Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, if I did then life would be beautiful
Key:
- Dream State - , Flashback , ' thoughts ', " Dialogue "
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Summary: Ansem the wise is the king of Twilight town. His brother Xemnas is not only jealous but intends for his son Sephiroth to take the throne instead of Ansem's son Riku. Unfortunately he knows just which buttons to push and Riku will have to use everything he knows to earn his rightful place as king.
Rating: T – For language, might raise the rating depending.
Warning: Spoilers from KH2, not much of them though. Yaoi, Riku +Sora pairing.
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(Chapter 5: To the rescue)
Riku dashed up to the doorway of the black castle. 'I'm going to kill you Sephiroth you bastard!' He thought as the doors loomed up above him.
"You're not going any farther." Said a male voice, a familiar spiky haired blonde guarding the doorway… along with about a hundred strange creatures that looked like they could've been Samurai's… but more monstrous.
"Roxas?" Riku said, pausing momentarily in his thirst for blood as he stared at his old friend.
"That's right Riku… time to turn the tables eh? Ready for our final battle?" The blonde grinned, leaning on his usual two blades as though they were only there to hold him up.
'He sure has gotten cocky hasn't he… ?' Riku thought while whipping out his dragon-wing shaped blade from its sheath.
"What are you doing?" He called back in confusion. Surely Roxas wasn't here to stop him… was he?
"The royal guard has been alerted that you might have been coming here today. It's our job to stop you Riku… or die trying." Roxas said apologetically,
"Roxas… Sephiroth has Sora! And you're seriously going to stop me from trying to save him?" Riku demanded, his voice laced with disbelief.
Riku could see the flash of sorrow in Roxas' eyes. The young man didn't want to go through with this…
"The king ordered me to guard the doors Riku… and that's what I'm going to do." Roxas replied, whipping up his blades into a fighting stance.
"Samurai attack!" Roxas ordered, his horde of minions rushing forward unexpectedly. Riku randomly wondered where all these strange monsters had come from and why they were even listening to Roxas.
But there would be more time for asking questions later, Riku jumped into the air and began slashing left and right, loosing sight of Roxas in the crowd of Samurai.
"What the hell are these things?" He asked aloud as the creatures fell without bleeding… in fact they merely disintegrated into sparkles of light.
"They're called Nobodies… some of the members of the guard were granted power to summon certain kinds of nobodies. They're monsters that obey our bidding without question." Roxas replied from nearby, Riku barely blocking the two-bladed slash that had come from behind.
"So now you hide behind monsters? How cowardly." Riku responded slashing at Roxas, but the boy vanished in a sparkle of light.
"We were also trained in specific kinds of magic…" Roxas' voice said from somewhere far away. Riku slashed through the throng some more.
'Magic? Good god…' "Did you have to be granted that too?" He shouted as another Samurai fell to his sword.
"Nope… everyone has magic in them Riku… we're just trained, unlike you." Roxas replied and Riku lifted his blade in front of his eyes just in time to block the blast of brilliant light that Roxas had thrown at him.
"Damn…" Riku breathed, slashing the last of the Samurai into nothingness. He spun around in search of Roxas. Dashing to the side as a bright beam of light rushed at him, leaving a scorch mark in the ground where he was just standing. "Stop playing like a kid and fight me!" Riku yelled, jumping over to where the light had come from and slashing down.
Riku smiled as his blade hit the two that Roxas had brought up to block his attack, forcing the kid to reveal himself to Riku. He pulled back his arm and slashed straight on this time, being blocked once again by one of the youth's weapons whilst the other tried to come crashing down on his head.
Riku blocked the attack and jumped backwards whilst Roxas advanced, the two of them dancing the familiar steps of battle. Side slash, back slash, block. It was difficult to fight with one weapon against two, but thankfully for Riku he'd been practicing with Roxas for practically his entire life. Two weapons would not help the spiky blonde any more than one weapon would help Riku. Magic was forgotten in the heat of battle, Roxas now concentrating on trying to block all of Riku's well-honed attacks.
"Roxas… I don't want to hurt you. There has to be another way…" Riku insisted as he slashed forward, finally getting through Roxas' defense a bit to run his blade through the edge of the younger man's shirt, slicing off a bit of fabric.
"What do you suggest Riku? That I disobey orders? That's called treason…" Roxas replied, his blue eyes suggesting that they'd be eager to listen to Riku if only he had a plan.
Riku looked thoughtful for a moment and took to the defensive as he was too distracted to do much else. Indeed… how could he ask Roxas to disobey the orders of the King without getting the blonde in trouble for treason? On the one hand, Sora was waiting for him in Sephiroth's dirty clutches and the bastard had set Roxas (and probably the rest of the guard) out to make sure he wouldn't be able to reach his the love of his life. On the other, Roxas was his friend, they'd fought each other only for the fun of it all those years that they'd grown up together and Riku couldn't very well kill him just because he was following orders (evil orders but orders nonetheless). It posed quite a problem.
Suddenly Riku realized something else, though most of the guard were people he'd never really bothered to get to know personally… there was one other guard member that he knew. Axel! He would have to fight his mentor? Riku thought on that one for a minute. Axel had always struck Riku as an aloof but tough taskmaster. He remembered fondly of all the times he'd threatened to write Axel up for murder because the brunette always forced him to the brink of exhaustion with his nightmare training. Another thing Riku had noticed was the fact that there was always something else on his mind, like he was training Riku to prepare him for a future that was probably quite similar to this.
"Roxas… I think Axel knew this was going to happen someday." Riku said, slashing down and finding his weapon caught within both of Roxas' once again.
"What?" Roxas asked in surprise, momentarily caught off guard.
"Axel knew that I was going to have to fight the guard someday… that's why he was training me so hard…" Riku muttered, seeming surprised at his own conclusion.
The both of them paused in the position they were in, contemplating the possibilities of this tangent. If Axel had known this… then he probably knew a lot more that he'd never told either of them. He probably even knew about Sephiroth's plan to steal Sora! But even though it would have been treason not to tell Riku of the truth, Riku had a sneaking suspicion that Axel had been working to keep him safe all along, although probably grudgingly at first.
"You two sure are dense… if you just started figuring me out now…" said an amused male voice from the nearby trees.
Riku and Roxas both glanced up as Axel jumped down out of his hiding place in the tree. He folded his arms and stared at the two of them thoughtfully. "There's more to this whole thing that I don't have the time to explain to the two of you right now… but believe me when I say that I'm on your side Prince Riku." Axel said, inclining his head slightly in the first ever sign of respect that the older man had ever shown to him.
"Suffice it to say this, there's far more at stake here than you realize your highness… but I have a plan on how to get you out of this unharmed." Axel continued, his dark eyes shimmering softly in a rare smile.
Riku nodded to Axel and withdrew his sword from Roxas. "Well? What do we do?" He asked, paying as close attention as he fully trusted his longtime mentor.
"Firstly… you have to keep fighting the guard members. Eventually you will reach me… and that's when the fun will begin. I would appreciate it if you didn't actually harm each other… it would be a shame for such friends to become enemies." Axel grinned at the two of them, who then grinned back.
"I'll pretend to die then right?" Roxas asked thoughtfully.
Axel nodded, "Since you've got the power of light… it will be incredibly easy for you to do so. Anyway, Riku remember your training, not all of the members of the guard are difficult, but some of them are extremely tough. If you are truly my student you should be able to defeat all of them without too much trouble. Now I can't explain any more to you, someone might see me here with you two. Thankfully I already took the liberty of taking out all the outside camera's so that they could not video-tape this conversation… catch up with you later!" Axel leapt back into the trees and out of sight.
Riku turned back to Roxas, who brandished his weapons and grinned cheesily, "Let's go!"
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Side slash, back slash, overhead block. The two of them fought as before. Axel's timing could not have been more perfect as Marluxia's eyes could be found looking over the window-ledge to see what was going on at that moment. He had only just noticed that the camera's had been disabled… this could be easily explained away as Roxas' power of light must have short-circuited them. He watched hungrily as the two went at it. 'Die little prince…' He was greatly disappointed however when suddenly Riku's blade seemed to go directly through the blonde. A shuddering gasp echoing through the courtyard. 'Damn… oh well.' And he drew his head back inside, preparing to watch the video camera's from the first floor.
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Riku thrust his Soul Eater forward as Roxas concentrated on refracting the light around him, to any onlooker, it would have appeared as though the dragon-wing shaped blade had gone right through the blonde, but to them Riku had cleanly missed by mere inches. Roxas gave a convincing death-gasp then winked at Riku and disappeared into sparkles of light.
"Catch you later…" whispered the blonde in Riku's ear as he faded off into nothingness.
Riku grinned and nodded to himself. "Later." He whispered back, hefting his sword up over his shoulder and striding into the large mansion.
He brought his foot up and kicked the double doors with all the force he could muster. They flew open obediently with a resounding crash against the walls. He stepped inside, taking his weapon off of his shoulder and keeping it at the ready for when his next opponent would appear.
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That double-crossing sneak, Bwahahaha…
Axel: Heh… two brilliant plans in one fanfic, I'm on a roll.
rozu: You're the man Axel.
Axel: XD
Riku: Hey! What about me? I'm the one doing all the fighting here.
rozu: You're awesome too Riku.
Riku: That's better
Roxas: Hey! What about…
rozu: You too Roxas.
Roxas: beams
The rest of the cast members: Hey!
rozu: Ok that's enough of that.
- rozukitsune
