~*Broken Rainbow*~
By:Digitaldreamer
Chapter ten:What is fear?
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Me: Whoa! Guys, check it out! It's the new chapter! And it took me less then three months to update! YAY!!!
Cast: WOOOOOOT!!!
Me:So anyways, time a for a pointless update to you all over how my life is going^^
Cast: YAY!
Me: So earlier this Saturday morning I was watching Yu Gi Oh, and here they are in this arc with the Noah kid (oh so awfully dubbed I might add) and the virtual world and what not. Now, I;m fine with this storyline and what not, but does anyone remember Battle City? Yeah, you know, the quest to defeat Malik and stop him from destroying the world. You know, the one on the Battle Ship? With the God cards? That hasn't ended yet -___-;;; I feel seriously sorry for anyone who just now decides to start liking Yu Gi Oh, they aren't gonna know what the heck is going on.
Yami: -___- no kidding.
Me: I mean, just think, they'll finally go back to the Malik thing and all the newbies are gonna be like "Whut? o_O"
Yugi: Yeah...
Me:..Gee....anyone remember Duelist Kingdom? You know...back with Pegasus? o_o Man, that was a loooooonnngg time ago.............................yeah, anyways, I'm done with my geek rant, review answering time!
~Celctic Guardian 7~
YAY! My limbs did not get torn off! YAAAAAAAAY! *Hands you another cookie* Don't kill me for this chapter being late too^^;;;
~Princess Swifty~
O_o Holy crap, you've turned into a CHEERLEADER! GAAAH! *hides* Here! Mountain Dew! Go read the chapter and leave me be!
~FireSparkler-00~
Yeah, I updated again. Took me like, a month, but I did it. OMG does Sora make it? Read the chapter and find out. Does Yami beat Bakura up!? Read the chapter and find out! Oh, and here's a pixi stick, your name is cool.
~soraoathkeeper~
Yaaaaay, you read RPGWorld! Congrats! You're on my favorite people list now! YAAAY! *Hands you pizza*
~Bu~
I'm sorry, I'm sorry^^ School and stuff got in the way to keep me from updating! Here, take the chocolate! The chapter's real long! Don't kill me!
~Orodruin~
Is this what I think it is? *rubs eyes* It is! I'm almost done with typing chapter 10 of Broken Rainbow, and you're about to read this! YAY! *Hands you a cookie* And no, keep your snow, I don't think Sora will enjoy it for much longer.
~AeRiS dOnO~
Ohhh crap....*Is about to hand you a million bucks but stops* Hey...wait...You CAN'T kill me, cause you don't know where I live! MWA HA HA HA HA! Which means I can just not update for nine months, and it wouldn't matter, cause you can't come and kill me! MWA HA HA HA! *proceeds to make fun of you* *suddenly a large knife falls from the sky and lands inches from Crys's face, with the words "from Aeris Dono" printed on it* GAAH! *Hands you a cookie* *runs to update*
~Jhaylin~
Me too, me too...course, with my love for angst...who knows, mwa ha ha ha. *hands you a pencil* Enjoy the chappie.
~crystal-chan~
I know, I know, not much angst^^;;; I'm sorry! This one should have some! I can't believe you actually adore me. o__o My writing is CRAP man! But hey, you like it, so who am I to complain? *hands you a cookie* Enjoy the chapter.
~ElegantArrow64~
Wow, this update only took one month, I must be losing my touch.....ah well, I hope you get your inspiration for your fic back, here's some pizza, enjoy the chapter!
~Sakura-Starfire~
WOW! YOU JOINED BDE!? *High fives you* AWESOME! I can't WAIT to RP with you! *hands you Sora's crown necklace* This chapter is long, enjoy it!
~star's dreams~
YES! mwa ha ha ha! There ya go, control of the muse 101. *hands you a bar of chocolate just like the pizza*
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Yami: *sighs* This fic is going to go on forever.....
Yugi: *sighs as well* No kidding
Me: *grins* And just think, we're hardly even in the beginning!
Yami & Yugi: *groan*
Me: Anyways, I don't own Yu Gi Oh or Kingdom Hearts or any other anime and video games that should appear in this fic (trust me, there's more to come) Now on with the chapter!
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(Okay, suggested listening music ish still People of the North Pole.................what? Stop staring at me like that! So I'm a sucker for pretty music! Stop that!)
Sora let out a grunt as his gloved hand gripped around outcropping above him. Sweat was beading his forehead from exertain as he hauled himself up to another ledge upon the cliff wall. Sora sat on his knees and panted, trying to catch his breath. An icy gale blew past him and the keybearer shivered, rubbing his arms.
"Geez it's cold." He said to himself, summoning a small flame into his hand and attempting to gain some warmth from it. "I really should start wearing long-sleeves."
Sapphire eyes gazed down to see the progress he had made. He was probably about mile or two up, the ground nothing but white below.At first things hadn't been too though, he's climbed a hill and came to a trail that wrapped round the foot of the mountain. He'd followed it, only having to deal with a few jumps here and there. Then the trail had ended and he'd been freeclimbing up the ledges that slowly went up. But now he was facing sheer cliffs with a only a few narrow footholds and ledges carved into the sides.
"I miss my wings." Sora grumbled, pushing himself to his feet and flexing his fingers to get some feeling back into them. He looked up, trying to see how far away the top of the moutain was. The cliff he was climbing was so steep he couldn't see the top. Sora groaned and walked over to the wall to find another handhold.
Slowly the keyblade master began to make his way up the cliff. 'Don't worry guys. I promise I'll get through this.' Sora thought to himself.
A crumbling sound came to his attention. "ACK!" Sora quickly jumped up and grasped another handhold just as the former outcropping of rock crumbled away to become pebbles that fell to the snowy ground far below.
The brunette gulped. "That could have been me..." He murmered, countinuing his climb.
"Okay." Sora spoke to himself, easing himself over a gap. "So there's some...things....trying to take over the universe, I'm supposed to stop these things, but I'm dead cause' I had an attitude problem, and now I'm sitting here taking tests like I'm in school or something while my friends are probably mourning over me, and there's STILL the 'save-the-world' deal." At last his hand reached the top of cliff and he sighed in relief. "I swear, my life is so unreal, it could be a japanese cartoon, or an epic video game or something..." He continued as he pulled himself over the edge and his knees touched icy snow.
The brunette paused a minute or so to breath before pushing himself to his feet, an icy gust of wind carrying flakes of snow flying past him, sending a chill down his spine. Something...just felt wrong about this place. He knew snow was a thing of reality, he had heard tales about it from his friends. He knew the mountain was no illusion, or else he could not have been climbing it. The cold was real, he could feel it like a numbing knife pressing against his flesh. The sky, the wind, the grey clouds that covered the sky, they were all real. He was sure of it. Things should have seemed fine.
But if that was so, then why was Sora feeling something so utterly wrong about this place?
"Help!!!!!!!!!" A voice broke through the brunettes musings, and Sora turned his head towards the sound. "Help!" The voice cried again, nearly lost amid the blowing winds.
"Where are you!?" Sora called out, closing his eyes and attempting to see if he could sense the person. If he could with wings did that mean without them he couldn't?
It was faint, but he could feel the person, several yards away.
"Help!" The voice called again.
"It's okay I'm coming!" Sora yelled, hoping the person could hear him. "Just hold on!"
Sora followed the sense and the voice untill he came to a sharp drop off. "..How could anyone be here?" He wondered, getting to his knees and looking over the edge.
The cliff was completely vertical, only a few inches of jagged ledges jutting out here and there. And hanging from a branch coming off of one of those ledges about thirty feet down was a man dressed in Hikers clothes, some firey red hair escpaing from under his cap. The rope attached to his harness apprently had snapped. He was hanging onto the small branch with one hand, the other grasping for the ledge just out of his reach. The long arm of wood sagged under the mans weight and looked as if it'd snap at any moment.
The man looked up at Sora with pleading hazel eyes. "Help!!!! Please, won't you help me!?"
The keyblade master gulped, looking down at the man so far below, struggling to keep from falling several stories to his death.
'I would save him...but I don't have my wings. And..there's hardly any hand holds.' Sora swallowed, sapphire eyes closing. 'It's...so high up...' He backed up a bit, images from his childhood flashing through his mind.
~Flashback..yay~
A small three year old chestnut haired boy panted as he pulled himself farther up a gaint tree, pulling himself up to the highest branches.
"Sora!" The boys mother cried. "You get down from there, you'll fall!"
The boy giggled. "Mommy, I'll be fine! Don't worry!"
The women bit her lip and stomped her foot. "Young man! You get down from there this instant!!"
"But I wanna go up really high like Riku did!"
"And Riku broke his leg! Now get down from there!"
The boy laughed and countinued to climb. "I'll be okay Mommy, I'm a big boy!"
"Sora!!!"
Still the chestnut boy climbed higher, laughing to himself as he looked up at the blue sky.
"Sora!" A silver haired boy about a year older then the boy in the tree hobbled over on crutches, his right leg in a cast and a slight look of worry on his face.
"Riku?" The brunette blinked, then grinned. "I'm gonna get higher then you!!!"
"Sora get down!" The boy growled, stomping his good foot. "I don't want you getting hurt too! Dummy! Get down!"
The brunette stuck out his toungue and laughed, reaching for a higher branch. His expression of laughter turned to fear as he lost his foot hold and slipped, waving his hands wildly to try and grab something. Failing to grab anything Sora let out a cry of terror as he slipped from the tree and fell, landing with a sickening crunch coming from his right arm and leg.
"Sora!" His mother and best friend cried, running over to him as the brunette burst into tears.
~Back to reality~
Sora closed his eyes, flinching away from the edge.
"Help me!!!" The man below pleaded.
"..I can't..." Sora whispered. "I'm..scared..."
"Please help me!"
Sora shrunk away, balling up in the cold. "I'm sorry.....I can't............I'm sorry...."
'..What would my friends think of me now?' Sora wondered bitterly. '........I'm sorry guys....I just can't do it..'
~*Flashback...again......five years after first flashback*~
"Sora! C'mon, we can climb higher!" Riku grinned, pulling himself higher into one of the gaint leafy trees on Destiny Island.
Sora swallowed, pulling himself after the silver haired boy. Then he made the mistake of glancing down "..Riku..I can't do it." The younger boy whimpered, gripping the branch he was on. "I'm scared."
"Don't be scared, we'll be fine!" The six year old stated, grabbing the brunettes hand and smiling with that smile only his best friend got to see. "C'mon!!"
Sora shook his head and gripped the tree harder. "No! I can't!"
"Sora, c'mon!" Riku pleaded.
The brunette again shook his head and the older boy sighed. "Fine, let's go down." He said, helping his younger friend along. "Someday we're going to be able to climb this thing." He said.
Sora whimpered. "I'm sorry."
"Oh, it's okay. You'll be able to someday. We'll get you through this untill you're not afraid anymore." Riku smiled.
Sora nodded. "..Yeah........maybe."
Riku grinned. "We will! Say it with me!"
Sora smiled alittle. "We will..."
"Louder!"
"We will."
"C'mon!"
"We will!"
"Betcha can't yell it as loud as me!"
"We will!"
Riku smirked. "That's more like it, come here you!" The silver-haired boy laughed, pulling his best friend into a headlock and giving the smaller boy a noogie.
Sora let out a cry of protest and ended up laughing along with his friend.
~..Um..back to reality..again~
'Giving up already? C'mon Sora. I thought you were stronger then that.'
Sora's eyes narrowed and he pushed himself to his feet. " You were right Riku." He whispered. "I won't be afraid anymore." He walked back to the edge.
"Help!"
"I'm coming!" Sora reassured, pulling himself over the edge and easing himself to the nearest foothold. He summoned energy into his palm and pressed it against the icy stone wall. As he pulled his land back, a solid line of energy followed. Sora gripped this and gave it a tug. Nodding, he countinued his way down, creating the rope as he went. 'Just don't look down.'
A gale of wind blasted against the teen and suddenly Sora was blown from the wall. "ACK!" Sora cried, flashes of his fall as a boy running through his mind, He shook those away and reached out, grabbing the rope he had been creating and holding on as he was swung back to the wall. He winced as his shoulder hit the cliff wall and grabbed another outcropping.
Sora closed his eyes and breathed, concentrating on that. Finally he opened his eyes and countiued downward, finally at the same level as the hiker. "Don't worry, I got you." Sora said, grabbing the man, whom he now realised wasn't much older then he was.
"T-thank you." The teen smiled weakly. Sora smiled as well before closing his eyes and allowing the rope of energy to retract, taking him and the hiker with it to the top.
Now on solid ground Sora slid to his knees, breathing hard as the firey haired teen sat down beside him.
"Thank you." The teen said, pulling off his cap.
Sora nodded.
Then the firey haired teen grinned. "Congrats man! You just passed the test of courage!"
Sora blinked. "Wha?"
The teen grinned, his clothes changing to those of a sparkly baggy hoodie with the kanji for fire on the front and baggy jeans with a flame design, a black baseball cap pulled backwards over his firey red hair, and two flaming wings bursting from his back. Sora's eyes widened.
"Y-you're-"
"Yuu, Angel of Courage, nice ta meet ya, bro!" The teen grinned, slapping the brunette a high five. He blinked as Sora stared at him. "What!? You thought we were all Chicks!?"
Sora grinned sheepishly. "Well..yeah."
"Ah..it's tough bein' the only dude, lemme tell ya." The teen said, placing an arm over Sora's shoulder. "Course...lotsa chicks around, so I can't complain." He grinned, and Sora smiled as well. "Well, let me say. You really did well." He placed an orange gem in Sora's hand and grinned. "Good luck dude, keep it up, there's no turnin' back now."
Sora blinked. "What do you mean?"
The angels expression became serious. "Look." He said, pointing over at the dropoff they had come from. Sora blinked, walking over and looking down.
And there was nothing there, nothing but blackness. "What the!?"
Yuu sighed. "Trouble with bein' an angel. No matter what I think up, the stuff always vanishes, because it's not real. Just all in my head."
"..Huh?"
"Oh, you'll understand soon enough." Yuu said, his grin returning. "Now go on! You don't wanna be in trouble with Kimmu, trust me, happened to me. That chick's EVIL! Go!" He said, shooing the keyblade master off as he himself began to vanish.
"What? Huh!? Wait!" Sora cried, looking back as the Angel of Courage vanished in a shower of red and orange sparkles.
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Okies guys, I wanted to put this here just to make sure people read it. Okay, only two people entered the contest, and I feel bad judging over only two to be honest ^^;;;;;;; So both of em won. http://www.boomspeed.com/miracle_star/BrokenRainbowPoster.jpg This first one's by Ari Powwel, and the second one http://www.boomspeed.com/miracle_star/BrokenRainbowFanart.jpg well...I can't remember who drew it, so whoever drew it can you tell me so I know who it is?
Yeah, anyways, congrats to them, as they get to be IN this here fic! YAAAAAAAAY!!! Yeah.....need Ari and the person who drew the other pic to e-mail me at digitaldreamer2000@msn.com and tell me what they look like, what clothes they'd like themselves to be wearing, and personality. Please don't make yourself a Mary Sue though, cause I'm not putting in a Mary Sue. Yeah, anyways, CONGRATS AGAIN! Now on with the fic.
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(Okies, suggested music....lesee.....maybe crawling by Linkin Park...or Numb or One Step Closer again...meh, you choose)
Yami smirked, looking up at his former captor. "Well....you've lost the game. So I'll be taking my friends and leaving." He said calmly. "You can just stay here. I think you need a time out anyway." The former Pharaoh turned, his aura of energy dimming slightly as he began to walk through the rubble.
"Hold it right there, Pharaoh!" A voice sneered through the blackness of the shadows that were beginning to disperse.
Yami looked towards the voice, eyes narrowing. "Tomb Robber." He snarled.
Two eyes flashed an eerie blue in the blackness. "Correct, Pharaoh." The voice sneered once more, an eye of Ra flashing to life in the dark. The shadows slowly slid away to reveal the ancient spirit, an aura of midnight blue sparking around him. His silver hair blew out behind him, giving him the appearance of an insane man.
Bakura turned to eye his now captive partner. "The PHARAOH beat you!? That's PATHETIC!" He smirked. When the only response he received was a snort and Marik looking away, Bakura turned back to the current problem. "So then Pharaoh, we finally managed to lure you out. I figured as much, only a sap like you would care for that weakling you call a partner." He sneered.
Yami eyes flashed dangerously, and again energy began to pulse around him, dancing like flames. "Don't talk about my Hikari like that." He growled.
"Oh but of course, I almost forgot. You're the sniveling fool who actually considers your light a......what was that word again? Oh yeah, friend." Bakura smirked. "You consider that in-experienced weakling an equal." His hands clenched into fists.
"That's because he is!" Yami snarled, crimson eyes flashing with anger.
Bakura's eyes narrowed and he began to step closer towards his ancient enemy. "You disgust me." He growled. "All you whining do-gooders disgust me. How could I have lost my life to a smiling sucker like you!?"
Yami growled. "You know why you lost, Tomb Robber? Because no matter how much you ramble about 'weak do-gooders', your cruelty and hatred is what makes you weak. "
"Of course. Only a weakling like you would say something like that." Bakura brought his hand up, energy gathering into his palm.
Yami held out his palm as well. "Let's finish this." He snarled.
"Yes, let's." The Tomb Robber replied.
With a cry of fury both spirits unleashed their attacks, crimson and gold flaring against sapphire and silver. Both yamis strained against each other, both flames of energy seeming to push against each other. Sometimes the gold and crimson beam would inch forward, only to be pushed back by it's opposing force, like an odd form of tug a war.
Yami growled, the golden eye upon his forehead flaring. Beads of sweat began to form upon his brow as he began to murmur a few words under his breath. His aura intensified and in turn the beam of crimson and gold burst through the opposing discharge of energy and enveloped the Tomb Robber, who let out a howl of pain as he was blasted back.
When the energy cleared Bakura was standing to his feet, wiping a trickle of blood from his lip. He smirked, the aura of magic still dancing around him. "Is that all you have, Pharaoh?"
Yami scowled, breathing heavily, the aura surrounding him beginning to dim. He pulled out a card, holding it above his head. "Himotama!" He called out. The card flashed and there was a rumble. A large ball of flame rained from the sky and slammed into Bakura. Yami smirked weakly.
And that smirk faded as from the flames came only laughter. "Honestly Pharaoh..." The Tomb Robber smirked as he stepped from the flames, hardly hurt. "This is pathetic. Though I suppose this is all I could expect. You're as pathetic as your hikari!"
Yami let out a snarl of rage, his eyes now glowing with golden flame. The energy surrounded him and he closed his fist around the chain of the Millennium Puzzle that hung from his neck. "It is because of my Hikari that I am strong." He growled. "With him at my side, nothing can stand in my way. You of course, would not understand this concept." The energy pulsing around him now drew into his fist. He released the Puzzle and placed his glowing fist over his heart. "I hope you enjoy your private chamber in Hell." Yami snarled. " Tenshi no Akki no Reiki!"
The energy within Yami's palm burst outward in an explosion of light, enveloping the entire room with crimson and gold. The energy destroyed all the rubble on the ground and Marik shut his eyes to avoid being blinded.
When the blast cleared Bakura was hissing in pain, then he smirked. "Not bad, Pharaoh. You actually popped me a good one. But I can see you're spent." He looked at Yami, whom was panting, golden flames merely small flickers of energy fighting to stay as opposed to the powerful blaze surrounding Yami before. Yami growled, attempting to stand up straight before falling to his knees.
The former Tomb Robber walked over, picking Yami up by his shirt collar. "Now you will pay for all that you did to me." He snarled.
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(Okies, um................lessee, suggested music...Hymn of the Fayth from FFX at the beginning)
Sora grunted in exertion as he pulled himself up to another ledge. He fell to his knees and panted. After a few moments of simply breathing, he noted it wasn't cold anymore. He blinked, looking down at the solid stone ground. He looked ahead of him.
Before him was a path that winded a bit through some cliffs, each stone crystallized and set in a different hue of color. Sora raised an eyebrow and stood to his feet, noting there was no wind. There was no wind, nothing living. Everything was completely silent.
"Well...I'm guessing the only thing I can do is go forward now." Sora said to himself with a shrug. He began to walk up the path.
He looked down at the crystals that marked the path, each clear and changing hue constantly. One instant one would be crimson,then a blazing orange, then emerald, then sapphire, then silver, then midnight blue, then amethyst, and back to crimson again.
Eventually Sora's attention drew from the stones to the cliff walls that surrounded the path. The cliffs were carved with designs varying from spirals and stars and flowers and great dragons. Sora blinked, tracing his finger over the designs as he walked. "..Interesting..."
"Bre~me no hi~ka~ri." A high, gentle voice barely reached Sora's ears, singing in a language unknown. Sora's head quickly turned towards the sound as the voice repeated it's song. The voice came from further up the path. "Se~nti~re qu~esta c~anzo~ne e ri~cor~dare."
"Me~de~li~jI~deeeen..." A small, innocent sounding voice of a young girl came now. The Keyblade Master blinked, continuing up the path.
"Il ee~uwige di sogni eter~niiii..." Several voices sang at once, their voices a wonderful range of both high and low.
"Dooov~ere.." A strong female voice wafted through the cliffs, trilling the word in a slightly deep sounding voice. Sora blinked, mesmerized, continuing to follow the voice.
"Vo~lare nel comba~ttimento." Three more voices joined the first, each feminine with their own pitch, one of the them being the same child-like voice from before.
"Su~lle ali del dra~go." Two male voices sang, one deep and strong and the other wild and free sounding.
"Ve~rtro~uwen." The deep male voice sang, the song vibrating through the sky.
"Po~rtare la mi~a mano e can~tare." Again the girls sang.
"...Where is that coming from?" Sora wondered aloud. "Who's singing?"
"Yu~wo-ku-su." Another males voice sounded.
"Vo~lare su~lle al~i ete~rne." All the voices sang.
Sora's eyes widened as at last the path ended and he came to a large clearing. Trees stood all around the clearing, whitish pink blossoms sprouting from their branches. A light breeze blew through and blew a blossom from it's tree. The whitish pink petals fell into Sora's hand. He blinked, amazed at how soft the plant was. He smiled slightly and held up the blossom, allowing it to blow away,
"Te~mere no~n." The voices continued to sing, their voices loud and clear now and with such soft sweetness and perfection.
"A~mo~re." A light, sweet young women's voice filled the air.
Sora looked up at the temple that stood in the middle of the clearing. It was a very elaborate building, made of a bluish tinted stone and decorated in swirls of the crystal that had littered the path to it. The entryway was shaded by a large flat almost clear stone held up by swirling columns that looked like bursts of water frozen in place. Various clear gems were placed along the roof, and inside each gem burned a flame. One flame was crimson, the next sapphire, then an aqua green, then orange, then midnight blue, then came a flame of amethyst, and finally one of silver.
"To~me a mi~nha mão e promessa." And still the mysterious singers sang, voices ringing clear as ever.
Sora stepped into the clearing, another breeze blowing his chestnut hair.He looked at the various stone statues surrounding the area. Each was designed like a legendary beast, some taking the form of dragons with outstretched wings and talons. Other's held a resemblance to oriental tigers and lions, others like eagles. There was a Unicorn here and there, horn pointed towards the sky. Each beast had an oriental feel to it, with unique designs and jewelry worn upon each of them. Some beasts had looks of solemnity, while others had fangs locked in an eternal grimace, warding all with evil intentions away.
"Ri~shu~yu." The seventh voice sang, a women's voice with a cold tone that sang of sadness and grief. "Ciò ne~lla morte che lei sta~rà."
"Dor~mir~e il ba~mbi~no di pre~gare." Again all seven voices sang. "So~gna~re per se~mpr~e ten~shi."
The wind blew towards the temple, as if beckoning Sora inside. The brunette blinked. "O....kay." He said, walking up to the temple and stepping through the doors.
"Fi~nch~é l'Ete~rni~tà, Porta la Glo~riaaaa."The voices at last finished their solemn choir as Sora entered the temple.
It was pitch black. There was nothing but blackness. The darkness closed around Sora until it was oppressive, felt like it would swallow him whole. There was no sound what so ever. It wasn't a clam silence like the one Sora had witnessed earlier. It was cold and swallowing, like the dark. Sora took a step and there was no sound. He blinked.
(Yeah um...no more hymn of the fayth there....yeah. Now tis' the time ta play that one song, Dragon Boy from Spirited Away...I love that song...)
"Hello!?" He called. His voice echoed through the dark, lost amidst it, sounding quiet and alone. "Is anyone there!?"
"Sora!" A voice called out. Sora blinked, turning towards the voice. It sounded like....
"Riku!!!!" Sora cried as his best friend came through the dark. He ran over to the boy, then stopped. "Wait....what are you doing here?"
"There's no time!" Riku cried, grabbing Sora's wrist and pulling him. "We have to get moving! The Darkness is moving fast, if we don't get going we'll both die!"
Sora blinked as he was dragged along. "What the- Riku?" He winced slightly at his friends tight grip.
Riku pulled Sora through the dark. Sora could see nothing all all save for Riku, but somehow Riku seemed to know exactly where he was going as he strode deliberately.
"Riku..." Sora gasped behind his best friend. "Where are we going!?"
"Just trust me." His friend called back.
The darkness swirled around them, rising up and taking form. Sora gasped, watching as they took the shape of Heartless and his various enemies from the past. "Riku!" Sora cried.
"Don't worry."
The demons came closer now, bearing wounds from their battles past, hands outstretched as if to grab him. They growled menacingly, reaching at him with bloodied hands and torn limbs.
"Riku!"
"Don't worry. As long as you trust me, they can't touch you."
Sora flinched away from the shadows as they drew ever closer. He wondering where his best friend was leading him. Something just didn't seem right...
"Soora..." A voice hissed and Sora felt a bloodied hand touch his arm. With a cry Sora flung away the battered arm of Jafar and winced as he felt Riku's grip on his hand tighten slightly.
"Sora! Come on!" Riku cried. "You can't be afraid right now!" Riku turned to look at him, a dangerous look dancing in his aqua eyes. One that was so familiar, from so many years ago. "C'mon, we only have one shot, we have to take it!"
Sora eyes closed shut. Something about Riku wasn't right. It reminded him of.....of Destiny Islands. Of the night when it was destroyed. The way Riku had been, that same look and tone of voice was there now. That same confidence, same frightening calm.
Sora blinked, looking ahead of them, at where they were going. A ball of crimson, sparking with power, slowly vanishing. Sora gasped, pulling himself from Riku's grip.
Riku turned at him and blinked. "Sora!? Come on!"
"Riku! No! It's darkness! It'll swallow you again! Don't go!" Sora cried.
"Of course I know that!" Riku cried back. "I know what it looks like, but you have to trust me! It's not the darkness, it's the only way out!"
Sora shook his head. "That's what you said last time! And you were wrong!"
"I know better now!"
"But-" Sora suddenly let out a cry as Wyvern talons slashed at his back.
"Sora! You have to trust me!" Riku cried. "I know what happened, that's how I know that this is safe! You have to trust me!"
"R-Riku I-" Sora cried out as heartless began to attack him, the darkness closing around him. They slashed at him, claws digging into him, icy daggers tearing into his flesh, drawing crimson blood to drip to the ground. Hands grabbed at him, screaming out for vengeance. Sora screamed as a burst of black energy slammed into his chest, knocking him further into the chaos. Giant fists pummeled into him, swords slashed at his sides. "Gaaaaaaah!" Sora cried, sinking into the blackness, disappearing into the dark.
"Sora!" Riku cried, holding out his hand. "Grab my hand!"
"I...I can't!" Sora whimpered.
"Yes you can!" Riku continued to hold out his gloved hand.
Sora cried out as claws plunged into him yet again. "I..I..." He winced, falling back, weakened.
"Sora!"
Sora grit his teeth, reaching out with a last burst of strength. "I can!" He cried, grabbing his best friends hand. The Heartless, the pool of darkness, his wounds, all vanished instantly. Sora nearly fell to his knees but stopped himself, somehow finding the strength to stay on his feet.
Riku smiled. "Good." He said, turning towards the crimson orb.
"Riku..."
The silver-haired teen turned to look at Sora. "Do you trust me?" He asked.
"What?"
"Do you trust me?" Riku repeated.
Sora nodded. "Of course."
Riku smiled again. "Then you have nothing to worry about."
Riku gripped Sora's hand and they walked towards the orb. The energy crackled around them, raising Riku's hair on end (Sora's hair already is kinda standing on end..) Riku touched the orb with his other hand.
FWOOOOOOOOSSSH! There was a burst of blinding white light, so bright Sora instantly shut his eyes. Heat flared against Sora's face, crackling against his skin but strangely comforting. A mans voice, deep and soulful from the song before, began to sing. The song was like before, calm and serine. The deep voice rang through Sora's mind.
Sora blinked, opening his eyes. He was in a dark room, a carpet of red, lined with gold, covered the floor. The walls were covered with the same shimmering writing Sora had seen earlier, and tapestries of silk also decorated the walls, symbols and designs of gold woven upon them, designed to look like winged tigers. Sora blinked and stood to his feet, unsure how he had gotten here or as to why he was kneeling.
Sora walked along the trail of crimson carpet. He looked up to where it led. He blinked at the large, transparent glass dome like thing set at the end of the carpet. He stepped up to it and looked inside. "What the?"
Beneath the glowing glass a man was embedded into crimson stone. He was face down, long golden hair tied in a ponytail down his back. His right shoulder was dipped and stuck into the stone, and a bit away his right hand seemed to come out of the stone. His left shoulder and arm were completely embedded in. His upper body was bare and his legs were sunk into the stone. It almost looked as if the man had been sinking into the stone and had been trapped in time. But that wasn't all that made it shocking. Here and there on the mans skin were patches of tiger fur, and tiger claws were shown from the mans fingers. A wing of crimson stretched from the mans back.
"Welcome." A deep voice said from behind Sora.
Sora gasped and turned around. The man from the statue floated there, lacking the tiger parts, mostly humanoid now. The man smiled slightly, clad only in khaki pants. "Who're you!?"
The man smiled. "My name is Irai, angel of trust. Welcome to my room, Keyblade Master."
"What the...but..you're the guy in the stone!" Sora gasped.
Irai walked over to Sora. "It's.....a long story. You'll understand in due time. I cannot tell you now, I don't have much time before I must once again sleep. But I can tell you this....nothing is as they appear. " Irai then placed a small, crimson gem into Sora's palm. "And I can say no more. That's Kimmu's job." Irai nodded at Sora. "Your task with her is not yet complete. Go through that door and enter the second one in the hallway with the purple mark on the door. That's where the next test is. Good luck, Keyblade Master." With that, Irai vanished.
Sora blinked as the gem in his hand vanished in sparks of ruby. He smiled and turned towards the other end of the room to continue on.
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Me:Alright! Finally done with chapter ten!
Sora: That was long o_O
Me: I know! Twenty pages! WOOT! *falls over, exhausted*
Riku: _ Oh brother.
Next chapter: More of Kimmu's little test, as well as yet another one. Angst lovers, get ready, next chapters gonna be angst, angst, and more angst!
By:Digitaldreamer
Chapter ten:What is fear?
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Me: Whoa! Guys, check it out! It's the new chapter! And it took me less then three months to update! YAY!!!
Cast: WOOOOOOT!!!
Me:So anyways, time a for a pointless update to you all over how my life is going^^
Cast: YAY!
Me: So earlier this Saturday morning I was watching Yu Gi Oh, and here they are in this arc with the Noah kid (oh so awfully dubbed I might add) and the virtual world and what not. Now, I;m fine with this storyline and what not, but does anyone remember Battle City? Yeah, you know, the quest to defeat Malik and stop him from destroying the world. You know, the one on the Battle Ship? With the God cards? That hasn't ended yet -___-;;; I feel seriously sorry for anyone who just now decides to start liking Yu Gi Oh, they aren't gonna know what the heck is going on.
Yami: -___- no kidding.
Me: I mean, just think, they'll finally go back to the Malik thing and all the newbies are gonna be like "Whut? o_O"
Yugi: Yeah...
Me:..Gee....anyone remember Duelist Kingdom? You know...back with Pegasus? o_o Man, that was a loooooonnngg time ago.............................yeah, anyways, I'm done with my geek rant, review answering time!
~Celctic Guardian 7~
YAY! My limbs did not get torn off! YAAAAAAAAY! *Hands you another cookie* Don't kill me for this chapter being late too^^;;;
~Princess Swifty~
O_o Holy crap, you've turned into a CHEERLEADER! GAAAH! *hides* Here! Mountain Dew! Go read the chapter and leave me be!
~FireSparkler-00~
Yeah, I updated again. Took me like, a month, but I did it. OMG does Sora make it? Read the chapter and find out. Does Yami beat Bakura up!? Read the chapter and find out! Oh, and here's a pixi stick, your name is cool.
~soraoathkeeper~
Yaaaaay, you read RPGWorld! Congrats! You're on my favorite people list now! YAAAY! *Hands you pizza*
~Bu~
I'm sorry, I'm sorry^^ School and stuff got in the way to keep me from updating! Here, take the chocolate! The chapter's real long! Don't kill me!
~Orodruin~
Is this what I think it is? *rubs eyes* It is! I'm almost done with typing chapter 10 of Broken Rainbow, and you're about to read this! YAY! *Hands you a cookie* And no, keep your snow, I don't think Sora will enjoy it for much longer.
~AeRiS dOnO~
Ohhh crap....*Is about to hand you a million bucks but stops* Hey...wait...You CAN'T kill me, cause you don't know where I live! MWA HA HA HA HA! Which means I can just not update for nine months, and it wouldn't matter, cause you can't come and kill me! MWA HA HA HA! *proceeds to make fun of you* *suddenly a large knife falls from the sky and lands inches from Crys's face, with the words "from Aeris Dono" printed on it* GAAH! *Hands you a cookie* *runs to update*
~Jhaylin~
Me too, me too...course, with my love for angst...who knows, mwa ha ha ha. *hands you a pencil* Enjoy the chappie.
~crystal-chan~
I know, I know, not much angst^^;;; I'm sorry! This one should have some! I can't believe you actually adore me. o__o My writing is CRAP man! But hey, you like it, so who am I to complain? *hands you a cookie* Enjoy the chapter.
~ElegantArrow64~
Wow, this update only took one month, I must be losing my touch.....ah well, I hope you get your inspiration for your fic back, here's some pizza, enjoy the chapter!
~Sakura-Starfire~
WOW! YOU JOINED BDE!? *High fives you* AWESOME! I can't WAIT to RP with you! *hands you Sora's crown necklace* This chapter is long, enjoy it!
~star's dreams~
YES! mwa ha ha ha! There ya go, control of the muse 101. *hands you a bar of chocolate just like the pizza*
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Yami: *sighs* This fic is going to go on forever.....
Yugi: *sighs as well* No kidding
Me: *grins* And just think, we're hardly even in the beginning!
Yami & Yugi: *groan*
Me: Anyways, I don't own Yu Gi Oh or Kingdom Hearts or any other anime and video games that should appear in this fic (trust me, there's more to come) Now on with the chapter!
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(Okay, suggested listening music ish still People of the North Pole.................what? Stop staring at me like that! So I'm a sucker for pretty music! Stop that!)
Sora let out a grunt as his gloved hand gripped around outcropping above him. Sweat was beading his forehead from exertain as he hauled himself up to another ledge upon the cliff wall. Sora sat on his knees and panted, trying to catch his breath. An icy gale blew past him and the keybearer shivered, rubbing his arms.
"Geez it's cold." He said to himself, summoning a small flame into his hand and attempting to gain some warmth from it. "I really should start wearing long-sleeves."
Sapphire eyes gazed down to see the progress he had made. He was probably about mile or two up, the ground nothing but white below.At first things hadn't been too though, he's climbed a hill and came to a trail that wrapped round the foot of the mountain. He'd followed it, only having to deal with a few jumps here and there. Then the trail had ended and he'd been freeclimbing up the ledges that slowly went up. But now he was facing sheer cliffs with a only a few narrow footholds and ledges carved into the sides.
"I miss my wings." Sora grumbled, pushing himself to his feet and flexing his fingers to get some feeling back into them. He looked up, trying to see how far away the top of the moutain was. The cliff he was climbing was so steep he couldn't see the top. Sora groaned and walked over to the wall to find another handhold.
Slowly the keyblade master began to make his way up the cliff. 'Don't worry guys. I promise I'll get through this.' Sora thought to himself.
A crumbling sound came to his attention. "ACK!" Sora quickly jumped up and grasped another handhold just as the former outcropping of rock crumbled away to become pebbles that fell to the snowy ground far below.
The brunette gulped. "That could have been me..." He murmered, countinuing his climb.
"Okay." Sora spoke to himself, easing himself over a gap. "So there's some...things....trying to take over the universe, I'm supposed to stop these things, but I'm dead cause' I had an attitude problem, and now I'm sitting here taking tests like I'm in school or something while my friends are probably mourning over me, and there's STILL the 'save-the-world' deal." At last his hand reached the top of cliff and he sighed in relief. "I swear, my life is so unreal, it could be a japanese cartoon, or an epic video game or something..." He continued as he pulled himself over the edge and his knees touched icy snow.
The brunette paused a minute or so to breath before pushing himself to his feet, an icy gust of wind carrying flakes of snow flying past him, sending a chill down his spine. Something...just felt wrong about this place. He knew snow was a thing of reality, he had heard tales about it from his friends. He knew the mountain was no illusion, or else he could not have been climbing it. The cold was real, he could feel it like a numbing knife pressing against his flesh. The sky, the wind, the grey clouds that covered the sky, they were all real. He was sure of it. Things should have seemed fine.
But if that was so, then why was Sora feeling something so utterly wrong about this place?
"Help!!!!!!!!!" A voice broke through the brunettes musings, and Sora turned his head towards the sound. "Help!" The voice cried again, nearly lost amid the blowing winds.
"Where are you!?" Sora called out, closing his eyes and attempting to see if he could sense the person. If he could with wings did that mean without them he couldn't?
It was faint, but he could feel the person, several yards away.
"Help!" The voice called again.
"It's okay I'm coming!" Sora yelled, hoping the person could hear him. "Just hold on!"
Sora followed the sense and the voice untill he came to a sharp drop off. "..How could anyone be here?" He wondered, getting to his knees and looking over the edge.
The cliff was completely vertical, only a few inches of jagged ledges jutting out here and there. And hanging from a branch coming off of one of those ledges about thirty feet down was a man dressed in Hikers clothes, some firey red hair escpaing from under his cap. The rope attached to his harness apprently had snapped. He was hanging onto the small branch with one hand, the other grasping for the ledge just out of his reach. The long arm of wood sagged under the mans weight and looked as if it'd snap at any moment.
The man looked up at Sora with pleading hazel eyes. "Help!!!! Please, won't you help me!?"
The keyblade master gulped, looking down at the man so far below, struggling to keep from falling several stories to his death.
'I would save him...but I don't have my wings. And..there's hardly any hand holds.' Sora swallowed, sapphire eyes closing. 'It's...so high up...' He backed up a bit, images from his childhood flashing through his mind.
~Flashback..yay~
A small three year old chestnut haired boy panted as he pulled himself farther up a gaint tree, pulling himself up to the highest branches.
"Sora!" The boys mother cried. "You get down from there, you'll fall!"
The boy giggled. "Mommy, I'll be fine! Don't worry!"
The women bit her lip and stomped her foot. "Young man! You get down from there this instant!!"
"But I wanna go up really high like Riku did!"
"And Riku broke his leg! Now get down from there!"
The boy laughed and countinued to climb. "I'll be okay Mommy, I'm a big boy!"
"Sora!!!"
Still the chestnut boy climbed higher, laughing to himself as he looked up at the blue sky.
"Sora!" A silver haired boy about a year older then the boy in the tree hobbled over on crutches, his right leg in a cast and a slight look of worry on his face.
"Riku?" The brunette blinked, then grinned. "I'm gonna get higher then you!!!"
"Sora get down!" The boy growled, stomping his good foot. "I don't want you getting hurt too! Dummy! Get down!"
The brunette stuck out his toungue and laughed, reaching for a higher branch. His expression of laughter turned to fear as he lost his foot hold and slipped, waving his hands wildly to try and grab something. Failing to grab anything Sora let out a cry of terror as he slipped from the tree and fell, landing with a sickening crunch coming from his right arm and leg.
"Sora!" His mother and best friend cried, running over to him as the brunette burst into tears.
~Back to reality~
Sora closed his eyes, flinching away from the edge.
"Help me!!!" The man below pleaded.
"..I can't..." Sora whispered. "I'm..scared..."
"Please help me!"
Sora shrunk away, balling up in the cold. "I'm sorry.....I can't............I'm sorry...."
'..What would my friends think of me now?' Sora wondered bitterly. '........I'm sorry guys....I just can't do it..'
~*Flashback...again......five years after first flashback*~
"Sora! C'mon, we can climb higher!" Riku grinned, pulling himself higher into one of the gaint leafy trees on Destiny Island.
Sora swallowed, pulling himself after the silver haired boy. Then he made the mistake of glancing down "..Riku..I can't do it." The younger boy whimpered, gripping the branch he was on. "I'm scared."
"Don't be scared, we'll be fine!" The six year old stated, grabbing the brunettes hand and smiling with that smile only his best friend got to see. "C'mon!!"
Sora shook his head and gripped the tree harder. "No! I can't!"
"Sora, c'mon!" Riku pleaded.
The brunette again shook his head and the older boy sighed. "Fine, let's go down." He said, helping his younger friend along. "Someday we're going to be able to climb this thing." He said.
Sora whimpered. "I'm sorry."
"Oh, it's okay. You'll be able to someday. We'll get you through this untill you're not afraid anymore." Riku smiled.
Sora nodded. "..Yeah........maybe."
Riku grinned. "We will! Say it with me!"
Sora smiled alittle. "We will..."
"Louder!"
"We will."
"C'mon!"
"We will!"
"Betcha can't yell it as loud as me!"
"We will!"
Riku smirked. "That's more like it, come here you!" The silver-haired boy laughed, pulling his best friend into a headlock and giving the smaller boy a noogie.
Sora let out a cry of protest and ended up laughing along with his friend.
~..Um..back to reality..again~
'Giving up already? C'mon Sora. I thought you were stronger then that.'
Sora's eyes narrowed and he pushed himself to his feet. " You were right Riku." He whispered. "I won't be afraid anymore." He walked back to the edge.
"Help!"
"I'm coming!" Sora reassured, pulling himself over the edge and easing himself to the nearest foothold. He summoned energy into his palm and pressed it against the icy stone wall. As he pulled his land back, a solid line of energy followed. Sora gripped this and gave it a tug. Nodding, he countinued his way down, creating the rope as he went. 'Just don't look down.'
A gale of wind blasted against the teen and suddenly Sora was blown from the wall. "ACK!" Sora cried, flashes of his fall as a boy running through his mind, He shook those away and reached out, grabbing the rope he had been creating and holding on as he was swung back to the wall. He winced as his shoulder hit the cliff wall and grabbed another outcropping.
Sora closed his eyes and breathed, concentrating on that. Finally he opened his eyes and countiued downward, finally at the same level as the hiker. "Don't worry, I got you." Sora said, grabbing the man, whom he now realised wasn't much older then he was.
"T-thank you." The teen smiled weakly. Sora smiled as well before closing his eyes and allowing the rope of energy to retract, taking him and the hiker with it to the top.
Now on solid ground Sora slid to his knees, breathing hard as the firey haired teen sat down beside him.
"Thank you." The teen said, pulling off his cap.
Sora nodded.
Then the firey haired teen grinned. "Congrats man! You just passed the test of courage!"
Sora blinked. "Wha?"
The teen grinned, his clothes changing to those of a sparkly baggy hoodie with the kanji for fire on the front and baggy jeans with a flame design, a black baseball cap pulled backwards over his firey red hair, and two flaming wings bursting from his back. Sora's eyes widened.
"Y-you're-"
"Yuu, Angel of Courage, nice ta meet ya, bro!" The teen grinned, slapping the brunette a high five. He blinked as Sora stared at him. "What!? You thought we were all Chicks!?"
Sora grinned sheepishly. "Well..yeah."
"Ah..it's tough bein' the only dude, lemme tell ya." The teen said, placing an arm over Sora's shoulder. "Course...lotsa chicks around, so I can't complain." He grinned, and Sora smiled as well. "Well, let me say. You really did well." He placed an orange gem in Sora's hand and grinned. "Good luck dude, keep it up, there's no turnin' back now."
Sora blinked. "What do you mean?"
The angels expression became serious. "Look." He said, pointing over at the dropoff they had come from. Sora blinked, walking over and looking down.
And there was nothing there, nothing but blackness. "What the!?"
Yuu sighed. "Trouble with bein' an angel. No matter what I think up, the stuff always vanishes, because it's not real. Just all in my head."
"..Huh?"
"Oh, you'll understand soon enough." Yuu said, his grin returning. "Now go on! You don't wanna be in trouble with Kimmu, trust me, happened to me. That chick's EVIL! Go!" He said, shooing the keyblade master off as he himself began to vanish.
"What? Huh!? Wait!" Sora cried, looking back as the Angel of Courage vanished in a shower of red and orange sparkles.
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Okies guys, I wanted to put this here just to make sure people read it. Okay, only two people entered the contest, and I feel bad judging over only two to be honest ^^;;;;;;; So both of em won. http://www.boomspeed.com/miracle_star/BrokenRainbowPoster.jpg This first one's by Ari Powwel, and the second one http://www.boomspeed.com/miracle_star/BrokenRainbowFanart.jpg well...I can't remember who drew it, so whoever drew it can you tell me so I know who it is?
Yeah, anyways, congrats to them, as they get to be IN this here fic! YAAAAAAAAY!!! Yeah.....need Ari and the person who drew the other pic to e-mail me at digitaldreamer2000@msn.com and tell me what they look like, what clothes they'd like themselves to be wearing, and personality. Please don't make yourself a Mary Sue though, cause I'm not putting in a Mary Sue. Yeah, anyways, CONGRATS AGAIN! Now on with the fic.
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(Okies, suggested music....lesee.....maybe crawling by Linkin Park...or Numb or One Step Closer again...meh, you choose)
Yami smirked, looking up at his former captor. "Well....you've lost the game. So I'll be taking my friends and leaving." He said calmly. "You can just stay here. I think you need a time out anyway." The former Pharaoh turned, his aura of energy dimming slightly as he began to walk through the rubble.
"Hold it right there, Pharaoh!" A voice sneered through the blackness of the shadows that were beginning to disperse.
Yami looked towards the voice, eyes narrowing. "Tomb Robber." He snarled.
Two eyes flashed an eerie blue in the blackness. "Correct, Pharaoh." The voice sneered once more, an eye of Ra flashing to life in the dark. The shadows slowly slid away to reveal the ancient spirit, an aura of midnight blue sparking around him. His silver hair blew out behind him, giving him the appearance of an insane man.
Bakura turned to eye his now captive partner. "The PHARAOH beat you!? That's PATHETIC!" He smirked. When the only response he received was a snort and Marik looking away, Bakura turned back to the current problem. "So then Pharaoh, we finally managed to lure you out. I figured as much, only a sap like you would care for that weakling you call a partner." He sneered.
Yami eyes flashed dangerously, and again energy began to pulse around him, dancing like flames. "Don't talk about my Hikari like that." He growled.
"Oh but of course, I almost forgot. You're the sniveling fool who actually considers your light a......what was that word again? Oh yeah, friend." Bakura smirked. "You consider that in-experienced weakling an equal." His hands clenched into fists.
"That's because he is!" Yami snarled, crimson eyes flashing with anger.
Bakura's eyes narrowed and he began to step closer towards his ancient enemy. "You disgust me." He growled. "All you whining do-gooders disgust me. How could I have lost my life to a smiling sucker like you!?"
Yami growled. "You know why you lost, Tomb Robber? Because no matter how much you ramble about 'weak do-gooders', your cruelty and hatred is what makes you weak. "
"Of course. Only a weakling like you would say something like that." Bakura brought his hand up, energy gathering into his palm.
Yami held out his palm as well. "Let's finish this." He snarled.
"Yes, let's." The Tomb Robber replied.
With a cry of fury both spirits unleashed their attacks, crimson and gold flaring against sapphire and silver. Both yamis strained against each other, both flames of energy seeming to push against each other. Sometimes the gold and crimson beam would inch forward, only to be pushed back by it's opposing force, like an odd form of tug a war.
Yami growled, the golden eye upon his forehead flaring. Beads of sweat began to form upon his brow as he began to murmur a few words under his breath. His aura intensified and in turn the beam of crimson and gold burst through the opposing discharge of energy and enveloped the Tomb Robber, who let out a howl of pain as he was blasted back.
When the energy cleared Bakura was standing to his feet, wiping a trickle of blood from his lip. He smirked, the aura of magic still dancing around him. "Is that all you have, Pharaoh?"
Yami scowled, breathing heavily, the aura surrounding him beginning to dim. He pulled out a card, holding it above his head. "Himotama!" He called out. The card flashed and there was a rumble. A large ball of flame rained from the sky and slammed into Bakura. Yami smirked weakly.
And that smirk faded as from the flames came only laughter. "Honestly Pharaoh..." The Tomb Robber smirked as he stepped from the flames, hardly hurt. "This is pathetic. Though I suppose this is all I could expect. You're as pathetic as your hikari!"
Yami let out a snarl of rage, his eyes now glowing with golden flame. The energy surrounded him and he closed his fist around the chain of the Millennium Puzzle that hung from his neck. "It is because of my Hikari that I am strong." He growled. "With him at my side, nothing can stand in my way. You of course, would not understand this concept." The energy pulsing around him now drew into his fist. He released the Puzzle and placed his glowing fist over his heart. "I hope you enjoy your private chamber in Hell." Yami snarled. " Tenshi no Akki no Reiki!"
The energy within Yami's palm burst outward in an explosion of light, enveloping the entire room with crimson and gold. The energy destroyed all the rubble on the ground and Marik shut his eyes to avoid being blinded.
When the blast cleared Bakura was hissing in pain, then he smirked. "Not bad, Pharaoh. You actually popped me a good one. But I can see you're spent." He looked at Yami, whom was panting, golden flames merely small flickers of energy fighting to stay as opposed to the powerful blaze surrounding Yami before. Yami growled, attempting to stand up straight before falling to his knees.
The former Tomb Robber walked over, picking Yami up by his shirt collar. "Now you will pay for all that you did to me." He snarled.
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(Okies, um................lessee, suggested music...Hymn of the Fayth from FFX at the beginning)
Sora grunted in exertion as he pulled himself up to another ledge. He fell to his knees and panted. After a few moments of simply breathing, he noted it wasn't cold anymore. He blinked, looking down at the solid stone ground. He looked ahead of him.
Before him was a path that winded a bit through some cliffs, each stone crystallized and set in a different hue of color. Sora raised an eyebrow and stood to his feet, noting there was no wind. There was no wind, nothing living. Everything was completely silent.
"Well...I'm guessing the only thing I can do is go forward now." Sora said to himself with a shrug. He began to walk up the path.
He looked down at the crystals that marked the path, each clear and changing hue constantly. One instant one would be crimson,then a blazing orange, then emerald, then sapphire, then silver, then midnight blue, then amethyst, and back to crimson again.
Eventually Sora's attention drew from the stones to the cliff walls that surrounded the path. The cliffs were carved with designs varying from spirals and stars and flowers and great dragons. Sora blinked, tracing his finger over the designs as he walked. "..Interesting..."
"Bre~me no hi~ka~ri." A high, gentle voice barely reached Sora's ears, singing in a language unknown. Sora's head quickly turned towards the sound as the voice repeated it's song. The voice came from further up the path. "Se~nti~re qu~esta c~anzo~ne e ri~cor~dare."
"Me~de~li~jI~deeeen..." A small, innocent sounding voice of a young girl came now. The Keyblade Master blinked, continuing up the path.
"Il ee~uwige di sogni eter~niiii..." Several voices sang at once, their voices a wonderful range of both high and low.
"Dooov~ere.." A strong female voice wafted through the cliffs, trilling the word in a slightly deep sounding voice. Sora blinked, mesmerized, continuing to follow the voice.
"Vo~lare nel comba~ttimento." Three more voices joined the first, each feminine with their own pitch, one of the them being the same child-like voice from before.
"Su~lle ali del dra~go." Two male voices sang, one deep and strong and the other wild and free sounding.
"Ve~rtro~uwen." The deep male voice sang, the song vibrating through the sky.
"Po~rtare la mi~a mano e can~tare." Again the girls sang.
"...Where is that coming from?" Sora wondered aloud. "Who's singing?"
"Yu~wo-ku-su." Another males voice sounded.
"Vo~lare su~lle al~i ete~rne." All the voices sang.
Sora's eyes widened as at last the path ended and he came to a large clearing. Trees stood all around the clearing, whitish pink blossoms sprouting from their branches. A light breeze blew through and blew a blossom from it's tree. The whitish pink petals fell into Sora's hand. He blinked, amazed at how soft the plant was. He smiled slightly and held up the blossom, allowing it to blow away,
"Te~mere no~n." The voices continued to sing, their voices loud and clear now and with such soft sweetness and perfection.
"A~mo~re." A light, sweet young women's voice filled the air.
Sora looked up at the temple that stood in the middle of the clearing. It was a very elaborate building, made of a bluish tinted stone and decorated in swirls of the crystal that had littered the path to it. The entryway was shaded by a large flat almost clear stone held up by swirling columns that looked like bursts of water frozen in place. Various clear gems were placed along the roof, and inside each gem burned a flame. One flame was crimson, the next sapphire, then an aqua green, then orange, then midnight blue, then came a flame of amethyst, and finally one of silver.
"To~me a mi~nha mão e promessa." And still the mysterious singers sang, voices ringing clear as ever.
Sora stepped into the clearing, another breeze blowing his chestnut hair.He looked at the various stone statues surrounding the area. Each was designed like a legendary beast, some taking the form of dragons with outstretched wings and talons. Other's held a resemblance to oriental tigers and lions, others like eagles. There was a Unicorn here and there, horn pointed towards the sky. Each beast had an oriental feel to it, with unique designs and jewelry worn upon each of them. Some beasts had looks of solemnity, while others had fangs locked in an eternal grimace, warding all with evil intentions away.
"Ri~shu~yu." The seventh voice sang, a women's voice with a cold tone that sang of sadness and grief. "Ciò ne~lla morte che lei sta~rà."
"Dor~mir~e il ba~mbi~no di pre~gare." Again all seven voices sang. "So~gna~re per se~mpr~e ten~shi."
The wind blew towards the temple, as if beckoning Sora inside. The brunette blinked. "O....kay." He said, walking up to the temple and stepping through the doors.
"Fi~nch~é l'Ete~rni~tà, Porta la Glo~riaaaa."The voices at last finished their solemn choir as Sora entered the temple.
It was pitch black. There was nothing but blackness. The darkness closed around Sora until it was oppressive, felt like it would swallow him whole. There was no sound what so ever. It wasn't a clam silence like the one Sora had witnessed earlier. It was cold and swallowing, like the dark. Sora took a step and there was no sound. He blinked.
(Yeah um...no more hymn of the fayth there....yeah. Now tis' the time ta play that one song, Dragon Boy from Spirited Away...I love that song...)
"Hello!?" He called. His voice echoed through the dark, lost amidst it, sounding quiet and alone. "Is anyone there!?"
"Sora!" A voice called out. Sora blinked, turning towards the voice. It sounded like....
"Riku!!!!" Sora cried as his best friend came through the dark. He ran over to the boy, then stopped. "Wait....what are you doing here?"
"There's no time!" Riku cried, grabbing Sora's wrist and pulling him. "We have to get moving! The Darkness is moving fast, if we don't get going we'll both die!"
Sora blinked as he was dragged along. "What the- Riku?" He winced slightly at his friends tight grip.
Riku pulled Sora through the dark. Sora could see nothing all all save for Riku, but somehow Riku seemed to know exactly where he was going as he strode deliberately.
"Riku..." Sora gasped behind his best friend. "Where are we going!?"
"Just trust me." His friend called back.
The darkness swirled around them, rising up and taking form. Sora gasped, watching as they took the shape of Heartless and his various enemies from the past. "Riku!" Sora cried.
"Don't worry."
The demons came closer now, bearing wounds from their battles past, hands outstretched as if to grab him. They growled menacingly, reaching at him with bloodied hands and torn limbs.
"Riku!"
"Don't worry. As long as you trust me, they can't touch you."
Sora flinched away from the shadows as they drew ever closer. He wondering where his best friend was leading him. Something just didn't seem right...
"Soora..." A voice hissed and Sora felt a bloodied hand touch his arm. With a cry Sora flung away the battered arm of Jafar and winced as he felt Riku's grip on his hand tighten slightly.
"Sora! Come on!" Riku cried. "You can't be afraid right now!" Riku turned to look at him, a dangerous look dancing in his aqua eyes. One that was so familiar, from so many years ago. "C'mon, we only have one shot, we have to take it!"
Sora eyes closed shut. Something about Riku wasn't right. It reminded him of.....of Destiny Islands. Of the night when it was destroyed. The way Riku had been, that same look and tone of voice was there now. That same confidence, same frightening calm.
Sora blinked, looking ahead of them, at where they were going. A ball of crimson, sparking with power, slowly vanishing. Sora gasped, pulling himself from Riku's grip.
Riku turned at him and blinked. "Sora!? Come on!"
"Riku! No! It's darkness! It'll swallow you again! Don't go!" Sora cried.
"Of course I know that!" Riku cried back. "I know what it looks like, but you have to trust me! It's not the darkness, it's the only way out!"
Sora shook his head. "That's what you said last time! And you were wrong!"
"I know better now!"
"But-" Sora suddenly let out a cry as Wyvern talons slashed at his back.
"Sora! You have to trust me!" Riku cried. "I know what happened, that's how I know that this is safe! You have to trust me!"
"R-Riku I-" Sora cried out as heartless began to attack him, the darkness closing around him. They slashed at him, claws digging into him, icy daggers tearing into his flesh, drawing crimson blood to drip to the ground. Hands grabbed at him, screaming out for vengeance. Sora screamed as a burst of black energy slammed into his chest, knocking him further into the chaos. Giant fists pummeled into him, swords slashed at his sides. "Gaaaaaaah!" Sora cried, sinking into the blackness, disappearing into the dark.
"Sora!" Riku cried, holding out his hand. "Grab my hand!"
"I...I can't!" Sora whimpered.
"Yes you can!" Riku continued to hold out his gloved hand.
Sora cried out as claws plunged into him yet again. "I..I..." He winced, falling back, weakened.
"Sora!"
Sora grit his teeth, reaching out with a last burst of strength. "I can!" He cried, grabbing his best friends hand. The Heartless, the pool of darkness, his wounds, all vanished instantly. Sora nearly fell to his knees but stopped himself, somehow finding the strength to stay on his feet.
Riku smiled. "Good." He said, turning towards the crimson orb.
"Riku..."
The silver-haired teen turned to look at Sora. "Do you trust me?" He asked.
"What?"
"Do you trust me?" Riku repeated.
Sora nodded. "Of course."
Riku smiled again. "Then you have nothing to worry about."
Riku gripped Sora's hand and they walked towards the orb. The energy crackled around them, raising Riku's hair on end (Sora's hair already is kinda standing on end..) Riku touched the orb with his other hand.
FWOOOOOOOOSSSH! There was a burst of blinding white light, so bright Sora instantly shut his eyes. Heat flared against Sora's face, crackling against his skin but strangely comforting. A mans voice, deep and soulful from the song before, began to sing. The song was like before, calm and serine. The deep voice rang through Sora's mind.
Sora blinked, opening his eyes. He was in a dark room, a carpet of red, lined with gold, covered the floor. The walls were covered with the same shimmering writing Sora had seen earlier, and tapestries of silk also decorated the walls, symbols and designs of gold woven upon them, designed to look like winged tigers. Sora blinked and stood to his feet, unsure how he had gotten here or as to why he was kneeling.
Sora walked along the trail of crimson carpet. He looked up to where it led. He blinked at the large, transparent glass dome like thing set at the end of the carpet. He stepped up to it and looked inside. "What the?"
Beneath the glowing glass a man was embedded into crimson stone. He was face down, long golden hair tied in a ponytail down his back. His right shoulder was dipped and stuck into the stone, and a bit away his right hand seemed to come out of the stone. His left shoulder and arm were completely embedded in. His upper body was bare and his legs were sunk into the stone. It almost looked as if the man had been sinking into the stone and had been trapped in time. But that wasn't all that made it shocking. Here and there on the mans skin were patches of tiger fur, and tiger claws were shown from the mans fingers. A wing of crimson stretched from the mans back.
"Welcome." A deep voice said from behind Sora.
Sora gasped and turned around. The man from the statue floated there, lacking the tiger parts, mostly humanoid now. The man smiled slightly, clad only in khaki pants. "Who're you!?"
The man smiled. "My name is Irai, angel of trust. Welcome to my room, Keyblade Master."
"What the...but..you're the guy in the stone!" Sora gasped.
Irai walked over to Sora. "It's.....a long story. You'll understand in due time. I cannot tell you now, I don't have much time before I must once again sleep. But I can tell you this....nothing is as they appear. " Irai then placed a small, crimson gem into Sora's palm. "And I can say no more. That's Kimmu's job." Irai nodded at Sora. "Your task with her is not yet complete. Go through that door and enter the second one in the hallway with the purple mark on the door. That's where the next test is. Good luck, Keyblade Master." With that, Irai vanished.
Sora blinked as the gem in his hand vanished in sparks of ruby. He smiled and turned towards the other end of the room to continue on.
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Me:Alright! Finally done with chapter ten!
Sora: That was long o_O
Me: I know! Twenty pages! WOOT! *falls over, exhausted*
Riku: _ Oh brother.
Next chapter: More of Kimmu's little test, as well as yet another one. Angst lovers, get ready, next chapters gonna be angst, angst, and more angst!