Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Awakening
Chapter 25: Keyblades and Demons
Our heroes arrived in the new world, where once again Ansem stayed behind, which was in ruins. The gang walked through the city with great worry.
"Do you think the Heartless caused all this?" Goofy worriedly said.
"There's no way they could do THIS much destruction." Sora replied.
"It's something else I'm sure." Bobby said looking around the city.
As they walked further through, a being had appeared before them. It was ghoulish looking with a skull like face wielding a scythe.
"A Heartless?" Donald asked.
"Definetly not a Heartless." Ven told him.
Just then more appeared.
"Aw, come on! We just got here!" Steve whined.
"This is all part of being a Wielder of the Keyblade Steve, so quit bitching!" Tylor told him.
"You guys mind if I take care of these guys?" said a man in red that walked up from behind them.
"Who are you?" Aqua asked the man in red.
"Give a sec my fine wonderful lady." He said to her, sparking a little jealousy in Bobby.
The scythe-wielding monsters started charging at the man. He pulled out a mighty silver sword and slashed theme all one by one with no troubles at all.
"So, you were saying?" He said holding his sword over his head.
The gang introduced themselves and told him why they were here.
"I see. Name's Dante, a devil hunter." The man said.
"Devil hunter?" Roxas said confused.
"I hunt demons for a living, like the ones I killed for you."
"So Dante, can you tell us why there is a gigantic tower standing in the middle of this ruined city?" Mickey asked him.
"Well Your Majesty, that tower up there is called...what was it again? Oh right, the Temen-ni-gru, a tower that's a portal connecting the Demon World and the Human World." Dante told him.
Dante explained to them a small information that Arkham, a man who came into Dante's shop to give him a message about his brother Vergil and the Temn-ni-gru appearing in the city.
"So why do you fight demons Dante?" Sora asked him as they walked towards the entrance of the tower.
"My mother was killed by them long ago. I fight them to avenge her." He sadly said, clutching an amulet that was worn on his neck. "My mother gave me this when I was young."
"I'm sorry Dante. My father was killed by someone years ago. So I fight to find the man that killed him." Bobby told him.
"I guess you and I have some things in common then." Dante said, patting Bobby's back.
The two smiled, seeing how much they had in common. The gang finally arrived at the entrance and went inside, where it was all cold and iciy.
"Brrr! It's c-c-cold!" Tim said shivering.
"WHO DARES ENTER THE TOWER?" boomed a low voice.
"WAH! What was that?" Steve jumped.
"I AM CERBERUS! NO MORTALS ARE ALLOWED IN THE TOWER WITHOUT DEFEATING ME!" The demon said.
They looked and saw a three-headed dog that looks just like the Cerberus Hades commands in his Underworld to Sora, Donald, and Goofy.
"Well then, let's show Cerberus us mortals aren't to be taken lightly. Right Dante?" Bobby said as he began walking up to the three-headed demon.
"As long as you can keep up kid." Dante replied pulling out his sword Rebellion. "You guys can just sit tight alright?"
"I don't mind." Lea said as he sat down to take a small nap.
Roxas and Xion laughed and joined their friend.
"YOU TWO ARE FOOLS TO CHALLENGE ME!" Cerberus boomed as he charged at Bobby and Dante.
Dante held his sword in place and Bobby summoned his Keyblade, which impressed Dante.
"Nice sword!"
"Thanks."
The two fought the Ice Demon with all their strength and won.
"YOU ARE TRULY NOBLE WARRORS. I SHALL LEND YOU MY STRENGTH."
Cerberus disappeared and became ice nunchucks in Dante's hand, who wielded them with great ease.
"That was awesome!" Sora cheered to Bobby and Dante.
"Thanks." Dante said to Sora as he rubbed his head.
"Hey! I'm not little!"
"Well, you still have a lot to learn kid."
The gang moved forward up the tower, encountering demons after demons, including powerful ones that gave Dante new weapons, two swords of fire and wind, and a dark guitar that gave him the power to absorb his enemy's strength. As they were making their way to the top of the tower, they came across a woman in white wielding a large gun with a blade attached to it. She pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Dante.
"The power I sense from you, it's just like those demons. You one too?" She sternly asked him.
"Why'd you ask? Want a date with me?" He said to her.
"I don't date demons!" She exclaimed as she fired her gun at her.
The others were shocked to see that Dante recovered from the bullet to the head and pulled it right out.
"Why'd you shoot me? It's not like I insulted you or something." Dante said to the mysterious woman.
"Maybe she's just an old cranky lady." Steve said.
"What did you say?" The woman said pointing her gun at Steve.
"N-nothing nothing!" Steve scaredly said holding his hands up with the gun pointed at his face.
The woman put it down and turned back to Dante.
"Are you a demon or not?" She said again to him.
"Half. My mother was human, my father was a demon, though I never knew my father. So now what, you gonna kill me and my friends?"
She shook her head.
"No, I'm looking for someone. A man who was once my father who killed my mother for Sparta's power." She said.
"Really? That's messed up!" Sere exclaimed, crossing her arms.
"Sparta was my father's name." Dante realizingly said.
"YOU'RE father's the Dark Knight?" She said.
Dante nodded his head.
"You want us to help you find your 'father'?" Bobby asked her.
"I would appreciate it."
"So what's your name?" Kairi asked.
"I have no name." She sadly replied.
"So what? We just call you Lady?" Tylor said.
She nodded.
"What was your old name?" Riku asked as they continued onward.
"A name my 'father' gave me that I had to get rid of." Lady told Riku.
Bobby then realized something.
"His name wouldn't happen to be Arkham wouldn't it?" He asked.
"Yes it is."
"He's the guy who told me about this tower." Dante added.
Suddenly they felt a great tremor shaking Temen-ni-gru.
"What's going on?" Xion asked trying to keep her balance.
"The tower's being activated!" Lady exclaimed.
"Then let's move!" Bobby said as they moved forward.
The gang had finally arrived at the top where a large portal appeared in the sky.
"Is that the portal to the Demon World Dante?" Sora asked looking up at it.
"I guess so. We go in it now." He replied to Sora.
The gang went in together and found themselves in a totally different world where there were demons everywhere including Heartless that only appeared where they were.
"So these are the Heartless?" Dante asked as they were fighting them off and went deeper in the Demon World.
"Yeah, but these guys are no match for the Keyblade." Sora told him.
"Glad you're here then."
They finally made their way into the deepest part of the realm where they saw a man holding a sword.
"It's him! It's Arkham!" Lady said.
"Hmm? Ah, if it isn't Vergil's brother and my dear sweet Mary." Arkham said holding the blade.
"How dare you call me by that name!" She said as she began shooting at Arkham.
Her bullets didn't even harm him.
"Your puny gun can't harm me for you see, I now have the power of the Dark Knight Sparta! BEHOLD!" Arkham said as he held the sword up high.
The ground began shaking and Arkham had transformed into a demon that looked like Sparta himself.
"Behold the power of Sparta!" Sparta Arkham said.
"The power of Sparta is mine only Arkham!" said a man who appeared behind our heroes wearing a blue coat and wielded a katana at his side.
"It's been too long Vergil." Dante said to his twin.
"It has brother. It seems you have some new friends." Vergil said looking at Aqua and the others.
"So you're Dante's brother Vergil." Aqua said.
Vergil nodded.
"As I said before Arkham, the power of my father is mine!" He said, drawing his katana Yamato.
"Then come and take it!"
Vergil charged at Arkham, but he blocked Vergil's attack and knocked him back.
"Vergil!" Sora exclaimed.
"I'll be alright. Now let's fight him."
The others drew their weapons and fought together with Dante's brother against Arkham until...
"Fools! You're facing the power of a demon knight! What hopes do you have of winning?" Arkham laughed evily.
"This guy is starting to annoy me!" Sere said angry.
"Just calm down then kid, we'll be able to stop him." Dante said to her.
The gang continued to fight Arkham when he called up Heartless to aid him.
"Attack!" He commanded them.
They attacked our heroes and proved to be stronger Heartless than the ones from before. Even Bobby's Kaioken ability was no match for the Heartless.
"They're too strong for us!" He said as he reverted from Kaioken.
"What do we do?" Sora said.
"Go home?" Steve replied.
"HOW are we gonna go home Steve? We get a unicorn to help us home?" Tylor told him sarcastically.
"Shut up!" He angerly replied back to Tylor.
Arkham started attacking the gang while they were fighting the Heartless, which was real hard for our heroes. Soon they were too weak to continue.
"He's too strong.." Roxas said trying to get up.
"How can we win?" Ven replied.
Only Bobby, Dante, Sere, Aqua, Sora, and Vergil were the only ones able to fight Arkham, but weren't able to keep up with him.
"How long can you keep this up I wonder?" Arkham said snickering.
He then struck at Aqua and she was out cold.
"Aqua! Arkham you bastard!" Bobby yelled at him as he charged.
Unfortunatly, Arkham struck him down as well and was out cold.
"Bobby!" Sora exclaimed.
"Try all you want, you can NEVER beat me!"
"Will you shut up already!" Sere yelled at him.
Arkham struck at Sere, but didn't get knocked out like Bobby and Aqua.
"What's wrong little girl? Can't keep up?" He tauntingly said to her.
"SHUT UP!"
Just then Sere became mad as ever and changed. Her transformation was different than Tim's. She had sprouted a black wing from her body and a dark aura surrounded her.
"Whoa. This is new." Dante said surprised by Sere's transformation.
Bobby and Aqua regained consicousness and saw what happened to Sere.
"S-Sere?" Aqua said.
"She has darkness in her." Bobby said surprised.
"You won't get away with this Arkham." Sere told him.
"Oh? And HOW are you going to do that?" He replied as he charged at Sere.
Sere blocked it with her hand.
"Impossible!" He shockingly said.
"Is that all you got?"
She then punched him in the stomach, making him stagger backwards. She continued to attack him repeatedly until he was defeated.
"Impossible. How can this be?" Arkham said as he changed back to normal.
He then saw Lady walk up to him and pointed her gun at him.
"NO!"
BANG!
Arkham was dead. Lady then began to cry, as Bobby comforted her. Dante and Vergil then began their own battle, where they fought in their demon forms. The others watched as Dante came out victorious.
"Now what Vergil?" He asked his beaten brother.
Vergil was holding both of the amulets that were on his and Dante's neck.
"To keep this world safe from the demons." He said as he fell off the cliff and saw his brother reach out to him.
The gang walked up to Dante.
"You alright?" Lady asked him.
A tear fell down on his cheek and he wiped it.
"A tear? I never thought devils cried." He faintly said, laughing a little.
They then returned to the human world and watched the portal and Temen-ni-gru disappeared.
"You gonna be okay Dante?" Sora asked.
"I'll be fine kid." He replied rubbing Sora's head again.
"Stop that!" He said laughing as the others joined in.
Just then, Lady's Kalina-Ann gun, which was named after her departed mother, began to glow. Bobby knew this and he and the other Keybearers sealed the Keyhole.
"So that's what you guys came for?" Dante asked.
"Yeah, we have to go now, but we'll come back to check on you guys." Bobby told him.
"It'll be nice to see you again soon." Lady said.
The gang went into their ship and left, saying goodbye to the devil hunters Lady and Dante. Back in the ship, Sere confessed on what happened during the battle with Arkham.
"So you had darkness in you since when you lost against Cell?" Sora asked.
She only nodded.
"I think I know why you kept it a secret from us. You were scared on what we would think of you right?" Riku said.
"Yeah." Sere said sadly.
"I once had darkness in my heart, and it took control of me and made me fight Sora. Since then, I'm still worried it'll take me over again." He said clutching his chest.
"So there's no need to worry about it! We'll help you out if it tries to take you over okay?" Mickey reasured her.
"Thank you guys." Sere happily said, wiping away tears of joy.
The gang arrived in the new world, near a tower shaped in a 'T'.
"So where are we at now?" Sora asked.
"Jump City, home of the Teen Titans." Bobby happily said as they headed into the city.
End of Chapter 25