Kingdom Hearts: Keyblade Hunter
Rated for Language, violence, sexual content and some mild Yuri.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
Chapter 2
Riku trudged along a beach, cloaked by the shadow of the huge volcano nearby. His thoughts were bugging him. He kept expecting something bad to happen. It had been three years of peace. Maybe he just wanted something bad to happen. Riku looked up to the volcano and noticed some odd behavior. Lava seemed to be frothing, but going nowhere.
"I'd better get out of here," Riku sighed to himself. He turned and headed back for his raft.
"Where are you going, Riku?" a voice asked of Riku.
Riku turned, Keyblade drawn, and began firing a blaze of magic explosions. Hunter burst out from the shadow and deflected the shots. Riku shot his arm out and his Keyblade, soul eater, appeared in a flash. Riku charged, leaped forward, and spun his blade in front of him like a fan blade. Hunter grabbed hold of the Keyblade, catching Riku's attack, and spun the blade in reverse and up into the air. Riku flipped backwards, just barely avoiding his own weapon, when Hunter charged before Riku could land. Riku's blade appeared in the boy's hands again, bracing against Hunter's own Keyblade.
"How do you have the Keyblade?" Riku demanded. Hunter pushed Riku backwards and swung his left hand forward, where a second Keyblade materialized.
"I have earned these weapons in blood; I have battled those far greater than yourself!" Hunter answered, a blood lust suddenly emerging from his voice.
Hunter's rage exploded, and he shot four Keyblades out from his body. Riku flipped and spun, parried and dodged the flying Keyblades. Suddenly, he felt his right leg bleeding, warmth brought by cold steel. Riku hit the ground with a thud, his back partly buried in the sand. Riku rolled, and a golden Keyblade dug itself into the spot he just occupied.
"Fight better, don't let your wounds get the best of you!" Hunter ordered. Riku scowled. He didn't know who this guy was, but he was obviously disturbed. "Please, give me an honorable death!" Riku jumped forward, and prepared to swing. Hunter raised his two Keyblades in defense, but Riku kicked downwards, blowing up sand into Hunter's eyes.
"You need to live honorably to die honorably," Riku spoke.
He fired another burst of magic at Hunter, who easily evaded the barrage. Then, Hunter shot forward and swung his blades. Riku blocked the first and second attack, but was surprised by third and forth attacks, both by levitating Keyblades. The blades collided with Riku's head, knocking him to the ground bleeding. Riku slowly picked himself up and wiped his lip. He kneeled over, feeling sharp pain in his lip and nose from where he'd been struck. How was he going to beat this guy? Riku stood up all the way and turned to face Hunter once again.
"What the hell do you want with me?" Riku asked.
"I want you to die, or myself to die," Hunter replied. "Of course, you could lead me to your friends, and we can all be done with this for good."
"That's what you'd want me to do, so I'm not going to do it," Riku smirked. "I stopped listening to adults a long time ago."
"This talk is meaningless," replied Hunter, no enthusiasm in the slightest. Hunter stretched his arms out and six Keyblades formed in the air around him. Riku's gaze turned to horror. How the fuck am I going to fight this?
Riku cringed, but prepared for combat nonetheless. "Come at me if you dare, "Riku goaded the villain. Maybe a poker face can win this battle.
"I dare," Hunter replied, once again devoid of interest.
Hunter hovered into the air and shot his Keyblades forward. Riku leaped about, blocking and dodging the blades. Each one fought with insane precision, as if each had a mind all in its own. Wait! Riku did now notice a faint feeling of a spirit within each blade. This Hunter had trapped his victims' souls into their blades, and now he commanded them. Riku came back to the real world, when he felt the cold bite of a blade in his left arm, and then a blow in his stomach. Riku tumbled to the ground, but he landed on his hands and knees, where he rolled to the side to avoid two lancing Keyblades. Riku's eyes glazed over as he watched two more blades soaring straight for his head. The only way out was to use his dark powers, but could Riku delve into that again?
"Fuck this!" Riku declared, and then he disappeared in a portal of darkness.
"So he thinks he can escape?" Hunter mused, his Keyblades disappearing once more. He faded into the shadows.
"Do you think Riku's in danger?" Kairi asked of Sora, grabbing his toned arm. Sora turned and smiled a bit, but it faded quickly.
"Yes, if I know Riku, he's fighting right now," Sora said. "Layla should be fine here alone for now. You and I need to scan the island for this guy."
"We're not splitting up, are we?" Kairi asked worriedly.
"No, this is too dangerous for you to face alone," Sora replied assuredly. "Let's go."
Sora and Kairi walked cautiously along the beach, watching for anything unusual. Both had their Keyblades drawn, ready to battle whatever this enemy was. They stopped as Sora noticed the sun beginning to set.
"It's growing dark," Sora quipped. Kairi turned to look and shuddered.
"We've checked everywhere, but we haven't seen anything," Kairi said. Sora placed his hand on his chin and thought.
"There's once place left," Sora said, turning to look Kairi in the eyes.
"Where?" Kairi questioned. She was feeling strange. She would normally not be afraid, but she kept feeling this nagging feeling within her skull. Something, or someone, was trying to warn her.
"The secret hangout. We just need to check it. That's where the door is after all," Sora spoke.
Sora and Kairi entered the cave, not sure what they would see. They squeezed they're way through, no longer the kids they used to be, and found the door. Sora knocked on different things, rocks, the door; anything that looked like it could conceal someone.
"Nothing seems to be in here," Sora said. He began to turn and walk the other way, when he stopped after bumping into Kairi. "Kairi! What-?" Sora saw the figure Kairi was pointing at.
"No need to point, my dear," the leather clad man spoke. Sora and Kairi both frowned and held their Keyblades to attack.
"You must be Hunter! You won't win against us!" Sora declared.
"You talk of fighting in here? There's no room," Hunter said with a grin, "But I can fix that." Hunter raised his hand and the cave exploded.
"Holy shit!" Tidus exclaimed. Just now, he had witnessed a massive explosion on the opposite island. "Sora and Kairi are over there!"
"Come on, mon! We gotta help 'em!" Wakka insisted. He grabbed his blitz ball, and Tidus grabbed a sword.
"Aye!" Sora cried, shaking his head of dust and debris. "Kairi!" Sora exclaimed. The hero searched all over for his love, when she spoke quietly from the clouds of dust:
"I'm okay, but that bastard screwed up my school uniform!" Kairi cursed. Her uniform was a tattered remains. Sora looked down to his own clothes to see they were badly damaged; his shirt was barely together at all.
"Don't swear, Kairi!" Sora ordered. He picked her up and set her on her feet.
"Get up," Hunter's voice demanded from the dust. "Fight me! Prove your strength."
"I'll prove it up your ass, dip shit!" Kairi fumed.
"Kairi, stop cursing!" Sora insisted once again. "Alright, buster, we're ready to fight you!"
Sora and Kairi both fell into fighting stances. Hunter followed suit. Sora swung up high first, with Kairi sweeping low. Rather than dodging, Hunter materialized two Keyblades and blocked both attacks.
"Keyblades! You don't deserve those!" Sora said angrily.
He broke Hunter's guard and smacked the warrior across the face. Hunter fell back and held his face in amazement.
"Yes, this is what I want! You are a true Keyblade master! Fight me with all you have!" Hunter demanded.
"Fine, I will!" Sora answered. He swung ferociously, each attack a blur that Hunter barely blocked or dodged.
Hunter's blades moved as fast as Sora's, but Sora's attacks had an edge quite obvious in the match.
'Amazing,' Hunter gleefully thought to himself. "Fight harder!" Hunter then demanded, a Keyblade materializing to ram Sora in the gut.
Sora jumped back and held his abs with one hand. Kairi threw her Keyblade straight for Hunter's head, but the villain ducked. In an instant, Kairi was in the air with a kick to Hunter's nose. She bounced off his face and back flipped to a smooth landing.
"So, the girl is good too, certainly better then Riku anyway," Hunter mused.
"What about Riku?" Sora demanded. If this monster had hurt his friend…
"Oh, he lost miserably, but he did manage to escape," Hunter answered. "Far too dark to be effective is that boy. You two however, are pure, like a Keyblade master should be."
"Riku's not perfect, but he's my friend, and no one hurts my friends!" Sora launched himself forward with the force of a hurricane. A swing of his Keyblade blew Hunter back over a hundred yards.
Hunter skidded to a stop, pushing up a foot of sand, and pushed forward. "You've done well, but I've only begun to fight!" Hunter exclaimed. Six Keyblades formed around him, in addition to the two he held, forming a fearsome wall of blades.
Sora gritted his teeth and dug his feet into the ground. He was going to hold his ground, no matter what. Kairi stood next to him in the same manner. They both looked at each other and passed one another a sign of love. They turned and prepared to defend against Hunter's line of attack. CRASH! Sora and Kairi both stabbed their blades into Hunter, but the monster was able to severely injure both, which catapulted them into the ground, battered, bruised, and bleeding from numerous wounds. Hunter looked on at the scene displeased. Sure, he had been wounded, but his advisories lay defeated, and he still lived.
"I had such hope for you two, especially, you… Sora," Hunter sighed.
"Don't give up! Get up! You can beat this guy! At least run away to heal! Anything! Tell you what; I'll give you my power. Just, don't die on me, buddy." Sora heard a voice in his head, something familiar, and he felt his strength renewed. Then, he felt a new power.
"AHHHHHHH!!" Sora screamed out, his body levitating in the air, a magic shell wrapping itself around him. The shell exploded, and Sora floated, two Keyblades behind his back and what remained of his outfit was white and glowing with power.
"Such a childish form," Hunter sneered. "I'd expect better from you." Sora frowned, his brows narrowed farther than Sora had ever done. He stretched out his hand.
"Frankly, I don't care!" Sora yelled. His hand unleashed a massive wave of power, and Hunter watched helplessly as he careened through the air, getting farther and farther away from the island.
Sora turned and used his powers to levitate Kairi to his arms, where he held her gently. Sora then glanced up at the tree house, where he saw Layla peeking from the doorway.
"Come, we need to get out of here," Sora ordered.
"Right away!" Layla replied, her amazement set-aside for the time being. She jumped down and darted up towards Sora.
"Wakka, Tidus, you can come out now," Sora said. The two buddies poked their heads up from behind a rock and they both approached.
"Sorry, I didn't think we could help any, mon," Wakka apologized. "That guy was shit crazy."
"Then help now. Take Kairi and Layla to the island across and take care of them," Sora said, placing Kairi in Wakka's muscular arms. "And don't swear."
"What about you?" Tidus demanded, although he knew the answer already.
"I have to go and fight still," Sora replied sadly. He turned towards where Hunter had been sent. He began floating higher into the air, and then he took off.
"Mon, Sora keeps getting weirder and weirder!" Wakka exclaimed. Tidus turned from the view of his friend and glared at Wakka.
"He's a hero! Stop fucking around and let's go!" Tidus ordered, grabbing Layla's slender hand and running. Layla stared off at Sora, even as she was dragged, simply amazed at the Keyblade master's power.
Sora finally landed on a small island, where Hunter waited.
"So you've come," Hunter ruminated.
"Let's finish this," Sora replied.
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