A/N: So I am confirming it now, this will end with 20 chapters. It seems to be the magical number with my completed stories, so it's a comfortable number for me to end on. Enjoy this chapter everyone, please review when you have a moment.

Simple Movements

Chapter 14

-Ordered-

"For the good of all..."

Luxord was looking at Sora with a different set of eyes. They weren't dark or tinged with the sense of lust he was all too familiar with. The white-blonde man was a rich owner of several successful nightclubs in the district that never slept. He worked in the shady business of drug dealing, was surrounded by beautiful people and an endless string of clients begging him for a fix with their favorite drug. Maleficent's Needle, the very pill he had taken in an effort to forget about Riku, was the one he paid with his body in order to get. The realization of it all mixed in with the kindness in Luxord's eyes was more than enough to make him feel sick. Lilo hid behind Luxord's robes the moment she heard Sora's gagging.

"Guess you weren't expecting to see me."

Sora was growing tired of these vomiting attacks and quickly composed himself, wiping away at his mouth before refocusing on the unlikely pair standing a few feet away. Lilo showed her grimaced face, unsure if Sora would have another fit and still clutched onto Luxord.

"Wh-what are you talking about? Godmother would never do that to me, she-

"-was only doing exactly what you told her to do. At your request, Godmother created Maleficent's Needle and began giving it to you. I told you, Sora, it's time you regain your memories. It'll save me the trouble of explaining it to you."

He glanced at the little girl with tan skin and black hair, his hand resting on top of her head. "Lilo, go on."

She walked out from behind his robes and up to where Sora stood. Her lips were thinly set as she lifted her hands into the air. "Can I have Scrump back?"

Sora immediately felt his uneasiness give way at her presence. Lilo was a little girl and the expression on her face was making him feel foolish and childish for the way he was acting. He held the rag doll out for Lilo to scoop into her arms. She took her back and hugged the doll tightly, kissing the dirty blonde straw-like hair as she dabbed at her button eyes. If Sora didn't know any better, it would appear that Lilo was wiping away imaginary tears from Scrump's face.

"I'll miss you Scrump," she whispered, "You've been my best friend for a long, long time."

What transpired next left Sora frozen where he stood. Lilo tapped Scrump's puffy chest three times and threw her in the air, the doll exploding into thousands of tiny white lights. They remained static, glowing faintly in the very air before them. Sora didn't even attempt to count them as numbers failed to add up in his puzzled mind. Lilo's hair billowed by the current of a sudden breeze, sending strands of ebony black across her face. Her mouth began moving.

"Relaying from the Scriptures of Ultima, the Book of the High Seraph: The fragmented lights, a manifestation of memories forced from the body by poisonous threads."

The lights twinkled, each going off one after the other in the beginning of an orchestrated spell.

"They are called from a state of suspended animation , protected in the arms of a child's plaything. End of First Scripture."

The air grew colder, the lights beginning to vibrate slowly, whirling and giving off an almost musical tone.

"Deprived of warmth, they seek the comfort of their estranged master. They seek, they move, they are released to shine beneath Ultima's holy light. End of Second Scripture."

On cue, the orbs of light began flying in perfect unison, coiling around Sora in a rhythmic dance that glittered like the very stars. He felt their warmth radiating, soothing the pains in his bones, his muscles, and relieving the tension that had built up in his mind. Lilo closed her eyes.

"The birds in jealousy imitate the angels, sprouting wings and sing a happy song for the lights that burn atop endless candles."

The lights filled him, poured into him by the thousands and forcing tears from his blue eyes. Sora could feel himself falling back, but fear wasn't there. He was floating on air, his head tilted to the side as he looked at Lilo's billowing form. The tears fell from him, staining the ground.

"They fill the missing colors of a landscape, heal the fractures and silence the cries of the one once lost in the dark. End of Third Scripture."

A final light entered Sora's body, the wind blowing around them ceasing and Lilo falling back into Luxord's hands.

"This in Ultima's holy name, I pray."

Sora's eyes widened, the tears almost crystalizing as they were wiped away with a swift movement of his arm. He found the ground, felt his feet clinging tightly. Sora touched his chest, felt the scar on his eyebrow and drew a finger over his lips. He tasted the sweat on his fingertip, the saltiness he had cried. Slowly, he found Luxord with Lilo in his arms.

"That's right," Sora uttered in a voice that defied everything that he was in the last one hundred years. "I ordered her to do it."

Luxord nodded slowly, "We abandoned The Council, renounced our titles and fled from The World That Never Was. Your plan has been put into motion the moment we left, the moment you-."

"-stole the reincarnation spell. Without it, our goal would become a reality. The wishes people make in their lifetime are reborn the same way their souls are. Wishes continue onto a next generation. But with the system failing, children are born without them. They will all be born as Blank Points."

Sora was uttering words that only a minute ago he would never have been able to recollect. He stood beneath the Destiny Island sun, chocolate hair swaying in the delicate tropical breeze and an expression reading of confidence. He looked at the outskirts behind him, the metal fence and the massive walls off in the distance. They were the walls he looked at every morning from out in the desolate landscape, those gargantuan monoliths telling him "you're not worth anything". Sora's shoulders felt light.

This was the true him. His name was Sora Kinneas, born to Selphie Tilmitt and Irvine Kinneas in a country to the south called Twilight Town. Both were good people, albeit they too wished for wealth. Despite their attempt to find a cure for him, knowing that the illness would rob them of their child, they raised him as best they could. The years leading up until the fated day that Zack Fair came into his life were difficult, painful, but Sora was happy with his life. His life may have been saved by the immortality Zack bestowed on him, but he lost it that very same day. Sora's life wasn't his anymore. It belonged to the world, The Council that made him part of it, and a wishing system he grew to hate.

"Godmother's in their hands now," Sora said more to himself, "she won't be there for long. They don't realize just how strong she is. I'm not worried about her. But I am…"

Riku. The name forced a shudder throughout his body causing his fingers to tingle and the hair on his neck to spike. He was thrown into the middle of everything, him, Pocahontas, his family. People that out of the kindness of their hearts welcomed him, helped him, provided a home for, they were all suffering for his sake. It made Sora choke up inside knowing there were these kinds of people out in the world.

Riku had used a precious wish on him. It didn't matter if he had one or three, it was a fact. The person Sora was during that time, it was a persona that had been created through the memory manipulation of Maleficent's Needle. His mind was broken. He only knew what he was told. Sora hated the wealthy, grew to become a distrustful and cold person. It was the only way he could protect himself. It was this nasty persona that met Riku one night, at a time where Sora in his pettiest of ways, tried to rob him. But Riku didn't fight back. All he did was offer his hand, a meal, something where Riku didn't want anything in return. This was a person that didn't deserve what was happening to him. Sora needed to fix it. He needed to make it right.

The blue orb at the base of his neck was hot and abuzz with light. He touched it, felt it pulling at his insides. Sora grunted deeply, feeling it eating at him. "By erasing my memories, the spell fell into a deep sleep. But when Riku used his wish to wake me from the coma, it triggered its awakening."

"The reincarnation spell," Luxord mused, "it's almost like it's a living thing."

"I know…which is why it needed to be put into a state of slumber. No better place to hide it," he replied rubbing his neck. "Is Lilo ok?"

The little girl held close in Luxord's arms was fast asleep, having used an enormous amount of energy in returning Sora's memories. Lilo was someone that came into Sora's life after he abandoned The Council. Godmother, Luxord, and Sora fled to the outskirts in the capital of Destiny Islands, a place where they would never be expected to be found. Lilo had lost her parents and her older sister left for another country in hopes of making a better life for the two of them. They had just taken up residence in the outskirts when Sora met the little girl. Her sister asked Godmother if they could watch her until she could send money for Lilo to join her in whatever country she managed to make it. They agreed and did so, but quickly learned she had no intentions to take Lilo with her. The poor child was all alone. She waited every day at the doorstep, wondering when her sister would come back. That's when they learned that an orb never lay in Lilo's neck.

"You never have to be alone anymore Lilo, you can always be with us. You only have to wish for it. We'll make you a friend, someone for you to always have with you. It'll be a very important job that you hold her close and take care of her. How does that sound?"

"I hate to think I took her friend," Sora chuckled to himself, "she loved that doll."

"Yeah, she's been attached to it this entire time. She held your memories in that thing. I like to think you brought her comfort."

"Some comfort, I couldn't remember who she was after I took the first batch of Maleficent's Needle that Godmother made."

Luxord grinned. "It just meant that her magic worked. Those pills…they're quite something."

Godmother created the drug using magic and introduced it to the general public as a means to give Luxord an entry into the shady underworld. With a hot ticket item, people quickly learned of Luxord and his means of getting whatever drug they wanted. He used the clubs and his presence as a front. With considerable wealth and power, Luxord kept up on whatever dealings the world governments and more specifically, what The Council was up to. Through his networks, nobody was the wiser of who he truly was.

"People have suffered because of it too," Sora said darkly, now knowing full well the side effects that unfortunate victims succumbed to. "Why did it have the effect it did on everyone else?"

"We didn't realize the side effects until after the case. People reacted differently to it, even if it's magic based. Had Godmother made changes to it, we weren't sure how it would interfere with your memory wiping, let alone the reincarnation spell. We left it alone, even if it meant people dying or not waking up again."

Sora's eyes grew hazy. "All because of me."

Luxord walked up to Sora, tilting his head up and planting a kiss on his lips. "Hey…this is for the better good of everyone else. Don't beat yourself up. This is on all of us, not just you."

The small kiss that permeated through him was the tamest of the actions Luxord had taken with Sora. One way or another Sora got his memory wiping drug, be it through the food or tea Godmother gave him every so often, or by Luxord himself. They had molded Sora enough to believe that the outskirts were his home, abandoned and alone. He had nothing, and did everything on his own to survive. Yet at different points in this created life, Sora couldn't take it. He wanted to forget. So he sought out Luxord hearing of his underground connections and did what he had to do to get it, even if it meant paying with his body. It was an ironic twist that worked to their advantage. Sora wanted to forget his troubles, and they needed him to continually forget who he was. It was one long, endless cycle.

"You got really into it," Sora whispered into Luxord's lips before taking a firm bite of his lower one, "no shame or anything."

The blonde man winced, nearly dropping Lilo in his one arm before pulling away. He smirked, winking at the brunette. "Can't blame me for doing a good job."

Their conversation stopped when Lilo began to stir in Luxord's arm. She blinked a few times, letting out a long yawn as her vision adjusted to the sunlight. Lilo looked up at Sora, a bright smile greeting her. "Hi Lilo."

Her large, brown eyes began to gloss over. "I-Is that you Sora?"

"Yep, it's the me you met years and years ago."

She jumped from Luxord's grasp with ease and wrapped herself around his neck, squeezing the teenager with a grip he wasn't expecting from someone as small as her.

"Sora! I've missed you! I did so good too, Godmother and Luxord taught me a lot. I learned magic from Godmother and she trusted me enough to keep your memories inside Scrump. Can you believe I was able to recite those scriptures by myself? Right? Isn't it amazing?"

Lilo was talking a mile a minute, making Sora laugh. "You are truly amazing, Lilo. Those scriptures held my memories in place. That takes a lot of power."

"And it only took me 20 years to master it. Godmother told me learning scriptures from any of the Guardian Forces' books takes centuries!"

"Is that right?"

"Uh huh! She was surprised too!"

"I'm sorry about Scrump."

Lilo only tightened her hold. "It's okay…I'm just glad you're back."

The pain in Sora's neck took a sharp turn, cranked up to an almost intolerable level. He grimaced, falling forward slightly and forcing Luxord to take a step in order to balance him. "Don't worry, I'm fine. Now that I have my memories back it's becoming much more active."

"Does it hurt a lot?"

Sora's pained expression wasn't capable of lying to her, nevertheless he tried. "A little, I think I just need to rest a bit."

"That sounds like a good idea," she replied with a worried look. Lilo leaned over his shoulder, finding the blue orb and nuzzled it with her nose. "You're hurting him."

The light within the orb dimmed slightly, easing the pain that surged through Sora. He looked to her, a bit taken back. "What did you do?"

"I told it to stop."

"It listened to you?"

Luxord crossed his arms and chuckled. "I take that back, the reincarnation spell is alive."

Sora brought Lilo down, allowing her to stand. He kneeled in front of her, his hand in hers. "Lilo, could you hear something more?"

"It was faint, but…the spell was crying."

"Crying?"

Lilo nodded, "And it was throwing a tantrum. It kept going "take me home!"

Sora felt his stomach clenching, a sudden euphoria washing over him and making him almost forget the pain he had felt. "This could only mean one thing."

"The reincarnation system is running out of power," Luxord finished for him. "I know you want to save Riku, but we have to leave for the time being. Something will work itself out, don't give up on Godmother and her abilities."

"What do you have in mind?"

"A lot has happened in these last 100 years, Sora. With Rinoa as the head of The Council, things have changed. Not everyone is happy with the way certain things are now. Some countries and governments have developed an unstable relationship with her and The Council."

Sora could sense it, "They want to rebel."

"In particular, the ones that Rinoa has deemed unworthy to serve her. She's burned a lot of bridges. Rinoa, no matter how many centuries she's been around, is still a child. If she doesn't have it her way, she throws a fit."

"So you want us to leave for one of these countries?"

He nodded, reaching for Lilo's hand. "There are three former kingdoms that I have secretly created connections with: The Kingdom of Arendelle, The Kingdom of New Orleans, and the Kingdom of The New World. They will support us in the next step of your plan. We won't be alone on this."

The brunette raised a brow. "The Kingdom of The New World…that's Pocahontas' original home. Riku told me about that while I was with him."

"Then that's where we'll go," Luxord said, "they're particularly ticked off at Rinoa. All three countries used to have a royal family, until Rinoa removed them from power. There's a reason why Riku's friend Pocahontas and her father fled The New World."

"Wait a sec-what about her dad? If they have Riku and Pocahontas, then his family and her father must be with them too."

"Don't worry, Sora. Powhatan is a smart man, he wouldn't get caught. I'm sure Riku's parents will be okay too. Like I said, have faith in Godmother."

"I do," he said facing Lilo, the young child still beaming at him. "Alright, we'll go to The New World."

Luxord pointed a finger at the ocean behind him, concentrating on a single point.

"Book of Leviathan: Traversing the many seas, lord of water, we ask you for guidance.

The waters parted, the form of a ship appearing from the depths. Sora looked at it, the sleek material shining under the sun. With renewed determination, and a much needed deep breath, Sora and his companions ventured towards the beach where Luxord's ship would take them across the seas.

"What was that?"

Sora looked to Lilo. "What was what?"

"No, not you Sora, the spell."

He imagined the blue orb in his mind. "What's it saying now?"

"It's a 'she'. She wants to be called by her name: Tinker Bell."

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