I just finished this...
im sorry....
And I'm gonna go hide now!
BTW: All this will make sense NEXT chapter
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Gummy Ship
"Let's go!" Sora cheers as they enter the ship, Xigbar in tow.
".... Hmm...." He examines some of the machinary and shudders. He rapidly takes a seat.
"What? Scared, Braig?" Ventus teases and then he grins at Xigbar.
"No. Just not exactly got my balance yet." Xigbar snaps.
"HAHAHA! Braig's SCARED!" Ventus laughs, and then Xigbar grabs him.
"You wanna be deep fried, or should I just crisp you?" Xigbar says, grinning.
"Enough boys!" Aqua says, taking the pilot's seat.
"Shortie started it." Xigbar drops him.
"Pirate did!" Ventus says, rubbing his leg from where he had been dropped.
"...... No fighting! This is a happy ship!" Donald snaps, getting mad.
"Yeah, it runs on happy faces. So, ya gotta look funny, like us." Goofy laughs.
"Eh? What the? Happy?" Xigbar blinks in surprise.
"Like this!" Sora makes a huge grin and crosses his eyes. Riku bursts into laughter and Kairi begins to giggle. The atmosphere was cheerful, as everyone was waiting to find their lost friends once more. They spent several more minutes like this, goofing around.
"Huh?" Aqua says, staring into space.
"What is it, Lady Aqua?" Donald asks, taking a peek. He didn't see anything.
"I thought... I saw someone on the ..." Aqua starts to say.
"Sorry Aqua, but I don't see anythin'.... Maybe ya imagined it?" Goofy says, looking around.
"No... This feels... familiar, almost." Aqua says, peering at the ship's exterior again.
"Aqua!" Ventus cries out.
"What IS that?!" Sora says, staring in one of the windows.
"Huh?" She sees the figure again, motioning gracefully. Dark tendrils wrap around its arms, and the figure starts to speak. All Aqua can feel is a soft vibration of the ship.
"Aqua! What is that?!" Riku demands, summoning his Way To The Dawn.
"I... I don't know." Aqua says, staring at the figure.
"No, over HERE!" Kairi says, pointing.
"Huh?" Aqua looks. A dark cloud of smoke engulfed the ship, and it began to shudder violently.
"Hold onto something!" Ventus says, grabbing one of the seats.
"...Kairi!" Sora grabs her, holding her close as he grabs onto one of the various computers.
"Dammit! I didn't die once just to die with YOU!" Xigbar snarls, hooking himself onto something. The ship shudders again, as Aqua tries to fix the ship back onto it's target location. Then, just as suddenly as it appeared, the smoke vanishes.
"Whoa!" The ship crashes, smashing into the ground with a bonejarring boom. The ship falls apart, sending the occupents flying.
"Ugh!" Riku grunts as he tumbles against the pavestones.
"Whoa!" Xigbar and Ventus crash into a small house, landing somewhat safely on the roof.
"Nngh!" Aqua manages to hook onto the ship's wing, and manages to keep herself nearby. Donald and Goofy tumble out, landing safely near the ship.
".... Gah!" Axel smashes against a small building, getting the wind knocked out of him as he lands. He groans, but still is uninjured.
"..... Ugh..." Sora moans, as he lands onto the hard pavestones of Radiant Gardens.
"Are you okay?" Kairi groans, pushing herself up.
"Y-Yeah... Nothing broken. You?" Sora says, experimentally moving his fingers and toes to check.
"No... I'm fine." Kairi winces and holds her arm protectively.
"Here, let me-" Sora freezes as a hand pushes past him, gleaming with soft green light.
"Heal." A lyrical voice says, grabbing Kairi's arm. It flashes for a moment, and then heals completely, leaving no trace of her injury.
"Wow! Thanks a lot, Mister!" Sora says gratefully, helping Kairi up.
"....." The figure says nothing, hidden under a long black cloak. Whoever it was, they were watching Sora carefully. The moment Sora moved near the figure, they stepped back.
"Huh?" Sora says, puzzled. They looked familiar...
".... Fair tidings to you, Keyblade Master." The musical voice says again.
"Huh? How do you kno-" Sora starts to say.
"Sora!" His friends rush out to see if he was alright.
"........." The figure watches calmly, quietly.
"Huh? Who's thi-" Axel starts to say.
"Axel?.... You're alive.... How?" The figure says softly, questioningly.
"Who are you?!" Axel demands, summoning his Eternal Flames.
".... Kairi as well.... And Riku." the figure says, removing the hood.
"Poppet?" Xigbar asks, staring.
"Yes.... I suppose." The woman says. A long mane of black hair, as dark as a raven's wing flows down the woman's back. She keeps her eyes closed, but smiles softly at them. Her body was slight, almost petite. It was built not for strength, although by the look of it, she had plenty of that, but for speed and agility. Under the thick black cloak, was armored plates, similar to snake scales.
"Xion?!" Roxas says, in shock.
".... I have not been called that in several years.... But...." Suddenly the woman opens her eyes. They were a soft golden color, the blue long vanishes. She smirks, and clenches her hand. A sharp sound, as small dagger like knives appear on the thick metal gloves.
"You may call me as such." Xion says, removing her cloak. They all recoil as they see a small black and red tattooed brand on her unarmored shoulder.
"A Heartless mark!?" Axel and Roxas say in unison. She summons a large black sword, decorated with small dark wings, for a fallen angel.
"..... Why yes. It suits me." Xion laughs, a high pure note seeming to vibrate through the air. She glances at Sora, her golden eyes staring hungrily at his form.
"Why you!" Roxas summons his Oathkeeper and Oblivion.
"Fool." Xion says, laughing again.
"Huh?" Xion snaps her fingers, a dark barrier gets erected between Sora and his friends.
"SORA!" Kairi cries out.
"I am your oppunent, my old friend. My name is Ion, of the First Order." Ion says softly, her golden eyes not leaving Sora's blue ones.
"Alright. If I win, you have to answer my questions right?" Sora asks, summoning his Keyblade.
"Hmph. I have no reason to." Ion responds, smiling darkly at him.
"Huh?" Sora says.
"But.... for the sake of our friendship, I shall allow three questions, no more, no less. Have we a bargain, Keyblade Master?" Ion says, her eyes gleaming.
"Fine." Sora tightens his grip on Ultimia's handle.
"Pardon. I wish to fight you, with YOUR power, not your blade's." Ion says, pointing to the Keyblade.
"Huh? Without my Keyblade?" Sora repeats, glancing at it.
"In return... I shall not fight with my own blade." Ion smashes the blade into the ground, waiting for Sora to do the same.
"Sora, no! It's a trick!" Axel cries out to him.
"Don't trust her!" Riku yells.
"... Alright. I'll trust you, Xion." Sora says, dropping his Keyblade.
"Good." Xion curls her fingers into a fist and brings them up to her face. Sora takes a boxer like pose and smiles.
"Do you want first punch?" Sora says, watching her carefully.
"Shouldn't you be watching your OWN back?" Ion says, smirking.
"Huh?" Ion vanishes.
"What?!" Sora glances around.
"SORA! BEHIND YOU!!" Kairi screams.
"What?" Sora grunts as he feels himself being lifted a few inches off the ground. Something presses through his flesh, past his heart, and emerging through the other side.
"I warned you.... Use YOUR power. This IS my power." Ion's soft voice laughs bitterly near Sora's throat. She drives the dagger in deeper. Sora screams, turning white. Dark blood pools around Sora's feet, dripping down his clothes, painting them crimson.
"X...i..o...n....." Sora says softly, the blood coating his lips.
"You left me to rot. I suppose this is sufficient punishment, KEYBLADE BOY." Ion snarls, twisting the dagger roughly. Sora screams again, a single tear falling from the blue of his eyes.
"I really.... hate you." Ion says darkly, and then very gently kisses his cheek.
"But I cannot let you fall." Ion says, removing the blade. Sora tumbles forward, blood spilling from him in currents.
"I shall allow you one thing...... See what you shall do." Ion says, dark light pooling in her hand. She lightly touches Sora's eyes. They grow blank as he falls into an endless dream.
"Huh?" Sora says, opening his eyes. He was in a large dark room. He spots four small figure engulfed in crystalline structures. Kairi, Namine, Axel, and Riku.
"Kairi?" Sora calls out, and then he hears a soft chuckle.
"I'm so sorry... She can't hear you." The voice says. Sora recognizes it.
"You're-"
"You." The owner of the voice appears, a boy in dark armor.
"Would you like to see your future?" The boy says, a dark reflection of Sora's own features.
"What?" The boy rolls his covered eyes, and stirs a small pool with a knife.
"Watch, fool." The boy tells him. Sora steps up to the water and watches as it turns crimson, and then starts to show images.
"Hahaha..." An dark chuckle comes from his lips as he stares at the innocent girl in front of him.
"No.... NO!" She says and tries to run, but he moves rapidly and pins her to the wall.
"Sorry PRINCESS. But.... He's already gone. It's just me now." He whispers gently into her ear.
"Sora.. SORA!!" The girl whimpers.
"Already gone. I'm me now. Not him." The boy laughs darkly again and carefully slips his fingers around her slim throat. A thin chain, with a small charm of a crown clanks softly against his cool fingers and he carefully tightens his fingers, watching the girl's changing expression intensely.
"MMPH!" The girl clutches at her throat but he just laughs again and squeezes tighter. He smiles as the girl's beautiful sapphire eyes close, and she chokes out a final breath, and a final statement.
"S..o..r..a..." she whispers, before falling into a endless sleep.
"No.....KAIRI!!!" Another voice screams, a young boy stares in horror at the pale girl and at the boy with crimson blood dripping down his fingers.
"Riku." the other boy says to the shocked figure before him, and gently shakes his fingers clean of the dark blood.
"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU TO HELL, SORA!!" Riku screams, as he sees Kairi's peaceful face, finally resting in death. A necklace of dark crimson coats the skin around her bruised throat, shedding ruby drops onto the ground beneath her.
"Good night... little Princess." Sora says, to the silent corpse. He smiles darkly again, golden eyes gleaming. He gently rubs his fingers, the last trace of the Seventh Princess of Heart dripping down his hand, pooling into a dark puddle around his feet.
"NO!" Sora cries out, watching as the thick blood drips out of her.
"Keep watching." The boy chuckles, stirring the water one more time.
"......." The scene in the pool changes into one of a small city.
"Sora!" Riku cries out, smiling as he finally got to see his friend again.
"Riku...." The sinister voice of the boy next to him says, smiling.
"It's been six months... how could you do this to us? Everyone thought you were dead!" Riku says, relief obvious on his face.
"Oh really? I'm sorry." Sora says, smiling at his friend.
"Let's go home. Kairi'd really want to see you." Riku holds his hand out to him.
"Riku... There's something I need for you to do for me?" Sora requests.
"Huh? Anything." Riku says, trust glowing in his eyes.
"Don't move." Sora laughs darkly as he appears behind Riku.
"What?!" Sora pushes him down, and Riku tumbles onto the wet pavement. Sora places a boot against Riku's chest.
"I need you to help me.... You wouldn't want to hurt your friend, would you?" Sora says, golden eyes gleaming.
"Sora?" Riku says, watching in horror as Sora smiles darkly at him.
"I need your eyes. To see as I once could." Sora says softly, pulling out a silver dagger, the handle shaped like a heart.
"What? My eyes?" Riku repeats, putting a hand to them.
"In exchange.... you get mine." Sora says, placing the knife to his right golden eye.
"SORA!" Sora grunts as he carefully carves it out. Dark, almost black, blood drips out of the severed eye.
"..... Sora.... it's not you.... It's someone else." Riku realizes.
"Correct." Sora, or rather the one who looked like him, kneels besides Riku.
"Thank you... for the gift, Riku." Sora says, placing the knife onto Riku's right eyes.
"NOOO!" Riku howls in pain as the knife digs in deep.
"AH!" Sora recoils from the pool once more.
"....." The boy watches through mismatched eyes, one gold, the other a famliar blue green.
"Keep watching." the boy taunts, his eyes gleaming.
"... No... please... no more." Sora begs, his hands now stained scarlet.
"Oh yes. More. Much more." The boy taunts.
"DO IT!" Axel screams, blood dripping from his lips.
"No... I can't... Axel..." Roxas begs.
"DO IT OR I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU." Axel snarls.
"... But..." Roxas says, doubt clouding his eyes.
".... I'll forgive you. It's okay. I'm going to go be with Xion... not the thing that's pretending to be her." Axel says, shuddering violently. He could already feel the change happening, a tickle of flames in his chest.
"..... We're... best friends, aren't we?" Roxas says softly.
"So do it. Kill me. And I promise, one day we'll meet again. Got it memorized?" Axel says, closing his eyes and smirking.
"Promise?" Roxas questions.
"Promise. We'll have ice cream with her, on the Clock Tower. Just like old times." Axel says.
"... Good bye Axel." Roxas begins to sob.
"See ya later... partner." Axel says. Roxas slashes, and Axel is no more. His body vanishes in golden light, and all that's left is a small charm. Bond of Flame, Axel's final promise.
"AXXXEEEL!!" Roxas screams, collapsing onto the splattered ground, sobbing.
"NO! I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!" Sora screams.
"But it already has. Who are you fooling?" The boy questions.
"I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN! I WON'T!" Sora screams, cluching his head.
"...You'll soon die... whether it be a monster, or insane." The boy laughs.
"....How long is he going to sleep?" Roxas asks, his eyes dull.
".. I don't know.... But he should wake up soon." Kairi says, tears forming in her eyes.
"Xion....." Axel says, mournfully.
"At least we have Namine." Ventus says.
"They're safe. All of them." Roxas says, tears pouring from his eyes.
"Xion.... I'm so sorry, we couldn't save you." Axel says, his face contorted in both anger and loss.