Sorry for being a bit late again with the update. I actually had to rewrite the whole thing after my laptop reset in the middle of writing. So I lost three of the five pages I wrote and had to start again. Therefore, if the second half feels a bit weird...that's why. Anyway, I hope all of you enjoy.
Inverted Sky: Kingdom Hearts II
Chapter 36: Wonderland part III
The room was in shambles. Parts of the table and chair were scattered all over the place, while huge scorch marks were seen in almost every corner of the area. In the center however, the Heartless and Nobody loomed over where the three teens had been. Though, it was impossible to see any of them as a large cloud of dust and ash was slowly settling from the massive impact of their combined attacks. But as they continued to stare down at this spot, Leon narrowed his gaze heavily. Said man almost being knocked outside the door from the sheer force of the creatures' strike.
"Well that was rude." Sora's voice spoke up softly from within the dust cloud.
Of which quickly disbursed as a gust of wind encircled the voice's source, which revealed the brown-haired teen with a fist pointing upward. Meanwhile, Yuffie and Alice were standing behind her with similar smirks on their features. As Sora looked up to the two creatures, she let out a light huff when they began simultaneously charging a massive ball of darkness. "And that's just mean." she muttered silently while lowering her hand.
Upon doing so, the girl summoned her Keyblade and jumped into the air. Her stabbing the sphere of black energy with this weapon, making it almost instantly disburse. While in midair, Sora glanced to the side as she saw the Nobody swinging both of it's bladed arms toward her. Yet at the last second, she used a quick Aero spell that allowed her to spin and contort her body slightly. This letting her pass under and over both attacks with ease, as well as even flicked a small speck of grey-colored light toward the Heartless.
Of which was swinging its small staff down toward Sora, as if it was a fly-swatter. This lead for Sora to end her spin while facing the large Heartless insignia rushing down to hit her. But the moment it was about to strike, the teen brought a hand back and just punched the staff. The small scepter shattering apart instantly, yet Sora herself was no where to be seen afterward. Which lead for the two large creatures to look around in search for the brown-haired girl.
All the while, Yuffie and Alice were watching this from the ground with a blinking gaze. Them being a bit surprised that Sora was rather effortlessly handling these two creatures on her own. Though, they also began to look around for the teen as even they didn't see where she had disappeared to. Yet it wouldn't take long as they noticed a small glow radiating from the Heartless' shoulder. Which was being created by a series of small spheres in an 'S' formation.
"Magic Blitz." Sora hummed out silently from behind the orbs.
Each of which swiftly combined into one much larger one before it flew off and into the chest of the Nobody. At which point, it was engulfed in a rather colorful assortment of light. But once this began to slowly fade away, the large creature did as well. "Now then..." Sora muttered while looking to the Heartless she was standing on.
"...your turn." she finished, just before the insect-like being was covered in a surge of darkness that destroyed it within a matter of seconds.
Sora then slowly fell to the floor with a strange amount of grace, to which she grinned at the other two teens. "Well...that takes care of 'that'." she claimed with an expression of satisfaction.
Alice giggled softly while nodding her head in agreement, to which Yuffie merely smirked with a shrug. Though, as Leon made his way over to the three, he let out a heavy sigh. "It was reckless of you to take an attack like that." the raven-haired man stated firmly as he crossed his arms.
Sora having actually punched the creatures' first assault toward the group, rather than creating a barrier. However, the force of her punch still blew away all of the dark energy coming toward the three and distributed it outward. Of which had been what caused the massive amount of damage to the room. Leon having noticed this at the last second as the girl spun around and punched upward in an uppercut fashion.
"Aw come on...I had a Reflega spell ready just in case." the teen said with a light pout and quick shrug.
"Just don't make it a habit." was all Leon responded with as his arms tightened slightly across his chest.
"As you wish." Sora hummed out with a nod of her head, to which she then turned to the other two girls.
But her gaze slowly drifted to a spot just beyond them, where a small swirl of darkness was forming. It seeming to be generated by the fading black energy left behind from the large Heartless and Nobody. Though, as the darkness took shape, it quickly began to fade away. Revealing the Queen of Hearts' body laying on the rather scorched floor. Upon seeing this, each of the four's eyes widened slightly. All of them moved slowly toward her, yet soon noticed the woman was still breathing and likely just unconscious.
However, Sora's eyes narrowed heavily and her expression became very thoughtful. 'She reformed within less than a minute. Does that mean the others did as well? Have they been just wandering around for a whole year? Or did their 'reforming' take longer because they were apart for so long? Although...just how long has she been like this anyway?' she mused to herself while tapping her chin and looking down at the floor.
All the while, the others glanced from each other before to the brown-haired girl. Making most of them raise a brow in question as to why she suddenly went completely silent. However, Sora soon snapped out of this and looked around to everyone with a sheepish smile. "S-So...what next? Didn't you mention that the Queen came here with an army?" she question, turning toward Alice with a tilt of her head.
"Oh yes...of course! If they're still here, they'll be all over the castle's courtyard." the blond answered, to which the group then made their way to the castle just beyond the forest.
But not without Leon giving Sora a few suspicious glances along the way. Once they arrived however, the group just blinked many times to the sight of thousands of Nobodies literally swarming across the entire castle. "Whoa...and I thought the Horned King had a lot of undead." Sora commented silently as she just kept looking around to the sheer number of grey-colored creatures.
"Huh?" Alice muttered with blinking eyes.
"Long story." the brown-haired girl responded, waving her hand to the other teen.
"Anyway, we should probably deal with these guys." she continued, to which she took a few steps forward and cracked her knuckles.
"I could use some practice for all the martial arts I learned from Shang." Sora said as a small grin curled her lips.
"Another...huh?" Alice asked, her blinking many more times to the girl.
"Another long story." the brown-haired teen answered while waving her hand once more.
"I definitely wanna hear that story." Yuffie claimed, a grin becoming visible on her own features.
"Me too." Alice added quickly in a rather excited tone, taking a step forward when doing so.
Sora looked to each of the two before smiling lightly and nodding her head. "Alright...once we're finished here, I'll tell you both a bit more about my adventures." she said, just before the group rushed toward the large gathering of Nobodies.
Leon used his gunblade to slash and shoot over one hundred of the Nobodies, yet it was with very little effort. Yuffie utilized both her giant shuriken and materia driven spells to defeat just as many of her own opponents. Though, it was with greater speed than the man thanks to her superior agility and maneuverability. Alice on the other-hand, simply conjured a large amount of Light in a sphere around her. Which completely incinerated twice as many foes, as the other two combined. Meanwhile, Sora started off with using her recently learned martial arts, yet soon found herself combining it with her Darkness and magic.
This taking the form of whip-like extensions from her typical strikes, allowing the girl to hit many more foes with a single attack than usual. Within the same amount of time as Leon, she had taken down five hundred Nobodies. However, they still hadn't even made a dent in the amount of creatures, as there were still thousands remaining. Making it easy for them to slowly surround and swarm the four.
"Alright...this number should do." she hummed out while lifting a hand up into the air and took in a breath.
"Thundaja." Sora whispered, to which a series of five hundred lightning bolts shot down from small yellow magic circles in the air.
Each of which had continuously produced lightning bolts until every last Nobody was gone. Once they were, Sora lowered her hand and looked to the others in an almost overly confident manner. "There, that also take care of 'tha-'" yet she quickly cut herself short when a few stray Nobodies were spotted moving out from behind the hedges in the court yard.
These creatures immediately vanishing in corridors of darkness in order to escape, them knowing when to give up. But while most of the group just shrugged their shoulders and let them go, Sora was blushing deeply. Her feeling embarrassed about trying to sound so cool at the end, despite letting a few stragglers get away. Before the other three noticed her flush however, the brown-haired girl cleared her throat and turned to the side slightly in order to hide her face. "W-Well...I'd say that we accomplished our mission." she claimed while placing her hands to either hip.
"I'd say so." Alice said softly, a small smile curling her lips.
"I'll go back and let everyone know they can return." Leon spoke up, causing the other three to look at him with a blinking gaze.
"You three can share your stories." he continued with a wave, to which he started going back into the forest.
'Odd...it's like he wants some time alone for some reason. I knew he was the brooding type, but I didn't think it would be like 'this'.' Sora mused to herself while raising a brow to the man's leaving form.
Not long after he was out of sight, the three girls looked to one another and began sharing their stories. Though, they slowly made their way inside of the castle as Alice decided to go first. Despite each of them thinking that she would take the least amount of time...it was debatable. "Whoa...so you actually thought it was all a dream at first?" Yuffie hummed out, blinking a few times at the other teen.
"Yep...but the moment I released a small amount of Light energy, I realized it had of been real. So I went back to the rabbit hole and realized that it was actually a portal to Wonderland." Alice claimed with a small smile on her features.
"How strange." Yuffie muttered silently as they continued walking through the castle's halls and to the throne room.
"I thought so too." Alice said while letting out a soft chuckle.
"No...not the whole portal thing, I mean the 'using Light energy' thing." the raven-haired girl explained, her having a very thoughtful gaze; "It shouldn't be possible."
Sora raised a brow in question as she tilted her head to the side slightly; "What do you mean? Though she needed a bit of direction, Belle also managed to use the power of Light on her own as well."
Upon hearing this Yuffie looked to her once more in a bit of shock; "Wait what? Why didn't you say so before?" she asked quickly, her expression appearing to be actually worried.
"Well...what's the big deal anyway? Don't the Princesses of Heart have those kinda of capabilities inherently?" the brown-haired girl asked back with a shrug.
"Yes and no." Yuffie began as she paused in her steps, to which the other two did the same while looking at her.
"From what Merlin has told me about the Princesses of Heart...while they hold the greatest amount of power over the Light, it is naturally sealed within them. Only during times of true danger will the Light within the Princesses begin to surface." she explained slowly, it being clear that she was almost struggling to remember everything.
"Which means that either the Organization is truly 'that' evil...or there is something else going on." Sora uttered silently, her eyes narrowing heavily.
This lead for a deep silence to surround the trio as they all began to worry about what the future might hold. However, it was quickly brought to an end when the Mad Hatter and the March Hare called out to each other that they should try sitting in the throne. Their voices echoing from down the hall as the three turned toward these two. Yet, they weren't alone as a great deal more people began flooding in with Leon in the back.
"Oh my, Alice...Sora...have you truly defeated the Queen and her army?" the white rabbit asked while hopping up to them.
"Indeed we have, though...it was mainly Alice." Sora claimed with a wide grin curling her lips and a gesture to said blond.
Whom blinked a few times at her friend, but eventually shrugged in understanding as to what she was aiming for. "Well...we all helped to do it." she said, giving a small smile to the rabbit.
Despite the white mammal looking to each of them, he raised a paw up and called out to everyone. "Three cheers for the saviors of Wonderland~!"
"Hip hip, hooray!"
"Hip hip, hooray!"
"Hip hip! Hooray!"
And there you have it, Wonderland is saved. And I even threw in a bit of my own explanation as to why it isn't just a dream, like it was in the movie. I hope everyone enjoyed and will let me know what you thought. Until next time everyone.