The darkness in one's heart corrupts, the empty shell of a person makes you forget, and the darkness in one's soul…
"NO, no Kairi, don`t touch that, you`ll break it." Sora was sleeping on the floor of the gummi ship mumbling to himself. Riku softly kicked Sora to wake him up.
"C`mon Sora wake up, we`ve landed." Sora just rolled away from Riku and groaned. Riku just rolled his eyes and walked out of the gummi ship.
"He wouldn`t wake up." Riku said to Goofy, Donald and Kairi.
They were in a plain with a few trees and ledges. There were a few roads and sand pits scattered every where so it was easy to find your way around.
"WAAAAAAAAAH!" Donald screamed "how are we going to seal the keyhole without the keyblade master?" Riku summoned his keyblade into his hand and waved it in Donald's face saying, "I have a keyblade too y`know."
"Do you know how to seal a keyhole?" Donald back sassed.
Riku made his keyblade vanish to whatever dimension it goes to when the it`s not being used.
"Well we should at least go get stuff at the shops here." They went over to a nearby town called Barton to see what shops were there and what they could buy.
"Hey Riku," Goofy said. "What are we going to buy anyways?"
Riku pondered for a moment and looked in his stock backpack to see a stunning lack of ethers and elexirs.
"Hey what happened to all the ether and elexirs?" Riku asked
"Remember," Kairi replied "Donald's teaching me magic and since I've never used it before I need to use a lot of ethers."
Riku shrugged. They all split up to look at the shops to find what they were looking for. Kairi went over to look at a flower and Goofy stayed with her. Riku and Donald found just the shop they were looking for even though it was a horse carriage with a guy in hobo clothing. The man took a close look at Riku and Donald.
"I see you two are other worldly folks aren't you" he said sticking out his hand. "I'm head of moogle corporations, what do you need?"
"Well." Riku said shaking his hand. "We need some ethers and elexirs"
"No problem, heck, I'll even give them to you for free."
The man crouched down and picked up a box labeled "ETHERS"
Riku took the box from the man went back to the gummi ship to see Kairi and Goofy. Riku went inside the gummi ship and set the boxes in the storage. He went to the deck and saw Sora getting up.
"Well it took you long enough." Riku teased
Sora gave Riku an angry glare and followed him outside. They went outside to see a man with platinum skin, black pants, and white mask with teeth, yellow eyes, and two black stripes on the left side of his forehead with a point at the end. He wielded a light blue sword with spikes of ice instead of a hilt, a gold sword with a red handle that he held in his hands. A regular katana and a large black sword with teeth, a red eye above the handle, two separate tips on each end of the blade, and it was a very wide sword making it have no regular hilt. Those two swords were on his back.
Even with all that the thing that stood out the most was a long red scar going from the left of his chest to his right side.
"Who are you?" Sora asked summoning his keyblade.
The man said nothing but ran towards them with his blades at the ready. He jumped high into the air and fell with his arms above his head. Everyone scattered dodging the man who slashed the ground where they were standing creating a burst of flames from his golden sword and a blast of ice shards from his blue sword. He threw his blue sword at Sora so fast that he barely blocked it. The sword froze onto his keyblade. Sora swung his keyblade trying to get it off when all of the sudden the man grabbed his sword and ripped his sword off, shattering the ice.
The man lifted his gold sword ready to slice when Riku teleported in front of Sora and blocked the sword stopping an explosion of flames from hitting them. Riku swung his keyblade at the man sending him toward Donald. Donald blasted a spell of blizzard at him sending him towards Goofy. Goofy uppercutted the man with his shield sending him skyrocketing upward. Kairi lifted her and snapped her finger saying "Thunder." And a huge bolt of electricity blasted at the man from the sky.
The bolt disappeared and Kairi plopped to the ground unconscious.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled, running towards her. Sora grabbed and shook Kairi's shoulders begging her to wake up. Sora took an Ether out of his pocket and started pouring it into Kairi's mouth. Riku stared at the smoking crater with amazement of what Kairi could do but as the smoke cleared Riku saw the man they were fighting with his light blue and gold sword in his belt loops, standing as if nothing ever happened.
"Impressive," the man said "but that's not enough. I'll make you and your friends a deal Riku, if you can pin me down then I'll say you win and even join you."
"How do you know my name?" Riku asked
"Wouldn't you like to know?" The man's swords created little orbs of power that surrounded his fist. The man punched the air creating a blast of power straight at Riku. Riku dodged the white light but it instead hit a mountain several miles away, making it crumble to the ground. The man practically teleported next to Riku and kicked him, sending him flying.
Riku flew next to Sora. "Riku?" Sora asked as Kairi got up. The man appeared next to Sora and Kairi. Kairi panicked and cast a small fire at the man's face. The man's hand appeared through the smoke and started crushing Kairi's wrist. Sora hit the man's arm with his keyblade moving the smoke and releasing Kairi's wrist from the platinum hand. The man jumped backwards and drew his wide black sword with the teeth.
He pointed the tip of his sword at Riku and Sora and yelled, "Kuria Shukaku!" the teeth of the sword opened and created a long black blade of energy, shooting in between the two keyblade masters. The man lifted his sword and dropped it down on Sora. Sora lifted his keyblade over his head barely blocking the impact of the man's sword. Riku cut off the piece of the blade that Sora was blocking, making it disappear.
Riku threw his keyblade down the blade, cutting it in half and getting stuck in between the teeth of the original sword. Kairi cast a blizzard at the man's arm, freezing it, making it unusable. Sora and Riku ran after the man. Sora hit the man in the chin making them fall backward a bit. Riku pulled his keyblade out of the swords teeth and hit the man in the chest making him topple over. Riku and Sora stood on each of his limbs and pointed their keyblades at the man's neck.
"Kay, looks like you win." The man said with his unfrozen hand up. Sora and Riku stepped off the man to let him get up.
"Who are you?" Sora asked again.
"I'm Sage of Black Chaos," The man said. "Some people just call me Sage."
"Well then 'Sage'," Riku enunciated. "How did you know my name?"
"Please. Everyone in the universal council knows your name."
"Universal council?" Kairi said as she walked up. "What's that?"
"It's this thing where a leader from each world comes together and talks about universal problems and how we can use the pawns on our world to solve the problem. And guess who the leader of this world is. The king's a part of it too."
"So what are those swords your using called?" Riku asked
"Oh, you mean these things? These are my keyblades. Mine aren't designed to seal keyholes like yours; mine are made specifically for exercising the heartless. My light blue one is my frostbite blade which controls the power of ice. My gold one is my flame sword which controls the power of fire. My black one is called death whisper and when released it can create a blast or blade of darkness."
"What about the normal looking one?" Sora asked
Sage smirked. "You'll see soon enough."
"LOOK!" Kairi said pointing at a group nobody that was heading into town. "After it!"
The gang ran after the nobody with their keyblades at the ready. They followed the nobody to the center of the town with the huge fountain. Standing on the fountain was a person in an organization thirteen cloak.
"Who are you?" Sora said pointing his keyblade at the person.
"A messenger." The person said with a feminine voice. She snapped her fingers with a blue flame surrounding the keyblade masters with dozens of Dusks. The Dusks weren't acting like they usually do they were acting more like a shadow would. The woman threw her hand out and the Dusks pounced. The gang was destroying the nobodies one by one without an end to them.
"Catch!" Sage yelled throwing his blue and gold swords.
Sora's keyblade dissipated as he caught the two swords. Sora slashed at the nobodies creating waves of fire and barrages of ice shards. Sora soon ended up back to back with Sage.
"Sora, if you want to end this battle, then clash the tips of my swords together." Sage said pointing his death whisper out.
Without question, Sora clashed the tip of the frostbite blade and flame sword with Sage's death whisper. Suddenly, a blue orb of energy formed at the end of the three blades and swirled around them.
"KURAI SHUKAKU!" the two keyblade masters yelled. The ring of energy created a blast going in all directions, obliterating each of the nobodies. The gang regrouped and Sora handed Sage his keyblades back. The gang readied their weapons.
"Garwsh what's that?" Goofy said pointing up. Everyone looked up to see dozens of little glowing balls of mist floating into the sky.
"Those are souls." The woman said. She disappeared in a flash of blue flames and appeared in front of the gang in another. "The creatures you just fought may look like nobodies but they are something much stronger."
"What are they then?" Sora said lowering his keyblade.
"Soulless." The woman said. "Creatures made of souls that have been corrupted by darkness. By destroying them with your keyblades and magic you have cleansed them."
"What if they're destroyed by something other than a keyblade?" Sage asked still ready for a fight.
"Then they pass right through the Soulless unlike the Heartless and Nobodies who get hurt by all dangers." The woman stretched her arm out and created a tall blue flame like the organizations black portal.
"Oh no, you don't!" Sage yelled throwing his flame sword. The woman stretched her arm out and a huge blue keyblade, which looked like Sora's but rectangular, with rounded turns and gold at the corners appeared in her hand and blocked sage's flame sword with a blast of fire. The woman's keyblade disappeared and walked into the flame. The flame disappeared and Sage picked up his flame sword.
"Now what do we do?" Riku said with his keyblade over his shoulder.
"Well, since I was never able to," Sage said lowering his keyblades. "We should find the keyhole and seal i-" Suddenly a huge heartless snake with a round horn shot out of a red and black swirling wormhole and swallowed Sage whole. Everyone gave a face of shock.
The snake licked its lips with its forked tongue but then gave a look of shock. The snake looked at a frozen part its scaled stomach. Sage burst through the snakes frozen stomach and skid across the ground in front of the rest of the gang, shards of ice falling all around him. The snake flailed around in pain and retreated black into the closing wormhole.
"Be ready guys the heartless could pop out of anytime, anywhere." Sora said. The gang rounded up into a back-to-back circle waiting for the snake to appear. The snake shot out of the wormhole at Riku and who blocked the impact of the snake's nose. Sora hit the snake's neck and did nothing to it. The snake swung its head making Riku collide with Sora. Sage drew his death whisper and hit the snake's head sending it towards the fountain. The snake hit the top of the fountain and broke it off.
The Heartless snake regained its focus and shot at Kairi. Kairi rolled out of the way but the snake went into another wormhole and shot at Riku. The snake was rapidly going in and out of wormholes trying to swallow one of the keyblade masters and left pieces of itself floating in the air. The snake shot out of a wormhole that was high in the air and went for Sora. Sora jumped off the pieces of the snake until he got close to the snake's head. Sora jumped off the snake's nose and hit its odd horn which stunned it sending it backwards.
Sage jumped did the same as Sora and pointed his death whisper at the heartless snake. The mouth of Sage's death whisper opened and started seeping darkness out of the teeth and formed into and orb of darkness. "Kuria Shukaku!" The orb turned into a blast of darkness and obliterated the snakes head. The blast kept on going in and out all the wormholes destroying the entire snake. All the wormholes disappeared.
"Sora, look" Riku said pointing at the top of the fountain. The fountain had a green glowing gem on the top.
"It's the keyhole." Sage said with his arms folded. "Seal it before it's too late." Sora pointed his keyblade at the gem and the tip started to sparkle. A beam of light shot out of the tip of Sora's keyblade and hit the gem. There was a locking sound in the air. It was official, the keyhole was sealed.