Second Life
Author's note: Sorry that I haven't been writing for a while. Been busy in looking after my parents who are both sick that they can hardly move, I haven't even had the time to study, do my normal habit routines or even sleep!
In any case, let's continue. I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy. Those rights belong to Square Enix(Disney owns half of Kingdom Hearts, though).
CH14: Experiments.
Within the Realm of Sleep, Riku, who, in his mark of mastery, now wore a white shirt, blue jeans, sneakers and on the back of his shirt, unknown to him, was a Dream Eater symbol. He was in the fifth world to awaken from sleep, and he hasn't even found Sora yet. In this world, a world full of beings called Pokemon who live along side humans, it seemed to have been suffering the same nightmares since it fell into the darkness but never awakened even after Sora restored the worlds by defeating Xehanort's Heartless.
Right now, though, this world had it's own young hero, a boy named Ash Ketchum who is ten years old, a Pokemon trainer with a Pokemon Pikachu, and his human friends, Misty, and Brock, and they, along with Pikachu's clone, a Meowth who can speak human language, and his own clone who only speaks Pokemon language, all race to rescue a Mewtwo who is trapped within an entrapment that is killing him.
"Pikapi!" cried PikaTwo, as they all reached Mewtwo.
Mewtwo, a super clone of Mew, looked back and grunted in pain, though with relief that his fellow clones who are also his friends are alright, says in human language, "I am glad you are safe." before he grunted in pain again, stating, "But I can't bear this much longer!" as he continued to be hurt by the shock that the machines are producing. Machines built by the evil organization known as Team Rocket who wish to rule the world and enslave both humans and Pokemon.
"Mewtwo." Ash spoke up to the Pokemon, having a sense of deja vu.
Shocked, Mewtwo turned to face Ash, asking, "How do you know my name?"
"We heard it from Meowth." Riku answered, as Ash continued, "Meowth told us that you're the one who saved my Pikachu." before the raven-haired boy said in determination, "There's got to be some way to help you, now."
Seeing that these humans want to help him, Mewtwo told him, "Stop these machines!"
And the group tried to figure out how to turn them off. "Maybe there's an off switch." Misty, a red-haired twelve year old girl, asked desparately.
Brock, who is around Riku and Sora's age, looked, but he cried out, "It's no use, they all sealed up." to the others.
Ash wasn't one to give up, so he declared, "Well, we'll have to tackle 'em!" and he and Brock, and the Pokemon with them tackled one of the machines as hard as they could, and Riku tried to destory the machines with his Keyblade and whacked it as hard as he could, but despite managing to knock it over, the machine just routated it's eye-view, keeping Mewtwo trapped.
Grunting, Riku called up to the trapped Pokemon-clone, "We can't stop it!"
"Then I must use what remains of my power." Mewtwo finally decides, despite that knowing that he will die, he's willing to at least destroy the machines. Then with a massive scream, he powers up with all of his strength, heating up the machines that are on the verge of exploding, but he is also on a verge of getting killed, as from the looks of things, it's almost as if he was about to be deleted like a computer program, which reminded Riku of the Grid he recently just freed from Sleep, and he was possitive that Sora did as well, but there was no time.
"Hang in there, Mewtwo!" Ash screamed, trying to encourage the Pokemon not to give up.
"You can do it!" Misty added.
Both Pikachu and PikaTwo cried out, "Pika!"
Seeing how the machine was about to get destroyed, Riku knew what to do, and rushed over to the machine and with a mighty swing and toss of his Keyblade that he learned from Sora but in his own style, the Keyblade hit it's mark, slicing the over-heated machine in half, causing it to explode. With one of the machines gone, Mewtwo, who is badly hurt, falls and collaspes onto the ground, while the other machine, confused and at loss and overheated, eventually explodes itself up. Everyone gathers around the weakened Mewtwo who can barely move.
"You did it!" Ash said in relief, "You beat them!"
"Yes..." Mewtwo said weakly, "But I have also destroyed myself." accepting his fate to fade away.
However, the two Pikachus, devastated, both tugged onto Mewtwo's arm, crying out in the Pokemon language which only Meowth could translate. "The Spring. They're saying come to the Spring, Mewtwo!" the feline Pokemon told them.
"The water revived the Pikachu. It can do the same for Mewtwo." Riku stated, as he recalled how that happened.
Ash nodded in agreement, saying, "Then let's go there." as he quickly bends to help the weak Pokemon, with the help of his friends and Riku who, seeing this, for a split second, sees Sora in Ash's place before his vision returned to normal.
"You're not going anywhere." said an evil voice behind the group who turned to see that it was Giovanni, the evil leader of Team Rocket, who, along with his Organization, had arrived and he continued, "Mewtwo belongs to me and I alone will be the one to decide, whether he will survive or not."
"I don't think so!" Riku declared, standing up and pointing his Keyblade threateningly at the villians, while Misty and Brock called out their Pokemon from their Pokeballs. Riku then turns back to Ash and says to him, as if he's speaking to Sora instead, "Take Mewtwo to the Spring!"
"Okay!" Ash agreed, and began to drag Mewtwo to the Spring.
(Cue for KH-DDD Dread of the Night BGM! ^_^)
"NO!" Giovanni shouts, seeing his 'experiment' taken away from him. However, before he and his army could chase after Ash and Mewtwo, a large number of Pokemon appeared, surrounding the villians.
Seeing this, Giovanni sneered evilly at them, and to Riku's eyes, the man's body begins to become covered in darkness, sign that says that his heart is being consumed. Giovanni then says to the Pokemon, "So you wish to defy me as your leader has? Very well then, I'll crash you, too."
At his words, all of a sudden, a large giant Dream Eater-Nightmare, taking form of a Pterodactyl, appeared at his silent comand, and as Giovanni climbs onto it's back, it flies up to the Spring, much to everyone's shock.
"No you don't!" Riku shouts, giving chase along with his own friendly Dream Eaters to try and stop the Nightmare and Giovanni. They arrived just after Ash, after an argument with Cullen, had thrown Mewtwo into the Spring, and Giovanni's Nightmare begins to destroy the place.
"They're here!" Ash shouts.
"Tell me where Mewtwo is!" Giovanni demands, while his Nightmare continues to destroy the place.
Cullen, horrified, yells out the evil man, "Stop this! You can't come here and destroy this place!"
Giovanni begged to differ, as he says with an evil grin, "Yes I can! This place belongs to me!"
"Over my dead body!" Riku shouts as he slashs at Giovanni and his Nightmare who both dodge, while Riku lands on the shore near the Spring.
"Riku!" Ash cried out, relieved.
"You again!" Giovanni cursed at the silver-haired seventeen year old who glared back.
"All you want to do is take over the world and make everyone, people and Pokemon your slaves, as if they're nothing but experiments and toys, so you could play puppet master." Riku says angrily at the leader of Team Rocket. He could see, that like Xehanort, Giovanni wants to accomplish the evil impossible. In Riku's eyes, experiments equals the end of life.
Giovanni then smiled evilly, and replies, "That is because, I AM the only true being in this world!"
However, just as he said this, all of the sudden, shooting out of the water like a fountain, Mewtwo appeared behind the evil man, glowing impressivly in blue light, glaring anger at him, as the Pokemon says, "You will not Defile this place or this world! You are not the only being! The world does not belong to you! ANYMORE than I do!"
With that said, he then makes the light glow even brighter, covering up the area, and immediately destroying the Nightmare-Dream Eater as well, as he declared, "This place has given me new life." as the beam of light shoots up into the sky. "Now I shall use all my power to defend it.
(And the music ends, replaced by Sky-Blue eyes Crisis Core BGM)
The Light blinds everyone, causing them to cover their eyes. However, when it died out, Riku unshielded his eyes, and looked around, gasping in surprise. The Spring was alright, but he was the only one there. Mewtwo, Giovanni, Ash, Luna and Cullen had disappeared. Everything was quiet.
Sighing, Riku said to himself, "Despite that, he used his power to save this place, that's when this world was taken over by the Heartless. Though Ash and the others are alright, this world is trapped in a never-ending sleep. It's like Yen Sid said."
Pausing, Riku added to himself, "Giovanni tried to do what Xehanort would want, and what Maleficent wants; Domination, by using others as puppets, calling out the darkness within them."
"People who believe they are the superior of man kind could experiment on their own people, like those who are innocent are nothing but movable toys that can played with." a voice behind him said, alerting Riku to turn around and as he seen him before many times, including like back the first time in Traverse Town he briefly saw Sora, the man in red-Genesis, approach.
Despite that Genesis had made a few good points before, Riku didn't trust him. "What do you mean by that?" Riku asked, not wanting to let his guard down.
Genesis stopped beside Riku and close to the edge of the Spring, saying, "A monster who is more human at heart, and a man who is more monster at heart. Those monsters create monsters who only know the truth as they grow up."
He paused with a smirk, and added, "However, they are ways to create clones, even by placing a piece of once's DNA, cells, or perhaps a piece of their own heart into perfect vessels. In Mewtwo's case, he was created by scratch, and thus, when he awakened, he was given a soul, a heart, a gift, from the Goddess. Same as Sora's replica, who, on her own, as created a soul and heart of her own, because of the love Roxas and Axel had given her."
"You know more than you say." Riku realised, sensing that Genesis knew about Xion, who she too, is a creation from scratch. He then realised that Xion and Mewtwo have a few things in common; both were created, both developed on their own, and both have their own souls and hearts. In Xion's case, she chose to return to Sora to help both him and Roxas, which in turn, Sora's heart, Kairi's light and Lea's wish brought Xion back, making her into a new complete human being, along with Roxas and Namine. In Mewtwo's case, Ash's aid and the Lake's cure has given the Pokemon a second chance; no, more like a second Life.
A second life. Just like Xion, Roxas, Namine and Lea are having now.
"My soul corrupted by vengeance," Genesis quoted again, "Hath endured torment, to find the end of the journey in my own salvation and your eternal slumber."
Riku rolled his eyes, muttering, "Boy, you like making a lot of poerities."
The man in red-coat chuckled, turning to face Riku again, and says, "Consider yourself lucky, Riku."
"Lucky?" Riku repeated in confusion.
"You and Sora are destined to end the horrors of Xehanort's Chaos-soul." was Genesis' reply before he disappeared in the mixture of light and darkness, only confusing Riku even further.
Riku could only stare at the spot where Genesis was. "Me and Sora...destined to end Xehanort's Chaos-soul? What did he mean by that?" he asked himself.
Despite having no answer, Riku knew that it was time to go. He still has more worlds to unlock and awaken from sleep, and a friend to find. As if on cue, the Keyhole appeared above him, and, summoning his Keyblade again, he pointed the blade at the Keyhole and the light beam hits it, cracking open another portal to his next destination. (And music ends again)
Meanwhile, outside the Realm of Sleep, Roxas, Xion, Lea, Isa and Namine were just about to approach their exit towards their destination, when they noticed something in the exit. Getting a bit closer, everyone's eyes widen in shock as they realise, inside the Library of Disney Castle, were King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and on the other side of the room, where Maleficent and Pete who was holding Queen Minnie hostage. They were in trouble!
"Not those two again." Lea grumbled, remembering that he encountered them at the Castle that Never Was before confronting Xemnas.
"I remember those two." Isa sighed, "Maleficent tried to use the Heartless to get rid of me when I was Saix." he mentally cringed at the memory.
Namine gasped as she covered her mouth in horror as the scene unfolded.
They can could hear what Maleficent was saying at the end of her seemingly conversation, "I see you have failed to recognize the futility of your situation. Very well..." before she raised her staff, declaring, "Face your doom!" and fires a fire-spell to kill Mickey and the others.
"NO!" Roxas screamed, summoning his Keyblade, as did Xion, while Lea and Isa both summoned their weapons and rushed over, with Isa throwing his Claymore and Lea throwing one of his Chakrams and Xion throwing her Keyblade straight towards the group, the three weapons landing in front of Mickey, Donald and Goofy who had braced themselves, but realised that they were still alive, and that the weapons had blocked Maleficent's attack, while Lea threw his other Chakram and Roxas threw his Keyblade, both weapons flying towards Pete who, in a panic, unknowingly lets Minnie go and barely dodges the two weapons.
Seeing that she was free, Minnie wasted no time as she summoned up, "LIGHT!" to stun the evil villians, blinding Maleficent and knocking Pete to the floor, before the young Queen rushed over towards her King who in turn rushed over to her, and the two lovers held each other's hands, relieved that they together again, and Mickey was relieved that Minnie was alright, unharmed and safe. They then turned to Maleficent, and Mickey had Minnie stand behind him, Donald and Goofy who both summoned their weapons, while Mickey summoned his Kingdom Key-D Keyblade, all preparing to fight if they have to.
"Maleficent!" Mickey snarled, "You lose!"
Maleficent could only glare at them angrily, though Pete, seeing how they were outnumbered, especially since some unwanted company had saved Mickey and the others, said, "Say, uh, milady, I think the pipsqueak's right. We better hit the road!" while getting up and now was nervous.
Unfazed, though knowing she had no choice, Maleficent replied to Mickey, "I now know that what I seek lies within these walls. Trust that I will eliminate you in good time." before summoning a corridor of darkness, and calmly walked into it.
Pete, a split second late, quickly and panickly rushed to follow her, crying out, "Hey! Wait for me! Maleficent? Waaait!" before both of them disappeared into the corridor, while in the one next to Mickey and the others, Roxas and his group, relieved that they made it just in time, walked out with relieved smiles, as Roxas, Xion, Lea and Isa picked up their weapons and de-summoned them. Namine followed she rushed over to the others.
"Is everyone alright?" The former Nobody of Kairi asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, Namine. We're fine." Mickey replied, before turning to face the others again, and said, "You used the the darkness to get here? That was reckless."
Lea shrugged, "At least in our case, it comes in handy." with an somewhat embarrassed and clueless smirk.
"You're always the one to do reckless things. Did you teach Roxas that?" Isa asked.
Seeing the familiar blue-haired man, Mickey added, "Well, gosh, I kinda knew that Lea, Roxas, Xion and Namine would come, but I didn't think you'd help to save us...Saix."
"Saix no longer controls me." Isa replied, to Donald's confusion. He then added, "My name is Isa-Lea's childhood friend."
Mickey and the others were stunned to hear this, as Mickey once recalled Donald and Goofy telling him a bit about Lea's tragic past that occurred eleven years ago, how the redhead lost his first best friend, and how, as Axel, he cried when Saix died again. If that's true, then that could mean only one thing. They glanced at Lea who nodded.
"Don't worry, Isa's back to normal." Lea assured. "Sorry that we couldn't come here sooner. Things kinda happened while we were on our way here."
"What are you talking about?" Donald asked.
It was Roxas who answered, "All of the Organization XIII had came back as humans, kinda like what happened to Lea a year ago. So far, Isa and four others awoke back in Radiant Garden, and well, Namine told us about those who are connected to Sora's heart." before he and his group went into a half-full explanation on what's going on, including that Braig, the original of Xigbar, has tried to take Isa away for some reason, and that a silver-haired youth appeared out of nowhere, and how Roxas and Xion keep on having dreams on Ventus' memories.
It wasn't until after Ventus was mentioned that Mickey's eyes went wide and he asked to Lea and Isa, "You both knew Ven?"
"We didn't get to know him that well, since we only saw him once," Lea rubbed the back of his neck, "But yeah, we met the guy twelve years ago. Haven't seen him since then."
"It must've been before he lost his heart." Mickey realised. Then a thought occurred to him and he turned to Roxas, and admitted, "Come to think of it, Roxas, you're kinda like Ventus never went to sleep at all." then he wondered, "But what I don't understand is that why you and Xion are seeing Ven's memories."
"Ienzo, who was Zexion as a Nobody before returning to normal, says that even though Rox' and Xi' are humans now, they're still connected with Sora." Lea said, "Though it's still weird how that kid could have other people's memories in his heart."
"Gwarsh, I didn't know that Sora, Roxas and Xion had Venquest's memories." Goofy thought, while having misprounnanced Ventus's name like he did twelve years ago, much to Donald's annoyance.
Donald grumbled, muttering, "Goofy, just call him Ven."
"That's why we came here." Isa said, "Can you help us in solving this problem?"
Despite not having good terms with Saix, Mickey could see the strong difference in Isa, the normal eyes that match Lea's, the normal human ears that didn't remind him of Xehanort, and so, the King decided to trust him, since Roxas, Xion and Namine seem comfortable and Lea is relieved to have his best friend back.
The King nodded, "I guess we could use all the help we can get. Plus, you saved us from Maleficent, so, sure, why not?" then he said, "But we better get back to Master Yen Sid. I bet he would know about this."
"You mean that Sorcerer who taught you every cool stuff you know?" Lea asked, having recalled hearing about the Sorcerer from Roxas and Xion.
"Wait, does that mean..." Roxas trailled off, as realization dawned onto him, and even to Xion, Namine and then to Lea and Isa who both caught on, and their eyes widened in shock. All five of them muttering, "Xehanort." realising that they forgot about the one who caused the whole mess in the first place.
Mickey nodded in sad agreement. "Yup. After Ansem and Xemnas were beaten, their disappearances would bring Xehanort back, and he's the one who's responsible for having Ven losing his heart."
"Isn't there someone else who's causing problems?" Xion blurted, causing everyone to look at her.
"Whadd'ya mean?" Mickey asked, puzzled.
Xion hesitated, not wanting to bring up the horrible visions she had lately but forced herself to do so, and said, "I keep seeing Ven's memories, and in all of them, there's this...evil old man. He wanted to use Ven for some kind of X-Blade, and in one of them, you were there, your majesty."
Hearing this made Mickey's eyes widen in horror. "No..." before having a flash-back of his own, one from twelve years ago, when he was still training to become a Keyblade Master.
Flash-Back; During the events of Birth By Sleep-Aqua's tale.
Mickey and Aqua both looked up to see Ventus standing, and while Aqua was relieved that the boy was alright, Mickey stopped and noticed an unusual Keyblade, one that looked like a sword more than anything, and he could feel something...quite evil about that blade, causing alarm bells ring inside his head.
Suddenly the young King realised that something's wrong, and Ventus then tried to attack Aqua who was caught by surprise. Not willing to have his friend get hurt, Mickey summoned his Star-Seeker Keyblade, leaped and then blocked Ven's attack just in time, knocking it off course, before landing in front of Aqua, his arms spread out to protect her, as he sensed that the boy in front of him didn't have his heart.
"That's not Ven!" Mickey said accussingly at 'Ven' who eyes were now golden instead of normal blue, and his armor changed into Vanitas's.
The boy smirked evilly, replying, in two voices, one of Ven's and one of Vanitas. "Correct. I am not Ventus. His heart has become a part of mine now." much to Mickey's and Aqua's horror, as they both realised what happened. Vanitas has merged with Ven who didn't have a choice and is now trapped within Vanitas's heart.
Vanitas-Ventus than explains as he points up the X-Blade, towards the blue heart-shaped Moon that Xehanort summoned, "This X-blade will open a door-one that leads to all worlds! Then, Keyblade-bearing warriors will flock here from each and every one of them, to battle for the light within Kingdom Hearts! And just like the legend says, the Keyblade War will begin!"
"Shut up!" Aqua shouted as she and Mickey both got into fighting stances, hoping to save Ven, as she continued, "I'm sick of your nonsense! Give Ven his heart back!"
The three fought on, but as it turns out, numbers didn't matter, because Vanitas knocked them both away as Mickey and Aqua charged, and while Aquahits a rock and then falls to the ground, Mickey ended up rolling like a cannon-ball until he stopped and he lost consciousness.
When he came to, he felt an Earthquake, and when he became aware, Mickey saw bright light threatening to explode, and his gut told him it wasn't good news. "Oh no!" he cried, "It...it's gone all haywire!" as he rushed over to try and save his friends.
However, he couldn't do anything, as the blast was too powerful, and it blew Ven who somehow returned to normal but lost consciousness, and Aqua raced to try and catch im, while Mickey was left helplessly trying to prevent himself from being killed. In the huge blast it finally covered them, and Mickey and Aqua both screamed until they lost conscious.
When Mickey had regained consciousness again, he found himself back in the Lanes Between, thanks to the Star Shard, and, seeing Aqua and Ventus in their armor, with their helmets again and holding hands, he floats to them, holds Aqua's hand and silently asked the StarShard to take them back to Yen Sid's tower.
End of Flash-Back.
Mickey never understood back then on how or why Ven lost his heart, and that mysterious X-Blade. Now he did half understand. He looked firmly at Xion and said, "Xion, that man you saw that was with Ven...that was Xehanort-the real Xehanort."
"What!?" Xion, Roxas, Namine, Lea and Isa cried out, shocked.
"That...that was Xehanort?" Xion asked, "But how...?"
Lea shook his head in disbelief, saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. Are you saying that the old koot Xion kept on seeing in her nightmares was Xehanort? No way! How could it be the same guy? The Xehanort Isa and I met was in his twenties, silver hair, red-ish eyes, and he had a Keyblade!"
"I know, I and met that Xehanort too." Mickey nodded, "I don't know why, but when I first met that Xehanort when I told Ansem the Wise about the worries I had for the Worlds, I thought it was a different Xehanort. But I can guess that during the battle in a place where I last saw Ven awake when the X-blade that he and Xehanort made was destroyed by Aqua, it's explosion may have caused Xehanort to become younger."
"And lose his memories until he decided to kill everyone and turn us into Nobodies?" Isa asked skeptically, before saying, "That doesn't sound right to me."
"And right then, after Ventus lost his heart, he and Sora then somehow became connected in a special way." Namine added in worry. "If Sora's not careful, the memories he has will break his heart."
"What about this Terra guy?" Roxas asked, "In my dreams, I see Ven and Terra in them, and those two remind me of Sora and Riku, and me and Lea when he was Axel."
Mickey sighed, and answered, "Terra...he disappeared. I still don't know where he is. At least I know that Aqua is trapped within the Realm of Darkness, and I'm sure that we're close in figuring out where Ven's heart is."
"What about his body? Where'd that go?" Lea asked.
"Oh, Aqua placed him somewhere safe." Mickey replied.
"I get is." Roxas thought. "So, to find and help Ven, Aqua is the only one who knows where he is, and she needs to be rescued first, right?"
All this information was causing Lea to feel so uncomfortable that he was remembering when Xehanort killed him back eleven years ago. He then couldn't help but ask, "When was the last place Terra was seen?"
"At the Keyblade Graveyard. That's what Aqua told me." Mickey answered, "And Xehanort disappeared there too, only to appear in Radiant Garden."
That's what Lea was afraid of, because once again, he recalled on Braig's words to Xehanort, and Xigbar's last words to him as Axel.
"Do you remember now, or...Wait, did you never lose your memory?"
"With Xehanort...anything is possible."
Suddenly it made sense as Lea's eyes widened in a horrified realization. "I think I have a thoery on how Terra disappeared and how Xehanort turned young again." causing everyone to stare at him, and, seeing his expression made them worried.
"What do you mean?" Isa asked, before he realised what his best friend meant, and muttered, "Of course...Perhaps Terra reappeared with Xehanort, and we never knew it."
"Whadd'ya mean? I'm kinda confused." Goofy asked.
Lea shrugged, "Well, think about it. People don't just go poof and disappear and never to be seen again, and old guys don't just turn young again, unless they had some kind of Fountain of Youth thing happening, losing their memories for a year until they got them back again." he paused, before looking at Donald and Goofy, adding, "And you guys remember how Xehanort's Heartless took over Riku's body to rematerialize himself before you guys and Sora managed to stop him, right?"
Realisation dawn on everyone, as Mickey gasped, before lowering his head. "No...How could I have not seen that!?" he cursed at himself for being so stupid. He looked up and said, "Xehanort took over Terra's heart and body! That's why he was familiar!"
"WHAAAAT!?" Donald, Goofy, Namine, Roxas and Xion gasped in horror. Even Minnie gasped, Isa's eyes widened in shock, and Lea grumbled.
The redhead sighed, "Well, crud. I was hoping that I was wrong."
"But, if that's true, then Terra should come back, right? I mean, Xehanort turned into a Heartless and created Xemnas." Roxas pointed out.
"Well, I'm not sure." Mickey replied, "But one way or another, I gotta get back to Yen Sid!"
"I'm afraid that cannot happen." a new voice joined them, alerting everyone.
"Who's there!?" Lea demanded as they all looked to see, and out of a corridor that wasn't light or darkness, walked in two women, one who was in her twenties, and another who looked like she was only ten years old, but held saber-weapons in her hands. The group could tell that the two girls were related, and as Lea looked at them, his eyes widen as he recalled who they were.
(Ten Year Reunion-Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII BGM)
"You!" Lea hissed accussingly, glaring daggers at the youngest who's expression was emotionless. "You're the one who trapped my friends and I in that cage on that Cannibal island!"
"It was for the best, Lea, former 8th member of Organzation XIII." said the youngest girl, who is Shelke.
"You call knocking us out and putting out lives in danger in getting killed for the best!?" Roxas yelled, ready to summon his Keyblade.
The older woman, Shalua, who was the one who had replied to Mickey, said, "We had to buy time to prevent our enemies from gaining vessels. Your hearts are too clouded and need to be returned to darkness."
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Mickey demanded, summoning his Keyblade again, this time, he chose his Star-Seeker.
"Shalua Rai," Shalua answered, and added while gesturing to the girl next to her, "And this is Shelke, my younger sister."
"What do you want?" Donald demanded.
"To stop the enemy from destroying the Realm of Light." Shelke answered, "First, we need to destroy the vessels that are a serious threat." staring directly at Lea, Isa, Roxas, Namine and Xion who blinked before glaring at her again.
"We're not vessels!" Roxas pointed out.
"To the enemy, everyone is nothing but tools." Shalua stated, taking some kind of marble and held it up, just as a bright light shined, blinding everyone briefly, before they felt movement, and then Namine screaming, alarming them as the light faded.
"Namine!" Roxas and Lea cried out as they and the others turned around, to see that Shelke and Shalua, in the distraction, had taken Namine hostage, and were now opening a portal to somewhere else. Without second thought, Roxas rushed in as the three women entered it, Namine struggling to get free.
"Roxas!" Lea shouted, quickly following, with Isa and Xion. Mickey and the others all glanced at each other, before Minnie nodded at them, knowing what has to be done.
"Be careful." Minnie said.
Mickey nodded, "Stay safe, Min'." before he nodded to Donald and Goofy who both nodded in determinded agreement, before the trio quickly rushed into the portal before it closed, leaving Minnie all by herself in the Library.
A/N: I know that the soundtrack is later than expected, but I figured that you guys would know that most of the music(even though it's not in the story itself and I don't own them, but anyway) are from KH2 and BBS, I love the KH music, and even the FFVII music, especially Advent Children, Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core. And I had to add in a little something with Riku, and I will extend Sora in the later chapters, and I love Pokemon, so, I kinda replaced Mickey, Donald and Goofy the Three Musketeers world for that, since, why have two worlds with Mickey's past?
Anyway, what will happen next? Are Shelke and Shalua allies or foes? Will Roxas and the others safe Namine and get the answers they desperately seek? What are the strange people seeking? What will become of Sora and Riku? Let's found out next time!
Please continue your awesome reviews, everyone. I might not be back for a while, though, due to the next couple of weeks are gonna be very busy, starting tomorrow. But I will, without a doubt, return.