True Memories
Sora ran through the jungles as the storm continued to get worse. Trees were getting ripped through the roots. The sky was darkening up as lighting perpitured the clouds.
How did everything go completely to chaos. Everything with Riku seemed fine this afternoon. They are. Though then he remembered, he had seemed a bit paranoid. Was this all part of his plan? Kidnap Namine, but what does that have to do with the door. He was definitely a bit obsessed with that door, again though to go this far, and kidnap Namine...It was pure madness. Everything about what was happening right now didn't feel real. None of it felt natural to him.
Sora didn't think much of it longer, he clenched fists as he picked up his speed. Namine was the only thing that mattered right now. He made a promise to protect her, and today was the day he was going to keep that promise. His head was pounding more and more as he ran, the pain becoming too much yet he still managed to push himself, even if it was slowly killing him inside. He wasn't about to give up. He kept on running until he felt himself getting pulled aside, falling to the ground until he saw Kairi face staring over him.
"Sora! Sora wait!" Kairi called out, but he didn't listen, his mind was focused right now on finding Namine.
"What!" Sora yelled, getting annoyed.
Kairi sighed helping him up, "Sora...Stop! There is something going on here and rushing into things isn't going to help anything"
"Are you kidding" Sora got up looking exhausted, "Look, you just got here, so you really have no right to tell me what to do right now. If you didn't notice my best friend has kidnapped Namine and might hurt her"
"Yes! And doesn't that seems strange, he is your friend and all of a sudden he wants to hurt another one of your friends. I might not know Riku but that couldn't be someone you know for so long"
Sora took a moment to think and she did have a point.
"Sora, don't you think, maybe, maybe there is a bigger reason for this"
Sora kept thinking but his mind kept going back to Namine, he scowled, "No! Doesn't matter, Namine is in trouble and that is what matters, nothing else does"
"Why is Namine so important?" Kairi asked, "I mean, I get it, she's your girlfriend, but you seem a bit obsessed with her"
"Because she's the only thing that matters to Kairi. No one else, not Riku, not you, nothing...Just Namine"
"Really…" Kairi eyes narrowed, "You don't seem like someone who would think that, your heart seems big enough for others"
Sora wanted to rebuttal but he was getting tired of arguing, "Let me go! I gotta do this!"
Turning back he kept up the pace, he was going to find Namine and protect her, even if that meant he would have to fight Riku to do so.
Sora kept on running as fast as he could until finally he found him. Riku. Standing in the middle of a small Island looking out onto the ocean. Namine was with him, just standing there, looking horrified. The darkness around them is getting more wild, the destruction increasing.
Rage grew inside Sora, now, if he hurt her in any way.
"Riku!" Sora shouted as she crossed the bridge, "Face me!"
Riku turned around to look at him, a wicked grin on his face as his eye looked dull, "Sora! You finally made it"
"Riku!" Sora's Keyblade emerged in his hand, he didn't even know what it was, but he was ready to attack him with it, "Don't hurt Namine"
"Sorry Sora, but I have too" Riku snickered, "She's the Key to all of it"
"The key to what?"
"Freedom!" Riku declared, "Free from this pathetic Island and for me to see the worlds"
"By doing this!" Sora shouted back, "Your gonna hurt someone and destroy our home just to go and see other worlds"
Riku summoned a sharp sword and pointed it towards him, "Sometimes you have to do what's necessary to get what you want"
"I'll stop you!"
Without a moment's hesitation Sora struck while the clad was hot. He charged forwards striking Riku who blocked with his sword. The two clashed with one another, each trying to knock the other's weapon clear out from under their hand. Both were quite angletic and agile as they fought tooth and nail. Each not willing to stand down, and both had a lot of energy left in them.
Sora attacks were frantic, working on nothing but pure adrenaline at this point. He would not let Riku hurt Namine no matter what the cost. Yet as he kept his attacks something in the back of his mind was holding him back, as if telling him what he was doing was wrong. Though that couldn't be right, he was hurting his friend and destroying his home.
Riku was the enemy and had to go.
Riku for his part though wasn't showing any constraint, he was going full on, leaping into the air to try and strike Sora from above while just trying to knock him down and push him over the ledge. He had a wild look in his eye, determined to free himself from the Island. How could anyone do such things though just to go to another world.
It made Riku a monster, a real villain.
"Sorry Sora" Riku shouted, lunging forward almost hitting him "But I can't let you get in the way of my freedom". He turned to point his sword at Namine
Sora scowled, the angry now becoming excessive "No...You won't hurt Namine!" the key's energy began to charge and fire, striking Riku and knocking him down now.
"It's over Riku" Sora slowly walked up to him placing his Keyblade right on his neck, "You aren't hurting Namine"
"You'll have to take me out if you wanna protect her"
Sora glared at him, "Fine…" he didn't move, keeping his key right at him, despite his desire to protect Namine, something was holding him back.
"Well, well, well...This is a simple answer" Sora turned to see Bill walking up toward him, when he did he get here, something was weird about his Eye, it was glowing yellow, yet it didn't seem to register, "Memory is a hard thing isn't to know that this kid is the reason this Island is going to get destroyed, and was going to hurt Namine, guess you'll have to get rid of him. Then you and Namine can be together forever"
"Y-yeah, he tried to h-hurt AND-Namine" Sora muttered, he began to raise his key.
"Every hero, must destroy his villain, and do what is necessary" Bill spoke in his ear now, his wide smile growing as he stared into Sora with his glowing eye, "Give into your heart kid, let go, finally just listen to it and embrace yourself and what that Key can do"
Sora tightened the grip on his key a bit more, "I-I don't know, s-something feels wrong"
"What can feel wrong? He tried to hurt Namine" Bill said, sounding frustrated, "He tried to hurt your friend? And isn't your friend you're power right? Well defend your power and get rid of the thing that's trying to hinder it, then the two of you can see the worlds, explore, no sacrifice no nothing"
"I-Uh-"
"Sora stop!" Again looking behind him Kairi arrived now, appearing in a ball of light, "This isn't right , these aren't the real memories, there fake"
Sora blinked, "F-Fake"
"Oh please you just met her like what twenty four horus ago, why believe someone like that" Bill stepped in front of thee two of them now, "Now come on kid, get rid of the person whose trying to destroy the center of your heart and be the hero you've always wanted to be"
Sora looked at Riku?" Why! Did you really want freedom that badly to do this"
"T-This…" Riku coughed looking nervous, "This Island is too small"
"Come on kid!" Bill shouted getting angry, "Get rid of him, strike him down, take out his heart, he is your villain"
"No he's-" Kairi mouth was covered by something.
Sora wasn't looking instead of looking at Riku, raising his hand, about to strike.
"He's your friend!" Namine shouted now, and then like that everything changed, Sora felt his anger subside, "These memories aren't true"
Sora blinked unsure what to do, "W-What?"
"He's your friend" Namine cried, "I'm sorry, all of this, all of this is fake...It's not real"
"That wasn't the real Riku" Namine said, voice shaking, "It was a replica, a fake...It's not real".
"Fake?" Sora said.
The words repeating themselves in there head
"I-I don't understand"
"It means this is all a memory," Namine spoke much to everyone's surprise, "Even me?"
"Y-you?" Sora brain was becoming more and more scattered, "Okay, this makes no sense"
"This is all inside your head Sora, a memory, or a false memory," Namine explained speaking calmly, "I nearly played a part that your heart designated for me. The deepest most untouchable part of your heart, that part that will always...always be for Kairi"
Sora blinked, turning to Namine "But…
"It's true, this memory isn't real...Kairi though, she is….
"Also your friend" Namine continued.
Sora looked to Kairi who mouth was covered by blue flame before becoming free and running off to join his side, "It's true" Kairi said, "It's not a real memory...But I'm part of that memory though, it's a bit weird, but just...It's true".
"So...Your part of my real memory?" Sora asked looking at his blade now, "K-Keyblade" he muttered.
"Yes, the Keybalde" Namine responded.
Sora looked at Kairi again and began to walk up to her. Something about all of this felt very right. It was the same feeling he had about Namine, however that inkling of uncertainty was gone. This was assured, this was true. He had no hesitation whatsoever.
"K-Kairi" Sora says with a shaking voice.
She giggles, "Hey Sora, remember me now"
Sora just looked into her eyes, he wanted to get in a bit closer, to feel her warm embrace.
Until.
"AGH! Can't you be any more cliches! The hero forgives...Of course, why not! Because she said sorry!" Sora turned to see Bill, still in a human form, but his eye was now glowing a dark red, in fact he had a red aura about him, before returning to normal, "But what should I expect, you are the hero, they don't really do anything originally. Honestly if you weren't so close on biting it, I actually wonder how far I could push things before someone like myself would push you over the edge to do me in? Oh well, one life's great mysteries"
Sora felt his head clench again, Bill's eyes glowed yellow, "Agh...C-Cipher! W-what are you, I thought...I thought you wanted to help me"
"I did...I protected Namine, those nasty nobodies were gonna hurt her so I got rid of them...She seemed really happy about it. Sang a song and everything, really you missed a good number" Bill said as he approached Sora, keeping Kairi and Namine away from his power, "I wanted to help more, I really did...I really wanted to see though how far you would go...No kid heart can be this pure, !"
Sora was on his knees and Bill joined him, "What do you want...Why did you even come to me then"
"I wanted to understand how a no-nothing kid gets the most powerful weapon in the universe and goes on the grand adventure of a lifetime...It's weird honestly, here I a demon who is all powerful and what do I get. Buckets, just stuck in a dimension with nothing to do but plot my escape" Bill anger receded for a moment as he smirked again, "But...Guess some mysterious are just that, mysteries, no answers...So now...I'm gonna get the next best thing, I'm gonna break free of my own chains, and FINALLY be a part of the story"
With a snap of his fingers Sora blacked out as the card in his pocket began to glow.
"And honestly...Taking your body is just way easier a goal then a big philosophical triumph at the end of the day. More tangible".
With one last laugh Bill snapped his finger
All went to darkness.
Darkness.
-000-
Sora saw nothing but darkness as he slowly walked in the middle of a void. However, that would soon disperse as it was surrounded by blue flame. Horrible blue flame surrounded him encircling him. It terrified him, he never felt so alone in this dark void. He wanted to just give in, make the fear go away, make the flashes in his mind go away as well. As his eyes began to fix in his situation he found his ability to move once again.
Looking down he found himself standing on a glass shard, like the one he had in his dreams so very long ago. This time though the image was not of some mysterious maiden from a time long ago. It was of him. He was on it, so was Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, an image of his Keyblade. Everything. All of these things representing him in some form or another.
"The heart shairs all as they say" Came a high pitched voice, their laughter echoing around them.
Bill Cipher emerged in full demon Triangle form now, floating above Sora, his laughter echoing all around him now.
With a sudden flick Sora's memories start spinning. Images of a battle in the web of darkness. Kairi, that girl, she is there as well. Or was it Namine, no it was Kairi, no Namine, he doesn't know. Xehanort yes, he recognizes him. The evil fiend who tried to bring all the worlds to chaos. He remembered the door to Kingdom Hearts opening and then ...Then….
"My head!" Sora clenched his forehead in pain, as other images appeared.
"Oh I can only imagine, in fact I can because I can see inside it" Bill cackled slowly walking up to Sora, a look of pure sadistic glee plastered onto his face. "Nothing more painful though then memory isn't there. Like the body? Namine put so much work into it that I just had to keep it for this moment, plus you know, I think it makes our interactions personal don't you think. You may not think it now kid, but in the end your memories are going to do you in, and that happy go lucky demeanor of yours will crash and burn by the wayside as the inevitable weight of heroism sinks in and crushes your sanity".
Sora turned to look at Bill again, as the demon just stood above him, smiling, "Why?" he asked, "Why are you even doing all of this? Just let me go back?"
Bill shook his head and frowned, "Oh Sora, Sora, So-ra! Why on earth do you want to go back? To those painful and pointless memories. All the pain and suffering that the real world would cause, instead why not just let go, and let me do all the thinking for us" he got down on his knees to look at Sora now, he almost seemed sad, if it weren't for his quick turn to a sadistic grin, "Memories are treacherous things at the end of the day, they bring nothing but pain and suffering, especially if those are the only things you can remember. Or worse! All your memories are nothing more than mundane and boring events that have little to no impact on anything and everyone. Essentially when your memories are like your life...normal"
"Not every memory is bad, not even the normal boring ones" Sora said, still feeling weak, still he tried to stand, facing Cipher with all his might, "Yeah, some bad stuff happened during my first journey, but I'm not gonna let the bad stuff outweigh the good, like my friends" He tried to stand up but couldn't, "My memories, they aren't a weakness they give me strength...My friends are my...Ack!" he felt a sharp pain in his chest, his heart.
"Friends? Really? The two who just used you for that Key, and to find their king. Or Riku the one who turned on you the moment he found something better or Kairi who...Well okay, she was K.O throughout all of it, so really, she was kind useless"
"They weren't useless" Sora muttered still facing Bill, "They were good to me, good to everyone, sometimes we could just bet sitting talking about nothing...and that was enough. That's what having friends is all about, guess that something you wouldn't know about"
Bill cackled, he kept walking closer now until he was practically leaning over Sora, his wide grin showing off every sharp tooth in his mouth "Yeah, some friends kid, oh I want all the good memories of them yeah...Ha!"
"That's it!" Sora yelled, his head still in agony.
"Oh, tough guy! Ha! But seriously this is fun...You've been a ball to mess with, one of the more interesting meat bags I've endured"
Sora scowled at him, trying to get up but still too weak to do anything, "Y-You call this fun" he coughed. He was still so weak, but he wasn't about to let himself get beaten by this monster.
"Oh come on Sora, you are more like me than you care to admit" Bill scoffed, his expression annoyed.
Sora raised an eyebrow, teeth clenching still in pain as he got to his knees, "Like you?"
"Of course...Weird...A follower of your heart, as you would say" Bill pointed to his human chest dramatically, "We embrace what are hearts tell us, and we go forward with it, without a moment's hesitation"
"I embrace my heart yeah but I'm going to hurt anyone because of it!" Sora shouted as he tried to stand but fell back again.
Bill laughed, "That is our one difference...You hold back...But I know tonight that you can be pushed...Shame I couldn't get you to do, but having your body and that Key is more than a good enough consolation prize"
Bill began to walk away, a certain spring in his step as he watched the world around him become more and more chaotic. The glass mantel which they were standing on started to crack a bit as blue flames engulfed the opening areas. Sora just looked shocked and horrified as more and more. However Sora wasn't about to let this demon win. He would still remain strong. Sora was not about to give this demon the satisfaction of winning, of taking his heart and his memories from him.
Sora got to his knee looking at him, face stretched in pain, "W-Why?"
Bill let out a soft chuckle dand just shook his head, "Man you are funny kid, I love that about you, I really did think you had it in you! So close...So close to becoming like me, and yet, you just didn't have it in you...Of course maybe that was more the interference from others so...I may still be right. Oh well, will never know. Time for my plan B"
"Plan B?"
"Yep Plan B" Bill sounded excited, "Use the fact that your memories have been so damaged that I can slip through the cracks take over your heart and become you"
"B-Become me!" Sora asked looking shocked, "Why would you-"
Bill grew taller growing in red flame, "BECAUSE I AM TIRED OF WATCHING FROM THE SIDELINES AS THINGS PASS ME BY! NO MORE! I'M BECOMING PART OF THIS STORY! SOMETHING GRAND IS HAPPENING IN THE UNIVERSE AND I'M GONNA BE PART OF IT!"
"But why me? Why take over my body" Sora asked, his Keyblade appearing yet he was too weak to use it, all he did was use the blade as a crutch
"Oh well that's easy" Bill returned to normal now, and then he turned into his human form to get closer to Sora , getting on his knees and tapping his Keyblade, "That! I want that! Your Keyblade, the most powerful weapon in the universe, and it being in my hands well...Boy, will I be able to paint the world red! HA!"
"But...the world order?" Sora remembered that most important part of Keyblade master.
Bill scoffed, "like you've ever cared about that, you've interfered like every master that came before you, at least I'll be doing these places a favor. Ridding them of everything dull and mundane, freeing them from the chains that bind them. Rules and the lies society has put of them"
"You'll never!" Sora head started to spin now, "My head"
"Oh kid I already am…." Bill returned back to his demon form now. "Again kid...It's a shame...You were like me...Weird". he laughed, that twisted look if his returning, a passion in his eye, "Weird enough to want to see the worlds for the sake of it, but not weird enough to realize just pathetic and pointless it all is"
Sora just glared at Bill, his breathing was heavy as he tried to speak, raising his head, he looked straight into his head and said, "Your ...Not...Weird"
Bill turned around his eyes glowing red in anger, "SAY THAT AGAIN!" a red flame engulfed him for a moment before he returned normal.
"What you're doing isn't weird, what you're doing is just...wrong" Sora slowly got up, still weak, and muffled but standing nonetheless, "Doesn't make you weird, it's just makes you the bad guy"
"Yeah...I'm the bad guy, it's what i'm supposed to do….Didn't you have villains to fight and challenge you during your first big adventure" Bill said looking almost confused, Sora continued to stand in front of him still looking defiant, "Wasn't that the point of Riku turning on you, your enemy who stood against what you were doing. Didn't even Maleficent and Xehanort give you a challenge. At least I'm giving you a lesson in showing you a bit of yourself".
Sora shook his head, "Riku is still my friend, he was just...misguided. As for the other too...I still beat them didn't I. Also...The worlds aren't mundane, they are special...unique...and filled with unique people who are just as weird and interesting as anyone else".
Bill stuck out his tongue and looked exhausted, "Ugh...Such a bleeding heart, no wonder it was so easy for me to defeat you, you haven't really had a proper challenge. Shame... I was hoping for a pro, when in reality I got myself a noob. Oh well...Soon I'll have that Key, and the power to free the worlds from the shackles of pathetic mundane, it will be fun!"
Sora could feel himself being consumed by Cipher, as a million other images that he didn't even know come flashing into him. Madness, angery, insanity, all of it...it felt horrible. None of it made any sense, it all seemed weird, as if there was no constant, just an infinity of different things all happening at once.
Bill just continued to smile. "Though to be trueful kid, watching you lose EVERYTHING after being the great hero, has been the most entertaining thing I've ever seen. It's your second great quest...and you LOST...And the best part is you lost TO ME! Boy is my reputation gonna get back to the tippy top again after this"
With the last bit of energy Sora fell to the ground, he felt lost and confused, all he could see were the images and he couldn't think of anything. He tried to think, some center point, some sorta thing to cling onto.
Someone.
Anyone.
"M-mama" Sora muttered feeling scared and alone.
He took a deep breath, wanting to block out everything but the darkness and create quite in his mind, before he spoke again.
Sora
Mama, I could use some help here
Tired of talking to myself here
Back out there , you don't exist
So here I am in the abyss
Are you really in this place?
It's like the emptiness of space
I could search for all eternity
And never see your face
Help me out
I'm lost without you
Standing
Stuck on this impossible road
No idea which way to go
Whichever path I choose
I lose, you know
And I don't know which way's home
Oohhh
I don't know which way's home
Oooohhh
You always saw life as a game
But since I left, it sucks to play
I'm beaten up and bruised
Confused by rules that alter every day
Where to next?
I left but I'm still standing
Spinning on this infinite road
Terrified of letting you go
No light above and there's no hope below
And I don't know which way's home
Mom, I've got my heart in my hand
Speak to me and I'll understand
One little word to know I'm not alone
And show me the way back home
Oohh
Is there a way back home?
Ooohhhh
The nothingness ahead of me
Is this the end you meant for me?
Every living minute
There's no home without you in it
I'm falling
Quit stalling
Your Son is calling your name
I've burned all my bridges and came
Sora tried to remember something, anything, if not of his friends, then maybe of his mother. The good times. Memories were after all something that never truly went away right? He had to believe that. If they were there then perhaps some of it had to be real. Something had to be real and he tried to remember deep down what those things were...If anything.
He didn't care about the flames that grew, he just wanted to be home.
Flashes of memory came to him now, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Leon, Yuffie, Aeirth, Dipper, Mable, Star, Marco, friends and companions he had met. The worlds, Agrabah, Wonderland, it came and went, came and went, Namine, Kairi, his mother. Everything was swirling around him, but still those who stayed true remained in his head. It was still very confusing, yet deep down part of him knew something had to be real.
"M-Mama" Sora said again looking out trying to find a light, "I-I hope that the fake memories are just that, fake memories...But, but I'm not going to forget you, you Kairi, Riku, Donald, Goofy ...No…
Bill laughed a bit nervously now, something was going wrong, "Eh...Kid...What's going on here ...I'm trying to control your body, get out of your head"
"Cipher" Sora realized what was happening, "See Cipher, you can get in my head...It's protected"
Bill let out a frustrated growl. "Protected, like what a password or something"
"No!" Sora said standing strong, "I can't forget those important...Never truly!"
A light began to emanate in the darkness, the empty void which Sora stood before was starting to transform, turning into a glass mural of some sorts. It had an image of Sora on it, but of others as well. It glowed bright, dissipating the blue flames.
"Heh...woah, woah, woah" Bill was entering into a panic "…..what's going on here ...I didn't call for this...Hello! A little help here...Wait...Wait!""
I'm gonna go back home
Donald, Goofy Riku my pad
It's messy but they're all that I have
I'll make the best of being flesh and bone
Mama, I'm coming home
Yeah
Mama, I'm coming home
Home
I'm going home!
Mama, I'm coming home!
Sora Keyblade appeared and he fight it at the flames!
The light now reached its peak!
"Hey wait...What the …..NO!"
-000-
Sora slowly began to awake the coldness leaving him. He heard a harsh wind and the sky above him still swirled though as two shadows began to hover over him. The sky had darkened as everything looked like it had been engulfed in chaos. However his mind began to work around what had happened, as things slowly started to come back to him, the obviousness all leaving.
"Wake up you lazy bum" He heard Kairi say.
Sora blined a few more times and saw Kairi standing over him. He was back on the Island now. No longer in that weird dark void from earlier. Carefully he stood up now, still a bit woozy from what happened. Though the two girls were there to help him stand though. He saw Riku, or perhaps a fake Riku lying on the ground unconscious.
Everything started to come back to him, what had happened back in his heart. What Bill Cipher had tried to do, and more importantly what Namine had said to him. Since he wasn't a evil traingle demon that must have meant everything had turned out okay. Kairi and Namine stood by his side making sure that he was okay
"W-What happened?" Sora said, looking around. "W-Were's Cipher?"
The sound of coughing rang in his ear as he saw Bill back in his human persona crawling on all fours trying to regain his strength, "Ugh...Bleeding heart…." He looked up at Sora angrily, "Can't you just admit we're the same...Weird and above the mundane and boringness of everything else"
Sora glared at him for a moment and walked up to Bill standing over him now, "I may be weird, but I don't mind the mundane and boring...If it means people like Riku and Kairi by my side then I'd embrace it any day" He turned around to face Kairi who smiled.
"Whatever, besides you treat me like the villain when in reality it was all her" Bill pointed to Namine who looked down at shame, "It was her idea you know to create this little facade, she almost took over your mind and turned you into something...unpleasant"
Sora looked at Namine, she seemed to clench herself, her face riddled with guilt. He felt sorry for her, but didn't know exactly if he completely forgave her or not yet. Bill slowly chuckled as he got back up using his cane to balance himself out.
"See," Bill snickered, "Guilty, and they say I was the villain of this story"
Sora was confused, "Well, at least she feels bad, I can't say the same about you"
"You really are a big hearted kid aren't you" Bill sneered, "Then I guess you need a better villain to give you a challenge"
Bill transformed himself back into a triangle.
The yellow from Bill's color vanished and instead was replaced by blood red. He started to grow bigger and bigger. Sora, Kairi and Namine all huddled together knowing that this was going to happen. The Demon triangle was now at full height and power as it emanated from his hands. Sora had the Keyblade but he felt too weak to do anything about it
He loomed large over all of them now, Bill's power causing the sky to crackle with lighting, becoming a sea of chaos.
"I'll stop you!" Sora shouted, keyblade at the ready.
Without warning Bill scopped Sora up and began to clench his fist feeling his bones getting crushed by the shier ferocity of the demon triangle, as he floated a bit high up into the sky.
"SORA!" Namine and Kairi yelled.
"Sorry girls, but me and the kid gotta have a little talk!" Bill floated into the sky as they both floated over the Island, "Now time for me to break, EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY!"
Sora was near his eye now as the two just looked at one another.
"Ha! This is pathetic, the Keyblade picked a real loser" Bill was now unleashing all his power that he could upon them
Sora scoffed "Heh! Like the Keybalde would ever choose a demon like you...Keyblades are good"
Bill just laughed as he put Sora closer so that he was staring at him right in the eye, "Then you don't know anything about Keyblades then, or did fighting Xehanort not get you to figure it out. He was a Keyblade Master too you know after all...So morality doesn't always remain a factor".
Sora gasped for air, "Y-You won't"
"Oh please spare me the heroics kid," Bill tightened his hand a bit more, but kept it loose enough so he was still conscious, "You should be thanking me kid, going through your memories I can see you are destined for a breakdown. Being a hero at the end of the day is never as it's cracked up to be. Even if you defeat you you'll probably end up falling by the weight of the pressure of it all. Giving in to your own madness….I can see it….The edge of their kid inside you … I'm just honestly no longer interested in seeing it at the moment"
Bill clenched his fist even tighter now as Sora could feel his body start to get crushed from the weight.
"You probably could have been a bigger threat than me if you ever tried" Bill gripper tighen more, "But I don't care to find out! I'm tired and bored and it's time for me to finally gain my wings and fly out of these chains that keep me down"
It was then that Sora thought this would be the end. To be crushed to death, perhaps he didn't live up to his heroic reputation as he himself had thought. Perhaps now the end would be near, perhaps now he would fall to darkness.
Except, he didn't ...If anything ...If anything the grip lostened.
"H-Hey! HEY! What's going on!" The light continued to grow around Cipher, he looked scared, something was definitely not going according to plan.
Sora opened his eyes and Bill sounded out of sorts. He saw Namine of all people concentrating on Cipher, a glow coming from her. She was trying to contain him, he was fighting back. A bright light emanated from her. Kairi was holding her hand too, a light emanating from her as well. Both of them were exhuming a power she had never seen before.
"What are you doing!" Bill fired a ball of blue fire at them and both girls blasted it away in an instant.
"Woah" Sora's eyes widened.
"This is the mind," Namien said, still trying to hold Bill back, "You can do anything here, and right now ...I can do really anything. After all Bill, you taught me".
"Together!" Kairi said, "I might just be a memory, but memory is a powerful thing"
They fired a beam of light on them now, Sora fell onto the ground landing with a thud and he just watched as the two girls went up against Bill.
"W-What is this?" Bill said, throwing his own abilities at them, "I-I never felt this power before!"
Sora blinked, "Amazing"
It was then Sora remembered something he said so long ago. Something that still rang true to this day. His friends were his power, and right now, they were helping him fight against Bill. This demonic being, and the connections were overcoming him. The connections of their hearts.
Sora continued to watch, light and dark blue flames battling each other.
The two built on one another, building and building...the pressure growing until finally…..
The light won out.
"AGH!" Bill screeched as he was blown back being flung into the sky a vortek forming sucking him out the last words from him were, "SO NOT FAIR!"
A bright light consumed them all, and finally, things calmed down.
Slowly the Island began to come back to peace again, the darkness of Bill Cipher slowly dissipating from it. Sora got up, trying to stand. He was a bit achy, though he was able to stand up straight. He was tired though, he felt very tired. It would be nice that soon he could rest and get back to his actual home.
Sora took a minute to wind down, he was aching in pain all over. Cipher had definitely did a number on him. But he couldn't rest for that long, he had a lot of things that still needed to be done. Looking up he saw the two girls who saved his life and gave them a faint smile. Once again this was proof that his friends were definitely his power.
"W-We won," Kairi said, getting to her knees, Namine helping her.
"Kairi!" Sora ran up to help, "You okay?"
"Yeah…" Kairi said taking a deep breath, "Remember, I'm just a memory, not real remember"
Sora smiled, "Your real enough," he looked at Namine now, her eyes darting down to avoid his gaze, "So? Is he gone for good"
"Sadly no," Namine sighed, "Look"
Sora turned to look down on the ground, Bill Cipher, still a triangle but a lot smaller now was lying on the ground, panting. He looked tire and exhausted, one hand on his chest while his arm was on the sand. Though his eye looked up and gave a scowling expression.
Carefully Sora approached him, taking out his Keyblade and pointing it right at his eye.
"You gonna do it?" Bill chuckled, "Come on? You'll make a lot of people happy, ridding me will make you a hero is the eyes of many"
Sora glared at him for a moment but removed his Keyblade, "No...I'm not like you Cipher"
"Oh really…" Bill chuckled lightly, slowly rising to the air, Kairi and Namine ready for more "Sora, Sora, Sora...I'm a really, reeeeeeallly, bad person, the things I've done...Oh, you really, really don't want to know. But the most interesting thing is kid...I see you could be capable of doing awful things as well"
"Never!" Sora hissed, "My friends are my power"
"Well then...I'll guess I'll have to find a way to take away that power and prove to you, that in the end you can be just like me!" Bill slowly began to smile and began to sing in a soft voice.
Will meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
With those last words, he vanished in a puff of blue flame leaving them all in shock and fear.
Silence passed, but Sora wasn't about to let Cipher's threat distract him now, he had bigger issues to deal with at the moment.
Sora looked at Namine now, her eyes darting down to avoid his gaze, "So? Is he gone for good"
Namien shook his head, "No, just gone from your mind, he's back were he belongs though...Hopefully he'll learn to keep to himself next time"
"So, what do we do now?" Sora asked looking at the Riku who was still unconscious, "And what about him?"
"Will take him back with us" Namine said, "And then ...I think we need to talk"
"Yeah, I think we do" Sora now again looked at Kairi "And you?"
Kairi smiled, "Like I said Sora, I'm in your memory, I'm not real...But I think the real one is still waiting for you back come"
"Yeah, she is...Mom…..I'm coming home".