This is it! The last Real Chapter before the Epilogue!
The shoutouts!
TerraKH: I'm happy you liked the last chapter and hopefully you like that Capter too!
khheroxasoray: It's finaly Saturday, isn't it? I hope you like it!
TheEightLight: Yeah, but it probably end with your hometown destroyed... ^^
Aaaaaaand Chapter 20!
They entered the room and walked towards the armored man. They both wore their armor without a helmet.
"Kairi, go away from him! All he wants is killing us!" the armored man said and removed his helmet.
Sora and Kairi stopped "What are you talking about, Riku? Sora isn't dangerous, but the Central is!" Kairi said angry to their best friend.
Riku summoned Way to dawn and pointed it at Sora "Go away from Kairi or you'll pay for it!" he yelled angry at him.
"Riku what's wrong with you? I won't do Kairi any harm!" Sora said angry and walked a few steps forward.
"What's wrong with ME? Who killed the other Keyblade Masters, our friends, and tried to take over Disney Kingdom? You or I?" Riku asked angry.
"I killed nobody Riku! They are all alive!" Sora yelled.
"Liar! You killed them and betrayed us! You were my best friend! But once again, I'm the one to stop you from a betrayal. And this time you won't win this fight!" Riku yelled and charged at Sora.
Sora jumped up in the air and summoned Oathkeeper. A force field appeared around them, forcing Kairi to watch from the outside.
Riku turned around and attacked Sora again and this time their Keyblade clashed together.
"I won't fight you, Riku!" Sora said angry as the faced each other.
Riku pushed him away and fired a thunder spell after Sora "That's too bad, 'cause I won't stop fighting you!"
Sora dodged the lightning and landed on the ground.
"Riku," he said as calm as possible "I didn't kill Terra, Aqua, Ven or Lea. They are all alive. And I would never ever harm Kairi!"
Riku charged at him again and tried to send him in the air with a strong upward strike. Sora blocked the attack, but was still send into the air by the force of the Keyblades impact. Riku jumped after him and send a furry of strikes at Sora. He easily blocked every hit, but was send even higher in the air with every hit. Riku casted two dark auras and hit Sora with one, the other barely missing him.
Stunned by the darkness, Sora was unable to block or dodge every hit and received some nasty scratches on his armor. With a Graviga spell, Riku send both crashing to the ground again.
Sora landed on his left shoulder and could hear a loud crack as he hit the ground.
Riku immediately jumped up again and rushed at Sora, who managed to get up as quick as Riku.
He send Way to Dawn crashing down on Sora, who blocked the attack and blocked the two sideward hits too.
Riku changed his attack pattern and started to stab after Sora. After a few blocked attacks, Sora casted an Aero spell and send Riku flying a few meters away.
As Riku looked up again, Sora threw his Keyblade away from both and spread out his arms.
"See, I won't fight yo-" but Sora was interrupted by a slash over his chest.
The Keyblade went right through the armor and cut over Sora's chest, breaking a few Rips the way down. The cut went from his right shoulder to his left waist, barely missing the burnet spot over his heart.
He could hear Kairi scream "NO!"
With a shocked expression, Sora went down on his knees. The pain that covered his chest and shoulders was almost unbearable.
Riku was now direct in front of him and pointed Way to Dawn at his heart.
"This is it, isn't it?" Roxas asked in Sora's mind.
Sora looked up to his friend,
"Before it's over… I have to ask…" Sora whispered "Would you regret it?"
After a second Riku nodded slightly "More than everything else."
Sora smiled "You don't have to." He whispered and raised a hand "Aeroga!"
A small storm rose from Soras palm and sent Riku flying to the other side of the force field.
Sora summoned Oathkeeper into his hand and used it as support to get up again.
"Did you… really think I'd give up so easy and let you make the biggest mistake in your live?" he asked and took a small step closer to his best friend.
"I hopped you would…" Riku said as he got up again.
Sora managed to take a few more steps before he went down on his knees again.
"What's wrong Sora? I thought you'd be more of a challenge." Riku asked as he readied his Keyblade again.
Suddenly, four portals of Light surrounded Riku and four armored figures stepped out.
Each one pointed his Keyblade at him.
"Stop Riku." A man in an orange and brown armor said and pulled his Helmet off, revealing Terra under it.
The woman in blue armor spoke next "Don't even think about fighting." And pulled her helmet off to show she was Aqua.
The last two nodded and removed their helmets too "We are here to get all of you out of here, so stop fighting each other." Ven said.
"Yeah and start fighting the Central, got it memorized." Lea added.
"You guys are alive…" Riku said shocked "but it looks like he controls you. I'll stop that!" he yelled and pointed his Keyblade at Sora.
With an explosion of light and darkness, a sharp projectile out of solid Twilight shot out of Way to Dawn and right at Sora.
Once again, everything went very quick.
Terra, Ven and Lea grabbed Riku, so he couldn't do more damage.
A Corridor of Darkness opened in the same moment on Sora's side. Out of it came a black haired woman with a big sword. The projectile crashed into the blade and shattered in million pieces. Sora wasn't sure if it was planned or just sheer luck.
"Let me go! Don't you see it? You are only puppets in his plan!" Riku yelled angry and tried to free himself out of the three Keyblade masters grip.
The whole lobby was suddenly filled with the sound of slow clapping.
Everybody looked around to see where the sound came from.
Out of the shadows in the middle floor, a man in a dark business suit revealed himself. He had short brown hair and was slightly tanned.
"The ignorance of you all is just amazing. The one excuses the other one for things like killing friends, but the breaking of the seal to the Dark Realm seems to be not bad at all." He said as he walked to the railing, to overlook the main floor.
"The funny thing is," he continued "I can control five of you and make you my puppets with the snap of my fingers. Okay, I already control one, but it's still the same, don't you think?"
The man snapped his fingers and the look of Terra, Aqua, Ven and Lea turned from an angry gaze into something that looked complete emotion- and expressionless.
"They are my puppets. Puppets to finally awake the real Darkness deep in the Dark Realm and spread it over all worlds." He said.
"Who are you?" Asked Sora, who managed to get up again with the support of his Keyblade and Xion.
"My name is of no need. Just call me… hmm… Moriaty, yeah that should be enough. It's not my real name, though." The man said and grinned.
With a crackle, the force field went down and allowed Kairi to come to Sora's aid.
"What did you do to them?" Xion asked, pointing at their friends.
Moriaty started to laugh "I control them, I did mention that, did I?"
Meanwhile Kairi casted a Curaga spell at Sora.
"But what gives you the control?" Sora asked as he was strong enough again.
"You know… Because you soon will die, I'll tell you. Each of them had to make a standard health check, where they were send into the land of sleep. While they did this, we placed a chip on their spine that we could use if they are not following my orders. As the head of the Central, I am the only one with control over them. The control is pretty easy I just give them orders," he tapped on his head "with my thoughts."
The mind-controlled Keyblade wielder raised their Keyblades and got in a battle stance.
"Guess what I just ordered." Moriaty said with joy.
A force field appeared in front of each floor's railing, making Cissnei and Ralene unable to help their friends.
Sora casted a full Cure at him and immediately felt better. Checking his shoulder if it still was broken he looked at the two women on his side.
"Ready?" he asked as he summoned Oblivion too.
Both women nodded and readied their own weapons.
"I got a bad feeling about this," Xion said to herself.
The mindless Keyblade masters charged at them, and so did they.
Sora stormed forward and with a hit of his Keyblades, sent Terra and Lea into the air. Ven immediately jumped after them and tried to attack Sora as good as possible. Meanwhile Kairi engaged Aqua into a battle while Xion occupied Riku.
Terra and Lea both struggled blocking Sora's attacks and where soon helpless against his speed. Not even Ven was able to land more than two hits on him before he was send back to the ground by a kick in the face. He again hit Terra and then Lea multiple times to send them higher. As they were halfway up to the ceiling of the lobby, Sora casted a Magnet spell to make Terra and Lea stick together.
"It's time to end this." Sora said and began to glow in a faint blue light. With a flash eleven blades of light appeared around the two puppets. He let go of Oblivion and it floated to its spot in the circle of blades. However, before he was able to attack, Ven cut Sora over his back and send him flying back to the ground. Ven grabbed one of the glowing blades and used a Firaga spell to shoot himself towards Sora. Using his Wayward Wind backhand like always and the light blade normal he tried to hit Sora as hard as possible. But his plan failed as Sora disappeared under him and reappeared above him. With a kick in the back he sent him crashing hard into the ground, knocking him out. The boost he gained was enough to shoot him back to the still magnetized Terra and Lea.
Kairi send a wall of light towards her controlled friend. The light didn't harm Aqua, but send her flying away, giving Kairi time to prepare another attack.
"I already regret saving you from the Universed!" Aqua yelled as she charged at Kairi again.
Kairi jumped over Aqua and used a powerful Graviga spell to stick the blue haired woman to the ground.
"Yeah, and I regret helping you leave the realm of Darkness." Kairi said angry
With a groan, Aqua got up again and shot dozen of icicles towards Kairi. The princess of light however summoned a reflect bubble and send a part of the icicles back to the caster of the spell.
One of the icicles went into Aqua's leg and rendered her helpless against Kairis next attack. Kairi charged at Aqua and with a forceful hit of Destiny's Embrace, she send her flying. The red haired woman jumped after the blue haired one and with a second strike send her crashing into the wall of the lobby.
"A bitch like you don't deserve to be called a princess, you know?" Aqua said angry as she got up again, whipping blood from her chin.
Kairi was ready to charge again at her friend and send her again into the wall again. She could hear somebody crashing into the ground.
Both women charged at each other. Kairi jumped, placed her foot on Aqua's chest and kicked in her face with the other one. The blue haired woman fell back on the ground and remained there, probably unconscious.
To be sure, Kairi walked closer and pointed her Keyblade at Aqua. Before she could cast a sleeping spell on her, Aqua grabbed Destiny's Embrace and used it to send Kairi flying through the lobby.
"I already defeated you once, and this time will be not different!" Riku yelled as he charged at Xion. Before he even reached Xion, she casted a Blizzard and made the front part of his armor freeze.
Unable to move properly, Riku backed up and tried to get rid of the ice by heating his armor with a fire spell.
"I think the thing is, this time it's my own weapon. Not Sora's Keyblade." Xion yelled and send a furry of five powerful slashes at Riku. The first two where crossed, the third was an upward slash, and the last two where two vertical slashes, forming a V.
"You already met the big brother of my Pentaslash didn't you?" Xion asked as Riku gasped shocked while he crashed through the air.
With a war cry, Xion jumped after him and send him crashing into the wall.
"Don't look like you are fit enough to beat me…" Riku muttered as he got up again.
Xion lifted XIV Return and was ready to take the next blow Riku was going to send at her "What are you talking about? I am on the upper hand not you!" she said confused.
Riku lifted his hand "We'll see." he shot multiple spikes of twilight at Xion, who was not fast enough to dodge the attack.
She dropped her sword, raised her arms in front of her face and closed her eyes.
"Roxas, Axel, Sora. I'm sorry." She thought.
As nothing happened, she opened her eyes again.
In front of her were two ghostlike images.
The smaller one was Roxas and the other one was Axel. Both held off the spikes with their transparent bodies.
"C'mon Xi, you can do better than this!" Roxas said with a grin.
Xion was confused "Wha-"
"No, we're not the real ones. We are just their images in your heart. A second chance for you." Roxas explained as a second wave of spikes went into the two.
"Don't waste it, got it memorized." Axel said as they vanished again.
Xion quickly picked up her sword again and charged at the shocked Riku.
With a powerful kick in the guts, she send him to the ground.
"Stay there." She commanded.
Riku grabbed her leg and threw her in the next wall.
"Sorry, but now it's time to end this." Sora said as he reached the two Keyblade masters. With an Aeroga he send the two even higher up in the air. He once again glowed in a blue light and summoned the eleven blades of light.
"If you screw up again, you're fucked." Roxas said in his mind.
"Thanks for the helpful comment. I know that my power is almost used."
"You're welcome." Roxas said laughing.
Sora renewed the Magnet spell and let go of Oblivion again. The black Keyblade joined the circle of light again and waited for its master.
"It's for your best…" Sora said as he charged at the two.
He hit both with Oathkeeper and then charged to the next blade, leaving Oathkeeper and a shining blue silhouette holding it behind. He continued the same procedure with the other twelve swords and after the last one, Oblivion, he shot higher in the air and watched as the thirteen silhouettes did the same again. The thirteen blades fused into one giant glowing one and floated up to Sora.
"Are you crazy?" Roxas asked shocked.
As Xion got up from the Wall again, Kairi crashed into it too.
With a groan of pain, the Princess of Heart got up and casted a Curaga on both.
"Looks like we need to work together to win." Xion said and spit out the blood in her mouth.
Kairi whipped the blood that came from a cut on her cheek away "Yeah, seems so."
Aqua and Riku both appeared in front of them and charged at them.
Xion stepped forward and attacked both while Kairi waited for the right moment to attack too.
Xion spun around and send Aqua and Riku flying "Kairi now!" she yelled.
The red haired woman nodded and leaped forward, landing on the back of XIV Return.
"Good flight." Xion said and Kairi jumped away with the boost from Xion.
She crashed into Aqua and, with the handle of her Keyblade, knocked her out.
Xion charged at Riku and blocked the initial attack from him.
"You won't win." She growled and punched him in the face.
With a groan he stumbled backwards and was hit again by the back of Xion's sword. He landed not far away from Aqua and Kairi, unconscious.
Kairi whipped the sweat from her forehead "I think we di-" but she stopped as a bright light appeared in the room.
"Are you crazy?"
Sora turned around and looked right at Moriaty.
The man grinned maniacally.
With all his power, Sora swung the sword of light at the force field between him and Moriaty.
After about twenty strikes he backed up and pointed the blade at the force field and Moriaty "This is for you, Son of a Bitch!" he yelled and the blade turned into a bright beam of light and shot into the barrier.
After several seconds of blinding light, the beam started to fade and all he left was Oathkeeper and Oblivion. Despite all of Sora's efforts, the force field was still intact.
"How?" Sora asked himself as he sunk down to the ground again.
He landed on Kairi and Xion's side and barely managed to stand.
"Sora, what happened?" Kairi asked shocked as she grabbed his arm to support him.
"I just burned out…" he whispered and looked around.
Terra, Ven and Lea laid knocked out on the floor behind them and Riku and Aqua laid in front of them.
"You can't believe how entertaining this fight was!" Moriaty said as he looked down on the battleground.
"You did this to your entertainment?" Xion asked in disbelief.
Moriaty began to laugh "Not only, but yes. Yes, I did."
"You sick bastard." Sora pressed out between his lips.
The suited man looked disappointed at Sora "That's it? Sick bastard? C'mon I thought you had more than this!" he said.
The five defeated Keyblade master got to their feet again and were ready to attack again.
"These are my puppets, they feel no pain!" Moriaty said as he saw the shocked expressions on the three warriors' faces.
Behind Moriaty came a man out of the shadows. He had long black hair and a dot on his forehead. He wore the same suit as Cissnei wore.
"Stop it, Moriaty." The man said and pointed his gun at Moriaty's head.
Moriaty smirked "Ah, still fit enough to fight as I see, Tseng?" he asked sarcastically.
"Shut up and make them stop!" Tseng yelled at him and pushed the gun at Moriaty's head.
Sora, Kairi and Xion readied their weapons again, even though they couldn't stand a chance anymore.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." Moriaty whispered and turned around. He held a gun and pointed it at Tseng.
Two shots fell at the same moment and both men collapsed to the ground.
Moriaty's five puppets collapsed to the ground again-
"Tseng!" everybody in the room screamed and Ralene, who was blocked by a force field ran to him.
"He's still alive! But Moriaty's not so lucky." Ralene reported her friends.
"Tseng!" someone called out and ran to the wounded Turk. A blond woman, followed by two men.
Sora smiled. "Seems like this is ov-" but he just fell over and remained on the floor.
"Sora!" Kairi cried out and turned her fiancé around to see if he's alright.
"Come on Sora, wake up!" she said and tried to wake him up "It's not the time for a nap."
Someone touched her shoulder "Kairi…" Xion whispered.
"No, he wakes up every moment." She said with tears in her eyes.
Sora slowly opened his eyes.
"Hey…" he whispered "Kairi… seems like… we won huh?"
Kairi nodded with tears running down her cheek.
"I hope this are tears… of happiness…" Sora muttered weak.
"Stay with me Sora, don't fall asleep."
Sora smiled "I'll always stay with you."
"Just don't go."
"I'm… Sorry, Kairi."
He closed his eyes again and slipped into darkness.
Phew... Finally. The final battle is over.
But don't worry. There is still one last chapter and then I'll release the first Chapter of my Kingdom Hearts 3. The name will be "Kingdom Hearts 3: Dawning War" but i'm still not sure how to name it in the end.
Okay, my poll is official over now. And the ending will be... *looks on Pollpage*
A Happy end!
Look out for the next and last Chapter of Reawakening of Darkness!
Till then, read good stuff!