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Derran noticed Rania speak up before Dante had time to answer. She mentioned his wound which made Derran look towards his shoulder where Nazo gashed it. He remembers the lightning quick slashes and Derran's slower reaction time. If he had been any slower he would have lost his head right there and then. Still no time to dwell on the past as of yet he has company to attend to. "Pfft!" Derran raspberries as he makes a sweeping wave of his hand. "I'll have plenty of rest when I'm dead." "Besides," Derran shrugs, "My Dad's servants slipped me a Hi-Potion, I feel better!" Derran spoke casually trying to reassure Rania. Then Rania goes on to explain more about the situation as others arrived with Dante.

"Really?" "They're at the old Clubhouse?" "I didn't take you for the nostalgic type Rania buuuuuuut, it's as good a place as any, well except for some dust bunnies probably." Derran spoke as he scratched his head. He then gave a long drawn out sigh. "Yeah," Derran pause has his tone and face became serious, "I too want to hear if these rumors are true about the Keywielders." Derran turned to Dante who then came into a burst of energy. "Derran? DERRAN!" Dante says as he runs forward with a big goofy grin on his face.

"Same old Dante." Derran thought to himself.

"Dude! It's been too long! As for how i cheated death.... i never really died, not to mention one of the Masters saved us." His face droops into a frown. "Although... they only saved two others and my self as Rania said... i don't think any others were saved. It's too bad.... they were good people. And those that.... got...eaten by the creatures..." He trails off before he looks at Derran smiling. "All the more reason to make sure that what ever threat is out there is dealt with, too make sure their loss is not in vain. And since the Masters saved us... that means they have to be alive, they have to be out there finding out whats going on and finding a way to stop it."

Derran mulled over Dante's words. "So those heartless bastards weren't just blowing smoke." Derran thought to himself. "How could they do it though?" "They couldn't have attacked both Radiant Gardens and the Land of Departure, could they?" "No, no one can be in two worlds at once." Derran thought for a while until Rania's voice broke his train of thought. "Come on boys, we have a lot of work to do." Then Dante spoke, "C'mon. you can get a fuller story from everyone else." Derran walked alongside Dante as he follows Rania. Derran noticed Dante was unsure of who attacked them outright and he felt Dante was troubled by this. Derran would be too, if the same thing happened here with everyone dying and only he and Rania and Azoth surviving, he would definitely like some answers.

"So you have no idea who attacked you is that it?" Derran spoke to Dante. "If you want to know what kind of threat is out there I'll tell you right now." Derran spoke his voice noticeably growing irritable. "There's two of 'em." "Two guys attacked the Base and started a fire." "They came out of nowhere with tons of Heartless!" "That wound Rania mentioned, one of them did that," Derran spoke pointing to his injured shoulder. "He or IT I should say, is a Heartless but unlike any I have ever heard about." "A real freak of nature." Derran venomously spoke. "It could speak for crying out loud!" "Called itself Nazo." Derran's voice trailed off with signs of resentment. Derran paused a moment and then looked at his shoulder and then to Dante and Rania, and then to the street.

"The other guy I heard him call himself Maverick I believe." Derran paused to reassure himself and then nodded his head. "Yeah that's right, he looks human enough compared to the Heartless." "He's the bastard that started the fire." "You see he used a bunch of swords and lit them on fire and tossed them at us." "He's also a real smug jerk." Derran spoke not looking at Dante or Rania but just staring intently down the road. He seemed to be lost in thought.