I would like to thank you all for your reviews, last chapter had 5 which is the most I've gotten yet! The contest is now over and hopefully the winner's world will be used for the next chapter. Now onto the part that (I hope) you've been waiting for, The Battle for Radiant Garden!
Arthas lunged forward, attempting to spear Jaina with Frostmourne, but she saw the attack coming and conjured a wall of ice to block the attack. She then summoned a water elemental to help her fight. Arthas quickly turned it to ice and shattered it with the flat of his blade, spraying shards of ice in every direction, some hitting the other combatants.
Yoda and Darth Sidious were in the midst of a heated duel, each one using the Force in an attempt to gain an advantage. Yoda started throwing pieces of furniture at Sidious, who would blast them apart with Force Lightning. The two, seeing they were equally matched in the ways of the Force, drew their lightsabres and began flying around the room attacking each other, using the Force to move at lightning speeds.
Gandalf and Sauron were fighting fiercely from opposing sides of the court room. Sauron conjuring up balls of Darkness, and Gandalf blames of flame and Light. No matter how many spells either fired neither seemed to tire. Eventually the entire spectator area was aflame from Gandalf's numerous fireballs. Seeing no point in continuing their magical duel Sauron drew his sword at charged at Gandalf. Gandalf however knew Sauron's only weakness, his ring. Gandalf parried Sauron's attack and before the Dark Lord could respond, cut his ring finger off his left hand, severing his tie to the mortal plane and banishing him. Sauron was defeated, leaving Gandalf to help the rest of the Council of Light.
Leon flew at Xemnas from every direction possible, using his gunblade to throw himself through the air at alarming speeds. Xemnas though blacked every single attack with his aerial blades with relative ease.
"Enough Squall, time for Radiant Garden to be destroyed!"
"Over my dead body!"
With that Xemnas summoned a cage of lasers around Leon at started firing them at him at a blinding speed. Leon blocked every attack for about a minute, throwing at least a hundred lasers off into the rest of the room, but eventually one caught him in the arm making him unable to hold the gunblade to deflect the last beams of the attack. Each of the remaining beams went straight through Leon, causing him to twitch as each one made contact and left. Once the attack was over a large yellow, almost white, heart rose from his unmoving body. Squall Leonheart had fallen. Xemnas walked over to his corpse and spat on it, then turned his attention to helping Sidious with Yoda and Gandalf.
"To think, a creature made by the Lich King is in the Council of Light, how ironic."
"Enough Illidan, the irony is that you turned into what you swore to defeat."
"To think Sylvanas, it's happened to both of us."
Illidan then summoned up the demonic powers within him and turned into a massive black creature, an Avatar of Darkness. Sylvanas leapt onto the podium where Jaina had presided over the court room and began summoning something herself. Seconds later a large demon with a vampiric appearance appeared beside her.
"Varimathras, destroy the Betrayer!"
"As you wish my Lady."
The Nathrezim (That's what they are called, pardon me on the spelling.) lunged out at Illidan and engaged him. Illidan took swipe after swipe at him with his Twin Blades, but each time the Dreadlord(Class) blocked it with his claws, all while Sylvanas launched arrow after arrow into Illidan's body, each one seemingly doing nothing. Finally the darkness around Illidan began to disperse, reverting him back to his normal self.
"Enough of this, I'll incinerate this whole damn world!"
With that Illidan ran out of the room, leaving flaming tracks in his wake.
"Get him!" Sylvanas screamed at the Dreadlord. Varimathras ran after Illidan, leaving Sylvanas to help Jaina with Arthas, her creator."
While this was all happening Kairi had dragged Sora's body into a corner of the room and tried to wake him up, using whatever control of the Light she had, but nothing would work.
"C'mon Sora wake up, please!" Kairi whispered, tears' falling on Sora's sleeping body. Suddenly Yuffie appeared behind her in a puff of smoke.
"Quickly Kairi we have to get out of here! Leon is already down and god knows what else could happen!" The sorrow in Yuffie's voice was clear, even though she tried to mask it.
"What about Sora!?" cried Kairi.
"There isn't much we can do; neither of us can carry him out of here."
Kairi looked towards the battle and seeing how destructive each successive blow was becoming, decided she had to leave. She nodded to Yuffie signaling her to leave. Once Yuffie disappeared Kairi bent over Sora's lifeless body and gave him a quick kiss.
"Please get out of here safe Sora." she whispered as she ran, not noticing Sora twitch as she left.
The battle raged on for hours, each side losing members. So far the Light had lost Leon and Gandalf, and the dark had lost Sauron and Sidious with Illidan and Sylvanas running out into the streets of Radiant Garden, where all the inhabitants were being evacuated.
Arthas and Xemnas remained in the now roofless courtroom, battling Jaina and Yoda. Each side had stopped combat briefly, but wouldn't take their eyes off their opponents. Neither side seemed tired.
"Evenly matched, it seems we are."
Arthas and Xemnas began laughing manically.
"Hardly Master Yoda, you see it is three against two for us, I think the battle is about to turn in our favor!" scoffed Xemnas.
"What the hell do you mean!?" screamed Jaina amidst the crackling sound of the fire elementals at her sides.
"This!" yelled Arthas in his icy tone." Arise my son, and fight those who have betrayed you!"
As soon as Arthas had yelled this Sora woke up, his memory of the past week restored and one new thought crossing his mind: She really does love me….
Jaina and Yoda looked at him walking between his Father and Xemnas, malice in his eyes, his flaming obsidian longsword summoned in his hands.
"So, you are my Father?" asked Sora.
"Yes, we left you on Destiny Islands knowing that you would become the hero of the Light, we wanted you to have friends, so that your powers over the dark would grow even stronger, something that couldn't happen if you had just played with undead in Northrend."
The icy aura around his father chilled Sora to the bone, but h e did not shiver.
"I am the son… of a Lich." Sora stated, shock on his face.
"No not a Lich, a Death Knight!"
"A Death Knight, can Death Knights love?"
"Yes they can, but you and I are the only ones left." Jaina couldn't stand it anymore.
"Don't listen to him Sora! Death Knights are evil beings, bent on destruction they cannot love!"
"If I could not love, then why would I be telling you this now, unlike your mother?" Arthas replied, looking at Jaina straight in the eye. Sora looked at her, the look on her face showing that Arthas was not lying.
"This…can't be true."
"Sora listen to –"
"You are my mother, and yet you hid this all from me… you kept me in the dark."
"Sora it was for your good please trust me!"
"You have kept me in the dark all my life; I feel it's time I returned the favor!"
The rage and hatred in Sora's heart acted as a furnace, providing Sora with more power than he could ever imagine. He raised his hand and sent balls of shadow and, surprisingly to him, ice into the fire elementals dispersing their essence. Arthas and Xemnas stood back laughing. Sora rushed forward, sword raised ready to strike down his still shocked mother when suddenly a red cloak knocked him through a portal of Light, into a realm that he didn't recognize. Arthas and Xemnas merely scowled at the new comer.
"Vincent, what about Voldemort!?"
"He fled, had something to do on his world." Vincent replied coldly.
"Changed indeed, the tides have!" yelled Yoda charging forward towards Xemnas and spearing him through the heart with his lightsabre. Arthas tried to return the blow but instead ended up sending his blade through Xemnas's heart as well (or at least where it would be). Xemnas just laughed.
"I cannot die Yoda you should know this."
"That, is about to change." Responded Vincent, who at the same time knocked over the podium where Jaina had been, revealing a small box."
"Say goodbye Xemnas." Vincent then shot the box with Cerberus, destroying the anchor that held Xemnas together.
Xemnas then looked like he should have, blood pouring down his chest and fear on his face.
"I…feel…" with that Xemnas fell to the ground, his reign of terror over the universe finally at an end. Arthas stood still, seemingly unphased.
"It seems you have won this battle, Congratulations warriors of the Light, for this shall be the last victory you ever taste!" Arthas then raised his hand and conjured a block of pure ice and swung his sword at it, shattering it into a million pieces. Jaina and Vincent saw this coming however and did their best to protect themselves and Yoda; however a large fragment of ice went straight through the small Jedi's arm.
Arthas then summoned a portal of pure darkness and yelled out onto the battlefield.
"ILLIDAN! We must leave meet me at Icecrown!"
With that Arthas walked through his portal, leaving the remaining members of the Council of Light to salvage what was left of Radiant Garden.
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The next Day Jaina, Sylvanas, Yoda and Vincent held a meeting in King Mickey's office in Disney Castle.
"So y'all are telling me that the Lords of the Dark somehow became the jurors of Sora's trial and acquitted him, then attacked killing Leon and Gandalf and now Radiant Garden is in ruins?"
"Yes sir, we had just finished putting out the fires Illidan had started before we came." Responded Jaina.
"Do we know where Sora and Kairi are?"
"Kairi is home on the Destiny Islands, we've sent Riku there as well and Yuffie Aerith Cid and Cloud are going to stay there and explain everything to their parents and so on." Replied Sylvanas
"Good and Sora?"
"We don't know." Vincent coolly stated. King Mickey sighed.
"I know I said I wouldn't join the Council again but it looks like I have no choice. Master Yoda do you have that ring Sauron dropped?"
"Yes however, too injured to fight anymore, I have become."
The shard of ice that had been flung at Yoda had been laced with so much darkness that he had been weekend to a point so physically that he could barely walk.
"So we need three more members huh? Well I guess we'll have to come up with a plan."
"I could name two already for you."
"Well Vincent, who are they?"
"Cloud."
The Council members seemed to all agree with his idea except King Mickey.
"We already have two representatives from Azeroth; we don't want two from Midgar as well."
"Cloud can represent Radiant Garden like Leon did."
"That could work then I guess, what about the other?"
"Riku."
"Are you insane, that poor boy has been through enough torture, there is no way we could ask him to go fight Sora!"
"Jaina I'm sorry but I think Vincent is onto something, if we awaken the Light in Riku then he may be strong enough to stop Sora. Then we can deal with the rest of the Lords!"
"Well your majesty, I'll go get Riku and bring him here then. Any orders before we leave?"
"Yes, bring Cloud too Jaina. Sylvanas take that ring to Middle-Earth and throw it into the volcano known as Mount Doom. As for the rest of you, find Sora!"
Once everyone had left King Mickey looked around his office, the same thought going through his mind as when he had first got back to the castle.
How long will I stay a ghost like this.
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I am sorry for the short chapter but I can't go too fast or the story won't last long enough :P. Congratulations to linebacker51 for being the first to guess that the Council member is Vincent Valentine. I hope to have his world ready for the next chapter! As for the rest of you, there will be another contest with another opportunity to choose a world in the near future.
That's all for now, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. And please, REVIEW!
xSiNx
