---Sora53: Happy 4th of July to all of our American readers!
Corita: Couldn't you have made this chapter longer? Getting your heart attacked by Ansem's guardian isn't exactly painless...
Sora53: Meh. Deal with it. You have a contract.
Fans: Hey, Corita, these cookies you made are actually pretty good!
Corita: -deep blush- Thank you...
Riku Fangirls: -crazed sobs- Riku...possessed...darkness...gone...-sob-
Sora53: Whatever.---
Disclaimer: For the 50th time (wow...50...) I don't own Kingdom Hearts, but I own Corita! DEAL WITH IT!
Sora stared at it, tranfixed by the mysterious door that had haunted his dreams that day on the Destiny Islands long ago.
"Sora? What is it?" Corita asked him.
"There! Listen!" He said, quieting Corita. A voice was indeed ringing in his ear; it seemed so familiar to him.
"Careful. This is the last haven you'll find here." The voice said quietly. "Beyond, there is no light to protect you. But don't be afraid. Your heart is the mightiest weapon of all. Remember," the door continued, "You are the one who will open the door to the light."
"I don't hear anything." Donald said, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Strange...that voice was so familiar. Maybe it's just my imagination."
"Maybe you'd better take a rest!" Goofy said to him.
"No." Sora said defiantly, staring at the door. "We've got to defeat Ansem."
"So open up the door!" Corita said, now tapping her foot along with Donald. Sora grabbed onto the handles of the door, and pulled them gently open.
The room was suddenly flooded with a bright, blinding light. Sora felt himself being pulled forward through the door, and they were thrown onto solid ground once again.
"Ugh...Sora, why did you open the door?" Corita asked as she pulled herself off of the sand. The sun was beating down on them, yet the ocean's cool breeze kept them cool.
"Corita..." Sora said very slowly as he stood up and looked around. Corita stood up next to him, looking around as well, not daring to belive her eyes.
"Is this...is this our island?" He asked.
"I don't know..." Corita said, trembling.
Behind them, Donald was feeling much less emotional. He was spitting out a mouthful of sand while Goofy started building a sand castle.
"C'mon, you two!" Sora said to them as he and Corita continued to absorb their surroundings.
"What is it? Where are we going?" Donald groaned as Sora grabbed his wing and started pulling him.
"To where this all began." Sora said simply.
"The Secret Place." Corita said as she grabbed Goofy's arm.
They proceeded towards the Secret Place and were about to enter it until a voice stopped them.
"This world has been connected."
"What was that?" Goofy cried, whirling around.
"Tied to the darkness...soon to be completly eclipsed."
"Those words...he said them to me before..." Sora muttered to himself as he finally understood something.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
"Well, isn't he nice." Corita muttered through gritted teeth.
"A meaningless effort." Ansem's voice said as the island began to rumble and they were surrounded by a blast of white light. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing."
As the bright light began to clear, Sora and Corita found themselves not on the islands they once knew, but a horrifically twisted version of their old home. They seemed to be floating in space, the ground underneath the sand had become purple and cracked, strange trees and huge purple cliffs rose from the ground, and a huge crater had appeared far back in the island where their home had been on the true islands long ago.
Whirling around and looking at this terrible sight, the twins also spotted something something down by the seashore; Riku stood in his clothes of darkness, staring out to sea.
"C'mon. Time to teach Ansem a lesson." Sora said boldly as they ran to see him. They climbed down off of the small areas rising out of the ground, and ran towards the severly cracked ground upon which Riku stood.
"Take a look at this tiny place." Ansem said, speaking from who appeared to be Riku. "To the heart seeking freedom, this island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy sought out to escape from this prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds, and he opened his heart to darkness."
Ansem finished speaking, and he turned around to face the group that had reached him, and were now in battle position. As he turned, Riku's face was swallowed by darkness, and Ansem stood where Riku's body had been.
"Riku!" Sora cried as Riku was swallowed by the darkness.
"Don't bother." Ansem said to Sora in a cruel, cutting voice. "Your voice can no longer reach him where he is. His heart belongs again to darkness! All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, it grows, consumes it! Such is its nature." Ansem said with a slight smile. "In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came!" He said as he vanished from in front of them and reappeared behind them. The group turned quickly to face him and lept backwards.
"You see," he continued, "Darkness is the heart's true essence."
"That's not true!" Sora said, interrupting Ansem. Corita, Donald, and Goofy didn't think it wise to interrupt the self-proclaimed King of Darkness while he was ranting, but they let him speak, as what he was saying was very true.
"The heart may be weak, and sometimes, it may even give in. But I've learned, that deep down there's a light that never goes out!"
Ansem slowly began to rise into the air, his orange eyes still piercing into Sora's sky blue eyes.
"So, you have come this far, and still you understand nothing." Ansem whispered, his voice dangerously soft. "Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness!" He roared, and a dark blast erupted behind him. A Heartless creature was right behind him, his guardian of darkness.
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"Get up, Donald!" Corita cried as she cast a cure spell on him.
"I'm up, let's go!" Donald muttered as he pulled himself up and ran after Ansem. Corita followed after him, and the battle continued.
Ansem, still being the self-proclaimed King of Darkness, wasn't very kind when it came to battling. His guardian made matters worse, as it defended Ansem and blocked many of their attacks.
"SORA! WATCH OUT!" Corita cried as Ansem's guardian glowed black and flew away from Ansem.
"Why?" He asked as the guardian flew towards him.
"LOOK BEHIND YOU!" She cried as she cast another cure spell on Donald.
"Huh?" Sora said, turning around, but he was too late; Ansem's guardian flew into Sora and attatched itself to him.
"What the heck?" Sora cried as he was surrounded by darkness and Ansem flew towards him, surrounded by a cage of energy.
"Come, open your heart..." Ansem said softly as he and his guardian attacked Sora at the same time.
"C'mon, you two!" Corita cried as Donald and Goofy ran in to help.
Ansem and his guardian were going a decent job of grinding Sora to a pulp; without Corita, Donald, and Goofy, he probably would have been. Sora's face showed that he was in a great deal of pain, even though no cry came from him. Eventually Ansem's guardian released his grip on Sora's heart and flew back to rejoin his master.
"Are you okay?" Corita asked as Sora stood on the sand, panting.
"I think so..." Sora said as he tried to catch his breath.
Ansem and his guardian flew back over to them, hovering menacingly above the twins.
Corita stared straight up at Ansem, protecting her brother. "You leave him alone!" She cried daringly.
"Corita...no offence, but I wouldn't say stuff like that to him." Sora said as Ansem's face broke into a grin.
"Oh, look who's talking, Mr. Inspirational Speech." Corita whispered to him. Ansem's guardian, in this split second, flew away from Ansem and latched onto Corita.
"CORITA! PAY ATTENTION!" Sora cried, leaping away from her as a dark light surrounded her.
"Huh? WHA!" Corita cried, looking down at the darkness surrounding her heart.
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After everyone being attacked by Ansem's guardian, all four of them were feeling tremendously weak. His guardian had sapped them of their power, and their items in their stocks were currently running low. However, even Ansem had a limit for the time being, and he was thrown back into the giant crater that had been created before. There, he floated, waiting to be followed.
"Okay, stock up on items again." Donald quacked quietly. He'd been the latest to suffer Ansem's attack and wasn't regaining his strength like the others were now.
"Here Donald, drink this." Goofy said, tossing him an elixer. The others drank an elixer as well, and everyone was feeling much better.
"Everyone ready?" Sora asked. "All right, let's go!"
Sora led the group towards the crater where Ansem had been waiting. Sora lept in first, but a invisible barrier blocked out Corita, Donald, and Goofy.
"Hey! No fair!" Corita said, kicking the barrier hard with her foot. This only made matters worst, however. Now, not only could she help Sora, her right foot was in a great deal of pain.
"Look!" Goofy said, pointing into the crater. Sora was staring up at them, but he didn't have much time to talk. At that moment, the ground began to rumble once again, and Sora's shadow began to warp. It rose from the ground and towered over him.
Sora looked up at it and took a single nervous step back. However, he'd faced Darkside before...he knew what to do...
"Oh, Sora!" Corita moaned, peering through the barrier as he slashed at Darkside. "DON'T YOU TWO CARE?!" Corita roared as Donald and Goofy jumped.
"Well, things like this happen all the time." Donald said truthfully.
"This is Sora's battle, not ours." Goofy explained.
"I guess you're right." Corita said sadly as she sat next to her friends and watched the battle progress. Sora quickly made Darkside vanish in an eruption of dark light, and Ansem re-appeared where Darkside had been standing, an evil grin on his face.
"HE HAS TO FIGHT ANSEM ALONE!?" Corita screamed at Donald and Goofy, who were also staring down into the crater in disbelief.
"NO FAIR!" Donald cried.
"Get em, Sora!" Goofy cheered.
"SHOW HIM WHAT THE KEYBLADE WAS MADE FOR!" Corita yelled, and Sora nodded towards them. Sora clashed with Ansem, and their battle commenced.
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The Keyblade Master had a bit of trouble during this fight, but Corita kept healing him from the sidelines, followed by a scowl from Ansem. Sora kept getting hit by Ansem's guardian, but he found that by attacking Ansem, the guardian swiftly retreated to protect its master.
This battle, for some reason, seemed much shorter than the previous battle. Ansem didn't seem to want to fight as much. When he saw that Sora was still in high spirits and ready to fight, he gave another evil grin and vanished into the darkness.
"Where'd he go?" Sora asked. The others shrugged their shoulders.
"He could've at least left instructions on how to get out of this stupid crater..." Sora mumbled.
Sora, however, didn't have time to escape. A huge flash of darkness erupted from the crater, swallowing all of them. They were pulled into the darkness, and saw no more.
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---Sora53: Meh. What a nightmare for me. About 53290 boss battles in a row, and guess who doesn't like to write boss battles?
Fans: Um...you.
Sora53: Very good!
Sora Fangirls: Oh no!!!!!! SORA MAY BE HURT!
Joe: Um...Corita?
Corita: What now?
Joe: I just want to say...it was so brave of you to stand up to Ansem like that....-deep blush-
Corita: Meh...stupid fanboys...---
Corita: Couldn't you have made this chapter longer? Getting your heart attacked by Ansem's guardian isn't exactly painless...
Sora53: Meh. Deal with it. You have a contract.
Fans: Hey, Corita, these cookies you made are actually pretty good!
Corita: -deep blush- Thank you...
Riku Fangirls: -crazed sobs- Riku...possessed...darkness...gone...-sob-
Sora53: Whatever.---
Disclaimer: For the 50th time (wow...50...) I don't own Kingdom Hearts, but I own Corita! DEAL WITH IT!
Sora stared at it, tranfixed by the mysterious door that had haunted his dreams that day on the Destiny Islands long ago.
"Sora? What is it?" Corita asked him.
"There! Listen!" He said, quieting Corita. A voice was indeed ringing in his ear; it seemed so familiar to him.
"Careful. This is the last haven you'll find here." The voice said quietly. "Beyond, there is no light to protect you. But don't be afraid. Your heart is the mightiest weapon of all. Remember," the door continued, "You are the one who will open the door to the light."
"I don't hear anything." Donald said, tapping his foot impatiently.
"Strange...that voice was so familiar. Maybe it's just my imagination."
"Maybe you'd better take a rest!" Goofy said to him.
"No." Sora said defiantly, staring at the door. "We've got to defeat Ansem."
"So open up the door!" Corita said, now tapping her foot along with Donald. Sora grabbed onto the handles of the door, and pulled them gently open.
The room was suddenly flooded with a bright, blinding light. Sora felt himself being pulled forward through the door, and they were thrown onto solid ground once again.
"Ugh...Sora, why did you open the door?" Corita asked as she pulled herself off of the sand. The sun was beating down on them, yet the ocean's cool breeze kept them cool.
"Corita..." Sora said very slowly as he stood up and looked around. Corita stood up next to him, looking around as well, not daring to belive her eyes.
"Is this...is this our island?" He asked.
"I don't know..." Corita said, trembling.
Behind them, Donald was feeling much less emotional. He was spitting out a mouthful of sand while Goofy started building a sand castle.
"C'mon, you two!" Sora said to them as he and Corita continued to absorb their surroundings.
"What is it? Where are we going?" Donald groaned as Sora grabbed his wing and started pulling him.
"To where this all began." Sora said simply.
"The Secret Place." Corita said as she grabbed Goofy's arm.
They proceeded towards the Secret Place and were about to enter it until a voice stopped them.
"This world has been connected."
"What was that?" Goofy cried, whirling around.
"Tied to the darkness...soon to be completly eclipsed."
"Those words...he said them to me before..." Sora muttered to himself as he finally understood something.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
"Well, isn't he nice." Corita muttered through gritted teeth.
"A meaningless effort." Ansem's voice said as the island began to rumble and they were surrounded by a blast of white light. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing."
As the bright light began to clear, Sora and Corita found themselves not on the islands they once knew, but a horrifically twisted version of their old home. They seemed to be floating in space, the ground underneath the sand had become purple and cracked, strange trees and huge purple cliffs rose from the ground, and a huge crater had appeared far back in the island where their home had been on the true islands long ago.
Whirling around and looking at this terrible sight, the twins also spotted something something down by the seashore; Riku stood in his clothes of darkness, staring out to sea.
"C'mon. Time to teach Ansem a lesson." Sora said boldly as they ran to see him. They climbed down off of the small areas rising out of the ground, and ran towards the severly cracked ground upon which Riku stood.
"Take a look at this tiny place." Ansem said, speaking from who appeared to be Riku. "To the heart seeking freedom, this island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy sought out to escape from this prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds, and he opened his heart to darkness."
Ansem finished speaking, and he turned around to face the group that had reached him, and were now in battle position. As he turned, Riku's face was swallowed by darkness, and Ansem stood where Riku's body had been.
"Riku!" Sora cried as Riku was swallowed by the darkness.
"Don't bother." Ansem said to Sora in a cruel, cutting voice. "Your voice can no longer reach him where he is. His heart belongs again to darkness! All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, it grows, consumes it! Such is its nature." Ansem said with a slight smile. "In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came!" He said as he vanished from in front of them and reappeared behind them. The group turned quickly to face him and lept backwards.
"You see," he continued, "Darkness is the heart's true essence."
"That's not true!" Sora said, interrupting Ansem. Corita, Donald, and Goofy didn't think it wise to interrupt the self-proclaimed King of Darkness while he was ranting, but they let him speak, as what he was saying was very true.
"The heart may be weak, and sometimes, it may even give in. But I've learned, that deep down there's a light that never goes out!"
Ansem slowly began to rise into the air, his orange eyes still piercing into Sora's sky blue eyes.
"So, you have come this far, and still you understand nothing." Ansem whispered, his voice dangerously soft. "Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness!" He roared, and a dark blast erupted behind him. A Heartless creature was right behind him, his guardian of darkness.
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"Get up, Donald!" Corita cried as she cast a cure spell on him.
"I'm up, let's go!" Donald muttered as he pulled himself up and ran after Ansem. Corita followed after him, and the battle continued.
Ansem, still being the self-proclaimed King of Darkness, wasn't very kind when it came to battling. His guardian made matters worse, as it defended Ansem and blocked many of their attacks.
"SORA! WATCH OUT!" Corita cried as Ansem's guardian glowed black and flew away from Ansem.
"Why?" He asked as the guardian flew towards him.
"LOOK BEHIND YOU!" She cried as she cast another cure spell on Donald.
"Huh?" Sora said, turning around, but he was too late; Ansem's guardian flew into Sora and attatched itself to him.
"What the heck?" Sora cried as he was surrounded by darkness and Ansem flew towards him, surrounded by a cage of energy.
"Come, open your heart..." Ansem said softly as he and his guardian attacked Sora at the same time.
"C'mon, you two!" Corita cried as Donald and Goofy ran in to help.
Ansem and his guardian were going a decent job of grinding Sora to a pulp; without Corita, Donald, and Goofy, he probably would have been. Sora's face showed that he was in a great deal of pain, even though no cry came from him. Eventually Ansem's guardian released his grip on Sora's heart and flew back to rejoin his master.
"Are you okay?" Corita asked as Sora stood on the sand, panting.
"I think so..." Sora said as he tried to catch his breath.
Ansem and his guardian flew back over to them, hovering menacingly above the twins.
Corita stared straight up at Ansem, protecting her brother. "You leave him alone!" She cried daringly.
"Corita...no offence, but I wouldn't say stuff like that to him." Sora said as Ansem's face broke into a grin.
"Oh, look who's talking, Mr. Inspirational Speech." Corita whispered to him. Ansem's guardian, in this split second, flew away from Ansem and latched onto Corita.
"CORITA! PAY ATTENTION!" Sora cried, leaping away from her as a dark light surrounded her.
"Huh? WHA!" Corita cried, looking down at the darkness surrounding her heart.
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After everyone being attacked by Ansem's guardian, all four of them were feeling tremendously weak. His guardian had sapped them of their power, and their items in their stocks were currently running low. However, even Ansem had a limit for the time being, and he was thrown back into the giant crater that had been created before. There, he floated, waiting to be followed.
"Okay, stock up on items again." Donald quacked quietly. He'd been the latest to suffer Ansem's attack and wasn't regaining his strength like the others were now.
"Here Donald, drink this." Goofy said, tossing him an elixer. The others drank an elixer as well, and everyone was feeling much better.
"Everyone ready?" Sora asked. "All right, let's go!"
Sora led the group towards the crater where Ansem had been waiting. Sora lept in first, but a invisible barrier blocked out Corita, Donald, and Goofy.
"Hey! No fair!" Corita said, kicking the barrier hard with her foot. This only made matters worst, however. Now, not only could she help Sora, her right foot was in a great deal of pain.
"Look!" Goofy said, pointing into the crater. Sora was staring up at them, but he didn't have much time to talk. At that moment, the ground began to rumble once again, and Sora's shadow began to warp. It rose from the ground and towered over him.
Sora looked up at it and took a single nervous step back. However, he'd faced Darkside before...he knew what to do...
"Oh, Sora!" Corita moaned, peering through the barrier as he slashed at Darkside. "DON'T YOU TWO CARE?!" Corita roared as Donald and Goofy jumped.
"Well, things like this happen all the time." Donald said truthfully.
"This is Sora's battle, not ours." Goofy explained.
"I guess you're right." Corita said sadly as she sat next to her friends and watched the battle progress. Sora quickly made Darkside vanish in an eruption of dark light, and Ansem re-appeared where Darkside had been standing, an evil grin on his face.
"HE HAS TO FIGHT ANSEM ALONE!?" Corita screamed at Donald and Goofy, who were also staring down into the crater in disbelief.
"NO FAIR!" Donald cried.
"Get em, Sora!" Goofy cheered.
"SHOW HIM WHAT THE KEYBLADE WAS MADE FOR!" Corita yelled, and Sora nodded towards them. Sora clashed with Ansem, and their battle commenced.
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The Keyblade Master had a bit of trouble during this fight, but Corita kept healing him from the sidelines, followed by a scowl from Ansem. Sora kept getting hit by Ansem's guardian, but he found that by attacking Ansem, the guardian swiftly retreated to protect its master.
This battle, for some reason, seemed much shorter than the previous battle. Ansem didn't seem to want to fight as much. When he saw that Sora was still in high spirits and ready to fight, he gave another evil grin and vanished into the darkness.
"Where'd he go?" Sora asked. The others shrugged their shoulders.
"He could've at least left instructions on how to get out of this stupid crater..." Sora mumbled.
Sora, however, didn't have time to escape. A huge flash of darkness erupted from the crater, swallowing all of them. They were pulled into the darkness, and saw no more.
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---Sora53: Meh. What a nightmare for me. About 53290 boss battles in a row, and guess who doesn't like to write boss battles?
Fans: Um...you.
Sora53: Very good!
Sora Fangirls: Oh no!!!!!! SORA MAY BE HURT!
Joe: Um...Corita?
Corita: What now?
Joe: I just want to say...it was so brave of you to stand up to Ansem like that....-deep blush-
Corita: Meh...stupid fanboys...---