Kingdom Hearts: The Remnants
A/N: Hmm, Tennis Season just officially started, so I'm going to be practicing and going to matches every day. Oh well, I'm gonna try and keep this updated.
"These are the ones who knew this would occur." Maleficent said. "I sent some of my men here and they did battle with the brown haired one and the brooding one."
Murmers began to rise through the crowd as Maleficent smirked.
"Many of your loved ones tried to resist, they were all hunted down by my pets. They could have prevented this," Master Xehanort said.
"I.... killed one too..... gie the Heartless all the credit," Zane said, trying to fake being hurt.
"Daddy tried to protect us from them......" a girl was heard after that.
"Join me, and I can exterminate these fools," Maleficent said.
Sora stood still, as his neck hair stood up. Murmers shot through the crowd again.
"Sora's my friend, he must have had a good reason!" a shout came from the crowd, the owner of the voice Tidus.
Many "Yeah!"s followed Tidus' lead.
"So be it. Master Xehanort, Zane. Stay over and clean up this mess." Maleficent said as the others disappeared into portals. Heartless appeard around the crowd as screams of terror erupted from the islanders.
Bond of Flame and Oblivion flashed into Sora's hands as he backflipped and glided toward the outer layer of people.
"Guys, circle around them! Protect them!" Sora shouted as he swung Oblivion at a NeoShadow and blocked a Soldier with Bond of Flame. He saw Kingdom Key flash into Mickey's hand, Save the Queen and Save the King appearing in their respective owner's hands, and Way to the Dawn and Destiny Place appearing in Riku and Kairi's. A Shadow formed in front of him and jumped at one of the islanders. Sora ran forward and knocked the creature out of the air.
"You got this?" Sora asked Mickey and Riku, who both nodded. That was all he needed to rush toward the makeshift stage. He dragged his Keyblades across the ground in a similar fashion that his Nobody, Roxas, would. When he neared Master Xehanort he spun and brought Oblivion around his body and tried to make contact. No spell had been cast, and no weapon was blocking his way.
"Why Sora, did you think you would be able to even touch a Master? That would be breaking the rules," Master Xehanort said, laughing.
"What?" Sora asked as a blue blade flashed to his left, Lionheart appearing in Zane's hand.
"You can't even touch him until you get stronger Sora," Zane said, taking up his battle stance. It was here that Sora noticed Zane fought like Leon, whos stance was also like Cloud's.(1)
Sora made Bond of Flame spin around in his hand as Zane took slow steps toward him. Sora's snapped his hand to the left as a cry of pain left Kairi's lips. With that moment of distraction, Zane rushed forward and brought his blade toward Sora.
"Whoa!" Sora said, bringing Oblivion over and deflecting the blue sword. Zane backflipped and rushed Sora head on again. This time when he neared Sora he jumped over him and swung downward, clipping his left shoulder. Sora ran forward and launched himself at Zane, crossing Bond of Flame and Oblivion. Zane held Lionheart up and blocked Sora, who stayed in the air for a couple seconds. Sora backflipped and was charging for another strike when a disk of fire came flying at Zane.
"Yo, Sora!" Said a man with spiky red hair and a yellow plaid scarf around his neck, he also wore a white shirt with an orange vest overtop of it andhe also wore tan pants. A man walked up behind him, with long blue hair and a blue jacket on that had a moon symbol over his left breast.
"Axel?" Sora said, shocked, "I..... I saw you fade into darkness."
"Yeah, well, Isa and I came back. It's Lea now, just like the good old days, hm?" Lea said nodding toward Isa.
"Just like on Radiant Garden," Isa said, summoning his Claymore. "We'll take him, go protect your homeworld." Isa said.
"Like we failed to do," Lea added.
Sora stared at Lea as he waved him on. He then charged at Zane. This was the last Sora saw as he ran back to the battle. Heartless were everywhere! He could only see Riku's silver head and Mickey's ears, but was unable to locate Kairi, Donald, and Goofy. He ran forward and deflected an Invisible's sword, which was aimed for Riku's neck.
"You seen Kairi and the guys?" Sora asked.
"Yeah, they were over by the kid's our age last I saw them," Riku replied, shooting his Dark Firaga at a Soldier. With that Sora jumped high in the air and idled there, searching for his friends. Wakka's spiky orange hair stuck out of the crowd of scared islanders. Sora tilted his weight toward them and sailed above the crowd at Wakka.
"Kairi!" Sora said, landing.
"Thank god you're here, I don't think we can hold out much longer." Tidus said, fear across his face.
Sora flew up into the air, and saw Lea on the ground, Eternal Flames laying beside him, and Isa held at blade point by Zane, Lunatic nowhere in sight. Sora thought for a moment on how to approach Zane, then that's when he new. Blinding light covered the battlefield, destroying all of the Heartless, and Donald and Goofy were nowhere to be seen. When the light faded Sora was floating above the air, his Keyblades no longer in his hands, but tethered there, as if they didn't wish to leave him. His clothes were now a dazzling silver, with different designs on his pants and sleeves.
He soared at Zane and knocked him away, and threw Oblivion at him. Zane countered this and it flew towards Master Xehanort instead. He simply laughed as magic was keeping the Keyblade from hitting him.
"What!" Master Xehanort yelled as the keyblade collided with him, cutting his shirt. Sora took the opportunity and flew at him, slashing and stabbing with earnest.
"I was getting bored of this.... shell," Master Xehanort said. He summoned his own keyblade and turned it around, stabbing himself in the chest and turning it one-quarter clockwise. This caused his heart to leave him and he controlled it so that it flew at Zane, who was watching the ongoing battle.
"You won't do it again!" Sora heard as a silver haired man with baggy tan pants and a tight brown shirt destroyed the heart that was in mid-flight.
"Damn.... you.... Terra" Master Xehanort said, as his body faded.
"Xemnas!" Sora shouted, at the man that was holding a huge keyblade.
"I know you, you were on the beach that day when Sora left earlier then usual," Riku said.
"I'm, gonna go now," Zane said, as a portal surrounded him.
"An apprentice of Eraqus, I would recognize that symbol anywhere," Mickey said kneeling in front of Xemnas.
A/N: Hmmm, I thought I would screw it all around and bring Terra back early, next chapter I will explain how he, MX, Isa, and Lea are back. Anyway, I am going to put a poll on my profile, and I was hoping all readers would vote on it. It involves Lea, because I was wondering if he would miss Roxas enough to destroy Sora.
Shire Folk: I didn't think too far ahead, I was thinking his Keyblade would be corrupted in an Asbringer-esque way. I didn't wonder how he would fit into regular society again either. Oh well, I might just go with the whole "Yippy skippy doo! random new powers that I have to make up myself instead of stealing them from Blizzard" story. =P. Also, I believe I explained the pendant in chapter 4.
KeyblademasterA away~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!