NYMPHETAMINE
SoraSakura: Sora does get to see Zexion and the rest of the gang (minus Kadaj and Yazoo) one last time, but not for long. That's all I can say, because anyone else who reads this is going to have the chapter spoiled.
ArkofPathos: XD If I didn't update today, I'd feel guilty because when I got home from school there was 4 reviews sitting in my inbox...along with an email dated at "December 22 2006."
AlphaCentauri009: Thanks! When I was writing this, I didn't know what would happen to Sora. But, since is the last chapter of Nymphetamine, what happens to Sephiroth, Sora, Riku, Roxas and Zexion will be revealed.
The Chaotic Ones: Everyone's been saying that they want to know what happens next. Guess it was a bigger cliffhanger than I thought! The last chapter was somewhat short because I wanted to add more excitement to the ending.
dark sorceress of egypt: XD Thanks for correcting me! I was always taught that the pentagram is Satan's symbol, so that's what I used. Should I ever go through if I get a spell checker/grammar checker-thing, that's probably one of the things that I'll change. But since I don't, and probably won't, ever have a spell checker, how you read this fanfic is how it'll stay.
Disclaimer: The phrase, "You know our sacred dream won't fail the sanctuary tender and so frail. The sacrament of love, the sacrament of warmth, is true. The sacrament is you," is from the song "The Sacrament" from the band H.I.M. I do not own the song or the band. The German sentences, ""Seid bereit für den Coup des Jahrhunderts. Seid bereit für den teuflichsten Pakt. Ich plan' es seit Jahren Jetzt gibt's Fraß Trotz allen Gefahren So ein Spaß Gerissen verbissen So viel Fraß Ganz ohne Gewissen So ein Spaß Als König gebohren zum Herrscher erkoren Erglänz' ich in all meiner Pracht," are from the German version of "The Lion King." I do not own "The Lion King" in any language. I do not own Riku, Sora, Roxas, Axel, Demyx or Zexion from Kingdom Hearts. I do not own Sephiroth, Cloud, Aerith, Kadaj, Yazoo, or Loz from Final Fantasy VII. I do not own Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy VIII.
Warnings (Entire Story): Blood drinking, yaoi, implied sex, implied yaoi, implied incest (Kadaj/Yazoo), implied nudity (humor purposes), death, blood
Pairings (Entire Story): RikuxSora, CloudxSquall(Leon), AxelxDemyx, implied KadajxYazoo
Summary: Sora is your normal everyday kid. Riku is the only true goth at school. Force them into a debate about what is right and is wrong, and loves blossoms. But there's always someone that wants to destroy love...
Chapter 6: Black Rose of Death
Sora kept his head low, but not in shame. He glared at the crowd that had gathered to watch his execution. "Are you ready for obliteration?" asked Sephiroth, pacing around the teenager. Sora only glared in response.
"Not from my watch!" Sora heard a person shout. It took a second to place the voice...
"Riku? Kadaj and Yazoo were supposed to have taken care of you..." Sephiroth said.
"Kadaj and Yazoo are dead."
"...How did you obtain that much power?"
"Sephiroth, it is something that you'll never be able to understand. You don't understand the concept of friendship. You only understand dictatorship."
"Axel and Demyx are dead because of you!" Roxas shouted, fists tightening.
"How do you know that they're not alive and wandering?"
"Because," Zexion started. "They would have come to tell us that you're plotting something personally. They obviously can't do that if they're dead."
Sephiroth summoned the Masamune from its subspace. "Is that a challenge?" Sephiroth asked, head cocking to the side.
Riku reached down and grabbed a metal pole, half the length of the five-foot-three-inch Masamune. "Is that all you got?" Sephiroth laughed.
"Well, at least I'm not a total sap like you," Riku said, readying for battle.
Sephiroth's eyes narrowed as he charged at Riku. Roxas and Zexion, who had been standing behind Riku, stepped to the side. Luckily for them, Sephiroth's target seemed to be Riku.
Riku managed to block the Masamune from striking his body, miraculously. The sharp sounds of metal colliding seemed to drown out all other sounds.
"It's not working!" Roxas said, dropping the rock he had been using to try and open the chains.
"Wait," Zexion said, pulling out a pocket knife. "Maybe this'll work."
Sephiroth seemed to have disappeared into thin air. Riku looked up, spotting Sephiroth's silhouette. He brought the bar above his head beofre hearing it shatter at the rough contact between it and the Masamune. The bar failed to stop the Masamune's motion, Riku noted, as the blade cut open his shoulder.
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Sora shifted his feet, which were now free. "Just keep still," Zexion warned. Sora closed his eyes shut tightly as the knife was plowed into the lock to the handcuff that bound his hand.
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Sephiroth charged once again, not giving Riku a chance to get on the offensive. Riku managed to block the Masamune's blow and stabbed Sephiroth in the stomache before he had a chance to react. Sephiroth put a hand below his ribcage, where Riku had stabbed him, frowning as blood poured out from between his fingers.
"Now...you will pay," Sephiroth said, eyes seeming to glow in the night. Riku adopted a defensive stance and gulped. He knew what Sephiroth was going to do. He saw it with his own eyes. And if he was lucky, he'd come out alive.
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"Done," Zexion announced, the second of Sora's hands slipping out of the handcuff. Sora smiled, "Thanks Zexion." Zexion nodded in return, but his attention was turned to the battle where Sephiroth was fighting Riku. Sora's eyes went wide as he saw the scene unfold before him.
Riku's defensive stance wasn't enough. His reflexes weren't fast enough. Even his instincts couldn't tell him what to do. Everything seemed to slow down before him; memories flashed through his head - his parent's funeral, joining Unstable, meeting Sora, their first kiss, their first session of love making, how Sora ran from him on that fateful night and how that same teenager stood in front of him now.
Riku let out an agonized scream as the Masamune tore into his body, the skin being cut to shreds. Blood stained the pavement crimson; screams tore through the night air. Riku felt his body beginning to shut down slowly. He fell down to his knees, staring in horror at the man above him.
"You are very lucky to survive that," Sephiroth said, amusement flickering in his eyes, "But not lucky enough."
Zexion didn't know what he was doing as he jumped in front of Riku just in time to protect him from Sephiroth's final blow. Everyone's breath seemed to hang in their throats as they saw the emo-haired teen fall motionless to the ground.
"Zexion! NO!" Roxas shouted, running over to Zexion's side.
As Roxas was checking for a pulse, which seemed to be absent, Sephiroth gracefully snook up behind him.
"Roxas!" Riku yelled, reaching a hand out, as if he could pull Roxas back. Sora closed his eyes as the sword pierced through Roxas' back.
"As for you," Sephiroth said, turning his attention back to Riku. Riku fell limp to the ground, eyes rolling back into his skull. "...I suppose I do not need to do anything at all."
He turned his attention to Sora. "It is time that you are executed," Sephiroth glared at Sora. Sora glared right back, blue tongues of flames burning brightly in his deep blue eyes.
"You...killed everyone I cared for," Sora said, glaring at Sephiroth. "I think...you should be the one that dies."
Sephiroth laughed evilly before smiling a smile colder than the coldest winter. "Maybe so. But I am the leader of Unstable, which you are part of."
The Masamune slashed through the air, its target, Sora. Sora ducked, the Masamune lodging itself into the ground. Sephiroth's eyes widened in fear - he didn't know Sora could move that fast. Sora tackled Sephiroth, landing on top. Quickly jumping back up, he grabbed the Masamune's handle. He pulled and it slid out of the ground easier than he expected. Sephiroth threw up his arms in front of his chest in a desperate attempt to protect himself, but it was futile. Sora did what Sephiroth did to Roxas. Sephiroth made no noise as his own sword slide into his chest, damaging some of the most vital organs.
Sephiroth limply slid to the ground as Sora backed up before falling down, energy drained. Sora closed his eyes, breath coming in heavy gasps. A voice startled him, making him almost jump out of his skin. "Sora..."
Sora's eyes snapped open as Riku staggered toward him. He ran to the silver haired teen just in time to catch him before he fell.
"I never hated you Sora..." Riku said, voice hoarse. He knew death was coming to visit soon. "Sephiroth..was trying...to do this..."
Tears streaked down Sora's face.
"Listen to me...I love you, and I will even if my soul goes into oblivion." Riku sealed the promise with a kiss. "One more thing..."
Riku coughed before pulling a black rose out of his pocket. "Take this...a present..."
Sora gently took the flower from Riku's grasp, looking at it in admiration. It was the most beautiful rose he had ever seen. "Riku..."
Riku opened one eye, which seemed to have closed as death approached. "Yeah?"
"I love you too."
Riku smiled before going limp in Sora's arms. Sora set down Riku on the cold pavement, a small smile on his lips.
Sora stood up, walking over to where the Masamune was. He picked it up, still holding the black rose in one hand. Raising the Masamune so its point was over his heart, he stabbed himself in the said organ.
At the last second, Cloud and Leon ran towards Sora, pushing their way through the crowd. Cloud got there just as the Masamune's tip touched the wall of Sora's heart. "Sora! No!" Cloud shouted, trying to get closer. Squall held Cloud back, trying to peel his eyes from the sight.
Sora's body, now void of its soul, fell as it gave no more resistance to gravity. Sora landed with his head on Riku's chest, face towards the full moon that had embodied itself in the sky.
A black rose lay over his heart.
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So there you have it. Everyone in Unstable dies, so basically, out of the main characters, only Squall and Cloud are alive.
If you're wondering about the last line, "A black rose lay over his heart,", let me explain. A black rose is a symbol of death. Riku knew he was going to die, but he wanted to give Sora a gift so that Sora would know that Riku was truly sorry. Instead, as Riku's dieing, he hands him the rose. It also foreshadows Sora's death that follows soon after. And if you're wondering why Sora was smiling after Riku he died, it was because Sora was certain that Riku loved him, and he loved Riku back just as much. So in order to be with Riku, he commited suicide.
And lastly, there will be a sequel to this. It will be called "Swansong for a Raven", and it will mostly deal with Cloud and Squall's relationship, 5 years after Sora's death. I haven't started writing it, but everything is planned out. I won't spoil too much, but I will give a little summary:
"Five years after Sora's death in Valentino, Cloud is still coping with the pain. He finds himself slipping every day. Squall has seemingly disappeared from the planet. Sephiroth still seems to have control over the gothic and Satanist community, even after his death. Unfortunately, some goths won't forget that it was Sora who killed their leader. Led by a man of even greater strength than Sephiroth, Cloud realizes that maybe life is better with people you can trust."
As a side note to that, Swansong for a Raven will be rated M. It most likely won't be much worse than this, but Swansong for a Raven will have a much darker side.