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The Perfect Turning Point
As the dull footsteps of heavy boots echoed down the corridor Riku suddenly realized he had no idea how to get rid of his 'super suit' as Tidus had nicknamed it. He had his eyes firmly fixed on the floor, his mind ticking away as he thought about how the suit had appeared but it was all a blur. He wasn't even aware as another approached him, the footsteps falling on ignorant ears but he noticed when they stopped. He looked up, eyes wide and instantly in alert mode, hand half outstretched to summon Oblivion when he spied the other person.
Stood looking incredibly sheepish was a face he'd never forget. Dressed in extravagant red robes flowing all the way to the floor, blond hair streaked white falling to his shoulders and an aged face was the man who had caused Sora to end up in the hospital in the first place.
The keyblade was summoned and pointed threateningly at the terrified old man, "You…" Riku hissed. In truth there was a myriad of things he could have said that would have been so much scarier but Riku was beyond words, Sora had been chained up in that cell like an animal for days now.
"Riku, wait-" The old man tried.
"No! Oh no… no, no, no, no, no…" Riku stepped closer, herding the man against the wall, "My boyfriend is in this mess all because of you!" He gripped the front of the old man's robes and slammed him back, keyblade pressing against his neck, "I could kill you right now…" The words rang familiar as Riku recognized them as the ones Xemnas had used those days previous.
Apparently Xikru thought so too, "You do that and you're no better than Xemnas." Xikru pointed out, his black clad form casually walking towards them, hands on his pockets and regarding them both harshly.
"But… it's all his fault." Riku cried, emphasizing his conviction by pressing the blade in harder.
Xikru took a step closer, "And will killing him make you feel better?" Another step as Riku's hand began to slacken, "Will it change what happened?" Another step and his hand was over Riku's, tugging the weapon away, "Will it save Sora?" Riku let the blade fall from his grasp and hit the floor with a 'thunk' before it was banished.
The old man hurried away as Riku's hair fell in his face, hiding the tears that dripped down his chin silently. He turned halfway down the corridor and coughed loudly, "I-I need to tell you… I… I was being controlled by Xemnas. As much as it pains me to say it, I have no proof other than my word and there is no reason for you to trust it, but trust it you must. You have my apologies for what has happened but there is nothing I can do to reverse what has been done." He paused, "And there is no apparent way to fix it either."
Xikru had a reassuring hand on Riku's shoulder but Riku could only feel the ache in his heart that longed for an armful of energetic brunet and an ear ringing with Sora's happy laughter. "Cheers, that's exactly what I want to hear."
Riku was sat before Sora's cell again. The others had respectfully left him alone and he hadn't even been bothered by the King for over an hour. As he sat there his mind was a buzz with various schemes to save Sora but each one lacked the necessary likelihood to succeed. One required a wand and magical abilities (Riku had to read Harry Potter to Sora when they were younger and became quite enamored with the idea of the power to kill with a stick). All in all Riku hadn't come up with a single plan that was plausible in any way. He fell forwards from his cross-legged position and began to repeatedly bang his head off the floor.
He sat upright again and started to pull at his outfit, the blue tracksuit irritating the hell out of him no end when suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see a face he'd grown used to when he'd been at war.
"Leon…" He breathed out with a sigh of relief. The older male nodded to him and sat down beside him, he had no qualms about sitting on the floor, as a soldier he'd done far more things other would deem odd. Riku gave him a desolate look, "I've thought of everything… and nothing works…" Angry, Riku summoned the keyblades and showed them to Leon, "I was given this to save people, "He gestured to the outfit he was in, "When it was apparent Sora was in trouble, my keyblade powers gave me this… 'thing' to help me save him…" Riku growled in frustration tugging at his hair, "What good is this gift if it can't save him?!"
Riku let out a battle roar and slumped over, Oblivion and Oathkeeper lying despondently on the floor. Leon smiled softly at Riku, "Don't pull you're hair, you'll go bald."
Riku sat bolt upright and stared at Leon as if he'd grown fifty heads, "'scuse me?!"
Leon snorted lightly and smiled again, "You didn't tell Sora did you?"
Blinking rapidly to try and think Riku shook his head, "You said not to, so I didn't."
"Good boy." Leon laughed then, "I wonder what he'd say…" Riku didn't reply, the question wasn't for him and he knew Leon didn't want an answer. An answer entailed trying it out and that was what Leon feared most; Sora finding out who his father was. "I suppose I'll never know."
Sighing Riku asked gently, "Why can't you tell him? You could die one day, being soldier you could die tomorrow or the next day or even a moment from now depending on when disaster strikes and you still won't tell him… he could die a moment from now and you still won't say a thing."
Leon gave a sad smile, ordinarily Leon never smiled but he did it freely around Riku and Cloud for some reason. Okay, Cloud was his lover so that was understandable, but Riku was his son's lover… oh, that could be the reason right there…
"I never wanted him to know specifically for the reason I could die anytime a battle occurs. As for him dying… his mother was far stronger than that. He is almost her clone, if it wasn't for the hair color and that fact he's a boy I would swear he was her." He took a deep breath and sighed, "I could die happy now that I've seen him. I know he's going to be okay no matter what happens now. He has a fiery spirit to rival anyone's, a strong will, a determined heart and the perfect boyfriend to protect him when he does fall. Everything's going to be fine."
"How can you say that?" Riku shook his head brokenly and looked back into the cell, "We aren't even sure he's alive and you are so sure everything's 'peachy keen'?!"
Leon let out a soft laugh, "'Peachy keen'? Heh, I guess I can…."
Riku let an exasperated groan and flopped forwards onto his stomach, his legs curled back and pointed towards the ceiling as he swung them idly over his head, "No matter what anyone says about you and your normal behavior: you are definitely Sora's dad." Leon laughed again as Riku began to fiddle with the handle of Oathkeeper which he'd forgotten to dismiss, Oblivion sat a few centimeters away, "I was told by Xikru that these aren't like the normal Keyblade. There's something different about them." He snorted and let a sardonic smile slip onto his face, his mouth half open in a grin, "They're actually quite dark as far as the term 'Light' goes. That's what I'm supposed to be, right? A warrior for Light?" Leon kept quiet as he suspected Riku was talking to himself more than Leon. "The white blade is called Oathkeeper; the black one is called Oblivion. Oathkeeper is the bond to show I will keep my word and Oblivion is the conviction with which I can."
"Those are some powerful weapons you hold in your hands…" Leon observed, Riku merely nodded nonchalantly, "Do you know what they do?"
Riku shrugged, "I have no idea really, its confusing because I know that they were given to me because they can I help, I just don't know how…" He lifted Oblivion suddenly and got to his feet, Oathkeeper hanging loosely from his other hand as he pointed Oblivion at Soar's cell.
"Er… Riku? What do you think you're doing?" Leon asked in alarm, staring to rise to his feet.
"I'm improvising." Riku hissed, "When I was with you lot for the war, that batty wizard spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get me to sue the keyblade to lock stuff."
"Why?"
"Like hell I know." Riku snapped, "Its key-shaped most of the time so I figure there's a reason for that, either way a key works both ways right?" Leon nodded, "Locks and unlocks… the keyblade can seal people's hearts and keep them safe from heartless, right?" Leon nodded again but he had no idea why, he had no idea what the keyblade was for, only that it was powerful and imperative to be on the Light side. "So… if it works both ways and can seal people's hearts then it can work the other way!" The aimed keyblade was steadied with determination.
"Ah! Wait!" Leon cried, "Do you even know what you're doing?"
Riku turned his head with a mischievous glint in his eye and then gave him a child-like grin, "Like I said: I'm improvising."
Xikru sat bolt upright from where he was sat with Tidus and Kairi, "Uh oh… my 'Riku sense' is tingling!"
"Pardon?" Kairi asked with a surprised look as she paused, half-way in the process of picking up a card.
"It means that Riku's about to do something either very smart, or very stupid." Xikru said simply, leaping up from his position and legging it to the direction of Sora's cell, throwing his cards down as he went.
Tidus looked at Xikru's hand, "The little buggar had a winning hand!"
There was a crack like lightning and a beam of light shot from the end of Riku's blade at the cell door and through it to Sora's body and through the tangled mess of wires and chains to strike at his chest and heart.
Riku gritted his teeth and prayed to any and every God he'd ever heard of and a few he made up on the spot just to make sure this would work and Sora would be okay.
Leon stared in fear as the beam intensified and where it struck Sora it began to spread, the light consuming all of the small boy and covering him whole like a second skin. Riku wanted to stop but the keyblade wouldn't move, the wires around Sora suddenly came away with an explosive shockwave, Sora's arms outspread, eyes open as the light poured out of him. The chains burst from him, hit the floor and with a hiss began to melt. Sora stayed exactly where he had previously been supports by his bonds, about a foot off the floor, only this time he wasn't supported by anything other than the light.
No sound came from Sora at all but the adolescent's mouth was open and the light shone from it as though he held a burning sun within him.
Xikru came running down the corridor at full pelt, his hands splayed over his face at the blinding light as he stared in horror. "RIKU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"I'VE GOT NO IDEA!" Came the reply as Riku wrenched on the weapon, trying to move it and thus stop the light but it wouldn't budge, even his fingers were no longer under his command as they seemed fused to the keyblade.
"RIKU! YOU HAE TO STOP THIS!" Xikru cried, his hand clutching his chest as he felt the pain from Sora's body run through him like fire, "HE'S IN PAIN!"
"I CAN'T STOP IT!"
Mickey and the old man that Riku had previously threatened suddenly came into the area followed by a dozen guards and Kairi and Tidus. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Mickey demanded over the roar of power that was getting louder by the second. "ANSEM! CAN YOU FIND OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING?" The named old man nodded and approached the various monitors displaying Sora's health signs and analyzed them.
His eyes went wide in horror, "RIKU! YOU MUST STOP THAT KEYBLADE NOW! SORA'S LIFESIGNS ARE FAILING!"
Both Riku and Xikru's face paled in horror. Leon, Xikru, Tidus, Mickey, Kairi and all the gathered soldiers leapt on the frozen weapon and heaved with all their might but it refused to budge. "AGAIN!" Mickey cried but as they tugged and wrenched the blade didn't even waver as the beam increased until it was the full diameter of the Keyblade's tip.
"IT WON'T WORK!" Riku cried, tears streaming down his face at the sudden realization he was killing Sora, "I'm killing him… I'm killing him, it's all my fault he's dying…" Riku began to mumble to himself and under the roar so no one heard. But Xikru heard and his face set in defiance against the words.
He pulled back and gripped Riku's lifted bicep firmly, "YOU TOOK A PROMISE TO PROTECT HIM, THAT'S' ALL YOU'RE TRYING TO DO. BUT NOW, NOW IT'S MY TURN!" He turned and grabbed Oathkeeper from the floor where it had fallen from Riku's hand.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Riku cried as Xikru took a step towards Sora.
The heart turned back and gave an idiotic smile so like Sora's it made Riku's heart ache and then stuck his tongue out, "I'M DOING WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED ME TO DO: I'M SAVING SORA!"
Before anyone could say anything, Xikru ran into the cell and leapt between Sora and the beam, the light passing through him like water but tearing away at his being like acid as he grimly placed Oathkeeper between the flow and himself, turning and it and angling it so it pointed directly back at Oblivion. There was a moment when nothing happened then a black pulse and dark light exploded from Oathkeeper and battled with the white light until the entire room was consumed in light and darkness.
Ansem leapt away from the monitors as they exploded with the rush of power, the walls cracked, the whole vessel shook and most were knocked to the floor but Riku remained standing as he pulled his hand finally free from the blade. Xikru grimaced as the light reached its climax and there was an enormous explosion that knocked Riku back against the wall with a nasty crack as his head hit the wall, on the other end Xikru was thrown back but passed through Sora as he did so.
His eyes widened in pain and then closed finally as he hit the fall just as hard as Riku had and slumped on the floor, Sora folding like paper and falling from the air to the floor a second later. Riku was the first to sit up, shaking his head free of the spots that danced before him, the others began to try to stand; groaning as joints popped and abused muscles supported them. Blood trickled down Riku's chin from his lips, as he wiped it on his sleeve he noticed he wasn't wearing the special armor/tracksuit anymore. He was back in what he'd been wearing before the first time he'd changed… which was sadly the dress.
He looked into the cell as the people around them picked themselves off the ground and his jaw nearly hit the floor as he doubled over in a staggering run, sliding on his knees as he scooped Sora into his arms.
"Sora! Sora! Please wake up!" Riku cried, his dirty face streaked with sparkling tears as he shook Sora's form gently in his arms. Sora made no response, his mouth parted loosely as Riku shook him harder, "PLEASE SORA! I'm tired of being alone! I want you back!" His voice broke as his sobs grew, "P-please… S-Sora… I-I-I n-n-need-d y-y-you… I l-love you…" He pressed a soft kiss to Sora's forehead and suddenly the body he held began to glow blue.
Riku leant back but didn't let go of Sora as something shot out from his chest, a beam of blue light that split into two in the air above them, then four, then eight until there were lots of them all striking the floor and forming in large shapes of varying sizes. One beam burst and sparkling light like stars dissipated into nothingness and Axel stood gasping for air, his back immediately falling against the wall and he grinned stupidly at them ,"Hey." He said conversationally between breaths. Kairi blushed furiously and Riku gave him a tearfully smirk. Axel raised an eyebrow.
"No undies Axel?" Riku asked innocently.
Axel looked down and began to laugh. Another beam popped and Larxene appeared, as bare as Axel and already pissed. She began to scream and demanded someone bring her something to cover herself with. Axel couldn't stop laughing as Roxas appeared, falling to the floor and covering himself, his face the shade of Axel's hair as said redhead jumped on him in a loving hug before being hidden behind. Several more beams popped and the room was soon filled with all of the Children of Dark, soldiers leaping on Saix and Xemnas and slapping handcuffs on them, special ones that stopped their dark powers, as they lead them to different holding cells. Namine was hiding behind Marluxia and Marluxia was blushing so much at having his girlfriend naked and pressed up against him Riku was sure he'd explode.
The laughter died down as clothes were brought and the naked dressed and all eyes turned to Sora's still limp body held so lovingly in Riku's embrace.
"Come on, Sky." Riku whispered, the tears returning as his exhausted and emotionally abused body cracked, "Please… I love you… I n-need you… you once said you couldn't live without me and you h-hated that… well I'm telling you: I can't live without you… but I love it. I love that I need you but if you leave me now… I'll b-break…"
Sora's hand twitched, Roxas gasped and gripped Axel's hand in fear as slowly, the brunet began to stir. Riku lifted his head from where he'd lain it on Sora's chest and his face split into a disbelieving grin as Sora's eyes opened, the endless blue he was so sure he'd never see again swallowing him and he loved the drowning feeling he got when he stared into their depths. Sora began to sit up when he saw Riku properly. Riku suddenly found himself flat on his back with an armful of sobbing burnet, clawing at his dress front and soaking it with tears like the ones that ahd turned to joy and ran down the sides of Riku's face.
"Riku! Riku, Riku, Riku, Riku, Riku, Riku, Riku!!!!" Sora exclaimed, his cries getting louder until people were cringing at the noise but Riku was so happy to hear Sora's voice he nearly had an orgasm at the sound that he was so sure he'd never hear.
"God… God I've missed you, Sora!" He pulled Sora into a bone crushing hug and pressed Kisses all over the exposed skin he could find.
"Hate to spoil the moment, guys…" Demyx said, his hand firmly laced with Zexion's as he looked over to the back of the cell, "But we have another problem…"
Riku sat up with Sora clamped firmly to the front of his chest, they looked to the back where a pile of clothes lay, perfectly solid and looking suspiciously like the ones Xikru had been wearing… Riku gasped and Sora and he scrambled over.
"Xikru…" Sora said sadly.
"You know him?" Namine asked suddenly.
Sora nodded, "I don't know how, I've never met him but I feel like I know him just by seeing his clothes."
"Should know him, he's my heart." Riku poked Sora's chest gently, "he's been with you ever since I gave him to you." Sora kissed Riku softly and Riku grinned before turning his attention back to the bundle of clothes, he poked it. "It's solid…"
"Please let him be running around naked and not dead!" Axel cried,
Roxas thumped him. "Don't say that!"
The clothes shuffled. All eyes turned to the clothing as a small hand shot out of the head hold of the shirt, soon accompanied by a little head with a fluff of silver hair on the top. Blue eyes stared up at them and a toothless grin was presented.
"Bah!"
Riku gulped and pointed a finger at the new being, "B-baby…" The infant that so much resembled the description Riku had given Xikru of his and Sora's perfect child grabbed hold of the finger pointed at him and giggled.
Riku fainted.
MWAHAHAHAHA! Okay, does it seem rushed to you? I knew what i wanted to do, so I beat up the plot bunnies and they eventually gave in and let me do it, sadly i don't think it turned out right... ah well... it was supposed to be a sorta of dawning moment that Riku had the power to save Sora and then Xikru leaps in the fix the ballsed up job he made of it.
heh... baby... lol...
Akaiba xxx