Kingdom Hearts: Before the After

Chapter 26: The Beast Within

Kairi was startled to see Sora become such a monster, he didn't even use his Keyblade, he killed Lionwhyte's minions with his own bare hands. Lionwhyte was even more frightened, "Hey kid, I was just kidding! I never even touched her!" Sora's cold stare didn't linger, as he looked murderously at Lionwhyte, he began to walk towards him.

Ratchet and Ophelia finally reach the Pleasure Dome, where they find Kairi out of her prison, and Sora out of his mind! Lionwhyte tries to make a break for it, "Uh...'You may have won this round, but I'll be back!'" Sora then grabs Lionwhyte by the throat with a tentacle and asks him, "I won? You'll be back? BULLSHIT! I haven't even started breaking that little turkey throat of yours."

Ratchet tries to stop him, "Sora, what are you thinking? Kairi's safe now, we can get out of here!" Sora smacks Ratchet away, "GET OFF YOU LITTLE PRICK! This monster had this one coming!" Lionwhyte pleads to Sora, "P-Please...don't...I...beg..." Sora's eyes widened, as he smiled and squeezed even harder, "...no more begging."

"STOP IT SORA!"

Sora turns his head to his right, where Kairi is seen yelling at him, "What kind of Keyblade Master solves his problems by killing people?" Sora smiles at Kairi and answers, "Me, who else?" Kairi tries even harder to reason with him, "Sora please, don't play by his rules! If you do, you'll end up doing something you'll regret!"

Sora's maniacal face changes into a disappointed expression, "Kairi, I've been regretting you're involvement with my life since you were first kidnapped by Maleficent. Every time I was on a new adventure, you were always targeted, you were always kidnapped, I'M SICK OF HAVING TO SAVE YOU'RE SORRY ASS! I'm playing the rules of this idiot because of you." Kairi was heartbroken, "M-me?"

Sora laughs, "Finally! The 'princess' gets it! Did it take you this long to know that you were nothing without me? And another thing, Your hair was a brighter shade of red, since when did you feel like darkening that color, huh? And that Keyblade, are you serious? It looks like a G-rated movie, no, worse, it looks like the person you really are inside, a WEAK, GIRLY, BARBIE/BRATS OBSESSED WHORE!"

Kairi started to back away, "You...YOU ARE NOT SORA!" She prepares her Keyblade, "The Sora I knew said that he was happy, knowing that I was getting stronger! Sora even told me that I was a true hero!" Sora smirked, "Then I really had you fooled. Do you really think you can just compare yourself to me because you have a Keyblade?"

Kairi then recited words spoken to her by an old friend, "If anyone tells you otherwise, then they will never know what a great girl you are..." Sora became confused, "Did you just call me a-?" Kairi explained, "You said that to me when I was having doubts...Sora...thank you."

Sora suddenly felt a painful sore in his chest, he then throws Lionwhyte out of the way, "THANK YOUUUUU!" Sora stood before Kairi, "I changed my mind babe, since you don't get it, I might as well beat some sense into you, and remind you why I'm the true Keyblade Master!"

Inside Sora's heart, Midna watched through his eyes and smiled, "Geez, your girlfriend just won't take the hint, huh?" She turns around and sees an unconscious Sora, held inside a purple crystal, "She really believed you, what a sucker. In the end, she'll learn her place, it's only a matter of time."

Back in reality, Sora attacks with one of his tentacles, Kairi succeeds in dodging it, then she throws her Keyblade at his tentacle, slicing through it. Sora looked at his sliced tentacle and looked at Kairi, "That it bitch? Fine, MY TURN!"

Sora plunges his remaining tentacles into the ground, the earth began to shake, then the ground underneath Kairi started to break, she successfully jumps out of the way, but the tentacles emerge from the ground instantly and grab her by the ankle. The tentacle throws Kairi against a wall, and was about to crush her, when Kairi cut through it.

"You really aren't going to quit, are you?" Sora asked, Kairi replied, "Are you amazed? I learned it from the REAL Sora!" Sora became furious, "I AM SORA YOU DUMB SH-!" Kairi countered, "If you really are Sora, then why are you using darkness? Sora is the Keyblade Master, not a Heartless."

Midna clenched her fist, "What is wrong with you Sora? KILL THAT GIRL, OR SHE'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE!" Behind Midna, Sora started to open his eyes...

"...K-Kairi."

Kairi was startled by Sora's sudden change in personality, "Sora?" Sora then snapped out of it and stretched his arm right at her, "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He then grabs Kairi and smashes her to the ground, about 8 times. Kairi was barely able to stand, and Sora was moving in for the kill, "I can't believe you stopped because I said your name. Your pathetic!"

Sora then took his last two tentacles and tore them out of his body, then the two tentacles transformed into what appeared to be Keyblades, "Hinamizawa Syndrome and Black Blood, the perfect names for the perfect Keyblades!" Sora prepared to stab Kairi with both when she suddenly had Sora's old Keyblade in her hand.

Sora was shocked, "WHAT?" Then suddenly, a voice was heard, "Quickly, use his Keyblade and yours to separate the two!" Kairi swiftly took both Keyblades and jamed them into Sora's chest. She then pulls the two blades in different directions, like pulling a bag open, she tries to pull Sora away from his new dark form.

"One sky, one destiny, ONE SORA!"

Midna began to worry, "What is she doing? I can't let her do this, I have so much to do, I NEED THIS BODY!" Suddenly, Midna heard something shatter, and as she turned around... "What you need is MY FOOT KICKING YOUR ASS!" Sora gave a mighty kick to Midna, sending her flying right out of Sora's heart.

And just like that, Kairi pulled the real Sora out of the dark Sora, and as she looked, the dark Sora started to change into a small imp, who was having a hard time standing up. Kairi then sees Sora trying to get up, then she instantly jumps at him, and giving him a big hug.

"You're back!" Kairi said as she let Sora go, Sora scratched his head, "Technically, I never left, but in a way, I guess your right." Sora then summoned his regular Keyblade to his hand, "...thank you, Keyblade." Kairi then comes toward the imp and prepares to attack with a Fire spell, "Time for you to light up like the 4th of July!"

Sora stops Kairi, "WAIT! First we have to know why she did what she did." Kairi puts down her Keyblade, "Fine, but I'm not in the habbit of forgiving that little-!" Suddenly the voice was heard again, "Well done Princess, you truly have the gift. And I hope your friend is doing alright now." The person who spoke reveals who he was, and to Sora and Kairi's surprise, it was another Lombax!

Ratchet rushes toward the two Keybearers, "Hey, what did I miss?" Sora then waves at Ratchet, "Hi." Ratchet was delighted to see Sora turned back to normal, "I'm glad to see you back to normal Sora." Kairi spoke, "Besides that, there's another Lombax here!" She points to the old Lombax, who was quite startled by Ratchet's appearance, "I-it can't be,you're...you're Kaiden's son!"

Ophelia walks up to her friends and asks, "Who's Kaiden?" The old Lombax kneels down and says, "Please forgive me. I forgot to introduce myself. General Alister Azimuth. Four-Bolt Magistrate of the Lombax Praetorian Guard, Elder Councilman for the Centre for Advanced Lombax Research, and YOU, my dear boy...look just like your father." Ratchet was startled to hear this, then Sora whispered to Kairi and Ophelia, "Man, he loves to talk."

While the others were distracted, Midna tries to make a break for it, when Kairi's voice was heard, "Where are you going, Mini-Me?" Midna turns around with a sly grin, "You think you can just scare me into staying here? I'd love to, but I have some business to take care of." Sora asks, "Wait, who are you? And why is it that you needed my body?"

Midna yawns and explains, "Didn't you hear me before? I'm Midna, your new conscience. Of coarse, now that 'Snow White' ruined the bonding, I'll have to find someone else to bother." Ratchet asks, "Well, instead of possessing people and pulling the Jekll and Hyde routine, why not come with us?" Sora and Kairi look at Ratchet, "WHAT ARE YOU, INSANE?"

Ophelia approaches Midna with her daggers, "Indeed, she'll make you puppets again if she is released." Midna replied, "Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It all depends on what you can offer me..." Sora then said, "We can help you find your home world." Midna was startled, "W-What?" Sora explained, "There had to be a reason you came inside of me, you probably thought that by possessing me, you could succeed in piloting the Gummi Ship, getting you back to your world, and seeing your friends again."

Midna then said, "...It's not that easy. My world...it's-." Before Midna could finish, Azimuth noticed something coming, "Everyone, it's the Celestial Order!" And just as Azimuth finished, a ball of light came from the sky and collided with the ground.

Out of the crater, came a large person, he wore the same garments as the other agents, except for the color scheme, which was green and gold. He held a large ax, his left leg was replaced by a bilateral prosthetic leg, and his hair was black while his bangs were silver, he even had a scar from his cheek to his neck. The man looked at Sora and smiled, "You are Sora?"

"Y-yes."

"I am Genip, one of the generals of the Celestial Order. By the order of my leader, I have been sent to present you an invitation...to our Order."

End of Chapter 26