Lost Kingdoms, Lost Hearts, Chapter 10: With Valor and Wisdom
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After obtaining his impressive new attire Sora ran back to the kitchen as fast as he could and met with Kairi and Riku in the kitchen were he was wolf whistled by Yuffie and Rikku who had must have arrived in his absence. Mulan, Rinoa and Vanille began eyeing him up and down and whispering, whilst Wakka, Vaan and Aladdin high fived him.
Kairi and Riku looked him up and down before guiding him out of the kitchen.
"So what do you guys think?" Sora asked excitedly.
"Very cool Sora" Riku said, grinning to himself at how hyper Sora was.
"Sexy" Kairi jested earning a shocked look from Sora and Riku, she seemed to realise what she said and after a somewhat awkward silence she timidly said, "...I was kidding".
Riku chuckled and Kairi began to luagh as well, Sora smiled but was confused, he wasn't sure if should be insulted or not. The three continued walking down the hallway, joking and laughing as the remembered their games and 'adventures' on their island homes, times which now seemed so long ago.
They took an elevator to one of the top twenty floors marked with a key, and stopped on the 6th floor, the same floor that Sora had trained with Tifa on a few days ago.
Riku unlocked the door to room 2 and the three of them entered, Sora was very nervous and was a little annoyed that Riku and Kairi weren't.
Upon entering, the room lit up and was about the same size as the room he trained with Tifa in, however the layout was very different and somewhat familiar.
On the ground were multiple and varying levels of platforms and barrels sat a-top them, he smiled to himself when he realised why it was so familiar.
"Was this room based on the training arena of someone who goes by the name Phi..oh right" Sora began cheerily until he remembered that Phil had passed on, his tone becoming somber.
Riku and Kairi looked down in sadness and Kairi began to rub her arm to comfort herself. Riku eventually broke the tension.
"Yeah, this room was built as an homage to him, in fact we had it in room two because of that habit he had" Riku said smiling warmly at Sora.
"Oh yeah," Sora remembered and tried to do a gruff voice like Phil's ",Two words kid: Never. Give. Up". The poor impression made Kairi erupt with laughter and it only took a moment for Sora to follow, even Riku started to laugh louder than usual.
As Sora's head fell back from laughing he stopped when he looked up on the ceiling he saw that there was a huge image of Phil smiling with his arms folded carved into a huge golden circle. The image made Sora smile as he thought about his past meetings with the trainer of heroes.
"Glad to see he's still here to watch over my progress" Sora said warmly but quietly.
"Of course, we've paid tribute to everyone who has passed or been taken by the darkness" Riku said placing a hand on Sora's shoulder and looking up at the image himself.
"We have a Gummie ship named after Commodore Norrington, and monuments to all the others around the town so people will never forget them" Kairi added placing one of her hands on Sora's arm and looking up at the monument too.
The three eventually broke out of their memories and began to get ready for the training.
"Right then Sora, are you ready?" Riku asked once they were in position.
Sora and Riku were stood on level, podium like platforms on opposite sides of the room to each other, whilst Kairi stood below, arms folded and readu to observe them.
"So, what do we do?" Sora asked preparing a battle stance and summoning his Keyblade.
"We have to force that power out of you like before, so you transform into your Valor form or a drive form emerges, so for that to happen... we fight" Riku smirked a cocky smirk and in a flash of darkness summoned his Way to the Dawn "Oh and.. no magic" he added.
Riku leapt at Sora and swung he Keyblade down, it was such an obvious move and Sora was easily able to block it from below with his own Keyblade. Much to his suprise Riku pulled his Keyblade off an leaned back so his feet sweapt under and kicked Sora in the chest.
Sora was knocked of the podium, but as he fell hooked his Keyblade into it and, with much force, swung himself back up to Riku's level and began hurling his Keyblade at Riku, who was able to deflect it with his own. Sora summoned it back and hurled it again several times, each time it was blocked by Riku who staggered back with each strike.
Deciding to catch him of guard Sora hurled his Kingdom Key again though this time not at Riku but the podium beneath him.
It worked and as the podium was smashed apart, Riku was shocked and had to backflip of of the crumbling podium, he saw Sora's shadow on the platforms beneath him and rotated just in time to block Sora's attack from above, similar to Riku's first attack. Riku pushed the Keyblade back and kicked up at Sora who was sent flying and fell onto a platform.
Riku himself landed on a higher platform and spoke down to Sora to provoke him.
"Nice moves Sora..." Riku called down still smirking "But not good enough" He heard the same voice whisper behind him a mere moment later.
Sora spun and ducked just in time to avoid a thrust from Riku's Way to the Dawn. He rolled backwards and off of the podium turning in mid air ready to land. Much to his shock though he felt himself grabbed by the hood and spun around then thrown into the side of a platform with a slam that made him grunt in pain.
He forced himself up though, and gripping the wall as hard as he could stood himself on the side of the wall so that he was stood horizontal with the ground, he held his head back and saw Riku rushing towards him again. Sora retaliated by holding his Keyblade above his head, however it was not pointed at Riku but at the ground instead and as he pushed of against the wall, he rotated as fast as he could so he spun around with his Keyblade like a fan.
Amongst his whirring vision he caught glimpses of Riku's silver hair and heard him grunt several times as he felt his Kingdom Key strike him.
Sora was again shocked when his spinning came to a sudden stop. He peered up and saw that Riku had thrust his Way to the Dawn at just the right moment to block his Kingdom Key from rotating in its direction. Able to predict his next attack Sora was able to block a kick from Riku's right foot with his right hand. By locking the teeth of his Kingdom Key with the teeth of Riku's Way to the Dawn, and grabbing his ankle was able to thrust himself towards Riku with his legs stretched in front of him and kick Riku in the stomach.
Riku gasped as he fell to the ground but was able to flip in the air and land on his feet. A few seconds later Sora landed across from him.
"What's the matter Riku? Had enough?" Sora taunted his Keyblade resting on his shoulder. Riku stood up and smiled at him, his Way to the Dawn held by his side.
"Hunh! Get ready Sora, no more holding back" Riku smirked and dashed forward at Sora who was grinning himself. Riku struck from the right with his Way to the Dawn and Sora sucessfully parried it, after that Riku swung his weapon back underneath Sora's Kingdom Key barely missing Sora's stomach, he responded by thrusting it forward which Sora was able to side step and swing at Riku who sucessfully dodged by ducking, Sora responded by slamming the Kingdom Key down on Riku's exposed back.
Riku's reflexes alerted him just in time for him to place one hand on the floor and heave his body above him and block the swipe with his Way to the Dawn, and with his legs being the only free part he kicked out against Sora, who was knocked backwards. Before he could recover Riku flipped back onto his feet and swung his Keyblade on face level with Sora who ducked and thrusted his Keyblade forward, which Riku side stepped.
Riku gasped when he felt Sora's fist hit his stomach and had to shake of the attack if he was to react before Sora could strike again so he stabbed his Keyblade down which just skimmed Sora's shoulder and leapt in the air and over Sora before his next attack.
As Sora stood up and spun around he was hit in the face by the flat side of Riku's Way to the Dawn and after he'd spun round from the blow was kicked in the back by Riku and fell to the floor.
Sora however had let this happen and lay flat on the ground listening to Riku's footsteps, when he thought they were close enough, with as much of his strength and speed as he could muster, he heaved himself of the ground and pushed himself into the air and slashed his Keyblade at an unsuspecting Riku who stepped back just in time so that the teeth of the Kingdom Key just skimmed his nose and cut several strands of silver hair.
Sora landed and charged forward swinging his Keyblade from left to right, Riku dodging each attack and was just about able to dodge in time when Sora had flipped the Keyblade over and used an underarm swing.
Sora then flipped his wrist back around and swung his Kingdom Key again only for it to be parried by Riku's Way to the Dawn, Sora then launched his free fist which was caught by Riku and finally launched a kick that hit Riku in the ribs and sent him spinning.
Riku recovered and was able to block another swing from Sora who swung again with Riku being able to block once more, Sora swung several more times with only one being able to break through Riku's defence.
Riku, after deflecting another blow, swung his Keyblade and just like he'd hoped Sora had ducked to dodge it, having forseen this he raised his knee so that it hit Sora on the head and then extended the knee and kicked Sora away, as Sora toppled backwards he was able to slash Sora on the shoulder and blood trickled from the wound.
"RIKU! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?" Kairi yelled from a distance.
"This is the quickest way" Riku said whilst Sora regained his stance, panting.
"Your being to rough with him" Kairi said after she had ran up to them and began healing Sora.
"This is how you and me did it, besides I have to exhaust him remember, to draw out that power" Riku said with a look of guilt on his face.
"Don't worry Kairi, I'll be fine, I can take this" Sora said stopping Kairi's healing spell and standing up smilling, but Kairi didn't seem convinced.
"Just.. be careful" She mummbled before hoping down again.
"So are you ready to go again Sora?" Riku asked with a serious expression.
"You bet, and you'd better be ready..." Sora began until Riku heard the same voice behind him, "...Riku".
Riku gasped in suprise as Sora mirrored his earlier move and wasn't fast enough to turn as Sora had already stabbed his Keyblade into Riku's arm.
Riku chuckled at first not seeming to mind that his blood was running down his arm and tugged the teeth out as he hoped several meter's away.
Sora smirked back and gripped his Kingdom Key tightly as the two friends charged forward at each other.
They battled for what felt like hours, not resting or stoping to eat, they kept slugging away at each other and both soon discovered their strength in this battle; Riku had stronger blows, but Sora was faster.
They battled to their limits, each fairly bloodied up by now as the sound of grunts and their Keyblades clanging, rang through the air, each showing expert skill and challanging each other to break their boundaries.
"Argh" Sora said as he was knocked back and fell to the floor, backwards rolling and leaping immediatley after in time to dodge a downwards stabb from Riku.
Sora was gasping for breath now, the sting of his injuries and sweating brow were a sign that his strength was waneing whilst Riku seemed unfased despite multiple inguries on his arms, a gash on his cheek and a slash on his torso. Sora inspected himself and saw he himself had several severe wounds. He felt a cut on the back of his head and a stab wound through his other shoulder, also the back of one of his legs had been cut making it painful to land from jumps.
Sora forced himself upright and began to engage Riku again.
He charged forward his mind analysing Riku's stance and preparing for every kind of maneuver Riku could make against him. He leapt slightly as he swung his Keyblade across.
It was too obvious a move and Riku easily parried it. Sora acted fast and swung again although this time his attack clashed with Riku's own swing and energy sparked between them.
The two attacked, their blades clashing again and there was another burst of power that shocked them into falling over.
They heaved themselves up and once again charged at each other, they clashed in midair with Sora blocking Riku's downward slash, he pushed the Way to the Dawn away with his Kingdom Key and whilst they were out at their sides quickly swung their weapons back, clanging and crashing as they fell back towards the ground.
Riku took advantage of one of Sora's swings much to his shock by turning on his side slightly and blocking his Kingdom Key with his foot, Then with incredible speed and strength Riku curled his knee around it so it was caught in between his thigh and calf and pulled himself over so he was above Sora. He then slammed his free foot down onto Sora's gaping face, whilst uncirling his leg and then kicking himself into the air off of Sora's face kicking him down into a barrel.
Sora landed with a horrific crunch beneath him and screamed in agony as he felt his leg crack and he screamed in pain. He lifted his head and out of the couner of his eye saw Kairi's pink dress, and knew she was coming towards him.
"Nu..No don't. I can do this" He grunted, pulling himself up and staggering to his feet, and Kairi stooped in her steps and he wasn't stood for long as Riku dove down his Keyblade ready to slash down.
Sora reacted just in time and held his Kingdom Key above him, supporting the other end with his other hand and blocked the attack as the force of it crushed down on him and forced him to his knee's.
Riku had forced him down so the Kingdom Key was inches from touching Sora's nose, and Sora could feel the sweat and blood run down the side of his face, and stared up at Riku intently who was looking back at him with an icy smile.
"Come on Sora, I thought you were stronger than that" He said quietly and cooly as he leaned in closer so he was stareing Sora right in his blue eyes.
Sora felt something fill him a feeling of determination and desire to surpass Riku, to prove himself worthy of being able to weild the Keyblade and protect those he loves.
Then... he felt it, a rush of power that coursed through him and burst outwards in a flash of scarlet light.
Riku's eyes widenned and he hopped back, barely in time to dodge a serious swing of two crossing Keyblades that slashed his wrist and stomach and he choked as he skidded to a stop and collapsed on his knees.
The scarlet light came towards him and before he could react he had been knocked across the room and crashed into the wall creating a dent in it.
Riku dropped to the floor gasping for breath. After several seconds he forced himself up despite that every sinue of his body was aching in pain and the blood on his hand made holding his Keyblade slippery.
Sora was stood in front of him, his cloths a burning colour of red, his jacket had turned completely red except for the lining whilst his shirt had turned black whilst the majority of his pants were also red with a dagger like shape running down the sides of the leg and his shoes had changed colour, the black parts becoming red and the yellow parts becoming black, with the added effect of a sunset orange static jumping up and down his body and Keyblades, The Kingdom Key and Sleeping Lion in hand.
Sora grasped them loosley, swiveling them around between his fingers as he was embracing his new power, his injuries healed and a massive grin appeared on his face as he enjoyed the exciting feeling of his Valor form. It felt different from before it felt... complete.
Riku was facing him now, grinning as blood spilled from his cut and swelling lip.
"You did it" Riku said clutching his arm.
"We did it Riku" Sora nodded.
"Right.. now I can do this!" Riku yelled and a flash of scarlet enveloped him.
Sora knew what was coming and crossed his Keyblades over in time to block a frontal assault from cold grey Keyblade that Sora himself knew well: the Metal Chocobo Keyblade. Riku's cloths had taken on the same colouring and dagger patterns as Sora's had with his wounds erased from existence.
Whilst his Keyblades were blocking it he saw Riku's Way to the Dawn coming round from the side, and pushed Riku's Metal Chocobo back whilst using his now free weapon to block his Way to th Dawn, crimson static sparking between the two of them, they immeditaly swivveled their weapons back around and began trying to strike each other, their blades often clashing in mid swing.
They were faster, stronger and more determined than before and were darting aroud the arena like crimson blurs, and did so for about twenty minutes until Sora felt his power leave him and raised his Keyblade in front of him to block Riku's cross slash.
Sora dropped to the ground with a thud and Riku soon landed next to him still in his Valor form.
"How long did he maintain it Kairi?" Riku asked as he pulled Sora up smiling.
"Twenty three, twenty two minutes I think" Kairi said running up to them and patting Sora on the back.
"Is that good?" Sora asked rubbing his head.
"Good? Thats great Sora, you almost beat Riku, his was twenty seven minutes" Kairi chirped.
"Ha ha. How long did you hold yours Kairi?" Sora quizzed.
"Only like thirteen minutes, but Goofy! Woah! He held it for a full three hours on his first try, whilst the King lasted about forty eight minutes I think" She said excitedly. Sora's eyes widened in wonder when he heard Goofy's record.
"Come on Sora! Again! We have to get it up to a least a couple of hours, Goofy can hold it for thirty five hours now and the King an entire day" Riku exclaimed as he walked across the room and turned when several feet away.
"Just draw upon your power Sora, feel it in your Heart and unleash it" Kairi said before skipping away.
Sora did as she advised and closed his eyes, to his suprise it was easier than he thought and he felt the power envelop him again.
He darted towards Riku and the two clashed again, Keyblades held firmly in hand as red sparks flew and podiums and pillars were sliced in half and shattered as they stormed across the arena, Sora ocassionally knocking barrels in Riku's direction to distract him and catch him of guard, whilst Riku did the same with chunks of the arena.
After several hours of intense training Sora and Riku trained until Sora was able to maintain Valor form for five hours total whilst Riku could hold it for eight.
The two stopped and bowed laughing as they patted each other on the back and saw what a mess they'd made of the training arena.
Kairi met the both of them and hugged them before high fiving them both.
"Wow that was some intense stuff you guys! That was tough. That was like 11 hours of training" she chirped as she handed each of them a bottle of water and a towel.
"I know I'm exhausted" Sora panted as he walked towards the door. He was suprised however when he felt his hood being tugged back.
"Your not finnished yet Sora" Kairi said cheekily as she let go of his hood.
"But Kairi it's gotta be like eight pm, time for food" Sora said clutching his stomach.
"You still need to master your Wisdom form, remember? And you already unlocked it during your Valor training so this shouldn't take as long" She said and Sora remembered she was right.
His mind flashed back to one of the last hours he spent in combat with Riku, when instead of being wrapped in a red light he was wrapped in a royal blue light that lasted for all of thirty seconds before it faded away.
"So lets begin then" Kairi said beaming at Sora as she stepped onto the platform, and in a shinning wave her Destiny's Embrace appeared in her hand. Sora shrugged as he followed her on. Riku meanwhilst stood back snacking on a bag of potato chips and an apple which was like torture to Sora.
"Now then, it seems you've just touched the surface of your Wisdom form but because you were focusing on Valor form it was supressed so lets see if we can bring it out" She grinned and pointed her Keyblade at him and cast a Fira spell.
Sora summoned his Kingdom Key and rolled out of the way, and was suprised when he saw that Kairi had leapt up in the air above him and cast a Blizarra spell down at him.
Sora leapt backwards as the spell froze in a spikey iceberg on the feild. He decided to retaliate and cast Water at her firing a bullet like blast.
Kairi cart-wheelled out of the way as the water smashed into the wall, she countered with a Thundara spell and Sora rolled out of the way just in time to avoid its painful sting. He didn't have long though as he was almost hit by a series of icicles fired from the end of the Destiny's Embrace like a machine gun, with Sora trying to escape their range whilst deflecting the ones that almost hit with his Keyblade.
He skidded to a stop when he realised it was no use and turned whilst still blocking icicles.
"Stone" he chanted and a wall of stone erupted out of the ground and bought him some cover. He could still feel the icicles pinning themselves into it.
"Stone" He heard Kairi say and then giggle, and soon found out why when a stone pillar crashed into him like a battering ram from his own stone wall and sent him slamming into a higher platform.
He recovered in time to dodge a second battering ram that also erupted from his stone wall.
He leapt into the air were Kairi tried shooting him down with icicles again, however this time Sora had enough time to cast an Aerora spell which deflected and shattered the icicles upon impact.
Sora then dove down to try and get closer to her but once again she flipped out of the way casting a powerful Thundara as she did which crashed into Sora's veil of air and made it vanish.
Sora ran towards her as fast as he could, his Keyblade held ready and he swung out to strike her. Sora had made a mistake though; he had underestimated her she had easily leapt over the swing so she was face to face with Sora as she turned upside down in the air, landing on her her feet and swivelling around as the end of her Destiny's Embrace was glowing with a blue hue and frosty ice particles.
"Blizzaga" She cast and as she swung her Keyblade a colossal arc of ice was released so that it extended to the far end of the room and crashed into the wall causing them to freeze up with only Sora's speed and reflexes stopping him from being caught in its icy trail.
Sora gulped as he looked at her and realised he had to stop seeing her as the once gentle and sweet girl he used to know because now she was that and much more.
He pointed his Kingdom Key at her and cast Magnera so that a vortex of red, green, purple and grey energy emitted from a silvery orb, appeared and began to tug the former Blizaga spell toward it and scattering shards of ice everywere as it was ripped apart by the magnetic vortex.
"Very clever Sora but now I get rough" She snickered as she raised her Keyblade again.
"That, before wasn't rough?" Sora asked beaming at her holding, his own Keyblade at the ready. She smiled cockily at him before she replied...
"Nuh-uh. Stonega" She chanted and several dozen spiked pillars erupted from the stone arena beneath them and Sora leapt out of the way of one at just the right moment to avoid being stabbed.
He landed against another spike and kicked of from it so he dove towards Kairi, who was shocked by the sudden strike, she turned around holding her Keyblade flat against her body as Sora's Kayblade struck her so that Sora's attack literally rolled of her as he passed her.
Sora immediatly spun around with his Keyblade outstretched and it was blocked and deflected by Kairi, who with her free hand launched a Blizzard spell at him which Sora just swerved in time to avoid.
Pulling his Keyblade away form Kairi's he used his free hand to cast a Fire spell which (as he had hoped) Kairi had leapt to dodge and then with his Kingdom Key he cast a Thunder spell that flashed down and crashed into Kairi who gave a squeal of pain before she fell to the floor.
Sora panicked and in his panic he ran up too and leant down next to her.
"Oh my.. Kairi I'm so sorry, are you okay?" He asked as he held her head.
"I'm just fine Sora" She said with as much energy as before and stopped her Keyblade a few inches short of his chest.
"Wartera" She uttered and she sprang up out of Sora's hands as a massive orb of water formed around him began to drown him, it must have been around twelve feet in diameter and radius and Sora gasped in astonishment at how he was fooled by Kairi.
"Don't feel you have to hold back Sora, I mean it would help me if you did, but don't" He heard from her muffled voice through the water which distorted her image.
Thinking fast Sora cast a Stone spell to make a small earth spike erupt and puncture the bubble of water which popped likea balloon and water went flying everywhere.
He looked around to see Kairi had vanished and not daring to stand in one place too long began to run around and look for her, and a glimpse of her pink dress and crimson hair.
He turned in time to block a direct attack from her from behind and whilst his Kingdom Key was blocking a downwards slash from her Destiny's Embrace, she shoved her free hand forward so it was cm's from Sora's face and muttered...
"Thunder"
Sora hopped back just in time to evade a lightning strike, and was literally shocked when he was struck again and then again and again. He groaned in pain as he tried to ignore the hurt, he eventually found the strength to move and soon found he was being followed by the spell with lightning bolts dropping wherever he went and he tried to outrun them.
It was to no avail so deciding it was time to counter, Sora spun around and with a nervous gulp swung his Keyblade just as it was about to strike sending it flying and crashing into an earth spike, making it crumble.
He smiled to himself and did it again though this time he aimed it at an unsuspecting Kairi who hopped out of the way just in time. She laughed as she distanced herself from him and pointed her Keyblade at him again.
"Flare" she chanted and Sora was astonished as a huge mass of black, purple and vivid red energy formed on the end and launched itself outwards from the end of the Destiny's Embrace.
Sora gasped as he panicked on how to dodge it and simply had no choice but to point his Kingdom Key outwards for a counter cast.
Kairi tilted her head as she saw her Flare spell envelop Sora and burn a crater into the arena wondering how Sora had planned to escape it.
The smoke from the blast cleared and embers still hovered in the air and between the streams of smoke Kairi saw that Sora had cast a Reflaga dome around him that had withstood the blast and kept Sora safe.
He smirked at her but was shocked when he saw her vanish in a blur of white.
"You're in for it now" He heard her whisper behind him as she held the teeth of her Destiny's Embrace to his throat.
"How..?" Sora began trying to by time for him to think of a plan to escape.
"The Warp spell" She said calmly. She then kicked him so he went slamming into his own barrier and then delivered a series of slashes to Sora's back as he cried out in pain before she delivered several more kicks to the the new wounds.
Sora swung his Keyblade around in anguish to get the pain to stop and Kairi staggered back at the other end of the barrier were she ducked just in time to doge a direct thrust from Sora's Kingdom Key and was suprised when she found a Fire spell cascade down on her.
She warped outside of Sora's Reflaga barrier whilst cradling a badly burned arm and her dress and trainers had been singed. She looked at Sora through the dome of glass hexagons and aimed her Keyblade at it.
"Water" she muttered and much to Sora's shock his Barrier began to fill with water and was already up to his shins, he glanced upwards and saw that Kairi had a spell brewing and ready to launch.
She had him trapped, whilst his Reflaga barrier kept him safe from Kairi's attacks, he'd drown soon. However if he lowered his barrier to escape the water he'd be struck by a spell and was confused as to what to do.
He panicked and using quick wit he cast a Stop spell to slow the water down. His mind frantically thought of a way out. He came up with a plan but using such spells in quick succession would be quite tireing.
Deciding he had no choice and the water was already up to his chest, he cast a Stone spell so that a peice of the destroyed stone arena went flying towards Kairi and much to Sora's annoyance without even looking she deflected it to one side with her burned arm.
Sora was panicking now as the water was up to his throat. He began to cast spells in a panic and cast a Thunder spell over Kairi who side stepped it as it struck whilst still focusing on Sora.
He formulated a new idea and cast Thunder again, and as expected Kairi side stepped it again, thought this time Sora had set the spell so that when it landed it sent out a burst of electricity. It worked and a blasted Kairi lowered her Keyblade as she staggered back in pain.
Sora took his chance and lowered his barrier just as the water came past his eyes and cast several balls of Fira in Kairi's direction, whilst simoultaniously casting Cure on his back and Haste upon himself and ran away from were he had been trapped.
Kairi looked up in time to cart-wheel and flip around to dodge the Fira blasts, and by the time she looked up Sora had vanished.
She decided to draw him out through intimidation tactics and with a great amount of effort and power cast a powerful Blizzaga spell that shot forward and covered the arena in ice with huge spikes of ice forming as they hit the earth spikes and platforms.
The ploy worked and moments later Sora had dropped out from behind a podium, Kairi decided to strike again and cast a Thundara spell to come crashing down on him.
Sora rolled through the air dodging the bolt and kicked off from one of the frozen earth pillars, dodgeing a second bolt that shattered said pillar.
He landed on the ground his leg nearly slipping on the ice, making his Haste spell inefective as if he tried to run he would have fell. So thinking fast he instead cast a Stop spell on Kairi and she was locked in a time prison as four green diamonds apeared around her and an energy feild trapped her were she stood.
Sora used a majority of his power in melting the ice and used Firaga to summon a massive amount of flames and with his Keyblade conducting them, whipped them around the arena and they were so intense that they not only melted the ice but evaporated the water as well.
When he was sure he had dispereced all the ice with great force he hurled the colossal flame in Kairi's direction.
The flames landed with a massive crash, so much so that they radiated outwards as a wave when they crashed into her and set most of the arena on fire.
"Watch it Sora!" He heard Riku call out from behind him and saw that he had just ran away from the blast.
Sora nodded to him and lowered his Keyblade as the effort of such an immense attack had exhausted him and without his focus the flames vanished. He bent over with his hands on his knees and panted for breath, sweat running down his face and his back hurting, he began to cast Cure on himself to finnish his earlier attempt.
"Watera" He heard the familiar voice of Kairi utter and his head shot up to see a blast of water smash into him and slam him into a pillar.
He felt the weight of the water lift off of him and saw that Kairi was now pointing her Keyblade at the ground and the room filled with water.
Sora looked over at Riku who had already erected a Reflect barrier. Water filled the room faster and faster and despite that it was rising Kairi stayed standing on top of the water whilst Sora was in it up to his neck.
Deciding to mimic her he was able to use his magic to stand up on the water so he was level with her and held his Keyblade at the ready.
The room had filled up until there was only 10 feet between the water and the ceiling and Kairi and Sora stood looking at each other from across the bobbing water.
Kairi winked at him and as quick as a flash had appeared in midair in front of him and swung her Destiny's Embrace down at him.
Sora deflected it and whilst Kairi dropped she kept her Keyblade locked with Sora's and dropped to the floor whilst trying to ankle sweep him and trip him up, Sora reacted in time to hop over her leg and push her Keyblade off.
He lept over Kairi much the same way she had him earlier and struck her on the shoulder after he missed her head, and Kairi still on the floor tossed her Keyblade into the air above her, Sora just swerving in time so that it only scathed is ribs.
She then placed both hands on the flowing sea beneath her and heaved her legs over her head and wrapped them around Sora's waist and with great force and effort flipped herself over so Sora was facing the opposite direction and she was upright, she unlocked her legs and kicked him down into the water whilst grabbing her Destiny's Embrace which was now falling. She dove and stabbed him in his back as he sank into the 'sea'.
Kairi pulled her Keyblade out and hoped back as Sora burst out of the water and charged towards her, his slash having enough force to knock her back despite her attempts to block it, and tackled her so she fell into the sea, he grabbed her by a leg and flipped himself over and slammed her into the water with a smack.
Kairi used her free leg to kick Sora's hand that was holding her and spun herself back into a standing position, then with a swing from her Keyblade to the left, a wave of water followed it and crashed into Sora from the right.
Before Sora could recover from the blow, she manipulated the water with her Destiny's Embrace to extract several jets of water from the 'sea' and with a simple flick of her Keyblade they slammed and crashed into Sora, one after the other, not giving him a chance to escape as they crashed and slammed into him and knocked him around.
He didn't have the strength to fight back, not after his previous fire spell and when he noticed that the water had momentarily stopped he looked up and saw Kairi above him, Keyblade raised and she slammed it down upon him wilst two pillars of water erupted next to him on either side and crashed down upon him dragging him into the vast volume of water below as he felt Kairi's blade leave a wound in his chest.
Kairi landed on the water and panted for breath at the effort she used to entrap Sora. She dipped the end of her Destiny's Embrace in the water and chanted,
"Blizzard" and as she did the ice spell spread from her Keyblade and froze the entire body of water beneath her into a giant block of ice.
Moments later a pillar of fire erupted out of the far end of the room and Riku hopped out of it and walked over to her.
"And you accused me of being too rough" He said bluntly.
"Shut up, Iv'e not even used my strongest combos yet" She said, playfully nudging him.
"I never tried to drown him" Riku retorted nudging her back.
"What about that time when we were seven?" Kairi quipped with a raised eyebrow. Riku stood thinking for a moment before he replied.
"Oh Yeah! Okay my bad, but I never froze him, or kicked him when he had a cut" Riku jested.
"No, but you did once hang him upside down from a tree for nearly an hour" She retorted with a grin.
The two began to laugh and lifted their heads up as they laughed out loud.
"Oh" Kairi suddenly said and stopped laughing.
"What?" Riku said with a curious look.
"I'd step back if I were you, he's not done yet" Kairi grinned as she looked down at the ice.
Riku followed her gaze and saw a bright orange glow through the ice.
"Jump!" Kairi shouted and the two jumped back as a massive pillar of flame burst through the ice and melting a mojority of it so the arena was flooded again, except most of the water had been evaporated by the flames so the water was only neck high of the ground with several 'icebergs' floating in the water.
The flames cleared and a royal blue light shone and reflected off of the icebergs. The light faded and revealed Sora in a new attire, His cloths were a deep shade of royal blue, his shoes were blue and black and the straps on his cloths were now blue as well, his shirt was black with grey pockets and hoodie was the same royal blue with blue flame patterns on the black sleeves, it was the same with his pants, blue and black with a blue flame pattern at the base of his pant legs.
Also in addition to his Kingdom Key he was also weilding the Spellbinder Keyblade, a blue weapon that excelled in magic particuarly.
Kairi beamed at him and congratulated him from afar.
"Excellent Sora, you've acheived your Wisdom form, Now I hope you're ready, cause now it really gets tough" She said calmly as she raised her Destiny's Embrace above her head and gripped the handle with both hands. She pulled it down in front of her, a blue light radiating outwards as she did so and by the time it had cleared Sora's eyes widened when he saw she also weilded the Fairy Harp, a short green Keyblade that bolstered magical powers greatly.
Her clothing had also changed, her dress becoming a brilliant shade of light and dark blues whilst her white top became black as did the purple of her shoes, the belts around her waist and hood stayed black, whilst a frilly semi see-through second skirt hung from the base of her pink dress and came down to her knees with a gap in it for her legs to move freely.
The two nodded to each other before hovering towards each other, Wisdom form giving them the power to hover several inches off of the surface of the water and much like Valor Form had healed their wounds, the gash in Sora's shoulder and back completely healed whilst Kairi's burned arm had healed to.
Sora struck first and unleashed a scythe of wind in Kairi's direction. She hopped over it and whilst in the air pointed her Destiny's Embrace at Sora which began to fire pale blue bullets of compressed magic energy that exploded when they struck Sora and made him stagger back.
Kairi landed beside him and flipping her Fairy Harp over into a reversed grip she spun around in an attempts to cut Sora, who blocked her strike with a Reflect barrier which he had 'detonate' a second later sending out a burst of light that struck Kairi and knocked her flying.
She was able to roll with the attack though and began blasting him with her Destiny's Embrace again.
Sora dodged and launched a Blizzard spell which was so powerful Sora almost mistook it for a Blizzaga spell. It created a huge arch of ice across the room and Kairi had leapt out of the way again.
She landed on an iceberg and continued to pelt him with magic bullets, which Sora again evaded. He looked over and saw she was pointing her Fairy Harp into the air and static sparked around it, Sora gasped and leapt as high as he could into the air.
The bolt only just missed him and luckily too, Sora realised she planned to use the watery terain to increase the conductivity of the electricity and the bolt would have been incredible painful if he'd been standing in the water.
He flipped around in the air and pointed his Spellbinder at her and concentrated on forming a sphere of energy on the end of it.
After dodging several more attacks from Kairi, both bullets and elemental, he cast Haste and leapt so he was a few feet of her in a matter of seconds and pointed his Spellbinder at her and unleashed all of the compressed magic into a colossal blast that destroyed the iceberge Kairi was stood on and most of the ice arc Sora had made earlier and crashed into the far end of the room.
The beam thinned out and faded and Sora was shocked when Kairi appeared a few meters away from him with only a damaged arm and a deep gash on her forehead which already had the healing green light of a Cure spell patching them up.
She smiled icily at him before she flicked her Fairy Harp that caused several 'tentacles' of water to arise out of the water and bind themselves around him. With another flick they were frozen and Sora was trapped into place, his legs, arms and body bound.
Kairi then proceeded to toss her Fairy Harp high into the air, and placed her Destiny's Embrace in an unusual position, so that the handle was at the top of her head and the shaft was in front of her face and the end of the Keyblade was facing the ground. She placed her hand on the part of the shaft just below her chin and smiled at Sora in a sinister way.
"Holy" she uttered and a light that seemed beyond white appeared before were her hand was placed and seemed to be gathering in power. Seconds later the light projected outwards in a burst that enveloped Sora and sent him smashing throught the wall of the room and through the wall of the second one.
Kairi raised her hand and captured her Fairy Harp as she bought her Destiny's Embrace to her side and tried to see through the dust cloud and rubble of the destroyed walls, and cracks could be seen amongst what looked like glass and Kairi sighed when she realised she'd broken the defensive barriers inside the room.
She waited intently whilst Riku stepped forward.
The two held their breaths as they continued to watch through the clouds and mess.
Eventually a batterd and bloodied Sora stagered through, dragging his feet and panting for breath.
A blue light shone as his Wisdom form faded and he fell only to be caught by Riku who bought him over to Kairi who began to heal him.
"That... hurt" Sora mumbled as he lay flat on the ground as Kairi reabsorbed the water whilst healing him.
"I told her she was being rough" Riku said smugly whilst repairing the wall, most likely with earth magic.
"Sorry, I kinda got carried away" She said apolagetically with wide eyes.
"Don't be... thats how I'm gonna get tougher" Sora said as his strength returned to him.
"No I should really tone it down, my spell broke throught the defensive barriers around the room, I'm over doing it" Kairi frowned again with an apolagetic tone.
"How long did I hold it for anyway?" Sora asked.
"About half an hour" Riku called over his work on the wall almost done.
"Pretty good huh?" He said looking at Kairi and rubbing her shoulder to make her feel better.
"Yeah thats really good" She smiled softly to him.
After a few more minutes of healing Sora stood up again flexing and stretching his muscles.
"You ready to go agin?" Riku asked patting his shoulder.
"Yeah, I am if you are" he said towards Kairi.
"Yeah but I'll go easier this time okay?" She responded with a reluctant tone.
"No, come at me like before, just don't take out the wall again, okay?" He said as he hugged her and she smiled at him as they pulled apart.
Riku had hopped back of the the arena and Kairi and Sora prepared themselves. There were simultanious flashes of blue and the two began again.
They battled feircley and weilded the elements with such power that Sora had never seen before, and Kairi was coming up with feirce combinations of elemental attacks. Sora was sure to keep her on her toes though and even managed to get some decent hits in himself.
They trained and trained well into the night until Sora was almost able to hold his Wisdom form for seven hours and he found it easier to master that Valor form.
He cried out in pain as Kairi had cast a Quake spell against him that had blasted him into the ceiling and as he fell to the floor his Wisdom form faded once more.
"You've done really well Sora, come on just one last time and then we'll stop" Kairi said beaming at him with her hands on her hips.
Sora pushed himself up and smiled at her confidently.
"This time, I'll get you for sure" He beamed back and earned a giggle from both Kairi and Riku.
"Get ready" He shouted and called upon the power of his heart once more...
...He screamed in agony as his heart felt like it would burst and something like poisonous bile fill his lungs and climb up his throat, he clutched his chest as pain stabbed its way through every fibre of his being and his body shook and writhed in agony.
He heard Kairi scream for Riku and a look of panic on her face before his eyes saw nothing but darkness.
I think you can all guess what happens next. Kairi and Riku are pushed to their limits as they strive to survive.
I really enjoyed writing this chapter and I hope you guys enjoyed and could envision the action, the songs that inspired me for the fight scenes are the following KH3DD OST Gigabyte Mantis & L'Impeto Oscuro (both great score tracks I'd advise a listen), a dubstep remix of Passion/Sanctuary and this last one is an odd one but Radioactive by Marina and the Diamonds (another great listen).
So yeah I'll get the next Chapter written and uploaded ASAP and I can promise you that what I have planned for it so far, will be action packed and exciting. Please please puh-lease R&R all opinions welcome :) Until next time TheMightyMarvelitePhoenix.
