A/N: This is almost the end (for real this time). I was going to write a bit more and make this the last chapter but I didn't want to keep you guys waiting any longer. One more thing, I have over 20,000 hits but no where near as many reviews so to encourage the other people who don't review I'm going to have a review limit before I think of updating again. I apologise to those who always review but since there aren't many chapters left I want to get a few more reviews before this story fades into nothingness.
Endless Abyss
The dark wielder stared at the challenger holding the light keyblade and then laughed.
"He sent a child to fight me? Foolish old man!"
"Child?" Sora said, clearly confused.
The dark wielder laughed even harder. "Could it be. . .you are truly the light wielder?"
Sora grinned when he saw his reflection shining off of the light keyblade. It was true, he looked no older then 17.
"I don't know why LWN thought this would help me," Sora said, "But none the less you are not going to live to see another day!"
"Neither is your little friend here," the dark wielder said as he swung the dark keyblade down.
CHING
The dark keyblade bounced up into the air, deflecting off of the light keyblade. Sora had sped over to the dark wielder and knocked the dark keyblade into the air, barely managing to save Leon's life. The dark wielder was stunned for a second but came to his senses quickly as Sora lunged at him again. The dark wielder created a small ball of darkness in his hands and shoved it at Sora. Sora rolled out of the way, giving the dark wielder time to leap into the air and grab his keyblade.
"Very good," the dark wielder said as he landed gracefully on the ground. "But not good enough!" he created another ball of darkness and threw it at Sora. Sora pointed the light keyblade at the dark wielder. The light keyblade glowed and then shot out a thin beam of light which evaporated the darkness that the dark wielder had shot at him. The beam of light went further, heading straight at the dark wielder. The dark wielder just stood there, as if he couldn't care less about what was happening.
Sora gasped in shock as the beam of light went straight through the dark wielder. It was then that he noticed that the beam of light had passed through a shadow, nothing more.
"But that means…" Sora was cut-off as the dark wielder stabbed the dark keyblade into his back from behind.
The dark wielder laughed as he watched Sora fall to the ground. "That's the oldest trick in the book!" He walked closer to where Sora was lying. "It would be unfair to kill a child but . . . you have caused me more then enough trouble already!"
The dark wielder stabbed the dark keyblade into Sora's heart and it connected with a satisfying click, signifying the heart was turning to darkness.
Darkness poured out of Sora, engulfing him as if it were his mother. Sora's body was shrouded in darkness which was slowly rising into the air, lifting him with it. Sora's body was flashing between two forms, his normal form and anti-from.
"Give into to darkness, it will be easier!" the dark wielder said.
Suddenly Sora glowed a bright white as light shot out from him in every direction. The darkness that had been pouring out of him faded away and what was left was evaporated by the light. Sora's body floated back to the ground and his eyes opened. He gradually got to his feet and then glared with fierce intensity at the dark wielder.
"I am not going to fall to foul tricks like that one!" Sora yelled. "The strength of my heart will overcome anything you throw at me!"
The dark wielder stared at Sora for a minute and then, with an animalistic look in his eyes he started to run at Sora. Sora held the light keyblade out ready to knock the dark wielder back. The dark wielder was ready for that and shoved the dark keyblade at Sora just in time to avoid crashing into it. Their blades locked and the two glared angrily at each other.
"You are a disease upon the realm of light and I am the cure!" Sora said, sparks of light energy flying off of him.
The dark wielder glared at Sora and said, "The other light wielder must have told you by now, the way the last war ended!"
Sora knew very well what had happened – the dark wielder had used some kind of trick that destroyed the cores of the keyblades of the light wielder's followers. The shock had sent them into the Endless Abyss, and as Sora had found out, turned them into a sort of nobody. Fortunately Sora had managed to undo most of the damage the dark wielder had caused during that battle and now he was dead set on making sure that the same thing didn't happen twice especially not in the Endless Abyss.
Sora and the dark wielders keyblades were still locked together and now the two of them were glowing brightly, each with the energy of their own keyblade.
The force of the energy coming from them was enough to lift them into the air, high above everyone else.
"This is where you meet your end child!" the dark wielder yelled.
"We'll see about that!" Sora yelled back. Sora glowed brighter then ever with a strong white light which covered him fully. The dark wielder blinked a couple of times, unable to keep his eyes open for fear that he would be blinded. When he opened his eyes again he saw a sight that he had hoped he would never have to face.
The light no longer shined from Sora, instead it reflected off of him – Sora was now in his final form.
Sora had just one keyblade – the light keyblade – but that would be more then enough. He flew at the dark wielder and spun around making the light keyblade seem like a thin beam of light. He struck the dark wielder several times before he was pushed away. The dark wielder groaned in pain but managed to keep himself in the air.
"I will not lose this easily!" the dark wielder yelled, the dark keyblade shining a dark light. He held it out at Sora for an instant, making Sora prepare himself to block any attack the dark wielder might be planning. But then the dark wielder stabbed the dark keyblade into his own heart and said, "Now you will see the power of true darkness!"
Darkness poured out of the dark wielder, engulfing him in his entirety. He didn't try to escape it, and instead embraced it.
Sora stared in horror at what was happening – the dark wielder was covered in a thick layer of darkness, his size increasing by the second. It wasn't long before he was higher then the fortress.
"Mwahahaha! You fool! Darkness will always triumph over the light! Nothing you do matters – I will kill you just the same!"
Sora was horrified at what had happened to the dark wielder but he knew that he couldn't afford to just stare – he was the only one who stood a chance of defeating the dark wielder.
So it was that Sora flew up as fast as he could, trying to reach the dark wielder's face which was a long way above him. As he flew he had to dodge the balls of dark energy that the dark wielder threw down at him which was by no means an easy task – the dark wielders ability seemed to of grown with his size although now he was much slower and no longer able to use the dark keyblade.
"Do you even have a name?" Sora asked, as he flew up.
"Name? That is nothing more then a burden to me! What does it matter? You are not going to live long enough for me to be bothered telling you that!"
"I need to know," Sora said. "Or else I won't know what to put on your grave stone!"
With that, Sora was finally high enough to reach his target and started doing so immediately, slashing continuously at the dark wielders face. After a few seconds a large grin appeared on the dark wielders face as he realised that Sora wasn't doing any damage at all.
"You are never going to win, just give it up!"
Sora's stared down at the ground in despair. He couldn't see anyway to beat the dark wielder unless. . .
"You might think you are strong but you can't fight me if you can't see me!"
'That's right, run and hide. . ." the dark wielder was cut off by the incredibly painful surge of pain that shot through his body as Sora stabbed one of his eyes with the light keyblade.
"Arghhh!" the dark wielder yelled, his voice echoing so loudly through out the Endless Abyss that everyone stopped their fighting for a second of two and looked towards the dark wielder and Sora.
Endless Abyss
Riku and Hades were fighting furiously, one fighting with the Twilight blade and the other fighting with the dark wielders power.
Riku leapt into the air and thrust his keyblade down at the Hades but Hades was ready and threw a ball of darkness which he had concealed until the last moment straight at Riku's face.
Riku braced for impact but none came. He looked around to see why and then he saw Yuffie bouncing around throwing Shirokens around everywhere. She winked at him and then went back to the crazy routine she had worked herself into. Riku grinned as he landed again and cast a graviga spell at Hades who had just leapt into the air. Hades fell back to the ground so fast that he was crushed into it a little.
Then Riku ran at Hades and knocked him into the air. Hades flew up a few feet but then flipped around and landed on the ground casting a dark firaga spell at Riku. Riku tried to deflect it but only the darkness in the attack moved at his command – the fire drove on and shot past the twilight keyblade.
"Arghh!" Riku yelled in surprise as his shirt caught fire.
"You look a little hot!" Hades said with a smirk. "Maybe I should cool you down!" Hades threw a dark blizaga spell at Riku which was the same as the dark firaga except it carried the power of a blizaga spell on the inside. Riku was still conscious of what the last attack had done to him so even as he ripped off the flaming shirt, he thought of a way to counteract the new attack.
"Ah I got it!" Riku said with a grin. He waited until the last second, when the dark blizaga was less then an inch away before he cast the spell which he had learned in the world of awakening.
"Twilight Thundaga!" Riku yelled. A beam of grey light shot out from the Twilight keyblade. Another, smaller beam of yellow energy shot around the grey beam and sparked like the electricity that it was. The darkness from the dark blizaga faded away and all that was left was the blizaga spell. Riku bent the beam that was coming from his keyblade so that it directly hit the blizaga. The blizaga spell was held back by the force of Riku's attack and the harder Riku concentrated the further back it went.
"Not today Riku!" Hades said as he stood with his palms facing the energy Riku was sending back at him.
Riku was momentarily shocked – he hadn't expected Hades to know his name (which was kind of stupid because Hades was the god of the underworld after all). Riku's shock gave Hades the time he needed to retake control of the fight. Hades pushed back the energy Riku was sending towards him and it flew faster then light back at Riku.
Riku felt the blast of energy go through him and fell to his knees from exhaustion. He knew he couldn't keep this up but he had no choice – he had to keep everyone as safe as he could until Sora arrived (At that moment Sora was fighting the dark wielder but since everyone was isolated fighting their own separate opponents, Riku had no idea.)
"Don't give up Riku!" a familiar voice yelled.
Riku felt so tired that he didn't know if he would be able to move much more but he turned his head just enough for him to see the outlines of a women in a ninja suit. Something in particular caught his attention about her – Jade green eyes.
"Alexa!" Riku said, happy that she was safe now.
"You looked like you were in need of some help," Alexa said with a grin.
They stared at each other for what seemed like hours (although it was just a couple of seconds), knowing that words were not necessary to express the heart-breaking agony of the relationship that the two of them knew in their hearts could not exist if only because of the vast age difference between them.
Riku checked his grip on the Twilight Blade and then said," Let's go!" and started to run at Hades. Alexa ran next to him, holding two shirokens, one in each hand. Aside from that Alexa was ready to withdraw the two daggers she had sheathed in the back of her boots.
Hades' hair was now burning a white flame and he threw thousands of balls of flame at Riku and Alexa but both of them were able to dodge the attacks as easily as if there was nothing happening at all.
When they reached Hades they both unleashed their attacks at once, Riku yelling out, "Twilight Firaga!" conjuring a large ball of flame covered in grey light. Alexa threw her shirokens at Hades' neck and then withdrew her daggers.
Hades was knocked over by the double attack and even as he tried to get up he was knocked back down.
"Give it up Hades!" Riku shouted. "You're outnumbered!"
Hades laughed evilly. "Oh am I?" he said. "Maybe you should take a look behind you!"
Riku turned around and fell to the ground in shock. What he saw was a mountainous giant, covered in darkness. As Riku's eyes trailed up the large mountain of darkness, he saw a speck of light near the top fighting with another small speck of light. It was then that Riku realised that the mountainous darkness was in fact the dark wielder and the speck of light fighting the other speck of light was Sora trying to gain the advantage by taking out the dark wielders eyes.
"Sora!" Alexa cried, having just seen what was going on for herself. Her cry made several of the others who were fighting heartless or dusks nearby look up and see that battle up in the air.
"Look Sora's here!" someone yelled.
"We're sure to win now!" someone else yelled.
Unfortunately Hades took the chance to attack Alexa and Riku while they were distracted – he transformed his hands into flaming balls of fire and whacked the two of them on the head. Alexa fell to the ground, unconscious. Riku fell to his knees in a state of semi-unconsciousness. His head was spinning but he had no time to try and recover as Hades saw that Riku was still up and knocked him on the head again.
Riku felt his energy leaving him but knew he could not give out. Even though he had been fighting on adrenaline since Alexa arrived, he knew that he would have to find some inner source of strength if he and Alexa were to live.
Hades watched in amazement as Riku dragged himself to his feet.
"Haven't you had enough!" Hades demanded.
"I'll never let you win!" Riku replied.
"Look," Hades began. "I'm not here for you, I'm here for him!" Hades pointed up at the speck of light that Riku now knew to be Sora.
"I'll die for him!" Riku said defiantly grasping his keyblade.
Hades growled angrily. "Well I suppose I'll have to finish what I started then!"
And with that Riku resumed fighting Hades as if he had never stopped.
Endless Abyss
Mickey and Ansem were surrounded by dusks.
"Why are all these nobodies attacking us?" Ansem asked Mickey.
"I don't know," Mickey replied, "But it would be better not to turn your back on them at the moment if we want to stay alive."
Mickey leapt into the air and sliced through a dusk that had been about to bite into Ansem's head.
"Something must be driving them on," Ansem said, seemingly oblivious to how close he'd been to death. "Last time it was Organization X I I I but they can't possibly be responsible for them this time."
"Well…" Mickey said, speaking his thoughts out loud. "Last time the nobodies were after hearts. I think they are after the same thing this time around as well."
"And you would be correct little mouse!" a deep commanding voice called out. "We will always be after hearts, until the day that we are made whole again!"
Both Ansem and Mickey felt that the voice sounded familiar but neither of them could figure out who it was.
"Who are you?" Mickey asked.
"Oh I think you know very well who I am!" the voice responded.
"Enough games," Ansem yelled. "Show yourself!"
"Very well," the voice said with an insincere laugh.
A man stepped out from the shadows, one who could not have possibly existed and yet here he was.
"Xemnas!" Mickey yelled gritting his teeth in preparation for the fight that was sure to take place.
"Xemnas?" Ansem said, a river of emotion flowing through his veins. He was silent for a while but then spoke again. "You are the one who stole my name and for that you will pay! I have been angry at the wrong man for far too long. Only with your death can my lust for revenge finally end!"
"We'll see about that!" Xemnas said as he leapt into the air and spun back down faster then Mickey could see and as he came back to the ground he attacked both Mickey and Ansem.
Mickey fell to the ground but unlike Ansem he was not paying any attention to the fight. Instead he was staring in horror at the monstrous mountain of darkness which was rising up into the air. A small speck of light was flying extremely fast, and Mickey could see that the speck of light was fighting the dark mountain.
Then he realised what was happening and cried with joy, "Sora!"
A/N: Hope you enjoyed reading this chapter. The review limit that I mentioned previously is 10 for this chapter. Once again I apologise to those reviewers who constantly review but like I said before I would like to have a few more reviews.