Lured into Darkness
Chapter 5: Hard to letYou Go
Kairi and Riku
Kairi's eyes welled up into tears after she saw the gummi ship.
Is it? Sora?
The door opened and a small figure came out, a really tiny figure.
Kairi went back cautiously looking at the shadowy figure coming out.
"Kairi!" the figure screamed out walking out of the ship.
"King Mickey?" she asked in a puzzled voice.
King Mickey hopped out of the ship shaking Kairi's hand.
"I need to speak with Riku." he added quickly.
"King Mickey? ….um……."
Kairi had so many questions to ask him about Sora she didn't know where to start.
The king hurried off towards the shack, not listening to her. Kairi stood still by the sand.
What happened? Why is he here? Maybe its about Sora!
Kairi scampered behind Mickey to find out what was happening.
"Riku!" he hollered from outside.
Mickey peaked his head inside the shack to find Riku.
"Riku?" he asked again.
"Mickey!" Riku raced towards the door hugging the surprised mouse.
"King Mickey, I can't believe its you! Why are you here!" Riku coughed out.
The small mouse's smile vanished into a frown.
"I'm here to tell you about something important…" Mickey whispered.
"What?" Riku whispered impatiently.
"The heart-the heartless they are back," Mickey admitted putting his hands to his face
"What? That's impossible!" Riku spat out.
" I know it may sound impossible, but it is likely, for one reason.." the king said darkly.
"What, what happened?" Kairi asked coming out closer to Riku.
"Kairi its best you go outside , not listen to this." Mickey admitted.
"No, please! I want to know!. Please.." bellowed Kairi getting irritated.
"Kairi, please.." Riku asked politely.
"Is it about Sora?" she asked in a hopeful tone.
"No Kairi, he's dead. There is nothing about Sora, this is about the heartless!." Riku argued.
Mickey stood silent waiting for Kairi to leave.
She furiously walked outside and slammed the shack door on Mickey and Riku.
He isn't dead! I know he isn't
Tears ran down her face, and she touched them, mildly surprised for the moment. She wiped the tears of her face with her sleeve and stood outside the shack.
Kairi felt emptiness in her heart without Sora, Everytime she thought of him she would cry.
The emptiness continued to burn, Everytime she thought of him.
She thought of him all the time:
Sora:
Remember what you said, Kairi? I'm always with you too. I'll come back to you!
I promise!"
She smiled a true, genuine smile. Something she hadn't done for quite awhile. She stood outside and laid in the sand just thinking about him.
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Inside the shack……..
The rain pattered against the ceiling inside the shack . Thunder boomed loudly. It was a terrifying night, especially for what Riku was about to discover.
"there is only one way that the heartless could be back…" Mickey whispered.
"And it has something to do with Sora.. !" Mickey said trembling a bit.
Riku's eyes widen, in fear and he looked pale. Riku shuddered at the thought of Sora.
"Sora…is- alive." the king quickly spat out.
Quickly Riku eyes widen, like if he had just seen a heartless in front of him.
"He's alive!" he bellowed, putting a hand through his white hair.
"How can you prove this?" Riku demanded.
"I saw him, and there is one thing I haven't mentioned, Riku." Mickey added darkly.
Riku glanced at the king's terrified eyes.
"What…" Riku said, his hand trembling and his eyes in flames.
"I sensed, something different in him…darkness, its seems like he is full of hatred and revenge."
"with me?" Riku looked terrified.
"I don't know..with who but I'm sure..it isn't good." Mickey said looking down at the floor.
"No.. he can't be alive! I killed him!" Riku barked.
"The heartless probably saved him..and he might be a heartless soon if we don't stop him!" Mickey cried.
"And if we are to late, and he is already a heartless?" Riku asked impatiently.
"And if he does become a heartless, we must..kill him. for good this time! " the king sighed.
Riku slowly sighed, and forcefully blew his bangs out of his face.
"Kairi would hate me.." Riku said in a low tone.
Mickey's eyes darted off.
'"The closer you get to the light...'
'The greater your shadow becomes...'" he whispered still looking at Riku.
"That doesn't make sense." Riku sighed putting his hands to his face.
"Which means, his light, Sora's light must kill him." Mickey snapped.
"His light? Why?" Riku barked getting even more confused at the moment.
"His friends, are the door to his light. But, unfortunately we can't do anything about that, we must kill him."
Mickey explained.
He gently ran a finger down the edge of the table, thinking about Sora again was frightening.
"Mickey, I can't do this." Riku barked, tears welling up in his eyes.
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Sora
He looked at all the vivid yellow eyes staring at him.
"We want hearts like the others!" the heartless yelled.
Sora stared feeling, like they were his friends..
It was a strong feeling, but he thought about Riku and felt nothing for him and his friends anymore.
"Sora…" a small heartless crawled beside Sora.
"What?" he asked in hissing voice.
"Pick, do you want to go against the heartless or with us." the heartless presented him with a dark black keyblade, and his original keyblade.
"Be with us" they hissed grabbing a dark colored keyblade.
Sora was confused at all of this so he didn't grab neither of the keyblades.
"Sora, we are your friend right?" the heartless hissed.
"Come on! Get revenge, kill Riku, the friends that forgot about you!" the hissed.
Sora looked around, closing his eyes and snatching the black keyblade.
The heartless happily hissed and cheered
The laughed along with Sora and cheered.
For the first time, in a long time, Sora had a grin in his face as all the heartless cheered.
A thunder sound suddenly interpreted the cheering, and startled Sora as he looked over to his left in amazement.
"Gwarsh, there's a lot of them!" Goofy barked.
"Sora, do what you must!" the heartless all hissed.
Donald kept making thunder over the heard of heartless.
"Sora protect us!" they cried.
Squelswere heard as the heartless were being killed.
Goofy and Donald, didn't know he was there, because he was a heartless, just like the others, with yellow eyes and a ebony colored body, but he had a keyblade.
Without thinking, Sora grabbed his keyblade and clutched tightly around his arms. He didn't think of Goofy and Donald as friends anymore.
Youbetrayed me!
Sora ran across the field striking Goofy relentlessly. Goofy clutched his shield and hit Sora on the back.
He winced in pain, as he collapsed to the ground.
If I strike them down it'll all be over, soon…
Sora hesitated but brought his keyblade up and attacked his friends causing hem to both drop to the ground.. In a matter of seconds they were gone…
He looked at the heartless that were cheering behind him.
Sora, was one of them now..
I will miss you
Its hard to let go...
I tried to be thoughtful.
I tried to be gentle.
Its, hard to let you go...
But you betrayed me!
Sora clutched his keyblade his eyes drifiting away.
An evil smile came upon Sora's face looking at the heartless scramble around him.
Someone, a true keyblade master... was mislead into darkness.