Last Sane Thought (Chapter
Seven)
Rating PG-13
"Kairi! Kairi make it go away! Make him go away!" Sora hissed as he woke from his startling dream. Seeing Riku lying in pieces. Falling apart at the seems like that, seeing Riku like that had been too much. His last battle came bubbling to the surface of his memory.
Kairi woke up and was at his side comforting him instantly. "Oh Sora. It wasn't your fault. You had to do what you did. You had to stop him to protect everyone."
Sora bit his bottom lip. "It still didn't make it right!" Kairi continued to rub Sora's broad back as she nodded in agreement. "I still feel like his Best Friend Kairi. That's what hurts the worst! Knowing that I've had to fight him time and time again ever since I became the Chosen One for the Kingdom of Hearts!
"I've killed him three times you know! The first time he survived but the time after that, and the one after that, and the one after that. Ansem won't let him die! He brings him back the moment death reaches out for him! Every time I make the killing blow he's pushed back into that dying body Kairi!
"He has to be! I saw him! I saw him there being held together by the Heartless! They kept him from dying Kairi! Can they be that bad if they were protecting him?!" Sora said felting wild emotions burning in his chest.
He squeezed his eyes shut hold back all the regret, hate, and despair. For Christ's sake he had killed his best friend countless times! Seeing him there blood pouring from wounds breathe raspy and eyes glazed has been to much.
"Sora it was only a dream. He's gone. He's gone for good now. He has to be after what you did. I know you're more mature and grown up Sora but don't have naive little thoughts of the boy you once were." Kairi said trying to help him. He nodded hollowly.
Laying back to a dreamless sleep Sora still was uneasy.
*Next Day*
"Good now take the cup and drink Muk." Kairi commanded. Sora watched from the kitchen bar with cold eyes. He sipped at orange juice when the Heartless turned to him with yellow oval eyes. Muk tried to mimic him with his new five fingered hands.
Sora wanted to scream wildly and attack Muk. He wanted to rip that horrid mouth appart and watch his head spit apart. He could imagine himself with blood on his face and on his hands as he madly wrote "I Love Kairi" on the wall with Muk's blood.
He blinked back in confusion. Where had that though come from? He now shuttered thinking about it. For in his mind he had had Riku's wild eyes. His manic grin and wild spontaneous will.
-FLASHBACK- "SORA! SORA! MUST KILL!" Riku shouted madly waving around his sword.
Sora saw him in the distance and was aghast when he began to murder his own Heartless warriors. Fear shook his frame as he realized Riku's blood lust attacks were heading straight for him. He gave up beating down the attacking Heartless and tried to run from Riku.
"NO WHERE- GO SORA! NO WHERE TO HIDE! I GO- MUST KILL-" Riku's insane shouts echoed up the boulders. Sora tried desperatly to climb fast. It was strange though. He eighteen-year-old body felt so funny at that moment. It froze over leaving Sora in mid climb on a rock that could put a good distance between them.
His eyes teared over as he came to the realization some of the Heartless were children. Little ones rolling around fighting with silent laughs. His body has stopped to witness this. It reminded him of Riku and himself.
"SORA! SORA KILL! KILL SORA!" Riku laughed grabbing Sora painfully by the neck. The ground was pulled from beneath him and he was wrapped in the sky. The ground suddenly appeared again slamming into his head flipping into him and crushed his spine.
"SORA!" Came Kairi's frantic scream. Sora felt really dizzy and tired but Kairi's cool calming magic took him over and stood back up again.
"Riku! FIGHT ME!" Sora cried challengingly. Riku turned still smiling madly but a hint of confusion was seen behind those wild eyes.
"DIE!" Riku shouted jumping from the boulders down onto Sora. Sora gave a mangled cried when his head was slapped by the ground again. Why did the planet treat him like a basketball?
"Don't die Sora! Please!" Kairi sobbed from somewhere off in the distant. Sora wanted to shout at her for disturbing his rest again when the sleeping feeling was taken over with cool magic.
Riku was on his knees with his sword raised above his head. "MUST KILL IT!" He cried flexing his arms and dropping them forward.
"NO!" Sora shouted rolling away, or attempting to. His sword caught something and he only moved half way into his roll. A loud thump sounded out but Sora wasn't paying attention, as his body was forcibly pulled back.
He turned to see what had happened and found Riku laying on his sword. He pushed Riku over and assessed the damage with wide eyes. His sword and logged itself into his stomach.
"Oh my God! Riku!" He cried.
Riku started babbling in a soft voice. It was clearly some type of Heartless language. He said it with soft loving eyes and his tone suggested something Sora couldn't place.
Alas, the sanity didn't last long. His crazy smile came back and he reached for his sword. Sora gasped bringing up his sword.
Riku was obviously teetering on insanity and clear sanity. He was shouting coherent phrases now. "IT IS SO MUCH TO TAKE IT! YOUR DARKNESS SORA! IT CALLS ME! PLEASE LET ME TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU! YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT! I THOUGHT OF YOUR WELLBEING.
"IT WAS ALWAYS YOU I THOUGHT OF! YOU WERE MY LAST SANE THOUGHT BEFORE THEY TOOK MY SOUL! LET ME PROTECT YOU AND RIP THAT DARKNESS RIGHT OUT-" He made a wild charge at that moment.
Sora didn't have the heart to injury Riku again so he angled his sword over where Riku's head would be since he kind of squatted when he attacked. He would even strike early for Riku's sake, then he would run.
He took his swing with a choked cry. Riku's battle tactic had obviously changed when he stood up and began to turn around to put force behind his sword. It was then when Sora's high and early swing sliced at his neck. "out-T of y-oU!" Riku ended in a wispy gasp.
Sora watched as Riku's body was seemingly frozen in mid fall. His shadow suddenly bounced up from the ground. He couldn't believe his eyes as Riku's own shadow wrapping its black transparent arms around him. It caressed his shocked face.
The sight of Riku looking terrified as the shadow kissed him gently on the cheek sickened Sora. He knew who the shadow really was. Black became tan and spiky points of shadow hair turned in long locks of white hair. Riku's shadow grew and stretched into his borrowed adult form. Ansem had come.
Ansem glared at Sora with deep light-less eyes, "You won't beat him again. He'll be their Prince and you will be buried under the ground! He wouldn't fail again because I will make sure that you die. You will be destroyed. I will be certain of it!"
He wasn't sure what had happened. His mind couldn't grasp the fact he has just dealt the worst killing blow he has ever had. How would Ansem heal Riku now? Would he live? Did he just send his Best Friend to the underworld packed nice and neat in a big bloody suitcase with a big red bow? Or worse yet he hadn't killed him and Ansem would pull Riku back together and make him his puppet yet again.
"What have I done?" He questioned before falling to the ground in shock. -END FLASHBACK--
"What have I done?" He repeated and fell backwards on to the kitchen floor.
Letting the darkness envelop
him he begged it to make him forget, to forget anything any every one. He wanted
to start a new with no memory of anything...
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