T: Here it is, the tenth chapter. I said that there would be fighting..
S: But he LIED!! LOLOLOLOL!!
T: Sorry about him, air fresheners. S suggested that I put the fight scene in the next chapter, so I am very sorry to those who were expecting a HUGE CLIMACTIC BATTLE!!
S: I thought it was the perfect evil cliffhanger for you, because I like to see you suffer!!
T: Ignore him, here it is the tenth chapter, enjoy
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any other game, film that I mention. The only thing that is mine is MY characters.
Several hours later...
The sounds of infantry squads running around and the sound of battle machines being deployed could be heard throughout all of Radiant Garden, they were preparing for the invaders return which was in about 4 hours.
The military of the city had gotten the majority of the civilian population safely evacuated off the planet, their ships possessed warp engines which would help them get to their destinations without the fear of the invaders shooting down any escaping vessels or capturing them.
A few of the civilians refused to leave their world and helped with the military prepare for their enemies arrival. The civilians helped in a number of ways, some agreed to help with the wounded, majority of the men agreed to help the military, even though they had no military training.
Others would help maintain the battle machines used by the Radiant Garden defence department, these machines stood at a height of 25ft and packed two rocket launchers on their backs, in their hands were mini-guns equipped with armour piercing rounds and anti-air cannon that would hopefully bring down a few enemy ships. The defence also consisted of defensive turrets stationed around the walls of Radiant Garden; some of the buildings would part to reveal devastating anti-air cannons loaded with concentrated rounds of non-elemental magic, the weapons department believed that no shield could withstand a blast from these.
Ansem stood at the castle's balcony overlooking his city; normally he would see people walking through the streets, minding their own business, living without fear. Now, the city was filled with soldiers, soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves to save their world. Ansem's heart was beating faster than usual, he was afraid, afraid of what could happen if they failed to hold off the enemies attacks, what if Kairi couldn't call forth 'The Holy Guardian'?
I never would have thought this could happen...I never once believed we would face a threat to our world like this. How cruel fate can be, yet it's had its good times as well. I've lived a good life, I have been blessed with a great family, my people look up to me, and I have discovered much about the way our universe works. If only all this could have been avoided.
"Master Ansem?" Ansem turned round to see his youngest apprentice, Ienzo.
"Ienzo? What are you still doing here? You should get on one of the escape vessels." Ansem was worried for his younger apprentice.
"No, this is my world. I will stay until the end and by your side master." Ienzo replied whilst giving a small bow to his master.
"...Thank you, Ienzo. Don't worry, we'll get out of this, I'm sure of it." Ansem said before turning his attention towards the sky.
2 hours and they will be here...Oh god's have mercy upon us.
Ienzo stood a few feet from Ansem looking at the view the balcony offered, all of the surrounding lands could be seen. However he was not interested in the view, he was too busy smiling to himself.
Ha! The old fool's trust in us will be his downfall. He actually believes I will support him till the end. He is indeed foolish, just like Xehanort said. Now I can see why Xehanort calls me the 'Cloaked Schemer', he has no idea what we have in store for him.
One hour remaining...
The perimeter defences had been activated; turrets covering the walls of Radiant Garden, the turrets were armed with six barrels capable of firing rapid fire armour piercing rounds. The battle machines were positioned at strategic points where they would be able to unleash their devastating arsenal of weaponry. Several buildings moved apart for the anti-air cannons to be deployed, these cannons were large and required four people to operate them successfully.
On the castle, 35 turrets had been deployed along with 2 heavy cannons and they were armed with surface to air missile launchers.
50 minutes remaining...
The sky began to darken, the sky roared with the sound of thunder. The troops were all nervous; they had seen the power of just one of these vessels, they could only imagine what the rest of the fleet could do.
With the fleet...
The knight looked at the planet below, his fleet descending upon the doomed world. He smiled as he saw the battle cruisers enter the planet's atmosphere, warships and frigates descended bearing weaponry that long ago destroyed thousands of fleets and had even reduced mighty civilisations to dust.
"35 minutes remaining my lord." A pilot informed the knight standing at the front of the bridge.
"...Good." The knight was now wondering what Radiant Garden's answer would be, would they co-operate, or refuse and fight back?
"My lord, the king wants to speak with you." One of the younger pilots replied with a worried face, their king was wise, strong and dark to the core. When he came to the throne, he announced that the universe rightfully belonged to them and ordered all their worlds fleets to explore every part of the universe. They were to forcefully capture planets and force the inhabitants to worship their king; any who resisted were killed without mercy.
"His majesty? Put him through at once." The knight knew never to keep the king waiting.
"Patching him through to the main screen." The pilot sent the communication to the bridges main screen.
"Your majesty..." The knight kneeled before his king, along with several pilots who were standing at the time.
"Lord Orion, how goes the invasion of Radiant Garden?" The king's voice was old and rang with an otherworldly feeling, one that could send shivers up ones spine. Like Orion, he too wore armour, but the king's armour was enhanced for him personally. It is said that no weapon can pierce his armour, arrows and bullets, even missiles have bounced off the king's armour, his weapon of choice was two Keyblade's. A legend says that one of these blades is an Ultima Weapon Keyblade, but this Keyblade was warped by the darkness, giving the blade a red glow, the outlining was black with a red jewel at the hilt.
"We are descending upon the planet as we speak your majesty, the princess will soon be ours." Orion had replied to the king with confidence.
"Good, make sure you retrieve her unharmed." The king replied while sitting in his throne.
"Don't worry your majesty, we will retrieve the girl. If they should resist my lord?" Orion wanted to make sure that they were authorised to destroy anything to retrieve the girl.
"If they should resist, kill...them...ALL! If anyone resists, make them suffer before their final breath! For those who don't, capture them, I need more slaves for the prototype weapon our advanced weapons team are developing." The king replied to Orion's statement.
"It will be done, my lord. Shall I unleash the Heartless if they should resist?"
"Yes, let them feel the terror as they gaze into the eyes of the Wraith heartless. Also, send in the Ravager heartless; let us see if they can withstand their brute force." The king favoured using these Heartless, mainly since he had been the one to create them.
The Wraith's were snake like heartless, their bodies were long with an axe blade at the end of their tails, these heartless also possessed sharp talons on their hands, which they would use to tear their victims to shreds in a display of blood and gore. Their talons were rumoured to contain a lethal poison that would slowly turn a victim who survived into a heartless if left untreated. They would fly over the battlefield and dive at their enemies; they would scream a deafening scream to stun their prey before pouncing upon them. Their heads were shaped like a demon's, possessing horns and razor sharp teeth to match; all who looked into their eyes were paralysed with fear, for it is said the eyes of the Wraith are created from fear itself. A Wraith's eyes were different from the usual Heartless, instead of being a circle, they looked more like snake eyes, they radiated a bright golden yellow and were the only heartless to have pupils, their pupils were slit shaped to enforce pure fear into their enemies.
The Ravagers were a menace among heartless, shadows and other lesser heartless feared these walking destroyers. The Ravagers, although lacking in number, made up for their numbers with their size and brute strength. It's rare for anyone to survive an encounter with a Ravager, this Heartless was one of the only heartless to use weapons, and they used them with deadly efficiency. They held on their backs railguns that were made solely for the Ravagers, these railguns were created to fire shots of pure darkness which upon impact would destroy anything that the beams hit, and severely injure any around with the blast wave that followed. They wielded disintegrators on their arms when they were on the move.
A Ravager resembled a demon, it bore long, sharp horns that could gore any infantry with ease, their heads were a close similarity of a dragons. Their bodies were huge and bulky, with several machines sticking out in certain places, it also bore demon wings on its back although they had never been seen using them. One of the more notable things about Ravagers was that they were incredibly hard to take down. It has taken several hundred shots from standard weaponry and been able to shrug it off as if they were feathers tickling them, rockets were slightly more effective, and they would mainly cause it to flinch. The only true ways to kill a Ravager was to either somehow cut off its head or blow it to bits, by shooting or stabbing the machines that kept the monster alive, but after several wars they had reduced the amount of machinery exposed. Ravagers also had a habit roaring at their enemies before striking, it is said all who hear the Ravagers roar were doomed.
"Very well your majesty, I will prepare for their disposal at once," Orion said with a bow of his head.
"Go then, Orion. Bring me the princess of heart, and don't fail me," was the king's last words as he cut off the communication with the Zodiark.
Well, it seems this will be an interesting day after all. I hope that this Ansem the Wise is indeed wise. Otherwise he and his people will be doomed to not only our destructive battleships, but some of our most deadly Heartless we have to offer.
Orion then began to laugh evilly; his fleet had now arrived on the outskirts of Radiant Garden.
The stage was set for a destructive battle, if the invaders won, they would destroy Radiant Garden and take the princess of heart and all the other children and those who didn't take part in the fight as slaves, they would burn the world till all that was left was a barren planet.
Orion began to laugh at the thought of bringing to destruction and pure terror upon the poor planet.
"Muahahahahahaha! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!"
On the ground the troops were getting slightly scared as the sky had now become as black as the night itself. Lighting crashed amongst the clouds as horrid shapes could be seen slowly approaching.
The general was in his personal battle machine, unlike the standard battle machines, this one possessed reinforced armour and extra ammo to allow quicker reloading. The general could sense the fear in his men, and he couldn't blame them, they had never faced a threat like this and they knew that there was a good chance none of them would see their friends or family again.
"All right troops. This is it; I know some of you are frightened. But we can do this." The general was facing his troops, hoping to calm them down.
"Today, these monsters come to our world, threatening the peace we have worked so hard to achieve. They say they will destroy us, and that they will take our children prisoners and use them as slaves! I say, we will not stand by and let them!!" The troop's scared faces slowly started to disappear as they heard their general's words.
"They expect to see frightened people; they want us to fear them. But I say we will make them fear us! We have dealt with numerous threats in the past and this one will be no different! We will destroy their cursed warships and any other force they throw at us!! We will fight until our last breath; we will show them no mercy!! If we do die, we will take them with us!! FOR RADIANT GARDEN!!" The general had raised his troop's morale and they will shouting 'victory' and other phrases as such.
All of the battle machines, turrets and cannons were pointing at the sky where the fleet would mostly arrive. Then out of the darkness, they came, the warships appeared one by one, their green eyes standing out amongst the darkness. Several frigates and a couple of warships were the first to arrive, the troops were not as scared as they were a few minutes ago but none of them could help awe at what appeared next, out of the clouds appeared two great red eyes. The head of this war vessel was larger than the others, it was terrifying as they saw it's the rest of the ship appear out of the clouds.
This ship loomed over the horizon, it even made the frigates look like mere ants at its size, the battleships could easily fill the eyes of this ship. Majority of the cannons were now pointing at the war vessel along with several turrets.
Orion looked out at Radiant Garden; he saw all the defence turrets and cannons that were now aiming at the Zodiark. He merely smiled at the fact that these people were willing to fight them; they hadn't encountered a race of people that were actual willing to fight back in over 10,000 years.
Well...It seems that they intend to keep the princess and fight us. Either that or they're just being defensive if they do hand over the princess. Either way it matters not, we will have the princess, one way, or another.
T: There it is, I hope you liked the chapter and the description of my heartless. As usual, if you think it can be improved by all means, share it with a helpful review.
T: THIS time I swear they will be some action in the next scene. I swear it or a heartless have my heart. Well until next time, see ya.