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LAST TIME ON LOVE FOR AN ANGEL:
Sephiroth and Sora fought to the DEATH!!! Which is quite hard seeing asthey're already dead. Sephiroth, with a promise to Cloud, leaves Sora (but also got a good whipping). Sora, confused as to why his magic is so strong after an intense battle, turns around to see RIKU STANDING RIGHT BEHIND HIM WITH HIS WINGS OUT!!!
How in all hell kites shall this end? (This is the second to last chapter)
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"S-Sora?"
"R-Riku?"
Sora took a step back, trying to put as much distance between himself and his first love. But for every step he took backwards, Riku took a small one forward. It continued until Sora was backed up a tree, his wings shaking with fear.
Riku calmly stretched out his hand and put in on Sora's cheek, forcing the brunette to look up at him. "Sora…"
Sora tried to best he could to look in Riku's eyes without crying. "If… you've been an angel all this time then…" Riku continued, rubbing his thumb over Sora's cheek. "Then… you must know him."
Sora's eyes widened. "Wha…?"
"Please. Tell me. You must know him. Sora, my best friend. Is he all right? I know he must be in Heaven, there's no other way."
Sora felt tears fall from his face. He let them fall freely. Soon, everything else disappeared. Nobody existed expect Riku, the six-year-old Sora and himself. Slowly, as the tears continued to make their way down his face, a raging emotion swept through him.
Goingwith that emotion, Sora pulled back his fist and punched Riku straight in the jaw.
When Sora heard a collective gasp the rage slowly subsided and the world came back into view. There stood his friends, wide eyed, and Riku,holding a hand to his swollen jaw. Sora felt justa littlepang of guilt, but then Riku's words rang in his ears. 'You must know him…' Sora glared once more at the silver haired teen and stormed off.
He didn't know where he was going. He didn't care. When he was out of sight, he pulled his wings back in and fell to the ground, sobbing.
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"Please. Tell me. You must know him. Sora, my best friend. Is he all right? I know he must be in Heaven, there's no other way."
Riku was in shock. Sora was an angel. This was fantastic! That meant he was in Heaven with his Sora. He thought of the little six-year-old talking with the angel in front of him about his best friend. He could picture his bright smile as he rambled on about all the things they did together.
Although Riku was happy to meet someone who knew his Sora, the angel didn't look happy. Actually, he was downright pissed off.
Before Riku had anytime to ask why he was so mad, a fist collided with his jaw and Riku was sent flying, body slamming intothe ground. He grabbed his chin and looked up at Sora. The angel's anger was paused by a short flicker of guilt. Riku wasn't too sure if he actually saw it.
Then the angel marched off. He didn't bother to look back or hesitate. He keep on walking until he was out of sight.
Riku slowly stood up, rubbing his injured jaw. "Who would have thought Sora was an angel?" He asked his friends. He turned around to face them. "Quite an interesting end…?" He gazed at their shocked and angered faces. "Why do you look so angry, Leon? Aw, come on Selphie! Rin, you too, you look really mad. Guys, don't blame Sora for punching me. He's probably in shock too. It's not every day your friend finds out you're an angel."
Selphie stalked forward, her eyes on the verge of tears and her cheeks puffed out in aggrivation. She, like Sora, pulled back her fist and let it fly, right on the mark Sora left. None of their friends seemed surprised. In fact, they looked almost…approving.
Riku, on the other hand, was not. "What the hell, Selphie?" He yelled, gripping his swollen cheek. "Sora had a reason to, you didn't!"
Selphie, for once, was at a loss for words. Her anger clouded her mind and she couldn't think straight. The only thing that made its way through the fog was to punch Riku hard enough to make her hand brake.
She didn't though. She knew better. It wasn't her pool to swim in. She glared at him with the dirtiest look she could muster and whispered in pure venom, "You stupid asshole! How... How blind can you be? Is you sight so blinded by the past thatyou can't even see what's in front of you right now?"
Selphie was now yelling,near tears, but she somehowmanaged to get the words out. "How stupid can you be?He was...H-he was..."
She fell on the floor, no longer able to stay up, and started punching it out of frustration.
"Riku... how could you... how hard can it be to just...see...?" was all that was heard from her, after that, all you could see were the silent tears comingout of her eyes.
Rin quickly rushed to her cousin's side. "Selphie…" She helped her stand up again. "Don't be…"
"Don't be what Rin?" Selphie growled, almost in disbelief she would actually try to defend Riku. "You're the one who saw it first. If anything, I thought you would be the one to smack him."
Rin glared over at Riku. "You don't know how much I want to." And with that, Rin took her cousin home.
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"Is he picking up?" Selphie asked. Rin shook her head, frowning.
When they got to Selphie's house, they ran to the phone and called Soya, thinking that will be the first place Sora would go.
"Well someone has got to be--"
"Hello?"
"Soya?" Rin asked.
"Yes, is this Rin?"
"Yeah, is Sora there?"
There was a pause. "No, he's not. Why, is something wrong?"
Rin bit her right thumb. She glanced at Selphie. "Should we tell her?" She mouthed.
Selphie nodded. "Er, well, I'm not sure if you're aware of this but…"
"That Sora is my sonwho diedeight years ago?"
"You knew?"
Soya laughed. "Of course I knew! He is my son, after all."
"When…"
"Ayu and I figured it out a little while ago. Right when Tetshui called telling us he'll be coming home."
"Tetshui? You mean Mr. Masaki?"
"Yes, he left a few days ago. About the time the prison…" Soya trailed off her sentence, most likely biting her lip in shame.
"Rin, Selphie?" Soya asked quietly. "Could you… could you please find my Sora?"
The cousins sat in shock for a few seconds. "Of course we will, Soya. He's our friend, after all."
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Sora let his feet drag on the ground. He'd been wandering for a while now with no real destination. He shouldn't be doing this, he should return to his mother and his friends. He's a wanted man and if he were to get caught up in a battle, he's not too sure how to handle the situation. He's so weak, physically and mentally. The fight with Sephiroth was hard work, even with the training Leon's been putting him through. And Riku…
Riku was Sora's mate. Aeris once told him about angels' mates. Normally, one is a human or an angel with low magic powers and when combined, their power increases tenfold.
But if ever rejected…
Sora could hardly feel the magic in him that was always present. It felt as if the world was on his shoulders and he had no control to fix it.
If Sephiroth came back, he would be dead.
Sora came to a small playground and dropped himself on a lonesome swing. He pushed himself halfheartedly and sighed. Technically, Riku did reject him. He wants the old Sora; he doesn't like the new one. Tears threatened to fall once more but he held them in.
Would Riku ever return to him? Why was he even asking that? Of course he wouldn't. Not after the way Sora treated him.
Sora stayed in silence for quite some time before he heard a loud yell. "Sora! Oh, thank God I found you. Rin! I found him!"
Out of the bushes ran out Selphie and Rin, breathing heavily like they just ran a marathon.
"Sora…! There you are…" Selphie gasped. "You need to come back home! Your mother is worried and your friends are worried and…"
"Is Riku worried about me?" Sora asked quietly.
"We haven't spoken to him since Selphie had her break down." Rin answered.
"Oh…"
"Sora, we need to go back." Selphie persisted. "What if Sephiroth comes back?"
There was a pause. "If he were to come backand fight me, I would die."
Selphie grabbed his shoulders. "Sora! You can't say that! Just think of everyone who needs you."
Sora looked to the right, ignoring her eyes. "The world was perfectly fine while I was dead and in heaven."
Selphie just barely kept her hand from striking him right across the face, not too differently than what he did to Riku. "Sora… you're here for a reason, right? That's why all the demons are after you, yeah? We obviously need you. I need you. Rin needs you. Riku needs you! Not to mention, Cloud needs you too."
"That's right, Sora." Rin said. "Cloud is who knows where and they're doing who knows what to him. You need to beat Sephiroth to get him back."
Sora bit his lip. "I was rejected by my mate. I don't haveenough magic in me to start a simple fire. How am I supposed to go against Sephiroth like that?"
"Mate?" Rin repeated.
"Like soul mate, only we share magic instead. Riku is mine. And he rejected me, thus leaving me withno magic at all." Sora explained.
"So… we get Riku to accept you and you get your magic back?" Selphie asked.
Sora blinked at them, trying to figure out what was going through their minds. "Yeah, pretty much, why?"
"Why don't you send Rin and I to bring Riku over, we'll explain everything that's going on and you'll have your magic back!" Selphie said, grinning.
Sora jumped out of the swing. "No! We can't do that!" Selphie and Rin gave him a 'Why not?' look. "He already rejected me, if he does that twice, it'll just make things worse…"
"How did he 'reject' you anyway?" Rin asked.
"Because he only focused on six-year-old Sora. He completely missed the point. We're the same person, but he doesn't view me as such. In his own way, he rejected me for a dead kid."
"You're right, he did." All three of them looked up. Sephiroth was hovering over them, with Cloud in his clutches. "And now that you have no magic, I can easily defeat you."
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Riku sat up on his bed, legs crossed. He was still wearing the same clothes worn at the festival. His mother wasn't home, most likely at Soya's. He held an icepack to his cheek.
He didn't understand everyone's reaction. Honestly, he just got punched and all they did was stand there. What was the reason behind Sora's punch, anyway? He was an angel, yeah he got that. Hesaw the wings, the flying and the magic. But what did he say to make him so uptight?
Out of the blue, a memory popped into his mind: 'Cloud stood up, without a word. He grabbed dazed Sora's hands and pulled him forcefully and quickly out of the living room'.
He missed the reason behind that one too. It was after Mr. Everheart had escaped from jail. They were gone for quite some time. If Cloud was really upset, he would have went to Leon instead of some kid he just met. Sora didn't even say anything about it.
'"Please, remember it and try to solve the riddle. It's probably really easy, please?"'
That was another one. Riku just told Sora about that really weird dream he had with the demon on his balcony and he was missing from the bed. He tried to recall the riddle.
'"He's been here the whole time."
"Wha-what?"
"The one you are looking for, the number one in your heart has been here the whole time."
"What the hell are you talking about? The number one in my heart? What the fuck is that? You better tell me what you did with Sora, you bastard!"
The demon chuckled. "You are so clueless. But you've always been clueless. Sora'shere, and you're too clueless to know."'
"Sora's here, and you're too clueless to know." Riku repeated aloud. "Sora's here, and you're…" He stopped mid sentence. "Sora's here." He thought about it. "Sora's here…"
Suddenly he jumped from his bed and sped out the door. "He's here!"
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Sora couldn't block from the kick that was sent his way. He heard screaming, Cloud, Selphie and Rin. But he could barely comprehend it.
All of a sudden, he heard multiple wings flapping. He raised his head, wondering who else it could be. What he saw completely shocked the angel out of his mind.
The two teachers - Mr. Hikari and Mr. Niwa - with white and black wings, flying toward Sephiroth. They both sent an attack his way and the Twilight got the blunt of it. They landed in front of Sora, as if protecting him.
"Mr. Hikari? Mr. Niwa?" Sora asked, stunned. "What…?"
"We were sent by Aeris to protect you." Mr. Hikari said. "We have been watching over you since you first appeared here."
Mr. Niwa nodded. "Yeah, andit's a good thing, too. I'm not sure how it feels to be rejected by your mate but you seem pretty down."
Sora's eyes widened. "Are you guys…"
"Mates?" Mr. Niwa laughed. "Yes."
Daisuke lost all silliness when Sephiroth came charging toward them, a nine foot sword in front of him. But before he could reach them, the sky turned black,causing him to stop in mid air.
The four of them looked into the sky. The clouds were whirling around in a circular pattern. And in the middle of what seemed to be a cloud hurricane, appeared a dark silhouette, with naturally dark wings, flapping against the strong winds.
The mysterious man mumbled a curse, causing a green lightning bolt to strike down, hitting Sephiroth full on.
The man laughed darkly. "You don't listen very well, do you Sephiroth? This is what you get when you become too rebellious. You should listen to your master more often."
Sephiroth let out a piercing cry and slowly dematerialized into black nothingness. Sora heard Satoshi growl under his breath. "He sent him to Oblivion."
The man recited another curse. Satoshi and Daisuke were tied by invisible bonds and completely helpless.
The Man had muttered another curse while Sora was being distracted by his two teachers. This one felt like a strong hand was grabbing his throat and was pulling him toward the demon.
Sora squirmed under the curse. He knew about Sephiroth's master. He heard about him many times from Aeris. "If you ever get into a brawl with him… the best I can tell you is to play dead." Sora, being about twelve at the time, had thought it was quite funny but if hehad knownhe would be in this situation, he would have demanded a better explanation and some powerful spells to use against him.
But even those powerful spells wouldn't be of any use now. He was completely useless without Riku and his magic. The best he could do know was to play dead.
Sora was roughly fifteen yards from the demon and eye level. He could not see his face.
"You're worse than I expected, Sora." He taunted with a hint of disappointment. "I heard you were an amazing fighter. But I don't feel any magic radiating from you at all. I was hoping for a good show, but I know how it feels to be let down."
Sora closed his eyes. He knew he was a goner. Then he heard a yell. "Sora!"
Sora opened his eyes. He struggled to look down. Yet there he was, fifty yards below. "Riku!"
It was too late. His magic couldn't get to him in time before Sephiorth's master finished the curse. It sent a wash of cold feeling all throughout his body, attacking his heart. He reeled his head back and the grip on his neck tightened fiercely before releasing him.
Sora couldn't feel his body fall. Nor could he feel when a certain silver haired boy caught him.
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Rin: I hope you liked it. It's super short compared to be others but I hope it's just as good.
So, it's finally come down to this. The next chapter is the last. Hopefully, it'll be out before 2009. It will be I assure you.
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