We'll Meet Again

Chapter 10

Sora could hardly believe how long they had been travelling. It seemed like they had been searching for many hours. Of course, they were not going to give up so easily. After all, all the worlds were in danger. If Kairi combined with the heartless, she would become unstoppable. She would have the ability to destroy each and every world.

"I think that's it up ahead." Riku pointed to something in the distance.

"Alright, I'm ready!" Sora said, getting pumped. "Let's land!"

"Sora..."

"Hm?"

"...forget it. Let's land."

They landed the ship and stepped outside. It was more horrifying than they could have imagined. They could hardly see what the place looked like because there were hundreds of heartless. These were nothing like the ones they have seen before. These looked more vicious. And all of their bright, yellow eyes were staring at the two.

"Does...this mean we have to fight?" Sora asked Riku.

"I guess." he replied. "I know there's a lot of them here, but who knows. We may be able to beat them! We've come all this way. We might as well try."

The hundreds of heartless immediately ran towards the two. Riku and Sora swung their keyblades around furiously, defeating as many heartless as possible. It seemed like the battle would never end, but they knew they had to keep going. All they focused on was killing them, and nothing else. A half hour went by and there were still many left. Riku and Sora were beginning to grow weary. These heartless were putting up quite a fight. They stopped when they heard a sharp whistling sound. They all immediately left.

"Where did they go?" Sora asked.

"I don't know." replied Riku. "But since they're finally gone we can get back to looking for Kairi. Let's go."

Since the heartless were gone they could see they were in a large, empty field that seemed endless. Of course, there was something up ahead. They were in shock when they discovered what it was.

"Oh my God..." Riku said, staring at what was in front of them.

There was an enormous pit in front of them. It was filled with even more heartless than they were fighting earlier. It was like staring at an endless sea of heartless. And standing in front of the pit was Kairi.

"The time has finally come." she said. "I'll let these heartless take over my body and make me the stronger than I could possibly even imagine!"

"Kairi, stop!" Sora called after her. It was too late. She had jumped into the large pit and vanished among the many heartless.

"Kairi!" Sora called her name. He looked around, but could not see her. "Oh man. Now what are we gonna do, Riku?"

"Stop asking me questions!" he snapped at Sora. "I don't know!"

Riku then failed to realize a heartless stretched its long arm out and pulled him into the pit.

"Riku!" Sora cried.

"Sora!" he called back, but could not escape the heartless that had a hold on him.

What can I do? Sora thought to himself. He then remembered what Riku had said when they were in the jungle on the vines.

"Oh come on! What's the point in life if you aren't gonna take a few chances?"

With those words in his head, Sora jumped in and headed towards Riku. He could feel himself being pushed around by the heartless. His feet weren't even touching the ground. There were so many heartless around, all pushing him in different directions. Sora managed to make his way to Riku who also was being pushed around by the heartless.

"Grab my hand!" Sora said, holding out his hand. Riku did so, and they managed to make it back safely, out of the pit.

"Thank you..." Riku said weakly. "Sora, I need to tell you something...in case we don't survive this."

"What...what is it?"

"I...I want you to know I--" he stopped when he noticed all the heartless had suddenly vanished, and there was a huge hole left in the center.

They saw something huge appear from the hole. To their surprise, it was Kairi. She had become a heartless now. It was such a horrible sight. Her skin had turned black, her eyes had become yellow. Her body was deformed and she was about twenty feet tall.

"Oh no..." said Sora. "We're doomed now! She's become a powerful heartless."

"All we can do now is fight." said Riku.

"What? Does this mean we have to...kill her?"

"I don't know. We have to keep her from destroying everything though."

"I guess we really have to kill her then..." Sora said, putting his head down.

"Come on, focus! Here she comes!"

Kairi started swing her arms fursiously, trying to knock them down. She shot all kinds of strange attacks at them. All they could do was dodge. They did not have enough time to try and attack. They had grown weary from avoiding all of her attacks. They had been this successful so far, but they were not so sure how much longer it would last.

I can't go on... Riku thought to himself. I'm exhausted...

He dropped his keyblade. Everything around him was getting dark. Before everything to him had gone pitch black, he felt Kairi's long deformed arm throw him across the field. As he had slowly begun to grow unconsious, he could hear Sora shout his name, but after that, he heard nothing.

A light suddenly appeared from the darkness.

Where am I? Riku looked around seeing he was alone in the dark with nothing but a small light. From it, came two people. A man and a woman.

That woman's eyes...they look like...like...mine!

"Riku..." she said softly. "forgive us. I know we abandoned you when you were just a baby...but...we know what we did was wrong."

"Mom? Dad?"

"That's right." said the man. "It's us. This is the world we made it to when we left Traverse Town. We died shortly after we made it here though."

"You guys...are dead?"

"Yes," said his father. "because we couldn't survive here. We were the only ones here when we first showed up. There was nothing for us to eat or drink and we had no way of returning to Traverse Town."

"Serves you right for leaving me!"

"Riku," his mother said softly. "since we left you at someone else's doorstep, we couldn't stop thinking about you. We know if we had stayed with you, we would be together today as a happy family. We want you to know we are truly sorry. We love you, Riku."

Riku was not sure of what to say. He felt like he should forgive them, but it was hard to. He knew though that they had made mistakes and they obviously were very sorry.

"Now listen," said his father. "we're here to tell you something very important. You and your friend need to combine your keyblades. It will create something known as the Ultima Weapon. With it, you will be able to defeat the giant heartless, and that girl's heart will be purified."

"We have faith in you." his mother said. And after that, they vanished.

"Don't go!" Riku cried. He may have been mad at them, but he knew this was the only time he would ever get to really know his parents.

We will always be with you. He heard his mother's voice say.

Shortly afterwards, it was pitch black again. He woke up to find Sora kneeling down by him.

"Oh, you're ok!" Sora exclaimed.

"Give me your keyblade!" Riku said. Without asking, Sora immediately handed him his keyblade.

"What are you doing?"

"You'll see."

Suddenly, the two keyblades combined and formed a new keyblade.

"What happened? And how did you know that it would do that?"

"I'll tell you later. Right now we need to stop Kai--" He stopped when he tried to stand up. He saw that he was leg had been wounded and soaked in blood.

"Sora, I need you to use this keyblade and defeat Kairi." He handed him the keyblade. "I can't even stand up so I need you to do it."

"But--"

"Don't worry. Kairi will be fine. Her heart will be purified after you use it. Now go before she tries to attack again!"

"Ok!" Sora got up and ran to Kairi. But everytime he tried to attack Kairi, he missed. She was easily avoiding each attack.

This is gonna be harder than I thought... Sora thought.

To be continued...