Disclaimer: The name Selene is the name of the Moon Goddess who is the daughter of Zeus, according to Greek legends.
Author's note: As promised, here's the rest of the epic battle and then some. Get ready for it!
I only own the rights of Jason, Lyla, and Chancellor. The rest belong rightfully to Square Enix, Disney, Nintendo and Toei.
CHAPTER 36: Battles of Destiny-2.
With Grovyle, Jason and Mickey...
Grovyle cleaved another Unversed into two which caused the monster to fade into nothing, but there were still seven more Unversed he had to deal with that slowly crept closer to attack all at the same time. And he knew, if he didn't do something now, then he had no chance in saving the others. So, he prepared himself to continue to fight, when...
"Take this, blue-jittering creeps!" A very welcoming familiar voice, one whom Grovyle wanted to hear since this journey again, yelled out from his left.
Unexpectedly, Jason and Mickey both appeared and while the former slashed and thrusted three of the Unversed with ease, Mickey sommersaulted while slashing at three other Unversed as well before the two finished off the last one together, not only saving Grovyle, but also having eliminated the last of the monsters.
"What the!?" Grovyle gapped, stunned to see his friend who was with a new companion. To see his friend alive and well at long last was a huge relief, but at the same time, he couldn't believe that Jason, an ordinary boy who is his partner, could actually wield a Keyblade. When did this happen?
"Hey, Grov'. Sorry I'm late." Jason greeted happily while he and Mickey both dismissed their Keyblades.
Deciding to worry about the Keyblade thing later, Grovyle instead focused on his happiness and relief, exclaiming, "Jason! You're alright!" sharing an embrace with his human best friend who also so happy to him again as well. In the background, Mickey smiled happily, relieved that Jason has finally found his best friend and knew how it felt.
"'Course I am, bro'. I've looked everywhere for you." Jason said, while mentally saying how much Grovyle meant to him. Deep down, the two were more than just best friends and partners; despite being different species, the two saw each other as brothers.
"I've been looking for you as well, my friend." Grovyle replied. As they let go of each other, he then noticed Mickey who blinked before waving friendly, prompting Grovyle to ask curiously, "Who's this?" while surprised that the mouse was just like a boy version of Queen Minnie back at Disney Town.
Realising what Grovyle meant, Jason then introduced his two friends to each other, "Oh, yeah. Grovyle, I'd like you to meet a new friend who helped me find you. This is Mickey Mouse. Mickey, this is my best friend, Grovyle. We're partners."
"It's nice to meetcha, Grovyle." Mickey said happily, "Jason told me a lot about you."
"So you're Mickey." Grovyle acknowlaged, now recongising the name he heard earlier, greeting warmly, "I've heard about you from Yen Sid. Thank you for looking out for my friend."
Mickey felt sheepish while rubbing the back of his head, "Aw, Gosh. It was nothin'." before he then became serious and quickly told the two reunited friends, "But we'd better hurry. Everybody else is in danger."
This made the two researches from the future quickly become serious as well as they both quickly remembered that the epic battle wasn't over yet, with Grovyle responding, "Yes, I know. We must locate Terra, Ventus, Aqua and Sailor Moon."
"Right! C'mon, guys! We've got bad guys to stop!" Jason immediately told his two friends, ready to finish off the fight and hopefully stop Xehanort and Vanitas before it was too late.
"Right!" Both Grovyle and Mickey agreed in unison.
With that, the trio then quickly raced to where they hoped the rest of their new friends were as Grovyle was leading them to where he last saw Serenity, Ven, Aqua and Terra and also to put an end to this fight.
Unfortunately, Grovyle, Jason and Mickey may already be too late.
With Terra...
Finally too exhausted to continue on and slightly panicking that there wasn't any time to stop Terra from saving Ventus, Aqua, Queen Serenity, Grovyle, Jason and King Mickey, Xehanort ended up kneeling onto the soil while plunging his Keyblade into the grey earth for balance. He holds on to it, breathing and wheezing quite heavily, as Terra slowly approached him with every intention to finish him off, this time not regretting in meaning to take another man's life. Xehanort had lost his title as human long ago.
The old man's actions had deemed him a monster.
But before Terra could even raise his Keyblade, just then there was a huge shock wave that nearly made both of them to lose their balance, with a loud explosion being heard in the air. Once the tremors stopped and the two men regained their bearings, as Xehanort gazed behind Terra to see what it was, his eyes widened in awe, smiling gleamingly, telling Terra while pointing, "There, you see?"
Terra hesitated, at first believing it was another trick. But when Xehanort remained constant, Terra slowly turned around and his eyes widened in shock, and horror at the sight of a huge great pillar of light from the bottom where Vanitas had taken off to attack Ven, Aqua, Serenity and very possibily Grovyle, Jason and King Mickey, somehow realising what was going on and hoped that he was wrong.
Unfortunately, Terra's hopes were crushed as Xehanort declared while standing up, "The X-blade has been forged!"
"Ven!" Terra cried out in dismay. He was too late.
(~The Key of Darkness-KH:BBS~)
Before Terra could fall into despair, Xehanort wasn't done yet, as he continued, "And now, Terra, it is time for the final union!" and before Terra knew it, Xehanort turned his Keyblade around, pointing it's tip willingly and maddenly at his chest.
Just as Terra whirled around, his eyes widened in shock when Xehanort slowly thrusted his Keyblade...right into his own chest, stabbing himself which caused the younger man to exclaim, "What?"
Was Xehanort completely insane?
"At last, our moment is here." Xehanort continued, while feeling himself fading, but he knew what to do, as his Keyblade fades away into nothing, while he spread out his arms, and a circle of light eminates from his pierced chest, and an orb of light slowly floating out, which meant that it was his heart. "Out with the old and brittle vessel, and in with a younger, stronger new one!" while his body began to glow and fade away.
Terra's eyes widened as he slowly backed away, gasping in horror, and that's when he realised the full truth; Xehanort had wanted him to surrender his heart to darkness...so that Xehanort himself could somehow transfer his heart into Terra's body and claim it as his own, which would mean that Terra's own heart...will be lost forever.
His fears were confirmed as Xehanort continued as his heart hovered over him while the evil wielder raised his hands towards it, "I swore I would survive...and be there to see what awaited beyond the Keyblade War! And now it is your darkness that shall be the ark that sustains me!"
With this as his final words, Xehanort, with the last of his strength in his real body, lowered his arms and pointed them at Terra, which, by unusual command, his heart then flies straight towards Terra who quickly reacted by touching the spaulder to engage his armor in hopes of protecting himself to prevent Xehanort from gaining his goals and there was a flash of light.
Unfortunately, he was one second too late. Terra managed to cover his body with his armor. But Xehanort's heart had already reached it's destination, causing Terra who jerk violently as his body was covered in veil of darkness, groaning in agony, feeling his own heart and consciousness fade away, his vision blackening and to Terra...nothing. Xehanort in the meantime, smiled as he closed his eyes and his body then fades away into points of light that scatter.
Terra's body just stood there for a while...at first standing lifeless.
Back on the ground below, unaware of Terra's cruel fate, Grovyle, Jason and Mickey were forced to stop when the ground shook before stopping, and just ten yards in front of them, a huge piller of light shot up into the sky before it eventually faded. The trio just stood there, shocked, stunned and unable to think of what just happened. (~End the Key of Darkness~)
"What just happened!?" Jason gasped.
Grovyle, somehow realising and felt grave fear enter his heart, cried out, "Ven!" which also quickly made both Jason and Mickey fear for the welfare of their friend as well.
"Oh my gosh!" Mickey suddenly cried out when he spotted two unconscious figures, "Aqua! Sailor Moon!"
When Jason and Grovyle both looked to see where Mickey was looking, they both gasped in shock as both Serenity and Aqua layed unconscious on the ground near the hill where, at first unknown to the trio, where Ven fought against Vanitas after their fight against Braig. Immediately, the trio rushed over to see if the two young women were alright. Thankfully, they were, as both Jason and Grovyle carefully rolled Serenity and Aqua onto their backs while they and Mickey were on their knees, gazing worriedly at the two women and hoped that they weren't too late.
As Serenity floated unconsciously in her mind, unaware of what was happening, a memory came to her, one whom she wished she would hear the voice again.
"Please be careful, and return safely. I wish I could go with you, but..."
Serenity then suddenly gasped as her eyes snapped open, while Aqua did the same next to her, both of them wondering how long they were unconsious. Beside them, Jason, Mickey and Grovyle all sighed in relief.
"Man, Sailor Moon! You nearly gave us heart attacks." Jason sighed, placing a hand to his chest in great relief.
"Gosh, I'm glad that you're both okay." Mickey added to Serenity and Aqua.
"As are we." Grovyle nodded in agreement, with Jason also nodding.
As both Serenity and Aqua looked to see, to their relief, that Grovyle, Jason and Mickey were here and alright, the two women sat up while holding their heads while the trio stood up. The last thing the two remembered was Vanitas knocking them out...they both gasped as they quickly stood up, with Aqua crying out in worry, "Ven!"
The group looked around for any signs of the teenaged wielder, before Serenity gazed up at the hill before sighing in relief when she saw Ven standing, seemingly alright, "Oh thank goodness! He's alright!" which caught everyone else's attention.
"Oh, thank goodness. Ven! You're safe!" Aqua cried out in relief, as she raced up to greet her friend, with Serenity, Grovyle, Jason and Mickey following.
However, a sudden dark sense made Serenity and the others stop while Aqua stood in front of Ven who had his eyes closed while gazing at the ground. Serenity was thoroughly confused before now frowning in concern. Something wasn't right. Both Grovyle and Mickey then noticed a very odd and rather extremely dangerous sword in Ven's hand. It looked like a sword's blade sticking out of two silver Keyblades with gold hilts attacted to each other, and a keychain that matched a double-crossed Keyblade. It felt powerful...and as Mickey felt a extreme cold chill run down into not only his vains, but also his heart, as though it was struggling to avoid in being pulled out of his body, evil.
"What's wrong, guys?" Jason asked, noticing the serious and rather frightened looks in both Grovyle and Mickey's expressions, which also concerned Serenity as well.
"...Something's not right with Ven." Grovyle responded gravely.
Gazing up, now both Jason and Serenity saw the very dangerous sword in Ven's hands, causing the former to mentally ask, 'What's that in Ven's hand...?'
(~The Key-KH:BBS~)
The five of them then gasped in shock when Ven looked up at the now shocked Aqua...with golden evil eyes, grinning evilly. As though no longer being the same person, Ven then moveed to attack by thrusting the sword at her. But Mickey had quickly raced up and summoned his Keyblade, managing to block the powerful weapon off course while Serenity who summoned her Scepter, Jason who also summoned his Keyblade, and Grovyle knocked Ven back before they and Mickey stood defiantly between Ven and Aqua, glaring at the blonde as they realised that teh heart within Ven's body was not his own.
"That's not Ven!" Both Jason and Mickey exclaimed accusingly.
"He's being possessed!" Grovyle growled.
True to the trio's words, Ven's armor then melted away into darkness, revealing Vanitas's outfit, as the boy, his voice now mixed in unison with Vanitas's, spoke, revealing that it's not Ven at all. But instead, it was Vanitas, "Correct. I am not Ventus. His heart has become a part of mine now."
Serenity, Grovyle, Jason, Aqua and Mickey all gasped in shock and realization. They were too late; Vanitas had merged and taken over Ven's heart and body and forged the ultimate weapon Xehanort had wanted all along. Despite this, the group stood ready, refusing to surrender and give up.
Vanitas then explained while pointing the weapon skyward towards the heart-shaped moon, confirming the group's fears, "This X-blade will open a door-one that leads to all worlds! Then, Keyblade-bearing warriors will flock here from each and every one of them, to battle for the light within Kingdom Hearts!"
He then gazed up with an evil grin, concluding, "And just like the legend says, the Keyblade War will begin!"
Grunting in anger and refusing to believe that Ventus was lost, Serenity shook her head and unlady-like snapped, "Shut up! I've had enough with your nonsense! You and Xehanort will not destroy the worlds!"
"Yeah, not if we can help it!" Jason yelled in agreement, with Mickey nodding in agreement.
"You will not decide everyone's fates-Not even the future!" Grovyle growled at Vanitas.
"Give Ven his heart back!" Aqua demanded, as she and her remaining friends all stood together, preparing to battle Vanitas in one of the most diffcult and deadly battles of their lives.
While inside the body, another battle was about to begin. (~End The Key~)
Inside the recesses of Ven's heart...
(~Unbreakable Chains-KH:BBS~)
As Ven floated, back in his normal clothes, the last thing he remembered was Vanitas overwhelming his body. When he opened his eyes, he around blackness all around him, and a familiar platform before he landed softly onto the glass platform. Instantly, he realised that this was his heart and he was trapped here while Vanitas was taking control of his body.
Or at least, some conscious control over Ven's body.
"Our union was not finished." Vanitas spoke, causing Ven to turn to see him float down gracefully, with a much broken version of the X-Blade in his hand. The platform itself had Ven on it, which also now included Vanitas, both of them sleeping with the image of the Keyblade Graveyard behind them, while Vanitas continued, "The X-blade shouldn't stay broken like this."
True to his word, the inner version of the X-Blade was filigree rusted and incomplete, the blade having some kind of engery that was threatening to both be completed as well as threatening to be destroyed. Vanitas then aimed the weapon at his light-self, commanding, "Join me now, and we can complete the X-blade!"
But Ven had no intentions in doing so. As long as he had some inner control, he still had a chance to end all this once and for all, even though he knew the price of the battle. As he summoned his Keyblade, he responded bravely, "I've got a better idea. How 'bout I destroy you both?" standing in a fighting position for the final battle.
This only made Vanitas laugh, his eyes wide and insane, pointing out coldly, "The X-blade is made of your heart, too, idiot. If you destroy it, your heart will vanish forever."
"Whatever it takes." Ven replied, not afraid and accepting the fact that he would have to sacrifice himself, adding, "Anything to save Terra and Aqua, and even Jason, Grovyle, Mickey and Queen Serenity."
"Hmph, it's always about your friends, isn't it?" Vanitas rolled his eyes in slight exasperation. Why did Ventus have to always think about others and not only himself? Maybe that's why light is such an annoything thing; it glows brightly because of caring for others. How ironic and stupid, Vanitas thought.
"At least I have some!" Ven argued, continuing with determination, "I've become a part of their heart, just as they've become a part of mine. My friends are my power...and I'm theirs!"
The two then clashed against each other in an attempt to destroy each other; one who wishes to sacrifice himself to destroy the X-Blade, and the other who wishes to merge with his opponent to complete Xehanort's wish.
In the real world...
Serenity was knocked back against the wall as she cried out in pain when Vanitas knocked her with the X-Blade and was about to stab her. Thankfully, Grovyle used Quick-Attack to thrust into his body to send him off-course, allowing Jason, Mickey and Aqua to clash and thrust and slash against Vanitas who teleported all over the place while clashing against three Keyblade wielders, a Pokemon and a Moon Queen with Sailor Soldier powers from the past. Serenity recovered and then tossed her Moon, Tiara, Magic at Vanitas' chest, causing him to be thrown back.
However, recovering, Vanitas then leaped into the air before thrusting the blade down towards them and even as Serenity and her group leaped out of the way, they were hit by a powerful shock-wave the moment the X-Blade was thrusted into the ground, knocking them back before both Mickey and Aqua casted Full Curaga onto themselves, Serenity, Jason and Grovyle, the five of them recovering along enough to then try and avoid Vanitas rain of Lightning that attempted to electrocute them into nothing. Mickey and Aqua both counterattacked with Firaga while Jason tossed his Keyblade at Vanitas, Grovyle helping by using Bullet-Seed attack and Serenity delivering combos once she found openings as Vanitas was too busy with other attacks from her friends.
Vantias then somehow flew and began stabbing anything and everything in his path, while Serenity and her group were again forced to dodge it as best as they could before Grovyle used Energy-Ball attack to catch Vanitas off-guard. While it was knocked away, Serenity then leaped and thrusted her Scepter onto the head that belonged to Ven, mentally muttering a severe apology to Ven within the body and silently pleading him to fight against Vanitas's control while the said dark-half plummeted to the ground before flipping and regained his position. He was then forced to block the combos from Jason, Mickey and Aqua who all thrusted their Keyblades at the X-Blade as hard as they could.
Inside the body...
Ven dodge rolled out of the way to avoid Vanitas's deadly attack while the said dark-counter part held the X-Blade skyward before attempted to thrust against him when it was covered in fire with a powerful fire-blast which the light-counter part blocked with barrier or with Blizzaga. Vanitas then leaped into the air and shot out a homing blast at him. When Ven found an opening, he leaped towards Vanitas while barely avoiding the homing blast and successfully thrusted and slashed at him with his Keyblade and knocked him back and nearly over the platform, since Vanitas felt a more painful impact that seemed to be coming from outside and not just Ven.
That's when Ven realised that, upon hearing Serenity's voice echo in his mind to fight Vanitas, she, Aqua, Jason, Grovyle and Mickey were fighting Vanitas in the real world, while Ven himself was fighting him from within. They were all fighting Vanitas together in a mental connection. Nodding while mentally replying to the Moon Queen, Ven then tossed his Keyblade at Vantias like a boomarang, hitting him twice before the evil counter-part could attack before the Keyblade returned to it's owner.
However, Vanitas had other ideas, as he then glowed blue before thrusting against Ven who was hit several times before he was forced to roll out of the way and continued to do so when his counter-part then leaped into the air and summoned dark lightning that rained down in an attempt to electrocute him into oblivion. Ven counter-attacked by then usnig his own Lightning Spell which collided with Vanitas's Lightning Spell, and the two attacks exploded in mid-air at the exact same time, before the two leaped against one another and clashed blade and blade through the smoke, neither of them intending to give up easily despite the two of them starting to grow exhausted, but more determinded than ever before.
In the real world...
"C'mon!" Mickey cried out as held out his hand to his friends.
"Moon-Light!" Serenity chanted as she, Aqua, Jason and Grovyle joined hands with Mickey, forming into a circle of five which was an upgrade to the ability back in Radiant Garden, with the power of three Keyblades of light, Serenity's Scepter of the Moon's light, and even Grovyle's heart calling out to a special Solar-Beam attack, they spun around and around that spread the area and prevented Vanitas from getting to them, as he cried out in pain by the painful power of the light of his five enemies who didn't know when to quit, but then again, he wasn't about to surrender easily either.
But as Serenity and her group were done with the attack, they all screamed out in pain when Vanitas suddenly reappeared from the ground and created a powerful shock-wave explosion that engulfed them, but not before Mickey and Aqua both quickly chanted barrier to block the rest of the devastating attack while protecting Serenity, Jason, Grovyle and themselves, but they still rechieved agonizing hits that forced them to use Curaga again to heal themselves, even though the healing magic was starting to fade, so they knew that they had to be careful now, or else Vanitas had won this fight.
Inside the body...
Vantias delivered a double-combo which knocked Ven down several times before the later eventually, with agony, tossed his Keyblade at him again to block him and also knock him back before retrieving his weapon and again used Curaga despite knowing that his healing magic was wearing down so he knew that he had to be careful. On the other hand, Vanitas was losing energy and health as well, meaning that Ven was closer in winning the match and becoming more and more prepared to disappear.
Casting Light from his heart while using a special D-Link that connects to all of his friends, Ven then blasted a beam of light towards Vanitas's chest which sent him flying up into the air, severly doing such heavy damage that Ven could feel the impact himself as it was draining his life-force, which he didn't mind. His end was coming, and if Ven didn't win now, then the worlds will be destroyed, so he had to make this count.
He was then forced to leap out of the way when Vanitas, at the last attempt to merge with Ventus, thrusted down the X-Blade right into the glass platform which caused it to shatter and explode into light and glass shards and throwing Ven off-course and causing him to hover into nothing with zero-gravity while Vanitas floated calmly, grinning evilly as the two then knew, this was the final attempt to decide the victor and the fate of this epic battle. (~End Unbreakable Chains~)
In the real world...
Grovyle made an attempt to thrust as Vanitas with Quick Attack combined with Leaf-Blade attack. However, just as he reached him, Vanitas then smirked and thrusted at Grovyle who saw too late at his grave mistake, before then thrusted upward towards the Rock Wall where both Terra and Xehanort had their fight, causing him to crash onto the platform heavily, much to to the horror of the rest of his friends.
"Grovyle!" Jason exclaimed in horror. He then turned and glared at Vanitas, shouting angrily, "You'll pay for that!" before he, Serenity, Mickey and Aqua charged towards him to finish off this battle.
Unfortunately, Vanitas still had a lot of strength as he and the X-Blade then glowed brightly before he swinged it forward at the four, creating powerful winds that, despite their best efforts, Serenity, Aqua, Jason and Mickey were all thrown back by the powerful gust as they were send flying backwards, screaming. While Jason and Mickey ended up rolling down the hill cannon-ball style before landing to a stop and once again lost consciousness, Serenity and Aqua both slammed into a rock and slid down, with Aqua losing consciousness and Serenity breathing heavily, the Cresent Moon Wand and the Silver Crystal limp out of Serenity's fuku skirt.
On the platform, Grovyle slowly pushed himself up, before noticing what he first thought was Terra and spoke his name, but then realised, like Ven, something was horribly wrong and different. His hair was silver, and his eyes...were golden just like Xehanort's.
"Terra?" Grovyle gasped.
Speaking in a deep voice, 'Terra' spoke, revealing himself to be Xehanort who had succeeded in taking over the youth's body, "Don't borther. Your voice can no longer reach him."
Eyes widening in horrified realization, and quickly came to realise what Xehanort's true goal was towards Terra, Grovyle then hissed angrily, demanding, "No...What have you done to him, Xehanort!?"
"This heart belongs again to darkness." Xehanort began evilly with a smirk, with Kingdom Hearts glowing just over their heads, "All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it-it grows, consumes it. Such is its nature. In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came."
With that, deciding to finish off Grovyle himself in the gecko-Pokemon's weak state, Xehanort then summoned his Keyblade which was re-materialized due to having a new body, and calmly approached him. Despite this, Grovyle glared at him, standing up, suddenly finding inner strength that was telling him not to give up, and he not going to give up. Not now, not ever.
"I will not allow you to destroy the worlds...Not as long as I exist!" Grovyle growled and at the same time, the pendent on his necklace suddenly glowed brightly in blue light, which it's warmth reached deep into his heart with such power he never knew he had until now.
As though Grovyle had summoned it, the platform around him and Xehanort then became trapped in a sphere of chains of gold, causing the latter to stop in shock, "What?"
(~Rage Awakened: Origin-KH:BBS~)
"I may have failed to change Terra's fate...but I can still try and protect the worlds, even if it means the end of my life, Xehanort." Grovyle declared, glaring at the evil man who had taken over his friend's body, concluding as he prepared himself to fight, possibly to the death, "I will show you the real meaning of ones heart!"
Xehanort was not impressed by Grovyle's words. In fact, he was downright furious, as he demanded angrily while standing in fighting position, "You were born in a world of darkness, you were raised in a world of darkness-so why do your heart and mind resist!?"
"Simple-because light still exists in the hearts of others in the future-including Jason's and my own hearts!" Grovyle declared back before summoning Over-Grow to increase his strength while hoping that his friends can stop Vanitas and save Ven without getting killed.
Grovyle then leaped into the air while avoiding Xehanort who then sped along in super high speed now that he was in Terra's body before following his enemy in the air and attempted to thrust and slice him in half. Grovyle, with much strength as he could, blocked the evil Keyblade with Leaf-Blade attack before landing safely on the ground and used X-Sissors attack, thrusting it out at Xehanort who attempted to block it but was hit hard into the chest when his Keyblade failed to block the power before forcing himself to flip and land safely the ground to avoid crashing.
Xehanort then spun his Keyblade around while delivering heavy combos at Grovyle who used Quick-Attack to dodge it while unfortunately being hit several times but managed to attack Xehanort with Leaf-Blade at the same time, causing his enemy to also get injured quickly as well, creating cuts and gashes on each other's bodies. Grovyle then used Pound Attack right at the face that used to belong to Terra but Xehanort now controlling it, knocked back a few paces before he roared in anger and then held up his Keyblade in the air. Instantly the earth tremored and all around Grovyle, as Xehanort then dragged his Keyblade around, rock pillers formed around to try and stab him. Grovyle again used Quick-Attack before using Energy Ball to destroy the rocks as quickly as he could, causing several small explosions of dust and dirt before being thrusted and send flying acrossing the platform when Xehanort managed to catch him off-guard.
Despite the heavy blow, Grovyle rolled out of the way to avoid in being stabbed to death when Xehanort teleported in front of him and was forced to continue to do so before he blocked the next attempted with another Leaf-Blade attack. Then, concentraing at the same time as holding Xehanort back, Grovyle then blasted Solar-Beam right into Xehanort who didn't even have time to block this and was hit so hard that he was thrown backwards across the field, crashing into the ground hard, but then leaped back up easily despite growing heavily exhausted. Grovyle was growing even more exhausted himself, but refused to give up. The two then rushed towards each other and collided Leaf-Blade and Keyblade again, creating a small shock-wave in an attempt to over power each other.
Inside Ven's body...
Ven and Vanitas both circled around each other with glares before the two then held out their Keyblade and X-Blade which they both twirled by their owners' commands, both shooting beams of light at each other, Ven using orange light and Vanitas using blue light. beams collide with each other, spreading their energy away from the two. Ventus gains the upper hand and the orange beam shoots through the
blue and reflects on broken shards of the platform, striking Vanitas. They continue to fall through the abyss, Ven dodged the attacks from his enemy before tossing his Keyblade out in front of him.
The Keyblade spins in the air, dispelling warm orange light. Vanitas counters with the same strategy as before, giving off cold blue light, foolishly believing that Ven was far too weak at this stage. The two keys contend for victory, with neither backing down against the other. Then, suddenly, Ven's blade slams into Vanitas, shooting him into shards of the platform. However, Vanitas recovered and clashed against Ven who blocked the attacks as hard as he could while air-rolling out of the way before casting Firaga which blasted Vantias back once more. The two then clashed with slashs and thrusts against one another, both getting more and more exhausted, but again, neither surrendering easily.
In the real world with Grovyle...
Grovyle landed near the scattered armor that once belonged to Terra as Xehanort glared evilly at the Pokemon who glared angrily back at him. Just then, to the two's surprise and shock, and in Xehanort's case, anger, the Armor somehow glowed in light before attaching each other into form, being put into a kneeling position as Terra's Keyblade then materialized in the Armor's hands. Grovyle's eyes widened in disbelief, and then realization.
"Terra?" Grovyle asked, and the Armor, somehow understanding him, nodded silently. It seemed that Terra's mind managed to escape the body and merge into the armor, creating a Lingering Will to finish what they stated. To defeat Xehanort.
"Your body submits, your heart succumbs-so why does your mind resist?" Xehanort demanded to the Armor who didn't say anything. Instead, it stood slowly before grabbing the Keyblade, and with his right arm and lifts it carefully out of the ground.
Somehow realising that this was the last time Grovyle would ever see his companion of the present, the muttered softly to the Armor of Terra, "I suppose...this is our final teamwork, my friend?" in which the armor nodded again, which made him nod as well, "I see...Then let's make the best of it."
Xehanort roared in anger again before he then held up his Keyblade and summoned the Meteor Spell which rained down dangerously at Grovyle and the Armor who both raced out of the way to avoid in getting hit before the Armor slashed one of the meteors in half with the Keyblade and Grovyle used Energy Ball to destroy another before the two were forced to clash against Xehanort's Keyblade once more, creating heavy sparks that rains around them and onto the soil, though now that the Armor was helping, Xehanort was beginning to realise that, as his heart was only getting used to being in a new body, he wasn't used to heavy blows so easily despite Terra's body being the perfect vessel. And that's when he realised it.
Terra was fighting for control, and with Grovyle havning worn him down despite sustaining heavy injuries himself, this was becoming a losing battle for the evil wielder.
So in furious desperation, Xehanort attacked with both Meteor Spells, the Rock Piller Spells and the Dark Impulse Spells in a single combination which Grovyle quickly counter-attacked with Solar Beam with at least one of them while avoiding the other attacks with Quick Attack and the Armor summoning a D-Link with surprisingly Grovyle himself, Ven, Serenity and Aqua, evaporating the light and then suddenly the armor glowed in bright light while Grovyle felt a sudden connection with Serenity who was mentally asking for help, and suddenly, the two saw images of Serenity herself with Aqua, Jason, Mickey and Ven, their lights combining into forming one light which was suddenly absorbed into a small crystal that glowed brightly, which made him realise what was happening.
Serenity was using the Silver Crystal.
Inside Ven's body...
Just as Ven grunted, his body and Keyblade suddenly glowed and then all around him, the entire area glowed in light which some of it shot up into the air and mental images of Serenity, Mickey, Jason, Terra, Grovyle and Aqua surrounded him along with the image of a small silver crystal that glowed before it shot out at Vanitas who gasped in shock as the X-Blade was suddenly starting to losen from his grip. That's when Ven realised that Serenity was now fighting back against Vanitas in the real world by using the last of her strength while combining her power along with everyone else's in the most powerful connection Ven had realised, and it was giving him strength to now finish this fight for good.
Nodding to himself, while thinking, 'Sailor Moon...Queen Serenity...I won't let you down! Let's do this with all our friends...together!' Ven then chanted, "LIGHT!"
At his command, Ven gathers power from the light and flies toward Vanitas like a
comet, his blade striking him one, two, three, four, five times. He spins around to face his evil half and throws his Keyblade forward, flying after it to land one final blow on the hollow, dark youth who screamed out in horror, afraid for the first time in his existance, asking weakly, "Why?"
Ven then flew forward with his Keyblade in hand to do one last thing to finish this fight for good. (~End Rage Awakened: Origin~)
In the real world with Serenity...
(~The Key-KH:BBS~)
Serenity was breathing heavily, the Cresent Moon Wand and the Silver Crystal limp out of Serenity's fuku skirt, just as Vanitas stepped towards her before stopping at the edge of the hill, grinning evilly as he mocked at the Moon Queen, "What's wrong? Giving up already?"
"Never!" Serenity yelled, refusing to give up. She cannot surrender. Not now. Not when her friends of the future and the fate of the Realm of Light needed her. "I would rather die while protecting the worlds and all life then surrender to you!"
Inside Ven's body...
Ven thrusted his Keyblade in the final finishing blow, successfully knocking the X-Blade out of Vanitas's grasp while the said dark counter part fell backwards. He struggles to reclaim it, but finds he cannot. The two fused blades float just out of his reach, as if taunting him. Finally, losing consciousness and feeling his very existance fading away, Vanitas gav up the struggle as his energy leaves him and he falls. The X-blade glowed before bursting into numerous gold and silver shards, Ven's Keyblade following suit.
As he fell and having lost his life, Vanitas then became engulfed in a bright light and splits into dust, before falling onto blackness. A white light eminates from that point on the platform and the blackness peels away into white feathers and a warm glowing light. Ven, floating above, landed and with a content look on his face, before closing his eyes in acceptence, unafraid as he faded into the light, as station and restores it with only Ven's picture on it. Ven lands in the middle of it and smiles. He starts to glow and then turns into a heart and flies off.
In the real world...
Thinking about her friends as well as her lover Grimoire, knowing that they were what gave her strength, Serenity came to realise that it is her friendship and love that gave her the power to fight, that made her strong both in strength and inside her heart, not once thinking about the risk of her own life, and that's when she realised that this was what she needed to think of as her duty as Queen.
To risk her life for others and for her people.
As though finally passing the test, the Silver Crystal then glowed brightly which then, as she realised, gave a powerful connection with her heart, Serenity's eyes widened as she could then feel the light and power of the hearts of her friends-Aqua, Ventus, Jason, Mickey, Grovyle, and Terra, and the love from Grimoire, the Cresent Moon Wand also glowed in pink light.
Realising what needs to be done, realising that she had tapped into the Crystal's true power, Serenity, knowing that this would cost her life, nodded before grasping the wand and then, with a yell, she leaps up and ran towards Vanitas to end this battle once and for all.
"You're just wasting your energy." Vanitas taunted, preparing for the killing blow to kill Serenity, striking the X-Blade forward.
The X-Blade and the Cresent-Moon Wand collide, creating a ripple of shockwaves in the air. As she struggled to keep her footing as they fight for dominance in the standoff, Serenity mentally thought about former Queen Selene, knowing that she had to do this to save the Realm of Light and her friends, 'Forgive me...I must use the Crystal's power.'
Feeling her strength slip away due to connecting her life-force with the Silver Crystal, Serenity then shouted in chanting, feeling the powers of her friends, "COSMIC MOON POWER!" while moving herself slightly forward and the X-blade snaps, shards of the blade breaking off while the Crystal glowed in bright pink light.
This was the power reaction that spread out to Grovyle and Terra's fight against Xehanort, and Ven's success in destroying Vanitas as well as himself within his heart.
"What?" Vanitas gasped, shocked and unable to believe what was going on. How could this be happening!? The Silver Crystal of the past shouldn't have this kind of power in the present since it no longer exists!
Using this distraction, Serenity, with all of her strength, pushes forward, knocking him to the ground and sending the broken X-blade spinning into the air. It glows and bursts with energy, sending beams of light in haphazard directions. They strike the ground, letting loose outlines of keyholes that break apart in the air. Feeling her life and consciousness slipping away, Serenity's world blacked out before she dropped the Cresent Moon Wand and Silver Crystal which stopped glowing, and she collasped to the ground.
Just as Aqua woke up and raced up but was forced to stand by as the explosion of the X-Blade prevented her from getting anywhere near closer, and shielding her eyes as the power eminating from the almighty blade grows in strength, while crying out the unconscious Serenity, "Sailor Moon!? Serenity!" but the Moon Queen did not respond.
On the ground just a few yards from the growing explosion, both Jason and Mickey, who had seen and felt warm lights and images of their friends while unconsious, both awoke when they felt the earth tremor. As the two looked up, both of them gasped as they leaped to their feet, seeing the destruction that was happening before their eyes.
"Wha-What's goin' on!?" Jason exclaimed, shocked beyond belief.
Mickey then realised what was happening and cried out in horror, "Oh no! It...it's gone all haywire!" which made Jason realise what he meant.
"NO!" Jason screamed, before he and Mickey raced up to try and reach their friends, but just as they reached back onto the area, they were helpless as the power was too much for them to handle and they had to shield their eyes to prevent in becoming blind.
Aqua was struggling to withstand the might of the X-blade's destruction. Keyholes appear everywhere in the air and dissipate instantly, more beams of light striking the ground, creating more scattering keyholes. On the ground layed the unconscious body of Ven and as darkness spread, Vanitas's clothes vanished, replacing it to Ven's armor, meaning that he must've returned to normal due to Serenity using her power to destroy the X-Blade.
"Ven!" Aqua screamed out.
Light struck everywhere around the group while the X-Blade then shattered into a thousand pieces, vanishing into the air. It is enveloped by the brightest light, streams continuously billowing forth, as it sends a great wind blowing outward. Aqua attempted to reach both Ven and Serenity, but they were both blown away by the monsterous galed winds, forcing her to be blown with them, with Jason and Mickey both struggling to remain standing until they were both engulfed by the sphere of light. Aqua then made the desperate leap into the air and reached out both her hands to each Ven's left and and Serenity's right hand, managing to touch their fingers before losing her grip. Just as she thought she would lose them, she grasps their hands as the light engulfs the area, before her, Jason and Mickey's screams were heard as all five of them were swallowed up by the growing explosion. (~End The Key~)
On the platform above the destruction, Grovyle and the Armor of Terra both successfully managed to knock Xehanort unconscious and the evil man in Terra's body collasped the ground, his Keyblade on the soil as well. Even so, there wasn't anything they could do as they had no idea how to get Xehanort's heart out of Terra's body.
Accepting this, the Armor then plunges his Keyblade into the ground and kneels once again, while Grovyle gazed at the armor of his first friend of the past...one whom he lost, having been unable to prevent his cruel fate from happening.
Dusknoir was right. Grovyle and Jason were not to be the ones to change the future. However, he refused to give up hope. Even if it means risking the lives of their children to take their place, there was no other choice.
"Terra...I'm sorry. One day, you will get your heart and body back." Grovyle told the armor, sensing that, if history changed, then perhaps someone in the new time-line can set things right here in the past, before he felt a loud rumble that caused him to gaze at where Xehanort layed, as a huge sphere of light surges toward them, splitting earth and atom alike. Glowing with the most intense burst of light, it covers Terra's body.
Realising that Jason was in danger and needed him, Grovyle nodded, before gazing at Terra's armor for the final time, despite knowing that his chances in saving Jason now may be slim, but he had to try, "I must go. Goodbye, Terra."
With that, Grovyle immediately raced forward and crazily leaped right into the sphere...where he found his best friend...
Feeling himself being blown away from his friends of the past, Jason screamed out as there were being drifted away from him, "Mickey! Sailor Moon! Ven! Aqua! NO!" trying to reach out to them, but was unable to do so.
(~Dismiss-KH:BBS~)
Suddenly, everything around Jason just...froze, as though time stopped and now he felt no longer being blown away, but now being able to stand like he was standing on the ground, asking in utter confusen, "Huh? What's going on?"
"I have been reborn, to gain one final chance to finish you off, human." A familiar yet much darker voice echoed behind him, causing Jason to turn around and to his shock, was a much more pure black Zoroark who grinned evilly at him, while he continued, as a pure black being, " Your journey ends here, boy. You failed, and now, surrender to me!"
Realising that this was his final battle, Jason glared at Zoroark while shaking his head negatively, suggesting while summoning his Keyblade and declared, "Not a chance. I'm gonna finish you off and give Grovyle more time!" believing that this was the end of him here and hoped that Grovyle would be able to get back to Lyla and into the future to finish what they started.
Zoroark just laughed with wide and maddening eyes, "Your friend? It's always about friendship, isn't it?"
"At least I have friends!" Jason yelled, explaining as he knew now the real power inside him he had all along, "Both in the future and in the present! Even if I'll disappear, I won't completely disappear. Because everyone else I know in the present will remember me and Grovyle in their memories, and as long as those memories are kept alive, then we'll live forever! I'm going to change the future, and you're not gonna stop me, Zoroark!"
Zoroark responded by blasting Dark Pulse attack at Jason who rolled out of the away before tossing his Keyblade at the evil Pokemon who was hit twice before it returned to him, before being forced to leap out of the way when Zoroark blasted night shade. When Zoroark landed, Jason took this chance to clash against him with his Keyblade, managing to thrust and slash at him downward, skyward and angleward before being forced to leap back when the enemy attempted to use Hyper-Beam at him while transforming into a Gyradous, unleashing the Hyper-Beam attack.
Incredibly, Jason was healed when he thought about how to cure himself and realised that he must've somehow gained his own ability how to heal himself in this situation, which gave him enough time to then leap ouf the way again when Zoroark attempted to swipe at him with his Gyradous tail but missed. Jason then tossed his Keyblade at Zoroark, hitting the evil Pokemon twice as Zoroark roared in agony while the Keyblade returned to it's owner. Jason then ran forward and slashed and sliced at Zoroark's Gyradous body before dodge-rolling and then surprisingly casted his very own Light-Orb that blasted at Zoroark who roared in anger before deciding a different plan to kill the worthless human once and for all, by transforming into a Darkrai and flared Dark Void.
To Zoroark's shock, Jason deflected it with his own Barrier that he must've finally picked up from both Mickey and Aqua during their, Serenity and Grovyle's fight against Vanitas, before the eleven year old boy raced forward and whacked Zoroark right in the stomach with his Keyblade, causing the latter to be thrown backwards into the air. Despite this, Zoroark managed to recover by flipping himself backwards and land safely, grinning at his enemy who only glared back, knowing that he had to do this on his own as the lives of his friends depended on him.
Zoroark then blasted another Dark Pulse which hit Jason right into the chest and knocked him back. Despite this, Jason managed to quickly recover and blocked Zoroark's Dark-Punch Attack several times until he managed to slam his Keyblade against Zoroark's head, knocking him a few years away where he crashed into the frozen time-ground of the explosion before counter-attacking with another Night Shade which slammed Jason back as well and nearly lost his Keyblade. Though he did quickly catch it before it completely slipped from his grasp before managed to somehow flip in the air and land safely, wondering if someone was helping him in his time of need to give him possibly temporarely powers to defeat Zoroark once and for all.
Zoroark, unimpressed, then morphed himself into a Charizard before taking flight and blasted Fire-Blast at Jason who had to run and dodge out of the way to avoid in being roasted into crisp even though he was feeling the intensed heat that was beginning to make him have trouble breathing before he somehow counter-attacked with a Blizzard Spell at Zoroark's Charizard tail which froze it, much to his shock anad causing him to roar out in agony before being frozed to morph back into his true form before he died as when flames go out completely on the Charmander line, even through evolution, they die.
Seeing how even his illusion forms were not working, Zorork then summoned a Meteor Spell to crush Jason who then had to leap out of the way again even though was beginning to tire quickly, meaning that he had to finish this fight once and for all.
He then an idea, a crazy one that might not work, but he had to try. Jason then called out, speaking out to his friends, "Give me strength, guys!"
To his surprise, his wrist-band glowed brightly, before Jason felt the light somehow transfering into his heart, which then transfered into his Keyblade which now glowed into a blade of light that shined brightly. Realising that it worked since he could feel the strengths from Grovyle, Lyla, Mickey, Serenity, Ven and Aqua, Jason nodded before racing forward and just as Zoroark blasted another killing blow of Shadow Ball, to the evil Pokemon's horror, Jason slashed through it before he yelled out with determination and thrusted his Keyblade with into Zoroark's chest, slashing at the Pokemon of Resistance Group, causing him to be flown back as another explosion occured, with the evil Pokemon screaming in agony and fear as he came to a realization that he has lost again for the final time. (~End Dismiss~)
Feeling his strength and life slip away, Zoroark began to disintegrate before he vanished completely, fading into nothing.
It seemed that due to Zoroark's defeat, time then suddenly restarted and Jason immediate felt the agonizing pressure of the blast, causing to cry out as he was hit painfully, before shutting his eyes and braced himself, while hoping that at least his friends were still alright.
"JASON!"
Snapping his eyes open at hearing Grovyle's voice, Jason looked above him to see Grovyle trying to reach him through the blast, with his claw reaching out to him. Without thinking on how Grovyle managed to get through without being blown away, Jason, with all of his might, stretched out his hand and after few tries, successfully grasped Grovyle's claw before the two were blown away together...
As their world went black.
Before being completely engulfed by the blast, Terra, within the armor, just saw images of both Ven and Aqua smiling warmly at him...his best friends...his family...
They were all seperated by crue fates...but at least the Realm of Light was safe for now.
(~Beyond the Door-KH:BBS~)
As the sphere of light finally faded, with only Terra's armor and Keyblade left behind alone in the Keyblade Graveyard, the dark clouds bend inward and hide Kingdom Hearts again from the world, and still the armor is alone, while the whereabouts of everyone else was left unclear.
Yet, Terra knew...the battle against Xehanort was not truly over. As long as the evil man lives...the Realm of Light will never be safe. (~End Beyond the Door~)
"Aqua, Ven... One day I will set this right." Terra's thoughts spoke.
"Jason...everyone...one day, history will change and the darkness will be defeated." Grovyle's unconscious thoughts spoke.
A/N: The story's not over yet, but it will be very soon, and after that, the epilogue and secret endings will be up! See you real soon!