Off To See King Mickey part 2
Field of Stars
"Who's Maldeo?" Virgil made to answer Riku but Dimitri silenced him.
"Nothing you need to worry about."
He walked over to the table next to the one they had been sitting on and threw the table to the side, it fell with a loud crash, and the sounds of the tea set could be heard as the glass broke into hundreds of pieces.
The doctor bent down and pressed a button that had been hidden by the table, gears could be heard all around the house being set into place. The house was changing again, just like it had before when Riku had seen it hovering.
"But I don't understand, what's going on?" Riku asked pressing upon the doctor for an answer,
"I told you Riku it's nothing for to concern yourself with, and I'm afraid we're going to have to confine you to your room."
"What?!" He exclaimed.
"Virgil." Said Velshdein.
Riku glanced at the hovering young doctor, who was now grinning maniacally at him.
The doctor lunged forward at Riku, using the wall as a connective to gain momentum, he swung down, swiftly grabbing Riku by the waist and lifting the two of them off the ground. The harness pulled them toward the entrance and into the hallway; he struggled to get out of the doctors iron-grip, but unfortunately for someone who appeared to be so young he was incredibly strong.
They went through various hallways, all the time Riku kept thinking the way to his room had been a lot shorter. Finally they came to his doorway, normally the doorway hadn't been built for a person to go flying straight through it but because the two doctor's had activated the defense mechanism, not known to Riku, the wall was able to change its form.
A thin sheet of liquid metal coiled over the wooden surface, the metal fused with the wall molding it to open wider to fit them inside. They flew through, Virgil dropping Riku roughly onto the bed, muttering a quick apology when he fell off of the bed and onto the floor. He twisted in the air turning himself around, back facing Riku, gracefully flying back out of the room.
The wall morphed back into its original state, the door slamming behind Virgil as he left locking in place with a sound click. "Wait!" Riku shouted.
He ran to the door banging on it. "Let me out of here this is ridiculous, I'm not a child I can take care of myself!"
"This isn't something someone like you can fight Riku, I don't want to do this but its for your own good. Please, be a good boy and stay in that room." Riku growled and slammed his fist against the door before settling himself on the bed, squatting one leg resting over the other in a criss-cross position.
"Damn those two! Dragging me here to this room like some spoiled child and then locking me in it!" He grumbled softly.
He finally gave up squatting after several minutes, as it was quite painful.
Heaving a sigh he let himself fall backward and collapse onto the soft satin covered pillows, he rolled over to his side, jade eyes now staring at the window.
An idea sprang into his head, one that spread a grin so big on his face it would put the Cheshire cat to shame.
There was just no way he was going to sit in this room and be completely useless, with this strong determination he jumped off his bed, sauntered over to the window and pushed it open poking his head out to see if he could get a view of what was going on. T
his unfortunately came to no avail, the sides of the mansion were so big he could hardly see anything much less something that would tell him what was happening.
He had to get higher, that was when he caught sight of a ladder not 3 ft. away from him mired to a hook on the rooftop. If he could just get something to grab it he could bring it to him and climb to the top. But what?
He scanned the room for something useful, there was a king-sized canopy bed, a nightstand with three drawers, and a wardrobe. He checked the drawers of the nightstand and found a bunch of clothes, a lot of them were shorts and long sleeved shirt consisting of colors which were orange, red, and yellow. He checked the wardrobe, nothing there but coats hardly useful.
Riku put his back to the wardrobe and sighed in defeat, his head hung in disappointment. He stared hopelessly at the floorboards for a while, then something white under the bed caught his eye.
He bent down and reached under the bed for it grasping the end of it, he pulled it out to see that it was a simple white box.
Setting it down on the bed Riku pulled off the top to reveal a long strand of thin white rope, the rope was considerably thick and at least five or six feet long, a strange aura surrounded the object making it glow brightly.
Riku was immediately entranced by it, he was convinced this was the one thing that would help him; he unfortunately missed the warning in bold letters on the back of the box top that said 'DO NOT USE, ONLY IN CASE OF EMERGENCIES'.
He walked again over to the window, threading the rope through the hole at the end of the hook and tying it securely. "Now all I have to do is get this onto that, easier said than done."
The rope emitted a bright flash of light, he cried out in surprise covering his eyes to guard them from the light, the flash of light temporarily blinding him.
The rope jumped from his hand wriggling on the floor before it started to form the shape of a smiley face with arms and legs.
Riku opened his eyes to see the creature staring at him with its makeshift eyes, he gaped at the strange thing with astonishment as it waved at him making a strange sound that sounded oddly like 'hello'.
He awkwardly waved back still stunned by the thought that a smiley face made of rope was actually saying hello to him, the creature stopped waving to look down at it's feet the smile instantly turned to a frown and Riku found himself inwardly asking why.
The creature pointed a small rope-like finger in the air announcing it suddenly had an idea. It clicked it's small feet together and a white silk appeared on the bottom of the floor beneath it. The white fabric wrapped around the little creature's feet much like booties, more white silk traveled up the creature's body wrapping tightly around it making a small cloak that covered it's body and mouth. The rest of it twirled around it's hands making matching white gloves.
"Yay!" It cried joyously.
Riku smiled nervously, this place was weird.
"So what are you?" he asked, not sure if it would answer.
It stared at him for a minute as if it was contemplating his question. "Do you know what you are?" he said sarcastically.
A look of realization appeared on the creature's face and he shook his head to say yes.
"Uh huh, uh huh," It then made a noise that sounded like it was clearing it's throat, strange seeing as it didn't look like it had one.
"Mahou Saku." it replied pointing to itself.
"Magic rope?" It nodded yes. "Of course... hey you wouldn't be able to help me get to the roof would you?"
The creature walked over to the window and and extended it's head to look outside, upward toward the top of the house.
It turned back to him and nodded yes.
"Great! So how exactly do you work?" It extended a gloved hand to Riku wrapping it's rope like arms around his shoulders, chest, and waist securing him by tying it's hand around one wiry strip of rope that was around his waist.
It jumped onto the window, extending it's other hand towards the hook that held the ladder, unfortunately since the rope was not that long the rest of it's body had to now take the shape of one line of rope . It was difficult but it managed to get to the hook.
'If you're ready, I'll hoist you up now.' Said Mahou.
"Oh no I don't think that's a good... Ahhh!" The rope yanked him forward and pulled him forceably out the window. Riku looked down gasping in fear as he realized he was so high off the ground.
'Sorry, takes a while for me to get used to moving around.' Said Mahou.
"Ha, no problem." He replied, chuckling nervously.
The creature dragged him up the side of the house and onto the roof. Riku surveyed the rooftop, much like the bottom it's integral structure was made of wood as well as a mixture of metal. The rooftop was flat save for a blunt spoke that poked out in the center, unlike the inside where the ceiling appeared to be round sometimes and then flat. The entire house was an oddity in itself, always changing.
But Riku put aside his thoughts about the strange house and turned to look in front of him, up so high he could now see clearly what was going on, and found out just what had scared the doctors so much they'd resort to locking him in a room.
This unfortunately for Riku wasn't good.
Past the house he could see a large white castle in the distance surrounded by a field of grass; for a moment this was all he could see, until a large shadow crept up from behind falling upon the castle like a wave of tumultuous water and consuming the structure within seconds before moving on to the rest of the valley.
At the forefront of the darkness he could make out a person but couldn't recognize them. The shadow grew closer, and closer to the house, as the shadow drew near he started to think it might've been a better idea to stay inside.
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"We're here." Tai announced.
"Yay! Finally!" Sora yelled with glee.
"Calm down Sora. Tai I'm guessing you'll be taking Riku into the castle?" Leon asked innocently, but inwardly laid a taunt that only Tai recognized. "Seeing as it will take a long time to unhook the machine and take it out of the ship and into the castle."
Tai narrowed his eyes, giving Leon an icy glare. "Yes I will."
Leon smirked at the blonde's expression. "Okay then, Sora let's go."
The two exited the rear and headed towards the castle, Leon looked up at the large white castle with a heavy heart. The news that he had for Mickey certainly wasn't good, and with their recent victory over the heartless he despised being the bearer of bad news.
Tai sighed as he watched them walk away, he looked at the medical coffin that Leon had placed the other in. 'I knew I'd have to face him sooner or later.' He thought as he walked towards it, he'd wished to avoid having any contact at all with the other Keyblade master but the prospect of meeting Donald again was worse.
He seemed eerily peaceful lying asleep in the machine, his pale skin gave the appearance that he was dead rather than sleep. His vitals signs were as usual normal, but even though there was nothing wrong with him he still didn't wake up.
Tai surveyed the boy's face, he looked so much like him, so much like his brother.
Tai shook his head to rid himself of such thoughts, he pushed a button on the side of the machine which drained the healing potion out of the coffin, the remaining potion soaked into his skin leaving his clothes dry despite being submerged in the solution for so long.
He bent down and pulled a latch that resided at the bottom of the machine releasing it from the floor, it rose slightly revealing wheels so that transporting it into the castle would be easier. Finally he grasped the latch at the top in front of it and pulled it out of its position in the floor and off the ship, he guided the machine off the ramp and started towards the castle.
He walked slowly so as to delay the reunion he'd soon be having with his teacher, Donald would not be happy with him once he found out what Tai had done.
This thought filled the young boy with even more fear as he passed the threshold of the castle door.
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"He's getting closer." Dimitri said warily.
"What are we going to do? We don't have a plan." Virgil said.
"I do." He replied heading for the door. "I need you to keep an eye on him while I get my machine ready."
"But you don't even know if that thing is gonna work, what're you going to do if something goes wrong?" The elder scientist paused, Virgil was right things were much too dangerous not to have a backup plan.
"We'll use replica, if it doesn't work I'll put in the last code and then you know what to do after that." Virgil nodded in agreement.
"Yes but Dimitri, are you sure?" He asked him once more, Dimitri shrugged his shoulders.
"As sure as I can be at this point."
He watched his elder colleague walk out of the dining room, his heart heavy with fear. "I hope this works."
Virgil walked over to the far corner of the room and pulled a lever on the wall, a circle of light formed in the center of the dining room. The floorboards that had been separated from the rest by the circle began to rise revealing a large super computer, with three monitor screens on the bottom, one in the middle, and two on each side. The first two flickered to life showing a full view of the bottom and top of the mansion, the third screen lit up as well showing the body of an android floating in a green solution. It's body constricted by chains making it immobile. The mechanical creature was made of a flesh-looking metal not know to man, the glow of the green water illuminated its metallic skin and long silver hair giving it the look of an unearthly creature, as if it were an angel.
The android's body was shaped in the form of a boy that looked no younger that 12.
Aqua eyes opened slowly, the blue orbs wore a soft expression that made the creature appear more innocent that it actually was.
"What can I do for you doctor?" The android's light monotone voice only added more to it's mechanical features.
"Nothing as of yet Replica, but I need you to be ready just in case." The android nodded, closing its eyes but not going back to sleep. Virgil ran a shaky hand though his fiery red hair and turned his back to the monitors, to look out the window, unable to see the end of rope that wrapped itself about the rooftop.
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Riku stepped back slowly as he saw the shadow coming near, he clutched a hand over his heart as a familiar wave of fear washed over him.
The shadow was now within 5 ft. of the mansion, but instead of consuming it, much like it had done to the rest of the valley it surrounded the large house forming a black dome that sprang up so tall it almost touched the darkened sky before closing in around the top sealing them in.
Riku looked all around him the darkness covered every inch about the house, there was no way out, the feeling of fear that had been present in his heart before now swelled into a deep dread.
He knew something was coming, but the question was what?
He soon got his answer when a large hand sprang out from the wall of darkness in front of him, it was transparent unlike the darkness which it came from.
The hand itself was scaly, and thin so much that it looked like bones rather than an actual hand.
It reached till it was at least 1 ft. in front of him and dug it's black talons into the wood of the roof. The hand then did something unexpected; it started to flatten against the wooden rooftop. The bony structure of the hand melted against the wooden surface, stretching out to form an odd sort of pathway.
"What in..." A figure began to rise out of the dark pathway, the figure rose out of the darkness till before him stood a young boy no older than 14. He was beautiful in an ethereal and inhuman way.
Red eyes with a black oval shaped iris in the middle much like that of a cat; deathly pale skin and blonde hair that fell behind his back stopping at his waist.
He wore a red and black silk kimono that went down to his knees and black boots with red silk trimming.
He looked somewhat like the other person he'd seen in Twilight Town, but this one was oddly familiar.
"Hello Seiya." The young boy said, a malevolent growl present beneath his voice.
"Who are you?" Riku asked the boy.
"Ohh, now that hurts. You mean you don't even recognize me Seiya? After all..." The demonic tone deepened till it seemed to resonate all around him as he spoke. "It was you that locked me here in this prison."
Riku began to back away from the boy cautiously, keeping himself aware of any move made around him.
"What are you talking about?"
The boy let out a malicious laugh that echoed throughout the entire black dome, the singular action caused a ripple to go out through the walls starting from the very bottom and ending at the top.
Large red eyes formed at the top of the dome looking down at Riku. He regarded the new appearance with a mixture of shock and fear.
His attention being solely focused on the large red eyes, he almost didn't notice the transparent hand, much like the first, reach out of one of the walls of the dome coming straight towards him.
He shifted his gaze in time to summon his oblivion and slice at the devilish hand, it disappeared quickly but another soon came in it's place this time from his left.
He brought his keyblade down on this one as well cleaving it in two, but one after another came at him trying desperately to grab him. Some managed to avoid his attack but soon were caught up in the onslaught of Riku's attacks.
After failing to capture him several more times, the hands paused coming after him. And for a moment Riku thought they had stopped altogether, but then hundreds of hands, coming from all directions, simultaneously reached for him. And before he could raise his keyblade to stop them, they'd already pinned him to the wooden rooftop.
He struggled to get free but the demonic hands wouldn't budge, three hands covered his left arm and three on the other, two keeping his legs in place. Each one had it's black talons embedded into the wood of the house, making sure Riku was completely immobile.
A white aura began to surround him causing his skin to shine with a pale luminescent glow. His body started to heat up, searing warmth that consumed him from the inside out; it felt familiar.
"Know this," Riku turned his head, the only part of his body that could move at all, to the young boy who was now standing very close to him.
"I will enjoy seeing the pain and horror in your eyes when I use your power to destroy this place." The young boy emphasized every word with cruel malice, a sadistic smile spread across his face that caused a chill to run down Riku's spine.
"But don't worry Seiya, I won't kill you." He bent down to whisper into Riku's ear.
"Only when you have watched me destroy every living thing in existence, only when you have given up all hope and are utterly helpless and alone will I allow you to die."
The boy raised his hand toward the ceiling of the black dome; a dark mist began to spill out of the eyes that resided at the very top. The mist began to take the shape of a large spike sticking out in-between the large red eyes, the edges of the spike were hideously twisted into a sharp tip pointed straight at his chest.
"Now mind you this will hurt, but please don't hold back your screams." said the boy.
The giant spike extended from the ceiling of the dome down to the roof, embedding itself squarely in his chest. It pushed through, digging down into the house itself. Riku released a grisly scream as it went through, only stopping when the spike was no longer burrowing it's way into his body. He was surprised to see that no blood had come from his wound, though he could feel the immense pain from it being there.
"I had hoped you would scream longer, but then again perhaps you will. It's not over yet." Riku furrowed his brows in confusion at the boy's words. He looked up at the red eyes that were still present at the top of the dome, they began to glow turning from red to a dark crimson. Two spears of red lightning came from each one, twisting around the huge spike heading toward him.
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The younger scientist watched as the black dome covered every inch around the house sealing them up.
"Please hurry Dimitri." He said softly, praying his colleague would have the machine ready in time.
Then a strange sound caught his attention, a sound like something groaning, he listened for a moment before he realized it was the house making the sound.
Virgil looked cautiously at the ceiling of the dining room, it seemed that the sound was coming from there. Suddenly a spear crashed through the ceiling, splitting it in two from the entry even to threshold of the dining room. Virgil shouted in shock and stepped back as it went down to the floor, then the spike stopped moving short of going straight through it.
"What in hellfire?" He said marveling at the strange thing in confusion.
He looked up at the ceiling; there was no other room above the dining room so obviously it had come from the roof.
'Maldeo!' He thought, terror now shown clearly on his face.
He turned to the monitor screens, looking for the one that showed the roof. His eyes widened, and he gasped in terror as he saw that not only was Maldeo on the roof, but Riku was with him, with a spike planted in his chest. Lightning was shooting from the top of the dome to the end of the spear, electrocuting Riku.
Virgil slammed a hand on a green button, sending a connection through the P.A. System in the house directly to Dimitri's room.
"DIMITRI!!!"
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"Hey you guys, wait up!" Tai shouted to the two brunette's running towards them, dragging the medic-machine behind him.
"How's Riku?" Leon asked the blond.
"He's fine, you really think I can't take care of one little kid?" Tai said in exasperation, Leon smiled in return.
"Uh, Leon?" Sora was looking at Riku in confusion. "What's that?" He asked the man.
Leon
and Tai looked at Riku as well, odd red sparks were bouncing off the
glass, and metal wall of the machine.
Leon walked over to the side
of the machine, he pushed a button that pulled up a screen with a
readout of Riku's vital signs. His heart-rate and blood-pressure were
rising!
"Oh no! We gotta get him out of the machine!" He said frantically.
He tried pushing the release button but the machine wouldn't open.
"Damn it! It's not working." He said in frustration.
"Is there an emergency lever?" Tai asked him.
"On your side, at the bottom." He replied.
Tai bent down, he quickly found the lever and tugged at it trying to get the machine open but again it wouldn't move.
"It won't budge!" said Tai.
Leon went over to the other side to help Tai, he grabbed the lever with both hands and pulled hard, but even with his strength and Tai's combined the lever still wouldn't move.
Sora glanced at Riku again gasping in alarm when Riku's body started to jerk violently.
"Leon! Riku's shaking!" shouted Sora.
'Damn it! What the hell is going on?!' Thought Leon, praying they could get him out before...
"Come
on Tai pull harder!" Leon told him.
"I'm trying!" Tai
replied.
'Please hold on Seiya.' Tai said inwardly.
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"STOP IT!! PLEASE!!!" Riku begged him.
"Oh but I can't, not till I have taken every last bit of your energy." He replied cruelly.
Riku writhed in pain, he felt like his very soul was being ripped apart. This same feeling he'd felt in his dream, but ten times worse. The glow that surrounded his body started to shine brighter, lighting up the entire dome.
"That's it Seiya, just try and fight it. You're only making it worse for yourself."
The young boy was right, the pain began to intensify, but the more he felt the more his light shone brighter.
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Dimitri was putting the final touches to his machine when he heard Virgil scream his name over the intercom.
He walked over to the monitor and pushed the intercom.
"What is it Virgil?" He asked the frantic man.
"It's Maldeo! He's got Riku!" Dimitri dropped the screwdriver he'd been holding in shock.
"No." He said softly.
"Dimitri you have to hurry, you have to save him! Is the machine ready?" Virgil asked him.
"No, but we have no choice but to use it." Dimitri climbed into the cockpit of the large machine.
The machine was comprised of a seat surrounded by three round metal mirrors, strange by far but these mirrors served a very important purpose. It transformed the energy of its occupant into a ray of light that bounced off each mirror, each mirror changed angles in the process making it easier to direct the light to the top of the machine where a ball made of crystal would then change it into a powerful laser.
A large steam generator lay at the bottom to power all the main functions.
The drawback of the genius invention was that most of it's firepower depended solely on the pilot, and in order to successfully wound Maldeo, the machine required a massive amount of energy.
"Where are they?" He asked Virgil.
"On the rooftop." Virgil replied.
Dimitri put in the command for the top of the sky-roof he'd built into his room to open, he was about to rise the machine to the top, when Virgil spoke to him.
"Dimitri wait!" He turned his attention again to the monitor. "Please say you'll be careful." Dimitri could see Virgil was telling him, not asking.
"You know as well as I do that's next to impossible in a situation like this." He sighed, seeing the look of sadness and disappointment come across the younger man's face made him wish he could tell him what he wanted to hear. "Goodbye Virgil." He said, turning his gaze up to the roof.
"I won't say goodbye Dimitri!." Dimitri looked back at him with surprise. "You come back or else!"
Dimitri smiled, and gave a small chuckle, despite the severity of the situation.
He picked up a pair of gloves that lay just beside the armrest of the seat, wires extended out of the bottom of the gloves hooking directly into the computer board of the machine allowing the user better control of it.
"I'll do my best." Dimitri reassured him.
He slipped the gloves on, and input a command making the machine rise out of the opening of the sky-roof.
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Riku screamed so loud he thought he might go hoarse, the spike was continuously shooting massive amounts of lightning through his body.
"Almost there." The boy said in playful tone. "Soon you won't feel any pain at all."
"Maldeo!!" A voice shouted.
The boy turned around to face the source of the voice. He saw Dimitri sitting in a large machine, three mirrors constantly spinning around him, a silver ball lay right above the doctor's head shining brightly.
The young boy gasped in fear. Instantly recognizing the machine!
"Go to hell!"
The doctor released the ball of energy and sent it hurtling towards him. Several hands stretched out from the dome to protect their master but the energy went through and hit the boy in his chest.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Maldeo fell to his knees in pain, his screams echoed throughout the entire dome, sending a shiver across the walls of darkness surrounding the house. The arms that held Riku prisoner retracted, the spike that had previously been torturing him shattered and the eyes that spawned it disappeared into the nothingness of the dome.
Free from Maldeo's hold Riku stood up shakily watching with a mixture of awe and horror as the spear of light that had hit Maldeo went through him and struck the wall of the dome behind him. A crack formed where it landed, spreading wider till it split the dome in two.
But Dimitri's strength was waning and the machine, sensing his predicament, automatically began to shutdown. A fail-safe that had been installed by Virgil.
Dimitri reached for the computer controls and input the final code to release replica.
"Virgil..Please hurry." He said weakly.
The light that had been shooting out of the ball of metal dimmed to a small flicker and then disappeared.
Maldeo stood up wavering slightly, a look that could only be described as pure hatred focused solely on the doctor.
"You! You'll pay for this!" He snarled.
He raised his hand toward the doctor, red and black energy began to swirl in his palm strengthening till it formed into a sphere. "DIE!"
He threw it towards the doctor, one touch from the sphere would kill Dimitri in an instant.
Riku turned his attention towards the doctor the man was now in danger from the boy.
"Dimitri!" He ran, heading for the large machine where the man sat, not knowing how to stop the monster's attack. And he didn't care, all he could think about was trying to protect the doctor.
Maldeo released the blast, sending it hurtling fast toward Dimitri, but now Riku was in the way.
'No! He mustn't die, not yet!' He panicked. But it was already too late, he couldn't stop the attack now.
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Suddenly Riku's hand rose, against his will, pointing at the oncoming attack. His body started to glow again the light focused in the palm of his hand shooting out into forming of a Keyblade.
A light speared out from the tip hitting the blond the ball of energy and throwing it back at Maldeo, the blast hit him along with the beam of light pushing him back and off the roof.
"Impossible." He said to himself as he fell. "How could he have defeated me?"
The dome began to crack even more, the pieces from it falling to the roof disappearing before they impacted on it.
Riku turned towards Dimitri to see if the man was alright, surprised to see him staring at him with something akin to confusion.
He started to walk toward him when a feeling of fatigue washed over him, his body felt incredibly weak and he found it hard to keep himself standing. He dropped to his knees and dropped onto the wooden surface, passing out.
"Riku..." Dimitri tried to get up and help him, but he felt as tired as Riku was even more so since he'd used the machine. He sagged against the seat, taking one last look at the teen before passing out as well.
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Virgil sighed with relief, having to watch everything that had happened from the dining room, he was now glad that it was over.
"Replica, take us out of here." He told the android.
"Where to Doctor?" It asked.
"The third ring, perhaps if we go deeper the one that resides here won't be able to come after us."
That was what Virgil hoped anyway, for he knew they most likely would not survive another battle with Maldeo. And if the remaining others found out that Riku was here, they would be after him as well.
"Yes Doctor." The android used the master code to spread the metal solution that covered the house even further till it covered every inch. The metallic covering was a shield to protect the house as it traveled deeper into the other planes.
Maldeo watched as the house sunk into the ground knowing he could not follow. The barrier that surrounded this particular place was still too strong and would disintegrate him as soon as he touched it.
"But this place won't hold me for long."
A dark shadow appeared on the ground before him one of the devilish hands he'd used to imprison Riku stretched out from it holding a vial of blue liquid, it shined brilliantly a small light in the darkness of the field.
The hand threw the vial up into the air, it rose, and rose till it struck the blank sky lighting up the entire field of stars.
"You may try and keep me in here Velshdein, but in the end you will not succeed."
He walked back to the castle, an enormous black shadow following closely behind him, two red eyes in the center staring blankly out toward the castle.
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After one last tug at the lever it finally yielded, drawing backward unexpectedly forcing Leon and Tai to the floor. The medical casket opened with a loud hiss. Leon jumped up, and rushed to Riku's side to check him.
"Is he okay?" asked Tai his voice filled with concern.
"He's fine, his pulse is steady..." Leon paused to check his heart. "Heart-rate is normal."
"What was that?" Sora asked him.
"I don't know." Leon replied.
Sora gasped in pain as felt a sharp pain stab him in the chest, he fell to his knees when the pain started to intensify with one hand holding his heart.
"Are you alright?" Leon asked him.
"I'm fine." He replied somewhat breathless.
As soon as the pain had come, it was gone.
"Are you sure Sora?" He nodded yes to the man, and Leon decided not to press him any further.
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"It's begun, master." said Dea.
A triumphant smile came across the blonde boy's face.
"Good. Soon I will have my freedom."
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(A:N Really long chapter I know but I wanted to get as much as I could done here so I wouldn't have to prolong getting to the root of the story any further. Till then Read/Review people!! By the way FOS means Field of Stars, couldn't put it on the chapter title so I had to shorten it.)