I decided to go on ahead with this chapter, seeing as how there is going to be a delay in my stories. I got in trouble... again... And now have been threatened with the computer taken away.

My apologies to reviewers. I hoped you enjoy the story. Sadly, like I said earlier, there will be delays in my next stories. So, this might be the last chapter of the entire Servants story. Please, forgive me...

Anyway, I would like to extend my apologies to animeangel and cassidy dell. I might not be able to do your requests, once you send me your ideas. If I can manage it, it'll be a long, painful process if the threats are taken place.

So, I would like to say I now that I have enjoyed your reviews. They gave me the inspiration I needed when I felt down and unable to continue.

The warnings are the same. Yaoi, slavery, abuse... etc.

Riku, Sora, Kairi, Leon, Hollow Bastion, and other Kingdom Hearts-related content is copyrighted by SquareEnix and Disney. I'm not entitled to them in any way, shape, or form.

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Servants, Obey Thy Masters

Chapter Twelve: Hidden Brute Force

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"Is everything ready for the attack?"

Pale eyes of blue looked intently at the knights of the kingdom. A feral grin traced her precious features, giving the child an evil ambiance of deceit and maliciousness. She knew what she needed to do for full power, which was only hours away from her fingertips. She heard a shuffle of metal armor moving as the knights glanced around each other before smiling viciously at her. "We are ready when you say so..." they answered her in a monotone drone as if they had no soul deep under their metallic guard. She placed her hands on her lithe hips with a mischievous movement. Her teeth were bared with a demonic smirk and she tilted her head opposite of her jutted-out hip. "Good... send word to the others... we attack at sunset..."

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Sora opened his eyes drowsily, immediately closing his eyes at the sun's bright rays stinging his sight. He mumbled sleepily about how much he hated mornings to a still-sleeping Riku, who had turned slowly after Sora withdrew from his embrace. He headed towards the dresser, pulling out a new set of silk-based clothes and proceeded to wake Riku up. He placed a small hand on the well-built shoulder and shook it lightly, hoping to get a response. "Riku... c'mon, it's time to wake up," the heir whispered, getting a groan and having his hand pushed away. Glaring playfully at the elder teen, Sora readied himself to a stance, preparing to jump. He then pounced when he heard Riku's soft snoring continue and began to yell. "Riku! Wake up!" Sora screamed, tackling Riku awake. Riku jerked, gasping for air when he felt a light, yet surprising weight on top of him. He glanced sideways, rolling revengefully over to smother the younger boy. After several moments of muffled screams and writhes, Sora finally stopped his struggle. "Will you get off now?!" Sora asked sweetly after moving his head for a desperate need for air. Riku shrugged, unsure whether or not he wanted to move. Riku decided on not moving and stretched his arms and legs out before snuggling up, leaning his head back to go back to sleep.

"Riku!" Sora yelped, feeling more weight being pressed against him. He growled angrily, struggling against the greater weight of the man above him. Soon, Sora found Riku sleeping once more and pushed him off of his smaller frame, getting a snort from the silver-haired male. Sora then got up from the bed once again and began to change. Shedding off his bed garments, he began to put on his daily clothes of white silk and silver jewelry. He looked at one piece, a necklace that he was given by a servant who had found it in his mother's old things up in the storage floor two levels up. He felt him tear up like he had the day he had found the truth of his birth and he clutched the necklace in his fist, feeling the pendant of a thrice-pointed crown dig arduously into his skin. He sighed, holding the necklace close to his chest, as if trying to communicate with his mother through the silver. The cinnamon-haired prince felt liquid fall down his cheeks agonizingly, and he sniffed repeatedly as he sat down on the edge of the bed, placing his face in his hands. The pendant caressed his heated cheek coldly, but soothingly... he felt deprived of so much, yet he had more than most could only dream of...

"Sora?"

Sora looked over his hands to find Riku's soft expression staring worriedly at him. The elder wrapped an arm around Sora's waist, pulling the sobbing child closer to him. "Is something wrong? Did I hurt you?" Riku asked delicately, rubbing the heir's back like he had the night before. He was concerned that Sora had been injured when he had playfully rolled on top of him. He hadn't meant to do any harm; he was just playing around. Unfortunately, he had forgotten the physical differences they both had... "No... it's... not that," Sora sniffed as he spoke, laying his head on Riku's shoulder as he breathed softly. "I... just..." Sora clinched his eyes closed, realizing the intensity of the situation. He was going to be forced to marry a girl he barely even knew, he now knew the truth about the tense relationship between him and the king, and now... worse of all... he was going to be stripped away from Riku.

"Riku... I want to give you something..." Sora whispered, his voice rasped from his swollen throat. He took Riku's arm and pulled it where he could see the hand open to take an object. Reluctant to part with one of his only remembrances of his mother, Sora sluggishly placed the sterling necklace into Riku's palm, placing a hand to his mouth as he trembled with the shock of removing the pendant from his possession. "I-it was my mother's..." Sora whispered through his fingers, closing Riku's fingers around the necklace. "Now... it's yours..."

"Sora...."

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Sora and Riku were summoned once more into the Main Hall to have a meeting with the kings of the two kingdoms and Kairi. Halfway through the hallway, Sora stopped, shivering at the sly glances he was receiving from the Hollow Bastion guards. "Riku...." Sora whispered under his breath, nervously staring back at the chuckling guards. Riku gawked at the sight also, having the same suspicions that the sable-haired boy was having deep in his mind. "I know..." Riku answered, leaning his head down to Sora's level of hearing. "They're up to something..." Sora nodded agreeably, trudging towards the large doors of the Main Hall with a newly-found indolence. As they approached the guards that Riku and Sora were familiar with, Sora spotted Leon, and waved shakily. "Good afternoon, Leon," Sora said, bowing respectably. Riku followed suit, lowering his upper torso to show respect to the other kingdom's bodyguard. Leon smiled, appreciative of the two, repeating the notion towards them. "Good afternoon, Prince Sora... Riku..." Leon muttered, raising himself only to step out of the way of the door. Sora smiled and followed Leon inside with Riku in the tow.

"Ah, speak of the devil..."

Sora shot a 'Sora's-Tremendously-Evil/Angry-Glare' towards the king of the kingdom. Riku nudged the prince's shoulder, reminding him that they were in a public place. Sora nodded his head in comprehension. He bowed to his 'father' and to the King of Hollow Bastion. "How are you, Prince Sora?" the King of Hollow Bastion inquired, smiling a soft, wrinkled grin to the boy. Sora smiled back, wishing deep down that if the king he known all these years to be his father was just as kind and caring. The senior king was someone that Sora felt comfortable around, like Riku had when they had first met... Sora leaned forward to bow towards Princess Kairi afterwards, forcing a smile on his façade. He personally didn't care for her... she just seemed too... diabolical for his tastes. Kairi grinned right back, then twisted her head to Riku and smirked darkly. "You know... I remember when I dared your friend to stay on that island..." Kairi then put on a 'sympathetic' emotion, scraping the crimson rug with her shoe and hanging her head in shame. "I'm sorry about that... I didn't know the consequences..."

"Oh, save your stupid, fake sympathy. You and I both know you meant it..." Riku growled to her, his eyes narrowing to small slits. He hated Kairi with a purple passion deep with the bottom of his stomach. He wanted nothing more than to use that old phrase 'punishment to fit the crime', Why not make her go through what Wakka had to go through five years ago? Why not make her beg and plead for mercy when being beaten by the guards he had done so many times? Why not strip her away from her home and force her to get on her hands and knees to scrub the floors? He grinned ferociously, imagining the torture she could go through if given the chance... Sora, however, to naïve to understand the true ways of abusing people, could never grasp why Riku was gawking that way towards Kairi.

However, to retort Riku's comment, Kairi waved her hand, dismissing his fury. "You won't be saying that much longer... considering that everything... is now in place..." Kairi leered like a predator ready to pounce and slash at her fear-filled prey. Riku's eyes widened tremendously as she pointed outside where the sun was setting across the sea-ridden horizon. He saw several large war-ships positioned around the kingdom, ready to demolish anything and everything in their enormous path. "Wh-what is this!?" Riku blurted out loudly, catching everyone's attention. Sora, too, was staring horrified towards the open window, shaking from the mere sight of it all. Kairi then walked to the window, holding up her hands and yelling at the top of her lungs; "This kingdom must fall! Let the wrath of Hollow Bastion purge Kingdom Hearts with the very tools they gave us! Betray your king, and obey your new queen!" There was a distant bellow of the men cheering on their new 'queen' and the King of Hollow Bastion gaped at his daughter. "Kairi! How can you do this to them?! How can you do this to me!?" He asked, pleading for a reply from his offspring. She did nothing but stare at him as if he were a stranger to her, her eyes ready to blow flames at them all. "Because, father... I refuse to marry just to obtain power! So... I decided to take the most powerful kingdom while they were so unknowing of the threat I am!" Kairi screamed, an explosion sounding in the background. Smoke rose into the air like a bloodied-battle cry while fire lit up the nighttime's darkness. "Now... prepare yourselves... for the coming of Hell!!"

"Riku! Sora! Come with me!"

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Riku stared in bafflement at the chaos around him. Fire flicked at the air dangerously while smoke covered the sky with a heavy blanket of sulfur and carbon dioxide. Sora was latched onto his arm, fear filling his now darkened orbs staring blankly into the violence around him. The artillery from the ships of the evil witch, 'Queen' Kairi, had destroyed most of the outer structure of the castle. Leon pulled Riku's free arm out of the line of falling debris that had broken off of the tower above them. A loud crash rumbled behind the three males who, at that current moment, were trying to escape the turmoil that used to be Kingdom Hearts... "Why is she doing this?!" Riku yelled over the crashes and explosions that were trying to ruin the grand empire that Riku and Sora had called their home. Leon, however, was trying his best to navigate all of them through the destruction around them. He knew it was only a matter of time until the entire dominion collapsed on itself... and if they were trapped inside, it was a sure death.

"Didn't I tell you that she is worse than she was when you knew her?! She's not satisfied being second-in-command! She wants it all!" Leon roared over the discord that wrapped itself around them. Riku was glancing around him, trying his best to find an exit that wasn't barricaded by the raging flames. Sora whimpered with fear and anxiety, doubt of their safe escape running through his mind. He clutched Riku's arm harder and felt a quick kiss being placed in his hair. He glanced up to smile when he saw more debris break off of the wall above them, starting to descend down to crush them under its harsh weight. "Riku! Leon! Move!" Sora shrieked in horror, letting go off Riku to push him into Leon so they would fall away from where the debris would land.

All Riku remembered was Sora's eyes growing wide and two hands forcing him away from where he was standing. Riku got off of Leon, apologizing to the bodyguard for falling on him. He then turned to thank Sora for saving him when he was met with a horrific sight; No Sora... but a pile of rubble in his place... Riku blinked before the truth came into his slowly-generating mind. He twitched as tears rushed to his eyes gaping at the agonizingly painful scene. He stumbled over from the trauma of the event taking place... it churned in his head with a crackling spasm and he opened his lips to scream.

"SORA!!!!"

Riku grunted rigidly towards the pile of fallen, jagged stone, flinging his arms forward harshly to pull every large piece of rock off of the lithe body he just knew was under the wreckage. After several minutes and an ever-growing second pile through the smog and blaze, Riku panted abruptly, tiredness taking over his burning muscles. Leon kept going, able to take more than Riku. After a few moments of catching his breath, Riku attacked the rubbish of cracked cobblestone once more, persistence to find Sora impetuously running through his blood stream. He lifted one stone, gasping so unexpectedly that the small boulder fell and rolled onto the tiled floor with a clash. Leon stopped all movement when he saw what Riku gazing at. The teen fell to his knees with no thought coursing through his sanity. The dirty, leather-clothed male saw stupor reach Riku's aquamarine eyes as teardrops streamed down his face, his body riveted in place.

"Riku, I-"

A pale hand was stretched across the pieces of debris, scratches and sanguine decorating the diminutive appendage. Torn silk limply covered the wrist connected to the hand, which Riku had taken a hold of finally after retrieving some sense. He groaned in lament, grazing the skin with his thumb... So many beloved memories were playing repeatedly in Riku's mind. Everything was shown to him; his mother, his father, the people of his island... Sora... The silver tresses Riku was adorned with blew slightly as the inferno around him increased in height. He closed his eyes lightly, digesting it all over again... trying to find some flaw in his nightmare that might being the former heir back. But it just didn't seem possible...

"Sora... you can't be gone..."

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The End

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::whistles:: Oh, uh... hi! I, um, guessed you noticed that I ended the story. I... hmm... I'm in even more trouble, aren't I? Whoops...

Anyway, prepare yourself for this, seeing as this is truly the end of Servants, Obey Thy Masters. ::gasps:: Can you believe it? Was it distasteful? Was it very satisfying!? ... I don't want to ask...

Well, bai, ya'll! I wish to see all of my audience soon!