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Inverted Sky: KH Chain of Memories

Chapter 10: Castle Oblivion part X

"Stopga!" Sora called out while bringing her Keyblade into the air, to which a huge wave of golden colored energy blasted out from the teens weapon.

Immediately following this, the brown-haired girl glanced around and let out a breath of relief upon seeing that all of the meteorites had stopped in midair. She then let her arms drop to her sides before smirking proudly at her accomplishment and turning toward her friends. "Man...that was a close one, huh?" she questioned, yet blinked many times upon quickly noticing that each of the three were also frozen in time.

This lead for Sora to look down to her Keyblade and let out another sigh in response. "Looks like I still need more practice with this spell." she muttered while glancing around the area once more.

'Though, I'm glad I got as far as I have. I've barely gotten to train since Kairi, Donald and Goofy joined me...so I guess I've lucked out in being as strong as I am now for this fight.' Sora continued within her mind as she looked to all of the meteorites around them.

"Alright...lets see what I can do about all this." she whispered aloud while turning and walking over to her friends.

"Hmm..." the teen hummed out while looking at Kairi's pose of gazing down, yet with her magic staff being held up into the air.

"I got it!" Sora exclaimed with a grin as she moved her friend's raised arm down, to which she looked at the magic staff for a few moments.

It being a normal wooden one, yet held a series of flowers all across it and one large sunflower at the tip. "It's actually kinda cute now that I look at it." she muttered to herself before quickly going over to Donald.

'Good thing none of them can hear that.' the teen added to herself while looking over her duck friend.

Whom was in a similar pose as Kairi, to which Sora made the same changes to him. However, it was after doing this that she finally noticed that their Reflect spells had moved with their arms. This caused the teen to blink many times with a tilt of her head to the side in question; 'Hmm...I guess there is a lot I still have to learn about this Time magic stuff.' she thought to herself before walking over to Goofy.

The brown-haired girl just giggled softly at the anthropomorphic dog's rather nonchalant expression as he looked at the incoming meteorites. She then brought his shield up to block a meteor just inches from his head, to which she smiled softly to Goofy. "You gotta protect that head of yours, it's not gonna tickle getting hit by a massive rock you know." she whispered while gesturing to the meteor as if her friend was listening.

After this, she then unsummoned her Keyblade and took in a deep breath as she looked up at all of the meteorites above her. "Now to deal with all of these." Sora whispered as she flexed her left hand, which gained a dark aura around it.

This lead for the teen's entire body to become enveloped with this darkness, to which her eyes turned a shining golden color. "I guess it's good thing that they're frozen." she said silently with a brief glance toward her friends.

"I wouldn't want them to see me like this." the brown-haired girl finished, her skin gaining black, tribal-like markings at the same time that her black aura increased greatly.

Sora then began gathering dark energy into her left hand, which sparked with black electricity all around the orb slowly forming. As soon as it was the size of a baseball, the teen raised her hand out and shot a beam of dark energy into the air. However, as her fingers flexed outward and her free hand gripped her left arm, the beam expanded so wide that it engulfed nearly every meteorite in the air. The only ones left being those that were already within arm's reach, yet these were either about to miss anyway, or Goofy was going to block.

Yet, after Sora's attack on the meteorites, she let out a heavy breath and brought her hand down. "Man, even though I just expanded the beam's range...it took a lot more control than I was expecting." she muttered to herself while resummoning her Keyblade and pointing it down at the 'ground'.

Despite the teen briefly glancing around, she just huffed with a shrug while turning her gaze back to the floor. Her form returning to normal as the darkness around the teen subsided. 'I was expecting to sense Zexion somewhere, but I guess since I stopped time around us...no one can really give off a 'presence' in the first place. But...' she started as her gaze focused on one of the meteorites below her.

'...that also means that he's close enough for my spell to have effected him. So I just need to watch out for any movement once the meteors are all gone.' the teen continued in her mind while closing her eyes.

"Start." Sora spoke aloud, to which time began moving once more and the meteorites began colliding against Kairi's and Donald's shields.

Both of them had blinked a few times in question to the sudden change in position, yet they didn't question it as they saw that all of the falling rocks above them were mostly gone. However, Goofy quickly let out a brief yelp as he had deflected one of the remaining meteors off of his shield. Though, immediately after restarting time around them, Sora formed her own Reflega spell below them as to relieve some of the tension on the other two's shields.

Once all of the meteors were shattered by the barriers, Sora just turned to her friends with a small grin. "Looks like my training in Time spells paid off, huh?" was all she asked with a light giggle.

This instantly letting each of her friends know what happened, to which Kairi just smiled back to Sora with a nod. "Looks that way. Though..." she started with a slight tilt of her head to the side in question.

"...I thought you were already able to use those spells perfectly." Kairi finished as she raised a brow slightly.

"Hmm?" Sora hummed out as it was her turn to blink a few times; "Oh right...I forgot to mention." she continued as her grin turned into a somewhat sheepish one.

"I forgot every spell I ever knew upon entering this place." the teen continued with a shrug of her shoulders.

"These guys with the black jackets are behind that somehow, but I've been gaining my powers back ever since. But since I remembered most of what Merlin taught me, I've managed to get about as strong as I once was." she carried on, her taking on a confident and determined grin now.

Upon her words, each of the three simply stared at her in a bit of shock, which made Sora raised a brow. "What?" she asked while glancing between each of them.

"Nothing...it's just..." Kairi began, yet cleared her throat and looked to the side as if not wanting to finish her words.

"We're a bit surprised, that's all." Goofy commented quickly as he just smiled a bit sheepishly, him also seeming to avoid saying something further.

"Surprised at what?" Sora questioned, a small pout starting to develop on her features.

"The fact that you actually paid attention enough to remember his lessons." Donald stated with a firm tone as it was clear he simply blurted out what the other two were trying not to say.

"How mean!" Sora exclaimed with a deeper pout; "I pay a lot of attention to the things I like and enjoy doing!" she claimed almost proudly while puffing up her chest.

"And not so much of others." the white-feathered duck added silently to himself, yet he made sure it was loud enough for the others to hear.

This making Sora whine to him in response, to which she puffed her cheeks this time and crossed her arms. "You're so mean to me." she huffed out as she turned to the side quickly.

"Only because we like each other." Donald said with a small smile, which lead for Sora to look at him and mirror this expression.

"True." the brown-haired girl muttered, to which she nodded slowly and took on a wide grin along with the others.

Though this was soon broken as Sora shifted her gaze to the side and quickly shot a bolt of lightning from two of her fingers. This going straight into a floating book as it came into view, which caused a brief scream of pain to echo out from it. Immediately following this attack, Zexion materialized in place of the book as he dropped to the 'ground'.

"That was quite an intense technique you showed us." Sora began, her still having a small grin on her features.

"I would really like to learn how you did it...as well as even more spells you have in the book." she continued, to which Zexion raised a brow as he was somewhat surprised at the teen's eagerness to learn.

"But I'll have to put that on hold for now, cause this time...it's our turn." the girl finished with a wider grin and glance to her friends.

Upon nodding briefly to one another, all four of them rushed forward and to Zexion. Whom summoned his book once more as he quickly held out a hand to form another spell. However, he wasn't fast enough as Kairi shot a Fira spell toward his book, of which he had to block. Yet this allowed for Goofy to hit him from the side and knock him off balance. Zexion grunted silently from this, but it soon turned into a light scream of pain when Donald blasted a series of Thundara spells down on him.

Though, his scream had been cut short by a gasp for breath when Sora lunged her Keyblade straight into his stomach. He doubled over from this impact and even dropped his book as the four had taken up new positions around their opponent. Kairi and Donald being to the side with their magic staffs placed together, all while Sora was behind Zexion and Goofy had gone in front of him.

But the moment the man started to catch his breath and reach for his book, his hand was rejected by a small Reflect spell around it. This made him growl silently while simply unsummoning his weapon in order to resummon back into his hand. However, within the few moments it took to do this, Goofy rushed forward and slammed his shield into Zexion.

The sudden impact pushed the man backward and off his feet, though he was then hit from behind by Sora's Keyblade with great force. But rather than knocking him forward once more, the teen threw his body into the air with raw strength. This shocked Zexion for a brief moment, yet he quickly vanished in a cloud of smoke and reappeared near of Goofy.

Yet in the same moment Zexion brought his hand out to cast a spell, a Reflega spell appeared around the dog to block it. This drew his attention over toward Sora as she managed to react to his sudden teleportation fast enough. Though upon being distracted by the teen, Donald and Kairi had pointed their magic staffs toward their opponent and chanted out their combined spells.

"Graviga Swirl."

As soon as they said this, a vortex of black and purple magic flew into Zexion from behind and blasted him forward at great speed. This causing him to growl in a bit of pain as the spell seemed almost more defensive than anything else. Though, he then started to grind his teeth together in frustration as he hated the fact that he was losing to the 'numbers game'.

However, his frustration instantly turned to shock as Sora had appeared just a few feet in front of him with a large, yellow aura around her. This light sparking with electricity as she readied to hit him with great force in a matter of milliseconds. But it had been just enough time for Zexion to teleport once more, to which he reappeared far off to the side and narrowed his eyes on his opponents.

It being clear from his expression that even he knew this was becoming a very one sided fight. Yet he quickly blinked a few times as Goofy just seemed to disappear from sight, which made Zexion look around quickly. Though he would realize until it was too late that Kairi and Donald teleported the anthropomorphic dog directly above Zexion. Him then being hit in the head by the somewhat small shield and was almost instantly knocked out.

This causing the area around everyone to slowly return back to the scenery of Destiny Islands, to which they all blinked a few times. "W-Was all of that basically an illusion?" Kairi questioned with a glance around the area.

"I don't think so...I'm pretty sure that we were taken somewhere else completely." Sora said silently while walking over toward Zexion's unconscious body.

"It's a very complex magic, but I think he brought us into a 'pocket world' where he can use the full extent of his powers without worrying about his opponent's escaping or such." she continued as she tapped her chin a few times.

"That does sound like what we just experienced." Donald added, him slowly nodding the girl's words.

"Though..." Sora started once more as she knelt down and picked up Zexion's book from said man's hand; "...I'm sure we haven't seen the full extent of his abilities just yet."

Immediately after her words however, a dark portal appeared to the side and placed each of the four on edge once more. Though as Axel came walking through, Sora just smirked lightly and waved to him. "Hello again, Axel." she said as her smirk widened into a full smile.

Kairi, Donald and Goofy just looked between the two with blinking eyes for a moment as they noticed that Sora was both relaxed and ready to fight somehow. Although, when Axel just shrugged his shoulders and sighed, the brown-haired teen could tell something was going on.

"I'm just here to give you a quick warning and deliver a message." Axel began while slowly narrowing his eyes on each of the four nearby.

"The warning is...if you're gonna be traveling with these three, we're gonna start battling you four in pairs." he stated, to which Sora own eyes began to narrow slightly.

The brown-haired girl understanding that her, and her friends, were only doing as well as they were because they had the advantage through numbers. But if that was reduced or even taken away, they wouldn't even stand a chance against people as strong as these black coat wearers. Though, the teen quickly snapped out of these thoughts when Axel continued on with his words.

"As for the message...well, I think it's best just to show you." he finished before stepping to the side.

This making Sora's eyes widen in response as directly on the other side of the swirl of darkness was the girl she had been seeing in her memories. "Namine." she whispered out silently.

And there you have it, things are gonna really start getting heated from this point on. And yes, that is a reference to the fact that Axel is around...cause you know...fire and all. I know I'm not funny. XD Anyway, I hope all of you enjoyed and will let me know what you thought in a review. Until next time.