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Derran leaned against the wall of the old clubhouse. It was dusty and a bit stuffy from him, still at least they have a place to discuss tactics and such. What interested Derran was Dante's story, from what he describes it sounds different than what they went through. Dante assumes there's two groups, since they were attacked by something different then Heartless. What could it be?

"These Creatures we fought at the Land of Departure... They didn't attack like Heartless, they didn't try to steal hearts. They down right killed them... and ate the bodies and had red eyes and teeth. And when we would kill one, it didn't vanish but turned into liquid darkness that seeped into the ground, and i can only guess that it corrupted the world." Dante pauses as he thinks about all those that were killed and his lip quivers with anger and sadness. "Worse yet," He continues. " Was when this guy, who was obviously the leader, kinda floated down out of the sky from the storm that came with the Creatures a whole crap ton more appeared. That's when the Masters went out to fight them.... at least i think it was after the winged dude appeared.... it was happening so fast. So the Masters went out there to fight them, tried to get them farther away from the students, but that's when something weird happened.


Derran noticed how upset this made Dante, it sounds down right traumatic. What kind of creature can do this? What also disturbed him was that they had a leader, like the Heartless did. There bad enough on their own without being organized. A winged leader? Hm, strange. He continued to hear Dante's story.

"The liquid from the slain creatures rose out of the ground and began to pool together to create one giant monster. That was when it clicked in my head that we have lost, because if the little ones gave off darkness then this big one would give alot more. So the Masters Slayed the monsters and this tidal wave of darkness began to spread over the world, and it was coming towards the main building where we were and Sikes tried to Use magic to hold it off, but it didn't last long." He says as he remembers being sucked down into darkness and being smothered by it, remebering how scared he was. "Then i was floating in Darkness, i couldn't see, i was losing all feeling, becoming numb when this brilliant light appeared in the distance and it grew bigger and brighter, and i slowly got warmer and could feel again when i heard the voice of one of the masters saying not to give up and that as long as we have the keyblade we could fight the darkness. Then the light took us here, and so thats about what happened."

Dante stared off into the distance and thought deeply over what happened. As he mulled it over he remembered the way Maverick spoke, as if they weren't alone in this. It can't be a coincidence that Maverick happened to know that the Land of Departure was lost. No, Derran has the suspicion that this was all planned. Feeling the seriousness of the deduction Derran spoke up. "I am sorry to hear about what happened at the Land of Departure." "About you," Derran points at Dante, "And all of you." Derran waved his arm in an encompassing manner. "And about the Masters and the other Keywielders." "But I don't think these were two separate events." "This may sound disturbing but I have the sinking feeling this was all organized." "I mean the attacks on both the Land of Departure and Radiant Gardens?" Derran gave shrug of disbelief. "I don't think that happened to be a coincidence." "I think our two threats are one, I mean Rania, Azoth, didn't Maverick's last words before he left struck a little odd to you?" "As if he was talking about another person." Derran mentioned trying to coax their memory. "All I know that this is very disturbing and if nothing is done soon, they will strike again." Derran spoke coming to his conclusion. He returned to lean against the wall again to hear the others.