Crystal Tears
By: Kietah-chan
A/N: Ok, I told you last time that the chappies were cut in half (this one and the last one) for my typing sake! Lol. ^_^ ok, I don't have much to say, but at the end of this chappie, there is a creepy twist! Thanks reviewers! Ooo . . .I need to shut up! *glues mouth together*
Disclaimer: I wish I did, but, sadly, I don't . . .WAAAHHHHH!!!! *TEAR*
Ch.7: The Army Returns . . .
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Riku continued to run until he reached the boats he took to the larger island. Then he rowed. He docked his boat on the island and ran up and over to the little island he claimed "his" when he was younger. Riku then threw himself down on his knees in the sand.
He picked up the nearest rock on the sand and chucked it angrily at a palm tree, causing a coconut to fall (A/N: LOL!).
"Hear me, Ansem! Why did you let Sora go?! Answer me!" Riku shouted to the sky in frustration. Obviously, nobody answered him.
"Ansem! Take Sora back and never let him leave again!" he shouted angrily.
"Riku!" Sora yelled over to him. Riku turned to look at Sora and charged towards him. He then picked Sora up by the throat and dangled him above the sand.
"You ruined my life, so now I will ruin yours!" Riku spat at him. Sora gasped for breath, the colour draining from his tanned face. Riku held his grip tighter onto Sora, pure hatred filling his every thought.
"Put him down!" Kairi screamed to Riku. She had just arrived to the island, saw Riku strangling Sora, and ran over. Riku looked over at Kairi.
"Stay out of this, Kairi. This is between Sora and I!" he told her fiercely. Kairi ran towards Riku and started tugging on his arm frantically.
"You're going too kill him! Let Sora go! LET HIM GO!!!" she yelled furiously at Riku at the top of her lungs. Kairi started hitting Riku for him to put Sora down.
A loud click was heard and Riku's eyes grew wide when he turned back to face Sora. Sora was holding a handgun at Riku's forehead (A/N: don't ask me where he got that . . .^_^), ready to shoot. Riku stared at the gun for another second, then dropped Sora to the sand.
Sora lay on the sand for a few seconds, then slowly got to his feet.
"Sora . . .put the gun away . . ." Kairi slowly told Sora. He threw the gun down obediently, unsure himself what made him do that.
"You jerk! How could you do such a thing with Kairi?!" Riku asked Sora. He was shouting at Sora, but was staring at the gun on the sand nervously.
"Riku, its not all his fault! Sora and I love each other. I thought you would understand that!" Kairi shouted at Riku venomously.
"Look . . .the sky . . ." Sora whispered quietly, still trying to catch his breath and massaging his throat gingerly. The two infuriated teens looked up at the sky.
The afternoon sky that was supposed to be sunny and cloudless now was smothered with dark, ominous clouds, blotting out the sun. A tint of green and red was visible high up in the clouds. Soft thunder rumbled from its density. Kairi looked absolutely horrified at the sight, but Riku just smiled.
Suddenly, a huge twister looking thing made of those creepy dark clouds, shot out of the sky and hit the ground near the three teens.
"What the hell is that?!" Sora and Kairi shouted in unison. A loud, evil sounding laugh was heard under the sound of the raging wind.
"It's over for you now, Sora! They're coming for you for good! We know who you really are!" Riku bellowed through his maniacal laughter.
From deep inside the twister's depths, outlines of Shadows appeared.
"Are those--?"
"RUN!!!" Sora shouted, interrupting Kairi. He seized her hand and pulled her along in a run. They ran down the beach and started on the planks of wood that formed the bridge to the main island. Sora was in front of Kairi, feet pounding on the wood.
A high pitched scream sounded behind Sora. He spun around to see Kairi dangling down from the bridge, only holding on by one hand.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled. He ran over to the place where the wood broke through in a hole and Kairi hanging tightly onto the edge. He bent down and grabbed her hand, pulling her up to her feet. Once she was on her feet, Sora looked back at "Riku's Island". The Shadows were creeping out of the twister and were running over to where Sora and Kairi were. Riku was standing in front of them like a general in the military. The Shadows were drawing closer.
"Come on, RUN!!" Sora shouted to Kairi. They both started off in a run again. They were panting as they scrambled across the dune-covered sand frantically. Fear pursued them, making their pace quicken. Thunder rolled around restlessly in the black clouds looming ahead.
Suddenly, a jagged lightning bolt struck down on the ground in front of Sora's feet, causing him to jump back in alarm.
"That was too close," Kairi whispered behind Sora cautiously. A loud, booming laugh sounded behind the two of them. Sora and Kairi spun around to see Riku standing in front of all the Heartless Army.
"There's no where to run now, Sora! You will be taken into the Darkness whether you like it or not!" he shouted to him. An almost insane look was glinting in his aquamarine eyes.
"Not without a fight, I won't!" Sora challenged quietly.
"All right then. Goodbye, Sora!" Riku yelled to him. He snapped his fingers and the Shadows advanced towards Sora and Kairi. Kairi let out a little scream and crouched behind Sora protectively. Where was Sora's keyblade now? Just when he needed it the most . . .
The Shadows sank into the sand and popped up on Sora's sides. They grabbed both of Sora's arms tightly.
"Sora!" Kairi shouted. Sora started to struggle. He tried to rip his arms out of the Shadow's strong grip. Kairi tugged on the Shadow's arms, but one turned towards her and blasted her backwards by an unseen force.
Kairi fell on her bottom a few feet back on the sand, away from Sora. She slowly looked up to see Sora still trying to pull away from the Heartless, but they still held tight to his arms. Riku issued another laugh.
"It's no use, my younger friend. Your heart belongs to the Darkness! You know it! I know your secret! Four years ago, you were taken into Kingdom Hearts, only to be brought out again! This time, there will be no such action. You will stay in the Darkness until you die!" Riku shouted maniacally over another roar of thunder. Sora glared at him.
"Oh, so you know my secret, do you? I should have known not to trust you! I knew you would stab me in the back like this! You're a liar! The only reason you wanted me out of Kingdom Hearts was that you wanted to get me vulnerable so you could take me back! You also wanted to cause Kairi more pain and suffering!" Sora yelled back to him in fury. Riku smirked.
"Well, well, well, Sora. You surprised me afterall. I didn't think that you would figure that out so soon. But, now that you did, it's too bad because now you are going die," Riku said quietly; his eyes narrowed and full of malice.
"How can you do something so heartless to your best friend?! He's saved your sorry ass more times than you can count! And this is how you repay him? By killing him off and sending him off to the Darkness? LET HIM GO!!" Kairi screamed from behind Sora. AS she said the last part, a gold shining light erupted from her hands and shot at Riku. Riku, caught completely off guard, fell backwards onto the sand.
Kairi got a confused look on her face and stared at her hands, wondering how she just did that. Riku slowly staggered up to his feet, clutching onto his now bleeding chest and glared at Kairi.
"Stupid girl. To think that such a brainless, tactless girl could harness such a power. And I can't believe I actually loved you. But, no matter, Sora is still mine!" Riku exclaimed.
A dark pool of black and blue smoke stuff formed at Sora's feet.
"NO!" Kairi shouted and ran to where Sora was with the Heartless. Sora turned to look at Kairi with pleading, sad eyes, as if he knew that the war was lost.
"Kairi . . .I love you . . . and I always will . . ." he told her quietly. A glistening tear slipped out of one of Sora's sapphire blue irises and ran down his cheek. Kairi shook her head furiously at this.
"Don't say that! This doesn't have to happen! This won't happen! You won't be taken away from me! I'll make sure of it, you're not going anywhere without me!" Kairi declared stubbornly. She seemed that she wouldn't give up on him, and that nothing was going to happen to him. But, hope can be false.
"You really are stupid! Do you really think that you, a mere little girl who can shoot lights from her hands, can save Sora?! You're living on false hope, Kairi! Why don't you just back down and save us all your sorrow?" Riku mocked. He was smirking when Kairi looked up at him with a fierce mien on her face.
"You talk big for someone with a wounded chest," she growled, clenching and unclenching her fists. "I'm gonna make you eat those words! I'm gonna make you pay for thinking that you will take Sora and thinking you will win!" she shouted angrily to Riku. He chuckled a bit.
"What are you going to do? Shine a spotlight on me?" he joked. Kairi bared her teeth menacingly.
"YOU WILL PAY!!!" Kairi screamed at the top of her lungs as a beam of blinding white light blasted out of the palms of her hands and shot at Riku. Riku got hit with the light and flew backward against the cliff face and landed on some rocks. He fell in a crumpled heap on the sand, unconscious.
Breathing heavily, Kairi stood on the sand, arms still raised by what she had just done. Slowly, she turned around to see Sora still trying to break free from the Heartless. She ran over by his side.
"Hang in there, I'll get these creatures away from you!" Kairi told Sora and raised her arms again, wanting to try out the new trick she learned.
"No! If you use that power of yours, you'll hit me too!" Sora shouted fearfully. Kairi lowered her arms in defeat.
"But . . .what's going to happen? I can't let you be taken like this!" she countered back. That little glint of determination was showing in her crystal-blue eyes at that moment again.
"Listen to me . . ." Sora ordered. He looked down at the pool of Darkness growing up rapidly around his legs fearfully, and spoke more quickly. "I can't hold off the Darkness much longer. I have to go . . ."
"No! No, you won't go! Hold on, I-I'll get some help! I won't let you leave me again!" Kairi shouted angrily. Her face was set in an angry scowl, but a few tears were streaming down her pink-with-anger face.
"It's no use, Kairi. If I stay, I'll only put you and everyone else in danger!" Sora yelled to her, now getting angry and desperate.
"Why would you put me in danger?" Kairi asked quietly. Sora hesitated for a moment, obviously not wanting to tell her the truth about himself.
Sora lowered his eyes and said very quietly, " Kairi . . .I'm a Heartless . . ."
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A/N: Wow! That was one suspenseful chappie! Whew! That was also long! I'm really sorry if some of this seemed corny, but please review anyways! I'll update REALLY soon, cuz I have the next chappie right beside me now! ^_^ thanks, reviewers!!! I love ya all!
~Kietah-chan
By: Kietah-chan
A/N: Ok, I told you last time that the chappies were cut in half (this one and the last one) for my typing sake! Lol. ^_^ ok, I don't have much to say, but at the end of this chappie, there is a creepy twist! Thanks reviewers! Ooo . . .I need to shut up! *glues mouth together*
Disclaimer: I wish I did, but, sadly, I don't . . .WAAAHHHHH!!!! *TEAR*
Ch.7: The Army Returns . . .
*~*~*
Riku continued to run until he reached the boats he took to the larger island. Then he rowed. He docked his boat on the island and ran up and over to the little island he claimed "his" when he was younger. Riku then threw himself down on his knees in the sand.
He picked up the nearest rock on the sand and chucked it angrily at a palm tree, causing a coconut to fall (A/N: LOL!).
"Hear me, Ansem! Why did you let Sora go?! Answer me!" Riku shouted to the sky in frustration. Obviously, nobody answered him.
"Ansem! Take Sora back and never let him leave again!" he shouted angrily.
"Riku!" Sora yelled over to him. Riku turned to look at Sora and charged towards him. He then picked Sora up by the throat and dangled him above the sand.
"You ruined my life, so now I will ruin yours!" Riku spat at him. Sora gasped for breath, the colour draining from his tanned face. Riku held his grip tighter onto Sora, pure hatred filling his every thought.
"Put him down!" Kairi screamed to Riku. She had just arrived to the island, saw Riku strangling Sora, and ran over. Riku looked over at Kairi.
"Stay out of this, Kairi. This is between Sora and I!" he told her fiercely. Kairi ran towards Riku and started tugging on his arm frantically.
"You're going too kill him! Let Sora go! LET HIM GO!!!" she yelled furiously at Riku at the top of her lungs. Kairi started hitting Riku for him to put Sora down.
A loud click was heard and Riku's eyes grew wide when he turned back to face Sora. Sora was holding a handgun at Riku's forehead (A/N: don't ask me where he got that . . .^_^), ready to shoot. Riku stared at the gun for another second, then dropped Sora to the sand.
Sora lay on the sand for a few seconds, then slowly got to his feet.
"Sora . . .put the gun away . . ." Kairi slowly told Sora. He threw the gun down obediently, unsure himself what made him do that.
"You jerk! How could you do such a thing with Kairi?!" Riku asked Sora. He was shouting at Sora, but was staring at the gun on the sand nervously.
"Riku, its not all his fault! Sora and I love each other. I thought you would understand that!" Kairi shouted at Riku venomously.
"Look . . .the sky . . ." Sora whispered quietly, still trying to catch his breath and massaging his throat gingerly. The two infuriated teens looked up at the sky.
The afternoon sky that was supposed to be sunny and cloudless now was smothered with dark, ominous clouds, blotting out the sun. A tint of green and red was visible high up in the clouds. Soft thunder rumbled from its density. Kairi looked absolutely horrified at the sight, but Riku just smiled.
Suddenly, a huge twister looking thing made of those creepy dark clouds, shot out of the sky and hit the ground near the three teens.
"What the hell is that?!" Sora and Kairi shouted in unison. A loud, evil sounding laugh was heard under the sound of the raging wind.
"It's over for you now, Sora! They're coming for you for good! We know who you really are!" Riku bellowed through his maniacal laughter.
From deep inside the twister's depths, outlines of Shadows appeared.
"Are those--?"
"RUN!!!" Sora shouted, interrupting Kairi. He seized her hand and pulled her along in a run. They ran down the beach and started on the planks of wood that formed the bridge to the main island. Sora was in front of Kairi, feet pounding on the wood.
A high pitched scream sounded behind Sora. He spun around to see Kairi dangling down from the bridge, only holding on by one hand.
"Kairi!" Sora yelled. He ran over to the place where the wood broke through in a hole and Kairi hanging tightly onto the edge. He bent down and grabbed her hand, pulling her up to her feet. Once she was on her feet, Sora looked back at "Riku's Island". The Shadows were creeping out of the twister and were running over to where Sora and Kairi were. Riku was standing in front of them like a general in the military. The Shadows were drawing closer.
"Come on, RUN!!" Sora shouted to Kairi. They both started off in a run again. They were panting as they scrambled across the dune-covered sand frantically. Fear pursued them, making their pace quicken. Thunder rolled around restlessly in the black clouds looming ahead.
Suddenly, a jagged lightning bolt struck down on the ground in front of Sora's feet, causing him to jump back in alarm.
"That was too close," Kairi whispered behind Sora cautiously. A loud, booming laugh sounded behind the two of them. Sora and Kairi spun around to see Riku standing in front of all the Heartless Army.
"There's no where to run now, Sora! You will be taken into the Darkness whether you like it or not!" he shouted to him. An almost insane look was glinting in his aquamarine eyes.
"Not without a fight, I won't!" Sora challenged quietly.
"All right then. Goodbye, Sora!" Riku yelled to him. He snapped his fingers and the Shadows advanced towards Sora and Kairi. Kairi let out a little scream and crouched behind Sora protectively. Where was Sora's keyblade now? Just when he needed it the most . . .
The Shadows sank into the sand and popped up on Sora's sides. They grabbed both of Sora's arms tightly.
"Sora!" Kairi shouted. Sora started to struggle. He tried to rip his arms out of the Shadow's strong grip. Kairi tugged on the Shadow's arms, but one turned towards her and blasted her backwards by an unseen force.
Kairi fell on her bottom a few feet back on the sand, away from Sora. She slowly looked up to see Sora still trying to pull away from the Heartless, but they still held tight to his arms. Riku issued another laugh.
"It's no use, my younger friend. Your heart belongs to the Darkness! You know it! I know your secret! Four years ago, you were taken into Kingdom Hearts, only to be brought out again! This time, there will be no such action. You will stay in the Darkness until you die!" Riku shouted maniacally over another roar of thunder. Sora glared at him.
"Oh, so you know my secret, do you? I should have known not to trust you! I knew you would stab me in the back like this! You're a liar! The only reason you wanted me out of Kingdom Hearts was that you wanted to get me vulnerable so you could take me back! You also wanted to cause Kairi more pain and suffering!" Sora yelled back to him in fury. Riku smirked.
"Well, well, well, Sora. You surprised me afterall. I didn't think that you would figure that out so soon. But, now that you did, it's too bad because now you are going die," Riku said quietly; his eyes narrowed and full of malice.
"How can you do something so heartless to your best friend?! He's saved your sorry ass more times than you can count! And this is how you repay him? By killing him off and sending him off to the Darkness? LET HIM GO!!" Kairi screamed from behind Sora. AS she said the last part, a gold shining light erupted from her hands and shot at Riku. Riku, caught completely off guard, fell backwards onto the sand.
Kairi got a confused look on her face and stared at her hands, wondering how she just did that. Riku slowly staggered up to his feet, clutching onto his now bleeding chest and glared at Kairi.
"Stupid girl. To think that such a brainless, tactless girl could harness such a power. And I can't believe I actually loved you. But, no matter, Sora is still mine!" Riku exclaimed.
A dark pool of black and blue smoke stuff formed at Sora's feet.
"NO!" Kairi shouted and ran to where Sora was with the Heartless. Sora turned to look at Kairi with pleading, sad eyes, as if he knew that the war was lost.
"Kairi . . .I love you . . . and I always will . . ." he told her quietly. A glistening tear slipped out of one of Sora's sapphire blue irises and ran down his cheek. Kairi shook her head furiously at this.
"Don't say that! This doesn't have to happen! This won't happen! You won't be taken away from me! I'll make sure of it, you're not going anywhere without me!" Kairi declared stubbornly. She seemed that she wouldn't give up on him, and that nothing was going to happen to him. But, hope can be false.
"You really are stupid! Do you really think that you, a mere little girl who can shoot lights from her hands, can save Sora?! You're living on false hope, Kairi! Why don't you just back down and save us all your sorrow?" Riku mocked. He was smirking when Kairi looked up at him with a fierce mien on her face.
"You talk big for someone with a wounded chest," she growled, clenching and unclenching her fists. "I'm gonna make you eat those words! I'm gonna make you pay for thinking that you will take Sora and thinking you will win!" she shouted angrily to Riku. He chuckled a bit.
"What are you going to do? Shine a spotlight on me?" he joked. Kairi bared her teeth menacingly.
"YOU WILL PAY!!!" Kairi screamed at the top of her lungs as a beam of blinding white light blasted out of the palms of her hands and shot at Riku. Riku got hit with the light and flew backward against the cliff face and landed on some rocks. He fell in a crumpled heap on the sand, unconscious.
Breathing heavily, Kairi stood on the sand, arms still raised by what she had just done. Slowly, she turned around to see Sora still trying to break free from the Heartless. She ran over by his side.
"Hang in there, I'll get these creatures away from you!" Kairi told Sora and raised her arms again, wanting to try out the new trick she learned.
"No! If you use that power of yours, you'll hit me too!" Sora shouted fearfully. Kairi lowered her arms in defeat.
"But . . .what's going to happen? I can't let you be taken like this!" she countered back. That little glint of determination was showing in her crystal-blue eyes at that moment again.
"Listen to me . . ." Sora ordered. He looked down at the pool of Darkness growing up rapidly around his legs fearfully, and spoke more quickly. "I can't hold off the Darkness much longer. I have to go . . ."
"No! No, you won't go! Hold on, I-I'll get some help! I won't let you leave me again!" Kairi shouted angrily. Her face was set in an angry scowl, but a few tears were streaming down her pink-with-anger face.
"It's no use, Kairi. If I stay, I'll only put you and everyone else in danger!" Sora yelled to her, now getting angry and desperate.
"Why would you put me in danger?" Kairi asked quietly. Sora hesitated for a moment, obviously not wanting to tell her the truth about himself.
Sora lowered his eyes and said very quietly, " Kairi . . .I'm a Heartless . . ."
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A/N: Wow! That was one suspenseful chappie! Whew! That was also long! I'm really sorry if some of this seemed corny, but please review anyways! I'll update REALLY soon, cuz I have the next chappie right beside me now! ^_^ thanks, reviewers!!! I love ya all!
~Kietah-chan