Chapter Fourteen: The True Light of Sora

The Destructer fell to the stone steps and clattered down them as Sora looked at his disfigured shoulder. Riku knew that he had just dislocated it. Putting it back in place would hurt, but Riku had done what he had to to save himself, and his friend.

Just as Riku thought it was over, Sora looked at him. His eyes were not clouded, but clear. Riku now saw the true depths of Sora's anger and despite his wound, Sora easily put it back in place without even a flinch. "It's not over."

Kairi stepped towards Namine's streached out hand. She slowly excepted it and a bright light formed between them. It was then that Xemnas saw Roxas and Namine standing there. "Impossible!" he gasped, trying to force his way through the barrier, but it was futile.

"Come on, Kairi, we're going to see Sora." Namine said.

"Riku's not finished yet, he's strong." Roxas said confidently as they stepped into a dark portal made by Namine.

Riku gasped and raised his sword, ready to fight, but Sora's Destructor appeared in his hand. "Time to die." Sora's words were cold and heartless. He raised his sword and brought it down.

Kairi saw the other end and raced for the exit.

The blade was coming closer and closer….

Riku didn't have time to deflect it, and knew it would all end within seconds. As rthe thought flashed across his mind, he heard a fimilar voice, "Stop!" the voice screamed.

Riku blinked and saw Kairi standing behind Sora, she had a hand raised at him, a scowl on her face. Riku could tell that she had been crying because the tears were still running down her face. He noticed Sora had stopped and was now staring blankly at Riku, his eyes black. Riku moved out of the way just in time as Sora dropped the Destructor and it once more crashed into the stone stairs, but this time it vanished.

Sora seemed to come back to life and stumbled forward, coughing. Kairi came forward as Sora became himself again and asked, "Are you alright? Is he alright?" Kairi asked.

"I'm fine, and I think he will be." Riku said, but it wasn't the truth. The blow to his side and the bump on his head hurt, but his side hurt more. He had hit his head when he had collided with the wall. "Are you alright?"

"I am now. But Xemnas! He's-" Kairi was cut off as she heard the wisping sounds of a dark portal appearing behind her.

"Who said you could leave?" Xemnas's voice rang through Kairi's ears.

She spun around to look behind her and gasped, "Xemnas!"

"Who'd you expect?" Xemnas growled, his orange red eyes flashing.

Riku stepped in front of Kairi with his hand thrown out in front of him, pushing Kairi back. "Leave her alone Xemnas!"

Xemnas looked at Riku with a calm, yet mocking facial expression, "Ah yes, Riku. You used to not even try to defend your friends, so why now? Why did you give up the darkness?"

"Shut up!" Riku snarled, but he flinched as pain lacd through his body as he became stressed. "If you want Kairi, you'll have to fight me!"

"You're in no codition to fight, Riku." Xemnas taunted. "Look at yourself, you think you can do everything on your own, like me, but you're nothing more than a weak pest in my way. You should have died, but you refused it."

Riku's hand fell to his side, his ocean blue eyes narrowed as he lifted his other hand with the Keyblade in it. He gripped it with both hands and prepared to swing it at Xemnas, but xemnas vanished in the darkness and suddenly reappeared in front of Sora. Riku and Kairi both spun around to see Xemnas raise his fist and hit Sora in the jaw, causing Sora's head to twist.

Sora looked back at Xemnas, and saw who it was. His eyes flashed a silver color before he snarled, "You took Kairi!"

Xemnas smirked, but didn't speak, instead he summoned his own sword. "Let the darkness consume you, Sora." Xemnas siad before slamming his sword's blunt, flat side into Sora's elbow and knocking him slightly. Xemnas hadn't hurt him, but he was about to when the Destructor appeared with Sora as he was now.

"Kairi! Don't let this happen to Sora! You're his only hope!" Namine's voice rang through kairi's ears, but she could not find her.

"You are Sora's light, without you, darkness would fill his world, you have to help him stop it!" Roxas appeared in front of her. His deep blue eyes reflected the urgancy that his spirit felt. He turned to look at Sora who had a black swirling darknnes around his right hand.

Kairi nodded, and asked, "But how?"

"You will have to figure that out yourself. It is impossible to explain, for it is different for everyone." Namine explained before Roxas and their voices faded completely.

Sora glanced down at his hand and saw the Destructor, but it was not the darkness that had summoned it. His whole being had summoned it and he planned to use it for his friends' safety.

His eyes met Xemnas's cold ones and he muttered, "You have ruined my life and everyone elses, and now it is your time to die!"

Xemnas blinked and said, "I think you have that the other way around." With one fluid-like movement, Xemnas twisted his sword in his hanmd and jabbed it at Sora. The point of the blade tore into Sora's stomach, and Xemnas pushed it in further.

Sora made a gagging sound, and his eyes clouded. He could hear fast approaching foot steps, but he could not see who it was. He heard a distant voice yelling his name. Sora blinked and asked, "Kairi?…"

All at once his vision cleared and he could see again, but this time, he felt no pain of the blade. Sora found himself falling to the ground, hot liquid pouring down his clothes, but was it for real? "Is this all real?" he muttered to himself as he extended his hand to grasp something, but he only got air. His eyes caught sight of Xemnas's face. That was when it came to him, through everything, he remembered.

Xemnas could sense the growing darkness in Sora. He had complete part one of his plan, becauyse soon, Sora would lose his heart from the bulit up rage and the stab. He looked down at where Sora was laying, staring blankly up at the sky. Kairi, who had reached him, dropped to the ground, her face held the fear that she had known was coming. "Sora…please don't give up."

"Xemnas…" Riku snarled from a few feet off.

Xemnas looked up at the nineteen year old and saw that Riku's Keyblade was in his hand. He didn't show the injuries, or pain he really felt and Xemnas sensed that Riku was going to fight him at all costs. But he wouldn't let that happen, not while he was so close.

"Are you mad that I have destroyed the light in your friend?" Xemnas asked mocking Riku's anger and Sora's pupose.

"You'll pay dearly for what you have done," Riku swore.

"I'm afraid your too late to save him," Xemnas stated bluntly, looking down at Kairi. "Sora's heart now belongs to me."

Xemnas held out his hand at a flash of white light came from where Sora was and then his heart floated in the air. It came towards Xemnas's held out hand and Xemnas's fingers closed on it. It vanished as quick as it had come.

Xemnas felt a sudden rush of rage corse through his veins, like liquid fire. Everything dark in him stirred and rose. Xemnas felt unimaginable power flood through him, and then, with his still held out hand, a Keyblade appeared in his hand. It was not just any Keyblade either, it was the Kingdom Key. In his other hand, the Destructor lay.

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