Another Side – Riku
The wind blew through my hair and tickled my face, bringing the first drops of rain with it.
I kept watch from the top of Memory's Skyscraper. Maybe 'watch' was the wrong word. I couldn't see a thing through my blindfold, but even through the now drenching rain I could smell everything around me. The sharp tang of lightning. Wet concrete's dirty flavor, washed into the fresh, cold air, tainting it. The light vanilla filtering through the clouds – Kingdom Hearts. What Roxas wanted to free because of… her.
The Heartless gathered far below, a dark stench rising off of them. Smell wasn't my only sense; I could also hear Roxas summon a keyblade… two keyblades? To defeat the dark creatures.
The slashing noises of the light-filled blades moved so quickly I could hear them cut holes in the downpour, leaving spaces devoid of water droplets for a few short moments. How he'd gained his one key was a mystery, let alone two. And the power he had now—he was able to cut down three Neoshadows in a single swipe. The last time I had watched him fight, when I was protecting the girl I still felt slipping out of my memory, he hadn't been nearly so strong. I almost wondered if I had the right Nobody, but the scent was exactly the same. Darkness and light in one logic-defying form, a gray so different from Sora's blinding white. It was almost impossible to tell he was my best friend's other side.
No point in wondering now. Roxas was nearly to the base of the skyscraper.
Time to see if I could take him on without my last resort.
