(BGM: Crisis Core FFVII – Chaotic Battlefield)
"Man…it's a good thing we had to come here first eh guys?"
Sora ducked under the swing of a Shadow, before cutting it down. He spun on his right heel out of the way of a Knight's claw, before bashing it over the head, turning it to vapors. He kicked another Shadow away before cutting through two more Knights.
Kairi made a noise of affirmation. "I don't know why we couldn't just warp down there, but if we hadn't come here…"
She twirled her keyblade and made a downwards left slash across the chest of a Knight, followed by ducking under a spinning lunge from another Knight and placing her free hand on the ground to temporarily lift herself to kick it away while it was over her. She swung her aerial leg as hard as she could to quickly right herself, while swinging her blade in the same path, which cut through another Shadow.
Sora and Kairi were referring to the instance where they realized they couldn't warp down to the World That Never Was. For some reason the teleporter would not recognize their commands, and decided to take the long way through Twilight Town. It's fortunate that they did, for when they reached the Sandlot, they noticed a strange distortion hovering near the back entrance. Immediately as they got close enough, it loosed a pulse of darkness that summoned the strange force field that bound all their battle areas. It then began summoning forth small groups of Shadows and Knights.
"Less talk more action you two! We need to get to the other world!"
Riku was irritated. He wanted revenge on the one who destroyed his home, killed his friends…and these things were in his way. He cut through a series of shadows like they were nothing, before loosing a wave of air from his palm which knocked back three Knights. A moment later, the Knights were incinerated by a wave of dark flame from his hand. The distortion shrunk.
"Alright! Looks like we're done!"
The small sphere of black pulsed…and then began growing.
"You just HAD to open your mouth didn't you Sora?"
The sphere morphed into the form of a giant purple creature with for legs and three horns. A black and red Heartless crest was on its chest in full view, showing it was artificially created. It roared as a bolt of lightning struck its center horn. Sora stepped back.
"Oh…shit."
Immediately Kairi and Riku snapped their heads to Sora. He NEVER cursed.
"Sora…what is this thing?"
"A Behemoth…oh man I haven't seen one of these in forever."
"Ok…what was with the cursing?"
"I've fought only two of these things…and both times I needed Tinkerbell in order to win."
Kairi blinked in confusion, but Riku understood.
"You mean…"
"Yep…these things are strong enough to almost kill me."
The Behemoth roared as energy began gathering between its three horns.
"Oh crap MOVE!"
The energy fired into the air…immediately afterwards, giant flaming rocks fell from the sky along with purple bolts of energy. Sora rolled left and right barely avoiding the attacks. Kairi ran full tilt towards the Barrier, and Riku just kept pulling up walls of light to try to block the attacks. Needless to say that when the attack ended, all three of them were tired out.
"Dammit! How did you beat this thing Sora?!"
"It only has one weak point…and that's the center horn on its head."
The three stared at the roaring beast.
"Guys…we're screwed aren't we?"
The two boys could only nod.
The Thirteenth Order
Chapter VII: The Ties that Bind
(BGM: Devil May Cry 3 – Loop Demo Movie)
Alicia took to the air and brought her blade down on the dragon's right arm. The sword did practically nothing, and she was swatted away. Zero ran up the dragon's other arm and slammed his Keyblade on its shoulder. The dragon barely even flinched before smacking him away with its head. It roared and fired a blast of emerald flame at the warrior. He called up a wall of condensed air as a shield, blocking him from both the flame and the heat.
Alicia gathered her energy. "Shining sphere of holy grace! Ray!"
Launching a ball of light energy from her left hand, she incanted the spell that would cause the ball to splinter and turn into lances of light. The multiple beams pierced the dragon's tough hide, causing it to screech in agony. Its eyes narrowed at the girl and fired a wave of emerald fire at her.
Panting from the exertion required for the spell, Alicia couldn't move. Suddenly a flicker of something appeared in her vision, and within a split second Zero stood in front of her. As the flame reached him, he leapt off the ground in a spiral motion.
"Kuuhabakuendan!" (Empty Destruction Blast Flame Bullet)
The spinning motion combined with the small amounts of wind energy wafting off him merged with the wave of fire to create a giant rotating ball of green burning death. The warrior slammed into the dragon, knocking it back a few paces as the swirling configuration dissipated. He followed up with a series of blade swings to further cut through the dark dragon's scales, now weakened by its own flame.
At that moment Alicia remembered that Zero had told her about her sword's power to channel energy. She gathered light energy into her hand and swung it across the blade. A series of symbols appeared on the blade as it flared with light. Now charged, she ran towards the dragon and made a swing. The blade cut through the dragon's scales like they were nothing.
"Funny, I didn't think that would work…"
Maleficent's dragon form roared in annoyance and took to the skies. Against the dark backdrop of the night sky, her form was well hidden. Zero and Alicia looked around, trying to see where she was, their only indication being the random flares of flame that she would fire down to them, which were easily evaded. After about a minute of the cycle, Zero grew irritated.
"Fuck this shit."
With a small pulse of energy, his eyes flared silver. He stared into the skies, watching as a giant white dot appeared in the sky, moving back and forth. He dodged another sphere of fire, and then let loose a yell as he swung his blade in an overhead arc at the air. From the keyblade shot a crescent shaped wave of energy that shot straight through the dragon causing it to falter and drop. Alicia ran to Zero, out of the projected landing zone, only for the two of them to be covered in a torrent of green fire…
Kairi slammed into the force field keeping the rest of the area protected. She groaned as she slid down the shimmering transparent wall of light. Riku and Sora weren't fairing much better. She clambered to her feet, blood trickling down her arm, her hair matted to her forehead and filled with dust and sweat. Her body shuddered in protest as she forced it to comply with her demands. Calling her keyblade to her hand she prepared to charge…when suddenly she froze.
Inside her mind, Naminé was casually painting her toenails out of boredom. She kept her senses open for anything, but considering the only enemy they were fighting was a big loud beast, there wasn't much she could do to help. Anyway, she was sitting in the ether, painting her toenails when suddenly a powerful flare of light shot by her, causing her to drop the container on her dress making a big red spot where her stomach was. The flare left behind a trail that seemed to stretch down into the depths of Kairi's subconscious.
"What the heck is that?"
She was winning. Slowly, but surely, the two were tiring out. Even with his eyes, it was difficult to pierce Maleficent's points, because she would constantly put something in the way. Her fire attacks, while not too painful due to his resistance gained from Axel's presence, were slowly whittling down Zero's stamina. Being thrown into buildings repeatedly doesn't help either.
"Damn…I didn't think I'd have to do this…"
Unknown to him, his mind synchronized with Kairi's as he relaxed his body. A silent wind began whipping around him as his mind focused.
"We are falling
The light is calling
Tears inside me
Calm me down."
Kairi slowly closed her eyes and began to speak.
"Bless me with the
Leaf off of the tree
On it I see
The freedom reign."
As one, their bodies moved. In their hands appeared their Keyblades as their forms were surrounded by two swirling streams of multicolored energy.
"Midnight calling
Mist of resolving
Crown me, with the
Pure green leaf"
The energy around them intensified, almost solidifying to their bodies. The ground around them began to shake from the amount of power they were now radiating. Alicia stood in awe of the light emanating from Zero's body, as Sora and Riku stared in confusion and some slight tredeptation about what was happening with their best female friend.
"Praise to my father
Blessed by the water
In their sights the dragon and behemoth overlapped, their minds one, their bodies one, the energy surrounding them like a second skin, absorbed into their very hearts.
"Black night, dark sky
The devil's cry"
Their eyes snapped open, and they vanished from sight. Suddenly a blur was found attacking their respective creature. They struck with an overhead swing, then attacked with the same motion again, only leading into a twirl on their right heel leading up to an upper left slash from their right which became a series of flicks and swings that slowly carved into the tough hides of their targets.
They vanished from sight again. Moments later a series of heavy thudding noises rung through the area as clouds of dust and energy erupted all over their targets bodies like explosions. The creatures flinched with every move. They appeared at the left foreleg of their targets and pierced the tough hides of their enemies with their Keyblades, running up the creature's legs while carving a straight line into the beasts. A shower of purple and black vapors streamed from the wounds. As they reached the point where the body and foreleg met they flipped off and to the side slamming the keyblade again into the meeting point and swung down, below and over in a large circle before jumping off and sending a HUGE crescent wave into the outline they just created, severing the limb from the creature.
Alicia was awed while Sora and Riku freaked out. You weren't supposed to be able to DO something like that to a Behemoth, let alone with a Keyblade.
The two raced for their targets, leaping over the falling limb and flying towards the face of their enemy. They spun in air once and then brought the tip of their right foot into the enemy's face, followed by a half rotation and their left heel, which was followed by another half rotation and their right heel. A crunching noise was heard as they crushed the "nose" of their target, before loosing another crescent wave that acted like a blunt force causing them to recoil sharply. They flipped back and slammed the keyblade into the target's neck, sliding down and ripping open a very large gash among the roars of pain of their enemy.
Finally seeing enough damage done, they banished their keyblade, leaping to the air. They swung their right leg in a left arc, causing a wave of energy to impact their target. Again and again they spun and swung their left, then right then left then landed and did a back flip which caused a vertical wave before flipping into the air and gathering their remaining energy.
They traced a circle, then a seven pointed star in front of their bodies. The glyph created appeared around the neck of their target, binding them in place. They placed their feet behind them, another glyph –this one being different for the two, for Zero it was three triangles emerging from the tips of a fourth upside-down triangle in the center of a circle that spanned the edges of the center triangle, while three more triangles pointed outwards while being above the flat parts of the center one, and for Kairi it was a giant heart outline with no connection between the two sides, but inward spirals towards the center (think the heart symbol that's on the box of Kingdom Hearts)- appeared and launched them forward.
The two rocketed towards their targets, drawing their weapons back. As soon as they reached close enough, the glyphs flared with light, and they thrust the tip of their weapons into the foreheads of their respective targets. Both the dragon and behemoth screeched with agony as their bodies were ripped apart and reverted to particles. The glow around the two faded as they dropped to the ground. Kairi was nearly unconscious, and Zero was just on one knee panting.
"Zero…what was…?"
"Stored energy released in a single burst. It's a bitch to do…and…it's really…tiring…"
"You should rest, we can-
"No. I'm alright…just need a second…" He stood up shakily. "See? I'm fine…we're going in. I can rest later…I want…no…I NEED to know what these things are."
"A-alright…but I've got my eye on you mister."
"Hah…I wouldn't…expect anything less…"
Gah FUCK! This chapter took WAY too long to come out of my head! I had the idea WEEKS ago, but couldn't think of a way to properly write it without looking stupid. Anyway, I finally have a Wii, and Brawl, so if you want, come challenge me; I'm on the east coast. Just warning ya. My friend code is at the bottom of my profile. Name's Xen.
RCRS: Fine, I'll match or beat that with: "I gotta piss like a racehorse." "You're a FACE!" "FUCK YOU WHOREBASKET!" "Twatburgler!" "Whoremonkey!" "Shit-fuck…BLAGH!" aaaand "You're a GRUNDLE!" And let's not get into who she works with…whoooooly shit…
D&S Master: Yes I do. And Nice Zero isn't just in this one; he's also in my HP fic…though he switches between Nice and ASSHOLE like, instantly.
Ok, I wanted this to be longer, but honestly I can't think of shit right now. I know what I plan to do; hell I even have the final chapter written. Next chapter shows information on the new enemy, an attempted battle between Sora Kairi and Riku (with surprising results) and possibly homages to Monty Oum's Dead Fantasy's I and II. WATCH THEM!
Oh, and for those with Shift+JIS…
コレオゼロマルカ。 ジャアネミンアサン。