11:00. 1 hour to midnight and the dance was still rocking. At this point, everyone had arrived at the dance. Everyone had started dancing, hanging out with friends, having a good time. Even the teachers and General Ironwood himself were enjoying the night with friends. All except Ruby, who just stood by the punch bowl with punch in hand. In no time, she was joined by Jaune, who like most boys tonight was wearing a standard suit with a unique color. His was red
"I see you're hiding at the punch bowl too" He tried to make some conversation
"Yep" Ruby simply responded
"To the socially awkward"
Jaune leaned his glass over for a toast. Ruby giggled and gave him a cling
"Sorry things didn't work out with Weiss"
"Meh, it's fine; Neptune's pretty cool. I get why she went with him"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, come on. Not many people can pull off blue hair"
"No, I mean Weiss came to the dance alone" Ruby explained as Jaune took a sip of his drink
Jaune immediately coughed on his drink "Uh, what?"
Jaune looked over to his snow queen trying to keep a flower in a vase
"Yeah, she said she had to much to focus on to worry about boys"
Weiss finally gave up on the flower. She heard laughter and looked to see Sun, Neptune and Blake having a good time. Though while Blake looked like she was having fun, she looked like she needed to go somewhere. But that's not where Weiss's attention was on. Her attention was on Neptune. Jaune knew exactly what was going on
"Hold my punch"
Jaune handed Ruby a drink and walked over to the laughing group. As he walked, Ruby didn't hesitate to take a sip of said drink. Jaune was going to give Neptune a piece of his mind for even thinking about rejecting someone as perfect as Weiss
Before he reached them, however, someone walked past him. Pyrhha, wearing a lovely long red dress, still wearing her trademark tiara, and looking... depressed? Jaune decided to be a good partner and check on what's up
Meanwhile, Ruby had just finished Jaune's drink
"A little thirsty, are we"
Ruby turned to see Sora walking to the punch bowl
"Na, Jaune told me to old his punch for a bit. You want some?" Ruby scooped up some punch into Jaune's cup and handed it to Sora "Here"
"Whoa careful!" Sora started talking in an over the top way "We don't want to get Jaune angry!"
The both of them started to laugh, and Ruby pulled her arm with Jaune's drink back. As soon as they stopped laughing, Sora started to stare at Ruby. Not like the lovey dovey stare. More like the "something's suspicious" stare. Needless to say, Ruby didn't feel to comfortable with this
"You ok, Sora?" She asked
Sora shook out of his trance "Huh? Oh, sorry. It's just, you're going to think I'm crazy, but sometimes I feel like we've met before. I mean before Remnant. I just don't know why though"
Ruby gave the same suspicious stare Sora gave a second ago "You know what? You're right"
"R-really!?"
"You are crazy!" Ruby started to laugh some more "We can't have met before. I've never left Remnant, and you've never come to Remnant before, right?"
"Yeah I know it's impossible, but it's just one of those funny feelings..."
There was and awkward silence between the two. Ruby knew that they couldn't have met before, but at the same time, sometimes she get's that feeling too. But she couldn't tell him he had the same feeling. Right?
"I'll take my punch, please"
Sora reached for his drink, but Ruby stepped back. She didn't want to pass out during the dance
"Visions, remember?"
Sora immediately pulled his arm back "Oh right! Those visions" Sora gave and awkward and disappointed laugh
Both of them felt bad for the other. Because of these visions Ruby got, they couldn't even do simple things like give the other a drink. The only thing Ruby could do was place the drink on the table and have Sora grab it. Sora did grab it and turned back to the table with his friends
"See ya, Ruby" Sora walked back to the table he and his team was
"See ya, Sora"
Sora sat in is chair and gave a big sigh
"Everything alright, Sora?" Kairi asked
"I just... I want to have more fun with Ruby like you guys get to, but these stupid visions keep getting in the way"
Riku patted Sora on the back "Don't worry. We'll find out what makes you give her those visions one day"
"I hope it's soon" Sora took a sip of his drink "Because I always feel awkward when I'm near her because of these visions"
Kairi looked back to see Ruby was walking to Yang, looking very embarrassed
"I'm sure she feels just as awkward as you"
"Y'know..." Yang talked with her sister "I think we really needed this"
Ruby looked over the ball room. Ren and Nora were dancing together, as well as Sun and Blake. Though again, Blake, while having fun, looked like she needed to go somewhere. Ruby saw Penny was dancing in a short light green dress guarded by 2 Atlas soldiers, and SKRL looked like they were having a blast
"Yeah" Ruby agreed "And you did a great job planning it, too"
"Aww, thanks" Yang grabbed Ruby in a choke hold "It wasn't all me though. Weiss did a lot too"
The girls looked over at their teammate sitting alone. But soon, a familiar head of blue hair confronted the ice queen. It looked like Neptune was asking if he could have the empty seat next to her, and she allowed it. Yang let Ruby go and gave a sigh of disappointment
"Tomorrow, it's back to work"
"Well, I'm sure we can handle whatever gets thrown at us"
Suddenly, the girls heard laughter take over the students. They looked at the source of the laughter and their eyes widened
"Except for that"
The source walked past the crowd of boys and girls crying from laughter to meet a familiar red haired, emerald eyed champion
"Jaune?"
Confronting Pyrrha was indeed Jaune. But he was not wearing the red highlighted suit from before. Instead he was wearing a short, white dress with a purple ribbon tied around his waist
"Eh, a promise is a promise" He tried to explain
Pyrrha tried to hold it in, but soon joined the rest of the dance in crying tears of laughter. But unlike everyone else, she was also crying tears of joy and happiness
"Jaune" She tried to talk "You didn't have to"
"Hey, and Arc never goes back on is word. Now do you want to stand there and laugh at me, or do you want to dance" Jaune extended his hand
Pyrrha happily grabbed it "I would love to dance"
Jaune pulled his partner in, and they spun their way to the dance floor. Behind them, Nora became extremely ecstatic
"Ren; This. Is. Happening!"
"Wait, what is happening" The silent huntsman asked
Nora dragged Ren to join Pyrrha and Jaune. As the music started, the team dancing like there was no tomorrow!
Baby! It's time you made up your mind...
Their dancing was perfectly mimicked by one another. They moved as if they were an ocean
I think that tonight is where our stars will line...
Nobody could guess how they were moving so perfectly, but their dance was so great, nobody even cared about the implausibility
"I had No idea you were a dancer!" Pyrrha complemented her leader
"Yeah, well these things tend to happen when you grow up with 7 sisters" Jaune explained as he dipped and spun his partner
Take my hand 'cause you and I are gonna shine!
"Wow! Look at them go!" Lea shouted as he leaned on his team's table
"How are they even moving so perfectly?" Sora asked
"Maybe Jaune's a better leader than we thought" Riku chuckled at his own joke
"Riku..."
Riku turned to see a familiar bow wearing girl and her monkey tailed dance partner
"Can we please have a talk now" Blake pleaded
Riku got up from his chair "Alright. Since you've been so patient. What do you want to talk about?"
"I was wondering if we could talk in private somewhere"
"Uh... Sure. How about the balcony?"
Blake nodded and the 2 of them walked up the stairs to said balcony. The 2 of them alone like that made Sun very nervous
"NEPTUNE!" He shouted across the ball room
In no time at all, Neptune was standing side by side with his partner, Weiss following suit
"Yes" He asked in an annoyed voice, like he was in the middle of something
"You said if and dance and woo her, she'd be mine by the end of the dance!"
"Now in my deference, I did say probably!"
Sun face palmed himself and rushed to the balcony steps. But he was stopped when he bumped into familiar heads of yellow and red
"And where do you think you're going?" Yang asked, irritated
"I just want to hear their talk is all" Sun tried to make an excuse
"You want to hear Blake apologizing to Riku?"
"Yes I- wait what?"
"What do you mean apologize?" Kairi got up from her seat, the rest of team doing so as well
"Well something happened yesterday, and she just suddenly attacked Riku out of nowhere. Knowing her, she's probably just trying to say sorry"
"Did she have this dark aura?" Lea asked
"Y-yeah!" Yang answered, very surprised that he guessed so easily
"How did you guess so easily, Lea?" Ruby asked
"I'm not as good as Riku, but I can tell when most people have some darkness in them that needs to be controlled"
"I didn't know" Sun scratched his head from embarrassment "Well, if it's just an apology, I guess I can sneak up on someone else's conversation"
"There you go!" Yang gave Sun a good friendly punch in the arm
"Still, it won't excuse you if you do decide to invade personal privacy" Weiss scoffed
Sun laughed at Weiss's good point while rubbing his now bruised arm. He looked back to where he once was going to go and saw someone was about to go right up the stairs
"What do we tell that guy than?"
Everyone looked to where Sun pointed. The all saw a kid in a black coat with silver hair. Before he took a step up, his right side looked at the group. More specifically, he was looking at...
Sora gasped. He'd know that leer anywhere. That was the guy from the sleeping worlds! The same guy who tricked Neku and his friends! The same guy who followed Sora everywhere with Xemnas. The guy who said he was the youngest version of Xehanort. The boy smirked when Sora recognized him and continued to walk up the stairs
"Wait, isn't that a coat from those guys in the organization?" Ruby asked, with a whole lot of worry in her tone
Sora didn't hesitate to summon the keyblade "They're in trouble! Come on!"
Sora rushed towards the stairs. It took everyone a second to let what Sora said sink in, but when they realized what he said, they sprinted to follow him. Young Xehanort, Sora, Kairi, Lea and Ruby were able to pass through, but before Sun, Weiss, Yang and Neptune could follow, the doors closed
"Hey what's the big deal?!" Yang asked, trying to open the doors
But no matter how hard she pulled, the doors wouldn't open. Weiss, Sun and Neptune joined in to help, but even with all their strength combined, the could not open the door. Across from them, Emerald and Mercury noticed they were having problems with the door
"Looks like Cinder got done with her job" Mercury said as leaned his head on his arms
Emerald looked down to see how everything was going. She glared at the exit "Looks like just in time too. A part guest is leaving"
"Which one?" Mercury changed to lean on the wooden balcony
"Ironwood"
Mercury looked down to see the general was leaving. Ozpin gave him a salute and left the dance
He raised an eyebrow "I guess the general's had enough fun for one night. How do you think it went?"
"Probably fine thanks to the organization" Emerald said in an excessive tone, walking from their balcony and folding her arms
"You still don't trust those guys, do you"
"There's just something and I feel they're only helping Cinder for their sake. They don't care about us"
"Hey, Cinder said she wouldn't let them do whatever to us. We're fine"
"We better be. Because things are going a lot differently that what I was hoping for"
(Insert Missing You from Kingdom Hearts 2.5)
11:50. 10 minuets before midnight. But instead of spending those 10 minuets and more with their friends, Riku and Blake leaned on the edge of the balcony, admiring the beautiful night with no clouds in the sky, making the moon so clear to see. Riku smiled at said moon
"It's a beautiful night, isn't it?" He told Blake
"Yeah" Blake agreed quietly
It took a bit for Blake to gain the courage for her to say what she needed to say. Why was it so hard for her to just say that she was sorry?
"Riku..." She finally spoke
"Yeah?" Riku turned to her
"About yesterday..." She turned to him "I am so, so sorry"
Riku's smile turned slightly, knowing what she meant "It's alright Blake-"
"No it's not!" She interrupted him "I just kept getting angrier and angrier until I felt something. Some force that just took control of me and made me do that to you" She leaned back on the edge "I don't know what it was, but I never want to feel that again"
"Darkness"
Blake looked surprised at Riku, who also leaned back on the edge of the balcony
"That's what that force was" He explained "It's in every heart, and grows whenever feeling negative emotions. Sadness, frustration..." He paused for a second "Anger. You just let the darkness control you for a second"
Riku looked back at the moon "That was what I was afraid of. When I first saw you, that's what I felt. Growing darkness both for and against the white fang. I didn't want you to be taken like I was once"
"You were taken by the darkness?" Blake asked
"When I opened my heart, it did more than let Ansem posses me" He started laughing pettily "I'm lucky that I didn't become a heartless myself"
"Heartless?"
"Creatures born from the darkness in our hearts. They seek out others who have growing darkness and turn them into heartless and sink worlds that aren't protected into darkness. If you turned into one, I'd never forgive myself"
Blake was shocked. Could you really blame her? It was crazy to think creatures who could destroy words from the sounds of it existed! And to think if thing had gotten worse yesterday, she would have become one?
"Still that's no excuse for what I-"
"Hey" Riku stopped Blake "What happened yesterday? Never happened. You never got angry at your friends, and you didn't give into the darkness"
"But-"
"It's like I told Ruby earlier..." He continued "You have to forgive yourself for what you did, alright?"
Blake wanted to protest, but for some reason she couldn't. She didn't even say a word. She just stared at Riku, with the moonlight shining directly down on the 2. He was really willing to forgive her after what she did? Blake just smiled at how nice Riku was treating her. Suddenly, without warning, she gave Riku a hug
"Alright"
To say Riku was shocked by this would be an understatement. Out of nowhere, this girl he'd known for less than a month just hugged him! It felt weird, but at the same time, it felt... nice. Eventually Riku smiled and hugged Blake back. It was like they were the only ones in the universe right now
(End Missing You)
"How sweet"
Riku's eyes widened. That voice. That familiar voice. It couldn't be! He pulled back from the hug and both he and Blake looked to see where that voice came from. Riku gasped at a familiar boy in a black coat
(Insert Organization 13 theme from KH 2.5)
"It almost makes me feel bad I'll be ruining the night for you" The boy continued to walk towards the edge of the balcony "Almost"
Riku growled and summoned the Road to Dawn "You! You're that young Xehanort!"
"Young Xehanort?" Blakes asked, confused as Riku grabbed her and they started backing away
"I prefer you just call me Young. It fits me, and better differentiates me from my elder self"
Riku and Blake reached the doors when Young reached the end of the balcony "What do you want here, Young?" Riku asked
Young turned back "What? I can't enjoy a lovely night at a dance simply because I am a wielder of darkness?" He asked in a mocking, yet emotionless tone
"Yeah right!"
Riku and Blake turned to see some familiar and friendly faces. Lea, Sora and Kairi, all wielding their own keyblades, and Ruby
"If you wanted to have a dance, you all could have had one at the organization's castle" Lea continued "Believe me, I know"
"Why are you really here, Young?" Sora asked angrily
"Good, you're all here" Young looked at the group "I just came to give you a message that might interest you all. Including our guests from Team RWBY"
"Message?" Kairi asked
Young closed his eyes and started chuckling. Team SKRL didn't like this chuckle, neither did Blake or Ruby. Finally his eyes opened
"Organization 13 is complete once again"
Everyone gasped. Even Ruby and Blake. They didn't know everything about this keyblade war, but they knew that the organization being complete wasn't good
"Yes..." Young continued "We have found 13 vessels to wield my elder self's heart" Young turned to the shattered moon of Remnant "Within time, each shall be able to wield a keyblade and become one with my elder self. And when that happens, and you find your 7 guardians of light" He turned back to the horrified group "The Keyblade War shall begin anew!"
Lea was the first to shake out of his horrified trance "And where is this new member?"
"Right here"
Suddenly, a corridor of darkness appeared right next to Young. Out of it came an Organization 13 black coat, with the hood down. The voice came from the coat, and it sounded like this last member was female
"You're a girl?!" Sora asked, very surprised
"What? A woman can't be a part of the organization?" The latest member pretended to be offended "Do you realize how sexist that is?!"
"N-no that's not what I- I mean" Sora couldn't figure out what to say
"Why don't you take that hood off?" Kairi spoke to help Sora
"Oh I'm afraid I can't. I have big plans for this world, so I can't let you see me just yet"
Blake's eyes widened in realization "You're the reason Torchwick is working with the White Fang, aren't you?!"
"You'd be surprised what people will do with a little... persuasion"
"Why would you want to join the organization?!" Ruby spoke out
"I want to be strong" The woman spoke in a cold, hard voice "I want to be feared. I want to be powerful. Being the 13th seeker of darkness will let me be all these things and more than how I would be without them.
Now listen up, Ruby and Blake!" The new member gained the full attention of the huntresses in training "I'll admit the way your team defeated our prototype was very impressive. However, get in our way again, and I won't hold back on you"
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Riku stepped up
"You can try, but you won't succeed. At least not without a few injuries" The woman turned to Young "I think they've gotten the message now"
Young nodded and opened the corridor of darkness. He stepped through and the new 13th member was about to, but she stopped
"Oh, and by the way Ruby..." Ruby jumped when she heard her name "Watch yourself. We have plans for you that will soon unfold"
Ruby growled at the woman. Then she noticed the woman's hand glowed like fire. Before she could react the woman threw the fire ball right at Ruby
"Ruby look out!"
Before the blast hit her, she felt someone push her away. Than everything went white
(End Organization 13's theme and insert Treasured Memories from KH1.5)
Sora, Donald and Goofy landed in an icy area below a castle. The trio hears a roar and they head up to check it out. They go up to discover that Riku was taunting a monstrous looking creature with brown fur, sharp claws and a purple cloak. The beast attacked but Riku dodged and counter attacked, leaving the beast to fall to the ground
"Stop!"
Before Riku finished in off, Sora stood iand blocked him
"I've been waiting for you. We've always been rivals, haven't we? But it all ends here"
"What are you talking about?"
"Let the keyblade choose it's true master"
The keyblade than was pulled away from Sora trough the light to Riku
"You don't have what it takes to save Kairi. It's up to me"
"But that's impossible. How did this happen? I'm the one who fought my way here with the keyblade!"
"You were just the delivery boy"
Riku left the crushed Sora. Donald and Goofy had to follow their king's orders and follow the keyblade wielder. The beast tried to follow them, but was injured incredibly. Sora tried to stop him
"Hey, don't move. You're hurt"
"Why did you come here? I came to fight for Belle. I won't leave without her"
"Me too. I'm not gonna give up now."
Though it was hard for Sora and the beast to fight through the heartless without a keyblade, they would work together and find the ones they were searching for
They entered the castle and were ready for whatever came their way. Before they continued, the beast thought he found his lady, but it was just a heartless. In rage, the beast charged after the heartless, leaving Sora alone
"Quit while you can"
Sora turned to Riku, Donald and Goofy
"No. Not without Kairi"
Suddenly, Riku's cloths tuned dark with a black heart in front of his chest
"The darkness will destroy you"
"The darkness may destroy my body, but it can't touch my heart"
"We'll just see about that!"
Riku blasted a dark energy at Sora. Before it hit, Goofy held up his shield to block the attack. Donald and Goofy stood in front of Sora, ready to combat Riku
"You'd betray your king?"
"Not on your life! But I'm not gonna betray Sora either"
"All for one and one for all"
"Thanks a lot, Donald, Goofy"
Sora felt like he was going to cry from joy, but first tings first
"How will you fight without a weapon?"
"I know now I don't need the keyblade. I've got a better weapon. My heart"
"What good will that weak little thing do for you?"
"Although my heart may be weak, it's not alone. It's grown with each new experience. I don't need a weapon. My friends are my power!"
The keyblade disappeared from Riku's grasp and returned to Sora. Due to this turn of events, Riku had to retreat. The beast returned from defeating the heartless
"So, your heart won this battle"
With the keyblade returned to Sora, he and his friends rushed to put and end to all of this
The heroes searched far and wide throughout the castle. Until they entered a dark room where the woman Maleficent stood waiting for them
"You think you can defeat me? Me, the mistress of all evil?"
They stood their grounds and defeated the evil mistress, forcing her to retreat, but they followed her into another room. Riku was also in the room, wielding...
"Yes. A keyblade. But unlike yous, this keyblade holds the power to unlock people's hearts"
Riku demonstrated by stabbing Maleficent directly into her heart. Through a spout of green flames, the green woman turned into a giant, ferocious dragon. The battle was one of their hardest yet, but they prevailed and the dragon turned into dust. Before they could go after Riku, a black coat appeared before them and phased right through Sora
"Ansem?"
"That name rings familiar"
The mysterious figure shot lighting at Sora, but Sora quickly summoned his keyblade to deflect the attack. The figure attacked and the attacked back. This fight was another they had to use all their strength for, but in the end, it seemed the figure was barely using his full power
"Until we meet again"
With that, the coat diapered to his own business. Thought the group was confused, they still had to stop Riku
Sora, Donald and Goofy rushed up the stairs in a room where 6 maidens, 2 of them being Alice and Jasmine, to stop Riku. Not all of them made it up, however, as a barrier blocked Goofy from reaching the top. But Sora paid no attention to that as he saw Kairi in a sleep like state. He rushed to his friend and tried to wake her up
"It's no use"
Sora looked up a giant bronze heart, with a strange energy coming from it, to see Riku was waiting for him
"That girl has lost her heart. She cannot wake up"
"You... You're not Riku"
"The keyhole cannot be completed so long as the last princess of heart still sleeps"
"Kairi's a princess?"
"It is time she awakened"
"Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him back his heart!"
"But first, you must give te princess back her heart"
Sora felt an incredible pain coming from his chest. He knelled to his knees from the pain
"The princess's heart is responding. Kairi's heart rests within you!"
"Kairi's inside me?"
"It is I, Ansem, the seeker of darkness"
Ansem walked over to Sora, Donald tried to protect him, but was knocked away by Ansem.
"Open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness!"
Ansem was just about to slash at Sora, ready to complete the keyhole
"Sora!"
At the last second, Sora raised his own keyblade to stop Ansem's keyblade
"Forget it! There's no way you're taking Kairi's heart!"
The 2 keyblade warriors fought ferociously against one another, It was close, but in the end, Sora was victorious. Ansem, before disappearing, dropped his keyblade. Sora tried to seal the keyhole, but it wouldn't respond. The only thing any of them could think to do was free Kairi's heart. Sora looked at Ansem's keyblade and knew the only way how. Sora grabbed the keyblade, gave one final grin to his friends, and stabbed himself. The keyblade turned into 6 orbs and those orbs flew into the other 6 princesses of heart. One orb came out of Sora and returned to Kairi. Sora's body started to fade into light just as Kairi woke up
"Sora!"
Kairi rushed to grab her friend's body, but as soon as she touched it, it turned completely into light
A boy with tall spiky hair and wearing white and green stood up in front of a locked gate with a mansion behind it. A man in a coat appeared from a portal and confronted the boy
"You seek answers"
The man waved his arms and spelled out "Sora" with letters of light
"You feel nothing. Nothing is real. I can give you purpose"
The letters started spinning around the boy's head until an X appeared in between the letters
"Ro-"
A heartless appeared before Donald, Goofy and Kairi. With one look, Kairi knew whose heartless this was
"Sora? Is that you?"
Suddenly, and army of heartless appeared around them. As Donald and Goofy fought them, Kairi swore to protect Sora
"Sora!"
The heartless lunged at the princess. A blast of magic soon knocked them back, and Kairi felt someone hug her
"Kairi, thank you"
"Sora..."
The now returned keyblade wielder and his friends defeated the heartless and climbed back up the castle, back to where the keyhole was. Before Sora sealed it, Sora's friends from Travers Town surprised them, claiming this was their world before they came to the sanctuary world. They thanked him, and wished the 3 the best of luck in defeating the heartless
"We may never meet again, but we'll never forget each other"
"No matter where we are, our hearts will bring us together again"
"Besides, I couldn't forget you even if I wanted you"
"What's that suppose to mean?"
"Sora, good luck"
Sora went and finally sealed the Hollow Baston keyhole. Before he could move on to Ansem, Sora had to leave Kairi. Before he did, Kairi grabbed his arm and put a star in in
"Take this. It's my lucky charm. Be sure to bring it back to me"
"Don't worry. I will"
"Promise?"
"Promise"
"Don't ever forget. Wherever you go, I'm always with you"
(End Treasured Memories)
Ruby groaned as she woke up. She found she was surrounded by a lot of familiar faces. Her team, Riku, Lea, Sun and Neptune. All with worried faces
"Ruby!" Yang leaned to give her sister a hug so powerful, Ruby was choking from the grip "Oh thank god! The doors locked before we could enter, and when they entered, Sora pushed you away from that fireball, and and and-"
"Wait, Sora?" Ruby said when she finally got free of her sister's grip
"I'm alright"
Ruby turned to see a familiar head of brown spiky hair, with a burn mark on his right arm and Kairi using a lot of curaga spells on said arm
"Are you alright?!" Ruby asked when she stood up
Sora gave a chuckle "Well I don't think I'll be able to return the suit, but other than that I'll be fine"
Ruby smiled to see Sora wasn't to hurt
"What did she mean by that?"
Everyone turned to Riku
"What did she mean by what?" Weiss asked
"Before she went into the corridor, she said that they had plans for Ruby. What did she mean?"
Ruby gave another look of worry "I don't know"
None of them knew what they ment. All they knew was, from the sounds of it, they were coming soon
11:58. 2 minuets till midnight. Emerald and Mercury were waltzing within the crowd of couples. That was one of the things they really didn't like about this plan. The had to pretend to like each other. But Emerald sighed in relief when she felt someone tap her solder. She turned to see Cinder in a long, beautiful, sparkling black dress, wearing black gloves to boot
"Oh, may I cut in?" Cinder asked
"Of course"
Emerald let Cinder walk to Mercury, ready to dance. She decided to take a seat while they danced, and on the way, her mind was thinking this like "OH THANK GOD!"
"And how's your night been" Mercury asked as he led
"It all went perfectly. We got done so early, we were able to let the guardians of light know I've joined the organization. On top of that, I've found something that may help with Xigbar's... theory"
"What?"
Cinder's smile grew "Let's not worry about that now. The point is that they'll be scratching their heads long after we've finished what we came her for"
"So then what now?"
"Enjoy the rest of the night. After all, it is a party"
12:00 the bells rang across the academy
Author's note: And with that, the dance arc is finally done! I had a really fun time writing all the moments with Riku and Blake, and I'm existed to write more for them in the future. And for those who wanted a better dance for JNPR, let me ask you something. Have you tried writing that dance? It's super hard to come up with the right words! I was lucky to get what got. And what are these things the organization has planned for Ruby? What is Xigbar's theory? Why does Ruby look familiar to Sora? You'll see very soon. But now we're moving into my favorite arc of this first part. The Glenn arc. A lot of things are planned for this arc, including something for Team JNPR to finally do! But I'll save everything for later. If you liked what you've read, leave A follow, a favorite and review, and I'll see you all next time