DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THOSE CHARACTERS FROM HELLSING AND KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES.

Hearts of Vampires and Humans

Chapter II: The Fall

Story by: Blue Salamander

"What the hell?!"

Sora shouted, roughly turning his steering wheel. The New Voyage violently spun around, just in time to evade countless missiles fired by the enemies.

The Keyblade Wielder gave a groan. He took another glimpse at the radar of The New Voyage. Countless red dots were almost covering the half of the screen, showing how crazy the number of Heartless and Nobodies he was facing. Sora's hands were busy doing their job: controlling The New Voyage while targeting his enemies. Sora pushed one of the buttons, firing series of thunderbolts, zapping few of the enemies. They dissipated into small particles of darkness, but there were still many of them. Sora continued his attacks, but the number didn't seem to falter.

As his opponents fired series of light beams, Sora evaded their assaults with an impressive driving skill, zipping through the gaps of the attacks. He was glad that he, along with Riku and Kairi, had taken time to learn some basics and driving skills of a Gummi Ship. The experts - Cid, Chip, and Dale - and his Disney friends - Donald and Goofy - had taken time to teach the three to drive on their own. According to Yen Sid, anything could happen while Sora and his allies were confronting with the dangerous Organization XIII. While Riku got them in a blink of an eye, Sora had some trouble, especially when he was dealing with computers due to his lack of knowledge. Thanks to his undying will, he refused to give up. Although it took almost a month to do it, he succeeded in mastering it.

"What an earth is happening?" Sora shouted, returning the light beams attacks he just received with the same attack, killing the few. "Why are there so many Nobodies and Heartless here?"

[Hello there.]

Sora momentarily froze when he heard a voice through the ship's communicator, but he quickly came back to his senses when few of Heartless tried to ram themselves into The New Voyage. Sora barely dodged the attack, and fired some laser beams in return. The attacker was soon reduced into nothing. Sora glared at the communicator. He subconsciously clenched the steering wheel tight, knowing who the voice belonged to.

"Xigbar…"

Sora scowled with a pure disdain on his tone. His eyes scanned outside through the windshield of his Gummi Ship. Soon, the Keyblade Wielder found a silver Gummi Ship with a huge Organization XIII mark. It was exactly the same one he saw in the photos that Lea gave.

"What are you planning now?"

[Oh? Do you think I will tell you, to a failure like you?]

"I am glad to be a failure!" Sora shouted, shooting balls of fire through his magical cannons, extinguishing few Heartless. "I never wanted to be god damn vessel of that disgusting old man anyway!"

[Who said I was talking about that?] Xigbar mockingly replied. [I am talking about your test moron. You failed to be a Keyblade Master. Even the one who had previously fallen in the Darkness became one, and yet you, the one holding the light, couldn't pass the exam. You are, without a doubt, a failure.]

A disturbing laughter echoed inside The New Voyage. A fury rose up inside from Sora's heart.

"Don't you dare to mock by friend!"

Sora shot multiples of projectiles at the silver Gummi Ship. Xigbar easily evaded the attacks. Some of them hit the poor Heartless and Nobodies, but Xigbar didn't really care. He still had so many left.

"You will never know how much he had suffered in those past two years!" Sora continued. His eyes were shaking in rage. "Riku deserved to be the Keyblade Master!"

Xigbar gave an evil grin. [So you are a failure. You are inferior to your friend, Riku.]

"I don't care!"

Sora aimed one of his cannons at the silver Gummi Ship. Arrays of cold magical attacks flew towards their target. With a smug, Xigbar moved out of the their way. Instead, they managed to clear away few of his underlings.

"As long as I have my friends, I don't care if I can't become a Keyblade Master!" Sora shouted. "My friends are my power! Not the title!"

Xigbar frowned. Those words held no hypocrisy. The light inside the Keyblade Wielder was too much of a threat for the plan of Organization XIII. Since his heart lacked inner darkness, it was almost impossible to make him as one of Xehonart's vessel like Xigbar himself unless he took any special means like making him fall into deep slumber like Xehonart did in the Mark of Mastery Exam.

The dazzling light inside his heart was the source of his power, and exactly the reason why that Keyblade Wielder must be eradicated.

[That light you wield… How annoying!] Xigbar shouted. [You are getting on my nerves boy! GET HIM!]

As soon as his words ended, his armies of Heartless and Nobodies began launching several attacks at The New Voyage. With a grumble, Sora violently turned the steering wheel. The New Voyage quickly zipped through the openings. Sora bit his lips. They weren't giving him any chance for a counterattack. He had gone through many challenges from his journeys, but this was too much. He had never faced so much enemies.

As the countless beams of light and projectiles rushed through the space, Sora couldn't do anything but to barely evade them just in time.

Sora took a glimpse at his meter. The New Voyage was functioned by solar energy. Even though his Gummi Ship could automatically charge its energy, The New Voyage was currently using so much energy that its solar panels could not keep with the amount of energy used. Worse, Sora just used the hyperdrive function. This drained more than half of its energy. He didn't have enough to use another hyperdrive to get out of this situation.. If this went on, The New Voyage would surely stop working, and eventually get hit by those merciless attacks.

A distressing laughter echoed from his communicator.

[What's wrong Keyblade warrior? Get a bit of a scare out there?]

"Shut up!" Sora angrily shouted.

Suddenly, Sora froze, noticing something strange from that yell. Something deep inside him, an emotion that was clearly not his, suddenly crawled up, momentarily syncing with Sora's emotion. Sora's eyes quickly shifted to his chest. Without a doubt, that came from his heart.

What was that he just felt?

What was the source of that unknown emotion that wasn't his?

Could it be...

However, before he had more time to think, Xigbar wasn't nice enough to wait for Sora to clear his swarming thoughts. The silver Gummi Ship launched several missiles, flying towards The New Voyage.

Thankfully, Sora recovered before the missiles arrived. Pushing his questions aside, Sora tried to evade them, but he was late to completely dodge them all. One of the missiles hit The New Voyage's right wing. As Sora heard an explosion outside, The New Voyage violently shook from the impact. The maniacal cackle echoed inside The New Voyage. Sora had no time to argue with the lunatic. He quickly checked the ship's condition with the computer. Although no fatal part was damaged, the right wing was completely broken.

The ship violently tilted back and forth. Sora tightly held the steering wheel to regain the balance, but he couldn't completely stop it.

Seeing that, Xigbar smirked. [I got you now Keyblade master!] He shouted. His voice was full of joy. [Now die! I will finish you for myself!]

Xigar's Gummi Ship fired several lasers towards The New Voyage. The arrogant Nobody tried to deal the final blow of the organization's biggest enemy by himself, not letting his minions attack to take the credit. The New Voyage barely managed to evade the assaults. Sora ground his teeth. His driving skills weren't good enough to keep dodging with the unbalanced Gummi Ship. More importantly, if it was this difficult to dodge even a single enemy's attacks, Sora would surely be in a very bad situation if Xigbar's armies also started to attack him.

Sora quickly made up his mind. There was no way he could continue fighting them in this condition. For now, retreat was the best opinion. The Keyblade Wielder quickly put up the World Map on the computer and skimmed through every world to find a suitable place for the landing.

'This world is blocked… And this one too… Urgh, I haven't been this area I don't have any Navigation Gummies to open the Worlds' Barriers... Huh?'

Sora couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a world in his computer, showing some shocking information. Its dimensional barrier was damaged.

The dimensional barrier was like a castle wall that guarded the world. Not only it kept outsiders away to maintain the World's balance, but it also protected the heart of the world from Heartless and Nobodies to some extent. Although the protection might not be perfect, without the barrier, the world would make an easy prey for Heartless. Just by looking, Sora could see extensive amounts of Heartless roaming inside the world he was seeing.

'Dimension barrier… Only 75%?! What an earth happened here?' Sora asked. His eyes widened. Suddenly, a thought struck him like a thunderbolt. He sharply turned to the silver Gummi Ship, which was still trying to take The New Voyage down. 'Could it be… His doing?!'

[You little rat!] A frustrated shout came through the communicator. [You managed to evade my attacks with that damaged Gummi Ship?! Fine! Let's see if you can get away with this too!]

Suddenly, Xigbar's enemies all began to charge, forming a ball of light, getting bigger and bigger by a second. Sora's eyes widened. There was no way he could get out of this situation alive if their attacks hit The New Voyage or evade all of them with his broken Gummi Ship. Sora had no time to waste. He swiftly activated the emergency landing mode. His hand hurriedly reached for buttons, targeting the world with broken dimensional barrier.

It was a fight of time: either their attacks finish charging first, which would be a doom for the Keyblade Wielder, or The New Voyage finish setting up the emergency landing mode.

{Activating Emergency Landing Mode... Target: World ?

WARNING! LOW ENERGY! THE GUMMI SHIP WILL FALL INTO SLEEP MODE UNTIL THE ENERGY IS CHARGED UP TO 20%. PROCEED?

YES / NO}

Sora rolled his eyes. "Stupid computer." He muttered, pushing {YES} appearing on the screen. He didn't care anything about that for now. If he couldn't get the landing, it would be all end for the Keyblade Wielder.

{Authentication complete.

Switching to Auto-Flight Mode

Searching for a suitable landing place… COMPLETE

Starting emergency landing on target (40.444444, 14.3215346)

PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT FOR YOUR SAFETY}

Sora had already did so when he was having the crazy game of tag of life-or-death with Xigbar and his armies. As the ship soared to the unknown world, he clenched the steering wheel. At the same time, the Nobodies and Heartless finish charging their attacks. Streams of light were fired, flying to the escaping Gummi Ship.

Sora could feel his accelerating heartbeat, racing as The New Voyage made its way to the unknown world.

Either die or live, it all depended on this broken Gummi Ship.

Under the full moon, the servant of No Life King stood, with corpses of dead bodies and headless ghouls lying on the ground. She looked up in the sky. Among countless white dots, twinkling in the darkness, her crimson eyes caught one, particularly big star that gives off an eccentric feeling.

"A... Shooting star?" She quietly whispered. "It looks so big..."

"Are you police girl?" A voice came from behind. Seras looked around, and saw her master was standing behind her. "The night is yet to fall. Come on, our work is not done yet. There are still more ghouls and Heartless nearby."

Seras gave a nod. "I understand master."

With that, the No Life King disappeared with a grin. Seras took a one last look at the falling star, but she soon let those peculiar feelings aside. Dealing with monsters were much more important than looking at a shooting star. Seras soon turned back and ran. Her shadow wrapped around her, forming shapes of wings. With a giant leap, her wings flapped, flying towards the opposite direction of the shooting star.