Kairi had barely raised her Keyblade when Sora slammed into her, trying to break her defenses. His eyes were darting around in fear, and he hurriedly whispered "I'm sorry! I-I'm not doing this!"
Kairi could only stare at Sora's eyes: one pure blue, the other frightening gold. His hair was turning lighter and grayer by the second.
While Sora made it apparent that he had no control over his actions, Kairi was still caught in a daze. Sora was attacking her, occasionally landing a blow and hurting her.
It was... it was so wrong.
Riku suddenly cut in front of her, blocking Sora's blows with his Keyblade.
"Go! I'll handle him!"
Kairi backed away hesitantly "B-but-"
"JUST GO! THIS ISN'T YOUR FIGHT!" Kairi then dashed away, frightened by how suddenly terrifying Riku had sounded.
The others then made their moves:
Roxas lunged at Saix, fully prepared to kill.
Mickey, Donald, and Goofy charged at Xigbar and a few other hooded minions.
Aqua tried getting to Xehanort himself, but another member stepped in front of him, a familiar Keyblade blocking her easily.
"No..." she gasped when the hood fell from the impact. White hair spiked back in a mohawk, fierce golden eyes, and a deep tan.
"No, Terra wait-! AH!" 'Terra' shoved Aqua away easily. He then took off his cloak, and advanced.
Ventus, who had been dueling with 'Ansem', turned and gaped at the revelation. "Ter-AHHH!" Ansem had taken full advantage and knocked the boy away.
Kairi then felt something shoot by her, narrowly missing her arm. She whirled around, finding no one. She shakily held her Keyblade, her head whirling with fear and worry.
She cried out when something struck her from behind. It wasn't a mortal blow, but boy did it hurt. She ignored the pain and turned, finding Xemnas advancing on her, both ethereal blades readied. She took a deep breath, summoned her courage, and screamed a war cry as she charged at him.
"FOR SORA!"
Riku, meanwhile, was finding that a semi-possessed Sora fought far better than he thought he would. Their blades clashed, Sora hastily apologizing with tears starting to flow down his face "I am SO sorry! I don't-"
"Yeah, I know Sora, I know!" Riku then disarmed Sora, but his corrupted Keyblade reappeared in an instant and the boy swung again with far more force than Riku thought was possible with his lanky frame.
He was racking his thoughts for something, anything, to help his friend.
Another jarring clash brought another spurt of apologies. Riku, also swinging at Sora occasionally, now noted the boy's hair was a brownish gray.
In an effort to reassure Sora, Riku locked blades with him and said quickly "Okay, I don't care how rough it gets, just pretend we're sparring back home. We may get beat up as heck, but we're just... sparring. Okay?"
Sora pressed his Keyblade harder against Riku's, almost overpowering him, but nodded.
"J-just sparring at the islands." he shakily whispered.
They backed away, then charged at each other again, each trying to twist the others Keyblade out of their grip in an attempt to get the upper hand. Riku laughed weakly
"You know, this might work. I've always been better at this than you."
Sora only whimpered an incomplete sentence back "If it doesn't..."
Aqua was refusing to fight her friend AGAIN. Unfortunately, this left her getting beaten to the core, Terranort not even realizing that he was hurting one of his closest friends.
"Terra! Just STOP!" Aqua screamed, weakly trying to defend herself. Terranort just advanced, not even a flicker of recognition passing his face. Aqua still refused to fight him, and pulled out her charm and prepared for the end "I'm not fighting you, Terra!"
Terranort raised his Keyblade for the final blow and swung-
CHING!
"TERRA! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Ventus had intercepted the blow. He reached in his pocket and wrenched out his charm "She's your FRIEND!"
Terranort faltered, saying "Friend...?"
Ventus, realizing he had hit a connection with Terra, reached into Terra's pocket and pulled out Terra's charm as well. "Remember? We're friends, we all want to be Keyblade Masters. A-and what about our Master? O-our father? Eraqus? What would he think?!"
Terranort faltered even more upon seeing his own charm. "Eraqus...?"
Ventus lowered his Keyblade, and Aqua stood. Ventus gave Aqua Terra's charm, and she placed it in his hand "Terra, remember."
"Aqua... Ven..." Terranort's eyes widened. He then dropped his Keyblade "I-I hurt you...!"
Aqua took opportunity and aimed her Keyblade at Terra's heart "Xehanort shouldn't be part of you anymore!"
She then deftly removed Xehanort's heart from Terra's body, shattering the foreign darkness while she was at it. The correct colors were restored to the young man's hair and eyes. He briefly blinked before slumping into Aqua and Ventus's arms.
"Terra,"
"You're back..." Aqua and Ventus whispered among the turmoil of Light against Dark.
There, Terra's back. You can rejoice now.
ಠ_ರೃ Annoyed like a madam. Terra is honestly my least favorite KH character, and I don't see why you peeps like him so much.
Although we have Kairi vs. Xemnas, Mickey/Donald/Goofy vs. Xigbar and a few others, Roxas vs. Saix, and Sora vs. Riku.
Oh, and a Xehanort just grinning and watching it all unfold.
Well, Mr./Miss Starlol9, I'm sorry for making your mom worry about you ^_^* Yeah, that was just nasty of me, wasn't it? Revealing that Sora was still a Vessel even after all this rescuing.
