KINGDOM HEARTS: KEYBLADE OF THE MOON

Chapter 10

By, Brittany Bauer

*Anything italicized is someone's thought, someone's dream, or someone is singing.

Bolded + italicized=flashback or memory or flashback of a dream

As they flew, Luna was resting her eyes, along with Goofy. Sora was busy looking out the window, thinking about how he was officially an item with Luna, the Princess of the Moon. But he was wondering if he was worthy to call her his girlfriend. He looked at the sleeping moon princess, and grinned. He then thought back to the blank window in his room. Maybe that is where... He began to think when Luna jolted up with a yell.

"Luna, what's wrong?" Sora asked as he took her hand into his, making her look his way breathing heavy. A hot tear fell down her cheek as she looked away.

"It's nothing. Just a nightmare." She said.

"Luna...you can tell me anything, you know that right?"

"I know, Sora. It's just, this nightmare was..." Luna started to talk about the nightmare she just had when Donald parked the ship on the ground. "Why did we stop, Donald?" She asked.

Donald looked at Luna after he shook Goofy awake. "We're here." He answered, making Luna run out of the ship along with Sora. Donald and Goofy following suit and looked shocked the moment they saw the castle.

It was big and black, with a red Heartless symbol on the highest tower. Sora stood in awe of the huge castle, as Luna began to slowly walk towards it. "Luna, wait!" He called to her as he ran after her.

She stopped and looked at Sora. "Sora, leave me alone. This has now turned into my fight. Laura is in there, and I need to be alone to fight her." She said as she summoned her keyblade. Sora just looked at her as he stopped like 5 feet in front of her. "I can't risk losing you." She added as she started to turn around, before Sora grabbed her hand, making her look back at him.

"The feelings mutual." He said.

"Sora..."

"This is what I do, Luna! I protect the worlds! I have done this for a while now, and I'm used to it."

Luna looked deeply into Sora's eyes as a smile tugged at her lips.

"I promised myself, and King Mickey that I would protect you. Heck, I promised, silently, to your mother that I would protect you and bring you home. Or..."

"Have me go home alone with Donald and Goofy." Luna finished for him. Sora just looked at her with a sad grin on his face. "Sora, no. You can't be serious."

"I'm protecting you with my life. Now come on. King Mickey needs us." Sora summoned his keyblade as he took her hand and ran inside the castle, with Donald and Goofy following behind. I can't let that dream come true. I can't let her die. He thought. But, unfortunately for Sora, Luna somehow heard that thought.

How...? Oh, who cares! I'm NOT letting him give up his life for me. If he does... Luna didn't want to finish that thought for she knew it would lead to her worrying about him.

As they ran through the halls of the castle, Heartless popped up at every corner, making it kind of difficult to get through. But before they knew it, they made it to the top of the highest tower, only to see no one there.

"Where is...?" Goofy began to ask when Luna saw the bars of a cage and ran over to them.

"King Mickey, are you in there?!" She asked, making Sora run up to her and look inside.

"Luna? Is that you?" A voice asked as Mickey came out into the light.

"King Mickey! Are you okay?!" Sora asked.

"Sora! Yes, I'm fine. But you have to..."

"Why hello there, heroes of light." Luna and Sora spun around to see Laura standing there with her keyblade in hand.

"Laura..."

"Where's Maleficent and the Evil Queen?" Donald asked.

"And Pete." Goofy added.

"Oh, Maleficent and the Evil Queen are pretty much gone, courtesy of me, and Pete...he was so scared of my power that he ran for the hills." Laura stated.

"So it's you who wants all the worlds to collapse." Luna was more that ticked off now...she was furious. She had to find a way to destroy her sister once and for all.

"That's right." Laura sang. "But they can't as long as that king of yours is still alive."

"Laura, you little..."

"Witch? That's what I am technically." Laura said as she got into a fighting stance. "Enough talking...let's fight."

Luna got into her fighting stance.

"Oh, before we begin..." Laura snapped her fingers and Donald and Goofy was pulled to the wall and vines wrapped around them, keeping them from moving. Same thing happened to Sora.

"Sora! Donald! Goofy!" Luna looked more furious than she was before. "Let them go!"

"This fight is between us now, sister. Prepare to die."

"No...you prepare to die."

The Moon Kingdom Keyblade, against the Dark Moon Keyblade. This was it. It was either Luna...or Laura. One of them was going to live, while the other one died...or neither one would live. Sora was going crazy to break free from the vines holding him back. He had to help Luna, he just had to.

Luna did her spin and hit move, missing Laura all together though. "Nice try, Luna." Laura said.

"Shut up!"

"Now, do you really want to protect that keyblade brat? He could be just after the throne."

"I said shut up! Sora isn't like that, you're just..." Luna realized at that moment. "...jealous."

Laura just looked at her with a poker face. She wasn't going to give her sister the benefit of the doubt and let her know that she's right.

"Laura..."

"Shut up!" Laura swiped her keyblade, hitting Luna and making her hit the ground. "You don't ANYTHING about what I am going through."

"But I do! Laura..."

"I said shut UP!" Laura went to strike Luna again, when...

"What about Kai? Remember him?" Luna asked, making Laura stop in her tracks.

"What about him?"

"He came to the moon recently...he asked for you."

"A girl born to be evil doesn't deserve a happy ending..." Laura clutched her keyblade tightly as an old scar opened up on her heart.

"You weren't always like this, Laura. You can always change back."

Laura just looked at her sister and thought back to when they were little girls. But then the memory of when her heart was broken by Prince Kai of a different world known as Earth. She raised up her keyblade. "I said...shut up." She began to swing it at Luna when out of nowhere, another keyblade blocked hers. She looked up and was surprised to see...

"Sora? How did...?" Luna said.

"Let's just say I'm stronger when someone I love is in danger." Sora said as he pushed Laura's keyblade back, making Laura herself back up a bit. She looked at Sora and growled.

"Sora, she has more power than you. You don't stand a chance."

"I'm not letting you get hurt." Sora charged at the same time as Laura and a fight began. Luna watched as her best friend and boyfriend was fighting for his life.

Sora was pushed down by Laura's keyblade making it easy for her to deliver the finishing blow...when everything went in slow motion. Luna got up and ran in front of Sora...getting hit instead.

Sora's eyes widened as Luna stood her ground, standing in front Sora protectively, and also in pain as she tried to stay standing. "Luna!"

"I-I-I'm f-fine, S-Sora." Luna stuttered.

Laura was even shocked to see that her own sister would protect Sora the way she did. She gave up her life pretty much. "Luna..."

She was wanting to fall to the ground to her death, but she had to be strong. She used the last of the strength placing the wand on her keyblade and swiped it with moon magic coming off of it, hitting Laura and making her fall down unconscious as she keyblade disappeared.

Luna waited for that before falling to the ground herself, as her keyblade disappeared. "Luna!" Sora knelt down by her side right away and held her in his arms lovingly. "No...no this isn't happening. This dream can't come true."

"S-Sora...I-I-I'm sorry...I-I got in-in front of you. I-I just could-couldn't let you get-get hur-hurt. That-that was my nightmare." Luna said, stuttering.

"Why would you do that?"

"Be-because people do-do cra-crazy things...when they-they're in love."

Sora grinned sadly as a tear ran down his cheek. She had just told him that she loved him on the Gummi Ship many worlds ago, but now she was saying she was in love with him. It was official...she was his happily ever after. "Luna, be strong, okay? You're going to be alright."

"I-I-I l-o-ove y-you, Sora." Luna said...before closing her eyes as she breathed her last breathe, and died in Sora's arms.

"No...no, Luna!"

Donald and Goofy were freed from their vine prison and began freeing King Mickey from the dungeon. Once that was done and King Mickey was free, they began to leave the castle but stopped. They looked at Sora holding Luna in his arms, as tears streamed down his face. He picked her up bridal style and was about to head out when they heard Laura wake up. She looked over at them, and sighed, before disappearing in black rose pettles.

OOO

They made it back to Disney Castle, and Mickey ran into the throne room, seeing Daisy by Minnie's sleeping form. He ran up to his queen, and took her hand. "Minnie..." Mickey leaned in and kissed her on the lips, and when he pulled away, Minnie woke up.

"Oh, Mickey!" Minnie said as she hugged him, he hugging her back.

OOO

Sora placed Luna on his bed in his room before deciding to head out. But the window that used to be blank caught his eye. He looked at it, and saw that it formed color. He saw the moon big and white with a navy blue sky, and then two people together. A boy and girl. The girl had medium length brown hair, and was wearing the gown Sora saw in his very first dream about Luna. And the boy...was him. He had spiky brown hair and blue eyes, like the girl had blue eyes in the glass too.

The girl's hand was on Sora's chest in the stain glass window, and his hand was over hers. His other hand was on her waist as she was holding out the skirt of her dress. It was pretty stain glass window...that should have faded when Luna died.

"Luna really was my happily ever after." Sora said out loud. Just then, he felt a bright light forming behind him. He looked over only to see Laura standing by her sister's side, opposite of Sora. "You get away from her!"

"Relax. I come in peace." Laura said as she took out her crescent moon wand. It had a black base and a silver crescent moon on it in a U shape, with a gold crystal in the center. "I'm sorry for the way I acted earlier. I guess, the darkness in my heart took over."

"Luna said you weren't always like that."

"And I wasn't." Laura stated. "I was always sweet...even though I was still back then the Princess of Dark side of the Moon. But then the darkness in my heart took over. I started feeling jealous of my sister because she got all the guys...even Kai. He broke up with me just so he could date Luna. But she turned him down."

"What about the others?"

"She turned those down too."

"She was waiting."

"Exactly." Laura hovered her wand over her sister and closed her eyes. "Kanojo o iyasu. (Heal her)" She said. Her gold crystal began to glow bright. Sora watched in amazement as Luna's skin started looking like it wasn't deadly pale anymore.

Once the glowing died down, Laura put her wand away and looked at Sora. "Take good care of her." She said before disappearing in black AND white rose pettles.

Just then, Luna started to stir. Sora looked at her and waited...as her eyes began to open up. "Luna?"

Luna looked at Sora and smiled as she sat up. "Sora..."

Sora smiled excitedly as he wrapped his arms around her and spun off the bed and around, making Luna laugh at the gesture. He set her down on her feet on the floor and just stared into her eyes.

"I love you, Luna."

"I love you too, Sora."

They leaned in and pressed their lips together in a sweet and passionate kiss. Their life was full with love now, and Sora finally got his happily ever after.

~THE END~