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This is when Dainder blushed. They were halfway between the stretch that seperated them from their goal. The stars and moon mimicked itself on the water underneath. ripples and small waves flew from their feet.
"Well truthfully, I was never much of a ladys man.... That was my brother." He looked away uncomfortably, trying to pretend his focus is on the moon.

As I stepped into the third district, I looked to my left and smiled in remembrance of the abandoned house Leon and the others restored and used. I continued to walk down the stone set of stairs to my right as I turned and saw the same two, the boy and the girl, begin to fight more heartless. I stood there quietly as I watched the boy pull out an orb of materia, as my blue eyes widened.
"Is that boy from my world?!" I thought to myself in surprise, watching them take down the enemy heartless. I noticed the boy had various skills, and was able to infuse the materia into his keyblade to utilize incredible abilities. I stood in the distance, watching and listening, and smiled greatly when I heard him mention about me. I made sure they didn't know of my presence, before watching them unlock and enter through Merlin's Magical door.
I picked up my sword and followed through, making sure to re-seal the door quietly before I turned to see both of them walking carefully across the water's edge, just getting to the house in the center of the shallow lake.
once they had entered the house, I snapped my fingers as a few large boulders rose from the depths of the lake, floating before me in a path. I gently walked across them casually, and made it safely to the shore. "Why were those ever back at the bottom of the lake? maybe silly old Merlin forgot his magic runs out over a long time! xD" I thought with a bit of a laugh to myself, before hearing the mention of "Halloween Town" from inside the house. I turned and walked around the side of the house before ducking in as I pulled the old drapes back, joining Merlin and his guests.

Setsuko arrived a few minutes after Dainder. "Jeex your fast!" She saw the heartless and summoned her keyblade. She jumped in the air and killed a few heartless that were jumping down from houses near her and Dainder. She strumed her keyblade hard and the sound gave the heartless a lot of pain. She killed them as soon as she saw them in pain from her music. "You know I kinda of always wondered why heartless attack people so much..." Setsuko said as she continued to fight heartless.

Tomoko was walking around the third district with a book in her hand. She saw a few people running and saw some heartless and her sister! Tomoko but the book away in a bag that she was carrying over her shoulder. She ran over to the heartless and where her sister was at. She summoned her keyblade and stood next to her sister. "Setsuko what are you doing here!?" Setsuko smiled when she saw he sister. "Tomo! Thank god you happened to be here look at all the heartless! Can you help out?" Tomoko sigh. "Looks like I don't have a choice anyway."

"wow... Your even stronger now! But don't you have mana overload? I can do actions like that also... But nothing like that without having the materia on me rebound." He said in shock. He looked over to the cerberus, "What kind of heartless is this one?"
He ran over to it, he used his ability and shot the gravity down not successfully doing much damage, however it launched him in the air high enough to come striking back down with force. He used the last of his energy to give it quite a few whackings with lightning dash. It weakened him tremendously but not enough. He ran back over to cloud with his breath deep. However not before he got hit with a fireball roaring from the monsters mouth. It did some damage, however he was capable of summoning aero to block some of it.
"Woah. Thats not good... This one seems tougher then it looks at first." Cerberus began stomping towards them.

Looking over to the the young girl that had just joined and considered me "human".
"Eheh...Human? you have no idea what I really am..." shaking my head.
"and kiddo-" I would say to Dainder with a smile, "I'm Cloud Strife...I have to be strong."

(I was once human...until I was killed in a fight with Sephiroth at the Nibleheim reactor, and my dying body experimented on by Hojo. He attempted to turn me into a recreation of Sephiroth's power...but he failed, and I was brought back to life in a coma for awhile, as Zack Fair tried dragging me along in our escape...
Still, I had exceptional strength and abilities...I became, "super-human", as strong as any 1st Class SOLDIER...maybe stronger than the almighty Sephiroth himself.)

I looked back to Cerberus as it completely had the young boy outmatched.
"You again, huh? I remember you...the Coliseum...You're not gonna beat me this time you mutt." I would say to the large beast as it replied with a nasty roar, preparing to attack the four of us.

"You three-" tossing them a black box with gold metal trimmings and the kingdom symbol upon it's top. "Take only *one* each...and you may keep the one you choose."
as I let them choose one trinket each from the box, I took up my huge sword and ran after Cerberus, deflecting it's blows and slashing at it's three heads, to stall it give the children a window of time.

The Special Box

Inside were but a handful of smaller versions of keychains, each having a special symbol/shape to them. it came with a small note from Merlin inside.

"Yen Sid, the king and I all worked hard to develop these special sub-key chains only to be used in the hands of good to face the presence of evil and darkness. there are eight of them in total, each of a special element or attribute that gives one's keyblade special abilities concerning that element or power. it will combine with the wielders keyblade and fuse along with it's natural ability, empowering it with that element. but nevermind, you'll know when you use them~ ^ ^"

-Merlin the Magician

ps: there's a little something in there for Cloud, knowing he'll be coming to say Hi to me soon enough~

Fire Symbol: along with whatever ability your keyblade possesses, this will add fire to that.
ex: your keyblade will be on fire, give off flame slashes, empower fire attacks incredibly. infuses fire into elemental attacks.
(such as flaming ice/ice and fire at the same time, flaming graviga's, eletricity that leaves fire behind when it strikes, pulses of fire with earth magic, flaming reflega, a shield of fire when using curative magic, fire "pulses" during the use of musical magic, etc.)

Ice Symbol: your keyblade will sparkle gently with the aura of ice surrounding it.
(see fire symbol for reference to examples of effects on keyblade)

Bolt Symbol: your keyblade will spark, and give off lightning slashes.
(see fire symbol for reference to examples of effects on keyblade)

Tree Symbol: empowers sheer force and strength into your keyblade, making your attacks hit harder, and block hits stronger. this also makes earth magic stronger, such as earthquakes, and allows the summoning of trees/plants via magic to your aid.

Wind Symbol: your keyblade will have wisps of wind about it, your wind magic will become stronger, and it will give the force of wind to all of your magic abilities.

Light Symbol: It infuses the power of Light into any ability that your keyblad posseses.
ex: your keyblade will glow bright/white, and give off slashes of light, and empower your spell with light(white/blue fire, white glowing ice, white blue lightning), increasing their strength.

Darkness Symbol: it infuses the power of darkness into any ability that your keyblade posseses.
ex: your keyblade will glow with darkness, give off slashes of darkness, and empower your spell with darkness(black fire, black ice, black/red lightning), increasing their strength

"?" Symbol: empowers all magic and abilities, but exhausts the user more, the weaker they are.

and an odd silver gear in the center about the size of someone's palm...is this for Cloud?

Mitsuhide continued to walk and thought to himself. "Were could he be...he should have been in the nobodies world now hes gone..were'd he go?"

Giving a few good swings at the beast, knocking it's head around, it then snaps at me as I use my blade to guard myself, it catching my sword in it's teeth as Dainder fought the other two heads.
"Yeah, Hades used this beast way back in the day against me and Sora after I refused to finish the poor kid off. Unfortunately Sora was a tough little kid who weakened me some, and this beast here did me in pretty good afterwards." I finished my sentence by yanking my sword from Cerberus' teeth and giving a hefty wack at it. Looking back to the twins I smiled at their decisions, but my eyes widened in seeing the gear to my swords I lost years ago...
"Setsuko! Tomoko! One of you throw me that gear, quickly!" I would shout before leaping high into the air holding my sword point facing down with both hands, falling with intense force as my blade would light up with lightning fiercely. Cerberus jumped back quite well before I could plunge my massive sword down into it, only crashing into the ground next to Dainder instead.
Cerberus reared back and begin to breath heavy black fire upon me and Dainder from all three of it's heads, but I quickly cast a wall of reflega in front of me and him to protect us. Cerberus' continuous barrage of flames were too much to do anything but guard against at the time, for I had to hold the reflega strong to keep us alive.
"Nnnhhh~!" I would let out, holding my blade into the ground as the fire beat against my wall of reflega. "This beast has gotten strong too...Hades sure kept his pet in shape alright~" I would mutter, looking back and waiting for the girls to throw me my gear and join the fight to even the odds.