disclaimer : if I owned KH, I wouldn't be writing this... --__--
Darkness Within by rin_lockheart
Cloud, followed by Yuffie, Leon and Aerith, headed into the darkness of the hallway a little uneasily. It was dark and extremely difficult to see, which made them all a bit nervous. Their footsteps echoed loudly throughout the large domain, which just added to the nausea
Yuffie unconsciously wrapped her arms around herself. 'This sucks,' she thought. 'The only way it'd be worse is if the hallway was smaller.' She glanced at the wall to her right and noticed that every so often, there'd be a column sticking out of the wall. Each column had intricate designs on it that made Yuffie think of her home. She mentally kicked herself. 'Can't think of home now!' she scolded herself. 'I'll just get all wimpy and run away when the guys really need me!'
The hallway seemed to go on forever. All anyone could see ahead of them was hallway.
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Sora was sprawled out on the bed, as he had been when Riku left him. He didn't even bother to get up and look for his cloths; Riku would just be taking them off later anyway if he put them on, so he might as well leave them be.
The brunette sat up anyway and looked himself over. He had at least one bruise on each part of his body and his lower region still hurt from Riku's earlier ministrations. How could he have allowed himself to become so weak? That, he didn't know the answer to. Sora didn't think he wanted to either.
Sora resisted the erge to cry pitifully; he could hardly believe he had any tears left to shed. If only Cloud was there, he'd make him feel better...
'Oh, great,' Sora thought bitterly. 'Now I'm thinking about HIM..! This is all I need...'
Although what was left of Sora's pride wouldn't let him admit to a physical need of the blonde swordsman, in his heart he knew that he was attracted to him. Almost... in love, you could say.
A great surge of fear shot through him as Sora felt an icy presence in his mind. He had felt it back in Leon's hideout in Traverse Town as well, when Riku had spoken to him.
*Sora...* came Riku's voice, sounding more than a little ticked off. *You were thinking about him, weren't you..?*
"Y-yes.." came Sora's stuttered reply.
The small boy heard a low growl in his mind. *We'll just have to fix that, now won't we?*
The icy presence left his mind, but the fear gripped Sora as tight as it could making salty tears run down his face.
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After what seemed like an eternity, Cloud, Yuffie, Leon and Aerith found a door at the hallways' end. It was as tall as the hallway itself, spreading almost as wide.
Cloud walked up to it and pushed. He was rewarded with a groan from the doors' bolts as they swung open.
The room behind the door was large and circular. It had a pillar in the center that was also carved to perfection. Cloud looked around and noticed a group of about seven young women standing in a group chattering about something. The blonde walked up behind them.
"Did you see the boy Riku dragged in here the other day?" one of them asked. She had long black hair and wore a short, blue top and extremely baggy matching pants. A golden tiara rested atop her head.
"You mean the one with the chop of brown hair on his head?" another asked. She had short blonde hair kept up by a black band. Her long blue dress swayed at her feet when she moved.
"That's the one!" said yet another young woman. This one had brown hair pulled back out of her face with a bun. Her long golden dress brushed the floor. "He looked a bit too skinny, though. Do you think he was eating properly?"
Cloud noticed that Yuffie, Leon and Aerith came up behind him, them too listening.
"I thought he was kind of cute!" piped up a younger one. She looked to be about eleven or twelve with shoulder length blonde hair and knee length blue dress with a white apron over it.
"I didn't see him!" another younger one said. She had short auburn hair and wore a white tank top that looked like it had a black one underneath of it. She had a short purple skirt with a small slit up the side. She had a band of deep purple on her left bicep and a gold one on each of her wrists. A black choker gripped tightly to her neck and a pair of white, blue and purple clogs adorned her feet.
Cloud cleared his throat loudly and all seven women turned around and looked at him the others in his group. There were two that hadn't spoken; one had short black hair and a blue and yellow dress. The other one had longish blonde hair and a long violet dress.
"Who are all of you?" asked the one in the violet dress.
"Cloud," the swordsman said.
"Yuffie!" the ninja said, raising her hand in the air.
"I'm Aerith," the flower girl said, bowing. "Nice to make your acquaintance."
Leon stood there silently, gazing around the room broadly. Yuffie elbowed him in the ribs. "Leon!" she exclaimed. "Don't be rude!"
"Whatever," he said.
Cloud sighed. "His name's Leon. He's always like this."
"Yup," Yuffie added. "He's always an ass!"
Aerith nodded.
"Anyway," Cloud said, interrupting the girls' fun. "Your names are..?"
The woman in the long violet dress curtsied. "I am Princess Aurora," she said. "It is nice to meet you."
"I'm Jasmine," said the woman in the sort blue top. "Princess Jasmine to you. I come from Agrabah."
The girl in the knee-length blue dress stepped forward. "My name is Alice!" she said, smiling. She then shook Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon's hand, in that order, right after each other. "I'm from England! Lovely, isn't it?" She stopped smiling suddenly. "I was kidnapped in Wonderland and now I'm here."
"I am Snow White," said the one in the blue and yellow dress. "I am a princess too!" She sighed sadly. "I was taken away from my home and brought here."
The only brunette in the group smiled at Cloud. "Bell is my name. I was taken away from my home, as well." She continued to smile at the blonde man.
"What?" he asked her indignantly.
Bell shook her head. "Oh, it's nothing." She gazed at him thoughtfully. "It's just that I have a very good feeling about you."
He nodded. He hadn't the faintest idea as to why the woman thought that...
The short haired blonde in the long blue dress took his hand and shook it. "I'm Cinderella," she said, smiling. "I was to be married to a prince, but I'm here instead!" She giggled sadly. "I'm in a very bad spot."
The auburn haired one came up and shook his hand next. "I'm from a far away island. I've been here since it got..." She swallowed nervously. "...destroyed." She let go of his hand and looked him in the eye. "I've been trying to get out of here so I could look for my friends but..." She swallowed again. "..it seems there is no way out. Before you got here, we couldn't even budge that door. We've all been way to nervous to leave through there." She pointed to an archway behind her. "We get food twice a day, but the weird thing is that it just appears in that archway. We've all been way too scared to go through it."
The other women nodded in unison.
"Cloud," Leon said suddenly. "Isn't that the way we have to go?"
The blonde looked at him and nodded. "He's right. That's where we're going." He took a step towards it. "And we really need to be going about now. Let's go guys."
Leon followed him without a word of goodbye to the princesses.
Aerith and Yuffie waved at the women. "Like he said, we gotta go!" the ninja said as she took off after the two men. "Bye!"
"Goodbye," Aerith said. She turned to leave but stopped. She turned to the auburn haired girl. "We didn't get your name."
"Kairi," she said. "It's Kairi."*
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Sora screamed out in pain. Riku thrusted onto him violently and forcibly, not at all gently.
He lay on his front, as before, Riku forcing himself in and out of the younger boy. Sora tried to smother himself in the pillow. He just couldn't take it anymore! The pain was going to drive him insane before Riku was ever finished with him.
But Riku wouldn't let him die in peace.
The platinum haired youth flipped the brunette over on his back and kissed him savagely. Sora whimpered in protest, but Riku only left his lips and traveled down to his throat and neck. There, he bit down, teeth digging into the flesh as sure as any knife would have. Sora cried out as Riku stuck his tongue into the wound, licking up the blood. The younger boy tried to push him off but it was in vain.
"S-stop..!" the brunette cried.
Riku licked it once more, which caused Sora to cry out again. "But you taste so good," the platinum haired youth whispered seductively.
"J-just leave m-me alone..!" Sora was fighting back the erge to cry.
Riku got off of him and instead decided to lie beside him. He then turned the boy so his back was to the older boys' chest. The platinum haired youth nuzzled the other boy's face tenderly, which completely betrayed the actions that accured mere minutes before. "If you insist," he whispered. "But I do wish you would be more submissive. You wouldn't be hurt half as much..." He stroked Sora's side softly.
The brunette started to cry pitifully. He cursed himself for his weakness and frailty. A choked sob that Sora didn't even know he was holding in, emerged from inside his throat. He covered his mouth with one hand, trying to prevent any more from coming up.
But, alas, his attempt was in vain as his whole body shook with sobs. He cried into his hands and Riku hugged him from behind.
"Just give in," the youth whispered into Sora's ear. "You are going to be here for a long time."
The brunette just continued crying into his hands.
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Cloud walked into the large room with a look of distaste; the walls were made of some kind of black stone, as were the floors, and a large throne sat in the center. That was about all that was in the room. Yuffie, Aerith, and Leon came up behind him.
"What a dump!" Yuffie exclaimed.
Leon nodded. "Quite."
"I guess we should keep going," Aerith said. "Right, Cloud?"
The blonde nodded. He had been looking around the room for any sighs of another door and had found only one; in the far left corner, across the room. Everyone looked to him for orders so he indicated the door. Cloud started for it and the other followed.
They were about half way across when a mocking voice drifted to their ears. "You really think you can save him, don't you, young warriors?"
The four looked to where the sound came from and saw a tall, thin woman. She had what looked to be a pair of horns on her head and a set of upturned collars. Her dark cloak mostly covered a long, dark pink skirt. One of her thin hands clutched a staff with a green orb set into the top of it. Her yellow eyes glowed with maliciousness.
"I am Maleficent," she said. "I rule the Heartless. You wish to oppose us, do you not?" Her mouth formed a wicked sneer. "Although, I do not see how you could do that, since we have the Keyblade master in our grasp."
Cloud took a step towards her, hate clear in his eyes. "Where is he?!" the blonde snarled. "Where have you put Sora?!"
The witches' sneer grew larger. "It seems I have touched on a sensitive issue. So sorry."
Cloud lunged at her, sword raised above his head, about to cut her in half. Maleficent laughed, a low cackle, as she evaded the blonde's attack. She seemingly glided across the room and stopped about fifty feet from the small group. Everyone in the said group drew their weapons and ran at the witch. Yuffie threw her ninja stars, Aerith swung her staff, and Leon slashed with his gunblade**, as Cloud did with his sword. Maleficent dodged them all.
After what seemed like hours, a hit was made; Cloud had managed to make a deep gash in her face. The witch froze, staring down at the cut as well as she could, horrified. A navyblue-ish substance bled from the wound, a large contrast to her deathly pale skin. Cloud and the other's froze as well.
"M-my face..." Maleficent stuttered. "You c-cut my... beautiful face!!" Her lips turned down in a hateful scowl as her eyes narrowed. She glared at the blonde swordsman. "You will pay," she threatened. "You will all pay!!!"
A thick swirl of black cloud surrounded the witch from head to toe in an instant. The cloud grew and grew until it was at least twenty feet high and thirty feet long. As fast as the cloud had appeared, it disappeared, revealing a large, black dragon. It had hateful glowing yellow eyes and blood red spines proceeding from its back. A long gash was indented beneath it's left eye, the only evidence that it was actually the same twisted soul.
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~fin of ch.11~
*= dun dun du~~~~uuun!!!! THE BITCH IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!! **= a gunblade (for those of you who haven't played FFVIII yet (shame on you if you haven't!!)) is a sword with a gun melded in. Sorta....
A/N : what do you think? It took me awhile to write this cuz I lost ALL inspiration. ;___; But I just told meself that, "I started this ficcy!!! So I'm gonna finish it!!!!!!!". Then I gave myself a sharp boot in the ass for yelling at myself like that. ( * . * oka~~~~aaay...) Anyway, review please! I've noticed the reviews are getting slack, so to everyone who reads this, PLEE~~~~~~~EEEAAASE REVIEW!!!!!! AND!!! I'd just like to apologies for being so slow in writing this. I've been way to lazy and I need to get off my ass and do something for a change. ^ ~ ^
Darkness Within by rin_lockheart
Cloud, followed by Yuffie, Leon and Aerith, headed into the darkness of the hallway a little uneasily. It was dark and extremely difficult to see, which made them all a bit nervous. Their footsteps echoed loudly throughout the large domain, which just added to the nausea
Yuffie unconsciously wrapped her arms around herself. 'This sucks,' she thought. 'The only way it'd be worse is if the hallway was smaller.' She glanced at the wall to her right and noticed that every so often, there'd be a column sticking out of the wall. Each column had intricate designs on it that made Yuffie think of her home. She mentally kicked herself. 'Can't think of home now!' she scolded herself. 'I'll just get all wimpy and run away when the guys really need me!'
The hallway seemed to go on forever. All anyone could see ahead of them was hallway.
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Sora was sprawled out on the bed, as he had been when Riku left him. He didn't even bother to get up and look for his cloths; Riku would just be taking them off later anyway if he put them on, so he might as well leave them be.
The brunette sat up anyway and looked himself over. He had at least one bruise on each part of his body and his lower region still hurt from Riku's earlier ministrations. How could he have allowed himself to become so weak? That, he didn't know the answer to. Sora didn't think he wanted to either.
Sora resisted the erge to cry pitifully; he could hardly believe he had any tears left to shed. If only Cloud was there, he'd make him feel better...
'Oh, great,' Sora thought bitterly. 'Now I'm thinking about HIM..! This is all I need...'
Although what was left of Sora's pride wouldn't let him admit to a physical need of the blonde swordsman, in his heart he knew that he was attracted to him. Almost... in love, you could say.
A great surge of fear shot through him as Sora felt an icy presence in his mind. He had felt it back in Leon's hideout in Traverse Town as well, when Riku had spoken to him.
*Sora...* came Riku's voice, sounding more than a little ticked off. *You were thinking about him, weren't you..?*
"Y-yes.." came Sora's stuttered reply.
The small boy heard a low growl in his mind. *We'll just have to fix that, now won't we?*
The icy presence left his mind, but the fear gripped Sora as tight as it could making salty tears run down his face.
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After what seemed like an eternity, Cloud, Yuffie, Leon and Aerith found a door at the hallways' end. It was as tall as the hallway itself, spreading almost as wide.
Cloud walked up to it and pushed. He was rewarded with a groan from the doors' bolts as they swung open.
The room behind the door was large and circular. It had a pillar in the center that was also carved to perfection. Cloud looked around and noticed a group of about seven young women standing in a group chattering about something. The blonde walked up behind them.
"Did you see the boy Riku dragged in here the other day?" one of them asked. She had long black hair and wore a short, blue top and extremely baggy matching pants. A golden tiara rested atop her head.
"You mean the one with the chop of brown hair on his head?" another asked. She had short blonde hair kept up by a black band. Her long blue dress swayed at her feet when she moved.
"That's the one!" said yet another young woman. This one had brown hair pulled back out of her face with a bun. Her long golden dress brushed the floor. "He looked a bit too skinny, though. Do you think he was eating properly?"
Cloud noticed that Yuffie, Leon and Aerith came up behind him, them too listening.
"I thought he was kind of cute!" piped up a younger one. She looked to be about eleven or twelve with shoulder length blonde hair and knee length blue dress with a white apron over it.
"I didn't see him!" another younger one said. She had short auburn hair and wore a white tank top that looked like it had a black one underneath of it. She had a short purple skirt with a small slit up the side. She had a band of deep purple on her left bicep and a gold one on each of her wrists. A black choker gripped tightly to her neck and a pair of white, blue and purple clogs adorned her feet.
Cloud cleared his throat loudly and all seven women turned around and looked at him the others in his group. There were two that hadn't spoken; one had short black hair and a blue and yellow dress. The other one had longish blonde hair and a long violet dress.
"Who are all of you?" asked the one in the violet dress.
"Cloud," the swordsman said.
"Yuffie!" the ninja said, raising her hand in the air.
"I'm Aerith," the flower girl said, bowing. "Nice to make your acquaintance."
Leon stood there silently, gazing around the room broadly. Yuffie elbowed him in the ribs. "Leon!" she exclaimed. "Don't be rude!"
"Whatever," he said.
Cloud sighed. "His name's Leon. He's always like this."
"Yup," Yuffie added. "He's always an ass!"
Aerith nodded.
"Anyway," Cloud said, interrupting the girls' fun. "Your names are..?"
The woman in the long violet dress curtsied. "I am Princess Aurora," she said. "It is nice to meet you."
"I'm Jasmine," said the woman in the sort blue top. "Princess Jasmine to you. I come from Agrabah."
The girl in the knee-length blue dress stepped forward. "My name is Alice!" she said, smiling. She then shook Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon's hand, in that order, right after each other. "I'm from England! Lovely, isn't it?" She stopped smiling suddenly. "I was kidnapped in Wonderland and now I'm here."
"I am Snow White," said the one in the blue and yellow dress. "I am a princess too!" She sighed sadly. "I was taken away from my home and brought here."
The only brunette in the group smiled at Cloud. "Bell is my name. I was taken away from my home, as well." She continued to smile at the blonde man.
"What?" he asked her indignantly.
Bell shook her head. "Oh, it's nothing." She gazed at him thoughtfully. "It's just that I have a very good feeling about you."
He nodded. He hadn't the faintest idea as to why the woman thought that...
The short haired blonde in the long blue dress took his hand and shook it. "I'm Cinderella," she said, smiling. "I was to be married to a prince, but I'm here instead!" She giggled sadly. "I'm in a very bad spot."
The auburn haired one came up and shook his hand next. "I'm from a far away island. I've been here since it got..." She swallowed nervously. "...destroyed." She let go of his hand and looked him in the eye. "I've been trying to get out of here so I could look for my friends but..." She swallowed again. "..it seems there is no way out. Before you got here, we couldn't even budge that door. We've all been way to nervous to leave through there." She pointed to an archway behind her. "We get food twice a day, but the weird thing is that it just appears in that archway. We've all been way too scared to go through it."
The other women nodded in unison.
"Cloud," Leon said suddenly. "Isn't that the way we have to go?"
The blonde looked at him and nodded. "He's right. That's where we're going." He took a step towards it. "And we really need to be going about now. Let's go guys."
Leon followed him without a word of goodbye to the princesses.
Aerith and Yuffie waved at the women. "Like he said, we gotta go!" the ninja said as she took off after the two men. "Bye!"
"Goodbye," Aerith said. She turned to leave but stopped. She turned to the auburn haired girl. "We didn't get your name."
"Kairi," she said. "It's Kairi."*
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Sora screamed out in pain. Riku thrusted onto him violently and forcibly, not at all gently.
He lay on his front, as before, Riku forcing himself in and out of the younger boy. Sora tried to smother himself in the pillow. He just couldn't take it anymore! The pain was going to drive him insane before Riku was ever finished with him.
But Riku wouldn't let him die in peace.
The platinum haired youth flipped the brunette over on his back and kissed him savagely. Sora whimpered in protest, but Riku only left his lips and traveled down to his throat and neck. There, he bit down, teeth digging into the flesh as sure as any knife would have. Sora cried out as Riku stuck his tongue into the wound, licking up the blood. The younger boy tried to push him off but it was in vain.
"S-stop..!" the brunette cried.
Riku licked it once more, which caused Sora to cry out again. "But you taste so good," the platinum haired youth whispered seductively.
"J-just leave m-me alone..!" Sora was fighting back the erge to cry.
Riku got off of him and instead decided to lie beside him. He then turned the boy so his back was to the older boys' chest. The platinum haired youth nuzzled the other boy's face tenderly, which completely betrayed the actions that accured mere minutes before. "If you insist," he whispered. "But I do wish you would be more submissive. You wouldn't be hurt half as much..." He stroked Sora's side softly.
The brunette started to cry pitifully. He cursed himself for his weakness and frailty. A choked sob that Sora didn't even know he was holding in, emerged from inside his throat. He covered his mouth with one hand, trying to prevent any more from coming up.
But, alas, his attempt was in vain as his whole body shook with sobs. He cried into his hands and Riku hugged him from behind.
"Just give in," the youth whispered into Sora's ear. "You are going to be here for a long time."
The brunette just continued crying into his hands.
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Cloud walked into the large room with a look of distaste; the walls were made of some kind of black stone, as were the floors, and a large throne sat in the center. That was about all that was in the room. Yuffie, Aerith, and Leon came up behind him.
"What a dump!" Yuffie exclaimed.
Leon nodded. "Quite."
"I guess we should keep going," Aerith said. "Right, Cloud?"
The blonde nodded. He had been looking around the room for any sighs of another door and had found only one; in the far left corner, across the room. Everyone looked to him for orders so he indicated the door. Cloud started for it and the other followed.
They were about half way across when a mocking voice drifted to their ears. "You really think you can save him, don't you, young warriors?"
The four looked to where the sound came from and saw a tall, thin woman. She had what looked to be a pair of horns on her head and a set of upturned collars. Her dark cloak mostly covered a long, dark pink skirt. One of her thin hands clutched a staff with a green orb set into the top of it. Her yellow eyes glowed with maliciousness.
"I am Maleficent," she said. "I rule the Heartless. You wish to oppose us, do you not?" Her mouth formed a wicked sneer. "Although, I do not see how you could do that, since we have the Keyblade master in our grasp."
Cloud took a step towards her, hate clear in his eyes. "Where is he?!" the blonde snarled. "Where have you put Sora?!"
The witches' sneer grew larger. "It seems I have touched on a sensitive issue. So sorry."
Cloud lunged at her, sword raised above his head, about to cut her in half. Maleficent laughed, a low cackle, as she evaded the blonde's attack. She seemingly glided across the room and stopped about fifty feet from the small group. Everyone in the said group drew their weapons and ran at the witch. Yuffie threw her ninja stars, Aerith swung her staff, and Leon slashed with his gunblade**, as Cloud did with his sword. Maleficent dodged them all.
After what seemed like hours, a hit was made; Cloud had managed to make a deep gash in her face. The witch froze, staring down at the cut as well as she could, horrified. A navyblue-ish substance bled from the wound, a large contrast to her deathly pale skin. Cloud and the other's froze as well.
"M-my face..." Maleficent stuttered. "You c-cut my... beautiful face!!" Her lips turned down in a hateful scowl as her eyes narrowed. She glared at the blonde swordsman. "You will pay," she threatened. "You will all pay!!!"
A thick swirl of black cloud surrounded the witch from head to toe in an instant. The cloud grew and grew until it was at least twenty feet high and thirty feet long. As fast as the cloud had appeared, it disappeared, revealing a large, black dragon. It had hateful glowing yellow eyes and blood red spines proceeding from its back. A long gash was indented beneath it's left eye, the only evidence that it was actually the same twisted soul.
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~fin of ch.11~
*= dun dun du~~~~uuun!!!! THE BITCH IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!! **= a gunblade (for those of you who haven't played FFVIII yet (shame on you if you haven't!!)) is a sword with a gun melded in. Sorta....
A/N : what do you think? It took me awhile to write this cuz I lost ALL inspiration. ;___; But I just told meself that, "I started this ficcy!!! So I'm gonna finish it!!!!!!!". Then I gave myself a sharp boot in the ass for yelling at myself like that. ( * . * oka~~~~aaay...) Anyway, review please! I've noticed the reviews are getting slack, so to everyone who reads this, PLEE~~~~~~~EEEAAASE REVIEW!!!!!! AND!!! I'd just like to apologies for being so slow in writing this. I've been way to lazy and I need to get off my ass and do something for a change. ^ ~ ^