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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 6: The fight continues)
Riku 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.
He finds waiting for him on the stairway a young man with a shock of short dirty-blonde hair. He is seated at the moment, strumming an oversized blue sitar with three spikes at the top.
Riku pauses in the middle of the entryway observing his musical opponent.
After the song seems to be over the man looks up and grins at Riku. "I thought you'd enjoy a bit of music before you die." He gets up onto his feet, holding the sitar in both hands, narrowing his eyes at Riku. "My name is Demyx, and I will be the last person you fight with today." He sneers.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that Demyx." Riku replies taking a fighting stance.
Demyx grins and strums his sitar, as his fingers pass each string streams of water begin to flow into the area, forming the strangest creatures that Riku has seen yet.
"What the hell are those?" Riku demands.
"My Dancer Nobodies." He responds, strumming his fingers some more as his body begins to create copies of itself which surround Riku from all sides.
'Shit…!' Riku thought, 'this guy can duplicate himself! No wonder Axel said some of them were hard… oh well here goes…' Riku began slashing through the idiotic dancer nobodies that didn't seem to have too much intelligence in the way of fighting; rather they merely pranced around and tried to kick him in an obnoxious manner. As he killed them off they died in splashes of water, much like the Samurai nobodies died in sparkles of light.
'His magic must be water.' Riku determined, standing now in front of the several Demyx'. They all began to strum their sitar's creating streams of water that came out in attempts to hurt him. Riku sprang into his footwork, sliding his sword into its sheath at the same time as diving into a somersault. As soon as his feet touched the ground he sprang back up and went into a flying kick… going right through one of the illusion Demyx'. 'Damn!' Riku thought, spinning around to watch the others all laugh at him.
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Marluxia surveyed the battle on the first floor with a bit of interest. "So the reason I had to withdraw Luxord is because you believe I should save him for later?" The brown haired man raised an eyebrow to the spiky-reddish brown haired male beside him.
"Here's the way I see it… if we save all of the best fighters till last and then use them all at once on him there's no way his highness will survive. But instruct them not to kill him… we want him put in jail… otherwise everything we've worked for will come to naught." Axel replied grinning menacingly.
Marluxia smiled fiendishly in response, "I see… you never cease to amaze me… and to think that a man in such high of a status as you would have so little trouble working underneath a newcomer like me." He said almost as a question, raising an eyebrow at Axel.
"Oh, I don't believe I'm under you. I prefer to think of us as two men who have the same vision working together." Axel replied offhandedly.
Marluxia tilted his head slightly in observation. "I see… but what about when I officially become higher in status than you Axel? Will you become jealous and try to overthrow me."
Axel laughed, "Marluxia… come now you must know me better than that. Why would I even waste my time helping you now if I intended to overthrow you later?"
Marluxia observed him some more then nodded smiling. "I understand… truly we both must have the same vision." He turned back to watching the camera just in time to see Demyx get impaled with Riku's blade. The man gasped then sank into a puddle of water.
"This plan of yours suddenly strikes me as a rather good idea…" Marluxia muttered in annoyance.
Axel grinned, "I knew you'd see it my way." He walked out to third floor to join the four others that were waiting there.
"Ok everyone… here's what the prince ordered…"
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Riku burst onto the next floor after climbing a rather obnoxious flight of stairs filled with more of those obnoxious monsters, these one's seeming to be entirely insane and trying to kamikaze themselves upon him. He stumbled onto the next floor to find a man with long blue hair grinning at him psychotically. "Here's where you stop boy." Saix said, whipping out his overly large claymore.
Metal crashed against metal, but unlike the battle against Demyx, Riku found this idiot amazingly easy and had turned him into dust in no time.
He sped on to the last floor, grinning to himself, this was truly too easy… so far.
At the top of the floor he gazed into the next room, a sense of impending doom riding in his heart. There stood five guards, all standing in a circle around the door.
'Shit… am I going to have to fight all of them?' He wondered inwardly, slowly stepping into the room, gripping the hilt of his sword a little tighter and reminding himself that he'd been in training just for a day like this.
The men jeered at him and the door slammed behind him as he entered. Riku stared them all down as he walked into the center of their circle. "Who want's to go first?" He asked them, challenging each of them with a fierce glance in his eyes.
"Give up pipsqueak, you'll never get through all of us." Said a well-built hulk of a man with short light brown hair. "We're on orders to cream you all at once."
A man with several grey streaks in his hair, which was worn in a ponytail, whips out his gun arrows and starts of the battle, shooting them at Riku without waiting for an invitation. Riku immediately dodges, flipping backwards to avoid the arrows. Immediately chaos ensues.
Six lances come seemingly out of nowhere and start hacking and slashing at Riku on their own. Riku finds himself doing a desperate dance to keep out of their way. Not to mention that though he is trying so hard not to loose time, one of them seems to be controlling that element in particular, making him get hit even when he was clearly going to get out of the way.
'Sora… I'm so sorry… I … I can't save you.' Riku thinks bitterly as he tries to find his way through the barrage of attacks being thrown at him. He couldn't dodge them all… and dodging wasn't helping him win any battles. Soon enough he wouldn't be able to keep it up … and then they'd kill him for sure.
"Riku… don't give up!"
Riku blinked and dived to the side as another arrow narrowly missed him. He jumped up and grabbed a lance that was hovering in midair, and hoisted himself onto it, glancing around to see who had said that.
He had mere moments to register the voice when a blinding light seared through the room, Riku having covered his eyes just in time. When he hazarded a glance outside of his arms he grinned and hopped down off of the lance, which had immediately begun to fall down anyway.
The cameras in the surrounding vicinity were all smoldering quietly from the intensity of the light and were now rather useless… allowing yet another traitor in the midst of the fighters to start throwing his chakrams into the backs of people.
"Hey, Axel! Watch where you're throwing those things!" Grumbled Xigbar who noticed the vague shape of a chakram slicing through his shirt.
"Sorry Xig… thought you were Riku." Axel replied, being the only one other than Riku who hadn't been blinded by Roxas' light.
Speaking of which, the blonde had returned to his physical state and was helping Axel pick off the blinded guards members one by one.
Riku raced off down the hallway, leaving them to finish what he'd nearly failed in doing himself.
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Marluxia glanced up in pure surprise as Riku burst through the throne room on his screen.
"No… it isn't possible… how did he survive through all of them!" Marluxia tried in vain to get the camera's from the third floor to co-operate but failed. "Damn… I've got to get out of here…"
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Riku burst through the great double doors of the throne room, and was immediately surprised by what he saw waiting there for him.
Sephiroth was doodling on the walls in red lipstick in the corner like a two year old while on the throne itself, the most evil whore on the planet was trying to take advantage of a certain cinnamon-haired young man who was desperately trying to get out of her clutches.
"Shhh… stop struggling… it'll be alright." Larxene cooed, slipping her hands beneath his pants line.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HIM!" Riku bellowed, and without even pausing, brought up his free left hand and shot a ball of incinerating flames at her, she turned around at the sound of his voice and gasped as the flames hit her dead-on, causing her to crumple to the ground in pain.
"Y-you… how the hell did you get through security…" Larxene muttered, picking herself up off the ground.
"Riku! Riku! Help me Riku!" Sora shrieked, struggling against his bonds some more, dried tears visible upon his cheeks and lines where the witches nails had been scratching him running all across his bare chest.
"Don't worry Sora… I'm coming." Riku replied stepping over to Larxene.
"How dare you touch him… where the hell do you get the nerve….!" Riku gasped in mid angry-tirade. He glanced down to observe the dagger that she had managed to throw directly into his abdomen. He turned his head back to her and picked up his sword, roaring angrily.
"RIKU, behind you!" Sora shouted fearfully. Riku didn't even bother glancing, dive-rolling to the side just as a pink scythe sliced through the air where he was merely seconds before.
"I see now how you escaped my clutches you insolent brat." Marluxia said calmly, stepping further into the throne room and helping Larxene up onto her feet.
"But no more will that traitorous little boy be aiding you. I took care of him." He grinned fiendishly as Riku raised his head slightly, staring in mute astonishment as Xigbar, Xaldin and Axel stepped into the room, staring at Riku mutinously. Though Riku noticed, Axel's stare was slightly different from the other two, his instead seemed to be withholding a shadow behind it as well.
"Now… let us go Larxene." Marluxia grinned and grabbed Sora who screamed and squirmed. Riku slowly rose to his feet, trying to figure out what the hell Marluxia was talking about.
Then suddenly the look in Axel's eyes made sense. "Roxas…?" He whispered in surprise, hazarding a glance at Axel, who didn't respond.
Just as Marluxia was about to get away though a brilliant light blocked their way. Axel turned around out of habit, staring as the light dimmed in mute astonishment.
The blonde stood in the doorway, wielding both of his blades tightly, looking battered and bloody but not down for the count yet.
"What! How the hell did you survive….?" Marluxia muttered in shock, drawing his scythe up in annoyance. "Well… I'll be sure to destroy you this time… once and for all!"
Riku leapt to attention, throwing more balls of fire at everyone in the room. Axel dodged them nimbly and threw Riku a short glance of mixed emotions before disappearing from view. Riku grinned back and found himself once again dodging arrows and lances. This time though Riku felt more confident in himself. He used the lances as poles, swinging himself around them and kicking Xaldin in the chest or the head, causing him to be a little sloppier in his attacks. Meanwhile he tossed firaga blasts at Xigbar who was down for the count in mere minutes, leaving Riku alone with Xaldin.
Meanwhile the fight between Marluxia and Roxas was heating up, the scythe crashed against one blade or another, never quite getting through the blonde's defense, not that it mattered as Marluxia sent wave after wave of sharp petals after him, scratching him up infinitely more than he'd been hurt.
Roxas gritted his teeth and fought on, angry for allowing himself to be beaten in the first place… though admittedly Marluxia had been rather sneaky about it and had attacked him from behind back in the other room.
Sora watched all of this fighting with a growing sense of doom. "Riku…" He muttered softly, watching the silver-haired prince fighting for his life in one corner of the room, unaware of the fact he was still bleeding slowly from the dagger in his gut.
Larxene drew out another dagger and drew it across Sora's neck. "Well… if I can't have you my dear… then no one can."
Sora whimpered, feeling the soft skin cut easily and a small amount of blood start to drip down his neck. He couldn't let it all end like this. He glanced at Roxas, that blonde that reminded Sora so much of himself. If the boy that looked like him could fight, then perhaps he could too…
He jumped out of Larxene's grasp with an amazing burst of strength, diving into the way of a stray firaga ball that Riku had fired at Xaldin. The fire burned his skin a bit, but also made the ropes tying him up much easier to break free from. He was free again.
Out of the corner of his eye he observed a young blonde girl in the corner and paused a moment… 'who is she?' He wondered, but didn't have long to think about it when Larxene charged after him, throwing kunai knives and thunder attacks after him.
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Naminé: Hi everyone… just here to explain a couple things. In this chapter I sort of mess with Sora's memories so that he knows how to fight… sorry for the confusion. I explain myself to him next chapter.
rozu: Gee Naminé, spoil the whole story why don't you?
Naminé: Oh come on… that isn't a big part of the story.
rozu: oh no? Maybe I should just cut your part out entirely then… since it's not important…. -wields large scissors-
Naminé: Uh… on second thought readers… forget what I said.
rozu: -beams-
