CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
FINAL EXAM
Umbra passed all three fighting tests and prooved himself quite good magician too.He managed to balance his dark heart, which was most important test even in Mark of Mastery test. Now he had to answer Order based questions. Leadership Depth was there with couple of other guys and his assistants. Umbra was sitting on the chair and felt very uncomfroable.
"So, do you know about our ranks?" Depth asked.
"Yeah. Rookie is lowest rank. If they are in small but good teams, they are called Wielders.Senior is second rank above both, Rookie and Wielder. Third rank is Soldier and thats how you become an Agent. Above Soldier is Commanders, who leads their own teams. Guardians lead whole sector and are only ones who can control everyone. And then there is you, the leadership that leads whole system." Umbra said.
"Very good. Is there anything else?"
"Yeah. If one has became an keyblade master, they are usually called masters. There are also some minor ranks in Commanders, such as Keepers, generals, lieutenants, captains and officer. All of them has different duties." After saying it, people started clapping and let Umbra to go out from room.
"How it went?" Kuma asked. He and Pyrogore were sitting on the waiting room. Umbra grinned and gave his thumb up, only to get crushed by Pyrogores hug.
"Oh im so proud to meet such an intelligent young man!" He shouted dramatically as always. Kuma felt weird for watching it, so he quickly change the subject.
"Ummm... anyone wanna icecream?"
And there they sat at nearby restaurants terrace, eating icecream. Kuma already ate his small one and Pyrocore was also finished with his giant bowl, but Umbra was eating his fifth one now.
"Come on Umbra! You will get fat if you keep going." Kuma said. Pyrogore grinned and waved his hand to three young ladies who were walking across the street.
"Who were they?" Umbra asked.
"Why, they are my little sisters." Pyrogore smiled.
"All of them?" Kuma asked. All ladies looked so beautyful.
"Yes. I have fourth one, but shes on duty right now."
"I see. Hes doing job too isnt she?"
"Yes. Shes number one Soldier of Orders sector 76 A." Pyrogore said and boys looked astonished to hear that.
"Number one? In sector 76 A? That world is an war-land if you ask from me!" Umbra shouted.
"Oh so you have heard about it."
"Well yeah. My master always told me to stay away from there. Its not place where keyblade wielders survive. I also heard Shabons brother is there too as freedom fighter." Kuma explained.
"Zenerith!" Ken shouted to black haired DisDark. Man looked almost bored when looking to boy.
"Zenerith...heh heh heh... I wonder how long is it now, when i left that body and name behind..." Zeneriths DisDark said.
"What are you after anyways?" Gake asked.
"What everyone without vital pieces of life usually are after?" Man asked. As anyone didnt answer he sighed.
"We DisDarks want to be persons again. Our light was taken and darkness is owned by our other halfs, DayFaders... we are nothing... With power of these thousands of DayFaders you have already slayed, we may have able to do that really soon..."
"But look around you! Your destroying people you once knew! Your destroying worlds you once dreamed about!" Shabon shouted to man. He didnt show any emotions.
"People...worlds? They are all just vital ingredients of experiments... like they were eleven years ago..." Man said and opened dark corridor.
"STOP!" Ken shouted and runned after him. Boy vanished into corridor and corridor vanished out of sight.
"No! Ken!" Shabon shouted after him.
"We have other matters to take care of!" Toko shouted and pointed to hills. Whole area was surrounded by DayFaders.
"Ready team?" Toko asked.
"Ready!" Everyone shouted. Toko looked to Shabon and Gake who nodded and joined him and his team in this fearsome battle against hungreds of dark enemies.
"I passed?" Umbra asked without believing his ears.
"Yeah. You got 110 points from magic test and 340 points from fighting test. Your guiz earned you at least 500 points. I havent ever seen minor in the test and i havent seen this much points in six years." Officer said and gave Umbra his own Order charm. It even had his own symbol inside.
"What symbol stands for?"
"Dark Heart." Officer answered.
"An Dark Heart?" Umbra repeated. It felt obvious, but cool. He was now part of propably greatest keyblade community in the whole universe. He watched proudly his charm.
"Congratulations...!" Pyrogore said drammatically as always and came closer.
"N-no hugs please..." Umbra said quickly and grinned.
"Lets check up the library now. Your an official member, so you also have permission." Kuma said.
"Yeah. Your right. Lets go to library and borrow every single book about Queen Serum."
"Our job here is done. Men! Prepare to return into headquarters!" Toko informed after long and harsh battle. Every DayFader was gone by now. Shabon was very exhausted, not to mention she had to use her whole potion stack to keep Tokos agents conscious. Gake was tired too. All the magic he used drained all his energy. Tokos team was out of bullets too.
"I never used all of my ammo so quickly..." Agent Riichi muttered.
"I had one stock left." Clawmark informed.
"Thats funny. You seem to be closer to your pistol than to your keyblade." Agent Beater laughed. Clawmark answered to him by kicking him down to ground. After few minutes, Toko thanked Shabon for her help (ignoring Gake) and opened Spirit Window to his team.
"Wait a second!" Shabon said. Toko stopped before climbing in.
"Dont you wanna know why those creatures were around?"
"Its not my concern. But if you haf to, you can come to station later and make reports you can send to sector Guardian." Toko said and climbed in, vanishing into light of portal. Shabon sighed.
"That was some nice fight you fought there."
"Drew!" Gake shouted.
"Thats right. One and only Drew around here."
"Tell me... What was your name before you became DisDark?" Shabon asked.
"My name was Red. But i was 13 years old when i lost myself to the darkness." Drew said.
"Red... i remember you. I met you at past."
"No. We never really met. You see, when Zenerith tried to build prototype for time machine and captured perfect clone of this world and sent it to the future, it was just a copy, meaning that we really never met in the past." Drew said and throwed an pack bag to Gake. It contained an human skull and toy sword.
"Skull belongs to Wradks first son. He died in accident soon after Wradk lost his heart. Toy sword belongs to child looking DisDark boy, Milow. Find them and finish them off." Drew commanded.
"I wont do it for you! I do it to protect worlds from chaos like this battle today." Gake informed and Drew smiled amusingly.
"Dont worry. Im only helping you. Once Group is gone im gonna follow them. There is also one thing you must know..."
"Whats that?"
"Zeriwe. Thats name of the leader." Drew said and vanished into darkness. Gake looked at bag. It had same symbol as skull and sword. Was it also an talisman? Shabon took the bag.
"Come on. Lets go to United City."
"Such a shame we had to come here. I really enjoy reading..." Lady said to Blood, but then she realised boy has wandered again somewhere. She then saw an man looking at her.
"Who are you...? Oh... your the one who seeks members of Group arent you?" Lady asked from Nile. Nile summoned his keyblade.
"My business are my business." Nile said darkly.
"Your after Kuma and Umbra then? Sorry but we haf to keep them busy with Queen Serum."
"Huh? Your using them?" Nile gasped. Lady grinned.
"Yes. Ah, Blood. I was wondering where you were." Lady said. Nile turned around to see Blood behind him. He quickly dodged him and stabbed his keyblade to boys head. Blood laughed maniacally and snapped his head back to its original position. Nile was amazed and scared this. Blood roared and pushed Nile down from the balcony. Nile turned around, kicking Blood away and landing to his feet. Then lady jumped down and stretched her arm, trying to kill Nile, who dodged it. As lady pulled her arm back, Nile realised it all.
"So... now i know it. You are one those creatures... What are you after?"
"It wouldnt be secret if i tell you." Lady smiled and took piece of her hair and throwed it like assassin knife. Nile stopped it with fire spell, and whole building exploded.
"Did you hear something?" Umbra asked when he suddenly woke up.
"No... go back to sleep..." Kuma muttered and turned around in his own bed. Umbra sighed and was too tired to ask another time, so he decided to lay down and get some more sleep. He was thinking all the books he could find about serum, even though all those books just burned away.