WOW! 13th Chapter and This is the number that associated with both Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy XIII!
LittleKing9512: Well, I know that Sora had to use Limit Form in KH2FM to perform Zantetsu Counter, but I don't like that Form even though it's very powerful that might surpass the Final Form in terms of power only. So I put his old Zantetsuken from the 1st Final Mix.
Radiant Garden – Ansem's Study
Lea returned to see his friends back when they were the nobodies in the Organization XIII, but thanks to Sora's past deeds, they returned again as the normal humans. Lucky for Lea because Ienzo, and Even didn't have any grudge against him for the incident back at the Castle Oblivion in their Organization XIII days. As the spiky redhead entered the room, he found that only Ienzo who was there, sitting before the table that belonged to their lost master: Ansem The Wise.
"Hey Ienzo, what's with that long face?" Lea asked the bluish grey haired scientist casually.
"(Sigh) I can't believe it. Most of the previous research data that Xehanort made were lost, we don't have any clue about what he gonna do next. This is a wild goose chase." Ienzo answered him frustratingly for having no clue so far about what was the mad man planning.
Lea however only patted his shoulder while taking a peek into one of the book pages that Ienzo read. "Hey relax, maybe we just haven't found it yet. Say how about I buy us sea salt ice creams? You know to refresh ourselves?"
"No thanks Lea, by the way have you found the other member of the former Organization yet?" Ienzo's question however made Lea sadly looked down at the floor. Confused, Ienzo asked him again. "What's wrong Lea?"
"Well, I've found Braig and Isa, but they…" Lea didn't have any problem to tell him that Braig had chosen to keep with the new Organization XIII as Xigbar, but he felt that he didn't have enough courage to tell the same thing for Isa, his best friend since they were little.
Looking at his expression, Ienzo could tell what happened to those two. "What?! I don't understand. Why are they still with Xehanort?"
"(Sigh) I wish I know the answer too, but I don't know." Lea replied as he sat on the book shelf nearby.
"Well, at least we still know that they're okay. Maybe we only need to think another way to convince them to quit from Xehanort's new organization. So have you found what happened to the rest?" Ienzo asked again, referring Malruxia, Larxene, Demyx, and Luxord.
"Not yet Ienzo, not yet. But guess what? I found something even cooler than that." The redhead replied happily as he jumped down from the book shelf, summoning his Keyblade that resembled his fire chakrams. Ienzo was taken aback; he didn't know that Lea could summon a Keyblade too.
"What the?! How did you do that?" Ienzo asked, surprised with the Keyblade's sudden appearance.
"Actually I'm still training for this one. Didn't know how I got it at the first place though." Lea answered him while playing with his Keyblade by spinning it on the air and caught it. "By the way where are Dilan, Even, and Aeleus?"
"They are inside the computer room, trying to search any data or files that related with Xehanort's experiments. Say I want to get some fresh air outside, wanna come?" The bluish grey haired scientist said as he closed his book and walked to the door.
"Heyheyhey, wait for me will ya?" Lea replied him as he dismissed his Keyblade and followed him outside. "I wanna buy some ice creams too anyway."
The duo then walked away from the Ansem's study, wanted to forget the serious thing for a moment and enjoyed themselves a bit, especially Ienzo since he had spent most of his time reading almost all of the books related with Xehanort's previous experiment about the heart of the worlds and the door of darkness.
Cocoon - Eden - Grand Prix Circuit
It was nighttime on Eden, Seat of Sanctum. The capital of Cocoon that shared its name with its fal'Cie patron. The host to the Lightning's world's centers of culture and government, the heart of human society on Cocoon. Cid Raines, the new Primrach in under control of Barthandelus watched the city under his eyes. It was the night where the citizens were cheering for their better tomorrow in Cocoon after they thought that the l'Cie terror finally ended forever as well for Raines who had been appointed as the new Primarch.
As the velocycle gran prix race began, suddenly the gate of Cocoon was cracked, revealing two things in the air which were none other than Barthandelus's ship and Bahamut. Most of people however panicked at the shape of the gigantic dragon that growled in the middle of race, catching off one of the velocycle drivers and threw him away, luckily before he could hit the ground, Snow arrived with his Shiva in Geastalt Mode, saving him before he met his end. "And the hero saves the day!" Snow exclaimed, waving his hands at the spectators who cheered him for his heroic action. However they soon realized that Snow was the l'Cie after they saw his mark from the main screen.
"He's a l'Cie! Everyone run!" One of the spectators shouted, making the situation even worse. "Oh my, I should've covered that." Snow muttered under his breath, mentally cursed himself for not covering his brand with something before they arrived. In an instant, the Guardian Corps, along with the PSICOM soldiers secured the area with the help of their militarized equipment like Alpha, Beta, Lodestar, and Proto Behemoth, Manasvin and Anavatapta Warmechs. "Nothing can stop us now. ODIN!" Lightning then summoned her Eidolon Odin who then entered his Gestalt Mode and let her rode him with his two blades. Only in many seconds the horseback riding soldier destroyed the Anavatapta Warmech in a single hit from her own Zantetsuken technique. "Guess time to join the party." Sazh commented as he summoned his Brynhildr who then transformed into a steampunk style racing car as her Gestalt Mode followed by Fang's Bahamut, Hope's Alexander, and Vanille's Hecatoncheir. Sora's Bahamut however was having a hard time managing its anger as it rentlessly assaulted every military units by using its tails, claws, or even its Mega Flare breath. "Whoa whoa! Easy there will ya?" Sora tried to calm the enraged dragon as he and Cloud tried to keep their balance on its back. Not too long after that a battle ship came onto them and transformed into four legged battle machine, the Bahamut after rampaged some military machines turned and looked at the newcomer. Sora and Cloud used this opportunity to jump down from its back, watching the battle between the two gigantic creatures. The dragon king itself however didn't want to waste any time leaped at the Ushumgal Subjugator and fired the Mega Flare right to the cockpit, instantly destroyed it. "Whoa…" Sora was astonished, even though he already saw how his new summon Bahamut destroyed the Dark Thorn heartless in a single attack, he never thought that it would become THAT powerful. 'Oh my, I wished that I had it since my first adventure' Sora thought as the dragon king reverted back into the summon charm after exhausted from letting out its rage.
"Sora, we have to go." Cloud said as he ran to find their l'Cie comrades followed by Sora from behind. As they met up, their eyes were widened with the next thing they saw, many creatures and living machines from Pulse appeared nowhere, making the chaos in Eden bigger than before.
Inside the building, Raines, the new Primarch watched the chaos from his eyes, he knew that soon or later this would happen and the l'Cie would open the eyes of Cocoon's people into reality. One of the Sanctum soldier then came inside. "An army of creatures is attacking the city. It's a Pulse invasion force. Your Eminence, we must evacuate!" Just before Raines could reply, the Calvary soldiers appeared and shot the soldier dead. Rygdea, one of Raines's friends when he was still at Calvary then walked beside him.
"So, Raines - is this the Cocoon you dreamed of?" Rygdea skeptically asked his former comrade as they watched the Eden that now turned into a war zone.
"My dream is but a fal'Cie's fancy now. End it." Cid replied without even looking back at him. Rygdea and the rest of Calvary soldiers knew that Cid Raines, their former leader now had been labeled as a traitor for them, but still Cid was his friend that made Rygdea hesitantly pulled the trigger of his gun. However…
"Grahhhh! Wh-what are these things?!" One of the Calvary soldiers screamed. Surprised, Rygdea stopped himself from shooting Cid and looked at the direction where the voice was. For his surprise, the other Calvary soldiers were shooting the black creatures that slowly walked toward them.
"Sir, the bullets are ineffective against them! What should we do?!" One soldier asked, not having any idea how to deal with Neo Shadow heartless.
"Evacuate this place now! Oh and bring the Primarch along!" 'Damn! More crazy things after another! But I'm glad I didn't have to shoot him.' Rygdea mentally cursed himself but glad at the same time. "Raines, we will talk about this later. One thing that obvious is that these creatures aren't Cie'th or Pulse thingy. Come on, let's get out of here!" Rygdea said as he helped Cid with the other soldiers to escape from the building. Cid only nodded at his words, but also wondered about the black creatures that had been showed up by all of sudden before. He never seen anything like that and they weren't Cie'th, then what were they actually? Another one of Barthandelus's scheme?
The Keybearer, the SOLDIER, and the l'Cie on the other hand were trying to find a way to reach Orphan. However, many obstacles such as Adamantherons, Sanctum troops, and many Pulisan creatures blocked their way. But just before the Sanctum soldiers could shoot them, a huge pond of darkness was formed between them, creating several pureblood heartless from the Shadow, Neo Shadow, and Invincible. "What are these things?!" One of the soldiers asked while shooting at them, however the heartless kept moving like the bullets were nothing for them.
"The bullets are ineffective! Fall back!" The Sanctum commander ordered the rest of the troops, making them back off and ran away without even concerning the l'Cie. But now it was the heartless turn to face their new enemies. "Well, looks like I could say that was a big help." Sora said as he drew his Kingdom Key.
"You called that a big help? I'm not too sure about that. Their numbers are bigger than those Sanctum soldiers." Snow sarcastically commented while clenching his fists too.
"But this is better than facing the bullets or explosives. I think I'm going to get used with these heartless." Fang replied at his comment as she drew her double bladed lance.
"No heartless can stand in our way. Come on!" Sora said as he ran toward and cleared their path from the heartless by using Rising Sun technique, the others trailed after him, while Cloud, Light, Snow, and Fang smashed the rest of heartless that jumped on their way as they were the only ones who used melee weapons. After battling many heartless on their way, they finally made it to the Leviathan plaza, but as they reached on the front of the plaza they found many floating crystals around.
"What the-?" Sazh asked, confused with the floating crystal particles.
"What is this stuff?" Vanille asked too as one of the crystal particles floated on her hands.
Fang shrugged. "Huh. Some sort of crystal?"
"I don't like this. Is Cocoon falling apart already?" Sazh asked the others worriedly, unsure whether they were too late or not.
"Could be. Maybe Orphan's having trouble holding things together with all this fighting going on." Hope answered him as he looked around.
Suddenly a large holographic image of Barthandelus appeared before them, catching them off guard. "The power of the Keyblade. The one that could bring the chaos and destruction upon the world." Barthandelus said while looking at them. "The power that as it was said to have exceeded the Ragnarok, he shall bring the destruction upon Cocoon that could call the Maker back."
Sora glared at him. "What did you say?!"
"You l'Cie had been given your Focus. One of you will be consumed by anger and hatred and finally transformed into Ragnarok to bring the end of Cocoon." Barthandelus stated. "However, there's another one that according to the legend had the power beyond what is known by the world. The power of the Keyblade Wielder."
The l'Cie, especially Fang and Vanille were shocked with what the fal'Cie told them. They finally understood that Ragnarok wasn't the only one way to destroy Orphan; Sora could do the same thing too. The l'Cie now eyed the spiky brunette Keybearer warily, making Cloud stepped in front of him defending him.
"Sora has nothing to do with this. As I know the Keyblade wielder could choose the path between the light or the darkness and chaos." Cloud told the l'Cie in his stern voice. "As far as I know, Sora isn't the second one. If you want to get rid of him, you must get through me first." Cloud continued as he drew his Fusion Swords in case any of them wanted to harm Sora.
Barthandelus chuckled at their situation. "We shall see about that. Come l'Cie; fulfill your destiny so you can meet your loved ones again." He then vanished in a small light that flew up to Eden, waiting either the l'Cie or Sora to destroy Orphan.
"Your destiny... We'll decide our own destiny!" Hope retorted as he looked back at his l'Cie companions who still looked at Sora warily, while Fang and Lightning prepared their Bladed Lance and Blazefire Saber to defend themselves. Hope couldn't believe with what he saw, after all that they had been through, they began to distrust Sora and Cloud just because some words from the fal'Cie?
"Everyone, enough with this! Look, it's just like what Cloud told to us, Sora isn't the one who will bring the destruction upon Cocoon! No one will do that!" Hope shouted at them, making the others looked at him. Seeing the calmed down situation, Cloud stored his Fusion Swords back. "Even this kid could see the truth from this fog. So do you still not trust us?"
Hearing his question, Lightning and Fang lowered their weapons. "He's right. We don't have any time for this nonsense. Come on, let's move on." Lightning then focused back with their first objective to stop Barthandelus before he advanced further with his plans. As the others followed her, Sora looked at the silver haired boy. "Thanks Hope. You saved me again."
"That's what friends are for, Right? Come on, let's follow them." Hope replied him with a smile as he followed up the others along with Sora. The Keybearer himself felt that somehow Hope kinda reminded him with his friend Riku.
'I wonder how the others are doing. Maybe after this is all over, I should meet them again.' Sora thought as he and Hope ran inside Edenhall Grand Foyer to catch up with Cloud and the other l'Cie.
Yep I made Raines alive in this story. It's just too sad that he wanted to make things right but ended up as Barthandelus's pawn instead. Sooo should I add the other silver haired Keyblade Master for the future chapters? R&R below please to answer it. For your info, Barthandelus knew the legend of the Keyblade after Pete told him.