FYI: This is a new chapter 4. I remade some parts, the part when Sora see's the villains. Re-did that part. Okay? Okay. Just letting you know.
Author Notes...
Me: WWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! (is sobbing histarically)
Kairi: I know you're sad about Sora, but it's your own fault.
Me: I'm not crying because I'm sad!
RIku: o.O Then why are you crying.
Me: (sniff sniff) I'm crying because of all of these excellent reviews I'm getting! I'm not worthy! I havn't even gotten flamed yet! All of these people who say my story is good.... (bursts into tears again.)
Yuffie: Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... maybe you should thank them.
Me: Oh yeah, I can! I have fifteen reviews! Thanks Yuffie! Now, thank you time! Wait... I can't get to the internet to look at the reviews because my damn step-dad is on! (and I hate him for more reasons then just one. I wish he would die.)
Leon: Why do you hate your step dad?
Me: (twitch) ask me that again, pretty-boy, and I will put you in Sora's place!
Leon: (gulp).
Yuffie: HEY! He's not your pretty boy! He's mine! Back off!
Me: Uuhhhhhhhhhh... whatever.
Warning: This chapter contains a TON of torture, so those of you with weak stomachs should not read this chapter!
CHAPTER TIME! AND SPECIAL THANKS TO ELEGANT ARROW FOR UPDATING HER STORY, BECAUSE IT IS WAY BETTER THEN MINE! IF YOU HAVN'T READ IT ALREADY, THEN READ IT!
Disclaimer: Despite the fact that I long to own Kingdom Hearts, I do not (tear drop). So don't send any damn lawyers after me! Now go away and read my fic! Which, according to others, is very good. Britt over and out.
Hotel
"Darkness wants you Sora, and it will have you. Whether you like it or not..."
The hotel turned completely black for a moment, and the light slowly returned. Malifecent had dissapeared. So had the heartless. And so had Sora.
"GOD DAMN IT!" roared Riku, his eyes blazing and anger coursing through his veins faster the the speed of light. "HE'S GONE! THEY TOOK HIM! GOD DAMN IT!"
"Sure, point out the obvious won't you," Donald snapped as he searched for potions and was trying his hardest not to let any tears fall from his eyes; he was losing. Goofy had tears pouring down his face along with Yuffie, who was helping Leon up. Kairi just stood there,crying silently. She stared at the spot where she had last seen Sora, as if expecting him to pop up from the ground with his cheesy grin. This all has to be a bad dream. He can't be gone.... if they really have him... they'll... then they'll....
"Sora!" she cried out. "You can't be gone! Come back! SORA!"
''It's no use," Leon grunted. "We're all doomed. The kid is as good as de..."
"Sora won't die! He can't!" Kairi said. More hot tears escaped from her eyes.
Mickey put a hand on her shoulder, and he turned to the others. "Sora still has a chance to live," he said. Everyone stared at him. They had given up hope already. "We may still get to him, if we get there quickly. We just need a plan.... a good one."
"All we know is that he's somewhere in Hollow Bastion," Riku said. "And we all know that place is huge. They have so many secret entrances and hidden rooms.... it would take us forever to find him, even if Yuffie and Leon know their way around."
"How can we find him?" Goofy asked. Now it was his turn to be stared at. Then again, it wasn't very odd for everyone to stare at Goofy. He never really gave up hope, especially when it came to his closest friends.
"Well..." Mickey began. "I know of one guy."
"Who?" Yuffie asked eagerly.
"The magician," he said. "He knows all the secrets of the worlds, and I'm sure he can track down Sora."
Everyone looked at each other. "Well, what are we waiting for?" Riku asked. "Let's go get him!"
"Are you sure we should waste time trying to find the magician?" Kairi asked. "It will take a while to find him, shouldn't we just use the time to look for Sora ourselves?"
King Mickey shook his head. "I'm afraid not Kairi. We will never find him without the magician's help, so we need to risk the chance. Sora's heart is the strongest I have ever seen. He cannot possibly die within a day. Or..." but he stopped short. He wasn't about to tell them what the villain's real plans to do with Sora were. That would really bring down their morals. He had been tipped off by his spies (yes people, Mickey Mouse has spies! Don't care if it's not right!).
Kairi opened or mouth to ask him to finish his sentance, but Donald cut her off. "What are we still doing here! Get on the gummi ship! We should try to find him at his house at Traverse Town." They nodded and filed out. Kairi hesitated, and turned back to the huge scorch mark that was there from when the pool of darkness had appeared and swallowed Sora up. "Hang on Sora, where ever you are. I'm coming to find you."
Torture Chamber(Here comes the part that lives up to this story's rating)
Sora creaked an eye open and groaned. His body was chained to a wall, holding him by his wrists. Idiots, didn't even bother to tie down his ankles.
The last thing he remembered was several heartless straining him back and tying him to the wall. Sora had actually putten up a pretty good fight. They had taken his keyblade away and locked it in some part of the castle. When he was chained down, Malifecent said she would be back with a surprise. Now Sora was left here, only left to wonder what the 'surprise' could be. He bet his life it was nothing good. And he may just be betting on his life in a bit.
Holy shit... holy shit... what have I gotten myself into?.... Holy shit.... I'm going to die.... what could they possibly do to me..... what sort of torture.... do I even want to know? Thoughts raced through his mind at one thousand miles per hour, and he was starting to get a headache from it all.
His eyes were starting to droop down, every bone in his body screaming for sleep. How long had he been here? He looked at his watch, but it had stopped. Something about this place had kept the hands from ticking on, driving him mad. He guessed about an hour, but he wasn't sure. He fell into a daze, but slammed his head into the wall to keep awake. But it only worked for a moment or so. The last of his strength drifted away as he fell into a deep sleep, hanging from the chains of hell.
Like, an hour or so later
Evil cackles rang through the cell. "Wake up, keybearer," a voice teased.
Sora clenched his fists together and his face paled. He knew those voices and it was then that he realized what his 'surprise' was. This is going to be hell.
He opened his eyes and looked forward with defiant eyes and his feet now planted firmly on the ground. It's them.
They just looked at at him evily; Ursula, Hook, Hadies, Jafar, Oogie Boogie, and Malifecent.
"What the hell do you want?" spat Sora. They just laughed at him.
"Why, he dares to speak to us!" Malifecnt stated.
"You should know very well what we want, keybearer," hissed Jafar.
But Sora really wasn't paying attention. He was just snapping his fingers together and opening and closing his mouth in the way that meant all that they were saying was a load of bullshit.
"Oh yeah, that's really funny!" Hadies snapped.
"Very mature," Jafar said, rolling his eyes.
"I know!" Sora said in the most cheerful voice he could muster at the moment.
"Can we please get down to business?" Malifecent snapped. She then turned with a smirk to Sora. "So, you like making fools of us, eh keybearer?"
"Yeah, pretty much." The only reason Sora was putting on this brave front was because it distracted them from hurting him. The plan was working very well at the moment.
"We're not the ones making fools of ourselves. That would be you." When Sora raised an eyebrow, her smirk just grew. "You honestly think you're on the right side?"
"Yes, I do!" Sora said. Hatred was growing inside of him, and he didn't like the feeling it was giving him. He forced it down and looked her in the eyes.
"You do, do you? So far, all the side of light has given you is limits as to what to feel. I know what you're feeling now Sora. Fear, anger.... and you don't think it's right? Who told you that? Your beloved friends? The ones who allowed you to get taken?"
"SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU BITCH!" Sora roared.
"Why should I?" Malifecent asked. "No one is controlling me... giving me rules to follow and boundries and lines not to cross. I have chosen the right path. You are making the biggest mistake of your life. If you joined us, you wouldn't ever have to suffer again."
It was then that Sora realized that their real purpose wasn't just to get their revenge. It was something more. "You're crazy if you think that I will actually help you take over!"
"Oh really?" Malifecent asked. "Are you sure about that?"
He stared at her. "More sure then I've ever felt in my life."
Anger flitted across Malifecent's face, but is was soon replaced by her old evil smile. "Fine, as you wish. But don't you remember what I said? Darkness will have you, whether you like it or not. So you can either join us now, or have us force you into it. You choose."
"Good luck with that," Sora growled. "I'll never given in to darkness!"
"Fine by us," she said. "Have fun, Hook."
And so it began.
The Gummi Ship
Donald was smoothly cruising the ship through deep space, with Goofy at defense and keeping up their power. Normally, Sora was in charge of weapons, but since he was no longer here, Leon took the job. The rest of them sat in silence, just thinking the worst possible thoughts... Was Sora dead?
They landed a half an hour later and walked through the world exit and into the town square. But something was very wrong here. No one was around. Not a whisper could be heard through out the enire town.
"Whatever is going on here, I'm willing to bet it's not good," Aerieth mumbled. No one said anything, but they all agreed. They took a few steps in, the sound of their footsteps echoing. Then, a ring of wiggling black dots enclosed them and they watched in fear as they formed tons of little black creatures. The humans took their fighting stances as the heartless came at them. They slashed at the foe, but wern't really getting anywhere.
"God damn," Leon called. "I knew you said there would be a few heartless left, Mouse, but this is getting a bit out of hand!"
King Mickey was too busy fighting to listen and make a come-back to Leon. Yuffie had borrowed one of Donald's magical staves and was now shooting fire spells at them. Yuffie used her starblades to send slicing through them. Leon took charge at them with his sword, Goofy with his sheild, and Mickey with his keyblade. But it was just as useless as it was at the hotel; more and more just kept on coming.
"We need to get to the Magicians house!" Aerieth yelled over the noice. The group ran through the mess to second district, carving a path through the heartless. When they finally got to the swampy, heartless-free zone of the Magicians house, they were all out of breath and gulping down potions to heal themselves.
They made their way across the moving rocks, Goofy falling into the water several times before he finally got there. Not bothering to knock, they walked inside.
The room was not covered in furniture, tables, and other homely things as it usually was when the Magician was home. It was just old boards with little light.
King Mickey walked in a bit further. "Magician?" he called. A figure appeared in the corner of the room, flashing with bright light that went through the whole room and stayed there, giving it a safer feeling. But it wasn't the magician.... it was the fairy godmother.
"Hello," she said pleasently. "What brings you here?"
"This place is crawling with heartless and you ask us why we're here?" Riku asked.
The fairy godmother raised an eyebrow at him. "I'm quite sure that even you wouldn't be stupid enough to try and just go out and kill them one by one." She turned away from the now angry white-haired boy and to King Mickey. "I presume this has something to do with the second door?"
"We wish," Mickey said. "Y'see, they've taken Sora to Hollow Bastion. And you know why. " Both of their expressions tuned dark as everyone else just sat there, completely confused. "There are so many secrets there, we wouldn't know where to begin lookin'. So do you know where the magician is? We figure he might know."
The fairy godmother sighed. "Knowing the secrets of Hollow Bastion won't help."
"Why not?" King Mickey asked.
"The answer is not in any deep, dark secret, King. It lies within your heart."
"Well, how do we get it out of our hearts?"
The Godmother giggled. "That, I cannot tell you."
Aerieth sighed. "Can't you just go and get the magician? We are wasting time, and we don't have any to spare."
"Well, I'm afraid the magician's not here," she said. "He went looking for you, sire. He is at the Disney Castle."
Kairi hit herself on the head repeatidly; they were wasting so much time! Yuffie grabbed hold of Kairi to stop her from hurting herself, and they started to make their way to the door. King Mickey turned around and called "Thank you,"
"I did you no favor," she said. The answer does not lie within anyone but you. Just follow your heart." And with that, she dissapeared, taking the light with her.
After battling their way to the gummi ship, they set a course towards Disney Castle and took off. Some heartless tried to hang onto the roof, but they were soon blown off when the ship went into hyperspeed.
"What if...." mumbled Kairi. "What if we don't make it there in time?"
Riku put his arm around her (In a brotherly kind of way you idiots!). "Don't worry, we'll find him. No matter what. I promise."
Torture Time, Cover Your Eyes
All of the villains stalked out of the room except for Hook, who was giving Sora an evil look that he really didn't like.
"So, brat, you thought you could get away from us?" Hook asked, slashing him across the arm. He then stuck his hook into the flap of skin and yanked, causing to rip itself rom the rest of the body. Sora bit his lips and controlled the scream that was surfacing in his throat.
He continued to make various slashes across his arms and chest and face, making him bleed. But Sora still refused to scream.
Hook just smirked and plunged the hook into his chest, and twisted it around. He brought it up and yanked, ripping his skin from the inside out. Sora grunted from the pain, but did not scream. He couldn't scream, that would be a way of showing him that he was winning.
"God damn it, you're not indestructable!" Hook yelled. "Scream or something!"
Sora just smirked at him, earning him a hard hit across the jar with the hook. Sora groaned, and his eyes burned with hot tears that were threatening to fall.
"Listen you little twirp..." Hook said. Sora didn't look at him; big mistake. He dug his hook into his chin and hooked it under the jawbone and pulled forward. This caused Sora's head to jerk forward, following the will of the looked that was in it. "We are offering you the chance of a lifetime. You can join us now and save yourself the rest of the pain. You won't ever have to worry again, and you could rule!"
"How come I have the feeling that you're going to be the one who rules, and I'll be the little puppet who got you there," Sora growled, spitting blood out along with the words. ''No way in a lifetime am I going to come to you willingly."
Hook growled and ripped down at the skin. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of black liquid and splashed it on Sora. It stung like hell.
Hook smirked. "That'll stop the bleeding," he said evilly. "But it won't help the pain any." And with an evil laugh, he clunked off, leaving Sora hanging, limp from pain, from the chains of his own personal hell.
Gummi Ship
They were within half an hour of Disney Castle. Everyone was thinking of the fairy godmother's words, but none talked about it. What did she mean by the answer lies within your heart? No one could figure it out, and it was driving them crazy with all of this suspense. Damn fairies, you can never get a sraight answer from them.
It was then that it happened. Kairi grasped her hand over her chest in pain, yelling out. Mickey quickly put the ship on auto-pilot and rushed over to her along with everyone else.
"Kairi, Kairi what's wrong?" Mickey asked. But Kairi could answer she gasped as pain swamped her in waves from her heart. But somehow, she knew where it was coming from.... and why.
"Sora...." she grunted. "Something's wrong.... terribly wrong." She shook slightly as the pain ebbed away as quickly as it had come.
She stood up on trembling legs as Yuffie and Goofy helped her into a chair.
"What's wrong with Sora?" King Mickey asked. "What happened?"
Once she regained control of herself, she spoke. "I could feel it, in my heart. He's in pain. I don't know what theyre doing to him, but I can tell. He won't last long."
King Mickey frowned and looked outside. He knew that they wouldn't kill Sora yet, they still needed him But still, what would happen if Sora did give in? After all, he was only fifteen years old....
But the King's thoughts were interupted by Riku's angry voice.
"That's it!" Riku yelled. "You need to tell us what they really want with Sora and you need to tell us now!"
Mickey took a step back from him in shock. No one had really ever said anything like that directly to him. He sighed. Might as well get this over with.
"Well, since the leaders of the Heartless are back, they obviously want to accomplish what they wanted before.... they want to harness the ultimate darkness which can now only be found behind the second door. But of course, Sora was able to defeat them, and thus they dissapeared. But is seems they have been reborn from the darkness of the second door. Now they seek to harness the power of it. With that power, they will be able to rule all worlds. But they cannot open the door, not with out one very important detail...."
"Sora," Kairi said quietly.
Mickey nodded. "Yes, they need the key to open the door."
"But then, why don't they try and kidnap you and use your keyblade? Why Sora?" Leon asked.
"Well, our keyblades our very different. Sora's keyblade can unlock, and mine locks. They need it to unlock, so that is why they need Sora. Also, mine is the King Keyblade. It has the power of the kings, and holds a different power then Sora's. When a new king is ready, their keyblades will switch, and he will hold the King Keyblade."
Then, to everyone else, he said, "We'd better get moving if we are planning on getting to Disney Castle."
Donald walked up to the controls. "Buckle up everyone, I'm going to be trying to cut our speed in half." Everyone rushed into their seats and buckled up; there was nothing more dangerous then an angry Donald with a hyperspeed button.
Torture Place Thingy
"So, have you decided yet?" a voice called through his mind. Sora's eyes creaked open to see Malifecent standing there, already wearing her triumphant smirk. Damn her.
Sora had just finished off with his lesson with the evil witch of the sea. She had strangled him with her tenticles and sent electricity at him with Tritan's staff which she had 'borrowed' for the occasion. But when she had her tenticles around his chest, crushing him, she had made the mistake of leaving the Tridant right by the side of his face. He had thrown his head forward and hooked it under the bottom part of the spear end of the Tridant and slammed it into her tenticle, cutting it clean off. She was dangerously close to becoming a squid. But she had take her revenge by attaching the suckers of her remaining limbs and stuck them to his exposed skin, and sucked small holes of his skin off. OUCH!
"I've told you, I'm not giving in. Bitch."
This made her anger heighten, and she summoned dark green enrgy to the end of her staff and sent it slamming into him. He whimpered pathetically, but it was drowned out by the rushing sound of the blast. It felt as if millions of ice cold needles were stabbing themsekves into him.
When she finally stopped, Sora was gasping for breath. His jaw ached from him clenching his teeth so much. He blinked the blood from his eyes and just glared at her. "I'm not giving in. You can do what you want with me, but I'll never give in! My heart is too strong for you!" He coughed, sputtering up some blood from his hurt lungs.
"Silence!" she snapped. ''If you will not learn obedience, then perhaps you will need more lessons." She smirked. ''Let me see how you do with Jafar.'' And with that, she walked off.
Sora closed his eyes in pain. Tears of pain would not stop coming down, and his vision blurred. He drifted off into an uneasy slumber.
Dreams
Sora opened his eyes and expected to see Jafar there, ready with some new system of in-human torture. But what he saw was the complete opposite. He was in some kind of feild, surrounded by bright green trees that held nothing but peace. The sky was a baby blue with clouds scattered every here and then, all forming some unique shape and never coming in the way of the sun that spread warm light over the rolling grass. His hurts were gone as he walked through the long grass. He couldn't help but feel relaxed. Then a sudden thought hit him. Am I dead?
"You're not dead, you lazy bum." Sora turned around to see the owner of the voice. It was Kairi. He was shocked, and only came back down to his sences when Kairi got him with a bone-crushing hug.
"KAIRI!" he cried, hugging her in return. They broke apart in a few minutes, slightly embarressed by their actions. They sat down on the springy soft grass; it felt like lying on clouds.
"Sora...." Kairi said quietly. He looked over at her and saw a serious expression. "I know what they're doing. You can't give in. That's why I'm here. You just can't give up hope, don't go to the darkness."
Sora shuddered. "But... it hurts... so much. I can't stand the pain much longer."
"Sora, you're stronger then that!" Kairi insisted. "You heart can pass physical endurance!"
"But my body may not survive! I can die any moment now! And I won't be able to come back!" he exclaimed. "And where are all of you? I thought you would have found me by now."
"We know," Kairi said. "We're going to the Disney Castle right now, we'll find the magician! He will help us find you and...."
But Sora was just shaking his head at her, smiling sadly. "There is no entrance as to where I am," he said. "You can't find where I am with directions or a map."
Kairi began to cry again. "Then how can we find you?" she cried out.
Sora tucked his hand under her chin and wiped away her tears away with hiw thumb. Then he smiled swetly at her. "You know where to find me," he told her.
She wore a puzzled expression on her face. "No, I don't."
"Yes, you do," he insisted. "You're directions are right here." He took her hand and placed it over her heart. "Just follow your heart."
The world was starting to blur. "We must be waking up," Sora said.
"But Sora!" Kairi cried. "I still don't understand!"
"Follow your heart!" he called. They were drifting apart.
"But..." It was then that she understood. Her last glimpse of Sora, that last look into his eyes, told her everything.
Back to the World of Reality
"Kairi, wake up!" someone exclaimed. She jolted up. They had landed outside Disney Castle and were looking at her.
"Get this thing back up in the air!" Kairi cried. "Get to Hollow Bastion! Quick!"
''But Kairi..." Mickey said. "we don't know where he is, I thought we already established this!"
"No, I understand it now!" she told them. "In my dream, Sora told me! He was there! He's in danger, and he needs our help! Don't worry, I know where he is! He told me to follow me heart, and thats where he is! Trust me!"
Ta Da!
Me: Well, how did you like it? Too sappy? Too much torture? Not enough comedy? Too much seriousness? Just tell me in a review and I will fix it!
Kairi: Come on guys, let's go get Sora!
Leon: What the hell do you mean follow your heart?
Yuffie: Where's Sora?
Sora: Hi guys!
All: SORA!!!
Sora: YUP!
Riku: But, we thought you were kidnapped!!!
Sora: Yeah, in the story! But this isn't technically part of the story! So I can talk to you guys here!
Kairi: So, let's go find you in the story!
Leon: Where are you anyways?
Sora: Kairi knows! She'll show you!
Riku: Damn it.
Yuffie: Don't you know where you are? o.O
Sora: Eerrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... not really. I kinda forgot.
All: --
Me: You'll find him eventually.
Sora: Good. And I'd better get paid for this torture thing.
Me: I'M NOT PAYING YOU!
Sora:
Me: Review!