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"What's- What's happening to me?" Sora asked as he fell. "Falling...Falling...into darkness"
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Chapter 14
Remembering the Light
"Come back Sora!" Kairi shouted as the sparkles disappeared. "Sora, are you really?" Kairi shook her head. "No he can't be...I won't let him go!"
Kena stood up and walked to where he disappeared and looked up at the keyhole. 'It's complete.'
"So you've awaken at last Princess."
Everyone looked over seeing a tan man in white and black appear, he had the symbol of the heartless on his chest, golden dark yellow eyes and white hair.
"The Keyhole is now complete you have served your purpose." Ansem waved his hand. "But now it's over." he started walking toward's Kairi as Kena, Donald and Goofy jump infront of him.
"Don't make another move!" Donald ordered.
"Yea, we won't let you hurt Kairi!" Kena said raising up the Dream sword.
"Do you think we can stop him all by our selves?" Goofy whispered to Donald.
"I don't know." Donald said, seeing Ansem began to walk again but suddenly stopped glowing white.
"I-Impossible.. No-" Riku's spirit appeared. "You won't..You won't use me for this!"
"Riku!" Kairi shouted as she began towards him.
"You've got to run, the heartless are coming!" Riku ordered as he held Ansem back, the heartless appeared and Kairi looked around them then nodded.
"Run!" Donald screamed as he ran, but littie did they know one heartless didn't run watching them run threw the doors it jumped off the edge and ran after them.
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"Kairi, hurry!" Kena shouted up at her.
"I can't just leave them behind!" Kairi said from the top of the stairs, of the main lobby.
"We can't stay here!" Donald said to her.
"A heartless is after us." Goofy finished Donald's sentence, as soon as he said this the heartless that followed them appeared behind Kairi making her run to everyone.
"I'll take care of him!" Donald said taking out his wand, as the heartless slowly moved in towards them; Donald bonked it over the head twice with his wand. "Confounded heartless, get lost will ya?"
The heartless looked up at Kairi who gasped taking a step towards him. "Sora? Is that you?"
"Uh-Oh!" Goofy said as he took out his sheild, Kena took out the Dream sword, as more heartless appeared.
Kairi turned around stepping back against the littie heartless that followed her, as the other heartless closed in. "This time I'll protect you." Kairi said looking back up the heartless stoped moving as suddenly they jumped her. "Sora!" she shouted quickly bending down hugging the heartless as the darkness seemed to take over.
"What?" Donald said as he saw this.
"Kairi!" Goofy and Kena shouted looking back, then suddenly a light flashed.
"Kairi, Thank you.." Sora said softly as he hugged her.
"Sora!" She smiled as he let her go.
"Sora!" Kena, Goofy, and Donald shouted in happiness, but the happiness went away as more heartless appeared pushing everyone together.
'What do we do?' Kena thought then heard a roar. 'Beast?' Kena looked up seeing him jump down to the ground slashing a heartless away.
"Go now!" he ordered.
"Come with us!" Sora said but the Beast growled.
"I told the girl before, I'm not leaving without Belle!" the Beast said loud. "Now go! The heartless are coming!"
"Okay...Let's get out of here!" Sora said as everyone turned around and ran out the door back towards the gummi ship.
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"Tell me what happened." Leon said leaning against the wall cross armed as Sora explained. "So the the Darkness is flowing out of that keyhole."
"No wonder there are more and more heartless everywhere." Aerith continued. "The only way to stop them is--."
Sora lifted his hand up making the keyblade appear. "Seal the keyhole, right?"
"Maybe. But no one knows what will happen once it's sealed." Leon said shaking his head.
"Well we can't just stay here. We have to do something. I've got a friend back there."
Leon opened his eyes. "That's right. You have one more friend to worry about. Riku's Keyblade must have been born of the capture princesses' hearts--Just like that Keyhole you saw." Leon then looked over at Kairi who was talking to Kena. "Of course, without Kairi's heart, it remained incomplete. Once the Keyblade was destroyed, the princesses' hearts should have been freed. Don't worry, Sora." Leon looked down at Sora. "If anyone can save your friend, you can."
"Well then Sora?" Kena asked as he turned around. "Let's go ask Cid to fix the gummi ship, we need to save Riku from Ansem."
"We also need to save your boyfriend from Menla." Sora said teasing.
"If you mean Matt, he's my best friend!" Kena said bonking Sora on the head opening the door. "Let's go."
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"Cid, we need to go back to Hollow Bastion." Sora said as Cid shook his head.
"I don't think I can let you do that, kid. The Heartless there are multiplying by the minute. They'd eat your ship up." Cid said as Sora looked down.
"Then what can we do?" Kena asked Cid who smirked.
"Simple. Go around 'em instead of through." Cid said as Kenas tilted her head.
"How?"
"Install a new navigation gummi and take a new route." Cid said as he turned around.
"A new gummi? From where?" Sora asked.
"The secret waterway. When I came here 9 years ago, I stored it there in case I ever needed it." Cid laughed. "Never thought a few kids would be the one to use it!"
"Off To the secret waterway!" Kena said running to the 2nd district.
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Kairi was standing there. "What a mysterious mural...It's almost hypnotizing." she said as Sora looked at the sun mural.
"I wonder." Sora said as he ran to the end of the tunnel and pressed the mural and out came the navi-gummi, and he turned around and walked back over to Kairi. "Let's go back and join the others. We should rest up."
"Okay." Kairi but then stoped. "A light, at the end of the tunnel..."
Sora stopped walking and looked back at her. "Oh, your grandma's story, right?"
"That's right. We were together." Kairi said with a smile on her face.
"You know what's funny? I looked everywhere for you, but you were with me all along." Sora continued. "Finally, we're together, Kairi. Now, it's time to get Riku back."
"You think it'll ever be the same again between us? Riku's lost his..." Kairi cut herself off.
"When I turned into a Heartless, you saved me, remember?" Sora asked Kairi and she nodded. "I was lost in the darkness. I couldn't find my way." Sora continued. "As I stumbled through the dark, I started forgetting things-- my friends, who I was. The darkness almost swallowed me." he then looked at Kairi. "But then I heard a voice--your voice. You brought me back."
"I didn't want to just forget about you, Sora. I couldn't." Kairi said as she placed her arms behind her back.
"That's it!" Sora said placing his hand onto his heart. "Our hearts are connected. And the light from our hearts broke through the darkness, I saw that light. I think that's what saved me." he continued. "No matter how deep the darkness, a light shines within. I guess it's more than just a fairy tale." Sora said looking back at Kairi.
"Well, let's go!" Kairi said.
"You can't go." Sora said stopping Kairi.
"Why not?" Kairi asked.
"Because it's way too dangerous." he said with shifty eyes.
"Come on, Sora. We made it this far by sticking together. You can't go alone!" Kairi said as Sora looked away.
"Kairi, even if we're apart, we're not alone anymore. Right?" Sora said as Kairi blinked.
"I can't help?" Kairi asked as Sora scratched the back of his neck.
"You'd kind of be in my way."
Kairi giggled to him. "Okay. You win!" she then took him by the hand placing a star shaped keychain in his hand. "Take this." she said placing her hands onto her sides. "It's my lucky charm. Be sure to give it back to me."
Sora cuffed his hand and nodded. "Don't worry I will."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Don't ever forget. Wherever you go, I'm always with you." Kairi said smiling as they turned back around.
"Come on, Sora we need to bring this gummi back to Cid!" Kena yelled from the stairs.
"Coming!"
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"You found it? All right, I'll go fix up your ship." Cid said as he walked off.
"So we need to shut the keyhole, stop Ansem, save Riku and Matt, and every world!" Sora sighed hooking the star keychain onto his keyblade making the Oathkeeper. "I think we can handle that!"
"All set! You can get going any time." Cid said to them as he turned away again. "Kids, I gotta say, I wish you didn't have to face all this danger."
-•Hollow Bastion•-
As everyone walks into the main lobby they spot Beast. "Beast!" Kenas shouted getting him to turn around. "Where's Belle?"
"Still inside the castle." he said with a light growl.
"Against her will?" Goofy asked.
"No, I think she stayed for a reason. The other princesses are inside as well."
"I wonder why?" Donald wondered as Sora walked towards the stairs.
"Let's go ask them." Sora said as Beast said.
"You may need my strength. I'll go with you." he said as he joined the party.
Well this isn't the last chapter, but at least there is more! hehe please review!
-Karen Kano