The Apprentice

Friendly Foes

Amber: 

I got a letter in the mail today...telling me to go to the courtyard behind the SYNCO building...and that there was something for me... It was from my old friend from long ago named Gretchen Grimlocke... She hasn't spoken to me in YEARS! I'm so happy...I quickly threw on a Heartless Symbol crop top and jeans and told Ansem where I was off to. He smirked and ruffled the hair between my antennae... I then bounded off to that alley...

As I got into the alley...there was just a wormhole sitting there...with pink paint on the ground spelling "Go Inside". Well...Gretchen must be in there... I went into the wormhole...I was ...disturbed... Poor creatures...horrifyingly contained in vessels, suspended in a pink liquid... Gretchen wouldn't do such a thing...right. Wrong... A sharp pain crawled up my back and midsection...and I went down rather hard... I looked back up to see Gretchen over me, smirking with a knife in her hands...my own crimson blood on the blade. "Well well well...If it isn't Miss Seeker of Darkness." Gretchen said in a snarky tone.  Tears welled up in my eyes along with the blood seeping from the gash in my back. I can't believe it...Gretchen turned on me... I snarled and tackled her to the ground, punching her over and over...the villainess retaliating with more stabs and slashes... As I was about to black out...Gretchen grew into this grotesque...thing before my eyes... Something snapped inside of me and... I transformed myself. It was now beast against beast....

Gretchen threw out pink orbs of fire and I retaliate with orbs of purple lightning and shockwaves of darkness. With the sound of thunder...our powers clashed until I was struck down with a sharp kick and was on the direct path of a massive fireball. I knew it...I was done for... Until something landed between my antennae...a tiara? Why... I was surrounded by pure black energy and soon found myself cloaked in a ballgown with black angelic wings folded neatly against my back...I had a staff in hand...with the Heartless Symbol on the tip...surrounding a sparkling red crystal orb. I charged once more at Gretchen... I twirled the staff like a baton and stopped it short once it faced upright after several speedy revolutions. I closed my eyes and was thrown back when I launched a practical supernova of darkness...disintegrating Gretchen... But I got hit with the remains of the fireball and was grounded once more...

I'm fading out of consciousness now....time will tell if I make it out of here in one piece...