Chapter 29: Gravitus IV: Selfless Acts

Mew kept his distance from Gravitus as the man's hand stirred with energy. His cryptic words, though perceived as a bluff in Mew's head, did instill a sense of worry that he could not properly explain.

"'The first key'...? Yo 'D.', do you have any idea what he's talking about?"

The demon grumbled internally and responded in kind, "He's just trying to distract you. Maybe you should mess up his face some more for good measure..."

Mew looked at Gravitus scratched up, blood-soaked face and nudged his puckered lips aside, "Eh, he looks good enough as is. A face befitting the man and monster..."

Gravitus still kept his hand raised and slowly let out his breaths, making a quiet hissing sound. Mew raised his brows and remarked aloud, "So I'll be taking this as your sign of surrender?"

He cracked a savage grin and bluntly told him, "Because it looks to me like you barely got enough energy to work with!"

Gravitus' lips moved to smile in a gruesome fashion thanks to his blood dripping off of them. He then raised his head and remarked with his former calmness, "There is no end to my power. For I am the one chosen by the universe to save it."

"This again? Give it a rest already!" Mew lashed out, moaning tiredly as he rolled his eyes.

"Such a simple-minded answer..." Gravitus wiggled his fingers and raised his eyes a bit to look down on Mew, "What was that phrase you used a moment ago? 'You were the instrument of your own demise'? Funny how so quickly that phrase would be turned against you."

Mew grinned and raised his claws towards Gravitus' face, "If you think you can beat me by bluffing you've got another thing coming buster."

"Bluff? Me? I do not bluff, boy," Gravitus smirked and his tone started dripping with discordant vibes, "There was a spell placed upon all nine Planetary Aurians long ago in accordance with their titles. When all nine of them are bested in a certain period of time, the nine planets will align before the sun..."

"That sure sounds like a bunch of superstitious nonsen-"

"Kllkk!"

"What?" What sounded like a key opening a door resounded across the skies at a very high-frequency pitch. By that scope alone it couldn't have come from anywhere but the far reaches of space.

Mew swung his head up and saw that many of the clouds had parted for miles out, giving a clear view of the sun.

"When aligned, the planets act like the teeth of a key...And the sun as its head." The energy in Gravitus' hand began to fade and he propped it up by his chest.

The moment Mew lowered his head the air trembled in fear. Mew could almost feel his pupils shrink as he sensed something approaching dangerously fast from out into space. He leered at Gravitus and the man was smiling from cheek-to-cheek.

"What did you do?!" Mew growled in a demanding tone.

"You underestimated the magnitude of power the Space Drive granted me," Gravitus tone of voice turned calm and at the same time grim as he whispered, "For I have already turned the Sun..."

This wasn't a bluff anymore. Gravitus had wiggled his way into calling forth a power of catastrophic proportions, and it was coming straight for the Earth. A fact he'd obviously have no qualms gloating over.

"The power I have unlocked has been brought to your galaxy by a pair of warp gates...In just ten minutes it will pass through all nine planets and be absorbed into the sun," A set of keys glowed to life on the back of Gravitus' hand, "Fortunately I took pre-emptive measures to shield all the planets..."

His hand flickered with energy for a moment as he wiggled his fingers and the key labeled "Earth" suddenly short-circuited, "Oh but...it appears Catherine did not properly adjust this planet's barrier...What a shame."

Mew grit his teeth, lashed his right arm out and pulled Gravitus into him with a claw raised at his face, "Yeah! A shame you're going to die right now!"

"In the time it'll take for you to kill me it'll be too late to save your planet," Gravitus lorded this over Mew's head with a unflinching smile, "So what shall it be? Me? Or everyone else..."

Everything that happened so far and Mew was still telling himself that Gravitus was bluffing. His gritted teeth clattered together and his body shook.

"But if he still had enough energy to turn the goddamn sun...!" Mew briefly closed his eyes and fought against himself for a few more seconds before yelling out in frustration, "DAMN IT!"

He let go of Gravitus but then smashed his fist into his face just to ensure that he'd be out cold. Gravitus' unconscious body floated back in the air and Mew lurched his head towards the sky. A bright light was coming in fast. It was barely a twinkle now but would soon grow to swallow the planet whole.

Squeezing his fists Mew glanced back at Kairi watching him for a moment then closed his eyes and whispered, "Sorry about this..."

He then rocketed straight out into space without another word. Blazing past the planet's "-spheres" and the satellites littering them, Mew soared out into the blackened depths of space and left his blue-green home in the dust.

The cold of space felt like nothing to him in this form. He could even breathe as much as he wanted to, a blessing in this troubling time. For he breathed in and out deeply at a very frequent pace. His heart was racing. The light now seemingly passing Mars.

"There's no time to waste!" Mew motivated himself into pushing his body to its limits. His outer body crackled with black flames and red electricity as he exploded forth at double his speed. Him and the light were coming together fast, their collision sure to spell the doom for someone.

For as brief a moment as Mew got to look at it, he could see the light contained a mixture of silver energy wreathed in flames similar to the sun. No time to process why that is. Mew forced himself upright, swung his arms out, and screamed at the top of his lungs as the center of the light smashed into his palms.

"HYYYOOOOOOOORAAAAAAHHH!" He felt like his lungs were going to collapse in on themselves from the sheer volume of his scream. He went temporarily blind from the overabundance of light pressed against his body and felt dizzy from the scream.

His arms lurched back. His shoulders struggling to stay attached to the rest of his body. The scale and power of this energy was hard to grasp but it was no longer a matter of how hard something was.

"I...have to...BEAT. THIS!" Mew burrowed his claw tips into the energy and started shoving forward. Even the most minuscule of efforts felt like progress was being made. His body alone managed to slow down the beam tremendously. But without any proper footing it was going to be difficult to keep this up for very long.

And yet after a few moments of pushing his hands out with all his might, Mew felt his heels slam into a rugged, rocky surface. He glimpsed back just long enough to see that he had landed on the moon. Was this divine intervention, or just a mere stroke of luck?

"Not...gonna look a gift horse in the mouth!" Mew had bigger things to worry about and burrowed his feet deep into the moon's surface. His heels were on fire, and they carved a pair of two feet deep, mile long trenches in a matter of seconds.

The energy was still fighting on, like it simply HAD to consume the Earth. Mew grunted and groaned as his bones creaked under pressure, their sounds dwarfed by the energy crackling against his body.

The moon's help had been appreciated but now Mew also had to worry about it as well. If he let up, even for just a moment, the moon would be broken in half by their struggle. So many lives to worry about. It was a greater weight than this light could ever hope to compete with.

"Are you insane?! You're going to get us both killed!" And he REALLY did not need "D." bitching at him right now.

"S-Shut up and do your part!" He exclaimed as he squeezed the center of the energy between his arms and let out another blood-curling roar.

The energy around his body splashed back and forth. The larger chunks of rock on the moon were pulled into the light's mighty gravitational pull. It kept fighting and fighting to overcome Mew's last stand but he simply REFUSED to yield.

"W-We didn't come this far...JUST TO DIE HERE!" Mew raised and stamped his right foot hard against the ground.

"Everyone...is counting on us to win!" Mew raised and slammed his left foot hard into the ground.

"And I...WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY OUR WORLD!" Mew's face stretched to its limits as he started walking forward at tiny paces. He let out a continuous scream as the darkness around his body condensed and exploded to three times its normal size.

The faces of everyone he'd met on this long feeling journey flashed within the light and helped push him forward. All the promises he made and the people they were attached to were riding on the line. What happened beyond this point was the least of Mew's concerns. He was going to win NOW.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The darkness in Mew's arms bubbled and summoned forth hundreds upon hundreds of equally sized limbs to stretch out across the light. They then dug their claws in and squeezed down around its circumference.

Time was immaterial but the weight of the struggle had most certainly been real. Yet all that effort bore fruit as the light began to collapse down. Little but little this titanic power was being condensed into a sphere no bigger than Mew's head.

By the time it had reached that point Mew was drenched in sweat and he couldn't feel any part of his body save for his heart. He finally ended this nightmare off by crushing the energy between all his hands and letting the embers pass between the slits. He hunched over and all but his real hands faded away.

"...Wh-When I get my hands on Gravitus...Hoo boy..." Mew tried to raise his head towards where the energy came from and murmured aloud, "But man...w-where the hell did that even come from?"

"Watch out!" "D.'s" warning came too little, too late.

A sharp sensation penetrated Mew's abdomen from the back and his body was wrenched off the ground. Mew coughed up a wad of blood only for his mouth to be forced shut by a familiar hand.

Gravitus was behind him, his scythe blade now protruding through Mew and draining him of his remaining energy.

"I knew I could rely on your 'heroism' to be your undoing..." He murmured with a hint of glee to his voice. He burrowed his fingertips into Mew's face to prevent even the tiniest murmur from breaking through.

"There was no reason to fear the Earth's destruction...But your 'heroic' nature was so easily swayed by my words into believing that you had no other choice but to throw yourself in the way of the energy. You could have killed me by pushing me into the energy and then dealt with the energy itself..."

Gravitus shifted the scythe upward and nearly cut into Mew's heart and lungs, "But you never had what it takes to make the hard decisions. And that is why you have failed."

Mew threw his hands up and grabbed tightly onto the hand around his mouth to start pulling it down. It would not budge, but the effort got to Gravitus. He furrowed his brows and muttered in annoyance, "Stubborn to the bitter end..."

He grinned from cheek-to-cheek and ripped his scythe free from Mew's body as his arms fell limp to his sides. He then kept his own hand on Mew's face and levitated to get in front of him. He lowered Mew to the ground and raised his other hand by his face.

"But do not fear for your failure. When I'm done saving the universe, I will ensure that you and all like you are forgotten forever..." His hand started to glow and it illuminated his blood drenched smile.

Mew felt Gravitus' energy tightening around his body and the next thing he knew the man let him go and sent him hurtling straight towards the Earth. Mew was helpless as friction with the atmosphere engulfed his body in flames and turned him into a meteor heading straight for Sancturia.

But for as much of a madman as he was, Gravitus still held his people in some regard. Before the exact moment of impact with the Pyramid, Gravitus pulled back on his hand...And jerked Mew's body forward with so much counter force that his spine literally snapped in half.

Mew's eyes widened and the sharpest, most indescribable pain burned throughout his body. But his throat was so filled with blood that he could not scream, and his body so weak that he plopped onto the ground like a fish thrown out of the water. And as an added act of cruelty to his already despicable behavior, Gravitus ensured that Mew's body would be broken right in front of Kairi.

Mew forced out some of the blood in his throat with a couple coughs and dropped his arms to his sides.

"D-Damn it...that...sucked..." He muttered with only mild irritation in his voice.

Kairi quickly dropped to her knees besides Mew and had this teary eyed look on her face. Mew tilted his head slightly and his broken spine shot a ton of pain up to his brain for doing so. He winced one eye shut but passed it off as a wink as he smiled and said, "H-Hey...How's it going?"

Kairi's fists were curled up by his hip to support herself as her tears trickled down onto his body. She shook her head, whimpering to him, "W-What happened?"

Mew closed his eyes and passed off the pain in his usual lighthearted fashion, "O-Oh you know...I had Gravitus on the ropes when the son of a bitch threatened the planet with some out-of-nowhere energy blast...I-I went to stop it and whaddya know? He took advantage of that to stab me and drain my energy..."

Mew tried to raise his right hand to Kairi's face but it fell upon his chest. It landed so gently, yet was enough to make him cough up a bit more blood.

"Y-Yep...pretty much runnin' on empty here..." Mew's eyes started to close but he forced them open, his face quivering just to smile.

Kairi softly put her hands on Mew's chest and her white aura glowed beneath the palms. She tried push her aura into Mew's body while telling him in a panicked tone, "Just...just hold on! I'll heal you...You'll...you'll be fine!"

Mew coughed hard, drawing Kairi's gaze to his eyes. He rested his fingertips atop her hands and chuckled at her, "Don't...b-bother...You don't even know the first thing about healing..."

"Y-Yes I do..." She muttered, her eyes averting his.

"...And you call me a bad liar?" Mew said in a humored tone and slowly closed his eyes for a moment, "I-It'll be fine...just...just let me rest and I'll be in tip-top shape before you know it."

Kairi withdrew her hands but curled them into fists before they were off Mew's body. She then closed her eyes and spat out in a clueless fashion, "Why...?"

"Cause its not that b-"

"I-I mean 'Why do you keep pretending everything's going to be ok'?" She swung her tear drenched eyes open and yelled at Mew, "You're dying Mew! And this time...I-I don't think..."

"Nah." He replied coolly, taking her completely by surprise.

He smiled and looked her in the eyes, "I-I told you didn't I? I-If I'm going to die...its going to be on my terms."

"Ghh...!" Mew grimaced and looked towards the sky, "S-Saving the planet and ruining a tyrant's schemes? N-Not a bad way to go all things considered but...There's...there's still a lot I want to do."

"L-Like what?" Kairi murmured through her quivering lips.

"Well my goat buddy could still use his daily meal...I never got around to cleaning the dust mites underneath my bed...I've always wanted to go to the beach in the summertime..." Mew somehow mustered up enough strength to snap his fingers at Kairi and say, "Oh and one other thing..."

"I was...kind of hoping we'd go out on a date?"

"H..." Kairi's face turned light red as she squeamishly remarked, "Huh?!"

"Yeah you know...just to give it a shot once? Know what its like?" Mew's weird way of putting it diminished the red from Kairi's cheeks and got her looking tipsily at the ground.

"O...oh..."

"But we'll worry about that... after I get some rest..." Mew stared up at the sky and his eyes started to close.

Kairi's heart skipped a beat and she clung tightly onto Mew's hand. She raised it up to her chest and pleaded with him desperately, "D-Don't go! You're not allowed to die while I'm around, y-you got that?!"

Mew's eyes perked the tiniest bit up and he smiled at her. But instead of a heartfelt acknowledgment of her plea he chuckled at her and insisting on saying, "Q-Quit being so melodramatic...I'm telling you...It'll all be fine."

"N-No its not...not without you..." Kairi whispered aloud as she put her chin to Mew's hand and let her tears run free onto it.

Mew's face froze up. He relaxed into a smile and told her quietly, "Nah. You don't need me anymore. You've passed your classes with flying colors."

Mew's eyes closed and his voice faded into silence, "Now go...kick his ass...for..."

He shut his eyes with a smile and his hand fell out of Kairi's grasp. Kairi's hands lingered in place, soaked with Mew's dried blood. She squeezed her hands and the little bit that was moist oozed between her fingers. She hung her head over Mew's chest and whimpered, her cries deafened by the roar of thunder above.

A flash of lightning eclipsed her body in shadow, which was cast upon her by none other than Gravitus. The man lingered as a malicious presence overhead, standing before the pale clouds that cast lightning in his domineering presence.

"At long last, his discord shall spread no further..." Gravitus calm voice was the bane of Kairi's last shred of patience. Her frown quickly turned to a scowl, and her knuckles softly cracked upon her skin.

She stood onto her feet with her head still hung, enduring the callous bellowing of the man she so utterly despised, "Now then my daughter...Your time in the shadows has come to an end."

His body creaked as he drew his hand out and asked of her, "Step forth into the light. Accept your destiny. And together, we can bring peace to this-"

"Go to hell." Kairi barked back, silencing Gravitus instantly.

She turned around and swung her head up the moment she was aligned with Gravitus. Her eyes were dried and glared with a pious fury through the man's deceptive act.

"You don't want peace. You want obedience! And anyone who doesn't follow you gets a death sentence at your hands!" Kairi put a hand on her gesture and waved the other back down at Mew, "I will never follow you...Because no matter how hard you try, you'll never be even a tenth of the man Mew was!"

Gravitus slanted his eyes and the air around him grew discordant. Lightning churned as swift as a heartbeat as he growled down to his daughter, "You will take the Neo Drive, daughter."

"Never. As long as it remains out of your reach you'll never win." Kairi stood her ground and gnashed her teeth in defiance.

Gravitus closed his eyes and let out a long sigh. He only seemed mildly perturbed as he raised his hand out and set them aglow, "I allowed you free will out of courtesy towards you being my flesh and blood...But I have squandered enough time playing along with the stubbornness of a child."

Kairi became surrounded by Gravitus' energy and her body jerked around towards the Neo Drive's container. She dug her heels into the ground and fought back, but she was forcibly dragged along centimeters at a time.

"I know you are worthy. And you will receive the Neo Drive...I doubt it will care if its wielder comes with a few broken bones..."

Kairi's hand was raised against her will and she grunted with all her might to break free. But as hard as she fought, fate seemed to be inevitable...

Meanwhile, on the ground...

In the aftermath of Mew and Gravitus' brief scuffle in the city, the Aurians were coming to terms with everything they saw and heard. As some Aurians were pulled out of their broken, flipped over houses, others were murmuring amongst themselves for answers.

Bobby walked through the crowd, carrying some of the papers from Mew's notebook against his chest. He nervously peered up at the Pyramid, and could feel a terrible vibe coming from the top. Between that and the suddenness of Mew flying out to and falling from space, he couldn't shake this feeling that everything had gone horribly wrong.

But what did the other Aurians think of this? Well, some of the conversations he heard were as follows:

"What was that just now?"

"I-I don't know...It all happened so fast. There was a guy wrapped in some black goop and...I think our leader was fighting him?"

"Fighting him? Yeah he was. And he tore up part of the city just to try and get him! I almost saw my life flash before my eyes man!"

"Its not like he was trying to hurt us. You heard what he said. That stranger was an assassin sent by that witch to kill him!"

"Oh yeah, he did say that...So that black goopy person was a bad guy?"

"Yeah exactly! Lord Gravitus was fighting to protect us, and that asshole forced him into the city to make him hold back!"

"That's horrible! I can't believe that assassin would do that...Such an underhanded trick."

"I know right?"

"...S-Still, you heard what else Gravitus was saying right? About us...joining him in the stars?"

"Y-Y-You were just hearing things man. It...it was another of that assassin's dirty tricks!"

"R-Right, right...What was I thinking dude..."

"How horrible, our leader almost got us killed!"

"No he didn't, don't be stupid! It was all that evil guy's doing."

"But-"

"But nothing! I saw him hanging around with that witch and her satanic daughter. To think, they were all planning a coup this entire time!"

"I...I had no idea. He seemed like such a nice kid too when he asked me to take part in his survey."

"You let him sway you? Don't you see now that it was all part of his propaganda?!"

"I'm sorry. I should have had a little more faith in our leader's character..."

"Did I hear that right? W-Was that Gravitus guy saying something about sending us to war?"

"You got wax in your ears bro. He said we'd be joining him in the stars. Y'know like...maybe Sancturia'll become a space colony!"

"That does sound pretty rad."

"Doesn't it?! And all Gravitus has to do is eliminate a few posers and its all good!"

"Yeah, that assassin guy, the witch...Uhhhh, anyone else?"

"Probably the witch's daughter. God, I hope that bitch gets her just desserts!"

"...Y-Yeah, same here."

"What the hell?" Bobby was disgusted by all the negativity that permeated the air. It appeared as though every single Aurian besides him was content to just stand back and let things play out without listening, even the slightest bit, to any doubts they may share.

He hunched his head over with a tight scowl and his body trembled angrily at all this. He closed his eyes and the blood rushed to his head, making his vision feel hot and red. All of a sudden he blindly swung his eyes open and screamed at the top of his lungs, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

His cry spread to all throughout Sacturia thanks to his Drive and he threw his fists down to his hips. All eyes were on him as he stepped into the spotlight and stomped his feet towards his fellow Aurians with a look of utter disgust.

"You're just going to turn a blind eye to everything you saw and heard?! HUH?! Cause it sure as hell wasn't Mew who did all this damage or planted those words in Gravitus' mouth!"

"Oh yeah, and why should we listen to Mr. Co-Conspirator?" A smarmy boy nearby wound up getting decked in the face by Bobby and thrown to the ground.

"Because you've obviously got your head so far up your ass that you refuse to see reason!" The guy stayed down and nobody bothered to even try to restrain Bobby.

He turned around and put a hand on his chest and swung an arm towards the Pyramid, "Yeah! I helped Mew spread the word! And you know why?!"

He calmed down a bit and tearfully squeezed his fists by his hips, "Because a couple years ago, the girl I loved disappeared...And all signs pointed to Gravitus being responsible."

He swung his head up and resumed yelling, "Back then I was too scared to say anything, because this city and my own people had me believing it was the wrong thing to do!"

He walked over to a mother and her five-year old child and accusingly pointed at them, "Two years ago Shina babysat your kid when you were getting treated for an ear infection!"

"Y-Yes she did, b-but..."

Bobby motioned right over to a short guy a few feet away and proclaimed, "And didn't Shina help you rearrange your shelves because you were too short to reach all of them?!"

"Hey! I got a height complex-" Said the four-foot tall man.

Bobby turned around and swung his arms out, his eyes as wide as silver dollars, "Shina helped most of you out and asked nothing in return, but the moment she did something completely selfless to save Kairi's life you decided to label her as a traitor and ostracize her AND her younger sister!"

The Aurians looked at each other, some of them wearing remarkably saddened expressions. Bobby remarked in a blunt tone of voice, "Don't you see that this is what Gravitus wanted all along?! He's lied to us! Manipulated us! All so we'd become his pawns, and turn our heads away while he gets away with murder and god knows what else?!"

"And don't tell me none of you have ever thought this way. I've read the notes Mew collected..." Bobby left the doubtful no choice but to step forth and expose themselves and their opinions to the general public. Little did Bobby know though was that his words were having an effect on all of Sancturia...

There were still a few bitter folk who brought up points like "Kairi's hurt us!" or "Auris is a heartless, immortal witch!" but Bobby was armed and ready to beat back these words with his own.

"Kairi went too far. I'm not going to deny that...But does that mean she should pay for it with her life?! Aren't we all better than that?!" He closed his eyes and let out a deep breath, "And I'm not 100% sure of the kind of person Auris is but I do know one thing...She is a mother. And if any of you parents out there lost their children to a cold, heartless tyrant I doubt you'd feel inclined to be very social either..."

Some of the adults in the area looked down at their kids and a couple of them picked them up to hug them tight. Bobby caught his breath for a few seconds and then a girl stood out from the crowd to approach him with an earnest question.

"B-But what can we do...? He's...he's a monster..."

Bobby closed his eyes and remembered what Mew told him, then repeated it to the crowds as loud as he could muster, "Our bodies may be weak but we'll show that bastard that our hearts are stronger than his!"

He then swung his fist high up and filled it with his glowing aura, letting out a roar of imminent triumph, "Are you ready?!"

All throughout Sancturia, fists were raised aglow as they shouted out a collective, "YEAH!"

Atop the Pyramid, Gravitus looked down at all these lights and lit up with a smile, "Ah wonderful. My people are already celebrating..."

Kairi was inches away from the Neo Drive, and she was still struggling with all she got. Gravitus couldn't wait any longer. He turned from the lightshow and shoved Kairi the last step of the way to the pillar. The forceful caress of her fingertips on the glass pane nevertheless made it disappear from sight.

Gravitus' eyes bulged and he trembled at the hand as he muttered, "Finally...I knew it to be true..."

Suddenly all those lights that he had dismissed as mere fireworks converged upon his location simultaneously. Alone they were mere flies, but together they struck with a resounding thunderclap of blasts that rattled the man's body and made him recoil a bit back in shock.

"W-What?!" He growled as he swung his head around and wondered, "What is the meaning of this?!"

Kairi let out a gasp as her body was set free from Gravitus' control. Her hand fell and rested on the edge of the Neo Drive's container. Inside, the rainbow stone inviting her with its magnificent glow. She slowly raised her head and turned it down towards the city.

"E-Everyone..." She had no further words beyond that, and no time to think of any. Gravitus was distracted, his eyes darting to-and-fro for answers.

Kairi firmed her gaze onto the Neo Drive and ripped it free from its confines. Without thinking she slapped it down onto her bracelet to activate it.

Gravitus swung his head back and thrust his hand out while yelling, "NO!"

But he had missed his chance. A bright, pale neon light flushed forth from the stone and alighted the sky clean of all its discorded clouds. Softly the Neo Drive's power shone, quietly did it stir the air. In its presence Gravitus grit his teeth and found his body being pushed back against his will.

In the center of the light Kairi closed her eyes and felt the layers of her body being peeled away at. But it did not hurt. It was...rather comforting actually. And amidst this warmth an elderly woman's voice called out to her.

"Well done my child...I knew that someday I could entrust someone with this power...The future's yours to decide, but I know you shall make it bright..."

The light collapsed around Kairi like a cocoon and then cracked open as a pair of foggy rainbow butterfly wings on her back. Each part of the wing was as big as she was. But beyond that nothing had changed outwardly. She was in her regular clothes, and floated there with her head held up and a pointed glare aimed at Gravitus.

The man quivered in his shoes and grit his teeth into a scowl. Kairi spoke, her voice containing a mild but divine echo, "Its over Gravitus. You have lost."

Gravitus closed his eyes and grumbled like a spoiled child, "Betrayed...by my own people!"

Kairi thrust her hand up towards him and exclaimed, "There's only one traitor here...!"

She then squeezed her fist at him and remarked, "And he's about to leave this world for good!"

Gravitus shook some more but then rose his body up, beaming with a maddening smile. He swung his right arm down and summoned his scythe to his hand, remarking in an unwarranted tone of confidence, "Do not get cocky with me daughter...You may wield my power now but I am still the strongest Aurian who has ever lived! And I will take back what is rightfully mine soon enough..."

Kairi planted her fist to her hip and shook her head almost out of pity for the man's delusions, "I get it now. The Neo Drive isn't a power meant for one person..."

Her eyes flared open and her irises glowed with a neon energy as she yelled out, "This power belongs to everyone! And so someone selfish like you...would never have been able to use it properly!"

"You do not understand power. But I will make you understand..." Gravitus' scythe blade whirred with a sinister energy.

Kairi spread her new wings and declared, "Your reign. The lies. All the terror you caused my family and Mew...It all ends right here, right NOW Gravitus!"

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