Door of twilight
Chapter 21
Different sides
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It took a minute before Yuna realized the position she and Riku were in. When she finally did, she quickly jumped up off him. "I, um, sorry about that. I was going for another kick, but I dropped out of hyper speed to late." She was able to get out once her armor had once again become that red dragon shaped bracelet. While she said this, her face had become very red.
"Well, while this showed us that the Element Armors are powerful, it looks like Leon, Yuna, and Aerith shouldn't go on any missions until they master how to use the armor." The King spoke up after hearing why Yuna had ended up on top of Riku. And he had a point, if you don't know what you can do, you might end up hurting yourself, or others with you.
It seemed as though everyone was suddenly going in a different direction. Donald, Goofy, Sora, Rikku, Paine, and Kairi had a mission at the world they were at, Halloween Town. Leon, Aerith, and Yuna stayed behind to train with their new armors. Riku didn't have the slightest idea were everyone else was going, right now he was focused on catching up to the King.
It took a while to catch up to the small king, mainly because he moves incredibly fast for someone that's only three feet tall. But when Riku finally caught up to the King, he got right to the point. "Mickey, how are we going to stop all of the Heartless?" Riku only used Mickey's first name when no one else was around. (Mickey had insisted that Riku stop calling him "you majesty" in Castle Oblivion. But Riku still called him that when other people were around, so he didn't seem disrespectful.)
"What do you mean?" The small king asked as he looked at Riku.
"What I mean is, that while were going from one world to the next sealing the heart of that world, the Heartless are going to hundreds of other worlds, destroying those worlds, and increasing there numbers. When it comes time to fight the Dark Six, were going to have to fight through all the Heartless they have control over. And while all of us are good fighters, we can't kill six billion Heartless, and then destroy the ones that control them." Riku said in reply to the King's question.
"Well, that may not be true." The King said to Riku. "You see, before we left Radiant Garden, I started calling some old friends of mine. They've started to put together an army that we can us when it comes time for the final battle. Until then, they'll try and keep most of the worlds we save, protected. Also a few worlds that we helped out, like the Land of Dragons, for instants, have agreed to send solders when we finally attack the dark base." The small mouse king paused a second before saying, "But it's going to be a while before either side can try and make a final attack."
"Why didn't you tell us this before?" The white haired teen asked.
"Well, you see, before the Heartless came, I always tried to be as peaceful as possible. But when I saw that I wouldn't be able to negotiate with the Heartless, I knew that I would have to fight for the sake of everyone. The reason I didn't tell all of you was that, well, I was afraid of how everyone would react if I told them that I had asked for an army to be put together."
"You worry to much." Was Riku's reply. "Everyone knows that you wouldn't ask for an army unless you thought there was no other way. Now that you answered my question, I'm going to go get some rest. I swear ever since I joined this group I've been getting beat up more and more."
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"So what do you thinks so big that Mr. Heartilly had to calls us back from traveling to other worlds?" Zell asked as the group got out of the Gummi ship. After hearing Whitefang's story on the Element Armors, and what the armors functions were, Rinoa had received a call from her father telling them to come back to Travers Town as soon as possible. It was a strange thing for the person that had them go on the mission in the first place it suddenly call and tell them to come back.
When they got to Town Hall, a uniformed SEED member greeted them. They were then quickly shown to Mr. Heartilly's office. By now everyone was expecting some sort of horrible news, like the Heartless had destroyed almost every world and were coming to Travers Town. When they entered the room, the older man was a calm as he always had been. That really didn't help put anyone at easy.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Rinoa asked after a minute of silence.
"Nothings wrong dear, in fact its good news. An envoy from Disney Castile arrived here a few days ago. It would seem that King Mickey has assembled a small group of people that are doing a similar mission to the one all of you are doing. It also seems that the Keyblade master that we heard rumors about, the one the defeated both the Heartless, and then the Organization XIII is traveling with the King." Mr. Heartilly said to the group.
"The envoy asked if we would be willing to help the King's army out when the time came to finish off the forces of darkness. So it would seem that we aren't in this alone." Mr. Heartilly finished. This brought a large amount of relief to the group, since they now knew they wouldn't have to take on the entire force of darkness by them selves.
"That's great! Now that we know that King Mickey is getting an army together, and has the Keyblade master with him, we don't have worry as much about how were going to fight off all the Heartless!" Rinoa more or less shouted.
Mr. Heartilly gave a slight nod of his head at that. "That's right. Now, Rinoa, why don't you tell me what happened while you were gone."
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"So what if that little mouse king is building an army, he'll be no match for use once we gather all of our forces." Jadis said with a somewhat smug voice after hearing the intelligence report that had been gathered by several of Hades minions.
"Hey, I'm just telling you what my boys told me. And you never know, mouse boy has some powerful friends around, he's army might be stronger then you think." The lord of the dead responded. He had o be careful not to say anything that would make the White Witch to stab him with her ice wand. He really didn't want to be a statue.
"It will not matter if they do have an army, because we have already take several hundred worlds that the little mouse knew nothing about, as well as a few he knew very well. The more worlds we take, the more Heartless there will be. Add in the army's that miss Jadis and myself can bring forwards, and we will take the worlds by storm." The Horned King put in his own thoughts.
"Forget about the army, it's the Keyblade masters that we should worry about." Edea said, speaking up for the first time in the little "meeting."
"Ah yes, the little key carrying brats. Really the only two that we need to worry about are Sora, and the mouse. The Princess of Hearts is still not strong enough to be a threat. The two newest Key bearers are still very inexperienced. And finally, Riku has never been able to do anything more then destroy a few Nobody's, or take a hit that was meant for Sora." Maleficent said with a small laugh, remembering the weak boy she had found outside Hallow Bastion.
"You said the same thing about Sora being weak when he first go the Keyblade, and he destroyed most of us. I say we take care of the new Key bearers before they become a threat. Jafar said, having once again been freed from his lamp, and once again taken human shape.
"There's also the matter of several rouges that seem to be making a fourth party." Sephiroth said, arms folded a crossed his chest. "So far it seems that there's a wizard and necromancer named Mozenrath, besides his power as a wizard, he control a large army of zombie-like creates called Mamlucks. There also seems to be a Nobody that was part of Organization XIII that somehow wasn't destroyed by Sora or Riku. Those two seem to be the strongest of what ever alleys they've been able to gather."
"Ah yes, I've heard of Mozenrath. He comes from my world, a fairly powerful Sorcerer they say. But he is still young and has much to learn about being a true wizard." Jafar said after hearing what Sephiroth had to say. "His Mamlucks won't be able to stand up against the army we can call up."
"But we should still make sure to keep an eye on their activities. They could still cause a few problems if we ignore them." Edea said, clearly being one of the more careful ones in the room.
"Of course we will watch them." Maleficent said. "Now that that's done, we should get back to gathering an army. Oh, and Hades, it looks like the little girl with the new Keyblade might be by your world soon. Have something ready to great her and the group she travels with." The green skinned witch said before opening a dark portal, and steeping through it.
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"So you mean there's no Heartless at all?" Sora asked the tall shape of everyone's favorite skeleton. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, Rikku, and Paine had landed in Halloween Town expecting to find Oogie Boogie was back and controlling the Heartless again. But it would seem that he had fallen out of good graces with Maleficent, or anyone else that could bring him back from the dead.
"Nope, any Heartless we had where taken out by your friends that came by last week." The living skeleton replied.
"What friends? We didn't know anyone had stopped by here." Sora said.
"Oh, well I just thought that since she had a sword that just appears in her hand, just like yours, I thought the two of you were in some sort of club together."
"What! Someone else has a Keyblade! Who was she? What was her name?" Sora yelled after hearing this.
"Well, you see, I don't really remember her name. It was something like Rhino, or Reno, or something along those lines. But I do remember that she had several people with her, and one of the guys with her was really well liked by most the girls in town." Jack said, somewhat embarrassed that he had forgotten her name. "Here, follow me and I'll show you."
Jack lead them around a corner, and pointed to a spot were several dozen females, most of them vampires, were painting a large mural on a random wall. The mural showed Cloud, in his vampire costume, sitting on a large throne, blood dripping down his fangs, right hand resting on the Buster Sword, left hand covered in blood. It would seem that "art" in Halloween Town was always extra violent.
As soon as Sora saw this, he turned to Donald, and Goofy, who had been turning to him at the same time. "I-he-we missed-he's with a-he's a-" Before Sora could finish whatever he was trying to say, he fainted, out cold.
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I am going to say this now. I had never heard of Mozenrath before I read Laredo Tornado's fan fic "The Keyblade War." He's a great writer, and it was a great story. He stopped writing because he tried to start over on his story to fix some plot holes, but people kept bugging him to keep going with the original. So, after a while he took every thing off his account. It wasn't until a little while ago that he put the original one back up, but he's not continuing it, he just put the old chapters up. He's on my favorite author list, for anyone who wants to read his story.
It took a while for me to get this chapter up because I try not to introduce people until I know how they fight, (if they fight at all), how they act, and what their background is. Right now I'm still looking for info on Mozenrath. Also can anyone guess who the Nobody is?