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The Kingdom Hearts 2 manga in Japan has gotten all intense though.


Chapter 29: Calm Before the Storm

Axel roamed the empty town of Hollow Bastion. 'This place is emptier than headquarters,' He thought wearily looking around. The civilians in town were inside their homes hiding from the Heartless invasion. 'There's no way I'm going to make it back to headquarters like this,' He groaned holding his wound looking for a place that sold potions or someone who knew white magic. "Everyone must be on the battle field." He assumed walking around.

The red head came across a small synthesis shop. Carl floated over to a small furnace grabbing a forge from the many shelves stuck to his wall, he placed the synthesis materials of five mythril crystals, six orichalcums, three serenity gems two bright crystals, and one dark gem. Placing the materials in the furnace he said, "Lira will like this weapon, kupo!" He then saw Axel staggering over. "What do you want, kupo?" The tiny moogle asked, his red pom-pom ball twitching on his head at the red head walking over. The small moogle noticed that Axel was in need of a potion or elixir.

"I need an exilir…" Axel groaned.

"One thousand munny." Carl said flatly.

"A thousand munny?!" Axel frowned in disappointment. "I don't have that kind of munny anymore!" He groaned holding his wound. "Can't you give me a freebie just this once?"

"Normally elixirs are five hundred munny," Carl said. "But I saw you and raised the price, kupo."

Axel's green eyes flared with anger. "Just give me an elixir or else!" He snarled raising his hand to summon his chakrams.

The small moogle remained still, not afraid of Axel's threat. "You're in no shape to threaten me, kupo."

Axel sighed. 'The moogle has a point,' He thought cringing in pain. "Guess I won't get to see Lira again…" He leaned against the wall shutting his eyes as the pain from his wound increased.

At the mention of Lira's name, the small moogle frowned. 'He knows Lira, kupo?' He thought. 'This red headed man seems to like Lira. At least he's a lot better than that dark dragoon knight,' He mused to himself. Carl floated over to the injured Flurry of Dancing Flames with a big clear bottle in his hand. Inside the bottle was a mix of blue and green liquid. Flapping his small wings he replied, "Here take it, kupo."

Axel opened his green eyes wincing from the pain. He stared at the elixir in the small moogle's hands. "Why the sudden change of heart?" He asked taking the elixir before Carl changed his mind.

"You're friends with Lira, kupo." Carl told him.

"Yeah, so?" Axel asked curiously chugging down the elixir. His wound slowly healed.

"Lira said I had to be nice to her friends, kupo," The small moogle looked into the distance where the Great Maw was. He knew Lira was there fighting the army of Heartless. He wondered if he would ever see her again. "Good friends are hard to come by nowadays, kupo."

"You got that right…" Axel sighed thinking of Roxas.

Carl floated back to his shop taking the finished weapon out of the furnace. The moogle grinned dipping the weapon in water to let it cool. It was a crystalized scythe. The sharp blade of the weapon was made from the serenity crystal and dark gems. The blade was in the shape of angels wings. The snaith was combined with mythril and orichalcum stones.

Axel stared at the weapon. "Is that for Lira?" He asked.

Carl nodded. "I promised her an ultimate weapon, kupo. I call it the Lunar Scythe," He handed Axel the scythe. "Don't drop it, kupo. You should give it to her, kupo."

Axel held the weapon firmly in his hand, it felt sort of odd to him. "You can't count on me." He told the small moogle opening a dark corridor to find Lira and hopefully give Sora his message to help Kairi.


"Come on Goofy! Hurry up!" Donald yelled at his friend. He and Goofy had gotten separated from Sora, Lira, and Levina. They were surrounded by hundreds of Armored Knight Heartless.

Goofy spun around in circular motions almost like a tornado hitting the Heartless with his shield. "We gotta find Sora, Levina, and Lira!" He said. He then saw an Armored Knight behind Donald. "Look out, Donald!"

"I got it!" Donald turned around waving his staff in the air unleashing tiny but deadly fire works at the Heartless.

"There's way too many!" Goofy panicked as all the Armored Knights regrouped. He charged into the air hitting the Heartless with his shield.

"We have to beat all of them and get to the king!" Donald squawked waving his staff casting shouting, "Gravira!" Forming a miniature event-horizon that crushing the Armored Knights rendering their attacks useless for the moment.

Goofy flopped to the ground exhausted. "Gawrsh Donald, I think I used up all my MP." He frowned lazily holding his shield.

"What?!" Donald fumed. "I don't have any more ethers to give you!" He held his staff tighter as the remaining Armored Knights circled around them. "Now what do we do?"

The Armored Knights advanced on King Mickey's mage and knight only to be bombarded by twin casting meteors being hurled at them.

Goofy looked at Donald in surprise. "Did you cast meteor, Donald?" He asked curiously as he got up.

"That wasn't me!" Donald said. The duck jumped in the air turning around seeing Palom and Porom with their staves linked together almost as if they were in a trance.

"Gawrsh you fellas saved us!" Goofy said happily.

The twin siblings broke out of their trance running over to them.

"You didn't think we'd leave you behind?" Palom asked cheekily winking.

Porom smacked her twin brother upside the head sighing. "Stop that!" She scolded him. "We don't have time for you to be showing off." She looked at Donald and Goofy. "Where are your friends?"

"Somewhere around there…" Goofy gulped at the empty path leading to more Heartless.


Lira huffed in annoyance casting Flare, Flood, Lightning, and Earthquake at all the Heartless that surrounded her. She smashed her sword into several Armored Knights using the blunt end of her blade to fight as she casted her magic.

"This is ridiculous!" She snarled. "How am I supposed to fight all these Heartless on my own?!"

She dodged a Surveillance Robot as it flew at her ready to fire its ginormous laser.

"Just what I need…" The older woman growled under her breath wishing she had an ether to replenish her magic power.

Lira raised her sword in the air to fight the Surveillance Robot, but was trampled by the Armored Knights. "Get off me!" She glared pushing the Heartless off her. As she stood up the Surveillance Robot was ready to fire its laser.

A long spear skewered the giant robot Heartless before it could fire its laser impaling its body and was tossed aside like a rag doll.

Lira looked up seeing Kain land beside her. "I…," The older woman began looking at the armored dragoon. "…Didn't ask for your help." She said still annoyed at what had happened between them.

Kain hid a small smile under his armored helmet. "I am sure you did not need my help." He replied. "But you needed it."

"I can handle this fight on my own!" Lira spat at him casting flare and flood simultaneously. Her body moved gracefully as she commanded the two elements of magic to her will.

'She still hates me for what I did,' Kain thought wearily as the two fought off more Heartless. "I cannot ask for forgiveness for my actions Lira," He told her while fighting alongside her. "But I assure you, my heart would ache if something were to happen to you."

Lira's hard glare at the armored knight slowly softened. "You really mean that?" She asked.

The dragoon nodded. "Your friends need us." He told her.

Lira stabbed the remaining Heartless that were still standing with her sword. "Of course they need my help," She let out an aggravated groan. "Sora and Levina can't handle this big of a fight without us." She looked at Kain and smiled at him. "Thanks for the help."


Sora flung himself into the Armored Knights with his keyblade raised. He dashed at them with righteous fury flying straight through them.

"Sora!" Levina yelled trying to join him, but was blocked by more Heartless. "How many times are these Heartless going to show up!" She spun her keyblade around like a baton smacking each of the Armored Knights that were in her way as she ran through the colossal crowd of Heartless.

"We have to get to the others." Sora said leaping in the air grabbing a Surveillance Robot and tossing it into the Armored Knights.

"There's no end to this!" Levina frowned swinging and thrusting her keyblade at the Heartless. "How are we supposed to get to the others?" She raised her keyblade to fight again.

Arrows shot out into the air piercing a few of the Heartless that were near Sora and Levina.

Sora looked behind him seeing Cecil, Ceodore, and Rosa armed with a bow and arrow. He smiled happily seeing them.

Ceodore quickly raced to Levina. "We came to help!" He said to her with a smile.

"We could definitely use it." Levina said to him happily.

"After all you helped us in battle." Rosa added.

"We could not let you face this battle alone." Cecil told them taking his sword out from its scabbard. He stepped forward slashing the Armored Knights that were in close range slamming them against a cliff. He then fired a slow-moving ball of energy that traveled downward in an arc to slamming the Heartless into the ground.

Ceodore and Sora stood beside Levina with their weapons in hand. Together they sliced through the Surveillance Robots and Armored Knights in a cross slash formation clearing most of the Great Maw of Heartless.

Rosa folded her arms together releasing a bright white aura that surrounded her and then raised her rod in the air. A stone staff with a crystal point on the end. The tip of the rod had a crosshatched design of light and dark material with a winged tip and a powerful blue orb in the center. The blue orb intensified absorbing the white aura that surrounded the white mage into a pure white ball of energy. She raised her rod forward at the remaining Heartless releasing the pure white ball of energy at them.

Sora and Levina gasped in awe at the sight of witnessing holy magic. It was the most purest of spells and deadliest of spells known, only white mages were allowed to learn how to use this spell.

"That cleared out all the Heartless." Sora beamed happily.

He and the others saw Lira, Kain, Donald, Goofy, Palom, and Porom running up to them.

"Alright we did it!" Donald cheered.

"Now we just have to find the king!" Goofy said.

The ground suddenly shook as a massive, quadrupedal Heartless leaped in front of them. Its body is predominantly lilac in color, but its back and all four of its legs are violet. Each of the legs has two toes with black claws. It has two large, curved tusks sprouting from its lower jaw that are white on their upper half and lilac on their lower half. It's black horn is on its forehead. Like most other Heartless, it has yellow eyes and a jagged maw. Its Heartless emblem is on its chest.

"Yipe!" Donald and Goofy cowered in fear of the giant Heartless in front of them.

"What is that?!" Lira gasped.

"A Behemoth…" Cecil frowned at the large Heartless as it leapt to attack. He flipped in the air and quickly descended knocking the Behemoth with on its hind legs.

"We cannot linger here for too long." Kain said. The dragoon charged forward towards the colossal Heartless striking it once with his lance knocking it back.

Rosa pulled Ceodore to her as Cecil and Kain held the gigantic Heartless back.

Sora raised his keyblade despite having fatigue come over him. "We can take it on!" He said with confidence.

"Are you crazy Sora?!" Donald squawked. "We're out of magic power and low on items!"

"Yeah and that battle really took it out of us…" Goofy pouted still recovering from the last battle.

Everyone dodged out of the way as the giant Behemoth leaped at them.

"How are we supposed to stop it?!" Levina gasped.

"We don't have enough magic to cast another twin meteor…" Palom caught his breath.

Porom raised her staff to cast protect on everyone, but the Behemoth jumped at her causing the twin to fall over. "This is getting us nowhere."

Sora jumped at the giant Heartless striking its giant horn with his keyblade. "Did I get it?" He wondered.

For a moment the Behemoth lowered its massive head as if it was unconscious and then shook off the feeling. It retaliated with a wide-spread, nearly unavoidable thunder attack.

"Sora!" Levina screamed.

"Look out!" Donald and Goofy yelled.

Even though Lira found Sora's childish antics to be annoying she would have hated if anything happened to him. She rushed at the giant Behemoth with all her might, but Kain tightly grabbed onto her arm pulling her back as the Behemoth was ready to attack again. The Behemoth charged energy from its horn and, after a few seconds energy balls to rained from the sky.

Sora groaned in pain getting up seeing the dangerous tiny balls of pink energy.

Just as the Behemoth was going strike again, a massive tidal wave attacked it knocking it down. Everyone saw a giant sea-serpent rising from the waves like a mighty God.

"It's…Leviathan…." Cecil stammered in awe.

Leviathan was king of Feymarch and only obeyed those who would be able to defeat it in battle. This great and mighty ruler is known as the "The Lord of All Waters" He is the king of the Eidolons that live on a parallel plane of existence in the Underworld, the Feymarch, and rules the summoned monsters with Queen Asura. He knows that Rydia of Mist was one of the last surviving Summoners.

"Whoa…," Sora gaped at the size of the mighty sea-serpent. He had never seen such a powerful creature before.

Cecil, Rosa, Kain, Ceodore, Palom, and Porom smiled as they saw a woman wearing a green outfit with knee-high golden heeled boots and draperies adorned in stars. It was a single-piece green outfit that rises from her thighs to her collar, baring her hips and upper torso. Her green long green hair messy from battle. The woman smiled at them, her green eyes gleaming with happiness.

"Lady Rydia!" Lira smiled at the familiar Summoner who had helped her train and learn to use her magic.

Rydia smiled at Lira and at Cecil and the others. "I'm not too late am I?" She asked with a smile.

"That was so awesome!" Sora eagerly ran up to Rydia with bright eyes. "You saved us big time!"

Rydia laughed at Sora's hyper active nature. "Of course I had to help."

"How did you know where we were?" Rosa asked.

Rydia looked at Leviathan as the mighty serpent of the seas retreated into a small red orb. "Leviathan could feel what was happening here," She told her friends. "He wasn't going to wait for something terrible to happen, so he offered to help out," She looked at Sora, Levina, Lira, Donald and Goofy. "I saw your king not far from here."

Sora looked at his friends. "Come on let's go find the king!" He told them.

"We must head back into town." Cecil urged his friends.

"That's right, the townspeople are still in need of our aid." Kain added.

Ceodore politely waved good-bye to Levina.

The heroes of light baud farewell to their friends who had helped them in their battle against a thousand Heartless.


Sora, Donald, Goofy, Lira, and Levina ran through the Great Maw.

"Where's the king?" Sora wondered looking around.

"Over there!" Donald pointed his wing forward at a clear path seeing Mickey take down a couple of Armored Knights.

Mickey touched to the ground holding his keyblade tightly staring at Xemnas. The leader of Organization XIII had his back to the tiny king.

"Your majesty!" Donald cried out.

Hearing Donald, Mickey turned around. He smiled seeing Sora and the others running over to him. He then quickly turned back looking at Xemnas. "Xehanort!" He yelled.

Xemnas coyly ignored that name. He hated that name for reasons even he could not explain. "How long has it been since I abandoned that name…" He said dryly.

"Out with it Nobody!" Sora yelled at the Superior. "Where's Kairi?!" He demanded to know. "Where's Riku?!"

Xemnas sneered at Sora's question. "I know nothing of any Kairi," He lied knowing Sora would be angered. He turned around looking at them. "As for Riku…," A smirk touched his lips. "Why don't you ask your king?" The superior created a dark corridor with the intention of leaving.

"What's he talking about?" Sora thought out loud and looked at Mickey.

"Stop!" Mickey shouted racing after Xemnas leaping into the dark corridor without a second thought.

"King Mickey!" Lira screamed annoyed.

"No…," Sora frowned. "He's gone… he knew where Riku was!" Feeling defeated and let down Sora sat on the ground slamming his fist into the ground.

"Sora…" Levina walked over touching his shoulder. "We'll find your friend."

"Gawrsh, what'd ya think is goin' on?" Goofy wondered.

"Way to fall right into their trap." Axel appeared behind them from a dark corridor.

"Axel!" Lira shouted noticing the scythe in his hand. "What's that?"

"Some moogle wanted me to give this to you," Axel told her. "He said he promised you an ultimate weapon or something." He shrugged handing Lira the weapon. "He called a Lunar Scythe."

'What do you know Carl came through after all…' Lira thought with a smile as she gripped the scythe in her hand.

"What are you doing here?!" Sora snarled holding his keyblade tighter remembering what Saix had told him about kidnapping Kairi.

Axel looked down at the keybearer and said idly, "Come on it's a set up by Organization XIII. Xemnas is using you destroy the Heartless – that's his big master plan."

"Organization XIII wants to get rid of the Heartless?" Goofy scratched his head confused.

Axel sighed shaking his head. "Man you're slow," He told them. "Every Heartless slain with that keyblade releases a captive heart. That is what the Organization is after."

"What are they going to do with all those hearts?" Levina asked.

"Sorry I can't say." Axel replied.

Sora looked at Axel angrily.

Axel stared at Sora. 'What's his problem?' He thought looking at Sora's face. It definitely reminded him of Roxas. 'He's giving me that same look that Roxas did right before he left.'

Sora stomped over to Axel grabbing the Flurry of Dancing Flames by the front of his coat. "Where's Kairi!?" He demanded to know.

"Well…I…" Axel began.

"Stop playing games!" Sora yelled at him. "You know where she is! Tell me!"

Lira, Donald, Levina, and Goofy noticed another dark corridor opening behind the two.

"Um…Sora…" Goofy stammered.

"There you are, Axel." Saix sneered from behind them.

'Great…' Axel thought opening a dark corridor to get away but Sora still had his hand on his coat.

Axel looked at Lira. "Sorry I have to cut this so short, Lira." He told her grabbing Sora's arm and tossed him at Saix. 'I hate to leave her without telling her how I really feel. Heart or no heart whatever these feelings I have for Lira, they are real,' He thought.

"Ahhh!" Sora screamed falling over as Saix stepped back.

Saix watched as Axel disappeared out of sight. 'Next time you won't escape me, Axel,' He thought.

Sora quickly got up racing after Axel, but Saix held out his arm stopping the boy.

"I'll ensure he receives the maximum punishment for his betrayal." Saix told the boy.

Lira glared at Saix. "No you won't!" She yelled raising her scythe itching to try out her new weapon.

Sora frowned. "I don't care about any of that!" He yelled getting in between Lira and Saix. The boy wanted to know where Kairi was. He was really worried for her.

"Sora…" Levina called out to him.

Sora looked at Saix practically begging. "Just let me into the Realm of Darkness, okay?" He pleaded.

"If its Kairi you're worried about, don't", Saix said. "We're taking good care of her."

"Take me to her!" Sora begged.

Saix lightly grinned at Sora's behavior. He knew how much Kairi meant to him. She was his light. "Is she that important to you?"

Sora nodded his head. "More than anything…" He admitted.

Hearing this Levina frowned a little. She knew that Kairi was really important to him. 'I guess that kiss didn't mean anything to him…' She thought. His heart was already spoken for.

"Show me how important." Saix said with a cruel smirk.

"Sora…" Donald and Goofy frowned.

Slowly, very slowly Sora kneeled and got down on his knees being completely submissive in front of the Lunar Diviner.

"What are you doing you little runt!" Lira yelled.

"Sora, get up!" Levina screamed.

"Please.." Sora begged. "I need…I want to see her…"

"So you really do care for her," Saix was almost moved by Sora's actions, but it meant nothing to him. He knew how to hurt the keyblade's chosen one. "In that case –" He said with a grin. "The answer's no."

Sora angrily glared getting up holding his keyblade tightly. "You rotten…!"

"Are you angry?" Saix asked the boy. "Do you hate me?" The Lunar Diviner snapped his fingers and a group of Armored Knight Heartless appeared surrounding them. "Then take out all that rage and direct it to the Heartless."

Sora readied his keyblade wanting to end this battle.

"Pitiful Heartless," Saix mused practically monolouging as if no one else was around. "Mindlessly collecting hearts and yet they do not know the true power of what they hold. The rage of the keyblade releases those hearts," He was almost eager of the keyblade's powers. "They gather in darkness, master less and free…," He turned to Sora looking at the keyblade's chosen with malicious yellow eyes. "Until they weave together to make Kingdom Hearts and then when that time comes, we can truly, finally exist."

"Kingdom Hearts belongs to me!" Maleficent roared in anger appearing from green flames. "The heart of all kingdoms, the heart of all worlds!" She raised her arms summoning Soldier Heartless.

"Maleficent, no!" Sora cried out. "No more Heartless!"

"Fool…you know not the power we Nobodies hold." Saix scowled snapping his fingers. A group of Dusks appeared defeating the Soldier Heartless instantly. Now that the weak Heartless were out of the way, the Dusks turned their attention to Sora and the others.

"Oh no… they're after us now!" Levina frowned.

Maleficent raised her staff creating a wall of green fire between Sora and the Dusks.

"Maleficent, what are you doing?!" Lira snarled.

"While I keep these creatures at bay, you fools devise a plan to vanquish these empty creatures forever!" Maleficent ordered.

The Dusks saw the new opponent in front of them and trampled the Mistress of All Evil.

"Maleficent…!" Sora yelled.

Maleficent sneered at the Dusks holding her down. "Do not misunderstand me," She told them. "Once these Nobodies are gone for good. It is I who shall claim Kingdom Hearts for my own!" She burned the Dusks and disappeared from sight.

The Armored Knights lunged at them. Donald waved his staff at the Heartless, Goofy rammed his shield into them. Lira swung her scythe at the Heartless causing them to fall off of the cliff, while Levina swung her keyblade.

Saix grinned watching the Heartless's hearts floating into the air. "That's right, extract more hearts!" He said before disappearing.

Sora was the only one hesitating to fight back. He blocked an Armored Knight's attack from hurting him. 'What am I supposed to do?' Sora thought. 'I'm really worried about Kairi. I know she needs me. But…I can't raise my keyblade on the Heartless, if I do the Heartless will lose their hearts. That's what the Organization wants me to do.'

"No their hearts…!" Sora frowned he looked at his friends. "Guys stop fighting back!"

"But Sora…!" Levina protested.

Sora sighed lowering his head. 'Maybe everything we've done…,' He thought. 'Maybe it was all for nothing…What am I supposed to do if I can't use the keyblade…?'' He frowned feeling the ground open up underneath his feet. They were all suddenly pulled through a dark corridor.


Like I was gonna waste all these epic Final Fantasy 4 cameos and not have them fight in the thousand heartless fight.

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