Chapter 11: Nightmare's child
A/N: We're finally getting to the good part of the story! Now we get to see one of the main villains that will cause a lot of problems for Hikari and the others. Will this villain be as bad as the Organization or worse?
Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts; I just own my oc's.
Enjoy!
/
Danger was the only thing that came to Hikari's mind as she felt the explosion. Someone was trying to attack this world once again and harm innocent people. She didn't know if the heartless and nobodies were back, but she couldn't let innocent people get caught in the crossfire.
She had to do something.
Reverting her party dress into her usual outfit, she summoned her keyblade and ran towards the danger. No one was going to trash her world while she was on it. Not by a long shot.
She heard rapid footsteps approaching her and saw Riku running along with his keyblade in hand.
"You're not going alone" he said.
Hikari smirked and continued running towards the source of the danger.
It looks like Hikari was going to save the day once again.
/
People screamed as they tried to get away from the smoke and debris. It seemed whatever caused that explosion did some serious damage to the areas around it. The whole marketplace was a mess as stalls and stores were broken down and scattered all over the place. Hikari also noticed a few claw marks etched into the stone walls as if something scratched it.
"Maybe we should have told Sora and the others about this" Riku said.
Hikari shook her head as she carefully went forward.
"I'm sure they heard the explosion as well and are on their way" she said.
"And I just couldn't wait for them while everyone is afraid"
Riku gripped his keyblade as he looked up at the roofs for anything.
"Just keep an eye out" he said.
"I don't think we're alone"
Hikari nodded and cautiously continued forward. Whoever it was that was doing this was no pushover.
The more they pushed forward the more they noticed how abandoned the area was. Whatever that was going on had everyone completely scared.
The only sound that was made was the sound of stone crunching underneath their shoes. Hikari carefully scanned the area making sure nothing was there. Even after fighting so many heartless and nobodies, she was still antsy.
Just then, an orange blob appeared out of nowhere and morphed into goopy like creatures. They hissed as they brandished goopy claws.
Riku and Hikari went into defensive mode as they faced the flan like enemy.
"What is that?" Riku asked.
"Is it a heartless?"
Hikari studied the flan like creature and couldn't find a heartless symbol nor a nobody insignia.
"I don't think so" she said.
"I think it's something entirely different"
Riku didn't care for the details and just attacked the creature. He stabbed his keyblade into the goopy like creature. He tried to pull his keyblade out but it was stuck within the goop.
"What's happening?" he grunted.
Hikari studied the flan for a moment to figure out what was going on. The keyblade wasn't working against this creature and was immune to physical attacks.
"Maybe magic will work?" she thought.
She held her hand up and channeled magic to her fingertips.
"Riku, move!" she ordered.
Riku jumped out of the way, not caring that his keyblade was sticking into the flan while Hikari launched a fire spell at it. The flan hissed out in pain and melted as the flames licked at its goopy skin. It turned into a puddle of orange goop.
Riku picked up his keyblade and shook off the orange substance from his trusted weapon.
"What was that?" he asked.
Hikari shook her head.
"I don't know" she said.
"But something tells me that those goopy creatures are just part of the problem here. I have a feeling we're going to run into more of them"
Riku looked at the orange puddle before looking ahead.
"Keep those spells going" he said.
"We're going to need it"
Hikari nodded and dismissed her keyblade.
"Dually noted" she said.
Riku ran ahead while Hikari followed. This new enemy was strange but that wasn't going to stop them from cutting them down.
/
More of those strange monsters kept appearing wherever they went. Some weren't so tough like the flans but others put up a fight and managed to land a couple of hits.
They knew they were getting close if the enemies were getting tougher. They could feel the darkness radiating off of the area and seeping into their souls.
"We're close" Riku said.
"Very close"
Hikari gulped as she felt the darkness. It was so foul and rotten that it made her choke a little. She had sense different types of darkness from her travels. Ansem and Xemnas' were filled with power and world domination. This darkness was filled with evil and danger. As if it wanted to kill something.
Steadying her nerves, she willed herself to go forward.
They reached the water fountains that Hikari showed Riku earlier and found that they weren't alone. Someone was standing up at the top of the fountain watching all of the destruction that was taking place.
It was a young woman who had messy black hair who wore an outfit that looked like it was ripped in places and stitched up horribly. The woman cackled as if she was enjoying what was happening.
Hikari glared at her and pained her keyblade at her. This was the person who was causing all of this chaos.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" she cried.
"Don't you realize you're harming innocent people?"
The woman looked over her shoulder for a second. She just scoffed and waved her hand summoning a behemoth like creature into the area.
The two heroes backed away when the behemoth roared at them and dug its claws into the ground.
Hikari gasped when she recognized this monster.
"This is the monster that Laguna fought in that memory"
Was this a coincidence? Or was it on purpose?
The woman smirked darkly and snapped her fingers.
"Make them suffer" she said.
The behemoth roared and lunched at them.
Riku grabbed Hikari and pulled her out of the way when the behemoth came closer. The monster turned around and snarled dangerously.
Hikari went into Wisdom mode and glided around the behemoth and shot various spells. Some had an effect on the monster, but others didn't. It was as if its strong skin was acting like a shield.
Riku dashed forward and went for the physical attacks, only to find that none of them worked. The keyblade just bounced off of the tough skin and hardly left a dent.
"What the?"
The Behemoth roared and swung its claw at Riku and had him flying into one of the walls.
"Riku!" Hikari cried.
The behemoth heard her and turned around to attack her. Hikari gasped in fear and backed away, knowing that she was no match for this monster on her own. She kept backing away until she was pressed into one of the walls.
The behemoth raised its large claw to strike her down when a huge blast knocked it over.
Hikari looked up to see Leon standing on one of the upper levels of the fountain.
"Ni-san!" she cried.
Leon jumped off and stood in front of Hikari with his gunblade drawn.
"Next time you think about fighting by yourself, let me know" he said.
Hikari smiled embarrassingly.
"Sorry" she said.
Riku groaned as he stood up and held his side.
"Nice of you to join us" he said.
Leon rolled his eyes and kept them on the behemoth.
"When this is over, remind me to hit you" he said.
Riku summoned his keyblade and faced the behemoth.
With Leon now in the group, the three of them thought they could easily faced the Behemoth. Riku tried attacking it again but the results were still the same.
"I don't understand, why won't my keyblade work against this thing?" he asked.
"That's because it isn't a heartless or nobody" Leon.
"It's a fiend. It still has its heart so obviously the keyblades won't work"
Hikari looked at her weapon sadly. After using her trusty keyblade in all of her battles, it was useless against these things?
"How are we suppose to defeat it then?" she asked.
"They're weak against magic" Leon said.
"Just blast it with some of your powerful spells and it'll be down within seconds. I'll distract it while you come up with some strong magic"
Hikari dismissed her keyblade and flexed her fingers nervously.
"I'll try" she said.
Leon went to the offensive and attacked the Behemoth. The way he attacked and dodged the monster showed that he had dealt with these creatures before. His gunblade proved to be useful as it was able to cut through the tough skin and leave it vulnerable.
When Hikari found an opening, she clasped her hands tightly and chanted one of her stronger spells.
"Holy!"
Beams of white light shot up from underneath the Behemoth and impaled into the creature like they were spears. The Behemoth let out an anguished cry before it toppled over lifelessly.
Hikari cheered when she saw her spell actually worked.
"I did it!" she cried.
Clapping echoed throughout the area as the mysterious female applauded them.
"Bravo, bravo" she said with mock cheer.
"You're a lot stronger than you look"
She jumped from the fountain, landing perfectly on her feet. Her boots clicked as she walked towards them with her arms spread open.
"My master said that you were powerful, I didn't believe her until just now" she said.
"You'll fit perfectly within our plans"
Hikari studied her face carefully to see she had pale white skin with messy black hair that covered the side of her face. She wore a vicious looking smirk that matched the crazy look in her gold eyes. This woman sided with the darkness and it showed.
The woman clapped her hands together.
"Yes, you'll be perfect for our revolution" she said.
Hikari gulped nervously at this strange woman.
Revolution? What revolution?
"W-what are you talking about?" she asked.
The woman cackled and held her hands up in the air.
"Congratulations, valid knights" she declared.
"You have been gifted with a very important task. The worlds are vulnerable from outside danger. Their enemy is time who dwindles them to nothing more than empty husks. With time slowly but surely sucking the life out of them, there is only one way to protect them and that it with time itself"
She bowed lowly to them.
"So join me by protecting the worlds new ruler: Lady Ultimecia"
Leon's gunblade clattered to the ground, the color draining from his face.
"Ulti..mecia?" he choked out.
The woman smiled darkly.
"Oh, so you know about my master?" she cooed.
"Wonderful. You'll make a fine knight by protecting her"
Leon's gazed harden at such a thought.
"I would rather die than protect that monster" he snapped.
The woman frowned making her look scary.
"Oh? So you would rather oppose living under the protection to someone who can handle time than join them?" she asked.
Leon picked up his gunblade and glared at her.
"You got that right"
The woman hissed out a sigh.
"How pitiful" she said.
"Looks like I'll have to kill you then"
She snapped her fingers summoning another fiend.
"Oh Griever!" she sang.
A monstrous looking lion appeared and snarled at them. The mysterious woman went up to the creature and stroked its mane.
"Oh, who's a good little boy?" she cooed.
"I have some nice snacks for you right over here"
Griever roared and lunged at his food. Leon held up his gunblade ready to attack but it wasn't needed since help appeared.
Tsukiko flung her scythe and hit Griever in the head while Sora and Ankoku got in front of their friends as shields.
"Looks like we made it in time" Sora said.
"You're late" Riku retorted.
Ankoku glared at him and gave him the finger.
"Hey, piss off pretty boy. Do you have any idea how hard it was to get that fugly dress off? I don't think so, now shut up while we take care of this mo-fo"
Tsukiko landed next to them and slung her scythe on her shoulder.
"That never gets old"
The mysterious woman gave Tsukiko a murderous glare.
"You" she hissed.
Tsukiko glared at her in return.
"Well what do you know? You're still alive" she said.
"I thought the heartless ate you up. I guess they didn't want to bother with trash like you either"
The mysterious woman snarled and summoned up red daggers.
"Oh, I'll show you who's trash you filthy nobody" she spat.
Tsukiko got into a fighting stance and had a wicked smirk on her face.
"Ladies first, but then again I don't think you're qualified as a lady"
The mysterious woman yelled as she lunged at Tsukiko.
While the two of them fought, Sora and Ankoku were dealt with Griever.
"Let's see if this ugly looking cat has nine lives" Ankoku said.
"Be careful!" Hikari called out.
"The keyblades won't work on these creatures. You'll have to use magic"
Ankoku smirked darkly and dismissed her keyblades.
"Or I could just use my fists" she said.
She looked at Sora and pointed at Griever.
"I'll distract him while you aim for his weak spot" she said.
"And make it quick because I think that psycho bitch that Tsukiko is fighting is no pushover"
Sora nodded and ran off to find Griever's weak spot while Ankoku caught his attention.
"Hey ugly! Over here!" she called.
Griever growled at her when Ankoku gave him a rude gesture.
"You think you have what it takes to beat me? Then let me see what you've got"
Griever roared and lunged for her, only to have Ankoku side step at the last second.
Griever slammed into one of the fountain walls and caused it to break from impact.
"Damn you're slow" Ankoku said.
"Even Hikari's faster than that"
"Hey!" Hikari cried.
Griever pulled himself out of the wall and went to attack Ankoku again. The nobody simply played with the lion by using her psychic powers and saw every move that the lion was going to make next. She was pretty much tiring out the ugly best while Sora waited for the right opening to strike.
Ankoku just laughed as the lion tried to swipe at her with its big paws while she simply stepped out of the way.
At one point she got crafty and managed to make the monster look stupid.
"Hey, look at my hand"
Griever looked at her hand and got punched by her other.
"Ha ha, stupid"
Griever whimpered as he held his nose with his paw, leaving himself vulnerable. That was the perfect chance for Sora and dashed under the lion's belly, slicing it with his keyblade.
Griever howled in pain before collapsing and disappearing in dark particles.
Ankoku pumped her fist in victory.
"Yeah! That's how we do it on my world, bitch!" she cheered.
Just as they managed to defeat Griever, Tsukiko got the upper hand in her fight and sent the mysterious woman crashing into one of the fountains.
"Ha! You're still pathetic now as you were back then"
The mysterious woman sat up, water dripping down her face and growled like a crazy animal.
She jumped up and lunged for Tsukiko with the intent of killing her. Just as she was about to strike, her body froze in mid attack.
"Wha-what just happened?" she snarled.
She tried moving her body but found it was frozen in place.
"That will be enough Akumuko"
The mysterious woman now known as Akumuko gulped when she heard that voice.
A woman appeared out of nowhere wearing a plunging dark brown dress with a large sun hair ornament. Her face was completely hidden by an orange mask and only showed her orange colored lips.
She went over to Akumuko and placed her clawed hand on her shoulder.
"I thought I told you to control that temper of yours" she said in an icy voice.
"With the way that you are now, we'll never find any knights to help us reach our goal"
She waved her hand and unfroze Akumuko. The insane woman looked at her college as if she were a child that was caught.
"But you don't understand!" she cried.
"They thought our dream was stupid and I had to teach them a lesson. They deserve to die!"
The woman simply held her hand up, telling Akumuko to be silent as she looked at the group before them.
"Your temper blinds you from everything" she said.
"We'll need these children if we're going to succeed with our plans. Do I make myself clear?"
Akumuko pouted but bowed.
"Yes Lady Ultimecia"
Leon's body froze when he realized he was facing such a dangerous person.
Hikari stepped forward as she heard the name and tried to get a better look at their enemy.
"She's Ultimecia?" she asked.
She went to get a little closer but Leon grabbed her and pulled her behind him.
"Stay away from her!" he ordered.
"She's dangerous"
Ultimecia laughed sending chills down everyone's spines.
"Why if it isn't little Squall trying to play the knight" she said.
"So you're trying to be the knight for your sister since you failed horribly being one for your mother"
Leon growled making everyone jump.
"You keep my mother out of this you witch" he spat.
Ultimecia just chuckled.
"Oh I wish that I could" she said sarcastically.
"However…"
She pulled out a set of army dog tags from within her dress.
"I'm afraid she's heavily involved now"
She flung the tags to them and let them scatter to the floor.
Hikari slowly picked them up and saw they were the same tags that Taiyouko showed her when she talked about her real father.
Fear coursed through her veins when she realized that her mother was in danger.
She looked at the evil sorceress who simply smirked at her.
"What did you do to my mom?" she cried.
Ultimecia smirked darkly.
"Just what was coming to her" she said.
Hikari felt her blood boil as she heard that. If this monster harmed her mother, then she was going to pay.
Summoning her keyblade she charged for Ultimecia.
"Hikari, don't!" Leon cried.
Ultimecia just laughed and held her hand out.
"Time!"
Hikari's body froze suddenly freezing her in mid run. She tried to will her body to move but it was no use.
Ultimecia waved her hand again and sent a blast of dark energy at her. Hikari was thrown back and slammed into the wall.
"Hikari!" Riku cried.
He and Leon ran to her aid and saw her slowly get up. The side of her outfit was completely burnt and started to come apart. If her outfit that was infused with magic could be damaged, then Ultimecia was no push over.
Sora, Ankoku and Tsukiko quickly blocked them from attacking Hikari again and had their weapons at the ready.
Akumuko went to attack again but Ultimecia stopped her.
"That's enough for one day" she said.
"Let's have them run around a bit before we play with them again"
Akumuko dismissed her knifes and nodded.
"Very well"
Ultimecia looked at Hikari and smirked.
"I look forward to seeing you again, Hikari" she said.
"You'll be of great use to me"
She disappeared in a burst of black flames.
Akumuko laughed darkly.
"Gotta fly"
Black, mangles back wings protruded from her back as she flew off to follow her master.
Sora gulped nervously at the sight then looked at Hikari who was leaning against Riku.
"You ok?" he asked.
Hikari nodded but flinched from the pain.
"I should be" she said.
"But that's the least of our problems. Who were those two?"
Leon's hand curled into a fist.
"The one with the mask is Ultimecia and she's bad news" he said.
"She makes Maleficent look like a pussy cat with the power she holds"
Hikari, Riku and Sora paled at the thought of someone being stronger than Maleficent.
"Well then who was that crazy bitch that looked like she was ready to kill someone?" Ankoku asked.
"Her name is Akumuko and she's a walking nightmare" Tsukiko said.
Everyone looked at the nobody surprised.
"You know her?" Sora asked.
Tsukiko nodded.
"Unfortunately. We did come from the same person after all"
Hikari felt the color drain from her face.
"You mean…"
Tsukiko nodded.
"She's Taiyouko's heartless"
/
A/N: Aw snap! Not only do we have to deal with Ultimecia but apparently Taiyouko has a crazy heartless that no one knew about. It seems like the evil sorceress of time did something to Taiyouko and now the gang has to find out what happened to her before it's too late.
And just as a heads up, I know Ultimecia's outfit isn't the same as from the Final Fantasy 8 game but there's a reason behind that. Her new outfit along with the hair ornaments will be explained later on in the chapter.
And I'm sorry for Ankoku's swearing. She's the complete opposite of Hikari so she's going to have a foul mouth in this story. But hey, she makes things funny.
Please review and tell me what you think!
Ja ne!