Kingdom Hearts: From No One to Someone

Roxas vs Vanitas

"I have to say Roxas I'm impressed."

Roxas got off the fallen tree and summoned Oblivion. He attempted to track the source of the voice, but couldn't find it.

"You know a Limit Break, something that I thought that it was lost from the Keyblade wielders of this era." The voice said, shocking Roxas.

He barely snapped out it before he had to block a strike from a Keyblade!

"Granted I only know the technique itself since my older brother showed me. Bless his heart..." The figure trailed off, sounding a bit mournful at the end. But the force on his Keyblade seemed to inceease as he snapped out of it.

Roxas got a good look at the figure and was immediately worried.

He was about his height wearing a black and red organic bodysuit similar to the one Riku once wore. The only other piece of clothing on him was a dark glass helmet with a metallic silver outlining hiding hs head.

In his hands was a Keyblade withe the guard looking like a black gear with red outlining and the teeth were a half gear of the same coloration. The shaft was was a long silver bar with a small gear in the center and was wrapped up in chains and had a blue eye similar to the Master's at both end. Its chain was three voppery gears connected to a copper gear that was split in half at the end.

He couldn't get a reading on this figure with only one exception. His heart and he wisher that he hadn't.

It was to put it simply an abyss. No light whatsoever, filler with nothing but darkness and negativity.

The Nobody was wondering how in the name of Kingdom Hearts that this guy hadn't become a Heartless yet with how dark it is.

It took a second to sink in, but he remembered were he felt such negativity.

"You were the one who messed with the Mark of Mastery and the one I've been sensing around the castle." Roxas said, trying to surpress a grimce as the battle of strength was starting to agrivate the poison in his lungs.

"You are correct and allow me to introduce myself. My name is Vanitas. And so I don't forget, Esuna!" Vanitas said as he casted a spell at the end, curing Roxas of his poison.

After breaking away he checked to see that if he wasn't poisoned any longer and to check if this Vanitas didn't trick him. He was poison frer and confused in why he was cured.

"Why?" The baffled Nobody asked.

"It's quite simple really. I didn't wish to fight you with such a handicap so I was just waiting for you to heal. But now-" Vanitas said before he had to block a strike from Roxas.

"You talk to much, besides your Unversed was the one who poisoned me earlier." Roxas said, shooting a fireball at him.

Vanitas dodged and returned with a dark fireball of his own.

"Reflect!" Roxas casted as the fireball collided with the barrier, shattering it. A moment later the Nobody once again found himself in a blade lock with the masked Keyblade wielder.

"I suppose you are right, but that poisoning I admit was my bad. I didn't expect it go suicidal like that still you passed." Vanitas said as he broke the lock and started to engage in a clash of Keyblades.

"I passed? So you were testing me?" Roxas questioned as Vanitas briefly broke contact and casted a spell.

He came back and Roxas found himself hard pressed to keep up with the much faster advisery now.

"Still am, and I have to say that you are impressive for a Keyblade wielder of this era. If you are from this era?" Vanitas said, shocking the Nobody once again.