Hyper Arc; Black Story - Part 3; Yandere Gold Third
After getting their names cleared both Noire and James were free to walk around the city without any worry anymore. Although something ominous was going to happen and it won't be very pretty.
Currently both Noire and James have decided to find any info about the Order's plans of bringing out a war. They plan to split up for some info and make plans to end their schemes.
"Alright, so first things first is we need to look for possible info about what the Order will do…" James says to himself wondering what he could do.
"Excuse me young man, are you the one who rescued the people in the subway before?" A young woman walks to him and he turns to her nodding. "Ah wonderful, I was wondering if you could do a favor for me?"
"Sure, what is it that you need?" He asks her.
"There are some special herbs in the forest area nearby, I use them for medical uses. The problem is I am all out and the area is filled with horrible monsters, I wouldn't dare to go there without protection. Although maybe you could find them for me." She explains
"Sure, I can do it for you." James tells her with a reassuring smile.
"Oh thank you! I'll give you my special made sandwiches I always make as a reward, I'll have enough for you and your friends!" She tells him
"I look forward to it already!" James tells her and she gives him a photo of what she wants and heads out to the area. "Alright, so she said the stuff she needs must be around this place." He continues looking around and using his sword to slice down the monsters that get in his way. "This should be the area." Before he could get to the area a large monster was in the way. "Of course this has to happen, oh well time to get down to business." He takes stance and runs towards the monster and dodges a swipe attack from it. He leaps and tosses an Ice blast freezing the leg of the beast and stabs it making it growl in pain. "You are finished!" James has his sword glow and he slashes 4 times and then he does a powerful swing across the body which causes it to disappear. "And done, now for the herbs. I am sure if I get a lot of this then that woman can make the medicine she needs." He starts grabbing a bunch of herbs and carries it back to the city.
"Thank you so much for gathering these! I'm sure to make a lot with this bunch!" She says with a happy expression to be able to get what she needs. "As thanks here are the sandwiches I promised!" She hands him a bag. "I hope you and your friends enjoy those!"
"I'll tell you how they liked them, see you later!" James tells her with a smile and heads towards the hotel and decides to try a sandwich in the bag and takes a bite of it. "Mmm, this is really good! The taste and flavor to it is amazing!" he continued eating it while walking and bumped into Noble on the way. "Oh hey there little bro! Do you want a sandwich I got from this lady I helped out?"
"Um… sure…" He says taking one while he stares at his brother questionably.
"What is it? Do I have something on my face?" James asks Noble noticing the look his brother is giving him.
"N-no it's just… why were you and Noire being all "lovey-dovey" suddenly?" Noble asks and James almost choked from eating, though able to swallow.
"The hell?! What are you talking about?!" James asks as he is coughing a bit. "I wasn't even with her! We went out to gather info though I helped out a woman gather some materials for helping people!"
"You sure? Cause me and Uni saw you and Noire strangely being like a couple strangely all of a sudden…" Noble tells him who is confused.
"Look I don't know what you saw… but you should know that even if I'm her protector… I haven't even told her my feelings while Jeff is in a triangle relationship with Neptune and Selena." James explains to Noble. "Now come on, it's already getting late now so we should head back." The two go back and Noble was still confused at what he saw with Uni. When they got back Uni came out of K-Sha's room saying she is going to bed and Noire came out to check on Uni and James asked her if she would like to have the bag that has the sandwiches for the sisters and K-Sha which she happily took and went to Uni's room. Though James noticed K-Sha watching and she was staring at him which strangely gave him shivers for some odd reason.
The Next day James exited out of his room and found a package at his door which is something for him and Noire. He picks it up and brings it to Noire's room.
"What is this?" She asks him
"Not sure, but it is mailed to us for some reason." He says and uses a knife to open the box and look inside to see another small box, a gem and a letter. "What is all this? I wonder who sent this." James pulls the letter out and opens it to see what it says.
"It looks like you both are doing well with Uni and Noble. I thought of returning to Lastation once, but it seems it was needless worry. Once my new job settles down, I'll come by and visit. Until then, I'll leave the nation to you four. From Kei Jinguji." James read the letter out loud and the two smiled.
"Kei… alright. We'll do our best, even without you here. So rest assured and return home." Noire says taking the gem.
"P.S. The gem should be helpful for linking, and also in the small box is for your project James. I hope it helps." James reads the last part and opens the small one and gets a power core.
"Hey this is a Power Core, I needed this to complete the suit I was working on. This is perfect! I better hide this somewhere safe until everything is solved." He says and leaves going back to his room. Once he placed the power core in the drawer, he then heard someone knock at his door.
"Who is it?" He asks
"It's me, do you have a moment?" K-Sha asks from the other side.
"Sure the door is opened, do you need something?" James asks her once she opens the door she has a gun in her hand.
"Yes, die." She says aiming at him which scares him and he takes cover behind a bed as she opens fire at him, actually trying to kill him.
"Hey! What the hell is wrong with you?! Why are you even holding a gun?!" He asks her frantically about the situation.
"Because if you're still here, Noire will never look my way." She tells him bluntly.
"Whaaaaat?!" He says while still panicking and then Noire walks in with Noble and Uni behind her.
"What's all the commotion about?" Noire asks
"Noire, please, wait a moment. I'm getting rid of this obstacle right away." K-Sha tells her
"Obstacle…? What's wrong with you? You're acting strange." Noire says weirded out a bit.
"Help me out here! She's a psycho! She's trying to kill me!" James tells her while still hiding behind the bed.
"... You're right. I don't need to kill you point blank." K-Sha says
"K-Sha, you…" Noire starts to say but K-Sha continues.
"James, let's have a duel. Winner takes Noire." K-Sha tells him
"A duel…?" He asks her as he is still frightened.
"I would be fine with just killing you, but it's better to fight fair and square in front of Noire." She tells him. "That way, you'll be able to accept defeat and die honorably, won't you?" He shivers with fear, actually scared wondering how this girl suddenly changed to an innocent girl, to a complete Yandere. "The place will be… ah, yes. Let's make it the Golden Summit. I'll be waiting on the top floor." Noire tries to stop her but she already left saying. "Don't worry, Noire… I'm always gonna wait for you, even if I'm stuck waiting in the afterlife… hmhm…"
"W-What was that…?" Noire asked James completely confused about what just happened.
"Like hell I would know! She just walked into my room before she suddenly started shooting at me…" James tells Noire while he is still frightened.
"What the hell is going on with her? That was anything but normal." Noire asks confused at why K-Sha was acting differently.
"You didn't do anything to make her like this did you?" Noble asks his brother.
"No! I swear I have no idea if I did do anything. She was being a total yandere and that is terrifying. I know it is scary, but I wasn't expecting it to be so… bad." James explains trying to shake off his nerves of what happened.
"... But what drove her to that state?" Uni asks
"I don't know what happened. We need to go to the Golden Summit and find out ourselves." Noire tells them, though while James is still scared to see K-Sha they agreed they need to learn what happened. The four head to the Golden Summit that is south of the city. "This is the Golden Summit… K-Sha should be at the very top of this tower."
"Uh-huh. Why did she choose a place like this?" Uni asks
"I'm not sure. But it might be…" James starts saying and Noble was wondering what he was thinking. "Uh, it's nothing. Let's just hurry and meet up with her." Noble can tell James was still feeling uncomfortable about being attacked by a yandere. Once they entered through the doors the inside looked like they were in space standing on crystalized platforms. "I can feel some kind of mystical power inside this place… I wonder if this is the source… come on let's find a way to go upwards." The four go through a portal to the next floor and they slay the huge amount of monsters on the small platform to get to the next portal to the top and see K-Sha waiting.
"Hmhm… you're finally here." K-Sha says with the creepy look still on her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Noire tells her
"See, Noire? Even though you took your sweet old time to get here, I waited for you, as promised." K-Sha tells her. "... but since you were so late, and I was bored, I ended up making a lot of Noires." No kidding there were a lot of copies of Noire behind her.
"Gah?! Why did you make so many?! Why did you make these at all?!" Noire asks freaking out.
"Woah, that's a lot of big sisters!" Uni says surprised at the clones of Noire.
"Never in my life would I think I'd see this kind of thing again…" James says remembering the time with Rei Ryghts years ago.
"Agreed…" Noble agrees with James looking frightened now thinking K-Sha is obsessed with Noire all of a sudden.
"How do they look? They're so cute, just like you, Noire… aren't they?" K-Sha asks
"C-Cute… K-Sha… who exactly are you?" Noire asks
"... You're right. There shouldn't be any secrets between us. I'll tell you. I am K-Sha. Lastation's Gold Third." She tells them.
"You're the Gold Third of Lastation…?!" Noire asks and James facepalmed
"You're kidding? Honestly it was obvious already. She is the same exact one you fought before." James explains.
"K-Sha. Stop being ridiculous. You don't need to duel James. Let's just talk this through." Noire tells her.
"Sorry. Can't do. This has already been decided." K-Sha says
"Decided? Just hang on. Even if you won the duel, it's not like I just magically become "yours." Noire says to her.
"Then, what must I do to make you mine?" K-Sha asks her, really wanting to be with Noire desperately. Noire looked annoyed then thought of something.
"K-Sha, battle me. If you win, then I'm all yours." Noire tells her and the others weren't expecting her to say that.
"Noire?! WHAT?!" All three say at the same time.
"You heard me. This is the only option right now, she's not gonna listen to anything else. But, I'm sure my voice will reach her during battle." Noire tells them.
"I will say you are nuts… but if you are serious about this, just telling you that it'll be much harder before because last time I linked my abilities to you." James tells her.
"Noire, are you serious about your proposal?" K-Sha asks her.
"Completely. I can appreciate a challenge. I like people who are stronger than me, too." Noire tells her.
"I see… then, if that's the case, I'm gonna give it my all." K-Sha says holding two guns in her hands and her eyes change to a golden color.
-Play Kingdom Hearts 2 ost Sinister Shadows-
"Me too!" Noire says summoning her weapon and transforms into Black Heart. The two girls ready themselves for battle while the others stay on the sidelines where they are to just watch. The first move is made by Black Heart flying towards K-Sha as she loads her guns and starts firing at Black Heart. The CPU jumps over the bullets and swings horizontally knocking K-Sha back some distance away though she switches her weapon to a launcher and fires a rocket and Black Heart barely gets out of the only to get hit by the blast a bit. She readies herself and quickly charges at K-Sha and does a swift kick strike leaving K-Sha open and gets struck again.
"It looks like Noire is watching her moves before making a move." Noble notices as Black Heart blocks K-Sha's bullets with one side of her sword.
"There have been times when I noticed Jeff did the same thing against me… He would watch what I do and then at the exact moment he would catch me off guard and strike…" James explains remembering the first time he met Jeff and lost to him. The two girls continued switching offence and defense when a sudden powerful quake got them off balance for a bit.
"Whoa that was sudden! Since when do quakes happen like this?!" Uni asks not actually expecting an earthquake, though James and Noble had an idea of what it was.
"If I had to guess… it might be Jeff using a slight amount of his strength against some kind of powerful person. I wouldn't be surprised if he did so, though he does plan to use it against Jexon." James says as the two are still continuing with Black Heart taking stance reading her ultimate skill.
"Against the Black Wizard?! But isn't he unable to die?" Uni asks.
"True he does have immortality, however what Jeff has could possibly be what actually finishes him off for real." Noble says while Uni is in shock of what the two are saying.
"How strong did they get after leaving us...?" Uni asks herself in her thoughts as Black Heart flies at K-Sha and strikes her then turns back to her attacking again and repeats 9 more times then stops with her sword changing shape and glowing striking 2 more times and then does an upper slice going into the air throwing her sword down at K-Sha and snaps her fingers causing multiple slashes to strike K-Sha causing her to fall down to her knees and lose the golden tint in her eyes and Black Heart reverts back as Noire once again signaling her victory.
-End music-
"The battle's over, K-Sha. I've won this time." Noire tells her and K-Sha looks up at her with a sad expression.
"How could I lose…? Even when… I love Noire… this much…" K-Sha says
"L-Love?! W-W-What are you saying?!" Noire asks with a slight blush not expecting her to say such a thing.
"You're more kind and stronger than anyone I know… not to mention you're cute… and stylish… and graceful… Ever since I met you in that park in Planeptune, I've been in love with you, Noire!" K-Sha explains to her.
"Wait… I think we saw her when Neptune and Jeff returned that one day… That explains why she said Planeptune…" James says quietly so only Noble and Uni heard.
"I want you to notice me! I want you to know me!" K-Sha says "But you don't even look at me!"
"T-That's not true! I've been looking…!" Noire argues.
"That's a lie and you know it! You don't look at all! You're always too busy with James! Even when you told me we'd be friends… Why have you betrayed me…?" K-Sha asks and Noire finally snaps.
"Oh, this is so damn ridiculous. I can't put up with this." Noire says annoyed which made K-Sha worry a bit. "Why did I become friends with a girl like this?"
"Why are you saying… something so horrible…?" K-Sha asks
"Because all you wanted was a friendship that was convenient for you. Right? Friends. Yeah, right, "friends." Calling such a shallow relationship a friendship is almost laughable. K-Sha. I seriously thought I could become a real friend to you." Noire says and K-Sha questions herself. "Something more than just friends; I could've been a true, close friend that laughs with you, cries with you, hell, even gets angry with you… if we were doing something wrong, we'd scold each other, fight, then make up. And, I don't know if I'm just crazy, but that's why I'm still here right now. Won't you let me become your true friend? If you're having troubles, I'd help you get through them. We could get through it all together! If you're smiling, I want to be there right next to you, smiling with you! K-Sha, you're… just… don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're replaceable."
"An irreplaceable… friend…? I'm really… your true friend, Noire…?" K-Sha asks her, seeming to come to her senses possibly.
"I'm sorry, K-Sha. I should've told you this sooner. B-But you know… I'm embarrassed saying this kind of stuff, I couldn't bring myself to. Golly, saying all that kinda reminds me of Jeffrey telling us the same stuff. Telling that everyone should respect their friends, even doing all that stuff together. If I would've just told you this, we wouldn't have had so much trouble." Noire explains with a smile.
"Please, don't apologize… you're not at fault… I want to be… a real friend to you, as well. I want to always be with you, too…!" K-Sha tells her with tears coming out. "I'm sorry… I've caused so much trouble… Um, and I've been so horrible to James…"
"It's alright. I won't hold a grudge. I understand." James says, who is still slightly afraid to be near her. K-Sha thanked him.
"Now that we've resolved this safely, let's head back to Lastation. There's a billion things I want to ask you." Noire tells K-Sha.
"Yes, I won't hide things from you anymore. Please ask me anything. We're real friends now." K-Sha says happily
"Right. So we are." Noire said who is also happy.
"... U-Um, Noire! I-If it's alright, please give me your hand!" K-Sha says which Noire was confused but did so and she shook her hand asking formally to be close friends which Noire agreed, and Noire asked her to try to get along with James which made K-Sha have a look of uncertainty and James with a gloomy expression. James decided to go on ahead with Noble behind him knowing very well he might not get along with K-Sha after just one incident.
"I see, so that is what happened…" Cassandra says understanding what the boys told her while Noire and Uni are talking with K-Sha.
"Yeah, I'm still shaken up from what K-Sha did. Noire did tell her to try to get along with me but I'm certain that might not happen…" James tells her. "In all honestly I think I'd rather trust you more than K-Sha."
"That makes me happy to hear. Although I am sure you don't trust me fully." Cassandra says not bothered by not being trusted yet.
"Yea… I just wonder why she suddenly became like that." James says
"I'm not sure, but I can tell you some stuff about her. So you know about the renewed Order right?" Cassandra asks and the two nod. "Well K-Sha was part of the Order before, she was a soldier of that group."
"It explains her personality change when fighting with Noire before." Noble says remembering how K-Sha was different when battling.
"I was sure the Order told her to assassinate you and Noire, however she couldn't bring herself to do it. I'm pretty certain the Order now wants to remove her and the four of you so they can begin the war they dreamed of, I dedicated myself to being a spy to understand what they plan to do." Cassandra explains.
"Of course they would, however we are sure to have a war on our hands someday in the future against Jexon. We have to be really prepared ourselves for that." James says
"I am uncertain of what they plan to do, but I believe they want to remove K-Sha's source of power which is in the golden tower. You'll have to go see if they went there." Cassandra tells them.
"Perfect, then this will be the time to settle things and stop their plans for war." James stands up and Noble follows out the room and the three girls are heading to the tower being told the same info. The 5 head to the golden tower and notice footprints going to the tower.
"These footprints… I feel like they weren't here the last time I came through this area…" K-Sha says now sounding worried.
"Looks like they found out about your source of power. From the looks of these tracks, they got heavy artillery… they might be expecting us." James examines them seeing that the Order might be prepared for them arriving.
"K-Sha, this is as far as you can go. We don't know what's up ahead. The four of us will continue on and take care of whatever's up there." Noire tells her.
"Okay… I did promise you, after all." She says, while she is still worried about what might happen.
"Thank you, K-Sha. Knowing you'll be waiting for me to return gives me the strength to try even harder to stay alive." Noire tells her and the four of them renter the tower and take the portals towards the Top area seeing a Shrine with a glowing centerpiece possibly being the power source for K-Sha. There is also a large machine and the Woman they have encountered before. "W-What is that robot?"
"So, CPUs and Protectors, you've come to get in the way." The woman says turning to them.
"We met you at the Basilicom… Looks like K-Sha's intuition was spot on." Noire says now becoming serious.
"I thought she'd lost her edge, but her instincts are as sharp as they were when she was in the Order. She should've waited patiently for death." She says a little annoyed.
"So it is as expected. You're planning on destroying the tower with that machine. We won't allow you to do so. Even if you get K-Sha out of the way, we will stop you." James says drawing his sword.
"How foolish. The position you all are in doesn't warrant this excess of confidence. This was created some time ago to destroy you… to destroy any and all CPUs and Protectors… consider it an Anti-Guardian Mobile Weapon!" She explains while James scoffed at her words.
"It may be Anti-Guardian or some nonsense, however you're sorely mistaken if you think some machine can overpower us! Noire, Uni, Noble, let's do this!" James says now with fighting spirit and the two girls transform into Black Heart and Black Sister, something in James' pocket glows a slight blue glow.
"You can sit back and watch as we turn that robot into a pile of scrap metal!" Black Heart tells the woman as she and James take the front-line and both Black Sister and Noble stay back since they use range type weapons.
"Transformation complete. I won't let you kill my sister, our protectors, or K-Sha!" Black Sister says readying her massive gun. The machine moves towards them as Noble and Black Sister load up and fire at it as James and Black Heart move to its sides and slash the body. The machine aims it's cannon at James and fires while James stood there he readies himself and accurately slices the blasts that were fired at him. He then saw the machine's arm change to fire but both Noble and Black Sister blasted the machine away having Black Heart leap and she does a horizontal slash at it, but then gets smacked away while James moved and caught her from smashing to the ground and sending an Ice blast freezing the legs.
"Thanks James." Black Heart says glad for his assistance. "But it's far from over yet!"
"Agreed, then let's get it with our power combined." James tells her which she nods agreeing as James is surrounded by electricity using the Lightning buff and the two charge at the machine with great speed and moving around slashing from different angles as Noble did the same shooting electrified bullets. The machine started to topple and fall on the floor malfunctioning. "Pffft! Well for a weapon that's supposedly to be anti-Guardian, it was all bark and no bite!"
"Now, you're all that's left. Throw away your weapon and surrender quietly." Noble tells the woman with his dual guns pointed at her.
"... Heh heh. I've never appreciated your personality more than now, Black Knight." She says with a smirk and presses a button causing some gas to leak out of the machine.
"T-This is…?! Everyone, cover your mouth! Don't breathe in that mist!" James warns them
"Haha! Foolish! You cannot escape! It's useless for you to close your mouth, your body will absorb it from the air!" The woman says with a grin as she already won.
"If that's the case, then…" James uses his telekinesis power to push the other three just out of range of the mist. While he got them out safely he started losing strength dropping the sword he was holding and unable to breathe making his heartbeat increase. "I can't… losing strength…" He falls flat on the ground.
"James!?" Black Heart shouted not expecting James to risk his life like this. "What have you done to him?! What is this gas?!" she demanded from the woman.
"Didn't I say? This is an Anti-Guardian weapon. We've been putting all of our efforts into this virus to crush you. It's a shame you were unable to neutralize it or the Order. But don't worry. You'll meet your end soon enough. Our weapon won't move, but we've still manufactured plenty of the virus." The woman explains while still smirking, as Black Heart cursed herself.
"Watch from the afterlife as Gamindustri sinks into the depths of delusions!" The woman says until bullet fire hits her and makes her numb and then falls unconscious which the fire came from K-Sha.
"K-Sha! It's an emergency! James! James is…!" Black Heart tells her panicking.
"Please, calm down, Noire, and tell me exactly what happened." K-Sha says and the three quickly explain the situation. "I came because I heard a loud noise, but to think this is what happened…" the trio go to the fallen James and Noire kneels down and turns him to her barely having his eyes opened.
"N-Noire… I…" James starts speaking weakly.
"Don't speak. Please. I'm taking you to the hospital right away." Noire tells him while he is breathing heavily.
"I'm sorry… but… I think this… might be it… for me…" He tells her.
"You idiot! Don't even talk like that! I'm not letting you die!" Noire tells him feeling angry.
"I always thought… if it had to end… then at least I'll know… you're safe…" James says trying to lift a hand placing it on Noire's
"James, no! Please, James, don't give up now! I'll do something, we'll manage something! Keep your eyes open, stay with me, James!" Noire starts tearing up.
"No...ire… it's… alright…" He continues.
"It's not alright at all! Why are you giving up, you idiot?!" Noire asks him, and tears drop from her eyes.
"I'm… a Goddess Protector… It's my… fate to protect you… I'm glad… to have met you… and everyone else…" He continues telling her as he has tears and slightly tightens his grip on her hand. "But… I'm afraid… I'm afraid… I don't… want to die…" Noire hugs him to her chest starting to cry while Noble and Uni stood there watching in fright.
"James, please hold on for ten… No, five minutes!" K-Sha suddenly speaks up.
"K-Sha… what… are you…?" James weakly asks her wondering what she plans to do.
"I'm going to create a serum using my blood!" K-Sha says
"Huh?! What are you talking about?! Please, explain!" Noble says as she readies some equipment.
"There's no time now! I'll explain later! Everyone, do your best to keep James awake. Don't let him fall asleep or we might lose him for good!" K-Sha tells them. "I will save you, James! Just hold on!" While the trio keep James from death K-Sha works on making the serum and gives it to James. "I've administered the serum… his condition should subside once some time passes." James' breathing starts to slow down and relax showing that he will be alright.
"How are you feeling? Does it hurt anywhere?" Noire asks him
"I feel a bit dizzy right now, but I think I'll be okay." James tells her and has his arm over his head.
"Oh, thank goodness! James, I was so worried!" Noire says and hugs him again.
"Don't strangle him, give him some time to rest!" Noble tells her and James nods.
"O-Oh, right, I'm sorry. I'm just so… so happy…" Noire says tearing up. "I'm not gonna let go of you ever again. I'll always stay right here by your side."
"At least you aren't being Tsundere about it, but I'm happy to hear you say that finally." James tells her with a slight smile.
"Ngh…! No, no! It was a good thing that I saved James! Or else Noire would've been sad!" K-Sha shouts out placing her hands on her head like she is hearing something they can't.
"K-Sha? What's wrong?" Noire asks her slightly frightened she said something odd.
"What's gotten into her?" Noble asked, wondering what is happening to K-Sha. As she yells out her name.
"I'm right here, K-Sha! I'm right here, so calm down." Noire tells her as James finally felt something.
"Noire… help me…! All of this animosity is overflowing… I can't… hold back anymore!" K-Sha says as a dark aura surrounds her being.
"So that's it…" James says now realizing it wasn't just by accident that K-Sha attacked him.
"You won't try to save me, Noire?" K-Sha asks her, as she is now consumed by the darkness.
"What? What are you saying, of course I-" Noire tried telling her but gets interrupted.
"Why won't you say that you'll stay here by my side?! You said it to James!" K-Sha says.
"Calm down! Listen to what I'm saying!" Noire tells her standing up and James only sitting up to see what will happen.
"Rrgh… N-No…! Noire promised that she would always be my friend!" K-Sha yells out like she has someone inside her head. "She said she'd stay with me! I won't be thrown away by anyone!"
"I get it… someone is doing this to her, why didn't I notice it before?" James asked himself as he stood up. "That darkness surrounding her is definitely the cause of why she is acting like this."
"Do you think it's Jexon doing it?!" Noble asks worried about K-Sha.
"No… Me and the other guys can easily tell what kind of Magic he uses, this is completely different. Whatever this is we have to knock some sense into her!" James says as he picks up his sword and pulls out the blue gem in his pocket.
"Wait bro are you kidding?! You wanna do such a thing after what she is saying?!" Noble asks him.
"She did save my life, and I owe her for that. We just need to weaken her so we can break that darkness surrounding her. It has clearly clouded her mind." James explains to them.
"Then we'll do just that, come on Uni!" Noire tells her sister summoning her sword and Uni doing the same with her rifle.
-Play Kingdom Hearts BBS ost Dark Impetus-
"Alright… I'll help." Noble says with a sigh and pulls out his pistols and K-Sha has the golden tint in her eyes showing she is going all out. Noire and James charge at her as she aims her guns at them and fires a round of bullets which they dodge them though James still trying to recover gets hit in the arm. Though it doesn't stop him from moving and striking K-Sha pushing her away as she loads up again and fires again making James jump away and both Noble and Uni take different directions as Noire lands next to Uni and takes charge while Uni fires a couple of shots at K-Sha with Noire attacking her a few times.
"Uni!" Noire signals her sister having her fire some shots and hitting K-Sha though they notice the aura still not vanishing and she launches dark energy orbs causing them to explode having the four move out of the way. "She didn't have stuff like that before!"
"It must be that darkness, she is catching us off guard with them!" James says dodging a dark blast from K-Sha and he launches an ice blast and K-Sha counters with another dark blast causing a powerful explosion. Noire runs at K-Sha and jumps avoiding the bullets and does a downward slash knocking K-Sha back. She then switches to more weapons and fires out rockets having the four spread around and K-Sha shooting at them doing damage to them especially to James who she seems to be aiming at most of the time.
"Uni, let's do this!" Noble tells her as they go in shooting large blasts at K-Sha, Noble switching to sub machine guns and firing flame bullets and Uni shooting a beam at her. K-Sha let's loose and fires a whole clip of bullets and the two continue the gun fight as Noble switches and creates a symbol from above K-Sha and fires a single beam which makes the symbol consume the energy and burst with multiple smaller ones and showers K-Sha in it. James stands up watching K-Sha looking to struggle with trying to break free from the darkness corrupting her. Noire gets close a couple of times and tries to call out to her in hoping it would work, however each was the same as K-Sha continued fighting back.
"You are part of Gold Third, you have been a cheerful and carefree girl when we met. You helped treat our injuries, and now I will help you get out of the darkness." James grips the blue gem and he charges at K-Sha with the Gem glowing and forming into a second sword and his eyes change to the same blue color as he takes a stance having the two swords glow a bluish green color and he starts doing a powerful combo attack on her destroying the floating mechanical pieces around her and does a powerful thrust knocking her back and causing the aura to flicker. "K-Sha! come back to your senses!" the gem changes back to its original form and the glow from it brightens and burns away the dark aura on her and her eyes now become lifeless as she falls down flat.
-End music-
Once everything was calmed down the others stopped and took a breather.
"Two fights in a row is pretty rough…" Noire says tired.
"Agreed… luckily we were able to stop that darkness… and I'm certain that K-Sha will be fine now." James tells them as K-Sha starts to move and slowly gets up looking confused.
"H-Huh…? What was I…?" She asks confused
"I see you finally come to your senses again…" James says to her.
"Noire, Uni, James, Noble… you're all so battered… It's all my fault, isn't it…?" K-Sha says feeling regretful, then aims her gun at the core and fires at it which shatters the crystal.
"What was that? What did you do?" Noire asks
"I just destroyed the source of my power, the Gold Crystal. Lots of Share power was flowing through the crystal directly into me." K-Sha explains. "But because I had this power… I just became a pawn… I was used…"
"I didn't think such a secret existed in this tower…" Uni says and K-Sha looked at Noire with a sad expression.
"Noire, I'm so sorry… There's… no way I could still be your friend after all of this… I won't get close to you… otherwise, I'm sure I'll just make more trouble for you. So, please, forget about me, Noire. It… may take some time, but I'll forget, as well..." K-Sha tells her looking sad.
"Do you want to forget me? If you cause trouble, if you hurt me, you just want to forget me and pretend it never happened?" Noire asks her which K-Sha was silent, unsure about it. "You really are an idiot. This sort of thing is like a daily occurrence for us."
"D-Daily occurrence…? Something like this?" K-Sha asks Noire, surprised to hear that.
"There's a dumbass out there who always brings trouble with her and has petty fights over games every other week." Noire tells her and the others know who she is talking about. "And on top of that, even though she's at fault, she never apologizes. It's the worst."
"Pffft, you got that right. I swear, everytime she does something stupid this guy always has to get mixed into her messes dealing with her 24/7." James tells K-Sha talking about a certain someone also.
"You've apologized. You're already surpassing her as far as I'm concerned. So, K-Sha, don't keep saying stuff about not being friends anymore or wanting me to forget you. It's unnecessarily sad." Noire tells her.
"Sad? That can't be true… I was jealous, possessive, and I couldn't contain it, it made me so reckless in the end. How could you ever forgive me, let alone like me…?" K-Sha asks Noire.
"It's true. Your jealousy was worrisome, but I'm sure it'll get better once you have more friends around you. It's no big deal, really." Noire explains
"What if I lose it again and hurt someone?" K-Sha asks
"We'll cross that bridge if we ever get there, and I'll just punch you again to knock some sense back into you. I promised you, didn't I? If you were doing something wrong, I'd stop you, even if I had to beat you silly." Noire tells her.
"And Friends always look out for one another, so no matter what happens you can always have someone to help you out." James tells her remembering Jeff always telling that to others. "I should also be ready for when the day comes to when we go up against Jexon and his army."
After the mishaps in the Golden Tower James and others took the leader of the Order and put her into a cell making sure that she will not escape and make a plan for war. He knows that having two other groups starting a war will be huge trouble for them, all he hopes for is that the others are safe.
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