Angel: cool! Only one person commented about the fake ending in the last chapter! And YAY!! I GOT A LOT OF GOOD STUFF THIS YEAR!! I GOT A PS3!! AND A PSP!! ME HAPPY!! I GET 2 BLOW STUFF UP W/ RACHET AND CLANK SOON!! My brother wants me to play it soon so he can play it! baby!
Sora: wow! All I got was a keychain! (read my oneshot Holiday Surprises)
Indi: I'm not telling what I got!
Angel: whatever! Here's your gift! Answers to your prayers! This is either the last or second or third last chapter to this fic! But, one will soon follow!
Sora: what are you writing about again?
Angel: never said. You have a few more chapters to guess! It's in my profile! Just look at the anime/ tv lists and just guess from there!
Sora: that will take a while!
Indi: so? It will be fun!
Angel: anyway! I'm gonna type now!
Disclaimer: only own idea. Take it and you'll never get a Christmas present! And if you don't celebrate Christmas, just plain you'll never get a present again!
Chapter 21: Countdown to Healing pt 3
Now, where was I? O! Right? Riku and Mickey were trapped in a wall of fire, while Sora was dead on Kairi's lap!
"What do we do now!?" Riku shouted at the King while the fire just kept getting closer. They had tried to put it out, but the damn thing just wouldn't go out! "We havta hurry and help Sora!"
"I know Riku I know!" The King shouted back at him. "I just hope Kairi can handle things!" Maleficent tried to step on him, but just barely missed.
"It's to late for that boy!" she said, still in a booming man voice. "By now his heart must have exploded! MWAHAHAHA!!"
"DIE YOU LYING BITCH!!" Riku jumped into the air and hit her right in the face. He made a nice cut on her nose and kicked her in the same spot. She howled in pain and just as she did, the fire faulted just for a moment, but it was enough to let Riku and Mickey out of the ring of fire. The started running to Kairi and Sora. "SORA!! Is he ok?!" he asked, now leaning next to the motionless Sora.
"I...I don't know!" Kairi said in between sobs. "It doesn't look likes he's breathing! And he hasn't moved at all!"
"O no!" the King said. "Let me see…" he put his head by Sora's mouth and looked at his chest, (stupid perverts! No like that!) and he faintly saw the rise and fall of his chest and could feel warm air coming out of his mouth. "Well, he is breathing. But it's shallow. He must be pretty tired."
"So, he's ok?!" Kairi asked her tears stopping.
"For the most part yes. He's not alright, but he's not dead. Do you think that you can heal him? He doesn't have any outside pain, but he has internal pain, in his heart."
"I can try." Kairi put Sora's whole body on the ground and held her hands over his heart. "Cure." Just then, her hands started to glow bright green, as well as Sora's chest. As she was doing this, his fingers started to twitch. Once her hands stopped glowing, she put his head back on her lap and just looked at his peaceful face. "So, does he wake up now or what?"
"Just let him rest a little longer." Mickey replied. "I doubt he'll be waking up in the next few moments. His heart did suffer a large amount of damage. It's to be expected."
"But will he be able to help us fight Maleficent?" Riku asked. "Or will he be out longer than that?"
"He should be able to. It all just depends on his heart and his will. And by will, I mean if he wants to help us or not."
"Don't say that!" Kairi protested. "He must want to! He did all this just to protect us from her! Why would he stop now?!"
"WATCH OUT!!" Goofy yelled. He jumped in front of Sora and blocked the on coming green fire with his shield. "We still have a problem here!"
"Right! Donald! Goofy! Stay with Kairi until Sora wakes up!" the King instructed. "Come on Riku! Let's hold her off till Sora wakes up!"
"IF THAT BRAT EVER WAKES UP!" Maleficent shouted. She fired more fire out of her mouth, which Riku just swatted away with The Way to Dawn.
"You're not getting Sora that easily!" Riku jumped up into the air again and started to hit her head in mid air.
"Take care of him!" Mickey ordered just before he went off to help Riku try and fend of Maleficent.
"Come on Sora!" Kairi said looking down at his face after watching Riky try and kill Maleficent. "You're stronger than this! I know you are.
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(in Sora's subconscious)
"Why is everything so black in here?" Sora asked to nobody in particular.
"Cause you made it that way" Sora spun around and saw Roxas standing there. "You made it this way when you decided to help your friends from the darkness. And also, when you realized you were afraid of the dark."
"What do you mean 'afraid of the dark'?! I'm not scared of darkness!" Sora protested.
"O really?" a new voice said behind him, yet again. Sora whipped around and saw what he had become just months earlier: a puppet of the darkness. "You're scared that if you keep fighting the heartless, that you'll turn into me again. And don't deny it! I know it's true!"
"Or at the very least me! HAHAHAHAHA!!" Sora then whipped around again and saw Aros standing there. "Surprised to see me master? Thought I was gone for good did you? Shows what you know! HAHAHAHA!!" (that laugh! It burns!!)
"Sora," Roxas said in a soothing tone. "As long as you still fear these parts of your soul, you'll never be able to move on and finally be happy. You accepted me, but you still have to accept the darker half of your soul and realize that that's not going anywhere. Everyone has darkness in their soul. They just have to accept that. And accepting doesn't equal turning into, or giving into it. It just means that you know it's there and that you don't fear it."
Sora thought for a minute. He wasn't going to lose anything by accepting Aros and his darker half, he hoped. So, why can't he just accept that they're a part of him? Why? Then it hit him: Roxas was right. He was scared of half of his soul. He didn't want it in his soul and didn't want it to be there. But, he needed it to stay balanced, right? And if he didn't accept it soon, then Kairi and the others would get hurt because he hesitated. Wait.
Kairi.
The one person who would stand by him no matter what he did. Always be there when he need help. If he didn't want to accept this darkness for himself, he damn well sure had to accept it for her!
"I'm tired of being scared! I accept that you three are a part of my soul and I don't care anymore!" as he shouted that, his mind lost all of its darkness and it turned into the islands with all of his friends. His old self and Aros disappeared in darkness. And Roxas just nodded and then disappeared himself, but in light. Then Sora was engulfed in a light and was thrown back into reality.
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Riku, Mickey, Donald and Goofy were all unconscious on the ground and Kairi was the only one still standing, and she was hardly able to hold herself up anymore! She had cuts all over her body and was breathing heavily. Maleficent only had the cut on her face that Riku had given her and a few others on her sides. But for the most part so was perfectly fine.
"Damn you you stupid witch!" Kairi shouted firing a blizzard attack at the dragon, who easily blew it away with her green fire.
"It's your turn to fall princess!" Maleficent shouted and blew more fire at Kairi, who couldn't run seeing as how she had a huge gash on her leg. Just then, a bright light came out of nowhere and the flames where stopped by a keyblade. To be more exact, it was Oathkeeper. "WHAT!!? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!?!?!" she took a step back in shock.
"With the heart: anything is possible!" a familiar voice said from behind Kairi. "You should know that by now you stupid man lady crossdresser!" a new keyblade came and hit Maleficent right in the chest, and then went back to behind Kairi, but Oathkeeper stayed. Kairi looked behind her and her face lit up. There stood Sora, in his Final Form outfit no less. "Sorry I took so long Kai!" Sora said with a goofy grin on his face.
"SORA!! YOU'RE OK!!" she said as Sora walked up to her and kneeled down next to her.
"Hold still." He held his hand his hand and a green glow came out of it. The gash on Kairi's leg healed instantly, as well as the rest of her cuts. "Can you take care of the others while I get rid of Maleficent?" Kairi just nodded. And as Sora started to get up to fight Maleficent, Kairi pulled him down and hugged him by the neck. "WAH!" he yelled as she pulled him down.
"Be careful alright?" she asked.
"Come on Kai!" he said breaking away from the hug and putting his hands on her shoulders. "When am I ever careful?!" that comment earned him a slap in the face.
"Be careful just this once. For me?" she said, and then leaned in and kissed him on the lips. "Cause if you don't come back I'm gonna havta start dating Riku instead of you!" she said with a goofy grin.
"WHAT?!?!?" Sora shouted. "Fine I'll be careful! And that was to evil!" Sora then ran towards Maleficent, Oblivion and Oathkeeper floating behind him.
"Please be safe." Kairi gave him one last look before going to Donald to heal him.
Sora swung at Maleficent in the same spot that Riku had hit her and added another gash to her face. She screamed in pain and tried to grab Sora with her big claws but only got air as Sora was already on her back running up to her head. He cut her on the back of the head a few times and then jumped off as she stood on her hind legs and tried to throw him off. Sora took this opportunity and sent Oblivion up and smacked her in the nose. She fell onto her back and Sora jumped on her stomach and hit her in the chest, where her heart was. As she started to disappear, she blew one last breath of fire at Sora and hit him seeing as how he was way to close to her mouth. He went flying and landed on in the wall at the other end of the room.
"Ow!" he said as he fell to the ground.
"SORA!!" the newly conscious group shouted and started to run to Sora.
"Forgetting someone!" Pete said as he jumped in front of them.
"OUTTA MY WAY!!" Kairi and Riku shouted as one punched him in the stomach and the other kicked him in the….well…..is there anything left from when Kairi kicked him there earlier? Either way he stumbled into a portal and was gone.
"Why am I always getting blasted into walls?" Sora said in a cold voice as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Are you alright Sora?" Kairi asked kneeling down next to him.
"Just peachy."
"Did you just say peachy?" Riku asked trying not to laugh. "How girly are you?" Sora just gave him a death glare. "Ok! No jokes!" Riku said putting up his hands and taking a step back.
"Let's just go home." Sora said trying to stand up, but the pain from his burn stopped him. Riku then walked over and helped him up. They all started to walk back towards the ship together.
"Is Sora ok?" Kairi whispered to the King.
"I hope so." He whispered back. "His heart has been through a lot lately. And it will still most likely take a while till he's back to well, Sora. Just give him time so he can adjust. He should be fine in no time!" he said with a smile.
By then they had reached the ship. Riku put Sora into an empty room and drove everyone back to Destiny Islands for some much needed rest.
Hopefully, this will be the last they see of Maleficent, at least for a little while. They were also hoping that Sora would be back to the way he was before. But, only time will tell.
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Angel: O.o don't know where at least half of that chapter came from! But, there is just an epilogue left I think!
Sora: then why did you write it?! and what do you mean you think?!
Indi: why not?
Muja: update soon please! Please! Pl-oooo pretty butterfly!
Sora: what the hell!?
Roxastheother: (grumbles under breath) she has a short (yawn) attention span.
Muja: I do no- SHINY THING!!
Roxastheother: and there's my point. And I have another: WHO THE FUCK GETS UP AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING TO OPEN PRESENTS!?!?
Angel: somebody has anger issues! Anyways:
Roxastheother: NO ANYWAYS JUST YET!! I DON'T HAVE ANGER ISSUES!! I JUST DON'T LIKE GETTING UP AT 5:30 ON CHRISTMAS!!
Angel: (backs away slowly) like I was saying: I'll give you a small hint as to what I'm gonna write about! It's an anime and I've mentioned someone who has already written a story for that anime! It was mostly in the a/n's
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS EVEN IF YOU DON'T CELEBRATE IT!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND GOOD LUCK AT GUESSING!! -Angel