Crazed Treant

You have got to be kidding me." Roxas muttered as the Unversed appeared from the tree line.

It was basically a tree on four root like legs, fruit hanging off it's branch like arms, angry red eyes, and the Unversed symbol located underneath a jagged maw of teeth like bark.

Roxas made a quick prayer to Kingdom Hearts that this battle wouldn't end up like his fight with the Leechgrave.

"Fira!" He casted, hoping to due some damage.

Instead it only made things worse as the tree like Unversed was now on fire and it seemed no worse for ware.

"Okay that is just ridiculous." Roxas stated as he sent a trio of Blizzards spells it's way.

The Unversed responded in kind by sending flaming fruit back aat the Nobody.

One of the respective projectiles clashed in the center while the others went flying past each other. Roxas managed to dodge a fruit that was head his way while the Unversed was hit dead on by both spells. It did little to slow it down however.

Upon hearing a hissing sound next to him, he looked where he once was a was glad to jave avoided that fruit.

Because right next to him was a flaming pool of poison. One of many littering the clearing.

He needed to avoid those as he didn't have any Antidotes on hand or knew the spell to cure poison.

Roxas was broken out of hiis musings when a giant fireball hit him, sending him flying into a tree.

The Nobody barely had time to avoid a root emerging from the ground and slamming into the tree, snapping it in half.

"Reflect!" He casted as another fireball was sailing towards him. It hit the barrier and produced a smokescreen.

As soon as the barrier dispelled, Roxas lept out to see that the Unversed had changed somewhat.

It was now planted into the ground like a giant, flaming tree with it's back roots clutching onto the flaming fruit and it's front roots slammed into the smokescreen. Reminding him of the Leechgrave somewhat.

"Cure!" Roxas casted healing himself up while he had the chance.

The Unversed, still thinking that he was in the smokescreen spat out another large fireball and threw some fruit into it, hoping to hit him.

Now healed and taking advantage of the distraction, Roxas aimed his Keyblade at a puddle of poison.

"Fira!" He casted.

The fireball caught the attention of the Unversed, but it was too late for it to react.

The spell hit the pool and caused a small explosion right next to it, dislodging it from the ground.

On shakey roots it tried to set itself up straight.

But a Blizzara from Roxas froze it's right branch and front root. The root shattered underneath the weight of the Unversed and it collapsed face first into the ground.

Right onto another pool of poison, causing another explosion.

Taking this chance, Roxas switched to Oblivion and proceeded to beat on the downed Unversed. He kept at it for a few more moments before the Unversed used one of it's back roots to slam into him and sent him flying.

Roxas barely had any time to correct his course mid air before landing next to a pool of poison.

When he got back up the Unversed had settled back into the ground again. Without it's front root it couldn't do much else.

But still had three other rots and was using them to hurl flaming fruit all over the place.

I fact it was throwing them all over the clearing except for where Roxas was standing. Soon the entire clearing was overed in poison.

It was only when the Unversed opened it's maw did Roxas realize the severity of the situation.

"Reflect!" He casted, just as the Unversed spat out another fireball down to the ground and right into the poison.

A massive explosion went off and all Roxas could see was purple smog and his ears rung from the explosion while his makeshift barrier started to crack.

Eventually the barrier gave away and the Nobody felt his lungs burning.

The smog was toxic and the poison was a bit more then what his body could handle.

Thankfully due to his many experiences by being poisoned by Heartless he knew that he could recover quickly if just continued to spam Cure until he found a Moogle or one of his fellow Keyblade wielders.

But for now he needed to focus on the Unversed.

Eventually the smog cleared to reveal that the surrounding area was now mostly bare with some fallen trees littering the ground with the Unversed.

It looked like the explosion was a double edge sword for it as the Unversed was now a charcoal black and was no longer flaming. It looked like it was on its last legs, but it still had a little fight left in it as it tossed another fruit at Roxas.

"Aero!" Roxas casted as he swung his Keyblade. Instead of it's usual shape, the spell came as a gale sent the fruit back at it.

The Unversed could only howl in pain as the fruit crashed into it's eyes, blinding and poisoning it.

Taking this chance, Roxas rushed at at and activated his Limit Break.

With his Keyblade now covered in light, he began to rapidly hack away at the Unversed until it finally dispersed into a cloud of darkness.

Canceling his Limit Break, Roxas took a knee as the exhaustion from his previous battle caught up with him along with the poison.

"Curara." Roxas casted as he moved to a nearby fallen tree and laid against the trunk.

He was going to wait a bit to be fully healed before looking for a Moogle, Terra, or Aqua.

(In the tree)

"I never expected to witness a fight like that. Hopefully you found what you you are looking for my king?" The Unversed asked in amazement at the thought.

While the Mad Treant was the weakest of the strongest Unversed, the king had certainly improved upon it's biggest weakness and turned it into a great strength.

Though it had to admit the flaming poison was probably a bad idea.

Still that was impressive fight and it was curious about what the interesting human did with his Keyblade and the light.

Maybe it should ask it's king about that.

Speaking of it hadn't recieved a reply from it's king.

So the Unversed looked around the tree for it's king. Once it couldn't find anything it tapped into the hoard to get an answer.

It proceeded to let out a pain filled inhuman scream as it quickly shut off it's connection from the hoard.

"IT'S TOO MUCH! IT'S TOO MUCH! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!" The Unversed screamed as the cacophony of voices from the hoard still rung through its very being.

Whatever happend to it had caused it to separate from the hoard and trying to tap into it would overwhelm it and kill it.

"Well screw them! I was planning on seperating from them anyway!" The Unversed spat out as the voices died down.

Now that it had developed a will of it's own it was now kind of an outcast among the more simple minded Unversed. It could think while the rest of it's kind relied on the barest matter of thought and their instincts alone.

Still it supposed that having the capacity of thought and through its interactions with the king it was definitely something that he had developed an interest in.

Almost as much as that interesting human over there.

Speaking of which it saw a Corridor open up in the clearing and immediately clambered up the tree to get a better view point.

The king had returned from who knows what.

It would ask him later.

As the main event he promised was about to begin.

(Chapter 26 end)

Hey guys Mukuro7 here and I hoped that you enjoyed this fight.

Anyway I will upload the next chapter tomorrow and it will be a long one. It will also be the long awaited fight between Roxas and Vanitas so I hope you all will enjoy that.

So until next time ciao.