Crowned
Hearts Chapter Seventeen
By
Blue Dragon
"Come on!" Ansem held out a hand to the
Sora and Riku, who didn't know what was happening until they noticed
that Zidane and Lisa were gone.
"I can't have anyone
interfering! You two show me what you've GOT!"
Sora
crouched down and circled to one side in the dark dimension they were
in. Riku circled over, the same way to give themselves a two-on-one
advantage, keyblade held low as he slowly moved to the opposite side.
In a second Sora tensed his muscles and tornadoed into Ansem,
spinning up with an aerial sweep and then a six hit combo followed up
by a vortex finisher.
At the same time, Riku tornadoed in,
aerial swept, came back down with three quick air hits and then three
more ground hits, after which he raised his left leg behind his right
with the Oblivion held high, and came down with a blitz.
Of
course Ansem didn't sit around and get smashed. He slashed himself
around with his own double-negative energy sword (double negative as
in energy, not language), and then flipped backwards while driving
himself forwards. The result: Sora and Riku flew into each other and
landed back on the ground.
Riku looked at Sora.
"Well,
he's too strong."
"I agree. We might as well give
up"
"I don't know why we even tried"
"Huh?
That doesn't sound like them!" Ansem crept up and looked over
the boys' shoulders.
"We won't get to ever have fun again
if we die," said Sora.
"Or skateboard"
"Or
love"
"Or eat!" Riku added.
"Or
drink for that matter" Sora helped.
"I used to have
a favorite one. What was it called again?" Riku said, putting
his hand to his chin.
"PUNCH!" They both yelled,
turning around and socking Ansem in the jaw and nose.
"Arragh!"
Ansem flew back into an unseen dark wall.
Sion
paced around the house. He had just gotten back from jail and wasn't
satisfied to see his bum brother-in-law Dauragon had been lounging
around on his favorite chair, denying the fact that he had
undoubtedly kidnapped his son.
"I'll ask you once again.
Where did you take Sora!"
"Sister, are those cookies
ready yet?" he called into the kitchen, ignoring his idiot
brother-in-law.
Mrs. Barzhad walked in with the cookies and
set them on the table.
"Honey, are you being mean to my
brother?"
"He's the one that called the police on
me!"
"Hey, you were a friggin' lunatic!"
"Listen
Mikado" Sion poked a finger in his chest.
"You're
not welcome here. Get OUT OF MY HOUSE"
Dauragon stood
up.
"Make me"
"You don't want me to"
"I
could whip you, Barzhad"
"Its about what I can SAY
that will make you sad, my friend" Sion said calmly.
"Boys!
Especially you, Sion! Why do you hate him so much?"
"He
fired my co-worker! I liked her!" Sion yelled.
"You
WHAT?" Dominique became suspicious.
"Sorry, sister.
He has the hots for that Orchid girl I fired."
"Shut
your hole, Dauragon!"
"Make me!"
"I
screwed your sister!"
That did it. Dauragon jumped on
Sion with his sister struggling to get him off. No one noticed the
dark hole behind them.
"Strife!
What'd you do with my kid!" Sephiroth was in his own living room
and pointed his sword dangerously at his co-worker.
"What
makes you think I can be brought in for questioning? Leave me
alone!"
"I'll take your sword"
". .
. "
"Where's Riku! I'll have you fired! I'll call
the police!"
Cloud just stared at him.
Sephiroth
smiled slyly.
"I'll kill Tifa"
Sephiroth had
a sword to his chin before he could react.
"Listen. I
don't know what you think gives you the authority to talk about
killing people, but you'd better cut it out before you become a
victim of your own stupidity, Osterot."
Rikku stepped
in.
"Honey? I investigated. Cloud doesn't have our
son."
Sephiroth looked at him sheepishly.
"Sorry,
Strife"
"Just go away"
"Its my
house . . . " Sephiroth pointed out.
No one noticed the
dark portal.
Ansem
began stood up as if unharmed. He looked directly at Riku.
"Give
it up, boy, you're no match."
"I have Sora!"
Riku
looked around to see that Sora was nowhere to be found.
"Uh
. . . "
Ansem beamed him on the head.
"I said
give it up!"
Riku slowly rose up. He felt a million
powers swirling within him.
"Blitz Ace! Grand
Lethal!"
He performed two simultaneous attacks that
knocked Ansem back into a wall. He spiraled up and gathered energy in
the keyblade, looking down.
"Ansem, you know those boring
stories where the good guy always wins and the bad guy is always
defeated?"
" . . . What's your point?"
"THIS
IS ONE OF THEM!"
He unleashed the Fallen Angel attack his
father had taught him and the dark dimension disappeared. Sora flew
backwards from nowhere and into a hole. Riku tried to follow him but
went into a dimension of his own. When he looked up he was in his
parents' house, the living room at the front door. He saw Ansem on
the couch.
"What?!" Riku ran to attack before Ansem
dodged.
"Osterot! Your kid's attacking me!"
"Huh?"
Sephiroth came out of the kitchen.
"Riku, this is my
friend Ansem. Leave him be"
"I don't know what he
has against me"
Riku's mouth dropped open.
"What
about the fight? The other dimension?"
"What are you
talking about? I've never seen you before in my life! But my name's
Ansem--"
Riku stormed out of the door and ran into
Sora.
"Sora?"
"Hey, Riku" Sora
said, leaning on the wall of Riku's house.
"What
happened?"
"Well, I asked to come over and you said
it was okay" Sora said slowly.
"What about Ansem?
Remember?"
"Quit joking, dude. And I thought--"
"Oh
no! What about Lisa?"
Zidane
looked at his castle that was good as new and turned his head around,
back and forth. Everything seemed fine. He couldn't even remember why
he was in the dungeon. He shrugged and walked up the
stairs.
Riku
looked down.
"Now she's really gone . . . Lisa . . .
"
"Lisa . . .?" Sora asked.
"You
don't remember her. Now you'll never know her."
"Riku?
What the heck are you talking about? Lisa lives just around the
street!"
"What? Whachyootalkinabout Sora?!"
Riku asked.
"She's been living there for the past, like,
eight years. I think she likes you but you never paid any attention
to her."
"What are you talking about? I thought . .
. ?"
"If you want to see her she's home alone right
now. I saw her parent's cars drive--" Sora fell on his face
because of the sonic boom Riku created when he ran.
"Lisa!"
Riku burst in. He ran up the stairs to find her reading a book in the
hallway. Without a second though he embraced her.
"Riku?
What's gotten in to you?"
"Lisa . . . I though I
lost you!"
"What? You though you lost me? " She
asked, dropping the book.
"You smell like strawberries. I
never noticed that before"
"Riku? You're really
starting to freak me out. You always ignored me and-- "
"Can
I kiss you?" He asked, suddenly looking straight in her
eyes.
"What?"
Riku took that as a yes and
felt warm when he stuck to his word. Lisa almost kept her eyes open
the whole time.
"R-riku?"
"Are you
offended?"
"I'm happy!" she hugged him.
"I
never thought you liked me!"
"I . . . love you"
She
paused and hugged him deeper.
"You're finally returning
my affection"
"I'm so sorry. I wanted to go to
Crowned Hearts with you . . . "
"Riku, your so
silly. Crowned Hearts is tomorrow!"
Riku just
stared.
"Have I really been ignoring you that
much?"
"For eight years, Riku."
"I
don't understand. But I'll make it up more than you can
imagine"
Everyone
stared into the starry sky that night. For some reason, one star
disappeared and a new star came back. The sun set in a way so that
the moon looked like an imperial heart.
THE
END
