Door of twilight

Chapter 24

Dancing Drive forms part 2

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"How the hell did we not know that Agrabah was under attack?" Riku yelled, looking at the city as it was being over taken by heartless. Sora, Donald, and Goofy had already summoned their weapons, and had taken out a few Shadows that had gotten to close. "I don't know how we missed it, but we don't have time to worry about that right now, we have to find Aladdin and the others." Sora said, taking off down one of the many paths of Agrabah.

Following their spiked haired friend, the others quickly followed Sora down one of the alleys. After running several minutes, and destroying a few dozen small heartless, the group arrived in front of the castle. Right away, everyone could tell that that were whoever the heartless control was, he or she was attacking the castle.

Almost as soon as they walked through the castle gate, there were a few dozen heartless attacking them at once. However, the heartless made the mistake of jumping at Tifa and…lets just say that there were about three dozen new black stains on the back of the castle gate.

Once the group was able to get a good look at what was going on inside the castle's outer walls, they could clearly see the form of Aladdin, armed with his sword, fighting off a large gathering of heartless. While Aladdin was doing an okay job of fending them off, it was clear that the sheer numbers of heartless was over powering him.

As Sora was jumping towards Aladdin to help out, a large blast of lightning rained down from the sky, stopping the young key wielder. "Surly you did not think it would be that easy, did you brat?" Came the voice of the green skinned witch, Maleficent. Looking up, Sora could see Maleficent and Pete standing at the other end of the palace courtyard.

Things had just got a lot more complicated.

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Sephiroth stood in the Castle that Never was, staring at the man standing across from him. The man standing in front of him was wearing a solid red robe, with two swords on his back, and then one sword on each side. He had semi-long blond hair that was some how able to stand straight up, making it looks somewhat like a broom. (Which ironically, was his nickname, broom-head.) He had light green eyes, and he seemed to like to keep his left eye shut. His name was Cho, the sword hunter.

"So, you are representing Shishio Makoto." Sephiroth said, looking at Cho. Cho seemed to smirk slightly, before replying. "Yeah, I come with word from Lord Shishio; he's mighty grateful to 'ya pal the Horned King for bringing him back to life, so he's a will-in to help 'ya'll out with your little pest problem. Something about a Keyblade?" Cho spoke with a southern accent.

"So tell me, how much help can we get from someone that can only fight for a maximum of fifteen minutes?" Sephiroth said, waiting to see Cho's response. "Why you; Lord Shishio is the best sword user to ever live! No one has ever defeated him before. The only person to ever come close to his skill level was captured when our world fell to darkness, so there isn't a person alive that can match Lord Shishio now." Cho said.

"I have no doubt that Shishio is a powerful person, I simply wanted to know what your reaction would be if someone insulted him. I can say that Shishio's help will be put to great use. Now then, how soon can you get one of your people over to Agrabah?" Sephiroth asked.

Cho gave a slight laugh, before answering. "Lord Shishio has already sent someone over there."

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In the darkened swears of Travers Town, several people had gathered there hoping to be able to hide from the heartless that were over attacking the town. Every once in a while you could hear the sound of an explosion rock the underground as the battle raged on ahead. Not one person was talking, until…

"Uh, my head. I guess I drank to much again." Came a voice from behind a stack of crates. Slowly the crates were pushed out of the way to reveal a young man around 18, or 19 years old. He was wearing solid white pants, and a jacket/open front shirt that was also white. He had a white warping around his lower torso, coming from his waste until just under his chest. He had light green eyes, and wild brown hair that was spiked out in almost every direction. He also wore a red headband, the ends of it coming down to his shoulders.

As the man climbed out of the pile of crates, he stumbled around, clearly having a hangover. Suddenly, people started screaming, not because of the man claming out of the crates, but because a group of shadow heartless had burst through a dark portal, into the sewers.

"Hey! Not so loud." The man said, placing a hand over his ear. It was then that the man looked down at the small shadow heartless next to his leg. "Damn, I must really be drunk, because I'm seeing some kind of demon ant. And some really weird people at that, I mean who would dress like th-OUCH!" The man yelled as the heartless slashed his leg with its claw.

"You bastard! I'll kill you and all you're little friends to." The man yelled as he slammed his right foot down on the heartless, killing it in one blow. By now the heartless had turned their attention towards the angry drunk man standing in front of them. "You will regret the day you drunk hallucinations decided to attack me, Sanosuke Sagara! The successor to the Futae no Kiwami style. Creator of the Sanju no Kiwami style. User of the Karyu style. You shall feel much pain!" The man, Sanosuke yelled as he ran towards the heartless, almost tripping over his own two feet.

As soon as Sanosuke was close enough, he lashed out with a spinning kick aimed at two of the heartless that had jumped into the air. His foot cut clean through the heartless with out even slowing down. As a group of five heartless jumped at him, Sanosuke fell back into a boxing-like stance. When the heartless were with in range, Sanosuke let lose a rapid punch combo that hit every one of the heartless, destroying them.

The heartless finally seemed to catch on that they couldn't do anything here, and quickly opened another dark portal to the higher levels of Travers Town. "Ah ha, from the sounds I hear, those stupid hallucinations must be above me. I'm coming, stupid drunken hallucinations!" Sanosuke yelled as he charged up the stairs to the ground level of the Second District.

May God help us all…

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"Maleficent, so you're controlling the heartless!" Sora yelled, looking at the green skinned witch. By now, Aladdin had jumped back to join the rest of the group, while a large amount of heartless had started pouring into the area. "Why of cores, who else could control such a vast number of heartless?" Maleficent said gesturing to the thousands of heartless that now surrounded them.

"That's right, and let's not forget your old pal Jafar." Pete said, doing a rather bad job at holding back a laugh. Almost as soon as Pete said that, there was an earth shattering explosion as part of the castle was blown away. From the smoke rose the figure of a filmier wizard turned genie.

"Oh, he's back. Again." Sora said, looking at Jafar. As the heartless begin to form a large circle around the group, Maleficent spoke up again. "Let's see how well you'll fight when you don't have as many people with you Sora." Almost as soon as Maleficent said this, you could hear the sound of a female scream.

Looking up, Sora saw Jasmine, unconscious, being held over the shoulder of a man. The man was wearing a pair of white pants, with a light green shirt. He had what looked to be like a turtle shell shaped shield on his back, and a long spear with an iron ball shaped weight on the end of it. He also had a blindfold on, with "eye of the heart" written in Japanese.

"If you want the princess back, you'll have to catch me first." The man said, before jumping to a lower rooftop, dashing towards the wall of the city, in the general direction the Cave of Wonders was in. "Riku, you're the fastest one of us, you've got to go after him!" Sora yelled fending off the heartless that had started rushing the group.

Riku gave a slight node, before forcing a large amount of mana into his feet, allowing him to jump over the heartless and on top of the places gate. Taking several quick leaps, Riku then started making his way after the blindfolded man.

"This is insane! How is this guy so fast?" Riku thought to himself as he tried to catch up with the blindfolded man. As Riku continued to chase the man, it became clear rather fast that the blindfolded man had the advantage in speed.

The chase Riku was on then became harder, as the blindfolded man leapt over the outer wall of the city, moving into the desert outside the city walls. While each person had to slow down because of the sand, Riku was still far behind the other man in terms of speed. However, Riku was able to tell where the other man was going; the only landmark in the direction they were moving was the Cave of Wonders.

Sure enough, when the blindfolded man got to the large tiger head entrance, he stopped and dropped Jasmine on the ground next to it. Now that Riku could get a better look at him, he noticed that the blindfolded man had small eye shaped icon's running along the edge of his shirt, as well as on his shell shaped shield.

"So, they decide to only send one child to come and meet his death." The man spoke up, his back still turned to Riku. "Well, I hope that you're able to put up a decent fight before you die, otherwise this trip will have been a waste of my time." The man continued.

"You'll find that I'm no push over when it comes to fighting." Riku said in reply, before continuing. "There is one thing that I would like to know: who the hell are you? Because, I've seen most of Maleficent's ally's, and I can say that you're not one of them. That means that you must either be an ally of one of the other Dark Six from before, or you're a new member who has joined up with them." Riku said, getting ready to summon his Keyblade if the other man tried anything.

"My name is Usui, the blind sword. Remember that name, for it is the last name you will ever hear before you're death." The man, Usui said, before turning to face Riku, spear in hand. Riku the summoned his Keyblade to his hand, and got into a battle stance.

Riku made the first move by rushing in at Usui and trying to hit him with a straight forwards thrust. Usui responded by simple moving the ball shaped weight at the end of his spear into the path of the thrust, stopping it dead. Usui, while smirking, pushed Riku back with his spear.

"Thanks to my Eye of the Heart, there is not a move you pull with you're sword that I can not block." Usui said, an evil looking smile forming on his mouth. Usui then went on the attack, doing a repeating rapid thrusting attack. As Riku fell back to try and avoid the attacks, he was hit a couple times, once in the right shoulder, twice in the left leg, and once in the right leg.

"Ah, you were hit by four strikes, three of which will reduce you're speed in avoiding attacks, and one of which will reduce the speed you can attack with you're sword." Usui said, pulling the shield off his back. Riku took this chance to switch his Keyblade to his left hand, so he would be able to attack faster, before giving off a slight laugh. "What's so funny boy?" Usui said, clearly lost on why Riku was laughing.

"It's simple; I know what you're so called Eye of the Heart really is. It's not some magic were you know where someone is going to strike next, and I know you're not seeing with you're heart, or I'd be dead already. If I had to guess, I'd say that you're Eye of the Heart is really just you're hearing, which is most likely more advanced then most people's." Riku said, waiting to see what Usui's reaction was.

Then something odd started to happen; Usui started to…laugh. "I commend you, you are the second person to see the truth of my Eye of the Heart. But, I can't let you leave here alive."

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Riku fond himself standing on a large stone pillar, similar to the one he had found himself on not to long ago when he first found out that a Keyblade could talk to it's wielder. Ahead of him was a long path that looked like it was made up of parts from a shattered stain glass window, yet it some how looked strong enough to stand on. At the very end of that path, there was a large door, almost twenty feet high, and around ten feet across. The color of the door was solid black, and there was a symbol on the door.

The symbol was like nothing Riku had ever seen before. There seemed to be a long, curved wing on the left side of it, and what looked like a sword on the right side of it. The center of the symbol, the part the sword and the wing were connected to, was shaped like cog that you would find in a large clock. Above the cog, there was what looked to be a single yellow eye.

As Riku begin walking towards the door, the voice from his Keyblade returned. "The symbol of darkness, present on all members of the army of Darkness during the great war, so long ago." Looking over his shoulder, Riku could see the floating orb that the voice was coming from.

"The time has come; you can no longer hide the power that resides within you're heart, Riku. Slowly, you must come to release the power that you've kept sealed within the depths of you're heart for so long. This is the door that leads to the dark side of you're heart, and this is the first door you must open." The voice said, moving up beside Riku.

Slowly, Riku reached out for the handle to the door, and then started to pull. As the door started to be pulled open, streams of darkness burst forth, wrapping around Riku, trying to pull him in. Riku's first reaction was to pull back, to break free of the darkness trying to drag him in.

"Riku, do not be afraid, for this is what must happen. This is the first steep on the path that is you're destiny." The Keyblade's voice spoke up again, causing Riku to relax a little. Slowly, the door of darkness open, the shadows covering Riku as the poured out.

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Usui looked down at the unconscious body of Riku. "Hm, wasn't as strong as I had hoped for but then again not may people are." Usui said as he raised his spear, preparing to bring it down and finish Riku's life. However, right before he thrust the spear down, Usui noticed that shadows had begun swirling around Riku's body. Usui pushed those thoughts out of his mind, as he brought the spear down.

Usui, the Blind Sword, had no way of knowing the mistake he had just made.

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There was an explosion as Jafar's attack hit the ground right in front of Sora, sending him flying backwards. Seeing that their friend was in trouble, Donald and Goofy quickly made there way over to him, trying to give Sora enough time to get back on his feet. However, before they even got there, a rain of dark green lightning bolts rained down from the sky, forcing them to jump back to avoid the devastating attack.

Seeing that Maleficent was able to attack Donald and Goofy with her lightning spell, Mickey quickly made his way over towards the witch, sending a group of about seven glowing orbs of light flying at the green skinned witch. Maleficent simply raised her staff, causing a large wall of green flames to rise up, blocking Mickey's attack.

Tifa and Joseph had found out that while Pete wasn't that strong while fighting by himself, when he had almost a dozen Defender heartless stopping any counter attacks, then Pete could be a real pain to deal with. As Joseph dodged a fire spell launched by one of the Defender heartless, he was nearly hit by one of the bowling bombs that Pete had sent his way. Or he would have been if Tifa hadn't pulled him out of the way.

As Sora was finally able to pull himself up off the ground, mostly thanks to Aladdin who had just made it over to help Sora, had been keeping the heartless away from him, he called out to his friends. "Guys, we need a new plan, or a really big distraction or something!" Sora yelled, as he swung his Kingdom Key around in a wide arc, wiping out heartless without problem.

As it would seem, fate had a since of humor, for at that very moment, a black blur flew through the sky, and crashed into the middle of the courtyard, causing a large cloud of smoke to rise up. Slowly, a figure started to emerge from the smoke, and it was putting it lightly to say that no one could believe his or her eyes.

Standing there was Riku, with Jasmine draped over his shoulder. Only the thing was, Riku was dressed completely different then he had been when he had gone chasing after Usui. Riku was now wearing a long black trench coat that came down to his ankles. His shirt hadn't changed, since it was black to begin with, but his pants had been changed to black version of their former selves. Also, the mark of darkness he had seen on the gate was on the back of his trench coat.

Aladdin seemed to be the first to snap out of the daze, quickly running over to get Jasmine to a safer place. Sora was the next to snap out of it, calling out to Donald and Goofy. "Guys quick, Drive Form!" Donald and Goofy got the message, both closing their eyes and forcing all their energy to build up. They then released the energy, becoming small orbs of light that shot into Sora, who was then covered in a bright dome of energy.

When the light died down, everyone could see that Sora's outfit had become a light silver version of it's self, and he now had two Keyblades floating behind his back. While the first what still the Kingdom Key, the other was dark black, with a deadly looking spike at the end of it. Basically, Sora had gone Final Form, and now was wielding the Kingdom Key and Oblivion Keyblades.

"Hey Riku, thanks for being the distraction we needed." Sora said as he moved up beside Riku, floating about six inches off the ground. Also, the Keyblades that were floating behind Sora started to move, as if being held by invisible hands. "No problem, so, can you handle Jafar, or do you need help with him?" Riku said, summoning his own Keyblade.

"Yeah I can take him, what about you, you going to need me to bale you out of a tight spot?" Sora said as he began floating towards the general area Jafar was flying above. As Riku began walking towards Maleficent, the "might Pete" called out to him. "Hey if it isn't the little Keyblade Goth. Let's see if you can defeat me, the almighty Pete in battle. If you back down I-"

Pete was cut off when Riku slammed his sword onto the ground, which caused a large energy shockwave to go flying at Pete, cutting right through the Defender Heartless he had guarding him, and crash into Pete. Pete was sent flying into a wall, falling unconscious almost as soon as he hit.

Sora, after weaving between a few attacks from Jafar, went on the attack. Once he got close enough, Sora began gathering all of his mana into his feet, which he then used to jump up to Jafar's highest at a very quick speed. The diverting his mana into an even covering, Sora began to glide towards Jafar, both Keyblades spinning in front of him.

Jafar, having no way of knowing the amount of power Sora had in Final Form, simply sent a single fireball at Sora, expecting him to be sent into the ground. What really happened was Jafar's attack was destroyed as soon as it touched Sora's Keyblades, at Sora just kept coming at Jafar at the same speed. By now Jafar realized he should attack again, but it was already to late, Sora was right in front of Jafar's face.

Once Sora went on the attack, it was all over for Jafar. Sora's Keyblades were moving at a speed that most people couldn't even see, striking Jafar over and over again. But then, the Keyblades started to emitting energy in the form of explosions, blinding Jafar, preventing him from so much as trying to stop Sora's attacks. However, Jafar still hadn't faced Sora's finally attack yet, as both Keyblades started giving off a huge amount of energy, Sora slammed both into Jafar's face, releasing all the energy in one huge explosion.

As Jafar reverted back to his human form and fell down to the courtyard, Riku began his attack on Maleficent. Moving at blinding fast speed, Riku was right in front of Maleficent in an instant, swinging his Keyblade around in a quick attack. Maleficent simply brought up her staff to block the attack, before countering with a dark thunder attack.

Riku simply raised his left hand, which then caused a Dark Shield to form over his head, blocking Maleficent's attack. Riku then thrust his left hand forwards, sending a dark aura spell at Maleficent, who once again raised a wall of green flames to block the attack. However, when the flames died down, Maleficent could see Riku smirking.

She realized why when Sora landed next to Riku, still in Final Form. Both teens rushed forwards, Keyblades ready to strike. Maleficent could fell any hope she had of winning this battle die as the Keyblades came closer to her.

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(Okay, so Riku has gotten his first Drive Form, the Dark Six have gotten some more powerful alleys, and Cloud's group will discover another ally in the next chapter. Join me in the next chapter to find out: If Jasmine tries to have Riku killed for kidnapping her, Cloud and co's battle to defend Travers Town, and to find out how Riku can use a Drive Form even though he didn't merge with anyone.)