Story: A Fate of the Dark
Plot: After being betrayed by his two best friends, Sora suffers from a broken heart. Darkness overcomes within him...which leads Sora...to another fate...Darkness.
Main characters: Sora, Riku and Kairi
Role characters: Roxas, Namine, Cloud, Leon, Final Fantasy
Minor Characters: Disney characters.
Italics = Character(s) thought
Italics + Underline = Namine and Roxas
Bold + Underline = Anti-Sora
Italics + Underline + "" = "Sora & Anti-Sora combine voice/Demonic" (Only when Sora's eyes turn yellow/golden)
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy. They rightfully belong to Square Enix.
Chapter Eleven-Cause and Effect
"Phew, that's the last of them Leon," Riku said as he just finished beating the last remaining heartless. He turned around to see Leon slicing his last remaining heartless.
"Yeah, I'm done over here too," Leon said while wiping the sweat off his forehead. "I don't remember the last time I fought so many heartless."
Riku smiled and nodded. "Agree." His smile faded away as his aquamarine eyes observed the huge room. The darkness was already spreading here and he can feel the darkness spreading throughout the other worlds.
I never felt so much darkness... He thought to himself. He glanced down towards his keyblade, seeing it glowing brightly as if it was talking to him. Riku gave a slight nod and looked up towards the ceiling.
"I know...but that's not our path no more," Riku quietly answered.
"Hey Riku!" Leon called to him, interrupting Riku's thoughts.
"Yeah, what is it?"
Leon pointed his Gunblade towards Donald and Goofy, whom were still unconscious on the floor. "What do we do about them?"
Riku scratched his hair and starting walking towards them. He kneel down beside them to check to see if they were alright. He chuckled as he got up the floor. "They're fine. They're just sleeping."
"Huh? They're sleeping?" Leon then heard faint sounds of snoring coming from the two animals. He slowly shook his head and snickered. "Figures," He whispered. "Let's take them back up to the queen."
Both men picked up Donald and Goofy and carried them up the stairs to the audience chamber.
When they arrived at the audience chamber, Leon and Riku spotted the Queen, Daisy, Kairi, Tifa and a blond haired guy leaning against the wall, arms folded and eyes closed. He was also equipped with a sword. Leon knew who he was, but Riku didn't. However, he heard stories about a blond warrior that helped Sora out during his journey. Maybe this was the blond swordsman, Cloud that Sora told him so much about.
As Daisy was talking to the Queen, she stopped talking when she saw Riku carrying Donald. "Donald!" she shouted, running over towards her lover. "Is he alright?!"
"He's fine but he needs a lot of rest. As well as Goofy," Riku stated.
The duck nodded and informed two guards to take Donald and Goofy to the infirmary. The two guards then took Donald and Goofy out of the audience chamber with Daisy following closely behind.
"So, you came after all, Cloud," Leon said crossing his arms. "It took you long enough."
Cloud opened his eyes and smirked. "I like to make grand entrance."
"So, you're the Cloud, Sora has been telling me about?" Riku inquired.
Cloud looked over Leon's shoulder and saw a silver haired teen. "Last time I check."
Riku smirked. "I'm Riku, friends of Sora and Kairi." Then Riku took out his hand, offering a shake.
Cloud gladly shook his hand, but in a spare second he wishes he hadn't. As their hands made contact, Cloud suddenly saw images flashing in his mind. They were flashing images of Sephiroth, Riku and Sora. When he jerked his hand away from Riku's, he backed away from him, brows furrowed.
Those images...what the hell was that about? Cloud thought.
The others in the room were puzzled by Cloud's sudden reaction. "Uh, Cloud, you okay? Is everything all right?" Tifa asked worryingly.
For a moment, he didn't answer back. He was repeating those images in his head while staring at Riku, who looking back at him, confused about Cloud.
"Cloud?" It was Leon's voice this time that Cloud responded to with a quick glance. "You alright man?"
The former SOLDIER slightly gave a nod and quickly apologized. "Sorry, I kinda space out."
"Excuse me?" The queen spoke up and all the attention was now on her. "I've been thinking. Since my husband is no longer with us...I'm thinking about...g-giving up my throne..."
"What?!" Everyone shouted at once, except for Cloud who was silent, but was surprised as everyone else.
"B-but why?" Kairi suddenly asked. "You can't! Y-you're the Queen!"
"Yeah, you just can't give up your majesty!"
"I'm sorry everyone, but before my husband die, we had agreement. We agree if anything were to happen to him and If I can't handle the castle alone, I'll have to give up my throne. I'm afraid I can't handle it, especially in this situation that we are dealing with. I'm sorry, but I must give it up," The Queen announced wiping a tear from her eyes.
Everyone was silent taking in what the Queen just told them. Without not queen or king, who will keep peace in the worlds?
"What happened to Sora?" Cloud said breaking the silence.
"Why are you thinking about Sora and the Queen just told us that she's leaving her throne?"
"Because Leon," Cloud started. "It's the cause and the effect. Whatever caused Sora to turn evil is effecting what Sora is doing to the world. So whoever cause Sora to turn to the darkside, knows what happened to him." Cloud's blue's landed on Riku and Kairi. "What happened to Sora?"
Kairi looked down ashamed to tell Cloud and Riku looked away, arms folded across his chest. "We know nothing, so just drop it."
"You're lying." Cloud slowly started walking to Riku. "I'll ask you again. What happened to Sora?"
Riku had to admit that Cloud was intimidating but he wasn't going to tell him. When Riku glared back at him, the blond swordsman angrily sighed. Suddenly, Cloud roughly grabbed the teen boy by his shirt and pushed him against the wall. Riku winced at the sudden pain in his back.
"Cloud!" Tifa yelled.
Cloud ignored her call and tightened his grip on Riku's shirt. His mako eyes began glowing. "I'm not going to ask you again. Tell me before I wiped that glare off your face because honestly, your eyes remind me of someone," Cloud said angrily. "When it comes to friends...I don't play..."
"Fine! You want to know so badly, Cloud. I betrayed him! There you happy now! Me and Kairi made out on the beach and Sora saw us and since he was so hurt by what I did to him, he went to the darkside. And believe me when I tell you this...I regret okay and thats why I'm here. I'm here to bring him back..."
Cloud and everyone in the room looked over at Kairi who ashamed to look at them. "It's true...we done something hurtful to him and now he's mad at us. He doesn't trust anyone...that's why he's doing this...it's my fault...I'm sorry," Kairi cried.
"Kairi," Tifa called her name quietly. Even though she hasn't been in situation like Kairi is in, she felt poor girl pain. She made a mistake and that mistake caused her best friend to go bad. She wouldn't be a good friend if she didn't come to correct the wrong.
On the other hand, Cloud felt no sympathy for either two. Sure they made a mistake but in the end they betrayed Sora. Friends don't betray friends or fuck the girl they like. "Do you both know what you have done! Sora was powerful already, but he's way more powerful now. He can destroy this whole world right now if he wanted to!" Cloud then tossed Riku onto the floor. "Teenagers," he muttered quietly.
"Cloud they made a mistake. Can't you see that they've come here to bring their friend back," Tifa said.
"No, I can't Tifa. I can honestly say I feel Sora's pain," Cloud coldly replied. Then he began walking out of the audience chamber.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see Cid...I'll meet you guys there." Then Cloud left the castle.
"He hates us doesn't he?"
Tifa gazed her eyes back to Kairi and shook her head. "No, that's how Cloud's expresses his way about how he's going to help you guys," she smiled.
"Well, he sure has a weird way of showing it," Riku snarled as he dust himself off when he got up from the floor. "Who the hell does he think he is anyway? Just because he has spiky blond hair and a cool looking sword he thinks he can boss me around!"
"Riku, chill out alright," Leon calmly said, even though he his voice a tad of anger to it. "J-just shut up alright. We need all the help we can get."
"Whatever," Riku mumbled to himself and then he starting out of the room.
"We can't fall apart now guys just because what they did okay. They made a mistake and we're going to help them fix it. C'mon Kairi I'll help you out with your problems."
Kairi nodded and let the older woman help her off the ground and escort her out of the castle.
"Queen, may I suggest something before I go?" Leon asked. Queen Minnie gave him his undivided attention and Leon continued. "I know you're going through a rough time now and I can understand that you're going to give up your throne, but I think I know some people that can give you a hand."
"Who are they?"
"Well, they are treasure hunters and they work for me. They can be a bit...annoying but they are worthy of helping anyone out. Right now they're off searching for treasure of course, but when I see them again, I'll let them help you. If you still don't think you're worthy enough to handle the castle, then I'll consider someone about taking your throne and I do have someone in mind."
"Okay, Leon I'll take your offer. Thank you again Leon. You might make a good King someday."
Leon smiled and thanked the Queen before leaving.
Okay I'm stopping right here for now. Next chapter will be longer than this, a bit longer. Now, I guess your guys wondering what the images were about, well you'll have to wait for that. I wasn't going to include, but since I want Cloud to have a bigger role in this story, I thought about including it. Next chapter will be a surprise people, so just patiently wait for it please.
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