Moon Glow

Consequences

Summary: (Yaoi, Multiple pairings) What would have happened if Kairi hadn't recognized Sora as a heartless? Would Riku have been able to break free from Ansem's grasp in time to save Sora's heart from being completely destroyed by The Darkness? Let's find out, shall we?

Disclaimer: man…haven't written one of these in a looooong time…. But yeah, as much as I love Kingdom Hearts and all the charries involved in the game, Alas, it's not mine. I wish I had enough money to change that though.

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The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No no they can't take that away from me

We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we dance till three
The way you change my life
No no they can't take that away from me
No they can't take that away from me
Yeah yeah yeah

We may never never meet again, on this bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we dance till three
The way you change my life
No no they can't take that away from me
No they can't take that away from me
No they can't take that away from me
No they'll never never never never take that away from me
No they can't take that away...-

-Rod Stewart "They can't take that away from me"


Kairi fell to the ground as Goofy rushed to her aide to destroy the heartless that had been attacking her. However, the little bugger was able to get away before the giant dog's attack could connect with the frail little body and send it's demented little soul free.

The gashes in her leg burned with cold and she winced as she tried to stand but ended up just falling back onto the hard marble floor. "W-where are the heartless going?" She said as she watched them bow their little heads and step back into the darkness just the way that one had. "Why are they retreating?"

Goofy reached up, lifted his hat and scratched the top of his head with a gloved finger. "Gawrsh… I don't I ever saw 'em do somethin' like that uh right Donald?"

The duck lowered his staff and frowned before muttering some incoherent sentences. "Ah phooey." He said with a snort as he turned to face Goofy. "Come on, we have to get back to the ship! The heartless'll come back and you know it!"

The red haired girl grit her teeth as she stood, looking down at the much less intimidating duck from that vantage point. "But what about Sora and Riku?! We have to help them! We have to wait for them!"

Donald grunted and then looked back up the stairway. "We don't have time. Sora will find us later!"

"Yeah Miss Kairi… If we stay here, the heartless could hurt ya like they did already! If'n we take ya outta here, we'll be able to come back a lookin' for Sora an' Riku."

"No! We can't leave Sora! He risked his life to save me! I need him! I love him!" She covered her mouth abruptly as the last sentence came from her mouth. She didn't mean to say that! It's not that it wasn't true…but it wasn't something she wanted to confess to virtual strangers. Her cheeks grew warm and she looked away.

The magician rolled his eyes and reached up, yanking Goofy's head down by his shirt. "You grab her when I give the signal and we'll make a break for it, okay?"

Goofy frowned and then nodded. "Okay….but uh…what's the signal?"

"Oh just grab her, okay!?"

"But you didn't give the signal!"

"There is no signal!!! Just grab her!" The duck shouted, forgetting that she was standing right there.

However, she was tuning the pointless argument out. Did she love Sora? Sure, she liked him…She always had but…Love? That was a bit strong, wasn't it?

"But, uh you said that-"

The duck let out a squall of frustration and threw his arms up in the air. "FORGET IT! JUST FORGET IT!" He shouted as he grabbed the girl by the wrist and dragged the daydreaming girl out of the castle.

"Uh heya Donald, wait for me!" The dog ran forward, catching up easily with the other two because of his long legs. He cast one regretful look back at the castle. "Uh Donald?"

"What!?" The mage snapped impatiently, hoping against hope that Goofy wasn't about to comment on something stupid.

"I have a feelin' that we didn't do somethin' important…"

"Like what? We stopped Riku, we saved the girl and we'll come back to look for Sora once things are settled here. We've got everything!"

"But uh…what if Sora was, oh I dunno, turned into one of the heartless and we killed him? Or worse! What if we let him slip away into the darkness with the other heartless an' he never comes back out! Oh that'd be awful!"

Donald stopped in his tracks and let go of Kairi's wrist. He beckoned Goofy to lean closer by waggling his finger. As soon as the not-so-bright Knight did so, he was abruptly conked on the head

"Ow! Gawrsh! What was that for!?"

"You're and idiot! Sora could never be turned into a heartless! He's probably just lost now we have to get her out of here and to safety, understand!? Now no more talking until we're back in Traverse town!"

Goofy sighed in defeat. "Oh alright… Miss Kairi? Are you alright?" The knight asked, leaning towards her to better inspect the haggard look on her face.

She chewed on her lower lip, thinking about what Sora might be facing. What if Goofy was right? After all, that one heartless reached for her. The princess also could've sworn it hissed her name. "Sora…" She whispered, trying to push away the grip dread had wrapped around her. The girl hoped that if Sora were in the darkness, that he would find Riku so he wouldn't be alone. But what if Riku wasn't in the darkness anymore? What if he was alone there? What if it was her fault he was there? But, her thoughts were cut short as Donald yanked her forward again onto the platform that would take them to the Gummi Ship.


-I need to fight this…- The silver haired boy thought bitterly as he kept his eyes shut tight, his weakened body still aching since Ansem finished breaking him all over again. –Before I actually want to bow at his feet…- The encounters with his master were starting to be more expected than feared and soon, they would be hoped for and after that- He didn't even want to know.

No, he wouldn't let it get that far! Riku wouldn't let himself become Ansem's utter slave. He opened his eyes and looked to one of his hands, mentally yelling at it to move because he couldn't feel it anymore. When it simply refused to listen to him, he let his head drop.

Riku…

-Sora- Riku thought helplessly, wishing he could just see the smiling boy's face again. But then, if he saw it once more he'd crave it again and again. It was better that he couldn't ever see the boy again. –No…That's Ansem talking… Nothing is better for me than to see him again. God, I want to hear him laugh again. To pout like he always does when he doesn't get his way. - He let out an anguished sigh and shook his head, trying to remove the blanket of helplessness tossed over him.

He'd always been the strong one, hadn't he? He was the one who was supposed to protect Sora and now- His crimes were unforgivable. Yet, he knew Sora would forgive him; Sora forgave everyone no matter how unworthy of it they are.

"I've failed Sora…" He whispered to the air. "I'm sorry…"

Riku…

Find me, Riku…

Help me find you…

I'm so lost…

Riku…

"I can't! I can't get out of this! I can't help you when I can't even help myself!" He shouted into the dark outside the ring of frail light illuminating the area around him. "Give me strength to break free and I'll find you! I can't do it on my own!"

Riku…

Find me…

Riku…

"Sora! Can't you hear me?! I can't find you! SORA! Answer me!" He held perfectly still although his eyes moved wildly to look for any traces of an answer.

Ansem smirked as he watched the boy just outside his field of vision. –Well… isn't this entertaining…- He unfolded his arms and tapped his lower lip. –I know what I'll do for him…- He thought cruelly and with a wave of his hand, an Anti-Sora emerged from the darkness into the pale light.

Oh the look of elation that overcame Riku's face was simply priceless. He watched with sheer sadistic delight as the boy tried to reach out for the dark copy of his lost friend, thinking that the shadows made him look like that. –What a simple fool.- He snickered as the Anti-Sora clenched it's fists and pulled back and delivered a hard blow to the boy's stomach.

"How could you ever think I'd forgive you?" Ansem whispered and his words emerged from the heartless' mouth and its voice sounded just like the foolish boy's. "You haven't done anything worthy of it! You've done nothing but pulled me further and further away from the light! You're such a horrible person!" The Heartless Sora punched the boy again in the jaw.

The silver-haired boy looked absolutely torn apart. Was that really his Sora? It couldn't be! But…the Heartless can't form coherent sentences. It had to have been Sora… Or-"I'm… sorry Sora I-I didn't mean to-"

"Don't lie to me Riku… I'm not that naïve. You always wanted someone to hurt just as bad as you always have! You always wanted to drag everyone down with you!" Anti-Sora punched him hard in the chest again, knocking the wind out of him. "You claim to love me, but how can you without your heart!?" The shadow puppet grabbed Riku's face and redirected it toward him. "You're rotting here because you don't have one! Now you want mine to make up for the one you lost?! You deserve this place and this suffering."

He gasped for breath, his eyes locked on the hate-filled yellow one's staring back at him. Oh the pain hurt so much more than any wound he had felt before; Sora's words cut through his very soul and those eyes seemed to burn right through him.

Those couldn't be his friend's eyes… Sora's were the deep blue color of the sky just before the sun rose and always filled with warmth. He had never seen Sora truly angry because the boy was not capable of it! Sure, his words were true enough but…Sora would never say that to him! Not even if he deserved it…

He smiled bitterly, "You're not him…You're not Sora." He let out a few maniacal chuckles, feeling a new wave of strength. "You're an imposter! You're nothing but a worthless monster Ansem. I know you're out there! You couldn't take away Sora's memory from me! You can't! YOU WON'T!" Riku pulled on his tethers with all his might.

Ansem snickered. "So, you aren't so easily fooled after all." He waved away the Anti-Sora. "Go ahead and break free. It won't matter. Where could you run? Where could you hide from me? This is my kingdom." He stepped into the light, the shadows making his face even more menacing than it was without it. "You're just a prisoner here…"

Riku thrashed against the thick coils of Darkness around his wrists, ankles throat and chest. "Then let me go! What are you so afraid of!? If I don't stand a chance out there, then why not let the shadows take me?!"

"Fine… You want your freedom?" He grinned and snapped his fingers, the boy's bindings fading away, causing the boy to fall flat on his face. "You may have what you think is freedom. You'll soon find just how lonely that freedom will be when you can't find the boy and then you'll come right back here because I know how much you loathe being alone."

Riku pushed himself off the ground and stood shakily on his feet. "You must hate it infinitely more than I do. After all, you've been alone all your life, but I haven't. I will find Sora or die trying!" He took off sprinting into the darkness, feeling Ansem's eyes watching him as he ran.

"These children understand so little." Ansem said with a smirk before returning to the task of finally unlocking Kingdom Hearts once and for all. Now, he had the advantage because he no longer had any distractions...

TBC...

A/N: Yay! I got reviews that aren't bad! Whee! I noticed that I like making words do this:

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It's cause I'm crazy (nodnod)

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The Gifted Ten: Yep! This fic was influenced by Bound By Darkness (which all of you other ppl reading this should go check out cause it rocks my face) but I tried not to create too many similarities (sweat-drop) I can't wait to see how I spin this tale either! Lmao I kinda forgot to develop the plot and whatnot again (more sweat-dropage) just like all my/our other fics, ne? Keep rockin my face with your reviews! OH! And work on FA9!!!!! Or I kill you. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Will's Girl: there! I updated : ) Yay!

ShadowedDarkness: Oh come on, Ansem in a dress is fricken hilarious! Yes, it may have scarred you for life but you know you laughed at the thought (Wink) Anyway! Hope you liked this chappie!

3 reviews! Yay!

Oh how easily I am made content

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