Door of Twilight, 2.0
Chapter 1
Prolog
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The sound of pages being turned was the only sound that came from Yen Sid's study. There, you could easily spot the old wizard pouring over a large, and clearly old, book that was most likely filled with magic spells. Sitting on his desk were several other open books, giving the impression that he had been at his desk looking for something in those books. Letting out a sigh, Yen Sid held his right hand out, and muttered something in Latin. The response was another large book floating off a bookshelf, and over to Yen Sid's waiting hand.
Opening the first couple of pages, Yen Sid's face broke into a smile, before quickly turning back into his normal emotionless look. Taking out a pad of paper, Yen Sid began copying a long spell onto it, the spell having been written in a language that looked like a cross between Russian and Greek. After several minutes of writing, Yen Sid placed the book down, and placed the piece of paper in a pocket in the liner of his right sleeve. "I must get this to Dorga and Unne before the council gathers." Yen Sid thought as he began gathering a few smaller books into a small backpack. However, before Yen Sid could continue, a bright flashing light started to emit from a small crystal orb on the side of his desk.
Looking at the orb, Yen Sid could see the entrance hallway of his tower and, more importantly, someone standing in it. The person standing in the lowest part of the tower was fairly tall, standing around 6'4. The person was wearing full body armor that looked like it was made from a type dragon's scales, but the armor was clearly metal. The armor was a dark purple color, except for the chest and shoulders, which were crimson. On the person's fingers there were a set of claws about three inches long. The helmet that the person was wearing had a black visor covering the person's face, and two crimson fins coming out the back of the helmet.
"So he has been reborn…" Yen Sid let his though trail off as he saw the armored figure start to rapidly moving up the stairs in the tower. As Yen Sid saw the armored knight rapidly close the distance between the only two people in the tower, Yen Sid placed his hands on the crystal orb and began to chant something in Latin again. Up on top of Yen Sid's tower, a long wooden staff began to glow light green, as energy started to gather on the very tip of the staff. As the energy increased, an orb of pure magical energy was formed, coming to be about three feet around. Finally, after several seconds, the orb burst, causing thin beams of energy to go flying in all directions.
Taking a deep breath, Yen Sid picked up the book that he had copied the magic spell out of just a minute ago. After giving off a long sigh, Yen Sid conjured up the largest fire spell he knew which, do to his experience with magic, was large enough to engulf the book he was holding, his desk, and spread to the other bookshelves in the room, setting them ablaze. Staring down at the small backpack, which was one of the few things in the room, that wasn't stone, which hadn't been set on fire. Muttering one final spell in Latin, Yen Sid opened a small portal and threw the backpack threw, before quickly closing it.
Before Yen Sid had the chance to do anything else, the door to his study burst open, due to a well aimed kick from the knight. As the knight walked into the now burning room he let out a long sigh, which sounded somewhat mechanical and distorted. "You know why I have come. Simply surrender the spell and I will leave your tower." The knight's distorted voice said to Yen Sid, as the before mentioned knight stood maybe ten feet from the old wizard. However, instead of being scared, or angry, Yen Sid instead started laughing. "You can tell your master that he should enjoy his life while he can, for he shall not be reborn again."
Hearing Yen Sid's reply, the knight gave a sigh, as he held his right hand out to the side. Darkness then began to gather around the knight's hand, before it started taking shape. In the knight's hand was a long sword. The hilt and guard were a dull grey color, while the blade itself was a light green color. What stood out most about the blade was that about half way up the blade, it began spiraling, forming what looked like a drill by the time it got to the tip. "If that is you're choice old man." The knight said as he took the drill shaped Keyblade in both hands, and lunged towards Yen Sid.
"Your Majesty, would you please tell us what's going on?" Donald's high-pitched voice called after the small mouse king as he, along with Goofy, ran after the small king down the streets of Twilight Town. "Yen Sid sent a distress call out about an hour ago. It's not like him to call for help, so something must be wrong!" Mickey yelled over his shoulder as he rounded the corner and darted into the train station. Spotting the dark blue train with stars painted all over it, the small mouse king quickly darted on it, Donald and Goofy having to jump to avoid the doors closing on them. Almost as soon as the doors had shut, the train started to lurch forwards on the tracks, rapidly picking up speed. Almost as soon as the train had gone out of sight of the train station, there was a flash of green light as the train entered a small portal, taking it straight to Yen Sid's tower.
What the three residents of Disney Castle saw shocked them. Yen Sid's tower was all but burnt to the ground, while the owner of said tower was currently lying on the ground outside the tower, the armored knight standing over the old man's fallen form. As the three began running towards the old wizard, Mickey noticed that Yen Sid's right shoulder had been stabbed by the knight's Keyblade, blood covering most of Yen Sid's torso.
Giving a battle cry, Mickey leapt into the air, summoning his Keyblade at the same time. Rolling into a small ball, the mouse king quickly started to rotate in mid air to increase the amount of force he would hit with. However, as Mickey came down on the knight, the armored person simple raised his own Keyblade, easily knocking Mickey's Keyblade, not to mention the small king himself, to the side. "So you are the disciple of Yen Sid?" The knight said as if he was unimpressed.
"I was once trained by Yen Sid, yes." Mickey said slowly as he picked himself off the ground. As Mickey readied his weapon for another attack, Donald and Goofy were finally able to catch up to the small king, each hold their respective weapon. "If you were once trained by this old man, then you must know why I am here, and what I must do." The knight spoke up again, eyeing Donald and Goofy out of the corner of his eye. "I know you want to kill Yen Sid, and I'm not about to let that happen!" Mickey's voice sound determined, as he stared the knight down.
"Very well, just remember I gave you the chance to run." The knight said, before diving at Mickey at an incredibly high rate of speed. Almost instantly, the knight was standing over Mickey, thrusting the drill shaped Keyblade down at the king's head. The said mouse king was able to quickly throw himself to the side, rolling into a ball as he rolled along the ground a couple yards. As the knight was pulling his sword out of the ground, Mickey seized the opportunity to launch an attack of his own. Pointing the tip of his Keyblade at the knight, Mickey quickly gathered a large around of magical energy, before releasing that energy in the form of a half a dozen orbs of light that went flying right at the dark knight.
As the knight ripped his Keyblade from the ground, he was forced to spin the blade in a quick rotation to knock the first two orbs of light to the side. Steeping back onto his left heel, the knight quickly pivoted to the side to let the third blast go flying past him, while bringing his Keyblade up to block the fourth. However, before the knight could do anything about the last two orbs, a powerful lightning spell crashed into the knight from above, curtsy of Donald. While the lightning spell didn't do much, if any damage to the knight, it was enough to stun him long enough for the two remaining orbs of light to crash into the knight's chest, knocking him to the ground.
"Hey you big palooka, if you attack the king, you have to deal with us!" Donald yelled, as he and Goofy readied their weapons for another attack on the dark knight. As the knight pushed himself back onto his feet, you could clearly see two scorch marks on his chest where the king's magic attack, the spell being called Pearl, had hit. "Foolish duck, that was not magic. No, THIS is magic!" The knight yelled as he pointed his Keyblade at Donald, and a large blast of light blue energy burst from the blade. As the energy rushed towards Donald, Goofy grabbed his feathered friend and, due to his height advantage over Donald, lifted the small wizard out of the path of the energy.
Since the energy had missed Donald, it kept on flying until it hit a solid object, which just happened to be the train that the three old friends had taken to get to Yen Sid's tower. As soon as the energy hit the train, the entire train was incased in a solid block of ice, freezing the entire seventy-foot long train in under three seconds. "Now do you relies how outmatched you all are? Your attacks have done nothing to me other then irritate me, while as you can clearly see from what happened with this old man, my attacks are very effective." The knight said, motioning to Yen Sid's fallen form with his free hand.
"Well, the way I see it is that you must be all tuckered out after having to fight master Yen Sid for so long, so your attacks can't be at full power." Goofy spoke up, pointing out a very valid point. "I grow tired of this nonsense." The knight said with a sigh, before suddenly lunging at Donald and Goofy and lightning fast speed. As the knight came flying in, Goofy leapt forwards, spinning around rapidly as the knight drew closer. When the knight was close enough, Goofy thrust his shield out; using the rotations to increase the amount of force the shield would hit the knight with.
However, right before the shield made contact with the knight, the dark warrior brought his Keyblade up and stopped the attack cold, all while rotating on his left heel, spinning around fully while pushing Goofy's shield away at the same time. Then, while Goofy's defenses were still down, the knight simply backhanded Goofy with his left hand, sending the humanoid dog flying almost twenty feet to the side.
"Goofy!" Donald yelled as he watched his friend go flying off to the side. "You'll pay for that! Thund-" Donald's spell was cut off half way by another blast of ice magic from the dark knight. Since Donald was so focused on casting his spell, he didn't notice the knight's attack until it was to late. When the magic attack hit Donald, his entire body was incased in a giant block of ice, more or less becoming a giant ice cube.
"Donald! Goofy!" Mickey yelled after seeing his two close friends by easily disabled by the mysteries knight. "I told you, you were all outmatched from the beginning." The knight's mechanical voice cut through the air again. As the two held their Keyblades ready to attack, Mickey noticed something he hadn't before: Yen Sid had started to move. While it wasn't very much, Yen Sid had moved about ten feet from where he had been lying when Mickey had first gotten there. What more, Yen Sid had actually started to stand up.
"I…told you before that…you would not get what you came here for." Yen Sid's voice was weak, and it was clear that he was having trouble standing, but something in his eyes told Mickey that he needed to get out of the way. Fast. As Mickey ran as fast as he could to the side, Yen Sid slowly raised his left hand, and a light green glow began to surround it. As the glow became brighter and brighter, the knight suddenly found that he couldn't move his feet. "HOLY!" With a massive cry, Yen Sid unleashed the attack he had been charging up on his left hand.
The result was incredible. From Yen Sid's hand burst a massive beam of green energy, so large that it would have engulfed his tower had it not already burnt to the ground. The knight, since his feet where still unable to move, was forced to try and block the attack. Thrusting his Keyblade forwards, the knight forced a large amount of darkness to erupt from the tip of his blade, causing an odd, "arrow" shaped shield of darkness. As the two magic power clashed, there was a blinding flash of green light. All that could be seen of the knight was his outline, completely covered in dark energy.
With one final, blinding burst of light, a huge pillar of dust and smoke shot into the air, blinding everyone who was close by. After several moments of not being able to see anything, the smoke and dusted cleared enough for Mickey to make out the outcome of the attack. Where Yen Sid's tower had once sat, there was now a large crater, about twenty feet side, roughly one hundred feet long, and ten feet deep. Where the knight had been standing the ground was fairly intact, the dark shield having clearly absorbed the bulk of the attack. Mickey could also make out what looked like small chunks of armor, all coated in blood.
"Come, my former student. There is much we must do, and little time to do it." Yen Sid's voice brought Mickey back to reality.
"Make sure you read pages 243 through 260 and answer questions 5 through 40!" Sora's biology teacher yelled after the class as they all made a mad break for the door, Sora being among them. "Sweet freedom of a three day weekend." Sora said to himself as he ran towards his lock to grab his geometry book. As he opened his locker, Sora heard a familiar voice coming from behind him. "So Tidus wants to know if you're coming to the blitz-ball game tonight." Riku's voice caused Sora to turn slight, while shoving his books into his over-stuffed red backpack.
"Yeah, I'll be there. And you'd better be too, I've been practicing some new moves that'll blow you away." Sora said with a slight laugh as he slammed his locker shut and started walking with Riku towards the front door of the school. "Do you really think I'd miss a chance to humiliate you like last time?" Riku said, giving a small laugh of his own. "Aw, whatever Riku. Anyways, I've got to get home; my mom said something about wanting me to help with dinner." Sora said as both he and Riku walked out the door, and started down a fairly wide dirt road. "Right, so I'll se you later then." Riku said as he started to run down a smaller road that branched off the main road.
"Riku!" Hearing a familiar voice calling his name, Riku skidded to a stop in the middle of the sidewalk. Turing around, Riku instantly spotted Kairi's red hair as she ran to catch up with her long time friend. "Do you…know…what's going on?" Kairi managed to get out in between gasping for breath. "No," Riku replied "All I know is that Sora called me and said that it was an emergency that I got over to his house as soon as I could." Taking a couple deep breathes, Kairi was finally able to slow her breathing back to normal, thus being able to talk normally. "Same here," Kairi said after a minute, "So we should probably get over there as fast as we can."
It didn't take more then three minutes to run the rest of the way over to Sora's house; Riku probably could have made it in less then half the time, but he didn't want to get to far ahead of Kairi. After spotting Sora's house, the two story house with a light blue shade of paint and white trimming, both teens simply jumped the fence rather then run around to the gate, which was located on the opposite side of the fence that they came to first. Give two rapid knocks on the door, Riku quickly jerked the door open, starting to say something along the lines of "Sora what's wro-"
"Riku! I just heard about what happened to the two of you!" The white haired teen was cut off as a blur of color suddenly was pulling him into a hug of some sort. Sora's mom, Yoruichi Hikari, was a rather emotional person, sometimes bordering on appearing to be psychopathic. Standing at 5'6, Yoruichi was already considerably shorter then both Sora and Riku; even Kairi was a little over an inch taller then her. It was easy to tell that Sora and Yoruichi were related at first glance. Yoruichi had waist long brown hair and bright blue eyes, Sora having clearly gotten those from her. Sora also seemed to have gotten his clothing style from Yoruichi, the latter wearing a pair of light brown shorts and a matching tan top.
"Mrs. Hikari…I find this somewhat disturbing…" Riku said, not really understanding why Yoruichi was hugging him. "Sora!" Kairi called into the house, "Your mom is hugging Riku and crying!" Kairi said, not finding any better way to describe the scene in front of her. The sound of Sora's over sized shoes could be heard as he ran from the back of the house to greet his friends. "MOM! I'm starting to get a little creped out by this." Sora said when he came around the corner and saw his mom hugging Riku, while bawling her eyes out.
"Alright, mom I'm going to take Riku and Kairi to the island and explain things, okay?" Sora said as he finally managed to get his mom to sit down in a nearby chair. "All right Sora, you've got some explaining to do." Kairi said as she and Riku followed Sora out the front door.
"Do you mind telling me why your mom was having an emotional break down?" Riku said as the three friends steeped onto the shores of the small play island they spent so much time at. "You didn't tell the real reason we were gone for a year and a half, did you?" Riku asked, not waiting for Sora to explain himself. "Of course not!" Sora shouted, "If I had done that, she wouldn't have let use leave the house."
"Actually, I think she might have been having a break down because of us." A new voice caused Riku and Kairi to turn and look at the small shack over by the waterfall. Standing there were three people. Three female people to be exact. Standing in the middle was a girl who looked to be around seventeen. She had light brown hair that came down a few inches above her shoulders, except for a long strand of hair that was tied in a braid that fell down to the middle of her back. She had fairly pale skin, and she had two different colored eyes, the right being light green, the left being a dark blue. As for what she was wearing, the girl was dressed in almost knee high dark blue boots, a pair of dark blue shorts with a blue and white skirt cover on her left leg. She was also wearing a white tank top that came down to about her bellybutton with pink lining on the bottom, and a pink scarf. You could also spot what looked like a pair of pistols at her side.
The girl standing on the left had a far more…. scary look to her. Looking to be around eighteen, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to call this girl a "goth." Dressed in a pair of black leather pants, and steel toe boots, the girl had an ominous presence around her. Wearing a black shirt with the sleeves ripped off, and what looked to be about five belts around her waist, she really completed the whole "scary look." The girls had very pale skin, and black hair that seemed to have gray lining. She also had a sword strapped to her back: a long black blade with silver lining, and a solid steel hilt that had a large skull on it.
The final girl had a much more "up beat" feeling to her. Looking to be around sixteen, this girl had semi tan skin, and was sporting a smile on her face, unlike the other two who looked nervous and board, respectively. Having light green eyes, and bright blond hair that was mostly hanging freely out of a light blue headband she was wearing, other then several strands that had been braided. As far as clothing went, she had…a lot less articles of clothing on then the other two females with her. Wearing a pair of light green shorts with several pouches on it, and a yellow bikini top, the "longest" piece of clothing she had on was a scarf that was wrapped around her neck about three times, and was several shades of color. Starting at the ends, the scarf was a bright yellow, which turned into a dark orange about half way up, till it finally turned to red at the section wrapped around her neck. You could also spot two daggers with large, circle like guards on them, in the inner part of the guard being yellow, the outer being red, and curved red blades.
"Riku, Kairi, these are the Gullwings." Sora said, gesturing to the three females.
Travers Towns was, not surprisingly, a very dull world. Being in eternal night, the world had a very gloomy feeling to it. Add that with the fact that most of the buildings were not in the best of shape, and most people would wonder why anyone would go there by choice. But then again, Cloud Strife wasn't like most other people. Walking through the town square without so much as giving a second glance at the people around him, Cloud was quickly making his way towards the Second Distract.
"He's here somewhere…" Cloud thought as he could literally feel an incredible amount of dark energy coming from somewhere in Travers Town. Seeing a bright glow coming from the sky, Cloud looked up and immediately spotted a very familiar symbol being formed in the sky. The symbol looked like three triangles, one upside down, and two slanted at an angle, inside a circle. Suddenly, a long beam of light burst from the center of the glowing symbol, falling somewhere in the Second Distract.
Cloud was already making a dash for the Second Distract.
"My master, forgive my incompetents." The armored knight said on his hands and knees. The knight, and the person he was talking to, where in a large white room, which oddly enough was decorated in a "flower" theme. "Do not worry about this my disciple, Yen Sid is the strongest of the surviving council members." A loud voice boomed, sounding like it was coming from all over the room. The voice also had an immensely evil sound to it that would make a normal man or woman shudder in fear. "I have a much more important task that needs your attention at the moment." The voice said again, a scroll appearing in front of the knight in a burst of dark energy.
"But heed my warning: failure from this point forwards will be met with only death." The voice said again, as the light inside the room seemed to drain from it, leaving nothing but total darkness.
"Yoruichi, I'm hooooooooooooooooooome." A deep, yet surprisingly immature sounding voice came from the entrance hall of the Hikari's home. Despite hearing the voice calling her, Yoruichi did not move from her spot at the kitchen table. Instead, she just continued to stare blankly at one spot in the kitchen table, not being able to take her eyes off it. The sound of footsteps could be heard coming towards the kitchen, before stopping just behind the brunette. "Yor, what's wrong?" The same voice asked, suddenly sound very serious.
"Those…those bastards chose Sora. And I think they got Riku to." Yoruichi practically spat the twelve words out as she continued to stare down at the table. Even without looking behind her, Yoruichi could tell that the man behind her, her husband, and stiffened at what she had spoke. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he spoke up again. "We'll need to tell Ryo."
END
It took me forever to finish this, due to school and such. Anyways, for those of you who haven't figured it out by now, this is a rewrite of my first real story. And for those of you that read my old story, I'm keeping all the pairings the same, just changing the plot around so that it's more doable. (And won't end up having the ten or so characters that somehow found there way into the story the served no purpose.) And for those of you who don't know, the pairings are/will be: Riku x Yuna, Cloud x Quistis, Leon/Squall Rinoa, and some Sora x Kairi thrown in for the fun of it.
