//------------------------------// // The Spirit Library // Story: The Unknown King // by Chaos Nightmare //------------------------------// As we returned to the ship we took to our quarters and began to rest up. As I made it to my quarters I placed the Titans communicator on the table next to the Lexicon before I went to grab a towel for a shower. “We need to talk.” Xion said. “I’m not in trouble am I?” I asked. “No we just need to think on which Data member to go after next,” she said as I paused as I thought about it. “How about number 2?” I asked as it was the first number to pop into my head. “You mean Xigbar?” Xion said. “Yeah him we’ll tackle him tomorrow. It's been a long day.” I said as I went into my personal bathroom to shower. The next day I was in the training room using the computer to choose Xigbar Data battle gate. Fight 1 As I looked around I saw that I was in the Hall of Empty Melodies where Data Xigbar appeared. He loaded his clips and one even floated a bit out of his hand. He then teleported away, the arena changing to one where it was a square rather than it’s large rectangle and four holes in some parts. He fired at me and I was hit. I realized now that his fast fire rate means he can combo til his clips run out… shit. I ran, avoiding his rapid fire to me best abilities. All I could do was dodge at this rate, this fight going nowhere fast. Finally he stopped to reload and I took my chance, running quickly to try and jump and strike him. I landed two hits before he teleported away and shot me several times in the back. It hurt, and I fell down to the ground, grunting, I turned around. I saw him fire some more at me and my instinct I raised my Keyblade to block. I saw his energy bots hit my blade and recojit right back at him. Each one hit him and he held his stomach in pain while his guns floated and spun next to hime. Well, good to know. I grinned, now having a means to at least stall him for a time. I got back up and now ran away a bit, upon hearing the fire of his weapons I raised my Keyblade and blocked, all of his shits flying right back at him as they bounced off the Keyblade. I ran fast back up to him and landed five hits before he teleported away. He was no longer defying gravity, as he put both his guns together and their tips began to glow. Realizing he was charging a shot, I held my Keyblade up to block, he fired and it bounced off, and against some invisible wall around the arena. Oh shi- Before I finished, he teleported behind me and fired. Everything went dark. I jumped, waking up outside his simulation entrance. Well now, this will be interesting. Fight 5 I am getting way better at this whole blocking and timing thing. My last round against Xigbar I think I got him half way dead. I took a small break to eat and rest for a bit before heading back in. Xigbar’s data repica appeared and like the times before, the battle began. I blocked his attacks, moving closer as he fired again, two rounds of his own munitions hitting him. He was stoned, and I went in, jumping and landing seven hits on him before he teleported away. Knowing his next move, I quickly turned around and spotted him, raising the keyblade and blocking it. He teleported to dodge them, and I quickly turned again to block, this time the bullets reflecting and hitting him. He was stunned again and I landed more hits. The arena changed after he teleported away. I was on one end, he on another, and I knew this from the last two rounds against him. I blocked, blocked, then ran as he was stunned. I stopped about halfway, making sure he didn’t teleport across the other end. His stun wore off as he began firing again. I blocked, turned as he teleported above me and blocked again, he got stunned again and I jumped, attacking him relentlessly. When he teleported away the arena changed back to normal. He began charging up his charged ricochet attack. I blocked it, the large arrow bouncing everywhere as I turned to block when Xigbar teleported some ways from my right side. He fired and I blocked, the shots reflected back at him. This time the arena changed again, though, it was just a square now, Xigbar in the center as he began to glow and fired into his portals, his shots flowing me as I ran. The area was tiny, really freaking tiny. I ran out of room, the arrows all hitting me at once. Things went dark, fast. I woke up outside the simulation again. I sighed. That was new, new means progress. Final Final I took a deep breath. I know I am getting close to beating him, his move where he jumps on top of that nest thing and snipes me is a bitch, but enough reflected arrows, and a reflected charged shot are enough to knock him out of there. I entered and he appeared, this time, I’m the one winning. He started off with a teleport and portal shots, the portal shots are harder to reflect back at him, but I managed what I can and try to dodge the rest. Enough of his shots I block-reflected back at him to stun him and I went in for a combo. I was getting really good at jumping from having to jump to whack his one eyed ass. He teleported away and for a bit it was a rinse and repeat process. Finally it changed and the arena was not narrow, a long hall with him at one end and me at the other. Block, block, stuned, run. That was my pattern for this part. Stop, let him teleport a mini distance, or better yet, closer to me, find, block, block, stunned, attack. Finally I came to the part where I have the most trouble, his portal, mini arena bs thing. I can’t block them all, but I learned to be fast enough that I managed to run around him and they all missed me. Taking a quick advantage I landed some more combos once that glow that made him damage immune wore off. He then jumped to his sniper's nest area, this part I figured. I can’t block til I see the lights of those laser arrows. Wait, block, wait, block… Wait… Block! The final returned shot got him out of them, near me enough to land another set of combos. He changed the arena to look like some kind of square, he was in a center stage accessed behind him, and I was in front of him, blocked by a rather deep drop that I had to run around. Block, stunned, run. He teleported as I got near him, thankfully just appearing behind me. I blocked again and he got stunned now. I landed another combo, and with my final hit, blinked, and found myself outside the simulation. I looked behind me… Red, beaten. Ability got: Teleport, A few days passed since I got the teleport ability from Data Xigbar and I have been trying my best to get use to it. “Captain to bridge we may have a problem.” Jet Flash said. As I made my way to the bridge I met up with Moondancer and Gleaming shield whom were also heading to the bridge. “Whats up Jet?” I asked. “Well, we're coming up on an asteroid field that is seemingly impassable.” She said. “Seemingly?” I asked. “Well with our armor we could make it through and be fine enough for a return trip but we would have to make a stop in either Hollow bastion or Traverse Town to get the ship repaired.” Jet Flash told me. “Then lets see whats beyond this we could be in an undiscovered world or something lost.” I said before turning to Gleaming “Gleaming get on the guns and shoot down and rocks that come at us, Moondancer get on navigations and find us the optimal path.” I ordered as they both got to there stations. As Jet flew carefully through the asteroid field she dodged every asteroid she could and having Gleaming blast some of the ones that she couldn’t. As Jet was flying I saw bits and pieces of gummi ships floating through the field. After a short while I had to look away while Moondancer saw a pattern to the asteroids and plotted the optimal path, and while we sustained minimal damages we would have to return to get repairs after this. “Well captain we’ve made it through the Asteroid field but there are some damages.” Jet said. “Well we’ll head back to Traverse Town after we investigate that world.” I said pointing to a nearby world Jet nodded as I motioned Gleaming and Moondancer to come with me to the teleporter. As we landed we found ourselves in a desert and I was wondering what world we were in. “We should find anything like a village or something.” I said as we begin to walk on the path. After a few hours walk we finally found a oasis town. As we entered and wandered around and finding some people trying to steal a six-legged Bison. As we ran to scare them off as a group came out of talking to each other before noticing us “Umm what are you doing near Appa?” Sokka asked. “Some people were trying to steal him...It is a him right?” I asked. “Yeah... Appa’s a him.” Aang said. Before we could ask something one of there group asked “Oh my that weapon what is it?” I looked to my Kingdom key and said “It's a Keyblade.” “Fascinating I’ve never heard of such a weapon before.” The man said as he inspected my keyblade “I must ask you some questions about this keyblade.” The man said before turning to Aang and asked “Do you mind if they come with us?” “Sure I don’t mind,” Aang said. “Aang have you ever seen a weapon like this before?” Sokka asked as Aang just shook his head. “Great.” the man said as they all proceeded to get on the Bison. “Are you sure that Appa can handle this heat walking through the desert?” Moondancer asked. “Oh, Appa can fly,” Sokka said as Moondancer and Gleaming looked at each other confused. As we were flying through the desert we traded introductions we told them our names...well our cover names and they told us their names, the man who asked about my keyblade was named Professor Zei. As we flue around Toph shouted “There it is!” and we all looked to see nothing. “That's what it will sound like when one of you spots it.” she said waving in front of her eyes. “She’s blind?” Moondancer whispered. “Apparently but she moves so-” Gleaming started as she was interrupted by Toph. “Hey if you're going to whisper about someone don’t do it close to them,” Toph said. “Sorry, its just were surprised your blind when you move without any help,” Moondancer said. “Well that's Earthbending for you, I can see with my feet.” Toph said as they were confused. “My best guess is something similar to echolocation,” I said knowing full well how it worked. “It's actually a Seismic sense.” She corrected before saying “But good guess.” After some more flying Sokka spotted something with his telescope “Down there, what's that?” which woke the Momo who was sleeping on Aang's head as he flew Appa to what Sokka saw. As we got there Sokka was quick to dismiss the building as nothing more than a pillar. “Forget it. It's obviously not what we're looking for.” he said looking at the picture “The building in this drawing is enormous.” he said. “Not so fast, Toph could you use your seismic sense to see if this building has more to it?” I asked. As she did that we saw a fox spirit climb the building holding a scroll in its mouth. “I think that was one of the knowledge seekers.” Professor Zei said before realising “This must be the library. “He’s right there's a whole building underneath the sand and the inside seems to be completely intact,” Toph said. “That fox thingy went through the window.I say we climb up there and give it a look.” Sokka said. As we all climbed the tower we found ourselves in a ornate hall “Oh, it's breathtaking!” Zei said.”The spirit spared no expense in designing this place.” he said as we landed onto a bridge.”My word!” Zei said as he saw an owl mosaic above two pillars The exquisite mosaic handiwork of this tile-rendered avian symbol...” he said before saying “Eh, nice owl.” As we were talking Aang heard a noise and grabbed Zei before we all hid behind a pillar, As both Aang and I looked from behind the Pillar to see a large owl looking at the rope “ I know you're back there.” The Owl said as we all tried to hide and Zei stepped out and greeted the large owl. “Hello, I'm Professor Zei, head of anthropology at Ba Sing Se University.” He said. “You should leave the way you came.” the owl said tilting its head “Unless you want to become a stuffed head of anthropology,” it said. As we came out from behind the pillar Sokka asked “Are you the spirit who brought this library to the physical world?” “Indeed, I am Wan Shi Tong, ‘He Who Knows Ten Thousand Things.’ And you are obviously humans, which, by the way, are no longer permitted in my study.” Wan Shi Tong said. I interrupted him by saying “Except these two are elves.” I pointed to Moondancer and Gleaming Shield. “And I’m a quarter dragon.” Aang and co looked at us as Moondancer and Gleaming brought out there ears. “Well then you three may enjoy the Library on one condition” Wan Shi Tong said. “Knowledge for knowledge right?” I asked. “Yes, that is the trade.” Wan Shi Tong said. “Does verbal knowledge count?” I asked. “It depends on what that knowledge is.” Wan Shi Tong said. “The heartless are creatures created by the darkness in people's hearts,” I said. “I already know this, what else do you have to offer.” Wan Shi Tong said. “But do you know of the nobodies?” I asked as Wan Shi Tong tilted his head and I pulled out the Lexicon to show what i’m talking about. Before I began talking I created an illusion of Sokka. “As you know if someone were to fall to darkness they would become a heartless.” I paused as I shown Sokka turning into a shadow heartless. “Now what happens to the body you may ask well-” I paused as I returned the illusion of Sokka and turned it into a dusk. “This is a dusk the most basic of Nobodies however if say-” I changed to illusion from Sokka to Aang “-a strong heart of either light or darkness were to become a nobody then they would keep their body and become what is known as an Organisation nobody.” I explained. “Very well and what do you two have to offer?” Wan SHi Tong asked Moondancer and Gleaming. “Well, I have this Equestrian guard book,” Gleaming said “I suppose that is knowledge.” Wan Shi Tong said “And I have this basic equestrian magic,” Moondancer said “Magic, there’s something I haven’t heard of in a long while,” Wan Shi Tong said nostalgically. As we were out of sight of Wan Shi Tong I talked to Moondancer and Gleaming “Okay I didn't want to say this in front of the Owl or the foxes but those three are going to make him sink the library.” I said. “How can you be sure?” Moondancer asked. “Just trust me, anyway Moondancer I want you to find the magic section and when the Library starts to shake grab as much as you can carry and place it in your bag.” I said. “You want us to steal from Wan Shi Tong?” Gleaming asked. “Yes,” I said flatly. “Gleaming you come with me to find information about the keyblade.” “Alright,” she said. We quickly found the section about Keyblades and began taking books off the shelves and read some of them before the library began crumbling around us we quickly packed up the books we were reading into a bag. “Gleaming you head off and find Moondancer.” I said. “And what about you?” She asked. “You guys need to escape i’ll keep Wan Shi Tong from sinking the library.” I said as she ran to find Moondancer. As I ran I found the Professor standing there reading a book. “Professor Zei we have to leave.” “I’m not going anywhere I’ve spent too long to find- Oh look this one is about owls.” He said as he picked up a book and started reading. I didn’t have the time to grab him nor the time to get him to understand that he was going to die here if he didn’t leave so I left him there hoping that I would come back. As I ran I found Wan Shi Tong fighting Katara “Your waterbending won't do you much good here.” Wan Shi Tong started listing styles “I've studied Northern water style, Southern water style, even Foggy Swamp style.” he said. “But have you studied Keyblade style?” I shouted using a strike raid to hit Wan Shi Tong. “Sokka, Katara get out of here I’ll keep him distracted.” I said. “You would attack me?” Wan Shi Tong asked. “To be fair you are sinking the library with us in it.” I said as I dodged his talons. “To prevent my knowledge from being used to destroy others,” he argued. “Look, I’m not going to debate you,” I said. “So you understand my argument.” He said. Before I could answer I got a message from Moondancer “Huxley we’re out” “Well I do but I have to go” I said as I teleported out. Spells gained Blizzard Reflect Thunder Esuna Mine shield Zero Gravity Magnet Aero Stop Cure Fire upgraded to Fira Healing Factor augmented