~ Notes for this chapter to help with the vividness of the picture I'm painting:
Bold = Information bar from in game.
Italicized and underlined = Music being played
*Asterisk = Situation Command
From the orb of light that appeared before Vanitas; three pairs of bright wings spread forth and each pair had a different phrase branded into the flesh. The bottom ones read: 'Look down on me and see a fool.' The top ones reads: 'Look up to me and see a god.' The middle ones read: 'Look straight at me and see yourself.' Vanitas scoffed at the being and demanded of it…
"Step aside...FOOL."
As soon as the words left his lips, the wings that bore the phrase broke off of the orb and turned to dust. Soon after, a towering woman emerged from the orb to reveal that the wings came from her back. Her hair was long and flowing, but never stayed one color for very long. She covered her face sometimes with her topmost wings, but Vanitas could tell it didn't matter because she wore a veil underneath them and blindfold underneath that. Her garb was white as snow and seemed to made entirely of linen and silk.
As her bare feet touched the surface of the water, a ring of light beamed out from her toes and spread out in all directions. Once the ring stopped expanding, a legion of armored angels arose from it who presented their shield forward and stood side by side with no gaps. They had created a wall with their shields that completely surrounded Vanitas.
Information: Beg forgiveness
*Kneel
The woman approached with her hand outstretched as if accepting his own hand in submission. He felt the urge to buckle as his legs could barely hold up his own weight anymore as if a giant invisible hand was pushing him down. It took all his strength to simply stay on his feet until…
*Stand your Ground
He refused to be subjugated by this...thing. Digging in his heels and straightening his back, he stood tall and spit in the face of the woman, but it was blocked by her wings. Her voice boomed like thunder and lingered like a flame burning into his ears making sure her words were heard loud and clear.
"There is no room in this world for you or your key."
Icarus by Ivan Torrent
A line of angels rises from behind the ones with the shields and start harmonizing...as if to taunt him. He won't let them take him lightly. He starts attacking the woman before him, but she quickly blasts him away with a gust of wind from a single flap of her wings.
He manages to stay upright and begins closing the distance between them while throwing Doom Firagas at her. She summons and ethereal bow and charges an arrow directly at him, but just before she releases it; a pair of wings bearing the word 'Fool' seem to come out of nowhere and block his vision.
Fortunately, Vanitas instincts and training tell guide him just enough to dodge the arrow at the last second, only allowing it to graze his shoulder before being nullified upon hitting one of the angel shields.
As he looked back at the angels, Vanitas noticed that even more had begun to spring up behind the ones that came before them. Each line carrying something different. This new line was carrying trumpets and other such horns that they started playing as the shield angels start slamming and banging their shields like war drums.
He returned his full attention to the woman as she tore open a rift with her finger and summoned a volley of light arrows out of it and sent towards him. Vanitas created a Dark Barrier to block them and had enough playing the range game.
*Shadow Bracers
He transformed his Keyblade into a set of combat bracer on his feet and knuckles as he took a boxing stance and rushed in only to be struck down by a flaming sword she had pulled out of the rift as well.
But the Vanitas she hit was just an after image and he appeared behind her to catch her off guard as he started wailing on her with a flurry of darkness charged punches and kicks. His all out assault was soon halted when she put up her wings to guard against his aggression. But he had gotten enough licks in to get what he needed…
*Black Scythe
The Keyblade transformed once again; this time into a gnarly scythe dripping with black ooze and a beating red eye on the cross-section. He casts an Umbral Thundaga and charges the blade with lightning as he unleashes a vicious strike reaching behind her while she blocks from the front that actually cause her enough pain to verbalize it.
"AH! How dare you strike me while wearing HIS face! Foul demon!"
Pleased with himself that he was able to get a reaction; he smirked with a devilish grin as he continued his onslaught, but found himself unable to cast for some reason.
Her bottom wings had returned to her form just as her topmost wings caught on fire and burned to ash. Now his commands for Magic and Items were covered by two wings that had the word 'God' on them. She then used her bottom wings like scissors and sliced at Vanitas' legs.
Information: Magic and Items are locked.
The music from the angels begins to soften; however, this only serves to make Vanitas more anxious
The woman takes a greatsword stance as she takes slow yet powerful steps towards him that slowly build into a charge as she uses her sword as a skewer. She continues to charge even after impaling Vanitas on her sword as the flames cauterize the wound. She runs so fast that the angels actually pick up their line and fly in unison to keep her from ramming into them, but keeping the circle unbroken until she finally stops and they halt their advance; which causes Vanitas' body to be hurled off her sword and slamming into the shields which don't even budge in the slightest.
Vanitas was not about to let himself be destroyed again so soon after being revived, but that attack came dangerously close to ending him in an instant.
He coughed up unspeakable dark fluids and wiped them from his mouth with his wrist.
Information: Give up
Vanitas could feel the words nagging at the back of his mind. He growled in defiance and struggled to heave himself up again; pounding the back of his head to try and force the doubts out of his mind.
Information: Don't get up
He pushed the words down as if he was using them as leverage to push himself up. He cursed under his breath.
"I won't...guh...go to Hell! I don't...Blarg...belong on Earth! And you've...banished me from Heaven!"
Information: ...Stop"WHERE ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO GO?! What do you want from me?!"
Information: Repent
"...I...No. No! Nonononono! I am what I am! I will not apologize for being born!"
The woman kneels down to his broken and battered state and speaks in soft and comforting tone.
"It is not your birth that makes you a demon. At birth, everyone of us emerges from the darkness into a world of light."
Suddenly, he grabs her face to stop her from talking.
"But I was not born like everyone else. I was born from a heart of light in a world of darkness. I was unbirthed. Unversed."
The whites of his eyes turn pitch black as his skin begins to crack and veins full of darkness burst on his face.
He rips the veil from her face and lets out a deafening howl as her top wings return while the middle wings break off and cover her sword; transforming it into a Keyblade with the word 'Myself' written on the hilt.
She takes a new fighting stance and tries to remember the old magic that came with this blade as the angel's song picked up again.
Information: Quell the demon's wrath and break his hold over the boy
She immediately casts Stopza to get away from him. Once it wears off he explodes into a fury of dark power the likes of which have never been seen before. He attacks with many tendrils and tentacles of darkness sprouting from his back as a pair of horns grew from his head.
She swiftly sliced them away and casted Ultima to obliterate the army of darkness that was festering in the pores of his body. He then reached for her again and slammed her into the ground, causing the whole world to flip upside down and invert its colors.
As they battled in this inverted world, she casted Zettaflare to try and overpower him, but all it did was push him back.
His horns had now formed a crown and his face was covered with black markings. Whatever this thing was; Vanitas was not in control anymore.
She charged him one more time, but teleported behind him at the last second and tackled him to the ground; flipping the world back to normal again. As she straddled on top of him, she brandished her Keyblade over her head and casted Prismaza and plunged her blade into his chest.
"Begone from this world, Surgat!"
Upon entering his body, her Keyblade released a many large rings of rainbows that devoured the darkness from his body. The monstrous transformation soon faded away and she removed her Keyblade as it reverted to being just a flaming sword and her all her wings returned to her body.
Not long after, Vanitas woke up in the Keyblade Graveyard with many new scars all over his body and something in his hand.
Obtained: Holy Heartbinder - Link: Angelic Embrace"Is this some kind of joke?"
The woman speaks from beyond the portal to him.
"I don't do jokes anymore."
He turns to face her ready to fight as she simply puts her hands up to calm him.
"Peace, Vanitas. You still want to enter Kingdom Hearts?"
He nods.
"Well, I think you deserve to."
His eyes widen, but she quickly breaks the news to him before he can get his hopes up too much.
"But I do not have the authority to let you in. ...I'm sorry. Please. Keep the Heartbinder. I hope it will grant you some solace. However, miniscule it may be...it's all I can give you. I only ask that you do one thing."
He shrugs in defeat.
"What's that?"
She whispers.
"If you're going to where that face...can you at least smile more often?"
He fails to hold back the laughter.
"Now I KNOW that was a joke."
*Now what do you think? The way this fight played out was meant to be viewed as if it were an actual boss fight, so any questions or critiquesare welcome. And based on feedback, I might do something similar to this again.*