Chapter 15
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We landed on the top of the clock tower, I summoned my Keyblade on landing, and Dark held his blade in his right hand.
"Krad!" I called. No answer. Dark walked to the edge of the tower, I followed behind him.
"He's inside," Dark said. He turned around and pointed towards a small trap door on the clock tower. "Are you ready?" I nodded my head yes. I slowly walked towards the trap door, and opened it. Inside was a pathways, on the sides were an assortment of gears. Dark jumped in, I followed. I walked not far behind him down the passage. He opened a door, and spread his wings. He flew outside, I walked towards the door, and saw the bright yellowish light of the clock. We were on the inside of the clock tower. "I'm going to find Krad, your girlfriend's probably inside the gear room."
I nodded my head, but then looked back. "Good luck Phantom." He gave me a two finger salute, and flew off. I turned around to go find Yumi, and the art work. "Yumi!" There was a faint call, I followed it. "Don't fall into the memories," I whispered to myself. I kept running until I came to a dead end, but the screaming was coming from the other side of the wall. My Keyblade pulled my hand forward, and started glowing. A Keyhole appeared on the wall. The Keyblade pointed towards the keyhole and a small red dot appeared at the tip. I head the sound of a door opening, and then the wall that stood before me vanished. On the other side were paintings of all kinds, all of them looked priceless.
"Mph," I turned my head to see Yumi struggling. She was tied up in brown ropes, and her mouth was covered by a rag.
"Yumi!" I shouted running up to her. I untied the rope, and took the rag off of her mouth.
"Thanks!" Yumi shouted. She pulled her wand from the purse she was carrying. "Let's get out of here, I've had just enough of this world!"
I turned around, and crossed my arms. "I'm not going anywhere."
"What!" she shouted.
"You head me, Dark needs our help, because he's about to make the biggest mistake of his life," I aid. "I'm putting my foot down, I'm sorry. It's just something, I have-- to do."
"Ryan, what about Kazuma?" Yumi asked me in a whimpering voice.
I looked at her, and anger formed inside me. "What about Kazuma, why didn't he wait for us, why didn't he come back for us when he saw the storm, why?" I was getting fumed up.
"He wanted to save the others," she said trying to protect what she loved.
"What about us, he said he liked you," I replied. "This conversation is over Yumi, you go. I'll find a way to get off this world, and find my mother the only true reason I actually wanted to leave Twilight Town, and Moonlit City behind."
The anger in her voice made it obvious she was getting furious. "I hate to tell you this, but your mother is dead, and I thought you cared about Kazuma."
I started to walk away towards the door Dark walked through earlier. "Blood is thicker than water, Kairi, and my mother. Those are the only survivors I know of right now. I don't know about my dad."
"But..." I couldn't take it anymore. I ran off so I didn't have to argue with her anymore. I came closer to the door, but I wasn't looking where I was going. I was thinking about my love for Yumi, the fire burned even hotter. My face got hot, I was getting dizzy. Someone... calling my name. I thought I heard Yumi's voice. I turned around, and started walking backwards.
"Yumi," I said to myself. I tripped, and fell out the door. Ifell into the clock tower, but I grabbed on the ledge of the door just in time. I turned my Keyblade back into a Keychain, and placed it in the pocket of my trunks. "Yumi." I saw a fading image of her in my mind, of Yumi. My hands were slipping off the ledge. "I'm sorry Yumi!" I was starting to fall, but someone grabbed my hand. I looked up expecting it to be Yumi, but it was Max.
"Hey, what's up!" Max said.
"Yeah, how can we help each other if your busy falling off clock towers?" Huey asked.
"Thanks guys," I said. I was still getting hot, I fell back, and layed down for a while.
"Yo, there's something wrong with him, I think he has a fever!" Max shouted.
"So, what do ya want me to do!" Huey shouted.
"Oh no!" Max shouted. Krad, and Dark, they're coming closer.
Max was panicking. He stood up, and pulled me farther into the gear room. "Well, lemme try and heal him!"
"Okay," Max said stopping In his tracks.
Huey rose his staff into the air, pointed it and me, and shouted, "CURAGA!" Leaves flew all around my head, the fever heat went away.
"What, Curaga! You haven't mastered that spell yet!" Max screamed. "The spell won't last long.
"Whatever, that's the only one that will really work right now," Huey said. "Now we've got to find out how to take on Krad!"
"I'll do it alone," I said standing to my feet. "It's just something I must do."
"But, what if something happens?" Max asked.
I summoned my Keyblade, the bright shaft glowed against all of the gears. "It'll be a burden, I must suffer." I walked towards the door of the clock tower. I saw the battle between Dark, and Krad heating up, the two were going at each other like two wild cats. But Dark flew upwards to avoid Krad's swordsman skill. He flew towards the center of the clock where the hour, minute, and second hand always met. I could just see the feather that Dark plucked from his wing. I wish I could go over there, and help him somehow. There was a bright light, and then an explosion of white light.
"No way! YOUR USING THE SEAL!" I heard Krad yell. Krad grabbed Dark's wrist, and the feather dropped down the inside of the clock tower, there was a small faint explosion, and a bright light. Dark flew upwards and Krad chased after him. "Your going down!" A blast of white energy came from Krad's palm. It hit Dark, and caused him to come crashing down. "I'll assume your no longer a problem!"
"Damn you Krad," Dark said faintly, and he fell unto the cold, hard ground of the gear room. Krad took off leaving us all behind.
"Dark, are you okay?" I asked.
"Th- this world is in Danger, and I'm the only one who can stop it," he said sitting up.
"What's wrong?" Max asked.
"This whole world will fade into Oblivion, if Krad isn't banned to the other world by the seal," he said falling face first into the ground again.
"I'll use the seal!" I blurted out. I stood up, ready for anything. "I'll banish Krad to the other world."
Dark rose, so he could sit on his knees. "But, only those who were apart of the great legacy may use the seal."
"Please, let him try. He's the Keyblade master," said Huey. "He believes in the light, and he can save the world, he can save all of the worlds."
Dark thought to himself for a moment, and then smiled. "Wiz, you've got a new master, if this kid pulls it off there's no reason to have a phantom thief anymore." The wings on Darks back flew unto mines. I smiled.
"Can I keep these?" I asked.
"There yours, but you must keep the shell not the spirit," he said. "Think to yourself, think about the wings fusing with you." I closed my eyes, thoughts hit me hard. When I opened them, I held a small white rabbit in my hands.
"The wings are yours, Daisuke is gonna get his life back forever, the Niwa family, and the Hikari family will no longer feud," Dark said. "All because of a child named Ryan, go place all evil into that seal, go now-- hero!"
I ran back to the room where I left Yumi.
"Yumi!" I shouted. Her silver hair ran joy though my veins.
She turned around and opened her arms. "I'm sorry!"
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Where am I? Sora opened his eyes only able to actually see out of one. What happened?
"Jack, Donald, where are you?" he called. There was no answer. He stood to his feet to see a small multi colored town.
Sora walked down a skinny brown road that lead towards the town. Unlike Halloween Town there were many people that populated the streets. Each of them carried a basket in their hands, all of them seemed to be busy, and seemed to rush from house to house. Sora ran towards the town, and started asking around.
"Um, excuse me," Sora asked a lady dressed in orange. "But have you seen a duck, zombie, skeleton, or dog anywhere around here?"
"Um, no," she said with a sharp stare in her eyes. Sora slowly walked away to a man dressed in an orange suit.
"Sir, have you seen a duck or a dog anywhere?" he asked in his nicest voice.
"Is this some kind of joke?" the man asked in a deep voice. Sora turned around and walked away not answering the man's question. There's got to be somebody around here that'll know where those guys are. As he walked he tripped.
"What was that?" Sora asked turning around. A white rabbit carrying a basket was under Sora's foot. "I'm sorry I wasn't looking where I was going."
"It's okay, that happens a lot when your a little guy," the bunny said.
Sora stood to his feet, and helped the bunny up. After he dusted himself off, Sora reached his hand out to the white bunny.
"I'm Sora," he said shaking the bunny's hand.
"Well over the years I've had many names, but you could just call me the easter bunny,"the rabbit said in an excited voice.
Sora jumped back, and pointed at the white rabbit. "YOUR THE EASTER BUNNY!"
The bunny placed his finger over his mouth singling to be quiet, "shhh, nobody must know or they'll follow me around all day and looking where I put all of the easter eggs."
Sora laughed to himself a little. "I'm sorry, hey have you seen any new people come into town?"
"No, except for a particular looking dog accompanied by a zombie like woman," he replied as he reached into his basket. He handed Sora a gold, and silver colored egg.
"You have huh?" Sora said taking the egg. "Can you point me in the direction they went?"
The bunny shook his head up, and down. "There in the center of town calling Jack, and Donald. The towns people are starting to get very annoyed."
Sora laughed. "I'll get them." Sora said as he started to take off. "Oh yeah, and Mr. Bunny, thank you." He ran down the streets towards Town square.
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"Okay, what are we supposed to do now?" asked Max.
"I suggest you get back to your ship, badly parked on top of the school building," Dark said lying down again.
Huey crossed his arms showing an attitude. "It wasn't badly parked, and how did you see it, Daisuke couldn't?"
"Daisuke doesn't notice a lot of things," Dark said laughing. "Anyways you two should really be going, your the pilots of the ship right?"
The two animals nodded their heads.
"Good then you'll be of some use to me," said a voice. The two turned around to see a man flying in the air. He grabbed them, and flew off.
"No way!" Dark shouted. "It can't be!"
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The man took them away out of the clock tower. The light was shining in his face, so he couldn't get a clear look at him, but he knew for a fact that it was Krad's brother.
Dark stood to his feet and walked towards the edge of the gear room.
Krad descended from the top of the clock tower, and floated in front of Dark. "Well, well, well if it isn't the infamous thief Dark."
"Krad, I hate you, and your brother." With the last bit of energy Dark had he jumped at Krad knocking him out of the air. The two were falling down the large clock tower deeper, and deeper into the darkness. An expanding white light below them swallowed them both up. Nothing was left behind except for a small boy, with red hair.
"Where, am I?" He asked. "Dark, anybody?" He was being pulled to the top of the tower by an unseen force.
He stepped into the gear room once he reached the top. "Hello, is anybody there?"
There was a shadow down the hall. Daisuke moved closer to it. "Daisuke?" a familiar voice asked. It was Ryan, and Yumi.
"Where is Dark?" Yumi asked. Dark, Dark, are you there?
Reach into your pocket. Daisuke pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket. It was a letter from dark. It read: Dear Daisuke, just wrote a note to say that I won't be seeing you ever. Nine times out of ten if you're reading this I'm probably dead. I will return to see you one day, in my reincarnated form: ... well see ya, friend.
"Where are Max, and Huey?" asked Ryan.
"I don't know," Daisuke replied.
"Wait, they might be heading to the Gummi Ship!" Ryan shouted. "Daisuke, you have to take the train to your school, asap. Yumi, and I will head back by air."
"Okay... wait how?" Daisuke asked. Two amazingly large purple, angel wings spread in the gear room.
"You can just call me, Wing," Ryan said. He picked Yumi up and ran to the edge of the gear room. "We'll see ya!"
"O-okay!" Daisuke said The two jumped off the ledge of the gear room, and flew out of the clock tower.
"Okay," Daisuke said as he climbed a ladder to get out of the clock tower's trap door. He stood on the very top of the tower, and walked towards the elevator on the far edge. He hit a button, and the door opened. On the other side of the door was somebody who made his heart leap. "No, not here, not now."
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I looked around as I flapped my wings. I was so excited that I actually had my own pair of wings.
"So, you're probably gonna be flying forever aren't you?" she asked me.
"Nah," I said as I dove down, and ascended again. "only if I'm really bored, or in an emergency. The school was below us, and Max, and Huey were sitting by the ship waiting for us.
Yumi pointed at a man standing on the roof apparently staring at us. "Who's that?"
I squinted my eyes, there was a man with long silver hair, one wings, and in his right hand, a long skinny sword. "Could that be Krad's brother?"
I dove down towards the school building, and landed.
"Have you met my brother?" The man asked. "Krad."
"Yeah, he's a thief," I said. "He tried to lock Yumi in a dimension of memories."
The man gave off a loud laugh. "Actually, that was me."
"Wh- who are you?" asked Yumi stepping back. She fell backwards, I wanted to help her up, but she was asleep.
"Hmmm..." the man was silent. "I'm what some call the One Winged Angel, or a Fallen Angel, but you may call me Sephiroth."The man's voice was low and dark. "I've traveled from world to world, Midgar, the Colosseum, Hollow Bastion, and now Wing City, where I hoped to spend some quality time with my brother, but somehow I can't come in contact with him."
"The seal," I mumbled.
"I'm sorry what was that?" Sephiroth asked.
"The seal, Dark must've used the seal, and now your no good brother must be in the other world!" I cheered. Sephiroth didn't seem to be to happy about that. "Let me guess, you're a bad guy too?"
"You're pretty smart for a Keyblade Master?" Sephiroth said with a dark smile. "Of course I'm a bad guy."
Sephiroth walked towards me slowly, unlike all of the other enemies I encountered. This might be easier than I thought. I dashed at him, but all I sliced was a feather. He wasn't there anymore, Where'd he go?
"Come," Sephiroth said. I turned around, and saw that he was standing beside the Gummi ship. I ran towards him, but there was an explosion, heat ran through my body. Is this some kind of Volcano? I was knocked far into the air, and then I was falling. Is this the end, wait I can fly. I flapped my wings as hard as I could, and then I was flying again.
Sephiroth flew up towards me. I was startled, "how in the hell can you fly with one wing?"
"Some things are none of your business, child." He struck his blade at me continue sly. I tried blocking with my Keyblade, but his swings were too fast. He slashed me across the chest, and I was blown backwards. I flew upwards and came driving down, both wings swirling around my body. I stuck my Keyblade out front, and then my body became a a giant bullet.
"I PUT EVERYTHING I'VE GOT INTO THIS MOVE!" I screamed. I picked up speed. Going faster, and faster by the second. "COMING THROUGH!" I felt my body rush through Sephiroth's wing. He let out a scream of bloody murder.
"You chopped my wing," he said in a quivering voice. He fell down towards the ground, but I wasn't done yet. I dove towards the falling body, and was about to slice him, but he disappeared leaving only a feather.
I looked up to see him standing on top of the school building. He rose his hand into the air and yelled. "Sin Harvest!" A bright pink light surrounded my body. Then I felt hot, just as I had felt before. The spell Huey had casted was canceled out by Sin Harvest. I was falling to the ground as Sephiroth had, but I cannot fade out. I reached into my pocket, and pulled out the feather Dark had given to me. Please, give me strength. Nothing was happening, I was falling coming closer, and closer to the ground. Then I felt hands, I looked up to see a man in a black coat. He brought me closer to the ground at a slow pace. Once my feet touched the ground he opened a bottle, and poured some of the liquid inside it into my mouth.
"Don't worry, it's elixir," he said. I felt my strength return. I stood to my feet, and looked at the man, he was a little taller than me.
"Sora?" I asked in a raspy voice. The elixir had left a bad taste in m mouth.
"Take this, I'm sure you'll need it," the man said as he vanished. A bottle of elixir sat in my hands.
"What the hell was that?" Sephiroth yelled.
"Don't ask," I said. "When your life is in danger!" I tucked the the elixir into my pocket and ran towards Sephiroth. He attempted to run, but I stomped on his foot preventing movement. I drove my Keyblade through his chest, and kneed him in the balls. Sephiroth grabbed his crotch, and fell to ground.
"I should have seen that coming!" he shouted. I slashed at him with my Keyblade, and he stood there taking every hit, then he disappeared.
"What the hell?" I said to myself. A wind brushed my neck, and then I felt his slash me in the back with his long, sliver blade. I fell forwards, my face smashed into the ground. I felt blood dripping out of my mouth. There was something hard in my mouth, I spit it out, and saw that it was my tooth.
"Sin Harvest!" Sephiroth yelled. A pink light surrounded him, but I threw my Keyblade at him before he could do anything, with that attack of his. Before I knew it he grabbed me by the shoulders, and kicked me in the balls.
"Oh my gosh!" I yelled. He threw me into the air, and grabbed me by the ankles, he started spinning me around. I was getting dizzy until he finally threw me to the ground.
"That does it!" I shouted. "THUNDAGA!" Lighting shot down from the light blue sky. Sephiroth shook with the shock, and fell to the ground. Did I do that?"
I reached into my pocket for the feather only to see it wasn't there. I plucked a feather off of my wing, and returned my Keyblade to it's original state. Wait, Dark never showed me how to use the seal!
Sephiroth stood to his feet and gasped. "No, your not. Please no!" His voice actually had fear in it. Please, light combine with the darkness, and banish this evil force to the other world. I opened my eyes, and found the Keyblade in my left hand, and the feather in the other. Both of them turned bright white. "What are you doing?"
The Keyblade shined and fused with the Keyblade, it went back to the way it had been when I first got it. Hidden Memories.
The tip of the Keyblade turned white. It shot through Sephiroth, and he fell backwards gripping his chest. "Did it work?"
"What's going on?" Sephiroth asked. He looked at his wing, and saw the feathers were growing back. He started laughing, he chuckled loud. "Fool, you think this will do anything, you've healed me." I fell, and started crab walking backwards.
"Oh no," I said. I looked at his leg, and saw that it was turning to dust. Was this how the seal worked? "Oh, yeah!"
"What, do you wish to die?" Sephiroth asked as he rose his blade into the air. I poited at his left leg, and he saw it was changing. His right arm was disappearing along with it. His blade fell to the ground, and he started walking backwards. "No, what have you done, you fool!"
I stood up to my feet, and laughed. I moved my fingers around in a wizardy fasion. "I banish you!"
"You think this is over, you just watch! YOU WATCH!" he shouted.
"I'm watching, but northing's happening. He jumped at me and grabbed me with his left arm. He struggled, but I cloudn't escape. An explosion of fire bursted out of the ground. It surrounded me completely. The heat ran through my body. The fires calmed down after about a ten seconds, then I fell to the ground. I took the elixir out of my pocket, and drank half the bottle. My strength returned, I stood to my feet. It's finally over. I walked over to Max, and Huey. Their eyes were wide open, so they must've seen the whole thing.
"That was awesome man!" Max shouted.
"Yeah, you had us all worried when he knocked you out of the sky with that Sin Harvest spell, but you floated down easily, healed yourself, and went on," Huey said standing to his feet.
"Wait, the guy in the black coat did that," I said.
"Waht're you talkin about, we saw you with our own eyes in broad daylight," Max said. Was I the only one who could see him, and if so... why? I walked over to Yumi, and tried to shake her awake. She wouldn't budge.
"Yumi, c'mon let's get to the Niwa house," I said under my breath. "Yumi?" I held her hand, and felt nothing. There was nothing, but coldness. I felt her chest, nothing, no heart beat or anything. "No, c'mon, please wake up!" Tears ran down my cheeks, "I loved you, why did this have to happen?" I started crying. I stood up and looked at her head, and saw a strange earring in her ear. I pulled it out, and placed it in my ear. "We'll always be together."
As soon as I placed the earing in the hole I had, the hand that I held it in burned with a red scar.
"Heal," I said, but the scar didn't go away. That's strange. I picked up Yumi's body. I noticed, her heart was beating again. I looked at her, a bright light shined from her body. She lifted out of my hands, and her feet touched the ground. The light faded, and in front of me stood Yumi.
A word escaped her mouth, a word that explained the feelings I felt for her. "Love."
"Did you hear what I said?" I asked hoping she would say no.
She looked deep into my eyes as if she were scanning my thoughts. "No, not at all." Suddenly, something ran through my mind. Promise me, we'll always be... together.
"What?" I asked myself. Something was happening, my Keyblade had summoned itself. Another Key chain fell from the sky, and into my hands, it changed into a Keyblade, and a word ran through my head. Oathkeeper.
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Sora finally reached the center of easter town, and there by the water fountain Donald, Goofy, Sally, and Jack stood.
"Sora!" Jack shouted. All the friends jumped at Sora.
"I'm so glad we all found each other!" Goofy shouted.
"I love the reunion and all guys, but we've got to get that Heartless, remember the Doctor?" Sora said as he dusted himself off.
Everybody backed off. Jack held out his palms and there the secret ingredients were. "Okay, all we've got to do is keep them away from..."
"So that's where the ingredients were," said a familiar voice from behind Sora. He turned around to see the Easter Bunny.
"Hey Mr. Bunny, you know about the ingredients?" asked Sora.
"Know them, I sold them for good Munny Kid, and the customer that bought these want them back,"the Bunny sdaid hopping towards Jack.
Sora whipped his head around. "JACK RUN!" Jack threw the ingredients at me, and ran in the other direction. "Whatever!" Sora dashed towards a large building that read the words: City Hall. He busted through the big yellow doors, "there's a sign of corruption in this town of yours!"
The people in the room looked at Sora with strange expressions across their faces. They were all bunnies.
"That's him boys!" a voice from behind him said. "That's the one who's taking the ingredients to our biggest sale!"
The bunnies all stood up from what they were doing, from eating carrots, or painting eggs. The all ran towards the door, and after Sora.
"Jack, why'd you have to give it to me!" Sora yelled as he dashed towards the others. "C'mon, we'll take the ingredients on the ship, that'll keep them away!"
Sora, and the others ran towards the forest of easter town, more, and more people chased after them. There was the tree, with a pumpkin on it, they drew closer and closer to the tree. The bunnies drew closer to the friends.
"Sora, Donald, Goofy, go we'll take care of the mad bunnies!" Jack yelled.
Sora stopped running. "But guys."
Jack turned around, and yelled, "THUNDER!" He turned back, and looked at Sora. "It's okay Sora."
"Even if we don't make it, it was great to have a friend like you!" Sally yelled over the roar of the bunnies.
"Thanks guys," Sora said as he turned around, and ran into the tree just as Donald, and Goofy had. There was a purple ocean wave, and then they stood inside Halloween Town.
"Okay, it's not that far in the ship since it's in the graveyard," Donald said. The other two nodded their heads, and ran towards the graveyard. There the ship floated, Donald, and Goofy jumped on the ship, but Sora was taken down by something. He turned around to see a cute little pink bunny.
"Wow, I need to work out," Sora said laughing to himself. He pushed the bunny off of him, and stood to his feet. But out of the nowhere the bunny tackled him again, this time it had a scowl on it's face. "Look, I need to go!" The bunny stood on Sora's chest, staring at his face. It rose it's hand into the air, and threw a punch at him. "Ow, that hurt." Wait, that hurt. It continued to punch him, but he knocked the bunny off. "Finally." Sora reached into his pocket for the ingredients, but they were gone. He looked at the bunny, and in it's hand were the ingredients.
"Hah!" the bunny shouted. It was a girl bunny. It hopped away towards Halloween Town at a blinding speed.
"Oh no!" Sora shouted. He ran towards Halloween Town, leaving Donald, and Goofy on the ship. He lost the bunny, but had a good idea where he was going. He ran to Doctor Ficklstien's lab, and busted the door wide open.
"Too late Sora!" the high crusty voice of the doctor yelled. "The Anti has been created." Sora stared at the heartless type creature that sat on the table.
"That's it?" Sora asked as he laughed at the creature. "The heartless seem almighty powerful compared to that thing."
"Sora, you misjudge the creature's power," the doctor laughed. "Now, change into your second form!" The creature started to morph, to get bigger. It walked towards the boy with each step it grew larger, and larger. Sora jumped backwards and summoned his Keyblade. The silver shaft shined in the darkness in Halloween Town.
As the creature stepped out of the house, Sora's blood went cold. He'd seen this creature before, but where? It had piercing yellow eyes, stringy type hair moving so freely you'd think it was a wig of snakes. The muscular arms of the creature seemed like huge buildings, and in the center of its chest was a big hole, shaped like a heart.
"Th- that creature from before, from my dream!" Sora yelled. He was scared of the creature that stood before him. "You swallowed me before, and you'll do it again, won't you?"
"What's the matter Sora, do you fear the Dark Side?" asked a voice. I looked at the foot of the creature, and there stood the doctor, but he started changing. He morphed into a man who held a sword, a silver and gold sword. He had long black hair which ran down to his knees. He wore a purple shirt, black jacket, and black pants.
"Who are you?" Sora asked.
"I am Rowan, the Keeper of Souls, and it seems that yours, and this creatures soul has been connected!" the man shouted.
"Connected?" Sora asked. "What do you mean?" The man pointed his blade towards Sora, and a blast of electricity shot towards Sora. The Keyblade lifted itself only to absorb the power.
"Connected," the man said. "You can't harm this creature, you kill it, you die, it kills you, it dies."
"Why?" Sora asked. His Keyblade was still absorbing the energy.
"Geez kid, must I explain everything?" The man was getting aggravated. "I connected your soul so it wouldn't harm you!"
"Why!" Sora asked once again.
"Because... you need to stay alive, you hold the Keyblade, you need to lock the doors, for the power is finally starting to reveal itself. "Now, it's time for your test!"
"Test?" Sora asked. The man found Sora's talent to ask so many pointless questions very annoying. The Keyblade stopped absorbing energy, but now it started to release itself in a powerful way. Sora was surrounded by a ball of dark blue electricity. The ball suppressed on Sora's body causing even more energy to surge through him. "I, I feel more powerful, than before."
"Good," the man said. "Now you must go, but not without passing your first test." The man held his blade in both hands, and without warning, charged at Sora. He slashed Sora, but only to be blocked by the Keyblade before taking any damage. "The power I gave you, why don't you use it?"
"I won't take this power from somebody I don't know," the man said. Sora kept his blade up to keep the man's blade in check.
"Those fools thought I was a Heartless, but it turns out that I'm Rowan the most skilled Swordsman through out the worlds," the man said.
"Leave me alone," Sora said as he whipped his entire body around taking his Keyblade with him. He knocked the man clear in the stomach, and into the foot of the creature. My soul is connected with my worst fear. Sora ran towards the man, and threw his Keyblade, it hit the man right in the ankle.
"Grah!" he shouted as he stood to his feet. He walked towards him limping. Sora's Keyblade reappeared in his hands, which gave him another chance to strike the man down. "CURE!" The man shouted, he started running towards Sora again, unharmed. "Face it kid, I won't stop coming after you until you use the power!"
Sora backpedaled so he wouldn't get hit by any of his crazy attacks. "Take this!" Sora yelled as he drove his Keyblade through Rowan's chest.
"Cure," Rowan said as he kicked Sora away. "Kill me, you kill everybody you care about."
"Who are you truly?" Sora asked.
"Sora... I am your father," Rowan said as he picked Sora up by the neck.
"WHAT!" Sora screamed.
"Ha ha ha ha," Rowan laughed. "You fell for it, I'm only kidding." Sora didn't take the joke as funny as Rowan found it. He kicked Rowan in the stomach, and jumped backwards.
"No more," Sora said. Electricity ran through Sora's muscles, power ran through his veins, and energy ran in his blood stream.
"Finally, that power, unleashed!" Rowan yelled. Sparks of electricity surged through the surface of his skin. He slashed at Rowan and he was knocked back and was smashed into the creature's foot. If your connect you should be able to hear my thoughts, right? The creature shook it's head, and Sora smiled. Do you have a third form? The creature nodded it's head yes. Go into your third form, and help me beat this guy. The creature shook it's head yes once again, and started shrinking. What are you doing?
My third form although my most powerful, is about the same size of your body, This was all so strange. Ever since he got the Keyblade he had never communicated with anything, especially not something like a heartless telepathically.
Rowan started getting up, and saw the Anti shrinking. "Oh, crud."
The creature finally stopped shrinking, it's body was almost identical to Sora's except for the demon wings, and the black hair.
"Sora, what should I call myself?" the boy asked.
"I don't know," Sora said very surprised.
"Do you remember Ryan?" asked the boy.
"Yes!" Sora yelled startled.
"NO, you fool!" shouted Rowan as he grabbed the boy, and covered his mouth. "We need both of you, and he's more useful when he's clueless," he murmured afterwards. Sora couldn't hear what he was saying. Darkness surrounded the two, but Sora jumped at the two, hands out as if he were to hug them.
"Tell me, please!" he shouted, but they dematerialized before he got to them."No." He started crying, his Keyblade returned to it's original state. "Why, why did this have to happen, why did you guys come and visit me, if you didn't I'd still be in my room with Kairi. I didn't even get to give her the birthday present, the earrings I got for her. The paopu earrings. The ones I made myself, from the Paopu fruit Riku gave me. "Why did this have to go and happen! What would it be like, if I didn't have a destiny, what would it feel not to have met Riku, and Kairi, how would my life be, if I had opened my heart... to darkness."
Darkness, darkness, darkness... The voice in Sora's head rang like a bell. Darkness, darkness, darkness. Something was tampering with his heart, with his light.
Are you looking for you light, light, light? Cloud.
There is Darkness, in every heart. Leon.
Open your heart... to darkness. Riku, or Ansem.
"Why," asked a voice. It started to rain, Sora looked up to see a man with a white coat. "We would've never been friends, how could you make a wish like that?"
"R- Riku?" Sora asked. He felt himself loosing air, the man was choking him, and then a shortage of air. He was punched, hard in the stomach.
"You're such a fool Sora," the man said. He threw Sora down to the ground getting mud all over his outfit. "Take these, it's about time you start, at least try to fight the heartless in style." The man handed Sora a brown paper bag.
"Riku, what is wrong with you?" Sora asked in a quivering voice. The man let out a horrible laugh, then disappeared.
I don't understand, what's going on. Sora walked towards the graveyard of Halloween Town, but there were still may questions unanswered, where's Jack, and Sally, what happened to the real doctor? He hopped onto the ship, and headed straight for his room.
"Everything okay Sora?" asked Donald leaning back in the seat.
"Yeah, I just need some time to gather my thoughts," he said walking into the back bedroom of the Gummi Ship.
He sat on the bed, and ran his hands through his hair. He opened the paper bag, and took out the clothes inside. There was a pair of black pants, a white shirt, and a black coat made of the same material as the Organization coats with a hood, unlike the Organization coat it only went down to his waist, a pair of black shoes, and black gloves with the finger tips cut off, and a silver metal circle on the back side. He put the clothes on, and laid back into the bed. He fell asleep in the next minute or so.
