Abyss of Time
Chapter 3 – Protagonists meet Antagonists
The burning craft blazed downwards towards the castle. Everyone was scrambling away to escape any danger. Everyone who was with Matsu's unresponsive body stopped it their tracks, looking to the craft. Riku quickly looked between Matsu and the craft. "Everyone, go take Matsu to the infirmary. I'll take care of anything that happens."
"No Riku, come with us!" pleaded Midori.
"Matsu's the more important issue at hand. Get him to the infirmary and stay there. If I don't come back in fifteen minutes, send some backup."
"...Alright.." Midori reluctantly said, "If you're not back in fifteen minutes on the dot, I'm coming no matter what!" Riku smiled and nodded as the others moved on to take Matsu to the infirmary. By this time, Roxas, Namine, and teen Sora came running.
"What's going o—Holy Hell!! What happened?!" exclaimed teen Sora.
"No time to explain," replied Sora, "Come with us. Roxas, Namine, can you help Riku?" The two looked to see Riku heading down towards the courtyard to investigate the soon-to-happen crash. Both nodded as they ran that way as well.
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The craft slammed into the ground with a large bang as Riku, Namine and Roxas ran into the courtyard.
The craft was essentially blown to pieces, but Riku did notice something about it. It has bright, vivid colors on the parts of it that were visible. Riku then realized...it was a Gummi Ship. The glass shell of the cockpit shattered as a small figure jumped out of it. It was hard to see the figure's features, but the biggest thing that stuck out was its large ears, King Mickey's large ears.
"Your Majesty!" shouted the three as they ran to the king.
Mickey looked to them with a serious look on his face, he appeared to be wounded from the crash. "No time to talk, fellas! Go get the others!" he said as he pointed to the ship. The three ran to the ship to rescue any survivors. Roxas dragged Goofy out, Namine grabbed Donald. Riku looked around the ship and saw no one else; but as he came to the final part of the ship, he found something that shocked him. Laying on the ground was a boy that wore a red jumpsuit, with a white and black jacket over it, and had brown spiky hair. It was Sora from before he he slept for a year. Riku quickly grabbed the boy as he exited the ship just before it was completely covered in flames. All went to the infirmary, where after everyone was healed, they would have a long conversation.
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Everyone rested during the morning of the next day. It had been a long night, and everyone was exhausted. Aerith looked at the patients around the room, checking their health status. She took a lengthy look at the young Sora, everyone was still in shock about his arrival. She then turned her attention to Matsu's bed. Beside the bed, Haseo and Katsuki slept in chairs; they had been so worried about their friend that they refused to leave his side. Aerith was truly stumped by Matsu's status, he had no sign of brain trauma, or anything of the sort, but he was still like this.
A short while later, Sora entered the room. "How's everyone doing?"
"Fine, so far." replied Aerith. "The King just passed out from exhaustion, so he should be fine in a few hours. Donald and Goofy suffer from slight head trauma, but it's nothing more than a good bump on the head. Your...younger self seems to have suffered from a slight concussion. It'll take him about half a day, but he'll be fine. But the real problem here is Matsu."
"How is he?" Sora asked, "What's wrong with him?"
"That's the thing, I don't know what's wrong. He has no signs of any sort of trauma, but he's been in a coma-like state for nearly thirteen hours. It just...doesn't make any sense." Just then Matsu groaned as he shifted in bed. Aerith ran over to check his status, if he was groaning a moving, then it meant he was coming to. Just then another groan was heard as young Sora sat up, rubbing his eyes. Young Sora turned and faced Sora.
"Who're you?" the young boy asked. He knew that he, Donald, Goofy, and the king were going to meet some friends, but he didn't know much more than that.
"Well," replied Sora, "I'm you."
The young boy just widened his eyes, "This is a dream, this is just another one of my crazy dreams." Sora laughed at this response. You might think that he would be surprised to see a young version of himself, but after meeting himself from a few years ago, it didn't surprise him that much. He turned to face Aerith who was walking back towards him. "He's starting to come to, but it's taking a long time. It'll be best to just let him rest. Sora nodded and motioned for his younger self to follow.
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A few hours later, everyone was awake, spare for Matsu, who was still out of it. They had all explained their situations. Teen Sora had fallen out of the sky just the same way that Matsu and co. had. King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy said young Sora did the same as well. This was all too confusing, and most didn't seem to have an answer. Haseo and Katsuki seemed to know something, but decided not to speak of their opinion. Suddenly, an alarm went off in the castle.
"What's going on?!" yelled Roxas to one of the guards.
"W-we don't know! An army of Heartless, Nobodies, and Endless just showed up out of nowhere!!"
"What?!" screamed everyone.
"We have to protect the town!" exclaimed Sora.
Everyone nodded as they all ran out to stop the invasion.
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All of the enemies were advancing towards the town through the canyons, just like the time Sora had defeated one-thousand Heartless on his own. But this was much worse, this was just like that event, but ten times harder. Cloud, Leon, and the others were defending the town to the best of their ability.
"Alright, anyone who uses the element of twilight, focus on the Endless, everyone else stop the rest!" yelled Sora as he summoned Savior and Sacrifice into his hands.
Everyone nodded. Roxas summoned Oblivion and Eternity, Namine summoned Chain of Memories, Riku summoned The Way to Dawn, and Midori summoned Twilight. All of them, along with Sora, charged forward and headed for the Endless.
Young Sora and Teen Sora both summoned their Ultima Weapons, Kairi summoned Oathkeeper, Haseo summoned Colossus, Katsuki summoned Melody, King Mickey summoned Darkside, and Goofy and Donald brought out Save the King and Save the Queen. They all rushed to help the others fight the Heartless and Nobodies.
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It was a truly harsh battle. Sora, Roxas, Namine, Midori, and Riku were fighting their hardest against the Endless while the others tried to push their way towards them. The first ones to make it to the twilight users were Haseo and Katsuki. "Where are the others?" asked Sora as he slashed through three Endless at once with a spin.
"Still heading this way!" replied Katsuki as she slashed a Nobody.
"HA!" was the only sound that came from Haseo's mouth as he slammed his keyblade into the ground, causing a shock wave. This shock wave speed across the ground, knocking down and killing several Heartless and Nobodies. This gave everyone a chance to regroup. Everyone stood within a circle, all with their backs to each other. But for almost no reason at all, all of the Heartless and Nobodies disappeared and most of the Endless did as well. Everyone looked on on confusion, but were cut short as three smaller versions of Darkside appeared with a shock wave. As everyone fell to the ground from the blast, the three Heartless moved in for the kill.
"Thundaga!" Lightning bolts fell from the sky on the Heartless as a keyblade span through the air, cutting through the necks of two of them. A figure flew jumped off of an above cliff as the keyblade flashed back to it's hand. The figure stabbed into the Heartless and dragged the blade down it's body, killing it. As the figure landed it turned and faced everyone, "Now you don't think you can go start a fight without me, now do you?" It was Matsu.
"Matsu!" everyone cheerfully cried as they ran to him, asking him a thousand-and-a-half questions at once. "Woah, woah, woah. I'll explain it all later, okay? Just give me some room." said Matsu as he tried to push away for air.
"Yes, but will you be able to explain if you're dead?" said a deep voice from above. Everyone looked up to see a darkly tanned man with long white hair floating on the cliff.
"Ansem!" cried Young Sora.
"So, it seems that our main enemies have appeared along with us." said a slightly pale man with with hair and a black cloak, who just appeared by Ansem.
"Xemnas!" cried Teen Sora.
"This is all that could oppose us? Pathetic." said an old, bald man, who wore what appeared the be the same jacket as Ansem, who walked up to the edge of the cliff.
"Xehanort?! But how?!" cried all of the Twilight's Destiny keybladers.
"Heh, you still haven't figured it out. Man, you are stupid, aren't you?" said a female voice as a girl with purple hair and all black clothing stepped into view.
Everyone looked on in shock, but Midori looked on in horror as she stared at her evil half from short time ago: Crysita. "Ha, and to think you all stopped us before." mocked Crysita.
"That's right, my dear Crysita." said a new voice. A portal opened behind the villains as a man with blond hair, bright blue eyes and pale skin appeared. He wore black leather clothing around his body and had a tattered cloak on his back. He put his blue gloved hand on Crysita's shoulder.
"Azrael!" cried Matsu as he stepped forward. "What have you done?!"
"No no, my dear boy, the question should be what have you done. You see, due to you attacking me, my plan to erase the greatest heroes of time from existence was thwarted. But, the rest did succeed. I was able to summon all of the greatest villains, but I was sent back in time, as did you and your friends." replied Azrael.
Everyone's eyes widened. That explained it, that was the reason why there were people around from different times.
Azrael turned to his fellow villains, "Now you can return. I'll take care of these pests." They all nodded as they walked back through the portal, it closing behind them. Azrael unzipped the zipper by his wrist, revealing the skin underneath. A loud disgusting sound of bones cracking emitted as a purple/pink flame formed on the wrist. The skin bubbled as it extended, forming a blade. Azrael then proceeded to draw a black blade he had and held it with his free left hand.
"Stay back!" Matsu yelled to the others as Katsuki, Haseo, and Matsu charged Azrael. They all clashed with the man, bringing out their best moves, making them appear as blurs, but Azrael was still able to block all of their attacks. After about five minutes of non-stop fighting, Azrael knocked Haseo to the ground and kicked Matsu in the face, knocking him off of the cliff. Matsu landed on the ground with a loud thud as he slowly tried to get up. Azrael looked onto Katsuki as he brought his bladed hand to his side, having it glow with the purple/pink fire. He swung his hand at the girl, but seconds before it would connect, Haseo jumped in the way of the attack. The blade sliced across and through Haseo's chest as blood shot out in every direction. Katsuki screamed the most horrifying scream ever heard as Matsu stared in horror at his friend fall to the ground limp. Katsuki rushed over to Haseo's bloody body, crying very heavily. Matsu's grip tightened in anger as his eyes seemed to flash red. A loud boom emitted from his area as he vanished, leaving a crater behind. Another boom was heard as Matsu appeared next to Azrael, swinging his keyblade. "RAAAAH!!!" screamed Matsu as he slammed his keyblade into Azrael's blade, making the two slide across the ground for about two-hundred feet. At the end of the skid, Matsu spun around in the air and kicked Azrael, sending him flying towards the ground at a high speed. Matsu would throw his keyblade just after that, it span so fast and moved so fast, that a loud boom was heard as it broke the sound barrier. It slammed into Azrael's blade, making him fly towards the ground even faster. The keyblade vanished in a flash of light as Matsu blurred into view underneath Azrael, swinging the keyblade. The attack sent Azrael into the sky as Matsu blurred out of view. He blurred back into view in the sky above Azrael as he aimed his left palm at him. A tribal design, shaped in the head of a dragon, glowed in his hand. "Draco Firaga!!" A huge burst of fire came from Matsu's hand as it ran into Azrael and continued into the ground as a huge beam of fire. Sora, Roxas, and Riku had to use Reflect in order to protect everyone from the blast.
After the blast, Azrael was no where to be seen. Matsu's body fell backwards as he went limp. He slammed into the ground, leaving a dust cloud. Everyone was reluctant to check on him, for they were afraid that they might get hit by some spell. As the dust cleared, Azrael stood above the barely-conscious Matsu, unscathed. "That was impressive, very impressive. But it still was not enough, my friend. Now, perish!"Azrael swung down onto Matsu, hoping to end his life. But he was cut short by a keyblade that seemed to be made of a sword and parts of a shield. Holding the keyblade was a teen with long, spiky red hair. He wore long sleeved clothes that were almost completely covered by straps, making it impossible to tell where the parts of the clothes started or ended. His red, half opened, emotionless eyes stared upon Azrael.
"I don't think so..." he said emotionlessly.
The teen's keyblades spun three times in his left hand, knocking away Azrael's bladed arm. As the three spins of the blade ended, the teen spun around, fluently spining the blade one more time behind his back before the swung into the ribs of Azrael. Azrael went flying across the ground, skidding, and looked up only to see the teen above him, swinging with his right hand. This attack sent skidding on his back across the ground. Azrael rebounded himself to stand once more, but meet a kick to his back by the teen. This kick sent Azrael forward as the teen shoved his hand forward, sending out a fire attack with a strength that equaled Firaga. Azrael rolled after hitting the ground, extinguishing the flames, and stood slightly wounded and burned. "Fine! You win this round, boy, but this is not the last you've seen of me." with this Azrael vanished with a burst of purple/pink fire.
The red-haired teen turned to walk away. "Wait!" cried Matsu.
The teen merely just looked at him.
"What...is your...name?"
"My name..." replied the teen, "Is Sumxat..." with this the teen vanished in a burst of flames.
Matsu then strained to look out as the world blurred out and turned black. Matsu was, once again, unconscious.
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A few hours later, Aerith was working hard on trying to heal Haseo. When he took the attack, it sliced through most of his chest, slicing the lungs open, and nearly missing the heart. It explained why Haseo didn't scream when he was hit, he couldn't get air. Katsuki never wanted to leave his side, Matsu, who was now awake, had to get Sora and Riku's help dragging her away. When she finally calmed down enough, Kairi, Namine, and Midori all tried to console the sobbing girl.
Matsu walked around the perimeter of the castle. Ever since the attack, he hadn't stopped checking for any hostiles. He felt a hand on his shoulder as he turned to face Riku and Sora.
"Hey, the teenage me is patrolling around here, go get some rest, you need it." said Sora.
"No, I can't...I won't, the enemies were right at our door, and they could have easily got in. Besides, I don't want what....Haseo had to go through to happen to any of you."
"Come on," said Riku, "We're all worried about Haseo, but you need to get some rest, you'll die from exhaustion if you don't."
"I know, but... It's just that red-haired kid, he felt so....familiar..."
"Come on, Matsu, let's head back." said Sora.
They all headed back but as they reached the infirmary, Matsu stopped.
"You guys go ahead...I...want to see him..."
The other two nodded as they left for their rooms. Matsu stepped into the infirmary, looking at the bed in the corner that was blocked off by a white curtain. Matsu stepped behind it as he looked to his friend. Haseo had many machines connected to his body, all of them trying to keep him alive. His surgery had been a success, but it was still going to be a while before he could do anything. To the right side of Haseo was Katsuki, she was asleep. Matsu smiled at the two weakly, he felt so guilty. He could've stopped this, he could've stopped anyone from feeling pain, but he failed, horribly. He brought he hand down and lightly touched Haseo's chest, but he didn't expect his hand to suddenly glow with a cyan/purple hue. The light seemed to travel into Haseo as his vitals improved. Matsu took a step back, baffled, and stared at his hand as the glow vanished.
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Author's Notes
Sorry about taking so long to put this up. I had a bit of writer's block.
Yeah, I'm gonna be lazy with these notes. Leave a review, tips, or anything else in a review, PM, or email me at branden_tsimaka(at)hotmail(dot)com.
If you've read this so far, you know that Midori is a OC of Krystal Lily Potter's.
I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, they are owned by Square Enix. I don't own Disney, it is owned by Disney.