Kingdom Hearts: Rebirth
Chapter 20: Hollow Bastion
Karma's Slave
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts
Warning: Spoilers for Birth by Sleep, Kingdom hearts and Kingdom hearts Final Mix.
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I cut the first Riku fight because what was the point when we'd have to fight him again. After Maleficent I really tried to write fight scenes, in that I do admit I am amateur to writing detailed fights. But I promise for THE final fight, I will bust my ass for you people.
And I'd like to thank you all for reading and reviewing and faving this story.
FlightFoot, Yes there will be more in fact 358/2 Days and Chain of Memories is next. But that will be one story, since they take place within each other. And then Kingdom Hearts 2 as the third story
"Hey Sora" said a young Riku
"Hm?"
"When we grow up let's get off this island" Said the young child, "We'll go on real adventures, not this kid stuff!"
"Sure Riku, but isn't there anything to do now?" asked the young Sora. "Hey, let's go play with that girl we found, she's at the mayor's house right." Spoke the younger Sora, as he headed out the cave. Riku was about to do the same until something had caught his eye, he turned around and found a bright gold-ish oversized keyhole on the wooden door.
Riku thrashed about to his knees on the floor as he woke up from his memory, breathing heavily in and out of his mouth; "It was reckless to bring her here, without at least using a vessel" chided Maleficent. "Remember, Riku, relying too heavily on your dark powers, will cost you your heart." Spoke Maleficent
An angry roar could be heard within miles of the chamber they were in, Riku shot up from the floor. "I see, we have a castaway, though his world perished, his heart did not. When we took the princess from his castle, apparently he followed her here; through the sheer force of his will but fear not. No harm will come to you. He is no match for your power"
"My power?"
"Yes, the untapped power that lays within you, now my child, its time you that you awaken that power and realize your full potential" shouted Maleficent. Riku was surrounded with a green grow, "What's happening to me? Is this really what I wanted" he thought to himself.
Our Gummi ship stopped in front of a new world, I had a dark feeling about this world. "This must be Hollow Bastion" I said to the others. "And yet why does it feel like I've been here before, it could be possible, that this once was another peaceful world once and I do know for a fact that Maleficent is from Enchanted Dominion" Aqua thought to herself.
We set the gummi ship to disembark for that world.
"It's time" I said aloud, not really knowing if any of the others had heard me.
We were surrounded by water, as we landed on a solid platform. We stood to look around at the area to get a better feel for it and by the looks of this world it was distorted by destruction as well as magic.
"Gawrsh! Look at that" pointed out Goofy. We looked over to see what Goofy was talking about, a castle. It looked familiar but not in a recognizing way.
"I know this place," Sora speaking up. "I wonder why, I feel this warmth right inside here" Sora placing a hand over his heart.
"Maybe, you're just hungry" Said Donald.
"Hey! I'm being serious"
"It's alright Sora, I believe you." I told him. "Let's move, if this really is Maleficent's base of operations, we can't stay in one spot." Aqua then said to the others.
"No vessel, no help from the heartless; how'd you get here" Riku said to the beast in front of him.
"I simply, believed. Nothing more to it" answered the beast. "When our world was taken to darkness, Belle was taken from me. I vowed I'd find her again, no matter what the cost. I believed, I would finder her, so here I am. She must be here" explained Beast. "I will have her back!" Beast roared.
"Take her, if you can" taunted Riku.
Beast letting out one angrier roar before he leapt up into the air to attack Riku; as Beast grew closer to Riku, Riku back flipped to avoid being hit by Beast. However Riku and his dark keyblade lunged towards the beast and attacked
"Riku Stop," Came Sora's voice.
"So, you all finally made it! About time I've been waiting." Said Riku, "Ever since we began our training Sora, we've always been rivals, haven't we?" Aqua looking to her student was this is real reason for his...betrayal.
"You've pushed me as I have pushed you" Riku then added.
"Riku?"
"But it all ends here, there can't be two keyblade masters!" said Riku, "What are you talking about?" asked Sora.
"What!"
"What!"
"Riku! Keyblade or no keyblade, you and Sora are so far from being masters. The title of 'Master' is earned not handed out" Aqua said firmly. "And for your information Riku, more than one Keyblade master, can coexist, I'm sure there's a part of you that knows that." She added.
"Let that keyblade choose its real master!" as Riku lifted his hand summoning the keyblade in Sora's hand. And it worked; Sora's keyblade went to Riku.
"Huh?" "What?" said Donald and Goofy?
"That can't be possible" as Aqua couldn't believe what she just saw.
"Ha-ha, Maleficent was right; you don't have what it takes to save Kairi! It's up to me; only the keyblade master can open the secret door and change the world' finished Riku
"But that's impossible, how did this happen?" Sora turning to Aqua, who was just as confused as he was, "I'm the one who fought my way here with the keyblade!"
"You were just the delivery boy." chided Riku, "Your parts over now, Sora, here go play with this!" as Riku tossed down one of his and Sora's wooden swords. Sora dropped to his hands and knees, he felt sick.
Riku left the foursome. "Let's go Goofy; we have to remember our mission to the king"
"Oh! Well, I know that the king told us to follow the key and all...but" Aqua couldn't believe was she was hearing, "you both can't be serious, leaving Sora, after all we've been through together" she then shouted. "Fine! You just go!" Aqua then screamed.
"We're sorry" muttered the animal duo as they walked away. Aqua bent down to Sora, "Get up Sora, we have work to do." as Aqua was trying to get Sora off of the floor. Beast had walked passed them heading for the castle. Sora lifted his head and looked to the beast, getting up from the ground, "Hey don't move you're hurt"
"Why...why did you...you come here" he asked us, as I too, went up to them. "I came to fight for Belle and though I am on my own, I will fight for her; I refuse to leave without her. It's why I am here." explained the beast.
Sora went and picked up the wooden sword, "I'm fighting for someone special too." He told Beast. "I'm fighting because it's my duty to protect and to keep balance." Aqua, also mentioned to beast. Summoning her keyblade, "Heal" she said as Beast wounds began to fade away. And the new formed trio headed towards the castle of Hollow Bastion, it was like a maze while inside of a puzzle, we had to be extremely careful at all costs but even so, it still didn't change that fact that a cloaked man standing on mountain of rubble had his amber golden eyes locked on to Aqua.
It wouldn't even matter, once inside the castle
There she was, Kairi, in some form of an encasement, in the higher level of this chamber. While the kidnapped women were also in another form of casing; Maleficent walking further into this chamber before stopping altogether, "oh, purest of hearts, reveal to me the keyhole." Soon a pink light appeared from each princess of heart, Jasmine, Belle, Alice, Snow white, Cinderella, Aurora, and lastly Kairi. The pinks lights had become one and made its way to the keyhole of Hollow Bastion.
"Be on your guard!" said beast, whom has been a tremendous asset since we came to this world, with his strength and animalistic speed. We came further into a room, "They're close, and I can feel it. Are you ready for them?" Beast said to us, but I knew that question was more for Sora, then myself, but for the record, for the first time in a long time; I don't think I have ever been so nervous and scared not just for myself, but for Riku, Sora and Kairi.
Something had caught beast's eye, "Belle?" he questioned, seeing her figure but then that same figure change to an image of a lesser heartless. Beast let out a monstrous roar and set off after the small lesser heartless, leaving Aqua and Sora, to whatever is in this room.
"I really wish I could say, I didn't see that coming" thought Aqua, ignoring the fact that she didn't know Beast personally but it didn't take long to figure out that Beast is a hot head with a short temper.
"Nice warning, he gave, shame he couldn't take his own advice!" came in the Ven voice, Aqua sighed at the voice, "Not now!" she said aloud, getting an odd look from Sora.
"Quit, while you can" came Riku's voice.
"Funny, I was going to tell you the same thing." Aqua said to him.
"No Riku, not without Kairi!" spoke Sora. "The darkness will destroy you" Riku said as flames of darkness covered Riku's body, changing his attire. Aqua's eyes widen at the attire, it was nearly identical to Vanitas's suite. Only differences were the coloring and the heartless symbol. "No way, it can't be, how!" she heard the Ven like voice.
"I thought you said, he didn't remember, anything!" that thought directed at her old master. "He must be remembering through a subconscious mind. Remember how he behaved, when possessing Terra and now compare it now to Riku." Said Eraqus, "Xehanort did what to Terra!" shouted Ven voice. "It is different from before" Aqua muttered lowly to herself, focusing back on to Riku.
"You're wrong, Riku" Sora told him. "The darkness may destroy my body, but it can never touch my heart; my heart will stay will all my friends, it'll never die" he then added.
"Oh yeah! We'll just have to see about that!" Riku, then managing to throw a dark blue energy ball at Sora, Aqua Summoned her keyblade. The energy ball was light blinding as it came closer but soon enough Aqua and Goofy had deflected it, to protect Sora.
"Sora isn't going anywhere!" shouted Goofy.
"You'd betray your king!" Riku excused, "Not on your life but I'm not going to betray Sora, either." Declared Goofy. "Cause he's become one of my best buddies after all we've been through together, and the same goes for Aqua." he then added. "See ya later, Donald; could you tell the king, I'm really sorry."
"Hold it, right there Goofy, we'll tell him together" the short tempered duck running over, reuniting the foursome. "Well you know, all for one and one for all" added Donald. "You're stuck with us now, Sora" said Goofy
"Thanks, Donald, Goofy"
"How will you fight without a weapon, Sora" Riku taunted summoning the kingdom key, waving it around as if it were a wood on fire.
"Have you forgotten already ready...Riku" Aqua spoke putting a questionable emphasis on Riku's name. "you claim that you are at the status of a keyblade master, but how would you fair against a real master" Aqua stepping forward to Riku, Riku's face showed that sadistic smile she knew all too well, while she looked down to Riku's hands; they were shaking. "So Riku is still in there, he hasn't been pushed out yet" thought the bluenette master.
And so as I was going to make my first attack,
"Wait" Sora screamed out to us. Aqua stopped. "I know now, that I don't need a keyblade because I've got a greater weapon, my heart" declared Sora, with such confidence; it would be hard to believe that.
"Your heart?" he laughed, "tell me, what good will that weak little thing do for you?"
"Although my heart maybe weak, it's not alone. It's growing with each new experience and it's found a home with all the friends I have made. I've become a part of their hearts just as they've become mine. And when they'll think of me, now and then, if they don't forget me, then our hearts will be one." Sora took a stance with the wooden sword, "my friends are my power!" And with that the keyblade moved back to Sora, leaving Riku weaponless, even his attire had returned to his own clothing.
As Riku ran off, beast had returned to us, "So your heart won this battle." He said.
"Sora, I'm so proud of you" Aqua told him.
"Thanks Master Aqua, but what about Riku and Kairi?"
"Well deal with itand bring him to back to us. I promise you, Sora, we'll get them back"
Riku ran as he panted, breathing heavily through his mouth, "Why! It was mine, it was always mine. He gave it to me, not Sora" Riku screamed.
"Know this boy; a heart that is strong and true shall win the keyblade." Riku staring at a smoky figure, standing in the darkest corner, "So what are saying that my heart is weaker than his?" questioned Riku. "For that instant, it was" spoke the voice of the smoky figure, Riku clenched his hands tightly, the sound of his gloves moving could be heard. "However, you can become stronger" the voice temping Riku, "you showed no fear when stepping into the door to darkness, it held no terror for you, plunge deeper into the darkness and your heart shall grow even stronger.
"What should I do?" Riku said to the figure, as he looked down at the ground.
"it's really quite simple, open yourself to the darkness that is all, let your heart, your very being become darkness it's self.
Riku headed back to the chamber where Kairi and the other princesses of hearts were, he joined Maleficent on the room's upper platform, and where the evil witch was standing in front of the revealed keyhole, only this keyhole is different from the others. It had colors swirling in the inside and it was in a shape of the heartless symbol.
"So I see, the path has emerged' Said Riku, his voice more different then it was before but even his dark suite had appeared once again. It sounds like two people were speaking at once. "Yes, the keyhole to the darkness" spoke the witch.
"Unlock it and this world shall be overrun with heartless" spoke Riku. "Why should I care? The darkness has no hold over me" responding to the fifteen year old, rather I will use this power to rule all of the worlds." stated the evil being.
"Ha, such confidence" said Riku, as he raised his hand into the hair, summoning another keyblade except this one was different from the one, Riku was using from before. It was long and black, with a red handle.
"Oh," sounded Maleficent as she appeared to be impressed with this new keyblade, but when she laid her eyes on the blade's head, she noticed this was different then the other keyblades, "Impossible! All the princesses of heart are here. It must be her!" Maleficent then look down towards Kairi as she and Riku walked up to the comatose girl. "Without her heart, she'll never be able to unlock her own powers" before anything else could have been said, voices of the foursome could be heard, as they were fighting the heartless that ran about in this castle.
"The kings fools are here, along with some friends. I shall deal with them myself." Spoke Maleficent as she began to head out to the others. "Stay here and guard the Princesses" Maleficent then added with her back turned. Riku's body was covering in a shimmering smoky blue aura.
After our encounter with Riku, we split up to uncover more ground in the castle. Sora traveling with beast, Donald with Goofy, and me, by myself; we had a meeting spot to get back too and regroup. I told the others to look for anything that could be useful to our causes, while I went in search of Riku. I knew that bastard Xehanort was lurking inside of him but in our encounter I noticed that he didn't stay within Riku which changes the situation entirely, Riku has or was fighting against Xehanort.
I was the first to get back to meeting place, then Goofy and Donald and lastly, Beast and Sora. Sora had found something. He brought back a book.
Aqua, took the book from Sora to inspect it, she noticed it said 'Reports' and written by Ansem the wise; as Aqua skimmed through the book, something had caught her attention. "This is odd, it's like to two different people wrote it." Shutting the book, I placed into our small stock of items to keep it safe.
"I'm afraid you're too late" entered Maleficent's voice. "Any moment now, the final keyhole will be unsealed. This world will finally be plunged into darkness. It is unstoppable."
"We'll stop it, after coming this far. There's no way we're going to let that happen." Sora speaking up. "Poor simple, fools think you can defeat me? Me, the mistress of all evil!"
"Actually, we know we can" Aqua spoke as she took a stance with her keyblade as did the others.
And so the battle with the dark witch had begun. The witch stood on a platform, which was easy to bring down, using the gravity spell; it made Maleficent vulnerable to our attacks. She would summon dark meteor at us. We used mostly magic to defend it off.
But Sora was the only in her closer range, he managed to prop himself on to the platform using a new technique he learned on his own; it was called, Ars Arcanum it looked similar to how I fought with blade charge. It was all the witch could take before she had fled in the midst of the fight.
"After her!" Aqua shouted, the foursome left while Beast went looking for the Princesses.
Maleficent made to another room, aware that the others would no doubt soon find her, she had not expected to be nearly taken down by some child, and she will not fail like the other incompetent fools had, and she won't. "I refuse this defeat" she said to herself as she breathed heavily from exhaustion and near death.
Riku appeared behind coming out from the dark portal with his new keyblade in hand, "Do you need some help?" offered Riku.
"Riku!" Aqua said as she and others caught up,
"Is that..." Started Sora,
"Yes, a keyblade but unlike yours and hers, this keyblade has the power to unlock people's hearts." Aqua gave awry to look to her student. He answered as he held it up, "Allow me to demonstrate...BEHOLD" as he turned around stabbing Maleficent right in her heart.
"Wha..."
"Now! Open your heart. Surrender it to the darkness. Become darkness it's self!" as Riku then pulled the away the keyblade.
"This is it! This is power. Darkness...the true darkness! Maleficent shouted raising her arms in the air; green flames coming out surrounding her; Maleficent's entire form changing into that of a dangerous black dragon. Sora watched in amazement as the witch transformed.
"A...dragon, you made her a dragon" Sora strutted out to Riku.
"Sora, she could already do that before hand" Aqua told him, but he didn't hear her over the dragon roaring
"Undo do it, undo it. Undo it" he then screamed. "Sora! Will you focus" Aqua then screamed at him and soon round two had begun, with Riku, watching on the sidelines.
The dragon unleashed destruction upon the area, jumping and gliding was the best way we could avoid this monster, so we couldn't get hit with too much damage but then that was when I had gotten my idea on how on to defeat Maleficent. I glided towards the rear legs of the dragon, then jumping on the back and then making my way to her neck. It was then I used my ghost drive technique. Causing Maleficent nothing but confusion with illusions while I attacked her, Sora then caught to my plan and joined expect this time; he used another new technique, Strike Raid.
While still in the use of Ghost Drive, I could feel the drain of not only my magic but my own energy as well, distracted by my own weakness, I was tossed off the dragon; crashing to the floor, I could feel the gravel of the cut through the material of my clothes to my skin, I blinked for a moment, not then realizing I had passed out.
Riku looked over to the bluenette master, "Still such a silly girl, how nothing ever really changes" he said.
Goofy, went over to Aqua to make sure she was alright; while the others watched as Maleficent untransformed and then her body fading away.
"How ironic. She was just another puppet after all."
"What?' questioned Donald, "the heartless were using Maleficent right from the beginning. She failed to notice the darkness eating away at her heart, a fitting end for such a fool." The dark portal open once again from behind Riku, walking backwards into it.
Sora didn't notice the shifting presence behind him, as it came closer to him. Soon enough Sora was grasping his head in pain as he saw the flashes of his entire life flashing before him but then it stopped. The shifting presence began to take a form.
It to the appearance of a tall man, he wore a hooded cloak; his body was built. The hooded man looked around the area, he saw the bluenette woman down on the ground, one of his hands clenching into a fist. Aqua began to stir slowly.
"Who are you?" asked Sora.
"My name is of no importance."
"Ansem?" asked Goofy
"A name that was taken, then made to be abandoned" that clenched hand of his, formed an energy ball of blue light and lightening; out stretching his arm towards Sora went the lightening like energy. "Sora!" shot in Aqua's voice as she jumped in front of the energy deflecting it with her keyblade, "You three go and find Kairi!" she demanded of them
"What about you?" Sora asked as Donald and Goofy began to drag Sora away from Aqua.
"I'll be fine now go!" she screamed as moved her keyblade making the energy collide into the ceiling of the room shook as it had some rubble fall to the ground. Aqua stood up from the ground, her left hand holding her side. Breathing in and out of her mouth, Sora wouldn't leave.
The hooded man looked from Aqua to Sora. "Not without you! Master Aqua, you can barely stand!"
"Ah the keyblade, a true wonderful weapon, if only it were in more capable hands." Spoke the hooded man.
"Sora, just shut up and go help Kairi...NOW" Aqua scolded him. That was when Sora finally took his hint and left with Donald and goofy.
"Heal"..."Defense" as Aqua prepared herself.
And so now it was Aqua vs. the hooded stranger.
Sora, Donald and Goofy, headed back to the room with the princesses of heart and found Kairi. The trio ran up the stairs to the upper platform of the room. And saw Kairi lying in the middle of the floor right by the keyhole. Sora got ahead of Donald and Goofy but as the animal duo tried to follow, somehow they could not. Something was locking them out.
"Kairi" Sora yelled to her as he went over to her, somewhat picking her up into his arms trying to wake her up, "there is no use for that, the girl has lost her heart, she can never wake up.
"What who are you? You're not Riku!"
"It is I, Ansem; Seeker of Darkness"
"Let Riku go! Give him back his heart."
"But first, you must give the princess back her heart." As Riku-Ansem waved the keyblade in his hand, Sora groaned in pain as he placed is hand on his chest and over his heart, falling down to his knees. "Sora!" Donald and Goofy screamed from the sidelines. "What's...?"
"Don't you get it? The princess's heart is responding. It has been there all along. Kairi's heart is resting within you" As Riku-Ansem started coming closer to Sora.
"Kairi...Kairi's inside me?"
"I know all there is to know, So, I shall release you now, Princess" As Riku-Ansem began to lift the heart unlocker over his head. "Complete the keyhole with your power, open the door. Led me into everlasting darkness" And soon enough that keyblade begun to come down.
"Sora!"..."Sora" a voice like Kairi's screamed and another voice Sora hadn't heard in such a long time.
Sora stopped the keyblade, with his own; now making his way to stand back up. "Forget it, there is now way you're taking Kairi's heart!
Aqua, fell to her knees, her body ached inside and out. Her magic was drained as and so was her energy; so for this battle, the hooded man was too much for her take at the moment. He was just too fast for her, despite her own exhaustion. The hooded man fought with two ethereal blades, colored red. He had a technique to guard most of her attacks, some of them almost back firing on herself due to his guard being a wall of energy and there was something similar about his physical technique went it came to how the man would fight with his blades, but she couldn't quite put a name to it, at least not yet.
Aqua knew she couldn't take much more anymore, she didn't know if this man was going to finish her off for good or possibly drag on this battle any longer, she stared at her opponent awaiting for his next attack but the more she stared the more mental notes she took, it want long till she noticed, she'd seen that cloak before.
Flash back, Nine years ago,
"I know you're here, Xehanort" she said, making the key-blade appear.
As she saw a hooded black cloaked figure, Aqua could tell it was a man, it looked like he had a strong a build. He was tall, like Terra. "Could it be?" She thought to herself.
"Stranger, state your name and your business here."
The figure didn't speak, "Xehanort" She said, Key-blade in hand,
He didn't answer, "Xehanort" She said again and that's when she could finally make out his features, her blue eyes widen.
"Terra?" she questioned but softly, but he still didn't answer, all he did was turn around and exited through the dark corridor. "No Terra Wait!" she screamed but the corridor closed.
End flash back.
"Terra?" She said to the hooded man, who like before had said nothing. But this time he made a physical reaction to Terra's name. The hooded man made his move, like with Sora, the hooded man fazed through Aqua, making her pass out. Her back hitting the ground but not enough to hurt her since, she was already to her knees before.
The hooded man didn't leave after that; in fact he went back towards Aqua, bending down on his own knees, lifting her upper body into his arms, the man brought a hand to his hood, lowering it, revealing his face to the passed out Aqua.
"Hello, old friend" spoke the unknown man, as his gloved hand stroked the side of her face. The man saw her item bag, grabbing it; he took a mega-elixir out from it, not caring for the book with Ansem's Reports. His golden ember eyes peered over her necklace. "After all this time, you still carry us with you." But before he gave Aqua the potion, he leant his head down to her; placing a long one-sided kiss onto Aqua's lips. The man wasn't too sure but he swore he felt Aqua stir upon the lip contact.
"Very soon, Aqua, be sure to remember that." He spoke as he pulled away, now pouring the potion into her mouth. But placing a small object into her hands, and then placing her hands over her stomach.
The hooded man, once again got away from the bluenette keyblade master.
It was now Sora vs. Riku-Ansem.
Sora, couldn't believe how fast Riku moved as he fought his friends body. Sora spent most of the fight counter attacking Riku-Ansem. Sora's tactic was to use Strike Raid and Ars Arcanum and the 'Cure' Spell when ever given the open chance.
Riku-Ansem had an attack of his own, very similar to Strike Raid. Even flinging his own weapon at Sora but was lucky enough to knock it back toward Riku-Ansem, even causing some damage but whenever Riku would power up; he would launch a whole Series of attacks. That would shoot back and forth in their fighting area, which did risk both of their lives. Sora used glided, just so he wouldn't be too damaged from this attack.
After a few more of Riku-Ansem vicious attacks, Sora finally managed to strike Riku-Ansem down, with a one powerful Ars Arcanum.
"Riku!" Sora tried calling out to his friend but Riku's body had disappeared
"Sora, Look" screamed Donald as he and Goofy finally broke through the barrier.
"The keyhole Sora!" yelled Goofy.
"Wait! Where's the hooded man?"
Aqua had finally woken up; she felt her power and strength replenished. "Ow" she muttered slowly as she felt something poker her in the palm of her hand.
Opening her hand, her eyes widen in surprise at the object in her hand.
"Terra's charm!" Aqua could feel her eyes water up, "So the man really was Terra or what's left of him." Silent tears rolling down her face, Aqua shaking her head, "not now, I have to get to Sora." she got up from the ground, leaving to catch up with the others.
Sora kept trying to lock it, but he couldn't.
"Sora it won't work the keyhole isn't complete." Said Goofy
"There has to be something we can do, we can't wait for Master Aqua anymore longer to figure this out" said Sora as he dismissed his keyblade.
"Maybe we should try waking Kairi up," Goofy then suggested.
"I think you're right, if we can free her heart but how..." that was when Sora found his answer, walking over to the forgotten heart unlocker. "A keyblade that unlocks people's hearts...I wonder" he picked it up, turning to the animal duo, giving them one wide smile.
"Sora hold it, right there!" screamed Goofy, Aqua finally entered the chamber, heading for the stairs.
Aqua reached the top of the platform to see Sora stab himself with the heart unlocker, "No!" she screamed. But then the dark keyblade fell down and broke into eight hearts, seven belonging to the princesses and one being Sora's.
"Good-bye Aqua, I'll see ya, when you can wake me up" said Ven.
"Ven? It really was you" she thought as she cried more silent tears.
All the princesses regained their hearts, waking them up.
Aqua watched as Sora's body was glowing gold, Kairi was waking up, and "Sora?" the young girl spoke up. Quickly getting up, going to him but when she reached Sora, his body vanished.
"Sora...Sora... Come back Sora"
"What's happening to me?"
"Falling...falling...falling into darkness"
"Sora..." Kairi began, "No, he can't be. I won't let him go!" Aqua, Kairi, Donald and Goofy surrounded were Sora once stood.
"So, you have awaked at last Princess" entered a voice.
"Xehanort!"
When Aqua looked to face the monster that ruined her life she didn't expect to see, a younger man. She could feel it was the same being but different "perhaps being in Riku's body rejuvenated him." Aqua could feel the entire unhandled anger rise in her body as she looked to her old enemy. The monster even wore the same clothes, only difference was his age, the hair on his head and the heartless symbol on his chest. Of his opened shirt.
Oh she was ready to make her move, "The keyhole is now complete, you have served your purpose girl, but it's all over now." Said Ansem-Xehanort.
"Don't you make another move!" Donald getting in front of Kairi, "Do you think we can stop him?" Goofy asked Donald in a hushed voice. The short tempered duck, looking towards Aqua, "I don't know if 'we' can but maybe someone else can" he answered.
Ansem's body stopped all voluntary movement; "this is impossible" As a glowing golden image of Riku began.
"No! You won't use me for this!" he screamed
"Riku" Kairi screamed
"All of you, you have to get out of here now! I don't know how long I can hold him"
"Not without you, Riku" Aqua said.
"The heartless are coming, you have to leave. Please!"
"Riku, we'll come back for you, I promise" Aqua said to him as he and Ansem-Xehanort disappeared.
The new foursome ran. "What about the keyhole," Goofy asked Aqua, "let's just get out of here" shouted Donald.
"I'll come back for it" Aqua answered. As they ran out of the chamber, not noticing the one small heartless that stayed behind.
We made it to the main lobby of the castle, where we kept getting ambushed by heartless, after the biggest group was finally destroyed there was only one the appeared to us.
Donald, hit the heartless on the head with his mage staff.
"Confounded heartless, get lost will ya?"
"Sora?" began Kairi, "could it really be you." She said, surprising us with that statement and the possibility of it, but the more heartless appeared. We set off to attacking them.
"This time, I'll protect you!" as another group of Heartless appeared around Kairi, they kept getting closer to her. She turned around hugging the small heartless. "Sora!" she screamed.
"Kairi" Aqua screamed for the girl.
The room filled with a blinding light that even wiped away some of the heartless, surrounding Kairi and what we saw amazed us, it was Kairi and Sora.
"Thank you Kairi"
"Sora!" Aqua spoke as she went to her student, more heartless came. Beast showed up to help us.
"Go now! The heartless are coming, I won't leave without Belle."
"Alright, Let's get out of here"
End Chapter
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