Last Sane Thought (Epilogue)
Rating PG-13
Sora sighed laying calmly on the beach. It was strange now. All the world were open for travel because the Heartless roamed free. Kairi had dragged him to Atlantica for an urgent meeting with Ariel the new Queen of the Merpeople.
He really was bored out of his mind. "Come back here you Heartless thief!" Came a shout. Sora reached out for his Keyblade but remembered it was not there anymore. It was beyond his reach of calling. It would not come to him.
He sat up looking around and found Riku chasing after a Heartless. It was clutching something and looked like one of Ansem's breed.
Sora was scared that Riku was under his sway again for he was laughing. He tried to gain some leverage of some sort but being a merman on sand didn't do any good. He watched the Heartless bound up to him and dash behind him.
*It's only been a week. Please, please don't say I'll have to kill him again. * Sora thought as Riku finally made it up to him.
"Be a good boy and give it back!" Riku smiled.
Sora heard the Heartless speak behind him. "No! I want them! I promise I'll give them back but I want to use them!"
Riku sighed and shrugged, "Fine. But I'm going to tan if you want to come with go ahead. Sora about that Sora." He smiled casually and walked off.
Sora blinked as Riku stopped about twenty yard from him and stripped down to nothing. The Heartless baby followed Riku. He watched in shock as Riku laid down to tan and the Heartless laid down next to him wearing a pair of silver sun glasses.
Sora started to claw his way towards them when something caught whole of him. Hisses of Heartless gribberish reached his ears but he found that he knew what they meant.
"She didn't tell you I brought you back. The little Princess wants to keep you all to herself. She won't be Queen of Hallow Baston that way. Now come here and give me a kiss handsome."
Sora turned around to come face to face with a half octopus and half-human Riku. His tentacles were winding their way around Sora. "W-What? You're over there! You're tanning with a Heartless."
"Hush up little one... It's not hard to understand really. I saved you from Ansem and my son Muk stole his heart. When you steal the Heartless's Master's heart you have their power. But only people of the Royal line can chose. I could my son to be the Prince of Darkness and he took Ansem's Heartless. " Riku smiled his tentacles bringing a beached Sora up face to face with him.
"But he's a Heartless! He doesn't have a heart to begin with and when he takes one he consumes it and it dies!" Sora gasped trying to ignore the look in Riku's ice blue eyes.
"No, no, my darling Sora. That's the beauty of my reign as King of Darkness... My Heartless are like a shell. They pick someone to live with and that person puts their love and emotions into that shell. To give my creature life.
"Think of Muk over there as our son." Riku said look at Sora hard. Sora looked away afraid of what this meant.
He would be abandoning a normal life with Kairi. The chance for a happy normal family! He could have that if he stayed with her. He would even be a King of Kings. He would be the Great King of Hallow Baston only Mickey would be higher then him.
Riku gave him a polite kiss on the forehead and handed Sora his Keyblade. "You left it in the my Kingdom. The only thing I'll ask you is not to hurt my people," He turned away and slide back towards the water, "I have a meeting to attend to. Atlantica need guards and my Heartless are willing to help."
He looked down at the sword in his fish fin lap and made a decision. "Muk! Son come over here," he shouted, "Your dad and I are going to a meeting. Do you want to come but you'll have to get dressed!"
Riku stopped but he did not turn. Muk picked up his baby Heartless with the sunglasses and frowned, "You're not wearing anything why should I have to!?"
Sora laughed, "I have a fin!"
Muk shook his head as he helped Sora back into the water. Sora watched as they got deeper that Muk's legs turned grey and he eventually grew a shark tail. His baby Heartless was a half ell creation. Muk and his Heartless instantly made with doing circles around Sora and Riku.
"I'll catch you!" Muk laughed.
"No you won't!" The Heartless would taunt back.
Sora looked at Riku, "How do I understand them. I know their speaking in Heartless language."
Riku let to lazy tenacles wrap around Sora, "Easy love, there is finally even controlled darkness in you from me that you are shall we say... and adopted son of the Kingdom of Hearts. Just the right amount of Dark and Light in you."
"NO YOU WON'T CATCH ME!" Shrieked Muk's son.
Princess Kairi and Princess Ariel swam in on the most homey and lovely scene ever. An Octupus Riku had two tencles reached out. In each tenacle was Muk his son and his Heartless Grandson that had not dawned a name yet.
Two tancles were wrapped around his lover Sora as they shared a kiss.
"They look just like the perfect family." Princess Ariel sighed.
"You won't call me Queen of the Kingdom of Hearts you got that buddy!" Sora finally spoke when their kiss broke.
"And here I thought he was almost to my liking. I guess Riku lets him do what he wants as long as no one is hurt by it." Princess Kairi shrugged.
Riku swam by her looking at Sora possesivly, "You'll have to find yourself someone else to be King of Hallow Baston Kairi."
Sora stopped playing tag with his son and grandson. Princess Ariel watched as what Princess Kairi was going to say. She merely flicked her fin and stuck out her tongue.
Everyone laughed.
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