Final Fantasy XV - Kingdom Hearts
Part 6
Summary: Two warriors of Light, the Chosen King and Keyblade Master, face an unseen Darkness
Never had Sora would have so recklessly leap down an elevator shaft to save his friend, and if Aqua and Ignis hadn't stopped him he darn well would've dived down. Yet Ignis wisely warned him he'd very likely would break every bone in his body or worse.
'B-But what about Kairi and Prompto!?', he said, his voice was practically dripping with worry.
'I have no doubt they would have gotten out of the elevator the moment it stopped, keep in mind we saw it stop below our level', Ignis reminded. 'Instead of vain attempts like jumping down the shaft, perhaps we could explore our level and see if we can reach them by foot'.
Sora opened his mouth to argue, but Aqua nodded in agreement. 'He's right, better safe than sorry', she agreed. Sora slumped, but reluctantly agreed, and followed them.
Biting his inner cheek, he desperately tried to not imagine what sort of dangers Kairi was in, who knew what was lurking down here? He had faith in Prompto absolutely, but the idea of them fighting a threatening heartless on their own did anything but alleviate his worries. Kairi was still fresh out of training from what Aqua told him, and Gladiolus said once during a conversation Prompto was the less experienced among the four, so that meant two novices were on their own.
If they were lucky they'd find a way back to them as soon as possible.
Ahead of the boy, Aqua and Ignis were keeping their eyes ahead of them while the latter used his flashlight to illuminate their way. How Sora and Aqua were able to see their way through this darkness without a source of light of their own was impressive. They came to a narrow bridge with a ruined minecart rail upon it, broken in several places.
Aqua stepped forward first, keyblade out and slowly walked across the bridge. Once she was in the middle, the master spun around and aimed her keyblade above the two other members of her small party and fired a ball of fire. Her magical attack exploded upon impact, hitting a slithering neo shadow and destroyed it. She put too much magic into the in her spell however and caused some of the ceiling breaking apart.
'Go!', Ignis ordered, pushing Sora ahead.
Together the trio ran across the bridge as the entire ceiling on their side collapsed, large boulders crashed down on the ground. Ignis and Sora leaped as the bridge began to collapse beneath their feet, the former reaching it with Sora just barely.
They turned to see the bridge falling into the darkness below them, their way back blocked by the collapsed rocks even if they could make that jump.
Aqua sighed, dismissing her keyblade and placing a hand on her hip. 'Well, now we can't go back', she said.
'Not that it would've mattered', Ignis hummed. 'Without the elevator, we're still stuck below ground'.
'Hey, guys?', Sora called out. They two older members turned to him pointing to two roads that split before them. They joined his side and Ignis gave the two passages a narrowed look. There were no signs to inform them which path would lead, nor were there any maps to help them guide them on their way. The spectacled man already knew what their next course of action was going to be.
'Guess we're splitting up?', Sora said, looking at Aqua.
The blue-haired woman looked at him with a nod. 'Looks like it. I wish we didn't have to, but we'll cover more ground faster and likely bump into the others sooner', she agreed.
Ignis and Sora both nodded in agreement, but before Aqua could decide who was going where, Sora started to walk off down the pathway on the left. 'Sora!', Aqua said. He turned to Aqua with a cheerful smile. 'We haven't decided who was going alone…', she started, but Sora walked backward with his hands behind his head. 'Don't worry about me, I've been separated from Donald and Goofy before, I'll be fine!'.
With that Sora spun around and walked down the pathway, leaving Aqua and Ignis behind. Reluctantly the master sighed and journeyed down their road to wherever they may lead. Together they kept their eyes and ears on full alert for anything, be they heartless or daemons alike, and with some cheek from Ignis about her restraining her magic lest she bring down the entire mine shaft on them.
She rolled her eyes in response.
They came to an open area that appeared to be more of a construction site than a mine. Several walls were built more than natural with many large machinery scattered all around the place, cranes, bulldozers and some large heavy tools laying on the ground. Aqua looked at one large drill that had looked to have been torn apart by a wild animal, or rather a daemon. More rail tracks were scattered all around them, leading to several paths.
'More roads to explore…', Aqua said, folding her arms and looking around. 'And more chances of getting lost…'. 'Or perhaps if we follow this map here', Ignis called out, placing a map upon a dusty crate. Aqua joined his side as he studied the map, peering into it and memorizing the routes, humming as he adjusted his glasses. 'It seems all these paths connect and lead back here, which means this must have been where they started to mine', he explained.
'What about the levels? Do they have a way to this place too?', Aqua asked.
Ignis shook his head. 'Afraid not. The elevator was the only way to traverse the levels easily, they must have never gotten to developing alternative accesses to this spot'. He then traced one pathway and tapped it. 'Here, according to the map they've reported to finding a door they've been unable to open'. Aqua looked to see several notes written up along with one path, several of them explaining all attempts of opening the door had failed.
'And that's where the royal arm is supposed to be?', Aqua inquired.
'Indeed. And based on these notes the magic that was keeping the door secured was still in effect', Ignis elaborated. 'Which means even if we find it, we'll be waiting for the others until Noctis gets there'. 'Better than wandering around and accidentally stepping into an ambush', Aqua argued. 'Fair point'.
The advisor rolled up the map and placed it in his pocket, leading the two down the pathway leading to the royal arm. The tunnel was narrow and more cramped than the others, several lumps of stone stuck from the ceiling and the ground, making them duck or bump their heads, tripping a few times. They had used this tunnel very rarely based on how little went into making this tunnel less of a hassle to drag equipment through.
'Might I ask you a question, Aqua?', Ignis spoke up, clearing the silence.
'What is it?', Aqua replied, ducking under a large rock.
'What is your relationship with Sora and Kairi?'.
She gave him a strange look, yet his face didn't show any distrust or anything malicious, just genuine interest. 'What do you mean?', she asked. 'I've noticed that the two of them share similarities, but in comparison to yourself, you're not from the same place they came from'. Aqua's strange look shifted to genuine surprise that she stood out more than she had expected, and more so impressed Ignis was able to pick that up.
Ignis's pace slowed in tow with Aqua's walking speed, his green eyes showing interest and the sharpness reminded her of her former master, always able to see through the wall of illusions she dawned on to keep their identities secret. 'I'm Kairi's master, and a friend of Sora's, that's all', she said simply. 'I am aware of this, but how did you meet them?', he questioned. A darkness shadowed her eyes at that question, and Aqua looked away from him.
She had met them when they were children, but her most recent reunion with Sora…was sadly her most prominent memory. 'I…I've known them since they were kids…but only recently met up with them again to mentor Kairi', she explained.
'And why not Sora?', Ignis questioned.
'He was already an exceptional keyblade wielder, he didn't need any lessons from me'.
It still amazes Aqua just how far Sora had come on his own, no mentor or master to teach him to wield such a powerful weapon. She remembers her days of grueling training with her friends, the constant desire to strive for perfection, excelling at all tasks and getting a step closer to becoming a master herself. Yet here comes a young man with no mentor and he was already a future master in the making.
If her fight with him had taught her anything…
'What about you? How did you become Noctis' advisor?', questioned the master, hoping to divert any more questions about herself. Ignis nodded and said: 'It was decided when I was six years old, believe it or not'. A lock of shock crossed Aqua's beautiful features, eyes widened. 'Six-years-old? That's…crazy', she said.
Ignis smiled in response, partially agreeing with her now that he said it aloud. 'Back then it was, but truly it wasn't so bad. I grew up with Noct, practically almost raised him in some sense'. 'I spent so much of my youth studying and learning while looking after him for his majesty'.
'That explains why you're so close, you're like brothers', Aqua mused. Ignis chuckled lightly. 'Indeed, and I wouldn't change a thing…well…if I could change one thing about Noct…it would be his eating habits', he sighed. 'Let me guess: he hates vegetables?', she teased. Ignis gave her a surprised look, her smile was friendly and familiar.
'Believe it or not, but I grew up with two friends who…are brothers to me', she explained. 'But my little brother detested vegetables, so much so he once stuck his carrots underneath his chair by crushing them'.
Ignis chuckled at this as she told the story. 'We tried to convince him to eat more but he refused, he was so fussy sometimes. So one time, I managed to sneak in some carrots into his dinner by mixing it with some meat and potatoes, and he was none the wiser'.
'Clever idea. I once snuck in some vegetables in his soup, and thankfully he was too tired to even notice', Ignis revealed. Aqua giggled. 'Shame we had to resort to sneaking and trickery to ensure our siblings have some healthy greens in them', she mused softly.
'What about you? Do you have a particular food you're not overly fond of?', he asked, enjoying the conversation. '…Brussel sprouts…revolting things…', she admitted, her face turning into the named food's color. 'Truly? I find them delightful', Ignis argued. 'Ugh…I'm just thinking about them and I feel sick already…'.
'Ah well, no one is perfect', Ignis hummed with a teasing smirk.
After exiting the bumpy cavern, the two came to an open area that looked more like a proper construction site. One large crane with the driver's seat being torn asunder by daemons with half the crane itself was missing, the walls were more smoother and wall like that the bumpy and curved walls of the caverns. Railways in much better condition than they had seen so far, the mine carts having been filled to the brim with materials and stone.
Ahead of them was a pit with one a thin blanket of sunlight upon the walls, but no more paths or passages to traverse. Ignis pulled the map out from his pocket and opened it up to check. 'According to this, the door they found should be around here', he said, looking around for the door itself. Aqua turned to the right to see a flight of metal stairs constructed leading to the second floor of the area, but even from down here she couldn't see a door.
'I suppose we could have a look around since we won't be able to unlock the door without Noct', Ignis said, folding up the map again and putting it back into his pocket. Aqua held back the smug look that wanted to make itself known with the keyblade. Then no sooner did they walk down into the clearing, Aqua quickly summoned her keyblade. Slowly neo-shadows rose up from the ground, surrounding the master and advisor, the latter summoning his daggers instantly.
'Well, we found someone…', Ignis grunted, eyeing the horde of the dark creatures.
'And not the ones we're looking for', Aqua responded.
A neo shadow leaped at the master and received a clean cut from the keyblade, cutting it in half. During her swinging motion, she spun and aimed the keyblade at the group, spaying a torrent of ice that caught several of them in a barrage of very sharp icicles. They pierced and stabbed into the beings of the dark, killing three of them.
Ignis ducked and weaved from the vicious claws of the shadows, cutting them once he gets the openings he needed to stab, cut or hack away the creatures. After his previous battles with them, the dagger wielder had adapted to their quicker and ferocious attack patterns.
One shadow spun towards him, Ignis tossed one dagger at another neo shadow on his left, summoning his spear. He pushed his glasses upwards and crouched, before suddenly leaping into the air inhumanly high above the ground. But this was timed because as soon as the neo was below him, he returned to the ground, the spear crushing and piercing the monster, leaving a massive crack in the floor.
The advisor leaped backward in a flip to avoid the claws of another one, attempting to avenge its fallen brethren. On his feet, he chucked his daggers at the heartless, two hitting it square one and killing it. Re-summoning them in hand, he kicked one aside and plunged the dagger into another's back.
Ignis looked to his partner as he slashed another heartless and rendered it's inky form to nothing. The keyblade master was cartwheeling away from any attacks with grace, and when she was on her feet, she'd spin the keyblade and strike down a heartless with one blow. It was an impressive sight for him to see, a woman with such a thin-looking form being nearly as powerful as Gladiolus yet twice the precision and even elegance.
The blue head spun around with a trail of icy mist from the tip of the keyblade, then she shot her armed hand upwards and cried: 'Blizzard!'. A crystal of ice formed an inch above the tip of the keyblade, and then she subdued the heartless by imprisoning the ones close to hear in blocks of ice, fallen to the ground. Twirling around in a perfect 360 spin, she placed glowing spheres around her just as more of the unfrozen heartless began to swarm her. Once they were in range, the spheres all detonated around them, creating a bright of magic that demolished the creatures.
Yet before Ignis could call her name in worry, she suddenly appeared on his left, no worse for wear. She gave him an assuring look, winking cheekily and turned back to the small number of shadows that remained.
A total of six remained, twitching in place as to Ignis it looked as if they were strongly reconsidering their next attack. If they were capable of processing thought anyway. Still, he wouldn't lower his guard, eyeing them as Aqua herself kept her stance at the ready for the next surprise. The shadows began to sink into the ground though, not in the same way they use to mimic murals but into puddles of darkness.
The multiple puddles slowly merged into one, slowly a large hand reached out and slammed into the ground before the two, making them leap back as the rest of the new heartless pulled itself out of the dark puddle. A large humanoid shaped heartless dragged itself out of the darkness, the only difference between it and the normal humans was it was almost larger than an Iron Golem. Large crimson mark shaped like a heart was clear on its chest, black and violet swirling mist around it, the arms were armored in violet and bronze with several nicks and scratches on them.
In the hands were two massive broadswords the were as wide as the Regalia, though there was a line-shaped gap within the steel, the hilt bronze with the handles dripping with black ooze from the daemons. The legs were armored with large spikes on the knee caps, a large shield with the heartless emblem strapped to its back, the helmet looked like it belonged to a forgotten era, two long horns on each side with what Ignis could only describe a dualhorn shaped carvings on the helm, possibly to reference the beast's brutal and ferocious nature.
'Our situation has just taken a turn for the much worse', Ignis lamented, eyeing the heartless. The Dual-Horned swung its right-hand buster blade downwards upon them, but Aqua quickly erected a barrier around the two of them. The blade slammed upon the crystal shield, which shook the very ground beneath them and forced Aqua to fall on one knee in pain, grunting. The barrier shattered as the Dual-Horned retracted its blade and swung the left sword at them in a sweeping motion. Quickly Ignis tackled Aqua to the ground, narrowly evading the large blade as it breezed above them.
Shaking her head, Aqua and Ignis got back to their feet and each jumped away from the swords. The master landed on a pillar above while Ignis remained on the same ground as the heartless, dodging its large swings and occasionally chucking his daggers at it. But the blades merely bounced off the monster's chest harmlessly, landing on the ground.
Aqua aimed her keyblade at the large swords as an idea crossed her mind. 'Magnega!', she cried. Spheres of red and blue appeared below the weapon, and with its power combined with the weight of object, the Dual-Horned's right arm was dragged down upon the magnet spell, the sword stuck. Seeing this, Ignis summoned his spear and tossed it at the opening the master had given him to strike the head. The spear lodged into the right eye of the helmet, but if it did any damage the heartless didn't show it.
The spell ended though and because of the Dual-Horned was trying to break free, it accidentally swung the blade with all its might upon Aqua. The master leaped away from it, the pillar below her was destroyed by the blade, turned from a pillar to nothing more than pebbles and dust. In the air, Aqua aimed her keyblade and fired a string of lighting at the monster, blasting its large form with electricity. The attack did nothing like Ignis' own if nothing else they were being a nuisance to it.
Landing on another pillar, Aqua barely time to react to another on-coming swing of the sword. She leaped over it with a flip, and once more fired a blast of lighting at the helmet. On the ground, Ignis summoned his daggers and dashed to the ankles of the Dual-Horned, hoping this would be the perfect cause of athlete's foot. The man began to hack away at the ankles, but its armor was too dense and thick for his blades, he was sure he was doing a better job dulling his own.
The heartless lifted the leg Ignis' was striking and before it could stomp him into a bloody paste, the man just rolled away in time. The sheer force of the stomp shook the ground and even caused some rocks to break away from above.
Aqua was forced to move to another pillar once more, but this time in the air the heartless, with a thrust of its massive sword, struck at her. She performed a front flip, just avoiding having her head cut off from the massive blade. Her feet found themselves on the monster's sword and she used it as a slide to gracefully slide down towards the heart. Aqua let out a cry as she held her keyblade with both hands and smashed her blade into the helm of the beast.
The strike was enough to break the helmet enough for it to all split apart, revealing the heartless' monstrous form. It reminded her of the Darkside heartless she fought before, except its eyes were glowing red with the head being a skull, black ink oozed from its maw. Aqua spun herself in the air to evade it's arm as it tried to smack her away. Landing back on the sandy ground, she turned to the heartless as it brought down the sword upon her attack.
Aqua cartwheeled away from the strike, all the while Ignis leaped into the air and threw his daggers at the heartless again, now without the helmet protecting it. The daggers found their marks, one piercing the cheekbone on the left, and another straight in the forehead. The monster recoiled back in quiet agony, a dull rumble of a roar boomed from its chest, staggering backward to the edge. Seeing this, Ignis called back his daggers and pulled from his pocket an ice-bomb. Imbuing his daggers with them, Ignis ran at the heartless.
He jumped at it, his feet touching the knees of the giant before he leaped away from it, giving him plenty of space and height for what he was about to do. He threw his daggers into the ground near enough the heartless, and then the ground below it turned into a thick layer of ice. The Dual-Horned began to slip and stagger in its spot, but because of the ice and its massive feet it couldn't maintain a stable stance.
'Aqua hit it with all you got!', he yelled, landing on his feet.
Summoning up all her magic, Aqua performed one of her most powerful spells, Lightbloom. She began to spin around gracefully in place as a swirl of faint white light surrounded her spinning form, beautiful spheres of light shined all around her. Aqua then aimed her keyblade at the Dual-Horned once she stopped in place, the spheres of light all charging forth at the heartless like rockets. Each hit of the spheres resulted in devastating explosives that took out chunks of its form and armor alike, until the final one which hit it directly in its chest.
The last explosion, combined with the icy floors was enough to send the heartless off the edge, allowing it to fall into the darkness below, never to be seen again.
Aqua felt the darkness radiating from the heartless disappear as slowly a crystal-shaped heart fluttered from below, and then gracefully ascend into the sunlight, disappearing.
With a breath of relief exhaled from the master, she dismissed her keyblade. Then she staggered a bit, holding her head with one hand. 'Are you alright?', Ignis asked, immediately checking her for any wounds. She shook her head, sheepishly smiling. 'I'm fine…whoa…just a little, dizzy', she laughed.
Ignis then chuckled as she stood up properly. 'I've noticed many of your abilities involving disorienting activities. How did you prevent yourself from vomiting?', he asked.
'Believe me, I've had plenty of years to practice', she replied.
'HEY!'.
The two turned to see on a higher level was Prompto and Kairi waving at them, both covered in dust, dirt and a bit of pebbles, but luckily beyond that, they were fine. Aqua beamed beautifully at them, waving back as Ignis smiled softly at the two. Quicker than a Chocobo on a caffeine binge, the two youngest members of the ever-growing party raced down the metal scaffoldings and joined back to the master and chef.
'You two ok?', Kairi asked, looking at the weary two.
'Just a heartless or two, nothing we couldn't handle together', Aqua assured. 'What about you two?'. She eyed the slight tear in Kairi's shoulder, defiantly from something sharp she deduced. 'Same with us, heartless but with a few daemons…I uh, I got poisoned from one of them…', Kairi revealed, scratching her cheek sheepishly.
Before Aqua could go into full mother-hen on the poor redhead, she waved her hands quickly. 'D-don't worry! Prompto gave me an antidote, I'm fine!'.
'There you all are!'.
All eyes fell to where Ignis and Aqua came from to see Noctis and his companions entering the area. Much like the others, they were covered in dust and pebbles, although Gladiolus looked more roughed up and Aqua could see some dried blood on his pecs and his jacket, though judging from the lack of a wound she guessed Donald healed him or they used a potion.
'Gwarsh, we were worried about the rest of ya. Is everybody ok?', the captain asked, looking at the messy party. A choir of "yes" and assurances were sounded in the mines, and luckily nobody was in critical condition. That is…until Noctis did a quick headcount.
'Wait…where's Sora?', he asked.
'We got separated from Kairi and Prompto thanks to the elevator, but during our search, we split up to cover another cavern. Sora went on alone', Ignis stated, though there was a trace of regret in his tone.
'WAK!? You let him go alone!?', Donald bellowed.
Before Aqua could defend themselves( Even though she felt it would be superfluous seeing as they all knew what the boy was capable of), a voice called them out. They all looked to another level of the cave near two large walls, a much roughed up Sora, grinning at them. 'Hey! There you guys are!', he said with a wave. Before he could even jump down, suddenly Kairi was right beside him in what could only be a nanosecond.
The party glanced back to where Kairi was originally standing, seeing only a cloud of dust and then back to Kairi, completely in shock. 'What happened to you!?', demanded the princess, checking him for every wound he might have sustained. Sora sheepishly smiled and weakly said: 'Uh heh…got ambushed by a few heartless…and some daemons…'. Kairi scoffed and flicked him on the nose, earning an "ow" from him, then she summoned her keyblade.
'You should've stayed with Ignis and Aqua', she chastised, casting Cure on him. 'But I was looking for the rest of you! We had to split up!', argued the boy. 'And look how well that turned out', replied Kairi.
All the while their audience just watched with bemused looks, Prompto taking a few shots at them with his camera. 'Oh yeah! I think I found that tomb you're looking for!', Sora yelled, gesturing behind him with a thumb. Everyone let out a collective sigh of relief, least this incredibly long trek yielded positive results for them.
The tomb was hidden behind to large walls with only a very narrow corridor leading to it, forcing everyone to slowly squeeze their way through it with only Gladiolus having trouble. Before them was the door where within was the next royal arm and the burial place of Noctis' ancestor. With a deep breath, the prince opened the door and entered, where he obtained his newest addition to his arsenal.
'Five down…', he said to himself, placing a hand on his heart.
Once he left and locked the tomb once more, the party then had one last task…
…how were they going to get out…?
Several long hours later…
'Freedom!', Prompto cried, collapsing face-first onto the ground.
To be fair almost everyone else was close to joining him, many of them were leaning against a wall or using something to keep them up and ready. Sora and Kairi had slumped against a boulder, shoulder to shoulder in exhaustion with Donald and Goofy collapsing with Prompto. Noctis sat upon a smaller rock with Gladiolus standing beside him, only Aqua and Ignis were standing up, though slouching would be the better way to describe them.
The search for another way out had turned the trek into a desperate search for freedom, like prisoners escaping prison. Despite having maps, none of them had described an exit nor made any points to label passages showing at least a way out of the mines. They had deduced the miners may have not found another way out, which bode ill for the party but with that optimism from Sora, the morale was still high.
But their search did not go undisturbed.
Heartless and daemons would spring up upon them from all corners of the mine, they'd get lost in the maze-like design of the place, and to add salt to the wound many a times they fell to traps and wounded up separated from each other and would have to fend off all kinds of nasties.
By the time they ran low on supplies and healing potions, the party were all close to just laying down in defeat, until they returned to the elevator shaft. Gladiolus had offered to climb up and use some rope he carried to pull them all up, but then Aqua and Donald came up with a clever idea and using the shaft with the Aero spell, they created their lift using the shaft as a ventilation fan and blew everyone back up to the surface.
'So…tired…', Noctis groaned, sounding ready to fall asleep on the rock here and now.
'For once I can't fault your laziness…', Gladiolus agreed, letting out a jaw cracking yawn.
'How far is *yawn*, the closest Haven?', Aqua asked, rubbing her eye with her fist.
'Quite a far distance, at least a half an hour drive', Ignis stated, gesturing to the far north.
There was a collection of groans and some whining from Prompto, but in the end, the other world heroes got up and began to make their way to the car, to the surprise of the royal party. 'You guys serious?', Noctis asked incredulously
'You heard him, the sooner we get there, the sooner we can sleep', Aqua said back, her voice laced with dread at the mere thought of the walk.
'OR! We could just go to the hotel in town!', Prompto said hand raised. They all looked at him, then back at each other…
'…I'm willing to spend a few Gil for a room', Ignis confessed.
'Same', Sora joined in, his voice support by the others who voiced their agreement.
One trek…
After selling some materials they found, the party managed to pay for several rooms for everyone. With Noctis and his group with one, Aqua sharing with Donald and Goofy, and Sora with Kairi.
Unaware by Prompto's hand in sleeping arrangements, the two young keyblade wielders entered the bedroom, exhausted and eager to jump into bed and sleep off the tiredness. Until their eyes fell to the bed…the only bed in the entire room.
Their cheeks turned redder than Kairi's hair, eyes widened with surprise and shock as both stood side by side. Sora looked around the room, and his eyes fell onto the small couch that looked uncomfortable but for one night he could tolerate it.
'W-Well…you take the bed, I'll have the couch!', he suggested. Not giving Kairi a chance to voice or argue, no way was he letting her take the couch, he approached it. That was until he felt a tug on his jacket, stopping him. He carefully turned his head to Kairi, her eyes down but he spotted her cheeks had taken a darker shade of red.
'…w-w-we can share the bed…', she muttered, soft and low.
Sora opened his mouth to object, but the combined might of his exhaustion and with Kairi looking at him with those adorable blue eyes was enough to silence any disagreements he could have conjured up. Gulping, he nodded shyly as Kairi released her grip on the boy. Deciding to just get it over with, they removed their socks and shoes, with Sora removing his jacket, and Kairi removing the top of her dress, a thin shirt was underneath it.
They both slipped under the covers, and as Sora was thinking he'd keep his distance from her to give the girl much-needed space, Kairi shifted closer to him. It was adorable how shyly she did it, almost like a child needing her parents to be closer. Once her legs touched his own, Kairi looked up at him before she wrapped her arms around him and laid her head against his chest. Blushing still, the boy gently wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on her head…
Slowly, they both drifted off to sleep…
A/N:
Royal Arm obtained! Great!
So out of curiosity, cause I'm thinking it…but if you all ship Aqua with one of the boys of FF XV, who would it be? Let me know!
As always, thanks for reading! Stay awesome but more importantly stay safe!
