Title: A Different Turn
Summary: The battle with Saïx happens differently. Sora fights him alone, Riku's back to normal and this sum sucks big time. Story better, promise. Shonen-ai!
Rating: M for violence and maybe future swearing.
Pairings: Riku/Sora, Sora/Riku, Kairi/Sora, Sora/Axel, Axel/Sora, Roxas/Axel, you get the picture.
Warning: Contains shonen-ai, boyxboy stuff, don't likey? Don't read. 'Nuff said. Might be gore...
Disclaimer: ...:Cries: No I don't own it or alot of things would be different.
Chapter I- Unexpected Help
Sora couldn't help but feel joyous when Riku regained his own form back after the real Ansem the Wise's machine exploded.
Now with everyone reunited once again, they set out to find the last two members of Organization XIII: Saïx and Xemnas.
Sora led the group back to the room that had the teleportor that had led them to Luxord.
Now in that same room, another teleportor was active in front of the Luna Diviner.
Sora took a deep breath and turned to the others.
"Everyone ready?" He asked, his stomach doing flip-flops from enxiety.
Everyone nodded their heads; a yes.
Sora nodded back and then proceeded through the teleportor.
The gang came into a long corridore that led to a bigger room that could easily be called a ballroom.
Upon entering the larger room, they immedietly spotted Saïx standing in front of one of manyceiling length windows that overlooked the heart-shaped moon. Kingdom Hearts.
The said Nobody turned around, his gaze set on Sora, he grinned maliciously.
"Only you could have made it this far in one piece...Roxas." He said, still grinning.
Sora frowned and stomped his foot.
"That's really getting old!"
It truely was; he didn't know who Roxas was but he knew he wasn't him.
The brunette was surprised when Donald and Goofy stepped in front of him like a shield.
"Yeah! He's Sora!" Donald said.
Saïx responded by raising his weapon and jerking it forward, causing a snowflake like tip to appear on the end.
The Nobody then brought the weapon to his right side, tossed it in the air and then catching it so it was now behind his back.
"Different name, same fate."
He then moved the sword-like weapon low on his left side, pausing momentarily, then swiping the air, causing a very powerful blast of wind.
Sora, Mickey, Donald and Goofy guarded themselves with their respective weapons while Riku put himself in front of Kairi to protect her.
With the exception of Sora; everyone was pushed out, back into the corridore and before anyone could make a move a barrier was errected, blocking them from entering the larger room.
"Sora!" They all cried out.
Riku tried breaking through the barrier with his keyblade, Kairi pounded on it with her fists, Donald tried all of his spells and Goofy used his shield as a battering-ram to try and bust through and Mickey stood there, knowing it was futile.
Sora was worried but smiled at his friends nontheless.
Turning around he faced Saïx.
The latter smirked.
"Are you ready to meet your fate?"
Sora scowled, then moved into his fighting stance.
Saïx mimiced him, also taking his fighting pose.
After a few minutes of staring each other down, Saïx smiled and relaxed.
Sora gaped confused at the Nobody, but didn't let his guard down.
The others outside of the barrier also gaped at Saïx in confusion.
Riku felt a pang of fear towards Saïx's actions.
Sora could handle the Nobody one-on-one, but now with the said Organization Member acting this way, Riku felt as if things were going to get worse for the brunette.
Riku gritted his teeth in frustration; holding his right arm up, he tried to open a darkness portal so he could get to Sora..
Nothing happened.
"Huh?"
Riku stared at his right hand; why didn't it work!
"You don't belong in the dark realm anymore, Riku." Mickey said, answering Riku's unsaid question.
Of course he was happy about it, but he also cursed it at the moment.
A bittersweet feeling.
'Sora...' He thought sadly.
Everyone's attention was brought back to Saïx when the Nobody snapped his fingers.
Sora felt dread creep up on him as Saïx snapped his fingers.
'Uh-oh!' He thought.
Just as that thought crossed his mind he was suddenly surrounded by a living sea of heartless.
"To make Kingdom Hearts complete...is just one more helping heart from the keybearer!" Saïx said, then once again snapped his fingers.
As soon as the snap sounded, the heartless lept into the air, all focused and eager on capturing the keybearer's beautiful shining heart.
"Sora!" Everyone shouted.
The brunette didn't have time to look at them or even aknowlage them.
The only thing he could do was attack and defend against the swarm of shadows and other countless heartless that came at him.
Every once in a while, Sora would catch glimpses of his friends, who were all watching with worry.
He also caught glimpses of Saïx who was watching him with a malicious glee.
At the sight of that, Sora pushed himself harder, destroying more and more heartless that attacked...but that didn't help when all Saïx had to do was snap his fingers.
Riku couldn't help himself.
The silver-haired youth jerked every once in a while with anxiety and worry.
He knew Sora could not last too much longer.
There were just too many heartless!
Everytime Sora cut their numbers in half, Saïx would just snap his fingers and replace the ranks...
If only could get Saïx...
But there was no way Sora would be able to face the Nobody now, not alone and fatigued.
When Riku saw the brunette start to reach his limits, he let out of frusterated growl and started attacking the barrier with renewed vigor.
He had to protect Sora!
He couldn't let his light go...not again.
Riku remembered all the time him and the brunette had spent with one another, always having sleep-overs, plaing games and just hanging out when there was nothing better to do.
And Riku was glad to have Sora all to himself; Tidus, Selphie and Wakka had tried on numerous occasions to seperate the two from one another, but Riku and Sora were inseperable.
That was that...
...until Kairi appeared.
Kairi had did something that many people had tried to do for years and failed.
When the red-headed girl first appeared, Sora had found her; he was the first person she laid eyes on.
The two became inseperable.
Riku wasn't very found of Sora's new red-headed shadow.
She was always asking Sora to do something for her or asking him to play with her, making the brunette have little time for him anymore.
Riku then discovered that the only way he could spend time with Sora...was by pretending to fight him for Kairi's attention.
The ploy worked but soon Riku found himself growing fond for the red-head, but he still wanted Sora to himself... he was selfish that way but didn't care.
Not too many years after Kairi's appearence, she told them about her being from another world but remembered nothing of it and wanted to see it again.
That is when Riku came up with a plan...
It was years later though into that plan could be carried out.
Riku, Kairi and Sora were in their teens now, when Riku 'just came up with' a plan to get Kairi and them to her world.
Hoping that when they found it, Kairi would want to stay and then he'd have Sora all to himself again.
He was desperate now.
Kairi made small advances at Sora- who usually has a thick skull and need people to point out obvious things to- who then tried to show off more to get even more attention.
Riku felt the brunette was starting to drift further and further away from him, soon he'd lose him completely to Kairi.
He couldn't allow that to happen.
He would't allow that to happen.
So when the cloaked man told him that opening his heart to darkness would give him that chance...he took it without hesitation.
Riku remembered the day the darkness came when he gave in.
When he felt the time draw near, he rowed out to the island and waited on the paopu tree island, calling to Sora, willing him to come.
To his delight, the brunette came but that delight shattered when the first thing out of Sora's mouth was about Kairi.
Kairi, Kairi, Kairi!
It was always about Kairi!
Not anymore.
The darkness would save him by taking him to another world before this one was engulfed and he was taking Sora with him.
He held out his hand, hiding the anticipation and excitment he felt.
Anticipation for waiting for Sora to take his hand; excitment for finally getting the brunette to himself.
He felt delight again at when Sora lunged for his outstretched hand as both sunk into the pool of darkness.
As they were all but fully emersed, Sora had finally caught Riku's hand.
Riku fought the urge to draw Sora to him in an embrace, so instead contented himself with knowing Sora had chose to come with him instead of looking for Kairi.
He would finally have Sora to himself.
But that was shattered as a bright white light enveloped the brunette, taking him away. The next thing he knew was that he was in a different world. Alone.
Riku blocked out the rest of the memories; he didn't want to remember.
The silver-haired youth was brought out of his recollection by the shouting of many 'Sora!'s.
Riku's head snapped up, his eyes catching Sora flying backwards, the keyblade flying across the room and landing with many clangs, then the brunette landing hard in a circle of heartless.
Before the heartless jumped him, a loud snap brought everyones attention back to Saïx, who was leering triumphantly at Sora.
"This is the end. Farewell, Keyblade master."
With that said, he snapped his fingers once again.
The heartless lunged eagerly.
"Sora!" Riku called out, not hearing the others calls.
Time seemed to slow...
Sora threw his hands up in a futile attempt to protect himself.
The heartless slowly getting closer to the unprotected heart they yearned for...
Riku almost broke down, not a single coherent thought in his mind.
He was going to lose his light again...and this time, Sora wouldn't come back.
A lone tear slid down his cheek... this was...the..end.
Time returned to normal.
The heartless just inches away...
...then they exploded.
"Don't stop moving or the darkness will overtake you!" A voice warned.
More heartless were destroyed like the first time with red and white blurs and then incinerated into smoldering piles of ash by fireballs.
Looking around they saw nobody.
They blinked and saw A Nobody.
Said Nobody was currently standing in front of Sora protectively, spikey hair the color of fire who wore a long black coat and wielded two very unique circular weapons...
Someone they all knew too well...
Number VIII in the Organization. Axel, the Flurry of Dancing Flames...
Well, how was it?
This is kind've an aplogy fic to those who read my other fic, Multiple Personalities. Why? Because after writting Chap. II and reading it, I didn't like it and now am rewritting it.
So here is something to hold you guys over...I hope...
:Hides from a pissed off mob of reviewers:
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P.S- Is it just me, or does this kind've seem angsty and sad..?