OlettexRiku Fanfic Part 7!!
Wow, is it really up to part 7? I can't believe it! Anywho, this is the last part. And, I know that it's long, but it's worth it! Enjoy! Oh yeah, my standard disclaimer applies.
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Everyone in the room was frozen where they stood. Even though they all knew Sora was right, and Cloud was the organization's new leader, they all hoped that he was wrong.
"Yes, It's me. Who did you expect? Leon?" Cloud scoffed.
"But…. Why?" Sora asked, confused. "I thought you defeated the darkness inside of you!"
"Silly boy. No one can ever truly beat the darkness inside themselves. I thought I had, but… 'certain events' led to me heeding the darkness' more powerful call and rejoining it. I found these former organization members completely hopeless and nearly heartless, so I decided to use them to revive the Organization, with me as the leader. " Cloud answered.
"Wait, what events?" Sora asked.
"That's none of your business." Cloud said coldly.
"What do you want with us?" Riku asked aggressively.
"Your services. I need the power that you have as Keybladers to Overthrow King Mickey, and then gain control of Kingdom Hearts."
"NEVER! WE'LL NEVER HELP YOU!" Riku shouted, while Sora ad Roxas nodded in agreement.
"I thought that you might say that. That's why I took them." Cloud said, gesturing to the girls.
"What?" Roxas asked.
"You heard me." Cloud said. "I took them so I could use them to my advantage. I knew that you all would do what I wanted if it meant that they stayed safe."
"But…. How did you know abut Olette? I only met her a few days ago." Riku asked.
"You can thank Axel for that. You see, I sent him and Demyx to Twilight Town so that it would lure Sora there. I knew that if there were reports of Organization members, he would go to check it out, and he would either bring you, Kairi, or both. If he had left Kairi on the island, she would have been taken by Zexion, who was waiting there just in case. If he had just brought Kairi, we would have taken her because he was outnumbered. When he brought you and Kairi, we knew there would be a fight. During the fight, Axel discovered Olette, so he changed the plan. He decided that he needed to get Kairi AND Olette, so that we could fully use your weaknesses to our advantage. So, to get them, I enlisted the help of a 'friend' of yours. You see, he was jealous, and didn't realize what he was doing until it was too late, and I had Olette, Kairi, and him. You probably recognize him." Cloud said. At that moment, a portal opened up and an unconscious Hayner fell out of it. Everyone in the room gasped.
"Hayner?" Roxas asked. "But, why?"
Cloud shrugged. "Like I said, he was jealous. And he would do anything to get what he wanted, or rather, WHO he wanted. Including helping the Darkness."
"What are you going to do to him?" Olette asked nervously.
"Oh, nothing. That is, as long as your friends comply with what I want them to do. If not, well then, its safe to say that this will be the last time you ever see him." Cloud said unsympathetically.
Roxas grabbed Olette's hand to reassure her. She was one of his best friends, and so was Hayner, so he knew exactly how she must be feeling.
"He sold us out." Olette said bitterly.
Okay, so maybe Roxas didn't know exactly how she felt. He had thought that she would have be sad, and scared, but no, she was angry. Olette released Roxas' hand and clenched her fists.
"He was a selfish jerk and helped you so that he could get what he wanted. I can't believe that I was ever friends with him, or that I ever trusted him. I never want to see him again." She said harshly. Even though she was angry and meant every word of what she just said, she still found herself fighting tears. How could he? She thought.
"Olette… C'mon. Don't be rash about this…" Kairi said, attempting to calm her down. Even though Hayner had been an ass for betraying them, she thought Olette might not really mean that.
"Yeah, Olette. 'C'mon.' Don't you wanna hear why he sold you out?" Cloud asked, mocking Kairi a little.
"Fine. What did he want?" Olette spat, swallowing her tears.
"Well, I guess if you REALLY, want to know, he wanted you. And, to get you, he thought needed to know pretty boy's weakness." Cloud said, gesturing to Riku. "Even though he didn't know it, the second that he let the rage and jealousy into his heart was the second he joined the darkness. And, as a part of the Darkness, I could then tap into his thoughts. I could manipulate him into doing whatever I wanted. However, he did what I wanted willingly. All the choices he made were his own."
"So… You're saying that he betrayed me, and all of our friends, because he thought that it would make me fall in love with him." Olette said, making sure she understood what he just said.
"People do stupid things while trying to impress the one they love." Cloud said, and, in an unexpected moment of emotion, a tear rolled down his cheek, as if remembering a lost love. "Take them away. But leave Sora, Roxas and Riku here. I need to test their skills." Axel, Demyx and Zexion grabbed the girls and went through their portals, leaving the boys alone with Cloud. "Now, if you intend on living through this and having them live through this, I suggest you take out your keyblades. Larxene, release it." Cloud called towards a doorway that the trio hadn't noticed before. Or was it that it wasn't there before? "Now, your challenge awaits you inside that room. Go."
The boys silently followed his orders, taking out their keyblades and walking into the room. There, they were met face-to-face (sort of) with the biggest heartless that any of them had ever seen.
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"Stay in here you three." Axel said as he, Demyx, and Zexion each threw their captives to the ground. "If your boyfriends are good and do what Cloud tells them to, we might bring them back later. If not, well, let's just say, we won't be bringing them back. Ever." With that, he disappeared with Demyx and Zexion.
"I know that we'll see them later. I know that they'll be able to beat whatever Cloud throws at them, because they know what's on the line." Namine said, hoping that it would reassure Olette. She could tell that Olette was scared. For her friends, for Riku, and for herself.
Unlike Namine and Kairi, Olette had never been afraid like she was at that moment ever in her life before, because she had never really had anything to be afraid of before. "Yeah…. You're right Namine. So we'll just have to wait for them to come back." Olette said, cheering up a little. Without warning, one of the walls of their small room was broken down, as if someone had lit a stick of dynamite and then stuck it in a hole in the wall.
When the dust cleared, three figures could be seen standing in the rubble. One, with long dark hair was rubbing her fist. "Man, that hurt. I really shouldn't be punching out walls. And these were thicker than they looked!" She said.
"Oh, come on. It couldn't have hurt that much." Another, with short black hair said.
"Let's see how you feel after punching down a solid stone wall that was like, eight inches thick!" The first one snapped.
"Oh yeah? You're such a drama queen!" The other barked.
"And you're so…so…" The first one stammered.
"See!! You can't even think of anything!" The other said, sticking out her tongue.
"You're so childish!" The first yelled.
"Oh… That hurt!" The other said sarcastically.
"GUYS!" The third one who had yet to have spoken said. "We're here on a mission, remember?"
"Aerith? Tifa? Yuffie?" Kairi said. She had heard their voices, but couldn't place them, and even though most of the dust had cleared, it was still hard to make out anyone's face who was in the room.
"Kairi!" Yuffie yelled, running to glomp her. "We're here to rescue you!"
"I can see…. How did you-" She started to ask, but Aerith cut her off.
"Well Kairi, we're still in Hallow Bastian." She started to explain. "Cloud turned it into an operations base when he took control of the organization, so we know where everything is here and we knew where he was holding you. Now, let's get out of here. Quick, before they find out!"
"Wait, Aerith, there's something Cloud wouldn't tell us that has been bothering me. He said that 'certain events' had lead him to rejoin the darkness. Do you know what he meant?" Namine asked.
Aerith froze. "Yes. I do. But I'll have to explain as we walk, it's a long story." She said as they set off through a corridor. When they had been walking for a minute or two, she began. "Cloud told me that he had defeated the darkness. The darkness inside himself. But, as it turned out, he hadn't. He had really just suppressed it. Even though he really thought he had defeated it, he hadn't, and it began to eat him up on the inside each day. He never told me or anyone else what he was going through, he just suffered alone. Not too long ago, Cloud decided that the only way he could beat the darkness was by rejoining it. He thought that if he went back to the darkness, it would then be easier to beat, and then things might go back to normal. It didn't work out that way. Instead of regaining power over himself, he completely lost control of his mind and let the darkness take him again." Aerith was clearly fighting tears now. "The last thing he said to me before he rejoined the darkness was, 'I'm doing this for you Aerith. I'm doing this for us. I'm afraid that if I stay like this much longer, I'm gong to hurt you. When I come back, we'll be together, okay? Forever. And I won't leave you ever again. I promise. But, Aerith, if this doesn't go well and I lose myself to the darkness, I'm going to need you to bring me back to the light. Deal?' Then he left me. Now, I'm going to keep my promise to him, so he can keep his to me." She finished, wiping her eyes.
"Don't worry Aerith! That's what we're here for!" Yuffie said cheerfully, squeezing Aerith's hand. "Now, we take the next hall on the left, and that'll take us directly to where Riku, Roxas and Sora are!"
"Okay. You guys go on without me. I have something else I need to do. I'll meet up with you later." Aerith said. When the other's reluctantly turned off into the hall, she kept walking. She knew what she had to do. And she knew she had do it alone. "I'll find you Cloud…. And I'll do whatever it takes to get you back." She whispered to herself, with a single tear streaming down her cheek.
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"Okay, so where are we going Yuffie?" Kairi asked.
"Where do you think silly?" She asked, still surprisingly cheerful. "To rescue your boyfriends of course!"
"Oh… Where are they?" Kairi inquired.
"In some makeshift arena Cloud made. We have an informant on the inside." Tifa said. "They told us his plans. Apparently, for right now, he's not going to put the boys in any sort of real danger. He's just going to test their skill by putting them in phony combat situations. Like fighting heartless. Nothing big. But, if things get too out of hand, he can always call it off."
"So they're not really in danger?" Olette said, with sparks of hope coming back to her worried eyes.
"Well, not for now, at least. But, we have to get to them quickly so that Cloud doesn't have the chance to put them in any real danger. They should be just through here…" Tifa finished, going through one last turn in the corridor and reaching a solid wall. "Damn. I'm gonna have to bust it down, aren't I?" She asked, turning towards Yuffie, who nodded. "Well, give me some space. I'm going to kick this one down, and I'll need a running start. I don't know what I was thinking, punching the other down." She walked about 20 feet from the wall, an then started running at it. "HIIIIYYYYYYYAAAAA!!" She screeched as she did a flying side-kick into the wall, making it crumble like the other.
"You make that look too easy." Kairi said with a half-smile.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" A voice yelled from the room they had just broken down the wall to. It sounded like Jesse McCartney's? No, it was Roxas! (a/n, yeah, I just HAD to do that!)
"Roxas?" Namine called as the dust cleared.
"Nami-AHHHHH!!" Roxas cried as he flew through the dust and landed in the rubble at their feet. Namine was immediately at he side, trying to care for him and asking him if he was hurt.
"Roxas, what happened?" She asked.
"There's this GIANT heartless in there… The biggest one I've ever seen, let alone fought." He wheezed. He had clearly had the wind knocked out of him.
"Roxas, what's going on?" Sora called. The dust had settled, and all of the girls could clearly see the giant heartless. They could also see that it was on the ground, and Riku was standing on top of it's fallen body, his keyblade in the back of it's neck.
"SORA!" Kairi cried, running over and throwing her arms around him.
He returned her enthusiastic hug, and then pulled away and asked, "Wow! How did you escape? How did you find us?"
"Well, we had some help…" She answered, pointing to Tifa and Yuffie, who waved.
"Hi guys! So, What have you been up to?" He asked happily.
"Oh, you know, the usual…" Yuffie answered.
"Yeah, if you call leading and underground rebellion the usual." Tifa added.
"Sounds like fun!" Sora said.
Meanwhile, Riku pulled his keyblade out of the Heartless' neck, and, when he looked around, the first thing he saw was Olette. She gave him a small smile and waved. He grinned from ear to ear, and ran over to meet her. "Olette! Are you okay? What did thy do to you? Did they hurt you? If they hurt you, I swear, I'm gonna-"
"Nice to see you too." She said, still smiling shyly. "Well, they didn't do anything to us. They just kept us in a room, which was more like a prison. That is, until Tifa, Yuffie and Aerith busted us out."
"Wait, Aerith? Why isn't she here with you?" Riku asked, confused.
"She went off on her own. We should probably try to find her, now that we found you guys. In fact… KAIRI! SORA! NAMINE! ROXAS! TIFA! YUFFIE! LET'S GO FIND AERITH!" She called to her friends.
"Does anyone know where she went?" Namine asked when they had all gathered by what used to be a wall, and was now rubble thanks to Tifa.
"Nope, but I think that she kept going down the hall. We'll just follow her there." Olette said, matter-of-factly.
"Then let's go!" Yuffie said, skipping down the hall.
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Aerith continued to walk down the hall, until she reached a large room, empty but for a throne on the opposing wall. Sitting on the throne was Cloud, as if he had been waiting for her.
"Cloud…" she said, suddenly getting choked up.
"I knew that you would be coming eventually. And I know what you're trying to do. But, it won't work. I like this new power I have from the darkness, and I don't plan on being 'saved' from it anytime soon." He said.
"NO!" she yelled. "I'M NOT LEAVING! NOT UNLESS YOU COME WITH ME!"
"Well, that's not going to happen, so, what are you going to do now, Aerith?" He said coldly.
"I'll, I'll… I'LL FIGHT YOU!" She shouted.
"Pff… Like you could beat me." He sneered.
"I can try!" She said, her voice shaking. "A swordfight. Right here. Right now."
"Fine. I guess I'll lend you a sword." He said. Suddenly, a portal appeared that had two swords in it. "Pick one. Both swords are identical. I hope you can handle fighting with these."
Aerith reluctantly plucked one on the giant swords from inside the portal. She recognized them, because they were the same type of sword that she had seen Cloud fight with many times before. She discovered that they were lighter than they looked, and did a few practice cuts into the air with it. Hey, I might actually be able to pull this off! She thought, even though she really knew that she was no match for Cloud, who had been using this weapon for almost all of his life.
"Ready?" He asked once he had his sword. Aerith nodded. "GO!" He shouted, and lunged at her. She dodged it and took a swing at him, which he blocked with his blade. He jumped up and over Aerith's head and landed behind her, hitting her in the back with the hilt of his sword and knocking her to the ground. "Amateur." He scoffed. Aerith turned on to her back, as he put his blade inches from her throat. "I thought you'd at least have a little more fight than that in you Aerith. I'm actually disappointed. But, it's over now. Goodbye, Aerith." He said cruelly.
Aerith started to cry. "I'm sorry that I couldn't keep my promise to you…" She said through tears. She looked up into his eyes, searching for some sign that the real Cloud was still in there somewhere.
As Cloud looked down to her pathetic body, lying on the ground and shaking with fear, and then met her gaze. The look in Aerith's eyes, the extreme fear that he was about to kill her, mixed with the love she still had for him, made Cloud drop his sword. (a/n he dropped it to the side of her, so no, it didn't fall on her throat and kill her) That look alone drove all of the darkness out of him… For good, this time. "Aerith…" He whispered as he slumped to his knees and put his face in his hands. "I…..I.." He stammered.
"It's okay." Aerith said. She sat up and put her arms around him.
"All of that stuff I did…. I…. I see how wrong it is now. I'm sorry. And, you did keep your promise to me. I'm sorry I didn't keep mine to you. But, now….. I can." He said, looking up into her eyes and smiling.
"AERITH, WATCH OUT!!" Sora, said, running towards them like he was going to attack Cloud.
"Sora, you numbskull, get back here!" Kairi said running after him.
"GET AWAY FROM AERITH, CLOUD!!" Sora shouted, still running at them.
Aerith stood up. "Sora, it's okay! Everything's fine!" She said.
Sora stopped running. "Are you kidding? He's EVIL, Aerith, EVIL!" He said, pointing to Cloud, who was still on his knees.
"No, no…" She said, shaking her head. "Well, not anymore, at least."
"What do you mean, 'Not anymore'?" Riku asked. The rest of the group had caught up to Sora and was now standing behind him.
"She means," Cloud said, standing up. "That I-that we beat the darkness." He put his arm around her and smiled.
"Well, what are you going to do now?" Olette asked. "You've still got all of these Organization members, and what about-Oh my god, what about Hayner? What happened to him?"
"Without a leader, these members are just nobodies, so they'll just fade away. They might find a new leader, they might not. Only time will tell. And, as for your friend," Cloud said as a portal opened up, revealing Hayner who was still unconscious. "Do with him what you wish. Now, you should get going. We'll take care of Hallow Bastian. Besides, I believe you sill have some marshmallows just waiting to be roasted. Goodbye! We'll meet again, I'm sure!" Cloud said waving. A chorus of goodbyes filled the room as Namine, Roxas, Sora, Kairi, Riku, Olette, and Hayner disappeared into a portal. The next thing any of them knew, they were back on Destiny Island at their campsite.
"Well that was…. Interesting." Sora said, rubbing his head.
"At least we're safe now." Kairi said. "So… Who wants to wake Hayner up?" She asked.
"I believe we owe Roxas that privilege…" Olette said. "You see, whenever Hayner would fall asleep in class, Roxas would wake him up, and, seeing as he hasn't done it in a while, it's his turn."
"Why, thank you. Glad to see you remember!" Roxas said with a smile.
She smiled evilly. "Oh, I remember everything now. Like that time in first grade on Halloween when we went trick-or-treating, and you got so scared of that one house's decorations, you wet your-"
"Okay!" He said, cutting her off before she could finish that embarrassing story. "I'll wake up Hayner. Anyone have a bucket?" He asked. Kairi pointed to one sitting next to the fire pit. "Okay, be right back!" He grabbed the bucket, ran to the ocean, filled the bucket with water and came back. "Okay, now, everyone stand back!" As soon as everyone was a safe distance from Hayner, Roxas Walked up to him. "HAYNER!" He yelled. Hayner stirred, but still didn't wake up. "Okay, I guess I have to do this the hard way!!" Roxas, yelled. "One, two, THREE!!" Roxas dumped the bucket of cold, salty water all over Hayner.
"AHHHHHH!! WHAT THE HELL?!" Hayner screeched, waking up.
"Nice to see you're up!" Roxas said with am smile, tossing the bucket to the ground.
"Wait, who are-ROXAS!!" Hayner yelled, jumping up. "Dude, what happened to you? I didn't even remember that you existed, until now!"
"Oh, plenty of stuff happened. And I can explain it all later. Cloud said something about marshmallows?" Roxas said, turning to Kairi.
"Yeah, but it's too early in the day to build a fire. It looks like it's only a little after noon." She answered, looking up to the sky.
"Wait, I know!" Sora shouted, running to grab something at the campsite. He came back with a cooler. "Here, I hope none of it melted." He said, opening it up.
"None of what?" Namine asked.
"The sea-salt ice-cream!" He cried, and held up a stick of the delicious blue treat. "And look, they haven't!"
"Wow, I haven't had that in who knows how long... I want one!" Roxas cheered, running to the cooler.
"Me too!" Hayner called. "Hey Rox, you wanna catch me up on everything I missed while I was out of it? Oh, and why I couldn't remember you?"
Roxas shrugged. "Sure. But first, I'd like to introduce you to Namine." He grabbed three ice-creams, (one for him, one for Hayner, and one for Namine) and brought Hayner over to Namine. "Namine, this is Hayner, my best friend. Hayner, this is Namine, my girlfriend." He said with a smile.
"Please to meet you!" Namine said, blushing. She couldn't believe it! This was the first time Roxas had ever introduced her as 'his girlfriend'!
"Pleased to meet you, too. Now, let's sit down and talk. Okay, what did I miss?" Hayner asked, sitting on one of the logs by the fire pit and taking his ice-cream from Roxas.
"Well, there was a lot you missed, but, I guess I'll just start at why you couldn't remember me.."
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Sora and Kairi had long since wandered off, "Probably to go eat their ice-cream and then make-out in the secret cave…" Riku had said. That left Riku and Olette alone, sitting on the Paupou tree eating their ice-creams.
"Is it totally crazy to say that these past few days weren't that bad, and were actually pretty fun?" Olette asked Riku.
"Yes. You need to go get your head examined." Riku said, laughing.
"Well… It was pretty fun!" She said. "Think about it! One, we got to camp out here. Two, Sora acted like a complete idiot, which was funny. Well, maybe not for him, but for us. Three, we basically saved the world. Four, I got remember Roxas and spend time with all of my friends. And, most importantly, five, I met you. See? Not a bad few days." She looked at him and smiled.
"I gotta agree with you an that last one." He said smiling back. "Wait, you have a little ice-cream right here…" He said, motioning to her upper lip. As she reached to try and wipe it away, he stopped her and said, "No, wait, I'll get it for you."
"Oh, Okay." She said putting her hand down.
Riku started to reach his hand towards her face, but instead he reached it around to the back of her head and pulled her face towards his, into a kiss. Olette dropped her ice-cream and threw her arms around him, kissing him back.
As they pulled away, Riku said. "Now that I think about it, it wasn't a bad couple of days after all." He put arm around Olette, and she leaned into his side. "In fact, it may just have been the best I've ever had."