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Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts, the characters, and places belong solely to Disney and Squaresoft. Even if you did try and get money from me, i'm poor regardless...
Note: When a paragraph is indented, it means the scene changed to a different location..Usually.
I also revised this story. Due to my personal beliefs, I added a bit more, and seperated your paragraphs for your pleasure!
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Chapter 1: Not the Same...
Pluto was gone. They had scoured the lone road, looking for Mickey's messenger dog, and had come up with absolutely nothing.
"Thish ish is washte of time!" Donald exclaimed.
His impatience obviously evident. Sora looked to Donald for a moment, and Goofy stood there, silent.
Sora then spoke, "Donald. We need to find out what that note says! It may tell us where King Mickey and Riku are!"
Donald's arms were folded, and his webbed feet were slapping the ground feveriously.
"Ok, Shora, I guesh you are right."
Goofy's big eyes were dazed off somewhere, and then he shook it once, and then rubbed his eyes, pointing to the horizon.
"Gwarsh! There's Pluto!"
In the distance, off the main road, was Pluto, squatting next to a tree, obviously relieving himself. They didn't care, they were too excited to. They all ran in a hurry to catch up to Pluto, in hopes of the dog not running away this time.
They reached the hill Pluto was on quite quickly, and he was obviously having some trouble.
"PLUTO!" Goofy and Donald yelled in unison.
Pluto looked up, shocked, and he began to shake and sweat, confused as to what he was suppose to do. It could not just stop his business and leave. The message was still in it's mouth, creased from the constipation. Suddenly a tremendous waterfall of dog crap spewed out of Pluto, and the smell was overwhelming. Sora shut his eyes quickly, and covered his nose, his right hand gripping the Keyblade even tighter. Donald fell back, the smell shutting down his whole body. Goofy on the other hand was right next to Pluto, relieving himself as well, but just peeing.
"Do you have no shame, Goofy?!" Sora exclaimed.
Goofy quickly stopped, and pulled his pants back up. He then snatched the note from Pluto's mouth, and Pluto cowered a bit, but Goofy patted his head softly.
"There there, Thank you Pluto!"
Donald woke up quickly, the river of dog crap running down the backstretch of the hill.. Donald then was suprised to see that Pluto had not run.
"Whersh the note, Goofee?!" Donald yelled.
"Gwarsh, King Mickey is gone again.." Goofy unfolded the note so that Sora and Donald could read it:
"Dear Goofy, Donald, and Sora...
As you know, we were successful in sealing the Kingdom Hearts door. Thank you for your help, especially you Sora. Riku and I were then put in the middle of an all out war. Us, verses Heartless that have not seen a person with a heart in their whole meaningless existence. Riku and I fought side by side for two nights. We eventually escaped through a light portal, but we were seperated at the transition between the place where Kingdom Hearts was, and the place I am now. I have somehow managed to get back to the Magic Kingdom. Thus, how Pluto found this note, and I am sure you have reached here by now. But you will not find me here. I came back to a burning Castle, and Daisy and Minnie are missin---
Donald blurted out in anger, "DAISHEE?! I'll kill em', I shware it! Letsh go!"
Sora glanced to Donald. "There's still more, hold on.":
--g. I am leaving to find them. I have picked up on a few clues. There's still a big concentration of Heartless activity around here, I don't know how they broke through, but they did. I have a feeling something much bigger is at hand now. I am not sure who, or rather what is behind this, but the Heartless are MUCH stronger, I cannot stress this enough. Stay away from the cast------"
The bottom of the message was shredded, and messy writing as if Mickey was being attacked by something, undoubtedly the Heartless. Goofy turned around to look at Pluto, but he was gone. But something had replaced him, and was coming out a pool of darkness on the ground. It looked like the first Heartless Sora had defeated, but it was bigger. More muscular, better defined, and not as small and childish. It then let out a cry in an unknown tongue and many more began to form out of the ground, soon, the whole area was filled with Blackness. The Blackness of the Heartless. Sora quickly pulled the Keyblade infront of him, backing against Goofy and Donald. The Heartless sounded nearly demonic, and they seemed prepared to obliterate whatever stood in their destructive path. Sora quickly brought down the Keyblade onto the head of one of the Heartless, it's head then caved in, purple and black gases seeping out of the wound. It screamed in pain as it slashed at Sora, slicing across his cheek a bit. Donald quickly casted a Fire spell, one that had slowly grown stronger through the course of the months that had passed. It completely incinerated a whole line of Heartless, more just filling the gapping hole.
Sora quickly grew angry, and wiped the warm, crimson blood off of his cheek. He then smirked a bit, feeling a hint of deja vu surround him. He then jumped to the same Heartless from earlier, and he quickly brought the blade down onto it's neck, and then spun a bit, bringing it into the side of it's head, Sora feeling the hard head. He then drove it through the stomach of the Heartless, it looked to Sora, as if pleaing for something or another, and it exploded into a shroud of purple and black haze and smoke. Sora jumped back before the terrible smell of the Heartless gas reached his nostrils.
Another Heartless seemed to be angry towards the death of his comrade, as he stepped forward in hopes of completing what the other couldn't. Sora quickly casted a slightly weaker Fire spell, just a bit weaker then Donalds. It took most of the line, save a few Heartless. The hole was then filled again, and Sora grew tired. Goofy was already yelling, and toppling over surrounding Heartless with his shield, Sora then realized why Goofy seemed to get hurt so often.
Sora sighed, not sure if they would make it out of here.
"Shora! TRINITY!", Donald exclaimed.
Sora looked to Donald, and almost had forgotten of the newest move that he had learned, and added to his arsenal. Sora looked at the rest of the Heartless, and knew it was the end of this little uprising. He flipped back a bit, and drove the Keyblade into the ground, grinning all the while. He danced a bit on the handle of the blade, trying to make the Heartless as mad as possible before their ending. Suddenly, a blinding light escaped the ground as Sora yanked the blade out of the ground, and the Heartless were torn apart, the coats of flesh and darkness ripping off one by one, the pain would have been unbearable, but unfortunately the process was finished within seconds.
The whole army of darkness had completely vanished. Not a trace was left. Sora then straightened himself out, rubbing the gash on his cheek, and he finally put the Keyblade down to his side, and looked to Donald, a drop of blood dripping off the side of his face.
"They are much stronger then the old ones. That first blow would have killed one easily if it had been the others. We need to be careful."
Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement, and they took off towards the castle, the tip of it already in view.
The journey to the castle had been an all out sprint. Staying in one place for too long would have caused another one of the situations that had peeked it's head earlier. Sora did not have the energy, nor the magic capabilities to be able to execute the Trinity everytime something like that occured. He already felt that the scene of that many Heartless would become an all too normal nightmare.
Mickey was not exaggerating when he said that the Heartless had trashed the castle. It had looked as if it had been a couple days since the fight ensued. The fires to the castle had died down, and the smoke was just beginning to fade. There was no one around, and they searched around a bit looking for a SP to get off the Magic Kingdom. As they looked, they picked a few supplies they figured they'd need. After a bit they finally found the SP to call for their Gummi ship. They then boarded and headed off in the direction of Traverse Town.
Sora got the sleep he had been waiting for ever since Destiny Island got destroyed. His dreams eventually turned into nightmares, his beloved forming into the Heartless, Kairi being torn away from him as soon as he got through the darkness to find her.
"NO! KAIRI!"
He sat up quickly, his eyes darting back and forth nervously, sweat running down his cheek and into the wound. It burned a bit, but he didn't heed the pain. He was in the back of the Gummi ship, boxes of food, and supplies stacked on high. He slowly arose to his feet, picking up the Keyblade off of the floor. He then grabbed an apple out of a box full of bright green apples, and made his way through the 4th cabin of the ship towards the cockpit. The first and second cabins were basically sleeping quarters, and a kitchen area. He was not sure how he had stumbled into the furthest cabin of the ship, when there were beds already set up. He shrugged and continued into the 3rd cabin. The 3rd and 4th cabins were for storage. He eventually reached the cockpit, Donald piloting the ship, and Goofy was messing around with his shield. Goofy then looked up to Sora.
"Hyuck! Sora! You woke up! Golly, I hope you had a good sleep."
Donald's eyes were steadily gazing out of the cockpit window. He has a childish smirk on his face as he shot down multiple enemy ships, and shot missiles into asteroids that were blocking his course.
"Shora! We are awmosht to Traversh Town. We would have been there shooner but our warp drive bushted." Donald's eyes were still glued to the window.
Sora nodded, and then smiled.
"Well atleast I caught up on my beauty sleep. Remember! No frowning on the gummi ship!"
Sora grinned the same grin he had done when he had first met Goofy and Donald.
"Eeeeeeeeeeee.e..e...e..."
The silence was a short one, soon followed by out of control laughter. Donald began to unintentionally jerk the Gummi ship around a bit, and Sora was laughing a bit too hard, dropping the apple core to the ground. Goofy himself was laughing too.
They docked at Traverse Town, and started towards the main gate to the First District. A few people walked by to their own Gummi ships, there were about 4 total ships in the whole bay. But Gummi ships were quite expensive to build and purchase, luckily Goofy and Donald were part of the Magic Kingdom, Gummi ships were thrown to them. No one could afford them really. The big doors were pushed open by Sora as they walked in and looked about the place. What they witnessed astonished all of them. Traverse Town was...Empty. The people they had seen must have not had a world to begin with. No Moogles, no little boy by the mailbox, no lady by the Tavern, no nothing. It was a desolate as a desert.
Donald impatient slapped his webbed feet at the ground, and it seemed to echo through through the alleys and the empty buildings. Sora looked to Donald, and began to speak.
"Does it make any sense..Us..Being here? Now that the worlds are restored, everyone should be at their worlds. This place is only here to give a refuge for those who lost their world to the Heartless."
Donald shrugged a bit.
"I dunno."
Goofy looked to the two, and opened his mouth to speak.
"Hyuck. Since the Heartless are back, won't that mean people will begin to flee again? And come back here?"
Sora and Donald stood there in awe, just gazing at Goofy. It had been the wisest thing Goofy had said since Sora had met him. And it was still the wisest thing Donald had EVER heard him say, and Donald and Goofy were childhood friends. The silence washed over them all, and then the laughter ensued. The once lively Traverse Town now erupted with laughter...
15 minutes had passed and Donald was still rolling around on the ground trying to catch his breath. Sora helped Donald up, patting him on the back.
"Ok, so. What do we do now?"
"You do nothing. You just wait for the end."
The voice had come out of the shadows. Demonic red eyes gazed out of the darkness and a low laugh began. Sora glared towards the one cloaked by the shadows, Bringing the Keyblade up imfront of him, feeling security in the blade. Goofy was already at his side, Donald had walked back to pick up something. Sora wasn't sure what, but it didn't matter at the moment.
"You pathetic fools. Just because you have 'defeated' Ansem, you now think you can defeat me? I BROUGHT ANSEM TO DARKNESS!"
Sora was in no mood for dialogue. He had enough of it. He dashed towards the man, lifting the Keyblade high in the air, and suddenly, thoughts of Kairi flew through his mind, and his mouth spoke without his consent.
"THIS IS FOR KAIRI!"
Sora lunged imto the air at the stranger, feeling invincible for that moment in time. He was jumping at the man, his Keyblade raised above his head.
"ARGHHHHHHHH!"
Sora's yells of violence were stopped abruptly by a fist of iron that had somehow made it's way to his face. Sora felt something in his face crack, and he felt the blood seep down into his mouth. The bitter, warm blood. He then fell out of the air, landing on his neck, and holding his face with his left hand, still holding onto the Keyblade with his right. He shook it off and rolled back into a crouch, blinking wildly in hopes of finding some sort of relief. Donald and Goofy ran to him quickly, helping him up, and pulling him back a bit.
The man's hand retracted as he hovered out of the shadows of the building. Sora was a bit out of it, his right eye beginning to roll back. Donald casted a healing spell, and slowly, Sora's consciousness came back. Sora then looked up to see the man. He even looked worse then Ansem had, his eyes almost all red. He wore a long solid black trench coat, nothing seemed to be decorating it. He held an orb of some sort, as he slid it into his right pocket. The black bangs slowly were pushed off of his face as he hovered closer towards the three. He was a fairly tall man, and had two long, what looked like steel, swords sheathed at both his hips. The man grinned, and snapped his fingers, 3 new species of Heartless coming out of the ground, 4 to a specie. Then a whole army of the other Heartless they had encountered at Magic Kingdom's road.
"I'll see you in the Darkness, Sora." Then man disappeared, autumn leaves falling from the air where he once was.
The Army of the Heartless were all screaming, and tearing away at their own skin, like some unknown force was holding them back from advancing towards the trio. Sora quirked an eyebrow, as some sort of invisible wall flickered on and off through his eyes, he then extended his neck to investigate more. Then a blurred image began to appear in Sora's eyes, and there was Riku, holding back the whole army, his muscles and vains were popping out as he strained to talk.
"Sora! Go!"
The Heartless were screaming, and looked confused as to why they couldn't go anywhere. Riku then disappeared from Sora's sight again, but Sora still saw that the flickering wall remained, but the flickering grew weaker. Sora decided it was best to go. He then backed away slowly, and the shuffling soon evolved into a sprint towards the main gate, the sounds of Goofy and Donald's feet behind him were the only thing he could hear.
The sound of glass shattering pierced all of their ears, as the Heartless screamed louder, and the main gate seemed to be getting further. He turned around to see the Heartless at an all out dash, not only were they stronger, they looked absolutely hideous, and they were faster. Sora wanted to fight them so badly, he wanted to get rid of those...Those wretched things that had destroyed his island. But he also knew there was a difference between courage, and intelligence, and this was not a fight he would walk away from. Sora slammed into the main gates shoulder first, ignoring the pain that shot through his arm. He stumbled back a bit, feeling the breath and the cold scrape that a Heartless had given him. He was cut down his back, and he felt the blood run down a bit before soaking into his shirt, and he spun, slamming the Keyblade's most outer end onto the head of the Trajode. They had decided to just name the Heartless they saw at the Magic Kingdom "Trajode's", for no apparent reason. He felt the skull of the Trajode crack at the Keyblade, as Goofy and Donald then slammed into the gate's, opening them. They pulled Sora through, and Donald casted a monster of a Graviga spell at the Heartless, Sora hearing the cracking of bones, and the screams of frustration as they slammed the doors shut, hoisting a nearby piece of wood through the handles.
They then all ran towards their Gummi Ship, but Sora was silent, the only thought crossing his mind was, "...Riku."
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Kingdom Hearts, the characters, and places belong solely to Disney and Squaresoft. Even if you did try and get money from me, i'm poor regardless...
Note: When a paragraph is indented, it means the scene changed to a different location..Usually.
I also revised this story. Due to my personal beliefs, I added a bit more, and seperated your paragraphs for your pleasure!
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Chapter 1: Not the Same...
Pluto was gone. They had scoured the lone road, looking for Mickey's messenger dog, and had come up with absolutely nothing.
"Thish ish is washte of time!" Donald exclaimed.
His impatience obviously evident. Sora looked to Donald for a moment, and Goofy stood there, silent.
Sora then spoke, "Donald. We need to find out what that note says! It may tell us where King Mickey and Riku are!"
Donald's arms were folded, and his webbed feet were slapping the ground feveriously.
"Ok, Shora, I guesh you are right."
Goofy's big eyes were dazed off somewhere, and then he shook it once, and then rubbed his eyes, pointing to the horizon.
"Gwarsh! There's Pluto!"
In the distance, off the main road, was Pluto, squatting next to a tree, obviously relieving himself. They didn't care, they were too excited to. They all ran in a hurry to catch up to Pluto, in hopes of the dog not running away this time.
They reached the hill Pluto was on quite quickly, and he was obviously having some trouble.
"PLUTO!" Goofy and Donald yelled in unison.
Pluto looked up, shocked, and he began to shake and sweat, confused as to what he was suppose to do. It could not just stop his business and leave. The message was still in it's mouth, creased from the constipation. Suddenly a tremendous waterfall of dog crap spewed out of Pluto, and the smell was overwhelming. Sora shut his eyes quickly, and covered his nose, his right hand gripping the Keyblade even tighter. Donald fell back, the smell shutting down his whole body. Goofy on the other hand was right next to Pluto, relieving himself as well, but just peeing.
"Do you have no shame, Goofy?!" Sora exclaimed.
Goofy quickly stopped, and pulled his pants back up. He then snatched the note from Pluto's mouth, and Pluto cowered a bit, but Goofy patted his head softly.
"There there, Thank you Pluto!"
Donald woke up quickly, the river of dog crap running down the backstretch of the hill.. Donald then was suprised to see that Pluto had not run.
"Whersh the note, Goofee?!" Donald yelled.
"Gwarsh, King Mickey is gone again.." Goofy unfolded the note so that Sora and Donald could read it:
"Dear Goofy, Donald, and Sora...
As you know, we were successful in sealing the Kingdom Hearts door. Thank you for your help, especially you Sora. Riku and I were then put in the middle of an all out war. Us, verses Heartless that have not seen a person with a heart in their whole meaningless existence. Riku and I fought side by side for two nights. We eventually escaped through a light portal, but we were seperated at the transition between the place where Kingdom Hearts was, and the place I am now. I have somehow managed to get back to the Magic Kingdom. Thus, how Pluto found this note, and I am sure you have reached here by now. But you will not find me here. I came back to a burning Castle, and Daisy and Minnie are missin---
Donald blurted out in anger, "DAISHEE?! I'll kill em', I shware it! Letsh go!"
Sora glanced to Donald. "There's still more, hold on.":
--g. I am leaving to find them. I have picked up on a few clues. There's still a big concentration of Heartless activity around here, I don't know how they broke through, but they did. I have a feeling something much bigger is at hand now. I am not sure who, or rather what is behind this, but the Heartless are MUCH stronger, I cannot stress this enough. Stay away from the cast------"
The bottom of the message was shredded, and messy writing as if Mickey was being attacked by something, undoubtedly the Heartless. Goofy turned around to look at Pluto, but he was gone. But something had replaced him, and was coming out a pool of darkness on the ground. It looked like the first Heartless Sora had defeated, but it was bigger. More muscular, better defined, and not as small and childish. It then let out a cry in an unknown tongue and many more began to form out of the ground, soon, the whole area was filled with Blackness. The Blackness of the Heartless. Sora quickly pulled the Keyblade infront of him, backing against Goofy and Donald. The Heartless sounded nearly demonic, and they seemed prepared to obliterate whatever stood in their destructive path. Sora quickly brought down the Keyblade onto the head of one of the Heartless, it's head then caved in, purple and black gases seeping out of the wound. It screamed in pain as it slashed at Sora, slicing across his cheek a bit. Donald quickly casted a Fire spell, one that had slowly grown stronger through the course of the months that had passed. It completely incinerated a whole line of Heartless, more just filling the gapping hole.
Sora quickly grew angry, and wiped the warm, crimson blood off of his cheek. He then smirked a bit, feeling a hint of deja vu surround him. He then jumped to the same Heartless from earlier, and he quickly brought the blade down onto it's neck, and then spun a bit, bringing it into the side of it's head, Sora feeling the hard head. He then drove it through the stomach of the Heartless, it looked to Sora, as if pleaing for something or another, and it exploded into a shroud of purple and black haze and smoke. Sora jumped back before the terrible smell of the Heartless gas reached his nostrils.
Another Heartless seemed to be angry towards the death of his comrade, as he stepped forward in hopes of completing what the other couldn't. Sora quickly casted a slightly weaker Fire spell, just a bit weaker then Donalds. It took most of the line, save a few Heartless. The hole was then filled again, and Sora grew tired. Goofy was already yelling, and toppling over surrounding Heartless with his shield, Sora then realized why Goofy seemed to get hurt so often.
Sora sighed, not sure if they would make it out of here.
"Shora! TRINITY!", Donald exclaimed.
Sora looked to Donald, and almost had forgotten of the newest move that he had learned, and added to his arsenal. Sora looked at the rest of the Heartless, and knew it was the end of this little uprising. He flipped back a bit, and drove the Keyblade into the ground, grinning all the while. He danced a bit on the handle of the blade, trying to make the Heartless as mad as possible before their ending. Suddenly, a blinding light escaped the ground as Sora yanked the blade out of the ground, and the Heartless were torn apart, the coats of flesh and darkness ripping off one by one, the pain would have been unbearable, but unfortunately the process was finished within seconds.
The whole army of darkness had completely vanished. Not a trace was left. Sora then straightened himself out, rubbing the gash on his cheek, and he finally put the Keyblade down to his side, and looked to Donald, a drop of blood dripping off the side of his face.
"They are much stronger then the old ones. That first blow would have killed one easily if it had been the others. We need to be careful."
Donald and Goofy nodded in agreement, and they took off towards the castle, the tip of it already in view.
The journey to the castle had been an all out sprint. Staying in one place for too long would have caused another one of the situations that had peeked it's head earlier. Sora did not have the energy, nor the magic capabilities to be able to execute the Trinity everytime something like that occured. He already felt that the scene of that many Heartless would become an all too normal nightmare.
Mickey was not exaggerating when he said that the Heartless had trashed the castle. It had looked as if it had been a couple days since the fight ensued. The fires to the castle had died down, and the smoke was just beginning to fade. There was no one around, and they searched around a bit looking for a SP to get off the Magic Kingdom. As they looked, they picked a few supplies they figured they'd need. After a bit they finally found the SP to call for their Gummi ship. They then boarded and headed off in the direction of Traverse Town.
Sora got the sleep he had been waiting for ever since Destiny Island got destroyed. His dreams eventually turned into nightmares, his beloved forming into the Heartless, Kairi being torn away from him as soon as he got through the darkness to find her.
"NO! KAIRI!"
He sat up quickly, his eyes darting back and forth nervously, sweat running down his cheek and into the wound. It burned a bit, but he didn't heed the pain. He was in the back of the Gummi ship, boxes of food, and supplies stacked on high. He slowly arose to his feet, picking up the Keyblade off of the floor. He then grabbed an apple out of a box full of bright green apples, and made his way through the 4th cabin of the ship towards the cockpit. The first and second cabins were basically sleeping quarters, and a kitchen area. He was not sure how he had stumbled into the furthest cabin of the ship, when there were beds already set up. He shrugged and continued into the 3rd cabin. The 3rd and 4th cabins were for storage. He eventually reached the cockpit, Donald piloting the ship, and Goofy was messing around with his shield. Goofy then looked up to Sora.
"Hyuck! Sora! You woke up! Golly, I hope you had a good sleep."
Donald's eyes were steadily gazing out of the cockpit window. He has a childish smirk on his face as he shot down multiple enemy ships, and shot missiles into asteroids that were blocking his course.
"Shora! We are awmosht to Traversh Town. We would have been there shooner but our warp drive bushted." Donald's eyes were still glued to the window.
Sora nodded, and then smiled.
"Well atleast I caught up on my beauty sleep. Remember! No frowning on the gummi ship!"
Sora grinned the same grin he had done when he had first met Goofy and Donald.
"Eeeeeeeeeeee.e..e...e..."
The silence was a short one, soon followed by out of control laughter. Donald began to unintentionally jerk the Gummi ship around a bit, and Sora was laughing a bit too hard, dropping the apple core to the ground. Goofy himself was laughing too.
They docked at Traverse Town, and started towards the main gate to the First District. A few people walked by to their own Gummi ships, there were about 4 total ships in the whole bay. But Gummi ships were quite expensive to build and purchase, luckily Goofy and Donald were part of the Magic Kingdom, Gummi ships were thrown to them. No one could afford them really. The big doors were pushed open by Sora as they walked in and looked about the place. What they witnessed astonished all of them. Traverse Town was...Empty. The people they had seen must have not had a world to begin with. No Moogles, no little boy by the mailbox, no lady by the Tavern, no nothing. It was a desolate as a desert.
Donald impatient slapped his webbed feet at the ground, and it seemed to echo through through the alleys and the empty buildings. Sora looked to Donald, and began to speak.
"Does it make any sense..Us..Being here? Now that the worlds are restored, everyone should be at their worlds. This place is only here to give a refuge for those who lost their world to the Heartless."
Donald shrugged a bit.
"I dunno."
Goofy looked to the two, and opened his mouth to speak.
"Hyuck. Since the Heartless are back, won't that mean people will begin to flee again? And come back here?"
Sora and Donald stood there in awe, just gazing at Goofy. It had been the wisest thing Goofy had said since Sora had met him. And it was still the wisest thing Donald had EVER heard him say, and Donald and Goofy were childhood friends. The silence washed over them all, and then the laughter ensued. The once lively Traverse Town now erupted with laughter...
15 minutes had passed and Donald was still rolling around on the ground trying to catch his breath. Sora helped Donald up, patting him on the back.
"Ok, so. What do we do now?"
"You do nothing. You just wait for the end."
The voice had come out of the shadows. Demonic red eyes gazed out of the darkness and a low laugh began. Sora glared towards the one cloaked by the shadows, Bringing the Keyblade up imfront of him, feeling security in the blade. Goofy was already at his side, Donald had walked back to pick up something. Sora wasn't sure what, but it didn't matter at the moment.
"You pathetic fools. Just because you have 'defeated' Ansem, you now think you can defeat me? I BROUGHT ANSEM TO DARKNESS!"
Sora was in no mood for dialogue. He had enough of it. He dashed towards the man, lifting the Keyblade high in the air, and suddenly, thoughts of Kairi flew through his mind, and his mouth spoke without his consent.
"THIS IS FOR KAIRI!"
Sora lunged imto the air at the stranger, feeling invincible for that moment in time. He was jumping at the man, his Keyblade raised above his head.
"ARGHHHHHHHH!"
Sora's yells of violence were stopped abruptly by a fist of iron that had somehow made it's way to his face. Sora felt something in his face crack, and he felt the blood seep down into his mouth. The bitter, warm blood. He then fell out of the air, landing on his neck, and holding his face with his left hand, still holding onto the Keyblade with his right. He shook it off and rolled back into a crouch, blinking wildly in hopes of finding some sort of relief. Donald and Goofy ran to him quickly, helping him up, and pulling him back a bit.
The man's hand retracted as he hovered out of the shadows of the building. Sora was a bit out of it, his right eye beginning to roll back. Donald casted a healing spell, and slowly, Sora's consciousness came back. Sora then looked up to see the man. He even looked worse then Ansem had, his eyes almost all red. He wore a long solid black trench coat, nothing seemed to be decorating it. He held an orb of some sort, as he slid it into his right pocket. The black bangs slowly were pushed off of his face as he hovered closer towards the three. He was a fairly tall man, and had two long, what looked like steel, swords sheathed at both his hips. The man grinned, and snapped his fingers, 3 new species of Heartless coming out of the ground, 4 to a specie. Then a whole army of the other Heartless they had encountered at Magic Kingdom's road.
"I'll see you in the Darkness, Sora." Then man disappeared, autumn leaves falling from the air where he once was.
The Army of the Heartless were all screaming, and tearing away at their own skin, like some unknown force was holding them back from advancing towards the trio. Sora quirked an eyebrow, as some sort of invisible wall flickered on and off through his eyes, he then extended his neck to investigate more. Then a blurred image began to appear in Sora's eyes, and there was Riku, holding back the whole army, his muscles and vains were popping out as he strained to talk.
"Sora! Go!"
The Heartless were screaming, and looked confused as to why they couldn't go anywhere. Riku then disappeared from Sora's sight again, but Sora still saw that the flickering wall remained, but the flickering grew weaker. Sora decided it was best to go. He then backed away slowly, and the shuffling soon evolved into a sprint towards the main gate, the sounds of Goofy and Donald's feet behind him were the only thing he could hear.
The sound of glass shattering pierced all of their ears, as the Heartless screamed louder, and the main gate seemed to be getting further. He turned around to see the Heartless at an all out dash, not only were they stronger, they looked absolutely hideous, and they were faster. Sora wanted to fight them so badly, he wanted to get rid of those...Those wretched things that had destroyed his island. But he also knew there was a difference between courage, and intelligence, and this was not a fight he would walk away from. Sora slammed into the main gates shoulder first, ignoring the pain that shot through his arm. He stumbled back a bit, feeling the breath and the cold scrape that a Heartless had given him. He was cut down his back, and he felt the blood run down a bit before soaking into his shirt, and he spun, slamming the Keyblade's most outer end onto the head of the Trajode. They had decided to just name the Heartless they saw at the Magic Kingdom "Trajode's", for no apparent reason. He felt the skull of the Trajode crack at the Keyblade, as Goofy and Donald then slammed into the gate's, opening them. They pulled Sora through, and Donald casted a monster of a Graviga spell at the Heartless, Sora hearing the cracking of bones, and the screams of frustration as they slammed the doors shut, hoisting a nearby piece of wood through the handles.
They then all ran towards their Gummi Ship, but Sora was silent, the only thought crossing his mind was, "...Riku."