Chapter 53? This is a lot longer than I had ever thought it would be. XP

Thanks for keeping up, I hope that you enjoy chapter 53 of Kokoro!


Kokoro and Aki walked back out to the main street of Traverse Town, all of the people trying to get up and get somewhere safer. Kokoro watched everyone in pain, then turned back to Aki. "We have to hurry, so many people need us."

"Right." Aki went to her sword and picked it up. "Not like you have a weapon with you. Why is that?"

She put her hands behind her head, walking with big steps to Aki. "I can't use the elements or Keyblades when an element is wild... but... that's just when it's wild..." She came to a revelation, putting her hands down and crossing them in thought again. "This isn't wild... it's different..."

"Who cares?! Then you should be able to use the Keyblades!" Aki yelled. Kokoro looked up and nodded, then tried to summon the Keyblades again. Nothing, nothing happened in her hands. Not even a little tingle came to her finger tips.. "What's the matter?"

"I... I don't know..." Kokoro turned to Aki to speak but found the girl behind her. "Hey!" She pointed behind Aki, making the dark fighter turn around and look at the little girl as well. The girl was a bit pale but had pitch dark black hair to make it up. Just like the other girls her hair was long and black with the bangs going to her eyes, but her eyes were a crimson red. She stared at the fighters, no shoes and wearing the plain white dress. "You... you're the element!"

The girl just looked at Kokoro, then closed her eyes. A darkness cloud and a beam of light, one on each side, formed next to her. Two more girls now stood there, also in white dresses. The one to the right had blonde hair and purple eyes. Her hair went past her waist, and her bangs went past her eyes. It seemed like she was an innocent wild child. The other looked darker, dark brown hair going to the middle of her back and the bangs also growing long and over her eyes but pushed to the side. In her hair were blonde highlights and her grey eyes glared at Kokoro. "What... three at once?!"

"We want freedom." The blonde started quietly.

"So we went into their hearts..." The brown haired one said next.

"And used my power to subdue them." The middle one spoke last.

Aki and Kokoro faced each other for some sort of answer, then back to the girls. "Why them and not Kokoro herself?" Aki asked, she seemed more confused about everything than Kokoro.

"Because we want to free our sisters."

"Because we want to stop her fairly."

"Because we want her to suffer like we have."

All three spoke at once, yet they heard all three reason why the others were being effected. Kokoro took a step forward. "Why did you hurt them, no bs'ing an answer either!"

The middle girl looked at the one on her right, then the girl on her left. She then took a step forward and glared at Kokoro. "We got rid of them... because if we harmed you then we would never be able to extract our sisters. Just like the way you cannot use them when an element is wild or after you, we cannot free them. So... in turn we stopped all of your allies and just went after you."

"But your friend..." The blonde girl started again, in a quiet innocence. "She was not effected. It is as if you two are the same."

The final girl crossed her arms, giving a cold stair. "So.. now we can take you on and finish this off! Before you mess everything up!"

"But..." Kokoro started again.

Aki stood in front of her and started to order. "How are you doing it?"

The three girls laughed, then all stopped at once and looked again at the Aki and Kokoro. The middle one spoke again as the leader. "Ivory opened their hearts with her power of light, then I went in and made them go into a meltdown with my power of fire. All that is left is Kokoro with her darkness power, she is going to take you down."

"Kokoro?!" The elemenalist took note at the one crossing her arms, she was the elementist model that had been formed in many a RP. "So then... we have to stop the fire and then lock the hearts by stopping Ivory." Kokoro looked at the blonde girl, Ivory, and nodded. "Okay then."

"But... you're Keybladeless." The highlighted haired Kokoro put her arms down, darkness figures in the shape of the elementist Kokoro forming. "Why not? What's holding you back?"

"Nothing!" Kokoro stood ready, but for a fist fight. "I can take you on without my weapons!"

The middle girl laughed again. "Better make it quick, the heat is a lot. If you can't stop all three of us before time is up... then your friends will die." Kokoro cringed as Aki got her sword ready. Both looked at each other, then started the charge. Aki had a weapon, she would take down the fire element while Kokoro went off to the darkness element, Kokoro. Before making contact three lights left the elementalist Kokoro, going to the Accessory Shop. "Making the elements leave you? Dumb..." The fire element stood still as a fire wall came up, stopping Aki in her tracks.


Inside the shop Sora came to again, he opened his eyes breathing hard and feeling like the burning would never stop. He ached at the pain, then tried to sit up. A hand went on his chest, making him lie down again. He looked up at the person, the hand was clawed and conneced to wings. The woman appeared like the cross between an eagle and a woman, it was a Harpee. Her wings were brown and her skin a dark yellow, but the eyes were green. The Harpee had the element green eyes and fangs like a vampire. "Little Miss wanted to make sure you were safe."

"But... you need... to help her..." Sora gasped.

The harpee shook her head. "Pandora will listen to Little Miss, she wanted Pandora and the others to watch over you deep down, so Pandora and the others complied." The harpee said. Apprently she was Pandora speaking in third person.

Sora tried to glance over to Riku and Momo. Fenrir was sitting next to Riku, next to the couch, while Leviathan took half of the room to lie down in, going over almost everything but never breaking anything, and kept her head over Momo. He then looked back at Pandora. "Ko...Kokoro... is going... to be... o..okay?"

"Pandora is sure of this." The harpee said once more, placing her hand on his chest. "Now rest, Pandora and the others will make sure that nothing happens, for Little Miss." He shook his head in agreement, then closed his eyes and tried to think of something else. The only things that came to mind were Kokoro and the fire burning within him, the fire that burned and gave unimaginable pain.


Kokoro was knocked back into a lamp post by one of her darkness clones. She quickly got up and shielded from the next attack, making her flip over a table over and break another in half. The moogle candles fell to the ground, but never burned anything else or went out. Aki was after the fire element, going for a horizontal slice. The girl just stood there, same place as before, and let another fire wall form. From behind the wall came a creature, one of mammoth size. Aki stopped and looked up. "Kokoro!" She started to yell, then pointed at the monster that was coming down for a landing. "What the hell is that?!"

"That's..." Kokoro got up and examined the creature, it was amazing. "Ifrit! Ifrit from Final Fantasy Ten!"

"Great..." Aki was ready to try and take on this big monster, but Kokoro got up and stood in between the beast and Aki. "Hey!"

"What do I need to do?!" Kokoro yelled. "Is it just to free your sisters? Trust me they joined on their own free will. Is it to die? I just won't do that!"

Ivory was standing on the side, not wanting to fight. "We just... want to feel together again." She said. "Kaguya and Kokoro promised me that we would be whole again if we did this, that is why I helped..."

"Whole? You can be whole..." Kokoro started over to Ivory, she then stopped when the girl began to glow, she was scared. "We don't need to fight like this... to find out if I am your so called master or if I'm a no good girl from high school. All that matters is that you can still be with them, trust me." She held out her hand. "Please?"

"Why should we trust you?!" The element Kokoro yelled, the dark shadow now standing behind the little Kokoro. "Every other elemenalist tried to trick us like this, what makes you any different?!"

She turned to her little counterpart. They were so alike it was starting to scare her. "Because, I'm not like the others." No one answered to this, but Kokoro felt a burning start in her chest. "Wha-?"

"No way..." Kaguya, the fire element, started to glow red. "If we can't win the fair way... we'll burn you too!"

Kokoro started to feel hot and dizzy, like she had been in a hot desert for days. Aki apprently felt it too, using her rune blade to hold herself up. Kokoro looked back at Aki, and Aki nodded to Kokoro. Both got up and went after Ivory, the one unlocking the hearts. A shadow Kokoro stopped the real one by pushing her to the ground, the dark imitation of a blade on her neck, while Ifrit stopped Aki. Kokoro looked at her shadow's large yellow eyes. "Why can't you use them?" The younger Kokoro started to interrogate her. The burning felt more and more intense. "Why are you holding back? We're not using our power wild and only one guardian is out... where are the keyblades Kokoro?!"

"So... Sora..." Kokoro whispered, the heat got to her.


Sora was in a cold sweat and breathing hard, he had his eyes closed in pain as the guardians looked over the three. "Ko...Kokoro..." He whispered. Pandora smiled as she glanced at him.
"Sora... Sora!" Kokoro yelled out, the heat vanishing and two lights forming, one in each hand.
"Kokoro... Kokoro..." He kept repeating. The heat slowly went away, a light forming in his right hand. "Kokoro!" He shot up, as if from a dream.
"Sora!" Kokoro let the keyblades materialize, then stabbed them both into the replica. It vanished and Kokoro stood up, a new determination on her eyes. Ivory took a step back, her powers repelling with such force was felt hard. Kaguya stared in shock while Kokoro growled. "I... will... protect..." She gripped the daggers tightly.

"The ones I care for!" Sora came running out of the building, Kingdom Key in hand. both stood side by side. "We won't let you hurt any more people."

"We'll make sure you're stopped!" Kokoro finished.

The three elements looked in fear, had they been beaten by the elemenalist?

"If you want a fight... you got it." Little Kokoro growled. The three girls stood ready, Ifrit with them, and Sora stood with Kokoro. Aki grinned, it looks like she finally overcame her emotional block for the keyblades, and for the elements. Aki could tell, this was what Kokoro was good at. The barrier was broken and she was ready to take on all three elements at once, she could probably take on anything right now and have no problem winning.


So, what did you think? I thought it was alright... okay. Again, not the best of chapters. I promise to get better stuff up! Promise promise! n.n

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-Kokoro

((PS, thanks SO much for keeping up THIS far! I know, it's long. Did you know this is only part one of a 3 part series? The Kokoro Trilogy! Strange huh? XD))