Now, I bet you guys are wondering, where the hell did Kairi come from? I know, last time we saw her she was with Aros and a platoon of Marines, watching a ship built by the Twilight Air Force and Navy launch out of the ocean and right out into space! Well, this chapter is going to go back in time a bit and explain how they got to Sora and rescued him so none of you get any funny ideas or ridiculous theories like...
"Kairi and Aros were having sex! That's what they were doing of course! Then, they finished up just in time so Kairi could magically appear to help Sora and get crushed by a brick wall!"
No...just no. XD (But I know most of you weren't thinking that...or were you? O.o)
Hmmm...and only one person reviewed. Ah well, I guess I do deserve it for updating EXTREMELY late...
coco1234911: Never fear coco! Blade is here to give you another chapter! Yes, unfortunately you and the other readers will have to put up with my weird personality for a little while longer. I know, I'm a horrible little man aren't I? XD
Enjoy! The chappie!
Chapter 21: The Parasite
(Kairi's P.O.V.)
As I watched that...whatever that is go on a rampage, I couldn't help but get a sinking feeling that we lost. I knew that now wasn't the time to lose hope but...I just didn't know how we were going to win... Jason and the others were looking at their maps and trying to to figure out the safest route back to the east side of the city and-
"Is that who I think it is?" Aros said while pointing up at the sky, interrupting my thoughts.
I turned to him and raised an eyebrow but then I followed the direction of his finger only to look up at the sky and see some kind of dark purple comet about to crash right into that huge monster.
Wait...so that means he's...alive?
I thought while remembering the time he kidnapped me from my room and when Sora had to save me from him.
"We should get moving guys, the sooner we find the source of all that's causing this, the sooner that thing over there gets killed." Clayton suggested.
If Anti Sora is back from the dead... Then that means Sora can't be far away from him. And if I know Sora, he's probably over there fighting heartless in that area.
I turned back to the group and said, "Guys...I think we should split up..."
Everyone except Jason turned to me, "WHAT?"
"Exactly!" Jason exclaimed, doing a fist pump as if he won a game or something, "W.H.A.T! W, whither down their defenses by sabotage! H, Harass their supply lines, and when their forces least expect it... A! Assault the main target with extreme prejudice. Ending with T, tactical superiority, then we overwhelm the remnants until they are dead or they surrender, and then we achieve total victory! Clever abbreviation wouldn't you agree?- Wait..."
The brown-haired adult turned to Kairi while rolling up the map, "What?"
"Sora is in trouble, and Aros and I need to go help him!" I explained.
"Huh? Why do I have to go?"
I growled at his thoughtless comment, "Well because one, you are his light so it's technically your duty to watch over and protect him. And two, because if Sora get's killed, you die too because you are a part of him."
"Huh, good point."
"I nodded then turned to Darknal and his soldiers, "Sorry that this came up all of a sudden everyone, but-"
"Don't worry, we understand. " Yuki cut in, "Besides, we still have a war to fight-"
"And win." Clayton added while prepping his mini-gun for action. The whole team started to exit the rooftop but Xintas stayed and walked over to me.
"Hey, Kairi. If you find my little sis out there... tell her that her big bro is alive and still fighting the good fight okay?"
I smiled and gave him a mock salute, "I will."
He grinned and nodded before following his group down into the stair way.
Turning back to the view of the city, I noticed the distance we had to cover. And I glanced at my scythe and then at Aros.
"Hey, do you think you can teach my how to fly using this thing?"
"Sure, but I will have to give you the short version given the circumstances. You see, your scythe can generate spectral energy comprised of hard light. They can be transformed into objects, like a huge-ass AK-47, swords, anything you think of. To fly you will have to-"
Aros was interrupted by a loud roar from Karkand but nonetheless he continued. "Concentrate, try to imagine a floor right below you and let move, taking you to where you want to go. Got it?"
What? He says it like it's the easiest thing in the world! I can't do this!
I cleared my throat. "Got it."
"Alright then, let's go!" He exclaimed while grabbing on to me and sending us both off the edge of the building.
What the fuck was he thinking? Was he trying to get us both killed? Sure, there are evil yellow eyed monsters lurking around who want to kill us but I'm in no hurry to die!
His words repeated in my mind like some broken record.
Concentrate.
Concentrate.
Concentrate...
Before we could get any closer to the street, a red spectral floor appeared and we both landed on it feet first. I felt Aros pat me on the back and I turned around to give him a death glare. Send me off a rooftop will you? Then you've got another thing coming!
"Whew! That was a close one. For a second there I thought you weren't going to make it happen and-"
"YOU...DOLT!" I yelled, clouting him on the head as hard as I could.
"OW!" He whined, putting his hands over his head to shield himself from
"What the fuck were you thinking? You. Could. Have. Gotten. Us. Both. Killed. You. Ass. HOLE!" I said with extreme anger, unleashing my fury with a whole barrage of fists upon his head.
"Ow! Ow! Kairi!- Ah! Cut it out! I had a feeling that you would work better under pressure!"
I finally stopped and took a deep breath before exhaling, "Just don't do that again! That 'feeling' almost got us killed!"
"You have my word."
"Alright, give me a sec and I'll get this thing into motion."
The platform started to move, us along with it. Down below us, the battle was starting to pick back up from where it left off. Hordes upon hordes of infected roamed the streets. Shootouts took place in plazas while tanks duked it out in the streets. One thing that really caught my attention as we flew by was that there was a transport helicopter loading up on people on top of a building, a mother and her child were one of the last to come up. She seemed like she was arguing with the pilot as her child got on board.
Around the landing pad were troops firing at shadows that were trying to climb up and kill them all. As the helicopter took off, the mother started crying and more people showed up...But they were all too late.
As the evacuation helicopter got into the air and was about to take off, a black jet arrived on the scene and pointed itself directly at that helicopter and then-
Boom!
The jet exploded, taking the helicopter along with it.
And to think, there was going be a new life waiting for that kid at some town or...wherever the military was evacuating the people to. The soldiers eventually got overran, and as the heartless neared the people on the building I looked away, not wanting to witness all the carnage..
Eventually, we arrived at the gigantic monster's location. I maneuvered the floor over to a nearby rooftop of a radio building, where we got off and scanned the streets for Anti Sora.
"Found him. Wait..." Aros halted.
"What is it?"
"I sense his darkness, but it's not his body, it's Sora's."
"So that could only mean..."
Aros nodded in agreement, "Yup, they merged. Okay, here's what we are going to do, on the count of three, we are going to rush in there and rescue him. I'll keep the shadows and the big guy busy while you tend to Sora."
"..."
I felt a tears forming in my eyes as I watched a humanoid shadow drag Sora out of some shop and right into the street, his body leaving behind a trail of blood. Shadows loomed in from dark corners as the more powerful and muscular ones sat him upright. It really hurt, seeing him seeing him bruised and beaten the way he was. This would have never happened if we hadn't split up... I could have been there to stop him...stop him from merging with that...monster. I bet right now Anti Sora has him right in his claws, taking over his mind and what not-
Aros interrupted my thoughts with a whisper, "Kairi, can you do this? Forget can, you HAVE to. For Sora's sake." He reminded.
I felt tears roll down my cheek and I quickly wiped them away. He was right, I may not have a full grip on my new powers but I have to help in any way I can...for Sora.
"Okay, let's go."
"Right then. On three..."
Karkand's stinger neared Sora, going up and down as if it was choosing which place to inject it's venom into first.
"One..."
The stinger started to slowly pull itself back.
"Two..."
The stinger was going to thrust!-
"THREE!"
Aros summoned his keyblade and cast a whole surge of white lightning at Karkand's stinger while I created an ethereal red slide that went down to the street and slid down it.
The white voltage bounced off the tail and struck the shadows that were grouped together, spreading from one to another until it was literally a circle of lightning around Sora. The dark creatures all fell to the ground, black smoke fuming from their bodies.
An UltimaShadow appeared in front of me and I lashed out with my scythe. It counterattack with it's daggers, the attacks were coming so fast it was like I couldn't even see it! I backpedaled a bit but the knives nearly cut my whole cheek, causing a few scratches but nothing serious. I ducked one blow and executed an upward slice, cutting him in two. It was no time to celebrate, Sora needed my help!
"Sora!" I exclaimed as I ran as fast as my legs could take me to get to him. Once I got to him and crouched down to inspect his wounds. I noticed him look up at me and I said, "Don't worry, me and Aros are gonna get you out of here! Just keep breathing, Sora!"
He looked like he was too wounded to move, blood was leaking out from his chest and his right leg.
Okay Kai, just calm down. First thing uhhh...Pressure on the wound! I said in my mind.
I heard what sounded like a jet flying over head and an explosion but I ignored it and kept helping Sora.
Sora raised up his finger weakly, pointing over my shoulder.
I looked back only to see a brick wall about to hit the both of us.
Shield!
In that split second, a red shield appeared right in front of me and Boom!- blocked it but the sheer force from the brick wall was so strong that it caused the hard-light shield to break and it knock both me and Sora back a few feet.
The impact had me stunned on the ground for a bit, but eventually I got out of my daze and sat up. I looked up and next thing I knew, Sora was up in the air with Karkand's stinger, like he was being levitated by it. His body wriggled violently, like he was having some sort of seizure.
One particular thing I noticed was that he no longer looked like Anti Sora, he was back to his old self.
I rushed over to the scene but a dark wall appeared and stopped me abruptly.
"Kairi! Stay back! I'll handle this!" Aros ordered while jumping up to Sora and the stinger.
Some kind of white orb was protruding from Sora's chest. As it inched out, Sora's whole body was tugged along with it.
"NO!"
Aros hit Karkand's stinger with a downward slash and the white orb was sucked right back into Sora's body. Sora fell to the ground but I conjured a spectral baseball glove that caught him before he even hit the ground. As the glove disappeared, I used telekinesis and pulled Sora over to me while Aros held off Karkand with a whole flurry of fire magic and finally a wall of light.
A flying floor wasn't going to get us out of this one. We need something more...transport-worthy.
The helicopter!
I thought back to that scene with the evacuation helicopter and I tried to picture it in my mind. Images of it taking off started to play over and over again in my head until...
Whumpf!
With a red-violet flash, a spectral helicopter was generated. I grabbed Sora and hauled him over to the helicopter, letting him lay down on one of the rows of seats.
"Aros! Let's go!"
He left Karkand to deal with the wall of light and ran over to the helicopter and got in. "Ummm...Wow. So, how do you fly this thing?"
"Let's just say..." The helicopter started to take off, "It's on autopilot." I explained while taking a seat across from Sora. Aros started to cure him, bathing his body in some kind of green magic. It was good to know that he was safe. But once he wakes up we have to figure out how to stop that thing...
At last, we found refuge in a room on the third floor of an abandoned apartment building miles away from Karkand's path of destruction. Sora was knocked out on the bed, being treated by Aros while I looked through the cracked window and watched the dogfights in the air. First shadowy soldiers, then tanks, then jets, and now a giant scorpion mixed with a spider? What else could they throw at us?- Wait...I shouldn't jinx it.
I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket and I took it out. Looking at the Caller ID I realized it was Namine, held the phone up to my ear answered it. "Namine? How is everyone at school? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, but these creepy crawly shadowy monsters are in the school right now! We managed to barricade ourselves in the classrooms and cafeterias but...some of the students didn't make it... But the teachers called 911 and the military is on their way to get us out of here. Where are you? Last I heard, you were on the roof with Sora."
I couldn't tell her that we skipped school to come all the way out here and stop whatever was going on. She would probably think that the keyblades and my scythe are a little far-fetched. But then again...She did see a heartless so I guess anything is believable at this point.
"It's...complicated." I paused.
As I paced around the the room, I heard low cracklings and some growling until I heard an all too familiar voice.
"COMPLICATED? Red, where's my little brother? Put him on the phone!" Lightning shouted.
"Ummm..." I looked over my shoulder to Aros and he shook his head, continuing the healing process. I leaned against a wall and sighed, "He can't answer at the moment..."
"Can't answer...CAN'T ANSWER? Why the fuck not? What happened to him? Is he alright? You'd better start making sense Kairi...or else." The martial artist threatened.
Sure, Lightning can be rude sometimes but Sora is her little brother and she deserves a legitimate answer-
"Kairi! His heart rate is dropping!" Aros called out.
"Shit. Gotta go Lightning."
"Wait, what? Kairi don't you da-"
I closed the phone and rushed over to the bed, "I thought that stuff was healing him!"
"It was! But I think hen Karkand tried to steal his heart, it hurt him internally! Even more worse than his external wounds."
"Alright, that's it, out of the way!" I nudged him aside and gave Sora mouth-to-mouth treatment, blowing air right into him repeatedly before putting both my hands on his chest and pumping rapidly in an attempt to start his heart again.
"Sora... Please."
Puff.
"Don't."
Puff.
"Die!"
After a few more times of repeating the mouth-to-mouth cycle. Aros tried to grab my arm but I brushed him away and kept on trying.
"Kairi!"
I ignored him.
"Kairi! Stop!" He ordered while grabbing my arm, "I think I know why the magic and your CPR isn't working. It has something to do with the short separation from his body and his heart. I'll go in there and talk to my opposite and see whats going on. I'll need you to guard us though. Can you do that?"
"I can. I will." I declared while sitting down on a chair next to Sora and holding his hand in mine.
"Alright, well here goes nothing." Suddenly, Aros turned into a white magical ball and was sucked right into his original's body. As soon as he entered, Sora's body moved around frantically, like he was suddenly shocked by a surge of electricity.
Aros found himself plunging right into a dark abyss; faster and faster he fell before he saw a blue light and saw himself land feet-first right onto a red cylindrical platform that had a picture of Sora with his eyes closed, holding a yellow heart in both his hands.
Out of the blue, a yellow swirling portal formed at the edge of the arena and out of it came Anti Sora, tumbling backwards until his head hit the front of Aros' shoes.
"Owwwww! FUCK!" Anti screamed while sitting up and clutching his head in pain. He looked behind him and notice Aros,"Why didn't you move out of the way you asshole?!"
Aros shrugged, as his polar opposite got to his feet, "I dunno: Humor? Self-Amusement? Felt like you deserved it." He countered.
The dark by growled and muttered, "I would kick your ass right now if I wasn't fighting-"
Suddenly, a whole squad of Ultima-Shadows emerged from the portal. Along with a whole crowd shadowy humanoids that didn't have any eyes or antennas but just looked like normal people.
"-them." He said while readying Oblivion.
Aros called forth Oathkeeper once again and assumed his fighting stance, where his feet were evenly spread apart, both his hands holding the blade by it's hilt slightly above his head, the tip pointing at the approaching hostiles. "The crowd is new."
Said crowd suddenly morphed into most if not all the people that were closest to Sora: Roxas, Namine, Lightning, Aurora, Aqua, Xion, Hope, and last but not least...Kairi.
They all looked normal, except for the yellow eyes.
Aros looked at the group and said, "Well... at least they don't have-"
Black weapons ranging from swords to guns appeared in their hands and they took up different fighting stances.
"-weapons...Wait, hold on! That makes no sense! Where were you keeping them?!"
"Wrahahahahahaa!" Anti Sora laughed, acting like a madman and licking his lips, giving off a weird, toothy grin.
"Whats your problem?" Aros asked.
"Lets just call it...an itch to kill." Anti Sora replied sadistically while getting into a feral stance and dashing right towards Shadow Roxas, pouncing right on him.
Roxas tried to struggle out of his grasp but his assailant drove his keyblade right through the blonde's head without a second thought.
One of the Ultima-Shadows tried to stab Anti in the back with it's staff but thanks to his stunning reflexes, he simply reached behind him and grabbed the staff before it reached his head. Then, Aros came along and decapitated the heartless pure-blood with the sharp, khanji-like teeth of his Oathkeeper. As the Ultima disappeared with a black puff, Dark Sora grabbed the staff by the handle in his left hand, and re-materialized Oblivion in his right.
He heard what sounded like the pumping of a shotgun and dodged out of the way before the group of bullets even hit him. Somehow, Anti was able to suspend himself above the battlefield like he was attached to some kind of invisible ceiling.
Down below, Aros was pre-occupied battling the shadow versions Lightning, Aqua, and Hope.
Aqua was the first to dash at him with her chain-scythes. Aros lunged forward with his blade but she somersaulted over him. He turned around to face her but he found himself being tripped to the ground. The brunette looked up only to see Lightning standing over him with a Rapier in her hand as Aqua joined her.
They were about to finish him off-
Aros started to go into a break dance and fire kicked up around him like it was dust. Lightning and Aqua leaped out of the way and avoided the powerful flames.
Aros sprang to his feet and tossed his keyblade at them like it was a boomerang. The girls casually stepped out of the way.
What they weren't expecting was the projectile to-
Boom!
The spinning blade blasted them with a burst of fireballs that enveloped their bodies, scorching them alive. Aqua and Lightning both went crazy and started running around, scared and confused until they fell right off the edge of the tall cylindrical battle-zone.
Xion was next to confront Aros but she was suddenly shattered when Anti Sora plunged right into her from above, sending out a black shockwave that knocked most of the heartless down.
Before any of the combatants could make another move, the stained-glass pillar started to shake violently. Both Aros and Anti stabbed their keyblades into the glass below them and held on for dear life; The pillar was suddenly swung upside-down by an unknown force. Many of the shadows fell into the mysterious blue source of light below but some (most of them being the Ultima-Shadows) did the same as the two keyblade wielders before this critical situation even presented itself.
Everyone was now hanging from the hilts of their weapons, their bodies now dangling as their only saviors were the steel that they carried alongside them.
Anti Sora's yellow eyes quickly darted left to right before he said, "Screw staying here. You ladies have a nice chat while I go up and see what's going on." He began swinging back and forth, using his legs to guide his motion until he gained enough momentum to swing from his blade and right up to the glass above him. He used his claws to stick to the glassy surface and crawl around.
He crawled near Aros, "You keep our guests busy, kay? Oh, and please do try to slip." He mentioned, giving a wry smile before crawling to the edge and up to the side of the long pillar. The brunette propelled himself up the wall with amazing speed using his claws. Soon, he arrived at the top and peeked over only to spot a large, muscular heartless that was floating above, mounted on a red, pulsing orb that had a black aura to it. There were black chains wrapped around it, black mist fuming off of them.
The dark boy sighed, "The things I do to have people to kill..." He hopped up onto the top and glared up at the beast.
The large heartless, unlike his black-skinned brethren, had pale skin, a heartless symbol over it's chest, long claws, pretty much everything your run-of-the-mill Neo-Shadow would have except a mouth equipped with a full set of razor-sharp teeth, green pulsating veins that were popped up all around his body, five toes on it's foot instead of too, and the black chains that were gripping the heart, was actually it's hair.
Aros called to Anti telepathically, 'What's going on up there? What do you see?'
Umm...Houston? We have a problem. A real big problem. Some white-skinned, buck-ass nude heartless has it's chains wrapped around "Mr. McSpikyPants' heart and is...corrupting it like the looks of it. Like some kind of...Parasite...
'Well? What are you waiting for?! Go stop it!'
Well that's no fun...I wanted to watch the show! Free entertainment is good entertainment to me!
'Godammit! For fuck's sake!-'
Sheesh, calm your tits, señor stick in the mud.
Anti leaped up onto the top and squinted at the heartless above. "Excuse me!" he shouted.
The "Parasite" looked down down at him.
"Umm...yeah, sorry to interrupt your lunch...but I am going to have to ask you to step away from the shiny red glowy thingy. Wait, screw ask," He beamed, "I'm gonna make you." He launched right up at Parasite and tackled him away from the heart and both of them were sent crashing down onto the pillar. Their bodies made a crack in the glass as they bounced off the edge and plunged into the depths of the celestial blue light that awaited them below.
Outside of Sora's body, Kairi still watched over Sora. Little did the both of them know, a heartless known as the Spectre, was currently watching them from afar right through their window. The Spectre sported a black cloak that shrouded it's entire body, a unique mage hat, shoes that curved upward at the toes. One of the humanoid's most unique characteristics was that it had only one eye. The eye was actually a huge yellow circle that was centered in the middle. Like a ghost, the phantasmal eagle-eyed heartless floated down from it's perch and flew in to take a closer look.
As the Spectre flew in closer, it confirmed it's sighting of Sora and let out a low frequency sound that couldn't be heard by regular humans. The sound traveled through the streets, into buildings, alerting all shadows in the vicinity through their highly sensitive antennas.
Sooner than later, the shadows, accompanied by a platoon of heartless soldiers, arrived at the Spectre's location with an Anti-Tank gun in tow. The troops moved the gun into position and adjusted the cannon so that it was pointing at the third floor of the building.
Inside, Kairi had heard the marching and was going to walk towards the window-
Boom!
The force from the explosion sent Kairi flying over Sora's bed and crashing right into the wall, sliding down it until her butt met the wooden floor. A trio Neo-Shadows climbed in through the massive, hole in the wall made by the AT gun parked outside and trekked over to Sora's body. The boy's auburn-haired protector was still slumped against the wall, stunned by the blast.
One of the fiends grabbed Sora, dragging him away by his hood-
"Let. Him. Go."
The trio turned around only to see Kairi standing by the bed, glaring at them with bright, blood red eyes. Dream-Weaver was already materialized in her right hand, the red diamond glowing ever bright. The auburn used telekinesis to rip Sora out of the heartless' grasp and place him back on the bed.
The Ultima-Shadows on the street grew impatient waiting for their weaker brethren and climbed up the building and through the hole as well to help them out. All of them blitzed Kairi simultaneously from nearly every angle.
The auburn took up a defensive position near the bed and created a spectral force-field that halted the wave of assailants, as the fiends were repelled back, they regrouped and circled the force-field. The Neos attacked first but were repelled back once again, the Ultimas had more luck though. The shadow wielding a massive axe managed to hit the barrier with enough force to put a crack in it.
"Aros, you better hurry..." Kairi muttered while focusing on keeping the field up.
Back inside of Sora's body, where Parasite and Anti were locked in fierce combat, gravity corrected itself as the both of them emerged out of the portal and right into the deep blue underworld known as the depths of the ocean. Closer and closer the two got to the surface-
Splash!
They were propelled out of the water and right into the air. Anti Sora hovered over Parasite and he made the first move. He called forth Oblivion (It was still stuck in that other mysterious dimension) and grabbed it by the blade, throwing it at the white heartless like it was a spear as opposed to throwing it the normal way like Aros or Sora. The blade lodged itself deep within Parasite's right shoulder.
As the creature fell back into the water, it screamed out in pain but shook it off and swam to a nearby island.
"What the hell?!" Anti growled as he landed in the water and swam after it.
Back in the alternate dimension, Aros was still hanging from his Oathkeeper. He looked at all the heartless hanging around him and they looked right back with intensified glares.
The boy sighed, "You know what?...Fuck it." He let go of the hilt and fell towards the blue light.
He emerged on the ocean floor and was propelled upward to the surface. Once he got up there, he started to shake with fear, moving his arms and legs frantically, desperate to stay afloat. "A.S! Help! I-I can't swim!" He called out.
Anti dodged one of Parasite's chains and face-palmed, "You have got to be fucking kidding me."
Anti assaulted the heartless with a series of slashes, each one dodged by said heartless. He kept on swinging and swinging, driving Parasite blow by blow until the creature had it's back against a palm tree. Parasite counterattacked with a sudden charge but agile dark boy vaulted over the him.
Anti grabbed onto the pale heartless' hair-chains and yanked on them harshly; the leech-like entity fell onto the white sands of the beach. Speaking of the beach, the peaceful alternate dimension they were in was a little too peaceful. The sun was currently setting, painting the skies with colorful hues such as red, violet, and scarlet. The waves were ever calm and the only things that could be heard was the gentle breeze and a few squawks from seagulls that flew by every now and then.
Aros brought the steel of his weapon down on one of the chains-
Clank!
He then took the chain and threw it out towards Aros. His polar opposite grabbed it while he wrapped the chain around a nearby palm tree, using it as a make-shift anchor.
"Thanks!" Aros gratified loudly from afar, now pulling himself to shore.
Anti turned back to Parasite who was just now getting up. A tiny little hermit crab was moving sideways past him until it was grabbed by the pale heartless. The poor little red crustacean's skin turned pale in just a matter of seconds. The crab wiggled it's arms but after a few moments, stopped. Parasite then chucked the drained and deceased amphibian out to sea. He then looked in Anti's direction only to suddenly get punched into the face.
"Aros! Whatever you do, don't let him touch you!" Anti Sora bellowed while continuing his assault on the leech while making sure he keeps some distance between them.
The leech stepped forward and tried to claw at Anti, who narrowly dodged the swipe as it almost got him in the leg. As he landed back on the ground, Aros came to his side.
Parasite gave a dark chuckle as his 'hair' started to jiggle up into the air and act like tentacles.
Anti looked at Aros, "You ready?"
Said boy nodded in response, "Yeah, let's go."
Both of them broke out into a sprint simultaneously, their speed being in perfect sync as they charged forward. Parasite's cold, dark chains whipped at the duo, forcing them to split up.
Aros went left, Anti went right. Once they got in range of Parasite, both of them blitzed him.
One of the heartless' hairs managed to snake themselves around Anti's legs and suspend him upside-down, high up from the ground.
The now restrained boy flailed his arms in sheer rage and annoyance,"Let go of me! You yellow eyed, shit-faced-"
The large leech replied to his profanity by grabbing him by his head and face-planting him right into the white sand.
Negative Sora couldn't help but scream in pain as he felt like his very soul was being sucked out of his body (that is if he even has one...). But before the fiend could drain any more energy-
Shhuft!
The hardened steel of the Oathkeeper was sheathed deep into it's skull.
Parasite's body fell forward as it's pale body transformed into black mist.
"H-Huh? N-No! No no no no no!" Anti hollered as he turned on his back to see Parasite's corpse about to fall on him. Before their bodies could even meet, the white heartless' body disappeared with a bright flash. The flash left behind a white and black orb of light. The two colors circled each other perpetually inside the sphere, like Yin and Yang, night and day, darkness and light.
Speaking of darkness and light, the sun had already set and disappeared behind the far horizon. The colors of night began to set in, multiple stars appeared in the sky and began to twinkle. The moon shone down upon the ever calm waters and the moonlight reflected off of it.
"What is that?" Aros asked, the boy's curiosity got the better of him and he sauntered right over to the orb and was about to touch it but it suddenly flew away, out towards the sea. It stopped right in the moonlight and it exploded into a bunch of of bright shards that formed together to make a tall white and black door. The two conflicting colors were on either side, one side being black while the other was completely white.
Anti sat up and marveled at the huge dimensional door, "Cool..."
A set of legs and a hand appeared in front of him and he looked up only to see Aros.
"Looks like it's time to fulfill our destiny." The light smiled.
Anti suddenly burst into a fit of laughter,"Hahaha! Destiny? What the hell have you been smoking man?"
That smile turned into a glare, "Just take my hand and lets get the fuck out of here."
Anti Sora grabbed his hand and Aros helped him up off the sand. The duo walked towards the colossal door that was awaiting their entry, as they neared the water, they didn't even get their shoes wet.
They were walking on water.
Then, as they entered through the door, they found themselves back in the Dive to the Heart, except they were suspended high above the usual platforms and floating near Sora's heart, still in the same condition that it was when they left it.
The two wielders felt a strong kinetic force fall upon them, their keyblades Oathkeeper and Oblivion were suddenly jutted forward towards the heart but their respective owners held them back in protest.
"W-What's going on?!" Anti asked, his strength slowly being dominated by the unknown force that was pulling on Oblivion.
"I have no idea!" Aros grunted.
The keyblades started to drag their masters along with them, as they got closer, the heart started beating faster and faster and it's dark aura began to radiate brighter. A large black and white keyhole appeared in front of the heart and both blades converged on it until-
Ka-Ding!
The two weapons automatically shot powerful ethereal rays of magic at the lock, releasing Sora's heart from the grip of darkness. The heart produced a bright flash that blinded both Aros and Anti.
Thud!
Crack!
Bang!
The attacks from the brutes were relentless, Kairi didn't know how long she could keep this up. The pressure on her focus was so strong that she was reduced to being on her knees, Dream-Weaver supporting her.
Behind her, Sora's body went through another spasm like he was once again shocked by a surge of electricity. Out of thin air came black and white particles that etched onto Sora and began shaping in the form of...armor.
The barrier was cracked in multiple areas, the shadows were now snickering at the vulnerable redhead. The Ultima Shadow with the mace stepped back a bit before rushing at the barrier and striking it with all the force it could muster, breaking the shield and knocking Kairi to the ground.
They all closed in and raised their weapons, ready to bring them all down on the telekinetic warrior. Kairi closed her eyes and awaited the final blow-
...
...
But it never came. She looked up only to see a boy clad in armor from head to toe standing in front of her. His armor was mixed with black and white, the visor on his helmet was darkened so she couldn't see his eyes. On the back of his boots were sharp, upturned black hooks. On his helmet were three prongs just inches above the visor that point backward and angle diagonally upward. The shoulders had an aesthetic look to them, the right shoulder pad was slightly bigger than the left. While the left was more round, the right had a black horn that curved upward from it. Engraved on the suit's torso was a crown emblem, the same crown as the one on Sora's chained necklace.
The knight wielded a keyblade that seemed to be a combination of Oathkeeper and Oblivion. The weapon was more sword-like, possessing a curved, notched blade with a noticeably sharp edge. Like the blade, the color scheme is also derived from the fusion of Oathkeeper and Oblivion. The handle was composed of a checkerboard pattern. The three prongs of the crown symbol made up the teeth and rain-guard, which is black and rounded. A link of black and white chains travel down from the guard and holds a small crown keychain in place. And of course, the full-sized crown symbol is adorned on the hilt.
Kairi looked around and noticed that all the heartless that were about to kill her disappeared. "W-Where did they- Ah!" Before she could even finish her sentence, the black and white armor clad crusade held her by the waist with one hand and flew out the hole above the skyscrapers at speeds that have the potential of breaking the sound barrier.
"Where the hell are you taking me?! Put me down! I need to go back and get So-"
"Kairi. It's me. And I would've thought that the keychain would have been a dead give-away." Sora snickered, the "Two Become One" keyblade disappeared and adjusted his hold on her so that he was carrying the auburn bridal style.
"Y-You're awake? So that means that Aros did pull through!" She cheered while wrapping her arms around him.
Sora nodded, "Yeah, and I better pull through when fighting Karkand. Or else Twilight City will just be the beginning of this heartless invasion."
They arrived at an evacuation center in the Eastern Harbor. Crowds of civilians were making their way to the blue and white naval ships and CH-47 Chinooks while soldiers were announcing, "Please only take what is necessary! Try not to slow yourselves down with unnecessary items."
An M1 Abrams and a couple of turrets were stationed near the boats, ready to take action should a heartless attack occur. Also standing near the boats was a G-7 Sentinel, a high-performance mech created entirely for Military Police operations, peacekeeping, and counter-terrorism.
Sora descended down into an alley across the street from the harbor, letting Kairi down and taking his helmet off. "Okay, an evacuation center is over there. Don't worry about me I'll be-"
"Sora, I'm not leaving you! What if something worse happens other than that...coma you were in. I'm not going to be sitting in some far away city waiting, hoping that the boy who I love comes back to me safe and sound. If we're fighting Karkand, we're going to fight him together."
"Kairi... I don't want to see you hurt." He got closer to her and put one hand on her waist and the other on her cheek.
"I know..." She replied with a frown, "I don't want to see you hurt either...or killed."
"I promise I'll be careful."
"I know you will..." She took a star-shaped lucky charm out of her pocket. The trinket was pale yellow towards the center and pale pink towards the tips. There was a token in the center that was a brown crown that looked similar to Sora's necklace.
"I've had this ever since I was a little girl. It's said to provide good luck to anyone who carries it with them." Kairi handed it over to Sora, "Sora, I want you to promise me that no matter what happens out there, that you will come back to me."
He noticed tears starting to run down her face, "Kairi, I-"
"Promise me!"
"...I promise."
The two embraced and kissed, neither of the two wanting their lips to part. After a minute of nothing but a long, passionate kiss, the couple parted their once locked lips and they took one last longing look at each other.
Sora donned his helmet once again and ascended up into the air before flying away at supersonic speed, creating a sonic boom and leaving behind a white and black streak in his wake.
After he left her sight, Kairi walked towards the ships, wiping away her tears as she got in line to board the vessel.
Wow, I had to re-write this whole chapter since so much was changed in the previous one. Seriously, I wasn't even planning for this chappie to be this long!
Guess what folks? Good ol' Blade is now being Mr. Organized! Let's go down the checklist now shall we?
New enemies introduced? Check.
Kairi actually being USEFUL and being able to hold her own unlike her KH version? Check.
Anti-Sora still being a wise-ass? Double-Check.
My DC Universe Online character being level 30?... HEY! Who's fucking with my checklist?!
UOU Cast: *shrugs*
(But yeah, if anyone here plays DCUO my name is Maximum Relay and I'm playing heroes right now. God I love being a speedster!)
Anti Sora: Nobody cares about you and your gay-ass hero.
Blade: -takes out a huge hammer and smothers him with it- No one asked you!