The Betrayal of Light.
Author's note: Sorry for the delay. This is probably one of the most hardest chapters to write, and I'm not if the battle scene is really long. Either way, this is the final chapter, and next up is the epilogue, which, let's say, is a change of pace-literally.
I don't own anything here.
Final Chapter: "I wish..."
When Terra, Aqua, Ven and Lea emerged from the portal, to their horror, as they appeared next to the unconscious Isa, which Lea immediately rushed over and was very relieved that his best friend was still alive, they heard someone scream, and when they looked up, they all gasped in absolute horror, as the giant Eraqus has caught the now helpless Cosmos, and before they could do anything...
CRUNCH!
Eraqus has literally bitten off half of Cosmos who then disappears in fading light, and all the four of them could do was witness in horror. They were too late to save the now dead Goddess of Light.
"Cosmos!" Terra and Lea both screamed out, the latter ready to cry. They both failed.
Terra, in anger and guilt, fell to his knees and slammed his fist onto the watery ground in frustration, having failed the one who saved his soul from the darkness. Aqua covered her mouth with her hands in pure horror, and Ven was speechless beyond belief, as he saw, the giant that took Eraqus's form, was no longer Eraqus, but a being only relaying on Light, and nothing more. His heart was swallowed up by mental darkness, yet it made no sense. Either way, the blonde-haired teen lowered his head in guilt. So many things, and he knew one thing.
"...It's all my fault." Ven whispered.
Eraqus in the meantime, began to cackle like a madman, looking up to the sky and raised his arms at the success, as he declared, "YES! I am the new ruler of all Light! Souls and Life shall cease to be!" which got the attention of the group, while Lea clinged onto Isa's unconscious form, feeling scared.
"Eraqus is gone." Aqua stated, feeling so angry that the man who raised her and her best friends has gone driven to complete madness. She then yelled out to get his attention, "Who are you!?"
The former Keyblade Master gazed down at those who looked at him, and smirked, "I am Yuen, the replacement of Cosmos and Bhunivelze. You could say that I was once Eraqus' and Xehanort's Master, immortal from the original Keyblade War, one that separated the world into what we know today."
The Keyblade wielders gasped in horror at this, while Eraqus, or rather, Yuen, continued, "Many centuries ago, Bhunivelze sought to wipe out humanity of all kinds, but he felled to those who sought out freedom. Then came Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds. It was guarded by it's counterpart, the X-Blade. I created the Book of Prophecy, which told the future of the world falling into darkness, and used five of my six apprentinces to foolishly try to prevent this from happening. In truth, it was all part of my plan to make sure the future happens, so I had my sixth apprentince, the Seeker of Darkness, to led the world to it's doom."
Yuen chuckled, "Ah, yes. The world and Kingdom Hearts faded into darkness, but I didn't take notice that the hearts of small children would have the power to rebuilt the worlds into what it's known today. I too survived this, and sought out to make sure the worlds would forever remain to my desire, so I could recreate reality in my own image. I secretly guided Eraqus and Xehanort to repeat history."
"Why-why do you hate all us? We didn't do anything to do!" Lea protests, trying to act brave.
The immortal being frowned and scowled, "It's because that Humanity do not follow the orders of Gods. Even the Gods fail to follow the orders. Bhunivelze is the true and only god, and now he is banished! To add to the cause, Eraqus's pupil who had the power of darkness failed to follow through to allow Xehanort to create the Keyblade War and go beyond the future to make sure things go the way I wanted. So, in Xehanort's defeat, I hid myself inside Eraqus's heart and when the time was right, I took full control! I have already devoured his heart."
"And you killed Cosmos too!" Ven accussed. "You can to destroy everything just because we didn't know any of this!? What gave you the right to tell us what to do?"
"It was destiny. The pitiful Princesses of Heart only serve to open the door to Darkness. They should have been locked away until the time was right, not live out as humans! But now, it no longer matters. I have the full rights to destroy everything and rebuilt everything, this time, souls are forbidden, freedom poisoness, and everything who fail shall be devoured." Yuen declared.
"Shut up!" Terra shouted, as he stood up, before summoning his Keyblade, ready to fight. "You have no right to decide our fate! I'm not sure if we can defeat you, but it's worth a try to protect the worlds!"
Aqua stood next to him and also summoned her Keyblade, adding, "We're sick of your nonesense!"
"We're going to fight you and defeat you, or die trying!" Ven added, also summoning his Keyblade, as he stood on the other side of Terra. He then looked back to Lea and told him, "Lea, look after Isa."
Even though Lea wanted to help, he could only nod, and then stood up, lifting Isa up, placing the unconscious teen's arm around his shoulders, and dragged him behind the piller hopefully that would keep them both safe. The red-haired teen was terrified out of his mind, unable to figure out what to do. He wanted to help, but at the same time, he wanted to go home, and pretend the entire thing was just a nightmare. He sat down next to his unconscious best friend and hugged him, and tried not to listen to the battle that was about to happen.
Yuen laughed at the three Keyblade wielders that were going to attempt to fight them, but he decided to be amused and concentrated on shrinking himself to normal size to make things more interesting, and summoned his Keyblade, before summoning another, one that Xehanort used to have, having Keyblades of Light and Darkness. "You can not defeat me, but I suppose I could stretch out. Prepare to die, mere mortals!"
And the fight was on, he lunged forward as did Terra, Aqua and Ven, Keyblades clashing against each other already, and as a result in the Realm of Light, darkness rained down in all of the worlds, covering everything in their place, as many people in all of the worlds cried out in fear as they too were covered in darkness while trying to avoid it, including the worlds with people the Keyblade wielders met on their journey.
Yuen in the meantime, smirked evilly and levitated into the air, and Terra, Ven and Aqua summoned their armor and leaped into the air before they were too late as the evil being raised his arms in the air and casted the spell of Meteor which appeared through a portal of fire and darkness he created. The meteor-shower rained down at them. The trio leaped out of the way while the multiple rocks of fire crashed into the ground, creating shockwaves through out, and it nearly hit the piller Lea and Isa were hiding behind, and the former flinched in fright, hugging Isa tighter.
Once the attack was done, Yuen then flew towards them in high speed, his Keyblades at ready and decided to strike at Terra who saw this coming and blocked the attacks with his Keyblade in time, before the two clashed against one another, though the younger Keyblade wielder was starting to lose already, but then Ven threw his Keyblade like a boomarang at Yuen sensed it just in time, and blocked it with Xehanort's Keyblade, though Aqua then casted her Ghost-Drive spun around with light and actually managed to hit Yuen who cried out in pain, but then he leaped away and once again levitated into the air.
"Everything is MINE!" Yuen bellowed as he then summoned Thunder of Judgement which massive lightning strikes boomed in the sky and millions of lightning strikes hit everything in it's path, except for the three Keyblade wielders who dodged out of the way, being hit once or twice, before Aqua then summoned Blizzard and aimed it at Yuen, briefly freezing his arms but he easily broke free, and flew towards her, before she jumped out of the way, and then she chanted her fire spells at him. Once again, he dodged. Ven then casted his Lightning-Drive and then used the time-stop spell to briefly freeze Yuen before hitting him multiple times before backing away, and Terra then leaped into the air and preformed a massive slice attack, hitting Yuen.
To their shock, Yuen unfroze and only had a couple of scratches, before he laughed, and then called upon a massive Flooding-Wave spell which a giant wall of water appeared out of nowhere and flooded everything in the path, while Terra, Ven and Aqua quickly casted a spell that would allow them, and even Lea and Isa to breathe, while Lea noticed the flooding come and hugged Isa even tighter while shutting his eyes and screamed before everything was covered underwater. Yuen was admittedly impressed that his enemies had figured out how to survive the flood and proceeded to continued fighting against them. Lea was been trying to hold his breathe and Isa's breath, when he realised that he could still breathe and looked around, confused, amazed that he didn't drown. He checked up on his best friend and was relieved that Isa was still alive.
Despite being now underwater, Terra, Ven and Aqua managed to continue fighting against Yuen who clashed at them, being skilled with the Keyblades and spun around while blocking every attempted attack his enemies tried to hit him with. Ven then thought of an idea and casted his Tornado spell, mixing it up with water and created a new Whirlpool spell, which also gave Terra and Aqua ideas. Terra then casted Thunder around the whirlpool and Aqua casted light which also surrounded the Whirlpool, which actually caught Yuen by surprise and before he could even attempt to escape, he was sucked in and spun around and around and around, being hit by multiple attacks in one hit, and he grunted and cried out in pain, before the three Keyblade wielders swam high before slashing at the evil being about twenty times before retreating, and the waters vanished in an massive water explosion.
Landing on the ground again, Terra, Ven and Aqua stood, but were shocked when Yuen actually stood up, a bit shaken, and soaking wet, but was still holding up, and he was now looking extremely furious that he was actually hit by an unexpected attacks. Now he was summoning a massive a spell full of sharp spikes and fired at the trio who were hit a few times but managed to jump out of the way from the rest, but were now getting exhausted, and then summoned cure on themselves for that they could continue to fight, though it seemed that the fight was becoming endless, that, or that Yuen was actually winning, which was also a bad sign. The three of them then summoned multiple balls of light and fired them at Yuen who tried to block most of them, but some actually hit, though the spikes hit the trio as well, and all four of them were blown backwards on both sides and landed on the ground, hard.
Lea was peaking from behind the piller before ducking back, shaking. What could he do? Just then, he heard moan and when he looked next to him, Isa was stirring awake, before the blue-haired teen blinked his eyes open, wondering where he was, before he looked at the red-haired teen next to him who sighed in relief. "Lea?" Isa asked.
"Glad that you're okay, Isa. I was deeply worried about you!" Lea said, hugging his best friend who jumped a little in fright, before the latter relaxed and actually hugged his best friend back. He was then startled when Lea began sniffling before quietly sobbing onto Isa's shoulder, before Isa held the crying redhead closer to him and did his best to comfort him.
"W-we're...We're gonna die..." Lea sobbed. "It's all my fault..."
"Shhh...Lea...It's not your fault...None of us knew this would happen." Isa soothed to calm his friend down, rubbing Lea's back gently.
In the meantime, Yuen stood up, while Terra, Aqua and Ven all slowly and shakingly stood up, their Keyblade armors vanishing, and then crumbled into pieces, much to their shock, as now they could no longer protect themselves from the darkness. Even their armors fell off their arms, rendering them useless in the fight now. But even so, the three of them refused to give up. Yuen then laughed, before he raised his arms in the air again, and the ground suddenly crumbled, and parts of the land broken into several platforms which all then rose into the air, along with those who were standing on them, and broke off into several pieces far off. Lea and Isa noticed and tried to hold on as their newly made platform was far but not too far from the others who were on their own platforms, and water fall off the edges of the platforms.
"Terra! Ven!" Aqua cried out, while trying to keep her balance. She then jumped out of the way of Yuen who tried to preform a surprise attack, but she jumped off her platform and jumped from one to another, with Yuen following before the two clashed Keyblades at each other, despite Aqua having only one Keyblade. Aqua then casted her dream-drive and her Keyblade glowed in bright light, before clashing against Yuen's keyblades again, this time surprising him, before he growled and prepared another surprise attack, when Ven and Terra both came from behind and actually knocked Yuen away from their friend who thanked them. However, Yuen did a flip and straighted himself before landing on another platform, laughing and mocking the trio.
"He doesn't know when to quit, huh?" Ven asked. He, Terra and Aqua then nodded to each other and leaped at Yuen again, dodging more of his attacks which were not summoned poisonness snakes which disappeared after they missed their targets, before all four of them clashed, slashed and hit each other again and again, which Yuen showed no signs of slowing down at all, much to their chargin. It seemed that the battle was going to end in his favor and then the worlds and all life would cease to exist. But the Keyblade trio refused to give up, and they conjured up more spells of fire, blizzard, Light, ect, and kept on going and going while continuing to cast cure on themselves and making sure they didn't run out of magic either.
Eventually, while Lea and Isa were witnessing this from their platform, suddenly, in a zig-zag of light, someone appeared with them, one they recongised. It was Mickey, and with him was Sora. Wait, Sora was here!?
"Gosh, I was worried that it would've been too late." Mickey said as he also witnessed the fight of three of his friends against the evil Keyblade being, while Sora, being only four years old, could only look away as he was scared, which Lea and Isa didn't blame the kid for.
"How'd you get here?" Isa asked, surprised.
"And who's the kid?" Lea added, looking at Sora in confusion. "This ain't a good place for kids to be around in at the moment, if at all." he stated. He then remembered Kairi back at home, and he suddenly became worried for her safety. Was she safe? Were his parents alright?
Mickey shook his head, saying, "There's no time for that. We have to stop Yuen before he destroys everything, and only Sora here can help us do that!"
"Wait a minute." Lea blinked, "How'd you know about what's going on? You were in that Greek world knocked out cold." before he and the others flinched as another explosion occured in the battle which continued with Terra powering up a Fire-Light ball spell and flings it at Yuen who blocks it, before being zapped by a Thunder Spell casted by Ven before Aqua slashed at Yuen again, but he leaps out of the way and the trio leap after him, the fight still going.
"My Master named Yen Sid teleported me to his tower, and gosh, things are not looking good for the worlds." Mickey explained, looking at Sora while continuing, "The light within this young fella brought him there as well, and I guess that means Yuen has absorbed almost all of the lights in the worlds."
"What about our home?" Isa asked, as he and Lea were tensed, both praying that they were wrong about the answer they didn't want to hear but were about to hear anyway.
The Mouse King shook his head, "Most of the all worlds...disappeared. Only my home and the tower are left. I'm sorry, fellas. Even the Princesses of Heart are locked up in a Realm Between."
"You mean everyone's..." Lea trailled off, before lowering his head in despair. Now they will never be able to go home, and their parents, everyone in their world...and Kairi, poor little Kairi, was among them.
"But there's still a chance to save the worlds." Mickey continued after sensing the despair in the young teens who both looked up quickly at him again. "We need Sora's help for this, and with the six of us, that kinda counts as Seven Guardians of Light."
"What do we have to do?" Isa asked.
Sora looked at the three of them, asking, "What's going on? How can I help?" even though he felt that he should help. He wanted to help, since he lost his parents, and had already cried when he found out that his home and family and friends, especially Riku, were all gone.
Mickey looked at the four year old and had wished that Sora didn't have to go through this, but knew that there was no other choice. "Sora, we need you to call out to us, and with your help, that might give the rest of us a chance to finish off the mean bully Yuen for good. I don't know what will happen after that, but you gotta believe in us." he told Sora.
This only confused the boy even further, though Sora had to admit, it might help. "I don't know...I've never done this weird stuff before, but I'll try it!" he said, with determination which is hardly ever seen on a four year old child.
"And how can we help?" Lea asked.
"Don't worry. We'll all help." Mickey told the two teens who looked at each other, and, despite that they were admittedly both scared out of their minds, knew that they had no other choice. Maybe Cosmos knew this was coming and had counted on them to help Terra, Ven and Aqua to finish off Yuen and save the worlds. With new determination to remember Cosmos, both of them nodded to each other before turning to Mickey and nodded, agreeing that now was the time.
In the meantime, while Mickey was telling Lea, Isa and Sora on what they were going to do, Terra and Aqua both combined their Thunder Spells and fired the attacks on Yuen who counterattacked with a massive fire wall which drove it through the Lightning strikes and towards the two of them, though Ven then quickly casted another Tornado Spell to block it, but instead, it turned into a fire-tornado which then caught the three of them, much to their horror, and there spun around and around inside the tornado of fire, having trouble breathing as the heat and flames were intense and almost burning them to death.
However, as Yuen then jumps in for another strike, Terra, Ven and Aqua all managed to look at each other, before they all held out their Keyblades as they could and summoned a mixture of wind and blizzard which surrounded them and actually hits the fire-inferno around them before it turned into a new watery-tornado, much to Yuen's surprise, before the trio, having briefly cooled down, cured themselves again and flew straight towards him. He blocked their attacks just in time, before they leaped and ran along the watery-walls inside the tornado and clashed at each other again and again just like before, the three Keyblade wielders glowing in light and slashed at Yuen who then leaped away, much to their shock. He then glowed himself and laughed, before teleporting and slashed at the three of them from behind, knocking them away and they were flown right out of the tornado, before landing on one of the larger platforms hard, now too weak to even cast cure on themselves this time.
As the Yuen was then blasted and exploded from the inside, Yuen levitated in the air, laughing in victory as he thought he had won the battle. "Time for you to become my latest meal, foolish mortals." he mocked, before he glowed again, and was about to grow into his giant form once again. However, before he could, two Chakrams were thrown and actually impaled him through the chest, shocking him before a Claymore, wielded by Isa, whacked him so hard that Yuen was flown five platforms away before he landed hard on the ground, before the Chakrams were dismissed and returned to Lea who landed on the platform were Terra, Ven and Aqua were lying on, before the redhead dismissed them and summoned his Keyblade in their place. Mickey and Sora joined them, and the former summoned his Keyblade and casted cure on the knocked out trio who got up, and were surprised to see who was with them.
"Mickey!" Ven and Aqua cried out, before noticing the four year old boy and exclaimed in shock, "Sora!?" to which Terra was also shocked, as he recongised the boy as Riku's best friend.
"No time to explain! We gotta stop Yuen! Sora has to believe in us to help us stop Yuen for good!" Mickey told them, pointing his Keyblade at Yuen who recovered and roared in sheer anger at the group. At this, others realized that Mickey was right, and all three of them stood up again and stood beside Mickey, Lea and Isa, while Sora stayed in a safe spot of the platform they were on.
"If ya keep up with that, you might end up having a sore throat." Lea decided to tease at Yuen's constant roaring, yelling and shouting. "I yelled so much once and ended up having a sore throat for a week. Got it memorized?"
Yuen could only glare at the group ahead of him in pure hatred. "Everything shall belong to me...The Realm of Light is MINE! ALL MIIIIINNNNEEE!" He bellowed. However, just as he was about to summoned up another powerful attack, he suddenly froze, as if paralyzed, but did twich as he tried to move, which confused the group who all looked at each other, before looking back at Yuen again. "W-What? That is not possible!" he cried out in shock.
"What's going on with him?" Isa asked. However, his question was quickly answered, as a ghostly figure of light suddenly appeared in front of Yuen, a familiar one, much to everyone else's shock.
"No! I won't...allow you to do this anymore!" the familiar figure exclaimed as he held Yuen back with all of his might, though he was quickly losing. Terra, Ven and Aqua couldn't believe what they were seeing. It was the real Eraqus, and he was holding Yuen back as a spirit! The trio called out to him, and he looked at them, exclaiming, "You must destroy him! Quickly, before it's too late!"
"What about you!?" Ven cried out.
Eraqus gave him a sad smile, and said, "I am deeply sorry, all of you. I've turned against all of you, driving all of you into this danger. Friendship and love leads to light. My own heart is darkness! Destroy Yuen! Destroy me! Then everything would be alright. We well still be together, but in a different way, never remembering any of this. Now do it!"
Despite that they wanted to save Eraqus, Terra, Ven, and Aqua all knew, there was only one way to save the Realm of Light. The three of them, Lea, Isa and Mickey then all jumped and hopped from one platform to the next to reach Yuen who, despite still being frozen, managed to gain control and jumped away, though Eraqus was now joining in the fight and summoning his Keyblade, the former Keyblade Master slashed at Yuen who cried out in pain at the unexpected attack. Next, he didn't see Lea suddenly appear and whacked him and slashed at him into the chest, causing Yuen to scream out in agony, while the redheaded teen then desummoned his Keyblade and resummoned his Chakrams, throwing them skillfully like his frisbees, and hit Yuen in full mark before returning to him as he caught them skillfully.
"Nice to meet you too." Lea grinned.
Next, Isa appeared and bashed and slashed and whacked at Yuen multiple times, going into a berserk mode, flipping in the air, and unleashed a powerful gust of wind which also knocked Yuen even further, causing the evil being to fall from the platform and towards the ground which was 500,000 feet down below. While he was falling, Yuen didn't see Aqua appear next to him and she glowed in bright light before she slashed, whacked and bashed at him, using more spells onto him before she landed onto a lower platform, while Yuen continued to fall. Mickey then appeared and he preformed slashing back-flips multiple times, before swaving around and hits Yuen, before preforming a magical twirl of light, hitting the evil being full on.
"This is for Zidane and Terra!" Mickey exclaimed before whacking Yuen even further towards the ground below before the King landed on another platform for safety.
Finally, Ven and Terra appeared and both preformed a double slash at Yuen several times through out the fall, and Yuen, for the first time in the fight, had no chance what so ever, and he was actually being severally wounded in the combo attacks. The two younger Keyblade wielders then again summoned fire and thunder spells and combined the two attacks and fired it at Yuen who was being both burned and electricuted, before they too landed on another platform for safety, while Yuen still continued to fall, being weakened to the point where he couldn't even use magic anymore. He was finally losing the fight, but he was still going to live.
Or so he thought.
"Sora! Now!" Mickey called up the four year old boy who nodded. Sora then closed his eyes, and balled his hands into fists, and tried with all of his might to concentrate. Deep in his chest, his heart glowed in magnificent light, which responded to Terra, Ven, Aqua, Mickey, Lea and Isa who all glowed in the same light, and despite the surprise, all six of them nodded, before they all leaped off their platforms and in high speed, caught up with Yuen and with a powerful combo slash and swings, preformed and shot of light straight into and through him, appearing behind him now and landed on another platform below, while Yuen moaned and screamed in pain, as did Eraqus who briefly appeared, and with a sad smile, nodded at the young warriors, before fading away. Yuen then began slowing down his fall, as he coughed up blood, unable to believe what just happened.
"How could...This be...!?...No...I cannot...be erased...NO...NOOOO!" Yuen bellowed before he exploded in a mixture of light and darknes, and faded away into nothing, forever.
The platforms everyone were on then lowered down carefully after the demise of Yuen, and the world of Cosmos returned to normal, the ground returning to normal. The group looked around in awe, before Sora ran up to them, and Ven and Aqua, both thankful for the young boy for giving them and their friends the strength to defeat of Yuen, both hugged him, while Terra smiled proudly, Mickey smiled happily, and Lea and Isa both looked at each other, relieved that the battle was finally over.
But something didn't seem right. The world's should have returned to normal. So why were they still here?
"Um, so," Lea began awkwardly. "What's gonna happen now? Do we get to go home or something?" Which got the others' attentions, and all looked at each other.
Mickey was the only one who looked guilty, and said, "Aw, gee. The Realm of Light can still be saved, but there's only one way to do it, and now that Yuen is gone, the rest is up to Sora."
"How?" Terra asked.
"I wish I knew." Mickey shrugged.
"Then, how can we restore the worlds?" Ven asked, both saddened that Eraqus was gone as well, and most of the worlds have disappeared when Yuen had absorbed almost all of the Light.
"Everything will be alright." a familiar angelic voice spoke, causing everyone to looked around, before a figure appeared, and everyone gasped in surprise and shock, as the familar beautiful woman appeared, levitating and smiling. Suddenly the group were filled with relief and happiness.
Lea felt tears form in his eyes, but he quickly wiped them away, before looking up and said happily, "Cosmos! You're alright!" as indeed, Cosmos has returned.
Cosmos nodded, before saying, "Yes, and this will be the last time we'll ever meet. Now, Sora, it's time to make your wish to restore worlds at any cost of the timeline." which confused the group.
"W-What do you mean by that?" Aqua asked. She suddenly had a bad feeling about this.
The Goddess sighed, and said, "In order to restore the worlds, the time-line must be changed, which means that all of you would be reborn in a new timeline, your memories being erased from all that has happened prior either what Sora wishes, only then, all of you, and all those, your family, friends, and the people you have met, will be able to live in peace."
The group gasped at each, before looking at each other in horrified realization. Ven looked at Cosmos and asked shakily, "Y-You mean...we'll disappear without knowing when we are born again?"
"I don't like the sound of that." Lea shook his head. Suddenly he was scared all over again. The thought of disappearing terrified him. "I don't wanna disappear."
"Me neither." Isa admitted.
Cosmos sighed, "I'm sorry. It's the only way to restore the worlds, to restore your loved ones."
"If I make a wish...what would happen?" Sora asked, scared himself.
"It depends on what your wish shall be, and how the worlds would be recreated." Cosmos said. "Now, Sora. It's up to you. What is your wish?"
"Don't we get a chance to say goodbye first?" Mickey asked, feeling sad and scared himself.
The Goddess thought about this, then nodded, "Yes, take your time, then state when you are all ready."
Everyone looked at each other, tears already starting to fall, knowing that it was the only way for everything to be restored. Then they realised what Erquas had meant. He knew this would happen. Someday would be together again, in a new timeline. What timeline that would be, none of them knew, and would find out, only to forget this timeline forever. Mickey then hugged Ven and Aqua as the two of them were his closer friends than Terra, who didn't mind. Mickey actually began to cry, as did Ven and Aqua. None of them wanted to depart and forget, but they didn't have a choice.
"I wish I could say that I'd never forget any of ya's, but I'd be lying." Mickey sobbed.
"You're a good friend, Mickey." Ven sniffled. "Thanks for all of your help."
"We never could've done it without you, Mickey." Aqua added, her voice cracking and she sobbed as well.
Mickey sniffled, and replied, "Thanks, fellas. I wish I could've said goodbye to Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Daisy and Master Yen Sid." as he lets go, allowed them to say goodbye to the others, as Ven thanked Lea and Isa, before thanking Sora who hugged him, crying, and the blonde-haired teen tried to comfort the boy as if he was his little brother.
Lea in the meantime, wailed onto Isa's shoulder, not wanting to disappear at all, but knew that this would be the last time he'd breathe until he's born all over again. Isa tried to comfort his best friend, but sheded tears himself, hugging the redhead tightly in his arms.
"I'm scared, Isa." Lea cried. "I don't wanna disappear!"
Isa rubbed Lea's back and replied softly, "Shh...I don't want to disappear either, but I think we will meet again, in the next life."
Hearing this made Lea cease his crying, and he slowly looked at Isa, hope filling his eyes. "You think so?" he asked, hopefully.
"Yeah." Isa nodded. Lea teared up again, and rested his head onto Isa's shoulder again, and both of them held onto each other for a long while.
"...Love you, buddy." Lea whispered.
Isa smiled in sadness, and replied, "I love you too...buddy."
Both of them then whispered in unison, "Best friends forever." and continued to silently cry.
Ven was hugging Terra and Aqua who both hugged him back, all three of them shedding tears of sadness, and sharing their final goodbyes.
"You two guys are my family." Ven admitted as he cried. "My only family."
"You're like a little brother to both of us, Ven." Terra smiled in sadness. "I hope we'll be together again someday."
"We'll meet again." Aqua added, giving Ven a gentle kiss on the head, which he blushed but didn't mind.
Ven, still crying, looked up at his best friends-no, his brother and sister, and smiled, saying, "Thanks, guys." and hugged them tighter, and they hugged him in return, before Ven lets go and turns around to let Terra and Aqua have the final privite moment together.
Aqua, now crying completely herself, admitted to Terra the three words she longed to say before the end. "...I love you."
Smiling, Terra replied, "Aqua, I always loved you since the day I met you."
The blue-haired young woman sheded more tears, before she held Terra's face close to her's, and their lips touched. The two deepended their kiss as more tears fell. Sora, curious, wondered what was going on, before Ven, realising what was happening, covered Sora's eyes, causing the boy to groan in disappointment.
Finally, everyone looked back at Cosmos who nodded, before most of them glanced at Sora who sighed. The four year old thought long and hard, and then thought of the mean bully Yuen, and thought, if Yuen never existed, maybe things would be okay. Finally, Sora exhaled, and looked at Cosmos.
"I wish..." Sora hesitated, before trying again, this time, fully ready, "I wish that mean bully Yuen didn't exist in the first place!" as everyone blinked in surprise, then realised what could happen.
If Yuen never existed, then the Keyblade might never happen. They didn't know if it could work, but it was worth a try. Cosmos seemed to agree, and nodded, "It's settled."
Before long, everyone around them began to fade away in particles of light, including the people in it. Fearing that they would disappear one by one, the group decided they wanted to disappaer together, and all quickly gathered for their last group hug, holding onto each other tightly as they began to vanish, tears fulling, as they gave their final true goodbyes.
Ven and Aqua looked at each other, and the latter ruffled the former's hair, knowing that they had done what they could, and knowing that they were together for the end. Lea and Mickey both smiled, knowing that someday things would truely be alright.
Soon, with a final smile and final tears falling, all of them disappeared without a trace, and as Cosmos also vanished, in her eyes, the entire Realm glowed in bright light, all of the worlds gathering and then forming into one, just like when it was originaly created.
This time...as time flew backwards prior to the events...there is no Keyblade War.
Kingdom Hearts stood proudly before fading into an Unseen Realm where it and all of the gods would watch over. The X-Blade itself even vanished without a trace.
And the one who started the Keyblade War...was never born.
A/N: Writing the last part of the chapter was awkward, but fear not, as the epilogue comes up next where the story truly ends.
Everything was reset. What kind of new Time-Line will be set next? Find out in the epilogue. I've decided to combine the epilogue with the alternate ending.
While we wait for the epilogue, please continue your awesome reviews, and I'll see you in the ending chapter!