Final Fantasy XV - Kingdom Hearts
Part 19
Summary: Two warriors of Light, the Chosen King and Keyblade Master, face an unseen Darkness.
It wasn't often that Aqua, a master who stared down the darkest of things and a cool head, ever felt a worrying desire to punch something or someone. She may have her limits with Kairi's penchant for recklessness and even when Ven would be careless in his training but never to the point where she wanted to hit something.
Here and now though, staring down this living mockery of her friend, her brother, she wanted to punch him so hard even a behemoth would flinch at.
Terra stood at the entrance, still smirking at her with contempt and smugness. 'Have to say, Aqua, I didn't think it'd be this easy to separate you from the others. But then again, you are the same woman who jumped into the dark realm fruitlessly', he mocked, almost amused. Aqua gritted her teeth, summoning her keyblade and readying herself. Terra gave a raised brow at this sudden act, almost surprised her first reaction would be combating him.
'Wow, almost, what? Two years? And *this* is your response to seeing an old friend?', he questioned, giving her an innocently confused look. 'Shut up! I know this isn't Terra talking!', she shouted, aiming her keyblade at him, 'You stole his body and are just parading it around like a puppet!'.
Seeing him like this, those terrible eyes, that silvery hair, everything screaming the man who took everything from her, her family, and brought so much ruin to the worlds. Seeing Terra again like this, it only brought back her memories from that place, her hell.
Terra's expression shifted back to smugness. 'Yeah, I suppose thinking you'd fall for it again was a bit…much', he said, 'I forget you're not as naïve as your brothers'.
Narrowing her eyes, her shoulders shook with fury that only that man could get out of her. 'Then again, it didn't take too much for you to fall into the darkness, did it?', he asked. Aqua growled and leaped at him, bringing down Master's Defender upon the man. Her attack was repelled by Terra's keyblade, summoned much faster than Terra had ever down before. In his hands, holding back Aqua's own was Chaos Ripper, a dark keyblade.
He pushed her off him and when she landed back to her feet he swung his keyblade at her in a downward slash. Aqua sidestepped his attack, his keyblade slamming into the carpet. The impact of the strike created a large dent in the floor, but he yanked it back up like it was nothing and dashed at the master. Their keyblades clashed, with Terra having much superior physical strength compared to the smaller woman, but her mobility and quick feet gave her more space to work around.
Leaning backward to evade a sweep of his keyblade, just missing her chin, Aqua performed two backflips from him to create distance. After she had some space though Terra dashed towards her, she quickly trailed her keyblade in a small circle around her, planting five glowing mines in a star pattern around her and jumped out of it. Terra couldn't stop his dash in time as he got close enough for them to sense him and detonate.
The explosion was minimal with tiny pillars erecting in the explosion, hitting him and sending him into the air. Aqua took his airborne state and aimed her keyblade at him. She performed "Triple Firaga", firing three large balls of fire at the darkened friend, they soared towards him. Terra, however, flipped himself in the air, he then cloaked himself in darkness and charged towards the fire. Keyblade out like a spear, he pierced through them and dived towards Aqua.
His strike was blocked by Aqua, though just barely as the force pushed her back, even with her heels dug into the floor. She slammed into the wall with a thud, the carpet left in her wake was torn and ripped apart, even the wall had a small dent in it from the force. Pushing herself off it Aqua cartwheeled from Terra's strikes just in time, his attack tore the metal wall apart like wet paper, leaving a large scar in the wall where anyone could see the circuits and construction.
Aqua fired a barrage of icicles at the man while he had his back turned on her, firing a total of seven six inched icicles at him. Terra turned around to cleave three to pieces and then fired a dark firaga at them. The huge sphere consumed the remaining icicles and flew towards Aqua, in turn, she cast blizzard at it. The two opposite elements clashed in the air, exploding in a forceful manner that sent the furniture flying all over and some of the fires fluttered to the ground and the very flammable carpet was already inflamed.
Aqua and Terra dashed towards each other again, their weapons clashing in the middle of the room. They struck at each other with incredible speed, despite the latter being stronger than Aqua, her quickness and more agile footwork kept him on the defense as she relentlessly struck at every space she could. Terra caught one of her attacks using his gauntlet to block her strike, then he headbutted her in the head to knock her back.
Her vision was blurry as agony raced through her skull, making her clutch her head in pain. But just as Terra attempted to stab at her, she used "teleport" to disappear from his sight and reappeared right behind him. He had no time to stop her as she raised her keyblade upwards and right beneath his feet erected a pillar of ice that encased him entirely. Once he was subdued, Aqua staggered backward, holding her head in pain.
She retracted her hand from it to see a shimmering red liquid in her palm, and then she flinched when she touched the aching spot with her fingers. Aqua took out a hi-potion and downed it quickly, seeing the flames had gotten more out of control. Then as she was about to attempt to douse the fire, the prison of ice shattered to pieces before her. Aqua raised her keyblade to block the shards that struck at her, but that was a mistake.
Terra suddenly appeared before her and then with his armored hand, punched her straight into her stomach. The air was punched out of her as she choked, eyes widened as the shock of pain raced through her body and then the struggle to breath came. But it didn't stop there, while his fist was still dug into her, Terra spun around and slammed Aqua onto the ground with equal force, shaking the while room and creating a much larger dent in the ground as almost swallowed Aqua whole.
Aqua cried out in pain, coughing in agony as Terra dug his fist into her stomach. He grinned madly at her, retracting his fist as he raised his keyblade to finish this fight, but Aqua quickly cast a barrier around her just as the key came to close her face. The barrier repelled Terra's attacks and even made him recoil his keyblade so hard he it flew out of his hands. He turned back to her, still in her barrier she glared at him with pain in her eyes. 'You think *that* will stop me?', he taunted, summoning his again, 'That cocoon of yours won't last forever'.
With that, Terra began to pound her barrier with both hands on the keyblade, each strike sparking light around her shield. Aqua felt the strikes of the keyblade pounding her mind, closing her eyes to retain concentration. Her only chance to win this battle was to hold out until he could conjure up a plan…
*Second Floor*
Snapping the neck of the last magitek soldier from the shadows, Gladiolus tossed the piece of junk soldier aside behind one of the airships and approached the hatch leading to the engine room, yanking it up and then climbing down. Down there, he sees no security or even engineers, which caused some suspicion to raise within him but regardless he heads to the spot Cor had instructed him to plant the bomb.
Near one of the main doors to a lower section, he pried off a panel where likely most of the controls and power goes to the engine, he takes out the bomb from the pocket dimension of armiger. 'Okay…okay, so just input this…and stick it on, easy', he said to himself, partly chastising himself for being such a low tech kind of man. It may the one time where he wished Prompto had taken his spot, kid would have likely figured it out much faster than him.
Regardless of his lack of tech skills, he followed the instruction Cor had given him earlier, set the bomb and lodged it between two pipes that likely protected the wire. Once he was sure the bomb was firmly in place, he placed the panel back on as convincingly as he could then proceeded back up the ladder and back to the main floor.
Once he closed the latch, he called the others. 'Gladio here, bomb's set and ready to go boom', he announced in his earpiece, 'How's everyone else?'.
'Scientia here, having some trouble finding a way to the control room, guards are all over the place', Ignis reported.
'Leonis, bombs set, making my way to you Amicitia', the Immortal confirmed. 'What about Aqua?'.
'Aqua, you done up there?', Gladiolus asked. Just as he finished, there was a loud thud that rumbled throughout the floor, making him jump and ready his hand to summon his sword. There was no response from her, making him worried. Looking up to the ceiling, he squints his eyes at one spot of the ceiling, seeing what looked to be a bulge from it. Another loud thud and the dent grew before the sound of groaning metal ruptured throughout the room.
The dent turned into a hole and out came Aqua and Terra falling through it, the former was in a barely kept together barrier while her assailant was continuously striking her defenses. They both fell on top of a docile airship with a loud crash, flames pouring down from the hole. Aqua's barrier broke as she rolled off the airship and tumbled to the floor with a heavy thud. Above her Terra got to his feet, rolling his shoulders and cracking joints in his neck.
He jumped down to Aqua, struggling to get back to her feet but with her barrier been forcefully broken and the pain from Terra's strikes, it was too much in her state. Terra summoned his keyblade again and placed his foot on her back, stopping her from moving. 'Looks like you're out of options, Aqua', he gloated. She stared up at him with clear pain in her eyes. Terra, however, responded to her defiance with a kick to her sides, making her cry out in pain.
Aqua, in her agony, tried to swing at him but he stomped on her attacking shoulder and pinned her there, earning another cry of pain. Keyblade laid against her throat, she stiffened as he raised the weapon above her. 'Rejoice, you're gonna make a phenomenal heartless, Aqua', he promised.
A yell halted his action, but then next thing Aqua could see was Gladiolus tackling Terra.
The two men tumbled a few feet from Aqua, the Crownsguard wrestled against Terra on the ground, keyblade sliding away during their tackle. Terra struggled against Gladiolus, but the much more muscular and far heavier man had more of the advantage. Terra tried to swing a fist at Gladiolus, but he evaded it and delivered a punch to his jaw in response. He slammed his elbow onto Terra's neck to hold him down.
'Stay down, or I'll break your neck', Gladiolus growled, pressing into him. Terra choked a bit before a growl emitted from his throat and then his right hand was cloaked in darkness once more. Gladiolus had little time to take it in before he was suddenly punched in the jaw that threw him off Terra and onto the ground. The shield rubbed his jaw, nearly convinced it was dislocated from that punch before he looked at Terra aiming his hand at him, violet embers dancing on his palm.
He fired a dark firaga at the shield, but Gladiolus rolled to the left, ducking under the burning sphere as it smashed into one of the MA-X units. The explosion of the machine created a chain reaction that caused more explosions from the other machines around it, flames sparking all over as smoke began to clash with the cleaner air.
Gladiolus got to his feet and summoned his greatsword, eyeing the silver-haired stranger, rubbing his neck. 'The shield of the king…', Terra said, tersely and unamused. 'Shouldn't you be guarding your king?'.
'And who are you supposed to be? Ravus' number one fanboy?', taunted the older man.
Terra gave him a dry chuckle, summoning his keyblade again. This shocked Gladiolus, he didn't see it properly the first time after all. 'What the…that's…', he said dumbly. 'Yes, a keyblade', Terra confirmed, smirking. Gladiolus readied himself as Terra dashed towards him, nearly catching him off guard. With a swing of his keyblade, Terra swiped at him, Gladiolus rolling aside from the attack and during his rising, he swung his sword at him.
His blade was repelled by Terra's key, but the shield shoulder tackled him and knocked him on his back. He slammed his sword on him, Terra firing a smaller blast of fire at him before he could bring his blade over his shoulder. Gladiolus quickly stepped to the side clumsily to avoid that ball of fire but doing so gave Terra the chance to get up and leap away from him. Turning back to the man, Gladiolus ran at Terra, swinging his sword at him from the side.
Terra clashed with his enemy, their strikes rang loudly throughout the second floor of the ship like two dull bells ringing in the cathedral, but Gladiolus felt every strike racing down from his sword into his limbs. It was like he was fighting an iron golem head-on, blocking the sword as opposed to dodging it. Terra managed to disarm the shield with one swing of his sword, shooting the giant sword into the air.
Gladiolus staggered backward, grunting. Terra raised his blade, ready to strike at the heart. Gladiolus, however, summoned his shield just in time to meet Terra's keyblade with the flat surface of his shield. Gladiolus dug his feet into the ground, not moving at all despite the insane power Terra displayed in his strike, he then knocked the keyblade aside before punching Terra in the jaw with the shield.
The silver head flew and slammed onto his back, grunting before spitting out blood. He turned a furious look on the shield, summoning his sword again. Terra's body was cased in darkness again as he got back to his feet, his yellow eyes more intense with the darkness. Terra then sunk into the ground, as if he was swallowed up by the darkness. Gladiolus looked around him, before his eyes fell to his own feet, a pool of darkness beneath him.
Gladiolus let out a yell of surprise when Terra suddenly shot up from that pool, striking at the giant's shield that he just miraculously managed to between himself and the darkened hand. The force of the attack made him slide backward, but Terra wasn't done. He unleashed a barrage of attacks, keyblade mixed with some monstrous giant hand that Gladiolus had almost no chance of even blocking. Each strike was like an airship sized giant was striking him.
The hand then grabbed the shield entirely and then crushed it into a metal chunk of scrap. Gladiolus managed to retract his hand before it too was crushed into nothing, eyes wide with shock and dismay as Terra held the scrap in hand. 'Heh, question. What good is a shield to a king, if the shield cannot even protect himself?', Terra taunted snidely. He tossed the shield away in the growing fires, his aura of darkness disappearing as his smug look further infuriated the Crownsguard.
'Bastard!', Gladiolus cursed with a roar, swinging his sword at him. Terra collided his keyblade with Gladiolus', locking them in a deadlock. 'Persisting? You're more stubborn than I-
Gladiolus reared his head back and slammed his own into Terra's face with a loud cracking noise resonating from the impact. Terra recoiled but Gladiolus slammed his sword into Terra's waist, his sword sinking into him as he threw him into a large container. Terra slammed into it with a thud, denting the thing as he bled. 'Word of advice, punk? Don't waste your time spewing garbage!', Gladiolus said, punching his chest.
Terra growled, pushing himself off the container and placing a hand on his wounded side. Then he smirked and mouthed a word. His body was then covered in a green light and then bleeding stopped, the light diminished, and he stood up properly like nothing happened. Gladiolus groaned. 'You've gotta be kidding me…', he grumbled.
'I'm impressed, shield of the king. I had never expected you to last this long, nor long enough to deal damage to me', Terra praised, but his tone was false and sarcastic. 'But I'm afraid this where things have to end'.
'Keep barking boy, I'm not out of this fight yet', Gladiolus warned, readying for the next surprise attack. But Terra dismissed his keyblade. 'Oh no, *boy*, you were never in this fight', he said. 'I'll admit I underestimated you, but you're still nothing to me'. Gladiolus snarled and ran at him, leaping into the air and grabbing his sword with both hands. With a roar, he slammed his greatsword down upon Terra with full force.
Terra, however, merely raised his right arm and caught the blade like it was nothing, stopping the blade within seconds, not even budging from his spot. On his feet, Gladiolus stared in horror at the man, still smirking at the shield. 'Did you, truly believed you were doing true damage to me? What a tragic sense of a naivety you must-have if you truly believed in your state, you had a chance of winning', Terra said. 'I'm afraid, this little game ends now'.
He vanished again, reappearing behind Gladiolus to strike at him with dash. He managed to cut the shield's back as he dashed in front of him. Gladiolus yelled in pain but before he could even comprehend how and when Terra did so, he was struck again from the front, then from the sides, and the back, and again from the front.
The final strike knocked him five feet from Terra and onto his side, bleeding profusely from around his body. Gladiolus grunted in pain, struggling to get back up but he slumped down in defeat. Terra picked up his fallen sword and dragged it to the fallen shield, stabbing it beside Gladiolus' head. 'How disappointing', he sighed, 'The shield of the chosen king, to be this lackluster'. Gladiolus showed his teeth in fury as he forced himself to get up despite the blood loss, even reaching one knee before he collapsed.
'Get away from him!'.
Terra turned around to block Aqua's strike again, but even then she managed to flip herself over him using their keyblades as leverage. She kicked Terra in the back of his head, forcing him to stagger forward and while in the air, she blasted him with lighting that struck his back. Terra roared with pain as Aqua landed near Gladiolus. She dashed to Terra and struck at his back with her keyblade, and then slashed at him two more times before one final strike knocked him away from the two.
Terra managed to re-correct himself after hitting the ground first time, landing on both feet. He then laughed. 'Not bad, "Master Aqua",', he taunted, casting cure on himself again. Standing upright, he faced Aqua as she readied herself for more, her wounds healed. 'Such a shame you didn't perform as well as a mentor as a fighter when your friends were around!'.
'Shut up!', Aqua shouted back. 'You stole Terra's heart and body! Give him back!'.
Gladiolus looked at Terra, surprised. 'Wait… *that's* Terra?', he said. 'No. That's his body…but Xehanort is controlling it, using it like a vassal', Aqua elaborated, clenching her fists. 'Oh? You never told him, Aqua? You've never told them how I became like this? How *you're* the one who started "Terra's" descent into the darkness?', Terra mocked. Aqua's shook with fury, her eyes bore nothing but hate for this man, every word that escaped his mouth was like a stab at her heart.
'Or better? How your "noble" sacrifice was in vain? How you spent all those years in solitude, whilst I had all the time needed for further the master's plan? And all thanks to this body Terra loaned me', he gloated. Gladiolus looked at Aqua as her body was starting to be cloaked in a darkness of her own, he sense something had changed and NOT for the better. With a snarl, Aqua dashed at Terra, flying across the burning battlefield like an angel of war.
Their keyblades met but this time Aqua was the one pushing him back like a rocket. She unleashed a barrage of strikes with speed so great Gladiolus couldn't even see her keyblade moving in the speed. Sparks flew left, right and all over the place, Aqua broke through Terra's guard and smacked his keyblade out of his hands and struck his chest, cutting into him. 'GIVE HIM BACK!', Aqua screamed, her voice was full of rage it almost startled Gladiolus.
Yet he heard pain in her voice, an agony that was still latched onto her heart after all this time.
Blasting Terra forward with a magic force, Aqua raised her keyblade over her head. Flames erected around her as she used the fires surrounding them all to fuel it into larger and dense towers of fire. She used magnet to pull Terra into her, and when he was above, she roared as she stuck her keyblade upwards and the flames burst wildly, consuming Terra's body in a storm of flames.
The final pillar was formed when all three of them combined and like a volcano, erupted and blasted Terra with a forceful blast of intense heat and sent him crashing to the ceiling with enough striking force that almost made him tear through the metal. When the flames dissipated, Terra fell from the ceiling and onto his back with a heavy thud, almost like a broken doll.
Aqua panted, shoulders shaking as the darkness around her grew denser and more profound. She marched towards Terra, keyblade down and nearly dragging on the ground, her intent clear. Gladiolus got to one knee, teeth gritted as sweat ran down from his forehead, both from the increasing heat of the now inflamed engine room and exertion of his body's limit. 'Aqua…Aqua, wait…', he grunted. She ignored him, standing over Terra, expression unreadable.
'You've caused me so much pain…toyed with my friends' hearts…took everything from us', she listed, her voice growing angrier and colder with each syllable. 'Eleven years of my life…spent in that hell while you ran and destroyed worlds, homes, and more'.
She lifted the keyblade up. 'Desecrating Terra's body, shaming him! Tainting his heart with the darkness!', she cried. 'Aqua!', Gladiolus shouted. 'DON'T YOU INTERFERE!', she screamed, 'HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US!'.
'That's not the guy who did it! You said that's Terra's body!', Gladiolus argued, 'Xehanort, or whatever his name is, he's just using him!'.
Aqua's eyes narrowed, as if the information meant little to her, turning back to Terra. 'You said he took his body, used it like…like a vassal…does that mean he can be saved?', Gladiolus persisted, 'But if his body is destroyed, then that's it!'. Aqua felt her armed handshake with hesitation, Gladiolus' words carrying so much weight and truth to her, yet the thought of letting him go after everything sounded so wrong. "He doesn't know what happened", a voice told her, "How you suffered, how lonely you were, how this man took EVERYTHING from you".
Glaring at Terra again, she raised her keyblade. 'Aqua! Don't do this!', Gladiolus shouted. 'This isn't you! You said he's your brother!'. 'DON'T LISTEN TO HIM! END IT! TAKE BACK WHAT HE OWED YOU!', the voice screamed.
'Aqua…?'.
Her eyes looked down to see those blue eyes she had grown to adore throughout their childhood. They looked so confused and lost as if he had woken up from a long slumber. He was staring at her with fear as if he feared her. "DO IT! FINISH HIM!", it persisted.
Aqua shook her head, grasping it with one hand screaming. 'NO! SHUT UP! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!'. She looked to the ceiling and let out a cry of agony, her voice echoing the entire room and the flames being blown away by her power, her darkness evaporating. Shaking from her fear, Aqua turned to Terra, looking at her like she was a ticking time bomb but not moving. Though she feared that was due to him being so beaten up by her attack.
'A-Aqua? What's, what's going on?', he asked, confused and scared. He flinched in pain, gritting his teeth. 'Terra! J-just hold on!', she said, kneeling to him, dropping her keyblade and placing her hands on his shoulders, healing him with "Curaga". Terra let out a breath of relief, his hair still silver but his voice and eyes were his own. 'Terra…Terra, I'm so sorry…', she gasped, her own eyes stung with tears yet to shed for him.
'Aqua', he started but she shook her head. 'Terra, its ok…just rest', she said but he smiled. 'I can't believe you…', Terra said.
'…you'd fall for it again'.
Aqua's eyes widened in horror as time slowed down for her, Terra placing his hand on her stomach and fired a blast of dark fire. The explosion sent Aqua flying, but he fired three more, hitting her and knocking her further into the air before ultimately, she plummeted down with a thud. 'Aqua!', Gladiolus cried, forcing himself to his feet, clutching his bleeding side.
Terra got to his feet as the shield limped to her and picked up her keyblade. Gladiolus knelt to the woman, helping her sit up as she whimpered in pain, her clothes were burnt and torn, eyes barely opened from the pain. 'Shit! Just hold on!', Gladiolus said, scrambling for a potion.
Terra was eyeing the keyblade, Master's Defender, with a look of contempt. 'This keyblade…I remember this well', he mused. 'The day when Eraqus showed his true colors. His hate for the darkness so great, he was willing to murder Ven to stop Master'.
Terra then looked to Aqua as Gladiolus helped her crush a potion, healing her and at least stopping the bleeding. Aqua faced Terra with fear, not taking her eyes off the keyblade in his hand. 'I think it's time you stopped relying on that coward's help, don't you agree…sister?'.
With that, Terra's darkness ran from his arm and leached onto the keyblade, covering it in darkness. Then…it snapped in two.
Dropping the broken weapon, the Master's Defender laid there before Terra's feet, broken and useless now. Aqua's eyes ran with tears as she cried out, hands reached for the keyblade and had Gladiolus not stopped her, she would've charged forth blindly. 'NO! YOU FREAK!', she screamed, thrashing against Gladiolus.
Not that, her last memento of their father, the final thing to remember him by. Her strength in the darkness, the light that helped her fight back the never-ending sadness she had to endure. Gone, like her brothers before. 'Aqua! Stop it!', Gladiolus growled, 'You can't beat him without a weapon!'. 'On the contrary Gladiolus…she can't beat me, so long as she remains with the light, and false hope', Terra bragged.
Summoning his keyblade again, he readied his next strike, likely the final blow to the two. 'Let's end this, huh?', he asked. With his final words, Terra leaped at them, keyblade over his head. Gladiolus grabbed Aqua into a tight hug, back turned to Terra to shield her. He may not have the weapon, but he'll be damned if he didn't uphold his role as a shield.
But as Terra got close, he suddenly stopped just as a powerful force dashed between him and his enemies, wind blowing the fires, nearly blowing them out. A sound of steel cutting and when Terra looked to his right, he sees several MA-X units and steel containers suddenly splitting in two, even on the ground there was a long trail of cleaved ground.
Terra looked to see from the fires was Cor approaching him, katana in its sheath while Ignis was running towards the fallen. The Marshal regarded Terra with contempt, almost eyeing him up. 'And who's this, I wonder', Terra questioned. 'Cor Leonis, or Cor the Immortal', he replied indifferently, 'Doesn't matter which one you pick'.
Terra chuckled cruelly, aiming his keyblade. ' "Immortal" huh? First time I've had the pleasure of killing someone with an ego like that'.
Cor smirked tersely in response. 'Provided I don't kill you first'.
Cor suddenly performed a quick draw with his katana, sending out three arcs of energy to Terra. The dark warrior had to dodge the attacks this time as opposed to stopping them, but while he was in the air, Cor threw a shuriken towards him with speed quicker than the eye could see and Terra was struck in the chest and sent flying over the steel containers.
Cor turned to Gladiolus just as Ignis handed him an x-potion. 'Get them out of here', he ordered, 'The bombs have been planted'.
'What about you, Marshal?', Ignis asked as he and Gladiolus stood up, the latter carrying Aqua in his arms. Cor gave the two a stern look, before looking to where Terra fell. '…'.
Ignis and Gladiolus looked at him before they nodded solemnly. 'I understand', Ignis relented. 'Cor…', Gladiolus started but Cor shook his head. 'Save the speech for later, I don't plan on losing my title as the Immortal today', he assured. He looked to the broken keyblade and picked it up, handing it to Ignis. 'Think she'll appreciate this', he said, looking the unconscious Aqua, likely from her wounds.
'Cor…that guy, he's…something else', Gladiolus confessed, shame in his tone.
'Then you know, what you need to do once you reunite with Noctis, right?', Cor questioned. Gladiolus nodded. He clapped his shoulder, 'Then get going', he ordered. The two nodded in response, and ran, leaving the burning base to the Marshal.
The two returned to the bay Gladiolus and Aqua landed just as the ship began to rumble with alarms going off. Cor had likely detonated the bombs just as the three left, and once they hopped on the speeders, Aqua held by Gladiolus while being in the middle of the two.
Ignis sped off just as the bay doors were closing, they sailed into the air and without time wasted, they flew back to the mainland. Looking back at the fallen base as it slowly descended into the ocean below, Gladiolus looked at Aqua, gently brushing her hair from her face, he bowed his head in defeat.
This victory had not only cost them the Marshal…but also showed him just how powerless he is…
A/N:
Done in one day…third chapter of this week…my god, I need to stop that…
So as promised, the arc is over and we can finally take a break from fighting chapters! (Looks at plans) …s***.
Anyways: QUESTIONS NEED ANSWERS!
Guest Isa:
First Q: I don't wanna say much on that because its spoilers, but I can safely say the other worlders will be here until the end of FF XV.
Second Q: Don't worry about pushy, an honest question since to be fair I never intended the story to be THIS long, three chapters at best! So I can't say for certain how many chapters but I will say I have a LOT for this story!
Keybladelight:
No Luxu for this story, sticking with KH3's cast. Sides less confusion.
Trivia time: I found out this earlier, but…did you know Kairi's hairstyles, from KH 1-3 were all based on Utada Hikaru? Not kidding: /news/otaku/videogames/kingdom-hearts-character-kairis-hair-was-inspired-by-utada-hikaru/100972/
So next chapter is gonna be a bit relaxed, just so we can all take a break from the fights while dealing with a few potential ideas.
Please as always if you have more questions, ask away!
Thanks for reading, stay Awesome but more importantly Stay Safe!
