Again I don't own Kingdom Hearts or its characters and all that good stuff. But Kiara is mine, so hands off.
"But where's Riku?" thought Sora.
Sora scanned around for his silver haired friend but couldn't find him.
"Riku!" Kairi joined Sora in front of the heartless.
"Riku!" they called together.
Deep in the room there was a mound of shadows. None of them faced the way of their escape. One of the shadows disappeared in a puff of purple-black smoke and Sora ran towards it without a second thought.
"Mickey you coward!"
Riku sliced through four heartless and glanced at the scampering mouse.
"Even a king has his limits," Mickey called from high on a poll.
For five years Mickey and Riku had searched for the core of Kingdom Hearts. Within was said to be the portals to all worlds. But the more they tried, the more times they ended up back at the closed doors. The heartless had been relatively scarce during the years, but each time they fought the heartless seemed to be stronger. Suddenly though, two days ago, the heartless surged from nowhere. Riku's black clothes were ripped and torn. The silver haired man tore off the remainder of his shirt and tossed it away.
"If you don't get down here, in two seconds, I'll…."
A shadow heartless leapt onto Riku's back and bit his shoulder, adding more blood to the rivulets already cascading down Riku's well-muscled form. Riku's hair was coming loose from a makeshift hair tie he had put in during a lull in the fight. Now at age twenty his hair went slightly below his shoulder blades. Riku ripped the shadow off and tossed it into a spike. A loud thud alerted Riku to a large approaching figure. The tip of a black horn was the first sign he saw, then the rest of the behemoth emerged from the darkness. A rain of lightning struck the area around Riku and he barely jumps out of the way of them.
"You're dead!"
Riku charged the four legged creature and cut it to ribbons and it disappeared in a familiar purple-black mist like the other dead heartless. Mickey still clung to the pipe high above the fighting and when the shadows tried to climb he'd blizzaga them back down. Mickey then dismissed the Kingdom key blade and the heartless stopped coming after him. Riku's only weapon however was the Oblivion key blade, therefore wave after wave of heartless crashed against him.
A Defender appeared and shot a stream of fire at Riku's back. Riku cried out and staggered forward. A shadow jumped on his burnt skin and clawed the melting skin off. A freezing shot destroyed the shadow and toppled Riku forward. He tried desperately to kill the black parasites but they kept coming.
A few fireballs knocked enough shadows away for Riku to regain his feet. Blood dripped from where he had hit his head on the hard metallic floor and little of his slightly tanned skin could be seen among the red rivers.
"Riku! Get up here and get rid of the key blade!" Mickey called.
"No! We can't let them open the door!"
"It's sealed Riku!"
"No it's not! Even the best lock can be broken with enough force!"
A red haze was beginning to blur his vision, but he kept fighting. Time and time again heartless got their sharp claws on the man then erupt in smoke. The enemy numbers seemed to diminish, but just when Riku got his hopes up more came. The shadows covered him and he began to fall.
"No!" Riku's thought voice screamed. "I must protect Kairi and Sora!"
Even after five years the two of them were all he could think about. A Dark Ball turned on its side and came chomping at Riku. He didn't turn fast enough and it hit him from behind. The sharp fleshy teeth penetrated Riku's skin and still dug deeper. His eyes fogged over and he began to fall backwards.
"Riku!"
The Dark Ball moved away and let blood pour from the new gaping wounds. Riku fell hard on the discolored ground. Through the shadows that piled on top of him Riku saw a sliver of light peek through a crack in the doors.
"No…."
Riku's world went black.
The heartless dove on the original key blade master but they were all extinguished by the Ultima Weapon. Sora hacked at the shadow pile and caught a glimpse of something silver which made him attack with an added fervor.
"Sora!" Kairi yelled. "You're in too deep we can't get to you!"
A new wave of heartless poured out and buried Sora beneath them. He continued to slice at the heartless as the bit and clawed at him. Sora barely heard Aeris's scream through the mass of heartless. Then they felt a pulse of energy from deep inside Kingdom Hearts. The heartless stopped their assaults and looked around nervously. A streak of white shot out from the dark void in front of Sora. What seemed like a giant bird swept over the heartless, obliterating them completely, and stopped at the edge of the platform outside the great doors.
