Yadeeyadeeya Don't own kingdom hearts or its characters, Kiara is mine don't steal without permission. Ok? Ok. On with the fic.
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 on the platform out side the great doors. Two large white wings folded behind the black clad figure as it stood. It shook its feathered white wings and turned, flinging the loose feathers to the side. Silver hair fell below its waist after being tied in a high ponytail and its sea green eyes locked on Kairi who was still recovering from the attack. It extended its wings out and the feathered appendages disappeared.
"Behind you," it said and more heartless surged forward.
Sora had barely rolled over onto his hands and knees when the heartless came again.
"Riku!" thought Sora and tried to reach his friend again.
He worked away the heartless and saw Riku's face. Sora destroyed the rest of the heartless on Riku and managed to awkwardly life him wit hone arm. The heartless around them vanished suddenly and Sora turned face to face with the silver haired creature. White lightning streamed from its hand clearing a path out of the black abyss. Sora hefted Riku over his shoulder and ran out just as everything inside the opening erupted in flames. The formerly winged being stepped out of the flames and closed the doors. Sora took his cue and locked the door again. Leon held his gunblade to the creature's throat.
"Who are you?"
Aeris helped Kairi up and the girl from Destiny Islands walked over. The human looking creature stared at the brunette.
"Kiara?" Kairi murmured and fainted.
"Leon!"
Leon turned and looked over at Sora who was trying desperately to stop the blood flowing from Riku's body. He signaled to Aeris to check him. The woman in pink knelt by Sora and placed her hands over Riku. The tares on both Riku's sides closed. One of the larger chest wounds were starting to heal when Cloud came over and pulled Aeris away.
"No sense in dying trying to saved the condemned," said Cloud. "People who have a chance of living ay need what little energy you now have left."
Sora turned to Aeris who was breathing heavily and looking all over worn out.
"But if I," she began.
"No."
"Why won't you let her save him!?" yelled Sora.
"Because people like us deserve to die, and why not let the very thing you sided with kill you."
"Cloud…."
Aeris looked down in defeat and stood. Sora immediately went to work tearing apart his shirt to try and stop the bleeding.
"Excuse me, Kiara was it?" asked Aeris. "Are you able to heal people?"
Cloud looked over annoyed. Kiara glanced down at the blade at her throat and then at Leon who slowly lowered it. She raised one hand toward Riku and the remaining wounds healed.
"So.. who are you?" asked Mickey. "Where did you come from?"
"Kiara glared daggers at the small mouse.
"She's Kiara, my half-sister," said Kairi.
Yuffie helped her up and pulled a stray feather out of Kairi's hair. Kiara look very displeased.
"Your sister?" asked Yuffie.
"I think," Kairi paused. "I do know you don't I?"
"Yes."
"Are we related?"
"No."
"Oh.. but I could swear I.."
"Yes.
"Then why.."
"We can't stay here. The fire behind those doors will go out soon and the heartless will begin breaking through once more, "said Kiara.
"We can go to Traverse Town. I'm sure they'll let us stay there," said Cid.
"To the gummi ships!" yelled Donald.
Sora lifted Riku and followed after the others.
"Mickey!"
"Minnie!"
"Are you alright? I've been so worried!" the queen said.
"Donald and Goofy said you had important news for me."
"Yes."
"How's he doing?" asked Aeris.
"Sora said he hasn't moved yet," replied Kairi.
"Maybe Kiara could do something," suggested Yuffie, sitting on the bed in the abandoned house in the third district.
"She's barely said a word since we left kingdom hearts. How do we know she's not a heartless? Or like Maleficent?" wondered Cid.
"That's just it, we don't," replied Leon.
"Then why are we letting her run around free?' asked Cloud.
"She looks familiar though,' said Aeris.
"Sephiroth."
"That's gotta be it," jumped Yuffie.
"Silver hair and green eyes are pretty rare," added Cid.
"Riku has silver hair and green eyes too," said Kairi. "Maybe we should just ask Kiara."
"Where is she?" asked Leon.
"She can't be that far off."
The group split up to look. Cloud, Leon, and Cid went to check the second district. Yuffie and Aeris left to search the first district and Kairi went to look at Merlin's old place and the cave. Cloud found the elusive girl out side the green room at the hotel.
"The others want to talk to you."
"Bring them here. They'll be needed," Kiara said.
Cloud looked quizzically at Kiara and walked off. It wasn't long before they were all gathered in the long hallway.
"What is this all.." began Leon.
Donald and Goofy came running in.
"Finally found ya," said Goofy.
"Why are you here?" asked Cloud.
"Everyone has to get out of here!" yelled Donald. "traverse Town is about to explode!"
"What!?"
"Ya, some guy named Kuja has a giant ship right up there and is going to, uh, how'd he say it? Shoot Traverse Town out of existence," said Goofy.
Everyone except Kiara ran out side and looked up. A large red eye stared down at them through the clouds. A beam shot from the eye down to the ground and the group covered their faces expecting an explosion.
"Kuja you bastard! Give her back! Kuja!"
Another light shot down, a tiny laser this time. Kiara rushed past the others and dove on the monkey like man, knocking him out of the way of the beam. The giant eye disappeared as Kiara stood.
"Dammit," the blonde cursed.
Kiara lifted the boy effortlessly onto his feet and pushed him toward the group.
"And you are?" asked Yuffie.
The newcomer scoffed at the ground, "I'm Zidane."
"Come on, we'll talk more inside," Aeris said.
Zidane jumped up to where the others stood and walked inside. They sat around in the blue room and learned all about Kuja.
"So he has nothing to do with the strengthening of the heartless," lulled Yuffie.
"So we're back to square one," sighed Aeris.
"We still haven't found out why you were in Kingdom Hearts," scowled Leon.
Kiara looked around and finally conceded to talk.
"I come from Hollow Bastion. I got into Kingdom Hearts through the portal at the center of my world."
"But why did you go?"
"Like the rest of you I felt the growing darkness and went to try and stop it," replied Kiara. "And my connection to Kairi, as I'm sure you'll ask, is that we grew up together. Or until Maleficent came and poisoned the king's mind."
"King Mickey?"
"Ha! No, Lord Bastion, the former liege of Hollow Bastion," said Kiara. "After I noticed the change in the King I sent the princess off to the last place maleficent would look: Destiny Islands."
"But if we grew up together, you would've only been seven when you sent me away," said Kairi.
"I was eight."
"We were told the princess was killed," said Leon.
"In a sense."
"So Kairi is the heir to Hollow Bastion," awed Aeris.
"Why don't I remember any of this?" asked Kairi.
Kiara placed her hand on Kairi's head. A glow surrounded the two and then faded.
"So that's what home was like," Kairi sighed.
"Then where were you when Maleficent ruled?" asked Cloud, still not trusting the girl.
"After Maleficent realized I was the one to send the princess away she locked me deep beneath the castle and left me there until I talked."
"So you ratted her out. Some friend," said Yuffie.
Kiara shook her hear slowly and a slight smile crossed her features for a split second, "I sent them on wild goose chases through out the worlds. Not once did the words destiny or islands leave my lips."
"You were the one we heard screaming," said Aeris, realization crossing her face.
Kiara nodded, "But we needn't dwell on the past. We need to go back to Hollow Bastion and put Kairi back on the throne."
"Why?" Kairi asked.
"Without a pure heart to guide it Hollow Bastion and its people will return to the darkness," replied Kiara. "And these people will be forced to stay here again."
Zidane scratched his head curiously, "I'm not following any of this."
"And what about Kuja?" asked Donald.
Sora burst into the room, "Heartless."
They all jumped up and ran outside. A fireball whizzed by and destroyed a part of the hotel's roof. Donald answered with a fireball of his own and the Big Body dissipated. The shadow heartless scurried up the walls at them. Sora summoned the Ultima Weapon and was surprised when a key blade appeared next to him as well, being gripped tightly by their new silver haired ally. The key blade was completely black and the key's teeth arched out from each side and came to a point together at the tip of the blade. Kiara leapt over the railing and swung the dark blade destroying all the heartless within ten feet. This proving how powerful Kiara was because the key blade itself was only three and a half feet long.
While Kiara fought the heartless pouring out of the third district the rest took the heartless surging from the first district.
"Kairi! Get back inside!" yelled Sora.
"But I want to help!"
"Protect Riku!"
Kairi looked around at the others who were slowly beating back the heartless and ran inside.
"Hey! Get off him!" Kairi punched a shadow heartless that was chewing on Riku's arm. She then took an umbrella from the stand next to the door and beat the four surrounding heartless into black mist. She closed the back door to the balcony and went to work on Riku's arm. "Poor Riku."
Back out side Cloud and Cid ran to the third district and Leon and Yuffie ran to the first district to clean up any remaining heartless. Sora felt him upper arm where a heartless had slashed him but found the wound completely gone. Kiara jumped back up onto the walkway.
"Your key blade, what is it?" Aeris asked.
"The Heartless Blade," replied Kiara casually and reentered the hotel.
The others followed.
"Anything?" Sora asked hopefully.
"Nope," sighed Kairi. "Everyone alright?"
"Yeah."
They sat around for a few minutes while they waited for the other four to return.
"I wonder how the heartless got here," said Leon. "When portals are sealed they be opened until the key blade master re opens it, no matter what."
"Does it matter which key blade master?" asked Cloud and glared at Kiara.
"I'm not sure," Leon replied. "We never thought there would be more than one."
"And yet we have four," sighed Yuffie.
"Who?"
"King Mickey, Sora, Riku, and Kiara," answered Donald.
"And Kiara, what did you call you key blade?" asked Goofy.
"The Heartless Blade."
"So you are the one who brought back the heartless!" growled Cloud and lunged at Kiara.
Leon and Cid grabbed the blonde before he reached the girl. Aeris muttered something and cloud went limp against his restrainers and they placed him in a chair.
"What's wrong with him?" asked Zidane.
"As we were leaving the east side of Hollow Bastion we were attacked by the heartless," said Cid.
"The heartless took the heart of Cloud's other half so to speak," finished Yuffie.
"How sad," commented Kairi.
"I'd still like to know more about your key blade,' said Leon.
"It gets stronger with each heartless I kill. Satisfied?"
"Temporarily."
"We should probably leave and let Riku get some rest," suggested Aeris and ushered Donald and Goofy out of the room.
Leon picked Cloud up and followed. Zidane, Yuffie, and Cid left as well.
"You know I never really thought about it."
Kiara raised a quizzical brow.
"That the reason Riku's just lying here is that he lost his heart to the heartless," said Sora.
"And if that were true?"
"I'd hunt down and destroy who ever is controlling the heartless," scowled Sora.
"But what if," Kiara stepped away from the door and walked to the foot of the bed,' some one else took his heart and wasn't letting it go?"
"What do you mean?"
"Hypothetically, what if Riku, to save his heart, gave it to Kairi."
"Huh?"
"Would you kill Kairi to save Riku?" She whispered close to his ear.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Sora stepped away.
"Think back five years. Kairi lost her heat, but where was it?"
"Inside me.."
"What are you willing to do to save your best friend, that you condemned to the darkness?"
"Why are you saying this?" Sora stepped back again.
"I'm trying to determine what I may have to do to save him by finding out what you won't do," Kiara flicked her bangs casually. "I'll kill you, any of them, if that's what it takes."
"Why do you care about Riku?"
Kiara bowed her bead and blushed slightly and said, "He made the screaming stop."
