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.

"How-" "It's quite simple, you aren't the only time displaced Keyblade wielder, although you have meet the other one." Vanitas interupted as he teleported behind Roxas and slammed him onto the ground.

Before he could do anythig, he found hims limbs bound by Unversed and tbe figure trained his Keyblade at his chest, dark energy trained at the tip.

"You might be right that I talk to much, but so far you are the only one in this era that interests me enough to talk so freely too. But you think too much and you are actively holding back. You can think about it later when you are alive after the battle. But you will only live if you stop holding back! Either you go all out or I'm going to end your life right now! So make your choice!" He demanded, cleadly enraged.

With the fact that even if he used his regular Limit Break, the energy gathering at the end of his Keyblade was enough to possibly knock him out and leave him helpless at Vanitas's hands.

Seeing no chance of escape, Roxas summoned both Oathkeeper and Oblivion, stunningthfe masked Keyblade wielder and destroying the Unversed.

"No way, two Keyblades!" Vanitas said shocked.

He didn't have much time to figure that out as Roxas activated his Limit Break and pillars of light started to rain down all over the clearing.

"He knows Miracle Hour too? This just keps getting better and better." Vanitas said while teleporting away from any incoming pillars.

Roxas rushed towards him and landed a hit with Oathkeeper, before Vanitas teleported behind him.

"Slowga!" He casted as the spell hit Roxas square in the back.

Time slowed down to a crawl for the Nobody as the figure rushed over and began to attack.

Roxas tried to keep up, but combined with the spell and the Vanitas's blinding speed there was little he could do. The only thing keeping him away was the occasional pillar of light striking down caused him to teleport away and return a second later.

This continued for what seemed like a long time for the Nobody before the spell's effect seemed to wear off and managed to block the Vanitas's Keyblade. Roxas managed to disarm him and started to land a few hits before being sent flying by a few orbs of dark energy.

Vanitas resummoned his Keyblade and began to counterattack when a barrier appeared around Roxas.

The masked Keyblade wielder tried to pull back, but a massive pillar of light crashed down onto him.

"Curaga!" Roxas casted from within the barrier.

He knew that the Limit Break was about half done and wouldn't hold Vanitas for about that much longer.

But that would give him enought time to heal and go all out against him.

He would need to after all, because after he revealed both of his Keyblades the figure saw no reason for restraint and Roxas managed to gauge the full strength of his heart.

It was as strong as Sora's heart.

More specifically about as strong when he faced Sora.

So in order to win this fight he needed to go all out. Something he wasn't entirely sure that his body could handle it.

He couldn't remember at all how he was never able to use his full power to after he left the Organization, but once again he probably chalked it up to Xemnas's manipulations.

The only times he has ever used it was against Riku, Axel in the virtual Twilight Town, and Sora within his own heart.

The last one was the only time he had unleashed all of his power, but he was lacking a physical body at the time. So there was no telling how unleashing his full power would do to his body.

At best there would be no problems at all, at worst it would burn out his existence like Axel did.

So he would cut it off once he felt his body reaching its limits just in case.

The barrier fell and Vanitas rushed out, only to be pushed back by a new barrier of rotating light pillars.

He teleported out of the way as the pillars went everywhere. When he reappeared he saw a streak of light reach up into the skies. Once it had reached its apex, it broke apart and the pieces came down upon the edges of the clearing and changing their surroundsings into that of a perpetual sunset.

Vanitas didn't have anytime to admire it as he engaged in another blade look with Roxas.

"Well consider me impressed Roxas. Not only can wield two Keyblades and have master two Limit Breaks, but you can manipulate the light to such a degree that it literally changes the landscape around you. You have passed the test, but that doesn't mean that this isn't done yet." Vanitas said as his Keyblade was soon covered in darkness and pushed the Nobody back a couple of feet.

The masked Keyblade wielder rushed foward and began another clash of blades. This time it was more even with Roxas's Keyblades providing a small edge against Vanitas. This continued on for a bit before he found an opening and slammed Oblivion into Vanitas's helmet.

Vanitas was sent flying back a few feet before crashing into the dirt. He tried to get back up, but was flattened by a pillar of light.

He teleported out of rhe way of another pillar before sending a barrage of spells at the Nobody.

Who blocked all of them with another barrier of pillars. Once the onslaught of spells wore off, Roxas sent the pillars all around.

Vanitas teleported out of the way, only to be slammed into by Roxas who was coated in light.

He got back up only to be struck again by Roxas. He dodged out the way, only to be hit again.

Only this time the Keyblade went through him.

By the time Roxas realized that he had just struck an after image it was too late.

"Slowga!"

Roxas was hit by the spell and Vanitas went on the offensive.

He managed to lay in a large number of hits before the spell wore off and a large number light pillars crashed into Vanitas.

The masked Keyblade wielder quickly recovered and barely managed to dodge Roxas speeding after him.

He could barely teleport out of the way as Roxas kept speeding after him or sending lights pillars his way. After what seemed like a solid minute of dodging, he found an opening.

"Stopra!" Vanitas casted, as the spell hit its mark and froze Roxas in time.

Vanitas rushed in to strike, only for the spell to were off and a surprised Roxas to block the attack.

"What!" Vanitas shouted, shocked that Roxas managed to shake off the spell's effect like that.

Seeing Roxas returning to the offensive, he knew just what to do.

"Hasteza!" Vanitas casted and soon he disapperaed from sight.

Roxas was then blind sighted by attack he couldn't see. Before he could regain his composer, he was struck again and sent to the ground.

Everytime he tried to get back up, he was blindsided by Vanitas who was moving faster then what he could see.

Worse still, he could feel his power was starting to eat away at his existence. He needed to end this fight now.

He summoned a few pillars and sent them in random directions and one of them managed to hit Vanitas, causing him to reappear. Taking this chance he summoned another barrier and started to gather light into his Keyblades.

Vanitas tried to break through the barrier as the clangs against the pillars were of any indication, but that proved ineffective.

Eventually the spell wore off and a panting Vanitas appeared, with dark energy charging off the end of his Keyblade.

"So that's how you are planning on ending this Roxas. Well then so be it. You better hit me with all you got otherwise you'll regret it!" Vanitas declared as three black crystals appeared around the Keyblade's tip.

A few moments later both Keyblade wielders were done carging their attacks and Roxas attack first, launching two massive beams of light from his Keyblades.

Vanitas countered with a massive beam of darkness.

Both attacks meet each other head on and held there for a few seconds before Roxas gave out, cuting off his powers before it could damage his body too much.

He crumpled down to the ground and barley missed Vanitas's attack as it sailed over him.

The same couldn't be said for Vanitas as his attack ended and was hit with the full force of Roxas's attack, kicking up dust throughout the clearing.

After a minute of lying in the ground, Roxas got up while coughing all the way up.

His skin felt raw, his lungs were full of dust, his knees felt like they were close to shattering, his head was ringing, and he was pretty sure that he saw a few wisps of steam coming of his skin.

Other then that he was pretty much alive.

"I really need to work on using light like that." Roxas groaned out.

Maybe he could ask any of his friends for some help training with light, ghat way he wouldn't burn himself out when using his full power.

"You definitely need some work on that, if you were just a bit stronger you could have knocked me out." Vanitas groaned out from the vanishing dust cloud.

"You have got to be kidding me." Roxas sighed out as he tried to resummon his Keyblades only for Oathkeeper to appear.

The strain of going all out had almost drained him completely. He could barely stand, wield only one Keyblade, and was almost out of magic.

The odds didn't look good for him.

Considering that only part of Vanitas's helmet was cracked open revealing a golden eye and a lock of black hair and that he only looked exhausted didn't help at all.

"If it is of any consilation, that hurt like hell. Still I have to admit that your control over light would have impressed the Foretellers. Bless their hearts." Vanitas sighed out, launching two dark Blizzards at the Nobody.

Freezing his legs and binding his arms together.

"You know what, screw the plan. I'll just do it right now." Vanitas said gleefully, with a sadistic gleam visiable in his eye. "But tell you what, I'll allow you one question. Any sudden moves or the question is about what's next then you won't like what'll happen next. You still won't, but you will be alive for at least another minute. So ask away."

Roxas would've been worried, if he didn't have a plan.

Or that he sensed a familiar presence approaching them.

All he needed was to by sometime.

"Alright I do have one. I take it that you are from the Age of Fairy Tales, but how are you here then?" Roxas asked honestly.

"That one I can honestly answer." Vanitas said while slowly approaching the Nobody. "It was Ava, she gathered hundreds of the younger Keyblade wielders before the war into a sixth Union, the Dandelions and placed them into a world mainly cut off from the rules of time and space. I simply found a way out 5 years ago and couldn't get back in."

That shocked Roxas, and if the feeling inside of him was of any indication Ava.

For Roxas it was the fact that there were actually hundreds of Keyblade wielders out there somewhere, all of them from a bygone era.

For Ava, it must have been that Vanitas must've been one of the Keyblade wielders that she selected turned out like this.

"Well that is all I'm willing to share." He said, snapping Roxas out of his shock. "Say goodbye to your existence."

"I'm afraid not. Water!" Roxas casted, sending a stream of water directly into Vanitas's exposed eye.

He screamed out in pain and Roxas managed to quickly get his arms out with a small flame.

Vanitas eventually recovered and with his helmet fully restored, rushed at Roxas.

"Blizzard!" He casted, freezing Vanitas in place. Roxas began to pant heavily and dropped his Keyblade. He had run out of magic.

Vanitas however still had plenty of energy left and shook of the ice encasing him.

"Did you really think that would hold me Roxas?" Vanitas asked dryly.

"No, that was just to distact you." Roxas said with a smile.

Before Vanitas could asked, something rammed into him and kicked up a ton of dust.

A minute later as the dust settled, he was freed from the ice and someone caught him before he could collapse into the dust.

"You alright Roxas?" Terra asked while setting the Nobody down.

"Out of energy and exhausted, but otherwise alright." Roxas said between breaths. "But you should be more concerned with Vanitas over there."

"Actually you don't have to worry about me for now." Vanitas groaned out.

Both Roxas and Terra turned to see the masked Keyblade wielder pulling himself out of the pile of downed trees he crashed into.

"I'm pulling back for now. I know when that I'm in no shape to face the both you right now. But know this Roxas, you will be seeing me soon enough." Vanitas said, before a Corridor of Darkness opened underneath him and disappeared into it.

Roxas let out a sigh of relief now that was over for now. But now he had an another ancient Keyblade wielder interested in him, one that appearently can control the Unversed.

He could worry about that later, now all he wanted to do was to rest as black spots started to dance around his vision.

"Roxas do you mind explaining what has happened here and why are you seperated from Aqua?" Terra asked.

"I will, but can you allow me to rest for a bit?" Roxas asked the eldest apprentice.

After a few moments of thought Terra nodded and with a small smile Roxas slipped into unconsiouness.

(In the trees)

"My king are you alright?" The Unversed asked Vanitas as they watched as Terra guarded Roxas incase he tried anything else.

"Im exhausted, but otherwise fine. But I'm not going to rest for now. I have to do a few things here before reporting to the old coot. Anyway I want you to stick with Roxas for now and shadow him till we meet again. Do you think that you can handle it?" Vanitas asked.

"I will make sure that he will never leave my sight. So you can count on me my king." The Unversed said while bowing.

Vanitas just nodded and disappeared into another Corridor of Darkness, leaving the Unverse to watch over the Nobody.

(Chapter 27 end)

Mukuro7 here and I hoped you guys enjoyed this chapter.

Anyway this will be the last chapter for this story for a while, so until next time ciao!