One Wrong Turn Turned Right
Author's Note: You should know by now that I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
I would also like to thank, again, ShadowRebirth37 for allowing me to borrow Shuriken, Okari and Leiden from the previous chapters. Please note that no Keybladers were harmed in the making of this story.
Chapter 25: A Willing Sacrifice
Sora had plunged the Dark Keyblade into his chest, causing light to be emitted. Blaster quickly took the blade and did the same thing, stabbing himself in the chest where his heart should be. As both of them started to glow from the chest, Sora looked at the Heartless symbol: the Keyhole was now complete. Blaster looked at Sora, who had averted his gaze to Blaster. Each one smiled at each other as the Dark Keyblade burst into 7 white spheres. The other princesses (Aurora, Alice, Belle, Cinderella, Jasmine, and Snow White), who were in tubes in the hallway, each had one white sphere enter their body.
Blaster watched as Wendy's heart was returned. She didn't wake up immediately, but she was starting to regain consciousness. Cody, who had turned in time to see Blaster sacrifice himself, saw two white orbs emerge from both Blaster's and Sora's bodies. The orb from Blaster's body drifted over to Char and disappeared inside her, while Sora's did the same for Kairi. Both of whom were awake slightly faster.
"What the…?" Char muttered seconds later.
"Sora," Donald shouted, as he ran to his friend who was falling backwards, completely shrouded by light, "SORA!"
"Crap," Cody said as Blaster did the same thing as Sora. "BLASTER!"
As the two fell, seemingly in slow motion, both Kairi and Char moved to sitting positions. Immediately, Kairi was in a standing positon, as was Char.
"Sora," Kairi said, trying to get her friend's attention. Char, on the other hand just ran over to Blaster. Kairi ran to Sora as well, but as Blaster and Sora fell into the hands of their respective "girlfriends," they disappeared into floating balls of light, flying up into the ceiling. The only thing that made it into anyone's hands was Blaster's wristband, which Char caught.
"SORA!" Donald shouted to the heavens. "COME BACK SORA!"
"CAPTAIN!" Cody shouted. It was the first time that Cody had ever addressed Blaster by his rank.
Kairi and Char were flabbergasted for a few seconds, but Char came back to her senses first.
"BLASTER!" Char shouted, lifting her head to the disappearing orbs of light.
"What's going on?" Sora asked as he fell through nothingness.
"You asking?" Blaster said sarcastically, falling alongside Sora. "What do you think is going on?"
"We're falling," Sora said. "Falling into darkness."
"Now he gets it," Blaster muttered to himself as the duo continued to descend through darkness.
After the whole sequence of events had finished, Kairi was the first to speak.
"Sora, are you really…" She said, starting to choke up. Then her voice strengthened. "No, he can't be! I won't let him go!"
"What just happened?" Wendy asked, moving into a sitting position. "Did I miss something?"
"Sora and Blaster just sacrificed themselves to save Kairi and Char," Cody said.
"Blaster?" the metallic voice of the Bellerophon asked. "What's happening? I lost your energy signature!"
"Blaster's gone," Char said, trying not to explode into tears. "He sacrificed himself to save me."
"So, you have awakened at last princesses," a man said, walking out of a portal of darkness. He had a tan that most women would have loved to get, long, silvery hair, and some orange eyes. He wore black boots, black pants, a black and grey jacket over a white shirt that didn't cover his entire chest, white gloves, and, showing in his semi-bare chest was the Heartless Symbol. "The Keyhole is complete. You have served your purpose. But now it's over."
As this guy got closer, Wendy realized who it was. "Ansem."
"Don't make another move!" Donald said as Wendy, Cody, and Char summoned their Keyblades. Char had hers in half shortly after summoning it.
"Do you think we can stop him all by ourselves?" Goofy asked.
"I don't know," Donald replied.
All of a sudden, Ansem had come to a sudden stop, with a look of fear on his face.
"Impossible," Ansem said. As Ansem continued to struggle, a golden form appeared: An "image" of Riku.
"No," Riku said, holding back Ansem as though he was a wall. "You won't use me for this!"
"Riku!" Kairi said.
"This can't be good," Char said. She felt that something was coming, and she was right to assume so.
"You've got to run," Riku said. "The Heartless are coming!"
Seconds later, the ant-like Shadows appeared around the group.
"I knew it," Char said, moving her blades into the defensive position.
"Frankly, I think we'd better run," Cody said. "Count our losses and try again next time."
Kairi nodded in agreement, and, slicing through a few of the heartless, they made their escape. That was until Goofy mentioned one thing.
"What about the Keyhole?"
"We can worry about it later," Cody said.
Unbeknownst to them (but knownst to us) (a), two of the Shadows looked over the side of the floor as Cody, Wendy, Char, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy made their way to the exit a floor below. After the group left, the two shadows began to follow, slowly but surely.
Running back through the cathedral, they saw Okari once again, at the defensive.
"What's going on?" Okari asked.
"We got Heartless coming from the other way now," Cody said, racing past. "Riku is apparently fighting with the darkness within himself."
Okari's eyes widened at the news.
"That's good to hear," Okari said. "Good luck."
The group had already run out the other side when two Shadows walked through the other door, saw the Wyvern heartless, and decided to take an alternate route. Once the group had gotten to the lifts, Cody turned around and saw two Shadows jumping down to the main door, heading them off. Sure enough, when the group entered the lobby, two Shadows appeared, right behind Kairi and Char.
The girls screamed.
I hope you liked this chapter. I went on empty trying to figure out how to finish this one. R&R plz, and, remember, flames are going to be forwarded to Axel.
(a) Spaceballs joke