Hello again readers. Edge and his friends have made it to the castle and are close to ending this once and for all. Will they win or will they fail? Enjoy! Sorry that its slightly shorter than the other chapters. I'll try to make up for that.
-POV change: Link-
Ahriman used his abilities to open a portal to send us halfway up through the castle. Hopefully, avoiding any hostial encounters. We were in front of a pair of huge doors, slightly smaller than the front gate ones. "This is the way up to where Xehanort is. Though I wish it led right to him." Ahriman informed us. Edge walked in front of the doors, stairing at them before saying, "Well, lets get going. The longer we wait, the less time I will have to stop Xehanort's plans. Whatever it is he is trying to do, he doesn't want us to get to him." Before Edge could open the doors, he put his paws right on his head and started crying out in pain. "Edge!" Rose screamed as she ran to Edge's side. The rest of us followed suit.
Sorcha and I ran to Edge's side as well, both worried for him. "Edge! Are you alright!" I asked. His reply was just more painful cries. Soon, I felt a strange energy surge from nowhere. Kinda aura like. It felt really strange, almost like its not from a living being, but I don't know how that would even be possible. Refocusing on Edge, he finally stopped crying out in pain and stood up streight. "Edge, are you alright?" I asked. "Ye-yeah. It passed. Weird though. I heard two different voices in my head. One told me that two members of our group are gonna be important to the final battle. But Im not sure who though. The other voice...was a weird one. All I got out from it was...Im coming for you..." We all looked at Edge with confused looks.
"Never mind it guys. The other voice could of just been nothing. Maybe a side effect from these visions and voices in my head." I didn't believe that one bit. But I didn't push the issue any farther. Edge pushed open the doors and we seen a set of stairs that spiraled all the way up. The walls were all black, making me feel like we may not be the only ones in this room.
-POV change: Edge-
What I felt earlier was...awful to sense. I really couldn't explain to the others, mostly because I really didn't understand it myself. Only thing I know is what I told the others about the first voice I heard, but the second voice didn't seem normal. I just really hope it doesn't mean anything. We started walking up the set of spiral stair and I had a weird feeling like we were being watched. The feeling became to strong that I voiced out what I thgught to the others. "Do you guys have this weird feeling as if we are being watched?" The others looked at each other, which told me that they were thinking the same thing. "Keep on your guard guys. I heard about something being planned somewhere around this area." Ahriman said.
After five minutes of walking, we got halfway up the stairs. How long is this set of stairs? Geez! I got bored, so I started testing out something with the keyblade. "Edge, what are you doing?" Link asked me. "Well, I got to know how to use this keyblade's power to its fullest." After I got done saying that, my keyblade bursted into flames, causing me to drop the keyblade and my paw got burnt.. "AAHHH! GAH DANG IT! MY...OHHH!" I waved my paw, trying to relieve some of the pain. "I got this." Sorcha said while walking over to me and grabbing my arm, keeping me from swinging it. She then placed her paw on my paw and healed my paw."Thanks Sorcha." She gave me a smile and said, "Be more careful. You don't know what that keyblade could do." "I'll remember that."
Then, all of a sudden, the walks grew yellow glowing eyes and started moving around. Focusing on what the things were, I identified them as Ariados Heartless. AHHHH! LET GO!" I looked to find out where that came from and seen that Rose got caught by a String Shot attack. She was trying to keep the Ariados from taking her away, but that was losing that battle. I picked my keyblade back up, amazed that it was no longer hot, and cut the sticky wep, freeing Rose. "EVERYONE! RUN!" I yelled out and we all started sprinting as fas as we could. There were too many of them for this to be a winable battle. At lease we were halfway up. We were all dodging String Shot and Poision Sting attacks as we made our way up.
"LINK! LOOK OUT!" Sorcha shouted. I turned to see what happened and I seen a Ariados Heartless on top of Link, trying to bite him. Link was trying to push it off of him. Sorcha was about to help him, but would of ran into a Poison Sting attack if I didn't grab her arm and pulled her away. After I saved her from the attack, I ran to aid Link, but was slightly too slow to reach him before the Ariados took its leg and jabbed him right into his side. Before anything else could of been done to Link, I swung my keyblade at the Ariados, freeing Link. "Thanks Edge." "No problem. Can you run." "Yeah Im fine. Lets get going." Link and I started running again and we caught up with the others, who were waiying for us at the top by a set of doors. "Come on! Hurry up!" Shadow yelled at us. When we ran through the doorway, Hunter and Ahriman quickly closed the door, keeping the Ariados Heartless from following us. They got had their backs on the door and sighed in relieve right before a Poison Sting needle went through the door, spooking Hunter and Ahriman as they stepped away from it.
"Everyone alright?" I asked. Everyone said that they were fine and I sighed in relief. "Where are we now?" I looked around and seen that we were in a big room with a path on the other side of the room. "Is that the way to Xehanort?" Rose asked. Ahriman nodded and we started walking over to the desired direction, but I stopped and fell to my knees and put my paws on my head again, screaming out in pain again, like before. "What wrong Edge!?" "There is a...massive energy surge...like before." I then spotted some weird looking pod appeare in the room. Whatever this was that I was sensing, it was coming from that pod. Then pain then went away.
"What is that thing?" Link asked while walking over to the thing. I grabbed his shoulder and said, "Don't get to close to it. I don't like the looks of it." "You will now meet your doom!" I heard a unknown voice say while seeing two figures come from behind the pod. "Sora and Riku!" I guess now is the time to free them from the darkness. "You have been a pain for master Xehanort. Now you shall die, along with your friends." They both said in unison. Seems that everytimeone speaks, the other will say the same thing. "Whats in that pod?" Shadow said while getting in a fighing stance. Sora they pulled out a remote and pressed a button on it, causing the pod to open up. When it did, smoke was relised from it and I could make out a figure inside it, but I couldn't identify it. "Activate." Sora and Riku said and a say a flash of two red lights, in a form of eyes.
"What is that thing?" I said while stairing closer to the thing thats inside the pod. "Cyber, activate." Sora and Riku commanded. "Affirmative." I heard in a robotic. After hearing the sound of something powering up, the figure stepped out from the pod and I made ouf the figure to be a robotic...Lucario? "I am Cyber, your doom." Everytime it said a word, its eyes would flash a bit. However, it didn't seem to have a mouth. "What the heck!?" I said. This is impossible! "What is that thing?" Sorcha asked. "I am Cyber. I am a combination of Lucario DNA and a cyborg. I am equipped with all battle data of you and your friends. There is not a signle move that you guys can do that I don't know about. I am the complete modle. My useless prototype is nothing compaired to me." Wait, what? "I detect confusion. Allow me to explain. My prototype modle couldn't handle my creator's orders. She was...to much like a Pokemon. Too much compasion. Once Cybera was classified as a failure, she became dismantled. She was suppose to match you in a fight, but I have gladly taken the position."
Organization XIII created a robot to take me down? Must be like a last stance situation. "I knew it!" Ahriman blurted out. I gave him a questioning look. "Their secret project. I was never told much about it, but I heard about it. I just never thought that they would resort to creating a cyborg." "Well then lets break their toy then." I said while charging an Aura Sphere, then launched it, but Cyber stepped out of the way. "Attack detected. Comincing battle. Engage!" Cyber came at me fast while using Metal Claw. Wow, even being a robot, he can still use Pokemon moves. I almost didn't have time to summon my keyblade and block the attacks. But dispite my attemps to block, Cyber found a opening and landed a hit on me, sending me back a bit. "Im equipped with a Artifical Intellegence. I can adapt to any battle situation. Not to mention, I have all your battle data along with your friends."
This definitally isn't good. "Try me on for size!" Link said and rushed at Cyber with a Metal Claw attack of his own. "Activate Force Field." Cyber said and a protective barrier surrounded him, canceling out Link's attack. Cyber retaliated by launching a flurry of punches, mimicing what looks like Close Combat. Link tried to block the punches, but couldn't. Cyber was too fast for Link. When Cyber threw one last punch at Link, it sent Link flying over to me, crashing into me and causing my back to slam right into a wall. "Link!" I heard Sorcha call out. "Now you've done it!" Sorcha brought out her fire wand and used Flamethrower on Cyber, who was distracted and got nailed by the attack. "Error. Threat detected." Cyber used his Force Field again and then said, "Comincing repairs." I couldn't tell what he was doing, but he must of been healing, or repairing himself. I don't know what he does. Im really confused about him.
I wanted to get back up and help, but the damage I took was really powerful that it felt me unable to do anything. Cyber lowered his Force Field and rushed at Sorcha with a Bone Rush attack. Sorcha managed to do better with dodging his attacks and managed to land counter attacks on Cyber by wacking him with her fire wand. Sorcha then managed to land a Psybeam attack, sending Cyber flying backwards. "Critical error. Require a power up. Your services are no longer required." Cyber turned to Sora and Riku and raised his robotic paws at them and I felt a dark energy come from them both. Then Cyber started absorbing the dark energy from Sora and Riku. This caused their dark armor to disapeare and they were in, what I assume, in their regular cloths and they fell to the ground. I could tell that they have been freed from the darkness's control.
How can a robot absorb dark energy? "Power up complete." Cyber then turned back to Sorcha and said, "Prepare to be eliminated." Cyber then rushed at Sorcha with Shadow Punch, and a powerful one at that, and landed hit on Sorcha. Sorcha tried to dodge the attack, but she wasn't fast enough. Sorcha then revented to using Light Screen and blocked the attacks. Cyber, however, pulled a punch far back, and punched right through the Light Screen, shaddering it into pieces, which caused Sorcha to stummble backwards. "I got your back Sorcha!" Ahriman said and he went to attack Cyber. However, Cyber grabbed Ahriman by the throat, stopping him from doing anything. But then, a purple light surrounded Ahriman and Cyber and Ahriman was screaming and struggling to get out of Cyber's grip.
"So much dark energy, and yet, you let it all go to waste." Cyber said to Ahriman. "Your just like Cybera. A failure. You must be eliminated." The purple light then grew brighter and Ahriman screamed louder. Then Ahriman started faiding away, starting from his tail and went up his body. When his whole form faided away, so did his screaming. "Ahriman, eliminated." I staired at Cyber, terrified of what I just seen. He...killed Ahriman. "RRAAHHH!" Shadow screamed out of anger. "You have just made the biggest mistake of your life! NOW YOU WILL PAY!" Shadow rushed at Cyber with the intention to kill. He got his claws ready to strike while charging a Shadow Ball. "Error. Error. No known battle data on subject." Shadow managed to shoot his Shadow Ball at Cyber at point blank range, leaving a huge explosion in front of them. Shadow then followed up with scrathing at Cyber.
Though even though he might not have any battle data on Shadow, he can adapt to any situation. However, Shadow didn't give Cyber the chance, for he knocked Cyber down onto the ground and continued to scratch at Cyber. However, this didn't last long. Cyber used his Force Field and launched Shadow away from him and got back up and rushed at Shadow with Shadow Punch, striking Shadow multiple times. After the last punch, Shadow got sent slidding on his side acrossed the floor. Shadow looked like he spent the last of his energy, trying to revenge his friend. Before Cyber could land the finishing blow, I found the will to get back up and rush at Cyber with my keyblade. I thrusted my keyblade right through Cyber's mid-section and the sound of electricity popping was instant. I pulled my keyblade out of him.
He turned back to me and gave a sinister laugh and said, "You can't win, Edge. You will die. Your friends will die. Your whole world...will die. HAHAHAH! HAHAHA!" To shut him up, I swung my keyblade at his robotic head. He soon then gave off dark energy, which surrounded Hunter, who didn't get involved in the fight as much. Hunter started to scream in pain as he got surrounded by a purple light, but the quickly went away as black smoke-like substance appeared to be flying out of his body. I ran over to Hunter and kneeled down to him. "Hunter?" Hunter opened his eyes and said, "Edge? Whats going on?" I couldn't sense anything dark coming of of Hunter. Even his speach sounded less darker. "HUNTER! YOUR BACK TO NORMAL!" I yelled out as I gave Hunter a huge hug, which he returned.
"Hunter, how do you feel?" "I feel better. I remember all that happened, but I had no control over my actions. At lease I didn't turn into a mindless minion." "Well, Im glad your back to normal. Your darker side is like interacting with someone completely different." "Edge! Hunter! Get over here. We need to keep moving." Rose yelled out. Hunter and I got up, but then I seen Sora and Riku's motionless forms, but at lease they were breathing. "Wait. What about them? We can't leave them there. Its not safe." "We will take care of them." I seen Mickey and Lea walk out of a portal and went over to Sora and Riku and picked them up. "You guys keep doing the great job." Lea said. "We will keep an eye on these two." Mickey said. I nodded my thanks and said, "Guys." They turned their attention to me. "Thanks for all you guys done for me. Will I see you guys again when this is all done and over with?" Mickey said, "I think we will." "We want to stay and help...but..." Lea said want I held my paw up to stop him and said, "I understand. You guys rest up. We don't..." I turned my attention to Shadow, who looked really depressed. "...We just don't want you guys getting hurt." "We understand. Go kick some Organization XIII butt for us." I nodded and they walked throught their portal.
I turned back to the others and took a deep breath. "Alright guys. Looks like we are on our own now. Ahriman said that the way to Xehanort is right through that doorway. Lets get going." The others nodded and we started to walk through the path, but stopped when we heard a banging noise coming from the door behind us. I forgot all about the Ariados Heartless. "You guys get going. I will take care of them." Shadow commanded as he took a fighting stance towards the door. "Shadow! Thats suicide!" Sorcha shouted at Shadow. Shadow gave her a look that left no room for an argument. "Xehanort must pay. I want you guys to defeat him once and for all! NOW GO!" We decided that Shadow wasn't gonna change his mind so we did what he told us. From behind us, I heard Shadow yell out, "COME ON YOU FREAKS! THAT TE BEST YOU GOT!?"
I understand that Shadow is feeling angry, but I still don't agree with his decision, but I guess his mind is made up. I will not let anyones death go in vail.
-To be continued-
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. We are getting close to the final battle. Lets hope everything turns out okay. Well, thats it from me. Bye!
