-Broken Rainbow-
By: Digitaldreamer
Chapter fourteen: Dark Rain, part two.
Hi guys! I'm finally back!
("After a Four month hiatus." Auron says with a glare. Crys just grins cheepishly at him.)
I'm SO SO SO SO SO sorry about the lack of updates guys! Really! I'll make it up to you I swear! See, my friend believes I'll never finish Broken Rainbow, so now I have to prove her wrong! Rawr!
...alright, I'll shut up so you can read the chapter. No review answers this time because I don't wanna waste anymore time getting this chapter up.
Disclaimer: Do I own Kingdom Hearts? No. Do I own Yu Gi Oh? No. I'm tired, leave me alone.
((Suggested music...ummm...The Hallow Bastion...music...thing from KH....that music is scaaaarrryy...in a cool way))
Screams filled the night air, darkness swarming in the sky. Sora's eyes widened as he took in the sight. "What the hell!?"
He quickly jumped from his bed, clad only in his boxers. He grabbed a white t-shirt from the floor, pulling it over his head. He then pulled on a pair of baggy black jeans, These jeans had two small loops of cloth on each lower leg, and strung through those two loops and dangling around his legs were two shimming chains that hung just about to his ankle before going up to loop through the other cloth. There were zippers at about knee height on both legs as well. He strung a belt with pyramid studs adorning it through the belt loops, then clipped his crown chain onto a belt loop as well. He picked up some black boots from the floor and pulled them onto his feet. He then picked up a slightly large black hooded trench coat from a chair and pulled it on.
The trench coat was rather large, trailing down to his ankles. On one shoulder, etched in gold was the kanji symbol for "light", and on the other shoulder in silver was the kanji for "dark". Just below these were two cloth loops once more, and a chain was looped through that around his upper arms. There were bright yellow bands wrapped around the arms of the coat just below this. The sleeves were long, so long Sora had to roll the cuffs up to keep from getting in his way. On his left arm there was an area where the coat cut off, then there was a small five inch section of fishnet, which then connected to the rest of the sleeve. The drawstrings for the hood were dark gray and at the end of each one was a small silver crown charm. At his waist a dark blue belt was strung around the trench coat, but the clips were left open so the coat was open. Hanging from one of the buckles was a long silver chain, and at the end was another chain charm.
Sora picked up a black belt-like choker from his dresser and put it on, then pulled on his dog tags and the essence crystal.
"Now to find out what the heck is going o-"
He was interrupted as a loud CRASH and the sound of shattering glass was heard downstairs, followed by the shriek that could only belong to one woman...
"Mom!" Sora cried, throwing open his bedroom door and charging down the stairs. He skidded out of the hallway and into the dining room. Normally that room was rather nice looking. The room wasn't too big, a large round wooden table placed at the center of the room. A large glass window that took up nearly an entire wall overlooked the ocean. Various pictures of Sora, his mom, and one picture of his late father, were placed upon the light blue walls.
Now shards of glass covered the wood floor, the window shattered. Various pictures that had been framed now lay on the ground, frames cracked and broken. The table was in splinters, and perched upon those splinters was a cat-like beast. Muscles rippled under its obsidian black fur, the beast crouched as if ready to pounce, tail snapping in the air like a whip. Its ears were pressed against its head, yellowed teeth pulled back in a snarl. Backed up against the wall was Sora's mother, dressed in her light blue nightgown, sapphire eyes wide with terror, long chestnut hair messed up. A far cry from the smiling, laid back mother he knew.
Turning his attention to the beast, Sora summoned the Keyblade to his hand with a flash of light. "You!" Sora snarled. "Get away from my Mom!" He commanded, wings flaring out behind him.
The beast turned to look at him, giving a feral growl. Its golden eyes widened slightly at the sight of him, then narrowed. Sora's eyes narrowed as well.
With a cry Sora leapt at the beast, Keyblade flashing in the dark. The monster jumped as well, claws outstretched, unleashing a terrible roar. The Keyblade Master held the mystical weapon horizontally before him, and the great beast's claws pressed against it, jaws reaching for the teenager and snapping upon metal. However, upon contact with the weapon, the creature gave a shriek. The Keyblade flashed and the cat-like beast was thrown back, writhing in pain upon contact with the weapon of light.
Sora watched the creature writhe for a moment before holding out a gloved hand and chanting something under his breath, waved it. The beast ceased its thrashing and lay still, the golden light of it's eyes dimming. He then turned and ran to his fallen mother.
"Mom!! Are you okay!? What happened!?" He demanded.
"O-oh Sora..." The women threw her arms around her son, breath coming out in started gasps. "I was j-just getting a drink and I heard a crash coming from h-here, so I came to see what had happened and that t-thing attacked me!"
Sora nodded, carefully prying himself from his mothers grasp. "..There's probably more where that came from." He muttered, more to himself then his mother. "Mom, stay here alright. I need to go see if Riku and Kairi are okay!" With that, he turned on his heel and jumped through the broken remains of the window, Keyblade in hand. He didn't know that would be the last he ever saw of his mother....
Sora jumped into the air, wings flapping desperately for altitude in the flat air of night. All around was chaos. Buildings were flaming and collapsing, piles of flaming rubble lining the streets. People ran around in panic, creatures of black in quick pursuit. The sky was filled with a swarm of inky black, seething as though it were alive.
He looked down in horror at the mess. "Gotta get rid of those monsters..." Sora muttered. He held his arms in front of him, bent at the elbows so his upper arms crossed like an "x". His left hand was balled into a fist, save for the index and middle finger, which were up. His right clutched the Keyblade and held it horizontally in front of him. Sora bowed his head, shutting his eyes and began to chant.
"Amin yello deno i raamavoite en faina...." A blaze of pure white began to glow around the Keyblade master. "Tulya a amin sii ar fainu lye en lye loome...." The light began to swirl around him, encasing him in its warm embrace. "Tyel en loome sii, en tulya arinya!" Sora's eyes snapped open, and he threw his arms down. The light burst away from his body in a wave of white that washed over the entire island, destroying every creature of dark in its path.
Sora watched this, nodded to himself, and turned to fly to Kairi's.
"Not bad." A voice sneered from behind him. Sora blinked and turned towards its source.
The voice belonged to a boy whom didn't look much older then himself. Not that Sora could see much of him to tell, as he wore a heavy black raincoat that trailed to his ankles. It was zipped closed, and the tails of the coat trailed behind him in the wind to reveal tight gray jeans. His hood was pulled up, shadowing his eyes, so only his nose and mouth were visible, along with several light brown spikes of bangs that Sora could see. Two great wings spread from his back, feathers of gold, silver, bronze, copper, and brass shimmering in the light Sora had emitted. He grinned at Sora.
"Of course..." He drawled. "I should expect as much from the legendary Essence."
"Who are you?" Sora demanded, feathers upon his wings arching slightly as he beat his wings to stay aloft, Keyblade clutched tightly in hand.
The shrouded boy cocked his head to the side slightly. "Who am I?" He repeated. A small smirk appeared on his lips. "Don't you know?"
Sora scowled. "How would I know, I've never seen you before in my life!"
"Yes, of course. But you should still know me...after all, I know so much about you. I've been watching you for a long time. I've been waiting to meet you….." A dark smile spread across his lips.
"….. Brother."
Sora blinked, confusion etching itself on his features. "Brother!? What the hell are you talking about!?" He snapped.
The other's smile faded. "Of course, you wouldn't remember. Not with the limited information I was to give..."
"What are you talking about!?"
"Never mind." The other replied. A small smirk played across his lips again."After all....by the end of this, you'll understand. Now come. The master requires you." He held out a black gloved hand.
Sora scowled once more. "I'm not going anywhere with you!" He snapped.
The hooded boy cocked his head to the side once more. "Of course. You would be defiant at first. Such was predicted. But that's all right. In the end I'll make you see......they'll all see.......and I'll get rid of all those little imperfections that fill these worlds…..and once you see…you'll be all I need for payment."
"What are you talking about!?" The Keyblade Master snarled. "I'm not going with you, and you're definantly not my brother, I don't have any siblings!"
"Ah. But we are bound by something far stronger then a mere blood link."
Sora gave a growl of slight frustration. This guy was clearly insane. "Who are you?" He asked again.
"I have already answered your question." The boy replied.
"Well, I don't know you!" Sora snapped.
The boy raised a brow. "You truly do not? I suppose I was the only one gifted with the memories then. I guess that would work, seeing as I am the superior one anyway."
"Shut up! I don't have time for this!" The Essence turned to leave. A black gloved hand grabbed his arm to prevent him from doing so.
"I told you, you aren't leaving. " The hooded boy stated, calm as ever.
"Well, too bad, you can't tell me what to do." Sora replied, wrenching his arm from the boy's grip.
The boy floated in silence for a moment. "I see. So you truly do not remember…..because if you did, I'm sure you would be willing. Very well." The boy held out his arm and with a flash of light a Keyblade appeared in his hand. It was black, forged with some sort of crystal, some sort of light seeming to be contained within it and making it emit a strange black aura. Strange wires of a dark silver metal coiled around it, forming a sort of artistic mesh. The key part seemed to be made purely out of black energy, sparking every now and then. The boy's hand curled around the diamond grip. The Keychain was of a simple white heart with two demonic black wings spreading from it. Sora gaped. The other boy's eyes narrowed.
"I will instruct you. You choose to disobey, so you must be punished. If you will not come willingly, I will take you by force."
Sora gaped in shock for a moment, and then his lip curled into a smirk. "Yeah, too bad I'm not going to stick around for it!" He held up a hand, which glowed, and he drew the kanji for light in the air. "Tele-"
He was interrupted as the kanji for dark appeared over Soras symbol and canceled it out.
"I'm sorry." The hooded boy said. "But I cannot allow you to escape."
Sora scowled at him, summoning the Keyblade to his hand with a flash of light. "Fine! But seeing as you know I'm the Essence, you should also know you can't beat me!"
A smile quirked at the hooded boy's lips. "We shall see."
There were two flashes of multicolored light and the clang of metal hitting metal as both boys charged at the same time, their weapons meeting, sapphire eyes trying to glare into the shadowed ones of the other. They pulled back and the hooded boy swung for Sora's side. Sora blocked then dipped down and slashing at his opponent's midsection. The dark clad boy was fast however and pulled back, swinging downwards to strike the Keybearers head as he did so. Sora flipped in midair to dodge, gathering some energy in his palm as he did so. As soon as he was right side up he charged upward, fist clenched, rainbow energy sparking around it.
He made to slam his fist into his opponent's stomach but a leather clad fist caught his wrist to prevent him from doing so. Sora just smirked and flicked his fingers, the energy bursting forth to slam into the hooded boy's chest. Or it was supposed to anyway. Quick as lighting the hooded boy used Sora's wrist as leverage to flip up and over to come behind Sora, whom turned on an instant to block a strike at his back.
"You're fast." The hooded boy sneered.
"So are you." Sora snapped back.
His opponent didn't reply, choosing to charge once more. Sora flew upward to dodge, murmuring an incantation as he did so. The hooded boy followed him upwards, turning on a dime. Sora twisted and dipped downwards into a dive, diving right past his enemy, whom followed him.
"Come now, stop running away!" The hooded boy cried.
Suddenly Sora flipped onto his back, facing his opponent. His hands were in a fist in front of his face, index and middle fingers pointed upwards, Keyblade clenched downwards in the fist. "Comet rain!" He called out.
The hooded boy looked up, shadowed eyes staring up as hundreds of silvery orbs streaked from the sky, raining down on him, a storm of silver. He turned his head downward and held up his hands as the comets hit, an explosion of silver lighting up the sky.
"…Well, that's that.." Sora muttered, turning to fly away.
"Where do you think you're going!?" A voice demanded. The Keybearer blinked and turned to see the hooded boy still flying, a multicolored fore field flickering around him and vanishing. However, one thing was different. The hood had fallen from the boys face, revealing…
"..Wha….wha.." Sora gaped, eyes wide.
For he was staring into eyes identical to his own. Staring almost as if looking into a mirror, except his mirror image seemed to had darker hair and didn't look like he'd seen a day of sun in his life.
"What? Surprised?" His seeming twin smirked. "I told you we were brothers."
The Keybearer's eyes narrowed. "It's a trick of some kind!" He stated. "It's supposed to make me lose my nerve! Well I'm not falling for it!"
The boy smirked. "Fine, believe what you wish. But we are the same, you and I. Appearance, feelings, and powers. The only difference is I am superior. I am stronger. "
"Shut the hell up!" Sora snapped. "I don't believe any of your rants!" He held his right hand before him. "I don't like using this move on humans, but I've had enough of your crap!" His hand glowed blood red, fingers clenching so they were almost claw like. His eyes changed from sapphire to a glowing crimson.
"Line Erase!" Sora snarled, waving his hand.
A crimson glow began to surround his look-alike, blood red flames. However, instead of screaming in pain as he was erased from the fabrics of reality, the boy just smirked and waved his hand as well.
"Cancel."
Sora gaped as the glow vanished, his eyes turning back to sapphire. "..how…" He gasped. "I'm the Essence…..no one can cancel out that attack. "
"Of course. No one save for another Essence." The boy replied with a smirk.
"..Another…Essence?" Sora repeated eyes wide. "..You?"
"I am. I am Solus, the Reverse Essence, your Yang, your twin, your other half. You are the Sun, I am the Moon." He smiled. "We are connected, you and I. We share a bond far deeper then blood, going as far back as the beginning, when the six angels walked the earth."
"..I…no…you're lying!" Sora snarled.
"But it is the truth." Solus replied. "This is why I have decided you must be my younger brother instead of my elder, denying the truth is fairly childish is it not?"
"Shut up!" Sora snapped.
"Tsk tsk, Temper. This fiery rebellion of yours, this lack of respect, we're going to have to get that out of your system somehow." Solus said, speaking as one would to a misbehaving child.
"I don't need to have any respect for someone like you!" Sora growled, charging at Solus, energy gathering around him, wings flared behind. Solus blocked easily.
"You let words get to you so easily, that's what makes you weak. " Solus said calmly, hand clenching as energy sparked around it as well. He thrust his palm at Sora's stomach, sinking his nails into the Keybearers skin. All of the energy gathered round his palm surged into Sora, whom cried out in pain and pulled back, tumbling away. As he flipped, he happened to notice something…
Kairi's house! And it was swarming with darkness, tendrils of black leaping as if made of flames.
"Kairi!" Sora cried to himself, hands automatically forming the kanji for light in front of him.
Solus charged at Sora, whose back was still turned at him. "Foolish child, turning your back on an enemy!" It was then that he noticed the kanji and his eyes widened. "No!"
"Teleport!" Sora snapped, vanishing in a flash of light.
Solus's attack hit where Sora's head had been moments before, the boy himself slowing to a stop in midair. He turned round slowly, looking in every direction for the Essence. "Oh fine, so you want to play Hide and Seek eh!" He called into the empty air. "Fine! But just so you know, that game can't last forever, I'll find you eventually brother, you hear!?" His cry was met with silence.
Solus scowled. "Damnit."
Kairi bit her lip as she pulled on the string of her bow, sending another arrow of light into the chest of the serpentine beast dipping and curling before her. Her arrow hit it right between the eyes, and with a shriek the demon winged snake fell like a limp piece of rope. Kairi sighed, brushing her short red hair out of her eyes. She glanced down at her outfit, smiling to herself.
She wore a pure white halter top that stopped just above her belly button, and just below that was a short miniskirt that was tinted light purple and slit towards the bottom, a stripe of dark purple with some golden kanji on it at the end. She wore socks the color of her skirt on her feet, and over these she wore some black Japanese style sandles. On her arms she wore pure white furisode, the ends fading into the same light purple of her skirt and socks. (Think Yuna's arm things from FFX for those of you un-kimono-enlightened) Around her neck was a white choker and Sora's crown necklace hanging from a thin silver metal string.
Kairi shook her head. Now was not the time to admire her outfit. The beasts attacking her home didn't seem to diminishing, rather every time she defeated one, two more seemed to take its place.
At the moment she was facing several large cat-like creatures, each growling menacingly. The armored goblin-like things following them were banging their weapons against their palms, crimson eyes glittering dangerously. The serpentine beasts above her twisted round, gliding through the air as if swimming, great demonic wings beating now then. Kairi swallowed, this didn't look good.
As one the monsters leapt at her, and with a cry Kairi attempted to make a shield, closing her eyes.
Suddenly there was a bright flash of light above her and Sora dropped in front of her, Keyblade at ready, eyes narrowed. He scowled, energy sparking around him. "Yami!" He called out, swinging his Keyblade downward diagonally. A wave of black energy burst from his weapon and burst over the creatures before him, wiping many out and damaging others. "Hikari!" He then swung the weapon upwards diagonally. If the wave of dark didn't kill them, this pure white blast certainly did.
Sora spun the Keyblade around in his hand, tendrils of rainbow energy sparking around it. "NO SPIRARU!" With this cry he slammed the Keyblade into the ground. Energy of all elements burst from the ground in a spiral, blasting upwards to the kill the beasts above and spreading behind to kill those behind and around. The energy grew brighter and brighter until Kairi had to close her eyes.
When the light vanished only Sora stood amid a rain of sparkles.
"Sora!" Kairi cried, clearly relieved. Sora turned to grin at her.
"I wouldn't celebrate just yet, there are millions more headed our way."
Kairi blinked. She looked down at the ground, at the shadows cast by the light of flames of burning buildings. The shadows began to grow, coming up from the ground and forming into aleast fifty more beasts. The girl swallowed. "Can't you just erase them all!?"
Sora shook his head. "I can't, each one of them is really just an extension of the central line of darkness. Since they're all just connected to it, if I tried to erase them all I'd erase that entire line, and that would throw off the balance of all the elements."
Kairi groaned. "Great."
The Keybearer smiled at her. "Don't worry, we'll be fine." He said, just as one of the cat-like beasts leapt at him.
He blocked with his Keyblade and threw it back, summoning energy to his palm and firing. The beast let out a howl of pain as it disintegrated, however, as soon as it vanished two more took its place. Sora scowled as these two along with several goblins. Also came several wolf-like beasts, whom darted at him at impossible speeds. He jumped into the air, pulling back as a goblin narrowly missed him with a club, and then pulled up his legs as a cat slashed at them. He held out his palm, firing blast after blast of energy but seeming to only put tiny dents into the force of dark that was gathering around them.
Kairi hovered in the air, firing arrow after arrow, each striking true, sending the serptine beasts to their death. There was a hawk-like cry from above her and Kairi moved just in time to dodge the obsidian falcon-like monster that had dove at her. However, she didn't anticipate the other bird, which flitted past her, it's razor sharp beak grazing her face and drawing a line of crimson across it. She hissed, pulling back another arrow and slaying the creature that had hurt her. However, it was nothing as several hawk-like beasts took its place. Kairi bit her lip. This is insane!
Sora growled, having decided to save his energy and was now simply hacking and slashing at the hoard of enemies surrounding him. He was doing well; he hadn't been hurt so far. However, even as the Essence, he couldn't keep up forever. One of the cats pounced upon his back, sending him toppling to the ground, flaring his wings below the creature helplessly. He groaned, preparing to use yet another energy attack..
TSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEW!
Sora blinked as the weight upon his back had suddenly vanished; he flipped over and looked into the face of his best friend. Riku was holding out his hand, Dragonblade in the other, a grin upon his face. "Looked like you could you some help!" He said.
The Keybearer grinned, taking the extended hand and allowed Riku to pull him up, then took a moment to survey Riku's outfit.
"Odd how we all seem to manage to find time to pick out clothes." Sora commented, spinning around and slamming the Keyblade into the skull of a cat with enough force to shatter it's skull.
"No kidding. " Riku snorted, releasing a wave of energy upon the beasts,
"Stop joking around you guys!" Kairi snapped from above, firing another arrow.
"Sorry Kairi!" Sora grunted; dodge rolling to avoid a bone crushing strike from a goblin.
"Tornado!" A voice called out, a whirlwind of green leaping into the fray and tearing into a group of beasts.
"Blizzaga!" A second voice cried, a burst of ice freezing several goblins.
"Goofy! Donald!" Sora cried, sounding rather happy as the green blur slowed into the knight and the wizard ran in through the path his spell has created.
"The King said to come help you!" Goofy called, bashing his shield into yet another beast.
"Well where is he!?" Riku demanded, ducking under a goblins strike and stabbing it in the gut.
"Right here!" Yet another voice called out, a black, gold, and silver blur charging through, sweeping past creatures and leaving trails of inky black smoke in it's wake. The blur slowed to reveal King Mickey, armed with his Keyblade, a confident smile on his face.
Kairi grinned from up above. "Awesome!" She said, pumping her fist into the air. "Whoa!" She was then forced to duck as yet another hawk dove past her.
"GREASED LIGHTNING!" A voice called out as a large red and yellow shurikan flew through the air, sparking with electricity. It connected with around ten of the flying beasts, each winged creature shrieking as they were shocked and vanished.
"FATED CIRCLE!" Yet another voice cried out. Fireballs rained from the sky, falling upon various beasts and causing them to fall to the ground, howling in pain.
Sora blinked, looking over to watch Leon and Yuffie run up. Yuffie grinned at them, catching her Conformer as it came back to her.
"The Great Ninja Yuffie at your service!" She giggled, striking a pose. "With my faithful lover Squall Leonhart!"
"It's Leon." Leon growled between clenched teeth. "Keep it up and I swear I'll divorce you!"
"Oh hush Squall-kun, you know you love me!" The ninja said sweetly, flipping away as a goblin swung its club at her.
Leon smirked, swinging his Gunblade in an arc and slashing the goblin across the stomach. He merely nodded at her.
Sora sighed with slight relief, slashing yet another beast down. "Well, at least everyone's alright!" He said. "Now c'mon, let's take these guys!"
The battle lasted for two hours, neither side giving in. Everyone fought their hardest, but the darkness was slowly overtaking them, their numbers unimaginable. Before they knew it, everyone was standing back to back, weapons out, wounded, panting, darkness swarming around them.
"Damnit." Riku snarled through clenched teeth. "What now?"
Sora scowled, looking up at the swarm of beasts above them, preventing an escape flight. "I dunno!"
"…Shit." Leon summed up the situation rather nicely.
Kairi shut her eyes, biting her lip. This can't be the end…it can't be….please don't let it be the end. Someone help us!
As if answered Kairi's prayer, a bright blue beam burst through the swarm of creatures. Everyone gaped, looking up, as through the hole it had created, a large, rather battered looking ship lowered itself down and came to a stop, hovering just above the ground.
Sora grinned. "Cid!"
The door to the ship swung open to reveal Aerith and Cloud, whom were holding out their hands. "JUMP IN!" Aerith cried over the roar of the engines.
Sora shook his head. "We can't leave; we have to defend the island!" He called back.
"Goddamnit, just get in, you guys ain't gonna save one damn thing in this mess!" Cid snapped from the dashboard, a sit cigarette in his mouth.
Leon nodded. "He's right! Everyone move!"
Sora answered with a curt nod, jumping into the air to fly to the ship. However, his way was almost immediately blocked by the dark creatures, glaring at him with crimson eyes.
"SHIT!" Yuffie cursed. "We can't get through, there's too many of em'!"
King Mickey stood in silence for a moment. "Sora, can you make a force field to protect everyone?"
Sora shook his head. "Even if I did, we couldn't fight them off, there's so many of them I can't just charge though."
Mickey nodded. "Make the force field. I'll hold them off while you guys get in."
Kairi's eyes widened. "No, you can't! You'll get killed!" She cried, shaking her head.
Goofy and Donald shook there heads as well. "No!" Donald snapped.
"Ya can't!" Goofy agreed. "You're our King, we need you!"
Mickey smiled grimly. "Yes, but you guys are going to be needed in this more then I will."
Sora blinked. "Wha?"
The mouse sighed. "I can't explain it. I just have this feeling….you all need to get out of here." He locked eyes with the Keybearer. "You especially."
The Keybearer blinked. "….why?"
"I can't explain, there's no time! Just go, now!" The mouse cried, his tone leaving no room for argument as he charged into the massive wall of beasts before them.
Sora stared at him for a moment before nodded. "Right..." He said, cupping his palm before his face, energy swirling around it. He waved his arm in an arc, and a sort of bubble appeared around everyone, rippling every now and then with a mirade of colors. "Let's go!" He began to run through the trail left by Mickey, everyone else following.
WHAM! A cat-like beast leapt at the barrier, but was instantly repelled. Its brethren followed, launching themselves at the barrier and being thrown away almost instantly, some breaking their necks in the process. The flying beasts struck from the air, each strike against the force field sounding like a gunshot.
Kairi winced as yet another beast was reflected from the force field and its neck snapped audibly. "Sora! You sure you can hold this up!"
Sora grit his teeth, nodding in reply, sweat soaking his forehead. He fixed his eyes upon Cid's Gummi Ship. Just a bit more….just a bit further….
At last they made it, Goofy and Donald jumping into the ship first and crashing into a wall. Leon and Yuffie followed, both landing gracefully. Kairi almost missed her jump, but Aerith grabbed her hand and pulled the redhead to safety. Riku dove in behind them, somehow managing not to crash into anyone in the now slightly crowded ship. Sora turned towards King Mickey, whom was still fighting the various beasts.
"Mickey! C'mon!" He called.
The King, however, was surrounded, beasts at all sides. The cat-like beasts fangs curled into snarls, goblins cracking their clubs and hammers against their palms, snakes twisting above, hawk-like creatures circling around, their cries filling the air. The mouse shot Sora a desperate look.
"There's too many, I can't get out!" He called.
Sora bit his lip, making as if to leap back into the fray.
"No no no NO Sora!" Mickey cried, waving his hands. "Go! I already told you you're more important!"
"But we can't leave you!"
"We already discussed this! Go!"
"But-"
"GO! As King, I command you to go!" Mickey snapped.
Sora sighed, locking eyes with the King for a final time before biting his lip and nodding. He turned and jumped into the gummi ship. The metal door shut and the ship's rockets flared before blasting away.
Mickey scowled, Keyblade clutched in his hand, eyes narrowed. "Alright, bright it on!" He growled.
However, the beasts did not attack. They stayed in attack position, but they never attacked. Mickey blinked, looking confused.
"Foolish King, sacrificing yourself for the Essence of Heart." A voice sneered.
Mickey jumped. "Who's there!?" He snapped.
The various beasts all parted, forming a sort of path. A boy walked along the path, not looking much older then sixteen, clad in a black leather-raincoat. The hood was down, revealing something that shocked Mickey….a face that looked identical to Sora's. The King gasped.
"Oh right…have to wait for you to get over the initial shock first, right." Solus said with a small smirk. "After all, I guess it's a bit shocking to see someone who looks identical to the Essence, right?"
"Who are you!?" Mickey demanded.
Solus snorted. "I've already gone through this speech once today. I'm not going to do it again. Besides…you don't really need to know."
The King leapt foreword with a cry, preparing to unleash a devastating attack upon the boy. Solus just held up his hand, which flashed an eerie blue. The same blue surrounded Mickey, stopping him in midair and just holding him there. Solus stepped foreward, coming so close they were nose to nose.
"Honestly King, I thought you had more patience then that. It isn't becoming of a ruler to be temperamental." Solus spoke, smirk still gracing his lips.
Mickey scowled, ears pressing back slightly in frustration, saying nothing.
"Oh, don't be scared!" Solus chuckled. "I'm not going to kill you!" He then smiled, a cold, sinister look coming to his face. "Oh no….I'm afraid we have far too many plans for you. I have something much, much better in mind…"
A scream echoed through the islands, mingling with all the other agonized cries of the tormented, dead and dying upon the crumbling world.
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And so ends Dark Rain part two! Huzzah! So guys, what do you think? I hope after my involuntary four month hiatus my writing skills havn't died and made this terrible. ;;
Anyways, next chapter we see what happens to Sora and co, whether Destiny Islands goes BOOM or not, and the beginning of the fulfillment of a prophecy….
Find out what happens next after another four month hiatus!
(I'm just kidding guys; expect the next chapter sometime next week or the week after that.)
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