Final Fantasy XV - Kingdom Hearts
Part 11
Summary: Two warriors of Light, the Chosen King and Keyblade Master, face an unseen Darkness.
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The sensation was equivalent to floating in the middle of the ocean, moving up and down yet not feeling the sensation of the water washing against her. She could hear the wind but felt no breeze from it.
Kairi slowly opened her eyes to see only a circle of light within an endless sea of dark clouds above her. She squinted her eyes when she stared into the circle as she looked around to see nothing but darkness. The next thing she felt was something cool and solid beneath her like she was gently laid upon the ground.
Turning her head left and right to see where she laid, she slowly got to her feet shaking like her legs had turned to rickety sticks. Kairi looked to the ground and sees it was a large platform that showed herself standing on a beach back home, where she sent her letter in the bottle long ago, in her current clothes with Destiny's Embrace in her hand with the sun setting behind her. Behind her were six circles showing faces of people she knew.
Axel, Naminé, Aqua, Donald, Goofy, and Riku. But in the center of them, all was a heart-shaped portrait with Sora's face, smiling handsomely at her. The entire platform's color consisted of light pink with gentle light yellow and royal cream color.
'Where am I? And what does this mean?', she asked herself, looking at her image.
Before she could figure it out, a pedestal slowly rose up from below behind her, the sound it made caught her attention and she turned around. A ball of light was levitating above the stone, calling to her like a song. Cautiously curious, the princess approached the pedestal and stretched her hand out to the sphere. The sphere floated towards her hand and once it touched her fingers, the light shined bright enough to make Kairi close her eyes.
She felt a warmth from it that spread all along her body just as the light slowly faded away. Opening her eyes Kairi sees nothing had changed until below she heard cracking glass. Kairi looked down and sees the pedestal was cracking beneath her feet, and before she could process on her next move, it shattered and she with the shards of her pedestal fell into darkness.
As she was swallowed by the darkness, Kairi struggled against it, thrashing and struggling against it in vain as slowly it consumed her. As she stretched her hand out as the darkness reached her head and slowly eat her away.
Then a hand reached out for her own, grasped it and slowly her world went from dark to blinding bright.
'It is not your time yet, Princess of Light', a gentle voice whispered. As the light shined, Kairi could see someone holding her hand, preventing her descent into the darkness. Though the light was blinding her, she made out two distinct features, blonde hair, and blue eyes…
'Naminé', Kairi gasped as the silhouette faded into the light.
Haven
Fidgeting and squinting her closed eyes, Kairi stirred and slowly opened her eyes. Though blurry and a sensation of exhaustion unlike any other washing over her, she could make out she was in a tent. The shuffles of feet and sounds of muffled voices resonated outside her supposed place of safety. Turning her head to the left, she sees Sora sleeping near her, though he was more relaxed than earlier she recalled.
Slowly she started to sit up in her sleeping bag, shaking her head and groaning as her limbs carried some ache with them. Her body felt like she had been fighting for days on end, and while she felt some form of pride that she managed to keep both herself and Sora safe long enough for help to arrive, she wished she didn't feel this level of exhaustion. She rubbed her forehead tiredly, blinking out the dizziness.
'Morning…'.
Kairi turned to her tent-mate, now with his eyes open tiredly and she sees he was still aching to a degree. He gave her a cheesy grin that was strained, likely still feeling the pain from yesterday. She smiled wonderfully in response to his grin, then she shuffled her bag close to him and laid back down to face him. It was a wonderous sight to see his eyes open again and that lovely happy inducing grin back on his face.
Gently she moved herself closer to him until they hugged, her head nested on his chest. She felt his lips on her forehead, making her giggle. 'My hero~', he praised. Her cheeks turned red from this, yet she couldn't help that giddiness that was slowly building up in her chest as she grinned wider. Raising her head to face him, seeing the look of pride in his eyes was worth the world to her, finally being able to protect him this time.
Gently he brushed a strain of her hair from her face, she allowed herself to sigh in ease from the gentleness of his hands. She raised to level her head with his, slowly inching in to kiss him. That was until…
The sound of the tent opening caught them, and when they turned to it, there was Prompto about to enter with what looked to be medicine in hand, but he was frozen on the spot. Eyes wide with a blush on his cheeks, still as a statue as the two young teens looked at him awkwardly, while feeling a sense of déjá vu.
Without a word, Prompto slowly waved at them and left the tent entrance and quietly left them to it. Once the flap was closed, they heard him yell something on the lines of "they're awake", likely announcing it to the others. Then he added, "also occupied".
The wielders of key both sighed in annoyance, laying down. 'He has the absolute worst timing, I swear', Kairi frowned, pouting. 'Tell me about it…', concurred Sora. With the moment once again ruined by Prompto, they got out of their bags and after some stretched sense they had more room in the tent on their own, they eventually left it and joined the world of the living once again.
Outside they see the mood killer Prompto hanging by the edge of the Haven with Donald and Goofy, showing his photos to them while on a chair in the center where the campfire would have been was Gladiolus with a book in hand. By the stove was Aqua cooking eggs judging by the sizzling noises from the pan, and lastly was Ignis near the edge on his phone pacing.
'Well look who decided to join us', Gladiolus teased, smirking at the duo.
They blushed shyly as everyone turned on them bar Ignis, who seemed to be too pre-occupied by the call he was having. Aqua had a look of relief as she nodded to them while Donald and Goofy approached them. 'You two feeling ok?', Donald asked.
'Still stiff and some aches, but raring to go otherwise!', Sora said confidently, puffing out his chest.
Kairi rolled her eyes at him, gently elbowing him and making him laugh. 'How long were we out?', she asked. 'A few hours, its afternoon now', Gladiolus explained, closing his book. 'Iggy and Aqua were mostly healing you both with some medicine and magic'. He got up and stretched. 'We've just hung out there most of the day'.
The two looked at one another, guilt slowly showing on their faces before Gladiolus waved them off. 'Hey now, it happens to the best of us, we're just glad no one's dead', he assured.
'Exactly, your wounds were very severe when we brought you here, namely your own Kairi', Aqua said, putting the eggs on plates. Sora immediately turned to the girl, who looked at her arms and legs with a frown, seeing the faint and healed marks on her flawless skin. While most have healed and will fade in time she knew, some of her newly acquired scars would not, and she didn't know how to feel about that.
She gave Sora a weak shrug none the less as if it wasn't an issue. Heck, she could only imagine how many he possessed.
'But this does mean we'll discuss about splitting up in future', Aqua stated. 'We're lucky we were closer to you two during the hunts'.
'Oh yeah, how did you guys do?', Kairi asked, hoping to get Sora's attention on something else than her scars. 'All done and dusted, me and Prompto headed for the garage to turn them in', Gladiolus said smugly. 'We've gotten enough for that car and that bike, plus some curatives too'. They all joined at the chairs while Aqua distributed the food, leaving some for Ignis and the nowhere to be seen Noctis. Which caught Sora's eyes as he looked for the raven. 'Where's Noctis?', he asked.
'Sleeping Beauty's still in the tent, doing what he does best', Gladiolus joked.
Sora looked at Donald and Goofy, snickering at the ironic name as Aqua smiled fondly at it, while Kairi blinked curiously at the giggles. 'Well now that we have sorted the transport situation, we're heading for that place with Royal Arm next, right?', Kairi asked, before chewing her eggs. 'That's right, and that's in Duscae', Gladiolus affirmed.
'Which lucky for us is way more forgiving with the temperatures!', Prompto said with a grin, 'Less heatwaves and sun!'.
'In exchange for rain and giant bugs', Gladiolus reminded playfully.
'Least we'll be cooled off there', Aqua added with a smile. 'Besides it'll be a nice change as opposed to constantly worrying about getting sunburnt'.
'Speak for yourselves, we're practically immune to sunburns!', Sora said, nudging Kairi's elbow with a grin. She nodded confidently. 'Absolutely! We've mastered the power of immunity to sunburns after so many years of getting it!', she laughed.
There was a collection of laughter between the seven, some jokes were made during lunch along with some conversations about recent events until Noctis finally emerged from his tent, stretching out and letting himself yawn loudly. He gave everyone a tired "good morning" and nodded to Sora and Kairi with a smile. 'You two ok?', he asked. 'Yup, we're awake and ready to go to Duscae!', Sora said with excitement in his voice.
'Glad someone is', he said with a shrug, 'Just hope we don't bump into any more imperials again'.
As he picked up his plate to join the others, Kairi subtly noticed Ignis was occasionally looking back at Noctis with a keen eye and at the same time with some paranoia from how often he picked, as if he was afraid he'd vanish if he looked away too long. Shrugging to herself as she finished her lunch, she and Sora started to collect everyone's dishes and even offered to clean them as payment for the free food. While they cleaned, they made small talk.
'Hey, can I ask you something?', Kairi asked, drying a plate Sora washed.
'Sure?', he said.
'How do you do that trick? Turning your keyblade into a new weapon?'.
Sora let out an "ahh" sound, nodding and washing another plate. 'I can't explain it, but, it's just something I guess I subconsciously learned it?', he said lamely, as if even he didn't know how it worked. Kairi hummed in response to this as she dried another plate. 'Funnily I remember Aqua saying she and her friends used to have amour too…and they could use them to traverse worlds while using their keyblades by turning them into gliders', she said.
'Whoa, really?', Sora asked excitedly. Kairi nodded, smiling back. 'Yeah, each one was different for them but they're like one seated gummi ships in a way', she continued. 'But I asked her about her own, and she says she lost her armor when she was sent to… you know'.
Sora nodded solemnly, both casting a glance to the blue head who was chatting with Gladiolus about something. 'Think we should ask her about the armor and gliders?', Sora asked. 'Maybe later?', she said turning her eyes back to him. 'I don't wanna press her and make her remember those days, you know?'. Sora nodded in agreement, thinking back when he saw her again.
And nearly got his backside kicked harder than Donald smacking him with his staff.
'But the weapon changing isn't that tricky once you get the hang of it', he assured. 'Can you show me?', Kairi asked. Sora looked at her with a surprised look before he weakly scratched the back of his head, ducking it. 'Uh, shouldn't you ask Aqua? I mean, she's a master', he said lamely. That was not a tone she wanted to hear from Sora, that lack of confidence and look of shame. She was aware of how he failed his exam and that only fuelled her desire to get back at the one who ruined Sora's chances.
'Yeah, she is. But you're also an amazing wielder of the keyblade aren't you?', she teased, putting her hands on her hips and looking at him. 'Well, I guess…', Sora said shyly. 'And don't you want to make sure I know what I'm doing so I can protect myself and you?'. Sora gave her a sideways smirk, not ignorant enough to not see that subtle jab at his overprotectiveness of her. Kairi just wiggled her eyebrows at him innocently.
'Okay, okay! I'll show you how it works', he said with a laugh. 'Great!', Kairi said, finishing off her dish and turning to him. 'Let's go!'. 'Huh? N-Now?', he asked. 'No time like the present!'. She turned to the others. 'We're just hopping off for a few minutes', she said. Most of the party nodded but Aqua folded her arms with a shake of her head. 'You two shouldn't be going yet, you just woke up', she reminded. 'We won't be far from the Haven, we're just going', Kairi said, turning back to the plains for a perfect spot, and then back to Aqua, 'just going to that rock and that's it!'.
Aqua gave her student a look before she lowered her arms. 'Fine, but you're staying in our sights, got it?', she asked. 'Promise!', Kairi beamed, gesturing to Sora to lead on. With a wave, the two jumped off the Haven and walked towards the rock.
Once there, and after they waved like two idiots to Aqua, they summoned their keyblades. When Sora saw Oathkeeper though, he checked his pocket to find Kairi's lucky charm but found nothing. When he turned back to Kairi, she sheepishly smiled and showed the chain. 'Sorry, but when I was looking after you, I spotted it in your pocket and…well…', she said before laughing shyly. 'I guess I was wondering if I could change my keychain too'.
Sora let out a breath, relieved. 'Ok, don't scare me like that!', he laughed. 'But for the first lesson, let's stick with your original first', he suggested. Kairi groaned but followed his advice and returned her keyblade to Destiny's Embrace. Sora snickered at her glare; her eyes bore into the weapon. 'When I see Riku again, I'm going to kick his butt for this choice of design…', she said. 'Least if you do beat him, you'll be the next master', Sora laughed.
' "Kairi the Keyblade Master" does have a nice ring to it', she agreed with a smirk. 'Maybe when I'm retaking my exam, we could do it together', he hummed. Kairi smiled at the thought.
Sora then changed his Kingdom Key to a new keyblade after grabbing a chain from his pocket and turned it into Shooting Star. Kairi raised a brow at that, looking back at hers. 'Oh yeah, well see my own doesn't turn into a new weapon', he explained, laying SS on his shoulders, 'Not sure why but hey'.
'So how this works is, I mostly just build up the magic during a fight, and then I use the magic stored up and send it to the keyblade'. 'But how did you decide what weapon it'll turn into?', Kairi asked. 'I don't. It chooses itself I guess', Sora said. 'Ok? So how do I do it?', Kairi questioned.
Sora smirked. 'We'll spar, and maybe you'll figure it out then', he said.
She didn't know why, but Kairi felt a sudden surge of fear at that smirk, and if Sora needed to fight as well as he does to shift his weapon into a new one…
Kairi was starting to regret her choices…
Sora started first, dashing towards her and swinging upwards to her. Breaking out of her trance of regrets, Kairi blocked his attack. Caught in a deadlock with him, Kairi tried to push him back but he didn't budge an inch, his feet firmly placed into the ground. Sora, on the other hand, was easily pushing her backward and lowering her weapon down despite her best efforts to keep him off her.
Kairi, however, sidestepped to the left which turned Sora's pressing attack on himself and caused him to stagger forward with a yell. Kairi took this chance to strike at him while he was trying to regain his footing. She struck at him with a thrust of her keyblade, only for him to quickly turn around and swing his own perfectly to not only parry her attack but also expose her entirely. Kairi was wide open for an attack yet he didn't take it.
He did something worse though…he smugly smiled at her.
Pouting, she readied herself for more and ran towards him. Their keyblades clashed as sparks of light popped with each strike from the keys, Kairi striking at him while Sora was skilfully parrying her attacks and not attempting to lay harm upon her. Frustration was starting to grow within her, every strike she performed was either being parried or blocked by him, it was like she was hitting more than one keyblade and what further her annoyance was she knew he was holding back.
One more attack that went nowhere and when Sora jumped back to create some distance between them, she let out a deep sigh of contained frustration. Sensing it, Sora blinked. 'You ok?', he asked.
'No…', she huffed. 'You're holding back!'.
Sora sheepishly smiled back, which flat out just confirmed his crime and deepened Kairi's annoyance. 'W-Well…', he started, but Kairi cut him off. 'No, none of that "I don't want to hurt you" junk! I can take on heartless and daemons at once for hours on end, and I can probably take on a nobody too!', she argued. 'So no more holding back, you're going to spar with me like you'd spar with Riku!'.
Sora gave her a very surprised look, probably wasn't expecting her to explode like that. Kairi half expected him to apologize or come up with some excuse that she knew he was just trying to make it easy on her.
He then grinned. 'Okie Dokie, if you're sure cause', he said.
SS suddenly shifted and morphed into two new weapons Kairi hadn't seen before, as they took the form of what looked to be guns, except unlike Prompto's they were closer to what a keyblade's overall design was. Plus, his outfit changed from red and black to more blue, almost like that Wisdom Form he used in the past. He crossed his arms with guns in hand before spinning them in his hands and finally aimed them at Kairi.
'No more holding back then!'.
Kairi realized at this very moment…she had made a terrible mistake.
Sora started to fire several barrages of arrows at the girl, they were ethereal arrows with heart-shaped tips, a total of twelve flew towards her. Kairi jumped away from them but to her shock they were homing in on her like missiles, chasing her. Kairi swiped at them as she kept jumping back from them, hitting a few here and there but to add more worries, from her peripheral vision she spotted Sora in the air, firing more at her like a mad man.
The princess turned to his barrage with her left hand opened and fired a magnet spell at them. The spell formed in the air and drew in the arrows trapping them. She detonated the spell and destroyed the arrows and finally cut down the remaining ones that were homing in her. Kairi looked around the plains to find Sora, but he was nowhere in sight.
'Heads up!'.
Kairi looked up to see her boyfriend diving while spinning towards her, firing more arrows at her. Quickly Kairi erected a barrier around herself, defending herself from the raining arrows. They blasted her shield rapidly, pelting her shield like she was in the middle of a rainstorm. Sora dashed in the air when he got too close to the shield and created more distance between them, but he was starting to glide two feet off the ground, firing more arrows at her.
Kairi could feel her magic waning from this never-ending barrage of arrows, there were cracks in her crystal barrier and she could feel the breeze outside against her, clearly showing it was only a matter of time before Sora turned her into a pincushion. As the cracks grew longer and spreading across the barrier, Kairi thought back to what Sora was saying about absorbing magical energies in battle, looking at her keyblade.
Closing her eyes, she lifted her keyblade up as her barrier was slowly fading yet still protecting her, her keyblade started to glow. Opening her eyes, she threw it upwards, proclaiming: 'Let's GO!'.
A blinding light shined as the barrier turned into magical energies and flew into her clothes and keyblade. Sora's arrows were suddenly sliced and diced into nothing, and when the light and dust settled, Kairi stood there with her new weapon, the Dual-Blade.
It was as tall as her with a similar color scheme as her regular keyblade, but the handle was if two keyblades handles attached, the blades had different patterns on them, one was a breaking ocean while the other formed into a beige vine of sand. Each tip of the blades were curved and.
Kairi spun the weapon in one hand before aiming it at Sora, her clothes were no longer pink and black, but now there were crimson red with some parts of her clothes possessing ocean wave patterns around her clothes.
Sora smiled with approval at her, before he started to fire more arrows at her rapidly. Kairi ran at the arrows without care, spinning her blades in her right hand before she started to spin and dance around with it, cutting the arrows like leaves fluttering in the wind. She leaped, ducked, hopped and flipped all the while cutting her boyfriend's attacks. It was as if she was a whirlwind of knives.
When she was close to Sora, she brought her blades down upon him which forced Sora to jump back from her attack. As he stood two feet before her, Kairi stood up properly and spun her weapon before stabbing it into the ground with a strong determined yet satisfied look in her eyes. Sora was equally proud of her, he was sporting the largest grin his jaw could muster and his were practically glowing with pride.
'You did it!', he praised.
'You are darn right I did!', she bragged, smiling at him.
Looking at her new weapon and clothes color, she beamed. As step closer to catching up to the boys, to be able to muster such power as this felt like a gigantic leap in progress, she was sure even Axel hadn't been able to perform this yet. Kairi gave Sora a genuine look of gratitude though with a subtle wink, and she could see even in him he was relieved he could teach her something. With luck, she hoped that would dash away any doubt of his abilities he had.
'Well, now that we got that done, wanna see if it could change into another weapon?', he asked. Looking at her own, and already imagining what else her frilly key could turn into, she smiled. 'Sure, who knows? Maybe it'll…', she started but when she turned back to Sora, she lost her speech as Sora's weapon changed again.
Now in his arms was what looked like a rocket launcher.
Kairi's eye twitched in apprehension, as she slowly backed away. Sora gave her a confused look and a tilt of his head. 'What? You said you didn't want me to hold back on you', he argued.
'…W-Well…maybe, you could rein it in…just…a…little…?', Kairi squeaked.
'Sora, Kairi!'.
The two looked back to the Haven, seeing Prompto waving at them animatedly. 'Iggy wants everyone back here; says we've got a problem!'.
Looking at one another, they dismissed their weapons, returned their clothes to their normal colors and headed back to the Haven. Never has Kairi been so grateful for Prompto's bad timing.
Back in the Haven, everyone was gathered around the spectacled man, who was oddly enough looking at Noctis in particular. 'What's going on?', Sora asked, looking at the older man. 'I've been speaking to the Marshal for quite some time, he had some concerns for us', he explained. Sora blinked in confusion before Gladiolus told him about Cor.
'It's the imperials, they have been sighted within Lestallum', he said with a grim look.
The royal retinue's stance became tense, more so Gladiolus. His eyes narrowed darkly, and his fist clenched tight. 'Why?', he growled. 'Noctis has been seen there a day ago', Ignis said simply. The three looked at the prince who, like them, had a very confused look on his face. '…what?', he said.
'B-but wait a second, we haven't been there for a week!', Prompto said, just as lost.
'Yet the Marshal was certain Noct was seen there, rescuing Iris from white creatures', Ignis explained, yet his tone sounded as if he doubted the stories. Upon hearing the "white creatures" part, Sora glanced at Donald and Goofy, each of them having the same look of "oh dear" on their faces. This did not go unnoticed by the giant. 'Something you wanna share with the class kid?', Gladiolus asked, eyeing him.
'They're…bad guys', he said dumbly.
'Like the heartless?', Prompto asked.
'Kinda…'.
'Regardless, if Cor is certain of Noctis being there, then likely there is someone going around pretending to be the prince, and if those creatures are there with the imperials, then Iris may be in danger', Ignis said.
'Then we head to Lestallum!', Kairi said, 'if the Nobodies are there with the imperials, then Iris *is* in danger!'.
' "Nobodies"?', Noctis asked.
'We'll explain on the way…', Aqua said, 'for now we should see if Cindy has the vehicles ready'.
The team packed up the camping equipment and then headed off to Hammerhead, paid for the car, promising to grab the bike later. With Aqua driving as she was the only one who had some idea how to use a car excluding Goofy (who Donald as adamant that he'd be the very last person to touch the steering wheel). They sped off following the Regalia.
Outside Lestallum
Once they were close to the city, the party stopped just before they entered the tunnel leading into the city. Stepping out of their vehicles they all could see Lestallum had some changes to it, imperial brand changes. Three dropships were floating around the city with several watchtowers were planted around the out perimeter watching.
'Don't remember Lestallum being under lockdown by the imperials', Gladiolus growled, hands-on the railings on the road.
'If Noct was truly seen within the city, they won't risk the thought of him escaping it', Ignis reminded, arms folded. 'And it looks like they won't be taking any chances at the entrance either'.
Ahead of them at the tunnel, there was a roadblock of imperials patrolling and checking every car that came through. 'What do we do now? We can't just walk in', Goofy asked, folding his arms and tapping his head in thought.
Noctis hummed in thought, looking at Sora and then back at the city, snapping his fingers. 'Well, what if me, Sora and Kairi sneak in the city first then find a way for the rest of you to sneak in?', he suggested.
'And how are you going to do that?', Ignis inquired.
*Later…*
Right at the roadblock, Aqua and Prompto drove the car towards it with Gladiolus and the others hanging back in the shrubbery, watching them busying the imperials by pointlessly asking questions, mixing up the commands and even having Aqua act she was a lost tourist. All the while Noctis and duo of troublemakers snuck in using Noctis' warp and Sora, carrying Kairi, air-dashing quick enough for them to go by quietly and more importantly unseen.
Once the three were though and safe, Aqua decided she'd see the town later without the imperialist rule and drove away. Once she and Prompto were at a safe distance, they hopped out and the blonde rang Noctis.
'Okay, we're just inside the town', Noctis answered.
'So, what are the rest of us supposed to do?', Prompto asked as the others joined them.
'I dunno, ask Iggy'.
In Lestallum, once they exited the tunnel, they immediately jumped to the top of a building. It was one of the tallest buildings in the town which gave them a perfect view of most of the streets and the hotel where Iris resided was just a few buildings away from them. Below them, however, much to the keyblade wielders worry, imperials were patrolling with two berserker nobodies waltzing along with them.
'Holy crap, THOSE are nobodies?', Noctis said eyes bulged.
'Yeah, those are berserkers…', Sora said, knelt beside Noctis and Kairi. 'But why are they working with the imperials?'.
Kairi gave Sora a look, one that screamed he knew the answer as to why they'd work with their enemies, but he shook his head and mouthed "Order" to her. 'Well whatever they are, we'll deal with it later. Let's get to the hotel first', Noctis huffed. He warped to the next building while Kairi stopped Sora for a moment.
'Sora, if the nobodies are here, and are working with the imperials, you know that means the Organization might be helping them', she said.
'I got that idea, but we can't tell them that', he said, but she could hear in his tone he desperately wanted to tell them. 'But remember Order'.
He attempted to go but held firm, her eyes narrowing with disapproval. 'Sora, we have to tell them', she said. 'Kai-
'Sora think about it. You think they're not questioning us? They just accepted whatever junk we tell them? I'm pretty sure they know we're not from this world'.
Sora sheepishly scratched his cheek, not a single argument could be conjured up in his mind. 'What if we encounter an Organization member? You know how dangerous they are, and the Noctis and the others wouldn't stand a chance'.
Sora looked down, her words were full of good points, and while he's not exactly a stickler for rules like his magical friend, he knows the importance of it. Still, he wondered how many of his friends knew about other worlds…
'Sora, please. Let's at least tell them about the Organization, just so in case we DO run into them, they know what to expect?', she pleaded.
'…ok…we'll tell them that much', he promised. They both jumped from rooftop to rooftop, catching up to Noctis in no time flat as they approached the ledge of the building. Sure enough, the see Iris standing by the entrance of the hotel, likely being held as a witness to the lookalike, and the imperials using her as bait wouldn't be surprising.
Two berserkers were guarding the two paths leading into the streets of Lestallum, and one imperial guard with the brunet watching her. Noctis gave the two wielders of the keyblade subtle nods and gestures to the imperial whilst summoning his engine blade. They nodded and split off to different corners of the ledges, weapons out at the ready. Next, Noctis tossed his sword directly at the imperial just as Sora and Kairi leaped off the building and dived down to the nobodies.
The berserkers went down easy thanks to the power of the key and the imperial had no time to react to their destruction as Noctis plunged his sword through its metallic form, killing him. Once its body ceased all movement, he threw the now scrap metal imperial aside and dismissed his weapon, smirking at Iris.
'Miss me?', he asked.
The girl beamed brightly at him, then looked at Sora and Kairi with wide eyes. 'Hey there, you're Iris, right?', Sora greeted kindly. 'I'm Sora, and she's Kairi'. Iris looked between the two, before looking at Noctis. 'Noct…listen…', she said but the prince gently grabbed her shoulders. 'Tell me later, we're here to get you and the others outta here, where's Jared and Talcott?', he asked.
'They're hiding in the hotel, but- Lookout!'.
Sora and Kairi turned around with their keyblades out to see two dusks sprout out from the ground before them. Yet before they could even wiggle and attack the two, they were suddenly destroyed by a swipe of what sounded like a blade.
When their bodies faded to nothing, Kairi and Sora's eyes widened at their savior.
He swing his weapon to the side like he was ridding the remains of the nobodies off his blade before he gave both islanders a smirk.
'There you are, what's going on?'.
A/N:
This WAS meant to be done yesterday but…yeah.
1st Question: What do you think of Kairi's new weapon? Originally, I was gonna make it into a bow but saved for another time.
2nd: I have an idea for Aqua's weapon form, but what do you think it should be?
3rd: I wonder who this could be? KH One players will know~
Thanks for reading, have a nice day! Stay awesome but more importantly stay safe!
