Chapter 6
'Finding the keyhole was going to be easier than I thought.' I thought to myself as I ran towards the castle. I discovered that my keyblade glowed brighter the closer I got to the keyhole.
It took me nothing but a few minutes to make it to the castle gates where I was met by two Neoshadows. It was much harder to fight without unleashing my rage, but I managed. Now I turned around and saw Cethin standing in front of me. My mouth dropped open. "Cethin! I thought you were dead!" Cethin stood there and summoned his keyblade. Now that Mesna didn't possess him, his keyblade had returned to what I assumed was its normal form, considering the fact that it was much lighter than Oblivion.
"I can't let you leave the near worlds, Axel," Cethin said to me in a commanding voice. "You would bring trouble on us all." Now he ran towards me with his keyblade raised to attack. I summoned my keyblade and raised it into a blocking position just as his key came bearing down on me. I pushed back and swung my key at his mid section, missing by just centimeters as he leapt away from me. Now I ran forward, careful to keep my anger in check, and unleashed a flurry of blows on him. Cethin blocked most of them, but the last made contact. Now Cethin jumped over me and landed directly behind me. Cethin swung is key at my head and I rolled behind him issuing a counterattack that successfully met its mark. Cethin dropped his key and knelt to the ground, defeated.
"You don't know what you're doing, Axel," He said urgently as I strolled past him towards the gate. "If you unlock the keyhole, this entire world will be pulled into the distant galaxy." I dismissed his warning and kept walking. Cethin stood up. "Fine," He said as he held up his hand. A dark orb began to fly towards me. I turned and swung my key at it and sent it hurtling back towards Cethin, who just stood there. The orb made contact with him and he completely disappeared.
I turned back towards the gate and saw that the keyhole had appeared between the two gate posts during my skirmish. 'Well, this makes things much easier.' I thought as I raised my key to unlock it. I successfully unlocked the keyhole and it began to pull the entire world of Disney Castle into it. 'Cethin was right!' I thought to myself as I began to be pulled through the hole into the blackness of space. I summoned my key and quickly thrust it into the ground to use as a foothold. I watched as huge chunks of the world were pulled in one at a time. I saw the castle get pulled up from the ground like it was a flower on a spring day. That had crushed any hope of actually being left behind. Finally, my chunk broke free and began sailing towards the keyhole. All I could do was hope that Aros had been right about this being the way to the distant worlds. Of course, I'd already lost my life. What difference would death make?
The End… of book 1.
At this time, I will be returning to my work on "Star Wars: Remnant". When that is finished, I will return with "Kingdom Hearts: The Council of Keys: Book 2".