"Heroes from the realm of light," Xemnas continued. "I will not allow it to end this way. Not yet. If light and darkness are eternal, then we nothings must be the same... eternal."
"You're right," Irma responded. "Light and darkness are eternal. Nothing probably goes on forever, too. But guess what, you freaks?"
"That doesn't mean YOU'RE eternal!" Nick retorted as Nerissa drew the Dark Keyblade.
Irma looked on as Nerissa was about to strike with the Dark Keyblade, but Nick easily countered the strike. "I'll take that, thank you," Nick said sarcastically, doing a backflip and snatching the Dark Keyblade out of Nerissa's hands.
"What? Why aren't you being consumed by the darkness?" Nerissa asked in shock after seeing Nick in a fighting stance with the Dark Keyblade and Oathkeeper, respectively.
"You said it yourself, Nerissa. The Dark Keyblade feeds on a person's dark thoughts. I don't have a single one in my head," Nick explained. "So there."
"So, you're smarter than I thought you were," Nerissa replied. She turned to Xemnas. "I'm sorry if I have to do this."
With that, Nerissa materialized another Dark Keyblade (AN: this one is the REAL Dark Keyblade. The one Nick is using right now is the one from Heatherfield in chapter 2) and struck Xemnas with it.
"Why... you traitor..." Xemnas said before breaking up, his remains surrounding Nerissa. A bright flash engulfed the area, and when it cleared, Nerissa had changed. She was now in her teenage form, but wearing Xemnas' black and white robes.
"I hope you like oblivion, because that's where the two of you are headed!" Nerissa shouted.
"Stop your yammering and bring it on!" Nick retorted, and together, he and Irma charged for Nerissa, thus beginning the battle that would decide the fate of the world.
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(Light and darkness are eternal. Nothing probably goes on forever, too. But what of those that exist in the cleft between these respective forces?)
S.P.D. Gold Ranger presents:
W.I.T.C.H. in: "K is for Keyblade"
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure
Rating: T for some violence, 'moments' and a bit of harsh language
Summary: Nerissa, the Guardian's new enemy, has found and unearthed an ancient evil force, one that consumed Nick's old friend. What wicked plans does Nerissa have for the Dark Keyblade? Can the Guardians stop her and save their home from the darkness? Features Nick, my original character.
Today: At last, it's the final battle! Can Nick and Irma hold on and destroy Nerissa once and for all? Or is it already too late to save the realm of light?
W.I.T.C.H. is copyright SIP Animation and JETIX. Kingdom Hearts is copyright Disney, Square Enix, and Buena Vista Games. This story is copyright S.P.D. Gold Ranger, July 2006. This takes place during the animated series, even though the Knights of Vengeance I'm using for this story are from the comics.
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Final Chapter: "C is for Conclusions"
"Fools," Nerissa said to herself as Nick and Irma charged for her, their Keyblades raised.
"Fools rush together, fools die together," Nerissa stated before grabbing the charging duo and throwing them into the air. She disappeared, only to teleport to where Nick and Irma were.
"Look out!" Irma exclaimed as Nerissa began firing numerous bolts of white lightning for the duo. Nick was able to react quickly, doing a sort of lunge around the many bolts that came at him from all sides.
Irma was doing the same thing, performing a sort of reversal around the energy beams while deflecting others with Mysterious Abyss.
As Nick continued dodging the bolts, he saw Nerissa sitting back and watching the show. Big mistake, Nerissa, Nick thought, using his Reversal ability to his advantage. He began dodging around, each dodge bringing him closer to the unsuspecting Nerissa. Once he'd reached her, he sprung his attack on the ex-Guardian, slamming her around with her own weapon. After a while of this, Nerissa teleported away at high speeds, and Nick and Irma dropped to the ground.
"Where is she?" Irma asked, only to be answered with a strike to the back from Nerissa's weapon – or rather, Xemnas' weapon. Apparently, when Nerissa absorbed Xemnas, she gained all of his abilities.
Just as Nerissa was going to aim another attack for the vulnerable brunette, she was quickly met with the business end of Oathkeeper, the silver and gold blade slamming into her chest and knocking her back a ways. Nick rushed over and helped Irma up. "Thanks," Irma said to Nick.
"No problem. I love you, Irma, and I'm not about to let this corrupted freak get the best of you," Nick replied.
Suddenly, Nick could feel Nerissa's presence extremely close by. Irma quickly held her hands out towards Nick, and then thrust them upward, surrounding Nick with a column of water that surprised Nerissa and knocked her back again. This time, Irma joined in the attack, the three Keyblades relentlessly slamming into Nerissa. Again, Nerissa teleported away after a while of this.
The ex-keeper of the Heart reappeared far above Nick and Irma, showering the vicinity with laser bolts.
"Lasers, Nerissa? You seriously need to get a new act!" Nick shouted, countering the lasers with bursts of dark energy from the Dark Keyblade. Suddenly, Nerissa began teleporting again, although this time, she wouldn't stop.
"I can't follow her like this! We've got to find some way to get her to stop moving like Chris on a sugar rush!" Irma exclaimed, her head quickly turning to try and keep up with Nerissa's constant movement.
Nick was standing still, his eyes closed and focusing on something. A few seconds later, his eyes shot open. He swung the Dark Keyblade behind him, and incredibly, it stopped Nerissa from teleporting. Wasting no time, he did a sort of 360, switching weapons and attacking with Oathkeeper. Nerissa was growing angry.
"Enough of this mindless flitting!" Nerissa shouted, swinging her own Dark Keyblade and catching Nick off-guard. "Can you spare... a heart, Nick?"
"What are you talking..." Nick's sentence was cut short as Nerissa struck him with a beam of dark energy that lifted him up into the air. As he hung there, Nick could feel his energy slowly draining away. He struggled to escape Nerissa's grip, but it was to no avail.
"Nick!" Irma shouted, rushing forward, only to be knocked back by another Nerissa. She looked up at Nick, who was starting to fade away. "You're going to pay for this, Nerissa..."
Suddenly, the Oathkeeper materialized in Irma's hand. She looked in wonder at it, then looked back towards Nick and Nerissa. She knew what she had to do. Raising the Oathkeeper, she charged for her lover.
Again, the Nerissa clone lashed out at the brunette, but she simply swatted it away with Oathkeeper. Yet another clone attacked, but was also smacked away. By the time the 3rd clone started its attack, Irma had officially had just about enough.
"I'm tired of these games! TAKE THIS!" Irma shouted, raising the Oathkeeper towards the Nerissa clone. A rapid burst of energy beams shot from the mystic blade and slammed into the Nerissa clone, knocking it back a ways.
She continued charging for Nick, using her new attack whenever Nerissa's clones got close, and in no time at all, she had reached Nerissa. Taking quick action, she leapt into the air and struck, sending Nerissa flying and releasing Nick. Irma continued the attack by performing a somersault spin attack followed by a hard uppercut that sent Nerissa into the air.
"Whoa. Thanks, Irma," Nick said, the Oathkeeper returning to his hand. "I owe you one."
"You can pay me back later," Irma replied. "We need to take care of this little freak before we can discuss a useful payment method."
Suddenly, Nerissa began attacking Nick with the Dark Keyblade, but Nick was expecting the attack, performing a step vault over Nerissa and continuing with a vicious spin attack that knocked Nerissa off balance.
Suddenly, Nerissa's hands were surrounded with electricity and immeasurable dark energy. "I'm tired of playing around with the likes of you!" Nerissa shouted as she raised her hands. Nick and Irma were quickly surrounded by a swirl of darkness.
"You're heading for oblivion now!" Nerissa exclaimed, countless laser bolts appearing – all of them aimed for Nick and Irma.
"DIE!" With that, she thrust her hands towards the Keyblade wielders.
"Incoming!" Irma shouted.
At least 20 bolts shot for the duo, but Nick easily deflected them all with Oathkeeper. "Irma! Use your Keyblade to deflect those lasers!"
"Got it!" the brunette replied, swinging Mysterious Abyss.
Together, the duo began deflecting nearly every bolt that came their way, and believe this author when he says there were literally thousands of lasers!
Nick and Irma were thoroughly exhausted, but they wouldn't stop deflecting the lasers. They had to keep going.
The world as they knew it was counting on them.
Eventually, the barrage came to an end. Suddenly, Irma found herself far away from Nerissa, who was aiming a laser sword straight for Nick.
"Nick!" Irma shouted, picking up Mysterious Abyss and charging forward. Just before she could get to Nick, Nerissa grabbed Irma by her shirt collar and lifted her into the air. Nick got up and tried to save his lover, but Nerissa only pushed him back.
Nerissa suddenly swung her laser sword and slammed it straight into Irma's back, causing the brunette to scream in pain.
The assault only got worse, as Nerissa continuously slammed the laser sword into Irma, knocking her around like a rag doll. Nick's anger kept growing each time Nerissa struck.
(AN: Sorry to all you Irma fans. I'm just trying to model this battle after Kingdom Hearts II's final battle.)
Nick suddenly found himself charging forward, brandishing Oathkeeper. Nerissa slammed her laser sword into Irma's back again, not noticing that Irma had just tossed Mysterious Abyss to Nick, who readily caught it.
Nerissa then slammed her laser sword into Irma's side, but that was as far as the ex-Guardian got before Nick struck Nerissa with Oathkeeper and Mysterious Abyss together, letting Irma drop to the ground, clutching the spots where she'd been attacked.
"You're going to pay for that, Nerissa!" Nick shouted, dodging around a strike from the laser sword and slamming Mysterious Abyss into Nerissa's stomach. Nick performed a rapid series of attacks with the dual keyblades before stepping back and lashing out with a spin attack, followed by an uppercut with Oathkeeper. After that assault, Nick dropped to the ground, spinning both blades in his hands before jumping straight upwards, the dual Keyblades held in an X formation. Nick struck hard with both blades, knocking Nerissa high into the air. He landed next to Irma and held out Oathkeeper. Irma nodded in understanding, reaching out and letting her hand rest on Nick's. The Oathkeeper glowed for a second as the two aimed the keyblade towards the flailing Nerissa. A bright circle of light formed around Oathkeeper before it shot a beam of energy that quickly pierced through Nerissa, stunning the former keeper of the Heart.
Nick charged again, this time wielding Fatal Crest alongside Oathkeeper, both keyblades glowing brightly. "I've had enough of your little games, Nerissa! You try to screw up our world, steal our friends, AND try to destroy us! I should have destroyed you when I had the chance!"
Knowing that there was nothing she could do, Nerissa held her arms up in a vain attempt to block Nick's incoming attack.
"Worst of all, you almost kill my girlfriend! I'll never forgive you for that!" Nick was getting ever closer to Nerissa.
Irma smiled weakly, taking her time to recover from Nerissa's assault.
Nick jumped, and in a blaze of glory, struck and tore both Keyblades straight through Nerissa. Nick looked back in triumph as Nerissa slowly began to disappear, consumed by her own dark power.
Nerissa's last words were "Cursed... keyblade..." before disappearing completely, leaving Nick and Irma in the realm of nothing. Nick picked up the Dark Keyblade that Nerissa had left behind and threw it up into the air. Nick focused and struck with the Oathkeeper, easily cleaving the Dark Keyblade in two, which quickly evaporated. Nick let Oathkeeper disappear from sight and walked up to his girlfriend.
"You feeling okay, Irma?" Nick asked his lover.
"I've been worse," Irma replied, rubbing her shoulder. "Now, for the $20,000,000 question... how do we get out of here?"
Nick tried swinging Oathkeeper like he did whenever he had to open a rift to somewhere, but nothing came up. There was no keyhole to open a new road, either.
"I guess... we don't," Nick replied.
"But you know something, Nick?" Irma stated. "I don't really care. As long as I'm with you, I'm happy where we are."
"Same here, Irma."
Nick walked over and sat down by Irma, draping his arm around her. "At least we know that the realm of light is safe now. The others are back home. Sora's back with Kairi and Riku."
"I guess we did good then, huh?" the brunette replied, letting her head rest on Nick's shoulder.
They kept that position for a while.
"I often wonder why the council picked you to wield the Keyblade," Irma said softly.
"...you know, I've been wondering about that, too. I think it was probably because I was the only one who could stop Cassidy when she was corrupted by the Dark Keyblade," Nick responded. "I can still remember the promise I had made to Cassidy before this all happened. Maybe that's why I received the Oathkeeper." Nick let Oathkeeper materialize in his hands.
"I see... because the Oathkeeper represents an oath... a promise..." Irma replied, letting her hand rest on Nick's. "Like the one you and I made..." Suddenly, as if it was reacting to Irma's touch, the Oathkeeper began glowing with a bright gold light. Nick and Irma could only watch as the mystical blade floated into the air, covering the realm of nothingness in a bright light. Nick and Irma shielded their eyes from the flash that soon erupted from Oathkeeper. When the impossibly bright light cleared, the two lovers stared in awe at Nick's keyblade.
Its silver and gray hue had shifted to a brilliant gold, and the jewel in the hilt of the blade had changed from a star to a heart. The keychain had changed from a star to a combination of Nick and Irma's element symbols.
"It used the power of our love... it transformed..." Irma said, breathless.
"Who would have thought?" Nick replied as the newly reformed Oathkeeper floated down so Nick could take it. Once his fingers wrapped around the handle of the blade, he felt an incredible power surge through his very being. Smiling triumphantly, Nick held the new Oathkeeper out. Its tip began glowing with a brilliant light. Before Irma could react, the mystical blade shot a beam of light forward, and a portal opened – leading back to Heatherfield!
"Home!" Irma exclaimed.
"Shall we?" Nick beckoned, letting Irma walk into the portal first, Nick soon following.
Inside Irma's house, Will and the others had just explained everything to Anna and Thomas Lair about the great battle and how their daughter wouldn't be returning home. Just as Anna was about to start crying, however, a portal opened near the doorway, and Nick and Irma flew out of it. Nick did a quick swing with Oathkeeper and the portal closed.
"Irma!" everyone except Nick and Irma themselves shouted, and suddenly, the two lovers found themselves receiving huge hugs from everybody present.
When it had all settled, Will looked at the two. "How'd you get home?"
Nick held up the reformed Oathkeeper. "Love. And a little bit of magic."
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Author's Final Thoughts
And that is that!
I'm glad I got this story finished when I could. I probably won't have access to a computer for a while because Dad's trying to fix my home computer (IT CRASHED AGAIN!), but be assured that I'll be back as soon as it's fixed.
Take care, everybody! And accept no substitutes!
Ja ne for now,
S.P.D. Gold Ranger
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In a vast desert field, three heavily armored figures and a fourth, less armored figure, walked up to a mesa and set their gaze upon what appeared to be Keyblades.
The three heavily armored figures picked up the Kingdom Key, the Royal Kingdom Key, and Way to the Dawn. The fourth figure picked up the old version of Oathkeeper.
"The Keyblade Wars have begun..." the female figure said.
We now pan out across the desert field, where literally thousands of Keyblades can be seen sticking out from the storm-ravaged soil. The four armored figures looked out towards the sandstorm that had just started and at a mysterious, blurred figure.
"Master Xehanort. You have come," the first figure said.
"I would not miss this for the world," the blurred figure of Xehanort replied. "Do you know your first target?"
"Actually, we have acquired many targets for our first strike," the second figure said, raising his hand out. A monstrously large Keyblade appeared in his hand.
"We have acquired knowledge that our targets wield Keyblades given to them by an Oracle," the third figure stated.
"Himerish. I should have known," Xehanort retorted. "He doesn't quit."
"Furthermore," the armored female said, "the targets are five girls and a boy, all chosen to be Guardians of the Infinite Dimensions by Himerish himself."
A sort of hologram appeared before the group, showing pictures of 6 humans: a girl with short, spiky red hair; a girl with long, wavy brown hair; an Asian girl with braided violet hair; a girl with long, flowing blonde hair; a Chinese girl with two long pigtails; and a boy with short, spiky brown hair. They were all posing together, each holding their own Keyblade, with the exception of the boy, who wielded two at once.
"These Keyblade Bearers will not escape the Chasers," the four armored figures said. Xehanort began laughing maniacally.
fin... for now...