Door of twilight
Chapter 18
Eye opener
Start chapter"Seriously, it shouldn't take this long for someone else to wake up." Riku thought as he still kept up his act of being asleep. It had been about thirty minutes since Aerith and Kairi had come out, and still no sign of anyone else. About at this time Riku was praying for someone to come out. Sora, Leon, David, anyone, right now Riku even wouldn't mind Donald. He just wanted someone else to come into the room, so he could "wake up" and not be interrogated by Kairi. But if no one got out here soon, he'd be stuck…
KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KHCloud groaned as he opened his eyes, immediately bringing a hand up to shield his eyes from the bright light. He was really confused right now. The last thing he remembered was talking to the woman in silver armor, and then everything became a blur. "What happened down in the cave?" Cloud thought as he shook the last bit of sleep-caused drowsiness form his head. It was then Cloud realized were he was, in the medical room on the Gummi ship.
"Good, your up," came a vary calm, and somewhat cold sounding voice that could only belong to Lulu. The dark sorceress was standing in the door, emotionless eyes staring at him. Before he could say anything, Lulu spoke up again. "I wouldn't try and move to much, your body is really low on energy. Trying to move might use what little amount you have left, forcing you into a comma. Now sit there, and I'll get the others."
As Lulu walked away, Cloud couldn't help but think, "Is it possible for he to smile at all?" It was true that in the whole time he had known Lulu (which he admitted wasn't that long) he had never seen her smile. Come to think about it, he had never seen her show any emotions at all. But then again, he didn't exactly spend a lot of time around her.
Just then, the door slid back open, reviling everyone else had followed Lulu down to the Medical room. Cloud could tell right away that they were going to be asking a lot of questions that he probably didn't know the answer to.
KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KHSephiroth stood in a large room in the Castle That Never Was, known as the Hall of Empty Memories. He was waiting for someone. And this someone was running vary late. And Sephiroth didn't like to be kept waiting.
The six ultimate dark users had made their base inside this Castle for several reasons. Number one, Maleficent already had control of it making it much easier for them to set everything they needed up. Reason number two, it was the largest Castle of any of the six users. (Much to Jadis's dismay.) And the last reason, it was next to impossible to get to The World That Never Was unless you had a dark portal.
While waiting, Sephiroth's gaze fall upon the reflective suffuse of the wall he was standing by. A scowl fall a crossed his face when he saw the "x" shaped scar on it. He felt a burning anger well up inside him. Anger directed at the white haired Keyblade Master he had had a duel with on Radiant Garden. Riku. "I let my guard down. I let it down, and he took advantage of it. I'll be sure not to make the same mistake next time."
It was then a dark portal opened near Sephiroth. Out steeped the long-white haired gunslinger Cloud and Quistis had fought in the Twilight Caves. He was limping, clearly hurt. "So I take it things didn't go well, Yazoo?" Sephiroth said looking at the gunslinger. The gunslinger, now known as Yazoo, nodded his head in response.
"Everything was going fine, until this spiked blond haired guy jumped us. He was using the Cursed Seal. It was more powerful then a normal level one Seal to. He also had a huge sword." Yazoo said, gaze drawn to the floor.
That spiked Sephiroth's interest. Spiked blond hair? Huge Sword? It couldn't be, Sephiroth had made sure Cloud wouldn't be a problem before the Dark Six had made any move to start the war. Cloud was dead! Sephiroth had seen him die, had killed him!
Sephiroth let out a loud yell as a burst of flames erupted from around his body.
KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KHIt took a little more waiting, but eventually Sora came out into the living room were Riku was keeping up his act of being asleep. So after waiting a few minutes, Riku finally decided to "wake up." And, well…thing's just kind of went a little crazy.
"Arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! It's the end of the worlds! Riku's asleep!" Sora had screamed as soon as he saw Riku "asleep" on the couch. But on the bright side it had given Riku a good excuse to "wake up." It also gave Riku and excuse to give Sora a hard time.
"What, I can't fall asleep once in a while?" Riku asked Sora, sarcasm in his voice.
"No! I've only seen you sleep once. And that was when you were ten, and I was nine. And it was only because we had like fifty duels that day," Sora yelled back. Riku remembered that day. But it had only been twenty duels.
"I remember that Sora. I also remember that you lost all of the duels." Again, that was true. Of course back then, Riku was much stronger and faster then Sora, due to the age difference.
"Yeah, well I bet you couldn't beat me now," Sora yelled back, embarrassed that Riku had brought up that subject. While Sora always liked to spar with Riku, he really didn't like it when he lost. While he wasn't one of those people that through a huge fit when he lost, he would pout a little bit when he lost. And the fact that Riku had brought it up with his girlfriend in the room, (even though she had seen him get beat into the ground before,) didn't help.
"Is that a challenge Sora?"
"Yeah, let's go have a match right now."
"Alright lets go." Riku said as both teens ran of to the training room. Of course by now, just about everyone on the ship had come out of his or her rooms. So Sora and Riku weren't the only people going to the training room. Even Cid had come out of the cockpit. Apparently, no one wanted to miss to Keyblade wielding friends beat each other up.
KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KHIt had taken a couple hours, and a few magic spells for Rinao and Lulu, but eventually Cloud was able to move around normally again. And he had been right before, just about everyone wanted to know what had happened to him. He had told them that he didn't know, he had black out after he was bitten. He also left out the little bit about seeing some armored woman that told him he would lead the battle against the army of darkness.
No one had a chance to ask any more questions, because at that moment, a rather lout alarm had gone off in the ship. Everyone quickly rushed to the Bridge, and didn't like what they saw. There ship was surrounded by thousands of Heartless ships. Everything was there, form small fighter ship, to big battle ships. And while SEED had given their group a well-armed Gummi ship, it couldn't take one that many Heartless ships.
Rinao quickly took charge off the situation. "Irvine, get in the top gunner seat! Quistis, left gunner seat! Cloud, take the right gunner seat! And Zell, take the bottom gunner seat! Lulu, you're the best pilot; try and keep are ship from getting hit too much. I'll try and locate the head Heartless ship. If we can destroy that, the others should warp out of here." As Rinao was yelling this everyone was running to the place on the Bridge.
The Gummi ship's defense system was set up so that no had to leave the Bridge. It was set up so that all a person had to do to operate one of the four high-powered laser guns on the ship was sit in the corresponding seat for it. And one of these four guns would have to take out the head Heartless ship.
The head Heartless ship, or Heartless Flag ship, was as it sounds, the ship that sends orders to the other Heartless in the area. While most Heartless ships were controlled by Shadow's, either Defenders, or Guard Armor's generally controlled the Flagship. If the Flagship was destroyed, all other Heartless would not know what to do, as such they would warp back to wherever the person that sent them was.
Cloud quickly found out that it was a lot harder then he thought to operate gun turrets. While he was able to hit some of the Heartless ships that came into his line of fire, he missed a lot too. Things seemed to go down hill from there.
"Guys, they put a magic block on the area! I can't use my scan to find the Flagship!" Rinao screamed in the middle of the space battle. If they couldn't find the Flagship, there was no way they would be able to get out of here alive.
"Come on, come on, think Cloud, think! There has to be something I can do. If I could just find the Flagship, I could tell the others were it was, and we could destroy it. Alright stupid Heartless, were are you." Cloud suddenly felt himself focus on one ship in the distance. If anyone was looking at Cloud right then, they would have noticed that veins near his eyes had bulged, and his eyes had gone a solid white color. But no one was looking at Cloud.
The ship Cloud was looking at, which looked just like any other large battleship, seemed to be getting closer to Cloud. Then, when the ship seemed to be right in front of Cloud, something else happened. The wall the separated the enemy ship's Bridge from space, seemed to disappear. Standing vary close to the wall was a lone Defender Heartless.
Cloud quickly started to charge energy into his gun, while locking on to the Flagship. Once he had enough power in the gun, Cloud unleashed the powered up shot at the Flagship. The shot went through the shields, and slammed into the Bridge. Cloud could see the Defender Heartless be destroyed by the impact of the blast.
"Cloud what are you do-huh?!" Cloud heard Rinao yell. But before she could finish, all the Heartless ships started to warp out of the area. Cloud leaned back and started to relax. Again if anyone was looking at him, they would have noticed that the color had returned to his eyes, and the veins had returned to normal size.
He had a feeling that there would be more questions he did have the answers to in just a minute.
KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KH KHRiku and Sora landed about twenty feet from each other, breathing hard. Their sparing match had lasted about thirty minutes so far, and there was no end in sight. It was a pretty even match really. Riku had the advantage in speed and skill with a sword. (Since he had been using one longer.) While Sora had the advantage with raw amount of mana he could use and the amount of sword technique he knew.
Riku had noticed something that seemed to keep them on even ground. Sora's Keyblade had the abillity to transfer an amount of mana to Sora. This came in handy if Sora was waiting for his mana to recharge, and Riku used a high power attack against him. Such an abillity was known as a reaction command. It ment that Sora could keep blocking Riku's attacks, even when out of mana.
While Riku was able to use Reaction commands, his Keyblade had a limit to how many he could do, before having to let the Keyblade's mana recharge. That would have been a problem under most case's. It would have left Riku open for attacks form Sora when he was out of mana. But Riku had something for this. Riku kept changing form using mana to using chi. By doing so, he was able to use one energy while the other was rechargeing.
The small brake the two Keyblade Master had taken was over, and the two rushed each other. They were moving at such high speeds, that a normal person would have only seen a blur. But both teens were able to see alright for the speed they were going, but things were still a little blury. (Sora would have been able to handl the speed if he was in a Drive Form, but since it was a one-on-one match there was no one to Drive with.)
After a couple high speed attacks being passed by the two teens, they each jumped into the air. That was Riku's first mistake. While in the air, Sora kept using high power combo's, forceing Riku it use most of his energy blocking the attacks. When Sora used his mid-air finsher attack, Riku had used all of his mana, and didn't have enough time to use his chi. Riku could only brace for the in coming attack.
Then something happened, Riku's eyes were sundnly able to see vary clearly. Riku could also feel another type of energy inside his body. He could also "see" right were Sora was going to attack, even though Sora had just finshed gathering his mana for the attack. Riku was quickly able to knock Sora's attack out of the way, and then go on the attack himself.
Riku's attacks seemed to be coming faster then normal. If Sora hadn't been so busy trying to block Riku's attacks, he might have noticed that Riku's eyes were now red, with three black tear-shaped markes on them. But Sora never did.
After a little while of Riku's super fast attack's, Sora was finally hit, and sent a crossed the room. When Riku landed on the ground, he closed his eyes as he felt the new enegy start to die down. When he opend them again, they were back to there normal blue-green color.
End chapterWell……… it took a while for me to make this chapter didn't it? Sorry about that, but I just couldn't seem to sit down long enough to make it. Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who has been reading my story. A special thanks to Silverlight05, and ChibiFrubaGirl, both of them have reviewed just about every chapter of my story so far. Thank you everyone.
By the way, I'm trying to keep Cloud and Riku even with Sora as far as skills go. Sora has five Drive Forms, Cloud and Riku will have four, and then an eye jutsu from the Naruto world. Cloud will have the Byakugan, and Riku will have the Sharingan. If you don't know what they do, you can look them up on Wiki.