Night Fall
The blinding molecules of speed of light energy suddenly stopped and formed into the shapes of 3 gasping, breathing, and shaken beings. Sora, Donald and Goofy had just emerged from the energy vortex that sucked them up after obtaining the 3rd and 4th stones. The boy's yellow shoes clicked a nervous twitch after the rushing surge of his flesh forming again. "Wow talk about a wild ride that was the weirdest one" Sora replied softly.
The trio had now found themselves on top of what appeared to be an ancient castle, lined with lights, and surrounded by golden clouds. "Looks like were in old times or something" Goofy said. Slowly Donald and Sora looked around, their bulging blue eyes widening at sight of a city below them. Golden lights of beaming energy danced across the stone walls of the castle, propped under tons of steel and metallic engineering. This wasn't the past.
Donald crossed his blue sailor suit arms and huffed, "Awe phooey let's forget where we are and start finding where the last stone is". From behind a dark and insidiously sinister voice chuckled out "Then look no further wizard". The gang flipped to their backs where the voice emanated, and so did the shimmering glow of a red stone, the last red stone to be exact. Out of the shadowy dusks of darkness emerged the final cloaked stranger of death.
The last of the silvery shrouded soldiers destined to return their monstrous master, Solego the Chaos god, back home. "You got here sooner then expected, it looks like your finally learning...keyblade master Sora" the man said. Flickering flashes of white hair echoed in the reflection of Sora's angrily raised keyblade. Bravely Sora stated "Keep your distance creep. We made short work out of your buddies, and your next on our list big shot".
The man laughed "I'm glad defeating my weakling comrades gives you courage, it'll make crushing you even MORE enjoyable. But introductions are ALWAYS first. While I know you dear Sora, you know nothing of me. I am Shadow, clan master to the Order of Lost Souls". Donald and Goofy were already armed and eagerly waiting beside Sora, the red stones tucked tightly away in Sora's blue shorts. Shadow grinned "Excellent work boys.
You've brought all the stones right to me; this makes things so much more easier. Mirage, Echo, Ghost, and Zero may have all failed to collect their stones but I on the other hand am no failure". Upon the cloaked neck of Shadow, wrapped in a gold necklace was the 5th and final red stone. Once all 5 stones were formed back together and placed inside the golden necklace, Shadow will able to resurrect Solego from his ruby prison once and for all.
"Okay guys hit em with everything you got, the sooner we nail this clown the sooner we can all go home" Sora said. The keyblade silently stirred to life as Sora, Goofy, and Donald blasted an ocean's worth of energy attacks. Fire balls, lighting bolts, ice blasts, water shots, wind gusts, and other attacks rapidly pummeled clouds of shuddering explosions around Shadow. Laughter roared from the red shield surrounding Shadow, totally unharmed.
"What exactly was that supposed to do? Something like THIS" Shadow said, blasting a colossal energy blast from his dark gloved hand. The massive energy surge exploded upon impact, and sent all 3 heroes flying from the massive discharge of electrical energy. Sora, Goofy, and Donald winced, flying weightlessly in the black night sky, singing from electrical burns. Shadow laughed "Come on, don't tell me that's the best you can do boy".
Sora's blue eyes flared as he swung himself back into a flying position, his thoughts betraying him with doubt and fear, fear of how strong Shadow really is. Goofy and Donald hovered beside their leader shortly. "What are we gonna do fellas? If this guy is stronger then us, then we won't stand a chance against that Solego" Goofy said. Sora shook his head "Solego isn't coming back Goofy, he's hard all right but we already beat 4 of these guys.
All we need to do is take one more and we won't have to worry about any chaos god or anything else. Then we can finally go home", Shadow's eyes flashed bright red before blasting blood red lighting streams after Sora. The boy barely had time to deflect it with his keyblade. Goofy raised his shield and charged blindly forward, propping his shield up in front of his face. Shadow blasted beam after beam, all bouncing off Goofy's diving shield.
Donald squawked "Don't worry buddy I got ya covered". Goofy closed his eyes tight and screamed as his shield crashed down hard and fast, hoping to have had it crash right into Shadow. But the masked figure easily dodged the shield dive, leaving Goofy to crash right into the ruptured castle stone floor. Blasts of ice rained down from Donald's wand against Shadow. "Time to head south for the winter duck" Shadow cackled as he began to hover.
The phantom stranger sky rocketed like a bullet after Donald, the water fowl wizard couldn't even comprehend the incredible speed Shadow had. BAM! Shadow dished out a smashing uppercut to Donald's beak, the powerful blow literally sent Donald into the sky. Sora gasped as Donald literally flew out of sight, perhaps knocked right out of this dimension. "DONALD NO" Sora cried. Shadow grinned as his eyes leeched onto his next target, Goofy.
Another ball of energy charged in the dark gloved palm of Shadow, aiming it directly towards the weakly standing Goofy. "NO I won't let you UGH" Sora was violently bashed in the face by a powerful fist from the shadows. Shadow laughed as a black hole blast struck Goofy and instantly transported him off into the unknown. Maniacal laughter screamed from Shadow's lips as he reveled in the glorious defeat of Sora's comrades. "Ow" Sora grunted.
The trickling sight of blood dripped from Sora's chin as he rubbed it lightly, feeling the dark bruise swell upon his skin. The laughter of Shadow continued to hammer the boy's wounded spirit. Sora gasped as he felt a powerful pair of claws grab at his waist, the bag of red stones was removed. "Hey those are UGH" Sora was once again skull bashed by the mysterious brute's fist. The shadow of Sora's attacker soon took shape, it was a beast.
A beastly monster with long black hair, massive purple wings, claws on both his feet and hands, and his eyes were glowing a sinister blood red color. "Allow me to introduce Goliath Sora, my personal puppet" Shadow chuckled. The panting boy struggled to stare his weary blue eyes at the creature called Goliath; the beast did seem to be in a rather subdued state. Shadow cruelly continued, "An interesting creature don't you think Sora?
Goliath here is actually the champion of this zone, fortunately for me his muscle proved more useful then his mind. I used my dark magic to take control of Goliath, knowing full well you'd blindly follow my trail". Angrily Sora tried to slash his sword against that sickening snickering bastard, tears squeezing from his angry clenching eyes. Goliath simply grunted as the gargoyle held the struggling boy at bay, Shadow grabbed the bag of stones.
"This truly is a historic day, who would have guessed that the universe's chosen champion would bring about the end of the reality as we know it?" Shadow asked. Shadow's black gloved fingers fumbled open the string around the bag, Sora's eyes widened in horror as the red gems fell out. The fate this and every other galaxy now rested in this mad man's hands Sora thought. Goliath growled and pinned Sora's face to the ground with a shove.
All 5 red crystal shards lay in Shadow's black gloved palm, he coldly laughed at mere sight of the shimmering shattered baubles. Shadow grinned "At last, ooooooh finally at long, LONG last fate smiles upon our dark souls. For too long has our master's voice been silenced, too long has his greatness been denied by the weak minded populace, too long has his kingdom been stolen. But now his time to rise has finally come, Lord Solego's time is now.
Now COME my dark and mighty master, come oh god of chaos, come Lord Solego and let your hands stretch across infinity and beyond for all eternity". KASHANK! "NO" Sora screamed as he slashed Goliath's face with a tear jerking slice from his keyblade, the boy angrily charged Shadow head on. So many thoughts driving Sora forward, Destiny Island, Kairi and Riku, Donald and Goofy, King Mickey, all of it pounding the boy's burning heart insanely.
The fate of his loved ones rested on the strong fingers of this brave child, all of his hopes and dreams would die if he didn't end this evil right now. Shadow crunched the 5 crystal shards together; the chaos ruby flashed a surge of energy beams as raw electricity repaired the cracks. Sora's powerful keyblade literally plunged into the core of the red gem, jamming it out of Shadow's hands and into his chest. "GAH" Shadow cried out a weak gurgle.
In his all of his rage pumping blind jousting, Sora had actually jammed both his keyblade and the chaos ruby into Shadow's physical body. The masked stranger simply squeaked as he felt the silver dig deep into his bleeding flesh. FLASH! Blood chilling screams pierced the sound barrier itself as Shadow cried out in the most agonizing of voices. The keyblade and Sora were literally blasted off with a powerful blast of pure dark magical energy.
Blinding flashes of both white and dark magic circled along the night sky, lights beamed from Shadow's eyes as if burning him from within the inside. Cracks formed on Shadow's wavering body like blood vessels. Massive whirlwinds broke free from the masked stranger's form, Shadow's body literally exploded in a spectacular surge of ungodly energy proportions. For seemingly endless eons Sora was wincing his burning eyes shut so tightly.
No living soul could really say what happened next, because the blinding light of blast was too great for any being's eyes to see. But when Sora opened his eyes he had found himself on a beach. Sand dripped off Sora's bare legs and brown hair; the boy shook his head trying to recognize his new surroundings. Creaky old wooden towers, a wooden raft built for 3, a dark cave, and a palm tree with star shaped fruit, Sora's heart nearly stopped. 0
"I...I...I d-d-don't believe it...I'm h-h-h-ha I'm h-h-home" Sora whispered. The boy was precisely correct. Sora was indeed on Destiny Islands, the mysterious home where he grew up in with Tidus, Sophie, Wakka, Riku and...Kairi. Goliath, Shadow and the castle were nowhere to be seen; somehow that energy blast had transported Sora back to his home. Yellow shoes slowly stood straight up, Sora was even on the verge of crying.
But as the boy's heart felt hopes and dreams had finally seemed to come true, and his blue eyes could shed tireless tears of joy, something was wrong. Across from the crashing waves of Destiny Island and a few feet away from Sora, there stood a figure. The being was tall, drenched in shadows, sporting dark orange robes, a blood red ruby necklace, black scales, and a gator like head. The tall figure of immeasurable darkness was Solego, the chaos god.
Solego laughed "So am I".
To be continued...