Blade of Light: The End of the World
A/N:
Sorry for the wait, but it was over 100 for like three days (and then around 95 the rest of the week) and I have no air conditioning so I was hiding in my basement. This is sorta an informal posting until I have time to properly post it. I just thought that you'd wanna read it as soon as possible. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who left a comment or just read! This is deffinatly one of the darkest chapters i've ever written. Read and Review pls!
Sora sighed and sat back in his seat aboard the Gummi ship.
"Are we there yet?" he complained, leaning up towards the command module where Donald sat.
"NO! Just be patient!" Donald said exasperated.
"But Donald, I'm bored! Can I at least drive the ship? Come on, you never let me pilot the ship!"
"No, remember last time we let you pilot? YOU ALMOST CRASHED INTO AN ASTEROID!"
"Aw, that wasn't my fault, I didn't see that heartless ship coming!"
"If you hadn't been speeding around you would have had time to take care of the heartless AND avoided the asteroid. Just relax, we'll be there in an hour or so."
Sora sank back into his sit with an angry look on his face and muttered, "I can't wait an hour or so, what if Riku is gone by then?"
He sighed and stared out the window to his right. A day ago, King Mickey had interrupted their family dinner to tell Sora that there had been an Organization member sighted at The End of the World. Sora had insisted that they launch immediately and now they were on their way to find the Organization member. Sora didn't know why, but as he had been sitting around the table with everyone, he felt as if someone had ripped out a piece of his heart, he felt like a part of him was gone. He knew that something bad must have happened to Riku.
Sora looked worriedly out the window, "Please let Riku be ok," he whispered.
After a while, the world known as the End of The World loomed out of the darkness. Donald turned off the engines and the Gummi ship floated there, gleaming in the little light that the world gave off.
"Why aren't you landing the ship?" Sora demanded, leaning toward the command module, "We can't waste anytime, we have to save Riku!"
"But Sora, we don't even know if Riku is there with the Organization member," Goofy said, looking worriedly at Sora.
"I know," Sora said, staring at the ground, "but what if we could find out where Riku is from this guy? Something has happened to him, what if he's hurt! What if he's dying!"
"And what if it's a trap?" Donald chimed in, "This could be exactly what the Organization wants. We could be playing right into the Organizations hands. We promised the King that we would be careful."
"LAND THE SHIP DONALD!" Sora yelled, glaring at him angrily.
Donald and Goofy looked at Sora with a surprised look, they had never seen him so angry before.
"Land…NOW!"
Donald glared at Sora but started to prepare the ship to land, as Sora sank back into his seat.
"I hope you know what your doing Sora," Goofy muttered, looking back at the sulking boy.
As soon as the ship landed, Sora got up and started for the hatch but was intercepted by Donald and Goofy.
"What are you doing!" He demanded, trying to push past.
"We need to talk Sora," Donald said.
"Now! Can't we talk after we find this Organization person?"
"No, Sora, we need to talk now," Goofy said.
"Sora, what you did back there was out of line," Donald said, glaring at Sora, "We can't trust you to deal with the Organization if you're blindly running into a situation. If you continue to make brash actions, we will have to take you back to Hallow Bastion."
"What! You can't take me back to Hallow Bastion! I can't believe you're treating me like a little kid!"
"Sora, you gotta understand, we don't want you to go back to Hallow Bastion. But we promised King Mickey that we wouldn't let you take any unnecessary risks." Goofy said, putting his hand on Sora's shoulder.
"Yeah? What about my promises? What about Riku? I promised that what ever it took, I would save him."
"We know that you wanna save Riku Sora, trust us, we want to too. But we have to take precaution, we have no idea what the Organization has planned beyond what we already know, we can't take them lightly. So, just don't be reckless, ok?" Donald said, turning to open the hatch.
"Besides Sora, didn't you promise the King that you wouldn't take any rash actions in your search for Riku?" Goofy asked looking at Sora.
"Yeah, yeah," Sora muttered, following Donald out of the hatch, "but I don't think I'll be keeping that promise for long."
A hooded Organization member opened the door to the dungeon corridor and was met with a blast of cold, dank air. Shivering at the sudden blast of air, he slipped through the heavy metal door and closed it behind him. Shifting the tray that he was carrying he pulled out a key card from the pocket of his black coat and unlocked one of the cells. As he opened the cell door, a moan came from behind it.
"Geeze it's about time you brought me some food, I thought I was going to have to eat my arm."
The stranger looked up to see a red head named Axel sitting cross-legged in the middle of the floor. He walked over to the red head and set the tray of food on the floor in front of him. He was about to leave when he heard Axel address him.
"What you're not going to sit down and chat?"
The hooded stranger turned again to see the red head looking at him with a quizzical look on his face.
"I thought you were so hungry you were going to eat yourself."
"Well, maybe I wasn't THAT hungry," Axel peered into the strangers hood, trying to see his face, "Who are you? You're voice seems familiar but I just can't place it. I guess you must be new; they wouldn't have given such a low job to a senior member."
"You're lucky I brought you food at all you miserable traitor."
The stranger could see a flash of angry pass through the red heads eyes and saw his muscles tense. In a flash of red hair Axel launched himself at the mysterious stranger to attack him, but he was ready. The hooded stranger caught Axel by the neck and held him suspended above the floor. Dark energy coursed through his arm as he continued to strangle Axel. Axel screamed as the dark energy touched him. The stranger drew back his free arm, a ball of black energy formed in his hand. Letting go of Axel he threw the ball of energy strait at the red heads stomach. The ball exploded, and Axel was thrown backward. He hit the wall with a sickening crunch and lay in a crumpled heap on the floor.
Axel lifted his head and was horrified at what he saw. In all the commotion, the strangers hood had been blown free of his face. Standing in the doorway, a smirk on his face was Riku.
"Ri..ku?" Axel asked, not wanting to believe what he was seeing.
But Riku didn't answer; he just smiled, turned and drew the hood around his head once again as he walked out of the cell. Axel heard the lock click shut before he passed out.
Sora sank to the ground exhausted, "Why did the Organization choose to hide in a place like this? It's like trying to find light in the realm of darkness."
"Well…uh, that probably why they chose it," Goofy said, sitting down next to Sora.
"Haha, very funny."
"Come on you two! Lets get a move on, this place gives me the creeps!" Donald spluttered, crossing his arms and tapping his foot.
"Aw come on Donald, I'm tired, let me at least catch my breath!"
"Oh awright, but we need to keep moving, you never know when the Organization will show up."
"Hopefully they'll attack us and we won't have to go wandering around this place anymore." Sora said, leaning back on one of the random floating rocks.
"You should be careful what you wish for."
Sora, Donald and Goofy turned around to see two black hooded figures. The first was unrecognizable, with long silver hair and a black blindfold covering his eyes, as Sora looked at him he couldn't help but feel like they had met before. Sora then looked towards the black hooded figure that had addressed them.
"R-Roxas?" Sora stammered, surprised to see his Twilight Town friend.
"Hello Sora, who're your little friends? Donald and Goofy I presume?"
"W-what are you doing here? And why are you with the Organization? And who is he!"
"Oh I'm here to see you of course, the mighty key bearer. Of course I'm also here to take your heart and complete Kingdom Hearts, but that can wait. Besides, I'll need your sister too." Roxas smirked and turned to the mysterious figure that stood behind him, "And I won't bother telling you who he is right now, I'm certain you'll find out later."
"You leave my sister out of this!" Sora glared at Roxas, he couldn't believe that his friend would do something like this to him.
"Oh I seem to have hit a soft spot, maybe we should take your sister first. I'm sure Kingdom Hearts doesn't care which heart it gets first. Where is your sister Sora?" Roxas let out a cold laugh, "I'm sure she's not in Traverse Town anymore."
"You…it was you who destroyed Traverse Town!"
"Well, I can't take all the credit. It was Sephiroth who found you after all, honestly, I had no idea where you ran off to after your airship exploded."
"You're the one who sent the army of nobodies?"
Roxas sighed and rubbed his forehead, "YES! Ok? Yes, everything that has happened to your miserable ass since you left Twilight Town I am fully responsible for. I was hoping that after you survived the airship explosion you would come slinking back to Twilight Town and try to seek comfort in those idiots you call your friends, but I was wrong."
"My…friends! What did you do to them!"
"Oh don't bother, they've already been taken care of."
Sora tried launched himself at Roxas but was stopped by both Donald and Goofy.
"LET GO!" Sora yelled at them in desperation.
"Sora, calm down! You can't just rush in like this, did Hercules and Phil teach you nothing?" Donald asked, trying to keep his hold on the flailing boy, "You never rush into a fight, you never make the first move!"
Sora glared at both of them, but stopped fighting to break free.
"Yes Sora, listen to your friends, don't want to disobey the King and his little lackeys do we? Or," Roxas said, looking Sora in the eye, "maybe you're just a coward?"
Before Donald or Goofy could grab him again, Sora launched him self at the other boy with a yell of fury. He swung his keyblade down towards Roxas's head, preparing to land a critical blow. The other boy just smirked and blocked the attack effortlessly by summoning a keyblade.
Sora stood there with a look of surprise on his face, "A…keyblade?"
He was so surprised that he didn't see Roxas attack with a second keyblade. Sora was thrown backward, landing on his back. Before Sora could recover, Roxas launched himself into the air and brought one of his keyblades down on Sora. Sora rolled away at the last second and jumped to his feet preparing to attack Roxas while he was off balance, but as soon as he had made it back on his feet Roxas began assaulting him with a volley of blows. Unable to block both keyblades, Sora tried to dodge the blows but his efforts where in vain when he found himself up against and invisible barrier. Looking around franticly, he saw that the other hooded figure had set up a barrier separating him from Donald and Goofy and trapping him with Roxas.
Roxas! Sora had forgotten about the boy when he had discovered the barrier. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the flash of a keyblade heading towards his head. Sora dived and felt the keyblade pass over his head, but he had forgotten that Roxas had two keyblades and almost instantly felt the other one cut into him and throw him back to the barrier. He hit the barrier with a crack, and fell to the ground. Mind reeling, Sora struggled to get back to his feet but was knocked back by another volley of blows.
Desperately trying to find cover, Sora curled into a little ball. He could feel blood running down his face and out of his mouth. He felt like there were a dozen needles stinging him all over his body, he ached in a million places. His head throbbed as blood started gushing from a new cut on his forehead. Sora could feel himself slipping away; he struggled desperately to stay awake.
"Is this what its like to die?" he thought, eyes closed, "I feel like I'm watching my self from above. I want to give into the blackness, to just slip away, but…I can't…not yet…Riku…."
Suddenly, the blows stopped falling. Sora cracked open his swollen eyes to see that the strange blindfolded boy was standing between him and Roxas. He could see Roxas, panting, sweat running down his face and a murderous gleam in his eyes, standing on the other side of the boy.
"What are you doing!" He screamed at the blindfolded boy, "This is it! We are one hit away from having his heart!"
"Leave him Roxas, its not the right time."
"That voice…" Sora thought, struggling to stay conscious.
Roxas glared at the blindfolded boy, but banished his Keyblades in a puff of black smoke. Pushing the blindfolded boy aside, he stood over Sora.
"Let this be a warning key bearer, we are only interested in your heart. Next time we meet, I wont hesitate to kill you." Roxas kicked Sora one last time before turning to the blindfolded boy, "You are to kind, the boss won't be happy about this you know."
"I apologize sir, but to kill him now would be such a waste."
"I'm wondering where your loyalties lie," Roxas said, giving the blindfolded boy a cold look. "Maybe we shouldn't have taken you out of that dungeon."
"My loyalties are to you and Lord Xemnas"
"Then prove it, use your dark energy on him."
"But sir, we can't kill him, Lord Xem..."
"Oh I don't want you to kill him, just teach him a lesson, he's not as lucky as he thinks he is."
As the blindfolded boy turned to Sora, Sora could see a dark mass start to form in his hand. Suddenly it hit him full on; it was like nothing he had ever experienced before. He felt as if he was on fire, he could feel the dark energy course threw him as he writhed on the ground.
"That's enough," he heard Roxas say from somewhere beyond the darkness that had begun to close in on him, "I think he's suffered enough for one day."
Slowly, Sora felt the fire fade away from his body. He felt strangely numb, struggling to turn his head; he forced his eyes open to take one last look at the blindfolded boy. He couldn't tell why, but he knew that he had seen him before…and that voice, he knew that he had heard that voice before.
Before he lost consciousness he looked up to see the blindfolded boy standing over him.
"Riku?"
But he blinked and the boy was gone, and then he was falling, deeper and deeper into the darkness
Blabbing:
OH MY, Riku has turned out quite the little evil minion. I almost like him more this way...of course he hates Sora now so...nya. I hoped you ejoyed it, sorry if there's gramatical stuff, but I can't really bother the person who usually edits right now so, y'all are just going to have to deal. Leave some reviews!
Oh, and go watch Gunparade March because its AMAZING