Disclaimer: I do not own Bloodborne/ Kingdom Hearts. If I did we'd have a Bloodborne 2 and KH 3 would already be out.
Okay, so a few things I kinda of want to address real quick. Someone had pointed out that Sora is pretty powerful, able to cut through skyscrapers and beat the shit out of Heartless and Nobodies. So he should have easily taken down the Behemoth and Cathedral Giants tight? But, seeing as it's taking place after 3D Sora had all of his strength stripped away by Xehanort, as said from the secret 2.8 ending. (Don't know why it's considered secret ending, isn't it in every mode? I dunno, I digress. But still please correct me if I'm wrong.) Another thing mentioned was that it seemed that Sora was a wimp, reacting to blood the way he did. But considering that we don't really see BLOOD in Kingdom Hearts, and the enemies vanish when they die and when fighting humans like Cloud or Leon you don't really kill them so much as knock them out. And yeah Sora killed Malificent but then she just bursted into flames and left behind ash. With the amount of blood that comes from the enemies in Bloodborne would be surprising to an outsider who's not used to it, like Sora.
If y'all have any more questions or concerns you wanna bring up go ahead a bring them up in the comments or PM me.
Eeeeehhhh that's enough blabbering from me enjoy the story!
--Bloodborne x Kingdom Hearts--
Chapter 9- A Confrontation
"Are you sure the clinic is this way?" The tired hunter asks she brings the axe down on one of the small shadows. The ant-like shadows won't leave them be, it's starting to become a nuisance. Especially with more dangerous beasts to greet them.
"Yeah, it's just up ahead." Olette answers, peeking around a corner.
Pence looks fearfully at the woman. "So, you get rid of these monsters? Where did they come from?" He asks, following their axe weilding protector.
She glances at him before looking back forward. "These monsters used to be people." She starts, earning shocked looks from both of the teenagers.
"They imbibed in blood, miraculous blood that could cure any illness, any injury. It was distributed by the Healing Church, and seemed like the perfect medicine, until the beasthood started. Everyone began to turn into horrible beasts, tearing up the town. But there was a branch of said Healing Church that was dedicated to ridding the town of these horrible creatures...Hunters." She tells them, guiding them around a large mob that gathered about a fire.
"And you're a Hunter?" Olette asks.
"Correct."
"Were you there when it all started?" Pence questions, watching the area around them for any strange monsters.
"No, it had already gotten pretty bad by the time I got there...and I'm not from Yharnam." She mutters, suddenly running to kill an approching mad townsman. "I'm an outsider as they call it..." She adds once the children catch up to her.
"What do you mean- oh no." Pence had started, paling when they saw the clinic. In front of the clinic there was a large wolf like creature trying to bash down the door, accompanied by larger shadows.
"Hayner!" Olette says, about to run forward until she's grabbed by Salem.
"No, that's a Lycanthrope!" She hisses, looking at the group of beasts. She stands there for a minute before looking at her two companions. "I'm going to lure them away, and have to run inside as quickly as you can. Barricade the door, and make sure everyone inside is alright." She pulls out her bunderbuss. "I'll let you know once I've cleared out the area." She has a feral smile under the cloth that hides the bottom half of her face.
The two nod and watch her run off, throwing what looked like a pebble at the Lycanthrope. Once the stone shatters the beast growls at her, only to be shot by her gun. It then roars in rage and starts to chase her, the shadows follow them, close on the Hunter's heels.
Once they're out of sight the two terrified teenagers run to the door of the Clinic and hurriedly enter. Pence slams the door shut and locks it, thinking it was foolosh not to have it locked in the first place. "Hayner?" Olette goes further into the clinic, yelling for her friend.
"Olette?" A familiar voice asks from a room. She enters and sees her friend, still pale and sickly looking. "Olette what's going on?" He asks, sitting up.
"There are monsters outside! Not Heartless but...terrifying monsters!" She answers, starting to cry. She had held it in, not wanting to draw the interests of the unnoticing beasts while they were in the streets
"Olette! Help me barricade the door!" Pence calls from the small lobby.
"Hayner where's the doctor?" Olette asks as she starts to exit the room.
"He went out to get help, the nurse had gone with him too."
Olette pales, only to be called by her other friend. "I'll be right back." She assures, leaving the room.
It was thrill, a high she hated to enjoy. It only seemed to occur when killing a large group of monsters. While running away she had drawn the attention of a few more beasts. She stops running, ending up in a shopping district. She turns to the beasts that rush towards her.
She quickly extends the axe before leeting out a yell, swinging the axe as hard as she could. She smiles as she feels blood splatter on her, hearing the cry of the mad townsman. She quickly dodges to the side as the lycanthrope and a few dogs try to tackle her. She rushes forward and cuts down a few more men, relishing in their death cries. She hacks away at them all, letting them all fall into heaps of dead limbs.
She chuckles to herself until she falls to the ground, tackled by the lycathrope that proceeds to claw at her and works to tear her apart. It's only stopped when she manages to get her gun and shoots it in the face. She huffs as she gains some distance before using two blood vials. When she looks up the lycanthrope and shadows chrage at her at terrifying speeds.
Salem extends her axe, bringing it back. She keeps it there for a moment before spinning around twice, catching all of them with both strikes. The shadows disappear and the beast gets knocked back. She shortens her axe as she charges at the stunned beast, bringing the axe down with great force; making her prey fall down once more. She begins to hack away, feeling a bit of rage at the harm it had caused her.
Long past it's death she continues to hack away at the beast. Feeling an inexplicable euphoria with the splattered blood and the sound of flesh coming apart. The entire area is silent, save for her panting and silent chuckles. She's about to bring her axe down once more when she sees something out of the corner of her eye. She freezes, lowering her axe and walking towards what she had seen. She stops when she realizes what it is.
"Oh...I'm sorry." She says quietly, kneeling before the two mangled corpses. The larger one had a bloodied and ripped up white coat, a doctor. And in his arms, a smaller figure, a woman. They were brutally killed by the beasts.
When she hears the chime of a bell she stands up, looking towards the sky. The sun had gone down, and the sky turned dark. "No time to weep for the dead, we must first make it through this night." She says softly. She turns around and starts to walk away, heading back to the clinic to let them know she was alright.
"Hey!" A voice calls.
Salem looks in the direction of the commotion. Four people are running towards her, a young man with a black beanie, a sleeveless white overcoat with baggy pants somewhat tucked into his shoes, as well as a blue shirt that shows his midriff.
The young man is accompanied with a female with white hair, khaki shorts and a blue sleeveless turtleneck. Behind her is another young man with a red muscleshirt and black baggy pants. A silver chain with a bolt of lightning hangs around his neck. He has a small figure on his back, they wear a large, and strange beige hat. Their face isn't visible save for two yellow dots.
"Just who do you t-think you are?" The young man who called out huffs, panting. He was a little bit taller than Salem, but she had more of an intimidating air.
"I am a hunter, I am supposed to clear the streets of all monsters. End the hunt." She answers, tightening her grip on the axe. She mentally groans, expecting a hard time from this teenager.
"And what are these things supposed to be y'know?" The other young man asks, looking a bit suspicious of the stranger.
"Beasts from my world, now I advise you to go inside. Barricade the doors and burn incense if you have any. There's a clinic that way, there are a few people in there. I can accompany you there if you wish."
"You probably did this! You seem to be the only one who knows how to deal with these things!" The beanie wearing young man says, crossing his arms. "And look at your clothes, looks like something those things would wear."
"Just get inside dammit and...hold on. None of you ingested any blood those things spilled have you?" She asks, her right hand twitching a bit.
"Ew no. That's just gross y'know?" The other young man states.
"Unsanitary." The girl adds.
"Alright...so you don't have the infection. I still advise you to go inside. Go to the clinic." She points in the direction where she came from.
"Why? Is that a safe place?" The small figure asks. They all look at her, waiting for a response.
She nods. "Yes, I guided two people there earlier to stay with their ill friend. I've instructed them to barricade the door, I'll accompany you there so they know it's a safe group. And since I promised I'd let them know when I killed the beasts trying to break into the place." She starts to walk away, expecting the four to follow. And of course, they did. They walk freely to the clinic, she had slain all the monsters in that area.
As they walk the moon rises, higher and higher. The pale glow helping to illuminate their path.
"So, why the clinic? Isn't there any other safe place?" The young man who seems like the leader asks.
"No, none that I know of. Unless you know of a church or somewhere sacred you all can rest."
They all shake their head.
"Why a church?" The young woman asks.
"Because churches, cathedrals, are usually places that burn incense. Incense keeps the beasts away, and they seem to always stay outside of the area." She asnwers, leading them to a door. She knocked on it twice, waiting for a response.
"Who is it?" A scared voice answers.
"Don't tell me..." The leader mutters.
"It's Salem, and I brought a few others in need of a safe place." She answers. She waits for a moment before chuckling to herself, hearing the frantic disassembly of the barricade. The door opens, revealing Olette and Pence.
"You're back...aaaaand you're covered in blood." Pence says, stepping away. He was about to hug her in relief, glad he didn't afterwards. She doesn't seem to be the hugging type.
"These punks are the ones you guided here?"
Pence looks past Salem to see the group of four.
"Seifer? What are you and your gang doing here?" He asks, seeming a bit upset.
"Safe place." The young woman says.
"Yeah, the freaky lady brought us here, told us this is a safe place. I wouldn't have agreed to come here if I knew you punks were here!" Seifer raises his voice.
"Shut up!" Salem yells, silencing them. "This is a safe place, unless you want to die you will overcome your petty squabbles and just deal with each other until sunrise." She looks at Olette and Pence. "You two, you are in charge while you all are here. See you if you can find any incense to burn, it'll keep the beasts away." She sighs.
"What? Why them?" Seifer asks.
"Just shut up and get inside, I have a job to do." She snaps at him, not liking his tone.
"You're not the boss of us, I'm pretty sure you can't be that much older than us anyway!"
"And which one of us has dealt with this mess before. Also," She raises her axe. "Which one of us has a deadly weapon in their hands?"
They stare at each other for a moment before Seifer turns to go inside, her intimidation working.
She watches them file inside before addressing Pence and Olette again. "Barricade the door, be careful. Lock the windows, and keep the lights off. Try not to make too much noise, and don't come out until the sun rises understand?" She asks.
They nod, closing the door. She hears a click of a lock and the bustling around of items being stacked. Soon afterwards the lights in the window go out, and the blinds are drawn.
She sighs before walking away, getting a bit of distance before leaning against the wall and sitting down onto the ground. She pulls off her glove, seeing almost the entirety of her hand is black. The darkness she's absorbed swirls around, if she focuses she can feel the shadows on her back; having passed her arm. She can also feel something from them, a hunger. A want to destroy and consume everything, a want for more darkness. That's only one of the wants she can feel herself nearly fall to, but at least one she can control.
She puts the glove back on and puts her head down for a moment, letting herself regain a bit of energy.
"You must keep focus, don't let yourself fall into beasthood. Be careful, you don't want to end up like Gascoigne. You want to make it to sunrise..."
She repeats the thoughts to herself before getting up.
She looks around before looking around. The young man named Pence mentioned something about an abandoned mansion. It sounds like a place worth checking out, even the most seemingly useless information can be used. Perhaps there's something in there.
She thinks for a moment before walking off, figuring she'll find it one way or another.
.-.
"Woah..." Sora looks around, seeing the bodies of monsters. There are a few Pureblood Heartless walking around where the bodies were.
"I think I know who did this..." Donald shakes his head.
"Obviously." Sora mutters.
They keep walking, stepping around the corpses until they hear yelling and grunting. Up ahead they see two figures, one using magic against a giant pig and he other is assissting his friend, but had gotten knocked by by a swipe of the head.
"Dammit!"
Sora summons his Keyblade. "Come on!" He says to the other two, running off towards the fighting pair.
Goofy and Donald follow, pulling out their respective weapons.
The magic user shoots what looks like a sphere of small lights towards the pig.
It's hit head on, and stunned for a moment. The hooded magic user backs up a bit, injecting something into his leg.
Sora runs up with a yell, bringing his Keyblade down on the side of the giant animal, he looks up. Seeing his didn't do that much damage he jumps back. "What the..."
The skin was thick, and tough. It felt hard to cut through, let along do much blunt damage.
He backs up a bit more when the pig gets up and roars at him, it then spews a poison cloud.
He duck past the purple fog and sees the man who got knocked down was back up again and was hacking away at the pig from behind. He saw the weapon, it looked like a saw connected to a large stick. It cut through the pig like nothing.
"Sora move!" Donald yells.
Sora jumps back to see a large fireball head towards the pig. It screams and turns towards them, only to again be distracted by the man hacking away at it, then again by the magic user.
Sora and Goofy would occasionally jump in and hack away at the pig, both a bit frustrated that it looked like they did little to no damage.
The hooded figure growls after he dashes out of the way, a black aura surrounding his hands.
Sora and Goofy saw this, moving out of the way and backing up.
"Sora..."
"Don't tell me that..." The young man says softly, hoping his suspicions aren't true.
The other figure noticed and backed up, as soon as he was in the clear a pool of shadows appears underneath the pig. After a moment a large column of darkness rips through the giant pig, all that could be heard were the painful squeals of the pig.
Once the shadow's clear out there was nohing but a little bit of blood, and a few small items where the pig used to be.
"You know you should give me a warning a bit ealier when you plan on doing that. I don't dream anymore." The melee fighting man says, picking up the items. He throws two vials at his friend who catches them. Shrugging a bit at the request for a sooner warning.
"Sora look." Goofy says softly. "Their clothes look similar to Salem's don't they?" He asks quietly.
"You think those are the two mad hunters that went after her?" Donald asks, watching the two strangers organize their items while one talks to the other, silent one.
"Maybe they're not, maybe there are other hunters. Who's to say that she's seen all of them? What if Yharnam fell to darkness and these two just ended up here?" Sora says, trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. Hoping that the use of shadows was just a type of magic that could be used in the city Salem told them about.
"Sora, what if they can use darkness bcause of Xehanort?"
Sora shakes his head. "I don't know...I hope not..."
The two Hunter's were about to walk away until the taller one stops, looking towards the group of three. "You." He says, grabbing the attention of the trio. They walk to them, assessing them.
"You three should be insde, there's a hunt on tonight."
The hooded one nods.
"We can handle ourselves, we've dealt with worse." Sora says, he's pretty sure Xehanort could be considered worse.
"A child shouldn't be out on the streets, leave the beasts to the Hunters boy."
Sora gives him a look before looking at the hooded man. "Your magic, is it something that's practiced where your from?" He asks, his hand twitching a bit.
"The arcane of our city revolves more around cosmic origins. You could say that this form of darkness is a bit foreign" The other one answers. "Why so curious? And didn't I tell you to go inside?" He asks, a bit irritated at the disobedience.
Sora meets the man's gaze, not sure how to take the information. "You...didn't get it from someone? Nobody taught you how to use it? Or just...GAVE you this darkness?" He asks.
A few shadows appear from the hooded man's body, creeping up slowly.
"You seem pretty nosy, especially about this subject..." His left hand twitches a bit.
Before Sora could answer, the shadows that had silently appeared jumped at Sora.
Out of instinct he summoned his Keyblade, swiping at the Heartless and banishing them. He jumps back a bit, watching them warily.
The man jumped back. "Another Keyblade Wielder, he must be one of the ones the old man told us to watch out for." He says, his weapon clicking, sparks going off as it quickly unfolds.
"Looks like these ARE those two Salem was taking about." Sora mutters, readying himself. Donald and Goofy are right behind him, wary of the two Hunters. They'd seen what Salem could do, they could only wonder what these two could do, considering they nearly killed they skilled Hunter they know. And the mention of the old man, it HAS to be Xehanort.
As the two are about to charge at the trio until something came flying from behind the two. The hooded man grunted and stumbled forward, he growls as he turns around to see who had thrown the knife, only to take a few bullets to the face.
Salem came seemingly from nowhere, swiping at the hooded man.
"You!" The other Hunter yells, moving towards her and bringing the saw cleaver down.
Salem dodges, moving back and shooting off the blunderbuss again.
After a moment of watching, Sora jumped in to help taking on the melee fighter with Salem while Donald and Goofy took on the arcane user.
"You should have just let me kill you when you had the chance!" He yells, his saw cleaver being blocked by an axe.
"Oh? Now why would I have done that?" She asks, pushing the man off of him and kicking him. Sora takes the opportune moment to smack the man across the head with his Keyblade, stunning him and making him fall over for a moment.
Salem brought the axe down, cutting into the man's shoulder, blood spurting and a cry of pain heard.
"You bitch!" He yells, managing to get to his feet. He grabs the handle of the axe and rips it out, the weapon clattering onto the ground. The wound in his shoulder begins to heal, no blood vials even used.
Salem takes a step back, pulling out the small blades. She had found them, when she had gone to visit Eileen after their first interaction she hadn't been able to find her again. Instead what she had found were broken barrels, a few bloostains, and the blades. She had assumed they belonged to her and decided to hang onto them, incase she saw the old crow again.
She splits them apart, one sharp blade in each hand.
Sora runs around to join her side. "He can..."
"Yes, regenerate. And before you ask, no I can't do that. I don't even know-"
She was cut off with a sudden gunshot to her gut. She coughs and jumps back out of instinct.
"It's Hunters like you, you...Dreamers, I like to call you..." The man glares at her. She takes a step back, Sora watches.
"You Dreamers don't realize what you're doing. You don't realize what monster you're aiding with the blood you give, thinking you're ending the hunt. You're not, you're an idiot to think that."
Salem growls at the insult, not sure where he was going. "What are you talking about?"
"You're a monster! That's what!" He yells. His hand brushes over his weapon, a dark aura surrounding it, making it erupt into black flames. "And it's monsters like you that need to be killed Dreamer."
Salem looks to where Donald and Goofy are, holding their own pretty well against the other hunter.
"Sora, go help them. This is my fight." She says, bracing herself.
"No way, this guy works with Xehanort. And that means he's a threat to all the worlds, and my friends." He looks at Salem.
Salem sighs, figuring a little help might be nice. She looks at the man. "Tell me hunter, what is your name?"
He chuckles. "Ebon, Former Apprentice of Gehrman."
"Salem, The Good Hunter."
"While we're all getting to know each other, I'm Sora, the Chosen Keyblade Wielder." He grins.
"And enemy of Xehanort..." Ebon chuckles. "Killing two birds with one stone I like it!" He yells as he runs towards Salem who quicksteps to the side and slashes him with the blades. Ducking past and retrieving her axe, eqiuping the more comfortable, familiar weapon.
Sora runs towards him with a yell throwing his Keyblade at him, performing Strike Raid. Ebon manages to dodge the first strike, only to hit struck again from behind. The young man grins as he catches his Keyblade, gasping when the saw cleaver threatened to kill him, he blocks the attack and puts in a few strikes before backing away. He figures he only had so much stamina and time before Ebon recovers from the block.
Ebon is assaulted again from behind, two strikes in his back. Only to be interrupted by a gunshot, stunning the woman.
Ebon was about to strike at her before taking a small fireball to the back. He growls and turns to Sora, shooting him in the side.
The young man flinches a bit and stumbles back, the pistol had packed a punch. He felt the bullet lodged into his side.
While momentarily distracted Salem takes a moment to heal herself, then throws another knife at Ebon. Feeling a bit of frustration when he dodges and it lodges into the ground.
Ebon jumps back a bit, letting his wounds finish healing. He stands and watches the two, seeming to stab himself after a moment, loading five bullets into his pistol. After that he stays still
Salem stays where she is, knowing what he's doing. She's done it too, but the monsters before were stupid and all she had to do is wait. She wasn't going to make that mistake.
Sora saw it as an opportune moment to strike, figuring he was waiting for a challenger. And if they didn't finish it his friend might be able to assist him, and considering his ability to regenerate and the arcane user's long range that wouldn't be good.
Donald and Goofy were actually holding their own pretty well, but both sides seem to be running low on energy.
Sora rushes forward, yelling and raising his Keyblade.
"Sora no!" Salem yells rushing forward to grab the boy.
He's about to bring the weapon down until a gunshot rings out. He feels what's like a punch to the chest, stunned he falls to his knees. He can't move, he doesn't know why. Everything feels still for a moment, so slow. He can't breathe, he can only watch the man raise his weapon with a big grin on his scarred face. He tries to will himself to move, he can only feeling himself twitching. He hears a loud noise from behind, was that Salem?
Pounding footsteps and yelling. He silently prays for her to hurry, to-
Not fast enough
