Me: WHOOHOO!! I GET FREE TIME!! I GET FREE TIME!!!
Sora: o.o WHOAH!!! :turns off TV: what are you doing home!?
Me; HA!!! my swim meet got canceled!! I have time on my hands to type and your LUCKY I'm using my free time for this but its just been on my mind a lot. This is going to be a CLIMAX chapter.
Riku:…What's that may I boldly ask?
Me: it's a chapter where something important happens to change the drift of the story. As in a turning point but I like to say climax cause this is going to be big. And you will all be left with a cliff hanger. MWHAHAHAHAHAHA. Plus its EXTREMLY long.
Sora:…I can tell she's been wanting to say that for some time now.
Me; yes I know its been awhile but its because of my schedule and because I was working on my Christmas story.
Sora:…which you never finished.
Me: oh, I'll finish it ;smirks:
Riku:…….she's going to finish it during the summer to confuse people.
Sora: augh………alrighty then.
Me; I also beat chain of memories. Ansems hard, Mickey's as much of a light freak as Ansem is to darkness, Mickey's cute in the video, Riku's just sexy and Kairi's never really their. Alrighty enough of this now READ!!!
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Riku and Kairi had ran for some time before finding a short, narrow alley way to hide themselves from the rain. Kairi hovered close to Riku and tapped her sword dully on the trash covered ground thinking deeply. Her hair was drenched none the less from the rain but by now she knew that was the least of her problems.
Quietly Riku let out a sigh causing the brunette to turn around. His silvery hair hung gently over his face shielding his Aqua blue eyes. Many girls back at home had loved to stare into them but it was different for Kairi. It seemed like a window into Riku's mind. A window into the dark memories which still haunted him tot his day.
"Riku…:
Softly he looked up at her and flashed a smile. 'Yeah?"
"…We cant stay here you know?"
Riku was quiet for a moment and slowly he turned to stare at the darkness of the alley behind them. "…We're going to go down their."
Kairi blinked. 'Why down their?"
" Cause he's waiting for us."
The brunettes eyes widened and she scooched a bit closer to Riku and he grabbed her arm gently. "Kairi its okay."
"No its not!" She shook her head frantically causing water to fly in every direction. 'I don't want you to fight Sora…"
Her words echoed in the darkness and The teen stared at her sadly. He knew she would react this way.
"…Your lucky you know Kairi?"
".What do you mean I'm lucky?" She asked icily. Nothing changed his pitied expression.
"Because you can be afraid. I cant." He hopped to his feet and took a step forward. " I used to be one with darkness. And you guys rescued me. I guess now its our turn to rescue Sora." He turned and smiled at her. The same smile he used to have back at home and Kairi smiled back. It was up to them to rescue Sora.
'Alright, Then lets go." Riku took her hand and they ran into the darkness of the Alley as the rain slowly began to increase.
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The darkness had lasted only seconds before they burst into a wet, stone room. Candles flickered on the walls and Kairi and Riku looked at each other confused. Weren't they just in an alley?
"What is this place?' Kairi asked walking farther in. Her footsteps echoed off the walls cause the lights to flicker dully. Riku fallowed steadily behind and stopped sniffing the air. "….He's close. Kairi stay here."
The brunette turned and blinked. 'Why!?"
"Cause I'm not having you getting hurt."
"…Sora wouldn't hurt me.' She whispered lowering her head. Even though her words seemed false to her ears.
Riku sighed and walked over rapping the teenage girl in his arms. Kairi was caught off guard and she gulped trying to hold back tears.
"Kairi, Sora wants to kill all of us… And I wish those words would never have to come out of my mouth." he said strongly. Kairi listened and slowly nodded as he let go of her tipping her chin up to look him in the eye. "You're my best friend. And I made Sora promise to take care of you. He loves you and I don't even think even the deepest darkness can make him forget that." he didn't wait for a reply and pushed her against the wall away from the candle light. 'Stay in the shadows until I tell you to come out. And keep quiet."
Kairi just nodded running his words over in her head and slumped down to the floor. Riku knew what he was doing…right?
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Riku had no idea what he was going to do, but he knew it would come to him when everything started. The dark aura radiating from in front of him was even more powerful then Ansems. Could this really be Sora?
'…I have to do this. For Kairi." Even though by now he didn't know what was good for anyone anymore. Would saving Sora mean his death?
Suddenly he came to a stone archway built like the rest of the place. Rain dripped steadily to the floor from the cracks and openings above. It amazed him that a place like this existed in the middle of the city.
' Must be an old church or something.' He thought coming to an opening. In front of him was the biggest courtyard he had ever seen. Except it seemed more like a outdoor dance floor. The floor was made of solid concrete covered in cracks and puddles as the rain continued to pour down. Statues of shadowed and broken angels were perched on the stone walls wore down by weather. Everything had an eerie feel to it. 3 other archways existed on each side north, south, and east of the floor leading into dark open rooms. Candle light flickered from deep within them in the darkness letting Riku see in the rainy night.
Carefully the teen stepped out into the middle of the floor and stood in the rain listening to the silence around him. He could sense the dark aura. One that he had sensed ever sense two year ago, but ten times stronger.
"…Come on out Sora I'm sick of playing games." Riku said calmly. His hands in his pocket.
Red eyes gleamed out from the darkness at his words and Riku just sighed turning his gaze toward them.
'Heh. You always did like getting straight to the point didn't you Riku?" came Sora's icy voice. A flutter of wings echoed through the air as the brunette flew down in front of his friend smirking. 'But then again that's a good thing sense that's how you and darkness came to meet."
Riku's eyes glinted and he clutched his wing blade in his hand tightly. " Its almost funny." he said darkly. " I never expected to here such low life words coming from a mouth like yours."
As he spoke he noticed several changes in his friends appearance. Sora's eyes continually darted from blood red to black and his face was set to kill as they scanned him. His black wings were larger then before and towered above him shielding the rain. This was a Sora Riku had never thought he would lay eyes upon.
The brunettes smirk twitched slightly at his words and he drew his blade out above his head. "I guess I'm just full of surprises now AM I!?" he brought his blade slicing down upon Riku who countered just in time being knocked back several feet. Sora threw his Keyblade in Strike raid quickly slicing the teens left arm as it whirled by. Riku winced and tried to knock the Keyblade out of the air as it soared back to the brunette but his friend was much quicker.
"A little to hesitant aren't we Riku?" The spirit asked slyly. Riku's anger flamed in his chest and he thrust his blade with a cry at Sora's face just cutting his left cheek as his Keyblade went slicing across his chest. "AH!!"
The brunette raised his hand and grabbed his throat choking him and pinning his body to the ground. Rain poured around them leaving their hair dripping wet as they stared menacingly into each others eyes. Sora's hand glowed red and Riku cried out as pain shot throughout his whole entire body in waves.
'Sora…let go.." he gasped only making his friends hand tighten.
"I said I was going to kill you didn't I?" Sora asked icily. His words ripped across Riku's heart and the spirit smirked.
"If anyone's going to die its you Sora." he choked. "You're nothing but a threat to us. Your not even Sora anymore!!!"
"And this is coming from the kid who gave himself to darkness and almost killed me?" his words echoed through the courtyard and the teen couldn't find anyway to respond. He had turned to darkness before……"NO!!" Swiftly he kneed Sora hard in the stomach Making him fall back Riku grabbed his blade and began attacking him rapidly. His friend had regained his footing quickly and the two slashed and hacked each other back and fourth moving throughout the courtyard.
Kairi in the mean time, had sneaked from the shadows of the candle lit room and made her way toward the arch of the courtyard. Carefully she watched holding herself back as her two best friend fought each other. This was something she never thought she would have to see.
"Sora…'Tears welled up in her eyes and she didn't bother to brush them away. Everything had gone horribly wrong and went in ways she could of never imagined.
The fight continued to rage on and Riku suddenly notice how much he was covered in his own blood. Cut and gashes existed all over his body and he barely even managed to scratch Sora. The fact that he was fighting his best friend was slowly sinking in more and more driving him mad from within.
" …You look like hell." Sora smirked scanning him with his red eyes. "Now, WHAT did you say about killing me?"
Riku was to tired to be angry but he managed to answer back. " You put Kairi through to much. If I kill you all of that ends. we can go back to the way things used to be!!!"
Everything became silent at his words and Sora swirled his hand around causing a dark blue glow to shine from Riku's body. Pain crashed through him and he bit his tongue as the screams that were forcing to get out welled up within his throat.
"Do you really think you could kill me Riku?" he hissed. " Even if you succeeded, you would never be able to get over the fact that it was you. When you go back home, I'll still be their." As he spoke he slowly circled his friend absorbing his power into his body. Jenza had given him many tricks and he had learned to like this one out of them all. It would only be minutes before Riku died. 'Every memory you have of me will resurface and you will never be able to go back to your normal life. When you graduate, I'll haunt you. When you get married, I'll be their. You will never be able to get over the fact that you killed your best friend with your own hands. And the only way you'll be able to see me again," he stopped in front of Riku and raised his Keyblade over his head. " Will be in hell."
Sora's words were driven into the teens mind and he felt his strength began to leave his body along with his life. His eyes shut tight as he waited for his friend to finish him off but it never came.
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'STOP!!!"
Sora looked up angrily and his eyes fell on Kairi as she stood up from the shadows. Her face was wet with tears and she glared at Sora with hatred not even Riku could show.
A pain shot across Sora's heart and immediately the blue glow disappeared from Riku and he blacked out, finally being released from his friends spell.
The brunette growled and for the first time in awhile he and Kairi met eye to eye. She stood completely still surveying his image into her memory which she knew she would never be able to erase. Riku's blood was splattered on the edge of his blade and he carefully took a small step toward her.
"And here's the one who did this to me in the first place." he spoke threateningly. Kairi jumped and continued to stare Sora down. She wasn't afraid. She would never be afraid of him. It wasn't him…
' I did nothing to you that can match what you did to us."
"HA!!!' Sora's eyes flamed red and his hand almost seemed to shake in rage as he gripped his Keyblade tighter. 'You really think I'm going to fall for that!? you used me!!! It was on the kings orders that you had to fall in love with me "girlfriend." You never really cared!!!"
Before Kairi could respond he had disappeared and appeared in front of her slashing his blade down inches from her face. She fell back and managed to scramble to her feet before the brunette sent another blow down upon her. He was really trying to kill her!!!
"You should of known I would find out sooner or later! I'm not as stupid as you think I am!" he threw his key blade at her in Strike raid and it skimmed her had hitting the wall with a clank. Kairi took this chance to run down the alley way and back into the main street. She had no idea what she was going to do. She didn't want to die and she definitely couldn't kill Sora. Why was this happening to her!?
As she continued to run, she found herself back in the Town Square and the rain had took a turn for the worst. It tore at her body and blinded her from seeing if Sora had found her or not. So many thoughts were racing through her head it was making her sick.
'What Do I do!? Please…Please don't make me kill Sora….I cant."
A sharp pain across her arm brought her back to reality and she screamed turning around confronting the brunette. His red eyes glowed threateningly and no sign of pity could be seen on his face. His purpose in life was to kill her. And that was what he was going to do.
"S-SORA STOP THIS!!' She screamed letting out all her frustration. Tears poured down her cheeks and she felt as though she could die right their.
"WHY SHOULD I!?" he shouted back aiming another blow at her. "If you really want to save yourself then fight me! You hate me anyway, so why don't you do something!?"
His words came out confused as he stared at the tears pouring down her cheeks. He had to kill her but…did he want too?
Pain shot through his heart causing his eyes to flash from blue to red as he cried out. Kairi took a step toward him but he raised his blade slicing at her again. She fell back being able to block with her sword this time and stared Sora down sadly.
'FIGHT ME ALREADY!?' Sora screamed. He sliced his key blade at her hand making her dropped her sword carelessly to the ground.
"I cant…"
'YOU HATE ME!! YES YOU CAN!!"
'I don't hate you.."
"Y..YES YOU DO!!!"
Realization suddenly dawned in Kairi's mind as he stared at her boyfriend. He had no real reason to fight her…unless she hated him. The false memory that had been drilled in his mind was becoming even more false as she denied it….maybe….
"SORA I COULD NEVER HATE YOU, YOU KNOW THAT!!!"
The brunette began to shake as he stared at her and she smiled the same smile she had always flashed when he looked at her. Light slowly sparked into his heart and he sank to the ground. 'K-Kairi-" tears welled up in his eyes and the teen slowly edged toward him. Her words had taken direct effect on him and this might be her only chance. 'Sora…Sora please.." She reached her hand out toward him hearing a soft jingle echo from her pocket suddenly. She had forgotten about her oath keeper.
Sora stared at her hand as pain coursed throughout his body and his masters voice suddenly came echoing through his head.
'FOOL!! KILL HER!!!I COMMAND YOU!!!'
His eyes turned back to Red and darkness shot quick and fast back into his body taking back what it lost. The effect of Kairi's words gave out and before her hand could touch him, the brunette stood up, and brought his blade swinging down toward her chest. "DON'T TOUCH ME!!!"
The attack caught Kairi off guard and without a weapon and her eyes widened in shock. Without thinking she quickly drew her oath keeper out of her pocket and slammed it smack dab on Sora's forehead.
'PLEASE!!!…Let this work!!"
Their was a sudden flash of light between the two and Sora cried out shutting his eyes. Everything around him slowly faded into white and the spirit dropped to his knees gazing up at his former girlfriend.
'Sora…please listen to me." her voice echoed through the vast space and he slowly raised his head glaring at her. Everything felt weird. The heavy pain in his heart had disappeared and his eyes were set a gentle black. He was free from Jenza's clutches, but the hatred he had created inside him still remained.
'Why should I listen to you?" he asked her angrily.
'because you've been blinded by false memories…memories that have never happened." She told him calmly.
Sora glared at her and backed away several feet as Kairi kneeled down in front of him. "…Do you really believe what he told you?"
The spirit didn't answer right away but choose to nod instead of talk. A feeling he had not felt in along time was starting to well up inside him replacing his anger. Kairi sensed it.
She shook her head sadly and sighed. "I was afraid this would happen to you…its all my fault." the look on her face touched a weak spot inside the brunette and tears suddenly began to drip down his face. Not being able to be held back anymore. "K-Kairi…I…"
The teen looked up and smiled softly at his tears. Tears she thought she would never see again but always broke her heart. "You don't hate me like you said do you?"
Sora shook his head and his voice came out wobbly. "I…I don't hate you its just that…that… you used me. Jenza said you did and….and I really loved you." he dropped his gaze toward the ground and tears dripped off his face avoiding her eyes.
"I don't hate you Sora….. And I never will." her own tears fell from her eyes. 'Riku and the others. We all care about you. And if we didn't, we wouldn't of came here to save you like we did."
"But Jenza said! He showed me what you guys did!" he sobbed glaring at her. Everything was becoming more confusing. He didn't hate her…but who was he supposed to believe?
Kairi sighed heavily and she brushed his soft bangs away from his face. "Then maybe I have to give you MY memory of what really happened sense you lost yours." she spoke softly.
Silence met her words and Sora slowly looked into her soft hazel eyes. Light sparkled around her like an angel. An angel Sora always knew and loved.
Slowly Kairi edged her face closer to his and as if by magic, their lips touched in a soft yet serious Kiss. The brunettes eyes shut as waves of light and pleasure washed over him destroying the darkness which had driven him to such madness. And through the broken memories in his mind, a familiar scene suddenly came playing in front of him.
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"You two finally convinced?" Mickey asked chuckling. It was mid after-noon at the Disney Castle and Sora and Kairi stood before him with smiles pasted on their faces.
'Convinced about what?"
"Well its obvious you two are a couple now. Isn't that why you're here? To tell me."
"…..Riku owes me five dollars." Sora mumbled getting a kick in the shines from Kairi. "OW!!"
"ANYWAY! " Kairi spoke loudly embarrassed. " yeah, me and Sora are together but that's not why we are here. You called us didn't you?"
Mickey cleared his throat and gazed at Sora frowning. "I said I wanted you and Riku Kairi. Not Sora."
The brunette frowned. 'Why do I always have to sit out? Besides, Riku's having fun out their."
Kairi and Mickey turned quickly toward him as a smirk developed across his face which he could never hide.
As if on Queue, a shout echoed from the waiting room and Riku fell through the Throne room doors with 4 maids chatting and trying to help him up at the same time and Pluto at his heels.
"…Fan girls." Kairi mumbled glaring at her boyfriend as he began to laugh his head off. Mickey snapped his fingers and the maids bowed drawing away from the poor boy and he swiftly turned to Sora glaring.
"That was NOT funny!"
"Yes it was." Sora laughed with tears in his eyes. Riku went to attack him but instead held the teens arms behind his back and led him toward the door.
"HEY!!"
"Your not aloud in here anyway, so just keep the ladies preoccupied until I come back out." he smirked as he pushed the poor brunette out the double doors and into the mob of Maids.
Mickey chuckled and Kairi frowned trying tog et a glimpse out the door as Sora was dragged away. She hoped he would be alright….
"Now then, any improvements?"
"Well you seen for yourself Mickey. I mean come on." Riku put his hands behind his head casually. " If anyone's as happy and laid back as him, their sure to be over any trauma."
"What about you Kairi?"
The teen bit her lip softly and stared at the mouse before she answered. "….Mickey, to be honest I'm really sick of keeping this from him."
Riku nodded in agreement and the smirk he had just worn was replaced by a serious expression. "yeah, Mic. I think its about time we told him."
The king sighed and shook his head. "We can't…"
"But I don't like keeping this from him!!" Kairi shouted. "it would have been better off that you didn't tell any of us…" her voice trailed off to a whisper as she noticed Mickey's eyes narrow.
"…it was best to tell you Kairi and your going to have to live to know that truth…..and personally knowing it myself has been painful. But its what he's destined for."
Riku and Kairi stared at each other for a moment before nodding in defeat. Their was nothing else they could do.
Suddenly a shout could be herd from the lobby and Sora's panicked voice came floating in.
"HEY!! Give me back that shirt!!!…OW!! Ladies back off please!!"
Riku burst into a fit of laughter and Kairi rushed out the door to save her boyfriend. "Hold on, I'm coming!"
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Sora's eyes widened turning their usual deep, aqua blue, and he drew his lips away from Kairi's.
"I…I remember! Except….." he smiled at her. '..Except it was from your point of view."
She nodded. " It was never easy knowing Sora. I loved you for who you were. Not because you were supposed to be some bearer of the light…I would never use you like that."
A smile spread across Sora's lips and he through his arms around Kairi. Light burst within his heart and tears poured down his cheeks. His feelings were returning. Sadness and happiness mixed together as his words came tumbling out of his mouth.
"Kairi I'm Sorry for ever believing all of this! I love you and I let myself believe that you didn't…"
The teen smiled sadly and sighed. "But Jenza still lingers."
'We can get rid of him." Anger flashed in his eyes. " I'll destroy him. I'm never going to forgive him for what he did to me!! To us!!"
"…their wont be a we Sora."
Kairi pulled away from his embrace lightly and he stared at her confused. "W-why?"
"….it's not your fault Sora." She choked as fresh tears fell from her eyes. "I don't blame you…But I just hate the fact that I have to leave you because…."
Sora stopped her. 'What do you mean leave me!? Your staying with me!"
"I can't."
'WHY!?"
The light around them began to dissolve and Sora's eyes stared at his girlfriend in horror waiting for an answer. An answer he knew he didn't wanted, but needed to here to move on.
"…because I'm dead."
The words hit him like ice, and as the room dissolved completely he blinked and found himself back in the same spot he had been before Kairi had used the oath keeper. The rain splattered around him and as he skimmed the area desperately looking for Kairi, his eyes fell upon a sight which crushed whatever love, happiness, and joy which had taken place in his heart to pieces.
His Keyblade lay on the soaking wet ground. Next to the still, beautiful figure of a girl with red hair and a trail of blood leading from a deep wound in her chest.
"K-KAIRI!?"
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Author: I skimmed this halfway after spell check sot heir still may be some spelling mistakes. But I got tog et this out now before play practice. ENJOY AND REVIEW AND DON'T KILL ME!!!