saw one he could have sworn had a smug look on its face despite the fact that shadows didn't have a face. Nathen not even caring that there were still ten shadows chasing him. He lost his temper and charged in right for the heartless he locked on to.

"you are dead..... Lee Roy Jenkins!!."

Nathen shouted at the top of his lungs

(Athrus notes: for those that have not been in the military or do not know Lee Roy Jenkins is a term some in the military shout out when they are about to do something stupid if it confused anyone.)

Nathen not caring about the other shadows that kept on clawing at his back and arms. Chared at the heartless Nathen singled out form the group. Then prosided to bash it like a pinata. Whit that hateful minis out of the way. Nathen tuned to look at the other nine heartless left and quickly finished them off after he used his cure a few time to get him back to full health. After he was done the room grew quiet and eerie then.

[You have shown courage, cunning, and dignity that will never allow you to be the plaything of fate. Now show me what you will do in the face of absolute despair.]

Suddenly the wand in Nathens hands disapired in a flash of light. Then the ground shook, and the glass floor started to crack, and a giant hand came from the edge of the floor only to pull up a giant Darkside heartless.

There it stood towering over Nathen as one would look at an ant right before you would squash it.

" Ok, this is not cool how am I suppose to fight this thing with nothing?"

Nathen was only getting angrier the more he looked back on his second life. Just saw one crisis after the next that was only escalating from since the beginning.

" Fine, you what to distory me. Bring it but know this I will be making a new hole in you as retaliation so greet your teeth because I'm making it hurt."

Nathen completely overcome by rage charged in on the Darksider and punched with every fiber of strength that he had. Then suddenly with a blinding flash of light, the Darksiders disappeared. In Nathens hand was what he was looking for all this time a personal Keyblade. He looked down at it to examine his new found weapon strangly it looked like it was missing another half of the sword like it was clean cut in half right down the center from the tip of the blade to the bottom of the hilt. At least with the way, the Keyblade was designed with the handle still there, and the way it was cut didn't affect the performance too much on the cross gourd there was a half of a face of a black western dragon. That was spitting out a blue fire that made the blade part with a half fire cloud-like design on top. I wonder why its cut in half.

[That is because it's only half of my form. He has the other half.]

"For the love of, WHO ARE YOU."

[Look down who did you think was giving the trial. All keyblade are forged from the hearts of our welders, but sometimes we can reject are would be master and choice others in extreme situations. With this method of forging in particular the inner heart is mead into the weapon, you call a Keyblade and we to get to decide how and to what end we test you. If you fall then you are consumed if you pass you get to use my power simple right.]

"Oh"

Nathen not knowing what to say directly went on to the next question he could think of.

"So does this mean you'll be in my head then."

Nathen kind of hoping he wouldn't he already had Heart. If he hades to put up with another voice, then he honestly didn't know if he could take it and in up going crazy.

[Fer, not the only reason I gained intelligence was to test you after we are done here I will only be able to respond to your will and fight beside you and nothing more.]

Nathen sighing a bit of relief ask what's next.

" Ok Puff what now"

[Simple if you wish to continue simpley walk forward to get my other half maybe. Or go back words and keep me and wake up knowing that you will never have a whole keyblade.]

Puff not noticing the joke Nathen just mad with its name simple answered his question.

"what's the challenge?"

[No can do you have to go into this blind I can only expine when and if you move forward. But be warned if you lose you will disappear into the darkness and loss me for good.]

"But I thought as long as I got my keyblade to aper I was golden even if I get defeated here.'

[Normally youd be right but your a bit of a special case. That's all I can say without going into too much detail.]

" Well, you know what they say in for a penny and all that."

As Nathen took the first step forward, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw next.