Door of twilight
Chapter 23
Dancing Drive Forms, part 1
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As Riku made his way down to his room, he couldn't stop thinking about what was happening to him. Now, Riku was the first to admit that he wasn't exactly normal. Having silver/white hair since you were born kind of takes away any chance you have of being normal. Add that to the fact that he had a hyper learning rate, and what you get is far from normal. (Lets face it, to be able to get two years ahead in half the subjects in school you have to be able to learn things fast.) But still, having flashbacks of memories that he never had was a little bit out of what he would consider "normal."
And what creped him out even more was that he had just seen what had to be the younger version of Leon, Tifa, Aerith, and Yuffie. Along with two people he had never met before. And why was it that, in the flashback, Tifa had called him Cloud? Didn't they just say that he was a friend of theirs that was from Radiant Garden? If that was so, then why was he getting flashbacks were people called him Cloud?
"And to top it off, I've got a mission as soon as we get to the next world too. I just really hope it's not a world were I get turned into a small animal most people would consider cute." Rubbing his forehead, Riku finally entered his room and sat down on his bed. Maybe a nice short nap would help…
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"So Clouds back, huh." Leon thought as he swung his Gunblade through empty space in the air, fighting an invisible sparing partner. While he was still getting used to his Element Armor, he still liked to train with his Gunblade almost daily. "So, I wonder how the new Key Bearer is? Well, I guess it doesn't really matter, if Tifa or Aerith even think that she likes Cloud, it's going to turn ugly really fast."
A sad but true fact about Tifa and Aerith, while normally very calm and in control, if it even looks like another woman likes Cloud, they became somewhat…okay they became incredibly jealous. Oddly enough, Aerith can become pretty scary when she's mad. And almost the only thing she ever gets mad about it someone hitting on Cloud. And while Tifa wasn't exactly well known for controlling her temper, she got epically mad when someone flirted with Cloud.
Yet despite the fact that both girls clearly like the blond, the two of them were somehow able to stay good friend. How they did was beyond Leon's comprehension, but somehow they did. It had turned into a sort of rivalry, with each one trying to get Cloud to notice her. Of course, neither one of them had been too successful in getting Cloud to admit that he like them.
"Of course, after what he's been through, romance is probably the last thing on Cloud's mind." Leon thought as he finally put his Gunblade down for a minute to caught his breath. It was just a simple fact that Cloud was haunted by his past. But if you know what Cloud's past was like, you understand a little better. At the very lest, you understand why Cloud never smiles.
"But at lest we know he's alive now." Leon thought as he picked his Gunblade back up, and returned to his training.
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"Uh, the nap didn't help at all." Riku muttered as he pushed himself out of bed. Riku has simply tossed and turned, being unable to get any sleep at all. And having a ridiculously loud alarm go off next to his head, telling him that they had reached the next world, didn't help much either.
Walking out of his room, Riku started making his way down to the transport station of the ship. Making his way over to Sora, Riku noticed that the king, Joseph, Donald, Goofy, and Tifa were standing next to Sora, who was standing next to the teleportation pad.
"Hey Riku, you ready for this? Were going to Agrabah!" Sora said as he begins saying something along the lines of introducing everyone to Aladdin and Jasmine and everyone else that lived in Agrabah. Riku, however, wasn't listening to what Sora was saying, rather, he was thinking of what was about to happen. "Oh no. If that princess of hearts remembers that I'm the one that kidnapped her, I might end up with my head on a spear." Riku thought, trying to envision what he would look like as nothing but a head.
Noticing that everyone was starting to move onto the teleportation pad, Riku quickly followed them, trying to push the though of becoming a disembodied head from his mind.
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There was a loud sound of metal hitting metal as Axel blocked Xehanort's Keyblade with his chakrams. Jumping back to gain some room, Axel started looking over the situation he, along with Zexion and Mozenrath were in. Xehanort was over powering them with little difficulty, despite the fact that it was three on one. So far Xehanort had either block all attacks thrown at him, or the attacks hadn't had any effect.
"Do you think that you, someone that dose not exist, could even scratch me?" Xehanort said in an arrogant voice. Bringing his Keyblade, Consuming Darkness, up in front of him, Xehanort rushed forwards at Axel at a blinding speed. Axel reacted by quickly using his chakrams to block the attack. However, due to Xehanort's raw strength, Axel was sent sliding across the room.
Before Xehanort had a chance to move in to attack Axel again, Zexion launched an attack of his own. Jumping forwards with a copy of the Oath Keeper and Oblivion in his hands, Zexion aimed a slash at Xehanort's backside. However, the dark user simply turned around and swatted the fake Keyblades to the side.
Seeing that Zexion was distracting Xehanort, Mozenrath quickly took action. Gathering his mana in his gauntlet on his right hand, Mozenrath started saying a chant that sounded like it was in Latin. Thrusting his hand out, a bright red ball of energy shot forwards about two yards, and then exploded in a bight flash of light.
Once the light cleared, Mozenrath saw that his necromancy spell had successfully raised a zombie warrior from the dead. The zombie was about six feet tall, and was simply a walking skeleton. The skeleton warrior was armed with a long sword, and iron shield. While the zombie wasn't a Mamluck, (the type of zombie Mozenrath normally uses.) it would do for now. And besides, Mozenrath had most of his Mamlucks assigned to important tasks.
The zombie swordsman rushed forwards, with a surprising amount of speed, and quickly slashed at Xehanort's exposed back. Xehanort quickly threw Zexion across the room, and turned to meet the zombie. Swinging his Keyblade around in a large arc, Xehanort was able to parry the zombie's attack, and then quickly launch one of his own.
Swinging his Keyblade around at the zombie's torso, Xehanort was simply planning to cut the undead swordsman in half. However, the zombie was much faster then Xehanort had been expecting, and showed it by moving his shield into the path of the Keyblade, causing it to simply push the zombie away, not slicing it in half like Xehanort had planed.
While the zombie had survived Xehanort's first attack, the dark Keyblade master was going to make sure that didn't happen again. Holding the Consuming Darkness out in front of him, Xehanort launched a huge blast of dark energy from said Keyblade at the zombie warrior. The zombie, having no way of blocking the attack, was destroyed by the dark blast, reducing the undead swordsman to nothing but a pile of ash.
"Please, is that all you can do? At lest put up a fight before I destroy you all." Xehanort said in a smug voice. Turning to once again face Zexion, Xehanort noticed something: Zexion had summoned his real weapon. Zexion's real weapon was…a book? Yes, it was a book that looked to be about three hundred pages long, and also had the symbol of the Nobody's on the front of it.
"Oh, so you've finally decided to fight with something original?" Xehanort taunted, having only seen Zexion summon his weapon a half dozen times when he was still known as Xemnas. Zexion however had next to no reaction on his face form Xehanort's words. Instead of saying anything in reply, Zexion simply opened his book to a page near the middle.
"Spear of Heaven." Zexion muttered before a light blue aura surrounded him. The energy that had been gathering around the blue haired nobody then shot out into the air, and begin to take shape. The energy had formed a long spear, about seven feet long. At the tip of the spear, to wing shaped fin's spread out in both directions.
The spear then shot forwards at Xehanort, moving at a blinding speed. Xehanort, showing no reaction what so ever, simply stood there waiting for the attack to hit him. As soon as the spear touched Xehanort, a huge explosion erupted, blinding everyone in the room.
When the smoke cleared, Zexion could see that Xehanort was still standing in the same spot he had been before the attack, and with out a scratch on him. "If that's all any of you can do, then this fight is already over." Xehanort said, laughing slightly at Zexion's attack.
"Hey Xehanort!" Axel's voice rang out. Xehanort turned, expecting to see Axel's chakrams flying at him. Instead, he saw Axel had somehow managed to get right behind him, and he wasn't holding a chakram in his hands either. However, before Xehanort had a chance to get a good look at the weapon Axel was holding, he was sent flying across the room by a powerful burst of wind, as well as something hard hitting him across the chest.
Once he had gotten his footing back, Xehanort looked down at his armor, which now had a gash across the chest. Looking back at Axel, Xehanort finally got a good look at the weapon in the redhead's hands. It was a sword about four feet long and six inches wide. It was a light silver color, while the hilt was a dark black. The tip of the sword was a light purple, and looked somewhat like a spearhead. Finally, there was a small keychain on the hilt that looked like a cyclone.
"What's this, the Flurry of Dancing Flames is now armed with a Keyblade? This might just cause me to break a sweat." Xehanort said, looking at Axel and his new Keyblade. Rushing forwards at a incredible speed, Xehanort was in front of Axel in an instant, bring his Consuming Darkness down at the redhead.
Axel, however, quickly brought his own Keyblade around at a lightning fast speed to parry the blow. Once the two Keyblades meat each other, an incredibly strong gust of wind hit Xehanort from the side, sending him sliding across the room again. "Now maybe you see why this Keyblade is called Winds of Chaos." Axel said as Xehanort had to use a rather large amount of darkness to stay on his feet.
"By now I'm sure you've realized how similar this Keyblade is to your old pal Xaldin, right Xehanort?" Axel said, holding his Keyblade out in front of him. "Well, you see, you old class mates weren't to happy about you plotting to get everyone in the Organization killed off so you were the only one who got a heart. So, even though they died, they were still able to pour their energy into a solid form: Keyblades." Axel said as he started pacing around the room, making sure to never turn his back on Xehanort.
As if to prove Axel's point, Zexion stretched out his left hand, his book weapon now flouting around him. There was a flash of light, and another Keyblade began to take shape. This one was by far the biggest, despite Zexion being one of the smaller members of the Organization. The Keyblade was about five feet long, and around a foot wide. It had a mixed color of dark orange and black, and the tip was bent in a 90-degre angle. The keychain was that of a large boulder.
"Oh, and you know that little kid who just got a Keyblade about a week ago? Well, you can thank Xigbar for that." Axel said, looking at Xehanort who was no doubt in shock. Taking the offensive, Axel rushed in towards Xehanort at blinding speed, Keyblade ready to attack. Xehanort clearly wasn't as shocked as Axel had first thought, because he was able to easily doge the redhead's attack.
"So now there are some more Keyblades out trying to stop me. Why would I be afraid of that? I've killed more Keyblade masters then anyone else ever. Did you really think that another four Keyblades would make any difference in the outcome of this war?" Xehanort said in a lazy, arrogant tone of voice. Lifting the Consuming Darkness onto his shoulder, Xehanort simply stood there, almost daring anyone to make a move.
And someone did make a move. Using a small amount of telekinetic powers, Zexion forced his book that was still flouting around him, to open to a page near the back of the book. Then, after saying the chant needed for that spell, a huge pillar of darkness erupted under Xehanort's feet. Then, not waiting to see the effect his attack had on Xehanort, Zexion rushed in, Keyblade in hand.
Not surprisingly, Xehanort was completely unfazed by Zexion's first attack. Because of that, Xehanort was able to easily parry Zexion's Keyblade. When Xehanort moved his Keyblade around to stab Zexion, he found it being blocked by Axel's Keyblade. Since Axel's Keyblade was holding off Xehanort's, that meant Zexion could use his own Keyblade to attack Xehanort directly.
Xehanort however, wasn't about to leave himself open to such an attack. Gathering some dark energy around himself, Xehanort was able to create a barrier to block Zexion's attack. Then, gathering an unbelievable amount of dark energy, Xehanort released an explosion of darkness, trying to consume Axel, Zexion, and Mozenrath.
"In what world did you three honestly think you could be me?"
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"Damn that Ichigo, leaving me here while he's off saving Rukia for the Soul Society." Muttered a voice, sitting near a lake in a town's local park. If you looked close enough, you would see that the voice was coming from a….lion stuffed animal? Yes, a small, yellow stuffed animal was talking, and moving on his own. (Not to mention cussing.)
"I mean, come on! I'm a modified soul, I should be there helping to save Rukia from those damn Soul Reapers, but nooooo, I have to stay here in this stupid stuffed toy." The small lion said, clearly on a rant. It was a rather humorous sight really, a small lion plush toy was ranting and raving like a psychopath.
"What I would give to be there beating up some stupid Soul Reapers. I'd give them a left, and then a right, and then-why is there a black hole in the sky?" The little lion said, looking at a swirling ball of dark energy that was resting in the sky. It also seemed that suddenly, the sun had disappeared.
There was a small burst of darkness, and suddenly a shadow heartless was standing in front of the lion. "Hey what are you looking at ant-boy? You want to go, just say the word. I'll beat your little yellow eyes out. I'll-Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The lion yelled out as the heartless swung at him with three razor shape claws.
"It clear that I'm going to have to use my powers to get out of this." The stuffed toy thought, as he was barley able to avoid getting cut into little bits by the heartless. Turning around, the lion crouched down and…started to run. Amazingly enough, the lion was able to run at a speed most track runners would have trouble keeping up with.
"Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Onee-Chan! (Don't know if I spelt that right or not?) Ichigo! Incredibly hot girl from Ichigo's school whose name escapes me! ANYBODY!" The plush toy screamed as he ran through the streets, heartless all around him. The heartless seemed to be tracking him down, trying to catch him.
Suddenly, a huge explosion rocked the area, sending the plush toy flying to the ground. Then, darkness began to gather into one huge orb of energy. The darkness then began to take a solid shape. It was a massive creature, standing about fifty feet tall. It was somewhat human shaped, but it's "hair" almost looked like a big tangled mess of snakes. Also, there was a heart shaped hole in the things chest. It was Dark Side, the heartless of worlds end. (Meaning it shows up before a world is taken by the heartless.)
Dark Side took several steeps forwards, before he looked straight at the lion plush toy. Then, the huge heartless sent it's fist plummeting towards the little lion. The small plush toy tried to cover his head, all while screaming in a high-pitched voice. The toy closed his eyes and waited for the finishing blow to come.
When several minutes passed and the lion toy was still "alive," he opened his eyes. What he saw was that everything had become a dull grey, and all of the heartless had stopped moving. Also, there was a man standing in front of him. The man was wearing a long trench coat that came down to his ankles. He had somewhat tanned skin, shoulder length shaggy brown hair, and brown eyes that were covered by tinted glasses.
"Hello Kon." The man said in a deep voice, looking at the lion toy, now known as Kon. "Do you want to leave this place alive, or do you want to win this battle?" The man said with no emotion what so ever. This caught Kon off guard, since he still didn't know what was going on to begin with.
"What do I want to do? Live or win? That's a stupid question: of course I want to live. There's no point in fighting a battle if you just die once it's over." Kon thought as he looked at the man in the trench coat. But then a thought hit him. "Wait a second: if I run away, someone else who can't fight might get hurt. Well, I guess I know what happens next." "I want to win!" Was Kon's answer to the man's question.
"Then take the shape you know so well." Was all Kon heard before his world exploded in light. The world then reigned its color, and the heartless were free to move once more. The Dark Side's fist crashed into the ground where the little toy lion Kon had just been standing. Then in a flash, Dark Side was sent stumbling backwards.
Standing on the ground about thirty feet from Dark Side was a young man about fifteen years old. He had spiked orange hair, and light green eyes. He was wearing a black trench coat, just like the one the mysterious man had been wearing. He had on a white button up shirt, and a pair of tan pants on under the coat.
"Hey big guy, how about fighting me now?" The spiked haired boy yelled his voice was that of Kon's. Dark Side, in response, simply gave a lout roar, and then sent a huge blast of dark energy flying at Kon. Kon gave a small sigh, before he seemed to fade out of existence. In reality, he had simply accelerated to such high speed that a normal person, or heartless wouldn't be able to see him move.
When Kon slowed down to a speed Dark Side could see, Kon was already right next to Dark Side's legs. Swinging around in a full spinning kick, Kon hit Dark side just above the ankle. Apparently Kon's legs were much stronger then the looked, because one kick was enough to smash through the right leg of the giant heartless.
Dark Side struggled to stay standing up right, flapping his arms around in a desperate attempt to stay on his one good foot. Kon however, wasn't about to let up. Crouching down low to the ground first, Kon leapt into the air, right in front of Dark Side's face. Then, spinning around into another kick, Kon smashed his foot into Dark Side, sending the giant crashing to the ground.
"Hell Yeah! It sucks when you can't do anything to fight back, doesn't it?" Kon said, looking at the heartless as it struggled to get back up. Planning to end the fight with his next attack, Kon started to dash towards the heartless once again. However, before his foot could hit said heartless, Kon's world went black.
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"Hey Cloud, we got to hurry up and get these supplies to the Gummi ship." Irvine said to the blond haired swordsman. Both swordsman and cowboy were carrying boxes of…something. Rinoa had sent them out to pick it up, however she hadn't told them what was in them yet.
"Hey Irvine, did you see that?" Cloud asked, having thought he just saw what looked like a flash of light down an ally. Not waiting for a response, Cloud started walking down the ally, placing the boxes he had been carrying on the ground. Irvine, not knowing what else to do, started following Cloud.
"What the, why is there a kid lying here?" Cloud said, looking at the orange haired boy lying on the ground. Moving over to make sure the kid was still alive, Cloud noticed that the kid was breathing and that his legs were twitching.
"Oh, what hit me?" Kon grounded as he started to push himself off the ground, while slowly opening his eyes. "The hell are you two looking at?" Kon said, seeing both Cloud and Irvine staring at him. "Well are you going to say something, or just stare at me all day?"
However before Cloud or Irvine could respond, another voice cut through the air. "Cloud! Irvine! Come on, heartless are right out side the city, and their going to be trying to get through any minute." Quistis yelled, running up behind the two before mentioned men.
Hearing this, both Cloud and Irvine started running after Quistis, leaving Kon behind. "Hey wait a minute! What the hells going on!" Kon screamed as he ran after the other three people.
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"Um, Sora is the town always like this?" Riku asked, looking around the town of Agrabah. Half the city was on fire, you could see heartless running all over the place. You could also see town guards running around to, trying to fight off the heartless, however they were being over powered.
The city was under siege.
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….Uh, hi it's been a while huh? Anyway, I wrote this chapter as a birthday gift to ChibiFrubaGirl. (I wouldn't have split this into two parts normally, but between homework, trying to find a summer job, and trying to maintain a social life, I've been so busy I don't have as much time to write anymore.) Anyway, happy birthday.
Now then, I'm taking this story off hold. However, I'm still going to be updating my other story, so I'll just write one chapter for this one, then switch and write a chapter for that one. This means that updates will be slow. (Also, random side note: You'll understand the name of this chapter in part 2.)
For anyone that doesn't know, Kon is from the anime Bleach. He's my favorite character, but in the sixty-five episodes I've seen so far, he's just been used as comic relief. So I decided to change that by making him a character in this story.