Disclaimer: WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME? WHYYYYYYYYYY? Fine, I don't own KH, LoZ, that stuff. My friend horsie890 owns Elleinad and Laska. I own Alysia, The Card Crystals, and as I said many times… THAT OTHER OBVIOUS STUFF!
A/N: This chapter is so awesome! If you can see the title of this chapter, it's sort of obvious. Now this is one of the most heated ones yet, so fasten your seatbelts!
Crystal's POV: I had been silent the whole time. I had never been in a scarier situation in my entire life. I was speechless! But that was sweet with Sora and Kairi… Wait, Kairi! Back to reality. Alex pulled her bloody Crystal Blade out of Kairi. She was near death, so near it was scary. I stepped forward. But wait! Aier-Tal can't save dying people…
"Kairi, NO!" Sora cried as her last sliver of life faded away. Her skin was pale and dead and her eyes were as dark. I felt tears stinging my eyes, and a knot in my throat. I really liked Kairi and there was nothing I could do.Sora started to cry, and I did too. A flash of light, and I saw Kairi's pure white heart rise above her.
"No, Kairi! Don't give up your heart! I can save it! Crystal Blade!" I shouted between sobs. I didn't know why I said Crystal Blade, but Aier-Tal turned into a sword. It looked just like Alex's, but Aier-Tal was the hilt and it was white-clear. Instintively I pointed my Crystal Blade to the heart. It disappeared and I saw an image of a heart carved on the sword. Kairi turned into a Shadow.
"NO!" Sora yelled. He held on to the Heartless, tears streaming down his face. The Heartless flailed and bit Sora repeatedly and finally the Shadow wriggled free and scampered away.
Alex laughed maniacally. Sora's sadness quickly was replaced by anger as he shakily stood up. His Keyblade appeared in his hands with the Ultima Weapon keychain and it glowed a fiery, angry crimson.
"I will never forgive you!" Sora yelled at Alex with more rage and hate than I've ever heard. Alex's blue eyes widened and her skin turned pale as she saw Sora walk towards her. Suddenly he yelled and ran at Alex, Keyblade raised.
"Damn it!" Alex yelled. She ran as fast as she could, with Sora in hot pursuit.
The ambulance arrived finally and I slumped to the ground. "What took you guys so long?" I asked the driver.
"You haven't heard already? Weird shadow monsters are attacking all over the world. I can scarcely believe it myself, but I already saw one with my own eyes. We've been very busy and it took a while for the 911 operators to send us over," he answered.
"What!"
"It's true, young lady. You can see them from here. Look!" he said. He pointed to the mountains to the west. I squinted through the glare of the summer sun. I saw a black layer coming slowly down the mountainside.
The ambulance people put a temporary bandage on Elleinad's shoulder and loaded her onto a stretcher. Link got in the ambulance and stood by the stretcher. The ambulance people closed the back doors and the driver got in and drove away. Elleinad was right; I had to awaken the Crystal Angel Knights now. I stared at my sword. Maybe……… I grabbed my sword and plunged it into the ground.
"Alysia and Laska! I need you. The Card Crystals need you. My world needs you. The whole universe needs you. Awaken now and come to our aid!" I yelled. My back suddenly hurt. This took me by complete surprise and I nearly fell over.
"Aier-Tal! Heal them; bring them back to aid us. You know we need them more than I do," I whispered. I gripped onto the handle with all of my strength. A blinding flash of iridescent light engulfed the sword and me. Soon the light faded. I pulled the Crystal Blade out of the ground. White and purple mist poured out of the hole. It widened and more mist came out.
Two things came out of it. The mist cleared and I saw a pair of huge white bird wings tightly wrapped around each other. It was the same thing with a pair of huge purple bat wings next to it. Slowly the wings unwrapped themselves to reveal Alysia and Laska.
They were still asleep but they were slowly waking up.
"Is it morning?" asked the one with the bat wings groggily. She had the same voice as the voice that said "Lat-Reia" in my dream.
The one with the bird wings nodded and said, "Yeah… Wait! Laska, what about the Kingdom? What happened? Where are we?" Her voice was the same that said "Aier-Tal" in my dream.
Alysia, the one with bird wings, was as Namine said. She was really pretty. She had long, straight jet-black hair. It was contrasted against her nearly pure white skin. She had large, bright green eyes that looked as if they could see right through you. She wore light, white, crystalline armor with a skirt with an important looking emblem on it. She had a turquoise symbol on her forehead: a winged crown. Laska, the one with bat wings, looked very powerful and gentle at the same time. Her hair was short, wavy and dark red that was nearly auburn. She had calm brown eyes that looked like they've seen much they shouldn't have. Her clothing matched Alysia's, but they were purple. She also had the turquoise symbol.
"You're in a city called Las Vegas," I explained.
"That's a weird name for a city," commented Laska.
"Laska! What about our home?" said Alysia. I repeated what Namine told me in my dream. Laska hid her face in her hands.
"We've been asleep for a few eons while our whole civilization was crumbling and the Card Crystals were separated. I can't believe it! We could've rebuilt the whole Kingdom!" Laska said, muffled by her palms.
"We can't change it now. You have Aier-Tal… Where is Lat-Reia?" asked Alysia. I explained about how two of my friends were possessed with evil.
"And there's a whole army of Heartless coming!" I said.
"Up for it, Alysia?" asked Laska.
"Yeah!" said the other.
Laska grabbed me around the chest and took flight, with Alysia right behind her. I couldn't believe how strong she was, and it seems as if she was putting any energy into it. Soon we reached the very edge of town. I saw the Heartless coming very close now. I saw tanks and stealth bomber planes and foot soldiers and other military stuff coming and fighting the Heartless. We landed on the ground.
"You guys don't have any weapons!" I said to them. Alysia and Laska started laughing hysterically.
"Watch this," said Laska. She picked up a strip of metal that just happened to be on the ground. I wasn't impressed: Even a toddler could lift a strip of aluminum. Laska smiled and effortlessly threw it towards the mountains. I watched in awe as the little piece of metal spun as fast as a helicopter propeller, higher and higher up… till it went out of sight over the mountains. Then we got in battle stances.
"Let's kick some Heartless butt!" I said.
Alex's POV: I was running my legs off, trying to get away from Sora. It helped that I had Lat-Reia with me… But Sora wasn't showing any sign of tiring. Then I tripped on an unusually wide crack on the sidewalk. I landed flat on my face and my Crystal Blade flew from my hand. What was with that crack? I looked and saw that it was five inches wide for some reason. Was it fate or something like that for me to trip? Ouch! That stupid crack made me twist my ankle! Wait, stop pondering! Sora's coming! He stopped in front of me. He raised his Keyblade high, ready to plunge it right into me.
I saw the angry glint of red in his blue eyes and the scary frown on his face. This wasn't the Sora I knew from the Kingdom Hearts games. His Keyblade suddenly turned to its Oblivion keychain. I saw his frown turn to a sickeningly gleeful grin. He raised his Keyblade higher, ready to put all of his strength into the blow. He wanted to kill me. It all came to me. This was the darkness in his heart showing. He was evil. This is how I looked when I killed Kairi? Was this karma or something? Did I really look that awful? I don't like that at all. It wasn't my choice to be evil anyway, so why should I be? I felt my alien evilness being purged from my body. I was back to normal! But Sora was about to kill me!
"I'm sorry!" I yelled, tears welling up.
"Huh?" said Sora, surprised. The Keyblade disappeared. His evil grin was gone and his eyes were just blue. He yelped and dropped to his knees, clutching his side.
"Why… are you sorry?" he panted.
"I was evil against my will. But you helped me realize that it shouldn't be there. I'm truly sorry. I didn't mean to kill Kairi. I didn't mean to kick you and hit you with my sword. I didn't mean to injure Elleinad…" Tears were streaming down my face and I started sobbing.
"I didn't mean for any of this to happen!" I looked down at the cement, sobbing.
"I didn't mean to…" Sora put a hand on my shoulder.
"Don't cry, it wasn't your fault," he said shakily.
I looked up at him and I saw that he was crying too.
"I didn't mean to chase you and try and kill you. I let my darkness get the best of me and I was so close to making everything worse. I should have told her to stay at the restaurant… It's my fault she's gone!" He cried hard and I said,
"It wasn't your fault, either! It wasn't either of our faults! Heck, it wasn't even Autumn's fault! It's all that cloaked man's fault. Then when I said that, my mind put all the pieces together like a jigsaw puzzle. My mind's been doing weird stuff like that lately. I figured out who that man was! "
It's all Ansem's fault!" I screamed hitting my hands down hard on the cement.
"Ansem? I thought I killed him!" Sora said.
"It's a long story. We have to find a way to find Autumn!" I announced.
"I don't know what you're planning but I have a hunch," he said pointing to the mountains in the west. I saw A black mass moving down it.
"No way!" I yelled.
"Those are Heartless. I bet we can find Ansem or Autumn by them," said Sora. Unlike popular belief among Autumn and Elleinad, Sora was pretty smart. I wiped my tears away and stood up. I forgot I had a badly twisted ankle. I yelped with pain and fell back down. Sora took out his Keyblade.
"Curaga!" he yelled. A green light, and the pain was gone.
"Why didn't you use that on yourself before?" I asked.
"I was too angry and sad to think of it. Besides, it won't help much with these wounds," he said. I picked up the crystal Blade. Bending to my will, the sword tuned back into its normal crystal form. I handed it to him.
"I'll let you borrow this until we get to the Heartless," I said. He took it and his eyes widened.
"The pain is gone!" he gasped.
"Yes, I don't know how it works either, but let's go. So my newfound friend and I ran towards the Heartless, with high hopes of finding Autumn or Ansem.
Blackheart's POV: My first wave was going to arrive in Las Vegas in a few minutes. I looked upon the military stuff below. I smiled: half wouldn't survive even the first wave. Then a thought struck me.
"This is my war I'm leading and I need to fight with something!" I yelled. Something came to my hands. It was a sword.
"The Darkblade. The sword made purely from the deepest darkness and the ultimate weapon against the light," I heard Ansem's distant voice say. It was just… dark. It had a very long, thin, double-edged blade that was as darker than midnight. It had a black wrought iron hilt and an ebony handle. It was almost like the very light of day dimmed around it. I smiled evilly and yelled,
"This is perfect! Yes, I will rule the world with this Darkblade!" I raised it in the air and I saw black storm clouds quickly coming over the mountains. I heard yells and gunfire coming from below. The Heartless had reached Las Vegas, where their mistress (a.k.a. me) was. The Invasion had begun. I summoned more powerful Heartless around the world. I could feel the shadows taking over. I was winning! I sent a secret kind of heartless out.
They were similar to Crescendos, but they could talk. I sent them all out, telling them to announce to the world that I was in charge of the shadows and I won't top until I have the whole earth in my grasp. The time was near. I'll be surprised if most of civilization will still be standing when I send out my Secret Weapons. The secret heartless I made by fusing together four kinds of Heartless. I would soon have the world on a silver platter. It would be a while before my Secret Weapons were ready. Until then… I had probably made history… if it was ever to be recorded!
A/N: Wow! My longest chappie, too! It's only going to get better, everyone! And more cliffie joy for fg00! MWAHAHA!
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Horsie890: Yes, that continent thing was a mistake. Well that little injury was a lot better than what I originally wrote. Okay? I didn't really appreciate that little comment about Sora and Kairi. ( I was sad when I typed that.