Kingdom Hearts 3.6 Chapter 152:
The Sailor, the Sea and the Ram's Horn 5.
"You would harm my dear city with that conch...give it to me, Orichalcum! only then will I pardon you...I will...SMASH IT TO BITS!" shouts out the now Crow like king before bellowing a loud roar from the depths of his stomach. "Torque...what madness is this? what foul evil has claimed you? …" thinks Oric to himself before replying to the monstrous king: "I cannot, Torque! this conch...is my way home! I cannot give it you!" says Oric before wielding his sword against the king...intending fully to fight back.
"So be it, heathen. Perish...and regret your stay here!" says the king before letting out another bellow. The Darkness had consumed him and his roars were loud enough to call everyone inside the castle towards the library. "This will be bad..." says Oric, tightly clutching the Ram's Horn. "I must settle this before everyone else arrives! therefore-" Oric casts a Shell spell that covers the library entirely, meaning no one could get in...or out.
"I must settle this by restoring Torque's Humanity to him. As king, I cannot allow his vassals to see him like this...or all chaos will break loose." says Orichalcum, setting himself a time limit to defeat the Heartless transformed king with. "Forgive me...king Torque!" says Oric, taking up a battle stance, resembling Riku's.
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Oric begins the battle by directly charging at the king, however. In his new Crow like form did his arms transform into wings and he now had gained the advantage ability of flight. He manages to avoid Oric's forwards slash but because the space of the library is limited, he cannot dodge forever. The king prepares his own attack by spitting sharp, razor blade like feathers from his mouth right at Oric…
Oric jumps up to the second floor of the library and then performs a mid-air combo sequence against the king. The king falls to the ground, unconscious. Oric tries to beseech the king to regain his composure-"Please king Torque! remember who you are!" says Oric…to no avail. The king gets back up, ready to fight once more. "Tch, dang it!" says Oric, cursing the occurrence of the fight itself...and what led to it.
"Did you hear that? it sounds like it's coming from the library..." says a voice outside, fast approaching. "Oh no! they are approaching!" says Oric, realising he has spent enough time fighting instead of ending the conflict. The king though...seems to hear the approaching footsteps...and, acts with haste. He flies to a nearby wall and destroys the bookcase in front with his razor sharp claws for feet. He next uses his beak to destroy the wall behind...flying away elsewhere.
"!? Did he break through my Shell!? … no. That didn't seem to be the case...it is still active. ! Could that mean!? … I MUST find him!" Oric deactivates the spell, deciding to follow after the king whilst the getting was still good. He follows up towards the rooftops of the castle...but not before more Heartless arrive, as a result of the king's transformation.
"! Evil beasts! away with you!" says Oric, fighting his way through the Heartless. Some shock him by merging with the artillery cannons used to suppress invaders. "They can fuse!?" says Oric, unbelieving at this occurrence. Nevertheless, he breaks through the numbers, even with cannon fire from above. He reaches the central roof, confronting the king once more in battle. "Come to your senses, Torque!" says Oric, reasoning with the king still.
"S-S-SILENCE!" the king struggles to speak and then coughs, his feathers ruffling his mouth. "Torque..." Oric sympathises with his friend...but. Not enough to be skewered by him. The king flies away back from the castle slightly...engaging in a full frontal aerial charge that hefty damages Oric. "ARGH!?" says Oric, nearly falling off the side of the roof but managing to grab the side just in the nick of time.
"This is...not good. He made a full spinning motion with that last blow...I'm lucky that his beak isn't as sharp as those claws of his-!?" suddenly, the king appears right above Oric…preparing to bite into him with razor sharp fangs! the fangs take out great chunks of the castle's roof, causing Oric to fall way down below towards the ground. Both he and the king engage in a falling aerial battle, trying to gain the advantage against one another.
"Ugh! you SHALL NOT get the best over me, your majesty!" says Oric whilst the king bellows another roar. They trade blows whilst continuing to fall, as Oric latches on the back of the king and uses his sword to keep the king's fangs in place. "I am sorry. I will have to knock you out if it means making sense to you!" says Oric before punching the king atop his forehead...greatly aggravating him.
The king tries to shrug Oric off of him...until they both roughly land in the plaza of Regnum Stratera. The crater impact causes the surrounding folks and food stallers huge unease, wondering what the heck just appeared crashing down from above. Some even wondered if the Sky was falling on their heads. "W-What was that!? an enemy attack from the outside!?" says one person, followed by another. "N-No, doesn't look like it. Look! isn't that...captain Orichalcum!? whose..." says the other person, trying to make out the debris smoke of the crater whom was with Oric inside...
"!? STOPZA!" shouts out Oric, casting the highest level Time Magic that he could to freeze both everything and especially everyone within the surroundings into check. "LOOK! LOOK KING TORQUE! see them? your subjects! if they see you like this...THEY WILL FEAR YOU! THEY WILL LOSE TRUST-!?" shouts out Oric, trying to hold the king down...until he pierces the former with a razor sharp, left handed claw.
"Silence...SHUT-UP! YOU...YOU HAVE STOLEN MY PRIDE, MY DIGNITY! my honour...my self-esteem. YOU...YOU! YOU HAVE STOLEN IT ALL!" shouts out the king. Becoming a Heartless...his inner jealous nature reveals itself. "! My king...I-AGH!?" Oric is pinned down by the claw whilst the monstrous king gets up off the ground. "I asked you...to help me. Not...to take away my place. What...do I have now? you, Oric. You just have more...more "treasures" from navigating the Star Seas. Whilst I...I? AM LEFT WITH NOTHING!" shouts out the Crow like king...
His words somewhat resonate with Oric, making him realise something. "!? He...he is right. For me, I have just been travelling here and there, making friends the best I could...but...the king? he...he did not have that opportunistic choice. He could not leave the boundaries of his home...whilst I just reaped the bounties of it all. How foolish of me...! is this...is this how the villagers of my island home felt? wanting something...that was always out of their grasp? … I get it now. I see...careless! I was careless...and inconsiderate. They...were only watching out for me. Not wanting to Dream...in fear of being hurt from it being impossible. I was only to obtain what I had gained...from the conch." says Oric, as he looks at the Ram's Horn in hand.
He realises...from one sense, that it truly was a "despicable" means of obtaining something...to obtain a Dream. Realising that the king himself had suffered from a state of powerlessness just like Oric did in the past...Oric also realises that the king did not have the means to amend said powerlessness. But...that does not mean to say he could do naught about it. Realising all of this...Oric takes a tight hold around the claw.
"King Torque...please forgive me. I did not realise...your suffering. It's like that word you called me back earlier...the one I don't know the meaning of. Nomad was it? whatever the case...I am exactly that. If Nomad means fool...then I have only been travelling everywhere, foolishly. Not caring for where I go or whom I meet...how careless I have been! no longer. I won't...hinge myself to the belief that I can go absolutely anywhere. There are some places...even I must dare not think to tread. Which is why..." with a great resolve behind his eyes...Oric…ultimately crushes the Ram's Horn!
This sets the king aback, enough to let go of Oric and then allow him to pin the monstrous formed king down. "Tis a shame...I cannot...go back. Going back home...was my intention. But...for a friend...I will gladly stay here. I will acknowledge my fault of being Greedy...no longer. No longer will I be Greedy...this is my fault...and MY fault, alone. Please forgive me...king Torque." says Oric…a solemn tear falling down his face whilst looking on at the king, trying to savagely escape Oric's grasp...
Although all seemed lost at this point to return the king back to normal...suddenly. A Light emanates from Oric's sword! "W-WHAT!?" he shouts out. "At last...you see the Worlds beyond your borders: that even the universe...has boundaries." says suddenly appearing from out of nowhere...is the both strange and mysterious old man that gave Orichalcum the Ram's Horn conch to begin with. "Y-Y-YOU! it's...YOU!" exclaims Oric, unbelieving at the old man's reappearance like this.
"I have a name, ya know. It is Daedalus, hoh-hoh-hoh!" says the old man lastly, stroking his long white beard and giving out a Doctor Eggman like laugh.
To be Continued.