Luxu

(Radiant Garden - Water Treatment System)

Braig tapped his foot on the floor while waiting for his intending audience to show.

This was the same chamber he usually meet with Xehanort and the occasional Vanitas whenever they showed up. It was also were the old man wanted to lure the eldest apprentice, Terra if he recalled to this chamber for his plan.

It was the perfect place for a meeting or an ambush.

And right now he was getting impatient.

He had managed to convince Dilan to look after Kairi for about 10 minutes and he was 5 minutes into that time.

He was hoping that Vanitas showed up or else people in the castle were going to start asking questions.

"Traitor!"

Ah, there he is.

Braig side stepped a sphere of darkness before turning to face Vanitas, smirking as he was trying and failing to summon his Keyblade.

"Took you long enough." He said simply, getting Vanitas to glare.

"What the hell did you do to my Keyblade?!" Vanitas spat out.

"Nothing much, just placed a barrier around here that'll keep any and all prying eyes off of me. Especially the one on your Keyblade, unless of course you wish to face me with your original Keyblade, the one your brother made for you." Braig said, getting wisps of darkness to begin forming off of Vanitas in waves. "Unless you think that you aren't worthy enough for it...or you think that it wasn't even yours in the first place."

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" Vanitas shouted as darkness exploded off of him, until he took a quick breath and stilled a little bit of his darkness. "Like you have any right to your Keyblade Luxu! The old coot is in possession of it!"

"Luxu, who said I was Luxu? I could be anybody. I could be him, Ira, Aced, Invi, Ava, or Gula." Braig said with a grin, getting the ancient Keyblade wielder to scoff.

"Get real I know who your are! I would have definitely known if you were Gula. Besides I knew who you are by the feel of your heart! It was brief, but I've been around Ava to know the feeling of a heart from the Celestial Aegis and only two people have successfully come from their in our time and hers was the only one with a fully human heart! So enough games Luxu you traitor!" Vanitas shouted, gathering darkness in his hands and glaring at the Foreteller.

For a second there was silence, before Braig burst into laughter while clapping his hands.

"Congratulations you figured me out kid!" Braig, no Luxu said, his laugh subsiding. "It seems like the apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, cause you got Gula's deductive skills. And for the fact I was part human, though that was in the minority. Now I'm fully human, my heart is still the same though."

"I said enough games Luxu! You and the Master abandoned us all! The Foretellers, The Unions, everyone! You abandoned all of us all and look where it lead. Our world has shattered into countless others, The Keyblade War erupted, hundreds of millions died when our world shattered, and hundreds of Keyblade wielders including myself were exiled to a pocket dimension in a false sanctuary! So tell me was it all worth it, tell me!" Vanitas said, getting Luxu's grin to drop.

"You want answers kid, fine I give you an answer or two. But you are not ready for the full truth yet." Luxu said seriously, getting Vanitas to generate dark electricity in his hand.

"Like hell I am! Hasteza!" Vanitas said, before disappearing in a burst of speed. Luxu tried to keep up with him, but Vanitas kept ramming into him and punching the Foreteller. Each and every hit releasing pules of darkness and lightning.

This continued on until Vanitas landed a blow to Luxu's face and pushed him back a few feet.

"Okay, as you said no more games." Luxu said while rubbing his cheek, before vanishing in a burst of his speed.

His baseline speed might not have been as fast as Vanitas's current speed, but it was close and he knew for a fact that he could hit harder as well.

The two meet in the middle, Luxu throwing the first strike, but was blocked by Vanitas.

The Foreteller recomposed himself and his fist broke straight through Vanitas's helmet and hit his face. Which he retaliated with a magically enhanced blow to Luxu's stomach.

Luxu tried to strike his exposed face, but Vanitas blocked his fist and counteracted with his own and slammed his other one into the Foreteller's cheek.

Vanitas landed a blow to the Foreteller's gut and with a pulse of dark magic pushed him back.

Luxu quickly recovered and landed a blow to Vanitas's head as he tried to land another hit.

Vanitas landed another gut blow, but Luxu punched him into the head and stunned the younger Keyblade wielder. He stood a few steps back, but Luxu rushed towards him and hit his square in the cheek, causing Vanitas to collapse onto the ground and cough up a few droplets of black blood.

All of this happened over the course of 5 seconds.

"Got to hand it too ya kid, Xehanort trained you well. Then again you were or your memories were part of a Keyblade wielder of the Union. If you had used a Keyblade then you could have landed some serious hurt on me there. A little more training and you will be on par with the Foretellers, something only Xehanort has reached in this era." Luxu said as Vanitas picked himself up. "Then again I am a little rusty after all, but still I wasn't holding anything back at all."

"Shut up!" Vanitas shouted as he got back up and began to launch spell after spell at the Foreteller, who dodged them all. "Like I care about that, all I care about is making you and the Master suffer for what you did to us!"

Vanitas tried to launch another spell, but Luxu blindsided him and slammed him into the ground.

"I could care less about what you say about me, and I'll admit he does deserve some flak for what he has done. But I will not allow you to disrespect his last actions! My Master, no my father died to save you all including your sorry ass. He has nothing to do with this!" Luxu said in a hollow, shocking Vanitas.

"You mean-" "That's right, he is dead! He has been ever since our world split apart! When he disappeared it was to save as many people as he could! He spent the last two years of his life in exile, building arks for people to survive the shattering and he died in one while the world shattered! If it wasn't for him then billions would have died and it would have taken another 6000 years before the worlds reached the prosperity they have reached today!" Luxu shouted, before a ticking noise emerged from his pockets.

Luxu pulled out a large silver pocket watch with a sliver chain ending with a pendulum with some kind sigil he didn't recognize and a green gem embedded in it, the top of the watch adorned with the same sigil of the Book of Prophecies and a red spherical crystal in the center, and the bottom was adorned with crossed angelic wings.

He pulled it open and Vanitas swore he saw more engraving inside the watch before Luxu sighed and closed it.

"Two minutes before I have to switch with Dilan, looks like I have to cut this short kid. Sorry I have to say it, but you won't be remembering this or myself for a little bit. But for a fair trade I will give you a little secret." Luxu said as he approached the younger Keyblade wielder.

"Like hell you will!" Vanitas shouted as he gather a massive amount of electricity in both of his lands and launched it at Luxu, who just dodged it.

"You missed kid." He said.

"I wasn't aiming at you." Vanitas said with a grin. The Foreteller looked behind him and saw that the attacks were aimed at two Lurkers right behind him.

They immediately began to charge up electricity along with Vanitas.

"Ah hell." Luxu said as all three of them blasted him with electricity.

Vanitas was smirking, but on the inside he prepared for anything Luxu might throw at him. He had enhanced the Unversed with the power comparable to four of the Lurkers he unleashed earlier per Unversed. Combined with the lightning doubling their power and his own, the Foreteller was receiving the combine shock of approximately 10 Lurkers combined.

After a few moments they let up their assault, sending a slightly charred Luxu to his knees.

"Okay I'll admit kid, that was a pretty good hit. Would have knocked out or severely injuring a seasoned Keyblade wielder no problem." He said as he picked himself up, a circle forming underneath him. "Now let's see how you handle some real lightning."

Vanitas immediately teleported out of the way as he recognized what Luxu was doing as electricity flooded the chamber.

He was summoning an eidolon and judging by the feel of the magic, one from the Celestial Aegis. Presumably from his own home world.

However he made a slight miscalculation as he ended teleporting at the tail end of the attack and screamed as thousands of volts of electricity coursed through his body.

A moment later it ended and a groggy Vanitas swore he saw something like a large sphere of lightning zip around Luxu before vanishing and the charred remains of the Unversed fell behind him.

"I summon him for the first time in thirty five years and he gives me trouble. Well excuse me for looking for a new body and having to lock my memories away." Luxu grumbled before a green aura surrounded himself and Vanitas, healing them.

Luxu raised one hand and held the pocket watch in the other. Vanitas was lifted up the ground and was float to right in front of him.

"Sorry about this kid." Luxu said, before his watch glowed white and before Vanitas could even process what was happening his mind went blank.

"I hate having to do this kid, but it needed to be done." Luxu said as the watch returned to normal before pocketing it. With a sigh he opened a up a Corridor of Darkness.

"When you wake up, it will be in the Keyblade Graveyard and all memories of this conversation a good part of this past hour will be altered. When you wake up it will be that you thought that you fell asleep training." Luxu said before letting like a chuckle. "Unless of course you have a way to store your memories somewhere else. Wouldn't put it past you, after all, you seem to have Gula's cunning after all."

The Foreteller then made a slight pushing motion with his hand and the unconscious Keyblade wielder drifted towards the Corridor.

"You and I are similar with each other Vanitas, the both of us broken hearts form another era acting against their masters wishes. Instead you do it for your own ideals, which I can respect. For myself it is fix what went wrong. I will be willing to work with you, only after you figure out whatever secrets is hiding." Luxu said, before his face darkened a bit. "Also just a final warning before you forget everything."

"The moment you screw over Xehanort, all bets are off. Gula's brother or not, I will kill you no questions."

With one final shove, Vanitas rocketed through the Corridor and it closed behind him.

The Foreteller sighed as pulled out his watch.

"Shit, 30 seconds left!" Luxu shouted, before he teleported away.

Dilan was waiting for Braig, as the apprentice waited for the older apprentice while he took care of something real quick.

Normally he wouldn't have done something like this, but as he had promised to take care of his guard duty incase Rosso woke up, it so an instant deal for him.

Last time he did that, the girl was still in a blood rage and broke through her bonds and attacked him pretty badly before Even knocked her out.

It gave him some pretty bad internal trauma and according to his doctor it would take another 10 days to heal. And another 3 days before he stops pissing blood and screaming.

Something that he was looking forward to.

"Ready to switch?" Braig asked as he turned the corner, getting Dilan to nod.

"I am, also good luck with Rosso later. Your going to need it." Dilan said with a grin as he left, getting Braig to laugh nervously at him.

The older apprentice just shook it off and walked over to Kairi who was looking over her flowers and saw her grandmother coming up the stairs.

"Kairi, follow me. Your grandmother is here." Braig said, getting the girl bound off from here seat and rush down the stairs.

"Grandma!" Kairi cries out as she ran into the open arms of her grandmother.

"I'm so glad that you are alright, when I heard that Unversed attacked, I feared the worst." She said while separating from here grandchild.

"You didn't worry, I had my friends to help me along with Mr. Braig, Even, Lightning, and Roxas looking after me.

"I'm not that old!" The secret Foreteller shouted from the top of the stairs, omitting the fact that he was secretly nearly 2400 years old.

"That's good to hear, but who is Roxas?" Kairi's grandmother questioned.

"A boy about twice as old as Rosso and my new friend, he had to leave after the Unversed attack to reunite with his friend. But he promised to be back. Oh and he picked a Shion to give to a friend of his named Xion." Kairi said, getting her grandmother to chuckle at her.

"He sounds like a nice boy and a Shion for a Xion, well can't say that that is unique. Did he say it was not to forget her, because I doubt he will anytime soon." She said with a laugh, getting Kairi to giggle.

"I know right! Also I gave him one of these flowers for good luck and so that he would come back." Kairi said with a smile, pulling out a similar red flower.

Suddenly her grandmother covered her hand, a teasing glint in her eyes.

"Kairi I didn't know you had it in you to be so bold." Her grandmother said, with a teasing tone. Getting Braig to look on intrigued.

"What do you mean grandma?" The girl questioned.

"Kairi you gave him a red tulip, which hold the meaning of eternal or undying love. Because you handed one to him and shion, it meant that you proclaimed Roxas to be the your one eternal love and that you would never forget him for as long as you lived." She said with a teasing grin. "I didn't take you for the romantic type Kairi, but I'm happy you found someone to love."

For a whole minute there was nothing but dead silence, before Kairi's face turned atomic levels of red and screamed into her hands in sheer embarrassment.

Meanwhile Braig was rolling on his ass laughing at the poor girl.

He literally couldn't help it, this was the funniest shit he had heard in a millennia!

"So when can I expect the wedding." Kairi's grandmother teased, getting the girl to somehow turn Even redder and Braig to laugh at the girl even harder.

While she was literally wishing to find the deepest darkest hole and die in there from sheer embarrassment, she swore revenge against the man for laughing at her plight.

And she knew just the place to do so.

(Chapter end)

Hey guys Mukuro7 here and just point this as a reminded I had this written long ago before the later half of Union X  and everything else. Going to need that for the next few chapters.

So until next time, ciao!