As a reminder I do not own Kingdom hearts, DTB, or WoW which was featured. This is a nonprofit fiction and all rights belong to Square-Enix, Disney, Blizzard and Bones or…is it funimation? ...might be…thank god I'm not writing something 4Kids owns…they're eviler than Xemnas.
Chapter 7
A Town of Travelers
The Highwind landed outside of a coliseum and Sora hopped out saying he would be back in a minute.
"I'll go with you." Ellis offered jumping down from the ship.
"Sure yeah, you can meet Phil!" Sora said excitedly. Ellis followed him through two great stone doors and into another courtyard, off in a corner a man was standing, staring into the distance.
"Sora, you go ahead, I am going to speak to that person." Ellis told him
Sora looked in the direction Ellis started toward "Oh, that's Cloud, he's really strong. Tell him I said Hi!"
"I will!" Ellis waved back and continued on. When he reached the man he got a better look at him, he had spiky blonde hair and bright green eyes, and he was wearing a tattered red cape. A golden claw was strapped to his left arm, his clothing, armored in some places looked thick and military like. He carried a giant sword wrapped in bandages. "Excuse me." Ellis said to him.
The Man turned around and glared at him. "Are you a friend of Sora?" he asked Ellis folded his arms.
"Maybe I am maybe I'm not, why does that matter to you...Cloud?" Ellis responded pulling the card from his jeans pocket "if you want to know, why don't we spar? I feel a deep darkness in you." Ellis took some distance "and I think I could use some training in fighting the powers of darkness." Cloud lifted his sword and took his stance.
"How can you feel the darkness in me?" he asked Ellis
Ellis lifted the Card above his head and it engulfed him in a brief light, when it faded his hair was shorter and black, he wore a white mask upon his face with a purple lightning bolt on the right side. He also now wore a black trench coat, and his whole outfit was black. Ellis summoned his blades and took his stance "honestly, I have no idea how."
Cloud smiled and they charged at each other.
Yuffie had sent Bestira into a local shop to get some new clothes 'Armor kinda stands out don't ya think?' she had said, that was 2 hours ago and he, Yuffie and Amy, with huge smiles on their faces had been picking clothes out for him since, about an hour previously another woman named Aerith and a man named Leon arrived and took Kevin and Hei to a Café next door. "So" Leon said to them "you three are from one world and the guy with the pointy ears is from a different one?" Hei nodded and took a sip of his coffee. A few minutes later, Bestira, Amy and Yuffie finally emerged from the shop. Bestira was wearing black jeans, a red shirt, a leather jacket, combat boots, and fingerless biking gloves, attached to his right ear was a gold earring with a green stone attached to it.
"He told me he could heal and use holy magic and stuff like that so I gave him one of my Revive Materias" Yuffie said "I think he looks pretty sexy with it, don't you Aerith? Amy?"
"He looks good with it yes." Aerith nodded "but what is that symbol on the shirt? I don't believe that shop sells anything like that."
Yuffie smiled and held up a can of black spray paint "I did it! What do you think took us so long? Come on he's a guy, with great taste at that, he picked out his outfit in 30mins"
Amy jumped in and said "he said he wanted his government's insignia on it! So Yuffie made him cut it out on a piece of cardboard and there it is!"
Bestira just stood there smiling with a bright red face
Cloud and Ellis's blades collided and Ellis felt the vibration crawl up his skin.
"This is going to be a rough one." He thought to himself. They jumped back and collided again, when they spread back out, Ellis quickly tied the wires in his sleeves to his blades.
"Don't let your guard down!" Cloud shouted he jumped high into the air and prepared an attack
"Braver!"he shouted as he came down, preparing to slash Ellis. Ellis dodged and jumped high as well, except landing on the arm on one of the colossus statues, he then threw one of his blades at Cloud, Cloud knocked it away from him and Ellis brought it back to him using the wire. This time he threw his other blade and sent electricity through the wire, when Cloud knocked it away he got a short jolt, this stunned him long enough or Ellis to jump down and take a swing at him, and Cloud grabbed it with his clawed hand and threw Ellis away. While Ellis stood up, Cloud charged him in a super-fast charge. Ellis barely had time to bring his blade up to defend himself, when Cloud had stopped, Ellis dropped to his knees and began to pant, he took off his mask so he could catch his breath easier. Cloud put his blade down and kneeled in front of him. "Good fight" he said holding out his hand. Ellis took it and Cloud helped him up.
"Yeah, I thought you were gonna kill me a couple of times." Ellis joked
Cloud smiled "that jolt of electricity startle me, you almost got me that time."
"Yeah well that charge at the end was insane! It was like supersonic!"
Cloud put his hands in his pockets "I call it Sonic Blade" he said, then he pulled his hands out of his pockets and handed two things to Ellis, one was an earring that looked like a miniature version of Cloud's sword, the other was a green orb, Ellis looked at the earring were the holes were in Cloud's sword there was a green crystal and a red one. "The crystals and the orb are called Materia, they let you use magic, the red one is a summon magic to summon a spirit known as Bahamut – the king of dragons, the small green one is Fire Magic and the bigger one is Cure, a healing magic. I'm not gonna tell you how to use them, you can figure it out for yourself". Cloud picked his sword back up waved and walked away.
"Thanks" Ellis shouted back "and next time we fight it won't be a draw!" Ellis put the earring on his left ear, the only one he had pierced, his black reaper outfit then faded and the card appeared in his hand, he placed them both it and the Cure Materia in his pocket. Sora then emerged from the building "hey Sora, ready to go?"
Sora nodded "Yeah let's go!"
The next day they arrived in Traverse Town, Sora seemed pretty excited and scoured the first district for any sign of his friends, finally they went into the accessory shop and he talked to a blonde haired man named Cid who directed them to an abandoned house in the third district. On their way they ran into a few heartless which they dispatched easily. They found the house, all lite up and went inside "Leeeeeoooooon!" Sora cried as they entered.
"What." Leon said irritated "oh…Sora, who is that?" pointing to Ellis
Suddenly Amy popped up and tackled him "Ellis!" she screamed as she did so
"Hey Amy, what's up? I didn't expect to see you hear." Ellis asked her
"'Hey Amy, what's up?' I've been worried sick and all you say is 'Hey Amy, what's up?'" she got off of him folded her arms and walked to the other side of the room, next thing he knew Mao had come up to him.
"Nice to see you alive." He said "we are back together then."
Ellis smiled and nodded, next a man with long dark hair, pointy ears and glowing green eyes "Sooooo Your Ellis" he said helping him up "My name is Bestira, pleasure to meet you. I kinda kidnapped your master awhile back." He chuckled
Ellis smiled back "if you had you wouldn't be standing in front of me"
Bestira smiled and shot a glance at Hei "would it help if I told you he was injured?"
Ellis looked at his master "Master why is he still alive…?"
Hei shrugged "maybe I'm slipping in my old age."
"Sir with all due respect…but you were slipping years ago." Ellis joked
Hei's eye twitched and the bowl he was eating from struck Ellis in the face. Ellis grabbed his face in pain, and then began to laugh. "Thanks master I…I needed that."
Hei gave him a questioning look but Kevin spoke up. "Did something happen, Ellis?" he asked Ellis shook his head and sat down
"ahhh I'm tired!" he said
Bestira raised his hands "are we not going to address the fact he thinks I should be dead?"
Amy giggled "it's just him teasing you, don't take it seriously, I think he likes you!"
Bestira's eyes widened "Eww I hate yaoi!"
This time Ellis threw a bowl "Not like that...sicko!"
They all shared a laugh then Sora turned to Leon "Hey Leon do you know what his is?" he held an object to him and Leon stared at it for a moment. And stared
Aerith glanced at it "you should take that to Cid, he knows a lot about Gummi Ships." She said
Sora put it back in his pocket and smiled "OK! Bye Ellis! Glad to meet you!" Sora, Donald and Goofy left the house and headed back to the accessory shop.
There was a pot of stew on the stove and Ellis took a generous helping for Hei before getting his own. After he sat down, they caught up on the events since they separated.
Marluxia collapsed panting in the castles dungeon, he gripped his chest and appeared to be in great pain. "It's what you get." A young woman's voice said.
"Shut up!" he yelled at her
"Hei will kill you." She said
Marluxia regained his composer "…woman what was your name again?" he entered her cell.
"Yin" she said. Marluxia looked at her silver hair; purple eyes and blue dress…then slapped her, and kicked her in her stomach.
"Yin" Marluxia said "you are still a prisoner here, do you know why?" she shook her head, her eyes unmoving "Because Saix thinks there is a use for your Boyfriend, I have other plans for him though, him, Slxeil, and their little entourage, they are some of my pawns for MY plan, and the next step begins now, Zoxer, in here NOW." The artificial Nobody appeared in the cell via Dark Corridor "take this girl to Hollow Bastion, tell Maleficent she could get a powerful heartless from the one looking for her. Then give Hei a hint to the whereabouts, he must be properly broken before I throw him into Castle Oblivion."
Zoxer bowed and grabbed Yin, and took her through a dark corridor.
Larxene turned the corner into the cell as well "I wonder how Xemnas would feel if he knew his new toy was being played with behind his back." Marluxia walked up to her and looked at her straight in the eyes.
"If he could feel he would be very angry."
Xemnas looked away from the screens. "How did Marluxia survive anyway? Most nobodies would die from such an attack, maybe even I." he asked Vexen.
Vexen smiled an evil grin "a few months ago he asked me if I could power him up, and I told him I could make his body near invincible, but only if he sacrificed one thing, his stability as a Nobody; now his body will fade faster than ours, but it would be hard to actually kill him."
Xemnas scratched his chin "and now it looks like he has insubordination on his mind." He walked toward the exit stopped then asked "could a Keyblade kill him?"
"Most certainly" Vexen replied.
Xemnas smiled and pulled a cell phone from his pocket "Saix, tell Axel I have a mission for him."
Ellis stood in the third district getting some fresh air, he had moved to a rise above the fountain and was looking at the stars. One fell.
"When a star falls, a world is destroyed and a survivor is being transported to another world."
"What? Who's there?" Ellis said
"Inside your head you fool, you know me…Slxeil."
"Oh" Ellis thought "so we are separate people."
"In a way Ellis, this is my body and you're just borrowing it." Slxeil said
"What does that mean?" Ellis asked him
"It means you're an alternate personality created by the heart placed inside my…well our body." Slxeil answered "so in a since you are the combined form of my old selves' left over memories and the memories of the old owner of the heart."
"That's…actually kinda cool, but why are you suddenly talking to me?"
"Because prior to Vexen's attack I was sealed away, don't worry though I have no intention of returning to the Organization, they're completely evil, I had to watch them destroy the person whose heart now resides in us."
"Can you tell me about him?" Ellis asked
"No I can't tell you about 'him'" Slxeil said "because it was a woman."
"I'm sorry…what?"
"Long story short, your heart is mostly that woman. The one in your memories you picture as a childhood friend."
"wait…I am a woman?"
"No, you're not look at yourself man, your voice is deep you have a…umm am I allowed to say it?"
"Don't break the fourth wall! And he made a Yaoi joke earlier I think saying Penis won't kill us"
"…Um Ellis…"
"But I get what you're saying. Me, Ellis, I'm like the byproduct, or child if you will of your body fusing with the heart of Rose."
"Rose?"
"I don't know why but, the name is there just kinda popped."
"Right well, we are in this together right?"
"You bet we are, Partner."
"To take down the Organization"
"And free the heart bonded to you. Err, us"
Ellis suddenly felt very warm and happy
"I think she agrees, let's do it partner."
Ellis looked down into the districts courtyard to see Sora, he was about to call out to him but saw him talking to another teenager with white hair
"I wonder if he is the Riku kid Sora kept talking about on the way here" he muttered to Slxeil
While Sora was turned around Riku snuck away, toward the same rise Ellis was on.
When he reached the top he took one look at Ellis and turned around angrily. "That wasn't very nice to Sora." Ellis said to him
"What do you know?" Riku responded harshly
Ellis smiled "I hitched a ride from him earlier…you know what he did the entire trip here?"
Riku stopped and looked at him impatiently
"About you Riku, and your other friend Kairi, he told me how you especially were his inspiration and his strength. While you probably made him sad by leaving I bet knowing you're ok will make him stronger and be able to focus more on finding your other friend."
Riku hung his head "you wouldn't understand."
Ellis smiled "you're right, I most likely wouldn't" Ellis walked up to him and pulled out an old wrist band from his pocket "here, it's not much but it was good luck charm. May it bring you good fortune." He placed it in Riku's hand and walked down the ramp.
"Wait!" Riku said "What should I do?"
"I can't tell you preachy like 'follow the light' because I do not. Just, do your best to find your friend and keep true to yourself." Slexil told him.
"That was good" Ellis said "Also you can take over?"
"Of course I can it's my body after all."
At that moment the gizmo shop clock tower rang four times, Ellis looked at the clock "That's weird, it says its 1:02 why would it ring now?" even from where he was standing he saw, heard and felt the giant heartless land in the 2nd district square. "Shit, Sora!" he shouted as he ran off toward the 2nd district.
Hei heard the rumbling and ran outside, before he could get far a dark corridor opened and Axel appeared "It seems one of our members has gone AWOL, and ambushed me as I was on my way to deliver Yin to you, our master lost interest in you and decided to release her to you, and now that new runt ran off with her." Axel stepped to the side of the corridor "and being the lazy ass I am I decided to just let you handle it, this dark corridor will lead you right to the world she's on…good luck."
Hei's eyes widened and he charged into the darkness with murder in his eyes.
Axel pulled out his cell phone "Saix? Yeah I lead him to where Zoxer dropped off the girl. If he succeeds then we don't have Maleficent to worry about, and just in case he does get taken; I will be there to swoop in and grab his nobody and heartless."
"Excellent" Saix said over the phone.
Axel hung up and walked into the dark corridor.
Ellis turned the corner to see Sora battling a giant armor type heartless. He summoned his blades and took a stance next too Sora "Lets finish this creep together!" Sora nodded and they charged the beast. Sora pointed to its right foot, which at the moment was spinning around. Ellis nodded and slashed it in half. Then Donald swooped in and casted a Thunder spell on its left leg, Goofy protected Sora from a swing of its left leg. Sora then leapt from cover and took out its left arm, Goofy then threw his shield at the left leg destroying that. "Donald! Use Fire magic with me on the torso!" the torso began spinning rapidly, throwing chunks of the walls it hit while chasing Sora.
"Fire!" Donald shouted
"Fire 3!" Slxeil shouted taking over Ellis to teach him how to use the Materia. The heartless turned red hot at they're attacks. "Sora Now!" Ellis shouted to him. Goofy held up his shield and Sora balanced himself on it. Goofy then put the Shield sideways and pushed it forward while Sora jumped from it at the Heartless, with one sweep of his Keyblade the monster was slashed in half, and faded away. Once they all caught they're breath, Sora approached a huge Keyhole on the fountains mural. He lifted his Keyblade and a beam of light shot from it into the Keyhole; Ellis then heard a loud clicking noise and the Keyhole vanished. "What was that?" he asked Sora
"I'm not sure exactly, just that it's what the Keyblade does so the worlds can't be destroyed by the heartless." Sora replied
Ellis smiled "looks like you got a long journey ahead of you." He told him
Sora looked at him "awe you're not coming with us?" he cried
Ellis shook his head "No Sora, that is your journey, I have my own. But don't worry, I promise we will meet again." He held out his arm and Sora gave him a high five. "Until we meet again my friend!" he said to him.
Sora smiled "until then!" then he Donald and Goofy head off to the 1st district.
Ellis sighed and went back to the house, he looked around "where is master Hei?" he asked "and Mao?"
Bestira stood up "He went to check out that noise, I thought he would end up with you!"
Leon walked in "I saw him run into a black hole followed by a man with red hair."
"Shit." Ellis said he thought for a moment on what to do "no its fine. I think it would be better if we kept going without him for now."
Kevin stood up "right so um what are we doing."
Ellis then filled him in on his discussion with Slxeil "so first we are going to find a way to free my heart."
"Oh boy, another grand adventure for me!" Bestira cried.
"Another?" Kevin asked
"Long story, lets save it." Bestira smirked.
Amy stood up this time "Ellis…but what will happen to you?"
Ellis stared at her for a moment "Well" he said "once I'm a Nobody again I won't be able to feel anything…so um, yeah I'll tell you later but. Once the Organization is down Slxeil and I are going to find a way to get our original heart back!"
Amy smiled "ok let's do it!" they gathered their things, Aerith and Yuffie handed them packs with supplies in them, they went outside and Ellis summoned a Dark Corridor.
"Bestira was right Ellis."
"What does that mean Slxeil?"
"This will be a Grand Adventure."
To be continued in Chapter 8:
Dark Intentions
So if you want to hear more about Bestira speak up and I'll start publishing a back story I invented for him while working on the last few chapters.
Anyway I will also be editing chapters 1-4, making them a tad longer too a few examples are
Extended fight between Marluxia and Hei
A nice little prologue (including important events of DTB)
The fight with Ellis, Axel, and Hei against the Dark Side
Little more back story for the FF4 world.
So yeeeah I might try to get these out a bit more frequently now that I have some spare time.
-Potterjb
P.S. tell me what you think should be changed about the first few chapters, when they're changed you will know. They'll be branded Chapter 'Blank' Final Mix
P.P.S bold is Slxeil speaking, think Yami Yugi / Yugi except without 4Kids.
