Chapter 14: Darkness incarnate
Looking at the dark sky on top of me, I couldn't help but cry as everything clashed on me as I curled up and sobbed my heart out. Looking back at the times we had for only those few short days, I wished that we had more time to hang out with each other.
Unfortunately for me, it seemed that whatever this place was didn't want me to remember my friends. Several large shadow beings formed around me, taking positions as large shadow swords formed in their hands.
"Why can't they just leave me alone, "I thought my time of mourning was at an end. Quickly getting to my combat stance, I was surprised instead of one keyblade appearing in my hand, a second one appeared.
"Oathkeeper and Oblivion," I thought, ironically finding the situation depressing as I wielded the two keyblades my friend had. Quickly steeling myself I looked towards the lumbering creatures as I prepared for whoever is going to attack.
Then the battle began in earnest, with one of the creatures immediately taking a swipe at m bearing its shadow blade in an overhead strike and another thrusting with the blade. Immediately dodging the first and barely parrying the second, I climbed up the blade of the first and slashed it destroying it in one hit. And yet, it was all for naught as it reformed just as quickly as I destroyed it.
Quickly seeing that this is proving to be a fight tougher than everything I faced, I quickly did anything and everything I could. Shards of ice, thunder, and lightning and even fire were employed with orbs of lights that came with my finishers. I then realized with increasing horror, that they weren't reviving faster, they were multiplying. Quickly looking around, a sense of dread and a bit of fear filled me as I watched what was originally two became four hundred and so on and so forth.
The increasing amount of the monsters placed me on the back foot as more and more surged forward. I quickly looked for a way to escape and I found it, between several hundred of these monsters. So steeling myself I charged the growing horde ducking, weaving, dodging and parrying while slashing away to force them to part ways.
Reaching halfway to my destination, I have never felt so exhausted in my life. The creatures quickly reached in the thousands, the path that I instinctively knew was quickly covered with the large lumbering beasts. Putting my keyblades on my side, they quickly surged forward when a moment of inspiration hit me. As one tried to get me from behind, I quickly jumped on it and used it to push me forwards allowing me to dive into them.
Using this boost in height and speed, I slashed and bounced from shadow to shadow allowing the tide to shift for only a moment. Landing down onto the path, I turned around as I watched them coalesce to form something even larger. "Oh my…" were my only thoughts as my hands quickly started to shake seeing it tower over me.
"So you are the pest that I was sent to ensure that you don't escape, again." The beast rumbled as I looked at it with determination and yet it can look through me. "I enjoy the smell of fear that I'm getting from you, much better than the void that fills all the shadows."
I stood there silent, not trusting myself to speak. It chuckled similar to more of a rockslide instead of an actual chuckle "No words? Then THIS will make you speak!"
As he said, with speed that seemed wrong for the tall being, I jumped on its arm only to be shocked when several of the creatures I fought earlier formed along its arms. "Love the surprise? The golems are some of the deadliest denizens of the darkness. So do us a favor and FALL!"
Hearing the words of the giant, something snapped in me. I didn't know it at the time, but the widening of the giant's eyes quickly helped me see it the creature that I am facing for the first time.
Much like the heartless on the different worlds I traveled, their defining features are their yellow eyes but that's not the only things that stand out. If I have one word to describe them, I would say that they look to be more like shades of people. Some of them looked like shades of knights, some looked similar to Beast and others too. However, it was the creature that spoke to me that showed a major difference.
Unlike others, its eyes were crimson red that would freeze anybody just from it staring at them. Its body had something similar to different symbols etched on what appeared to be fur. The symbols varied from the nobody symbol, the heartless symbol to one where it appeared to be two kingdom keys crossed together that are aimed upward with a giant yellow heart in the background. The fur itself seemed to change from the darkest black to shiny ebony similar to a black pearl and finally changed to grey.
The head of this creature couldn't be seen due to the height of it, however, it didn't stop the feeling of dread that quickly filled me as its eyes darted towards me. For some apparent reason, I can tell that he was surprised for only a moment before its eyes narrowed.
"So that's the reason why he chose you." He growled out making me confused. "No matter, not even he, the ender of worlds can stop what is to come!"
Looking at the creature, I didn't know it at first, but my eyes flashed purple for a moment before my form changed. Unlike the drive forms that were seen in Kingdom Hearts 2, I looked similar to Xemnas when he fought Sora and Riku in his artificial kingdom heart. My clothes turned from black to purple with dawn yellow nobody symbols racing upwards on my battle cloak. On the back, a giant Roman numeral 14 is etched on the back.
My keyblades changed too, instead of the dual keyblades that I wielded, it turned to a single one. The key blade was black with white flames going up throughout it. On the key portion, the black head of oblivion had blue crystals that pulsed the light that seemed to radiate from me. Finally the keychain didn't have the crown that came from Sora, instead, it had a wayfinder with a scythe surrounding it. The keyblade was a new one, unlike others that I have seen it didn't have a name until I uttered its new name, A Light from Darkness.
The creature hissed at me seeing my new look, and I saw maybe some fear before it roared out its command. "Destroy her!" It said as I calmly looked at all of them coming towards me...then I moved.
Unlike the last time where I was quickly put on the defensive, I cut through all the targets with ease. The attacks that were once ineffective quickly proved to be powerful as flames the size of three-story buildings engulfed large hordes with the direction of my blade, Ice that spawns thousand mini versions quickly overran the enemy while thunder blasted even the toughest of enemies.
"Impossible! We will not be stopped by an upstart keyblade wielder who thinks that they can stop the approaching doom!" It said as it split itself into three more copies of itself as they moved to attack me. However, I was unafraid, as they moved towards me, I quickly dodged each one of their attacks. The wayfinder on my neck that went unnoticed quickly grew several times brighter than even the light from kingdom hearts.
The four beings now watched in horror as the light engulfed me only to display that I had one final upgrade. Unlike the last time where it was a change, this time many keyblades floated around me as beautiful ebony wings shined from my back. My eyes turned into a dark shade of purple, replacing my irises with the colors similar to an evening sunset.
Looking at the four creatures, I disappeared from their sight, only for all of the clones to be destroyed and the main one to start attacking ferociously. From his back, hundreds of tendrils of darkness quickly were released as they moved to snuff out the light I produced with more and more being added to the barrage. But I stayed undaunted, looking at the creature, its eyes widening in fear as I aimed my keyblade at him.
"Light show!" I called out as the dark void that we were once in quickly filled with light. From the skies of the once dark void, thousands of yellow shafts of light impacted the creature who managed to stay shrouded in darkness. Yet it didn't fall, instead, he sent his dark tendrils against the light displaying an epic battle. Yet it was clear it is weakening, eventually succumbing to the light.
Down on the ground, I can clearly see its face for the first time as the darkness surrounding its head was destroyed. It had the head similar to a demon, found only in myths and legends. It had wings that were unable to be seen in the darkness but now they displayed that they were wreathed in darkness with the skin being similar to dragons.
"It can't be, how could I lose to you." He said as he disappeared in a dark pool leaving me alone at this white room. Looking around, I found myself alone and the room wasn't darkening to my surprise.
"A congratulation is in order, he has been one of the more stubborn of individuals that escaped my grasp." A voice called out and I turned to face Death.
"So this was a test," as I clamped down on the growing fury that was close to exploding from what I heard.
"You're not wrong, and yet you're not right either." He said as he started walking away. Seeing this, I quickly caught up to him as I walked with him side by side.
"What do you mean by that?" I questioned as he seemed to ignore me in favor of continuing to walk. Towards our destination.
Finally tearing my eyes away from him, I realized that the background wasn't white anymore. Instead, it was filled with buildings that quickly started to rise that was different from the different worlds that I visited. It seemed, futuristic and maybe even modern.
"Where are we heading," I asked curiously as he stopped in front of a building. It looked similar to a Victorian style apartment, complete with roman style pillars holding the balcony. Several windows also were there, but all the curtains were drawn preventing me from taking a peek. Motioning me inside, we quickly moved in to see that it was similar to my room from the world that we had for a few days.
"This is where you'll be a little bit safer," he said as I raised my eyebrow at him at his lack of explanation. Instead of clarifying as I thought he would, he instead handed me a letter with a black wax on top of it.
"This is your mission, how you complete it is up to you. This will also be the place where you can increase your skill and applications of magic before traveling to other worlds." He said before turning around and started to head towards the door.
"Wait! Can you at least tell me what world did you drop me off at?" I questioned as he stopped and he turned towards me.
"Welcome to Avalon." was all he said as he disappeared through the door. Quickly sighing to myself, I looked down on myself to see that my clothes changed back and so did my keyblade. Instead of keeping its unique look, it reverted back to its standard look that was Oblivion and Oathkeeper.
Vanishing my keyblades in a flash of white light, I quickly went to sit down on the nearby living room and laid myself on a couch. Quickly breaking the wax seal, I was quickly hit with something that made my world fade into black.
A/N: Sorry for the different update dates, I just finished my fall quarter for my college and I'm glad that it's finished. Other than that, we have fifty more days to go before Kingdom Hearts 3 comes out and I'm so happy for it! I'm currently working on world one of this story as well as coming up with ideas with the worlds that will be a part of this. As of right now, Harry Potter is the first.