A fight of Truth (open)

[Riku{Roxas}]

A dark portal slowly opened up and a organization 13 member slowly came out of it. You could not see his face, hair or any other clothing because he had his organization coat on. He was about 5'12'' and was 16 years old. Even though the organization coat was on his build was able to be seen.

The build looked skinny muscular, his past was very tragic. He was Roxas. Sora's nobody, slowly he entered the coliseum's gates and walked to the arena. He wanted to fight, Roxas would do anything to keep his thoughts away from his old memories. He did not want to go back any more.

Although he would like to see Axel again. Perhaps even he could get Axel to join him. After all they were still friends, deep down inside Roxas knew Axel was the only one who cared for him.

[Untold Memories™]

"d**n it!" Cloud swore as he struggled to defeat the Heartless around him. They were too strong, and he was barely doing any damage to them. After everything he'd done, from fighting Sephiroth, to meeting Sora, it was all in order to find himself. For so long, he'd thought he'd been doing what he was doing for redemption, but deep down, he'd been doing it to merely save himself. "I'm not going to lose to you!" He yelled as he cut down a nearby Heartless. He had to go on in order to find himself. He had to, in order to win. After all, that's why he'd come here, to find someone to fight against and see if he truly was strong enough.

"Come on! Show me everything you've got!" Cloud yelled. As he started swinging more and more at the Heartless with renewed hope. At times when he felt like he was losing, he always felt her, Aerith with him. Ever since she'd died, he'd done his best to become the man who she had thought he was. An Ex-Soldier, whose goal was to save the world. Of course, he'd been such a liar back then. He'd tried to impress her, and in the end, she still cared about him, even with her dying breath. 'I will not lose!' He thought to himself as he fought on.

[Kairi [Aerith]]

Aerith sighed lightly, wondering why she had come anyway. She was not one for fighting aimlessly, Yuffie had somehow talked her into it. The sneaky ninja always did somehow. A fond smile crossed her lips, and she surmised she could try this out. Perhaps a little training could not hurt, though she would only try one round. Aerith pushed a stray lock of hair back, and she walked towards the entrance. Her emerald eyes widened in surprise as she spotted a familiar head of spiky blond hair.

"Cloud?" Aerith was surprised to see him here, but she supposed he liked to train here. A smile crossed her lips, and she slowly made her way to the side of the coliseum. Her brows furrowed as she heard him shout out. Aerith sighed lightly, her emerald eyes shining with concern. He always pushed himself so hard, and it worried her at times. Her lips curled into another gentle smile, and she watched Cloud fight with admiration. Cloud was always so strong, but she wished he would just let other help him, too.

Aerith looked around for a moment, only finding another person in the arena. Her head tilted, and she stared at him for a moment. This boy looked rather familiar. Almost like..Sora? Wait, Sora had brown hair, not blond. Aerith shrugged her delicate shoulders. Everyone had a double, right?

[Sora]

It had been a pretty boring day for Sora as he had been doing nothing and hadn't had any run in with the heartless. He had wondering away from Goofy and Donald wanting to see if he could get some training with Hercules if he was still here. He had recently exited the underworld wondering if Hades knew were he was but couldn't find Hades. That was pretty odd but didn't expect it as he might be at mount olympus with the other gods. He wasn't going to walk all the way over there and besides, he wasn't even a god so how was he going to get up there in the first place. Sighing, he continued walking hoping that he would find something to do. The place seemed extremely empty for some reason which caused him to question where everyone was.

He turned a few more corners were he came across a person who seemed to be fighting these black creatures. At that instant, he knew that those black creatures were heartless and the person who was fighting them was Cloud. It seemed to him that he could use some help so Sora started to run over towards him. A few seconds later, he ended up right next to Cloud and had already summoned the Kingdom Key and started attack the heartless watching them disappear one by one. "Long time no see, Cloud. Seems like you could use some help." He swing his keyblade at the heartless that was coming towards him as he let out his statement to Cloud.

[Riku{Roxas}]

Roxas stood there with his hood still covering his face, just watching Cloud and Sora fight heartless. What was it about the heartless that Sora and Cloud wanted dead? This was the arena so obviously they would be here right? Was Cloud apart of the tournament or something?

"Hmph." Roxas slowly just walked to the center of the arena as Cloud and Sora were fighting. How long would it take for them to notice he was here? Was he going to have to fight both Cloud and Sora? It would be possible, it would be a very hard match if that happens.

[Untold Memories™]

Cloud was aware of the three people around him. One was Aerith, a woman he'd thought dead for so long now. One was Sora, a boy that he'd been wanting to test his powers against. And the other...well...he didn't know who he was. It seemed like he was related to Sora, or maybe even something closer. As he took in all of these things at once, he realized that a fight was brewing. "There's always something." Cloud said slightly annoyed. After all of this time, he wanted so much to be with Aerith, but at the moment, it looked like he would have to wait.

Standing up, he started cleaning his claw. "I'm sorry I wasn't able to save you. But...I promise I will be stronger." Cloud told Aerith, hoping that she would forgive him, before he started towards the one that looked like Sora. 'This better be good.' He thought to himself as he drew his Bustersword.

[Kairi [Aerith]]

Aerith watched as Sora suddenly came in. Her eyes widened in surprise, not expecting to the Keyblade Master here. She smiled, though, happy to see Sora was well. Her glance went back to Cloud, and she was glad to see that he was unharmed after his fight. Maybe she should try and battle this time. Aerith reached for her staff, which was stowed in her skirt pocket. With a simple twirl, it extended into it's full height, and she held it in both hands. She suddenly looked up, her eyes wide once more at Cloud's words.

Her lips curled into a gentle smile. "I never blamed you. Not once," she reassured. Aerith really did wish Cloud would stop blaming himself. It was not his fault, and she was alive and well now. That was all that mattered. She walked towards him, her emerald eyes warm and forgiving, even though there was nothing to forgive. "Maybe I could help? I'm sure you could use it anyway," she teased with a small grin.

Aerith looked to the other blond with a smile. "I hope you would not battling with us," she said. Her emerald eyes flickered to Sora, and her smile widened. "It's good to see you Sora. We missed you." Aerith was glad to see her friends well and happy.

[Untold Memories™]

Cloud looked at her. I never blamed you, not once. Those words were true, he could see it in her eyes, but he couldn't force himself to believe it yet. If he had only been a little stronger, or even a little faster, he could've saved her. It was always his fault, but Aerith was too good a person to believe something like that. Maybe that was one of the reasons why he'd always liked her. Turning back to the other two, he nodded, showing he'd heard her.

"Who are you?" He asked, adressing the one that looked like Sora. Judging from his body position, he could tell the boy was ready to fight in order to win. But at the moment, Cloud wouldn't fight until he got his answers. "What are you doing here?" He continued, as he grew slightly angry at himself. The last time he'd been in a position like this, he'd nearly lost his life in another battle with Sephiroth.

[Riku{Roxas}]

Roxas herd Cloud ask him who was he? "It does not matter." In his left hand his Oath Keeper keyblade appeared. In his right hand his Oblivion keybalde appeared. Slowly he rose his Oath Keeper and pointed it at Clouds face.

While he kept his Oblivion facing the ground of the arena floor.

He kept his hood still hiding his face and physical appearance. For now no one needed to know who he was. Roxas was not waiting for Cloud to make his attack. The battle will begin, but what would happen during this battle? Slowly he was getting bored standing there.

[Untold Memories™]

(Sorry it took so long for me to get back to the computer. Truly sorry)

Cloud looked at the boy before snorting. "I don't have time for this." He said turning away and walking towards Sora. "Let's get through with this, shall we?" Cloud asked motioning for the fight to begin. Cracking his knuckles, Cloud raced full speed at the boy that looked like Sora, and pushed his sword right between his legs. "Am I a little bit too fast for you?" He asked as he brought the claws up to his neck.

Right before he took of Roxas's head, he stopped himself, unable to do it. For some reason, he felt some thing inside of Roxas that told him that this boy was at least slightly decent. For the moment, that's all that really mattered. In that split second, he'd found that his enemy wasn't really an enemy at all. 'Might as well test myself.' He thought to himself jumping back. "Come on, I haven't got all day." He asked as he got more frustrated. It hurt knowing that he'd been wrong, and he was still confused about the connection with Sora. Forcing those thoughts out of his mind, he focused on the battle.

[Sora]

He watched the heartless disappear one by one as Sora and Cloud finished them off. It didn't take that long and there weren't as many as Sora expected there would be. He just stood next to Cloud panting for a moment trying to regain his breathe. For some reason, he was extremely tired and wasn't sure what had caused that. Recently, he hadn't done anything that intense that would make him that tired. Maybe there was something wrong with him or maybe he just needed some sleep. Sleep sounded good right about now but there was still something else he needed to handle before he could think about that. Turning his head, he looked away from the person in the black hood not even noticing that they were there. Sometimes, Sora was oblivious to the fact that there were people around but did notice that Aerith was there. He wondered if she had come with Cloud or came here by herself.

The Kingdom Key within his hand, that he had recently battled with, had disappeared to who knows where. He placed his hands on the back of his head leaning backwards a little. A smile appeared on the boys face as he was looking at Aerith. "Good to see you to Aerith. How have you been?" He turned his head over towards Cloud whose attention had been somewhere else. Sora walked over so that he was standing next to Aerith to see what they were looking at. Thats when he noticed that there had been some guy in a black hood standing around for some time. The smile on his face disappeared recognizing that this person must be from Organization XIII but he was sure that he had beaten them already. This caused a curious expression to form on his face. Sora wasn't actually sure who the person was but didn't want to take any chances. He quickly summoned the Kingdom Key and moved towards the person in the hood.

He watched Cloud lung towards the person but then stop wondering what had stopped him. It was then that Sora had noticed that the person in the hood had summoned the keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion. That's when it hit him and instantly knew who this person could be. There weren't that many keyblade wielders and those who did wield them, he knew. There was Kairi, Riku, King Mickey and Roxas. This was odd because he was pretty sure that he and Roxas had rejoined but he was wrong. Maybe that meant that Namine was back but he shook that thought out of his head and focused on the task ahead. "Cloud wait. I know who that is." He walked in front of Cloud so that he was face to face with the person in the hood. "It's been a while, Roxas"

[Untold Memories™]

Cloud stepped back in shock. It seemed that he'd been right, Sora and this 'Roxas' knew each other. How they did, he didn't know, but something was most definately going on here, and it was his duty to find out just what that was. 'Could there be something else happening?' He wondered to himself. Ever since he'd left home again, he'd been fealing that there was some kind of darkness surrounding them, that one day he'd have to fight along with others in order to save the worlds...

"You mind telling me who Roxas is?" He asked. Something about that name was nagging at him. In his mind, he began trying to think of what it meant. As he began thinking, he finally got it By taking out the x in his name, and switching around the letters, you got Sora...which would only mean that this 'Roxas' was part of Organization XIII (the only organization that put x in their names) and that this Nobody was somehow a part of Sora. 'But how could that be?' He wondered, truly confused.

[Riku{Roxas}]

Roxas stood there unfazed from Clouds quick movements at him. Quickly Cloud moved back and Sora instantly knew who he was. Slowly Roxas lowered his hood."Perhaps, Sora." He then dropped his keyblades. Instantly both of them floated in the air.

On his Right the Oblivion had a darkness aura around it.

On his left the Oath keeper hover beside him with a light aura. Quickly Roxas started to move his hands around rapidly. Both his keyblades went flying at Cloud. Both keyblades were trying to land a total of 8 hits on Cloud.

[Untold Memories™]

Instantly seeing that a fight would happen, Cloud had brought his blade up in time to block the first attack. However, the swords didn't give him much time to recover as they continued slashing at him. Dodging and blocking most of them, he was relieved when they finally stopped. His chest now already had a couple of slashes where he hadn't been able to block in time. Fresh blood oozed from his wounds, showing that he was more injured than he should have been.

Cloud sighed as he bent down and pressed his claw into the earth. Then, he leapt straight at Roxas and brought his claw straight up, hoping to take his head straight off. Most likely this boy would just dodge it easily, but if that happened, then Cloud could easily dodge the inevitable attack afterwards. After all, he had went up against Sephiroth and won...twice now. In his mind, Roxas was nowhere near as strong as Sephiroth was.

[lei]

In one of the top rows of the coliseum, a light flashed and then a large black and purple orb appeared, darkness swirling within the middle of it. It simply floated there for a moment before a form fluttered out of the orb. Literally fluttered, as a tall man with a large black wing gracefully stood upon one of the top bleachers. His long silver hair seemed to also float for a moment, before falling flat against his back. And as he surveyed the situation, his Mako eyes lit up and narrowed into a cruel smile. Cloud...

But said man decided to simply sit out and watch this one. He needed to survey his enemy, see if he had gotten any stronger since their last meeting. Perhaps he had even gained some light. On the other hand, maybe he had gained more darkness. The latter would be the best for Sephiroth, his ultimate goal being to send Cloud into an eternal darkness of suffering.

He chuckled a few times to himself, crossing his arms across his chest and shaking his head. Why wasn't he surprised by this coincidence? He never seemed to fail running into the blonde warrior...