I got a review saying they wanted me to update, for a story that hasn't been worked on in forever, I figured I should get off my lazy butt and work on it. XD So, here it is! Gomen for not updating in forever!
Chapter 10
"Dammit!" Riku swore, he and Kairi had been searching for hours on end now, trying to find the keyhole, and obviously, with no luck. "What I'd give for the chance to just . . . . urg!" He growled frustrated, the reunion with that . . . evil Sora and the fact that he had to lie to Kairi was really bugging him. Kairi watched him worriedly.
"Riku . . . maybe we should stop looking for the keyholes . . ." Riku froze, then spun around to face her.
"Kairi?" He asked confused. She averted his gaze and subconsciously hugged herself.
"It's just that . . . every time we find a keyhole, more gets revealed, and . . . I'm not sure if I want to find the truth anymore." She gazed sadly at him. "It all seems to point towards you, as the bad guy." She murmured. Riku froze. Suddenly a form barreled into him, sending him flying a few feet before slamming into a wall.
"UNGH!" He yelped as his head met wood.
"RIKU!"
"Well obviously he's the bad guy!" A boy dressed in green clothing who seemed to be hovering in the air, said sourly. "He tried to kill his best friend! And don't try to deny it man! I was there!"
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"Well, this puts a dent into the plan wouldn't you say?" The lighter version of Sora asked chuckling.
"A large dent. It seems the girl will find out sooner then we wanted." The darker form muttered. The normal looking Sora was simply on the ground breathing harshly.
"They'd better find the keyhole soon . . . I'm getting weaker by the second." He hissed.
"Well isn't that just a shame?" A voice murmured into his ear, biting his bottom lip, Sora resisted the urge to throw an insult into the cloaked figure's face. The figure smirked and just walked up to the glowing fog that revealed what was occurring with Sora's friends and one former friend.
"I think intervention is required." The figure said smirking. "Chaos? Would you care to intervene?"
"Like I've got a bloody choice." The darker version replied sourly, whether they were split into three or not, none of them liked the cloaked man.
"I could always ask Paladin." The figure commented turning to the light form who winced slightly.
"You know what the boy's shadow control would do to me." Paladin hissed.
"All the more reason for Chaos to go." The form commented chuckling.
"Why you son of a!" Chaos growled starting forward when Paladin held him back.
"Enough." He ordered, then hissed into the other's ear; "You must help them find the keyhole, Sora is weakening by the second, I will deal with him." Paladin whispered. Chaos hesitated, before straightening with a scowl.
"Just you wait, one day we'll have you right where we want you." Chaos threatened with a growl, before vanishing. The figure chuckled.
"I look forward to it."
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Kairi took a step back as Peter regarded her.
"Hey! I know you! You're the girl who was captured with Wendy!" He exclaimed grinning. Kairi blinked.
"Who?"
"Oh yeah!" The boy said as memory returned to him. Snapping his fingers he frowned slightly at her. "Forgot, you were knocked out the whole time weren't you?" Kairi blinked.
"What are you talking about?" She whispered. Peter blinked.
"Wait- you don't know anything about?"
"That! Is enough out of you." A voice interrupted. Peter blinked and spun around.
"Oh yeah! And whose gonna stop . . . . me . . . .?" Suddenly he grinned wildly. "Sora! Hey! I heard you went demon on us because of jerk-face over there." Peter said with a jerk of his thumb at the still out of it Riku. Sora smiled slightly.
"No, not really. Just ran into . . . some difficulties." He murmured. Walking up to Peter he smiled. "Where's Tink?"
"Huh? Oh, she's keeping a watch out for pirates and stuff, like Hook could ever sneak up on me." He said grinning. Sora chuckled along with him. "Say, Sora, where'd you get the new clothes?" Peter asked, Sora glanced at himself, his black loose jeans fell past his ankles, and a dark red shirt fell over top with a black coat over that. Smiling, Sora looked back at Peter.
"Just some new accessories." Kairi blinked throughout this entire exchange.
'That's not Sora . . . it looks and acts like him . . . but whatever that is, it's not him.' She thought terrified, she didn't know how she knew, but she did. Sora then turned to her, staring into her eyes, she froze in terror, he suddenly seemed to be outlined in black, and with a malicious sneer in her direction, he broke the gaze and wandered over to Riku while Kairi tried to recover herself from whatever he had done.
"Hey . . . you okay?" Peter asked Kairi, he had noticed that her skin had suddenly gone extremely pale.
"I . . . I . . ." She stammered. Sora knelt down next to Riku.
'I could kill you now and just end it all.' The teen thought venomously as he looked Riku over, aloud he said;
"Man, you totaled him Peter." He said chuckling. Peter shrugged.
"I do what I do best to bad guys!"
"B-but!" Kairi protested. "He's not a bad guy!" This left both teens silent.
" . . . . do you know ANYTHING of what he did Sora!" Peter demanded in absolute shock.
"Hush Peter." Sora said with a sleepy sort of smile. "She'll know soon enough."
"Really? How soon?" Peter asked as Sora knelt down next to the silver haired teen again. Sora waited to reply as he held Riku's hand in his, suddenly he drew his hand back, and a black silver line followed it, when Sora had backed up several feet, the line broke, and suddenly flashed, forming the dark keyblade. Kairi paled.
- Flashback -
"SORA! SORA!" Kairi yelled as she ran towards the falling teen, she had seen him, waking up from whatever coma she had been in, she turned, just in time to see the weapon that had felled her friend, vanish. A dark sword, shaped like a key.
- End -
Taking a step back, Peter broke out of his confused gaze to look at her.
"Hey . . . what's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong. As soon as she gets her memories back, this will all be over." Sora murmured, back still turned to the both of them. Peter looked at Sora.
"And I repeat, when will she get them back?" Sora smirked and looked over his shoulder.
"WHAT THE!" Peter yelped, Sora's eyes had gone red, and the pupils had become slitted. As he sneered at them, both teens could swear they saw fangs. Sora raised the keyblade over Riku's dormant form and snarled;
"She'll get them back when I release them from his black heart!" He hissed, eagerness in his blood red eyes. "And after I kill this traitor!" And he thrust the blade down.
"Tch, a bit melodramatic eh Chaos?" A voice sounded in Chaos's head as he pretended to be Sora. Time slowed to snail pace as Chaos smirked.
"Just trying to get my point across."
"I'm sure your point has been made, come now, you can't kill them, if you do, Sora will die." The voice said smugly. Chaos scowled, then, as time resumed, the tip of the blade stopped right before Riku's chest, one inch lower and it would have pierced skin. Peter and Kairi gaped in open surprise.
"Tch." Chaos withdrew the blade, then glared at Kairi and Peter, his eyes still glowing red. "You got lucky." He snarled tossing the blade at them, it clattered to the ground, and with a quick thought, a shadow blurred his form over, before he vanished entirely. Kairi stared in shock for a few more seconds, before sinking to the ground in weariness. As she did so, the tips of her fingers touched the blade, and she glanced at it tiredly.
'Riku . . . . what's going on? I don't understand any of it?' She thought miserably. Peter was still openly gaping. Suddenly he came out of his shock and yelled;
"What was that!" Kairi didn't reply, but sighed instead.
"Excuse me . . . uhm . . ."
"Peter. Name's Peter." He supplied helpfully.
"Yes, Peter, do you know where the keyhole in this uh. . . place is?"
"Keyhole?" Peter asked scratching his head. "OH YEAH! The shiny looking thing that Sora pointed his sword thing at the last time he was here! Heck yeah, I know where that is. It's at the big tower, I'd say around . . . . . what? 900 feet in the air?"
"WHAT?" Kairi yelped, but her voice wasn't the only one. Riku has started to come to when he heard Peter's declaration.
"Oh, so you're awake now huh? Hmm . . . dunno if I should attack you or not."
"Please don't. Think of the mess you would make." A voice sounded behind them. Peter spun around and blinked.
"Hook? Where's Tink?" Peter asked in shock.
"Right here, she makes a stunning addition to a lamp doesn't she?" Hook asked holding up a candle lantern with the tiny fairy buzzing around in it. Peter scowled.
"Let her go you codfish!"
"Right after you surrender." He snarled. Suddenly the man found a sharp blade against his throat.
"Put her down before I REALLY lose my patience." A voice hissed.
"Riku!" Kairi yelled in shock. The young male stood behind Hook, his keyblade against the other's throat.
"Y-you!" Hook squeaked with disbelief. "H-how can you be!"
"I SAID put her down, or I might just kill you to silence your insubordinate tongue." Hook gulped and slowly set the lantern down. Peter instantly swooped in to grab it, and as he let the fairy out, Riku withdrew his keyblade, then kicked Hook across the room.
"Now would be a good time to leave." He suggested.
"Agreed!" Kairi, Peter and Tink (who really just jingled) said and they all vanished out of the room as Riku swung it shut and locked it behind him.
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"Hey, maybe you're not such a bad guy anymore." Peter said grinning at Riku as they walked along the deck of the ship. Well, Peter was floating really. Tink buzzed lightly around him.
"Compliment accepted, but instead of that, can I ask you to lead us to the keyhole?" Riku replied calmly. Peter blinked.
"Heh, sure, but you have to be able to fly. And to be able to fly, you need a bit of faith, trust and . . ." He trailed off smiling at Tink.
"Pixie dust?" Riku guessed while rolling his eyes.
"Good guess man." Peter said happily. "First order of business, lets get off Hook's ship." He said glancing around. "Land should be . . ."
"That way." Riku pointed. Peter blinked.
"Huh, so it is. Okay, I'll make two trips, up we go!" He yelled as he picked up Kairi bridal style.
"What the!" She yelped as Peter carried her off. Riku scowled.
"Like hell I'll let him carry me." He muttered disgruntled, with a sigh, he opened held up his hand to the sky and whispered. "I summon thee." Instantly a ball of dark light formed above him, before forming fully, into a Wyvern heartless. It circled around for a moment, before coming to a stop in front of Riku.
"Take me to the island." He commanded the heartless. The Wyvern instantly flew up higher, circled around and passed over Riku, Riku grabbed onto its leg as it passed, and off he flew towards the island.
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"There we are! Now I'll be right back, as soon as I fetch the other guy." Peter said cheerfully when the sound of shoes scuffing against the sand sounded behind him, drawing his dagger in a quick flash, Peter spun around and drove the dagger against the stranger, only to have the dagger stopped by Riku's index and middle finger, just a centimeter form his throat.
"Chill." Riku said dully. Peter blinked.
"What the heck is that?" He asked pointing at the Wyvern.
"A creature of darkness. Nothing more, plenty where it came from." Riku said calmly as he swung his the keyblade that was suddenly in his hand at the monster. It vanished with the swift stroke.
'He used the creature . . . then killed it?' Kairi thought horrified. 'Riku . . . . what kind of person are you? To kill without feeling anything?' Peter sighed.
"Yeah sure, whatever. So, anyway. In order to get to the tower where your uh . . . keyhole thingy is, you have to be able to fly cause I am not carrying you up that far." Peter stated firmly. "So then, the first idea, learn how to fly. I'm assuming by your summoning . . . ability, you don't have to learn." He said to Riku who nodded. "Okay then, so just the little lady." Peter smiled. "It's really easy, just think of a happy memory, have Tink give you a shot, and you're ready to fly!"
"A . . . a happy . . . memory?" Kairi repeated gulping. Peter nodded.
"Yep! Just a happy memory." Riku swore and glanced at Kairi.
"Kairi . . . you don't . . ."
"Yes I do." Kairi broke in firmly. "I must have a happy memory somewhere in my head." She said defiantly, then closed her eyes tightly and thought.
'There must be SOMETHING in my head that I consider happy.' Kairi through miserably. The scene of her, Riku and Sora on the beach flashed through her mind. 'No . . . I don't understand that memory, so it isn't happy.' She sighed and tried again. The scene of when she, Sora and Riku were traveling together across the worlds. 'No, that wasn't exactly happy either, I'm too confused about all that's happened to understand it.' For the next 3 minutes, memories flashed through her head, each more depressing then the last. She sighed heavily and was about to give up when another flashed into her head, one she didn't remember seeing before.
- Flashback -
(AN: I don't remember this exactly, it's been so long since I played the game… FFXI has conquered my soul. T.T;; So anyway, this is the scene of Sora and Kairi on the dock, basically the sunset before the heartless invade Destiny Islands.)
"So, tomorrow is the big day."
"I know, I'm so excited!"
"Really? I'm sort of nervous." Sora muttered laughing. He sat on the dock, feet swinging in the air.
"Why?" Kairi asked looking at him, a grin on her face.
"Well . . . it's kind of scary you know? A whole big world out there . . . one we know nothing about, it's kind of . . . you know."
"I know. I get what you mean." Kairi replied softly. "But you know, we can always come back here. This is our home, we can always come back when we want to." She said firmly. "I really believe that." Sora blinked, before laughing.
"Yeah, I do too."
- End -
Kairi's eyes opened slowly, filled with shock. She didn't remember that one! Well- she did but! Oh screw it. That memory, while it was surrounded with confusion, she knew was a happy one. The warmth of her and Sora's friendship radiated, making her feel safe and content. She nodded, this was her memory.
"Okay, I have my memory." She stated. Riku blinked at her.
'She does? Which one. . .?' Riku wondered as Peter nodded to Tink. Instantly the pixie flew around Kairi, surrounding her in a dust of powder.
"Okay, focus hard on your memory." Peter said grinning. Kairi did, and honestly, she probably would have held air sooner, if the shock of realizing her feet had left the ground did not surprise her so much, she forgot all about the memory. A thud was heard as she dropped onto the ground, butt first.
"Ouch." She grumbled, then smiled at Peter. "I can't believe I flew!" Peter laughed.
"Flew? That was hover. This," He commented as he started circling her overhead. "Is flying. Go ahead, try it!" Kairi blinked as Tink showered her with powder again.
"Do I need the dust all the time?" She asked looking at him.
"For the first week or so, after that it starts becoming a part of you, so you can fly all the time!" Peter said gleefully. Kairi smiled.
"Okay." And for the next 30 minutes, Kairi kept at it, until eventually she was racing Peter, and almost tying with him.
"Nice job!" Peter congratulated. "Now we can go to the tower!" Riku smiled as he stood, he had chosen to sit down on a log over in the corner as he watched Kairi learn.
"Good." Following the same ritual before, he summoned a heartless Wyvern and nodded. "Ready."
"Okay! Tink!" Peter called to the pixie who zoomed around Kairi before flying off with Peter, Riku and Kairi in tow.
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"Okay, damn, yes. I am glad I have a Wyvern right now." Riku muttered as he glanced at the long drop.
"Not much farther." Peter said comfortingly as they flew over the roofs of London.
"Is that it?" Kairi asked pointing ahead.
"Yep. Wendy called it 'Big Ben'." Peter explained.
"I see." Riku murmured. Slowly they neared the large spire, coming close to the wall, the three of them suddenly took a 90 degree turn North, flying straight up was a challenge and a half, but Riku and the others managed it. Coming to a stop at the walkway near the top, both Peter and Kairi landed as Riku swung himself onto the bench, knowing he would need the heartless in a moment, he ordered it to stay here as he walked over to Kairi, a concerned look on his face. Her breathing was harsh as she wiped sweat from her brow.
"Wow . . . flying is harder then it looks." She muttered as she tried to catch her breath.
"Well we have a little more flying to go through before it's over." Peter said calmly as he glanced around. "Man, this place is so crowded, how can people live like this?" He muttered. Riku sighed. Kairi shook her head.
"Okay, I think I'm ready. Lets find the keyhole."
"So be it." With another showering of pixie dust, the three of them took off from the platform, Kairi and Riku followed the boy as he circled around the giant clocks.
"Hmm . . . which one. . .?" He wondered idly, before Riku spotted something on one of them.
"Hold it." He called. The other two stopped as Riku pointed. "Over there!" Kairi looked, and smiled slightly.
"The keyhole." She whispered and flew over, Riku in pursuit. Reaching the image, Kairi stopped, her face was stern.
"Kairi?" Riku asked glancing at her.
". . . you know . . . I'll probably regain some more of my memory if we touch the keyhole." She whispered. Riku stiffened. "I'm not sure if that's a good idea." She murmured. Riku thought heavily, before sighing.
"Kairi, you deserve to know the truth, and while at this point I'm too much of a coward to tell you, you deserve to find out what really happened." He whispered. "So yes, I think we should keep finding keyholes, and I think we should keep unlocking your memories, they might be the key to getting back Sora." Riku whispered. Kairi blinked at him, then smiled softly, and nodded. Riku, with his free hand, grabbed hers, and they placed it on the keyhole together.
Disclaimer: I know you hate me. :D
Lol, just joking, really, I just wanted to imitate a cliff hanger . . . mwa hahaha. Thus, this is the FAKE disclaimer. :)
Instantly a flash of light cleared the area. Peter yelped as the bright light struck his eyes and backed up a little, then stopped when he realized he had passed through an image . . . of himself.
"WHAT THE?" He yelped, Kairi and Riku turned to see the ghostly images as the ghost Sora raised the keyblade and sealed the keyhole. Then the image vanished. Both of Sora's friends held their breaths as the keyhole began to slowly vanished, a moment passed, then another . . . before Kairi sighed.
"I guess this one was a dud." She whispered turning in the air. That's when she got the shock of her life. "EEK!"
"Ow, ow! Eardrums Kairi eardrums!" A ghost version of Sora yelped as he clapped his hands over his ears. Riku gaped in shock. Peter blinked as he flew up to the ghost version.
"Wow, dude, you look . . . dead." He finished lamely. Sora laughed. Kairi and Riku both blinked at Sora, he looked different then the last two times . . . more . . . solid. Sora grinned at the other two.
"Hey took you long enough, I thought I was gonna die for sure this time." He muttered rubbing his arm.
"What do you mean?" Kairi asked in surprise. Sora shook his head.
"Sorry, running out of time." He smiled. "Listen, Riku, don't worry about the whole thing between us, it's over and done with, and if you want to apologize, go to the next keyhole, there's one in Traverse Town, at the water fountain! Crap I gotta go now! See you there!" Sora said cheerfully before vanishing. Riku and Kairi gaped. There was a mild silence, before . . .
"What in the nine hells?" Riku whispered.
"You're telling me." Peter muttered.
Disclaimer: Okay, real disclaimer. I do not own KH, I only own the plot. :D