-Chapter 2: The Fury
Leon opened the door when Sora was done. He was awestruck. Where thousands of Chasers, Heartless, and Nobodies had just been, there was only the town again. Leon tried to understand this rage...but he couldn't fathom what Sora was really thinking. Then, he thought to himself about his earlier days, when he had feelings for one girl. He remembers that rage driven inside of him...and remembers he couldn't even use it because of the superiors.
The rest of the team's jaws dropped a mile. Here was their friend Sora, a mere teenager, doing things that no one could imagine. He probably, at that time, could have defeated anything that crossed his path.
"Well...? Are you just going to stand there, or are we going to get my island back again?" Sora asked everyone.
"It's about time this finally ended," King Mickey said. "So we're gonna bring all of your friends together again, and we're gonna finish the story."
And who else would appear, out of nowhere, but an old friend. "Hey, Sora." It was Tidus, grown a bit and with a glowing blue sword in hand.
"At least someone made it off the island," Sora turned as he spoke to Tidus. "Did you see anyone else?"
"I'm not sure how I got here. But if the same thing happened to them, they should be fine. We'll just have to find them."
"Count me in, too." Leon walked forward.
"I don't want anyone coming with me. This is dangerous."
"Well, you'll be disobeying the King's order if you don't at least take Donald and Goofy. And they're hunting me, too, so I might as well help get to the root of all this," King Mickey said to a distant Sora.
"...err...if you say so, Your Majesty..." Sora was somewhat displeased.
"Relax. Remember what I said before: Kairi is a Princess of Hearts, and Riku is fine on his own. I'm sure they're fine," the king said, trying hard to reassure Sora.
"You're right..." Sora put away the Keyblade and wrapped the chain around his arm.
"Oh, my...Sora, you've got the Chain of Memories!" King Mickey recognized the chain from his own time seeing it in action.
"So, is that what this is..." Sora looked closely at each link of the blade. The handle on one end had a heart in the center, and had the image of Kairi engraved into it. The other side was home to a halberd top, and was engraved with the number "XIII" in a Nobody symbol on one side. Each link was extremely sharp, in the shape of a Heartless symbol.
"The Chain of Memories is rare. It goes to the strongest will among the Keyblade holders, and displays their memories as they see them."
"My heart has always been here." He looked deeper into the eyes of the engraving of Kairi, wishing she knew how much he cared.
"Tell me something we don't know, silly," Yuffie said, playfully.
"Hey!" Sora took mild offense, then the two of them laughed. He then continued examining the chain.
"That's your harshest memory, right there. The one that cuts deepest in your heart." The king pointed to the halberd.
"That's right...they really do piss me off." Sora was examining it even further, when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Merlin popped up.
"Sora, I saw that fight just now." Merlin seemed to have been on the roof or something. "It seems you've unlocked your Fury ability."
"You mean when I attacked all of those guys?"
"Yes. Fury slows them down and speeds you up for a short period of time. You also deal double damage when using it."
"That explains a lot." Sora was more fascinated by the chain.
"That chain will come in handy. You can use it in many more ways than one."
"I see. It's not hard to use, either."
"And remember: any keychains you obtain, you can equip either on that chain or on your Keyblade. It will amplify your power in that particular area."
"Okay. I'm ready to set sail, whenever you are." Sora turned to Mickey. "Well, are we ready?"
Mickey shook his head. "There's still more we have to do, like getting our Gummi ship back, for one, and fixing the launch point."
"Oh, man, this is gonna be some heck of a day..."
The crew started work on it. Sora used his newfound abilities to speed things up. For instance, he used his new chain to bring big boulders up over a wall. When they were done, Radiant Garden was back to radiance.
"Well, we'd best be going now." Sora was readying the ship for departure.
"Good luck, you guys!" Yuffie yelled. She seemed to yell everything, even though this time she had a reason to.
"Whatever..." Leon turned his back and went back in.
"You take good care, now!" Cid pulled out a cigarette, lit it, took a drag, and walked back in.
"We'll be seeing you all again soon." That's what Sora was thinking.