Shadow Revenge
By:Digitaldreamer
Chapter Thirteen:Essance of Heart
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Me:I think.............I'm going.............to dieeee........
Sora:Why?
Me:BECAUSE I'M NOT A DRAGON!!!
Riku:o.O;;;;
Sora:What the hell?
Me:I wanna be a dragon like Dreamwish...............
All but Autheress:*sweatdrop*
Sora:I tihnk she lost her mind.....
Dreamwish:I would to if I spent all of Sunday doing notihng but reading angst fics, so for the next week or so she will pay no attention to anytihng and be constantly drifting into that angsty little corner of her mind......
All:o.O
Dreamwish:SORA KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKINGA BOUT, HE GETS STUCK THERE ALLLL THE TIME!!!!
Sora:Erm...right....*Shudders*
Dreamwish:Whhhhhhhhhyyyyyy did I have to be created by this freaaaak?
Me:*off in her angsty little world*
All:O.o
Me:*snaps out off it*Oh, erm...hi^^ Better get to those reviews, heh heh^^;;
All:-_-;;; she's lost it....
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Yup, I updated^^ Hmmm..I don't tihnk that's Sora who goes dark, I tihnk, judging by deep dive, that there's normal, nice, perfectly cool Sora, and anotehr evil, dark, Sora. I tihnk taht's how it works, I tihnk all the keyblade masters go eivl counter parts in KH 2, cause they show shots of two Rikus, two Sora's, and One Pissed off Mickey(C'mon, there's no other explanation for the Mickey, except maybe Mickey took up drugs)
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Ok, don't give me ideas about the killing think(j/k)
Thanks a ton for the review^^ I'm glad you liked the fight scenes, they were a pain to wright..........and I though up the world's during history class. Hey, I like to print out fanfics too^^
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Me:*in angsty world again*
Sora:AHEM!
Me:Oh, erm....ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!!!
Warning:Angst, angst, Oh I love it, angst, angst, at the end of this chappie, there's lots of it!
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(Third person P.O.V, I'M FINALLY STICKIN' TO IT!!)
(Oh, and by teh way there are alot of spelling mistakes in this chapter, because it took forever to write so I decided not to proofread it.)
Sora appeared within the central room in a flash of brillant light. Bronze grass was now beneath the fourteen year old, as it was all around him. The boy took this all in, again noticed out of the corner of his eye, Gaia's expression being cold, and slightly ticked. And again, when the keybearer looked up, the face was gone, replaced with sollem joy.
"Good job, keybearer."Gaia said as she watched Sora add the green crystal shard to his weapon, making the wepon now as long as his arm. One forth of a chain made of Crystal hung from the end of the handle of the weapon. Small bumps had appeared where the key part of the blade would soon form.
Sora returned the fairy's expression with one of demand."You said you would tell me more."Was all he said.
"Ah, yes, that. Very well. Long ago, the worlds were connected, back when the light was at the center of the worlds."
"I already know this, Gaia."Sora said, leaning against the trunk of the silver tree. He was suspicous of this so called angelic woman.
"Yes, I know. Well, back when the light first dissappeared, no one dared leave thair homes at night. Because any who did, was destroyed by an unseen force, and thair bodies became of the shadows."
"You mean, the heartless exsisted way back then?"
"Yes, and none could survive the darkness. The heartless got stronger each day. Now, this is a diffrent time, back when heaven was conenctedt o the earth. However, the angels were not paying attention to the worlds, and did not see the darkness devoring thair worlds."
"Now, there was a female dragon named Moonfall. She was known as the best archer in the world. She held a pure white bow, made of angel's tears. One day, it was decided the people should bring the heartless to the angel's attention. However, a talk to the angel's was not to be taken lightly. It was decided that a contest was to be held. The victor would be the one to speak to the angels. Moonfall sawt his, and decided to enter.' For who is better then I?' she thought. When otehrs saw she had entered, they all desparied.'Moonfall is the greatest, and what chance do we have against her?' However, on the last day of entry, a girl entered. Her name was Princess Gaia.."
"You?"
"Yes, now let me finish. She was the fairest in all the land. She could control elements with one wave of her hand. Moonfall had snered at her, and told the princess she had no chance of winning. On the day of the contest, many dropped out one by one, untill the only two left were Moonfall and myself. An archery contest was held to see who was best. Can you geuss who won?"
"Moonfall."Sora answered simply.
"Yes, but it was decided I would be the better representative. Moonfall howled in rage as a crown was placed upon my head. That night, I began my journey to the angels. Moonfall saw this and drew back her bow. 'Princess indeed.' She hissed. Then she released the arrow. It flew, and struck princess Gaia in the heart. The princess gave a shreik of pain, and her brillaint colors vanished, and became a starburst crystal taht floated away. Moonfall gasped. It turned out, Gaia was the embodiment of the essance, the core of the worlds, and Moonfall had killed her. Moonfall looked down at the bow with which she had killed the essance.'Wreched thing!' She cried and destroyed her beloved bow. Then she began to cry. The angels took pity on Me, and made me what you see here. As for Moonfall, the angels madeh er tears into a barrier that held back the darkness for some time. But it faded after many years, and that is where you came in."
"So, you were once the essance, but your not anymore."
"Yes, and I wasn't the true essance. Only you could be accepted fully. Origanally You were ment for this role, as Riku's orginal role was the keybearer, but fate changed things, and now you have accepted the burden of both Keybearer and Essance."
"Ok then, fine. That's all I needed to hear." Sora said cooly. Gaia nodded and opened a rippling gate.
"Water."She said.
"Wait, I can't breathe under water..."I said.
"You can now, as the essance, you can."Gaia said simply."Now go."
Sora nodded and stepped into the gate.
Gaia smirked. "And that was all I needed to hear, essance. You were foolish to take Riku's burden as keybearer, as you will soon see..."
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Sora was now in a huge sea. Sora looked around as many ocean creatures swam around him. The boy could not see the surface, but shimmering light pierced the water anyway. Somewhat fearfully, the boy took a deep creath, releived to find himself not choking on seawater.
"Sora!!!"A vioce quacked.(geuss who?)
"Donald!"The keybearer cried, just as happy.
The Duck grinned. How the heck did he grin with a beak? The autheress is not explaining.
"So, since your the water spirit, you can like, breath underwater, right?"Sora asked.
"Well, yeah."
"Ok then, lets go!"Sora said, and began to swim forwards.
Donald, being spirit, merely drifted through the water, much faster then Sora.
"Your slow."The duck commented.
"Well, your a spirit, you dun' have to actully swim."Was the boy's reply.
The two swam in silence for awhile. And that was ok. When your good friends with someone, you can be quiet and not feel uncomfertable.
"Um...Sora?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being such a pain. I always argued with you, and I kept on being so stubbern."
"Its ok, Donald, I fought back, after all."
"I geuss. I only antedt o make sure you didn't get hurt. You already had enough to deal with thoguh, you didn't always need me on your back."
"Its ok Donald. Your one of the best friends I've ever had, and without you, I wouldn't have had anyone to mess with."
"Yeah.."Just then Donald stopped and frowned(again, how he did so with a beak, I have no clue)"I can't go any further, it's up to you. Good luck, Sora."
"Don't worry Donald."Sora replied with his usual cocky grin. And then he countiued on.
The ocean grew steadly darker as the keybearer swam further, signifying it was deeper. But havinglived on an island and paddled over deep water every day, this really didn't bother the fourteen-year old. He paused, treading water, sensing something was wrong. The water tsirred around Sora in a sudden current, and he turned around fearfully. The water couniued to move, and a silver sream was solidfying. Slowly the stream of sivler became a glimmering water dragon. And explosion of water surged from it and rushed past the keyblade master. It was huge, its head about as big as Riku, and covered in shiny silver blue scales. Spikes adorned its back, and the tail was webbed with translucent skin between barbs. It had two fins near its chest, and a long flowing mane of dark blue. Sora stared as it moved throguh the water with ahrdly a flick of its tail. Sora, on the other hand, was incredibly slow, an alien in this strange world of water, moving clumsily compared to this huge creatrue that slid through the water like it was one with the sea.
The dragon circled it's prey, it's eye's gleaming with impish light. With a roar, it charged at the boy. Sora tried to swim away, but the dragonw as faster, it slammed into the boy, pushing him sevreral feet, though not as far as he would have gone in air. Sora rightened himself and watched the levithan carefully. It was circling again, watching. Sora watched it carefully, and it rushed at him again, but this time he didn't even bother to dodge. At the last minute, Sora stroked up as hard as he could, and the leviathan went under him. The keybearer hastily twirled and grabbed hold of it's slippery mane, Attempting to stab it with the keyblade.However, it's sclaes were to thick, and the serpent easily flung me off. Sora flipped through the water, scowling with frustration. The beast came at him again,and this time got it's target. The dragon's jaws closed around the boy.
Sora cried out in pain as the dragon's teetch dug into his fleash. The pressure on the dragon's jaws increased. Then, Sora summuned his half completed keybalde. With a cry, he drove the Crystal shard into the underside of the dragons neck, then swam away as it convusted with pain. With one last disspairing cry, the dragon vansihed, leaving a blue Crystal in it's place. Sora grabbed the shard, and once again, returned to the center room.
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"Two left Gaia."Sora commented as he stood, dripping wet but oddly enough, not cold. He watched as gold flowers and bronze bushes appeared in the room he was in.
Gaia nodded in satisfaction.Out of the corner of his eye, Sora saw her open a gate, one of pure black. And He saw something else too, her sneering at him. In what? Anger?Sora turned to face her, and only saw the solemn, slightly sad expression she'd had since the beginning. You're imagining things, Sora chided himself mentally.
"Darkness, right?"He asked.
"Yes. The force of death. Not nececarly evil, but it drifts closest to taht otu of the seven elements."
"Well, what will I find there?"
"See for yourself, Keybearer."
Sora rolled his eyes and stepped into the gate.
It was black. Completely black. No light. The only light came from where I stood.
"Hey Sora."A vioce called.
Sora turned to face the vioce, as he had done four times before."Riku!"Sora said, his face filled with delight, as it had when he had first seen Riku at Traverse town so long ago.
"Yeah, Its me. I won't be here for long though, the damn gardien of this realm won't allow it."Riku said, looking quite annoyed at this."The nature of the Guardian here is very different from ones you've faced before. I'm not sure exactly how, but.."Riku trailed off.
"Go on....."Sora said, slightly confused.
"Look Sora. Be careful."
"Don't worry, I will be. I've faced this kind of thing before, it's no diffrent."
Riku grabbed Sora by his shoulders and shoke him."It is too diffirent Sora. The stuff your gonna be facing is beyond everything that you've faced. You tihnk I don't know, I do. I faced the exsact same thing, believe me, it's not gonna be easy."
"Yeah, I know that."
"I don't think you do Sora. You've faced a ton of things, and you've grown alot. Sometime's I can barely reconize you, you've gone from a naive kid to a mature teenager. But it's gonna take more than that. More then the essance too."
"Riku, what are you talking about?" Sora was very confused. His best friend's rambling was confusing him.
"Sora, the darkness your going to face isn't like Ansem was, not just outward. It's an inner battle too. I can't really explain it. And I can't tell you what's going to happen. I know, but I can't tell you."
"Oh.."Sora sighed."So your telling me I'm facing something unbeatable?"
"No no that's not it. The darkness is strong, but your stronger. And there is a way for you to beat it. I failed at doing that, but I know you can. One, never forget what the heart is made up of. Two, never give up, no matter how tempted you are. Three, remember us. Remember your family and your friends. Four, Lucifer dosn't want to necessarily obliterate you. If you can be taken over and used for their purposes, they will do it. He can by force if your not on guard. And lastly, you could destroy every bit of darkness in existence but not stop them. You've got to destroy the source, or we will still lose. That's all I can tell you. Don't ask me to elaborate, because I don't know anything else to elaborate on."Riku finally said.
"Alright. I won't lose, Riku. And Riku?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry you were dragged into this. Maybe if I hadn't been keybearer, none of this would have happened."
'Yeah, and maybe if I had, you wouldn't be in this position, Sora.' Riku thought to himself and turned around so Sora couldn't see the tears welling up in his eyes."Its ok Sora. I don't mind anymore. Like you said, it's all in the past. Now, good luck."With that, Riku dissappeared, and all light disperessed.
Icy fear clutched Sora's heart.He couldn't see a thing. There was just nothingness around the boy. Sora turned in panic, thinking he heard a noise. His heart beat painfully, and his breath came quickly. Sora took a deep breath and forced myself to be calm. He listened, but heard nothing. Panic started to rise, and he forced it down. Sora thought frantically. What was darkness made of? Fear, for one.
Sora gingerly sat down in the darkness. He would be calm, he told himself. If darkness was fear, then he wouldn't be afraid. Then he really did hear noises. Whispers, things moving in the darkness. He wouldn't be afraid. Sora closed my eyes and clenched his fists. For what seemed an eternity, he sat there, a bead of sweat dripping down his face as he forced himself to be calm. The whispering ceased, and he opened his eyes again. It was slightly lighter, the keybearer could actually see himself now.
"Sora....."A vioce wispered.
Sora turned around to see Kairi standing there.
"I thought only Riku could be here."
"Well, I can be here too."The girl replied simpily.
Sora started to walk towards her, then stopped.
"I'm sorry," He said. "But darkness is and element of confusion and deception also. If it really is you, than you understand why I can't trust you, right?" He turned his back to her and didn't move.
"Sora!" she cried, grief straining her voice. "Sora, I need you! Please?" He closed his eyes, trying to ignore the despair in her voice. It was the hardest thing he'd ever done in my life. Eventually she grew quiet, and Sora looked around again. She was gone. A soft laugh echoed around him.
"All right!" Sora shouted, "That's enough! Show yourself!"
He held held the partial keyblade up, searching for something, anything. "Show yourself!!" He demanded.
The darkness seemed to shift, to gather in one spot. A darkness deeper than anything surrounding it, a blob of malicious intent, with a single black eye.
"About time," The keyblade master muttered, and ran towards it. He stopped just short. It hadn't moved an inch. Sora shrugged and stabbed the Keyblade shard into its insubstantial form. It merely faded from view. "Too weird," He muttered, and turned.
It had reappeared behind him. Again Sora heard its soft laughter.
"Oh, so this is not funny now," He growled, leaping into the air. He dove for it, swiping with his blade once, twice, and attacking its single gleaming eye. Once again, it merely faded from view. Sora heard its laughter and turned, seeing it reappear again.
"Okay, why can't I kill you?" The keyblade master demanded.
"And why would I tell you?" it replied.
Sora gasped.
"Wasn't expecting a reply?" The gardien asked in amusement.
Sora growled and shoke his head.
"Well, I'm a bit diffrent from the others, as you may have seen."The eye replied lazily, floating around the boy.
"So how do I kill you?"Sora demanded.
"If I told you, it wouldn't be much of a challenge, now would it?"
"Geuss not.."Sora murmered."But it is possible right."
"Well duh. And to tihnk you humans claim to be the most itelligent species."
"Then fighting isn't how to get it," Sora mused. "What is darkness? Not necessarily evil, but some of the more undesirable emotions. Fear, hatred, envy, greed, bitterness, spite, selfishness, deception, and a bunch of others, but I think I've exhausted my vocabulary."He muttered.
The thing laughed.
"Then let me supply some more. Being judgmental, cruelty, maliciousness, pride, and a bunch others. It takes a long time to list them all. Humanities done a good job thinking them all up."
"Wait a sec......"The keybearer said. "Millions of people have nearly died saving me, because I cared and refused to fight for a cause I knew was wrong. I have always tried to be a good person, to love others." Sora looked up at the dark glob."Well, it's worth a try."He murmered.
"What is?" The gardien demanded.
"I think I've figured it out," Sora said, mere feet from the Guardian. He reached out and touched it with one hand. It hissed and tried to pull away. Sora laughed.
"You can't bear my touch then!" He said, "You are darkness incarnate, and I try to be the opposite of what you are."
It shrieked in fury and tried to flee, but The Essance leaped towards it, falling into the centre of the cloud. An icy cold surrounded him, then a bright light streamed out, and the cloud melted away. He stood, looking around him in astonishment. Black mist now swirled within the keblade, now the key part was nearly all the way formed, and the chain at the end was longer.
"I didn't think that'd actually work," The boy marveled and stood.
He was back in the central room. Sora grinned smugly at Gaia as crystal vines spread up the silver tree. "One more, open the gate"Sora said cooly..
She turned quickly, and her movements were jerky, as if disguising anger. Sora looked at her, considering. Something was up.
"You know, it's kinda odd that you're here," He said idly, watching for her reaction. She didn't reply, but just touched the wall, a gate of white appearing.
"I mean, if the heartless are intelligent, then why do they allow you in their realm?" Sora persisted. "You're opening the gates and all for me, when they could just never allow a way in, and I'd never get the keyblade, and never be able to defeat them. Then they'd have their way. They're making evil take over the world mistake number one, letting someone who knows how to defeat them remain."
Gaia just eyed the boy sternly.
"I held the Essence, in case you forgot. I don't know what you're trying to say, but the Shadows can't touch me. Now, are you going to get the last shard or not?" Sora just smiled and walked past her, into the realm of light.
"You don't trust her, do you?" a voice said.
Sora blinked, adjusting his eyes to the all present brilliance. He turned to the voice and saw a lady, dressed in white, sitting on a gleaming rock of white. Light seemed to stream from her face, and her gaze was serene, her long white hair resting in a gentle wave over her shoulders. Next to her sat Kairi, hand's behind her back.
"Kairi!"Sora said happily.
"Hey Sora."
"How come your sitting next to the gardien?"Sora asked, pulling her away.
Kairi giggled."Sora, she's nice. You didn't REALLY tihnk the gardien of light would be violent, did you?"
"I was told all elements have thair violent side."
"Thats true, but it was Gaia who told you right? And you don't seem to trust her, now do you?" The gardien said cooly.
Sora laughed lightly."No, I geuss not."
Kairi turned to the gardien."Shi'kly, I need to have a word with my friend."
The gardien nodded and faded from view.
"She's nice."Kairi commented.
"Yeah, I guessed. But how am I supposed to get the shard?"
"I don't know. Just follow your heart. You did when you sacrficed yourself to give the princesses hearts back, you did when you fought Riku, you did when you accepted the essance, and you did when you let yourself get killed for us."
"Is there anything else I should know?"
"Not that I know of, I'm only here to see you. You've alway's been my best friend Sora. When I came to that island so many years ago, your the one who befriended me. No one else would want to talk to some strange girl that just appeared one night, but you did.And then you became the keyblade master, and fate stole you away, And you finally came back, only to be stolen by fate again."Kairi said, a tear slipped down her cheek.
Sora embraced the girl."I'll come back to you. I promise. I'm so blessed to have friends like you. And I don't know what I'd have done without you."
Kari smiled as the boy released her."Ok. Sora, never forget about love...."She said softly, and began to vanish.
Sora turned away, and fingered the crystal flower in his pocket. He turned back."Kairi, I-" But she was gone.
The light gardien reappeared, gazing at the boy serenly.
"Ok, so how do I get the shard?"
Her smile vanished. "This is the hardest shard to get," she said softly. "And not because I am hard to fight or anything like that. There is no violence here."
"That tells me nothing," Sora said. "I need the shard, I've got to defeat Lucifer."
"What is light?" she demanded.
Sora thought on that. "It's the good part of life. It's life itself, and hope, love, gentleness, caring, mercy, giving, and everything else that's good."
She walked towards him and looked the keybearer in the eyes. "And how did you defeat the Darkness Guardian?" she questioned.
He was having trouble understand where this was going. "Well, I was the opposite of darkness. I don't claim to be perfect, but enough so that the thing couldn't bear my touch."
She nodded. "You're more light than you think, Sora," she said. "But that is good, modesty is also a virtue of light."
"Is patience?" He qestioned.
"It is."
"Dang," He muttered. "Guess I've fallen short there."
She laughed.
"Very well then, I will hurry up my explanation. Now, I do not have the shard."
"What!?" He said, startled. "If you don't have it, then where is it?"
She turned away from me and didn't reply for a while. "Only a person with a good heart can claim the final shard," she said. "That was not one of the traitors designs, but one of mine. I didn't want the spear to go to one that would be taken over by the Shadows. The traitor is furious at that, of course, but after she spelled me into existence, it was too late."
"What happens after I take the shard?" Sora asked.
"I vanish. But don't be worried," she said hastily. "I'm the embodiment of light, I'll still be around, but not like this."
"Okay then. Now, the shard?"
She nodded. "Yes. You see, the shard is in you," she said, turning to face him again. "You have a good heart, so the shard must come from you. An evil heart would not posses the shard."
Sora paused, taking that in. "I'm confused now," He confessed. "How do I get the shard?"
"Give me the keyblade."
Sora looked at her, then reluctantly handed it over.
"An evil person would be too concerned with self-preservation and would not trust me. Do you?"
"What, trust you?" He asked. "Yeah, of course! I just gave you my spear."
She nodded and looked at the pointed tip. She gently placed it against his chest. "How much do you trust me?" she demanded.
Sora stared at the shaft, feeling the point through his shirt. "You've got to be kidding," he muttered. "This is how you get the shard?I already did this!"
She nodded. "That's why I ask if you trust me."
The keyblade master took a deep breath. "Lying isn't a character of light," He said through gritted teeth. "So, yes, I trust you." And she punched the pointed shaft through his chest. The teenager cried and fell to the ground, feeling a numbing pain spread through him. Sora gasped and stared at the blade shaft, finding it nearly impossible to breath. Shi'kly pulled it up, the point coated with red. There was a flash, and when it faded, the winged haert keychain now completed. The key/blade part of the weapon was now there, a Crystal deviod of color.The Keyblade was complete. Sora's vision seemed to dim, then suddenly all weakness and pain was gone. He sat up slowly, looking at his chest. Not a mark remained.He stared at Shi'kly in disbelief.
Death isn't part of the light element either," she said matter-of-factly. "Take your keyblade, Essence of Heart. You've earned it."
I reached out and grasped it, feeling power run through me.At the key part of the blade, a stream of blue electritty appeared from one end of the blade to the other when Sora held it The light surrounded him, and Sora returned to the centre room.
Sora faced Gaia in triumph. Sjee seemed to flinch away for a second from the keyblade.
"You know, Shi'kly didn't seem to trust you either," Sora mentioned. He then looked around to seet he final additon to the room. He gasped sudden;y as dragon heartless rose from the ground. One pounced upon the boy.
"Of course she didn't trust me."Gaia said, a cold grin appearing on her face.
"You......you were the traitor, weren't you?" Sora demanded, struggling from the grip of the massive dragon."Lucifer possed you.Who else could use magic of all the elements? And who else could handle the keyblade Crystal's safely."
Gaia smirked and her buety melted away.Her shining skin was replaced with long gone fleash, her bones shinging through her ivory skin. Her clothes became ragged and torn, and her skelton was visable. She no longer reseambled anytihng alive.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss Keybeareeeeeer.."She hissed, her vioce now reselmbling a snakes. "And nooow...you will make a far more powerful tool, esssssspecially with the keyblade...." She grinned, showing fangs.
Sora smriked."No, I don't think so."He growled and kicked teh dragon off of him with inhuman stregth. He held his hand out at the dragon and iwth a motion his eyes glowed and the dragonw as lifted into the air. The beast cried out as it was thrown against the wall and deminished.
Sora looked at Gaia."You're next, traitor."He said coldly.
Gaia growled and usmmuned a black crystal bladei nto her hands. She sent a blast o dark energy at the boy. He blew it off with a wave of his hand. Then the girl charged at him. Sora sidestepepd and she turned at the last second and delivered a side blow. Sora hissed in pain and slashed his keyblade at Gaia, striking her in the stomach.
The girl cried out in pain as blood gushed from the wound. She held her side and attempted to send a wave of energy at the boy.
Sora merely gestured, and the energy twisted around and struck Gaia. Then Sora began to rise his hand. Gaia rose into the air.
With a growl, Sora began to slowly close his hand into a fist. As her closed his fist tighter, Gaia cried out in pain as she was slowly erased from the very fabrics of reality itself.
"And tell your little friend Lucifer he'll be meeting the same fate...."Sora said with a smirk.
Gaia winced but smirked."No, I don't think so. You can tell him yourself though."
Suddenly Sora's body erupted in black energy. The boy cried out in pain. In his agonized haze, he lost his psycic grip on Gaia, who fell and landed on her feet. Smirking, she walked up to the suffering Keybearer. She grabbed him by teh back of the neck and dug her claws into his fleash, then held him up. She pulled a black collor from her pocket and placed on the keybearer's neck. Sora winced as small needle's came from the tight collor and dug into his fleash.
It was then that Lucifer walked in. "Your lucky I was working with him while he was getting all those shards, outwise, you'd be dead by now, permently erased from the fabrics of reality, almost as if you had never exsisted."He sneered.
"Shut up, I have him now."Gaia chided.
Sora growled."That's what you think!!" He cried and tried send out a shockwave of power. It didn't work."Wha-what?"
"The collor is specially designed by me. It's made to counter all the elements inside of you, making none of them work, therefore you can't use any of the psycic stuff nor magic."Gaia explained, then tightened her grip, causing blood to trickle from where her claws dug into the boy's tanned skin.
Lucifer grinned coldly, revealing vampire-like fangs."Don't worry, we'll remove it, once your mine..."
Sora growled and struggled in Gaia's grip."There's no way you can take me." He said.
Lucifer glared at the boy."And why not?"
"Because you've already tried. You can't without my conceed."
"Tsk, tsk. Malificent couldn't without your conceed. I can, once your weak enough that is. So either give in now, or you'll just have to suffer."
Sora merely countiued to struggle in Gaia's grip. He fixed a glare upon the demon."What make's you think I'd give in?" He demanded.
Lucifer smirked."I geuss you leave me with no other chioce." He reached into his pocket and pulled out....a gun.(wow, there's something you don't see too often in thease kind of stories...)"Gaia, you know what to do."He said simply.
Sora's blood ran cold. Lucifer wasn't just going kill him here was he? That wasn't his style. And besides, Lucifer couldn't use the boy if he was dead....could he?
Lucifer pointed the gun at the boy's forehead. He grinned sadisticly. Then, he brought the barrel down so it faced the boy's side.
BANG!!!
Sora screamed in pain as the white hot bullet tore into his fleash.Tears streamed down his face. If that wasn't bad enough, Lucifer pulled out a knife and stabbed at the area where the bullet had been rocketed into. He dug into the boy's fleash as the keybearer cried out in pain as blood gushed from the wound. Finally Lucifer pulled the bullet out.
Sora's eye's were closed as tears streamed down his face.His breatn came out short and ragged as pain throbbed in his side.
Lucifer laughed coldly."Don't worry boy, we're not done yet." He tossed a dagger to Gaia, who cought it with a sneer. She brought the dagger to the boy's arm and slashed. Blood trickled from the wound.
Lucifer in turn pulled a few nails from his pocket.He slammed each into the boy, and using the hilt of his knife, hammered them into the boys body.
Sora tried to tear away from his two bloodthirsty captors, but found he was too weak from blood loss. Hek new if he passed out, Lucifer would have him. So he fought to stay concious.
After awhile Lucifer brought the bloody knife to his mouth and licked the blood from it."It's over keybearer."He sneered.
Sora coughed up blood and looked the demon in the eyes."No...it's not.......I've fought too hard to let you take control of me now, not when I'm so close to ending this...and maybe making things go back to normal."
"Boy, you've foguht hard, but it ends here. I was origanally sapposed to take over Riku, since he was origanaly the keyblade master. But you took his burden, so now your the one who suffers. Which is fine by me, I get the Essance and the keyblade master."Lucifer said coldly. Then, he summuned a huge amont of energy, and gripped the boy's neck.
Sora cried out in pain, and things began to spin. The spun slower.....slower.......and then Sora's world went black.
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Everyone had been walking around for some time now, just looking for a certine black and silver-haired jerk whose name will not be mentioned for fear Riku will attack the autheress for even mentioning his name.
Goofy was worried, and no longer held his normal goofy expression, but rather held a worried, sad expression. Donald was eqauly worried, but hid it undeth his usual mask of coolness.
Leon and Yuffie were at the back of the group. Leon was entertaining himself by flicking his thumb, and a flame kept on appearing, because he was now the fire gardien.( Gee, never expected Leon to be a pyro) Yuffie just watched Leon's antics.(Watched....more like drooled)
At the front Riku was muttering varius obsanities and stuff about what he was going to do to a certine demon who's name will not be mentioned because if it is Riku was going to attack the authoress for even mentioning his name.
Kairi gentally touched Riku on the shoulder."Riku..calm down..."
Riku spun around, his eyes practicly glowing with rage."No Damnit! We have to find Sora and Beat Lucifer to a bloody pulp!!!"
Kairi blinked."Erm, ok...."
Suddenly, before the six, a gate appeared, it was black, but sparks of energy blasted form it.
Kairi stopped."Maybe we shouldn't go in...."
"Sora's in there."Riku said suddenly.
"How do you know?"Yuffie demanded.
"I just do. You don't have to follow me, but I'm going."
"I'm coming."Leon said.
"Me too."Yuffie said.
"Don't count me out."Donald remarked.
"Garsh, I geuss I'll go too."Geuss who...
Kairi smiled."Let's go."
Riku set a look of determination on his face, and stepped through the portal.
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Everyone gasped at what they saw. They were in what appeared to be space. Everywhere were stars, each repersenting a diffrent world. All over the sky were lines, each a color of an elements. All of thease lines and strands crossed and intersected. At the center of all this was a door on a floating, snowy island.
:"Kingdom Hearts."Riku stated.
"But what are all the lines for?" Kairi asked.
"This isn't Kingdom Hearts liek when I last saw it. I think those strand's are timelines, and reality strands. See, the timelines are each representing a diffrent person, and as the lines interact, so do people's lives. The timeline and reality create the basic structure for all the worlds..."Riku said, not knowing how he knew.
"So, now what? Where's Sora? And Lucifer?" Yuffie asked.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion. A cold chill fell over the group.
"He's here..."Leon muttered as they all turned to face the explosion.
Lucifer floated before them, wearing a smirk as always."Well, well, hello again Riku. As for the rest of you, long time no see."
"Where's Sora?"Leon demanded."What have you done to him?"
Lucifer laughed coldly."Why not ask him yourself?"
There was a flash of raw power, and Sora appeared. But he was diffrent. A dragon tail now hung from his backend, a blade at the end, like a scorpians tail. And Sora's ears were now replaced with longer wolf-like ones.
"Sora!!"Kairi cried.
The boy opened his eyes. They were completely expressionless, and there was no pupil. They were a cold blue.His mouth spred into a cold grin, revealing fangs. The dragon tail flexed, the blade gleaming. Sora held out his arms, and blade's shot from his elbows.
"Sora??"Kairi wispered, fearfully.
The teenager responded with a growl.
"Yes, meet my latest pet."Lucifer said with a cruel laugh."Say hello, Sorie."
"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" The boy screamed. The first part sounded like a dragons roar, but the end sounded like Sora's scream.
"No..."Riku wispered.
Lucifer smirked."He's mine, Riku. You tried to save him, and you failed. It's over." Then he spoke to the monster-keybearer in a way a master would command an attack dog."Sora, Attack!"
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TBC.....
Me: And so ends chapter 13...
Sora:*roars*
All: EEEEEEEPPP!!!*Run*
Me: Next chapter is the final battle, so read and review people, or you will never find out what happens!! At least ten reviews!!
By:Digitaldreamer
Chapter Thirteen:Essance of Heart
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Me:I think.............I'm going.............to dieeee........
Sora:Why?
Me:BECAUSE I'M NOT A DRAGON!!!
Riku:o.O;;;;
Sora:What the hell?
Me:I wanna be a dragon like Dreamwish...............
All but Autheress:*sweatdrop*
Sora:I tihnk she lost her mind.....
Dreamwish:I would to if I spent all of Sunday doing notihng but reading angst fics, so for the next week or so she will pay no attention to anytihng and be constantly drifting into that angsty little corner of her mind......
All:o.O
Dreamwish:SORA KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKINGA BOUT, HE GETS STUCK THERE ALLLL THE TIME!!!!
Sora:Erm...right....*Shudders*
Dreamwish:Whhhhhhhhhyyyyyy did I have to be created by this freaaaak?
Me:*off in her angsty little world*
All:O.o
Me:*snaps out off it*Oh, erm...hi^^ Better get to those reviews, heh heh^^;;
All:-_-;;; she's lost it....
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Me:*in angsty world again*
Sora:AHEM!
Me:Oh, erm....ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!!!
Warning:Angst, angst, Oh I love it, angst, angst, at the end of this chappie, there's lots of it!
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(Third person P.O.V, I'M FINALLY STICKIN' TO IT!!)
(Oh, and by teh way there are alot of spelling mistakes in this chapter, because it took forever to write so I decided not to proofread it.)
Sora appeared within the central room in a flash of brillant light. Bronze grass was now beneath the fourteen year old, as it was all around him. The boy took this all in, again noticed out of the corner of his eye, Gaia's expression being cold, and slightly ticked. And again, when the keybearer looked up, the face was gone, replaced with sollem joy.
"Good job, keybearer."Gaia said as she watched Sora add the green crystal shard to his weapon, making the wepon now as long as his arm. One forth of a chain made of Crystal hung from the end of the handle of the weapon. Small bumps had appeared where the key part of the blade would soon form.
Sora returned the fairy's expression with one of demand."You said you would tell me more."Was all he said.
"Ah, yes, that. Very well. Long ago, the worlds were connected, back when the light was at the center of the worlds."
"I already know this, Gaia."Sora said, leaning against the trunk of the silver tree. He was suspicous of this so called angelic woman.
"Yes, I know. Well, back when the light first dissappeared, no one dared leave thair homes at night. Because any who did, was destroyed by an unseen force, and thair bodies became of the shadows."
"You mean, the heartless exsisted way back then?"
"Yes, and none could survive the darkness. The heartless got stronger each day. Now, this is a diffrent time, back when heaven was conenctedt o the earth. However, the angels were not paying attention to the worlds, and did not see the darkness devoring thair worlds."
"Now, there was a female dragon named Moonfall. She was known as the best archer in the world. She held a pure white bow, made of angel's tears. One day, it was decided the people should bring the heartless to the angel's attention. However, a talk to the angel's was not to be taken lightly. It was decided that a contest was to be held. The victor would be the one to speak to the angels. Moonfall sawt his, and decided to enter.' For who is better then I?' she thought. When otehrs saw she had entered, they all desparied.'Moonfall is the greatest, and what chance do we have against her?' However, on the last day of entry, a girl entered. Her name was Princess Gaia.."
"You?"
"Yes, now let me finish. She was the fairest in all the land. She could control elements with one wave of her hand. Moonfall had snered at her, and told the princess she had no chance of winning. On the day of the contest, many dropped out one by one, untill the only two left were Moonfall and myself. An archery contest was held to see who was best. Can you geuss who won?"
"Moonfall."Sora answered simply.
"Yes, but it was decided I would be the better representative. Moonfall howled in rage as a crown was placed upon my head. That night, I began my journey to the angels. Moonfall saw this and drew back her bow. 'Princess indeed.' She hissed. Then she released the arrow. It flew, and struck princess Gaia in the heart. The princess gave a shreik of pain, and her brillaint colors vanished, and became a starburst crystal taht floated away. Moonfall gasped. It turned out, Gaia was the embodiment of the essance, the core of the worlds, and Moonfall had killed her. Moonfall looked down at the bow with which she had killed the essance.'Wreched thing!' She cried and destroyed her beloved bow. Then she began to cry. The angels took pity on Me, and made me what you see here. As for Moonfall, the angels madeh er tears into a barrier that held back the darkness for some time. But it faded after many years, and that is where you came in."
"So, you were once the essance, but your not anymore."
"Yes, and I wasn't the true essance. Only you could be accepted fully. Origanally You were ment for this role, as Riku's orginal role was the keybearer, but fate changed things, and now you have accepted the burden of both Keybearer and Essance."
"Ok then, fine. That's all I needed to hear." Sora said cooly. Gaia nodded and opened a rippling gate.
"Water."She said.
"Wait, I can't breathe under water..."I said.
"You can now, as the essance, you can."Gaia said simply."Now go."
Sora nodded and stepped into the gate.
Gaia smirked. "And that was all I needed to hear, essance. You were foolish to take Riku's burden as keybearer, as you will soon see..."
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Sora was now in a huge sea. Sora looked around as many ocean creatures swam around him. The boy could not see the surface, but shimmering light pierced the water anyway. Somewhat fearfully, the boy took a deep creath, releived to find himself not choking on seawater.
"Sora!!!"A vioce quacked.(geuss who?)
"Donald!"The keybearer cried, just as happy.
The Duck grinned. How the heck did he grin with a beak? The autheress is not explaining.
"So, since your the water spirit, you can like, breath underwater, right?"Sora asked.
"Well, yeah."
"Ok then, lets go!"Sora said, and began to swim forwards.
Donald, being spirit, merely drifted through the water, much faster then Sora.
"Your slow."The duck commented.
"Well, your a spirit, you dun' have to actully swim."Was the boy's reply.
The two swam in silence for awhile. And that was ok. When your good friends with someone, you can be quiet and not feel uncomfertable.
"Um...Sora?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?"
"For being such a pain. I always argued with you, and I kept on being so stubbern."
"Its ok, Donald, I fought back, after all."
"I geuss. I only antedt o make sure you didn't get hurt. You already had enough to deal with thoguh, you didn't always need me on your back."
"Its ok Donald. Your one of the best friends I've ever had, and without you, I wouldn't have had anyone to mess with."
"Yeah.."Just then Donald stopped and frowned(again, how he did so with a beak, I have no clue)"I can't go any further, it's up to you. Good luck, Sora."
"Don't worry Donald."Sora replied with his usual cocky grin. And then he countiued on.
The ocean grew steadly darker as the keybearer swam further, signifying it was deeper. But havinglived on an island and paddled over deep water every day, this really didn't bother the fourteen-year old. He paused, treading water, sensing something was wrong. The water tsirred around Sora in a sudden current, and he turned around fearfully. The water couniued to move, and a silver sream was solidfying. Slowly the stream of sivler became a glimmering water dragon. And explosion of water surged from it and rushed past the keyblade master. It was huge, its head about as big as Riku, and covered in shiny silver blue scales. Spikes adorned its back, and the tail was webbed with translucent skin between barbs. It had two fins near its chest, and a long flowing mane of dark blue. Sora stared as it moved throguh the water with ahrdly a flick of its tail. Sora, on the other hand, was incredibly slow, an alien in this strange world of water, moving clumsily compared to this huge creatrue that slid through the water like it was one with the sea.
The dragon circled it's prey, it's eye's gleaming with impish light. With a roar, it charged at the boy. Sora tried to swim away, but the dragonw as faster, it slammed into the boy, pushing him sevreral feet, though not as far as he would have gone in air. Sora rightened himself and watched the levithan carefully. It was circling again, watching. Sora watched it carefully, and it rushed at him again, but this time he didn't even bother to dodge. At the last minute, Sora stroked up as hard as he could, and the leviathan went under him. The keybearer hastily twirled and grabbed hold of it's slippery mane, Attempting to stab it with the keyblade.However, it's sclaes were to thick, and the serpent easily flung me off. Sora flipped through the water, scowling with frustration. The beast came at him again,and this time got it's target. The dragon's jaws closed around the boy.
Sora cried out in pain as the dragon's teetch dug into his fleash. The pressure on the dragon's jaws increased. Then, Sora summuned his half completed keybalde. With a cry, he drove the Crystal shard into the underside of the dragons neck, then swam away as it convusted with pain. With one last disspairing cry, the dragon vansihed, leaving a blue Crystal in it's place. Sora grabbed the shard, and once again, returned to the center room.
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"Two left Gaia."Sora commented as he stood, dripping wet but oddly enough, not cold. He watched as gold flowers and bronze bushes appeared in the room he was in.
Gaia nodded in satisfaction.Out of the corner of his eye, Sora saw her open a gate, one of pure black. And He saw something else too, her sneering at him. In what? Anger?Sora turned to face her, and only saw the solemn, slightly sad expression she'd had since the beginning. You're imagining things, Sora chided himself mentally.
"Darkness, right?"He asked.
"Yes. The force of death. Not nececarly evil, but it drifts closest to taht otu of the seven elements."
"Well, what will I find there?"
"See for yourself, Keybearer."
Sora rolled his eyes and stepped into the gate.
It was black. Completely black. No light. The only light came from where I stood.
"Hey Sora."A vioce called.
Sora turned to face the vioce, as he had done four times before."Riku!"Sora said, his face filled with delight, as it had when he had first seen Riku at Traverse town so long ago.
"Yeah, Its me. I won't be here for long though, the damn gardien of this realm won't allow it."Riku said, looking quite annoyed at this."The nature of the Guardian here is very different from ones you've faced before. I'm not sure exactly how, but.."Riku trailed off.
"Go on....."Sora said, slightly confused.
"Look Sora. Be careful."
"Don't worry, I will be. I've faced this kind of thing before, it's no diffrent."
Riku grabbed Sora by his shoulders and shoke him."It is too diffirent Sora. The stuff your gonna be facing is beyond everything that you've faced. You tihnk I don't know, I do. I faced the exsact same thing, believe me, it's not gonna be easy."
"Yeah, I know that."
"I don't think you do Sora. You've faced a ton of things, and you've grown alot. Sometime's I can barely reconize you, you've gone from a naive kid to a mature teenager. But it's gonna take more than that. More then the essance too."
"Riku, what are you talking about?" Sora was very confused. His best friend's rambling was confusing him.
"Sora, the darkness your going to face isn't like Ansem was, not just outward. It's an inner battle too. I can't really explain it. And I can't tell you what's going to happen. I know, but I can't tell you."
"Oh.."Sora sighed."So your telling me I'm facing something unbeatable?"
"No no that's not it. The darkness is strong, but your stronger. And there is a way for you to beat it. I failed at doing that, but I know you can. One, never forget what the heart is made up of. Two, never give up, no matter how tempted you are. Three, remember us. Remember your family and your friends. Four, Lucifer dosn't want to necessarily obliterate you. If you can be taken over and used for their purposes, they will do it. He can by force if your not on guard. And lastly, you could destroy every bit of darkness in existence but not stop them. You've got to destroy the source, or we will still lose. That's all I can tell you. Don't ask me to elaborate, because I don't know anything else to elaborate on."Riku finally said.
"Alright. I won't lose, Riku. And Riku?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry you were dragged into this. Maybe if I hadn't been keybearer, none of this would have happened."
'Yeah, and maybe if I had, you wouldn't be in this position, Sora.' Riku thought to himself and turned around so Sora couldn't see the tears welling up in his eyes."Its ok Sora. I don't mind anymore. Like you said, it's all in the past. Now, good luck."With that, Riku dissappeared, and all light disperessed.
Icy fear clutched Sora's heart.He couldn't see a thing. There was just nothingness around the boy. Sora turned in panic, thinking he heard a noise. His heart beat painfully, and his breath came quickly. Sora took a deep breath and forced myself to be calm. He listened, but heard nothing. Panic started to rise, and he forced it down. Sora thought frantically. What was darkness made of? Fear, for one.
Sora gingerly sat down in the darkness. He would be calm, he told himself. If darkness was fear, then he wouldn't be afraid. Then he really did hear noises. Whispers, things moving in the darkness. He wouldn't be afraid. Sora closed my eyes and clenched his fists. For what seemed an eternity, he sat there, a bead of sweat dripping down his face as he forced himself to be calm. The whispering ceased, and he opened his eyes again. It was slightly lighter, the keybearer could actually see himself now.
"Sora....."A vioce wispered.
Sora turned around to see Kairi standing there.
"I thought only Riku could be here."
"Well, I can be here too."The girl replied simpily.
Sora started to walk towards her, then stopped.
"I'm sorry," He said. "But darkness is and element of confusion and deception also. If it really is you, than you understand why I can't trust you, right?" He turned his back to her and didn't move.
"Sora!" she cried, grief straining her voice. "Sora, I need you! Please?" He closed his eyes, trying to ignore the despair in her voice. It was the hardest thing he'd ever done in my life. Eventually she grew quiet, and Sora looked around again. She was gone. A soft laugh echoed around him.
"All right!" Sora shouted, "That's enough! Show yourself!"
He held held the partial keyblade up, searching for something, anything. "Show yourself!!" He demanded.
The darkness seemed to shift, to gather in one spot. A darkness deeper than anything surrounding it, a blob of malicious intent, with a single black eye.
"About time," The keyblade master muttered, and ran towards it. He stopped just short. It hadn't moved an inch. Sora shrugged and stabbed the Keyblade shard into its insubstantial form. It merely faded from view. "Too weird," He muttered, and turned.
It had reappeared behind him. Again Sora heard its soft laughter.
"Oh, so this is not funny now," He growled, leaping into the air. He dove for it, swiping with his blade once, twice, and attacking its single gleaming eye. Once again, it merely faded from view. Sora heard its laughter and turned, seeing it reappear again.
"Okay, why can't I kill you?" The keyblade master demanded.
"And why would I tell you?" it replied.
Sora gasped.
"Wasn't expecting a reply?" The gardien asked in amusement.
Sora growled and shoke his head.
"Well, I'm a bit diffrent from the others, as you may have seen."The eye replied lazily, floating around the boy.
"So how do I kill you?"Sora demanded.
"If I told you, it wouldn't be much of a challenge, now would it?"
"Geuss not.."Sora murmered."But it is possible right."
"Well duh. And to tihnk you humans claim to be the most itelligent species."
"Then fighting isn't how to get it," Sora mused. "What is darkness? Not necessarily evil, but some of the more undesirable emotions. Fear, hatred, envy, greed, bitterness, spite, selfishness, deception, and a bunch of others, but I think I've exhausted my vocabulary."He muttered.
The thing laughed.
"Then let me supply some more. Being judgmental, cruelty, maliciousness, pride, and a bunch others. It takes a long time to list them all. Humanities done a good job thinking them all up."
"Wait a sec......"The keybearer said. "Millions of people have nearly died saving me, because I cared and refused to fight for a cause I knew was wrong. I have always tried to be a good person, to love others." Sora looked up at the dark glob."Well, it's worth a try."He murmered.
"What is?" The gardien demanded.
"I think I've figured it out," Sora said, mere feet from the Guardian. He reached out and touched it with one hand. It hissed and tried to pull away. Sora laughed.
"You can't bear my touch then!" He said, "You are darkness incarnate, and I try to be the opposite of what you are."
It shrieked in fury and tried to flee, but The Essance leaped towards it, falling into the centre of the cloud. An icy cold surrounded him, then a bright light streamed out, and the cloud melted away. He stood, looking around him in astonishment. Black mist now swirled within the keblade, now the key part was nearly all the way formed, and the chain at the end was longer.
"I didn't think that'd actually work," The boy marveled and stood.
He was back in the central room. Sora grinned smugly at Gaia as crystal vines spread up the silver tree. "One more, open the gate"Sora said cooly..
She turned quickly, and her movements were jerky, as if disguising anger. Sora looked at her, considering. Something was up.
"You know, it's kinda odd that you're here," He said idly, watching for her reaction. She didn't reply, but just touched the wall, a gate of white appearing.
"I mean, if the heartless are intelligent, then why do they allow you in their realm?" Sora persisted. "You're opening the gates and all for me, when they could just never allow a way in, and I'd never get the keyblade, and never be able to defeat them. Then they'd have their way. They're making evil take over the world mistake number one, letting someone who knows how to defeat them remain."
Gaia just eyed the boy sternly.
"I held the Essence, in case you forgot. I don't know what you're trying to say, but the Shadows can't touch me. Now, are you going to get the last shard or not?" Sora just smiled and walked past her, into the realm of light.
"You don't trust her, do you?" a voice said.
Sora blinked, adjusting his eyes to the all present brilliance. He turned to the voice and saw a lady, dressed in white, sitting on a gleaming rock of white. Light seemed to stream from her face, and her gaze was serene, her long white hair resting in a gentle wave over her shoulders. Next to her sat Kairi, hand's behind her back.
"Kairi!"Sora said happily.
"Hey Sora."
"How come your sitting next to the gardien?"Sora asked, pulling her away.
Kairi giggled."Sora, she's nice. You didn't REALLY tihnk the gardien of light would be violent, did you?"
"I was told all elements have thair violent side."
"Thats true, but it was Gaia who told you right? And you don't seem to trust her, now do you?" The gardien said cooly.
Sora laughed lightly."No, I geuss not."
Kairi turned to the gardien."Shi'kly, I need to have a word with my friend."
The gardien nodded and faded from view.
"She's nice."Kairi commented.
"Yeah, I guessed. But how am I supposed to get the shard?"
"I don't know. Just follow your heart. You did when you sacrficed yourself to give the princesses hearts back, you did when you fought Riku, you did when you accepted the essance, and you did when you let yourself get killed for us."
"Is there anything else I should know?"
"Not that I know of, I'm only here to see you. You've alway's been my best friend Sora. When I came to that island so many years ago, your the one who befriended me. No one else would want to talk to some strange girl that just appeared one night, but you did.And then you became the keyblade master, and fate stole you away, And you finally came back, only to be stolen by fate again."Kairi said, a tear slipped down her cheek.
Sora embraced the girl."I'll come back to you. I promise. I'm so blessed to have friends like you. And I don't know what I'd have done without you."
Kari smiled as the boy released her."Ok. Sora, never forget about love...."She said softly, and began to vanish.
Sora turned away, and fingered the crystal flower in his pocket. He turned back."Kairi, I-" But she was gone.
The light gardien reappeared, gazing at the boy serenly.
"Ok, so how do I get the shard?"
Her smile vanished. "This is the hardest shard to get," she said softly. "And not because I am hard to fight or anything like that. There is no violence here."
"That tells me nothing," Sora said. "I need the shard, I've got to defeat Lucifer."
"What is light?" she demanded.
Sora thought on that. "It's the good part of life. It's life itself, and hope, love, gentleness, caring, mercy, giving, and everything else that's good."
She walked towards him and looked the keybearer in the eyes. "And how did you defeat the Darkness Guardian?" she questioned.
He was having trouble understand where this was going. "Well, I was the opposite of darkness. I don't claim to be perfect, but enough so that the thing couldn't bear my touch."
She nodded. "You're more light than you think, Sora," she said. "But that is good, modesty is also a virtue of light."
"Is patience?" He qestioned.
"It is."
"Dang," He muttered. "Guess I've fallen short there."
She laughed.
"Very well then, I will hurry up my explanation. Now, I do not have the shard."
"What!?" He said, startled. "If you don't have it, then where is it?"
She turned away from me and didn't reply for a while. "Only a person with a good heart can claim the final shard," she said. "That was not one of the traitors designs, but one of mine. I didn't want the spear to go to one that would be taken over by the Shadows. The traitor is furious at that, of course, but after she spelled me into existence, it was too late."
"What happens after I take the shard?" Sora asked.
"I vanish. But don't be worried," she said hastily. "I'm the embodiment of light, I'll still be around, but not like this."
"Okay then. Now, the shard?"
She nodded. "Yes. You see, the shard is in you," she said, turning to face him again. "You have a good heart, so the shard must come from you. An evil heart would not posses the shard."
Sora paused, taking that in. "I'm confused now," He confessed. "How do I get the shard?"
"Give me the keyblade."
Sora looked at her, then reluctantly handed it over.
"An evil person would be too concerned with self-preservation and would not trust me. Do you?"
"What, trust you?" He asked. "Yeah, of course! I just gave you my spear."
She nodded and looked at the pointed tip. She gently placed it against his chest. "How much do you trust me?" she demanded.
Sora stared at the shaft, feeling the point through his shirt. "You've got to be kidding," he muttered. "This is how you get the shard?I already did this!"
She nodded. "That's why I ask if you trust me."
The keyblade master took a deep breath. "Lying isn't a character of light," He said through gritted teeth. "So, yes, I trust you." And she punched the pointed shaft through his chest. The teenager cried and fell to the ground, feeling a numbing pain spread through him. Sora gasped and stared at the blade shaft, finding it nearly impossible to breath. Shi'kly pulled it up, the point coated with red. There was a flash, and when it faded, the winged haert keychain now completed. The key/blade part of the weapon was now there, a Crystal deviod of color.The Keyblade was complete. Sora's vision seemed to dim, then suddenly all weakness and pain was gone. He sat up slowly, looking at his chest. Not a mark remained.He stared at Shi'kly in disbelief.
Death isn't part of the light element either," she said matter-of-factly. "Take your keyblade, Essence of Heart. You've earned it."
I reached out and grasped it, feeling power run through me.At the key part of the blade, a stream of blue electritty appeared from one end of the blade to the other when Sora held it The light surrounded him, and Sora returned to the centre room.
Sora faced Gaia in triumph. Sjee seemed to flinch away for a second from the keyblade.
"You know, Shi'kly didn't seem to trust you either," Sora mentioned. He then looked around to seet he final additon to the room. He gasped sudden;y as dragon heartless rose from the ground. One pounced upon the boy.
"Of course she didn't trust me."Gaia said, a cold grin appearing on her face.
"You......you were the traitor, weren't you?" Sora demanded, struggling from the grip of the massive dragon."Lucifer possed you.Who else could use magic of all the elements? And who else could handle the keyblade Crystal's safely."
Gaia smirked and her buety melted away.Her shining skin was replaced with long gone fleash, her bones shinging through her ivory skin. Her clothes became ragged and torn, and her skelton was visable. She no longer reseambled anytihng alive.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss Keybeareeeeeer.."She hissed, her vioce now reselmbling a snakes. "And nooow...you will make a far more powerful tool, esssssspecially with the keyblade...." She grinned, showing fangs.
Sora smriked."No, I don't think so."He growled and kicked teh dragon off of him with inhuman stregth. He held his hand out at the dragon and iwth a motion his eyes glowed and the dragonw as lifted into the air. The beast cried out as it was thrown against the wall and deminished.
Sora looked at Gaia."You're next, traitor."He said coldly.
Gaia growled and usmmuned a black crystal bladei nto her hands. She sent a blast o dark energy at the boy. He blew it off with a wave of his hand. Then the girl charged at him. Sora sidestepepd and she turned at the last second and delivered a side blow. Sora hissed in pain and slashed his keyblade at Gaia, striking her in the stomach.
The girl cried out in pain as blood gushed from the wound. She held her side and attempted to send a wave of energy at the boy.
Sora merely gestured, and the energy twisted around and struck Gaia. Then Sora began to rise his hand. Gaia rose into the air.
With a growl, Sora began to slowly close his hand into a fist. As her closed his fist tighter, Gaia cried out in pain as she was slowly erased from the very fabrics of reality itself.
"And tell your little friend Lucifer he'll be meeting the same fate...."Sora said with a smirk.
Gaia winced but smirked."No, I don't think so. You can tell him yourself though."
Suddenly Sora's body erupted in black energy. The boy cried out in pain. In his agonized haze, he lost his psycic grip on Gaia, who fell and landed on her feet. Smirking, she walked up to the suffering Keybearer. She grabbed him by teh back of the neck and dug her claws into his fleash, then held him up. She pulled a black collor from her pocket and placed on the keybearer's neck. Sora winced as small needle's came from the tight collor and dug into his fleash.
It was then that Lucifer walked in. "Your lucky I was working with him while he was getting all those shards, outwise, you'd be dead by now, permently erased from the fabrics of reality, almost as if you had never exsisted."He sneered.
"Shut up, I have him now."Gaia chided.
Sora growled."That's what you think!!" He cried and tried send out a shockwave of power. It didn't work."Wha-what?"
"The collor is specially designed by me. It's made to counter all the elements inside of you, making none of them work, therefore you can't use any of the psycic stuff nor magic."Gaia explained, then tightened her grip, causing blood to trickle from where her claws dug into the boy's tanned skin.
Lucifer grinned coldly, revealing vampire-like fangs."Don't worry, we'll remove it, once your mine..."
Sora growled and struggled in Gaia's grip."There's no way you can take me." He said.
Lucifer glared at the boy."And why not?"
"Because you've already tried. You can't without my conceed."
"Tsk, tsk. Malificent couldn't without your conceed. I can, once your weak enough that is. So either give in now, or you'll just have to suffer."
Sora merely countiued to struggle in Gaia's grip. He fixed a glare upon the demon."What make's you think I'd give in?" He demanded.
Lucifer smirked."I geuss you leave me with no other chioce." He reached into his pocket and pulled out....a gun.(wow, there's something you don't see too often in thease kind of stories...)"Gaia, you know what to do."He said simply.
Sora's blood ran cold. Lucifer wasn't just going kill him here was he? That wasn't his style. And besides, Lucifer couldn't use the boy if he was dead....could he?
Lucifer pointed the gun at the boy's forehead. He grinned sadisticly. Then, he brought the barrel down so it faced the boy's side.
BANG!!!
Sora screamed in pain as the white hot bullet tore into his fleash.Tears streamed down his face. If that wasn't bad enough, Lucifer pulled out a knife and stabbed at the area where the bullet had been rocketed into. He dug into the boy's fleash as the keybearer cried out in pain as blood gushed from the wound. Finally Lucifer pulled the bullet out.
Sora's eye's were closed as tears streamed down his face.His breatn came out short and ragged as pain throbbed in his side.
Lucifer laughed coldly."Don't worry boy, we're not done yet." He tossed a dagger to Gaia, who cought it with a sneer. She brought the dagger to the boy's arm and slashed. Blood trickled from the wound.
Lucifer in turn pulled a few nails from his pocket.He slammed each into the boy, and using the hilt of his knife, hammered them into the boys body.
Sora tried to tear away from his two bloodthirsty captors, but found he was too weak from blood loss. Hek new if he passed out, Lucifer would have him. So he fought to stay concious.
After awhile Lucifer brought the bloody knife to his mouth and licked the blood from it."It's over keybearer."He sneered.
Sora coughed up blood and looked the demon in the eyes."No...it's not.......I've fought too hard to let you take control of me now, not when I'm so close to ending this...and maybe making things go back to normal."
"Boy, you've foguht hard, but it ends here. I was origanally sapposed to take over Riku, since he was origanaly the keyblade master. But you took his burden, so now your the one who suffers. Which is fine by me, I get the Essance and the keyblade master."Lucifer said coldly. Then, he summuned a huge amont of energy, and gripped the boy's neck.
Sora cried out in pain, and things began to spin. The spun slower.....slower.......and then Sora's world went black.
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Everyone had been walking around for some time now, just looking for a certine black and silver-haired jerk whose name will not be mentioned for fear Riku will attack the autheress for even mentioning his name.
Goofy was worried, and no longer held his normal goofy expression, but rather held a worried, sad expression. Donald was eqauly worried, but hid it undeth his usual mask of coolness.
Leon and Yuffie were at the back of the group. Leon was entertaining himself by flicking his thumb, and a flame kept on appearing, because he was now the fire gardien.( Gee, never expected Leon to be a pyro) Yuffie just watched Leon's antics.(Watched....more like drooled)
At the front Riku was muttering varius obsanities and stuff about what he was going to do to a certine demon who's name will not be mentioned because if it is Riku was going to attack the authoress for even mentioning his name.
Kairi gentally touched Riku on the shoulder."Riku..calm down..."
Riku spun around, his eyes practicly glowing with rage."No Damnit! We have to find Sora and Beat Lucifer to a bloody pulp!!!"
Kairi blinked."Erm, ok...."
Suddenly, before the six, a gate appeared, it was black, but sparks of energy blasted form it.
Kairi stopped."Maybe we shouldn't go in...."
"Sora's in there."Riku said suddenly.
"How do you know?"Yuffie demanded.
"I just do. You don't have to follow me, but I'm going."
"I'm coming."Leon said.
"Me too."Yuffie said.
"Don't count me out."Donald remarked.
"Garsh, I geuss I'll go too."Geuss who...
Kairi smiled."Let's go."
Riku set a look of determination on his face, and stepped through the portal.
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Everyone gasped at what they saw. They were in what appeared to be space. Everywhere were stars, each repersenting a diffrent world. All over the sky were lines, each a color of an elements. All of thease lines and strands crossed and intersected. At the center of all this was a door on a floating, snowy island.
:"Kingdom Hearts."Riku stated.
"But what are all the lines for?" Kairi asked.
"This isn't Kingdom Hearts liek when I last saw it. I think those strand's are timelines, and reality strands. See, the timelines are each representing a diffrent person, and as the lines interact, so do people's lives. The timeline and reality create the basic structure for all the worlds..."Riku said, not knowing how he knew.
"So, now what? Where's Sora? And Lucifer?" Yuffie asked.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion. A cold chill fell over the group.
"He's here..."Leon muttered as they all turned to face the explosion.
Lucifer floated before them, wearing a smirk as always."Well, well, hello again Riku. As for the rest of you, long time no see."
"Where's Sora?"Leon demanded."What have you done to him?"
Lucifer laughed coldly."Why not ask him yourself?"
There was a flash of raw power, and Sora appeared. But he was diffrent. A dragon tail now hung from his backend, a blade at the end, like a scorpians tail. And Sora's ears were now replaced with longer wolf-like ones.
"Sora!!"Kairi cried.
The boy opened his eyes. They were completely expressionless, and there was no pupil. They were a cold blue.His mouth spred into a cold grin, revealing fangs. The dragon tail flexed, the blade gleaming. Sora held out his arms, and blade's shot from his elbows.
"Sora??"Kairi wispered, fearfully.
The teenager responded with a growl.
"Yes, meet my latest pet."Lucifer said with a cruel laugh."Say hello, Sorie."
"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" The boy screamed. The first part sounded like a dragons roar, but the end sounded like Sora's scream.
"No..."Riku wispered.
Lucifer smirked."He's mine, Riku. You tried to save him, and you failed. It's over." Then he spoke to the monster-keybearer in a way a master would command an attack dog."Sora, Attack!"
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TBC.....
Me: And so ends chapter 13...
Sora:*roars*
All: EEEEEEEPPP!!!*Run*
Me: Next chapter is the final battle, so read and review people, or you will never find out what happens!! At least ten reviews!!