I jumped slightly and a prism merged from my body and shattered like glass. I felt power rush throughout my body. During my time in Spyro's world, I learned more about mana control. The more control I had over my magic the better I could use it, and the stronger spells I could cast. I was angry, I stood by and watch someone I care about get hurt. My hair gained white highlights, and my clothes also changed too with the new drive form I activated. My jacket had a clash of blue and white with a lightning bolt symbol on the left side while the right had an ice symbol. The light effects lessened and despite the lightning flying around and the minor blizzard forming around me. My opponent didn't even wavier. My new drive formed focused mainly on two elements, after witnessing the fight before, this keyblade master focused on speed. The only speed spells I could even come close to rivaling him are my ice and lightning spells. I felt my heart racing, more than usual. I was about to challenge a legitimate keyblade master in a duel. He stared at me with his cold eyes, giving a blank expression. His keyblade was still against his side, not changing his expression. He wasn't attacking, during the transformation he could have easily struck me down yet, he just stood there. Maybe because he knew, he would win either way. I turned my attention to Patch, and there he sat. All bruised all over, his yellowed skin was darkened by all the bruises on his body. Yet there he was, looking my way with eyes of worry. Tears were forming in his eyes, trying his best not to shed them. Despite the pain he is feeling, he was still able to worry about me. I closed my eyes for a moment and took in a deep breath and left it out. The shaking I felt disappeared, my fear disappeared, and all that was left was determination and anger. I was pissed off, and I turned my head back to my opponent and open my eyes. I glared at him and squeeze my keyblade waiting for him to make a move.

" You saw what just happened, and you still dare challenge me. This fight is between that boy and I, leave now outsider. These are matter between us, he knew the consequences of challenging me to a duel".

" I may not know everything that is going on, but I won't back down now. I won't just stand by and watch someone I care about get hurt. Maybe I am out of the way, and maybe I might be in the wrong in this situation. But it is not wrong to protect someone you care about, I don't care about this duel, if you dare attack him again I will protect him".

" You want to protect him? You don't even know what this battle was about and yet you dare get in between us. This child is untrain, undisciplined in the ways of battle and the duty of being a keyblade wielder. There aren't many keyblade wielders like there use to be, and even less keyblade wielders to protect this world from the darkness that clouds this world. When I found him, I wanted to train him and have him help fight against the monster in this world and yet he refused not wanting to leave his family. It may be harsh, but we are chosen by the keyblade and we have to sacrifice things in order to protect the order of this world. I told him I would return in a year to take him and make sure he follows his destiny. As a keyblade wielder, what we want is second. Friends, Family, they weaken you, they are just a liability getting in the way of duty. They.." He said before getting cut off.

" Enough!" I screamed. " I don't want to hear what you have to say. I understand what you are saying, but the duties that are forced upon us, the duty to protect a whole world. It grants us special powers, but for what to constantly fight monsters that are hunting us. No one would want that, but for you to force duties upon someone else, for you to try and take someone away from their family is unforgivable. For you to say friends and family are weakness is unforgivable. `` I got into ready position and I squeezed my keyblade and looked him into his eyes. " Our family, our friends, they are the light that pulls us out of the darkness we face. They are our light and strength, I have nothing I want to hear from you.

" This is your final warning, step aside or else I won't hold back as I did with the boy" he said. I didn't even move a muscle, staring him down. " Fine,'' he said before vanish for a moment. I swung my keyblade and then he appeared in front of me with our keyblades clashing. I pushed back, letting lightning flash around me. He jumped back and to the others he must of seemed like he vanished again, but to me I could see him jumping back. He was moving fast but I could still see him move, I felt the lightning racing through my body, and around me lightning was coming out of me, making contact with the ground. I took a quick breath, and moved my right foot and slammed it against the ground. The ground behind me started cracking and the BOOOOM! I propelled myself towards him and slammed my keyblade against his. Lightning step allowed me to move fast, extremely fast allowing me to strike as fast as lightning for just a moment. To the others, I must have looked like a flashing blue light before reappearing in front of my opponent.

I pushed my keyblade against his, and then moved back to try and get some quick swings in. I tried to slash him with lightning step and jumped back slightly and went for a thrust. A blue lightning effect surround my keyblade as I thrusted. He placed his hand him in front of him and casted protect, my keyblade made contact with his prism shield my lightning was getting dispelled. I pushed harder hoping to break his defense but he didn't wavier. Instead with his keyblade in his other hand he moved his hand and slashed the air. The prism grew and pushed me back. I was pushed back and his prism disappeared and then he disappeared to.

He appeared in front of me and started his attack. He went for quick jabs, he was fast but I was able to defend against his attacks. He made short jabs and I tried to blocked with my keyblade but I was forced to dodge some attacks. He was fast, a lot faster than he was during the other fight. He had a series of jabs, each getting faster than the other, to the point I couldn't even see the blade move even with my lightning step in effect. I flipped backwards during one of his jabs and kicked the hand he was holding his keyblade, wishing this would break his series of jabs. When my feet were back on the ground, I launched myself for my own thrust with my keyblade. The tips of our keyblades made contact for a moment. But then his keyblade moved slightly to the left and hit my chest. I felt a sharp pain for a short moment before getting slammed backwards, breaking trees on the way. I broke three trees, it happened to fast but all I know was that I was lying on the ground. I slowly got up but all I could feel was a sharp everywhere, I was pretty sure he broke some ribs during his strike. I fall back onto the ground, I used my keyblade to hold myself up, and I placed my left hand on my chest.

I looked up and then his blade was against my neck. "Are you done yet", He said. He looked at me with a cold expression, lifting my head with his blade. " In a mere minute you have lost, what did you expect challenging me to a battle. Did you think you would even stand a chance, change my mind about taking Patch with me. Pathetic".

" Did I say this is over,'' he gave a small smirk to my response. The area around me started getting colder and ice surround me and ice spiked started coming out of the ground. He jumped back, trying to avoid the icicles trying to impale him. I got up slowly and when I breathed out you could see it. I lifted my keyblade and aimed it towards the sky. "Cura", then a batch of flowers appear above my head and green sparkles started falling them them, healing my wounds. I could feel my back aching but if I used Curaga then I would consume a lot more magic than I would like to use.

"I guess I should stop holding back".

I never liked going all out against someone who isn't a heartless, but I had to give it my all. My fusion form was wearing off and my hair and outfit changed back to normal. I threw my kingdom key into the air and allowed it to disappear. I had to use the power I used on sharptooth. I summoned oblivion to my hand, I remembered the first time I saw these keyblades. I thought they were beautiful, I watched the legendary Roxas use them. Roxas was Sora's nobody but now he is a replica with a heart. He is basically his own person, a person with their own heart. I remember the days he taught me the stances of dual wielding. After the long and very harsh training by Roxas, he gave me two mysterious keychains, when I summoned them, in my hands were oblivion and oathkeeper. He told me, these keyblades I wield aren't the same as his. I never understand what he meant by that, but I didn't care at the moment. I cherish these keyblades more than anything, Roxas was like an uncle for me growing up, he always showed up with his friends having sea salt ice cream bars ready to give me.

I held oblivion with my left hand and pointed it in front of me. The dark crystal by the hilt of the blade started emitting a dark purple light A dark energy started emerging from it, and slowly started consuming me. I allowed the darkness from the keyblade consume, everyone had darkness in their heart somewhere. My darkness was surrounded by my past, memories of feeling helpless filled my mind, losing my home, my last memories of my mother. The dark energy started turn me slowly black, consuming me slowly until I looked like a version of a heartless. When it was done, my eyes were pure yellow, my body grayed out, like another version of anti form. The darkness didn't stop at me, it started blacken the ground beneath me and kept going at a slow rate.

I can hear the gasps and feel the fear in all their hearts. A dark smoke was appear out of me, I must look like a monster. I feel like a monster.

"You are so desperate for power, you draw upon the power of darkness. You're a monster" he said looking disgusted.

I felt terrible in this form, every bad thing that has ever happened hit me in this moment. The hopelessness, the pain, the worthlessness. I felt all of those feelings, my darkness was overwhelming. Teared started forming in my yellow eyes. I couldn't help but start crying. I remember the times where my life felt like this for so long.

"This is the darkness in my heart, this darkness use to consume every aspect of me. But then it didn't. I thought my life ended when my mom died when my home was destroyed. When I lost everything". I placed my left arm against my side, and looked at my right hand. "I didn't know what came next, but what happened next was something I never expected. I thought I was always going to be alone, I thought this darkness was going to be everything I was. But I had people pulled me slowly out of this darkness, friends who taught me that there is more. People who have felt this kind of sadness and pain, but become more than this darkness. I was given a new family, people who love me depite all my flaws. My darkened heart pulled into the light" I said as I swung my right arm sending a wave of light, summoning oathkeeper to my hand.

The waves of light cured the ground of their blackened state too, instead they started being filled with flowers. The light reached farther than the darkness, it covered a lot of the forest they were standing in. The flowers started to form and when they all started to bloom they shoot out little dust of light. They were white moon flowers, they look a lot like water lilies but they were all straight white. This dark form I started to shatter as the blackened state was breaking into small shards. My outfit changed to final form, my hair was all white again. I was given a slight white glow around me and instead of my eyes change shape like they usually do. Instead my right eye started emitting a small white flame that flew to the back of my ear.

"Because of my friends, my family they helped filled showed me the light. They gave me the strength to keep going, and now they gave me the strength to stand back up. This dark keyblade you see represents my past, the pain and sadness I felt back then and the pain I will feel in the future. The keyblade in my right showed me the hope that now fills my heart. There will always be darkness but the light and hope that now surrounds my heart will always be stronger". I wiped the tears from my face and smiled, and looked at Patch and the others. I watched as the dust from the flowers started to heal his wounds. I unleashed all the light that was in my and for some reason it doesn't sap away any magic from me. I feel stronger than I felt last time I tried to use them form in the Great Valleys. I guess more hearts are now connected to mine. Oathkeeper and Oblivion started to emit their own energy, a small light around them. Oblivion with this shadows and darkness surround it, and Oathkeeper with its white glow. This is the power I have and I'm going to unleash all of it right here. I have leveled up quite a bit, now time to put my final form to the test against another keyblade master wielding a legendary ultima weapon. I had to fight, to give Patch the chance to decide what he wants to do. You protect his future with his family.

"How about we start round two".