Chapter Four:
Kingdom of Hearts, Kingdom of Death
Behind Sora, Riku, Kairi, and King Mickey, the door to Kingdom Hearts was sealed shut. "I know where the Keyblades are made in here, so just follow me and you should be okay." King Mickey said as he led them down a large pitch-black hallway.
"Your Majesty, how are Keyblades created?" Sora asked as he ran his hand down the Kingdom Key.
"Well, Keyblades are either made out of light and/or dark. So when living beings are created, that's where the Keyblade forms its aura. An aura is the force that lets the Keyblade be able to destroy Heartless and Nobodies, or it would just be a slab of metal. So if we go to the heart of Kingdom Hearts, it would let us acquire new Keyblades."
At that very moment, millions of shadow Heartless surrounded the group. "We need to split up." Riku said as he summoned his Keyblade and started to hack away at the shadows. The rest of the group did the same until they were too tired to continue.
"We can't fight them off forever!" Kairi yelled as she did an uppercut on several Heartless.
"You won't have to." a deep voice said. Above the group, there were several blue slashes and all of the Heartless disappeared into black smoke.
"Sephiroth." Sora muttered as he put his Keyblade into a defensive position.
"Amazing, you actually know me. By the way, I hope that you got to know Cloud well, because lets just say that he's not himself, to say the least." Sephiroth said as he floated down from the ledge he was standing on.
"We'd better regroup with the others Sora." Mickey said as he tightened his grip on his Keyblade.
"But there's one problem Your Majesty, you're not part of the group!" Sora yelled as he smacked King Mickey in the head with his Keyblade. The moment the faux King Mickey hit the ground, he shriveled up into a black heap of lifeless grime and Sora took the King's Keyblade so he could return it to the true King Mickey.
"Sora!" Kairi yelled.
"I need to duel Sephiroth by myself." Sora said as he brandished both Keyblades he possessed.
"Ah, so you want to try and kill me again. Nothing can kill me except the light part of my soul and he's currently turning into a Heartless." Sephiroth said.
"It's to bad that they're using Heartless and Nobodies to create humans." Someone said from above. A spiky-haired blonde with blue eyes and an enormous sword jumped down from the sky.
"Cloud!" Sora yelled as they greeted each other.
"I thought that I eliminated you for good! Why can't you people stay dead! I going gut you jackass!" Sephiroth yelled as he got even more outraged whenever someone said something.
"You guys need to go find the King! He's in a sleeping unit a mile away from here!" Cloud said as he parried one of Sephiroth's jabs.
Fifteen minutes later they saw what they were looking for. Four dark Keyblades were laid out on an obsidian table next to a sleeping pod where a small mouse laid unconscious.