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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
Warning: Spoilers from KH2, not much of them though. Yaoi, Riku +Sora pairing.
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(Chapter 7: A fond farewell)
Sora found himself dodging even though he really had no idea how to fight, somehow it came naturally to him. He couldn't do much though without a weapon, a problem that ceased to exist however when a tall reddish-brown haired man appeared out of nowhere and stuck an overly-large chakram into her back without a seconds pause.
"I hope you go to hell… whore…" He muttered viperously then disappeared again.
"Hey… thanks…" Sora sputtered, finding himself a little lost.
He turned around just in time to see Xaldin fall to Riku's blade. The final blow being a spectacular spin attack by the silver-haired young man. Riku stood over the body for a moment before collapsing to his knees and finally pulling the dagger out, causing a lot of blood to suddenly spill forth from his body. Riku lost consciousness and toppled over.
"RIKU!" Sora shouted, diving over to him and catching him in his arms.
"I can help…" The blonde girl said, walking over to them.
Sora glanced at her with sad eyes. "Please… please?"
She nodded and motioned for him to help her remove Riku's shirt. Taking out a small doctoring bag.
"I'm Naminé, I hope you can forgive me… I was sort of playing with your memories a few minutes ago… giving you the knowledge to fight." She blushed faintly as she began wiping up the blood with a rag.
Sora blinked at her, "Woah! You can do that?"
She smiled, "Yeah… ever since I was little I've been able to re-arrange people's memories. They thought I was a witch and I was forced into slavery."
"How awful!" He replied conversationally as he held Riku down while she doctored his wound, the alcohol causing him to thrash a bit.
"Yeah… well anyways, you looked like you could use a little help so I gave you some fighting memories." She beamed at him.
"Ok… well you were just trying to help. So I forgive you." Sora smiled back.
Riku groaned as she wrapped his midsection in gauze and he slowly opened his eyes. "S-Sora?" He asked quietly.
"Shh… it's alright Riku… you're going to be alright." Sora replied beaming brightly.
"But… what about Axel… and Roxas?" Riku asked forcing himself into a sitting position despite Sora's insistence.
Riku's aquamarine eyes crossed the room to where the battle between Marluxia and Roxas had been waging only moments before. The only thing he could see now however was Axel kneeling off in the corner seemingly alone, his back hunched and his head down.
"Shit." Riku breathed, jumping onto his feet, Sora joining him to help him walk over to the older man, despite the fact that Riku kept insisting he was fine and could walk on his own.
"Axel?" Riku asked cautiously, finally getting close enough to see the damage. Neither Roxas nor Marluxia were anywhere to be found, though if they were anything like his previous battles they had probably vanished into nothingness. Only the tears slowly running down the older man's cheeks could attest to the truth of the matter.
"Shit… Axel… I'm so sorry." Riku said softly, kneeling down beside him.
Axel shook his head slowly and turned to smile sadly at Riku. "Take care of yourself…" He managed to gasp. It was then Riku notice the piece of pink scythe still attached to the man's chest.
"Axel! No…" Riku stuttered, but couldn't say any more as slowly the man burst into flames and then vanished just like the rest of them.
"Axel… I will never forget you." Riku muttered sadly.
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Many years later, Sephiroth had been committed to an institution, Naminé had explained that she couldn't put his memories back together and had been pardoned from persecution by Riku who frankly didn't mind that his cousin had gone insane. Another thing Naminé's meddling had done though, was break the spell keeping Seph at the same age as Riku which made it even funnier that the elder man was acting like a two-year old.
Riku had seen to it that a memorial to both Roxas and Axel was built in the town square commemorating them as the two most loyal men on the face of the planet. Meanwhile, since Sephiroth had already so kindly broken the rule about being forced into opposite sex-marriage, Riku and Sora were wed and ruled the kingdom together.
To their subject's surprise, having two kings wasn't half as bad as they'd thought, in fact, the two of them brought an unprecedented prosperity and peace to the land, doing everything in their power to both keep the people happy and keep the other worlds happy. Riku was in charge of over sea's conflicts, while Sora worked at home. It was a perfect arrangement. Sora knew how it was to be one of the poor and understood their plight. He balanced both the needs of those in power and the needs of those that had no jobs with an ease that made all of the people love him.
As for Riku, he had an amazing capacity to deal with politics and for the most part managed to keep them out of wars, only sending people into battle if he was truly certain it was necessary for their safety, and even then he was certain they were as well-trained as he was so that the rate of death was as slim as possible.
From time to time, Riku found himself missing Axel and Roxas, but he smiled at their memory. He had promised he'd never forget them… and it was a promise he would keep.
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rozu: And everyone lives happily ever after! The end
Axel: What a cop-out ending… What about the dead people? How is it that we live happily ever after?
rozu:… uh…
Axel: That's it… I'm not working for you anymore… my brilliance is obviously wasted on you.
rozu: hey… wait a minute…
Roxas: Yeah, me too.
Rozu: Hey!
Riku: The last few stories were way better than this one… which is sad because people haven't even replied to 'Phoenix Rising'.
Rozu: HEY!
Sora: And what was up with me suddenly knowing how to fight? That came out of nowhere!
Rozu: HEY! Would you guys stop picking on me!
Axel, Roxas, Riku, Sora: Nope.
Rozu: -threatens with an eraser-
Axel, Roxas, Riku, Sora: You can't scare us… you've already published this story. XD
Rozu: Drat…
THE END
