Door of twilight

chapter 13

Fire duel

If I owned this it would be a TV show.

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"I don't want to die!" Sora yelled as he banged his head against the wall behind him. After being captured by the Fire Nation. They had been brought to a holding cell. They had their weapons removed, and in Aang's case, he had a special mask put on so he couldn't aribend. Finally Riku couldn't take it any more and started talking to Sora.

" Relax, Sora, the Fire Nation never kills there captured."

"Rely, then what do they do with them?"

"One of two things will happen. One, you'll be kept as a slave and be forced to work until you die. Or two, you'll be put in a Fire Nation uniform and sent to the front of the war, without a weapon. So you see, they don't kill you, the hard work, of Earth Kingdom soldiers do." Riku said leaning back against the wall.

"If thats the case. Kill me now God, kill me now!"

Just as Sora said this the door to the holding cell room opened. This cased Sora to start screaming again. "I didn't mean it, I want to live!" If he Leon could have moved his hands, he would have hit his forehead. It turned out that the people that interred the room were just some Fire Nation guards.

"Princess Azula wants to talk with you." The lead guard said, pointing to Riku. Riku simply shrugged and stood up to follow the guards. As he walked to the door, he noticed that Sokka said something about "He's about to beat for information." Riku shook his head as he turned in the hall and kept walking. He knew what was about to happen.

He was lead to a room that was vary nice looking. He could tell that it had cost a of of money to decorate this room. He could also see that someone was sitting a chair, facing away from the door. He then head a female voice speak. "Vary good captain, now undo the shackles and leave." Riku could see the captain open his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it and did as he was told.

After the guards had left, the person in the chair stood up. It was a woman, about Riku's age, about four inches shorter then him. She had black hair that she kept in a pony tail, and let the bangs fall in her face. She had gold eyes, and wore red and gold robs.

There wasn't a sound in the room as the girl looked at Riku with no emotion in her face. Riku was returning the look. A normal person might have thought that they were going to start attacking each other, but boy that person would be dead wrong. Because after a minuet Riku gave a bow before starting to talk. "Hello, Azula-Sensei."

The girl, now known as Azula gave a small smile before saying anything in return. "Hello Riku. I see that you got into another sword fight." She said referring to the new scar on his face. "Now I hope you've been keeping up with your firebending training, your going to need it."

"I know I will Azula-Sensei, I know I will."

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"Zell, never do that again!" Cloud yelled as he sat there trying to remove his hands from the hand rail. Zell had somehow talked his way into driving the Gummi ship. Lets just say that he was somehow able to crash into every Heartless ship on the rout to the next world. They had been forced to make an emergency landing on the planet so they could repair it.

As it turns out this world, called Twilight Town, was a good neighbor to Travers Town. The two worlds were often helping each other out. So Rinoa and the others thought it would be good to check on the reports of Heartless running around. So the first thing they wanted to do was to check in with the local SEED office.

Cloud still couldn't shake the feeling that something was about to happen.

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"I don't want to work, and I don't want to die. I don't want to work and I don't want to die. I don't want to work and I don't want to die." Leon felt like smashing his face against the wall. Sora had been saying the same thing for the last hour, ever since Riku had been taken to see the "Princess Azula." And no matter how much he tried he couldn't get Sora to shut up. Even if Riku was getting beat, he had to be having a better time than this.

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"So you can use a Keyblade now. I never would have guessed that you would be the one to use a Keyblade." Azula said as she looked over Riku's Keyblade in the royal chambers. As it turns out, this world had know about the Keyblade's for over 1500 years. It was even said that the first three Keyblades were made on this world. Of course the records that far back had been destroyed long ago, so Riku had no way of finding out who made the Keyblades.

"Yeah, it kind of surprised me to."

"So who is it that holds the other Keyblade?" Azula asked looking at Sora's Kingdom Key.

"I'm going to guess that the guards told you about a brown hared boy with spiked hair having a nerves break down. That would be him." Riku said shaking his head. While Sora was a good fighter, he wasn't used to losing. As such, he didn't know how to act when he was captured by the Fire Nation. And because of that he was forced to the edge of insanity sitting in the holding cell. Of course it would most likely take Kairi, Donald, and Goofy all of two minutes to get him back to normal.

"Hmm, vary entrusting." Azula said while still looking over the Keyblade's. She the turned and faced Riku. "Now down to business. I can't just let you go. But at the same time if I keep you here you can't find the Keyhole to this world. So you know what has to be done right?"

"An Agni Kai, fire duel."

"Yes, now I can't hold back on you, so I really hope that you've kept up with your training."

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As Sora, and the others were lead into a open area they couldn't help but wounder what was going on. They had been pulled from their cells and brought here. "Looking forwards to the show?" A female voice came out of nowhere. Turning the group could see two girls coming towards them.

One was a tall girl with black hair. She had red and black robs on, and a belt the held a lot of kunia, and other ninja weapons. The other was a shorter girl in a pink outfit. She seemed vary happy, and Leon thought he saw her wink at Sokka. Could have just been a trick of the mind. He then saw the shorter girl start to talk.

"Looks like your white haired friend is going to be fighting Azula in a Agni Kai." Sora, not knowing anything about this world was the one to ask a question.

"A what?"

It was the taller girl that answered. "A Agni Kai, or fire duel is a battle between two firebenders. They fight until one is knocked over and then a final blow is delivered to end the battle. You buddy better be one talented fighter, or Azula's going to walk all over him." Sokka being vary confused about all this then spoke up.

"Wait, wouldn't Riku have to be a firebender to take place in a Agni Kai?"

The shorter girl spoke up again. "He is a firebender silly. Why is it that the cute guy's are almost never vary smart?" That caused Sokka to blush, and Suki to look vary mad. If she wasn't shackled, she probably would have lunged at the shorter girl. However before any fight could break out over that, two people entered the area.

It was Riku and Azula, only they were facing away from each other. Riku was shirtless, reviling a long scar a crossed his chest, and lower back. He also was barefoot. Azula was barefoot, and in a bikini-like top. They then both turned to face each other, and took a fighting stance.

Then in a swift move, they both shot forwards. Riku jumped in the air, punching and kicking five times, each time sending a blast of fire at Azula. Azula was able to block, or doge with ease, and then she went on a attack of her won. She thrust both hands at Riku sending a large blast of blue flames at him. Azula's firebending was blue because she was so advanced, meaning that it was much stronger.

Because of that fact Riku knew to get out of the way, instead of block. He then formed two burning sword, one in each hand. They were about two feet long. He was holding the one in his right hand the same way Xemnas did. The left one was upside down. He then rushed Azula swinging several times.

Azula was able to block all of Riku's attacks with out a problem. She then went on the attack again. Swiping her leg in a wide arc, she sent a wave of fire at Riku. Riku was able to jump over the attack, swinging at Azula with both swords as he did. Azula simply brought her hands up and forced the flames away from her before thrusting her hand at Riku for another attack.

Even thought Riku brought both swords in front of him, the blast still sent him flying. Luckily he was able to flip around and land on his feet. He then jumped at Azula, his foot burning with fire, and slammed it down on the ground in front of her. She smashed her leg down at the same time. The end result was two towers of fire smashing into each other. The force of Azula's attack forced Riku to slide back about ten feet. That gave Azula the chance to go on the attack again.

She ran forwards a couple feet, before jumping in the air and kicking both her feet at Riku. A rather large ball of fire was sent at Riku because of that. He wasted no time jumping out of the way. He then launched several fire balls of his own. None of which came close to hitting Azula.

Azula then smirked before crouching down and thrusting he right index and middle finger at Riku, sending a long blast of energy at him. He responded by getting in a mirror image stance, thrusting his left index and middle finger, sending an orange blast to meet the blue on. The two blasts hit each other, each trying to over power the other.

It was clear that Riku was losing ground quick. The point were the two blasts met was getting closer and closer to him. He knew that if he didn't do something soon it would hit him. Lifting his left leg, Riku slammed it down on the ground, sending a line of fire, at Azula. Azula didn't see this coming and was hit by the blast, knocking her back.

While she wasn't knocked over, she did have to take a minuet to regain her balance. That gave Riku the chance to go on the attack again. Forming his flaming swords, he rushed her again, unleashing a ten hit combo on her. She was able to block the first nine, but the last one hit her, sending her to the ground. Riku the brought his swords to her neck. She gave a small smirk before talking.

"Vary well, you win this round. Captain return everyones weapons and let them go." Azula said before raising off the ground and walking away.

To say that everyone there was in shock was an understatement. Aang had told everyone in the holding cell how, even with Zuko's help, Azula had still beaten both of them with out braking a sweat. However they had no problem with being let go.

After Riku had put his shirt back on he walked over to were their weapons had been set. He and Sora garbed there Keyblade's about the same time and something happened. A shining gold crown was formed under Sora's feet. At the same time a half silver, half black heart was formed under Riku's feet. While this was happening, Sokka's boomerang floated up and started to glow. Both Sora and Riku took aim, with their Keyblade's and a beam of gold light shot out hitting the boomerang, causing a clicking sound to be heard.

"What just happened to my boomerang!?" Sokka yelled as he started looking over his weapon. Riku gave a small laugh before turning to the rest of the group. (Minuses Mai and Ty Lee who left when Azula did.)

"Well looks like we need to be going." As everyone said there good byes, a messenger came up to Riku holding a bag.

"Princess Azula ordered me to give this to you." Looking in side, Riku could see all sorts of bending scrolls. Water, earth, air, and fire. From basic to advance, everything was here. Also there was a note, that read "Good luck Riku-Kun." Riku gave a small smile before heading back to the landing site.

End chapter

And there you go. For anyone who doesn't know Sensei means teacher. And Kun is used to address a younger, or lower ranking boy.

And now the result of the voting. The pairings will be:

Riku x Yuna

Leon x Rinoa

And Cloud x (dramatic music here) Quistis!