Door of Twilight

chapter 15

Metamorphosis

(Right so, this chapter has no Cloud, Readying for attack from Cloud fan-girls but the next chapter will be all Cloud to make up for it.)

I don't own anything in this story, except my original characters.

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Riku jumped up to avoid the swing from Joseph. Ever since Cid had announced the group going down, there was vary little for him to do. The group that went down to the planet, the Land of Dragons, had everyone that he even thought of hanging out with. It had Sora, Kairi, Rikku, Paine, Leon, and the King. While he didn't hang out with Rikku, or Paine, he did hang out with just about everyone else. Except Leon, Riku would only train with him.

For some odd reason, right after the group had left, Aerith and Tifa suddenly started dragging Yuffie down the hall saying something about a make over. Audrey said something about her and David having a romantic dinner. And Cid was still locked up in the cockpit. And Donald and Goofy said something about calling Merlin for some reason. That left Riku, Joseph, and Yuna to find something to do.

Yuna had decided to spend the day just relaxing, seeing as she was up with Riku until five in the morning last night practicing firebending. So that just left Riku and Joseph to find something to do. So Riku took this time to try and teach Joseph some more sword moves.

While Joseph had mastered the basics, he still needed help getting some of the advanced moves down. Leon had been teaching him how to use his Keyblade, since it was almost exactly the same as a Gunblade. But everyone had decided to teach Joseph some of the sword moves they knew, so he would be more prepared for whatever was thrown his way.

It was clear that Sora and Paine had been showing Joseph some moves to, because Riku found himself fighting some vary similar moves. The one move he was having problems dogging was the explosion ability that Sora had showed him. But Riku would think of something. Riku also noted that Joseph could pull off the explosion with no problem. Meaning that Joseph most likely would have better luck using attacks that involved explosions.

When Joseph came in with a high slash, Riku simply brought his Keyblade up to block. While Joseph was fast, he lacked physical power. Riku made a mental note to work on that before returning the attack with one of his own. Joseph tried to block, but was pushed back by the force of the swing. Joseph the discharged a blast of energy from his Gunblade-like Keyblade. Riku responded by raising his dark shield spell.

Joseph then switched back to close rang combat, by rushing Riku, unleashing a three hit combo. Riku was easily able to block the attack, before returning one of his own. Riku's three hit combo was able to knock Joseph's Keyblade out of his hand, thus ending the training match.

It was amazing how fast Joseph was picking up on how to use his Keyblade. Joseph had only had it for a week and a half, but he could all ready stand his ground against Leon, or Paine. (Even though he would always lose.) Before long he would be at the same level as Sora or Riku. And one day he might even be stronger then any of them. Still he needed a lot more work before that would happen.

Walking down to his room, Riku noted that he was starting to feel sick. He was light headed, had a splinting headache, and he was starting to feel really cold. He most likely just needed some rest. He would never find out because he collapsed about three feet from his bed.

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Riku winced as he stood up, feeling vary weird. He remembered going to his room, starting to feel sick, and then everything went blank. Looking around he saw that he wasn't in his room, he was in the middle of a desert! Who the hell had he gotten there?! He took a deep breath of air and, much to his horror, couldn't fell any living energy at all, other then his own.

Not wanting to stay in one place, Riku just started walking along what looked like a path on the ground. After three hours of walking he still hadn't found anything. By now Riku was staring to get angry. Just when he was about to burst into a fut if rage and start blasting the sand with magic spells and firebending, he saw something that made him stop cold. He could see Keyblade's. He could see thousands of Keyblade's, all different from the next one.

But what Riku saw next shocked him even more, in the middle of all the Keyblade's he saw three vary recognizable Keyblade's. Mainly there was Sora's, the King's, and his own Keyblade there, stabbed into the ground like all the others. Riku started to run towards his Keyblade when something else happened.

Just before he reached his Keyblade, there was two bright flashes of light, and then there was an explosion that sent Riku flying backwards. Looking up Riku could see that two swords were now planted into the ground, not far from his Keyblade. He he recognized right away as the one Sephiroth always had with him. As for the other it was about three and a half feet long, had a blood red hilt, and the thing that struck Riku as it's most notable feature, it had a demonic red aura around it.

Before Riku could do anything darkness began to form around Sephiroth's sword. The shadows then shot out and began to take shape. Before long they had taken the form of Sephiroth him self. The newly formed one winged angel, then garbed his sword and got into a battle ready stance. But then something else started to happen

The other sword's glow began to get stronger. The red energy began to wrap around the sword like a snake before it to shot out and took human form. Once it was finished an armored figure could be seen. This person, obviously a man, wore black armor with red shoulder pars. He had a demonic looking helmet. He then reached down and garbed the other sword before he to got into a battle stance.

Then both Sephiroth and the other person both charged Riku with their swords. For some reason Riku couldn't make him self move, so all he could do was stand there and wait. However before either sword could hit Riku, his Keyblade gave off a bright flash of light that blinded him for a second. When Riku could see again, he saw that both Sephiroth and the other person were frozen, not moving at all.

Looking over at his Keyblade he could see that it had become a ball of energy, just floating above ground. Riku nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard the ball of energy start talking. "Well come master. You are no doubt confused right now, so pleas give me a chance to explain." Riku only nodded dumbly.

"Right now you are going through a metamorphosis. This was caused when you made a choice that clashed with your self image that your brain could not handle it. As a result, you were sent into the depths of your mind and heart. That is why you can see this place, and talk to me."

It was here Riku finally asked a question. "What is this place?"

"This is the world of death. This is were Keyblade's come after their master dies. It is here that they remain until someone else with a heart that matches their will is awakened. And it is here they return when there next master dies."

"You can see this world because you are my master. All Keyblade masters can come to this world if they go deep enough into their mind and heart. It is here they can come for guidance from their Keyblade's, or the advice form past Keyblade masters. However in doing so, they use up all of there energy, and will not be able o do so again for one weeks time."

"You said I'm going through a metamorphosis. What dose that mean?"

"Like I said, what ever choice you made has forced you here. I do not know what that choice was, and you may not even know yet. You might have made the choice in your subconscious. But that choice has forced your mind, body, and heart to go through a change. While in the end it will make you stronger, it will be a painful process."

"So what happens now?"

"Now I will help you finish this metamorphosis. Look now." The desert seemed to fade away, along with Sephiroth and the other person. Riku soon recognized him self standing on the platform from the Awakening. However something was different.

He could see different energy's all around. In front of him there was a swirling black and white energy he could tell was Twilight. To his left he could see a dull gray energy of Nothing. To his right was the dark energy of Darkness. And behind him was the glowing energy of Light. Then all the energy's seemed to form up into little balls of their respected energy and color.

"You have felt what it's like to have one of the four elements of your heart become stronger then the others for a short time." It was true, when he went into his dark form, he powered up his darkness so it was stronger then the other elements. "This will let you be able to do the same with all the elements, plus it will give you a new dark form. Not that horrid one Ansem made. Now go finish this change, and if you ever need to speak to me again, just use your heart."

Once by one each of the energy's shot into his chest. It hurt! But he didn't scream, he never had the chance. For he soon found him self flying straight at a bright light. The last thing he saw before he went though was a young man with spiked blond hair and a big sword...

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Riku shot up off the floor with a slight gasp. Had that just been a dream? No he still hurt like hell from were the energy had went into his chest. That and he felt really tiered. Standing up he found out that he wasn't wanting to stay in one place. So he decided to go see what the others were up to.

Well he didn't have to go far. When he passed Aerith's door, he heard Yuffie screaming at the top of her lungs about not wanting to wear make-up. So he decided he really didn't want to go in there. He also found out that Joseph was asleep. He didn't want to hang out with Donald or Goofy, and he knew that David and Audry were having there little romantic night. So that left one option...

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"It's good to be back." Sora said as he stepped into the main room of the gummi ship. He was soon followed by the others that went down to the planet. Soon they were all going off to bed, seeing as it was four in the morning. However before Kairi went to bed she noticed that the TV was on. Walking over, she could see that Yuna and Riku were asleep on the couch. Spread out a crossed the table were several movies.

Seeing this Kairi did a little victory dance. She was better at "evil" planes then people gave her credit for.

End chapter

I have three vary good reasons this chapter was so late.

#1) My old computer crashed and I had to get a new one.

#2) A friend of mine forced to to watch 50 episodes of Narato. Expect a world, battle moves, and a bad guy or two.

#3) I also had a bad case of wrighters block.

Oh, and can anyone guess what the "Others Sword" was. I'll give you a hint, think of Sephiroth's sword name and you might come up with it.

And yes a based this chapter off of Avatar: "The Earth King"