I'm baaack! Yep! I'm sortta all better. Sorry to leave you on a cliff...I just love pulling those..heheh...
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Riku Shirumoni- I know who those people are! Yay!
A Word To All- There seems to be some confusion..so I'm sorry if my writing is...errr...weird...but anyways. Riku's heartless has eaten the hearts of Wakka, Tidus, and a random bird. So far anyways...heheheheh...
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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of it's characters. Thus is why it is called a FANFIC
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN: DARK SNOW
Riku woke up the next morning with a painful headache. He looked around the room and found that everyone, except Cloud, was asleep. Cloud looked up at Riku from where he was sitting beside Leon and the two girls. "Good morning Riku," he said to Riku, his voice was bland and his face was expressionless.
Riku slipped out of his bed and put on some shoes. "I'll be back later," he told Cloud. He began to head towards his window when Cloud stopped him.
"Where are you going?" Cloud asked him, he seemed a bit worried.
Riku looked at him and then looked down at the floor. "I don't know. To think I guess," he answered.
"You can't jump out of the window. Mind if I tag along?"
"Sure."
Cloud helped Riku climb out of the window and then the two began walking down the street in silence.
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Sora woke up and found himself tied up on the floor. "What's going on?" he asked as he looked around the cave.
Ansem walked over to him and sat down beside him with an evil grin on his face. "Don't worry. You're not hurt yet," he answered.
Sora glared at him then remembered Riku. "Riku! What did you do to Riku?" Sora screamed, demanding an answer.
Ansem only smiled, he didn't feel like telling Sora the extent of his plans. Nobody other than him really knew what they were.
"Why did Cloud help you? Isn't he supposed to protect Riku?"
Ansem began to laugh. "Protect? Nothing I told you to give him was for protection. They will all lead to his death," he answered evilly.
"No! You can't."
"Slowly he'll become so tired and he'll submit easily."
"Riku!"
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Riku and Cloud were standing near the boats, wondering if they should go to Destiny Island or not. The storm was directly above them now, and it didn't look very safe. Cloud leaned against a boat and stared at Riku. "Hey Riku," he mumbled.
Riku looked up at him and decided they weren't going to the island. "We won't go," he told Cloud. "Or is it something else?"
Cloud shook his head. "It's nothing," he answered. The two stood around for a bit before Riku began heading back to his house with Cloud close behind. "Riku, you look tired. Did you get any sleep last night?" Cloud asked, he was now concerned.
"Couldn't sleep."
Once the two returned to the house they entered Riku's room just in time to catch Sephiroth drinking one of the bottles of poison Riku had hid underneath his bed. "Hi guys!" Sephiroth laughed before passing out on the ground.
Riku ran over to him and began to poke Sephiroth in the face. "Are you okay?" he asked. "Seph! Wake up!"
"He's not going to," Cloud mumbled as he picked up the bottle Sephiroth had drank from. "Neither are the others." He pointed to the closet and inside were all the presents sleeping soundly. "It's a sleeping potion."
Riku stared at the three left over bottles for a moment before drinking them all at once.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Cloud screamed as he snatched the empty bottles from Riku. "You could get sick!"
"At least I'll fall aslee-" Riku couldn't finish his sentence before he also fell asleep on the floor.
Cloud squatted down beside him and patted Riku's head. "You poor thing. This is all my fault. If I was only stronger..."
"If you were stronger you wouldn't have fallen victim to my power. Is that what you were about to say?" a familiar voice asked. Cloud turned around to find Ansem standing beside the bed. "It's your purpose."
Cloud clinched his fists. "Why is Seph able to fight it?" he asked.
"He's stronger," Ansem answered as he walked over to Cloud and then waved his hand in front of Cloud's face. "Sleep now."
Cloud couldn't fight it, he again fell victim to Ansem's magic. Ansem turned to Riku and smiled. "The time is now," he laughed. "My plan may have worked out different than I'd expected, but at least it will have the same result." Ansem picked up Riku and then faded away.
A few minutes later everyone woke up and noticed Riku was missing. Sephiroth turned to Cloud and grabbed him by the neck of his cloak. "So, you wanna tell me why you helped Ansem?" he asked coldly.
Cloud looked away as Leon began to speak. "We knew you were bad news the first time we met you. Aerith's words told everything. You remember what she said. "Cloud, why are you here." That told me you weren't any good."
"Good job figuring that out," Cloud groaned.
"Cloud couldn't help it!" Aerith shouted at Leon and Sephiroth. "We all came from that black book, so we all made promises so that Ansem couldn't use us to hurt Riku. Cloud didn't harm Riku at all, so Ansem was able to control him."
Sephiroth let go of Cloud and nodded. "You're right, we have to go and save him." As if on cue, Cloud and Sephiroth disappeared.
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Ansem placed Riku on the ground beside Sora. "Now Sora, watch your friend become a heartless," Ansem laughed to Sora.
Sora tried to struggle free from the ropes but failed, all he could do was watch as Riku's heartless appeared and slowly approached his sleeping friend.
Cloud and Sephiroth appeared beside Ansem and were amazed to find Riku and Sora together. "What's going on?" Cloud asked as he watched the heartless stand on Riku's chest. It was then that the heartless dug it's hands into Riku's chest and pulled out his shining heart.
"Hey!" Sora screamed. He didn't know what was happening, but he knew it wasn't any good.
The heartless grinned at Sephiroth and Cloud as they tried to grab the heart from it. It merely jumped out of the way and then ate the heart. The room became quiet as they all watched the heartless turn into a dark form of Riku. It walked over to the real Riku and pulled the heart necklace off of his neck and devoured it. After that it's shape changed and it no longer resembled Riku, but a demon with giant horns and wings.
"Behold! The heartless Riku!" Ansem laughed. Suddenly the Riku heartless grew four extra arms, now having six, and in each hand was one of the Keyblades Sora had given him. Ansem grinned and turned to Sephiroth and Cloud. "You know what your jobs are, keep everyone away from Riku and Sora."
Everyone found themselves on the beach. They were still on the island, but no longer in the secret place. Sora was untied and standing with Cloud and Sephiroth who were staring at the Riku heartless in wonder.
"Kill Sora!" Ansem ordered the giant heartless.
"What?" both Cloud and Sephiroth shouted in shock. "Why?"
"Both Riku and Sora can hold the Keyblade. If Riku can't then Sora can, if Sora can't then Riku can. If they are both dead, nobody can hold the Keyblade, which means nobody can stop the heartless and I."
"Sephy! Cloud" a female voice screamed. Yuffie and the rest of the presents were running over the scene when they were stopped by the two men. "What are you doing?" Yuffie asked in anger. Seeing that Riku and Sora were in danger.
"You can't pass. I...I cannot allow you to disturb them," Sephiroth replied sadly.
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Sora watched the heartless move towards him. "What are you running from Sora?" it asked, using Riku's voice.
"You're not Riku!" Sora screamed loudly as he stepped away from the advancing heartless.
"You're wrong. That is Riku," Ansem laughed. "Riku's heart was stronger than the heartless that devoured it. Thus his heart took complete control of it's body. A heartless body and a whole lot of darkness made your friend what he is now."
Sora shook his head and the heartless laughed. "He can't be!" Sora cried.
"As much as I'd love to watch this, I must go and tend to some things," Ansem told them before fading away.
The heartless continued to stare at Sora. "Aren't you going to attack me?" it asked.
Sora shook his head. "I couldn't," he replied."
"Then I'll hunt you!" the heartless roared and then lunged towards Sora striking him with one of the Keyblades. Sora fell to the ground and clutched his wound. The Riku heartless had hit his arm and though it wasn't bleeding, it still hurt. Sora stood up and began to run away from the heartless. After a few minutes of running he realized that the heartless was slower than him. So he decided to take the time and hide. He saw a small bush and knew he could fit in it, but before he could jump in something touched his shoulder.
"Ahh!" he cried before someone slammed their hands over his mouth. It was none other than Aerith. Sephiroth and Cloud walked over to Sora, as did Leon and Yuffie.
"Sora, I apologize," Cloud said sadly.
"Why don't we help you save Riku's heart," Sephiroth suggested.
Sora looked at Sephiroth in confusion. "Aren't you guys under his control?" he asked.
"Not anymore. Aerith helped us," Sephiroth answered.
"Thanks!"
"No problem. Does anyone have a plan?"
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Wowowowow....That was kinda corny...I think...Oh well! Corny is funny right!? Okay...I be truthful...Whaa! I feel like it's going down!! You know, becoming really bad! I sure hope not! Alright, R&R!!