Despite what I said about not writing the third chapter until I returned to Mexico, here I am with chapter 3 of Rebirth.
'Why?' You may be wondering; it's because I already have 3 reviews for my filler story "Heartless Evolution", why this story which is my proud, and the one I think more of, not to say the longest, has three as well. This fact made me kind of sad. And this sadness made me write this chapter by compressing my time...or something...
Be warned, in this chapter a character dies. Not a member of the Organization XIII, that´s as much as I will say.
Anyway, let's get to the Reviews Answers question!
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Now unto the disclaimers
Disclaimers: I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to Square-Enix and/or Disney.
And finally, the story...
Rebirth Again Chapter 3: Way to Oblivion
By The guy who never was
"Radiant Garden...why Radiant Garden...sounds familiar!" Demyx looked at Zexion as if he had the answers. He did, of course.
"Ansem's native world" Zexion said lazily. He was leaning at a wall with his eyes closed and his arms crossed. He had been waiting for Demyx to finally ask about Radiant Garden.
"Oh yeah! The world where that old geezer and the six of you did some experimenting stuff!" Demyx remembered at last. "But I was sure this was the location of Hollow Bastion..."
To Zexion, it seemed Demyx had problems memorizing. If Radiant Garden sounded familiar, it's because the Superior explained new members the story of the heartless and the nobodies which began in Radiant Garden. If he was sure that was the location of Hollow Bastion, that's because they were the same place, as Xenmas explained at least 3 times. Demyx needed to pay more attention at the meetings...
"You truly are hopeless," Demyx was about to say something when he was interrupted.
"Wow, what were the chances of meeting you here?" The shadow that stood over the wall Zexion was leaning jumped down to greet Demyx " It's been awhile, huh!" The young girl's face shined with a smile Zexion could only be compared to that of Demyx.
"You? Why are you here in Radiant Garden?" Demyx was still oblivious.
"Well, you see, thanks to a good friend, everyone remembered that this town's true name was Radiant Garden."
"You mean-"
"Yup."
"A...friend of yours?" Zexion inquired.
"Kind of..." The young ninja anwered."You see-" Demyx quickly covered her mouth so that she could not talk. Zexion raised an eyebrow.
"It's nothing," Demyx told Zexion the moment he saw the eyebrow rise. "Not a word," He then told the girl, who seemed somewhat confused, not even noticing Zexion could hear him.
"Nevermind" Zexion said after a few seconds. Demyx lifted his hand off her.
"Anyway, the name is Yufffie" Yuffie shouted, as if she wanted everyone to know that.
"I see..." Zexion said uninterested "Demyx, we have to decide wether or not we're returning with the Organization"
"The organization? You mean Organization XIII?" Demyx started to sweat nervously. It took him a while to answer.
"Umm... kind of..." Was what Demyx managed to speak accompained by a nervous laugh.
"Demyx, I can't believe you're a baddie! Demyx laughed even more nervously. "I thought that Sora had destroyed all of you!"
"That's sort of a long story..." Demyx sputtered.
Zexion moved from the wall, as Yuffie took out her massive shuriken. The battled started.
Yuffie threw her shuriken, but Demyx ducked and Zexion disappeaed. He then materialized behind Yuffie. Yuffie moved out swiftly--though it didn't seem as if Zexion was planning an attack--but she got trapped in a bubble of water.-
"Gotcha!" Demyx said triumphantly.
"Not so fast!" Yufffie pulled out a small circular object from her pocket and threw it. A purple haze spreaded around.
"A smoke bomb." Zexion murmured.
When the smoke cleared, Zexion and Demyx spotted the ninja escaping. She jumped from structure to structure as fast as she could. Demyx made water carry him, while Zexion just teleported. The battle then continued over the roofs of the houses.
Yuffie did her best aiming her shuriken, but she was kept from getting a hit by water clones. On the other hand, Demyx sent a few water forms to attack, but either he was holding back, or Yuffie had too much experience on dodging. Maybe both. Zexion just stood there.
Suddenly, Yuffie felt weird. When she tried to move her arm, her head moved. When she tried to move her ankle, her finger moved, and so on.
"Another good work, huh?" Demyx said. Zexion ignored him. "Anything to say?" Demyx asked, trying to sound cool.
"Yep. What took you so long," The two nobodies turned around to see a man with a scar on his face. He was accompained by a blonde man, a bearded magician, and a girl dressed mostly in pink. "Squall?"
"My name is Leon."
Sora hurried to catch up with Riku and the king. Riku was fighting Axel at the top of Destiny Islands, smoething easy to see from the fireworks that came from there; the king was battling Larxene on the other beach. Sora had to choose one to help.
"Riku's no breeze," He said, and rushed to help the king.
Larxene was keeping up with the king but barely. When Sora arrived, she was forced to seek out for Axel.
"This is getting a bit out of hand..."Axel mocked as he and Larxene got surrounded by the keyblade wielders.
"I knew you neophytes would be defeated,"
The storm broke out in rage.
"Vexen!" Axel, Larxene, and Sora said at the same time. Riku seemed annoyed. The blonde nobody was standing over a pillar of ice.
"Hmpt. Riku, I see you have given up with the power of darkness. What a waste..." Vexen smiled in a sinister way.
"What do you want here?" Mickey was asking for the obvious.
"Why, I am here because they have failed!" Vexen pointed them with his finger. He then gave a full look to the islands."...And because two of them are not even here."
"Bring it on!" Sora was confident in his power.
Vexen laughed quietly, and then he snapped his fingers, and smiled. The pillar under him collapsed, and he began to fall a fall of many meters.
"Vexen!"
"Vexen-sama, for you." Vexen reappeared, this time standing over a towering white creature, as tall as the Island´s main structure.
"This seems like a good time to try my new experiment" He and Sora were now holding a direct eye contact."Roxas, you may remember this creature"
A name flew to Sora's mind "Twilight Thorn."
"Not quite. Twilight Thorn..." Vexen smile widened, even more confidently "...Omega"
The gigantic creature bashed the Island's main structure to pieces. Everyone fell several meters. Except for Sora. Twilight Thorn Omega grabbed him and crushed him. Sora was writhing in pain. Riku climbed a rock, and then leapt to attack the creature. The creature however, deformed and Riku ended up striking the air. The deformation made Vexen fall, of course, but he merely constructed an ice path to descend calmly. Twilight Thorn Omega gave the now unconsicious boy to Vexen.
"Stop rigth there" Mickey tried to stop him. Riku soon followed.
"Take care of them." Hundreds of nobodies came out from Twilight Thorn Omega, each from of part of its body--though it didn´t seem to affect its mass--and they blocked Riku and Mickey. Even Twilight Thorn Omega kept them from reaching Vexen."This time we are victorious." Vexen opened a portal.
A ball came out of nowhere and ended up on his face. Vexen dropped Sora.
"Not so fast, ya!" Vexen turned to see who had dared to defy him. A young man with a mix of orange and red hair smiled widely. Vexen shot an icycle from his shield. The icycle flew quickly to the young man, aiming for his head.
"Watch out Wakka!" A blonde boy parried the attack with his sword.
Sora slowly regained strength. He wasn't able to move...until he saw them.
"Wakka! Tidus! No way!" Sora exploded.
"Yup. You see, when the Islands were destroyed, I went to another world, ya. And then, I said that I would look for this guy here. He's always getting into some trouble or another, ya!" He wrapped Tidus around his left arm and smiled.
"I was fine on my own." Tidus said, embarrassed.
"Hey guys!" A girl sounded in the distance.
"Selphie!" And they there were, reunited again after almost two long years.
A thunder raged.
"I apologize for breaking your moment, but I am in a rush." Vexen made his weapon materialize.
"Let's go guys." Everyone nodded. There was a flash, and Sora was trapped in the air.
The creature lifted his claw, ready to attack. Riku made his appearance and stroke the creature in the head. The head moved back, but then it returned to it's normal position, hitting Riku. Before he could reach the ground, his arm was frozen.
"Damn." He tried to to destroy the ice that impriosoned his right arm. More nobodies came to wreak havoc, and they massed behind Riku. But they didn't get a chance to attack.
"We'll handle this punks, ya!" A ball ricocheted in 3 nobodies, two falling backwards and dissappearing, and the last one had the ball tresspass him, making a circle-shaped void in his stomach.
"Of course we will! No prob!" A shining sword sliced through a nobody, and its head fell backwards. Then Tidus pierced the face of two nobodies standing one behind the other, and lifted them in the air. Tidus then pulled his sword and cut them in two.
"You can go with the mouse," A whip constricted a nobody. The nobody moved around erratically before slowly losing its strength and fading away.
"Riku, you've got to save Sora! A keyblade stroke 7 nobodies one after the other, finished off right away by a thunder spell.
The king freed Riku's arm. Then Riku went to help Sora, but was blocked.
"Where are you going," Vexen told him.
"Sora will have to pull it off alone." Riku murmured. He then gave a confident look on Vexen. "I have been waiting for a chance to repay you for a long, long time."
"Your copy failed."
"Then try the real deal!" An ice storm collided with twilight.
Twilight Thorn Omega defied the gravity to evade the upcoming attacks.
"Thundaga!" The creature blocked the thunder. "Blizzaga!" The creature flew over the ice. "Firaga!" The creature took the hit, but didn't move.
"Die already!' Sora dashed to his giant opponent in an attempt to make physical damage. It took grip on him and threw him to the air. Then it pressed Sora under with its hands.
"Aaaagh" The young keyblader moved his keyblade for an attempt to escape "Reflega!" The hands of the giant were forced apart, deforming and damaging it, and the keyblader fell to the ground. He thought he was saved. He wasn't.
He lifted his face. and saw the creature holding a massive ball of dark energy. He had but one chance.
"Wisdom form!" The King's keyblade turned weaker, but the transformation was successful.
"What?" Sora said, staring at his keyblade that had transformed into Oblivion"I thought that I kept Sleeping Lion when I was in Wisdom Form..."
"I'll explain later!" The voice sounded from afar. Sora agreed, and proceeded to shoot blasts from his keyblade. The shots were doing minor damage.
"No way!" Sora saw all his blasts fail. The dark energy ball grew and grew, to the point of creating a vacuum effect and absorbing nearby things.
Sora distanced himself, dodging the nobodies that came towards him. Then an idea stroke him "How about this?" He directed his attacks to the dark ball, which started to lose it's perfect shaping. It was working.
Twilight Thorn Omega reacted, as thunders came out from the nobody to annhilate Sora, more nobodies emerged from his skin, and Twilight Thorn Omega's body sligthly changed to make two more arms appear.
"Gulp." Sora prepared for the wave of attacks. He dodged skillfully most of the enemies and thunders, occassionally using spells to get out of tight situations.
Two shadowy figures--one almost human-- watched closely.
"He'll awaken his power soon."
Riku dodged another blow. Vexen was wondering where Larxene and Axel were.
"Neophytes..." He murmured with disgust.
"fffffwwwzzz" an ear piercing sound sounded, and everyone immediately searched the source of it. The dark ball compressed before making an explosion.
"Sora!" Riku hung to a rock, to withstand the furious winds caused from the explosion. Vexen tried to hold still, but the winds slowly moved him back. Mickey, Selphie, Tidus and Wakka were simply blown away. Same for the nobodies. There was no trace of the brown-haired boy.
The dust and sand cleared up, and Riku managed to see Sora. Sora was lying on the sand with his eyes closed.
"Sora..." Sora's keyblade became normal. Then he changed to normal form. Riku turned to Vexen with enraged eyes. His keyblade was different. It now was a combination of Oblivion, Way to Dawn, and the Soul Eater.
"He has awaken."
Riku charged to Vexen, who tried to defend but it was too late. It happened so fast none saw it. Vexen tried to catch his breath as he examined the thirteen deep cuts he now had.
"We'll... meet... again..." Vexen opened a portal to flee. Riku attempted the critical blow; however The Chilly Academic was already gone.
Everyone gathered around Sora. Many of them seemed about to cry.
"Sora, wake up," said the silver-haired keyblader. No response.
"Very funny Sora," Riku closed to his friend. Sora was not breathing.
"Come on, I know you´re not dead" Riku grabbed him by his shirt, and noticed he was cold.
"Sora!" Riku lifted the corpse and shakd it violently back and forth. All of the eyes watching the scene escaped from the painful reality.
"Sora!"
"Sora!"
"SORA!"
Sora.
"Where am I?"
Dead.
"I can´t die yet!"
Why?
"Because I´m a keyblade wielder, of course!"
So?
"I have to fight!"
Why?
"...What do you mean why?"
What do you fight for?
"I... don´t know..."
Then why do you fight?
"I don´t know."
What is your purpose?
"I don´t know! Stop asking me!"
So you have killed many for no reason or purpose.
"I had to! And besides, they were monsters!
And so, you killed them.
"They could not feel!"
Are you sure?
"..."
You have no reasons or purposes to live for. Then why? Why do you want to live?
"...To find them."
"Maybe I am a hopeless kid, by far too ignorant to be keyblader. I might not have any reasons or purposes in life, but I want to find them."
To live for finding a reason to live...
"Yeah, I want to live on until I can find a purpose, and then stay true to it. And until then, I will protect who I can."
A strong will to live, even when lacking a reason to... you do not belong here. But remember this:
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"Aww my head..." Riku smacked Sora.
"Idiot" Everyone was struck with a mix of relief and misbelieve.
"Say Riku, is that a tear in your eye?"
"Shut up, moron." Sora laughed a little bit.
"But what was that dream now..."
Sora gazed at all the destruction. Destiny Islands were but a graveyard now."What am I going to tell Kairi?"
"Sora, you actually died back there!"
"Sora, you have been reborn, ya!
"Nope. Not reborn. Rebirth."
"Right Sora, "rebirth" alrigth." Riku told him sarcastically.
'You fought well Sora. Now you should get some sleep." The king told Sora.
"I´m fi-" The boy finally slept from the fatigue.
Riku gave a smirk. He looked at his new weapon. "Way to Oblivion."
"Huh?" The king said dumbfounded.
"That's its name."
"So Vexen failed in the end...the outcome of this shall prove interesting..."
The two shadows faded away.
Without a reason to live, your life will bring nothing more than pain to you and the ones around you, for living without a reason, is dying.
End of Chapter 3
I know I know, I didn´t really kill a character. Not permanently, anyway. Unless you count Twilight Thorn Omega. But it was a good scene, or so I think. Maybe a bit too "Evangelion". It added a little depth, at least. At last an edit that actually is worth reading!
About Tidus and Wakka; We only saw Selphie in the cutscene, and we only saw Tidus at Twilight Town. Now, I know the title of the chapter could be better but deal with it!
Kind of had Riku-Sora but only kind of.
Reviews are appreciated, welcomed, and will be answered.
Oh! And about the Yuffie-Demyx thing, this should explain: http/ www. fanfiction. Net / s / 2914838 / 1 / (Without the spaces)
Preview of next chapter:
Zexion and Demyx deal with the Committee, but they meet the worst person possible. Shadows, darkness, and despair await them. Meanwhile, Sora meets with old friends, and new challenges.