Door of twilight
Chapter 25
Dancing Drive Form part 3
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Maleficent was slammed into the wall of the pales courtyard, utterly beaten to a pulp. Sora and Riku were standing in front of her, both still in their Drive Form, clearly ready to attack her again if need be. Sora kept the Kingdom Key and Oblivion Keyblades hovering close to his body, while Riku had The Way To The Dawn Keyblade in his right hand, and a Dark Aura spell ready on his left hand.
As for Maleficent herself, she was covered with burns and cuts, all caused by Sora and Riku's Keyblades and magic attacks. Her staff was laying one the ground, covered in nicks and cuts, and the gem at the end of the staff had started to crack. And since Aladdin had sealed Jafar back in his lamp once Sora had defeated him, and Pete was still lying on the ground from Riku's attack, there wasn't much chance of Maleficent being able to pull a victory out of this mess.
"Know this…brats: I have…survived the Keyblade wielders for the past two hundred years, and I will survive you as well." Maleficent said as she struggled to pull he staff closer to her self. Then, in using what little energy she had left, Maleficent was surrounded by her green flames, acting as a dark portal to bring he back to the safety of The Castle That Never Was.
Once Maleficent was gone, the heartless quickly left as well, no longer having someone to give them orders. With the threat of any danger finally gone, Sora was able to drop out of his Drive Form. There was an orb of light the surrounded Sora for a moment, and two smaller orbs of light then came out of Sora's chest, which seconds later transformed into Donald and Goofy, causing the dome of light around Sora to shatter, reviling him to be back to his normal set of clothes.
Riku then went through a somewhat similar, but still different process. While an orb of light surrounded Riku just like Sora, what happened next was completely different. Instead of an orb of light coming out of his body that would have been the person he had merged with, streams of darkness started coming off his body, being absorbed by the dome around him. It took a couple seconds, but after that amount of time, the dome shattered and Riku was standing there in his normal clothes.
"So…mind telling us what the hell just happened Riku?" Tifa said, clearly speaking for everyone. Riku scratched the back of his head for a minute, before replying. "Well…I don't really know. I went after the princess, ran into the blind guy with the spear, was beat into the ground, and then poof, I'm in a set of Goth clothes and feel much stronger then before." Riku said, looking just as confused as everyone else.
"I may have an idea of what happened." Mickey spoke up, causing everyone to look at him, hoping to get an answer. "Well, when I was training under Yen Sid, I learned a lot about Drive Forms. There have been four types of Drive Forms that are known."
"The first type is the kind Sora use's; by margining with another person to amplify one trait, like Goofy amplifies his strength, and Donald his magic. This type tends to be used the most in history, since it combines the power of both people in the form, and in the case of Master Form it combines three people, and in Final Form in combines the power of Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Roxas. The only draw back is that most of the time you can enter a Drive Form this way unless you're with someone else" Mickey said, taking a slight pause before moving on.
"The second type is what I think Riku just used; amplifying a section of you're heart to enter a Drive Form. This is very different from the way Sora enters Drive Form, since instead of merging with someone, you are more or less powering up one part of you're heart, then merging with that. On the plus side you can enter Drive Form by yourself, the down side is that the forms you can use all depends on what you heart is like. In Riku's case, I would have to guess that he could have at lest three forms, if not more."
"The third type of Drive Form is used by using an energy seal; by placing a seal that has large amounts of energy on someone's body, it is possible to enter Drive From, if the body is strong enough. The stronger a person's body and mind are, the more types of Drive Forms they should be able to use this way. However, the downside is that if someone isn't strong enough to use this style of Drive Form, then there is a good chance they won't survive the application of the seal." Mickey said, before moving on to the last type of Drive Form.
"The final type of Drive From can only be used by a Keyblade wielder, and only if they don't use any of the other types of Drive Forms. This is the hardest type of Drive Form to be able to use, but most of the time it is the most powerful; by synchronizing a person's body, heart, and soul with that of his or her Keyblade, then that person will enter the Keyblades most powerful form, nicknamed Flash Form, because of the extremely bright flash of light that happens before entering the form." Mickey said, taking a deep breath after finishing his long explanation.
"So…what you're saying is that you think Riku found a way to go Drive Form?" Joseph said, not seeing why Mickey had gone through the long explanation of Drive Forms. "Yes, I just felt like sharing everything I knew about Drive Forms with you." Mickey replied, looking at Joseph.
"Aladdin, what's gong on?" Jasmine said, waking up from her unconscious state. "Jasmine, you're awake!" Aladdin yelled, stating the rather obvious. "Sora, Donald, Goofy? Why are you three here?" Jasmine said as she pushed herself up off the ground. "You may want to find some place to sit down, it's a long story." Sora said, getting ready to retell the events that had just happened.
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"What's going on?" Zell yelled as Cloud came around the corner with Irvine and Quistis. Lulu, Rinoa and Zell had already gathered in the first distracted, along with a group of about seventy-five SEED's. "Cloud; take up a position with Quistis and I near the front of the group with squad D and B. Zell; go with squad A in covering the path to the Third Distract. Irvine, help Lulu and squad C with long rang support." Rinoa said as soon as she saw the three people come into sight. It was clear she could act like a commander when needed.
"Would someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" Kon yelled as he too came around the corner, having followed Cloud, Irvine and Quistis. Rinoa turned to Kon and opened her mouth to speak, but was cut off by a loud explosion, followed by heartless pouring through the front gate into town. "Alright men, FIRE!" The commander of squad C yelled, as that entire squad, along with Irvine and Lulu, started attacking with long rang weapons/magic.
As the bulk of the heartless came at the largest group, the one Cloud, Rinoa, and Quistis were in, a somewhat smaller but still freaking huge group of heartless went towards the squad Zell was with, trying to break down the large steel gate the separated the first and third distract. Zell gave a slight battle cry, before rushing into the middle of the heartless, punching and kicking like a mad man.
"It's those weird looking ant things from before, and they brought their big friends." Kon said, looking at the massive battle before him. "Well, guess this is a good a time as any to finish what I started with that big guy back home." Kon said before taking a running start, and then jumping into the air, about thirty feet high. Kon came down in the middle of the heartless group that Zell was fighting, and instantly began kicking any heartless in rang, his legs moving so fast they were just a blur.
As Zell and Kon were battling the group trying to get the path open to the Third Distract, Cloud, Rinoa, and Quistis had their hands full trying to keep the bulk of the heartless from getting past them, and into the Second Distract. Of course, Irvine and Lulu were helping out with rang support, as well as squads B, C, and D, but it was very clear that they would be in trouble if they didn't work together.
As three Neo Shadows jumped towards Rinoa, they were cut off by Quistis's whip, destroying them before they even touched the ground. However, Rinoa didn't have any time to give a thank you, because she had to jump back to avoid getting hit by a fire spell, launched by a Defender. Cloud then moved in, getting the Defended from the side, along with a couple Neo Shadows that had been standing to close for their own safety.
While all that was happening, Irvine and Lulu were picking off heartless at long rang, Irvine sniping them with his rifle, and Lulu casting magic spells on them. Squad C was well located, being at the top of the steeps, as well as having a few snipers on the roofs a near by buildings, squad C was able to provided cover fire for anyone that needed it. However, in the case it was them that needed it.
Even though most of the heartless were either attacking the main group of SEED's, or the group Zell was in, there was still a rather large group of heartless that had started attacking squad C. This had forced them to divert most cover fire from the other squads so they were able to destroy the heartless before they got to close.
"Sir, squad L is reporting that the heartless have made their way into the Second Districted! They also reported that the heartless were being lead by what seemed to by a group of Cyclops!" On of the random commutations people said to the leader of squad C. The leader, who was busy blasting a group of Neo Shadows with his sawed of shotgun, took a couple minutes to reply. "Damn it! See how bad things are in the Third Distract, and if they might be able to get another squad down here from backup!" The commander said as he fired a couple more rounds with his shotgun, before having to stop and reload.
If they didn't get help soon, it wouldn't turn out good.
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"Why, Maleficent it looks like you didn't do so well in battle." Edea said, looking at her older sister, who was still incredibly beat up from her battle with Sora and Riku. "Be silent, I did what I set out to do, I found out the limit of Sora's Final Form. I also found out that Riku has somehow managed to get a Drive Form as well." Maleficent said, brushing past Edea.
"Where are the others right now?" Maleficent asked as she began healing her self. "Hm, oh well Sephiroth is off trying to gather more allies. The Horned King is rising up an army of zombies that he's planning to use on his next mission. Xehanort went to find some old magic relic from a dead world. And Jadis is leading an attack on Travers Town." Edea replied before she left to do who knows what.
"Hm, I pity the fools that try and withstand Jadis's power, since she was told not to hold back." Maleficent muttered to herself, before returning to the procese of healing herself.
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Cloud gave a battle cry, before swinging his sword around in a wide arc, aiming at the huge Cyclopes in front of him. The Cyclops was about nine feet tall, wearing black body armor, and had dark orange skin. All the Cyclops's were armed with a huge sword, almost as large as they were. The Cyclopes had shown up about ten minutes into the battle, wiping out mass numbers of SEED with their over sized swords. It had gotten so bad that squads A, B, and D had been forced to fall back just in front of squad C. But in doing that, the door to the Third Distract had been left unguarded, and was quickly destroyed.
As Cloud's blade came flying towards the Cyclops's head, said one eyed monster raised his left arm, using the armor on it to stop the Buster Sword dead in mid-swing. The Cyclopes then pushed out with his left arm, throwing Cloud back about ten feet, before continuing to march towards the biggest group of SEED he could find.
However, the Cyclops stopped dead in his tracks when Quistis's whip hit him across the face, leaving a long gash on his right side of his face. As the Cyclopes screamed, both in pain and frustration, he swung his giant sword around at Quistis. Quistis, despite wearing a dress, was able to jump to the side, rolling on the ground to just barely avoid being cit in two.
Seeing that the Cyclops wasn't paying attention to what was happening in front of him, Kon rushed in on the attack, jumping up so he was above the Cyclops's head, and delivered a spinning kick to the Cyclops's head. The force of the kick was enough to cause the Cyclops's head to spin around one hundred and eighty degrees, the neck broken.
"Miss, you're father has given the order to have all civilians start boarding Gummi ships for an eminent evacuation. All SEED squads, as well as you're group, are spouse to start falling back to the hanger!" A random messenger told Rinoa. The commanders of the other SEED squads seem to have gotten the same message, as they all started giving the order to fall back.
It wasn't so much of a tactical retreat, as full scale running, with the occasional shot being fired. By the time everyone had gotten to the Second Distract, which lead to the hanger, the shots being fired had just about stopped all together. Now it was just a mad rush to try and get to the hanger, and on a Gummi ship. Of course there was still a good chance that one of the heartless ships above the planet would shoot down you're Gummi ship, but it was still better off then begin on the ground.
But not everyone was running, although he was the only person who hadn't heard that you were spouse to be running. As Rinoa and co. run past a randomly placed wood fence, said fence was shattered by a Cyclops flying through it, landing on the ground totally beaten to a pulp. "Ha ha, I told you that you couldn't hit me, you one eyed freak!" Sanosuke said as he steeped out through the large hole were the fence used to be.
"Hey, why is everyone running?" Sanosuke asked, looking at the mass of people run by him without so much as looking at him. "No time to explain, you just have to hurry or you'll be killed!" Zell yelled as he grabbed Sanosuke's arm as started running again, everyone else following close behind. "Hey what are you doing?" Sanosuke asked, clearly not getting what was going on. However, once he saw the mass numbers of heartless and Cyclopes coming after them, he started running very fast.
However, the sounds of people screaming up ahead got everyone's attention. As soon as the came around the corner and came within view of the hanger, the saw something that shocked them. There were statues, all looking like that of SEED members, all around the hanger. Standing in the middle of these statues was a tall, blond woman in a white dress. She had dark blue eyes, and was holding two weapons a sword, and a staff that was made completely of ice.
"You did not really think that you would be able to escape my heartless or Cyclopes, did you?" The woman asked, walking towards Rinoa and co. at a slow pace. The before mentioned heartless and one-eyed warriors had now block off any other exits in the area, meaning that the eight of them would either have to beat the woman in front of them, or fight through all the heartless and Cyclopes and hope they could find a Gummi ship that would be able to get them all off the planet. The choice was pretty clear.
"I am Jadis, queen of the ice. Why don't you just make thing easier on yourselves and just let the heartless finish you off quick?" The woman, Jadis said. Sanosuke gave a small laugh before replying. "I still don't know what the hell is going on, but from what I got, to get away from the freaks behind us, we've got to get into the building behind you. That must mean that we have to get through you first, right? In that case, why don't I just end this quick?" Sanosuke said before charging forwards on the attack.
Sanosuke then threw a quick left punch, aiming from Jadis's head. The dark user simply raised he sword, using the flat side to block the punch with one swift motion. Jadis then thrust her ice staff forwards, aiming for Sanosuke's chest. However, Sanosuke brought his right hand up, grabbing Jadis's arm to stop the staff a few inches from his chest.
"An insect like you dares to touch me?" Jadis said, before a large burst of energy came from her body, sending Sanosuke flying back into the ground near everyone else. "Alright, maybe this won't be as easy as I first thought." Sanosuke said as he began to push himself off the ground.
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"And that's what happened." Sora said as he finished retelling everything that had happened to Jasmine. It had taken a while, but with everyone taking turns telling what happened, they had been able to recreate everything that had gone on while she was out of it, down playing the life threatening parts a little.
"I think I've got everything, thanks for telling me." Jasmine said as she looked at everyone that didn't live in Agrabah. Just then, a random object began to glow, being pulled into the air. Taking in hint, Sora, Riku, Mickey, and Joseph all summoned their Keyblades and aimed towards the object. Four bright beams of light then hit the random object, and a loud clicking sound could be heard.
"Well, I guess that means that we should be going." Sora said, giving a final goodbye to Aladdin and Jasmine. As the group started walking towards the spot where the Gummi ship could teleport them back up, Jasmine stopped Riku just long enough to say something. "Well, thanks for saving me I guess." She then dropped her voice down to a whisper. "And I won't tell anyone that you kidnapped me two years ago, it looks like you've been trying to make up for past mistakes."
Riku gave a slight smile, before running to catch up with the rest of the group.
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All right, just so you know, I wrote must of this after I had taken some medicine for a cold I have right now, so it might seem a little weird. Also, the next chapters the last part of the Dancing Drive Forms, I swear.