Yes, yes I know, you now have two chapter IIIs, but I had the old one, this is the updated version.
Do you like it so far? Yeah, I know you have questions. Such as, why are Axel and Roxas back? To be revealed soon! Okay, Riku lovers, you CAN NOT beat me up for this next chapter, go that?
Riku: stares at chapter with wide eyes You did not!
Me: looks over at chapter and blinks without a reaction
Axel comes over with a doodle and shoves it in front of us. We look at it and then get angry. The picture is Riku. (not giving anything away)
Me: I forcefully take the Destructor from Sora and summon the dark pin missiles and hit Axel with them before pulling Dark Sora's trick and bashing him into the air and then slamming his down to the ground, only to fling him into a wall. That'll show you!
Riku: Umm…Riku54, you just might want to use that thing for defense just about now.
Me: Looks up at Riku, Why?
Riku: Because look over there!
Me: Stares wide-eyed as a crowd of Roxas and Axel fans come running at me. Umm….maybe I should try to use this new move just about now, what do you think?
Riku: If it saves your life.
Chapter Three
Riku saw that the walls were black and white with a red mix. It was dark where he
was and it was very hard to see, but he could see a figure sitting to his right. Riku tried to move, but found that someone, most likely Ansem, had cast a spell on him. Riku was frozen to where he sat.
The figure was off to the right stood up and came over. A sense of dread flooded through Riku as he asked, "Who are you?"
"Why don't you remember me?" came a haunting voice.
Riku felt rage bubbling inside of him as he snarled, "Xemnas! You're dead so how are you here?" he demanded.
Xemnas's face appeared in front of Riku as he growled, "Your good friend Ansem helped me of course. He also brought back a few other friends of yours."
Riku's eyes narrowed as he dared ask, "Who?"
"Xigbar, Xaldin, Marluxia, Larexen, Saix, Demyx, Axel, Zexion, Lexaeus, Vexen, Luxord, and Roxas." Xemnas had a grin on his face as he saw Riku's surprise.
"How did you get Roxas? What are you planning?" Riku asked, a sudden fury burning through his whole being as he struggled against the spell that kept him in place.
"Only to kill those wretched friends of yours and rule over every world." Xemnas replied, he ignored the first question though.
"Then why am I here? What use am I to Ansem?" he demanded, his voice thick with the hatred and alarm from Xemnas's answer.
"He wants you so he can-" Xemnas was cut off as a cloaked figure walked into the room. "Now, now, don't give away too much information that he might use against us, Xemnas."
Xemnas nodded, "Right, sorry."
Riku gave Xemnas a strange look before pointing out, "You take orders from him? Xemnas, you do know that he's your Heartless and Heartless are better than Nobodies. I should know."
Ansem turned around to face Riku, his face displaying the anger he felt towards Riku. "If you will, Xemnas. You can take care of him, I have to go find that girl and get rid of her." Ansem spat before bashing Riku with the flat side of a blade he had.
Riku flinched, but as Ansem's words took hold, he shouted, "A girl? Who?"
Ansem didn't even answer him as he vanished without a trace. Xemnas stepped up to Riku with a smirk, "You don't think I don't know that? Of course Nobodies are better than Heartless, but Ansem is something else. You should know that too. Ansem is me. We help one another, and for that ungrateful outburst, you receive this."
Xemnas raised one of his hands and a bolt of black lightning came down, striking Riku. Riku didn't feel anything, but when he opened his eyes which he had shut, he found that he was no longer sitting down, but up in the air. He was eye to eye with Xemnas and his hands were spread out and clasped by dark rings of energy. He looked something like Roxas did when he gets trapped by the Twilight Thorn.
Riku struggled, trying to move his hands the best he could, but it was useless. Suddenly there was a flash of light before Riku was hit by a blast of dark energy. He tried his best to fight it off as it sucked the energy out of him. When it passed, Riku felt tired and hurt, but not from the outside, but on the inside.
Meanwhile King Mickey was watching as the sun began to set. Sora and Kairi were back for the night, just as he'd asked them to return, but Riku wasn't here yet. King Mickey remembered telling Riku to be back before five hours had past. It had only been four hours and thirty minutes, and Mickey wasn't very worried. "So, when's Riku coming back?" Sora asked.
Mickey turned to Sora, "He should be back within the next thirty minutes."
"Okay, so what are we supposed to do in that time?" Sora asked, looking around.
"Well…" Kairi said, thinking, "We could watch a movie."
Leon and Yuffie cast her a glance before looking at Cid and his computer. "Hey Cid, what do you have to watch?"
Cid looked up, "Huh? What? Oh, right…um…we have plenty of stuff."
"Well let me see it." Leon said as Kairi came over along with Sora.
Cid rummaged through a cabinet before pulling out a single disk. "Okay, looks like we only have one thing to watch." He handed it to Leon who looked at it and then handed it to Sora. "You want to watch that?"
Sora looked down at the movie case and saw the title off to the side that said Final Fantasy VIII: Advent Children. He looked at Kairi who nodded and then turned to Leon and replied, "Sure."
Back at the other world, Riku was looking at Xemnas with rage who just kept looking at him and taunting him. "Yes Riku, let the rage flow into you. Rage and fear are the keys to darkness."
Riku's anger grew and no matter how hard he tried to calm himself down, it didn't work. It was like he was immune to peace, he had no peace in him. "Shut up you damn jerk! I'm not going to submit to you and that damn idiot who thinks he's the king of everyone. And I have news for him. The true king is King Mickey, and that damn Ansem is not king, if anything he's a damn little jackass who needs to go back to the grave!"
Xemnas stood up at this comment and a light saber appeared in each hand. His orange red eyes were glaring at Riku as he released Riku from the bounds and leapt up at him. Riku, from mere stiffness and wearisome, found it impossible to defend himself. Xemnas's light sabers beat every inch of him, bruising and cutting him. Riku gasped as one of them slammed into his back, making him fall to the steal floor. He hit it with force and Riku found that he could not move from the position he was in because of the pain and the force of the impact. Xemnas had hit him harder than Riku could have imagined.
He groaned as Xemnas used the same move again to raise him up in the air. Riku hung his head, unable to keep conscious as the pain took him. He passed out within mere seconds with Xemnas's words ringing in his ears, "That'll teach you, you pathetic moron."
Riku opened his eyes to find that he was laying on someone's bed. He opened his eyes wider and looked around. She was sitting at her table looking at him with concern. Even through sleep, Riku felt the pain, he felt as if he were actually there. "Hey," he greeted, his voice low and cracked with pain.
"He hurt you, Riku." Her deep blue eyes were full of concern as she looked at Riku's beaten body.
"Not by much. I'll be fine. But, will you tell me something?" Riku asked her.
"What is it?" she asked him in turn.
"Are you the one Ansem is after?" Riku asked. She looked away from him and nodded slowly. Riku's eyes widened as he sat up, but he felt the pain lace through him and laid back down and looked at her like that. "You know he's coming for you, where ever you are."
"I know, but I don't care. I have to be sure you're okay, and that's all that matters. He can't use you as a puppet. That is wrong." She turned back to face him and stood up, walking towards him.
This time Riku forced himself to sit up despite the pain, he ignored it the best he could. "Can I have your name?" Riku asked. She looked at him with a curious eye and Riku looked back with a faint smile, "After all, you know mine, but I don't know yours."
"Alright," she sighed, "my name is Aurithia, but you can call me Crystal if you want."
Riku shook his hand, "No, I like Aurithia better."
Aurithia smiled at him and then said, "Now you have to wake up. I can't let you sleep, because if you sleep, your guard is down, and I can't have that."
Riku nodded, "Don't let Ansem hurt you." With that said, Riku woke up.
Riku looked around him, the pain still coursing through his whole body. He noticed that the room was empty and he had been left to brood on his own pain. His head still hung and he had a painstaking headache. Riku wanted it to go away, but it didn't. The cuts on him were bleeding still and he closed his eyes, trying to remain calm as a sense of hopelessness flooded through him. Mickey had told him to return in five hours, but Riku had no sense of time through the constant black outs and pain.
As the hopelessness settled in, so did some unwanted thoughts. They don't even know you're here. They can't find you because you don't even know where you are. You have no way of escape being trapped like this and you have no way to contact anyone.
No. I do have a contact. Aurithia, she can help me. She said she would. I need to talk to her again, but she told me not to go to sleep. If I think of her I go to sleep, and if I go to sleep, I'm doomed. What am I to do? Riku sighed as he whispered, "Aurithia, help me…" Riku had never asked for help in his life, but now he needed it. He wanted it.
Suddenly he heard a voice whisper in his ear, "I'm here when you need me." Riku turned his head and saw no one.
"Where are you?" he asked aloud, but quietly.
"I'm speaking to you in your mind Riku. Whatever you think while this link is here, I can here it." Aurithia told him.
"Okay, will you go to Hollow Bastion and tell the others where I am?" Riku asked Aurithia in his mind.
There was a long pause and then he got an answer. It was almost to quite to hear and her voice held deep sadness and regret, "No Riku. It is impossible for me to leave here without you dying."
"Dying? I'm going to die?" Riku gasped out loud.
"In a way, but you will still have your heart, but Ansem will have long taken control over you forever." That was all Aurithia told him before her connection faded away completely.
In Hollow Bastion, Mickey was staring out at the sky. Many hours had passed and still there was no sign of Riku. The stars were twinkling over head and the moon was bright. It looked so peaceful and calm, but out of all those stars, there was one that was darker than the others. It had a dark blue tint to it, mixed with purple. It was almost impossible to see in the night sky, but Mickey saw it. Riku was on that world somewhere.
"Where do you think he is?" Leon asked Mickey.
Mickey turned around, frowning and shaking his head, "I don't know Leon, I just don't know…"
"Do you think he's alright?"
"I'm sure he is, but I'm afraid for the timeline of that world."
"Timeline?" Cloud and Leon questioned together.
Mickey turned around and nodded, "Yeah, for each world, there is a different timeline, every world is at a different day. It could just be the first day of March over here and in Twilight Town it could be the third of March. The further the world, the more time passes. It's complicated really, but if only a few hours have passed here, much time shouldn't have passed there…I hope."
Cloud and Leon turned away, both of them thinking about what Mickey had just told them. It was confusing, but they think they understood.
Meanwhile Sora was sitting beside Kairi and they were talking quietly so none of the others could hear. "Riku's in trouble, I just know it." Sora whispered.
"Yeah, and they aren't making a single move to go after him." Kairi responded.
"We have to go search for him."
"But we can't, Mickey wouldn't allow it." Kairi pointed out.
"Yeah, but what else are we supposed to do? We were stupid enough to let him go on his own!" Sora growled, clenching his fingers together.
"I know, but we had no choice, it wasn't an option."
Moments after Riku had woken up, he found that he was no longer alone when the metal door flung open. Ansem, Xemnas, and Maleficent strode in, each with their own weapon in hand. Ansem was carrying a sword, Xemnas his light sabers, Maleficent with her staff. They all stopped in front of Riku, who glared at each in turn as he weakly raised his head.
"Are you ready, Riku?" Ansem asked him roughly.
"Damn you!" Riku spat at Ansem.
Ansem glared at him before glancing at Maleficent who stepped up. Maleficent looked at him, but did not speak as she raised her staff. It glowed a greenish sort of color and she then struck out at Riku, hitting him in the face. Riku's head was slung to the left and a imprint was left from where she had struck him. There was also a gash there and blood was slowly dripping from it. He glared at her with a curled lip as he growled her, "That really hurt, Maleficent. You are a damn witch that belongs with the rest, in hell!"
This time Xemnas stepped up and looked Riku in the eye. "You liked the last treatment, right? Well you can have plenty more if you want. They're free and I love to give them to you." His voice was taunting and at the same time calm.
Riku glared at Xemnas before responding, "You can't feel a thing, you're a Nobody remember? Oh maybe you forgot. I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you're someone's puppet and have no commonsense or you would have realized Ansem was going to kill you after all of this is through."
"That is not true you damn fool!" Xemnas snarled before hitting Riku with his light sabers and cutting his arms and sides up more. Riku flinched with each cut that was delivered, but did not say anything. When Xemnas backed off, Riku could see the blood dripping to the metal floor below. He shut his eyes, wishing he could just keep his mouth shut, but that was impossible. He had always had snide remarks, and now it was a habit. He blinked, opening his eyes to see Ansem stepping up to him now.
Riku groaned and wondered what was coming next. They weren't really dealing a lot of pain on him, but he knew it would get worse. If he had to be left alone with Xemnas again, Riku was sure he wouldn't last long in a helpless state like this. Ansem glared at him and asked, "Riku, you know that every hope of escape if useless and just a waste of energy. No one will ever find you down here. Just give in and all of this will be over. And we may just spare your friend, Aurithia."
"Don't you lay a hand on her!" Riku snarled.
"Oh we won't, we haven't found her yet, but I have my resource. All you have to do to keep her safe is give in to the darkness again." Ansem explained, his voice cold and emotionless.
"I won't give in because you'll kill her anyway!" Riku snarled, fighting his restraints.
Ansem sneered at him and responded with a cold tone, "We'll soon see your breaking point. Xemnas keep an eye on him." With that Ansem and Maleficent left.
Riku groaned, not again! "If you try anything, Xemnas, when I'm free, you'll pay."
"Riku, Riku, Riku. Can't you see you'll never escape? You know why your friends haven't come yet? In the five days that you have been here, they haven't come because they simply don't care. You betrayed them Riku, do you honestly think Sora forgave you for taking his Keyblade and then trying to kill him? And Kairi? You knew she wasn't safe, but you didn't do anything. How can either forgive such a hateful, heartless person such as you?" Xemnas sneered.
Riku hung his head as he glared at the floor. Xemnas's words sunk into him and he didn't know if five days had past or not, so many black outs and without a sense of time. "Has it really been five days?" Riku whispered, his voice flooding with hopelessness.
"Oh yes, and not to mention, everyone, Leon, Tifa, Yuffie, Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Cloud, and all the others know you're here, but they haven't come have they?"
"Shut up!" Riku yelled, the hopelessness creating rage and fear for the truth. "I'll kill you Xemnas if you don't shut up! Got that? I'll kill you! What you say isn't the truth so shut the hell up and stop lying about my friends you damn-"
"Oh! Threats, threats, and more threats! All you can do is give threats, while me on the other hand, I deliver the pain." Xemnas said, looking at Riku's beat up body.
"Don't you dare!" Riku breathed through clenched teeth, his hair falling into his eyes as he glared at Xemnas.
"Oh don't worry, Riku. I only have orders for you to take a little nap." Xemnas smirked as he raised his light sabers and a bolt of dark lightning came down again, releasing Riku. Riku dropped to the ground just as Xemnas rushed him. This time Riku was prepared for it. He rolled out of the way, wincing from the pain that raced through him as he picked himself up as fast as he could and stumbled towards the door. Xemnas came at him again and managed to bash him in the back, slamming him into the metal door.
Riku groaned as his fingers clutched the doorknob and he opened the door. It swung open as Xemnas rushed back again, this time using both light sabers. Only one hit Riku and it hit him in his shoulder, and slicing deeply into it. Riku cried out in pain as he stumbled outside the door, blood gushing from a wound. Xemnas followed him at inhuman speed, and Riku never knew how he escaped. He remembered turning to Xemnas and saying harshly, "My friends would never abandon me, Xemnas." He remembered slamming the door shut and then a bright white flash.
The next thing Riku knew, he was laying on the cold asphalt in the middle of the city. The blood from his wound staining the gray asphalt. He clutched his shoulder as he stumbled to his feet, swaying. He had already gotten used to hanging there and not being able to walk. He felt numb and at the same time in great pain. His eyes were narrowed and glazed over from the pain.
For the first time great fear consumed him as he realized his fighting hand had been damaged. How was he supposed to fight now? And with what?
Okay guys, explanations: Yeah, happens fast, but that's my way of writing. Trust me though, he's still stuck in the dark realm and it IS NOT over, or even close. Aurithia, I can say, lives in the castle, but lucky for her, no one knows where. Heh-heh. Okay, in the next chapter, it is all about Sora and Riku. It switches more often. Yeah, Riku's beat up, and if you review, you find out what happens to him.
And just so you know, everything will add up after a while if you're confused with anything. Such as, why did I put a girl named Aurithia in this?
Riku: Grrr! Look what you've done to me!
Riku54: You'll get over it!
Riku: GET OVER IT! You've ruined my good looks!
Riku54: turns to look at her boyfriend(yay) You look fine to me.
Riku: grumbles something Yeah, but look at me in this fan fiction.
Riku54: sighs Yeah well, we can't all have a fair life.
Riku: Why did you name this Riku's Fate? It sounds as if you're going to kill me! Oh, and just by any chance, are you going to kill me?
Riku54: Of course not!
Riku: Good!
Riku54: I named it Riku's Fate because for one, this whole Fanfic revolves around you. 2. I can't tell you 3. I can't tell you.
NOTE: Happens fast now, but it will slow down once I can get things sorted out, Okay? Please review if you want more because I know you guys enjoy this! And yes, I'm sorry for about the millionth time. I love Riku more than any of you anyway, so I have to be sorry. LOL If I get three more reviews, I'll put up Chapter Four. Oh and, hopefully the chapters will get longer, that is, if you want long chapters, if you want short ones, tell me!
-Riku54